In 1892, the Club moved to 556-558 Fifth Avenue, on the west side of the avenue south of Forty-sixth Street—the first home owned by the Club. The first formal dinner in the new clubhouse was held in honor of Mark Twain. The Club’s president, Frank Lawrence said, “The Lotos Club is ever at its best when paying homage to genius in literature or art.”
On May 1, 1877, The Lotos Club moved to the Bradish Johnson mansion at 149 Fifth Avenue at the corner of Twenty-first Street. The building was more spacious and suitable for the Club’s growing membership and its receptions and dinners.
The Club’s first home was a brownstone building at 2 Irving Place, just off Fourteenth Street and next to the celebrated Academy of Music. Quickly the Club gathered a roll of notable members including Mark Twain; editor and statesman Whitelaw Reid; John Hay, author and secretary to Abraham Lincoln; the actors Edwin Booth and Joseph Jefferson; editor Henry Watterson, and many others.
Opened in 1816, the garden is the oldest scientific institution in Australia and one of the most important historic botanical institutions in the world. The overall structure and key elements were designed by Charles Moore and Joseph Maiden, and various other elements designed and built under the supervision of Allan Cunningham, Richard Cunningham, and Carrick Chambers. The garden is owned by the Government of New South Wales and administered by the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust.
This photo from Detroit Publishing Company shows Duluth’s Spalding Hotel at 428 W. Superior St. The elegant 200-room hotel opened on June 6, 1889 and was demolished on Sept. 25, 1963.
There are apparently two possible sites for a Soo Opera House.
...the boom times in the eighties brought out the old Opera House on Arlington Street, which did an excellent business under the management of Mr. Percy Jordan up to the time of its destruction by fire in 1917.
The Grand Opera House was constructed in 1886-87 on Court Street, by outside capital. This structure was afterward remodeled and enlarged and is now the First Baptist Church building.
The Soo Locks (sometimes spelled Sault Locks but pronounced "soo") are a set of parallel locks, operated and maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, that enable ships to travel between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes. They are located on the St. Marys River between Lake Superior and Lake Huron, between the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan and the Canadian province of Ontario. They bypass the rapids of the river, where the water falls 21 ft (6.4 m).
The Taungurung people are the traditional owners and inhabitants of the area Seymour now occupies. Specifically, it is the land of the Buthera Balug clan who occupied the area when Europeans first settled the region in the early 1800s.
Formerly located at the southwest corner of Logan Avenue and Stanley Street in Winnipeg, this building was designed by local architects Walter Chesterton and McNichol and built in 1882. It had six retail spaces on the main floor, five along Logan and one along Stanley, while a lecture hall was on the second floor. The space was occupied initially by the St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. The building was demolished in 1923.
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The Hotel [zum] Schwan was a famous hotel in Frankfurt am Main . It existed from 1592 to 1919. Its building, dating from 1791 on Steinweg , was destroyed by aerial bombs during the 1944 air raids on Frankfurt am Main . A cinema later stood in its place, and today it houses the Hugendubel bookstore .
Especially in the 19th century, the Schwan was a luxury hotel of European renown. It held particular historical significance as the site of the signing of the Treaty of Frankfurt , which ended the Franco-Prussian War on May 10, 1871 .