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The Old Soldier's Home, now known as the Armed Forces Retirement Home, was the site of President Lincoln's Cottage, a 34-room Gothic Revival cottage, which served as Lincoln's summer home during the American Civil War. [15] It is adjacent to National Cemetery, the first federal military cemetery in the United States. The Home has remained in ...
The building was constructed in 1931 at an original square footage of 451,000 square feet (41,900 m 2) by the First National Bank and Trust Company of Oklahoma City. Additions in 1957 and 1972 brought the square footage to 998,000 square feet (92,700 m 2 ) of office space before the 2022 restoration and remodeling reduced it to 497,371 square ...
Johnson Chesnut Whittaker (August 23, 1858 – January 14, 1931) [1] was one of the first black men to win an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point. [2] When at the academy, he was brutally assaulted and then expelled after being falsely accused and convicted of faking the incident. [ 3 ]
Downtown Oklahoma City is located at the geographic center of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area and contains the principal, central business district of the region. Downtown has over 80,000 workers [ 1 ] and over 13,310,000 sq ft (1,237,000 m 2 ) of leasable office space to-date. [ 2 ]
The center was initiated in the 1990s and previously was named the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum. [4] Construction began in 2006, was interrupted in 2012 when state funding ran out, but resumed in 2019, after the responsibility for the museum was transferred from the State of Oklahoma to Oklahoma City. [5] [6]
This list of largest pension funds in the United States involves two main groups: government pension funds for public employees and collectively bargained pension funds, jointly managed between employer and employee representatives after the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.
Outside of veterans' pensions, the institution of the first public pension plan for New York City Police is considered as the first iteration of a modern pension in the USA. The Police Life and Health Insurance Fund, created in 1857, provided payment to officers injured or otherwise disabled in the line of duty and offered compensation in a ...
City Place is a mixed-use skyscraper in downtown Oklahoma City, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. At 391 ft (119m), it is the 7th tallest building in the city and has 33 floors. [ 5 ] Finished in 1931, [ 1 ] it was Oklahoma City's tallest building for a short time before it lost the title to First National Center in the same year. [ 1 ]