File Court of Final Appeal HK .jpg thumb The FormerFrenchMissionBuilding in Central, Hong Kong. File Augustine Heard & Co., Hong Kong.jpg thumb The building in the late 19th century, then a residence ... en monuments 37.php FormerFrenchMissionBuilding ref Features The building is built on a podium due to the hilly nature of Government Hill. Originally a mansion called Johnston House, the building was altered in the 1870s and 1880s to a three storey building. The present three storey building ... architecture formerfrench mission.html FormerFrenchMissionBuilding ref History The original .... Image HK Court of Final Appeal n Cheung Kong Centre.jpg 200px thumb The FormerFrenchMissionBuilding viewed from Queen s Road Central . File Court of Final Appeal.jpg 200px thumb Entrance of the Court of Final Appeal. The FormerFrenchMissionBuilding Chinese language Chinese ... was added in the north west corner, and the building was refaced with red bricks. It reopened in 1917 and became known as the FrenchMissionBuilding . ref name stories Consulate General of France ... FrenchMissionBuilding http www.info.gov.hk isd 40th 40 index.htm GIS through the years Government ... http www.legco.gov.hk yr95 96 english fc pwsc papers pw081158.htm Conversion of the FrenchMissionBuilding into the Court of Final Appeal ref Sometime after 2011, the court will then move to the current Legislative Council Building , formerly the Supreme Court Building. Conservation The building ... structure. ref name stories ref name Wordie The building is probably based on a previous ... there for a while, before moving to Caine Road . The building likely served as one of the Legislative Council Building earlier homes of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong during this period 1843 1846 . The building then had several owners, including Emanuel R. Belilios , ref cite book title Voices ... of Final Appeal to the existing Legislative Council Building. ref Legislative Council Panel on Development ... more details
Infobox building name Bristol and West Building image Bristolandwestbuilding.JPG image size 200px caption location Bristol , England latd 51.4524 longd 2.5966 iso region GB BST coordinates display title status completed start date completion date 1967 opening building type offices antenna spire roof convert 61 m ft abbr on top floor floor count 17 floor area elevator count cost architect structural engineer main contractor developer owner The former Bristol and West Building on Marsh Street St Augustine s Parade, Bristol was built in 1967 by Alec French and partners. ref name burrough cite book last Burrough first THB authorlink coauthors title Bristol year 1970 publisher Studio Vista location London isbn 0 289 79804 3 ref Rising 61 metres with 17 stories, the building was formerly used as the headquarters of the Bristol and West until early 2006. Since then, major renovations have been carried out, and after several delays the building reopened in May 2009 as a 176 room hotel operated by Radisson Hotels Radisson SAS . In addition to the hotel, the site also includes residential apartments and shops. ref cite news url http www.thisisbristol.co.uk business Water damage delays opening Bristol hotel 3 monthsarticle 593169 details article.html title Water damage delays opening of Bristol hotel publisher Bristol Evening Post date January 7, 2009 accessdate 2009 02 11 ref See also List of tallest buildings and structures in Bristol References reflist Category Buildings and structures in Bristol Category Buildings and structures completed in 1967 Bristol struct stub ... more details
File Foreign Office Berlin 2007 003.jpg thumb Former Reichsbank building in 2007 The former Reichsbank building in German language German the Haus am Werderschen Markt is a building in Berlin , Germany , originally built in 1934 38 to house the Reichsbank , and today housing part of the Foreign Office Germany Foreign Office . One of the remaining examples of Nazi architecture , the building was commissioned in 1933. The design competition attracted a number of entrants, including two Bauhaus architects who would later have to flee the Nazis, Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe it was won, however, by Heinrich Wolff architect Heinrich Wolff , whose design called for a stone faced structure over a reinforced concrete core. ref name Catchen cite book author Gary L. Catchen chapter Ged chtnis and Zukunft, Remembrance and the Future title Berlin The Symphony Continues editor Carol Anne Costabile Heming, Rachel J. Halverson, Kristie A. Foell publisher Walter de Gruyter year 2004 isbn 3110177234 pages 15 16 ref After World War II , the building, now in East Berlin , first housed East Germany s finance ministry, and from 1959 the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany Socialist Unity Party . Following German reunification reunification , a new headquarters for the Foreign Office was built next door, and the former Reichsbank building became part of its office complex, undergoing modifications for that purpose overseen by Hans Kollhoff . ref name Catchen References reflist commons category Reichsbank Erweiterungsbau coord 52.5140 13.3997 type landmark region DE BE display title Category Buildings and structures in Mitte Category Buildings and structures completed in 1938 Category Nazi architecture Berlin struct stub de Haus am Werderschen Markt fr Maison du Werderscher Markt ... more details
1986 and Mornington 1991 building societies. Bristol & West The most recent acquisition was the deposit base and branch network of formerbuilding society Bristol & West bringing with it approximately ... in England and Wales No. 03191608 ref A former member of the Building Societies Association and the Council ... 2009 ref On the merger with Co operative Financial Services, members of the former Britannia Building ... banks in the United Kingdom Former UK Building Societies Category 1856 establishments in the United ... a Building Society Mutual organization Mutual company slogan Building a fairer society foundation ... ref Before the merger with the Co operative, Britannia was a mutual organisation mutual building ... building society in the UK based on total assets of 36.8 billion at 31 December 2007. ref http www.bsa.org.uk docs consumerpdfs assetslistjan2007.pdf Building Societies Assets Building Societies Association ... Building Societies Database KPMG Financial Services, August 2008 ref Britannia provides .... Britannia traces its history back to 1856, when the Leek and Moorlands Permanent Benefit Building ... Permanent Benefit Building Society in 1938 and notably with the NALGO Building Society in 1960 ... Counties in 1974. A further merger in 1975 with the Oldbury Britannia Building Society saw the change ... from Building Societies Yearbook 2007 8 pp.163 4, 168, 185 6, 155 and 172 Building Societies Association ... in 1946 p.158 and to Oldbury Britannia in 1955 p.147 8 ref Britannia also includes the engagements of the former ... Building Society proposed a merger, ref http www.britanniamediacentre.co.uk content Detail.aspx?ReleaseID ... consumer co operative in the world. On 1 August 2009 Britannia Building Society was legally ..., 4 August 2009 ref Coincidentally, the competitor and largest remaining Building Society, Nationwide Building Society Nationwide , was itself formed in 1884 as the Co operative Permanent Building Society ... Brick 50 years of the Co operative Permanent Building Society London JM Dent & Sons, 1934 ref Subsidiaries ... more details
Unreferenced date May 2007 Image Faury Louis.jpg thumb right 220px Louis Faury , head of the French Military Mission to Poland in 1939 The French Military Mission to Poland was an effort by France to aid the nascent Second Polish Republic after it achieved its independence in November, 1918, at the end of the First World War . The aim was to provide aid during the Polish Soviet War 1919 1921 , and to create a strong Polish military to serve as a useful ally against Germany. It was an advisory body consisting of about 400 French officers attached to staffs of Polish units at various levels. Although the Frenchmission was small numerically, its effect was substantial in improving the organisation and logistics of the Polish army . It worked in parallel with the smaller British Military Mission to Poland . It existed from 1918 to 1939. Its first commander was French General Paul Prosper Henrys , previously the commander of French forces in the Balkans . The Frenchmission, composed of 400 officer instructors, met with much respect. The instructors, many of them centered around the Polish General Staff , were crucial in training the emerging Polish officer corps. The French effort was vital in improving the organisation of the newly formed Polish army, which up till 1919 used various manuals, organisation structures and equipment, mostly from the former partitions of Poland partitioners armies. Among the French officers was the future President of France, Charles de Gaulle . This mission should not be confused with the Interallied Mission to Poland , an improvised effort launched ... Battle of Warsaw . The purpose of that mission was to send a number of high level personages from ... a change in government. They included French diplomat, Jean Jules Jusserand , Maxime Weygand , chief ... days of August, before the mission could achieve anything of importance. The only tangible result ... 1918 1939 Category France Poland relations Category France Soviet Union relations fr Mission militaire ... more details
Infobox NRHP name Pottawatomie Baptist MissionBuilding nrhp type image caption location Off W. 6th St., 0.5 mi. W of Wanamaker Rd., Topeka, Kansas locmapin Kansas built 1849 added September 3, 1971 area convert 2 acre governing body Private refnum 71001089 ref name nris NRISref version 2010a ref Pottawatomie Baptist MissionBuilding is a historic mission off W. 6th St., one half mile west of Wanamaker Road in Topeka, Kansas . It was built in 1849 and added to the National Register in 1971. References reflist National Register of Historic Places Category Baptist churches in Kansas Category Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas Category Shawnee County, Kansas Kansas NRHP stub ... more details
The French Geodesic Mission also called the Geodesic Mission to Peru , Geodesic Mission to the Equator and the Spanish French Geodesic Mission was an 18th century expedition to what is now Ecuador carried out for the purpose of measuring the roundness of the Earth and measuring the length of a degree of latitude at the Equator . The mission was one of the first geodesic or geodetic missions carried ... thumb 250px Ecuador The equatorial mission was led by French astronomer s Charles Marie de La ... of Quito . The fame brought to the region by the French Geodesic Mission influenced the adoption ... of the Frenchmission to spend the entire time in Ecuador were Lieutenant later General Georges Perrier ... Mission. In 1936, the French American Committee of Ecuador sponsored the idea of the Ecuadoran ... in the French Academy of Sciences Acad mie des sciences , as to whether the circumference of the Earth was greater around the Equator or around the poles. French astronomer Jacques Cassini held ... Lapland , close to the North Pole , under Swedish physicist Anders Celsius and French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis Pierre Maupertuis . The other mission was sent to Ecuador, at the Equator. Previous .... Observations during the mission Ulloa and Juan visited the architectural Inca complex in San ... and the development of what became the metric system for units of measure. Subsequent mission In the late 19th century, the Academy of Sciences sent another mission to Ecuador at the behest of the International Association of Geodesy to confirm the results of the First Geodesic Mission and commemorate the relationship between the two republics. This second mission was led by Captain E. Maurain and several ... French inscription, for the bicentennial of the first geodesic expedition along with a second pyramid ... Geodesic Mission. They raised a 10 meter high monument at Mitad del Mundo in San Antonio de Pichincha , in Pichincha Province of Ecuador. However, there is no record that the Mission ever ... more details
Infobox nrhp name Fred F. FrenchBuilding nrhp type nrhp image Fred f french.jpg caption location 551 Fifth Avenue , Manhattan , New York City , New York area built 1927 architect H. Douglas Ives and Sloan & Robertston architecture Art Deco added January 28, 2004 visitation num visitation year refnum 03001514 mpsub governing body The Feil Organization The Fred F. FrenchBuilding is a 38 story skyscraper on the northeast corner of 45th Street at 551 Fifth Avenue , Manhattan , New York City . Current tenants include ABM Industries . History It was erected in 1927 with a striking art deco facade contributing significantly to the international reputation of Fifth Avenue . ref http www.thecityreview.com french.html The Fred F. FrenchBuilding , The City Review . ref The building measures approximately 430,000 rentable square feet and is currently owned by The Feil Organization. It is used primarily as an office building and also houses classrooms of Pace University . The building is one of the better known projects of the real estate developer Frederick Fillmore French . The lead architects were H. Douglas Ives ref AIA Guide to New York City , 4th edition, pg. 290. ref and Sloan & Robertston. The National Register of Historic Places listed the building in January 2004. References Reflist External links http www.costar.com costarconnect MasterPage Main.aspx?SiteID 23098&CheckSum 545297166&InvestmentProperty False&propertyid 157159&IsCostar Costar Official website http www.in arch.net NYC nyc2.html 140 in Arch.net The Fred F. FrenchBuilding http www.nyc architecture.com MID MID145.htm The Fred F. FrenchBuilding images at nyc architecture.com. coord 40.755456 73.979222 region US type landmark display title National Register of Historic Places in New York Category Buildings and structures completed in 1927 Category Skyscrapers in New York City Category Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Manhattan Category Fifth Avenue Manhattan Category ... more details
Infobox nrhp name Frelinghuysen University, Former Classroom Building nrhp type image Edwin P. Goodwin House, Frelinghuysen University.jpg caption location 1800 Vermont Ave., NW br Washington, D.C. lat degrees 38 lat minutes 54 lat seconds 54 lat direction N long degrees 77 long minutes 1 long seconds 37 long direction W locmapin United States Washington, D.C. area built 1879 architect architecture Queen Anne architecture Queen Anne designated nrhp type added November 6, 1995 governing body Private mpsub refnum 95001228 ref name nris NRISref 2009a ref Frelinghuysen University, Former Classroom Building , also known as the Edwin P. Goodwin House , is an historic structure located in the Shaw, Washington, D.C. Shaw neighborhood in the Northwest, Washington, D.C. Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. History The Washington branch of the Bible Educational Association was established in 1906 at the home of Jesse and Rosetta C. Lawson. ref name culturaltourism cite web url http www.culturaltourismdc.org node 1298 title Frelinghuysen Universit Jesse and Rosetta C. Lawson, African American Heritage Trail publisher Cultural Tourism DC accessdate 2011 11 16 last first ref Kelly Miller was chosen to be the president. At the same time they established the Inter Denominational Bible College and named Jesse Lawson as its president. Frelinghuysen University was founded in 1917 when the two organizations combined. It was named for New Jersey senator Frederick T. Frelinghuysen . He and Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts promoted civil rights during Reconstruction Era of the United States Reconstruction and was United ... s mission was to provide academic, vocational and religious education for African American working ... until 1921. The Goodwin House served as the school s first permanent building from 1921 1927 ... is a two story brick Queen Anne architecture Queen Anne style building. It follows a triangular ... more details
Infobox building name Former Post and Telegraph Building native name image Waitangi Park, Wellington, New Zealand, March 2007.jpg caption The Former Post and Telegraph Building next to Waitangi Park former names building type architectural style Art Deco structural system location Herd Street, Wellington New Zealand Wellington , New Zealand owner current tenants landlord coordinates coord 41.290849 174.784766 display title region NZ type landmark start date completion date 1939 demolition date height diameter other dimensions floor count floor area main contractor architect Edmund Anscombe structural engineer services engineer civil engineer other designers quantity surveyor awards The Former Post and Telegraph Building is a building located in Wellington New Zealand Wellington , New Zealand . The building, located on Herd Street, was designed by Edmund Anscombe and built in 1939. It originally had two full size tennis courts on the roof. ref http www.wellingtonwaterfront.co.nz history heritage on the waterfront Wellington City Council Heritage on the Waterfront ref The courts were later demolished to make way for a sixth storey. The building ceased being used as the post office in the late 1980s and is currently a mix of apartments, restaurants and shops. References reflist External links http www.wellingtonwaterfront.co.nz history heritage on the waterfront Wellington City Council Heritage on the Waterfront DEFAULTSORT Former Post And Telegraph Building, Wellington Category Buildings and structures in Wellington City Category Art Deco architecture Category Art Deco architecture in New Zealand Category Edmund Anscombe buildings NewZealand struct stub ... more details
Orphan date April 2011 Infobox Historic building name National Bank of New Zealand building native name image caption former names building type architectural style structural system location 192 194 Cuba Street, Wellington New Zealand Wellington , New Zealand owner current tenants Logan Brown Restaurant landlord coordinates coord 41.2948 174.7746 region NZ WGN type landmark display inline,title start date completion date 1917 1923 demolition date height diameter other dimensions floor count floor area main contractor architect Plummer Jones, Claude ref name Kernohan, D. 1994 Kernohan, D. 1994 . Wellington s Old Buildings , Wellington Victoria University Press ref structural engineer services engineer civil engineer other designers quantity surveyor awards embedded designation list embed yes designation1 NZ Category I designation1 offname National Bank Building, Te Aro, Branch Building designation1 number 3634 designation1 date 19 Mar 1986 The National Bank of New Zealand building is a historic building on the corner of Cuba Street, Wellington Cuba Street and Vivian Street, Wellington New Zealand Wellington , New Zealand . It is now occupied by Logan Brown Restaurant. The building, designed by Claude Plummer Jones , contains an exceptionally fine main banking space. Built by day labour, the structure is of concrete, faced externally with Malmesbury stone for the rusticated base with sandstone for the levels above. The building is Classical architecture classical in style. The 2 ... contains the former banking hall and some ancillary office space. Octagonal in shape, the paired corinthian ... Kernohan, D. 1994 The building is classified as a Category I by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust . ref NZHPT 3634 National Bank Building, Te Aro, Branch Building 2009 12 21 ref References reflist External links http www.loganbrown.co.nz Logan Brown Restaurant website DEFAULTSORT Former National Bank Of New Zealand Building Category Buildings and structures in Wellington City Category NZHPT ... more details
F FormerCHSBuilding.html Chicago Landmarks, Former Chicago Historical Society Building http www.gapersblock.com ...Infobox nrhp name Old Chicago Historical Society Building nrhp type nrhp image Chicago Historical Society, 632 North Dearborn Street, Chicago Cook County, Illinois .jpg caption location Chicago, Illinois lat degrees 41 lat minutes 53 lat seconds 36.92 lat direction N long degrees 87 long minutes 37 long seconds 47.85 long direction W locmapin Illinois area built 1892 architect Henry Ives Cobb architecture Other, Romanesque added November 28, 1978 designated other1 name Chicago Landmark designated other1 date February 26, 1997 designated other1 abbr CL designated other1 link Chicago Landmark designated other1 color aaccff governing body Private refnum 78001126 ref name nris NRISref 2006a ref The Former Chicago Historical Society Building is a historic landmark located on the northwest corner of Dearborn and Ontario streets in downtown Chicago . Built in 1892, it is a prime example of Henry Ives Cobb Henry Ives Cobb s Romanesque Revival architecture , and the home of the Chicago History Museum Chicago Historical Society prior to relocating to Lincoln Park, Chicago Lincoln Park . This large granite clad building is simply known as Excalibur nightclub Excalibur or Vision by Chicago s populace, because it houses two popular nightclubs with those names. Henceforth, Excalibur will be used as a substitute title to the cumbersome name Former Chicago Historical Society Building. Excalibur and Vision Nightclubs Main article Excalibur nightclub Excalibur was a popular hangout for Dennis Rodman when he played professional basketball for the Chicago Bulls during the late 1990s. Vision is a large multi level, multi room nightclub that caters to anyone who likes Hip hop music hip hop , trance music trance , and or house music . Chicago attracts people from all over the nation to visit Vision, when internationally well known DJ s such as Armin van Buuren or James Holden producer James ... more details
Use mdy dates date November 2010 Image SecondFrenchMilitaryMission.jpg thumb The second French Military Mission to Japan 1872 1880 . The 1872 1880 French Military Mission to Japan was the second French military mission to that country. It followed the first French Military Mission to Japan 1867 1868 ... The formation of a second military mission to Japan was rather a surprise, as the first French Military Mission had sided with the Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu against the now reigning Emperor Meiji ... bull04 04 11ich.pdf Source ref The Mission Image MikadoWithFrenchMission.jpg thumb Reception by the Meiji Emperor of the Second French Military Mission to Japan, 1872. The mission arrived in Japan ... of 3 years, with an additional 4 years in the reserve. The Frenchmission was essentially active ... 1874 and the end of their term, the mission was put in charge of building Japan s coastal defenses ... A third French Military Mission to Japan 1884 1889 would take place with five men, but Japan also ... of the Second French Military Mission to Japan. 1874 photograph. Armand Pierre Andr Echeman April .... This was expressed by the Japanese foreign minister Iwakura Tomomi during his visit the Iwakura mission ... to go through in this war, but it has not changed anything in our opinion on the merits of the French ... by colonel Charles Claude Munier should this be Meunier? . The mission was composed of 9 officers .... A famous member of the mission was Louis Kreitmann 1851 1914 , an army engineer and captain ... Coll ge de France , Paris. The members of the mission were hired through 3 year contracts ... The task of the mission was to help reorganize the Imperial Japanese Army , and establish the first ... and military establishments were set up under the direction of the mission, including Image IchigayaMilitaryAcademy1874.jpg 350px thumb Ichigaya Military Academy , built by the second French Military Mission to Japan, on the ground of today s Ministry of Defense Japan Japan Ministry of Defense ... more details
File M 39 mission de Villaret en gr ce.jpg thumb right 250px The Frenchmission prior to its departure from Greece, July 1914 The 1911 1914 French military mission to Greece was called to Greece by the government of Eleftherios Venizelos to reorganize the Hellenic Army , parallel to a British naval mission for the Royal Hellenic Navy . The Frenchmission arrived in January 1911, under the command of General Joseph Paul Eydoux , replaced in April 1914 by General tienne de Villaret who had also served in a French military mission to Japan 1884 1889 mission to Japan earlier in his career . It remained in the country until the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, when it was repatriated. Greece s defeat in the Greco Turkish War of 1897 had highlighted the many deficiencies of the Greek military. Successive efforts to modernize and reorganize the Greek army were undertaken by the Georgios ... , the Greek Army had followed French models, and there had even been a prior French military mission to Greece 1884 1887 French military mission in 1884 1887 . The choice however was contested between the French and the Germans, the latter favoured by the Army s Inspector General, Crown ... Staff. The French were favoured by many of the officers who had partaken in the 1909 Goudi coup , as well as by Prime Minister Venizelos himself, for political reasons. The Frenchmission was given extraordinary powers, with French officers placed as department heads and in charge of Greek military formations, while Eydoux himself, a Major General in the French Army , was given the rank of Lieutenant General in the Greek Army at the time, a rank held only by the Crown Prince. The mission revised ... their work being incomplete, the changes brought by the mission had a measurable effect on Greek ... in Greece Category French Army Category Military history of France Category Military history of Greece Category France Greece relations Military Mission 1911 Category History of Greece 1909 1924 ... more details
Image FrenchMilitaryMissionToJapan.jpg thumb French Military Mission to Japan 1918 1919. Image TogoAndFrenchAirforceMission.jpg thumb Togo Heihachiro with members of the French Airforce Mission to Japan 1918 1919 in Gifu, Gifu Gifu . The French Aeronautical Mission to Japan 1918 1919 , was the first foreign military mission to Japan since the 1890s. During the early 20th century, Japan realized it was inexperienced in newer military areas, Fact date April 2008 such as aviation and naval aviation. In 1918, Japan invited the fourth French Military Mission, composed of 50 members and equipped with several of the newest types of airplanes, to establish the fundamentals of the Japanese airforce the planes were several Salmson 2 Salmson 2A2 , Nieuport , Spad XIII , two Breguet XIV , as well as Albert Caquot Caquot dirigeables . The mission, headed by Jacques Paul Faure , an artillery Colonel, and composed of members of all arms, including about 20 members of the French air services. JapanMilitaryMissions References Sabre et pinceau , Christian Polak. Category Military history of Japan Category France Japan relations Category 1918 in France Category 1919 in France Category Military history of France Category 1918 in Japan Category 1919 in Japan Category 1919 in international relations Category 1918 in international relations Japan mil hist stub ... more details
Image ThirdFrenchMissionToJapan.jpg thumb Captain tienne de Villaret front row, center , of the Third French Military Mission to Japan, with his officer students of the Ichigaya Military Academy. The 1884 French Military Mission to Japan was the third French military mission to that country and consisted of 5 men. It followed two earlier missions, the first French Military Mission to Japan 1867 1868 , and the second French Military Mission to Japan 1872 1880 , which had a considerable role in shaping the new Imperial Japanese Army . From 1886 to 1889, Japan somewhat shifted to Germany as a military example, and invited two German officers particularly Jakob Meckel in parallel to the French Mission, who were put in charge of reforming the Japanese General Staff. France would gain considerable influence with the Imperial Japanese Navy instead, with the dispatch of the engineer Louis mile Bertin . References Sabre et pinceau , Christian Polak, Chambre de Commerce et d Industrie Fran aise du Japon. Ambassadeur au Pays du Soleil Levant dans l ancien Empire du Japon , Herv Bernard, auto dition Biarritz 2007, 266 pages en quadrichromie. L ing nieur g n ral du g nie maritime Louis, Emile Bertin 1840 1924 cr ateur de la marine japonaise l poque de Meiji Tenno , Herv Bernard, auto dition Biarritz 2007, 84 pages en quadrichromie. JapanMilitaryMissions Category French Army Category Military history of Japan Category Conflicts in 1884 Category France Japan relations Military Mission 1884 Category 19th century in France Category 19th century in Japan Category Military history of France Japan mil hist stub France hist stub ja 1884 1889 ... more details
Infobox nrhp name Mission San Fernando Rey de Convento Building nrhp type image Mission San Fernando Postcard, circa 1900.jpg caption Postcard of the Convento Building, 1900 location 15151 San Fernando Mission Blvd., Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California lat degrees 34 lat minutes 16 lat seconds 23 ... in the state. ref The long portico, sometimes referred to as the colonnade, in front of the building has 20 arches and is the most recognized image of the Mission San Fernando. It was and is the largest adobe structure in California and is also the largest original building in California s missions. ref name Restoration cite news title Restoration of MissionBuilding Begins publisher Los Angeles ... url http boxer.senate.gov missions miss.cfm Known as the long building, it is the largest original structure in the Mission Chain, and the largest adobe building in California. ref ref cite news title ... Building In February 1971, the Mission sustained major damage from the 1971 San Fernando ... Los Angeles Times date 1973 02 09 ref As the only original building remaining at the Mission ... Private refnum 88002147 ref name nris NRISref 2008a ref The Convento Building , known for its iconic arched portico or colonnade , was built between 1808 and 1822 and is the only original building remaining at the Mission San Fernando Rey de Espa a in the Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California Mission ... adobe building in California and the largest original building at any of the Spanish missions in California California missions . The building Image MSF 033.jpg thumb left 225px View of the Convento from the street The Convento is a large two story building, measuring approximately convert 243 ft ... approximately 1808 and 1822. ref name Aged cite news author Kenneth J. Fanucchi title Mission Soon to Repair Aged Convento Damaged in Quake publisher Los Angeles Times date 1972 03 23 Construction of the building ... tabid 3524 Default.aspx The Long Building is the largest adobe building in California ... more details
Image JulesBrunet.jpg thumb The French military mission before its departure to Japan, in 1866. Charles ... was already negotiating the final details of the French support for the construction of the Yokosuka arsenal, and had additionally requested both the United Kingdom and France to send a military mission for training in Western warfare. The UK apparently denied support to Japan, but the French foreign minister Drouyn de Lhuys 1865 1881 transmitted the agreement of the French government. The mission ... War . The French military mission was then ordered to leave Japan by Imperial decree in October ... Yoshinobu in French military uniform, c. 1867 See also Second French Military Mission to Japan 1872 1880 Third French Military Mission to Japan 1884 Fourth French Military Mission to Japan 1918 1919 ... thumb French officers drilling Shogun troops in Osaka in 1867. Image Franco JapaneseInfantryTraining.jpg thumb Training of Japanese Bakufu troops by the French Military Mission to Japan. 1867 photograph. File Bakufu French style cavalry.jpg thumb The Shogunate s French style cavalry. File Training of Japanese troops by the French.jpg thumb Training of Japanese troops by the French. The French Military Mission to Japan of 1867 68 was the first foreign military training mission to Japan. The mission was formed by Napol on III , following a request of the Japanese ... non commissioned officers and two soldiers. The mission would be headed by staff captain Charles Sulpice ... id Victuallers Image BrunetAndTeam.jpg thumb left The French military advisers and their Japanese ... Victuallers Use button to enlarge or cursor to investigate desc none imagemap Commander of the mission ... of the 1st Engineer Regiment. Michel, sergeant, Engineer of the 1st Engineer Regiment. The mission ... on their arrival by L on Roches and the commander of the French Far East Squadron Admiral Roze . The military mission was able to train an elite corps of Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu , the Denshutai , for a little ... more details
Infobox NRHP name Former New York Life Insurance br Company Building nrhp type image Clock Tower Building.jpg image size 187 caption the building after Hatch s and McKim, Mead & White s extension and redesign location 346 Broadway, New York, New York lat degrees 40 lat minutes 42 lat seconds 58 lat direction N long degrees 74 long minutes 0 long seconds 13 long direction W coord parameters region US NY type landmark locmapin New York City area built 1894 architect Stephen D. Hatch McKim, Mead & White architecture Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals added June 28, 1982 governing body Local refnum 82003376 ref name nris NRISref 2009a ref designated other2 name NYC Landmark designated other2 date February 10, 1987 designated other2 abbr NYCL designated other2 link New York City Landmarks Preservation ... Building, S.E. corner of Leonard St. on Broadway, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views crop.jpg thumb left upright Original building, before being extended, and then replaced The Former New York Life Insurance Company Building , also known as the Clock Tower Building , located ... building, originally built in 1868 1870, needed to be expanded eastward to Lafayette Street ..., following Hatch s design. ref name nycland The company then decided to replace the original building ... for the New York Life Building on Madison Square Park in 1928. ref name aia4 In 1967, the City of New York acquired the building and moved several city agencies along with the Criminal Court, Summons ... Administrative Services ref The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places ... tower section above the building around the actual clock . At this point the metal sculpture ... Places listings in Manhattan below 14th Street Robbins & Appleton Building also designed by Stephen D. Hatch References Notes reflist External links Commonscat inline Former New York Life Insurance Company Building spacing NewYorkNY NRHP stub National Register of Historic Places in New York ... more details
File Best Place.jpg thumb Right Align Pabst Brewing Company Former Corporate Office Building Located at 901 W. Juneau Ave. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233 The Pabst Brewing Company Former Corporate Office Building is located at 901 W. Juneau Ave. in downtown Milwaukee , Wisconsin in the Pabst Brewery Complex . It was originally a public elementary school built in 1858 near the Best Brewing Company. The Best Brewing Company was purchased by Captain Frederick Pabst and renamed the Pabst Brewing Company . The school and grounds were purchased by Captain Frederick Pabst in 1890 for the playground. Captain Frederick Pabst wanted to build a bottling house on the playground area, and decided to use the school for the corporate offices. He had alterations made to the building, including improving the school s original tower and turning the cornice on the roof into battlements. The Visitor s Center and Gift Shop were added to the structure in 1934 after Prohibition ended. For the Pabst Brewing Company s centennial celebration in 1944, Blue Ribbon Hall was painted by muralist Edger Miller in 1943 after the first floor was transformed into a 17th century Guild Hall. ref cite book last Cochran first Thomas title The Pabst Brewing Company The History of an American Business year 2006 Reprint Edition publisher BeerBooks.com location Cleveland, OH isbn 0 9882084 5 5 ref ref cite web title Pabst Brewing Co. Timeline url http www.pabstbrewingco.com about timelines Pabst publisher Pabst Brewing Company accessdate 3 13 2011 ref File Best Place King Courtyard.JPG thumb Left Align View of the King s Courtyard ... 3 13 2011 newspaper St. Louis Post Dispatch date 12 29 1996 ref The building remained vacant until .... ref cite news last Daykin first Tom title Gift shop at former Pabst visitors center opens Saturday ... Brew City Redevelopment Group accessdate 3 13 2011 ref the building now consists of Little Tavern on the Hill former Visitor s Center , Blue Ribbon Hall, the Gift Shop, the Captain s Courtyard with a life ... more details
Wiktionary Refimprove date December 2009 image f16 frames small.jpg thumb right 150px Interior of an F 16B with the engine removed showing frames or formers. A former is a structural member of an aircraft fuselage , of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose to the empennage , typically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. ref Michael C. Y. Niu 1988 . Airframe Structural Design . Conmilit Press LTD. pp. 376. ref Formers are typically attached to longeron s, which support the skin of the aircraft. The Former and Longeron technique was adopted from boat construction also called stations and stringers , and was typical of light aircraft built until the advent of structural skin s such as fiberglass and other composite materials . Many of today s light aircraft, and homebuilt aircraft in particular, are still designed in this way. They are also found in the cores of potentiometer s in which the resistive material is wrapped round. Notes references Aircraft components Aviation lists Category Aircraft components Aviation stub ... more details
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