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Showing posts with label edwardian. Show all posts
Saturday, November 18, 2017

NYC Exhibition Highlights Downton Abbey Sets, Costumes and More

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Just came across this story from Houzz about a new exhibition in New York City that opens today, the 18th, and runs through January 31st at...
Monday, June 12, 2017

OLD BOOKS, NEW REVIEWS: Country Life 1897-1997 The English Arcadia

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Once again we take a brief moment to talk about one of the books in our collection; I have wanted this for some time, but was only recentl...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Akron’s Stan Hywet Hall Celebrates 100 Years

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About one hundred years ago, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. co-founder F.A. Seiberling and his family were getting ready to move into their ...
Friday, April 10, 2015

Architectural Crime: Historic UK Pub Demolished – Even After Council says NO.

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Even though the local Council in Kilburn said NO to a request to demolish a historic pub and replace it with flats for rent, two bulldozer...
Saturday, March 3, 2012

[TLG] Weekly Round Up of Relevant News - Houses, History and Such...

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. Los Angeles: Writer Pen Densham sells Windsor Square-area home for $2.75 million The Los Angeles Times reports that Densham's En...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Homes of the Rubber Barons: Harvey Firestone's Harbel Manor

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Luckily, Akron still has Stan Hywet Hall , but it wasn't the only great English-style home built by one of the city's rubber barons....
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Monday, September 21, 2009

The Equinox - and Thoughts About H.G. Wells

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The special Sept. 21 Google home page art made me take notice, and though a futuristic writer like H.G. Wells may seem a little out of pla...