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Central Congregational Church (Fall River, Massachusetts)
Central Congregational Church is a historic church at 100 Rock Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. History The church was built in 1875 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It was designed by Boston architects Hartwell & Swasey, who also designed several other notable buildings in Fall River, including the Academy Building and several city fire stations. It was well known in its early days for being the home church of Lizzie Borden and her family. In the 1990s and 2000s, the church and abbey were renovated into the International Culinary Academy, with the Abbey Grille and classrooms in the abbey and a large function hall in the main church. The Academy and restaurant closed in March 2009. In 2019 the church became a venue for events. Weddings and other large events. It is now called The Historic Abbey at 100 Rock Street. The Hook & Hastings organ was built some time ago. This Hook & Hastings organ is one of the only ones in the area. The organ is lo ...
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Fall River, Massachusetts
Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The City of Fall River's population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the tenth-largest city in the state. Located along the eastern shore of Mount Hope Bay at the mouth of the Taunton River, the city became famous during the 19th century as the leading textile manufacturing center in the United States. While the textile industry has long since moved on, its impact on the city's culture and landscape is still prominent. Fall River's official motto is "We'll Try", dating back to the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1843. Nicknamed The Scholarship City after Irving Fradkin founded Dollars for Scholars there in 1958, mayor Jasiel Correia introduced the "Make It Here" slogan as part of a citywide rebranding effort in 2017. Fall River is known for the Lizzie Borden case, the Fall River cult murders, Portuguese culture, its numerous 19th-century textile mills and Battleship Cove, home ...
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Hartwell & Swasey
Hartwell & Swasey was a short-lived 19th-century architectural firm in Boston, Massachusetts. The partnership between Henry Walker Hartwell (1833-1919) and Albert E. Swasey, Jr. lasted from the late-1860s to 1877, when Swasey went on his own.James F. O'Gorman, ''On the Boards: Drawings by Nineteenth-century Boston Architects'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989), p.11/ref> In 1881, Hartwell formed a partnership with William Cummings Richardson – Hartwell and Richardson – that lasted until his death. Several of Hartwell & Swasey's buildings were designed in Ruskinian Gothic Revival style, featuring polychrome brick and carved stone details. A number of the firm's works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Selected works * Central Fire Station (1869), Leonard and School Sts. Taunton, Massachusetts (Swasey, A. E., Jr.), NRHP-listed * Central Congregational Church, (1871), 100 Rock Street, Fall River, Massachusetts (Hartwell & Swasey), NRHP ...
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Academy Building (Fall River, Massachusetts)
Academy Building (also known as "Academy of Music Building" or "Borden Block") is a historic building in Fall River, Massachusetts. The building was constructed in 1875 as a memorial to Nathaniel Briggs Borden by his family. It opened its doors on January 6, 1876. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. History The building is located on land once owned by Nathaniel Briggs Borden, an early Fall River businessman and politician who died in 1865. The building was designed as a memorial to him by his widow Lydia and his three adult children, Simeon, Nathaniel, Jr. and Louisa Borden Aldrich. The family obtained the services of noted Boston architects H.W. Hartwell and A.E. Swasey, who had previously designed several notable buildings in Fall River, including the Central Congregational Church on Rock Street and Simeon's mansion on Highland Avenue. Like these other structures, the Borden Block was also designed in the Ruskinian Gothic Revival style, featur ...
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Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders, and despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, just days before the death of her older sister, Emma. The Borden murders and trial received widespread publicity throughout the United States, and along with Borden herself, they remain a topic in American popular culture to the present day. They have been depicted in numerous films, theatrical productions, literary works, and folk rhymes and are still very well-known in the Fall River area. Early life Lizzie Andrew Borden was born July 19, 1860, in Fall River, Massachusetts, to Sarah Anthony Borden (née Morse; 1823–1863) and Andrew Jackson Borden (1822–1892). Her father, who was of English and Welsh descent, grew up ...
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Hook & Hastings
E. and G.G. Hook was a pipe organ designing and manufacturing company, located in Boston, Massachusetts, which operated from 1827 to 1935. It was started, and originally run, by brothers Elias and George Greenleaf Hook. History The Hook brothers were sons of a cabinet maker in Salem, Massachusetts, where they apprenticed with the organ builder William Goodrich. They moved to Boston in 1832 and began producing larger organs. In 1845 they produced their first concert hall organ in the Tremont Temple in Boston which later burned. Their largest concert hall organ—indeed the "oldest unaltered four-keyboard pipe organ in the Western hemisphere located at its installation site"—was installed in 1864 at Mechanics Hall (Worcester, MA). In 1983 it was restored by the Noack Organ Company as closely to its 1864 state as possible. When the Hook brothers were getting ready to retire, in 1871, Frank Hastings joined the firm, at which point the name was changed tE. and G.G. Hook & Hastin ...
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Cryin'
"Cryin'" is a song by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Taylor Rhodes. It was released by Geffen Records on June 20, 1993, as a single from their 11th studio album, ''Get a Grip''. The single reached number 12 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, ending the year at number 60 overall. The song is one of their most successful hits in Europe, reaching number one in Norway, number three in Iceland, Portugal, and Sweden, and number 17 on the UK Singles Chart. The song went Gold in the United States for selling over 500,000 copies. The song's music video features Alicia Silverstone, Stephen Dorff and Josh Holloway. Background Tyler described the song saying "It was country – we just Aerosmith’d it.” Music video The music video for the song, directed by Marty Callner, features the first of three successive appearances by Alicia Silverstone in the band's videos, the next two being "Amazing" (1993) and "Crazy" (1994). Silverston ...
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Aerosmith
Aerosmith is an American Rock music, rock band formed in Boston in 1970. The group consists of Steven Tyler (lead vocals), Joe Perry (musician), Joe Perry (guitar), Tom Hamilton (musician), Tom Hamilton (bass), Joey Kramer (drums) and Brad Whitford (guitar). Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has also incorporated elements of pop rock, heavy metal music, heavy metal, glam metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many subsequent rock artists. They are sometimes referred to as "the Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band".Whatever there is to say now about Aerosmith, the long-lasting, hard-rocking quintet that has often been billed or hyped as America's greatest rock and roll band, it could have been said two decades ago. The primary songwriting team of Tyler and Perry is often known as the "Toxic Twins". Perry and Hamilton, originally in a band together called the Jam Band, met up with Tyler, Kramer, and guitarist Ray Tabano, an ...
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Haunted Towns
''Haunted Towns'' is an American paranormal television series that premiered on August 15, 2017 in the United States on Destination America. The series features the Tennessee Wraith Chasers, a group of professional paranormal investigators that are known for trying to "trap ghosts" during their investigations. TWC continue on their paranormal journey by traveling to the most haunted locations in the most haunted towns in America. The show initially aired on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. EST. For its second season, it was broadcast on the Travel Channel on Fridays. Premise The series features the Tennessee Wraith Chasers, who are back chasing ghosts using their Southern know-how, science, and engineering during their paranormal investigations. This time, they investigate the most haunted locations in the most haunted towns in America, exploring the town's dark history, legend and local lore. Opening introduction (Season 1): Opening introduction (Season 2): Cast Tennessee Wraith C ...
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Sunday School
A Sunday school is an educational institution, usually (but not always) Christian in character. Other religions including Buddhism, Islam, and Judaism have also organised Sunday schools in their temples and mosques, particularly in the West. Sunday school classes usually precede a Sunday church service and are used to provide catechesis to Christians, especially children and teenagers, and sometimes adults as well. Churches of many Christian denominations have classrooms attached to the church used for this purpose. Many Sunday school classes operate on a set curriculum, with some teaching attendees a catechism. Members often receive certificates and awards for participation, as well as attendance. Sunday school classes may provide a light breakfast. On days when Holy Communion is being celebrated, however, some Christian denominations encourage fasting before receiving the Eucharistic elements. Early history Sunday schools were first set up in the 18th century in England ...
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National Register Of Historic Places Listings In Fall River, Massachusetts
The following properties in Fall River, Massachusetts are listed on the Registered Historic Places. This is a subset of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bristol County, Massachusetts. See also *National Register of Historic Places listings in Bristol County, Massachusetts *List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts References {{DEFAULTSORT:National Register Of Historic Places Listings In Fall River, Massachusetts Fall River National Register of Historic Places in Fall River, Massachusetts Fall River, Massachusetts Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The City of Fall River's population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the tenth-largest city in the state. Located along the eastern shore of Mount ...
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Massasoit Fire House No
Massasoit Sachem () or Ousamequin (c. 15811661)"Native People" (page), "Massasoit (Ousamequin) Sachem" (section),''MayflowerFamilies.com'', web pag was the sachem or leader of the Wampanoag confederacy. ''Massasoit'' means ''Great Sachem''. Massasoit's people had been seriously weakened by a series of epidemics and were vulnerable to attacks by the Narragansetts, and he formed an alliance with the colonists at Plymouth Colony for defense against them. It was through his assistance that the Plymouth Colony avoided starvation during the early years. English at Plymouth At the time of the pilgrims' arrival in Plymouth, the realm of the Wampanoag, also known as the Pokanokets, which included parts of Rhode Island and much of southeastern Massachusetts. Massasoit lived in Sowams, a village at Pokanoket in Warren, Rhode Island. He held the allegiance of lesser Pokanoket sachems. In 1621, he sent Squanto to live among the colonists at Plymouth. Outbreaks of an unidentified di ...
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Pocasset Firehouse No
Pocasset (derived from Wampanoag for ''at the small cove'') may refer to a location in the United States: * Pocasset, Massachusetts * Pocasset, Oklahoma * Pocasset people, a historical community of Wampanoag people in Massachusetts * Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, an unrecognized organization of individuals identifying as Wampanoag descendants * Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe of the Pokanoket Nation The Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe of the Pokanoket Nation is one of several cultural heritage organizations of individuals who identify as descendants of the Wampanoag people in Rhode Island. They formed a nonprofit organization, the Pocasset Pokanok ..., an unrecnozed tribe in Cranston, Rhode Island {{geodis ...
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