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The center of the district with the church in the background. Ellington Center Historic District is an 80-acre (32 ha) historic district in the town of Ellington, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The historic district encompasses most of Ellington Center, including the town green and buildings ...
Added to NRHP. November 15, 1990. The Hall Memorial Library in Ellington, Connecticut was built in 1903 and was the first free public library in the town. [2] It was designed by New York City architect Wilson Potter . It is a contributing building in the Ellington Center Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
09-25360. GNIS feature ID. 0212330. Website. www .ellington-ct .gov. Ellington is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. Ellington was incorporated in May 1786, from East Windsor. The town is part of the Capitol Planning Region. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 16,426.
The Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP) is a non-profit organization based on Locust Street in Center City Philadelphia. Founded as a library in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin , the Library Company of Philadelphia has accumulated one of the most significant collections of historically valuable manuscripts and printed material in the United States.
This is a list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut. There are more than 1,500 listed sites in Connecticut. All 8 counties in Connecticut have listings on the National Register. Fourteen of the sites are among historic sites along the route of French general Rochambeau's army in 1781 and ...
The city of Philadelphia was founded and incorporated in 1682 by William Penn in the English Crown Province of Pennsylvania between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. Before then, the area was inhabited by the Lenape people. Philadelphia quickly grew into an important colonial city and during the American Revolution was the site of the First ...
The Free Library of Philadelphia is the public library system that serves Philadelphia. [2] It is the 16th-largest public library system in the United States. [3] The Free Library of Philadelphia is a non-Mayoral agency of the City of Philadelphia governed by an independent Board of Trustees as per the Charter of the City of Philadelphia. [4]
Parkway Central Library also known as Free Library or Central Library is the main public library building and administrative headquarters of the Free Library of Philadelphia system. It is the largest library, and only research library, of 54 library branches in the Free Library system. The library opened on Vine Street in Philadelphia in 1927.