550 Broad Street

550 Broad Street is an office building in Newark, New Jersey situated downtown between the Newark Light Rail stations at Washington Park and Atlantic Street.

The Brutalist style building was built in 1966 during the New Newark era by the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company and the George A. Fuller Company and was once known the Fidelity Union Building, for the company which occupied it. In 2000, the Heritage Capital Group purchased the tower and implemented multimillion-dollar renovation-modernization in 2001, winning the state's Building of the Year award. While Heritage sold 80% interest in 550 Broad Street in 2005, it retains 20 percent ownership and acts as executive operating partner and on-site manager. The company also renovated nearby 570 Broad Street. As of 2012 the major tenant for the building is IDT, which is owner of the nearby Mutual Benefit Life Building.

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American Bank Note Company Building

The American Bank Note Company Building is a historical building located at 70 Broad Street, New York, New York (at the corner of Beaver Street, near Bowling Green in Financial District, Manhattan).

Description

The building is a New York City landmark built by architects Kirby, Petit & Green. It is a neo-classical five-story structure with 20,000 square feet consisting of office space and luxury apartments on the upper floors. According to a New York City realtor, the building is a residential, office, retail or mixed-use building. Another Bank Note Company building, also a designated NYC Landmark, on Garrison Avenue in the Bronx borough of New York City, was the company's printing plant until the 1960s.

History

It was built in 1908 as the home of the American Bank Note Company, a leading engraving company which produced bank notes, currency and stock certificates. The building was sold in 1988 The Bank of Tokyo sold the building in 1995 and in 1996 it was remodeled into a restaurant and was given historical landmark status in 1997. It was purchased for USD$5.5m in 2004 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's organization, the Global Country of World Peace (GCWP) and required $4.9 million in renovations. It was sold to an unnamed Chinese construction and investment company for $18 million in 2010.

Broad Street

Broad Street may refer to several streets around the world.

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At-Bristol

At-Bristol is a science centre and charity in Bristol, England.

At-Bristol's stated aim is "to make science accessible to all." To achieve this, it displays interactive hands-on exhibits, produces shows and workshops for visitors from schools and for members of the public, and also has a planetarium.

At-Bristol is also host to the South West branch of the Science Learning Centres, and together they offer continuing professional development for teachers and other science communicators.

History and background

The project opened in 2000 as the successor to the Exploratory, a science museum and demonstration centre, founded by Richard Gregory in the former terminus train shed at Bristol Temple Meads Station (later home to the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum). The Exploratory was a separate organisation and none of the exhibits or staff were transferred when Bristol's new museum opened in a city centre site as part of the regeneration of the historical Floating Harbour. The project was funded with £44.3 million from the National Lottery, Millennium Commission, South West of England Regional Development Agency, and a further £43.4 million from commercial partners (including a controversial donation from Nestlé) and Bristol City Council. The selection and design of exhibits were criticised by Gregory and other scientific adviser as being "totally inappropriate to the spirit of science".Goéry Delacôte served as Chief Executive from 2005 until 2012.

Bristol (1866)

Bristol was a large sidewheel steamer launched in 1866 by William H. Webb of New York for the Merchants Steamship Company. One of Narragansett Bay's so-called "floating palaces", the luxuriously outfitted Bristol and her sister ship Providence, each of which could carry up to 1,200 passengers, were installed with the largest engines then built in the United States, and were considered to be amongst the finest American-built vessels of their era.

Both ships would spend their entire careers steaming between New York and various destinations in and around Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Bristol was eventually destroyed by a fire while in port in 1888.

Development

Bristol and Providence owed their existence to a short-lived company known as the Merchants Steamship Company, which placed the initial order for the vessels with the Webb shipyard in about 1865. Merchants Steamship was an amalgamation of three existing Narragansett Bay shipping lines, the Commercial Line, Neptune Line and Stonington Line. The Company intended to run the two steamers between New York and Bristol, Rhode Island in competition with the Fall River Line, which ran a similar service from New York to Fall River, Massachusetts (both Lines then linking up to railway lines that continued on to Boston).

Bristol, Maine

Bristol (formerly known as Pemaquid) is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,755 at the 2010 census. A fishing and resort area, Bristol includes the villages of New Harbor, Pemaquid, Round Pond, Bristol Mills and Chamberlain. It includes the Pemaquid Archeological Site, a U.S. National Historic Landmark. During the 17th and early 18th century, New France defined the Kennebec River as the southern boundary of Acadia, which put Bristol within Acadia.

History

Once territory of the Wawenock (or Walinakiak, meaning "People of the Bay") Abenaki Indians, early Bristol was one of the most important and embattled frontier settlements in the province. Beginning with seasonal fishing, as early as 1625 the English established at Pemaquid Point a year-round trading post for fur trading. In 1631, the area was granted as the Pemaquid Patent by the Plymouth Council to Robert Aldsworth and Gyles Elbridge, merchants from Bristol, England.

Raid on Pemaquid (1632)