Known later as the Larsen House is a certified historic structure listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
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Placed by St. Croix Historic Preservation Committee 2007
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Honorable Charles Wesley Turnbull-Governor
Honorable Gerard Luz James II-Lt. Governor
Rupert W. Ross, Jr.-St Croix Administrator
Chanio A. Harris-Committee Chairman
Harold G. Thompson, Jr-Public Works Comm.
Marc Biggs-Property & Procurement Comm.
C. William Rich-Project Designer
Aloy W. Nielsen-Project Director
Northshore Partners, Inc-Contractor
“Past, Present, Future: A Millennium Vision"
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Le Moulin de la Galette
More than an institution, the former "Blute-fin" is a monument, with its heroic legend, in 1814, during the siege of Paris by the Cossacks, the last of four brothers of a dynasty of millers recorded since 1621, the Debray, eventually cut up and nailed to the wings of his mill after a desperate defense. Under the Restoration, his son turns the building into a ballroom, decorated mainly composed of garden trellis painted green. The atmosphere is casual and the clientele more popular than in other institutions, as evidenced by the Renoir painting, painted in 1876, "Le Bal du Moulin de la Galette". After various up and downs the former "Blute-fin" was saved a 1979.]
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Saint-Pierre de Montmartre
Dating from the mid-fifth century arose here, on the site of a temple of Mars, the first Merovingian church. Sold, in ruins, to Louis VI in 1133, it was rebuilt for the Benedictine abbey founded by Queen Adelaide of Savoy, and solemnly consecrated by Pope III Eugena III Easter Monday 1147. This is one of the oldest religious buildings in Paris, which dates essentially from the twelfth century, with some reused Gallo-Roman. Closed to worship during the Revolution, it received in 1794, above the disused Ladies Choir, a tower designed to support the Chappe optical telegraph in service until 1844. In very poor condition in the nineteenth century, it narrowly escaped demolition, and has had a radical restoration from 1900.
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Home Rose Rosimond
Born in 1645, Claude de La Rose, said in Rosimond, writer in his day, was selected to succeed Molière in a troupe of king’s comedians, and like him, he died on the stage, after a performance of "The hypochondriac”. Since 1680, he had a vacation home here, surrounded by five areas of farm land. In the nineteenth century, it was converted into studios for artists: Auguste Renoir looking for space to rent took two rooms and the old stables, and he was succeeded by Léon Bloy, Raoul Dufy, Suzanne Valadon and Maurice Utrillo André Utter ... Threatened demolition due to its dilapidated condition in 1952, the oldest house in the Butte has been saved by the Society of History and Archaeology "Le Vieux Montmartre" and turned into a museum in 1961.
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Clos Montmartre
1933
On these hills was a grove called "Park Belle Gabrielle" ... until the vines covered the slopes of the hill. These 2000 vines can produce 1,300 kilos of grapes. The first vintage harvested in 1934, was sponsored by Mistinguett and Fernandel. There is also a monument to the memory of the artist Francisque Poulbot Montmartre (1879-1946).
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The Lapin Agile
Around 1860, "Cabaret of Assassins" offers Parisian a lot of its quaint, cozy terrace, shaded by a large acacia, and its small claret: transformed into an inn in 1886 by a former cordon bleu dancer, it received among its regulars Alphonse Allais, Caran d'Ache and André Gill. He decorates the facade with a mischievous rabbit leaping a saucepan and habit takes hold renaming the establishment "Lapin à Gill," quickly distorted into "Lapin Agile". Bought in 1902 by Aristide Bruant, it is assigned to a couple of managers, Berthe and Frederique, famous for their generous hospitality to young penniless painters like Picasso, Modigliani, Utrillo ... Even the ass, Lolo, knows his glory time at the Salon des Independants in 1910 under the pseudonym Boronali, transparent anagram of Aliboron: he is the author of "Sunset on the Adriatic", achieved through immersion of his caudal appendage into individual pots of color ... The inspirer of this mystification, Dorgelès, wrote a manifesto to futuristic "Excess in art is a force ... Place the genius glare!" before revealing the affair to the press, bailiff to support.
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The Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal was a continuation of George Washington’s vision for a vital route west to help unify the country and to benefit the Nation’s Capitol. Not willing to accept trade superiority over their neighbors in Washington D.C., the merchants of Baltimore began researching a new transportation route to supplant the legendary National Road.
After discovering that a canal connection from Baltimore to the Potomac River (eventually leading to the Ohio River Valley) was financially impractical, they decided to build a road on rails. Ground was broken for both the C&O Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad on the same day, July 4, 1828. This officially began the larger competition, between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and race to the west. The B&O Railroad arrived here in 1834 and simply passed through, leaving only a tool shed and a small section gang. The canal had a much greater impact on the town, as the “Grand Old Ditch” afforded work for many residents over the next fifty years.
The B&O would reign supreme when it constructed major freight yards here in the 1890’s. From that time on, the C&O Canal declined while the B&O Railroad grew considerably and quickly turned Brunswick into a railroad boomtown.
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Gath, concerned with his own burial, built this lonely tomb about 20 years before his death, which came on April 15, 1914, in New York City. By this time his great wealth had dwindled and the near penniless. Gath was buried in a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania cemetery instead of his own tomb as he had desired.
Gath’s empty tomb mutely symbolizes the uncertainties of Life, Fame and Fortune and the certainty of death.
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