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Highlighted New Listing – November 5, 2010
Baltimore County, MD
Built in 1875, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in Baltimore, Maryland replaced the old Calverton Mansion (built in 1815) when a fire destroyed the mansion in 1874. The Hebrew Orphan Asylum, which started in 1872 in the Calverton Mansion depended on donations from people within the Baltimore Jewish community, including the wealthy German Jewish community that had settled within the city. The history of the asylum follows the history of the Jewish community in Baltimore, which increased rapidly with immigration from Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building transitioned to serve as the West Baltimore General Hospital from 1923 through 1945 and finally the Lutheran Hospital of Maryland from 1945 to 1989. While associated structures associated with the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, the West Baltimore General Hospital, and the Lutheran Hospital of Maryland were demolished n 2009, the original four-story brick Romanesque structure still stands.
IBT's (It's About Time) Voted Tucson’s #1 gay dance club 8 years in a row by the Tucson Weekly. Featuring Tucson’s premiere drag show hosted by Janee’ Starr. Home of The Bunny Boys and Miss Gay Tucson America 2010 Diva.
IBT's (It's About Time) Dance Club
616 N. 4th Ave.
Tucson, Arizona 85705
520-882-3053
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Tucson Arizona USA
02-06-2010
Other Name: Finca de Trujilo Alto
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Listed: October 7, 2011
This rural forest-like estate historic district was the residence of Luis Muñoz Marín from the 1940s until his death in 1980. Luis Muñoz Marín was the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the people. Luis Muñoz Marín is also called the “Father of Modern Puerto Rico,” a key figure in the development and implementation of Operation Commonwealth, Operation Bootstrap and Operation Serenity, one of the most revered leaders in Puerto Rico’s history, Luis Muñoz Marín is one of the most important political figures of the Americas in the Twentieth Century.
Previous to his tenure as the first home-rule governor, Muñoz Marín had a distinguished careers in journalism, as both a reporter and director of a newspaper, and political activism. After returning from the United States where he studied as a young man and adult, Muñoz Marín joined the Socialist Party and the Free Federation of Workers of Puerto Rico. Both groups were dedicated to fight against poverty and the inequality suffered by Puerto Ricans, causes that he fervently endorsed. He campaigned across Puerto Rico extensively and participated in workers strikes to better the conditions of workers. During the Great Depression Muñoz Marín and others popular figures effectively convinced President Roosevelt to extend the New Deal and other important efforts into Puerto Rico. All the meanwhile, Muñoz Marín and his associates were taking their political campaign to the next level and established the PPD, the Popular Democratic Party (Partido Popular Democrático), which won twenty-nine out of seventy-six municipalities in the following election. In the 1948 general elections, Luis Muñoz Marín became the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the popular vote. His election as Governor stood up against hunger, injustice, ignorance, sickness and oppression. By the 1950s, after the implementation of Operations Commonwealth and Bootstrap, an “economic miracle” was taking place in Puerto Rico; the Island was now a modern urban-industrial society.
The main house is made mostly of concrete, with the exception of wood doors and windows. One of the most impressive features is an L-shaped balcony accessible from the sizeable living area. The main house and office contain all the furniture, art, books and household items from the time Luis Muñoz Marín and his wife lived on the property.
The library/personal office is another concrete building contributing to this historic property listing. The spaces in the library have all the period furniture, books and items of its owner on display just as he left them when he died. The library/personal office was built in 1965 along with an administrative office and archive building used mostly by Mr. Marín’s staff. Both buildings are significant because these were the spaces which Marín used to write his Memoirs and the other where important documents were first stored and organized.
Down a short pathway is the bohío, built in 1948, where the family gathered for activities and important meeting with dignitaries where held. The bohío was expanded by the family many times over the years and even replaced when it was damaged by a fallen tree in 1998. Though the original bohío does not stand, the historical significance of this space is not lost. Today’s version is a rectangular wooden shed supported by five columns wide, six columns in length and two center columns. All beams and rafters are wood, the floor concrete patterns, and the ceiling is built with Palm tree foliage covered in zinc shingles.
NPS Cultural Resources Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
William Howard Russell CVO (28 March 1820 - 11 February 1907) he was born in Tallaght, Co. Dublin. He was an Irish reporter with The Times, and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents, after he spent 22 months covering the Crimean War including the Charge of the Light Brigade.
Initially sent by editor John Delane to Malta to cover British support for Russia in 1854, Russell despised the term "war correspondent" - though his coverage of the conflict brought him international renown, and Florence Nightingale later credited her entry into wartime nursing to his reports. The Crimean medical care, shelter and protection of all ranks by Mary Seacole was also publicised by Russell and by other contemporary journalists, rescuing her from bankruptcy.
Russell was described by one of the soldiers on the frontlines thus, "a vulgar low Irishman, [who] sings a good song, drinks anyone's brandy and water and smokes as many cigars as a Jolly Good Fellow. He is just the sort of chap to get information, particularly out of youngsters." This reputation led to Russell being blacklisted from some circles, including British commander Lord Raglan who advised his officers to refuse to speak with the reporter.
His dispatches were hugely significant: for the first time the public could read about the reality of warfare. Shocked and outraged, the public's backlash from his reports led the Government to re-evaluate the treatment of troops and led to Florence Nightingale's involvement in revolutionising battlefield treatment.
In 1861 Russell went to Washington. He later published diaries of his time in India, the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, where he describes the warm welcome given him by English-speaking Prussian generals such as Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal. Russell returned to England in 1863. In July 1865 Russell sailed on the Great Eastern to document the laying of the Atlantic Cable and wrote a book about the voyage with color illustrations by Robert Dudley.
Russell spent several weeks in Washington. He concluded, “from all I have seen and heard my belief is that the Southern States have gone from the Union, if not for ever, at least for such time as will secure for their Government an absolute independence till it be terminated by war.” He decided to travel South, “to see with my own eyes how affairs stand there, before the two sections come to open rupture.”
“I am late for the fair,” he reported from Virginia on April 14, two days after the bombardment of Fort Sumter, and he hurried on to Charleston. Over the next 10 weeks he traveled to Savannah, Montgomery, Mobile, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Natchez, Vicksburg, Jackson and thence northward to Cairo, Chicago and Niagara Falls, before returning to Washington on July 3. In June, Harper’s Weekly featured Russell on the cover, and observed, “people here generally seem to think that Mr. Russell’s letters are more favorable to the South than the North.”
Russell praised the charm of Southern society, described planters as “well-bred, courteous, and hospitable,” and enjoyed the “quaint simplicity and old-fashioned quiet” of the cities and towns. He praised the Confederate military leadership and concluded, in a letter from Montgomery in May, “I am convinced that the South can only be forced back by such a conquest as that which laid Poland prostrate at the feet of Russia.”
But Russell also saw through the planters’ strident defense of slavery. While he admitted to being “neither sentimentalist, nor Black Republican, nor negro-worshipper,” the sight of a slave auction disturbed him and led him to declare that “no sophistry could persuade me the man was not a man.”
Russell viewed his job as listening to stories and retelling what he heard and saw, as making “bare statements” of fact. Privately, Russell admitted, “I would rather the North shd. be the victor than the South,” but publicly he tried to report what he observed without taking sides.
The next year, he published “My Diary North and South,” a two-volume work that drew on material from his diaries and notebooks as well as his published letters from America. He began with the statement “a book which needs apologies ought never to have been written,” and he added that when he came to America “I had no theories to uphold, no prejudices to subserve, no interests to advance, no instructions to fulfill; I was a free agent.”
IBT's (It's About Time) Voted Tucson’s #1 gay dance club 8 years in a row by the Tucson Weekly. Featuring Tucson’s premiere drag show hosted by Janee’ Starr. Home of The Bunny Boys and Miss Gay Tucson America 2010 Diva.
IBT's (It's About Time) Dance Club
616 N. 4th Ave.
Tucson, Arizona 85705
520-882-3053
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Tucson Arizona USA
02-06-2010
Since February of 2021, I've been doing a series of shoots with McLaren Japan. Most of what we shoot is for their social networks here. And 'Wallpaper Wednesday' is a weekly feature on the Japanese Instagram account.
This shot was done in Nagasaki, with a building down in the port area that I love.
The 'McLaren Orange' ball on the roof, the arrows on the car park floor: all worked beautifully to key the composition in with the car. Was very happy with how this shot came out.
Nikon D800E
Nikon AF NIKKOR 28-85mm F3.5-4.5
IBT's (It's About Time) Voted Tucson’s #1 gay dance club 8 years in a row by the Tucson Weekly. Featuring Tucson’s premiere drag show hosted by Janee’ Starr. Home of The Bunny Boys and Miss Gay Tucson America 2010 Diva.
IBT's (It's About Time) Dance Club
616 N. 4th Ave.
Tucson, Arizona 85705
520-882-3053
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Tucson Arizona USA
02-06-2010
Highlighted New Listing – September 24, 2010
Douglas County, NE
In the late 1920s, the concept of the “all-steel house” swept across the nation from Richard Tappan’s Jamaica-Hillside development in New York to Richard Nuetra’s Lovell Health House in the Hollywood Hills, and even to Omaha, Nebraska, where the Henry B. Neef House stands as the best, and perhaps only, property in Nebraska that is associated with the rise of the “steel house” between 1926 and 1933. While ultimately finding only limited success, there is little doubt that the concept of the steel house played a significant role in how Americans imagined how their future during the boundless optimism of the late 1920s and into the uncertainty of the Great Depression. The strength of steel, used in industrial applications, was unmatched by any other alloy, and some architects and steel companies decided to put into practice what they saw as the next advance in residential architecture, replacing wood, although when put into practice, the steel framework was hidden under brick and stucco veneers and period revival forms. The house was completed in 1929. The house, with a concrete block foundation and brick and stucco walls, still retains excellent historic integrity today.
"Your Lancashire" was a popular bi-weekly feature that appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post during the 40's and 50's. The stories were written by 'John O' Gaunt' (an antiquarian and historian of high standing) and illustrated by the Post's well known cartoonist 'Furnival' A select group of 125 features were reproduced into a 1952 Guild souvenir booklet.
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Other Name: Finca de Trujilo Alto
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Listed: October 7, 2011
This rural forest-like estate historic district was the residence of Luis Muñoz Marín from the 1940s until his death in 1980. Luis Muñoz Marín was the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the people. Luis Muñoz Marín is also called the “Father of Modern Puerto Rico,” a key figure in the development and implementation of Operation Commonwealth, Operation Bootstrap and Operation Serenity, one of the most revered leaders in Puerto Rico’s history, Luis Muñoz Marín is one of the most important political figures of the Americas in the Twentieth Century.
Previous to his tenure as the first home-rule governor, Muñoz Marín had a distinguished careers in journalism, as both a reporter and director of a newspaper, and political activism. After returning from the United States where he studied as a young man and adult, Muñoz Marín joined the Socialist Party and the Free Federation of Workers of Puerto Rico. Both groups were dedicated to fight against poverty and the inequality suffered by Puerto Ricans, causes that he fervently endorsed. He campaigned across Puerto Rico extensively and participated in workers strikes to better the conditions of workers. During the Great Depression Muñoz Marín and others popular figures effectively convinced President Roosevelt to extend the New Deal and other important efforts into Puerto Rico. All the meanwhile, Muñoz Marín and his associates were taking their political campaign to the next level and established the PPD, the Popular Democratic Party (Partido Popular Democrático), which won twenty-nine out of seventy-six municipalities in the following election. In the 1948 general elections, Luis Muñoz Marín became the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the popular vote. His election as Governor stood up against hunger, injustice, ignorance, sickness and oppression. By the 1950s, after the implementation of Operations Commonwealth and Bootstrap, an “economic miracle” was taking place in Puerto Rico; the Island was now a modern urban-industrial society.
The main house is made mostly of concrete, with the exception of wood doors and windows. One of the most impressive features is an L-shaped balcony accessible from the sizeable living area. The main house and office contain all the furniture, art, books and household items from the time Luis Muñoz Marín and his wife lived on the property.
The library/personal office is another concrete building contributing to this historic property listing. The spaces in the library have all the period furniture, books and items of its owner on display just as he left them when he died. The library/personal office was built in 1965 along with an administrative office and archive building used mostly by Mr. Marín’s staff. Both buildings are significant because these were the spaces which Marín used to write his Memoirs and the other where important documents were first stored and organized.
Down a short pathway is the bohío, built in 1948, where the family gathered for activities and important meeting with dignitaries where held. The bohío was expanded by the family many times over the years and even replaced when it was damaged by a fallen tree in 1998. Though the original bohío does not stand, the historical significance of this space is not lost. Today’s version is a rectangular wooden shed supported by five columns wide, six columns in length and two center columns. All beams and rafters are wood, the floor concrete patterns, and the ceiling is built with Palm tree foliage covered in zinc shingles.
NPS Cultural Resources Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
IBT's (It's About Time) Voted Tucson’s #1 gay dance club 8 years in a row by the Tucson Weekly. Featuring Tucson’s premiere drag show hosted by Janee’ Starr. Home of The Bunny Boys and Miss Gay Tucson America 2010 Diva.
IBT's (It's About Time) Dance Club
616 N. 4th Ave.
Tucson, Arizona 85705
520-882-3053
Photos and videos
Tucson Arizona USA
02-06-2010
"Your Lancashire" was a popular bi-weekly feature that appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post during the 40's and 50's. The stories were written by 'John O' Gaunt' (an antiquarian and historian of high standing) and illustrated by the Post's well known cartoonist 'Furnival' A select group of 125 features were reproduced into a 1952 Guild souvenir booklet.
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"Your Lancashire" was a popular bi-weekly feature that appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post during the 40's and 50's. The stories were written by 'John O' Gaunt' (an antiquarian and historian of high standing) and illustrated by the Post's well known cartoonist 'Furnival' A select group of 125 features were reproduced into a 1952 Guild souvenir booklet.
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"Your Lancashire" was a popular bi-weekly feature that appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post during the 40's and 50's. The stories were written by 'John O' Gaunt' (an antiquarian and historian of high standing) and illustrated by the Post's well known cartoonist 'Furnival' A select group of 125 features were reproduced into a 1952 Guild souvenir booklet.
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IBT's (It's About Time) Voted Tucson’s #1 gay dance club 8 years in a row by the Tucson Weekly. Featuring Tucson’s premiere drag show hosted by Janee’ Starr. Home of The Bunny Boys and Miss Gay Tucson America 2010 Diva.
IBT's (It's About Time) Dance Club
616 N. 4th Ave.
Tucson, Arizona 85705
520-882-3053
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Tucson Arizona USA
02-06-2010
"Your Lancashire" was a popular bi-weekly feature that appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post during the 40's and 50's. The stories were written by 'John O' Gaunt' (an antiquarian and historian of high standing) and illustrated by the Post's well known cartoonist 'Furnival' A select group of 125 features were reproduced into a 1952 Guild souvenir booklet.
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"Your Lancashire" was a popular bi-weekly feature that appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post during the 40's and 50's. The stories were written by 'John O' Gaunt' (an antiquarian and historian of high standing) and illustrated by the Post's well known cartoonist 'Furnival' A select group of 125 features were reproduced into a 1952 Guild souvenir booklet.
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"Your Lancashire" was a popular bi-weekly feature that appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post during the 40's and 50's. The stories were written by 'John O' Gaunt' (an antiquarian and historian of high standing) and illustrated by the Post's well known cartoonist 'Furnival' A select group of 125 features were reproduced into a 1952 Guild souvenir booklet.
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Highlighted New Listing – November 12, 2010
St. John the Baptist Parish, LA
The Haydel-Jones House is a rare and important example of a French Creole Plantation House thought to have been built around 1815. Although Creole dwellings once dominated the rural landscape of central and southern Louisiana, only approximately 30 examples remain that are raised on brick piers. In addition to brick piers, the Haydel-Jones House also possesses other typical French Creole features such as a spreading hipped roof with heavy braced timber frame walls, briquette-entre-poteaux (porous brick) and bousillage (wattle and daub) infill, a full length front gallery and asymmetrical floor plan. Historically, the house was affiliated with the Ursine Haydel, a sugar cane planter and descendent of Matthieu Haydel, who arrived in the Louisiana colony in 1721. The property is now used as a private vacation retreat.
"Your Lancashire" was a popular bi-weekly feature that appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post during the 40's and 50's. The stories were written by 'John O' Gaunt' (an antiquarian and historian of high standing) and illustrated by the Post's well known cartoonist 'Furnival' A select group of 125 features were reproduced into a 1952 Guild souvenir booklet.
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"Your Lancashire" was a popular bi-weekly feature that appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post during the 40's and 50's. The stories were written by 'John O' Gaunt' (an antiquarian and historian of high standing) and illustrated by the Post's well known cartoonist 'Furnival' A select group of 125 features were reproduced into a 1952 Guild souvenir booklet.
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Highlighted New Listing – March 30, 2012
Riverside County, CA
Steel Development House Number 2 is one of seven all-steel homes-all clustered in the same neighborhood-created by the architectural team of Donald Wexler and Ric Harrison, the structural engineer Bernard Perlin, and the builder Alexander Construction Company. The house is primarily composed of steel and glass on a concrete foundation with no structural wood and represents a unique synthesis of off-site prefabrication and on-site assembly. The house exemplifies simple yet elegant concepts in midcentury modern design plus the novel use of steel construction, demonstrating the possibilities for rapidly-assembled and affordable homes for the middle class that were designed to withstand the harsh desert environment. The property has excellent integrity in all aspects, and appears much as it did as built.
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"Your Lancashire" was a popular bi-weekly feature that appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post during the 40's and 50's. The stories were written by 'John O' Gaunt' (an antiquarian and historian of high standing) and illustrated by the Post's well known cartoonist 'Furnival' A select group of 125 features were reproduced into a 1952 Guild souvenir booklet.
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Joseph Benson Foraker (July 5, 1846 – May 10, 1917) was a Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the 37th Governor of Ohio from 1886 to 1890.
Joseph B. Foraker was born on a farm near the town of Rainsboro, Highland County, Ohio on July 5, 1846 to Henry Stacey Foraker and Margaret Reece Foraker. Foraker spent his childhood working on the family farm and obtained only limited schooling during those years.
When Foraker was only sixteen years old, he decided to join the Union Army during the American Civil War. He enlisted in Company A, 89th Ohio Infantry. During the war, Foraker participated in military actions in West Virginia and Tennessee, under the overall command first of Don Carlos Buell and later William Rosecrans, and over whose campaigns Senator Charles Sumner was a Congressional observer.
Foraker also served with General William T. Sherman, Major General Carl Schurz and Brigadier General Adolph von Steinwehr, during the March to the Sea and the Tennessee and North Carolina campaigns respectively. His actions at Missionary Ridge, Bentonville and the capture of Savannah were notable. By the time that Foraker left the military in June 1865, he had participated in 13 principal battles and obtained the rank of brevet captain.
After serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Foraker prepared for legal studies at the Salem Academy and Ohio Wesleyan University before matriculating at Cornell University. He received his B.A. in 1869 along with the seven other members of Cornell's first graduating class, including his roommate Morris Lyon Buchwalter and their friend, John Andrew Rea.
He moved to Cincinnati, gained admittance to the bar, and began practicing law. Foraker first entered politics in 1879. He was elected to be a judge of the superior court in Cincinnati. During his years on the court, he gained a reputation for his speaking skills and became an important member of the Republican Party.
Foraker was successful in the gubernatorial election of 1885 and became Ohio's thirty-seventh governor. As governor, Foraker was concerned about election fraud in Ohio. He helped institute a voter registration program and favored changes in how election boards were established. During his administration, the state legislature also passed the Dow Law, which taxed the sale of alcoholic beverages in Ohio. The governor instituted a number of reforms, including the establishment of boards to reduce corruption in city government, the creation of a state board of health, and greater oversight of the operations of the state penitentiary.
A Civil War veteran, Foraker was well known for declaring that no Confederate battle flags in Ohio would be returned to southern states while he was Governor. Foraker was elected to a second term in 1887 but was unsuccessful in winning a third term in 1889.
Foraker was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1896 representing Ohio, and served two terms, from 1897 to March 3, 1909. He sponsored the Organic Act of 1900, also known as the Foraker Act, which established civil government in the newly-acquired island of Puerto Rico. Foraker served as one of Ohio's two senators from 1897 to March 3, 1909. Although the senator had competed with McKinley for political influence in Ohio, he supported the president's policies as a member of Congress. Foraker voted in favor of the Spanish-American War in 1898 and served as chairman of the committee on the Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico.
When Theodore Roosevelt became president, Foraker was not as supportive. He was the only Republican to vote against the Hepburn Act of 1906, which regulated railroads. He also criticized Roosevelt's actions in the Brownsville case, in which the president ordered that an company of the African-American 25th Infantry Regiment (United States) be discharged without formal charges filed against them in 1906. {The dishonorable discharge order was reversed in 1972}.
Foraker was unsuccessful in obtaining a third term as senator in 1908. During his first term as senator, Foraker had taken money from the Standard Oil Company in exchange for providing some legal advice to the company. In the nineteenth century, this kind of arrangement between politicians and businesses had been acceptable. By the early twentieth century, many Americans viewed such a relationship as a conflict of interest. When news of his involvement with Standard Oil became public in 1908, Foraker was forced to retire from politics.
Foraker was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1908, and was a candidate for the Republican nomination in the United States presidential election, 1908, losing to William Howard Taft. After leaving the Senate, Foraker returned to private legal practice in Cincinnati, Ohio. He once again attempted to enter politics in 1914, unsuccessfully running against Warren G. Harding for the Republican senatorial nomination.
He published his memoirs, Notes of a Busy Life, in 1916. Foraker died in Cincinnati on May 10, 1917. He was buried in the Spring Grove Cemetery.
Joseph's mad; he's very mad:
The President won't please him.
Put him in a pudding bag,
And let Ohio squeeze him.
In this cartoon, Governor Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio is a schoolboy throwing a temper tantrum, as President Grover Cleveland stands unperturbed, striking a stoic Napoleonic pose, in the background. Like many Union veterans, Foraker was angered by the Democratic president's executive order to return captured Confederate battle flags to their home states in the South. Although Cleveland quickly rescinded the order, the Republican governor seized the issue during his reelection campaign. Here, Foraker's slate reads: "Grover Cleveland's a fool Jackass!"
Joseph B. Foraker lived in Sharpsburg (now Norwood, Ohio) from 1871-1880. He was an early Sharpsburg School Trustee, twice-elected Governor of Ohio and uncle-by-marriage to Norwood resident and solicitor, William E. Bundy. He had two Norwood streets, Foraker Avenue and Foraker Terrace, and a Norwood Republican club named after him. Foraker Avenue is still in existence.
Several other streets in Ohio, including one in Cincinnati and one in his birthplace of Highland County, Ohio, have his name, also.
Foraker was born in Highland Co., Ohio, on July 5, 1846 to Henry Stacey and Margaret Reece Foraker. He died in Cincinnati on May 10, 1917. His wife, Julia Bundy Foraker, was the aunt of Norwood's Colonel William Edgar Bundy. At least three, and perhaps four, of their five children were born in Norwood: Joseph Benson, Jr., July 23, 1872; Florence U., ca. 1874, and Clara Louise, ca. 1876. Julia B. was born in January, 1880, probably before they moved from Norwood to Park Avenue in Cincinnati's 1st ward. The son died at the age of 43, in New York City, on April 24, 1915, two years before the father.
Highlighted New Listing – March 30, 2012
Riverside County, CA
Steel Development House Number 2 is one of seven all-steel homes-all clustered in the same neighborhood-created by the architectural team of Donald Wexler and Ric Harrison, the structural engineer Bernard Perlin, and the builder Alexander Construction Company. The house is primarily composed of steel and glass on a concrete foundation with no structural wood and represents a unique synthesis of off-site prefabrication and on-site assembly. The house exemplifies simple yet elegant concepts in midcentury modern design plus the novel use of steel construction, demonstrating the possibilities for rapidly-assembled and affordable homes for the middle class that were designed to withstand the harsh desert environment. The property has excellent integrity in all aspects, and appears much as it did as built.
National Register of Historic Places
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IBT's (It's About Time) Voted Tucson’s #1 gay dance club 8 years in a row by the Tucson Weekly. Featuring Tucson’s premiere drag show hosted by Janee’ Starr. Home of The Bunny Boys and Miss Gay Tucson America 2010 Diva.
IBT's (It's About Time) Dance Club
616 N. 4th Ave.
Tucson, Arizona 85705
520-882-3053
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02-06-2010
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