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Paxton House It is a country house built for Patrick Home of Billie in an unsuccessful attempt to woo a Prussian heiress. Attributed to James Adam (possibly in concert with John Adam ), it was built between 1758 and 1766, under the supervision of James Nisbet, with extensive interiors (c1773) by Robert Adam , as well as furniture by Thomas ...
Ninian Home was born in 1732 in Scotland and made his fortune from his plantations in Grenada which enabled him to purchase Paxton House, Berwickshire from his uncle, Patrick Home, in 1773. [2] [3] Home was sent to Virginia as a young man to earn his living. From 1764 Home spent much of his time in Grenada where he owned two plantations which ...
Paxton is a small village near the B6461 and the B6460, in the pre-1975 ancient county of Berwickshire, now an administrative area of the Borders region of Scotland.It lies 1 mile west of the border with Northumberland, It is a traditional, country village surrounded by farmland, and its closest market towns are Duns and Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Paxton House may refer to: in Scotland. Paxton House, Berwickshire; in the United States (by state) Paxton House (Brookhaven, Mississippi), listed on the NRHP in ...
Wedderburn Castle is the historic family seat of the Home of Wedderburn family, cadets of the Home family (today Earls of Home).It was designed and constructed 1771–1775 by the famous architect brothers Robert Adam and James Adam, with the work superintendent being architect James Nisbet of Kelso, for Patrick Home of Billie, who had already completed Paxton House (using James Adam and Nisbet ...
Migrants arrive at Annunciation House in El Paso after being released from U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody, on June 24, 2018.
Great Paxton, England; Little Paxton, England; Paxton House, Berwickshire, Scotland; Paxton's Tower, near the National Botanic Garden of Wales in Carmarthenshire, Wales; Lower Paxton Township, Pennsylvania
Patrick M. Keck, Springfield State Journal- Register March 28, 2024 at 3:44 PM More than 40,000 people are expected to attend this year's White House Easter Egg Roll.