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The old Hermitage house was torn down back in the 1950s and a Mrs. Mellon got word of it and had the parlor severed from the house and trucked to the new location of what would be the Ligonier Museum.
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After Dr. Allard Flagg's death in 1901, his daughter sold Wachesaw and the Hermitage to Samuel Sidney Fraser, a real estate speculator, who bought and sold interests in several old plantations after the Civil War.
However, his trial for tax evasion, centering on the Trust and the Hermitage paintings, caused the plan to be modified, and in 1935 he announced, in the Washington Star, his intention to establish a new gallery for old masters, separate from the Smithsonian.
* Hermitage AOC, wine-growing appellation in northern Rhône on a hill with an old hermit's chapel
More old architecture may be found in the neighborhood, including the very last of Muscovite three-tented churches ( in the Alexandrov Hermitage ) and the Ushakov family shrine ( on the Epiphany Island ).
A small canal runs across the southern part of the Western Dock site from Hermitage Basin to Tobacco Dock which is 1000 years old.
They were married at the Church of Saint George in Moscow on 18 July 1877 ( 6 July 1877, old style ) and held their wedding dinner at the Hermitage Restaurant.
The old academy's art collection, which included major works by Poussin, David and Ingres, was removed to the Hermitage Museum across the river.
File: Hermitage Castle old photograph. jpg | An old photograph of the Castle, possibly dating from c1860
On the south side is Eling estate, a large wooded area ( consisting of Park Wood, Westbrook Copse, Down Wood and Elingpark Copse ) backed by a path which is what remains of the old Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway running between Hermitage and Compton, the two nearest villages.
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Even Black's old crowbait began to snort, and from the house Black yelled, `` Jess!!
To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.
The old woman, stubbornly reigning in the house above the crashing waters took on an ominous reality.
Not until the words had been spoken did Abel suddenly see the old house and the insistent sea, and feel his contrition blotted out in one shameful moment of covetousness.
Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.
Russell had reached the house as Cook surmised, dismounted, but just as the old trapper opened the door to receive him, he fell into the trapper's arms -- dead.
The ages of the slaves ranged from sixty-five, for an old house servant, to an unnamed newborn child.
Giffen had advised that it would not be too difficult to obtain freedom locally for the old house servants.
Her father, James Upton, was the Upton mentioned by Hawthorne in the famous introduction to the Scarlet Letter as one of those who came into the old custom house to do business with him as the surveyor of the port.
The house itself is 400 years old with all the craftsmanship of older, less-hurried times.
Felix threw his head back and laughed a laugh that shook the timbers of even that solidly built old house.
He lived in an apartment house not over three or four years old, a reclaimed island of landscaped brick and glass on the fringe of the business district.
The fins of a Caddy were sticking out of the garage, while the inside of the house was a comfortable mixture of old and expensive contemporary furniture.
So had Miss Shawnee Rakestraw, full of criticisms about the changes here, giving thanks that her dear old father had gone to his Heavenly Rest last year, saying how much she enjoyed her boarding house in town in inclement weather, was looking forward to Quinzaine Spa this summer.
More and more, these days, she'd been driving that pretty little mare that looked like her, over to Tillie's and Nick's -- his own old square frame box on posts, chickens and cats and pups under the house, everybody friendly inside, making a to-do over the babies dressed like dollies.
The funeral service was in the house, the Methodist minister, how clean and glistening his eyeglasses and his neat body standing beside that coffin with that doll inside, a stranger speaking to strangers the old sacred words, and the rain drumming incessantly in accompaniment, seven days of relentless rain that turned the ground to mud so the burial had to be postponed.
John sold the big old place in Sewickley and bought a smaller house in Fox Chapel.
Cousin Emma is alone in that big old house and won't hear to parting from it.
In old versions of the story: " The scene of the murder, when it is specified, is usually the house of Aegisthus, who has not taken up residence in Agamemnon's palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agamemnon's followers too ".
The prophet, though blind with old age, knew the wife of Jeroboam as soon as she approached, and under a divine impulse he announced to her that inasmuch as in Abijah alone of all the house of Jeroboam there was found " some good thing toward the Lord ," he only would come to his grave in peace.
Hysterium, desperate to keep him out of the house where his master is bathing, tells the old man that his house has become haunted — a story seemingly confirmed by the sound of Senex singing in his bath.
Erronius immediately determines to have a soothsayer come and banish the spirit from his house, and Pseudolus obligingly poses as one, telling Erronius that in order to banish the spirit, he must travel seven times around the seven hills of Rome ( thus keeping the old man occupied and out of the way for quite a while ).
* The old gendarmerie on Place Manuel was originally constructed to house the subprefecture in 1825 in a neoclassical style, and its façade occupies one entire side of the square.
Major additions to the old house were considered in 1849, but by then negotiations were underway to purchase the estate from the trustees of the deceased Earl Fife.
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He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.
It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.
He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.
He'd put on his old brown corduroy coat and it was already soaked.
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.
I was standing beside her, watching the outspread palms and wondering about the old horsehair sofa against the wall on which he sometimes napped.
The Bonaventure was quivering and lurching like an old spavined mare.
For an anthropologist, loquacious old L'Turu was a mine of information.
The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;
To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.
He was about 50 years old.
`` Oh he was stupid, her old man!!
for another, it was here that one of the old caravan routes came in.
But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.
On his father's side he was of German descent, on his mother's he came of the old Swedish nobility.
Strindberg's remedy for this condition was to tear down the old structures and build anew from the ground up.
At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.
Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??
It was much more fun, reminding the girls of their old carefree days in the Hasseltine frolics room at Bradford.
He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.
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