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Tree Hill Farm has been occupied for more than two centuries, during the colonial era by the Chickahominy tribe of Native Americans. In 1778, Henrico County clerk (and future delegate in the Virginia General Assembly) Miles Selden of the Selden family purchased the property and by 1785 constructed a horse racing track, one of the first such in America.
Robert Marquis (1927 – January 3, 1995) was a German-born American architect and academic known for his socially conscious architecture. Primarily active in San Francisco, he was a professor of architecture at the University of Virginia in the early 1980s.
Some of the building's apartments were rented to elderly Jewish people who lived in tenements nearby. [22] A Thai restaurant opened within the building in 1982. [ 102 ] The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission began considering whether to designate the Marseilles as a city landmark in 1988, [ 103 ] and the building was officially ...
Park Loggia is a building in New York City owned by AvalonBay Communities and designed by architect Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill.It is located on the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan's Upper West Side, on Broadway between 61st and 62nd Streets.
The Memorial Drive Apartments Historic District is a historic district encompassing four apartment houses on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They are located between the Anderson Memorial Bridge and the Eliot Bridge with street numbers ranging from 983 to 993 Memorial Drive. All four buildings were built between 1916 and 1924, not ...
The razing of buildings for the construction of the complex began in 1950, and the buildings were completed on April 1, 1953. [3] [7]The key sponsor of the development was State assemblyman John J. Lamula and it was named after four-time New York Governor Al Smith (1873–1944), the first Catholic to win a Presidential nomination by a major political party and a social reformer who made ...
Windsor Memorial is a 25-story apartment building containing 274 units, [2] with a smaller structure containing 60 lofts located on 3.3 acres (1.3 ha) and located along Memorial Drive in Houston, Texas and managed by Windsor Communities.
The Atlanta Marriott Marquis is a 47-story, 168.86 m (554.0 ft) Marriott hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.It is the 15th tallest skyscraper in the city. The building was designed by Atlanta architect John C. Portman Jr. and supported by local engineer Blake Van Leer with construction completed in 1985, and because of its bulging base, it is often referred to as the "Pregnant Building ...