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Inigo Jones's plan, dated 1638, for a new palace at Whitehall, which was only realised in part. The Palace of Whitehall – also spelled White Hall – at Westminster was the main residence of the English monarchs from 1530 until 1698, when most of its structures, with the notable exception of Inigo Jones's Banqueting House of 1622, were destroyed by fire.
First built Use Notes Long Meadow: Surgoinsville: 1762-64 Residence Original log structure is within the walls of current home Carter Mansion at Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area: Elizabethton: 1775-80 Residence Oldest frame house in Tennessee [1] Robert Young Cabin: Johnson City: 1776 Residence
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [4] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [5]
Whitehall is a 75-room, 100,000 square foot (9700 square meter) Gilded Age palace type mansion open to the public in Palm Beach, Florida in the United States.Completed in 1902, it is a major example of neoclassical Beaux Arts architecture designed by Carrère and Hastings for Henry Flagler, a leading captain of industry in the late 19th century, and a leading developer of Florida as a tourist ...
Nashville Arena built. 1998 April 15–16: Tornado. After playing in Memphis for one season, the Tennessee OIlers football team plays its first Nashville games at Vanderbilt Stadium. Nashville Predators ice hockey team formed. 1999 Adelphia Coliseum opens. Bill Purcell becomes mayor. [50] Al Gore presidential campaign, 2000 headquartered in ...
The old Palace of Whitehall, showing the Banqueting House to the left Inigo Jones' 1638 plan for a new palace at Whitehall, "one of the grandest architectural conceptions of the renaissance in England"; [30] the Banqueting House is incorporated to the near left of the central courtyard (for the most part, Jones's plan was ultimately never executed)
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Scotland Yard was certainly built and so-named by 1515, as Henry VIII's sister, Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots, was lodged there. Scotland Yard within Whitehall Palace in 1680, before its destruction by fire in 1691 . By the 17th century, the yard housed government buildings and residences for English civil servants.