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Lenox
Lenox may refer to: Places in the United States * Lenox, Alabama * Lenox, Georgia * Lenox, Iowa ** Lenox College, former college in Hopkinton, Iowa * Lenox, Kentucky * Lenox, Massachusetts, a New England town ** Lenox (CDP), Massachusetts, the main village in the town * Lenox, Missouri * Lenox, New York ** Lenox Avenue, in Harlem, New York City * Lenox, Ohio, original name for North Olmsted, Ohio * Lenox, Oklahoma * Lenox, Tennessee * Lenox, Memphis, Tennessee, a neighborhood * New Lenox, Illinois * Lenox Township (other) People First name * Lenox Baker (1902–1995), American orthopedic surgeon and athletic trainer * Lenox Hewitt (born 1917), retired senior Australian public servant * Lenox Paul (born 1958), English bobsledder Surname * Adriane Lenox, American actress * Robert Lenox (1759–1839), a Scottish-American merchant who served as the 15th president of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York * James Lenox (1800–1880), an American bibliophile an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenox, Massachusetts
Lenox is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. The town is based in Western Massachusetts and part of the Pittsfield Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,095 at the 2020 census. Lenox is the site of Shakespeare & Company and Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Lenox includes the villages of New Lenox and Lenoxdale, and is a tourist destination during the summer. History The area was inhabited by Mahicans, Algonquian speakers who largely lived along the Hudson and Housatonic Rivers. Hostilities during the French and Indian Wars discouraged settlement by European colonial settlers until 1750, when Jonathan and Sarah Hinsdale from Hartford, Connecticut, established a small inn and general store. The Province of Massachusetts Bay thereupon auctioned large tracts of land for 10 townships in Berkshire County, set off in 1761 from Hampshire County. For 2,250 pounds Josiah Dean purchased Lot Number 8, which included present-day Lenox and Ric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Lenox, Illinois
New Lenox is a village in central Will County, Illinois, United States. It is a southwestern suburb of Chicago and an eastern suburb of Joliet. The village population was 27,214 as of 2020. New Lenox has schools like Lincoln-Way West High School and Lincoln-Way Central High School. Geography New Lenox is located approximately 36 miles southwest of downtown Chicago at (41.508251, -87.970597). According to the 2010 census, New Lenox has a total area of , of which (or 99.85%) is land and (or 0.15%) is water. It is bordered by Joliet to the northwest, Ingalls Park to the west, Mokena to the east, Frankfort to the southeast and Manhattan to the south. Climate The average temperatures in New Lenox range from 21 °F (-6 °C) in January to 73 °F (23 °C) in July. There are 137 days of the daily low temperature being below or at freezing (138 if its a leap). There are 86 days where the daily high is above the 80 °F (27 °C) mark. History What i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenox (company)
Lenox Corporation is an American manufacturing company that sells tableware, giftware, and collectible products under the Lenox, Dansk, Reed & Barton, and Gorham brands. For most of the 20th century, it was the most prestigious American maker of tableware, as well as making decorative pieces. Several china services were commissioned for the White House. By 2020, it was the last significant manufacturer of bone china in the United States, until the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of the company's only remaining American factory. History Lenox was founded in 1889 by Walter Scott Lenox as Lenox's Ceramic Art Company in Trenton, New Jersey. At the start, it made American art pottery, and it was organized as an art studio and not as a factory. It did not produce a full range of ceramic articles but rather one-of-a-kind artwares. The company at first had just eighteen employees. Lenox's products were first displayed at the Smithsonian Institution in 1897. Lenox's products becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lenox
James Lenox (August 19, 1800 – February 17, 1880) was an American bibliophile and philanthropist. His collection of paintings and books eventually became known as the Lenox Library and in 1895 became part of the New York Public Library. Early life Lenox was born in New York City on August 19, 1800. He was the only surviving son of six children born to Rachel (née Carmer) Lenox and Robert Lenox (1759–1839). His father was a wealthy merchant who was born in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, emigrated to America during the Revolutionary War, and settled in New York in 1783. Of his five sisters, four married and one remained single, like Lenox, throughout her life. His maternal grandfather was Nicholas Carmer, a New York cabinet maker. Upon his father's death in 1839, Lenox inherited a fortune of over a million dollars and 30 acres of land between Fourth and Fifth Avenues. A graduate of Columbia College, he studied law and was admitted to the bar, but never practiced. He retired f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenox Square
Lenox Square is a shopping mall in the Buckhead district of Atlanta, Georgia. With 198 tenants and of gross leasable area, it is the third-largest mall in Georgia. The mall is currently owned and managed by Simon Property Group, and is considered a sister mall to the adjacent, Simon-owned Phipps Plaza. , the mall is anchored by department stores Bloomingdale's, Macy's, and Neiman Marcus. Lenox Square opened to the public on August 3, 1959, operating as an open-air shopping center much like a typical lifestyle center. Its original anchors were two of the most famous and acclaimed department stores in the area, Rich's and Davison's, and grocery chain Colonial Stores. The mall opened with 60 stores. Over the next few decades competition from new suburban shopping malls spurred four expansions. The most recent renovation included enlarging the Neiman Marcus store by and the addition of of new retail space. Lenox Square houses several upscale stores that do not have other loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Scott Lenox
Walter Scott Lenox was the American businessman who established Lenox china, supplying the first complete American-made bone china table service for Woodrow Wilson's White House. Biography Lenox resolved to become a potter early in his boyhood. Starting in 1875 at the age of sixteen he first worked for a number of Trenton potteries. By his early twenties he had developed an excellent reputation, and based on this he was hired by Ott and Brewer Pottery Company of Trenton, then Willetts Manufacturing, as its art design director. Then he focused on ceramic design and decoration. By the time Lenox was thirty years old, he had saved enough money to enter into a partnership with Jonathan Coxon. They started a company called the Ceramic Art Company. Lenox wanted to be an expert in bone china. In the nineteenth century American pottery was inferior to European products. Lenox had three goals to accomplish for his goal to produce good quality bone china: # master the difficult bone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenox Avenue
Lenox Avenue – also named Malcolm X Boulevard; both names are officially recognized – is the primary north–south route through Harlem in the upper portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan. This two-way street runs from Farmers' Gate at Central Park North ( 110th Street) to 147th Street. Its traffic is figuratively described as "Harlem's heartbeat" by Langston Hughes in his poem ''Juke Box Love Song''. The IRT Lenox Avenue Line runs under the entire length of the street, serving the New York City Subway's . From 119th Street to 123rd Street, Lenox Avenue is part of the Mount Morris Park Historic District, designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1971. History Originally a part of Sixth Avenue, the segment north of Central Park was renamed in late 1887 for philanthropist James Lenox. In 1987, it was co-named Malcolm X Boulevard, in honor of the slain civil rights leader. The avenue was the heart of Harlem during the Harlem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lenox
Robert Lenox (December 31, 1759 – December 13, 1839) was a Scottish-American merchant who served as the 15th president of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York. Early life Lenox was born on December 31, 1759, in the seaport town of Kirkcudbright on the southwest border of Scotland. He was one of eleven children born to James Lenox and Elizabeth (née Sproat) Lenox. His paternal grandfather was William Lennox and his maternal grandfather was David Sproat, both from the parish of Kirkcudbright in Scotland. Career Just before the American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, he emigrated to America with his brothers David and William. They first went to their uncle, David Sproat, a merchant in Philadelphia, who had come to America in 1760. His uncle joined the British Army at New York, and was appointed Prisoners of war in the American Revolutionary War, Commissary-General of Naval Prisoners in North America in the Autumn of 1779. His brother William was appointe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lenox Hotel
The Lenox Hotel is a hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It is located at the corner of Boylston and Exeter Streets; one block from Newbury Street, Copley Square, and the Prudential Tower. In addition, the Lenox sits next to the Boston Public Library. The Lenox is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. History The Lenox Hotel was built in 1900 by the owner of New York's Waldorf-Astoria, Lucias Boomer, at a cost of $1.1 million. At eleven stories high, it once stood as the tallest building in Boston. The outside was constructed of white and red terra cotta bricks and the inside of the hotel was luxuriously appointed. The hotel is named after the family of Lady Sarah Lennox, wife of King George III, who ruled before and during the American Revolution. The Lenox was host to many celebrities, including Enrico Caruso, who arrived at The Lenox in his own private railroad car. The area next to The Lenox was a railr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenox, Iowa
Lenox is a city in Taylor County, Iowa, Taylor and Adams County, Iowa, Adams counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 1,339 at the time of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. History Lenox got its start in the year 1871, following construction of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad through the territory. Geography Lenox is located at (40.883195, -94.561293). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 1,407 people, 609 households, and 344 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 664 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 91.3% White (U.S. Census), White, 0.4% African American (U.S. Census), African American, 0.4% Asian (U.S. Census), Asian, 7.0% from Race (U.S. Census), other races, and 0.9% from two or more races. Hispanic (U.S. Census), Hispanic or Latino ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenox (CDP), Massachusetts
Lenox, also known as Lenox Center, is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Lenox in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,675 at the 2010 census, out of 5,025 in the entire town of Lenox. Geography The Lenox CDP is located southwest of the geographic center of the town of Lenox at (42.35722, -73.284172). It is bordered to the south and west by the town of Stockbridge. Massachusetts Route 7A passes through the center of the CDP, heading north on Main Street and south on Kemble Street. In both directions it ends at U.S. Route 7, which bypasses the town center and forms the eastern edge of the CDP. Massachusetts Route 183 crosses Route 7A in the center of town, leading southeast through Lenox Dale towards East Lee, and southwest into the Interlaken part of Stockbridge. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Lenox CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.53%, is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 1,667 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Lenox
Walter Lenox (August 17, 1817 – July 16, 1874) was Mayor of Washington, D.C. from 1850 to 1852. He was the only Mayor of Washington City born within Washington City and one of only two born in the District of Columbia. Early life Lenox was born in the City of Washington on August 17, 1817, the son of Captain Peter Lenox and Margaret Wilkerson Lenox. He was the first mayor to be born in the city of Washington, graduating from Yale University in 1837 and returning to the capital to practice law in the early 1840s. During at last part of that period, he lived with future Washington mayor Richard Wallach. Political career Lenox served on the Washington city council (the lower of its two legislative chambers) from 1842 to 1843, then as an Alderman from 1843 to 1849, serving his last term as President of the Board of Aldermen. Thus when mayor William Winston Seaton declined to run for a sixth term in 1850, Lenox was the heir apparent — although because of his young age ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
