* Michigan Technological University ( originally Michigan Mining School ) opens its doors for the first time in what is now the Houghton County Fire Hall.

It was housed in the Houghton Fire Hall from 1886 through 1889.

Walpole was born in Houghton Hall, Norfolk in 1676.

They had been living openly together in Richmond, Houghton Hall and London society since about 1724, and she had borne him an illegitimate daughter whom he eventually had ennobled as Lady Maria Walpole.

Walpole built as his country seat Houghton Hall in Norfolk.

* Houghton Hall

* Houghton Hall

In country house building, major commissions for Kent were designing the interiors of Houghton Hall ( c. 1725 – 35 ), recently built by Colen Campbell for Sir Robert Walpole, but at Holkham Hall the most complete embodiment of Palladian ideals is still to be found ; there Kent collaborated with Thomas Coke, the other " architect earl ", and had for an assistant Matthew Brettingham, whose own architecture would carry Palladian ideals into the next generation.

His stately furniture designs complemented his interiors: he designed furnishings for Hampton Court Palace ( 1732 ), Lord Burlington's Chiswick House ( 1729 ), London, Thomas Coke's Holkham Hall, Norfolk, Robert Walpole's pile at Houghton, for Devonshire House in London, and at Rousham.

* Houghton Hall, interiors and furniture ( c. 1726-31 ) & stables ( c. 1733-5 )

File: Houghton Hall Stableyard. jpg | Houghton Hall Stableyard

During a subsequent visit to England, Lorraine was made a Master Mason at another specially convened lodge at Houghton Hall, the Norfolk estate of British Prime Minister Robert Walpole.

He, Newcastle and the Prime Minister would often meet at Houghton Hall in Norfolk where they would draw up much of the country's policy.

At Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Marquess of Cholmondeley commissioned a folly to the east of the house.

* Houghton Hall > Park, photo of land art installation

At Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Marquess of Cholmondeley commissioned a folly to the east of the great house.

** Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott assisted by Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe ( Houghton ).

The three men continued what had become dubbed as the Norfolk Congress by meeting regularly at Houghton Hall, Sir Robert Walpole's country house in Norfolk.

In 1731, at Houghton Hall, Sir Robert Walpole's country house in Norfolk, the Duke, with the Duke of Lorraine ( later the Holy Roman Emperor ), was made a Master Mason by the Grand Master, Lord Lovell, at an Occasional Lodge.

He lived with his father at Little Houghton, Northamptonshire for some time, and afterwards with William Stafford of Blatherwycke Hall, where he died aged 30.

For those with substantial collections, such as the Marquess of Cholmondeley at Houghton Hall, the risk of theft is neither negligible nor negotiable.

In 1773, he began A Set of Prints Engraved after the Most Capital Paintings in the Collection of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress of Russia, Lately in the Possession of the Earl of Orford at Houghton in Norfolk, which was finished in 1788.

The family seats are Houghton Hall, Norfolk, and Cholmondeley Castle, which is surrounded by a estate near Malpas, Cheshire.

Her son the 16th Baron largely abandoned that residence in favour of Houghton Hall in Norfolk.

The holders of the peerage also held the titles of Baron Walpole, of Houghton in the County of Norfolk, Viscount Walpole and Earl of Orford ( second creation ) from 1745 to 1797, the title of Earl of Orford ( third creation ) from 1806 to 1931 and the title of Baron Clinton from 1781 to 1791.

On Sir Robert Walpole's retirement from the House of Commons in 1742, he was himself raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Walpole, of Houghton in the County of Norfolk, Viscount Walpole and Earl of Orford, with remainder to the heirs male of his body.

* Houghton Hall, a country house in Norfolk, England ( residence of Sir Robert Walpole )

* Houghton Township, Ontario, a former township in Norfolk County, Ontario

* New Houghton, Norfolk

* Houghton on the Hill in Norfolk

* Houghton Hall, Norfolk, one of several architects to work on the building ( 1721 – 22 )

* Houghton Hall-a Palladian country house in Norfolk

Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, PC ( 8 December 1678 – 5 February 1757 ), English diplomatist, was a son of Robert Walpole of Houghton, Norfolk, and a younger brother of the Prime Minister of Great Britain Sir Robert Walpole.

At Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Marquess of Cholmondeley commissioned a folly to the east of the great house.

In 2009 it was held in Winchester, the 2011 location is Houghton Hall in Norfolk.

John C. Houghton, president of the Tareytown Acres Homeowners Association, followed that by announcing plans last night for a door-to-door fund drive throughout their subdivision on behalf of the Kowalski family.

Houghton said 6 p.m. Friday had been set for a canvass of all 480 homes in the subdivision, which is located northeast of Dequindre and 14 Mile Road East.

* Digital facsimile of manuscript " Quarry for Middlemarch ", MS Lowell 13, Houghton Library, Harvard University

In 2000, John Updike selected his short story " Gold Coast " for his collection Best American Short Stories of the Century ( Houghton Mifflin ).

Bill of sale for a donkey, papyrus ; 19. 3 by 7. 2 cm, MS Gr SM2223, Houghton Library, Harvard University

Famous illustrators for British editions include: Arthur Boyd Houghton, John Tenniel, John Everett Millais and George John Pinwell for Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights Entertainments, published in 1865 ; Walter Crane for Aladdin's Picture Book ( 1876 ); Albert Letchford for the 1897 edition of Burton ’ s translation ; Edmund Dulac for Stories from the Arabian Nights ( 1907 ), Princess Badoura ( 1913 ) and Sindbad the Sailor & Other Tales from the Arabian Nights ( 1914 ).

She placed fourth behind Mia Farrow, Judy Geeson and Katharine Houghton for a " Golden Laurel " award as the year's " Most Promising Newcomer " with the results published in the Motion Picture Exhibitor magazine.

Houghton was named after Houghton County, which was named after Douglass Houghton, an American geologist and physician, primarily known for his exploration of the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan.

The main street of Houghton, variously called " Sheldon Avenue ," ( incorrectly ) Sheldon Street and Shelden Avenue, is named for him.

The postwar boom and increasing demand for copper wiring fueled the development of Houghton in the 1860s and 1870s.

Over the years, old boys have written to Geoffery Houghton, a master of The Leys for a number of years and a historian of the school, confirming the links between Chipping and Balgarnie, who eventually died at Porthmadog at the age of 82.

Katharine Hepburn significantly helped cast her niece, Katharine Houghton, for the role of Joey Drayton.

The first reports of a mechanical dishwashing device are of an 1850 patent in the United States by Joel Houghton for a hand-powered device.

" Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder " Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

* CopperCountry. com Tourism and Events Information for Keweenaw, Houghton and Ontonagon Counties.

It is named for geologist Douglass Houghton.

The village of L ' Anse was founded in early 1871 when Jacob Houghton, chief engineer for the Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad, arrived to plat a preliminary route from the eastern end of Lake Michigamme to the head of the Keweenaw Bay.