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The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City.Established in 1891, it is located on a 250-acre (100 ha) site that contains a landscape with over one million living plants; the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, a greenhouse containing several habitats; and the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, which contains one of the world's largest collections of ...
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The Enid A. Haupt Glass Garden opened in 1959 as part of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at New York University Medical Center. [1] [2] [3] It provided horticultural therapy for patients, but was also open to the public. It was contained in a 17,000-square-foot (1,600 m 2) greenhouse at 34th Street and First Avenue in New York City.
Enid Flora Albu was born on 1 December 1903 in London. Her early education was at Hampstead High School and Cheltenham Ladies College. Albu took a degree in economics at the London School of Economics, graduating in 1925. She had two daughters following her marriage to philology Professor Robert Eicholtz (later Eccles) on the 25 March 1925. [1]
Later, Guggenheimer founded the New York Women's Agenda in 1992 and the Council of Senior Centers and Services. Her philanthropy focused on women, the elderly, and Jewish causes. Guggenheimer wrote the books Planning for Parks and Recreation in Urban Areas and an instructional manual for entertaining called The Pleasure of Your Company.
The Spingler Building (also Springler Building or 5 Union Square West) is an eight-story Romanesque building at 5–9 Union Square West, between 14th and 15th Streets, in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Built in 1897 by William H. Hume & Son, it replaced a five-story building of the same name, which burned down in 1892.
The exhibit "Discover Greatness: An Illustrated History of the Negro Leagues" will be on view Feb. 6-April 20 at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. 'Discover Greatness: An ...
Lower Manhattan Manhattan History African and African-American Visitor center and memorial to an 18th-century African-American slave burial ground A.I.R. Gallery: Dumbo: Brooklyn: Art Contemporary art Contemporary art by female artists AKC Museum of the Dog: Midtown Manhattan Alice Austen House: Rosebank: Staten Island: Historic house