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At the heart of the building is the Great Hall, a 1430 construction, decorated on the basis of equivalents elsewhere in the city of York. [14] The building also includes a pantry and a buttery. [14] On the first floor is the parlour, which overlooks the hall, a gallery, and several bedchambers. [14] Barley Hall is a grade II listed building. [15]
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was formed by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a vast centralized processing area.
Addyman led excavations in York's Coppergate area between 1976 and 1981, [4] and in 1984 the trust opened the Jorvik Viking Centre on the site, in order to share the discoveries with the public and educate visitors on the significance of the Vikings in York and the British Isles. [5] Patrick Ottaway was head of fieldwork at YAT for a time until ...
The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition (1995); essays by scholars covering important mayors before 1980; Green, Paul M., and Melvin G. Holli. Chicago, World War II (2003) excerpt and text search; short and heavily illustrated; Gustaitis, Joseph. Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis (2013) online
Local residents told CBS New York that they had noticed unusual things happening at all hours around the Campbell Hall property. One of the farms where FBI and NYPD officials are searching for ...
It is the seventh building to serve as Chicago's city hall, the fourth built at its location, and the third shared by the governments of Chicago and Cook County. [10] [11] Its location has served as the seat of the city and county governments since 1853, except for a period from 1871—when the Great Chicago Fire destroyed the building—to 1885.
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Originally known as the Chicago Civic Center, the building was renamed for Mayor Daley on December 27, 1976, seven days after his death in office. [6] The 648-foot (198 m), thirty-one story building features Cor-Ten , a self-weathering steel.