All posts tagged "Architecture"
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13.3K10Arts and LeisureFemale Impersonator Julian Eltinge Gets His Start in Boston’s Gay ’90s
The rise of female impersonator Julian Eltinge was a twist on the old story of instant stardom, in which an agent/producer spots...
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14.2K4Business and LaborElizabeth Jarvis Colt Survives To Make the Colt .45
As the Civil War raged in 1862, 35-year-old Elizabeth Jarvis Colt suddenly lost her beloved husband and year-old daughter to illness. A...
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21.0K6Arts and LeisureBeatrix Farrand Breaks the (Green) Glass Ceiling
Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1893 dismissed 21-year-old Beatrix Farrand as a dilettante gardener, but six years later she had...
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35.9K28ConnecticutMiss Porter’s School Finishes Socialites, Scholars and a First Lady
The educational reformer who founded Miss Porter’s School in 1843 could not have imagined the fame, fortune, scandal and accomplishment her students...
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11.0K13Arts and LeisureSamuel McIntire, Ingenious Man of Salem
Samuel McIntire, who was born and died in poverty, created fine Federal style buildings in Salem, Mass., for wealthy patrons. Today, an...
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9.9K11Business and LaborS. Z. Poli, New Haven’s Italian P.T. Barnum
Twenty-one-year-old S. Z. Poli came to America in 1881 with little more than the ability to carve lifelike figures from wax. He...
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