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This is taken from Philadelphia looking at the Ben Franklin Bridge and the New Jersey Side of Delaware River.
In honor of the 4th of July, I am posting this picture of an ersatz Benjamin Franklin who wanders around the tourist areas of Boston trying to get tips from tourists to telling them historical tidbits and posing for pictures. He didn't get a tip from me. Sorry, fella. On the other hand, this picture is more of his patriotic parasol than of him.
Since being acquired by the County of Montgomery with full jurisdiction in 1988, more than 3 million dollars (and counting) has been expended on restoration, maintenance, and administration and staffing of the site.
Statue of America's most famous teenage runaway, outside an old courthouse in Boston which now serves steak.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, first President of the United States and Founding Father. As the seat of the United States federal government and several international organizations, Washington is an important world political capital. The city is also one of the most visited cities in the world, with more than 20 million tourists annually.
The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. The U.S. Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress, and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria. The City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District.
Washington had an estimated population of 702,455 as of July 2018, making it the 20th most populous city in the United States. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. Washington's metropolitan area, the country's sixth largest, had a 2017 estimated population of 6.2 million residents.
All three branches of the U.S. federal government are centered in the District: Congress (legislative), president (executive), and the U.S. Supreme Court (judicial). Washington is home to many national monuments, and museums, primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 177 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of many international organizations, trade unions, non-profit, lobbying groups, and professional associations, including the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization of American States, AARP, the National Geographic Society, the Human Rights Campaign, the International Finance Corporation, and the American Red Cross.
A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973. However, Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D.C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, but the District has no representation in the Senate. The District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Post_Office_(Washington,_D.C.)
The Old Post Office, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Old Post Office and Clock Tower and located at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., was begun in 1892, completed in 1899, and is a contributing property to the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site. It was used as the city's main General Post Office until 1914 at the beginning of World War I, succeeding an earlier 1839 edifice, G.P.O. of Classical Revival style, expanded in 1866 on F Street, which later was turned over to the Tariff Commission and several other agencies (today, the Hotel Monaco). The Pennsylvania Avenue 1899 landmark structure functioned primarily as a federal office building afterward, and was nearly torn down during the construction of the surrounding Federal Triangle complex in the 1920s. It was again threatened and nearly demolished in the 1970s to make way for proposals for the completion of the enveloping Federal Triangle complex of similar Beaux Arts styled architecture government offices, first begun in the 1920s and 30s.
Major renovations occurred in 1976 and 1983. The 1983 renovation opened a new chapter in the structure's history and use, added a food court and retail space that together with the building's central atrium with an added roof skylight acquired the name of "Old Post Office Pavilion". A glass-walled addition on a former adjacent parking lot was added to the structure in 1991.
In 2013, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) leased the property for 60 years to a consortium headed by "DJT Holdings LLC", a holding company that Donald Trump owns through a revocable trust. Trump developed the property into a luxury hotel, the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., which opened in September 2016.
The building is an example of Richardsonian Romanesque, part of the Romanesque Revival architecture of the nineteenth century United States. It is the third-tallest structure, excluding radio towers, in the national capital of Washington, D.C. Its 315-foot (96 m) high Clock Tower houses the "Bells of Congress" and offers panoramic views of the city and its surroundings on an observation level.
From: Louis Thomas, Kosmos für die Jugend: Die Denkwürdigsten Erfindungen Im neunzehnten Jahrhundert (1877)
Esta foto la tomé desde el piso superior del bus en el que hice el tour por la ciudad. Esa es la esquina a la que me referí en otra foto y en la que está la tumba de Benjamin Franklin..... justo detrás del muro de ladrillos.
Pagar para entrar a un cementerio? I don't think so!
It's not green (like everyone says it is)
It's not made of plastic (like ours)
It's not a different size to the $1 bill (to make it easy)
It looks like it's just stamped onto a bit of paper...
But I do understand why Benjamin Franklin is on it:
"Lighthouses are more helpful then churches." — Benjamin Franklin
Smart man!
Benjamin Franklin's Birthday is January 17 ~ Download this Shape Book @ www.christianhomeschoolhub.spruz.com/dc-shape-books.htm
The life-sized, bronze "Ben on the Bench" by George Lundeen. Commissioned by the Class of 1962, the statue was presented as part of the class's 25th Reunion Gift to the University of Pennsylvania and unveiled in September of 1987. Over the years, visiting dignitaries have taken a moment to pose with Ben.
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
~~ Benjamin Franklin ~~
For some reason this did not get uploaded right next to the building it is on. Flickr wierdness. Anyway, this is a close up of one of the busts on Middletowns "Franklin" Building.
Benjamin Franklin's Birthday is January 17 ~ Download this Shape Book @ www.christianhomeschoolhub.spruz.com/dc-shape-books.htm
Benjamin Franklin House, 36 Craven Street, London WC2N was built in 1730. Benjamin Franklin was a scientist, diplomat, philosopher, inventor and Founding Father of the United States of America. He lived in the house for 16 years between 1757-1775 and today the house is used as a museum and educational facility.
The house is Grade I listed.