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Quakertown Historic District
The Quakertown Historic District is a historic district which includes most of Quakertown, Pennsylvania. It encompasses, 386 acres and 2,197 contributing buildings. History and architectural features Quakertown has a significant number of pre- and post-American Civil War buildings. Prior to the Civil War, these structures were designed in a broad range of architectural styles, including colonial, Federal, Greek Revival and Italianate. Post-Civil War, the buildings were primarily designed in the Victorian style. This district encompasses, 386 acres and 2,197 contributing buildings. The district also has several buildings which listed separately on the National Register of Historic Places, including Liberty Hall and the Enoch Roberts House. Placement of this district on the National Register of Historic Places The nomination materials for placement of the Quakertown Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places were reviewed by Pennsylvania's Historic Preservatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quakertown, Pennsylvania
Quakertown is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of 2020, it had a population of 9,359. The borough is south of Allentown and Bethlehem and north of Philadelphia, making Quakertown a border town of both the Delaware Valley and Lehigh Valley metropolitan areas. Quakertown is considered part of the United States Census Bureau's Philadelphia− Camden− Wilmington (PA−NJ−DE-MD) MSA and the Delaware Valley. Quakertown is surrounded by Richland Township. Quakertown is located south of Allentown and northwest of Philadelphia. History Quaker settlement Quakertown was originally settled by members of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. The settlement was not officially known as Quakertown until its first post office opened in 1803. Liberty Bell moved On September 18, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, a convoy of wagons carrying the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to Allentown, under the command of Col. Thomas Polk of Charlot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, Maryland to its south, West Virginia to its southwest, Ohio to its west, Lake Erie and the Canadian province of Ontario to its northwest, New York to its north, and the Delaware River and New Jersey to its east. Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state in the nation with over 13 million residents as of 2020. It is the 33rd-largest state by area and ranks ninth among all states in population density. The southeastern Delaware Valley metropolitan area comprises and surrounds Philadelphia, the state's largest and nation's sixth most populous city. Another 2.37 million reside in Greater Pittsburgh in the southwest, centered around Pittsburgh, the state's second-largest and Western Pennsylvania's largest city. The state's su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states that had seceded. The central cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prevented from doing so, which was widely believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction. Decades of political controversy over slavery were brought to a head by the victory in the 1860 U.S. presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed slavery's expansion into the west. An initial seven southern slave states responded to Lincoln's victory by seceding from the United States and, in 1861, forming the Confederacy. The Confederacy seized U.S. forts and other federal assets within their borders. Led by Confederate President Jefferson Davis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts. For most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. Its goals are to help property owners and inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberty Hall
Liberty Hall ( ga, Halla na Saoirse), in Dublin, Ireland, is the headquarters of the Services, Industrial, Professional, and Technical Union (SIPTU). Designed by Desmond Rea O'Kelly, it was completed in 1965. It was for a time the tallest building in the country, at 59.4 metres, (195 feet) high until it was superseded by the County Hall in Cork city, which was itself superseded by The Elysian in Cork. Liberty Hall is now the fourth tallest building in Dublin, after Capital Dock, Montevetro (now Google Docks) and the Millennium Tower in Grand Canal Dock. Liberty Hall is more historically significant in its earlier form, as the headquarters of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union early in the 20th century, and also as the headquarters of the Irish Citizen Army (ICA). History Standing on Beresford Place and Eden Quay, near the Custom House, the original Liberty Hall was built as the Northumberland Hotel before it became the headquarters of the Irish Citizen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enoch Roberts House
Enoch Roberts House, also known as the Trainer Mansion, is a historic home located at Quakertown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1814, and is a -story, five-bay, plastered fieldstone dwelling in a vernacular Georgian style. It has an original stone rear kitchen ell. It has a gable roof with dormers added in the 1830s and a semi-circular entrance portico added in the 1940s. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ... in 1986. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Enoch, House Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Houses completed in 1814 Houses in Bucks County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Bucks County, Pennsylvania [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robb Farm
The Robb Farm is a historic home and farm located at 11023 Hartslog Valley Road in Walker Township in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. History and architectural features The Robb Farm was erected in Huntingdon County's Walker Township. Multiple newspaper classified advertisements during the 1940s and 1950s confirm that the farm was located in that township's Hartslog Valley, and that M. G. Robb frequently engaged in livestock sales and purchases. Hereford cows were among the animals mentioned. Placement of property on the National Register of Historic Places The nomination materials for placement of the Robb Farm on the National Register of Historic Places were reviewed by Pennsylvania's Historic Preservation Board on February 1, 2011, at 9:45 a.m. at the Labor and Industry Building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Also considered for National Register placement at this meeting were: the Alden Villa i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McCook Family Estate
The McCook Family Estate (also known as the Willis McCook House) is a historic mansion located at 5105 Fifth Avenue in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. It was built during 1906 and 1907 for Willis McCook and his family. McCook was a prominent businessman and lawyer who represented Henry Clay Frick. History and architectural features An extensive renovation of the house was completed in 2012, when it opened as a boutique hotel called the "Mansions on Fifth Hotel". It is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Placement of this property on local and national historic registries The house was added to the list of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 2009. The nomination materials for placement of the McCook Family Estate on the National Register of Historic Places were reviewed by Pennsylvania's Historic Preservation Board on February 1, 2011, at 9:45&nb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Sir John Alexander Macdonald (January 10 or 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 to 1891. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career that spanned almost half a century. Macdonald was born in Scotland; when he was a boy his family immigrated to Kingston in the Province of Upper Canada (today in eastern Ontario). As a lawyer, he was involved in several high-profile cases and quickly became prominent in Kingston, which elected him in 1844 to the legislature of the Province of Canada. By 1857, he had become premier under the colony's unstable political system. In 1864, when no party proved capable of governing for long, Macdonald agreed to a proposal from his political rival, George Brown, that the parties unite in a Great Coalition to seek federation and political reform. Macdonald was the leading figure in the subsequent discussions and conferences, which resulted in the Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montrose Historic District (Montrose, Pennsylvania)
The Montrose Historic District is a national historic district located in Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses 386 contributing buildings and two contributing sites in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Montrose. History and architectural features The historic buildings in this district were erected roughly between 1812 and 1935, and include textbook examples of Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Italianate, and Gothic Revival style architecture. The district is centered on the Susquehanna County Courthouse Complex. ''Note:'' This includes In addition to the Courthouse complex, the Sylvanus Mulford House and Silver Lake Bank are separately listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Other notable buildings include the United Fire Company aka the Jessup house (c. 1855), Montrose Theater (c. 1920), Lyons Building at 13 Public Avenue, Sayre Building (1894), Loomis Building (1893), Masonic Lodge, Phoenix Block (1854 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alden Villa
Alden Villa, also known as Millwood, is a historic home located in Cornwall, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Representative of the Queen Anne and Shingle Style, it was designed by Stanford White, one of the leading architects of the Gilded Age. Built in 1881, the home and its eight-acre property were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. History and architectural features Millwood, an 11,223 square foot residence which was built in 1881 for R. Percy Alden, was designed by the prominent Gilded Age architect Stanford White. Employing the Queen Anne and Shingle styles of architecture, White created what has been described by historians at The Lebanon Valley Conservancy as "a unique dwelling and a spectacular example of an Old English manor house" which is "perched high on a hill." It is located at 100 Freeman Drive in Cornwall, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Architectural features include an exterior main gable entrance with early Victorian-style half-timbering, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilpen Hall
Wilpen Hall is an estate in Sewickley Heights, Pennsylvania, located at 889–895 Blackburn Road and 201 Scaife Road. Built for William Penn Snyder and his wife during the late 19th century, it was added to the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 2001, and the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 2011. History and architectural features This historic home was built for William Penn Snyder and his wife as a summer home. Snyder was the founder of the Shenango Furnace Company and its subsidiaries. Designed by George Orth and Brothers in the style of an English Manor house, the residence was subsequently named "Wilpen," using a contraction of Snyder's first and middle names. Construction took place from 1897 to 1900. In 1930, the estate was left to their two sons, William Penn Snyder, Jr. and G. Whitney Snyder. As of 2006, the Snyder family still resided in the home. Placement of this property on the National Register of Historic P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
