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The movement spread to the United States in the late 1880s, with the opening of the Neighborhood Guild in New York City's Lower East Side in 1886, and the most famous settlement house in the United States, Hull-House (1889), was founded soon after by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in Chicago. By 1887, there were 74 settlement and neighborhood ...
It was built about 1810 by Warren Hull, one of Erie County's earliest pioneers. It is in the Federal style and includes the family burial plot in the rear of the property. [2] It is the oldest stone house in western New York and is currently owned by the Hull Family home association. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Palatine German Wohleben House: Frankfort, New York: 1760 Bryant Skidmore House: Northport: 1761 Located near Great Cow Harbor and Red Hook. Strawberry Hill: Rhinebeck: 1762 The National Register of Historic Places called this the most monumental stone farmhouse in Northern Dutchess County. Built by Henry Beekman in 1762. St. Paul's Chapel ...
New York City: Today, a Cartier store [87] [88] more images: Felix M. Warburg House: 1906: Châteauesque: C. P. H. Gilbert: New York City: Today, home to the Jewish Museum [62] Frederic W. Stevens House 1876 Châteauesque: George Harney: New York City: The house was demolished in 1919 Jacob Ruppert Sr House 1883 Second Empire: William Schickel ...
Pages in category "Houses in New York City" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. H. Historic House ...
The razing of buildings for the construction of the complex began in 1950, and the buildings were completed on April 1, 1953. [3] [7]The key sponsor of the development was State assemblyman John J. Lamula and it was named after four-time New York Governor Al Smith (1873–1944), the first Catholic to win a Presidential nomination by a major political party and a social reformer who made ...
When, in the late 1970s, a young Los Angeles filmmaker named Jane Spiller commissioned Frank Gehry to design her home in Venice, California, it was an early but groundbreaking period of Gehry’s ...
The Trust works with the individual houses to restore and promote the houses as a means of educating residents and visitors about the social, economic and political history of New York City and cast urban history in a new light. [4] The Trust includes 23 historic sites, with 18 operating as museums and attracting 729,000 annual visitors. [2]