enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Strater Hotel - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strater_Hotel

    The hotel was originally built by the Strater family, who moved to Durango from Cleveland between 1880 and 1881. [7] Specifically, the hotel was the brainchild of Henry Strater, a pharmacist who rallied his brothers and father to help construct the hotel at the cost of $70,000. [8]

  3. Henry Strater - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Strater

    Henry "Mike" Strater (January 21, 1896 – December 21, 1987) was an American painter and illustrator. He was a friend of Ernest Hemingway and other figures of the Lost Generation. [1] He was best known for his portraiture, figurative, and landscape drawings and paintings. [2] Strater founded the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Ogunquit ...

  4. Durango, Colorado - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durango,_Colorado

    Durango is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of La Plata County, Colorado, United States. [1] ... The Strater Hotel ...

  5. Ogunquit Museum of American Art unveils 2024 season: Here's ...

    www.aol.com/ogunquit-museum-american-art-unveils...

    In 1953, Henry Strater in partnership with a group of artists and community members, opened the Museum of Art of Ogunquit (now the Ogunquit Museum of American Art). Reflecting on this milestone ...

  6. Main Avenue Historic District (Durango, Colorado) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Avenue_Historic...

    Main Avenue Historic District in Durango, Colorado is a 34-acre (14 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.. According to its 1980 NRHP nomination, it was deemed significant "because it represents the essence and core of both the evolution and development of business and commerce in the most important town in southwestern Colorado."

  7. Deaths in December 1987 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_December_1987

    Henry Strater, 91, American painter and illustrator, ... 91, American theatre and silent-screen actress (The Gray Ghost), complications from a fall. [119]

  8. La Plata County, Colorado - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Plata_County,_Colorado

    The county seat is Durango. [2] The county was named for the La Plata River and the La Plata Mountains. "La plata" means "the silver" in Spanish. La Plata County comprises the Durango, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. [3] [4] The county is home to Durango Rock Shelters Archeology Site, the type site for the Basketmaker II period of Anasazi ...

  9. Ogunquit Museum of American Art - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogunquit_Museum_of...

    Artist and collector Henry Strater purchased land in Ogunquit formerly owned by Charles Herbert Woodbury who is widely credited with founding the art colony in the village. [ 3 ] Initially founded by Strater as The Museum of Art of Ogunquit, the institution was incorporated on September 18, 1951, with a mission for “the broad educational ...