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| x Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey |
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The Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey is a monument at the border between the U.S. states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, on the north side of the Ohio River. It is near the three-way intersection of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the northern tip...
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| x National Historic Landmark |
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A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, site, structure, object, or district, that is officially recognized by the United States government for its historical significance. All NHLs are listed in the National Register of Historic Places....
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| x Brooklyn Bridge |
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The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States, stretching 5,989 feet (1825 m) over the East River, connecting the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Upon completion in 1883, it was the longest...
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| x Presidio of San Francisco |
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The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or Royal Presidio of San Francisco) is a park on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, within the Golden Gate National Recreation...
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| x Mission San Francisco de Asís |
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Mission San Francisco de Asís is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco and the sixth religious settlement established as part of the California chain of missions. The Mission was founded on June 29, 1776, by Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga...
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| x Alcatraz Island |
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Alcatraz Island is an island located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) offshore from San Francisco, California. Often referred to as The Rock, the small island early-on served as a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison,...
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| x San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge |
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The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge (legally The James "Sunny Jim" Rolph Bridge and known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a currently closed series of bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, in the United States. Forming part of...
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| x Little Rock Central High School |
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Little Rock Central High School is a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. Central High School was the site of forced school desegregation during the American Civil Rights Movement. Central is located at the intersection of Daisy L....
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| x Fallingwater |
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Fallingwater, also known as the Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. Residence, is a house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1934 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, and is part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. The...
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| x Coit Tower |
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Coit Tower was built in Pioneer Park atop Telegraph Hill in 1933 at the bequest of Lillie Hitchcock Coit to beautify the City of San Francisco; Lillie bequeathed one-third of her estate to the City of San Francisco "to be expended in an appropriate...
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| x John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge |
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The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge spans the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky. When the first pedestrians crossed on December 1, 1866, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world at 1,057 feet (322 m) main span....
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| x Ford's Theatre |
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Ford's Theatre is a historic theatre in Washington, D.C., used for various stage performances beginning in the 1860s. It is also the site of the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. After being shot, the fatally wounded...
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| x Golden Gate Park |
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Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California, is a large urban park consisting of 1,017 acres (4.12 km; 1.589 sq mi) of public grounds. Configured as a rectangle, it is similar in shape but 20% larger than Central Park in New York, to...
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| x Palace of Fine Arts |
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The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, California is a building originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition.
It was designed by Bernard Maybeck, who took his inspiration from Roman and Greek architecture....
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| x The Breakers |
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The Breakers (1878) was located on Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, United States. (41°28′11″N 71°17′55″W / 41.46972°N 71.29861°W / 41.46972; -71.29861).
Designed by Peabody and Stearns for Pierre Lorillard IV in the Queen Anne style,...
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| x Wadsworth Atheneum |
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The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States, with significant holdings of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as...
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| x Willard InterContinental Washington |
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The Willard InterContinental Washington is an historic luxury hotel located two blocks east of the White House in Washington, D.C. Among its facilities are numerous luxurious guest rooms, several restaurants, the famed Round Robin Bar, and...
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| x Carolands |
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The Carolands Chateau is a 65,000 square foot (6,000 m²) mansion in Hillsborough, California. Its 75 foot (23 m)-high atrium holds the record as the largest enclosed space in an American private residence. Considered a masterpiece of American...
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| x Alma |
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The Alma is an 1891 built scow schooner, which is now preserved as a National Historic Landmark at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in San Francisco, California.
The Alma is a flat-bottomed scow schooner built in 1891 by Fred...
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| x Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
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The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is the federal bank for the twelfth district in the United States. The twelfth district is made up of nine western states—Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington—...
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| x San Francisco Ferry Building |
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The San Francisco Ferry Building is a terminal for ferries that travel across the San Francisco Bay and a shopping center located on The Embarcadero in San Francisco, California. On top of the building is a large clock tower, which can be seen from...
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| x Conservatory of Flowers |
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The Conservatory of Flowers is a large botanical greenhouse in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, constructed in 1878. It houses an important collection of exotic plants. It is the oldest building in Golden Gate Park and the oldest municipal wooden...
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| x Old Executive Office Building |
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The Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB), formerly known as the Old Executive Office Building (OEOB) and as the State, War, and Navy Building, is an office building in Washington, D.C. adjacent to the White House. The building is owned by...
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| x San Francisco Mint |
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The San Francisco Mint is a branch of the United States Mint, and was opened in 1854 to serve the gold mines of the California Gold Rush. It quickly outgrew its first building and moved into a new one in 1874. This building, the Old United States...
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| x Bullocks Wilshire |
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Bullocks Wilshire, located at 3050 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, is a 230,000-square foot (21 400 m²) Art Deco building.
The building was designed by Los Angeles architects John and Donald Parkinson; the interior design was by...
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| x North Philadelphia station |
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North Philadelphia is a railroad station on the Northeast Corridor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It is an aboveground station located at 2900 North Broad Street at Glenwood Avenue in the city's North Philadelphia section. It was formerly known...
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| x Ohio City |
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Ohio City is one of the oldest neighborhoods of Cleveland, Ohio, United States, located immediately to the west of the Cuyahoga River. Before Cleveland was incorporated, the City of Ohio became an independent municipality on March 3, 1836, splitting...
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| x Hallidie Building |
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The Hallidie Building, is an office building in the Financial District of San Francisco, California, at 130 Sutter Street, between Montgomery Street and Kearny Street. It was built around 1917-1918 and is credited as the first building to feature...
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| x Lotta's Fountain |
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Lotta's fountain was dedicated in 1875 at the intersection of Market Street where Geary and Kearny Streets connect in downtown San Francisco, California.
The cast pillar with a drinking fountain at its base was donated to San Francisco by the...
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| x Pasadena Playhouse |
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The Pasadena Playhouse is a historic theatre located in Pasadena, California.
The Playhouse's history began in 1917 when actor/director Gilmor Brown began producing a season of plays at an old burlesque house he called the Savoy. The community...
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| x Central Vermont Railway Depot |
The Central Vermont Railway Depot is a former train station in the village of Northfield, Vermont. It has been on the List of Registered Historic Places since May 1, 1975, and is arguably one of the most visible buildings in downtown Northfield,...
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| x First National Bank Building |
The First National Bank Building is an Art Deco building in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It stands at 210-205 South Main Street in downtown Ann Arbor.
The high-rise was built in 1927, and completed in 1929. It stands at 10 floors in height, and is designed...
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| x Yerba Buena Light |
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Yerba Buena Lighthouse is a lighthouse in California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay on Yerba Buena Island, California
The island’s lighthouse connection began in 1873 when the Lighthouse Service moved the district's depot from Mare Island...
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| x Adams Memorial |
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The Adams Memorial is a grave marker located in Section E of Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C., that features a cast bronze allegorical sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The shrouded figure is seated against a granite block, which forms one...
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| x Le Petit Trianon |
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Le Petit Trianon is a mansion on the grounds of De Anza College at 1250 Stevens Creek Blvd., in Cupertino, California.
Built in 1892 for Charles A. Baldwin and his wife Ellen Hobart Baldwin, the mansion was once the center of their successful wine...
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| x Haas-Lilienthal House |
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The Haas-Lilienthal House at 2007 Franklin Street, San Francisco, California, USA is the city's only intact Victorian era home that is open regularly as a museum, complete with authentic furniture and artifacts.
William Haas entrusted Bavarian...
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| x Fort Miley Military Reservation |
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The Fort Miley Military Reservation, in San Francisco, California sits on Point Lobos (not to be confused with Point Lobos near Carmel-by-the-Sea), one of the outer headlands on the southern side of the Golden Gate. Much of the site is part of the...
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| x Central Embarcadero Piers Historic District |
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The Central Embarcadero Piers Historic District is a Registered Historic District in the City of San Francisco, California, United States. It consists of Piers 1, 1½, 3 and 5, is one of the largest surviving pier complexes along San Francisco's...
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| x San Francisco Armory |
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The San Francisco Armory, also known as the San Francisco National Guard Armory and Arsenal or simply The Armory, is a historic building in the Mission District of San Francisco, California.
The building was constructed as an armory and arsenal for...
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| x William Westerfeld House |
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The William Westerfeld House sits across the street from the northwest corner of Alamo Square in San Francisco. Constructed in 1889 at a cost of $9,985, the home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is San Francisco Landmark...
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| x The Fairmont San Francisco |
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The Fairmont San Francisco is a luxury hotel at 950 Mason Street, in the Nob Hill district of San Francisco, California.
The hotel was nearly completed before the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Although the structure survived, the interior was...
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| x St. Theodosius Russian Orthodox Cathedral |
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St. Theodosius Russian Orthodox Cathedral is located on Starkweather Avenue in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. St. Theodosius is perhaps best known for its appearance in the 1978 film, The Deer Hunter with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep...
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| x Fort Point National Historical Site |
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The Fort Point National Historical Site is a historic site in California governed by the National park service.
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| x Man Enters the Cosmos |
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Man Enters the Cosmos is a cast bronze sculpture by Henry Moore located on the Lake Michigan lakefront outside the Adler Planetarium in the Museum Campus area of downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The planetarium, which is...
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| x Round Church |
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Round Church, also known as Old Round Church, built in 1812-1813 in Richmond, Vermont, is a rare, well-preserved example of a sixteen-sided meeting house. It was built to serve as the meeting place for the town as well as five Protestant...
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| x Camp Billings, Vermont |
Camp Billings is a co-ed, non-denominational summer camp in Fairlee, Vermont, United States. Accredited by the American Camp Association, it was established in 1921. In 2006, it was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic...
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| x Bank of Italy Building |
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The Bank of Italy Building, also known as Clay-Montgomery Building, is a building in San Francisco, California. This eight-story building became the headquarters of A. P. Giannini's Bank of Italy (precursor of the Bank of America) in 1908 after the...
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| x James C. Flood Mansion |
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James C. Flood Mansion, also known as Pacific-Union Club, in San Francisco, California, USA, was a townhouse for James C. Flood, a 19th century silver-baron. It was the first brownstone building built west of the Mississippi River. With The Fairmont...
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| x King Block |
The King Block is a national historic site located at 117 High Street, Barton, Vermont, United States. It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on July 20, 2002. It is privately owned.
The building has three stories. It is a...
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| x Swedenborgian Church |
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Swedenborgian Church is a Swedenborgian church significant for its architecture in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It is regarded as one of California's earliest pure Arts and Crafts buildings. The first pastor of the...
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| x Temple Beth El |
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Temple Beth El, also known as Temple Beth-El, is a Reform synagogue currently located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Beth El was founded in 1850 in the city of Detroit, and is the oldest Jewish congregation in Michigan.
In 1982, its two former...
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| x Brattleboro Retreat |
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The Brattleboro Retreat is a private, non-profit psychiatric hospital that pioneered mental health care in the United States. It is located on over 1,000 acres (4.0 km) of land between the Connecticut River and downtown Brattleboro, Vermont. It...
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| x Hildene |
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Hildene, located at Manchester in the U.S. state of Vermont, was the summer home of Robert Todd Lincoln and his wife Mary Harlan Lincoln. He was the eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln.
Robert Todd Lincoln first visited...
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| x Temple Beth-El |
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The Lighthouse Cathedral was formerly located at 8801 Woodward Avenue (Woodward at Gladstone) in Detroit, Michigan. It was originally built in 1921 as the Temple Beth-El. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
In 1921...
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| x Folger Coffee Company Building |
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The Folgers Coffee Building is a mid-rise office building on the National Register of Historic Places located in downtown San Francisco.
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| x Rokeby |
Rokeby, an 18th century house in Ferrisburg, Vermont, was a station on the Underground railway before the American Civil War. The house was the home for almost 200 years of the Robinson family, who were Quaker millers, farmers, abolitionists,...
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| x Edgar Allan Poe Cottage |
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The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, sometimes called simply Poe Cottage, is the former home of American writer Edgar Allan Poe located on Kingsbridge Road in the Fordham section of The Bronx, New York, and is now part of Poe Park.
The cottage is a part of...
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| x Congregation Beth Israel of Portland, Oregon |
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Beth Israel is a Reform congregation and Jewish synagogue in Portland, Oregon, United States. The congregation was founded in 1858, while Oregon was still a territory, and built its first synagogue in 1859.
The congregation's first building was a...
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| x Newman Cemetery |
The Newman Cemetery is an historic cemetery in East Providence, Rhode Island.
One of the oldest in the state, the cemetery was constructed in 1643 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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