Originally known as Buckingham House, the building which forms the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1705 on a site which had been in private ownership for at least 150 years.

Originally known as the Fair Park Bowl, it is located in Fair Park, site of the State Fair of Texas.

Originally introduced as a seductive dance by the courtesans who operated from the site, the can-can dance revue evolved into a form of entertainment of its own and led to the introduction of cabarets across Europe.

Originally based in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral, the current site was donated by Lady Milner following the death of Lord ( Alfred ) Milner in 1925.

Originally founded in what is now the archaeological site Ciudad Vieja, north of the present-day city, it was moved to the Valle de Las Hamacas or the Acelhuate Valley, named so due to the intense seismic activity that characterizes it.

Originally located in the convent of St Barbara, the university moved to the Faliede Bagijn Church in 1577 ( now the location of the University museum ) and in 1581 to the convent of the White Nuns, a site which it still occupies, though the original building was destroyed by fire in 1616.

Originally the site of a military base in the 18th and early 19th centuries, development of the site into a governmental precinct began in 1859, after Bytown was chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the Province of Canada.

Originally known as Patrick Henry Field ( hence its airline code letters " PHF "), it was built on the site of Camp Patrick Henry, formerly a World War II facility.

Originally the site of the Forum had been marshy ground, which was drained by the Tarquins with the Cloaca Maxima.

Originally extending west to the California line, it included the site of present day Las Vegas, Nevada.

Originally, the city pursued construction of an auto mall on the entire Savi Ranch site.

Originally inhabited by the Maidu and Miwok Indians, by the mid-19th century the city site was known as Alder Grove ; however, as development increased the city became known as Illinoistown.

Originally brought to life by the pioneers of the timber industry, the town of Graeagle was the site of the Graeagle Lumber Company and its “ Box Factory ” owned by the California Fruit Exchange.

Originally platted along the right-of-way for the Hennepin Canal, in 1837, the village site was called in land speculation papers " Hampton " ( not the town in Illinois, approximately 13 miles north-northeast, on the Mississippi River — see Hampton, Illinois for more ).

Originally a site known as Pond Grove, Otterbein's first 60 lots were laid out by John Levering and his wife on October 25, 1872, with an addition by Mary A. Clancey on April 24, 1883.

Originally Stables, Louisiana, the town was renamed when 200 members of the Socialist commune Llano Del Rio Cooperative Colony in California relocated to this site in 1917, giving the town its present name.

Originally settled by the Nauset tribe, Eastham was the site where in 1621 a hunting expedition comprised from the crew of the sailing vessel Mayflower, which had stopped in Provincetown harbor on Cape Cod Bay after a rough crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, which led to the first encounter of the Pilgrims and the local Nauset Indians at First Encounter Beach.

Originally an important fur trading site in early years of French colonization, St. Ignace declined in importance by the early 19th century with changes in ruling classes and the regional economy.

Originally named " Fairchild City ," or just " The City ," after Alpheus Fairchild, who bought most of today's village in 1798 from John A. DeWitt, Fairchild had a dwelling erected on part of the site where the George and John R. Hunt Memorial Building stands today.

Originally, the site belonged to Echo Bay Technology Group, Omidyar's consulting firm.

Kershaw County ’ s official web site states, “ Originally laid out in 1732 as the town of Fredericksburg in the Wateree River swamp ( south of the present town ) when King George III ordered eleven inland townships established along South Carolina's rivers, few of the area settlers chose to take lots surveyed in the town, choosing the higher ground to the north.

Originally called Rockport or Rockland Flats, this was the site of the first Ferry crossing in the area, beginning in 1854.

Originally the site where the windmill now resides was a farm that produced hay, vegetables, fruit and dairy products.

Originally intended as assistants to the tribunes, they exercised certain police functions, were empowered to inflict fines and managed the plebeian and Roman games.

Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530.

Originally following a campaign of the Roman Army to Britain, he eventually decided to settle in Caledonia ( the Roman name for Scotland ) among the populations of the Picts.

Originally in his dictionary, Giles used left apostrophes (< font face =" Times New Roman ">‘</ font >) consistently.

Originally the church of Sassanid Persia, the Church of the East declared itself independent of other churches in 424 and over the next century became affiliated with Nestorianism, a Christological doctrine advanced by Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople from 428 to 431, which had been declared heretical in the Roman Empire.

Originally a Brythonic settlement called * Durou ̯ ernon ( composed of the ancient British roots * duro-" stronghold ", * u ̯ erno-" alder tree "), it was renamed Durovernum Cantiacorum by the Roman conquerors in the 1st century AD.

Originally the town focused around the Roman Catholic community that settled near a regular local market frequented by the population of the region on the lower reaches of the river.

Originally, the Dauphin was personally responsible for the rule of the Dauphiné, which was legally part of the Holy Roman Empire, and which the Emperors, in gifting the rule of the province to the French heirs, had stipulated must never be united with France.

Originally a chthonic god of riches, fertile agricultural land, and underground mineral wealth, he was later commonly equated with the Roman deities Pluto and Orcus, becoming an underworld deity.

Originally having been an ancient fort during Roman times, the first feudal lords began to inhabit the castle around 1000 AD.

Originally the justified dead, male or female, became an Osiris but by early Roman times females became identified with Hathor and men with Osiris.

Originally a settlement of Etruscans, it was for some while the frontier of the Roman territory and from time to time changed hands between Rome and Veii.

Originally given to the Roman Catholic Church by the Duke of Devonshire in 1950 to commemorate Holy Year, it was replaced in the 1980s.

Originally celebrated on the third Sunday after Easter with an octave, after Divino Afflatu of St. Pius X ( see Reform of the Roman Breviary by Pope Pius X ), it was moved to the preceding Wednesday.

Originally known as the Ruin of Carthage, the Roman Ruin is a set of follies that was designed by the architect Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg and erected as an entirely new architectural feature in 1778.

Originally in 1924, Columbia Pictures used a logo featuring a female Roman soldier holding a shield in her left hand and a stick of wheat in her right hand.

Originally they were carved through tufo, a soft volcanic rock, outside the boundaries of the city, because Roman law forbade burial places within city limits.

Originally it was the chapel of the Doge, and has only been the city's cathedral since 1807, when it became the seat of the Patriarch of Venice, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice, formerly at San Pietro di Castello.

Originally, triumviri were special commissions of three men appointed for specific administrative tasks apart from the regular duties of Roman magistrates.

Originally de Volkskrant was a Roman Catholic newspaper, closely linked to the Catholic People's Party and the catholic pillar.

Originally part of an ancient Roman tradition, hamams were absorbed by Islam to such an extent that many became almost annexes to nearby mosques.

Originally, lictors were chosen from the plebs but through most part of the Roman history they seemed to be freedmen.

Originally eparchy ( ἐπαρχίᾱ, eparchia ) was the Greek equivalent of the Latin term provincia, one of the districts of the Roman Empire at the third echelon.