VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2012-04-17

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'Hoke House' by Skylab Architecture
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2007
Jeff Kovel
Cullen House - Twilight

'Skybreak' by Team 4
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1965-66
Su Brumwell
Wendy Cheeseman
Norman Foster
Richard Rogers
infamously used in A Clockwork Orange

'Krier House' by Leon Krier
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'Truman House' by Don Cooper
Truman Show House

Central Jail of Nicosia
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'Schaub House' by Clemens Bruns Schaub
1986

John Adams' birthplace
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The John Adams Birthplace, in Quincy, Massachusetts, is the home in which United States President John Adams was born on October 30, 1735. This saltbox house is now part of the Adams National Historical Park operated by the National Park Service.

ALCOA "Carefree" Aluminum House by Charles Goodman
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Built about 1957.
This one, which took a team effort to track down, looks pretty original with the breezeway roof cut-out and the vent stack still in place.

'Latitude' by Sam Mockbee
1991
with Coleman Coker

Dwight D. Eisenhower Birthplace
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The Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site is located at 609 S. Lamar Avenue in Denison, Grayson County, in the U.S. state of Texas. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in the house on October 14, 1890, the first United States President to be born in Texas.

'Variance' by Aldo Rossi

'Coleman Beach Pavilion' by David Coleman

'Creek Vean' by Team 4
1964-67
aka Creekvean
Su Brumwell
Wendy Cheeseman
Norman Foster
Richard Rogers
for Rogers' then inlaws. The home took 4 years to complete. His MIL, Rene Brumwell, lived in the house until she died in 2001 at age 99.

Group of Mennonites
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Alabama Central RR #29
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American locomotive company built steam locomotive, 2-8-0 configuration

'Pensacola Street Beach Pavilion' by Tony Atkin

'West Ruskin Street Beach Pavilion' by Michael McDonough

Michel B. Menard House, Galveston's oldest surviving residential dwelling
One of the founders of the City of Galveston, Michel B. Menard arrived in Texas in 1829. He was born near Montreal in 1805 and entered the fur trading company of John Jacob Astor at the age of 14. Menard arrived in Nacogodoches in the 1830s and began speculating in Texas land. Because land was only granted to Mexican- born Texans at that time, many of Menard's land deals were made by Juan Seguin, a Mexican citizen who eventually fought under Sam Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto. Seguin purchased 4,600 acres at the eastern end of Galveston Island on behalf of Menard in December 1836. With this claim, Menard formed the Galveston City Company with Samuel May Williams and other prominent Texas businessmen in 1838. Galveston was incorporated a year later.

Last stop of the Titanic and Lusitania
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This pier in Cobh (formerly Queenstown) was the last stop of the Titanic and Lusitania before entering the Atlantic Ocean and later disasters.

Bishop's Palace
The Bishop's Palace, also known as Gresham's Castle, is an ornate Victorian house located on Broadway and 14th Street in the East End Historic District of Galveston, Texas. The American Institute of Architects has listed the home as one of the 100 most significant buildings in the United States, and the Library of Congress has classified it as one of the fourteen most representative Victorian structures in the nation.

'Nesbitt House' by Robert A.M. Stern

Giant Fanta Bottle
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Fanta originated when it became illegal to import Coca-Cola into Nazi Germany during World War II due to a trade embargo. To circumvent this, Max Keith, the man in charge of Coca-Cola Deutschland during the Second World War, decided to create a new product for the German market, using only ingredients available in Germany at the time, including whey and pomace – the "leftovers of leftovers", as Keith later recalled. The name was the result of a brief brainstorming session, which started with Keith exhorting his team to "use their imagination" ("Fantasie" in German), to which one of his salesmen, Joe Knipp, immediately retorted "Fanta!"

'Natchez Street Beach Pavilion' by Jersey Devil
1992-93
at Seaside

John Jay French Home/Museum
The John Jay French Museum
Built in 1845
One of the first painted houses
One of the first two-story houses
Beaumont's oldest surviving
house restored to it's original state
One of the first homes built with milled lumber

Texas Governor’s Mansion (under renovation)
Renovations are wrapping up on the mansion from a massive fire in June 2008
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The Governor's Mansion, the most historic house in Texas, sits on a beautifully landscaped city block in Austin near the Capitol building. Built in 1856, it is the oldest continuously occupied executive residence west of the Mississippi. The building has been designated a National Historic Landmark.

Elisabet Ney Home/Studio
In 1892, European portrait sculptress Elisabet Ney (1833-1907) purchased property in Austin, established a studio named Formosa and resumed her career as a noted sculptor of notables.
At Formosa, Ney sculpted legendary Texans, among them Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston. Ney also assembled at her American studio portraits of European notables, including King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Otto von Bismarck, Arthur Schopenhauer and Jacob Grimm rendered from life as a young artist in Europe.

Venus of Willendorf replica
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Union Pacific RR #1242
Cooke Locomotive & Machine Co. built steam locomotive, 4-6-0 configuration

Length of the Titanic
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From the rear of the El Paso Dept. of Transportation truck to the white car in the distance pulling out onto Album Ave. from a side street is approximately 269 meters (882.5 ft.): the length of RMS Titanic.

Volkswagen New Beetle
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The Volkswagen New Beetle is a compact car, introduced by Volkswagen in 1998, drawing heavy inspiration from the exterior design of the original Beetle. Unlike the original Beetle, the New Beetle has its engine in the front driving the front wheels, with luggage storage in the rear. Production ended in 2010.

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RR #5633
CB&Q West Burlington Shops built steam locomotive, 4-8-4 configuration

The Lusitania Bar
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Samuel May Williams House
This rare combination of Creole-plantation and New England architectural styles was built in 1838 for Samuel May Williams, secretary to Stephen F. Austin and founder of the Texas Navy.
Williams played an important role in early Texas history. The son of a ship captain, he was born on October 4, 1795, in Providence, Rhode Island. He learned the trades of bookkeeping and international commerce while employed by his uncle in Baltimore. After working in Buenos Aires and New Orleans, Williams arrived in Mexican Texas in 1822, settling in San Felipe de Austin. In 1838, Williams, along with Michel B. Menard and other early Texas businessmen, helped found the Galveston City Company. A year later the city of Galveston was incorporated. Other business ventures included a partnership with Thomas F. McKinney, resulting in a successful commission house and Texas’ first bank.

St. Louis - San Francisco RR #1527
Baldwin Locomotive Works built steam locomotive, 4-8-2 configuration

'Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity House' by Gene Leedy

'Rivergate Tower' by Harry Wolf
with Odell Associates

'Seaside Chapel' by Merrill and Pastor Architects

Queen's Chapel of the Savoy
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'Ritz Plaza' by Lawrence Murray Dixon
aka SLS Hotel
aka Grossinger Beach Hotel
renov by Beilinson Architect 1990

Cat sleeping on the car
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Moody Mansion
W.L Moody Jr. bought the home from the heirs of the original owners soon after the great hurricane of 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Moody and their four children celebrated the first of more than eighty Christmas seasons in the house in December of that year. The house remained home for Moody family members until 1986. Today, its rooms are filled with the furnishings and personal effects of the family.

Union Pacific RR #535
Baldwin Locomotive Works built steam locomotive, 2-8-0 configuration

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RR #5631
CB&Q West Burlington Shops built steam locomotive, 4-8-4 configuration

Daniel Webster Birthplace
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House where Daniel Webster (1782-1852), one of America's greatest 19th Century statesmen, was born. Now a New Hampshire State Historic Site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Webster

Sharon Steel Hoop Co. #4
H.K. Porter built steam locomotive, 0-4-0 configuration

Mammoth hunting scene

'Saint Paul's By-The-Sea Episcopal Church' by Blake Ellis

Eastern Grey Kangaroo

The Titanic Memorial

Australopithecus afarensis

The Titanic Experience

Pioneer & Western Railroad #3
Crown Metal Products built steam locomotive, 4-4-0 configuration
on the old turntable

Union Pacific RR #4420
Lima Locomotive Works built steam locomotive, 0-6-0 configuration

Woodward Iron Co. #38
Baldwin Locomotive Works built steam locomotive, 2-8-0 configuration

Remaining origial wooden pier
The original pier that passengers used to board tenders to get to the Titanic and Lusitania, which was anchored near the mouth of Cobh harbour.

Annie Moore Memorial
Anna "Annie" Moore (April 24, 1874 or May 1874 or January 1, 1877 – 1923 or December 6, 1924) was the first immigrant to the United States to pass through the Ellis Island facility in New York Harbor.

Prehistoric animals

Wallaby

Female Australopithecus

Pontiac Grand Am (fifth generation)
I passed by this driveway yesterday. The car is in the same spot but now has a Dallas Cowboy star in the middle of the racing stripe on the hood.

Sam Rayburn House
Visitors to Sam Rayburn House Museum walk in the Rayburn family’s footsteps in exploration of the life and home of Sam Rayburn. All tours of the house and grounds are guided and begin with the house museum. Tours include the downstairs and the upstairs rooms of Rayburn’s home as well as the site grounds and outbuildings. Visitors can go inside Rayburn’s garage to view his 1947 Cadillac.

Emil Racoviță statue

The Lusitania Peace Memorial

St. Louis - San Francisco RR #4018
Lima Locomotive Works built steam locomotive, 2-8-2 configuration

Curved Bridge
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The original Kiskatinaw River bridge built during the construction of the Alaska Highway.
Photos at links below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tourism_bc/3718250882/

Humboldt Penguins

TS State of Maine

Playing football at school

Chilean Flamingos

Gibbon walking on a trunk