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Palace of Whitehall timeline; Enlarged 1680 plan of Whitehall, showing the location of the tennis courts, cockpit, tiltyard on the St. James's Park side, and the configuration of buildings on the river side; View of Whitehall in 1669, showing the Banqueting House and Holbein Gate; A historical record of Whitehall Palace
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)
Massive white flight occurs in Memphis City Schools. Desegregation busing begins in Memphis; 1974 – Women's Resource Center founded. [33] 1975 – Hyatt hotel opens. 1976 – Temple Israel built. 1977 – Memphis in May festival begins. 1978 – Muslim Society of Memphis founded. [34] 1980 – Population: 646,356. [9] 1985 Tall Trees (prison ...
Home and office of Dr. James Ross, built c. 1872; now home to the Museum of Bledsoe County History 9: South Main Street Historic District: South Main Street Historic District: April 21, 1994 : 200-422 S. Main St;.
European exploration came years later, with Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto believed to have visited what is now the Memphis area as early as the 1540s. [10]By the 1680s, French explorers led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle built Fort Prudhomme in the vicinity, the first European settlement in what would become Memphis, predating Anglo-American settlement in East Tennessee by ...
The headquarters was moved away from Whitehall in 1890. [23] Downing Street leads off the south-west end of Whitehall, just above Parliament Street. It was named after Sir George Downing, who built a row of houses along the street around 1680 leading west from Whitehall. Following a number of terrorist attacks, the road was closed to the public ...
The Cockpit-in-Court (also known as the Royal Cockpit) was an early theatre in London, located at the Palace of Whitehall, next to St. James's Park, now the site of 70 Whitehall, in Westminster. The structure was originally built by Henry VIII , after he had acquired Cardinal Wolsey 's York Place to the north of the Palace of Westminster ...
The Holbein Gate and a second less ornate gate, Westminster Gate, were constructed by Henry VIII to connect parts of the Tudor Palace of Whitehall to the east and west of the road. It was one of two substantial parts of the Palace of Whitehall to survive a catastrophic fire in January 1698, the other being Inigo Jones 's classical Banqueting ...