Word: siting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...site has been chosen at Stratford, England, for the fountain to be erected by Hon. George W. Childs of Philadelphia in memory of Shakespeare...
...membership of the new Athletic Club of Boston is to be limited to 1000. The membership fee is to be $40 and the annual assessment, $30. It is estimated that the cost of the building will be $225,000. The site chosen is on Dartmouth street, near the Boston & Albany station...
...purchase of a telescope that should surpass all others. The lens for that telescope is now completed, having the unparalleled aperture of 36 inches. An observatory has been build upon Mount Hamilton near San Jose, at an altitude of over 4000 feet, to form a suitable site for which 40,000 tons of the hardest granite had to be removed. The lens will rest upon silver supports in an iron box until the steel dome and the mountings are finished. It is expected that everything will be perfected by next September, when the building and contents will be given into...
...fashioned quality know as faith, met and devised a plan. Each was to appeal to his own constituency for an annual subscription toward the necessary expenses. The school was founded. At the present moment it has the active assistance of no less than sixteen colleges. It owns a fine site on Mt. Lycabettus, presented by the Greek government; has in process of erection a commodious and solid building to cost twenty thousand dollars; posesses a library of between fifteen hundred and two thousand volumes; is free from debt, and has an established reputation. Cholera closed the Levant to travellers...
...Clark has already selected the site for the new university, and has decided in a general way, about the plan of the buildings. The lot selected is a square of about eight acres, at the South End, about 11-4 miles from city Hall. It is bounded by May, Maywood, Woodland and Downing streets. The design is to have the principal building, about 500 feet long, at the rear of the lot, near Woodland street, leaving room for a campus gently sloping toward Main street. - Boston Daily Advertiser...