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Dorchester House
Dorchester House was a mansion in Park Lane, Westminster, London, which has had many different forms over time. The last version used as a private residence was that built in 1853 by Robert Stayner Holford. It was demolished in 1929 to make way for the present Dorchester Hotel. History The site was originally part of the Manor of Hyde, which was given to William the Conqueror by Geoffrey de Mandeville. Joseph Damer acquired it in the 18th century and a large building was constructed in 1751. It was named Dorchester House in 1792 after Damer became the Earl of Dorchester. In the early 19th century it became known as Hertford House after it was purchased by Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford, and alterations were made to it, inspired by the Villa Farnese of Rome. Hertford's other London townhouse was Manchester House in Manchester Square, later named Hertford House, now the home of the Wallace Collection. Following the death of Hertford, it was rebuilt by Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorchester House 1905 Web
Dorchester may refer to: Geography England *Dorchester, Dorset, the county town of Dorset ** Dorchester (UK Parliament constituency), a former parliamentary constituency in Dorset **HM Prison Dorchester, a men's prison located in Dorchester in Dorset, England closed in December 2013 *Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire, a village *The Dorchester, a luxury hotel in London Canada *Dorchester, New Brunswick, shire town of Westmorland County *Dorchester Parish, New Brunswick *Dorchester, Ontario, a rural community in Middlesex County *Dorchester (electoral district), a current federal electoral district in Quebec *Dorchester (provincial electoral district), a former Quebec provincial electoral district *Dorchester Boulevard, former name of part of René Lévesque Boulevard in Montreal *Dorchester Penitentiary, a medium-security federal prison United States *Dorchester, Illinois *Dorchester, Iowa *Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts ** Dorchester Avenue (Boston) **Dorchester Pottery Works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence Cook
Clarence Chatham Cook (September 8, 1828 – June 2, 1900) was a 19th-century American author and art critic. Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Cook graduated from Harvard in 1849 and worked as a teacher. Between 1863 and 1869, Cook wrote a series of articles about American art for The New York Tribune. In 1869, he moved to France and was the Parisian correspondent for The New York Tribune until the onset of the Franco-Prussian War. Cook was known for his expertise in archeology and antiquities and was instrumental in the criticism of the collection of General di Cesnola. In the mid-1850s Cook began to read works by John Ruskin and associated with a group of American artists, writers, and architects who followed Ruskin's thinking. Through this group he became aware of the British Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In 1863, with Clarence King and John William Hill he helped to found the Society for the Advancement of Truth in Art, an American group, similar to the Pre-Raphaelites, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Drawing Room Dorchesster House
Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combination of yellow and cyan; in the RGB color model, used on television and computer screens, it is one of the additive primary colors, along with red and blue, which are mixed in different combinations to create all other colors. By far the largest contributor to green in nature is chlorophyll, the chemical by which plants photosynthesize and convert sunlight into chemical energy. Many creatures have adapted to their green environments by taking on a green hue themselves as camouflage. Several minerals have a green color, including the emerald, which is colored green by its chromium content. During post-classical and early modern Europe, green was the color commonly associated with wealth, merchants, bankers, and the gentry, while red was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
