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Rural Cemetery and Friends Cemetery

The Rural Cemetery and Friends Cemetery are a pair of connected cemeteries at 149 Dartmouth Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts United States. They occupy an irregular parcel of land more than 90 acres (36 ha) in size on the west side of the city. Established in 1837, the Rural Cemetery was the fifth rural cemetery in the nation, after Mount Auburn Cemetery (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Maine), Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Taunton, Massachusetts), and Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). In its early days it was criticized as lacking some of the natural beauty afforded by rolling terrain; the early sections were laid out in rectilinear manner on relatively flat terrain. The cemetery was a popular burial site, including notably the landscape artist Albert Bierstadt and Governor of Massachusetts John H. Clifford. In contrast to the more decorative nature of the Rural Cemetery, the Friends Cemetery is much plainer. It consists of a roughly 2-acre (0.81 ha) parcel on one side of the Rural Cemetery, which was sold to the Dartmouth Friends in 1849, but is administered by the city. This section has less ornate markers, generally laid out in rectilinear fashion. It includes burials that were relocated from a Friends cemetery (dating to 1793) that had been located on the New Bedford waterfront. The cemeteries were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. Notable burials Charles S. Ashley (1858–1941) – Mayor of New Bedford Charles James Barclay (1843–1909) – United States Navy officer Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) – German-American painter, see List of works by Albert Bierstadt Jonathan Bourne (1811–1889) – New Bedford alderman and namesake of the town of Bourne, Massachusetts Martha B. Briggs (1838–1889) – educator John H. Clifford (1809–1876) – Massachusetts governor and attorney general Jethro Coffin (1663–1727) – Jethro Coffin's House is the oldest residence on Nantucket still on its original site Thomas Washburn Cook (1837–1920) – Massachusetts State Senator in 1889 and 1890 William W. Crapo (1830–1926) – member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts Alexander Du Bois (1803–1887) – grandfather of W. E. B. Du Bois Robert Swain Gifford (1840–1905) – landscape painter Captain Amos Haskins (1816–1861) – member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, ship captain, whaler, and mariner Hosea M. Knowlton (1847–1902) – lawyer, District Attorney, and Attorney General of Massachusetts Charles S. Randall (1824–1904) – member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847–1917) – tonalist painter Howland H. Sargeant (1911–1984) – United States Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and the president of Radio Liberty Edwin P. Seaver (1838–1917) – educator who served as superintendent of Boston Public Schools from 1880 to 1904 William Allen Wall (1801–1885) – painter See also National Register of Historic Places listings in New Bedford, Massachusetts References External links New Bedford Rural Cemetery Rural Cemetery at Find a Grave Friends Burying Ground at Find a Grave
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a nonprofit think tank based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1946, it seeks to "improve quality of life through the effective use, taxation, and stewardship of land." Through education, training, publications, and events, the institute aims to inform international public policy decisions on land use with regard to economic, social, and environmental challenges. George W. McCarthy succeeded Gregory K. Ingram in July 2014 as head of the organization. Publications The Lincoln Institute publishes books and Policy Focus Reports that reflect research and document conference proceedings. The current publications catalog lists almost 100 titles, and nearly 1,000 working papers. The quarterly magazine Land Lines features articles on land use and tax policy topics. The Lincoln Institute also produces documentary films in the Making Sense of Place series: “Phoenix: The Urban Desert,” “Cleveland: Confronting Decline in an American City,” and "Portland: Quest for the Livable City," and supported the documentary series Shifting Ground produced by David Baron and airing on National Public Radio. History The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy was founded in 1974, supported by the Lincoln Foundation, which was established in 1946 by John C. Lincoln. The Lincoln Institute and the Lincoln Foundation merged into a single private operating foundation in November 2006. One of the Lincoln Institute's founding objectives has been to address the links between land policy and social and economic progress explored by Henry George in his book Progress and Poverty (1879). In December 2007, the Lincoln Institute and Peking University established the Center for Urban Development and Land Policy, located on the University’s Beijing campus to provide information and analysis on the urbanization in China. In 2017, the institute established the Center for Community Investment and the Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy, which focuses on land and water management in the Colorado River Basin. In September 2021, the Center supported a report on "Groundwater and Urban Growth in the San Joaquin Valley" and in March they established a fellowship in Public Administration with Claremont Graduate University. Goals The Institute listed six main goals as of 2021: Low-carbon, climate-resilient communities and regions Efficient and equitable tax systems Reduced poverty and spatial inequality Fiscally healthy communities and regions Sustainably managed land and water resources Functional land markets and reduced informality References External links Official website "Lincoln Institute of Land Policy". Internal Revenue Service filings. ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.
Men of Kent Cemetery

The Men of Kent Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Meetinghouse Lane in Scituate, Massachusetts. The cemetery dates from the earliest days of Scituate's settlement, estimated to have been established in 1628. It is the town's oldest cemetery, containing the graves of some of its original settlers. The 0.75 acres (0.30 ha) cemetery is also the site where the town's first meeting house was built in 1636. The cemetery is so named because Scituate was founded by colonists from the English county of Kent. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Plymouth County, Massachusetts References External links Men of Kent Cemetery at Find a Grave U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Men of Kent Cemetery
Shedd Park (Lowell, Massachusetts)

Shedd Park is a 50-acre (20 ha) public park in Lowell, Massachusetts. It is located off Rogers Street (Route 38) and flanked by Boylston Street and Knapp Avenue in the Belvidere section of the city. It includes multiple baseball fields, tennis/basketball courts, a pavilion, and a water park. In combination with Fort Hill and the Lowell Cemetery, Shedd Park is one of the largest urban green spaces in the Greater Lowell area. The park was made possible in part through the contribution of $100,000 from the estate of Freeman B. Shedd. His wife, Amy, died in 1924 and his daughter had died in 1921 without having any children. This money allowed the city to develop the park which he had donated in 1910. The Shedd Park Field House was built in 1927 and on October 29, 2016 it was dedicated and renamed the John D. Lord Pavilion. See also Rogers Fort Hill Park Historic District Belvidere Hill Historic District References External links Shedd Park description from the City of Lowell Recreation Office Shedd Park baseball
Boylston Hall (Harvard University)

Boylston Hall is a Harvard University classroom and academic office building lecture hall near the southwest corner of Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ward Nicholas Boylston had left a bequest to Harvard for the building in 1828. It was built in 1858 to designs in Rundbogenstil by Paul Schulze of Schulze and Schoen. It was clad in stone, as specified by the donor, specifically Rockport granite, and had a hip roof. In 1871, Peabody and Stearns replaced the roof with a mansarded third floor. It originally served as a chemistry building, with a laboratory and classrooms, and later housed the anatomical museum of Jeffries Wyman, Professor of Comparative Anatomy, who in 1866 became the first curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, as well as a mineralogical collection. In the 20th century, it became the first home of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Boylston Hall was gut renovated in 1959 by the architectural firm of Benjamin Thompson and Associates, and is considered an early example of the reuse of sound old buildings ("adaptive reconstruction"), "juxtaposing glass and steel with historic details". It functioned as the university language center. It houses the offices of the Harvard Classics Department. Its Fong Lecture Hall seats 144. References
District No. 5 School (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts)

The District No. 5 School is an historic school building and local history museum at 2 Old Mill Road in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. It is one of two relatively unmodified one-room schoolhouses in the town. Built in 1828, the brick schoolhouse is also one of the oldest surviving school buildings in the state. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. Description and history The District No. 5 School is located in western Shrewsbury, on the west side of Old Mill Road just south of its junction with Main Street. It is a single-story brick structure, with a gable roof and a stone foundation. It measures about 21 by 31 feet (6.4 m × 9.4 m), with its long axis and roof oriented east–west. The eastern facade houses a single door, which provides access to the building. The north wall has four windows, placed slightly irregularly, while the south wall has only three. The west side has no windows, but also has evidence in the brickwork that there were once two windows. The interior of the school has a vestibule area, which then opens into the classroom. The wall separating the spaces is vertical tongue-and-groove, with an original Federal-period door. The classroom walls are finished in vertical tongue-and-groove wainscoting, with plaster above. Floors appear to be original random-width planking, fastened with cut nails. The town of Shrewsbury, incorporated in 1727, established a district school system in about 1742, and had seven districts by 1792. The present district 5 schoolhouse was built in 1828 on land purchased from Orville Lothrop, whose farmhouse still stands to the northwest across Main Street. The school was funded and maintained by district residents until the state abolished the district system in 1869, after which the school (like the town's other district schools) was taken over by the town. It remained in use as a public school until 1917, and its ownership apparently reverted to the Lothrops, but was later retaken by the town for nonpayment of taxes. From the 1940s to 1960s it was being used as a residence, and it was restored in the 1970s to a turn-of-the-20th-century appearance. The local historical society purchased the property from the town for $1 in 1974, with stipulations that it be used for exclusively historical purposes. It is now operated by them as a museum. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts References
Fay House

Fay House is a Federal style mansion in Cambridge, Massachusetts that currently serves as the main administrative building of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. History Fay House was built in 1807 by Nathaniel Ireland. It faces Cambridge Common across Garden Street. Ireland lived in the house with his wife Sally, but was forced to mortgage the property in 1809. The house was sold at auction to Dr. Joseph McKean, a Harvard graduate, in 1814. After McKean's early death in 1818, the house and property changed hands several times. In October 1831, the house was purchased by Stephen Higginson, bursar of Harvard College. In 1870, a mansard roof was added to the structure. Fay House was the first building owned by Radcliffe College. In 1890, the mansard roof was removed, and a third story was constructed to house the college library. Another addition was made to the south side of the building. In 1892, another addition on the west side of the building was built to create an auditorium and classrooms. Fay House was renovated by the Radcliffe Institute in 2013. References Sources Baker, Christina Hopkinson. The Story of Fay House. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1929. Cambridge Historical Commission. Survey of architectural history in Cambridge. Cambridge, Distributed by the M.I.T. Press, 1965–1977. External links Sisam, Jay. "Historic Fay House achieves LEED Gold", Sustainability at Harvard News, June 17, 2013. 42°22′34.33″N 71°7′20.36″W
Gore Hall

Gore Hall was a historic building on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, designed by Richard Bond. Gore Hall was Harvard's first dedicated library building, a Gothic Revival structure built in 1838 of Quincy granite and named in honor of Harvard graduate and Massachusetts Governor Christopher Gore. In 1846, Harvard President Edward Everett was asked to design a seal for the newly incorporated City of Cambridge, and he identified Gore and Washington Elm as two icons encircled by the motto Literis Antiquis Novis Institutis Decora. "It can be translated as: 'Distinguished for Classical Learning and New Institutions.'" When the original Gore Hall was demolished in 1913 to make way for Widener Library, its name was transferred to a new Gore Hall, a freshman dormitory then under construction and now part of Winthrop House. References Harvard University. Library (1905). An Index Guide to the Shelf Classification of the Harvard College Library ... library. Retrieved November 15, 2015. https://archive.today/20150224033933/http://portal-gss.lib.harvard.edu/01092015-1907/history-harvards-library-one-spine-time Cutter, C.A. (1869). The New Catalogue of Harvard College Library. The North American Review. Retrieved November 15, 2015. Kent, A. (1983). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Taylor & Francis. p. 328. ISBN 9780824720353. Retrieved November 15, 2015. External links "Round Point Pinnacle at Appleton Farms". 25 May 2009. Retrieved 12 November 2017. Text gives locations of three other pinnacles salvaged from Gore Hall.
Harvard Hall

Harvard Hall is a Harvard University classroom building in Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. First Harvard Hall The present Harvard Hall replaces an earlier structure of the same name on the same site. The first Harvard Hall was built between 1674 and 1677. It was Harvard College's first brick building and replaced a decaying wooden building located a few hundred feet to the southeast. Samuel Andrew, a local Cambridge merchant and shipwright, was the master builder. Present Building The original Harvard Hall burned on January 24, 1764, destroying 4,500 of the College Library's 5,000 books as well as its collection of "philosophical apparatus" (scientific instruments). The Massachusetts General Court, which had been meeting in Harvard Hall to escape a smallpox epidemic in Boston, took responsibility for the fire and funded reconstruction. Thanks to generous donors such as Thomas Hollis V and John Hancock, within two years the new Harvard Hall housed a library larger than that the college had before the fire. Thomas Dawes, who also built Hollis Hall at Harvard, was the master builder. Under the specific advice of Benjamin Franklin, a new collection of scientific instruments and electrical demonstration equipment was acquired, mostly in London, to replace the apparatus that had been lost in the fire. The collection he assembled would later become part of the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. References
Гарвард-холл

Гарвард-холл — учебный корпус Гарвардского университета, расположенный на территории кампуса Гарвард-ярд в Кембридже, штат Массачусетс. Первый Гарвард-холл Нынешнее здание Гарвард-холла заменило собой более раннее сооружение с тем же названием, стоявшее на этом же месте. Первый Гарвард-холл был построен между 1674 и 1677 годами. Это было первое кирпичное здание Гарвардского колледжа, которое заменило обветшавшее деревянное строение, расположенное в нескольких сотнях футов к юго-востоку. Руководил строительством Сэмюэл Эндрю, местный кембриджский торговец и корабельный мастер. Нынешнее здание Первый Гарвард-холл сгорел 24 января 1764 года, что привело к уничтожению 4500 из 5000 книг библиотеки Колледжа, а также его коллекции «философских инструментов» (научных приборов). Генеральный суд Массачусетса, который заседал в Гарвард-холле, спасаясь от эпидемии оспы в Бостоне, взял на себя ответственность за пожар и финансировал восстановление. Благодаря щедрым пожертвованиям таких доноров, как Томас Холлис V и Джон Хэнкок, в течение двух лет в новом Гарвард-холле разместилась библиотека, превосходившая по размерам ту, что была в колледже до пожара. Строительством руководил Томас Доуз, который также возвёл Холлис-холл в Гарварде. По конкретному совету Бенджамина Франклина была приобретена новая коллекция научных приборов и оборудования для демонстрации электрических явлений, в основном в Лондоне, для замены аппаратуры, утраченной при пожаре. Собранная им коллекция позже вошла в состав Гарвардской коллекции исторических научных инструментов. Примечания
Dennison Airport

Dennison Airport was an airfield operational in the mid-20th century in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. History In 1927, a small civilian airfield was established at Squantum near the intersection of East Squantum Street and Quincy Shore Drive. Amelia Earhart, when she lived in Medford, Massachusetts, was a share-holding director and helped finance the construction of the airport. She also flew on the first official flight out of the airport on September 3, 1927. On September 28, 1927, Thea Rasche, a famous German aviator, crashed at Dennison Airport while attempting to land her Flamingo biplane The plane was damaged, but Rasche was uninjured. Dennison Airport closed down in 1942 and its land was taken over by the Navy for the expansion of the Naval Air Station Squantum. See also Naval Air Station Squantum References
Fore River Bridge

The Fore River Bridge spans the Weymouth Fore River between Quincy and Weymouth, Massachusetts. The total length of the bridge including the approaches is 2,216 feet (675 m). History A bascule bridge was built in 1936, replacing an earlier span. The bascule bridge was demolished in 2004 as it was considered structurally deficient and unsafe. MassDOT erected a temporary vertical lift bridge in 2001–2003, rising to 200 feet (61 m). The temporary bridge remained in place until the new bridge was completed in 2018. The new bridge project initially met resistance from residents. Designing architect Miguel Rosales emphasized that the conceived vertical-lift bridge had technical advantages, and that the Department of Transportation had made an effort to improve the appearance. Further, it incorporated elements of the 1936 Art Deco-style bridge, including also features like colored lighting at night and stainless steel screening of the towers at either end to make it more attractive. The construction of the new bridge commenced when the design/build team (White-Skanska-Koch, Joint Venture) was given notice to proceed in 2012. This project was one of five designated as "Mega projects" under the state's Accelerated Bridge Program. A major milestone was reached in August 2016 when the main span was floated into position. The replacement Fore River vertical lift bridge has an increased vertical clearance of 60 feet (18 m) in the closed position and over 220 feet (67 m) in the open position. This will help reduce the number of openings during the busy summer months. The navigable channel horizontal clearance increased the previous width of 175 feet (53 m) to 250 feet (76 m) and can now accommodate larger marine freighters providing better access to the Fore River’s Designated Port Area. The Fore River Bridge was built at an approximate cost of $272 million and construction lasted 6 years with final completion in 2018. A portion of the temporary bridge was donated for use as a short bridge over a river in Perches, Haiti. See also List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Massachusetts References External links Fore River Bridge Replacement Project website - MassDOT Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. MA-36, "Fore River Bridge, Route 3A, spanning Fore River, Weymouth, Norfolk County, MA", 4 photos, 1 data page, 1 photo caption page
Middlesex County Training School

The Middlesex County Training School is a former reform school located in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts. After its closure, its buildings were purchased by the University of Massachusetts Lowell, which utilized its buildings for its College of Education. Today, the school's records are housed in the Massachusetts Archives. History One of its buildings was home to the Fay A. Rotenberg School, operated by the Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps, from 1982 until its 2006 relocation to Westborough, Massachusetts. The Rotenberg School (not to be confused with the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, also in Massachusetts) is "the longest running and currently the only long-term treatment facility for adolescent females in the state". References