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4 giorni fa · The street now known as Pall Mall was laid out in its present position in 1661, on the site of the old pall mall alley (see page 24). It replaced the ancient highway which until then had led from Charing Cross to St. James's Palace along a line roughly parallel with, but south of, the present street (fig. 58).
2 giorni fa · National Mall. / 38.89000°N 77.02361°W / 38.89000; -77.02361. The National Mall is a landscaped park near the downtown area of Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States. It contains and borders a number of museums of the Smithsonian Institution, art galleries, cultural institutions, and various memorials, sculptures, and ...
4 giorni fa · The splendour of the rooms was matched by the lavish layout of the kitchens, which were planned by Barry in active consultation with the club's famous chef, Alexis Soyer, and are fully described in London Interiors, published in 1841 (Plate 103).
4 giorni fa · From 1762 to about 1776 the three houses (whose sites are now numbered 49–51 consec.) on the north side of Pall Mall occupied by Almack and Scott were the pivot of fashionable club life in London. Several clubs met in rooms provided by Almack in his two houses (Nos. 49–50), and from 1773 to 1787 Scott's house (No. 51) was ...
5 giorni fa · Old Chiswick was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex, with an agrarian and fishing economy beside the river; from the Early Modern period, the wealthy built imposing riverside houses on Chiswick Mall. Having good communications with London, Chiswick became a popular country retreat and part of the suburban growth of London ...
23 ore fa · The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [3] . It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
3 giorni fa · The National Mall is the heart of the nation’s capital where it serves many roles. It is a green park where people walk, run, and play, and it is also a federal park where many of our most important memorials and museums are located.
