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unusual facts about Stewart Dawson's Building


Stewart Dawson's Building

Built in 1901 for the London jeweller David Stewart Dawson, it is located on a prominent corner in two of Wellington's major streets, a site particularly important to history of Wellington .


Irene Hazard Gerlinger

She helped the University of Oregon secure the Women's Building (Gerlinger Hall), Prince Campbell Memorial Art Museum (Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art), women's dormitories and other buildings on campus.

Jerri Allyn

Allyn earned an MA in Art and Community from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont and also attended The Feminist Studio Workshop at the Los Angeles Woman's Building.

Kate Millett

In 1980, Millett was one of the ten invited artists whose work was exhibited in the Great American Lesbian Art Show at the Woman's Building.

Queen's Building

In the 1880s, the colonial government of Hong Kong initiated the Praya Reclamation Scheme in order to expand the amount of land available in the city.

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville

In 1971, de Bretteville founded the first design program for women at the California Institute of the Arts, and two years later co-founded the Woman's Building, a public center in Los Angeles dedicated to women's education and culture.

Smith's Building

He acquired a number of billiard tables from the 1904 St. Louis Exposition, and installed them on the second floor of this building.

William Henry Crossland

Also commissioned by Thomas Holloway: Founder's Building at Royal Holloway College, Egham, Surrey, built in 1883-88 and a short distance away from the Sanatorium.


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