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Boscobel's distinguishing feature is the unusual delicacy conveyed by the front facade and its ornamentation. Unique among Federal style buildings, carved wooden swags in the shape of drapery, complete with tassels and bowknots, grace the top of the second-story balcony. Nearly one-third of the face is glass, with flanking lights integrated ...
Boscobel is an 1872 historical novel by the British writer William Harrison Ainsworth. It first appeared as a serial in The New Monthly Magazine before being published in three volumes by the London publishing house Tinsley Brothers .
Gambrill House, also known as Boscobel House and Edgewood, is a house near Frederick, Maryland in the Monocacy National Battlefield. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1] The house is associated with James Gambrill, owner of nearby Araby Mill and the Frederick City Mill.
The newspaper was first published in 1872. [2]In 1956, the Dial was bought by reporter and editor Ralph Goldsmith, who ran it with his wife until selling it in 1992. [3] On its sale, Goldsmith cited his son's reluctance to follow him into the business.
In addition to his dictionary, Blount published widely on other subjects. His Boscobel (1651) was an account of Charles II's preservation after Worcester, with the addition of the king's own account dictated to Pepys; the book was edited with a bibliography by C. G. Thomas (1894).
In 1897, a tree was planted on the western edge of the garden of Boscobel House by Augustus Legge, then bishop of Lichfield, to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. A further tree was planted in 1951 near the site of the original Royal Oak by Orlando Bridgeman, 5th Earl of Bradford , who was the owner of Boscobel House at the time ...
The College Football Playoff selection committee enters its final two weeks of deliberation with a host of consequential decisions thrust on the 13 members.
Boscobel House, a former hunting lodge at Boscobel, Shropshire, associated with the escape of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester. Boscobel (mansion), Garrison, New York, United States; Boscobel (Nebraska City, Nebraska), historic house in Nebraska City, Nebraska; Boscobel, an 1872 novel by William Harrison Ainsworth