…In the years just after 1900, the company spent more than $4 million for building sites in Brooklyn that were sold on small partial payments. When Brooklyn became part of New York City and Model T Fords started

…Many wondered, of course, who the benefactor might be. “Jedediah Tingle” once announced that he was “carrying on a mission to bring smiles and tender thoughts to the great in heart in high and low places, to comfort and cheer…

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His official residence at the time was 120 East 75th Street in New York City. His wife died in 1948. They are both buried at the Moravian Cemetery on Staten Island, New York. Soon after his death, The New York…

younger brother, Clifford, and an uncle, Charles Wood, both living in Cincinnati, liked the idea and in 1887 they pooled their money for a total of $3,000. With that they bought land south of Loveland, Ohio, not far from…

one of the first to give national recognition to the achievements of African Americans. It is best known for its impact on African American art of the Harlem renaissance. Only a few years after the first awards were presented, the…

attention when they were toured to art museums, colleges, public libraries, and even YMCAs all around the country.” Read the rest here . Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window…

…Buyers arrived slowly but as the day wore on, sales began to mount. From one crude ad, the entire allotment sold out in four days. Branch Hill, Ohio, advertisement. The 200 lots sold for $25 each, with a

exceptional things or suffer.” William retired at the age of 60 from active work in his real estate business in New York and devoted the rest of his life to the solution of social issues. He never forgot his birthplace…

…But would that lead to success? He told a friend: “The surest way is to hit upon something that everybody wants, make it possible for anyone to buy it and let them know that I have it for sale. But…

…People had been enabled to purchase land with a small down payment, and the public

estate marketer, began in 1907 when Harmon offered to sell to Lillian, and other popular artists, discounted land at his Harmon the New City development on the Hudson River. In return she agreed to allow her image to be used…

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other in Harmon—though in recent years the two have merged into a single sprawling commercial district. There is also a North Riverside commercial district serving communities along Riverside Drive, Brook Street, Grand Street, and Bank Street. A man

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engines for other modes of conveyance. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] During those days, the train station and its super-adjacent area was known as Harmon. Because maintenance of diesel and steam engines was then very labor-intensive, there were many workers whose

one side and on the other, a club for donors who supported the theater. Lillian sailed to Germany in June 1907 and consulted with architects in Munich on the Bayreuth plan at Harmon. Throughout Europe her plan was jeered. The…

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