John Russell Pope, the Glossary
John Russell Pope (April 24, 1874 – August 27, 1937) was an American architect whose firm is widely known for designing major public buildings, including the National Archives and Records Administration building (completed in 1935), the Jefferson Memorial (completed in 1943) and the West Building of the National Gallery of Art (completed in 1941), all in Washington, D.C.[1]
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101 relations: Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park, Alpha Delta Phi, Alva Belmont, American Academy in Rome, American Institute of Pharmacy Building, American Museum of Natural History, American Pharmacists Association, American Renaissance, Andra Akers, Architecture, Archives of American Art, Art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics, Art competitions at the Summer Olympics, École des Beaux-Arts, Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, Beaux-Arts architecture, Belcourt of Newport, Branch House, British Museum, Broad Street Station (Richmond), Brodhead-Bell-Morton Mansion, Bruce Price, Charlcote House, Chevy Chase, Maryland, City Beautiful movement, Classical architecture, Cobble Court, Columbia University, Columbus, Ohio, Cornell University, DAR Constitution Hall, Dartmouth College, Eggers & Higgins, Elgin Marbles, Embassy of Hungary, Washington, D.C., Far Hills, New Jersey, Federal Triangle, First Congregational Church (Columbus, Ohio), Frank Winfield Woolworth, Freemasonry, Frick Collection, Georgian architecture, Gothic architecture, Greece, Greenville, Florida, Hartwick College, Hendricks Chapel, Henry Bacon, Henry Clay Frick, ... Expand index (51 more) »
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park is a designated U.S. historic park preserving two separate farm sites in LaRue County, Kentucky, where Abraham Lincoln was born and lived early in his childhood.
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Alpha Delta Phi
Alpha Delta Phi (ΑΔΦ; commonly known as Alpha Delt, ADPhi, A-Delt, or ADP) is a North American Greek-letter social college fraternity.
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Alva Belmont
Alva Erskine Belmont (née Smith; January 17, 1853 – January 26, 1933), known as Alva Vanderbilt from 1875 to 1896, was an American multi-millionaire socialite and women's suffrage activist.
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American Academy in Rome
The American Academy in Rome is a research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo in Rome, Italy.
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American Institute of Pharmacy Building
The American Institute of Pharmacy Building, also known as the Americal Pharmaceutical Association Building and the American Pharmacists Association Building is a late Beaux Arts style building in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of the American Pharmacists Association.
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American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.
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American Pharmacists Association
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA, previously known as the American Pharmaceutical Association), founded in 1852, is the first-established professional society of pharmacists in the United States.
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American Renaissance
The American Renaissance was a period of American architecture and the arts from 1876 to 1917, characterized by renewed national self-confidence and a feeling that the United States was the heir to Greek democracy, Roman law, and Renaissance humanism.
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Andra Akers
Andra Akers (September 16, 1943 – March 20, 2002) was an American actress and philanthropist.
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Architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.
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Archives of American Art
The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States.
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Art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Art competitions were held as part of the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.
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Art competitions at the Summer Olympics
Art competitions formed part of the modern Olympic Games during its early years, from 1912 to 1948.
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École des Beaux-Arts
) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century. The most famous and oldest is the in Paris, now located on the city's left bank across from the Louvre, at 14 rue Bonaparte (in the 6th arrondissement).
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Baltimore
Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.
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Baltimore Museum of Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) in Baltimore, Maryland, is an art museum that was founded in 1914.
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Beaux-Arts architecture
Beaux-Arts architecture was the academic architectural style taught at the in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century.
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Belcourt of Newport
Belcourt is a former summer cottage designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt for Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont and located on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island.
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Branch House
Branch House in Richmond, Virginia, was designed in 1916 by the firm of John Russell Pope as a private residence of financier John Kerr Branch and his wife Beulah Gould Branch.
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British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
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Broad Street Station (Richmond)
Broad Street Station (originally Union Station) was a union railroad station in Richmond, Virginia, United States, across Broad Street from the Fan district.
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Brodhead-Bell-Morton Mansion
The Brodhead-Bell-Morton Mansion, also known as the Levi P. Morton House is a historic Beaux-Arts home, located at 1500 Rhode Island Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Logan Circle neighborhood.
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Bruce Price
Bruce Price (December 12, 1845 – May 29, 1903) was an American architect and an innovator in the Shingle Style. John Russell Pope and Bruce Price are architects from New York City and Fellows of the American Institute of Architects.
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Charlcote House
Charlcote House, also known as the James Swan Frick House, is a historic home located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
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Chevy Chase, Maryland
Chevy Chase is the colloquial name of an area that includes a town, several incorporated villages, and an unincorporated census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland; and one adjoining neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C. Most of these derive from a late-19th-century effort to create a new suburb that its developer dubbed Chevy Chase after a colonial land patent.
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City Beautiful movement
The City Beautiful movement was a reform philosophy of North American architecture and urban planning that flourished during the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of introducing beautification and monumental grandeur in cities.
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Classical architecture
Classical architecture usually denotes architecture which is more or less consciously derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or sometimes more specifically, from De architectura (c. 10 AD) by the Roman architect Vitruvius.
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Cobble Court
Cobble Court is a historic house originally commissioned by the distiller J. Hazeltine Carstairs, who owned 50 acres from Marple Rd.
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Columbia University
Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.
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Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio.
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Cornell University
Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.
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DAR Constitution Hall
DAR Constitution Hall is a concert hall located at 1776 D Street NW, near the White House in Washington, D.C. It was built in 1929 by the Daughters of the American Revolution to house its annual convention when membership delegations outgrew Memorial Continental Hall.
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Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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Eggers & Higgins
Eggers & Higgins was a New York architectural firm partnered by Otto Reinhold Eggers (August 4, 1882 – April 23, 1964) and Daniel Paul Higgins (September 12, 1886 – December 26, 1953).
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Elgin Marbles
The Elgin Marbles are a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures from the Parthenon and other structures from the Acropolis of Athens, removed from Ottoman Greece and shipped to Britain by agents of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and now held in the British Museum in London.
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Embassy of Hungary, Washington, D.C.
The Embassy of Hungary in Washington, D.C. is Hungary's diplomatic mission to the United States.
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Far Hills, New Jersey
Far Hills is a borough in the Somerset Hills of northern Somerset County in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Federal Triangle
Federal Triangle is a triangular area in Washington, D.C. formed by 15th Street NW, Constitution Avenue NW, Pennsylvania Avenue NW, and E Street NW.
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First Congregational Church (Columbus, Ohio)
The First Congregational Church is a Congregational church located in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
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Frank Winfield Woolworth
Frank Winfield Woolworth (April 13, 1852 – April 8, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company, and the operator of variety stores known as "Five-and-Dimes" (5- and 10-cent stores or dime stores) which featured a selection of low-priced merchandise.
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Freemasonry
Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.
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Frick Collection
The Frick Collection (colloquially known as the Frick) is an art museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. It was established in 1935 to preserve the art collection of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick.
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Georgian architecture
Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.
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Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.
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Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.
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Greenville, Florida
Greenville is a town in Madison County, Florida, United States.
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Hartwick College
Hartwick College is a private liberal arts college in Oneonta, New York.
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Hendricks Chapel
Hendricks Chapel is a multi-faith religious, spiritual and cultural chapel located on the campus of Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.
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Henry Bacon
Henry Bacon (November 28, 1866February 16, 1924) was an American Beaux-Arts architect who oversaw the engineering and design of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., built between 1915 and 1922, which was his final project before his 1924 death. John Russell Pope and Henry Bacon are architects from New York City and Fellows of the American Institute of Architects.
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Henry Clay Frick
Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron.
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Henry E. Huntington
Henry Edwards Huntington (February 27, 1850 – May 23, 1927) was an American railroad magnate and collector of art and rare books.
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House of the Temple
The House of the Temple (officially, Home of The Supreme Council, 33°, Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, Washington D.C., U.S.A.) is a Masonic temple in Washington, D.C., United States, that serves as the headquarters of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, U.S.A.
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Huntington Library
The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, known as The Huntington, is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Huntington in San Marino, California.
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International Style
The International Style or internationalism is a major architectural style that developed in the 1920s and 1930s and was closely related to modernism and modernist architecture.
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
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Ithaca, New York
Ithaca is a city in and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York, United States.
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James Gamble Rogers
James Gamble Rogers (March 3, 1867 – October 1, 1947) was an American architect. John Russell Pope and James Gamble Rogers are American alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts and architects from New York City.
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Jefferson Memorial
The Jefferson Memorial is a national memorial in Washington, D.C., built in honor of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, a central intellectual force behind the American Revolution, a founder of the Democratic-Republican Party, and the nation's third president.
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Legacy.com
Legacy.com is a United States-based website founded in 1998, the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials.
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Lester C. Tichy
Lester C. Tichy (1905–1981) was a prolific 20th-century American architect and industrial designer.
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Lincoln Memorial
The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial that honors the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.
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List of memorials to Theodore Roosevelt
Several memorials have been devoted to Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
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McCormick House (Washington, D.C.)
McCormick House is the current residence of the Brazilian ambassador to the United States.
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Meridian House
Meridian House is a historic mansion in Washington, D.C., located in the Meridian Hill neighborhood of Northwest D.C..
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Meuse-Argonne American Memorial
The Meuse-Argonne American Memorial (Montfaucon American Monument; Monument Américain de Montfaucon) is an American World War I memorial commemorating "the brilliant victory of the American First Army in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, September 26 – November 11, 1918, and pays tribute to the previous heroic services of the Armies of France on the important battle front upon which the memorial has been constructed." It was erected by the United States Government and is the largest of the American war memorials in Europe.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Milwaukee County.
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National Archives and Records Administration
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government within the executive branch, charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records.
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National City Christian Church
National City Christian Church, located on Thomas Circle in Washington, D.C., is the national church and cathedral of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
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National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW.
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Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity.
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New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Newport, Rhode Island
Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, United States.
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Oliver Belmont
Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont (November 12, 1858 – June 10, 1908) was an American banker, socialite, and politician who served one term as a United States Representative from New York from 1901 to 1903.
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Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
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Oneonta, New York
Oneonta is a city in southern Otsego County, New York, United States.
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Pantheon, Rome
The Pantheon (Pantheum,Although the spelling Pantheon is standard in English, only Pantheum is found in classical Latin; see, for example, Pliny, Natural History: "Agrippas Pantheum decoravit Diogenes Atheniensis". See also Oxford Latin Dictionary, s.v. "Pantheum"; Oxford English Dictionary, s.v.: "post-classical Latin pantheon a temple consecrated to all the gods (6th cent.; compare classical Latin pantheum)".
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Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
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Payne Whitney Gymnasium
The Payne Whitney Gymnasium is the gymnasium of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Plattsburgh, New York
Plattsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Clinton County, New York, United States, situated on the north-western shore of Lake Champlain.
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Richmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
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Ringwood, New Jersey
Ringwood is a borough in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Rome Prize
The Rome Prize is awarded by the American Academy in Rome, in Rome, Italy.
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San Marino, California
San Marino is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Science Museum of Virginia
The Science Museum of Virginia is a science museum located in Richmond, Virginia.
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Silver medal
A silver medal, in sports and other similar areas involving competition, is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc.
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Skylands (estate)
Skylands is a estate property located in Ringwood State Park in Ringwood, New Jersey, a borough in Passaic County in the state of New Jersey.
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Syracuse University
Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States.
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Tate Britain
Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England.
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United States Commission of Fine Arts
The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) is an independent agency of the federal government of the United States, and was established in 1910.
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University Club of Milwaukee
The University Club of Milwaukee is a private club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, located at 924 E. Wells Street.
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Urban planning
Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning in specific contexts, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks, and their accessibility.
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USGA Museum
The United States Golf Association Museum and Arnold Palmer Center for Golf History is home to a collection of golf artifacts and memorabilia.
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Ward Homestead
Ward Homestead is a notable landmark located in Maplewood, New Jersey, because it is the combined work of three great 20th century figures, architect John Russell Pope and landscape designers, the Olmsted Brothers.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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William B. Leeds
William Bateman Leeds (September 19, 1861June 23, 1908) was an American businessman.
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Woodend (Chevy Chase, Maryland)
Woodend is a historic home located in the Montgomery County, Maryland, town of Chevy Chase.
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Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City and a designated National Historic Landmark.
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Yale University
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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1932 Summer Olympics
The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as (Los Angeles 1932) were an international multi-sport event held from July 30 to August 14, 1932, in Los Angeles, California, United States. The Games were held during the worldwide Great Depression, with some nations not traveling to Los Angeles as a result; 37 countries competed, compared to the 46 at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam, and even then-U.S.
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References
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