Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Andrew Jackson and turned it over to the Ladies' Hermitage Association, an organization composed of prominent ladies of the different states, whose object is to purchase the valued furniture and relics of General Jackson now in the Hermitage, also to restore to its original beauty and grandeur, the historic mansion now quite dilapidated, and save to the nation a sacred spot where cluster memories of holy domestic life and unwavering patriotism...
...choir sang Gaul's anthem "O one, O only mansion;', also Sullivan's "Hearken unto me," and "But the Lord is mindful of his own," by Mendelssohn...
...account of Washington's presidential life in New York city. The social and official sides of his life are minutely portrayed. The article is extremely entertaining and the interest is increased by two full-page pictures of Mrs. Washington's reception day, also a print of the executive mansion which was never used. The essay covers twenty-three pages...
...late Bishop Alfred Lee was born in 1807 in the historic Cambridge mansion immortalized by Longfellow in "The old House by the Lindens" and graduated at Harvard...
...destruction of the old Holmes house. It is dear to the older residents of our ancient town for many reasons; and now because it somewhat obscures the glories of the new and expensive legal nursery, it is doomed to join the shadowy procession of abolished landmarks-the old Hancock mansion in Boston, our beloved chestnut tree of fragrant memory, and many another precious relic of departed days...