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Churchill House (Brown)
Churchill House may refer to the following buildings: * Churchill House, Chester Churchill House, formerly known as Capital House, is an historic building in Handbridge which currently forms the centre of the Queen's Park Campus of the University of Chester. History The building, which was built in buff brick, was completed ..., a 1938 building located in Chester, England * Churchill House, Hantsport, a 1860 historic building located in Hantsport, Nova Scotia, Canada * Churchill House (Plymouth, Massachusetts), a 17th-century historic building located in Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States * Church Hill House, Haslemere, Surrey, England * The Endwood, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, formerly called "Church Hill House" {{Disambiguation, place name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Churchill House, Chester
Churchill House, formerly known as Capital House, is an historic building in Handbridge which currently forms the centre of the Queen's Park Campus of the University of Chester. History The building, which was built in buff brick, was completed in 1938. It served as the Headquarters of Western Command during the Second World War and was visited by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Charles de Gaulle. It remained the command headquarters until that formation was disbanded and the building was handed over to the Royal Army Pay Corps in 1972. The building remained in military use until it was acquired by North West Securities, a subsidiary of Bank of Scotland, for use as their Head Office in 1997. The building was heavily altered in 1998, with a distinctive hexastyle portico, formed by Doric order columns supporting an entablature An entablature (; nativization of Italian , from "in" and "table") is the superstructure of mold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Churchill House, Hantsport
Churchill House is a historic house and community centre located in Hantsport, Nova Scotia. The house was built in 1860 by noted Hantsport shipbuilder Ezra Churchill Ezra Churchill (May 18, 1806 – May 8, 1874): Nineteenth-century industrialist, investing in shipbuilding, land, timber for domestic and foreign markets, gypsum quarries, insurance companies, hotels, etc. As a politician he held positions i ... as a gift for his son John Wiley Churchill. The well-preserved example of an Italianate houseArchibald, Stephen and Sheila Stevenson, ''Heritage Houses of Nova Scotia'', Formac Publishing, Halifax (2004), p. 59 today serves as a museum and community centre owned by the non profit corporation Hantsport Memorial Community Centre. History of house The Churchills were the owners of Hantsport, Nova Scotia's largest shipbuilding company, which built some of the largest ships in Nova Scotia, including the barque Hamburg, the largest three masted sailing barque ever built ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Churchill House (Plymouth, Massachusetts)
Churchill House is a historic seventeenth-century house (circa 1662) located at 250 Sandwich Street, Plymouth, Massachusetts. History According to one source, "[t]he Churchill family arrived in the neighborhood as early as 1643 when John Churchill settled east of Sandwich Street." Churchill House was originally believed to have been the home of John's son, Joseph Churchill, and built between 1672 and 1695, but dendrochronology in 2022 shows that the earliest part of the house was built around 1662. The house is currently owned by Elizabeth Creeden who has owned the property since 1964 when she and her husband John acquired it from Lewis Morton, who acquired it from Edward W. Bradford in 1954. Bradford acquired it from Arthur Finney in 1924. Discovery of age By the 1970s the owners of Churchill house "uncover[ed] within the shell of the late eighteenth-or early nineteenth-century-appearing house at 250 Sandwich Street in Plymouth of a story-and-a-half seventeenth-century planked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Hill House, Haslemere
Church Hill House is a grade II* listed house in Tanners Lane, Haslemere The town of Haslemere () and the villages of Shottermill and Grayswood are in south west Surrey, England, around south west of London. Together with the settlements of Hindhead and Beacon Hill, they comprise the civil parish of Haslemere i ..., Surrey. Parts of the walls are grade II listed as well as the adjoining Church Hill Gate. References Grade II* listed buildings in Surrey Haslemere {{Surrey-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
