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# Ashburnham Center Historic District

The Ashburnham Center Historic District is a historic district encompassing the core of the village center of Ashburnham, Massachusetts in the United States. It is a well-preserved industrial village that experienced its most significant period of growth in the mid-19th century. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

## Description and history

Ashburnham was first settled in 1739, but was abandoned due to the danger of Native American attacks in the 1740s, and was not permanently settled until 1753. The town was incorporated in 1765, and achieved its present boundaries in 1824. The original town center was located atop a hill north of the present town center, where its first meeting house was built. Its economic and civic focus shifted south, to the area between two branches of Phillips Brook, both of which were dammed for industrial purposes in the late 18th century. Development was only modest until the industrial period of 1830–1855, when industrial development along Phillips Brook spurred significant growth. The old meeting house was abandoned for a new Congregational church (1834) on Main Street (the timbers of the old meeting house were used to build a town house, which still stands at 79 Main Street). The economic activity resulted in the construction of a significant number of Greek Revival houses, many of which survive in some form. In the second half of the 19th century, residential growth was modest. Still, a number of notable civic buildings were built, including a Methodist (later Roman Catholic) church in 1870, the Stevens Library (1890), and a new Town Hall (1904).
The historic district is a roughly triangular area 215 acres (87 ha) in size, defined by Main Street (Massachusetts Route 12) on the south, Proctor Street on the east, and Chapel Street on the northwest. It extends as far south as Academy Street, and beyond the main roads for short distances. There are now only vestiges of the village's industrial 19th-century history; most of the 189 historically significant buildings are either residential or civic in nature. Most of the commercial buildings in the district are found on Main Street, and include a number of examples of early 19th-century commercial architecture.
# CD Cuarte

Club Deportivo Cuarte is a Spanish football team based in Cuarte de Huerva, in the autonomous community of Aragon. Founded in 1969, it plays in Tercera Federación – Group 17, holding home games at Nuevo Estadio Municipal de Cuarte de Huerva, with a capacity of 1,000 spectators.
For 2012–13 season, the club dropped "Industrial" word from its official name, being the new CD Cuarte.

## History
### Club background

* Club Deportivo Cuarte (1969–1979; 2012–)
* Club Deportivo Cuarte Industrial (1979–2012)

## Season to season

| Season | Tier | Division | Place |
| 1970–71 | 6 | 2ª Reg. | 13th |
| 1971–72 | 6 | 2ª Reg. | 16th |
| 1972–73 | 7 | 2ª Reg. | 9th |
| 1973–74 | 7 | 2ª Reg. | 7th |
| 1974–75 | 7 | 2ª Reg. | 7th |
| 1975–76 | 8 | 3ª Reg. | 10th |
| 1976–77 | 8 | 3ª Reg. | 1st |
| 1977–78 | 8 | 3ª Reg. | 1st |
| 1978–79 | 7 | 2ª Reg. | 1st |
| 1979–80 | 6 | 1ª Reg. | 16th |
| 1980–81 | 6 | 1ª Reg. | 14th |
| 1981–82 | 6 | 1ª Reg. | 20th |
| 1982–83 | 7 | 2ª Reg. | 16th |
| 1983–84 | 8 | 2ª Reg. B | 6th |
| 1984–85 | 8 | 2ª Reg. B | 3rd |
| 1985–86 | 7 | 2ª Reg. | 9th |
| 1986–87 | 7 | 2ª Reg. | 8th |
| 1987–88 | 7 | 2ª Reg. | 4th |
| 1988–89 | 7 | 2ª Reg. | 13th |
| 1989–90 | 7 | 2ª Reg. | 7th |
| Season | Tier | Division | Place |
| 1990–91 | 7 | 2ª Reg. | 16th |
| 1991–92 | 7 | 2ª Reg. | 12th |
| 1992–93 | 7 | 2ª Reg. | 4th |
| 1993–94 | 6 | 1ª Reg. | 9th |
| 1994–95 | 6 | 1ª Reg. | 6th |
| 1995–96 | 6 | 1ª Reg. | 1st |
| 1996–97 | 5 | Reg. Pref. | 12th |
| 1997–98 | 5 | Reg. Pref. | 12th |
| 1998–99 | 5 | Reg. Pref. | 18th |
| 1999–2000 | 6 | 1ª Reg. | 1st |
| 2000–01 | 5 | Reg. Pref. | 7th |
| 2001–02 | 5 | Reg. Pref. | 11th |
| 2002–03 | 5 | Reg. Pref. | 9th |
| 2003–04 | 5 | Reg. Pref. | 10th |
| 2004–05 | 5 | Reg. Pref. | 9th |
| 2005–06 | 5 | Reg. Pref. | 8th |
| 2006–07 | 5 | Reg. Pref. | 3rd |
| 2007–08 | 4 | 3ª | 14th |
| 2008–09 | 4 | 3ª | 14th |
| 2009–10 | 4 | 3ª | 17th |
| Season | Tier | Division | Place | Copa del Rey |
| 2010–11 | 5 | Reg. Pref. | 1st | |
| 2011–12 | 4 | 3ª | 3rd | |
| 2012–13 | 4 | 3ª | 9th | |
| 2013–14 | 4 | 3ª | 16th | |
| 2014–15 | 4 | 3ª | 7th | |
| 2015–16 | 4 | 3ª | 14th | |
| 2016–17 | 4 | 3ª | 17th | |
| 2017–18 | 5 | Reg. Pref. | 7th | |
| 2018–19 | 5 | Reg. Pref. | 1st | |
| 2019–20 | 4 | 3ª | 5th | |
| 2020–21 | 4 | 3ª | 2nd / 4th | |
| 2021–22 | 5 | 3ª RFEF | 6th | |
| 2022–23 | 5 | 3ª Fed. | 13th | |
| 2023–24 | 5 | 3ª Fed. | 2nd | |
| 2024–25 | 5 | 3ª Fed. | | First round |
* 11 seasons in Tercera División
* 4 seasons in Tercera Federación/Tercera División RFEF
# Cycling at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit

The men's team pursuit cycling event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place on August 2. The format was a 4000 metres pursuit.

## Results

The top four teams by time advanced to the semifinal.

### Qualifying round

Qualifying
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Marco Cimatti Paolo Pedretti Alberto Ghilardi Nino Borsari | Italy | 4:52.9 | OR |
| 2 | Amédée Fournier René Le Grevès Henri Mouillefarine Paul Chocque | France | 4:54.4 | |
| 3 | Ernest Johnson William Harvell Frank Southall Charles Holland | Great Britain | 4:58.2 | |
| 4 | Lew Rush Glen Robbins Russ Hunt Frank Elliott | Canada | 5:10.4 | |
| 5 | Eddie Testa Ruggero Berti Harold Ade Russell Allen | United States | 5:17.4 | |
The winner of each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

### Semifinal

Heat one
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Amédée Fournier René Le Grevès Henri Mouillefarine Paul Chocque | France | 4:53.9 | |
| 2 | Ernest Johnson William Harvell Frank Southall Charles Holland | Great Britain | 4:57.4 | |
Heat two
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Marco Cimatti Paolo Pedretti Alberto Ghilardi Nino Borsari | Italy | 5:24.9 | |
| 2 | Lew Rush Glen Robbins Russ Hunt Frank Elliott | Canada | 5:34.4 | |

### Final

Match 1/2
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Marco Cimatti Paolo Pedretti Alberto Ghilardi Nino Borsari | Italy | 4:53.0 | |
| | Amédée Fournier René Le Grevès Henri Mouillefarine Paul Chocque | France | 4:55.7 | |
Match 3/4
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Ernest Johnson William Harvell Frank Southall Charles Holland | Great Britain | 4:56.0 | |
| 4 | Lew Rush Glen Robbins Russ Hunt Frank Elliott | Canada | 6:04.0 | |
Key: OR = Olympic record
# William Heartz Brown

William Heartz Brown (February 25, 1883 – May 24, 1967) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Yarmouth in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1949 to 1956. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.
Brown was born in 1883 at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He married Etta May, and was employed as a superintendent at a textile plant. He served on town council in Yarmouth from 1948 to 1952. Brown entered provincial politics in the 1949 election, winning the dual-member Yarmouth riding with Liberal Donald J. Fraser. He was re-elected in the 1953 election, serving with Progressive Conservative Raymond Z. Bourque. Both Brown and Bourque were defeated when they ran for re-election in 1956, losing to Liberals Willard O'Brien and Eric Spinney. Brown died at Yarmouth on May 24, 1967.
# Halder, Netherlands

Halder is a hamlet in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Sint-Michielsgestel, between the towns of Sint-Michielsgestel and Vught.
The hamlet was first mentioned in 1087 as Herlar, and is a combination of "forest meadow" and "army". It takes its name from the castle. Halder has place name signs. It was home to 312 people in 1840.
Nieuw Herlaar Castle is a 19th-century monastery, however it contains the 15th-century tower of the old castle.
# Niimi Station

Niimi Station (新見駅, Niimi-eki) is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of Niimi, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West).

## Lines

Niimi Station is served by the Hakubi Line, and is located 64.4 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kurashiki and 84.3 kilometers from Okayama. Although the nominal terminus of the Geibi Line to Hiroshima is at Bitchū-Kōjiro, most trains continue an additional 6.4 kilometers further north to terminate at Niimi. The station is also the northern terminus of the 158.1 kilometer Kishin Line to Himeji.

## Station layout

The station consists of two island platforms and four tracks. There are two tracks without platforms between the island platforms, and all freight trains stop on these tracks, and they are also used to switch trains arriving at and departing from this station.The platform and the station building are connected by an underpass. The station building is a two-story wooden structure covered with tiles, and has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

### Platforms

| 1 | ■ P Geibi Line | for Tōjō and Bingo-Ochiai |
| 2 | ■ K Kishin Line | for Chūgoku-Katsuyama, Tsuyama and Sayo |
| 5 | ■ V Hakubi Line | for Kurashiki and Okayama |
| 6 | ■ V Hakubi Line | for Yonago and Matsue |

## Adjacent stations

| « | « | Service | » | » |
| Hakubi Line |||||
| Ishiga | Ishiga | - | Bitchū-Kōjiro | Bitchū-Kōjiro |
| Kishin Line |||||
| Iwayama | Iwayama | - | Terminus | Terminus |
| Geibi Line |||||
| Nunohara | Nunohara | - | Terminus | Terminus |

## History

Niimi Station opened on October 25, 1928, with the opening of the Hakubi Line. With the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan Railway Company.

## Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 733 passengers daily.

## Surrounding area

* Okayama Prefecture Bicchu Prefectural Citizens Bureau Niimi Regional Office
* Niimi Chamber of Commerce and Industry
* Niimi Municipal Niimi Daiichi Junior High School
* Okayama Prefectural Niimi High School
* Niimi Public University
# 684

Year 684 (DCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 684 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events
### By place
#### Europe

* Ghislemar, mayor of the palace in Neustria and Burgundy, dies after a 2-year reign, and is succeeded by his father Waratto. He makes peace between the three Frankish kingdoms.

#### Britain

* King Ecgfrith of Northumbria sends a punitive expedition to Ireland under his ealdorman Berht, laying waste to the territory of Meath, ruled by High King Fínsnechta Fledach.

#### Arabian Empire

* Caliph Mu'awiya II dies at Damascus, after a brief reign that ends Sufyanid rule. A new caliph is proclaimed in Syria amidst tribal wars, but Marwan I will reign until next year.
* August 18 – Battle of Marj Rahit: Muslim partisans under Marwan I defeat the supporters of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr near Damascus, and cement Umayyad control of Syria.

#### Asia

* January 3 – Zhong Zong succeeds his father Gao Zong, and becomes emperor of the Tang dynasty. His mother Wu Zetian remains the power behind the throne in China.
* February 27 – Wu Zetian replaces Zhong Zong in favor of his younger brother Rui Zong. He becomes a puppet ruler, and Zhong Zong is placed under house arrest.
* Summer – The Pallava Empire (modern India) invades the kingdom of Ceylon. A Pallavan naval expedition employing Tamil mercenaries ends the Moriya dynasty.

##### Japan

* September 7 – A large comet is observed in Japan (it's Japan's oldest observation record of Halley's Comet).
* November 13 – Emperor Tenmu institutes eight titles of eight classes (Yakusa-no-kabane) in Japan.
* November 26 – 684 Hakuho earthquake. A great earthquake strikes Japan. The people, houses, temples, shrines and domestic animals are greatly damaged.

#### Mesoamerica

* February 10 – Kʼinich Kan Bahlam II accedes to the rulership of the Maya polity of Palenque (modern Mexico).

### By topic
#### Religion

* Cuthbert is elected Bishop of Hexham, and receives a visit from a large group under Ecgfrith. He agrees to return to Lindisfarne (Northumbria) to take up duties.
* June 26 – Pope Benedict II succeeds Leo II as the 81st pope of Rome, after a period of sede vacante ("vacant seat") of 1 year.

## Births

* Gao Lishi, official and eunuch of the Tang dynasty (d. 762)
* Li Guo'er, princess of the Tang dynasty (approximate date)
* Nagaya, Japanese prince and politician (d. 729)
* Tachibana no Moroe, Japanese prince and minister (d. 757)

## Deaths

* Adarnase II, king of Iberia (approximate date)
* Aldegund, Frankish Benedictine abbess
* Constantine of Mananali, founder of the Paulicians
* Ghislemar, mayor of the palace in Neustria and Burgundy
* Li Xian, prince of the Tang dynasty (b. 653)
* Luo Binwang, Chinese poet and official
* Mu'awiya II, Muslim caliph (b. 661)
* Pei Yan, chancellor of the Tang dynasty
* Philibert of Jumièges, Frankish abbot
* Severus II bar Masqeh, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.
# Ashville, Louisville

38°08′02″N 85°34′45″W﻿ / ﻿38.1340°N 85.5791°W﻿ / 38.1340; -85.5791
Ashville is a neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky centered along Bardstown Road (US 31E) and Brentlinger Lane. It is located near the Gene Snyder Freeway.
# George A. Burridge

George Adrien Burridge (September 20, 1883 – March 11, 1969) was a teacher and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Yarmouth County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1960 to 1967 as a Progressive Conservative member.

## Early life

Born in Hectanooga, Nova Scotia, he was the son of Ambroise Burridge and Rosalie Cottreau.

## Before politics

He was the first principal of the Yarmouth Vocational School, the original public vocational training school in Nova Scotia.

## Political career

In October 1960, he was appointed to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister without portfolio.

## Posthumous

The current NSCC Burridge Campus in Yarmouth is named after him.
# Kiedosy

Kiedosy is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Działoszyn, within Pajęczno County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) south-west of Działoszyn, 18 km (11 mi) south-west of Pajęczno, and 93 km (58 mi) south-west of the regional capital Łódź.
# Osędowice

Osędowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Daszyna, within Łęczyca County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) east of Daszyna, 13 km (8 mi) north of Łęczyca, and 46 km (29 mi) north of the regional capital Łódź.
# Cycling at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's team time trial

The men's team time trial cycling event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place on August 4. It was competed in a 100 km time trial format. Team time taken as sum of the team's three best finishers.

## Results
### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Attilio Pavesi Guglielmo Segato Giuseppe Olmo | Italy | 7:27:15.2 |
| | Frode Sørensen Leo Nielsen Henry Hansen | Denmark | 7:38:50.2 |
| | Bernhard Britz Sven Höglund Arne Berg | Sweden | 7:39:12.6 |
| 4 | Frank Southall Charles Holland Stanley Butler | Great Britain | 7:44:53.0 |
| 5 | Paul Chocque Amédée Fournier Henri Mouillefarine | France | 7:46:31.8 |
| 6 | Henry O'Brien, Jr. Frank Connell Otto Luedeke | United States | 7:51:55.6 |
| 7 | Glen Robbins James Jackson Frank Elliott | Canada | 8:01:38.0 |
| 8 | Werner Wittig Julius Maus Hubert Ebner | Germany | 8:21:21.2 |
# Fear Factor (Australian game show)

Fear Factor is an Australian stunt/dare reality game show. It originally aired on Nine Network in 2002, but was abruptly cancelled after only 3 episodes, with the show's cancellation being announced during the end credits of the third episode with: "that was the final fear factor in this series". The program was hosted by Marc Yellin. The show pitted contestants against each other in a variety of stunts; each winner over the first six weeks received a small prize, then returned to compete against each other in a championship episode for the show's grand prize of AU $50,000.
Despite its abrupt cancellation, the entire 7-episode series was later aired in the United States on Chiller during 2011 and 2012.
# Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius

Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius (15 January 1843 – 20 July 1928) was a Swedish entomologist.

## Life

Christopher Aurivillius was born at Forsa, Sweden. He was the director of the Natural History Museum in Stockholm and he specialised in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. He was, for a long time, the secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science . His brother was the zoologist Carl Wilhelm Samuel Aurivillius (1854–1899) and his son the zoologist Sven Magnus Aurivillius (1892–1928).
He was the author of Part 39 Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae (1912) and Parts 73 and 74. Cerambycidae: Lamiinae (1922, 1923) in: S. Schenkling (ed.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, Berlin, 1000 + pages. Also Rhopalocera Aethiopica (1898), major contributions to Adalbert Seitz's Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925 and many papers on the Lepidoptera of Africa and Über sekundäre Geschlechtscharaktere nordischer Tagfalter Stockholm (1880) a work on moths. In 1922, he discovered the beetle Ozineus dimidiatus which is part of the family Cerambycidae.
Aurivillius was also the permanent secretary of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1901 to 1923.

## Papers on African Lepidoptera

* Aurivillius, 1893 "Diagnosen neuer lepidopteren aus Afrika" Entomologisk Tidskrift 14: 199–214
* ———, 1894 "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Insektenfaun von Kamerun. 2. Tagfalter" Entomologisk Tidskrift. 15: 273–314
* ———, 1898 "Diagnosen neuer Lepidopteren aus Afrika" Entomologisk Tidskriftr. 19: 177–186
* ———, 1898 "Neue Nymphaliden aus dem Congogebiete Öfvers" K. Vetensk Akad. Förh. Stockh. 54: 279–286
* ———, 1901 "Diagnosen neuer Lepidopteren aus Afrika" Entomologisk Tidskrift. 22: 113–128
# Akaiwa Station

Akaiwa Station (赤岩駅, Akaiwa-eki) is a disused railway station on the Ōu Main Line in the city of Fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Services ended on 4 March 2017. The station was discontinued on 13 March 2021.

## Lines

Akaiwa Station was served by the Ōu Main Line (Yamagata Line), and is located 14.6 km from the starting point of the line at Fukushima.

## Services

The station used to be served by six services in each direction daily, but beginning in December 2012, no trains stopped at the station during the winter period between December and March. The station was abolished on 13 March 2021.

## Station layout

The station was unstaffed and consisted of an unnumbered island platform serving two tracks. The platform could be accessed from the station building via a level crossing.

### Platforms

| Entrance side | ■ Ou Main Line (Yamagata Line) | for Fukushima |
| Opposite side | ■ Ou Main Line (Yamagata Line) | for Yamagata and Yonezawa |

## Adjacent stations

| « | « | Service | » | » |
| Ōu Main Line (Yamagata Line) |||||
| Niwasaka | Niwasaka | Local | Itaya | Itaya |

## History

Akaiwa Station opened on 13 October 1910. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987.
From 1 December 2012, trains stopped serving this station during the winter period (until 25 March 2013). Services stopped completely on 4 March 2017.
The station discontinued on 13 March 2021 due to timetable revision.

## Surrounding area

The station was located in an isolated mountainous area on the Fukushima side of the Itaya Pass.
# Otolice

Otolice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łowicz, within Łowicz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) north-west of Łowicz and 47 km (29 mi) north-east of the regional capital Łódź.
# J. Keirn Brennan

J. Keirn Brennan (November 24, 1873 – February 4, 1948) was an American songwriter. He joined ASCAP as a charter member in 1914 and collaborated with many notable songwriters. He is probably best known for co-writing the 1929 film The Show of Shows.
Born in San Francisco, California, his musical collaborators included Harry Akst, Ernest Ball, Walter Donaldson, Rudolf Friml, Karl Hajos, Billy Hill, Werner Janssen, Chauncey Olcott, and Maurice Rubens. His song compositions include Sure a Little Bit of Heaven (1914), Dear Little Boy of Mine, Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You, Empty Saddles, Turn Back the Universe, When My Boy Comes Home, A Little Bit of Love, My Bird of Paradise, I'll Follow the Trail, You Hold My Heart, Let the Rest of the World Go By and Ireland Is Ireland to Me.
He died in Hollywood, California.

## Other songs

* "America Never Took Water and America Never Will" - 1919
* "For Dixie and Uncle Sam" - 1916. m: Ernest R. Ball
* "Goodbye, Mother Machree" - 1918. m: Ernest R. Ball
* "I Wish That He Was Back in Tipperary" - 1915. m: Ernest R. Ball
* "I'm from Ohio" - 1918. m: Ernest R. Ball
* "Never Let Yourself Forget You Are Irish Too" - 1915. m: Ernest R. Ball
* "When the Robert E. Lee Arrives in Old Tennessee All the Way from Gay Paree" - 1918. m: Paul Cunningham
* "You Can't Beat Us for We've Never Lost a War" - 1918. m: Ernest R. Ball
* "You Can't Beat Us If It Takes Ten Million More" - 1918. m: Ernest R. Ball
* "You'll Be There" - 1915. m: Ernest R. Ball
# Largo do Boticário

22°56′22″S 43°12′5″W﻿ / ﻿22.93944°S 43.20139°W﻿ / -22.93944; -43.20139The Largo do Boticário (Apothecary's Square) is a square in the Cosme Velho neighborhood of the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The square can be reached by the Beco do Boticário (Apothecary's Alley), that passes by the Carioca River. The area is characterized by large, neo-colonial houses and Atlantic Forest vegetation.

## History

The name of the alley and square are derived from Joaquim Luís da Silva Souto, apothecary, who had an establishment on the old Rua Direita, today's Rua Primeiro de Março in downtown Rio. Apothecary Silva Souto was very successful, even treating members of the royal family. He bought land in the Cosme Velho neighborhood and moved there around 1831. In 1846, marshal Joaquim Alberto de Souza Silveira—a frequent visitor to the royal court—lived there and author Machado de Assis was his godfather.
The defining feature of the square appeared in the 1920s. Edmundo Bittencourt, founder of the newspaper Correio da Manhã, bought the property and began to build neocolonial houses. This trend continued into the 1930s and 1940s with the help of diplomat, architect, art collector, and resident, Rodolfo da Siqueira. Sylvia de Arruda Botelho Bittencourt her husband Paulo inherited the Correio da Manhã, moved into the square, and assisted with its preservation. Some of the original houses near the square were refurbished by modernist architects like Lucio Costa and Gregori Warchavchik, using original materials authentic to the colonial era salvaged from demolition projects around the city.

## Present day

During its "golden age", the Largo do Boticário became filled with huge houses owned by well-known figures in Brazilian society and foreigners attracted by the parties and social events held by the neighborhood's illustrious residents. Currently, however, the once-decadent area has fallen into decay. Between 2006 and 2008, one of the houses was taken over by a group of homeless people.
The Largo do Boticário is one of the few places in the city from which one can see the Carioca River. Near the square, several other historic sites in the Cosme Velho neighborhood can be found, including the Solar de Abacaxis house and the Corcovado Railway. In the 1970s, the square was featured in a scene in the movie Moonraker.