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Kendall Manor is a historic mansion in Eufaula, Alabama. It was built for planter James Turner Kendall. It was designed by architect H. George Whipple in the Italianate style. Construction began prior to the outset of the War Between The States of 1861–1865, and it was completed in 1867. It remained in the Kendall family; by the 1970s, it belonged to Dr. Kendall Eppes, Kendall's great-grandson and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. & Wikipedia

Trivia of Dolores del Rio (3 August 1904 - 11 April 1983) *Dolores del Rio’s family was full of celebrities.Her parents were members of the Mexican aristocracy that existed during the time of dictator Porfirio Diaz. Her maternal relatives were famed personalities. The filmmaker Julio Bracho, actors Ramón Novarro, and Andrea Palma were her cousins.On her paternal side, she was a cousin to Mexican sculptor Ignacio Asúnsolo and social activist and model Maria Asúnsolo. This is evidence that Dolores came from an artist’s family. *She was discovered by film director Edwin Carewe. He happened to be in Mexico attending a wedding of actor Bert Lytell and Clare Windsor. The filmmaker was captivated by the performance of Dolores’s tango dance at the wedding.Dolores' interest was dancing but the film director managed to convince her to also try acting as it fit her personality. He even offered Dolores a role in his film titled Joanna which was scheduled to premiere in 1925. *She contributed m

  Trivia of Jane Fonda (21 December 1937) *Her parents were Canadian-born socialite Frances Ford Seymour and American actor Henry Fonda.She was named for the third wife of Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, to whom she is distantly related on her mother's side,. and because of whom, until she was in fourth grade, Fonda said she was called "Lady" (as in Lady Jane). *The suicide of her socialite mother Frances Ford Seymour was kept from her as a teenager, and she was told that she'd died of heart failure. Household newspaper and magazine subscriptions were canceled, and the staff and student body of Fonda's high school were instructed not to discuss the incident. Fonda learned the truth months later while leafing through a movie magazine in study hall. *In 1958, she met Lee Strasberg; the meeting changed the course of her life. Fonda said, "I went to the Actors Studio and Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my fathe

Known As “Wincoma” This Victorian Carpenter Gothic Is A Real Show Stopper, Midway, Kentucky. Carpenter Gothic, also sometimes called Carpenter's Gothic or Rural Gothic, is a North American architectural style-designation for an application of Gothic Revival architectural detailing and picturesque massing applied to wooden structures built by house-carpenters. The abundance of North American timber and the carpenter-built vernacular architectures based upon it made a picturesque improvisation upon Gothic a natural evolution. Carpenter Gothic improvises upon features that were carved in stone in authentic Gothic architecture, whether original or in more scholarly revival styles; however, in the absence of the restraining influence of genuine Gothic structures, the style was freed to improvise and emphasize charm and quaintness rather than fidelity to received models. The genre received its impetus from the publication by Alexander Jackson Davis of Rural Residences and from detailed p

  Paleis voor Volksvlijt aan het Frederiksplein gezien vanaf de Hoge Sluis / Amstel Hotel, 1899. Het Paleis opende haar deuren in 1864 en werd in 1929 verwoest door een brand. Tegenwoordig staat op de plek de Nederlandsche Bank. Fotograaf S. Herz / Stadsarchief Amsterdam.

Ardoyne House Circa 1894 is a Victorian Gothic Revival, Schriever, Louisiana. Louisiana State Senator, and third generation sugar cane farmer, John Dalton Shaffer was looking for a home for his wife, Julia Richardson Cutliff Shaffer. Mrs. Shaffer requested that her husband build her a little cottage that overlooked Bayou Black. In 1888, he purchased approximately one thousand acres of land in Schriever, Louisiana. He then commissioned New Orleans based architect, John Williams of Williams and Brothers to design and build the main residence on a twenty-acre tract. The location of the house on the property lead, in part, to the name. “Ardoyne” in Scottish means “little hill or knoll” which was the high point of the property, and the name of a Scottish castle. The construction of the main residence began in 1890 and was completed in 1894. Local immigrants of German, Italian and African descent contributed the labor to build the residence and later would comprise a good portion of the labo

Trivia of Shelley Winters (18 August 1920 - 14 January 2006) *During a nationwide search in 1939 for Gone With The Wind's Scarlett O'Hara, Shelley Winters was advised by auditioning director George Cukor to get acting lessons, which she did. *Roommates with Marilyn Monroe when they were both starting out in Hollywood.She was taught Marilyn Monroe how to "act" pretty by tilting her head back, keeping her eyes lowered and her mouth partly opened.When they were roommates, one of their favorite pastimes included making list of men they wanted to sleep with.According to Winters, Monroe had a thing for Albert Einstein, and may even have slept with him. *It was George Cukor who gave Winters her first big break in 1947’s A Double Life.Although this was not Shelley Winters' first screen role, it is considered to be the picture that launched her film career, and was the first of many films she made for Universal. Winters claimed for years afterward she thought she was nomin

Trivia of Deanna Durbin (4 December 1921 - 17 April 2013) *At the age of 10, her parents recognized that she had definite talent of singing and enrolled her in voice lessons at the Ralph Thomas Academy. Durbin soon became Thomas's prize pupil, and he showcased her talent at various local clubs and churches.MGM casting director Rufus LeMaire heard about a talented young soloist performing with the Ralph Thomas Academy and called her in for an audition. Durbin sang "Il Bacio" for the studio's vocal coach, who was stunned by her "mature soprano" voice. She sang the number again for Louis B. Mayer, who signed her to a six-month contract. *In the mid-1930s, MGM had both Durbin and fellow adolescent singer Judy Garland under contract. To test which of them had greater popular appeal, the studio cast them side-by-side in the musical short Every Sunday (1936). When studio head Louis B. Mayer saw the short, he insisted one of them would need to be dropped. When Durbi

Trivia of Ann Sheridan ( 21 February 1915 - 21 January 1967) *Her sister entered Sheridan's photograph into a beauty contest in 1933.Sheridan won the prize of a bit part in an upcoming Paramount film, Search for Beauty.Paramount put the 19-year-old Sheridan under contract at a starting salary of $75 a week , where she played mostly uncredited bit parts for the next two years. *She had a noticeable gap between her front teeth, so she wore a porcelain cap when having her picture taken. *After making San Quentin (1937) with Humphrey Bogart, the two became friends and began referring to each other as “Sister Annie” and “Brother Bogie”.They made 6 films together : San Quentin (1937) , Black Legion (1937), The Great O'Malley (1937), It All Came True (1940), They Drive by Night (1940) , City for Conquest (1940). *In March 1939, Warner Bros. announced Sheridan had been voted by a committee of 25 men as the actress with the most "oomph" in America. "Oomph" was descri

Trivia of Gina Lollobrigida (4 July 1927 - 16 January 2023) *Young Gina did some modeling went on to participate successfully in several beauty contests. In 1947, she entered a beauty competition for Miss Italy, and came in third place. *In 1950, Howard Hughes signed Lollobrigida on a preliminary seven-year contract to make three pictures a year. She refused the final terms of the contract, preferring to remain in Europe and Hughes suspended her. Despite selling RKO Pictures in 1955, Hughes retained Lollobrigida's contract. The dispute prevented her from working in American movies filmed in the U.S. until 1959, though not from working in American productions shot in Europe, although Hughes often threatened legal action against the producers. *Her first widely seen English-language film, Beat the Devil (1953), was shot in Italy. In this film, directed by John Huston, she played the wife of Humphrey Bogart.Humphrey Bogart described Gina Lollobrigida as "the most woman I've s

Dazzling blonde Mary Beth Hughes in publicity for RIDE ON VAQUERO (1941). Hughes was born in Alton, Illinois on November 13, 1919. After graduating from high school in 1937 she returned to Brown's theatre company, where she continued to appear in various stage productions until the summer of 1938, when she relocated to Los Angeles with her mother to pursue a film career. She soon landed a small, uncredited role in the MGM musical “Broadway Serenade” (1939). She also appeared in other bit parts in films such as “The Women” with Norma Shearer, “Dancing Co-Ed” with Lana Turner, and the Busby Berkeley film “Fast and Furious” (all 1939). In 1940 Hughes was offered a contract with 20th Century-Fox. Later that year she landed a role opposite John Barrymore in “The Great Profile”, a part she later noted as one of her favourites. Her most famous role was as Henry Fonda's former girlfriend in “The Ox-Bow Incident” (1943). She also appeared in the cult classic “I Accuse My Parents” (1944

Trivia of Anita Ekberg (29 September 1931 - 11 January 2015) *While in her teens, Anita worked as a fashion model and even entered the Miss Malmö competition in 1950 at her mother’s urging. This ultimately led to the Miss Sweden contest which she actually won. Because of this achievement, she went on to the U.S. to compete for the 1951 Miss Universe title despite speaking very little English. She however did not win this pageant.Even though Ekberg did not win the Miss Universe pageant, as one of six finalists, she did manage to earn a contract with Universal Studios. While there, she received lessons in drama, horseback riding, dancing and even fencing. *After trying her hand at so many modelling jobs, Anita finally got a break in the film industry by appearing as a guest star in a TV series that was a bit short-lived, Casablanca and Private Secretary.Anita Ekberg soon started appearing in movies, mostly in minor roles. Her first credited role was in the sci-fi comedy film ‘Abbott and

Dazzling Yvonne de Carlo in publicity for the 1945 Technicolor western FRONTIER GAL. She was born Margaret Yvonne Middleton on September 1, 1922 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In 1937, when Yvonne was 15, her mother took her to Hollywood to try for fame and fortune, but nothing came of it and they returned to Canada. They came back to Hollywood in 1940, where Yvonne would dance in chorus lines at night while she checked in at the studios by day in search of film work. After appearing in unbilled parts in three short films, she finally got a part in a feature “Here I Come!” (1941). Yvonne glowed in her brief appearance as a bathing beauty. The rest of 1942 and 1943 saw her in more uncredited roles such as “The Deerslayer” (1943). She trudged on. The next year, started out the same, with mostly bit parts, but later that year, she landed the title role in “Salome, Where She Danced” (1945). It was at long last her big break, and the film was a success for Universal. Her next film

Old Town Chicago, Illinois: Old Town is a neighborhood and historic district in Near North Side and Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois, home to many of Chicago's older, Victorian-era buildings, including St. Michael's Church, one of seven buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire. Doorways Of Chicago Wikipedia

Queen Anne Victorian Mansion Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Identifiable Features Of A Queen Anne: -Abundance of decorative elements -Steeply pitched irregular shape roof -Cross gables -Asymmetrical facade -Large partial or full width porch -Round or polygonal corner tower -Decorative spindlework -Projecting bay windows -Patterned masonry -Textured wall surfaces -Columns or turned post porch posts -Patterned shingles -Single pane windows -Decorative, Stained glass panes breathing_timemachine http:// www. phmc. state.pa.us/ portal/communities/ architecture/styles/ queen-anne.html

22 februari 1944. Vandaag 80 jaar geleden. Bombardement NIjmegen. Lest not Forget. Beschrijving Vanaf de oostzijde van de Bloemerstraat via Plein 1944 naar de Augustijnenstraat, rechts het betonskelet van Vroom & Dreesmann op de Grote Markt, na bombardement. Datering 1944 Locatie Nijmegen Augustijnenstraat (externe informatie) - Stadscentrum (externe informatie) Trefwoorden Bombardement Onderwerp Tweede Wereldoorlog Documenttype foto Documentnummer F65894 Collectie Fotocollectie Regionaal Archief Nijmegen Auteursrecht Publiek Domein  

Holland Island is a marshy, rapidly eroding island in the Chesapeake Bay, in Dorchester County, Maryland. Holland Island was originally settled in the 1600s, taking its name from early colonist Daniel Holland, the original purchaser of the property from the Dorchester County Sheriff. By 1850, the first community of fishing and farming families developed on the island. By 1910, the island had about 360 residents, making it one of the largest inhabited islands in the Chesapeake Bay. The island community had 70 homes, stores and other buildings. It had its own post office, two-room school with two teachers, a church, baseball team, community center, and a doctor. The islanders supported themselves mainly by dredging for oysters, fishing for shad and crabbing. Their fleet of workboats included 41 skipjacks, 10 schooners and 36 bugeyes, some of which were built on the island. The wind and tide began to seriously erode the west side of the island, where most of the houses were located, in 19

The Hamilton–Turner Inn (also known as the Hamilton-Turner House) circa 1873 is a Second Empire mansion in Savannah, Georgia. As one of the most historic inns in Savannah GA, Hamilton-Turner Inn boasts a heritage as rich and vibrant as that of the city itself. Samuel Pugh Hamilton, informally known as “The Lord of Lafayette Square”, had this parkside mansion built for his family in 1873, long before they were turned into the luxury Savannah suites that they are today. Along with his wife Sarah, the successful businessman and prominent Savannah alderman created a social center for the city’s elite, hosting a variety of activities in their home that was impressive in workmanship and size. Mr. Hamilton was born on July 2, 1837 and grew up to be first, a loving family man, a professional businessman second, and third, a very accomplished host. He married his first wife, Emma Sprigg, in Charleston while he was stationed there in the U.S. Navy. They had two children together before her death