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As of 2000, there were 20 students in Grindelwald who came from another municipality, while 39 residents attended schools outside the municipality. [23] Grindelwald is home to the Bibliothek Grindelwald library. The library has (as of 2008) 6,144 books or other media, and loaned out 10,777 items in the same year. It was open a total of 136 days ...
Swiss chalet style (German: Schweizerstil, Norwegian: Sveitserstil) is an architectural style of Late Historicism, originally inspired by rural chalets in Switzerland and the Alpine (mountainous) regions of Central Europe. The style refers to traditional building designs characterised by widely projecting roofs and facades richly decorated with ...
Our Chalet is just outside Adelboden, in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland. [1] Located in the Bernese Alps, it is 1,350 metres (4,430 ft) above sea level. Our Chalet, founded by Helen Storrow, opened in 1932. Our Chalet offers year-round activities, special events, and conferences for Girl Guides, Girl Scouts, and leaders from around the ...
Grindelwald may refer to: Grindelwald, a village at the foot of the Wetterhorn in Switzerland; Grindelwald, Tasmania, Australia; Gellert Grindelwald, a fictional ...
A 'chalet' in the hills to the east of Orosí, Costa Rica. Many chalets in the European Alps were originally used as seasonal farms for dairy cattle, which would be brought up from the lowland pastures during the summer months. The herders would live in the chalet and make butter and cheese in order to preserve the milk produced. These products ...
Grindelwald was gazetted as a locality in 1983. It is named after a village in Switzerland. [3] It is a small town just north of Launceston, developed in the style of a Swiss village by Roelf Vos, a Dutch immigrant to Tasmania, after he sold his "Roelf Vos" supermarket chain to Woolworths. It was built around an artificial lake, on the edge of ...
Mount Gilead is a village and the county seat of Morrow County, Ohio, United States. It is located 41 miles (66 km) northeast of Columbus. The population was 3,503 at the 2020 census. It is the center of population of Ohio. [4] [5] The village was established in 1832, eight years after white settlers arrived in the region.
The estate was built between 1912 and 1915 for F. A. Seiberling, co-founder of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and his wife, Gertrude Ferguson Penfield Seiberling.. They named their "American Country Estate" Stan Hywet, loosely translated from Old English meaning "stone quarry" or "stone hewn," to reflect the site's earlier use and the abandoned stone quarries located on the grounds of ...