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January 27, 2000 (Roughly bounded by SW 2nd, 6th, and Jefferson Streets, and the Highway 20/34 Bypass: Corvallis: Located on several of Corvallis's earliest plats, the historic houses in this residential district present a window into the domestic aspects of the city's development from 1870 to 1949, providing a full industrial, socioeconomic, and architectural profile of that period.
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Leeds Museums & Galleries began life as the museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, which opened in 1821. In 1921, the collection was purchased by Leeds Corporation, to continue as a municipal museum (Leeds City Museum). [7] In 1928, Abbey House Museum was purchased by the Leeds Corporation, as place to display social history.
In 2001, Leeds City Council bid for National Lottery cash, and in 2004, it was awarded £19.5 million, [4] so in 2005, the Leeds Mechanics' Institute building (designed by Cuthbert Brodrick and built 1865–1868) [5] began to be redesigned as Leeds City Museum, finally to reopen in 2008.
Leeds Rifles War Memorial: Outside Leeds Minster, Kirkgate: 1921: Edwin Lutyens: Cross with bench and inserts: Portland stone and bronze: Grade II: Q26655868 [10] [11] More images: War memorial: The Headrow: 1922: Henry Charles Fehr: Obelisk with 3 statues: Portland stone and bronze: 7m tall Grade II: Q26547390: Architect, Reginald Blomfield ...
Corvallis is the largest principal city of the Albany-Corvallis-Lebanon CSA, a Combined Statistical Area that includes the Corvallis metropolitan area (Benton County) and the Albany-Lebanon micropolitan area (Linn County), [14] [15] [16] which had a combined population of 229,209 at the 2023 U.S. Census Estimates.
Abbey House Museum. Abbey House Museum in Kirkstall, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England is housed in the gatehouse of the ruined 12th-century Kirkstall Abbey, [1] and is a Grade II* listed building. [2] The house is 3 miles (4.8 km) north west of Leeds city centre on the A65 road. [3] It is part of the Leeds Museums & Galleries group.
Thwaite Mills. Thwaite Mills or Thwaite Watermill is an industrial heritage site in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, on the River Aire and the Aire and Calder Navigation.It is a fully restored working water-powered mill built in 1823–25, harnessing the power of the river, and has been called "one of the best last remaining examples of a water-powered mill in Britain". [1]