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Designing the national costume of Antigua and Barbuda Heather Doram is an Antiguan artist, actor, activist and educator, who is the designer of Antigua and Barbuda 's national costume . In 2002 she was awarded the Grand Cross of the Most Illustrious Order of Merit (Antigua) in recognition of her lifetime achievements.
Antigua Guatemala in Guatemala is also known for its well-preserved Spanish colonial style architecture. The city of Antigua is famous for its well-preserved Spanish Mudéjar-influenced Baroque architecture as well as a number of spectacular ruins of colonial churches dating from the 16th century. It has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage ...
The Royalton Hotel is a hotel at 44 West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States. The hotel, opened in 1898, was designed by architecture firm Rossiter & Wright and developed by civil engineer Edward G. Bailey.
Schultz's design for How Green House, drawn by Wood, was exhibited at the Royal Academy In 1903, Wood joined the practice of Robert Weir Schultz , with the office located at Gray's Inn Square . Schultz, who had worked for Shaw from 1884 to 1886 and was heavily influenced by Shaw's chief clerk William Lethaby , was a leading proponent of the ...
Free communities began to spring up in remote areas, such as the south-western hills of Antigua, after emancipation, which eventually occurred on Friday, August 1, 1834 (when 29,000 Antiguan slaves were set free). Since Antigua was the only island in the Leeward Islands to skip the four-year apprenticeship requirement recommended by Britain ...
Rose Hall sugar plantation house, Jamaica Warrens Great House, St. Michael, Barbados Sugar plantation in the British colony of Antigua, 1823. Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were a major part of the economy of the islands in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Most Caribbean islands were covered with sugar cane fields and mills for refining ...
A Small Place is a work of creative nonfiction published in 1988 by Jamaica Kincaid.A book-length essay drawing on Kincaid's experiences growing up in Antigua, it can be read as an indictment of the Antiguan government, the tourist industry and Antigua's British colonial legacy, which includes slavery.
Government House, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, is the official residence and office of the governor-general of Antigua and Barbuda. It was built in the 17th-century colonial style with Georgian architecture and extensive gardens. The residence is not open to the public.