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Hawk And Parr
Hawk & Parr was an architectural firm in Oklahoma. It designed many buildings that are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Its Mission/Spanish Revival style Casa Grande Hotel, for example, was built in 1928 and was listed on the National Register in 1995. It was a partnership of James Watson Hawk (born 1864), also known as J.W. Hawk, and Josepheus O. Parr (died 1940), also known as J.O. Parr. Hawk had worked as an architect in Oklahoma City since 1905; Parr arrived in 1911; the partnership ran from 1914 to 1932 when Hawk retired. Works (with variations of attribution) include: *Besse Hotel, 121 E. 4th St., Pittsburg, KS (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed *Biltmore Hotel, Oklahoma City, OK, no longer surviving *Casa Grande Hotel (Elk City, Oklahoma), Casa Grande Hotel, 103 E. Third St., Elk City, OK (Hawk and Parr), NRHP-listed *Commerce Exchange Building, Oklahoma City, OK, no longer surviving *Cotton-Exchange Building (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), Cotton-Exchange Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garfield County Courthouse Front
''Garfield'' is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis (cartoonist), Jim Davis. Originally published locally as ''Jon'' in 1976, then in nationwide Print syndication, syndication from 1978 as ''Garfield'', it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield (character), Garfield the cat, his human owner Jon Arbuckle, and Odie the dog. As of 2013, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and Magazine, journals, and held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely Print syndication, syndicated comic strip. Though its setting is rarely mentioned in print, ''Garfield'' takes place in Jim Davis' hometown of Muncie, Indiana, according to the television special ''Happy Birthday, Garfield''. Common themes in the strip include Garfield's laziness, obsessive eating, love of coffee and Lasagne, lasagna, disdain of Mondays, and Diet (nutrition), diets. Garfield is also shown to manipulate people to get whatever he wants. The strip's focus is mostly on the inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
