Bell Apartments and Barnes Building

Elmer Fisher is best known as the dominant architect of Seattle's reconstruction after the Great Fire of 1889 that destroyed 60 acres in downtown Seattle. In the wake of the Great Fire, Fisher designed and supervised the construction of over ...

Belle Isle

Known as Wah-na-be-zee(Swan Island) to the Chippewa and Ottawa Native American tribes, today Belle Isle reflects the late 19th century movement to create metropolitan parks begun in Paris and emulated in America by landscape architects like Frederic Law Olmsted. Ownership ...

Charles Village - Abell Historic District

Located directly north of Mount Vernon Place, the Charles Village-Abell Historic District is a transitional neighborhood, between the heavily urbanized neighborhoods to the south and the garden suburbs to the north. The well-landscaped front lawns are rare for Baltimore rowhouses, ...

Historical Statement (The Bell)

The year was 1942, and citizens of Great Falls were concerned that bombings, like those of London, might occur in Washington, DC. In a time of great threats, including attacks on major cities, a handful of Great Falls area citizens ...

American Revolution Bicentennial Bell

From 1879 to 1929, this bell was rung to open court at the Mercer County Courthouse in Princeton. After the courthouse was dismantled in 1929, the bell was used as a dinner bell at the County poor farm at Gardner. ...

St. Mary's Catholic Church Bell

Linwood, Nebraska

Inscribed on the Bell:

Henry Stuckstede B F Co.

St. Louis, Mo.

St John Baptist

Linwood, Nebr

1901

Weight: 1,450 lbs.

Father Francis Zalud of Abie, Nebraska, arranged for the organization of a new daughter parish, that of St. Mary's in nearby Linwood, Nebraska, and the ...

Bellevue Plantation

Dating from a royal grant by King George III to Samuel Eastlake in 1767, Belleview Plantation has been owned continuously by the Carswell family since 1835. The year in which the house was built is not known but it is ...

Sacred Heart Catholic Church Bell

Cornlea, Nebraska

Inscribed on the Bell:

Cast by Stuckstede & Bro.

St. Louis, Mo

1908

A.D. MCMY-111 - Pius - Pro

[Probably MCMVIII for 1908]

Ecclesia S.S. Cordis

Cornlea, Nebr.

Weight: 1,000 lbs.

The dedication of the Sacred Heart Church, Cornlea, Nebraska was November 4, 1908. The church bell was ...

St. Michael's Catholic Church Bell

Tarnov, Nebraska

Inscribed on the Bell:

The Hy. Stuckstede B. F. Co.

St. Louis, Mo 1893

Darowall Kosciolowi

S W Michala Tarnowie Nebr

Joseph Paprocki J. Sofia

Zona Jeco

Weight: 295 lbs.

In the early 1870's with much unrest in Poland, Francis Paprocki, a blacksmith, left his homeland in ...

United Methodist Church Bell

Surprise, Nebraska

Inscribed on the Bell:

Buckeye Bell Foundry

1898

Weight: 550lbs.

The first record of Methodist religious work in the Surprise area dates back to 1871 when C. W. Comstock was pastor of the Seward Circuit. This charge consisted of the north half of ...