By Jenny C. Editor’s note: New Beginnings is celebrating Latinx Breastfeeding Week from September 8-14. This year’s theme is: Territory of the Heart / Breastfeeding Without Borders. You can find more information about events for this week here. ... Read More The post Celebrating Semana de la Lactancia Latina: Jenny’s Story appeared first on La Leche League USA.| La Leche League USA
The French Second Empire style was popular in Montpelier in the 1860s through the 1890s and was used for some of the city’s fancier homes. The attractive building at 132 Main Street was built around 1865 by James French, a wealthy Montpelier businessman. French owned a clothing store at the northeast corner of State and Main (see The Bridge, Nov. 2, 2022), served as postmaster, and built the brick French block on the west side of Main Street after the 1875 fires downtown destroyed three of ...| The Montpelier Bridge
Fredonia Allen started Tudor Hall at 16th and Meridian and the school moved multiple times, it seems. Tudor Hall eventually merged with Park School, which had started as Brooks School For Boys. Copied this off ebay and would have been happy to link to it if it were still there, but gives you an idea... Read More The post Then & Now Off 16th appeared first on Historic Indianapolis.| Historic Indianapolis
Located at the southern end of the historic core of Duke Farms, the stone structure known a century ago as The Lovers' Tower is still a popular photo spot for 21st-century tourists.| Gillette On Hillsborough
While many features of Duke's Park - the early 20th century Hillsborough, New Jersey estate of tobacco magnate James B. Duke - are still present and available to be discovered by visitors almost a century after Duke's death in 1925, there are a few that are gone forever.| Gillette On Hillsborough
A small blurb in the May 3, 1902, issue of the New York Tribune contained the news that 200 pieces of bronze statuary - three railroad cars full - had just arrived at the James B. Duke estate in Hillsborough. The pieces included vases, allegorical figures, many animals, and an $80,000 ($2.5 million today) fountain of marble and bronze.| Gillette On Hillsborough
Nearly all of the stone structures built at Duke Farms over a century ago - well houses, spring houses, summer houses, bridges, etc. - still exist today. They were a favorite of photographers in the early years of the last century and turn up frequently in published postcards.| Gillette On Hillsborough
As part of James B. Duke's massive construction project at his Hillsborough, New Jersey estate at the beginning of the last century, he had all of the road bridges rebuilt in stone to fit the new motif of Duke's Park. These included the bridges on River and Roycefield Roads as well as Duke's Parkway, as pictured in the postcard below from 1905.| Gillette On Hillsborough
The Frog Fountain was one of the early water features at Duke's Park, the Hillsborough Township, New Jersey estate of tobacco king James B. Duke. This playful pool featured perched frogs spraying plumes of water toward a central fountain.| Gillette On Hillsborough
Water features were one of the most photographed elements at Duke's Park - the early 20th-century estate of tobacco millionaire James B. Duke in Hillsborough, New Jersey. The Raritan River, Duke's Brook, and a dozen man-made lakes all found their way to the viewfinder of the shutterbug and professional lensman alike.| Gillette On Hillsborough
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WHO WANTS TO SEE A REVEAL?! Reveals are my favorite thing as a blogger, and also my least favorite because NO ONE IS EVEN READING THESE WORDS RIGHT NOW. You’re all cheating by skipping ahead. You oughta be ashamed. Alright, alright! Here’s the before: And the after: I HAVE SO MANY THINGS TO TELL YOU. […]| * View Along the Way *