Rochdale Town Hall is a Victorian-era municipal building in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It is "widely recognised as being one of the finest municipal buildings in the country", and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. The Town Hall functions as the ceremonial headquarters of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council and houses local government departments, including the borough's civil registration office.
Built in the Gothic Revival style at a cost of £160,000 , it was inaugurated for the governance of the Municipal Borough of Rochdale on 27 September 1871. The architect, William Henry Crossland, was the winner of a competition held in 1864 to design a new Town Hall. It had a 240-foot clock tower topped by a wooden spire with a gilded statue of Saint George and the Dragon, both of which were destroyed by fire on 10 April 1883, leaving the building without a spire for four years. A new 190-foot stone clock tower and spire in the style of Manchester Town Hall was designed by Alfred Waterhouse, and erected in 1887.
Art critic Nikolaus Pevsner described the building as possessing a "rare picturesque beauty". Its stained glass windows are credited as "the finest modern examples of their kind". The building came to the attention of Adolf Hitler, who was said to have admired it so much that he wished to ship the building, brick-by-brick, to Nazi Germany had the United Kingdom been defeated in the Second World War.
The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library is a library in Atlanta which serves the four members of the Atlanta University Center, the world's oldest consortium of historically black colleges and universities and the Interdenominational Theological Center. The library, constructed in 1982, is named for Robert Winship Woodruff, former CEO of the Coca Cola Company. In 2010, the library completed a $16.2 million renovation, partly funded by donations from the Coca Cola Company.The library is a member of ARCHE, Lyrasis, OCLC, the HBCU Library Alliance, and is a participant of the Georgia state library network, GALILEO. In 2016, the library won the Excellence in Academic Libraries Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries – it was the first HBCU to win the award.
The Fleming Museum of Art is a museum of art and anthropology located at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont. The museum's collection includes some 25,000 objects from a wide variety of eras and places. Until 2014, the museum was known as the Robert Hull Fleming Museum.According to the Vermont Encyclopedia, the museum is a cultural center for the community and "attracts a diverse audience from UVM, area colleges, and the general public." The current director of the museum is Janie Cohen.
Das Burns Cottage ist ein Wohngebäude in der schottischen Stadt Alloway in der Council Area South Ayrshire. Es handelt sich um das Geburtshaus des Dichters Robert Burns. 1971 wurde das Bauwerk in die schottischen Denkmallisten in der höchsten Denkmalkategorie A aufgenommen.
The Roberson Museum and Science Center is located in Binghamton, New York. The museum's exhibits focus on art, local history, science and natural history.
The centerpiece of the museum is the 1904 Roberson Mansion, which was designed by local architect C. Edward Vosbury. More contemporary additions to the mansion were added in the 1960s and 1980s, which expanded the exhibit space, included a planetarium, added offices, and upgraded the vaults and collections preparation space.The museum features changing exhibits and a large model train layout that depicts regional landscapes in the 1950s. The museum hosts annual special events, including decorating the Roberson Mansion for the Christmas holidays, a food and wine festival, Halloween activities, science fiction conventions, a model train and doll fair, and more.
Die Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Den Haag ist die älteste Kunstakademie der Niederlande, und eine der ältesten weltweit. Sie ist Ausbildungsort von einer Reihe von wesentlichen Künstlern der Haager Schule als Teil der Kunstströmung des Niederländischen Impressionismus und stand zugleich im direkten Umfeld des II. Goldenen Zeitalters der Niederländischen Malerei. Allerdings war im 19. Jahrhundert die Ausbildung lange Zeit noch stark an dem klassischen Lehrplan zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts ausgerichtet, bevor man sich der Moderne geöffnet hatte.
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames [ˈɹɪtʃmənd əˌpɒn ˈtɛmz] ist ein Stadtbezirk im Südwesten von London. Er ist der einzige, der auf beiden Seiten der Themse liegt. Bei der Gründung der Verwaltungsregion Greater London im Jahr 1965 entstand er aus dem Municipal Borough of Twickenham in der Grafschaft Middlesex sowie dem Municipal Borough of Richmond und dem Municipal Borough of Barnes in der Grafschaft Surrey.
Die Bevölkerung setzte sich 2008 zusammen aus 87,9 % Weißen, 5,1 % Asiaten, 1,9 % Schwarzen und 0,9 % Chinesen.
Richmond is a city in east central Indiana, United States, bordering on Ohio. It is the county seat of Wayne County, and in the 2010 census had a population of 36,812.
Situated largely within Wayne Township, its area includes a non-contiguous portion in nearby Boston Township, where Richmond Municipal Airport is.
Richmond is sometimes called the "cradle of recorded jazz" because the earliest jazz recordings, and records were made at the studio of Gennett Records, a division of the Starr Piano Company. Gennett Records was the first to record such artists as Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Jelly Roll Morton, Hoagy Carmichael, Lawrence Welk, and Gene Autry.The city has twice received the All-America City Award, most recently in 2009.
The Rhode Island State House is the capitol of the state of Rhode Island, located on the border of the Downtown and Smith Hill sections of Providence. It is a neoclassical building which houses the Rhode Island General Assembly and the offices of the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, and general treasurer of Rhode Island. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Rhode Island Historical Society is a privately endowed membership organization, founded in 1822, dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing the history of Rhode Island. Its offices are located in Providence, Rhode Island.
The Reynolda House Museum of American Art displays a premiere collection of American art ranging from the colonial period to the present. Built in 1917 by Katharine Smith Reynolds and her husband R. J. Reynolds, founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the house originally occupied the center of a 1,067-acre estate. It opened to the public as an institution dedicated to the arts and education in 1965, and as an art museum in 1967. The house holds one of the country's finest collections of American paintings. It is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
S.Pellegrino ist ein Mineralwasser aus der San Pellegrino Terme in der Provinz Bergamo, Italien. Es wird in über 135 Länder exportiert. Hersteller ist das seit 1997 zum Nestlé-Konzern gehörende Unternehmen Sanpellegrino S. p. A.
The Koper Regional Museum has been housed since 1954 in the spacious early 17th century Belgramoni Tacco Palace, and is responsible for the movable cultural heritage in Primorska region of Slovenia. The museum originated in 1911 as the Municipal Museum of History and Art . At its centenary in 2011, the museum opened a new permanent exhibition Between the Serenissima, Napoleon and the Habsburgs and enriched its collection.
Die Lübecker Marienkirche wurde von 1277 bis 1351 erbaut. Die Lübecker Bürger- und Marktkirche ist von jeher ein Symbol für Macht und Wohlstand der alten Hansestadt und befindet sich auf dem höchsten Punkt der Lübecker Altstadtinsel. Die Kirche ist Teil des UNESCO-Welterbes Lübecker Altstadt. St. Marien gilt als „Mutterkirche der Backsteingotik“ und als ein Hauptwerk des Kirchbaus im Ostseeraum. Sie gehört zur Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Norddeutschland.
The Real Colegio Seminario del Corpus Christi is a former Roman Catholic seminary, now museum, on calle de la Nau in the Spanish city of Valencia in the old city opposite La Nau, the former Universidad Literaria. The college complex was built between 1586 and 1615 and now hosts the little-known Museum of the Patriarch.The Patriarch, Real College and the Seminary of Corpus Christi are a church, a seminary and a college, respectively. Work on the buildings began in 1586 and finished in 1610. It is structured around a large renaissance cloister enclosing the church, the communion chapel, the library, the sleeping quarters and the classrooms. There is another courtyard at the back and a small belfry is located in the corner of the plaza.Archbishop Juan de Ribera of Valencia, who built the College, arranged housing there for the Franciscan nun, mystic Sr. Margarita Agullona so he could bear witness to her mystical raptures and for 25 years. When she died, he had her remains moved there. "He ordered in February 1605, that the body of the Venerable, who was incorrupt, be moved, and arranged that a burning lamp always burned before her sepulcher."The Patriarch, has been a National Monument since 1962 and it became a Monument of Cultural Interest in 2007, and remains an excellent example of Renaissance architecture. Of special note in the Patriarch Museum are paintings by Caravaggio, El Greco, Van Der teyden, Benlliure, Ribalta and Pinazo, as well as an original manuscript by Sir Thomas More.
The Rahr–West Art Museum is an art museum on U.S. Route 10 in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. It is located in the Joseph Vilas Jr. House, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house is a significant example of Queen Anne style architecture in the United States.
Raby Castle ist eine mittelalterliche Burg beim Dorf Staindrop im englischen County Durham. Sie liegt inmitten eines 81 Hektar großen Rehparks. John Neville, 3. Baron Neville de Raby, ließ sie ungefähr 1367–1390 erbauen. Cecily Neville, die Mutter der Könige Eduard IV. und Richard III., wurde hier geboren. Nachdem Charles Neville, 6. Earl of Westmorland, 1569 die gescheiterte Revolution Rising of the North für Maria Stuart angeführt hatte, wurde Raby Castle unter königlichen Schutz gestellt.
Sir Henry Vane der Ältere kaufte Raby Castle 1626, ebenso wie das benachbarte Barnard Castle von der Krone und die Earls of Darlington und Dukes of Cleveland ließen eine gotische Eingangshalle und einen achteckigen Salon dazubauen. Von 1883 bis 1891 waren sie Dukes of Cleveland und behielten den Titel des Lord Barnard. Im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert wurden umfangreiche Änderungen an der Burg durchgeführt. Es ist der Familiensitz von John Vane, 11. Baron Barnard. Die Burg ist sowohl für ihre Größe als auch für die dort enthaltenen Kunstgegenstände, wie z. B. Werke alter Meister und Porträts, bekannt. English Heritage hat die Burg als historisches Gebäude I. Grades gelistet. Es ist, je nach Jahreszeit, öffentlich zugänglich.
