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The Taft Museum of Art is a fine art collection in Cincinnati, Ohio.It occupies the 200-year-old historic house at 316 Pike Street. The house – the oldest domestic wooden structure in downtown Cincinnati – was built about 1820 and housed several prominent Cincinnatians, including Martin Baum, Nicholas Longworth, David Sinton, Anna Sinton Taft and Charles Phelps Taft. [2]
William Howard Taft National Historic Site has two main buildings. The first is the original home owned by William Howard Taft's parents, Alphonso and Louise Taft. It has been restored to look as it did during the time William lived there. All the family portraits and many of the books on display belonged to the Taft family.
Taft (formerly Moron, Moro, and Siding Number Two) [9] is a city in the foothills at the extreme southwestern edge of the San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California. Taft is located 32 miles (51 km) west-southwest of Bakersfield, [9] at an elevation of 955 feet (291 m). [7] The population was 9,327 at the 2010 census.
Statue of Lincoln with the park and the Taft Museum visible in the background. The 11-foot (3.4 m) bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln facing the entrance of the park was commissioned by the Charles P. Taft family. [12] The unusually beardless [13] statue is the only public monument to an individual ever produced by sculptor George Grey Barnard. [14]
William Howard Taft National Historic Site; The Mount Auburn Young Ladies Institute was established in 1856 to provide higher education to females. It was known for a strenuous curriculum, particularly in science and mathematics. The Institute was located on twenty-three acres of land that was landscaped by a gardener.
Letterpress Museum, Artist Studio, Job Training Program [1] Contemporary Arts Center: Central Business District Art Duke Energy Children's Museum: West End Children's Part of Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, formerly the Cinergy Children's Museum Fire Museum of Greater Cincinnati: Downtown Firefighting Located in a former firehouse
President Donald Trump has temporarily taken the 150-year-old Resolute Desk out of the Oval Office for refinishing. “A President, after election, gets a choice of 1 in 7 desks,” Trump wrote on ...
Taft Museum of Art, Ohio [13] Alice Vanderbilt Shepard: 1888: Portrait: Oil on canvas: 73.7 cm × 58.4 cm 29 in × 23 in: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas [14] Dennis Miller Bunker Painting at Calcot: 1888: Portrait: Oil on canvas mounted on masonite: 68.6 cm × 64.1 cm 27 in × 25 + 1 ⁄ 4 in: Terra Museum of American Art ...