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The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History (2005) online; Hood. Clifton. In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis (2016). Cover 1760–1970. Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (1995). The Encyclopedia of New York City.
The Williams Tower (originally named the Transco Tower) is a 64-story, 1.4 million square feet (130,000 m 2) class A postmodern office tower located in the Uptown District of Houston, Texas. The building was designed by New York–based John Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson in association with Houston-based Morris-Aubry Architects (now ...
The opening of the New York City Subway in 1904, first built as separate private systems, helped bind the new city together. [112] Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the city became a world center for industry, commerce, and communication. [113] In 1904, the steamship General Slocum caught fire in the East River, killing 1,021 ...
The New York Academy of Sciences, founded early in the century, expanded and promoted other institutions such as the New York Botanical Garden and the American Museum of Natural History. [29] New York newspapers were read across the nation, particularly, the New York Tribune, edited by Horace Greeley, the voice of the new Republican Party. [30]
1785 – New York Manumission Society founded. [7] 1786 – First Mass held in St. Peter's Church on Barclay Street, the city's first Catholic Church. 1787 October 27: The Federalist Papers begin publication. [9] New-York African Free-School founded. [26] 1789 March: 1st United States Congress begins. April 30: Inauguration of Washington as U.S ...
The Almanac of New York City (2008) Jaffe, Steven H. New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham (2012) Excerpt and text search; Lankevich, George J. New York City: A Short History (2002) Lockwood, Charles. Manhattan moves uptown: an illustrated history (Courier, 2014). Munn, Nancy D.
Augustus Chapman Allen (July 4, 1806 – January 11, 1864), along with his younger brother, John Kirby Allen, founded the City of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas. He was born on July 4, 1806, in Canaseraga Village, New York (now the hamlet of Sullivan in the Town of Sullivan, New York), [1] to Sarah (Chapman) and Roland Allen.
The National Park Bank was founded in 1856 in New York City, ... The bank built a significant Second Empire early skyscraper at 214-18 Broadway ...