Saxony Apartment Building
The Saxony Apartment Building is a historic apartment building in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Located along Ninth Street in the city's downtown,[1] this five-story brick building includes a distinctive range of architectural details. Among these elements are brick pilasters and projections, a three-story bay window on each side of the symmetrical main facade, semicircular balconies, and many stone pieces, such as pediments, keystones, and stringcourses. Due to its location at the intersection of Ninth and Race Streets, the Saxony appears to have two fronts: one onto each street. Although the Ninth Street facade is larger and more complex, the Race Street facade is nevertheless ornate as well: it features small yet elaborate semicircular balconies with wrought iron railings similar to those of the Ninth Street facade.[2]
Constructed in 1891 according to a design by leading Cincinnati architect Samuel Hannaford,[1] the Saxony Apartment Building was constructed during the last years of Hannaford's practice. By this time, he had established himself as one of the city's premier architects, due in large part to his responsibility for the grand Cincinnati Music Hall in the 1870s.[3]:11 Among the distinctive elements of his buildings as a group is the wide range of architectural styles that he employed: his surviving buildings demonstrate at least five different styles,[3]:12 and although the Saxony Apartments include some obvious Queen Anne elements,[3]:7 the building's overall style cannot easily be classified.[1]
Front and side facades of the Saxony
On March 3, 1980, the Saxony Apartment Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, due to its well-preserved historic architecture.[1] Three other apartment buildings,[3]:7 along with more than thirty other buildings in the cities of Cincinnati and Wyoming,[3]:3 were listed on the National Register at the same time as part of a multiple property submission of buildings designed by Hannaford in Hamilton County. Eight months later, the portion of Ninth Street between Vine and Race Streets was added to the Register as the Ninth Street Historic District,[1] and the Saxony Apartments were named one of the district's dozens of contributing properties.[4]
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topicSaxony Apartment Building" alt="image" />The Saxony Apartment Building is a historic apartment building in Cincinnati , Ohio , United States . Located along Ninth Street in the city's downtown , this five- story brick building includes a distinctive range of architectural details. Among these elements are brick pilasters and projections, a three-story bay window on each side of the symmetrical main facade, semicircular balconies , and many stone pieces, such as pediments , keystones , and stringcourses . Due to its location at the intersection of Ninth and Race Streets, the Saxony appears to have two fronts: one onto each street. Although the Ninth Street facade is larger and more complex, the Race Street facade is nevertheless ornate as well: it features small yet elaborate semicircular balconies with wrought iron railings similar to those of the Ninth Street facade. Constructed in 1891 according to a design by leading Cincinnati architect Samuel Hannaford , the Saxony Apartment Building was constructed during the last years of Hannaford's practi
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Murder of Yangjie Li
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Murder of Yangjie Li ( simplified Chinese : 李洋洁 ; traditional Chinese : 李洋潔 ; pinyin : Lǐ Yángjié ; died 11–13 May 2016) is a criminal case in Saxony-Anhalt . The case has gained high attention and has become a subject of media in China. The murder case brought the police themselves in the focus of the accusations. About the victim The victim, with surname Li, first name Yangjie, was a 25-year-old Chinese architecture student at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences ( Dessau , Köthen , Bernburg ). She studied at the School of Civil Engineering of the Henan University of Science and Technology in her hometown in Henan province , China Death On Wednesday, May 11, Li left her home in Johannisstraße in downtown Dessau-Roßlau to go jogging and did not return. She wore black pants, a white-gray shirt, black sneakers and following her usual running routes across the city, through Dessau's City Park and the museum district. The next day, German police received a missing person report after her disappearance and m
Propsteikirche, Leipzig
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Interior The Propsteikirche St. Trinitatis in Leipzig is a Catholic church in the city centre, opened in 2015. The parish is part of the deanery of Leipzig in the Diocese of Dresden-Meißen . The official name of the church is Propsteikirche St. Trinitatis Leipzig . It is the largest church built in the new states of Germany since reunification . This is the third church to have been named Trinitatiskirche in Leipzig. The first was built in the centre in 1847, but was destroyed in World War II. The East German government permitted a new building to be erected, but only in a suburb. An "unremarkable functional building" was designed by the Bauakademie der DDR (Building Academy of the German Democratic Republic) and completed in 1982. It showed severe structural deficiencies after a few years, due to problems with the foundations. The latest church returned the parish to the city centre, close to the location of the first church. The architects Schulz und Schulz, who won a competition for the new building, w
Reichstag fire
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Reichstag fire" alt="image" />The Reichstag fire ( German : Reichstagsbrand , listen ) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building (home of the German parliament ) in Berlin on 27 February 1933, just one month after Adolf Hitler had been sworn in as Chancellor of Germany . The Nazis stated that Marinus van der Lubbe , a Dutch council communist , was found near the building. The Nazis publicly blamed the fire on communist agitators in general, although in a German court in 1933, it was decided that Van Der Lubbe had acted alone, as he claimed to have done. After the fire, the Reichstag Fire Decree was passed. The fire was used as evidence by the Nazi Party that communists were plotting against the German government. The event is seen as pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany . The fire started in the Reichstag building, the assembly location of the German Parliament . A Berlin fire station received an alarm call that the building was on fire shortly after 21:00. By the time the police and firefighters arrived, the main Chambe
Gera
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Gera is the third-largest city in Thuringia , Germany , with 96,000 inhabitants, located 55 kilometres (34 miles) south of Leipzig , 75 km (47 miles) east of Erfurt and 120 km (75 miles) west of Dresden . Gera was first mentioned in 995 and developed to a city during the 13th century. Later, it was the residence of several lines of the Reussians until the end of monarchy in Germany in 1918. Over the 19th century, Gera became a centre of the textile industry and saw a period of rapid growth. In 1952, the city also became an administrative centre in GDR as one of the capitals of Gera administrative district (Bezirk) . In 1990, Gera became part of re-established Thuringia. The loss of its administrative functions as well as its industrial core (caused both by structural change among the European textile industry and the economic system change after the German reunification) precipitated the city's slide into an enduring economic crisis. Since 1990, many of Gera's buildings have been restored and big urban planni
List of hotels in the United States
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This is a list of hotels in the United States, both current and defunct, organized by state. The list includes highly rated luxury hotels, skyscraper rated buildings, and historic hotels. It is not a directory of every chain or independent hotel building in the United States. Alabama Russel Erskine Hotel Victoryland Mobile The Battle House Hotel Mobile Marriott Renaissance Riverview Plaza Hotel Birmingham Redmont Hotel Russel Erskine Hotel Sheraton Birmingham Thomas Jefferson Hotel Russel Erskine Hotel Thomas Jefferson Hotel Alaska Alaskan Hotel and Bar Bergmann Hotel Millennium Alaskan Hotel Van Gilder Hotel Alaskan Hotel and Bar Van Gilder Hotel Arizona 6th Avenue Hotel-Windsor Hotel Arizona Biltmore Hotel Bowman Hotel Buena Vista Hotel Camelback Inn CityNorth CityScape (Phoenix) Cochise Hotel Copper Queen Hotel El Tovar Hotel Francisco Grande Grand Canyon Lodge Harrah's Ak-Chin Casino Hermosa Inn Hotel Congress Hotel San Carlos Hotel Val
Vladimir Sukhomlinov
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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinov ( Russian : Владимир Александрович Сухомлинов ; IPA: ; 16 August [ O.S. 4 August] 1848 – 2 February 1926) was a cavalry general of the Imperial Russian Army (1906) who served as the Chief of the General Staff in 1908–09 and the Minister of War until 1915, when he was ousted from office amid allegations of failure to provide necessary armaments and munitions. The Myasoedov/Sukhomlinov cases may have done more harm to the monarchy than the lurid scandals associated with Rasputin . Biography Born in Telšiai , Vladimir Sukhomlinov graduated from Nikolayevskoye Cavalry School (1867). He served in the Uhlans of the Imperial Guard Regiment based at Warsaw. He graduated from the General Staff Academy in 1874. He participated in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 , served for some time on the staff of General Mikhail Skobelev , and was awarded the Order of St. George 4th class. After the war, on the invitation of General Mikhail Dragomirov , Chief of the General Staff Academy, he j
Official residence
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Official residence" alt="image" />An official residence is the residence at which a nation's head of state , head of government , governor or other senior figure officially resides. It may or may not be the same location where the individual conducts work-related functions or lives. International organizations United Nations 3 Sutton Place, Manhattan , New York City (residence of the Secretary-General of the United Nations ) Africa Algeria Presidential Palace Angola Presidential Palace Benin Presidential Palace Botswana State House ( President ) Burkina Faso Palais Kosyam in Ouagadougou Palais Kosyam Burundi Kiriri Presidential Palace Cameroon Unity Palace Cape Verde Palácio Presidencial Central African Republic Presidential Palace Chad Presidential Palace Comoros Presidential Palace Congo, Democratic Republic of the Kinshasa Presidential Palace Palais de la Nation Congo, Republic of the Brazzaville Presidential Palace Côte d'Ivoire Le Palais de la Présidence ( President ) Djibouti Presidential Palace Egypt Abdeen Palace Heliop
Anton Graff
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Anton Graff (18 November 1736 – 22 June 1813) was an eminent Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller , Christoph Willibald Gluck , Heinrich von Kleist , Frederick the Great , Friederike Sophie Seyler , Johann Gottfried Herder , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weisse . His pupils included Emma Körner , Philipp Otto Runge and Karl Ludwig Kaaz. Life and work Frederick the Great , King of Prussia (1781). This portrait is regarded as Anton Graff's masterpiece . Contemporaries claimed it was the best and most accurate portrait of Frederick the Great. It is the most famous and most copied and reproduced portrait of the King of Prussia. Anton Graff was born as the seventh child of the craftsman Ulrich Graff and Barbara Graff née Koller at Untertorgasse 8 in Winterthur , Switzerland (the house does not exist anymore). In 1753 Graff started studying painting at the art school of Johann Ulrich Schellenberg in Winterthur. After three years he left Winter
National Register of Historic Places listings in downtown Cincinnati
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National Register of Historic Places listings in downtown Cincinnati" alt="image" />This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio . This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Cincinnati , Ohio , United States . Downtown Cincinnati is defined as being all of the city south of Central Parkway, west of Interstates 71 and 471 , and east of Interstate 75 . The locations of National Register properties and districts may be seen in an online map. There are 265 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Cincinnati, including 12 National Historic Landmarks . Downtown Cincinnati includes 55 of these properties and districts, including 5 National Historic Landmarks; the city's remaining properties and districts are listed elsewhere . Current listings Name on the Register Image Date listed Location Description 1 Alkemeyer Commercial Buildings December 9, 1980 ( #80003034 ) 19-23 W. Court St. 39°06′21″N 84°30′52″W / 39.105833°N 84.514444°W 2 Brittany
Walter Gropius
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Walter Gropius" alt="image" />Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright , is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture . Early life Born in Berlin , Walter Gropius was the third child of Walter Adolph Gropius and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber (1855–1933). Manon Gropius with her parents Alma Mahler and Walter Gropius, 1918 In 1915 Gropius married Alma Mahler (1879–1964), widow of Gustav Mahler . Walter and Alma's daughter, named Manon after Walter's mother, was born in 1916. When Manon died of polio at age 18, in 1935, composer Alban Berg wrote his Violin Concerto in memory of her (it is inscribed "to the memory of an angel"). Gropius and Alma divorced in 1920. (Alma had by that time established a relationship with Franz Werfel , whom she later married.) On 16 October 1923, Gropius married Ilse (later changed to Ise) Frank, and they remained together unt
Stirling Castle
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Stirling Castle" alt="image" />Stirling Castle , located in Stirling , is one of the largest and most important castles in Scotland , both historically and architecturally. The castle sits atop Castle Hill, an intrusive crag , which forms part of the Stirling Sill geological formation. It is surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs, giving it a strong defensive position. Its strategic location, guarding what was, until the 1890s, the farthest downstream crossing of the River Forth , has made it an important fortification from the earliest times. Most of the principal buildings of the castle date from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A few structures of the fourteenth century remain, while the outer defences fronting the town date from the early eighteenth century. Before the union with England, Stirling Castle was also one of the most used of the many Scottish royal residences, very much a palace as well as a fortress. Several Scottish Kings and Queens have been crowned at Stirling, including Mary, Queen of Scots , in 1542, and othe
Wilfried Stallknecht
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Stallknecht (second from right) in 1954 at work on single-family house designs EW58 single-family house in Saxony with typical customizations such as the terrace. P2 Plattenbau prototype in Fennpfuhl, Berlin Kitchen pass-through in a P2 Plattenbau The first WBS 70 apartment building, in Neubrandenburg Wilfried Stallknecht (born 12 August 1928 in Geringswalde , Germany) is a German architect, planner and furniture designer. He is known chiefly for his significant role in shaping Germany's post-World War II built environment – particularly that of the former East Germany (GDR) – through his major contributions to the designs of the country's ubiquitous, iconic and often standardized housing blocks – the so-called "panel buildings" (Plattenbauten) – as well as a similarly ubiquitous and standardized single-family house design known as the EW58. He was affiliated with the GDR 's Bauakademie from 1959 to 1973 and served as planner for the town of Bernau bei Berlin from 1974 to 1984. Life and Works In 1932, Stall
Miramare Castle
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Miramare Castle" alt="image" />Miramare Castle Panorama of Miramare castle Miramare Castle (Italian: Castello di Miramare; German: Schloss Miramar; Slovene: Grad Miramar) is a 19th-century castle on the Gulf of Trieste near Trieste, northeastern Italy. It was built from 1856 to 1860 for Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian and his wife, Charlotte of Belgium, later Emperor Maximilian I and Empress Carlota of Mexico, based on a design by Carl Junker. The castle's grounds include an extensive cliff and seashore park of 22 hectares (54 acres) designed by the archduke. The grounds were completely re-landscaped to feature numerous tropical species of trees and plants. History Miramare Castle Cesare dell'Acqua (1867), Maximilian receiving the Mexican delegation, being offered the crown of Mexico. Miramare Castle and its park were built by order of Ferdinand Maximilian (1832–1867), of the House of Habsburg - younger brother of Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria. In 1850, at the age of eighteen, Maximilian came to Trieste with
Hermitage Museum
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The State Hermitage Museum (Russian: Госуда́рственный Эрмита́ж, tr. Gosudárstvennyj Ermitáž; IPA: ) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest[2] [3] and oldest museums in the world, it was founded in 1754 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items (the numismatic collection accounts for about one third of them)[4] including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors. Apart from them, the Menshikov Palace, Museum of Porcelain, Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building are also part of the museum. The museum has several exhibition centers abroad. The Hermitage is a federal state property. Since July 1992, the director of the museum has been
Allotment (gardening)
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An allotment garden (British English), often called simply an allotment , or a community garden (North America) is a plot of land made available for individual, non-commercial gardening or growing food plants. Such plots are formed by subdividing a piece of land into a few or up to several hundred land parcels that are assigned to individuals or families. Such parcels are cultivated individually, contrary to other community garden types where the entire area is tended collectively by a group of people. In countries that do not use the term allotment (garden), a community garden can refer to individual small garden plots as well as to a single, large piece of land gardened collectively by a group of people. The term victory garden is also still sometimes used, especially when a community garden dates back to World War II or I. The individual size of a parcel typically suits the needs of a family, and often the plots include a shed for tools and shelter, and sometimes a hut for seasonal or weekend accommodati
Geography and urban development of Dresden
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urban development of Dresden" alt="image" />Dresden is a large city in the eastern German Free State of Saxony nearby the border to the Czech Republic at the river Elbe . The geography and urban development of Dresden is embossed by the valley location and by the Elbe stream. Geography Location View over Dresden from the south-eastern slopes Dresden lies on both banks of the river Elbe, mostly in the Dresden Basin , with the further reaches of the eastern Ore Mountains to the south, the steep slope of the Lusatian granitic crust to the north and the Elbe Sandstone Mountains to the east at an elevation of about 113 metres. The northern parts of Dresden are in the West Lusatian Highlands (Westlausiter Berg- und Hügelland). The depth influx valleys and the higher areas in the south of Dresden characterise the change to the eastern foothills of the Ore Mountains. The Elbe valley basin is a part of the Saxon Elbe Landscape. The highest point of Dresden is the Triebenberg, at about 384 metres above sea level. With a pleasant location and a mild climate on th
Friedrichstadt (Berlin)
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Coat of Arms Map Coat of arms Friedrichstadt within Berlin Basic Information City : Berlin Borough : Mitte (north) and Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (south) Locality : Mitte (north) and Kreuzberg (south) Area : 2.1 km² (0.81 mi²) Population : 12,144 (in 1725) Coordinates : 52°30′30″N 13°23′30″E / 52.50833°N 13.39167°E Elevation : 34 m (111 ft) above sea level Neighbourhoods in Berlin-Mitte : Old Cölln [1] (with Museum Island [1a], Fisher Island [1b]), Alt-Berlin [2] (with Nikolaiviertel [2a]), Friedrichswerder [3], Neukölln am Wasser [4], Dorotheenstadt [5], Friedrichstadt [6], Luisenstadt [7], Stralauer Vorstadt (with Königsstadt ) [8], Alexanderplatz Area (Königsstadt and Altberlin) [9], Spandauer Vorstadt [10] (with Scheunenviertel [10a]), Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt [11], Oranienburger Vorstadt [12], Rosenthaler Vorstadt [13] Friedrichstadt ( German pronunciation ) was an independent suburb of Berlin , and is now a historical neighbourhood of the city itself. The neighbourhood is named after the Prussian k
Werner Drewes
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Werner Drewes (1899–1985) was a painter, printmaker, and art teacher. Considered to be one of the founding fathers of American abstraction, he was one of the first artists to introduce concepts of the Bauhaus school within the United States. His mature style encompassed both nonobjective and figurative work and the emotional content of this work was consistently more expressive than formal. Drewes was as highly regarded for his printmaking as for his painting. In his role as teacher as well as artist he was largely responsible for bringing the Bauhaus aesthetic to America. Early life and education Drewes was born in 1899 to Georg Drewes, a Lutheran pastor, and Martha Schaefer Drewes. The family lived in the village of Canig within Lower Lusatia , Germany. From age eight to eighteen he attended the Saldria Gymnasium, a boarding school in Brandenburg an der Havel . There, he showed talent both for painting and woodblock printing. Graduating from Saldria in 1917, he was drafted by the German army and serv
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