Lilly Daché

Fashion Walk of Fame

Lilley Daché was one of the world’s most successful milliners. Working in New York, she utilized techniques learned in her native France. Her hats were characterized by bold, sculptural shapes, which required complex blocking, Many were ...

Mainbocher

Fashion Walk of Fame

Mainbocher was known for the understated elegance of his couture clothing. Among his innovations were short evening dresses, jeweled sweaters, and a revival of the corset that anticipated Dior’s New Look. Most famous for designing the ...

Centre Street

Utility over Elegance

The view down Centre Street has changed little over the years, and no street in New Bedford served the whaling industry longer. Little finery can be seen in the facades of these buildings, for this was a working ...

Waverly Five and Dime / George Elmore and Elmore v. Rice

Waverly Five and Dime)

The Waverly Five & Dime, located here until about 1957, was managed 1945-48 by George A. Elmore (1905-1959), the African American plaintiff in a landmark voting rights case soon after World War II. Elmore ran this ...

Mansfield Orthodox Congregational Church

Here in the old red brick school house was held the first service of worship by the Mansfield Congregational Church May 20, 1828

This tablet was placed in memory of that service

May 20, 1963

Marker is on West Street just east ...

General James Mitchell Varnum Home

General James Mitchell Varnum Brigadier General of the Continental Army was instrumental in creating the Rhode Island Black Regiment which provided the first genuine route to freedom for Afro-American people in Rhode Island

Marker can be reached from the intersection of ...

Milwaukee News Bldg. and Milwaukee Abstract Assn. Bldg.

222 East Mason Street

Listed in the

National Register

of

Historic Places

March 1, 1982

The State Historical Society of Wisconsin

In Association with the U.S. Department of Interior

Marker is at the intersection of East Mason Street and North ...

Bonnie Cashin

Fashion Walk of Fame

Following a career in costume design, Cahin launched her fashion business in the 1950s. Calling her clothing “kinetic art forms for living,” she adapted simple cuts from the history of world clothing to meet the needs ...

Charles James

Fashion Walk of Fame

This Anglo-American couturier is widely regarded as one of the greatest fashion designers in history. Having begun his career as a milliner in the 1920s, James later incorporated the sculptural techniques of hat making into his ...

Ilmbacher Hof

[Marker text in German:

Aus einer alten Chronik:

„Der nachmalige Kloster Ilmbachische Hof war sonst ein Bürgerhaus mit einer öden Hofstadt dabei. Das Kloster kaufte beides und ließ 1742 ein grösseres Gebaüde da aufführen und kaufte mehrere Weinberge und Felder dazu". Seit ...