Word: sites
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This country is at last is to have a national sporting club that should equal in prominence the famous sporting club in London. The site of this new International Sporting Club, as it will be called, has been selected in New York, on Lexington Avenue between Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth streets. The principal use of the club will be to stage the biggest boxing bouts that can be secured for the United States...
...machinery of popular government will be given in connection with physical and military training. One of these camps for the students of the Northwest and for men in the East who want to know a bit of what is still the old West, will possibly be situated on the site of Colonel Roosevelt's Chimney Butte Ranch, near Me- dora, North Dakota. There will be others, presumably, including one in Colonel Roosevelt's own home state...
...southern side of the avenue; the establishment of new building lines on Harvard square itself, thus increasing the size of the Square; the widening of Boylston street by taking ten feet on the easterly side between Harvard square and the river; the construction of a hotel opposite the site of the Widener Library, with an adequate assembly hall and convention hall in the rear; and the regulation of the general style of architecture to conform with the present plans. A marble or granite shaft on the further bank of the Charles would harmonize with these plans and would serve...
...purchase the Palfrey estate, on which the Naval Radio School drill hall is erected. This was the decision reached by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt after a conference on the subject with Mayor Edward W. Quinn, of Cambridge. It is planned to maintain the site as a public park and the drill hall for community purposes. The value of the estate is placed...
...used for many purposes. Unless the Naval authorities take some action it would cost the city $80,000 which is more than it is willing to pay. It is the city's belief that it deserves me reward for lending the Common to the Navy as a building site without charge...