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John James Heydegger, a Swiss, was a resident of Barn Elms Mansion and the Master of the Revels for George II.
Sir Francis Walsingham, in retirement at Barn Elms Mansion which Elizabeth I gave him, entertained her there in 1589.
I am appointed among the rest to attend her Matie.
www.old-father-thames.co.uk /sector04/0904html/id109029.html

  
 Hotels Near Worcestershire County Cricket Club Worcester
njoy the cricket at the Worcestershire County Ground, especially the County Cricket Championship Challenge, then retire to the The Elms Hotel, a lovely, very elegant yet imposing Queen Anne mansion with stunning views and sunsets over the Teme valley.
The finest of hotels near Worcester County Cricket Club, Worcester, stay at The Elms luxury country house hotel.
Set in ten acres of beautiful, mature parkland and stunning gardens, The Elms is only a few miles from Worcestershire County Cricket Club.
www.theelmshotel.co.uk /events/worcestershire_cricket_club   (132 words)

  
 Hotels Near Witley Court Performing Fountains
The Elms, an imposing Queen Anne Mansion, is the finest luxury country house hotel in Worcestershire with stunning views from the bedrooms of sunsets over the Teme Valley.
Of all hotels near Witley Court, The Elms is not only just down the road but is also by far and away the most appropriate if you're thinking of visiting Witley Court.
he spectacular ruin of Witley Court (pictured) is a mere 3 miles from The Elms.
www.theelmshotel.co.uk /witley_court.asp   (132 words)

  
 75th Anniversary - Residential Designs by the Horace Trumbauer Architectural Firm
Widener's former mansion at the corner of Broad and Girard Streets in North Philadelphia into the Josephine H. Widener Memorial Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Adjacent to the Elkins family mansions, Trumbauer built a vast complex of buildings on the Widener family's 300-acre estate.
Between 1923 and 1926, Trumbauer designed and constructed the mansion with 60 rooms and 28 chimneys for Widener's granddaughter Eleanor Widener and her husband Fitz Eugene Dixon.
libwww.library.phila.gov /75th/residential.htm   (132 words)

  
 The Genoot Library - Topigraphical Dictionary of England - Lewis, 1831 - Ewelme, Oxfordshire
At this place, called from the elms Ewelme (vulgarly Newelme), William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, erected, in 1437, a mansion, a neat hospital, and a handsome church, dedicated to St. Mary, in which his lady was buried: her tomb is remarkably elegant, having no less than fifty alabaster figures of angels about it.
The church and hospital stand on the west side of a hill, but the mansion is in a low situation.
EWELME, a parish in the hundred of EWELME, county of OXFORD, 3¼ miles (N.E. by E.) from Wallingford, containing 573 inhabitants.
www.genoot.com /eng/oxf/e/ewelme/lewis_1831.html   (232 words)

  
 City of Utica, Attractions - Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art
Find out about the more than 25,000 American and European 18th-, 19th, and 20th-century paintings and 19th-century decorative arts shown in the Philip Johnson-designed museum and Fountain Elms, a refurbished 1850s mansion and original home of MWPAI's founders.
The Johnson building and Fountain Elms are connected by a new Museum Education Wing that opened in 1995.
The art collection features more than 25,000 American 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century paintings, drawings, sculptures, 19th-century decorative arts, photographs, European paintings, and European and Asian works on paper.
www.cityofutica.com /Entertainment/Attractions/Munson-Williams-Proctor+Arts+Institute.htm   (232 words)

  
 Ride the historic St. Charles Street car through New Orleans Garden district
The St. Charles Streetcar line in the Garden District is lined with mansions and large homes like the Van Benthuysen-Elms Mansion in the two pictures above.
Our Super City Tour follows the path of the St. Charles Avenue streetcar, past the homes of former Kings and Queens of Mardi Gras, stately mansions, and the world-famous historic Garden District.
The mansion was built in 1869 for Capt. Watson Van Benthuysen, II CSA.
www.inetours.com /New_Orleans/St_Charles_Streetcar.html   (232 words)

  
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The opening of the mid-day mail is that which most throngs with summer folks the little postoffice under the elms, opposite the weather-beaten mansion of Sir William Pepperrell; but the evening mail attracts a large and mainly disinterested circle of natives.
The splendid mansion which he built his daughter is in alien hands, and the fine old house which Lady Pepperrell built herself after his death belongs to the remotest of kinsmen.
A group of these, the descendants of a prolific sister of the baronet, meets every year at Kittery Point as the Pepperrell Association, and, in a tent hard by the little grove of drooping spruces which shade the admirable renaissance cenotaph of Sir William's father, cherishes the family memories with due American "proceedings." IV.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/3/3/8/3380/3380.txt   (4883 words)

  
 Newport Mansions - Home
It's After Hours at The Elms, a unique opportunity to discover what it might have been like to enjoy a summer cocktail party at this elegant Gilded Age mansion.
Begin your evening in Newport with a leisurely guided tour of the first floor of The Elms.
The Preservation Society of Newport County is proud to have Bartlett Tree Experts, Castle Hill Inn and Resort, The Hotel Viking and The Newport Daily News as Partners in Preservation, with a major financial committment to preserving the historic integrity of Newport.
www.newportmansions.org   (4883 words)

  
 Quahog.org: Rhode Island in the Limelight: Film
Scenes were shot in Newport at The Elms, along the waterfront, in the harbor, on Rhode Island Sound, and on Conanicut Island (Jamestown) during June 1991.
Party scenes, using many local extras, were filmed at the mansion during August 1997.
Rhode Island filming took place in the Spring of 2000 in Newport Harbor and five miles off the coast.
www.quahog.org /factsfolklore/index.php?id=18   (4883 words)

  
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Newport Rhode Island RI Providence History old 1969
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Repton had already acknowledged the challenge of designing a glass-roofed greenhouse in the dominant styles of the times, citing several difficulties in maintaining an aesthetic similar to that of the mansion in a structure of a completely different function.
The complexity of the estate is echoed on the canvas, the Mughal domes of Sezincote House surrounded by a British landscape composed of yews, elms and beech.
Repton, an advocate of a more eclectic, compromising spirit in gardening, believed the dressed ground near the house should be "artificial in its keeping, and its embellishments," as in the carefully maintained island beds of flowers and fountains at Sezincote.
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Econo Lodge - Oswego, N.Y. Eishouse - Mexico, N.Y. Elks Club Lodge - Oswego, N.Y. Elms C C - Pulaski N.Y. Embassy Suites - East Syracuse, N.Y. Emerson Park - Auburn N.Y. Empire Room - NYS Fairgrounds
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www.kevincolangelo.com /ithaca_djs.htm   (892 words)

  
 High Elms Country Park
Originally, along with adjacent golf course, this park formed the estate of High Elms that, in the early 19th century came into the hands of the Lubbock family.
For the next 130 years or so the family farmed and expanded the estate and it was the 3rd Baronet, in the Victorian era, who commissioned the building of the grand mansion house along with the ornate Italian gardens.
The Nature Centre, an ideal place to begin a visit to High Elms, has exhibitions on the wildlife that can be found here along with traditional country crafts and there explanatory leaflets of the various country park trails.
www.travelpublishing.co.uk /HiddenPlacesofKent/WestKent/ken076.htm   (892 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Format - Watford Observer
Mentmore village is a place of fine trees, which once included elms, now sadly gone.
Still present is the church, St Mary's, where today the flag of St George fluttered from the tower, a pleasing sight when we read so often of our illustrious political leaders' frowning on such a thing.
Ahead was a grand mansion, Mentmore Towers, floating like a mirage above its tree-capped hill'.
www.watfordobserver.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=263266   (618 words)

  
 Newport Mansions - Home
It's After Hours at The Elms, a unique opportunity to discover what it might have been like to enjoy a summer cocktail party at this elegant Gilded Age mansion.
For the most current information on special events at the Newport Mansions in 2005, see What's Happening.
The Preservation Society of Newport County is proud to have Bartlett Tree Experts, Castle Hill Inn and Resort, The Hotel Viking and The Newport Daily News as Partners in Preservation, with a major financial committment to preserving the historic integrity of Newport.
www.newportmansions.org   (618 words)

  
 Welcome to Go Newport - The Official Site for Newport RI offers all the information you need
For visitors seeking an unforgettable Newport experience, there’s still more specialty tours such as The Breakers family tour, the luncheon tour held in the beautiful gardens of The Elms mansion, and the Candlelight Tour at Belcourt Castle.
On August 26-28, Newport welcomes the WoodenBoat Show, when more than 100 wooden craft—sail-, power-, and rowboats, canoes and kayaks—will be on display at the Newport Yachting Center.
The festivals are the perfect way to celebrate summertime in Newport— unwinding in the sunshine and admiring the scenic harbor dotted by sailboats, while tapping your feet to folk beats or taking in the smooth sounds of jazz.
www.gonewport.com   (618 words)

  
 Newport Mansions - Mill Street Inn, Newport, RI
Tour the great Vanderbilt houses, along with the breathtaking French chateau of a leading industrialist, the party pavilion built by a Wild West silver heiress, and the imposing stone mansion erected for a China Trade merchant, and feel how life was lived on the grand stage of high society.
The Elms where you'll hear intriguing details about coal millionaire Edward Berwind and life in his French-style chateau, a house that represented the height of gracious living and entertaining at the dawn of the American century.
Marble House where you'll learn about the dynamic Alva Vanderbilt-society hostess, dedicated suffragist, and patron of the arts-who was given the house by her husband as a 39th birthday present and who married off her daughter to English nobility in it.
www.millstreetinn.com /newport_mansions.asp   (618 words)

  
 Maine Audubon: working to conserve Maine's wildlife and wildlife habitat by engaging people in education, conservation, and action.
Wood and a handful of members held a "gloomy meeting" in the sweltering hall and hauled the loaded settees across Congress Street to the portico of the Chadwick Mansion.
Nestled beneath gracious elms, it was a near neighbor to City Hall, Portland's historic First Parish Church, and several fine mansions.
William Wood was back, as was John Neal, now joined by the likes of temperance crusader Neal Dow (John Neal's cordially disliked cousin); Alexander Dallas Bache, director of the U.S. Geodetic Survey and great-grandson of Ben Franklin; and George Henry Preble, a future admiral and son of Portland's famous Commodore Edward Preble.
www.maineaudubon.org /about/history.shtml   (7416 words)

  
 Cultural Tourism DC - Search DC
The Belmonts' main home was a Newport, Rhode Island, mansion known as The Elms; this house, with 54 rooms including a grand ballroom and chapel, was used for Washington entertaining.
He was a member of the family that built the Belmont race track in New York.
Designed by architects Sanson & Trumbauer for Perry Belmont, Congressman from New York, Ambassador to Spain, and lawyer and financier.
www.culturaltourismdc.org /search_site2548/search_site_show.htm?doc_id=43492   (7416 words)

  
 Jenny Shimizu - ELMS - Lesbian Celebrities
Madonna: Both of them say there were only friends during that period when Jenny stayed at Madonna's Miami mansion and the two of them were seen everywhere together.
Jenny told 'Genre' magazine that "I've already been with every fine girl there is in the world.
Ione Skye: Has said that it was Jenny who "brought her into the Lesbian nation.
www.clublez.com /movies/lesbian_celebrities/s/shimizu_jenny   (132 words)

  
 The Elms of Hobart, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
The Elms of Hobart is a 4 1/2 star and is one of Hobart's grandest and most famous old mansions, recorded on the Register of the National Estate.
Turn back the clock and experience warmth, elegance and a friendly old world hospitality in our gracious and stately National Trust mansion.
Relax in the delightful gardens, enjoy a fine Tasmanian full breakfast, and share experiences with other fellow travellers in the Guest Lounge with an open fire over a complementary port, sherry or a wine from the honesty cellar.
www.theelmsofhobart.com   (132 words)

  
 Descendants of Erasmus Heveningham & Mary Moyle of Aston, Staffordshire
Mrs Mary Howard is now lady of the manor and owner of most of the soil, and resides at Elford Hall, a handsome mansion, erected about 1758, and having a fine avenue of young elms, planted by the late.
The Manors of Aston (near Stone) Pipe (near Lichfield) and Clifton (Camville), the advowson of Clifton, with divers lands and mesuages in Stoke, Burston, Hilderston, Sandon Hardwick, Hanton (Haunton), Harlaston, Hamerwich, Woodhouses, Wiggington, Hopwas and Coton and several burgages in Lichfield and Tamworth.
This Gilbert was seized of divers other lands in Aston and Walton, which he gave in marriage with Joan his daughter 19 Ed.
www.genealogy.com /users/s/t/l/Rosemary-St-legermay-Surrey/FILE/0018page.html   (132 words)

  
 Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute - Museum of Art
and 19th-century decorative arts shown in the Philip Johnson-designed museum and Fountain Elms, a refurbished 1850s mansion and original home of MWPAI's...
Competition was initiated to showcase the creative talents of college and university undergraduates and to underscore the valued role that art and artists have...
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www.all-forsale.com /detail13423.html   (132 words)

  
 Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute
Fountain Elms, which houses the decorative arts division of the museum, is an Italianate-style mansion with period room settings, study galleries, and exhibition galleries.
Illustrating the breadth of 19th-century American craftsmanship, Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute highlights works by preeminent artisans including John Henry Belter, Charles Baudouine, John and Hugh Finlay, Herter Brothers, Anthony Quervelle, Alexander Roux, and Tiffany and Company.
The family's holdings were bequeathed to the Institute and the museum has actively collected 19th-century decorative arts since the 1950s.
www.tfaoi.com /aa/1aa/1aa406.htm   (132 words)

  
 Link partners. MOCA.
The Museum of Art features a renowned permanent collection, fascinating exhibitions and education for all ages in an International-style gallery building designed by world famous architect Philip Johnson and also in Fountain Elms, a superb Victorian-era Italianate mansion.
Art portal, the latest news in the world of art, art history, artist, antiques, education, auctions, photo,architecture, and all statements of art.
Museum of Neon Art, The best brickandmortar and Internet Neon Art Gallery on the planet!
www.lonvig.dk /links-moca.htm   (132 words)

  
 GENUKI: Clifton Campville
Clifton and Haunton maintain their poor conjointly, and contain together about 3000 acres of land, all belonging to Henry John Pye, Esq, of Clifton Hall, a handsome square mansion, in a verdant park finely planted with elms.
HJ Pye, Esq is the patron, and the Rev HJ Pye, jun, BA, is the incumbent.
In 1700 it was sold, by the Coventry family, to Sir Charles Pye, Bart, an ancestor of the present owner.
www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/STS/CliftonCampville   (443 words)

  
 University of Delaware: WILSON FAMILY PAPERS
Edward and Rebecca Wilson owned a mansion and landed estate named Elms Farm, near Liverpool, England, which they shared with daughter Elizabeth (Wilson) Crosfield, son-inlaw Henry Crosfield, and sons Edward (Junior) and Charles Wilson.
The distribution of Edward Wilson's estate in 1844 ignited a family debate over the integrity of Elizabeth Wilson's share, and how it would be affected by having her husband, Henry Crosfield, serve as a trustee.
Little is known of his life, though like his father he served as a trustee of the University of Delaware, elected in 1869.
www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/wilson_f.htm   (5237 words)

  
 The American Experience Andrew Carnegie Special Feature
Get a taste of one of these mansions with this virtual tour of The Elms.
Many a fine mansion was constructed during America's Gilded Age.
Let your computer monitor rest with this collection of Carnegie-related images.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature   (89 words)

  
 The Van Benthuysen Elms Mansion and Gardens
The Van Benthuysen-Elms Mansion is a beautiful example of Italianate style architecture, providing exquisite grandeur to St. Charles Avenue and the Garden District of New Orleans.
www.elmsmansion.com   (89 words)

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