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Anthony & Caroline Isermann House (1922)

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NRHP #04000108
6416 Seventh Avenue
Kenosha, Wisconsin

The Anthony and Caroline Isermann House sits next to brother Frank's house, both designed by Prairie School architect Russell Barr Williamson. The brothers ran a retail business in downtown Kenosha.

NYC - East Village - St Marks-in-the-Bowery Church - Courtyard

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From ancient times, a winged lion has been the symbol of St. Mark.

This triangular space in front of the St. Marks-in-the-Bowery Church dates to 1799. It was originally acquired, along with the triangle at East 10th and Stuyvesant Streets, for street purposes and was developed as a sitting area in 1938. The park is host to a greenmarket and a summer concert series. It contains a memorial flagpole that was dedicated in 1944 by the Ukrainian American Society.

Over a period of forty years, Abe Lebewohl (1931-1996) transformed his Second Avenue Deli into a New York institution, drawing loyal customers from celebrities, tourists and locals alike with his Jewish culinary delicacies and generous and magnetic spirit.

Lebewohl was born in Kulykiv, Ukraine, in 1931. When the Soviets occupied western Ukraine, Abe’s father was arrested and exiled to Siberia, and Abe and his mother were banished to Kazakhstan. The family was reunited and traveled to western Ukraine and then to Poland. They illegally escaped Poland, and made their way through Austria to a refugee camp in Italy, where they spent five years before immigrating to America in 1950.

For a few years, Lebewohl worked as a waiter at a twelve-seat coffee shop on Second Avenue and E. 10th Street. In 1954 the family purchased the property, and gradually expanded it into a 250-seat restaurant, the Second Avenue Deli. The deli became famous for its extensive menu of Ukrainian and Jewish delicacies and its stupendous sandwiches. Customers included such luminaries as Joe DiMaggio, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Mason, Bob Hope, Joan Rivers, Raoul Felder, and Milton Berle.

Abe (also known as Abie) endeared himself to the East Village community with his deep humanity and unflagging generosity, and he often provided free food to homeless people, striking workers, and neighborhood events. In tribute to the Yiddish theaters clustered on and around Second Avenue, Lebewohl created a “Walkway of Yiddish Actors” at the restaurant’s entrance. Proud of his Ukrainian-Jewish roots, he traveled back to the Ukraine in the 1970s. He patronized Ukrainian businesses in the neighborhood and was among the few businessmen who attended a private meeting with Leonid Kravchuk, the first president of independent Ukraine, during a visit to New York.

On March 4, 1996, Abe Lebewohl was fatally shot while depositing his daily receipts at a nearby bank. More than 1,500 mourners attended his funeral at the Community Synagogue on East 6th Street. In tribute to his memory this park was named Abe Lebewohl Park, at the initiative of Council Member Antonio Pagan and the 10th and Stuyvesant Streets Block Association.

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NYC - Sak's 5th Avenue Holiday Light Show

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Saks Fifth Avenue’s famous Holiday snowflake light show consists of 72,000 lights with fifty 8-foot and 20-foot illuminated snowflakes, reaching 10 stories high and an LED-light show, set to music. The show got a green overhaul in 2006 with 40,400 newly upgraded LEDs from Philips using 2600W of energy--the equivalent of three toaster ovens.

Saks Fifth Avenue is the successor of a business founded in 1867 and incorporated in New York in 1902 as Saks & Company. In 1923 Saks & Co. merged with Gimbels Brothers, Inc., operating as a separate autonomous subsidiary. Both Bernard Gimbel and Horace Saks had been operating independent stores in Herald Square. In 1924, they purchased their "dream store" on upper Fifth Avenue in what was at the time a mostly residential district.

When Adam Gimbel became President of Saks Fifth Avenue in 1926, the company took on national aspirations. The very first branch store opened in 1926 in the city of Palm Beach, Florida as a resort store, followed by a Southampton resort store in 1928. The first full-line year-round Saks store was opened in Chicago in 1929, followed by another resort store in Miami Beach, Florida. In 1938 Saks expanded to the West Coast, opening in Beverly Hills. By the end of the 1930s Saks Fifth Avenue had a total of 10 stores, including resort locations such as Sun Valley, Mount Stowe and Newport. More full-line stores followed with Detroit in 1940, Pittsburgh in 1949. The company moved to its own freestanding location approximately one block from its former home in the Gimbel's flagship. The San Francisco location opened in 1952. More expansion followed in the 1960s.

BATUS Inc. acquired Gimbels Bros., Inc. and its Saks Fifth Avenue subsidary in 1973. In 1990, BATUS sold Saks to Investcorp S.A., which after investing the in the company and weathering the early 1990's recession took Saks public in 1996 as Saks Holdings, Inc. In 1998, Saks Holdings Inc. was acquired by Proffitt's, Inc.. Upon closing of the acquisition, Proffitt's changed its name to Saks Incorporated. The New York flagship store accounts for 25% of the entire chain's annual revenue.

NRHP #94001265 Randecker's Hardware Store (1909)

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NRHP #94001265 Randecker's Hardware Store (1909)

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Don't ask me why this particular building is on the NRHP.

William Randecker was a German immigrant who settled in Bloomindale, IL and started his own hardware store in 1909. The business remained open and family-owned until Randecker's nephew's death in 1976. The building is now used by an insurance company.

Overton Hygienic Building (1922)

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NRHP #86001091
3619-27 S. State Street
Chicago, IL
Architect: Z. Erol Smith

From the Chicago Landmarks Website: "Built by noted entrepreneur Anthony Overton as the headquarters for the Overton Hygienic Company, which was one of the nation's foremost producers of African-American cosmetics. This four-story structure also housed several of Overton's other business ventures, including the Victory Life Insurance Company and Douglass National Bank, the first nationally chartered, African-American-owned bank. Offices on the second floor were rented to area physicians, lawyers, music producers, and architects. It is one of nine structures in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_Hygienic_Building

De Cordova Gravesite at Oakwood Cemetery

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De Cordova Gravesite at Oakwood Cemetery

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Phineas De Cordova
Jemima Delgado De Cordova

Phineas de Cordova, the first Jew in Austin when he arrived in 1849

DE CORDOVA, PHINEAS (1819-1903) Buried in Beth Israel I
Phineas De Cordova, newspaperman and land agent, whose life in Texas embraced a period of nearly sixty years and in a modest way was identified with the history and development of the State, died at the home of his son at Austin, May 8, 1903. Mr. De Cordova was born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 28, 1819; came to Texas in 1847, and spent a year in Galveston with his brother, Jacob, resided for a short time in Houston, and then established himself at Austin. He was editor of a newspaper published at Austin in early days. In later years he contributed various articles to the leading newspapers of the State. He was associated with his son, Sam De Cordova, in the real estate business until failing health compelled him to retire from active pursuits a few years since. He was a man liberally educated, widely read, with a mind stored with recollections of the heroes and statesmen of early days with whom he was associated and important events that he witnessed or in which he participated, with a heart devoted to Texas—chivalrous, patriotic and noble. Source Historic Texas

Oakwood Cemetery
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Plot: Section 1, Beth Israel 1

Overton Hygienic Building (1922)

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NRHP #86001091
3619-27 S. State Street
Chicago, IL
Architect: Z. Erol Smith

From the Chicago Landmarks Website: "Built by noted entrepreneur Anthony Overton as the headquarters for the Overton Hygienic Company, which was one of the nation's foremost producers of African-American cosmetics. This four-story structure also housed several of Overton's other business ventures, including the Victory Life Insurance Company and Douglass National Bank, the first nationally chartered, African-American-owned bank. Offices on the second floor were rented to area physicians, lawyers, music producers, and architects. It is one of nine structures in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_Hygienic_Building

Sterling House B&B, Cape Charles

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Sterling House B&B, 9 Randolph Ave., Cape Charles, Virginia, April 2013: "Captain Ned" Sterling was town mayor in 1888-1891. He and his brothers from Crisfield, Maryland, started the first seafood business in Cape Charles.

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Native species sprout up as part of Napa Creek habitat restoration

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NAPA, Calif. — Native species plants begin to sprout up along the banks of the widened Napa Creek here, March 7, 2012. The plantings will provide shade and additional habitat for fish and other river wildlife once they reach maturity. The Corps is also installing box culverts – tunnels large enough for a car to drive through – to channel flood water from the creek directly to the Napa River and away from homes and businesses. The plantings and culverts are part of the .8 million Napa Creek project, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; a joint effort of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, the city of Napa, and the Napa Flood Control and Water Conservation District to reduce the flood risk for the city. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Tyler Stalker)

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Chicago Bee Building (1929)

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NRHP #86001090
3647-55 S. State Street
Chicago, IL
Architect: Z. Erol Smith

From Chicago Landmarks Website: "This Art Deco-style building was constructed as the headquarters for the Chicago Bee newspaper, which was founded by noted African-American entrepreneur Anthony Overton. It originally featured upper-floor apartments and, during the 1930's, housed the offices of the Douglass National Bank and the Overton Hygienic Company, a nationally known cosmetics firm. The newspaper went out of business in the 1940s, although Overton Hygienic continued until the early 1980s. In the mid-1990's, the building was adapted for reuse as a branch of the Chicago Public Library. It is one of nine structures in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Bee_Building

Vermilion Institute aka Vermillion Academy (restoration planned)

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Driving east from the Hayesville Opera House on the old Lincoln Highway, we saw another structure that's on the National Register of Historic Places.

From the institute's web site I leaned: "The Vermillion Institute was chartered by the Ohio Legislature on March 4, 1845 and rose quickly to become one of the largest and most prominent institutions of higher learning in the nation, educating distinguished jurists, two U.S. Senators, three Congressmen and others prominent in business and education. The Institute's principal building survives as a National Register-listed brick Greek Revival landmark, a prominent structure in Hayesville, Ohio, Ashland County.

In the comment is the planned exterior restoration rendering, detailed at: www.vermillioninstituteohio.org/

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Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens

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Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, Washington DC.

Although Kenilworth Gardens are locally important today as a part of Washington's Park System, its greater significance lies in its contribution to the botanical study and development of water plants and gardens under the direction of its founder, W.B. Shaw and his daughter, L. Helen Fowler. It continues today as a noted water garden under the National Park Service.
After the Civil War, 37 acres of this land were bought as a farm by W.B. Shaw, a war veteran who had come to Washington to work in the Treasury Department. Shaw pursued his hobby, the growing of water lilies, on the marshy sections of his land. He imported 12 hardy American white lilies, from his native Maine and grew them in an abandoned ice pond. As the lilies thrived, Shaw dug more ponds and began to experiment in hybridization. In 1912, Shaw and his daughter, Helen Shaw Fowler, began to sell their lilies commercially and daily shipped thousands of 63 varieties of hand-picked lilies, to Chicago, Boston and New York. During his lifetime, Shaw was responsible for developing many new varieties of lily, among them the Pink Opal and W.B. Shaw and the Helen Fowler water lily varieties, all still grown commercially today. The "Shaw Gardens" produced lilies available nowhere else in the country in the marsh's 35 different types of soil.

Mrs. Fowler, who ran the business after Mr. Shaw's death in 1921, agreed to permit the public to view the lilies on Sunday mornings during the height of the season. During the 1920s and 30s, visitors numbered as many as 5-6,000 per day. Even though it was one of the largest lily farms in the world, the Shaw property was particularly attractive because it had been left almost entirely in its natural state.
In 1924, Mrs. Fowler was persuaded to permit local residents to attempt to have the ponds brought under public ownership; among the most enthusiastic supporters was Mrs. Calvin Coolidge who, along with President and Mrs. Wilson, was a frequent visitor to the gardens. The extent of the gardens remains essentially unchanged from 1938, the year they ceased operation as a commercial enterprise and became part of the National Park system.

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NYC - Civic Center: Woolworth Building

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The Woolworth Building was built in 1911-1913 for the Woolworth retail chain company. Frank W. Woolworth bought the long-coveted tract of land on Broadway opposite City Hall Park in 1909 and hired Cass Gilbert as architect; Gilbert urged his client to make the new headquarters the tallest building in the world. Woolworth, in turn, influenced by his travels to Europe, wanted his architect to design it in neo-Gothic style. After several redesigns, one higher than the other, finally to exceed the rivalling Metropolitan Life Tower, the foundations were laid in August 1911 and, at the rate of one and a half storeys a week, the 60-storey building was completed two years later.

Rising from a 27-storey base, with limestone and granite lower floors, the tower is clad in white terra-cotta and capped with an elaborate set-back Gothic top, with the spire rising to the height of 241.5 m. It was to be the tallest building in the world for 17 years, until the 40 Wall Street exceeded its height.

The building boasts a highly decorated, three-storey marble lobby in the plan form of a latin cross, with semicircular arches, bronze ornaments and sculpted corbels on the walls (one of which represents Mr. Woolworth himself counting his dimes) and the vaulted ceiling decorated with glass mosaic in Byzantine style. No wonder the building was dubbed the "Cathedral of Commerce."

The building was opened in April 1913 with a gala for 800 persons, and the building's lights were switched on by President Wilson from the White House in Washington, D.C.

In 1980 the building exterior was restored to its original splendour, an assignment that cost more than the original construction work.

The Woolworth chain eventually went out of business and its successor, the Venator Group, sold the building to the Witkoff Group for 5 million in June 1998.

The NY University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies will expand to the first three office floors of the building (8,700 m

Pittsburgh - North Shore: Roberto Clemente Bridge

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The Roberto Clemente Bridge, also known as the Sixth Street Bridge, spans 884 feet across the Allegheny River, connecting the North Shore and the Central Business District in downtown Pittsburgh. Originally opened on October 19, 1928, it was renamed after Pittsburgh Pirates slugger, Roberto Clemente on August 6, 1998. The bridge was built from 1925 to 1928 by architect Stanley L. Roush and engineers Vernon R. Covell, H. E. Dodge, Alfred D. Nutter and T. J. Wilkerson of the Allegheny County Department of Public Works.

Along with the Rachel Carson Bridge and the Andy Warhol Bridge, it is one of the "Three Sisters Bridges," three parallel self-anchored suspension bridges crossing the Allegheney. They were the first self-anchored bridges built in the United States. The Municipal Art Commission had mandated the bridges all be suspension, but the site conditions didn't allow for typical anchorages. The unusual self-anchored design features heavy anchorages to hold the cable ends and rigid towers to hold the ends apart. The deck girders were originally painted green with the remaining superstructure aluminum grey, but today, like most downtown Pittsburgh river bridges, it is painted yellow.

The Sixth Street Bridge was designated a landmark by the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark in 1988.

National Register #86000017 (1986)

Denver - CBD: Colorado National Bank

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Denver - CBD: Colorado National Bank

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The Colorado National Bank Building, at 918 17th Street, opened in 1915 as the third home of the Colorado National Bank. Designed in necoclassical style by architects William and Arthur Fisher, a seamless vertical addition was made in 1925 by Merrill and Burnham.

National Register #10000215 (2010)

Denver - CBD: Colorado National Bank

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The Colorado National Bank Building, at 918 17th Street, opened in 1915 as the third home of the Colorado National Bank. Designed in necoclassical style by architects William and Arthur Fisher, a seamless vertical addition was made in 1925 by Merrill and Burnham.

National Register #10000215 (2010)

Denver - CBD: Colorado National Bank

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The Colorado National Bank Building, at 918 17th Street, opened in 1915 as the third home of the Colorado National Bank. Designed in necoclassical style by architects William and Arthur Fisher, a seamless vertical addition was made in 1925 by Merrill and Burnham.

National Register #10000215 (2010)