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Lewis Coffin, who had graduated from The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut in 1908, designed the school's Winter Exercise Building (1931, now the Johnson Athletic Center). [4] Lewis Augustus Coffin, Jr was born in 1892 and was the son Dr Lewis Augustus Coffin, Sr., a head and neck surgeon.
The French and Indian War began in North America on 28 May 1754 with the Battle of Jumonville Glen. (It was the regional front of the Seven Years' War between Britain and France in Europe.) Some four years later, on 25 July 1759, the French surrendered Fort Niagara to the British.
Fort Kyk-Over-Al is older (built in 1616) but no longer fits the definition of a building. French Guiana Prefecture Building: Cayenne French Guiana: 1749–1752 Monastery: Oldest extant building in French Guiana. Currently serves as the seat of the Prefect of French Guiana. [68] Court House: St. John's Antigua and Barbuda: 1750 Courthouse
Take a virtual history class by scrolling through this gallery of 39 American landmark buildings that are still standing.
This is the oldest building in Oregon and is believed to have been constructed by fur traders of French Canadian and/or Native American ancestry. [106] The next closest contenders are the Methodist Mission Parsonage c.1841, the Jason Lee House c.1841, the Delaney-Edwards House c.1845, the John McLoughlin House c.1846, and the John D. Boon House ...
Most French colonial buildings, now mostly transformed for public use, are located in large urban areas, namely Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), and Phnom Penh (Cambodia). There are also some colonial buildings were built in China due to French concessions and other interests in the country during 19th and 20th centuries.
The revival style incorporates 11th- and 12th-century southern French, Spanish, and Italian Romanesque characteristics. Richardson first used elements of the style in his Richardson Olmsted Complex in Buffalo, New York , designed in 1870, and Trinity Church in Boston is his most well-known example of this medieval revival style.
“Comes up on you pretty fast.” To the left was a series of small brick cottages where the residents lived. The road ended at the main building, which housed the detox wing, communal rooms and administrative offices. Behind the building, a few addicts stood on a patio hunched in the cold, smoking cigarettes.