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  2. Beamish Hall - Wikipedia

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    Beamish Hall is a mid-18th-century country house, now converted to a hotel, which stands in 24 acres (97,000 m 2) of grounds near the town of Stanley, County Durham. It is a Grade II* listed building .

  3. Beamish, County Durham - Wikipedia

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    Beamish, previously named "Pit Hill", is a village in County Durham, England, situated to the north east of Stanley. The entrance to Beamish Museum. The village is contained within Hell Hole Wood and is home to Beamish Museum, an open-air museum seeking to replicate a northern town of the early 20th century. Its principal public house is the ...

  4. Beamish Museum - Wikipedia

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    Beamish Museum is the first regional open-air museum, in England, [2] located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, in County Durham, England. Beamish pioneered the concept of a living museum. [3] By displaying duplicates or replaceable items, it was also an early example of the now commonplace practice of museums allowing visitors to touch ...

  5. No Place - Wikipedia

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    Sign for Co-operative Villas and No Place. No Place is a small village near the town of Stanley in County Durham, England, east of Stanley and west of Beamish.Situated to the south of the A693, it is home to an award-winning real ale pub, the Beamish Mary Inn (dating from 1897 and originally known as the Red Robin), and lies near the Beamish Mary coal pit. [1]

  6. List of oldest buildings and structures in Halifax, Nova Scotia

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    A one-and-a-half-storey wood-shingled house originally built for Thomas Beamish Akins, surviving virtually in its original condition; one of the few remaining early 19th-century houses in Halifax and one of the oldest houses in the city 1815 Acacia Cottage 6080 South Street

  7. Historic Hotels of America - Wikipedia

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    Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. [1] The Caribbean Motel in Wildwood Crest, New Jersey [2]. Historic Hotels of America is a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation that was founded in 1989 with 32 charter members; the program identifies hotels in the United States that have maintained authenticity, sense of place, and architectural integrity from their respective time periods.

  8. Frank Atkinson (museum director) - Wikipedia

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    Dr Frank Atkinson CBE (13 April 1924 – 30 December 2014) was a British museum director and curator. Atkinson is best known for creating the Beamish Museum near Stanley, County Durham, an open-air 'living' museum on the history of the north of England with a focus on the changes brought to both urban and rural life by the industrialisation of the early 20th century.

  9. Shield Row - Wikipedia

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    Shield Row is located close to Beamish Museum which is accessible by the C2C route or the A693. The historic manor house of Beamish Hall is also located nearby, along with Tanfield Railway and Causey Arch, a nature area with a historic bridge.