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.
Burns Cottage, the first home of Robert Burns is located in Alloway, South Ayrshire, Scotland. It was built by his father, William Burness in 1757. Burns, Scotland's national poet, was born there on 25 January 1759. It is a simple two-roomed clay and thatch cottage and has been fully restored to become part of Robert Burns Birthplace Museum.
The museum has a bust of Burns by Patric Park.
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.
Le borough londonien de Richmond upon Thames est un borough du Grand Londres. Seul borough de Londres s'étalant sur les deux rives de la Tamise, il est fondé en 1965 par la fusion des districts métropolitains de Twickenham dans le Middlesex, de Richmond upon Thames et de Barnes du Surrey. Lors du recensement de 2018, il compte 196 904 habitants. Il abrite notamment le National Physical Laboratory, les Archives nationales du Royaume-Uni, les jardins botaniques royaux de Kew et le château de Hampton Court.
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.
Le Capitole de l'État de Rhode Island est située à Providence. Ce bâtiment fut dessiné par le cabinet d'architectes McKim, Mead and White. Construit de 1895 à 1904, il devient le septième Capitole de l'État de Rhode Island et le deuxième situé à Providence.
Le dôme central est le quatrième plus grand dôme de marbre autoportant du monde derrière ceux de la basilique Saint-Pierre à Rome, du Capitole de l'État du Minnesota à Saint Paul et du Taj Mahal en Inde.
La chambre des représentants de l'État se trouve dans l'aile ouest du bâtiment tandis que celle du sénat de l'État est située dans l'aile est.
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 is an Italian natural mineral water brand, owned by the company Sanpellegrino S.p.A., whose production plant is located in San Pellegrino Terme in the Province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. Sanpellegrino S.p.A. has been part of Swiss company Nestlé since 1997 and its products are exported to most countries in Europe, the Americas, Australasia and the Middle East, as well as in Asia in Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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.
L’église Sainte-Marie , appelée aussi Notre-Dame de Lübeck, est une église luthérienne de la ville de Lübeck en Allemagne. Elle fut construite de 1250 à 1351. C'était un symbole de la puissance commerciale de Lübeck, ville appartenant alors à la ligue hanséatique. L'église est toujours aujourd'hui un monument important de la ville. Comme le reste de la vieille ville, qu'elle domine de ses hautes flèches, c'est un monument protégé par l'UNESCO. L'église Sainte-Marie est le modèle du gothique de brique du nord de l'Allemagne. Plus de soixante-dix églises de cette région de la Baltique l'ont prise pour exemple.
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.
Le château de Raby se trouve près de Staindrop, dans le Comté de Durham, en Angleterre. Il est situé dans un parc de daims de 200 acres . Il fut construit par John Neville, 3e baron Neville de Raby , entre 1367 et 1390 environ. Cécile Neville, mère des rois Édouard IV et Richard III, naquit en ce lieu. En 1569, après que Charles Neville, 6e comte de Westmorland eut mené le soulèvement du nord raté en faveur de Marie Ire d'Écosse, le château de Raby fut pris en charge par la royauté.
Sir Henry Vane the Elder acheta le château à la Couronne en 1626 ainsi que le château de Barnard qui était tout près, et les comtes de Darlington et ducs de Cleveland ajoutèrent un hall d'entrée de style gothique et un salon octogonal. De 1633 à 1691, il appartenait aux ducs de Cleveland et ils retinrent le titre de Lord Barnard . De profondes modifications furent effectuées au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle. Il est la résidence et le siège de John Vane 11e baron Barnard qui est le seigneur actuel du château. Le château est célèbre pour sa taille et son art, comprenant des œuvres de maîtres anciens et des portraits. Le château de Raby est un monument classé Grade I et est ouvert au public de façon saisonnière.
