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The Excelsior Diamond is a gem-quality diamond, and was the largest known diamond in the world from the time of its discovery in 1893 until 1905, when the Cullinan Diamond was found. It was found on June 30, 1893, at the Jagersfontein Mine in South Africa , 130 kilometres (81 miles) south east of Kimberley whose fame as a diamond mining center ...
On the east end of the lake, a speak-easy/night club formerly known as the Excelsior House stood for approximately 100 years. It operated from the 1920s until the 1970s and was frequented by members of the Irish Mafia and notable characters such as Legs Diamond in its heyday. It was destroyed by fire in 2009. [3]
The Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals are a series of exhibition halls at the American Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City. The halls opened on June 12, 2021, as a complete redesign of their predecessors, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Hall of Gems and Minerals and Morgan Memorial Hall ...
Excelsior Amusement Park, located on Lake Minnetonka in the town of Excelsior, Minnesota; Excelsior Brigade, a New York infantry brigade in the Union Army in the American Civil War; Excelsior Diamond, a famous diamond, once the largest known; Excelsior JET, a Java compiler; Project Excelsior, a high-altitude skydiving project in the 1950s
Antwerp subsequently emerged as a major diamond polishing center. In 1946 Joop and Louis Asscher were invited to start a new company in New York, but they chose to remain in their home of Amsterdam and rebuild the Asscher Diamond Company. During the 1950s and 1960s the company began exploring new markets and became a prominent diamantaire in Japan.
The Diamond District at 47th Street and Fifth Avenue. The Diamond District is a commercial stretch between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Midtown Manhattan.Until the 1920s, New York's diamond epicenter was Maiden Lane, four blocks north of Wall Street. [4]
14 Maiden Lane, or the Diamond Exchange, is an early example of a New York skyscraper in what is now the Financial District of Manhattan. Completed in 1894, it is still standing. Completed in 1894, it is still standing.
The Excelsior Power Company Building is located at 33–43 Gold Street in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City, southwest of Fulton Street. [2] Officially, it is part of a larger building spanning the addresses 33–51 Gold Street and 82–88 Fulton Street. [3]