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How The ‘Sidewalks Of New York’ Came To Maryknoll, Janet Butler Munch Sep 1994

How The ‘Sidewalks Of New York’ Came To Maryknoll, Janet Butler Munch

Publications and Research

This article discusses: the relocation of Maryknoll's headquarters to Ossining, NY in 1912; its favorable litigation with the Rockefeller Family; its selection of architects Maginnis and Walsh, and W.H. Fissel & Co.-- contracted to install its bluestone slate flooring originally from the sidewalks in lower Manhattan.


Survey Of Historic Jewish Monuments In The Czech Republic, Samuel D. Gruber, Phyllis Myers Jan 1994

Survey Of Historic Jewish Monuments In The Czech Republic, Samuel D. Gruber, Phyllis Myers

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

1994 report to the United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad on historic Jewish monuments in the Czech Republic. Includes information on the history of Judaism in Poland, as well as information on the history and conditions of synagogues, cemeteries, ghettoes, jewish quarters, and other sites related to Jewish heritage. There are also notes on Czech preservation laws and destroyed synagogues.