Word: sites
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proposed to lay out a new polo ground in New York. The site selected is along the Harlem river, near High Bridge Park...
...charged with the management of the school's affairs intend to make the new institution the equal, in every respect, of the best of our preparatory academies. Like St. Mark's school, at Southboro, and St. Paul's, at Concord, is to be an Episcopal institution The site is all that can be desired in point of healthfulness and beauty, and when all the contemplated buildings have been erected the school will present a most attractive appearance. At present only the main building has been completed, but a chapel and a structure for additional recitation rooms are soon...
...degrees and as his rank of pensioner gave him position, he must have been worth considerable property. He and his wife Anne became members of the church in Charlestown in 1638 and he was a member of a council held to frame some laws for the legislature. The site of his home is still known in Charlestown, although the building itself was destroyed in the firing of Charlestown during the battle of Bunker Hill. He was about thirty years of age when he died, and he left property in England. The date of his death is the 54th...
...college man. Its disappearance is both a loss and a gain, so that the old adage : "It is an ill wind" etc., holds true. The antiquaries much deplore the breaking up of the ancient dwelling with its many historic associations, and even the thoughtless student as he passes the site now vacant cannot but have a little regret that the gambrel roof and the yellow and white house has gone forever. When the old house was destroyed much of the wood was sold to relic hunters to be made into souvenirs, and several complete parts, such as doors and wainscotings...
...suggestions, one, the turning the building into a swimming bath, ought to receive careful consideration at the hands of the faculty. A fair-sized bath might be made in the building at not a great expense as the shape of the building is not of any material hindrance. The site is not a bad one for such a purpose, and while a swimming bath connected with the new gymnasium might be somewhat more convenient, yet, the present site of the old gymnasium is fairly central, and near Memorial. Lockers might be placed about the walls and thus in the autumn...