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Ames Building
The Ames Building is located in Boston, Massachusetts. It is sometimes ranked as the tallest building in Boston from its completion in 1889 until 1915, when the Custom House Tower was built, but the steeple of the 1867 Church of the Covenant was much taller than the Ames Building. It is nevertheless considered Boston's first skyscraper. In 2007, the building was converted from office space to a luxury hotel. In 2020, the building was purchased by Suffolk University and converted into a student r
Ames Building
Ames Building
The Ames Building is located in Boston, Massachusetts. It is sometimes ranked as the tallest building in Boston from its completion in 1889 until 1915, when the Custom House Tower was built, but the steeple of the 1867 Church of the Covenant was much taller than the Ames Building. It is nevertheless considered Boston's first skyscraper. In 2007, the building was converted from office space to a luxury hotel. In 2020, the building was purchased by Suffolk University and converted into a student r
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Low Moor, Lancashire
Local GemsLow Moor is a hamlet which is part of the town of Clitheroe, located in Lancashire, England. It is situated two miles southwest of Clitheroe proper. It is significant for being a well documented mill village.
Low Moor, Lancashire
View pinWemyss Bay
Local GemsWemyss Bay is a village on the coast of the Firth of Clyde in Inverclyde in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It is in the traditional county of Renfrewshire. It is adjacent to Skelmorlie, North Ayrshire. The town and villages have always been in separate counties, divided by the Kelly Burn.
Wemyss Bay
View pinPendleton Brook
Local GemsPendleton Brook is a small river in Lancashire. The brook rises on Pendleton Moor and flows through the village of Pendleton, travelling north west to Higher Standen, then west past Standen Hall. From there, Pendleton Brook flows south of Clitheroe before meeting the River Ribble near Siddows.
Pendleton Brook
View pinEasington Fell
Local GemsEasington Fell is a Marilyn in the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire, England. It has been surveyed to be 70 cm (28 in) higher than a nearby fell of almost identical height, namely, Waddington Fell. This is visible in the background of the photo.
Easington Fell
View pinBenarty Hill
Local GemsBenarty Hill, locally simply Benarty, rises above and to the west of Ballingry, in the west of Fife, Scotland. The summit ridge forms the boundary with Perth and Kinross. It is a prominent feature of the view from the M90 motorway, and from Kinross and Loch Leven. The lower slopes are steep on all sides, but the extensive heath around the summit is relatively flat.
Benarty Hill
View pinRenton, West Dunbartonshire - Wikipedia
Local GemsRenton is a village in West Dunbartonshire, in the west Central Lowlands of Scotland. In the 2001 National Census it had a population of 2,138.
Renton, West Dunbartonshire
View pinMershops Galleria at Sunset - Wikipedia
Local GemsMershops Galleria at Sunset is an indoor shopping mall at 1300 West Sunset Road in Henderson, Nevada. It is owned by Mershops and managed by Spinoso Real Estate Group. Plans to build the mall were announced in 1987, but construction did not begin until 1995. It opened on February 28, 1996, and received its first major renovation in 2013, followed by an expansion which added several restaurants.
Mershops Galleria at Sunset
View pinHot Springs High School (South Dakota) - Wikipedia
Local GemsThe Hot Springs High School, in Hot Springs, South Dakota is a public high school serving Hot Springs and the local area, in Fall River County. It is part of the Hot Springs School District. The school mascot is the Bisons.
Hot Springs High School (South Dakota)
View pinHartley Castle
Local GemsHartley Castle was a castle near Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, England.
Hartley Castle
View pinNorth Rona
Local GemsRona is an uninhabited Scottish island in the North Atlantic. It is often referred to as North Rona to distinguish it from the island of South Rona in the Inner Hebrides. It has an area of 109 hectares and a maximum elevation of 108 metres (354 ft).
North Rona
View pinClitheroe Castle
Local GemsClitheroe Castle is a ruined early medieval castle in Clitheroe in the Borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. It was the caput of the Honour of Clitheroe, a vast estate stretching along the western side of the Pennines.
Clitheroe Castle
View pinSkelmorlie
Local GemsSkelmorlie is a village in North Ayrshire in the southwest of Scotland. Although it is the northernmost settlement in the council area of North Ayrshire it is contiguous with Wemyss Bay, which is in Inverclyde, and has a PA zone postcode unlike the rest of Ayrshire which is in the KA zone. The dividing line is the Kelly Burn, which flows into the Firth of Clyde just south of the Rothesay ferry terminal. Despite their proximity, the two villages have historically been divided, Skelmorlie in Ayrsh
Skelmorlie
View pinGlenrothes F.C.
Local GemsGlenrothes Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the new town of Glenrothes, Fife. The club play home games at Warout Stadium, and currently compete in the East of Scotland League Premier Division, having moved from the junior leagues in 2019. Their strip colours are red with white trim.
Glenrothes F.C.
View pinSt Peter's Seminary, Cardross - Wikipedia
Local GemsSt Peter's Seminary is a former Roman Catholic seminary near Cardross, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Designed by the firm of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, it has been described by the international architecture conservation organisation Docomomo International as a modern "building of world significance". It is one of only 42 post-war buildings in Scotland to be listed at Category A, the highest level of protection for a building of "special architectural or historic interest". It has been abandoned since
St Peter's Seminary, Cardross
View pinArden, Argyll - Wikipedia
Local GemsArden is a village on the southwest shore of Loch Lomond in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
Arden, Argyll
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Local GemsSt Conor's College is a secondary school located in Northern Ireland. It has two sites. The main site is in the village of Clady and a junior site is located in Kilrea. The school opened in September 2018. It is within the Education Authority region.
St Conor's College
View pinState Soldiers Home Barn - Wikipedia
Local GemsThe State Soldiers Home Barn, at 2500 Minnekahta Ave. in Hot Springs, South Dakota, was built in 1929. Also known as the Michael J. Fitzmaurice South Dakota Veterans Home Barn, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
State Soldiers Home Barn
View pinLewiston, Highland
Local GemsLewiston is a small linear village, situated less than 1 mile southeast of Drumnadrochit, in Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Lewiston, Highland
View pinRFA Abadol
Local GemsRFA Abadol was a British cargo liner, converted several times to end as a tanker in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was previously known as SS Montezuma from her launch in 1899 until 1915. From February 1917, she was named RFA Oakleaf. A few months later she was lost without casualties to a German torpedo attack.
RFA Abadol
View pinChatburn
Local GemsChatburn is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Ribble Valley, East Lancashire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,102. Situated in a hollow between two ridges north-east of Clitheroe, just off the A59 road, relatively near Pendle Hill south-east of the village. Lanehead quarry is situated to the West at the termination of Chatburn Old Road. Ribble lane at 240 above sea level leads down to the River Ribble North of the village, the top of Downham r
Chatburn
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