In 1876, Frederick Douglass addressed a crowd of some 25,000 people gathered to dedicate a new monument to Abraham Lincoln. The Emancipation Memorial statue, a life-size bronze also known as the ...

The owner of a medieval manor house in Manchester has promised to find new uses for the Grade-I listed building while "preserving its essence". Baguley Hall in Wythenshawe, which was built in the 14th ...

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A medieval manor house in Manchester is to be handed over to a building preservation trust, to allow it to be restored and opened to the public. Historic England said it will give Baguley Hall in ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The reconstruction of a North Shore park will be discussed this week at one of several public Staten Island Community Board meetings. Renovations to Sobel Court Park in Clifton ...

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of a grand castle affiliated with a long-forgotten medieval kingdom and nestled on an island in Scotland. The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland ...

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Surveying the weathered grandeur of La Casa del Conde for the first time, designer Marta de la Rica sensed the weight of history. In the hilltop town of Sepúlveda, Spain, the 16th-century manor, with ...

After five years and a $37 million restoration, Norwich Castle—one of England’s most iconic Norman fortresses—is reopening its doors with a meticulous recreation of its 12th-century grandeur. From ...

(CNN) - The centuries-old skeleton of a medieval knight was found buried under a former ice cream parlor in Poland. An ornate medieval tombstone was found under the site of a popular ice cream parlor ...