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Blodgett, Samuel (American architect and merchant, 1757-1814)
Blodgett, Samuel (American architect and merchant, 1757-1814)
Birch, William Russell (British printmaker and miniaturist active in United States, 1755-1834)
Birch, William Russell (British printmaker and miniaturist active in United States, 1755-1834)
The first Chestnut Street Theater, built in 1791 and remodeled by Benjamin Latrobe in 1805, stood at the NW corner of 6th and Chestnut Streets.…
Birch, William Russell (British printmaker and miniaturist active in United States, 1755-1834)
The first Chestnut Street Theater, built in 1791 and remodeled by Benjamin Latrobe in 1805, stood at the NW corner of 6th and Chestnut Streets.…
Benbridge, Henry (American painter, 1743-1812)
According to a prophecy, the Greeks could not take Troy without Achilles, but he was doomed to die in that war. Achilles' mother Thetis therefore sent…
Andronikos of Kyrrhos (Greek astronomer and architect, active late 2nd-early 1st centuries BCE)
The Tower of the Winds, named from the sculptured reliefs of wind-god that make up a frieze marking the cardinal directions on its eight sides, is…