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The Fitzroy Gardens are 26 hectares (64 acres) located on the southeastern edge of the Melbourne central business district in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The gardens are bounded by Clarendon Street, Albert Street, Lansdowne Street, and Wellington Parade with the Treasury Gardens across Lansdowne street to the west.
The Townsend Hotel is a luxury boutique hotel located in the Metro Detroit city of Birmingham, Michigan. The hotel contains the Rugby Grille restaurant. In addition, the hotel ballroom can accommodate conferences of up to 500 people. The hotel architecture is in the English manor house style. [1]
1902 - William Guilfoyle, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne transforms the ornamental pond into a Japanese Garden. This garden is demolished after the Second World War. 1929 - management of the Gardens was transferred to the City of Melbourne. 1934 - Treasury Gardens was used by the community to celebrate Victoria’s centenary.
The Edinburgh Gardens precinct is defined by the escargot shaped reserve originally set aside for Public Gardens, the Fitzroy and the North Fitzroy Cricket Grounds and a [former] railway station and line. The unique shape of the gardens stems from the resolution between different street grids and the desire to create a circus along Georgian lines.
The Fitzroy and Treasury Gardens were also designed by him. 1871 – Memorial to Melbourne's pioneers erected. 1873 – Gardens permanently reserved; 1880 – establishment of path network, lawns, trees and flowerbeds. 9 October 1917 – the City of Melbourne was appointed responsible for the Flagstaff Gardens.
Birmingham was a stagecoach stop in the 19th century between Detroit and Pontiac. In 1839, the railroad tracks were extended to Birmingham with two steam trains a day running to Detroit. On June 18, 1896, the Oakland Railway, the electric interurban, was constructed to Birmingham; it provided service to Detroit in 40 minutes. This service ended ...
The Changhua Xizhou Gardens (traditional Chinese: 溪州公園; simplified Chinese: 溪州公园; pinyin: Xīzhōu Gōngyuán) is a garden in Xizhou Township, Changhua County, Taiwan. Geography [ edit ]
The City of Fitzroy was a local government area about 2 kilometres (1 mi) northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of 3.73 square kilometres (1.44 sq mi), making it the smallest municipality by land area in Victoria, and existed from 1858, until 1994.