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Holmdel's picturesque beauty, proximity to New York City and main highways, award-winning schools, large homes, rich history, PNC Bank Arts Center, and the presence of many high paying jobs within commuting distance led the township to be ranked the # 1 " Six-Figure Town " by Money magazine and CNN for 2009.
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Holmdel's and Arts
The 1954 legislation that created the Garden State Parkway ( at whose Exit 116 the Arts Center is located ) also called for recreational facilities along the Parkway's route, and in 1964 Holmdel's Telegraph Hill was chosen as the site for " a cultural and recreational center ... that would be developed as a center for music and the performing arts.
picturesque and beauty
The picturesque was that which continued elements of both the sublime and the beautiful and can be thought of as a natural or uncultivated beauty, such as a beautiful ruin or a partially overgrown building.
In the 19th century, Arnhem was a genteel resort town famous for its picturesque beauty.
Bacchylides is renowned for his use of picturesque detail, giving life and colour to descriptions with small but skilful touches, often demonstrating a keen sense of beauty or splendour in external nature: a radiance, " as of fire ," streams from the forms of the Nereids ( XVI.
There is not a hill or hillock in the whole district, but it derives a certain picturesque beauty from its wide expanses of cultivation, and the greenness and freshness of the vegetation.
Oak Street is " main street " in Arcadia and is picturesque in its quaint beauty.
The college is renowned for the picturesque beauty of its campus, which includes Lake Waban, evergreen and deciduous woodlands and open meadows.
* William Gilpin-An Essay upon Prints, containing remarks upon the principles of picturesque beauty
The newly-married Copleys, who would have six children, moved into " a solitary house in Boston, on Beacon Hill, chosen with his keen perception of picturesque beauty ".
These rocks now form many sharp hills and mountains in the Valley, lending it much of its picturesque beauty ... During the Triassic time, Massachusetts's portion of the Connecticut River Valley formed a shallow arm of the sea ," leaving deposits that enriched the Pioneer Valley's inordinately fertile soil.
Portrait of Payne Knight by Thomas Lawrence ( painter ) | Sir Thomas LawrenceRichard Payne Knight ( 15 February 1750 – 23 April 1824 ) was a classical scholar, connoisseur, archaeologist and numismatist best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery.
He also noted that while classical beauty was associated with the smooth and neat, picturesque beauty had a wilder, untamed quality.
With the steelworks gone, visitors and inhabitants are beginning to realise the beauty of the picturesque views over the Derwent Valley, and Consett is becoming a popular place to live for commuters from Durham and Tyne & Wear looking for a taste of the country.
Hence from the outset, in accordance with Renaissance English fashion, emphasis was placed on the picturesque, that is utilising the intrinsic beauty of the natural world, and affirmed that the future capital ’ s landscaping and aesthetics would be just as important as its functionality.
Since Victorian times, the picturesque character of Cemaes and the natural beauty of the island has attracted many artists.
The deep river gorge, famed for its picturesque beauty, lined with orchards and vineyards, and especially the meeting point of two distinct rivers, was reformed with an artificially constructed shoreline.
The area is famous for the rugged beauty of its peninsulas ( such as the remote Beara Peninsula, Sheep's Head and Mizen Head peninsulas ), popular beaches such as Inchydoney, Owenahincha and Barleycove, and picturesque towns and villages such as Clonakilty, Kinsale and Rosscarbery.
Oxford English Dictionary ' picturesque ') before being described by Bagehot in Literary Studies ( 1879 ) as " a quality distinct from that of beauty, or sublimity, or grandeur.
In 1768 Gilpin published his popular Essay on Prints where he defined the picturesque as '" that kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture " and began to expound his " principles of picturesque beauty ", based largely on his knowledge of landscape painting.
Ultimately, these grand theories of wild natural beauty gave way to the tamer and more commercialised picturesque of the mid 19th century.
The church was described in 1804 as " a simple edifice, and, though devoid of architectural embellishment, possesses much picturesque beauty.
picturesque and proximity
Buckinghamshire had recently been blighted by a livestock famine that had almost destroyed the rural communities and so picturesque estates that were in proximity to London were going cheap, and the agricultural depression saw many landed estates come onto the market.
Woollahra is an extremely affluent suburb, due in part to its proximity to the city and the shopping centre at Bondi Junction, plus a wide range of picturesque homes, mostly in various Victorian styles.
Ellmau is in very picturesque alpine countryside famed for its proximity to the Wilder Kaiser mountains and the steep wooded and meadowed hills to the south.
The local area is picturesque despite the proximity to the M5, and is a popular destination for ramblers.
Leyburn had a population of 1, 844 at the 2001 census, but this swells in summer due to its picturesque position in proximity to the Yorkshire Dales national park.
picturesque and New
Around New England, you'll no doubt want a color shot of one of the picturesque lighthouses.
The New York Critique wrote, " He is an orator by divine right, and his strong, intelligent face in its picturesque setting of yellow and orange was hardly less interesting than those earnest words, and the rich, rhythmical utterance he gave them.
In the filthy slums of New York, wealthy people have built luxury apartments there because of the view of the picturesque East River.
With its red brick buildings and mills reflected in Harrisville Pond and canal, the village is frequently photographed as an iconic example of picturesque old New England.
* 1681-After arriving in New Spain, Italian Jesuit Eusebio Kino soon becomes what one writer described as " the most picturesque missionary pioneer of all North America.
Johnstown lies in the picturesque Mohawk Valley of upstate New York.
The broad verge down the centre of Petherton Road leads to Essex Road, where another semi-redundant section of the New River's course between Canonbury and Islington town centre forms a picturesque walk alongside the now shallow stream.
UGA ’ s North Campus contains the picturesque historic buildings — such as the Chapel, New College, Demosthenian and the Phi Kappa Halls, Park Hall, Meigs Hall, and the President ’ s office — as well as modern additions such as the Law School and the Main Library.
The little River Glyme, in a steep and picturesque valley, divides the town into New and Old Woodstock.
New districts reach mild, picturesque slopes and terrains situated on the left hand side of the river.
Stanwell Park is a picturesque coastal village and northern suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
The picturesque area of the St. Lawrence River bordering New York State is known as the Thousand Islands region reflected by its numerous small islands.
Tapanui is a picturesque town in West Otago in New Zealand's South Island, close to the boundary with Southland region ( population 744 as of 2006 census ).
Further university facilities are the general sports ground and gymnasium in the square behind the Arts Building, a high quality tennis center in the park in New Szeged, a picturesque lodge and conference hall ( once a country school now modernized ) in the woods, 30 km from Szeged, and a resort house at Lake Balaton.
The picturesque New England landscape surrounds the campus ' Georgian brick buildings, arranged comfortably along the river bank.
Lescarbot is considered a picturesque figure among the annalists of New France.
The English Birkenhead was noted for its elegant and expensive houses, its sea views and its charmingly laid out picturesque park copied by New York's Central Park.
* Fruitlands, New Zealand, 19th century gold mining settlement in Central Otago district on South Island ; picturesque tourist area which takes its name from unsuccessful 1920s orchards
IU Southeast is located 15 minutes north of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, in suburban New Albany, Indiana, at the edge of southern Indiana's picturesque " knobs ," which is a region of rolling hills that run parallel to the Ohio River.
Writing in The New York Times, Ellen Lewis Buell reported that Asimov " ingeniously combines mystery with science fiction, saying that " his inventiveness and use of picturesque details " were reminiscent of Robert A. Heinlein.
The village is one of the most picturesque in New Zealand with a backdrop of native forest and Mount Ruapehu.
Jamberoo is a small picturesque village approx 11 km inland from Kiama on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia in the Municipality of Kiama.
The rural landscape that the road passes through varies from horse country and views of the picturesque reservoirs of the New York City watershed in the northern suburbs of the city, to dairy farms further upstate in the hilly Taconics and Berkshires, to the undeveloped, heavily forested Adirondack Park along the shores of Lake Champlain.
Allan Kozinn for the New York Times remarked particularly on the variety of the " abidingly energetic fun " performance, which included " a concert waltz, a maxixe, one-steps, two-steps, foxtrots and blues, and, of course, numerous rags, some quite picturesque.
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