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Year 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar.

Events[link]

January[link]

January 24: Boy Scout movement.

• January 12 – A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
• January 13 – A fire at the Rhoads Opera House in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. kills 170.
• January 24 – Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement.

February[link]

• February 1 – King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon.
• February 12 – The first around-the-world car race, the 1908 New York to Paris Race, begins.
• February 18 – Japanese immigration to the U.S.A. is forbidden.

March[link]

• March 4 – The Collinwood School Fire, near Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., kills 174.
• March 9 – A team from Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition becomes the first to reach the crater of Mount Erebus in Antarctica.
• March 21 – French aviator Léon Delagrange pilots the first passenger flight with Henri Farman inside.^[1]
• March 27 – The first overseas Scout Troop is formed in Gibraltar.

April[link]

• April 20 – Sunshine train disaster: Two trains collide in Melbourne, Australia, killing 44 people and injuring more than 400.^[2]
• April 21 – Frederick Cook claims to have reached the North Pole on this date.
• April 27 – The 1908 Summer Olympics begin in London.

May[link]

• May 26 – At Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil discovery in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.

June[link]

Evidence of the Tunguska event (June 30). Photo taken 19 years later.

• June 30 – The Tunguska event, also known as the Russian explosion, occurs near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russian Empire.

July[link]

• July 3 – Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire: Major Ahmed Niyazi, with 200 followers (Ottoman troops and civilians), begins an open revolution by defecting from the 3rd Army Corps in Macedonia, decamping into the hill country.
• July 6 – Robert Peary sets sail for the North Pole.
• July 11–July 12 – The steamship Amalthea, housing 80 British strikebreakers while in Malmö harbour, Sweden, is bombed by Anton Nilson; 1 is killed, 20 injured.
• July 23 – Young Turk Revolution: The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) issues a formal ultimatum to Sultan Abdul Hamid II to restore the constitution of 1876, within the Ottoman Empire. It is restored the following day.
• July 24 – Dorando Pietri wins the Olympic marathon in London in one of the most dramatic arrivals of the Olympic history, only to be disqualified soon afterwards.

August[link]

• August 8 – Wilbur Wright flies in France for the first time demonstrating true controlled powered flight.
• August 17 – Emile Cohl makes the first fully animated film, Fantasmagorie.
• August 24 – After an intense power struggle, Sultan Abd al-Aziz IV of Morocco is deposed, and is succeeded by his brother Abd al-Hafiz.

September[link]

• September 17 – At Ft. Myer, Virginia, U.S.A. Thomas Selfridge becomes the first person to die in an airplane crash. The pilot, Orville Wright, is severely injured in the crash but recovers.
• September 27 – Henry Ford produces his first Model T automobile.

October[link]

• October 5 – Bulgaria declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire; Ferdinand I of Bulgaria becomes Tsar.
• October 6 – The Bosnian Crisis begins after the Austro-Hungarian Empire annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.

November[link]

• November 6 – Western bandits Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are supposedly killed in Bolivia, after being surrounded by a large group of soldiers. There are many rumors to the contrary however, and their grave sites are unmarked.
• November 15 – King Leopold II of Belgium formally relinquishes his personal control of Congo (known as Congo Free State) over to Belgium (becoming Belgian Congo).

December[link]

• December 2 – Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at age 2.
• December 16 – Construction begins on the RMS Olympic at the Harland and Wolff Shipyards in Belfast.
• December 28 – An earthquake and tsunami destroys Messina, Sicily and Calabria, killing over 70,000 people.

Date unknown[link]

• Due to the evidence collected by Roger Casement, Léopold II of Belgium is forced to make reforms in the Congo, his personal colony.
• Penny post established between the United Kingdom and United States.^[3]
• The Children's Encyclopedia is first published.
• Henri Matisse opens his own art academy in France.
• A 40,000-year-old Neanderthal boy skeleton is found at Le Moustier in southwest France.

Births[link]

January–February[link]

• January 8 – William Hartnell, British actor (died 1975)
• January 9 – Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (died 1986)
• January 12 – Jean Delannoy, French film director (died 2008)
• January 14 – Russ Columbo, Italian-American singer, bandleader, and composer (died 1934)
• January 15 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (died 2003)
• January 22 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
• January 26
  • Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist and composer (died 1997)
  • Rupprecht Geiger, German painter (died 2009)
• February 1 – George Pal, Hungarian-born animator (died 1980)
• February 6 – Michael Maltese, American screenwriter (died 1981)
• February 11 – Vivian Ernest Fuchs, English geologist and explorer (died 1999)
• February 12 – Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (died 1982)
• February 17 – Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (died 2007)
• February 22
  • John Mills, English actor (died 2005)
  • Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president (died 1981)
• February 23 – William McMahon, Prime Minister of Australia (died 1988)
• February 26
  • Tex Avery, American cartoonist (died 1980)
  • Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (died 1949)
• February 29
  • Balthus, French painter (died 2001)
  • Dee Brown, American writer and historian (died 2002)

March–April[link]

• March 2 – Walter Bruch, German engineer (died 1990)
• March 5 – Rex Harrison, English actor (died 1990)
• March 7 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (died 1973)
• March 14 – Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (d. 1991)
• March 17 – Brigitte Helm, German actress (died 1996)
• March 19 – George Rodger, British photojournalist (died 1995)
• March 20
  • Michael Redgrave, English actor (died 1985)
  • Frank Stanton, American businessman (died 2006)
• March 22 – Louis L'Amour, American author (died 1988)
• March 25
  • Helmut Käutner, German actor and director (died 1980)
  • David Lean, English film director (died 1991)
• March 29 – Arthur O'Connell, American actor (died 1981)
• April 1 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (died 1970)
• April 2 – Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer (died 2003)
• April 5
  • Bette Davis, American actress (died 1989)
  • Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (died 1989)
• April 7 – Percy Faith, Canadian-born composer, musician (died 1976)
• April 8 – Tito Guízar, Mexican singer and film actor (died 1999)
• April 20 – Lionel Hampton, African-American musician and bandleader (died 2002)
• April 24– Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor and medallic artist (died 1963)
• April 25 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (died 1965)
• April 28 – Oskar Schindler, Austro-Hungarian (Sudeten German) industrialist (died 1974)
• April 29 – Jack Williamson, American science fiction author (died 2006)
• April 30
  • Eve Arden, American actress (died 1990)
  • Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic prime minister (died 1970)

May–June[link]

• May 1 – Krystyna Skarbek, Polish-born heroine of World War II (died 1952)
• May 5 – Kurt Böhme, German bass (died 1989)
• May 7 – Max Grundig, German inventor and industrialist (died 1989)
• May 8 – Cristian Vasile, Romanian singer (died 1974)
• May 19 – Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (died 1982)
• May 20 – James Stewart, American actor (died 1997)
• May 23
  • Max Abramovitz, American architect (died 2004)
  • John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
  • Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (died 1934)
• May 25 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (died 1963)
• May 26 – Nguyen Ngoc Tho, First prime minister of South Vietnam
• May 28 – Ian Fleming, English writer (died 1964)
• May 30
  • Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
  • Mel Blanc, American voice actor (died 1989)
• May 31 – Don Ameche, American actor (died 1993)
• June 11 – Francisco Marto, Portuguese, beatified (died 1919)
• June 12 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (died 2010)
• June 21 – Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean resister against the Japanese occupation of Korea (died 1932)
• June 24
  • Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (died 1976)
  • Hugo Distler, German composer (died 1942)
• June 26 – Salvador Allende, President of Chile (died 1973)
• June 27 – Bill Kennedy, American actor (died 1997)
• June 29 – Leroy Anderson, American composer (died 1975)
• June 30 – Winston Graham, English writer (died 2003)

July–August[link]

• July 12 – Milton Berle, American comedian (died 2002)
• July 23 – Karl Swenson, American actor (died 1978)
• August 4 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (died 1994)
• August 5 – Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia (died 1967)
• August 9 – A. I. Bezzerides, American screenwriter (died 2007)
• August 10 – Rica Erickson, Australian naturalist and botanical artist (died 2009)
• August 21
  • M. M. Kaye, British writer (died 2004)
  • Tom Tully, American actor (died 1982)
• August 22 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (died 2004)
• August 27
  • Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (died 2001)
  • Lyndon Johnson, President of the United States (died 1973)
• August 28 – Robert Merle, French writer (died 2004)
• August 30
  • Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (died 1996)
  • Fred MacMurray, American actor (died 1991)
• August 31 – William Saroyan, American writer (died 1981)

September–October[link]

• September 2 – Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Russian astronomer/astrophysicist (died 1983)
• September 3 – Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (died 1988)
• September 4 – Richard Wright, African-American author (died 1960)
• September 6
  • Josué de Castro, Brazilian activist against hunger (died 1973)
  • Louis Essen, English physicist (died 1997)
• September 7 – Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon and medical researcher (died 2008)
• September 10 – Raymond Scott, American composer, bandleader, electronic music pioneer (died 1994)
• September 13 – Mae Questel, American actress (died 1998)
• September 15 – Miško Kranjec, Slovenian writer (died 1983)
• September 18 – Viktor Hambardzumyan, Soviet Armenian scientist (died 1996)
• September 19 – Paul Bénichou, French intellectual (died 2001)
• September 21 – Charles Upham, New Zealand soldier (died 1994)
• September 25 – Eugen Suchoň, Slovak composer (died 1993)
• September 29 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (died 1967)
• September 30 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-born violinist (died 1974)
• October 1 – Umar Dimayev, Chechen folk singer (died 1972)
• October 6 – Carole Lombard, American actress (died 1942)
• October 15 – John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (died 2006)
• October 16 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator (died 1985)
• October 17 – Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (died 2007)
• October 19 – Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (died 1981)
• October 21 – Jorge Oteiza, Spanish painter (died 2003)
• October 23
  • Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, Chechen historian (died 1997)
  • Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1990)
• October 25
  • Tauno Palo, Finnish actor (died 1982)
  • Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (died 2004)
• October 28 – Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (died 1995)

November–December[link]

• November 3 – Giovanni Leone, former Prime Minister of Italy (died 2001)
• November 4 – Józef Rotblat, Polish physicist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (died 2005)
• November 12 – Harry Blackmun, American judge (died 1999)
• November 16 – Sœur Emmanuelle, French nun (died 2008)
• November 18 – Imogene Coca, American actress (died 2001)
• November 20 – Alistair Cooke, English-born American journalist (died 2004)
• November 28 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-born French anthropologist (died 2009)
• December 4 – Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)
• December 6 – Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (died 2003)
• December 10 – Olivier Messiaen, French composer (died 1992)
• December 11
  • Elliott Carter, American composer
  • Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese film director
  • Alfred Proksch, Austrian Olympic athlete (died 2011)
• December 17 – Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1980)
• December 22
  • Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet and revolutionary (died 1943)
  • Giovanni Luigi Bonelli, Italian comic book author and writer (died 2001)
• December 31 – Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Nazi-hunter (died 2005)

Date unknown[link]

• Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, Somali politician (died 2007)

Deaths[link]

January–June[link]

• January 9 – Wilhelm Busch, German painter and poet (born 1832)
• January 17 – Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (born 1835)
• January 25 – Ouida, English writer (born 1839)
• February 1
  • King Carlos I of Portugal (born 1863)
  • Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal (born 1887)
• April 22 – Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1836)
• April 26 – Karl Möbius, German ecologist (born 1825)
• May 24 – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (born 1821)
• May 26 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam (born 1835)
• June 2 – Redvers Buller, British general and Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1839)
• June 14 – Frederick Stanley, Governor-General of Canada and founder of the Stanley Cup (born 1841)
• June 21 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (born 1844)
• June 24 – Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (born 1837)

July–December[link]

• July 3 – Joel Chandler Harris, American author (Br'er Rabbit) (b. 1848)
• July 5 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833)
• July 6 – Felipe Calderón y Roca, Filipino politician (b. 1868)
• July 20 – Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (b. 1835)
• July 22 – William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)
• August 4 – Radoje Domanović, Serbian writer (b. 1873)
• August 25 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• August 26 – Tony Pastor, American theater impressario (b. 1837)
• September 17 – Thomas Selfridge, United States Army officer and first person killed in an airplane crash (b. 1882)
• September 20 – Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)
• September 29 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian author (b. 1839)
• November 3 – Harro Magnussen, German sculptor (b. 1861)
• November 4
  • Richard Gerstl, Austrian artist (b. 1883)
  • Tomás Estrada Palma, first President of Cuba (b. 1832)
• November 7 – Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (b. 1866)
• November 14 – The Guangxu Emperor of China (b. 1871)
• November 15 – Empress Dowager Cixi, ruler of China (b. 1835)
• November 17 – Lydia Thompson, English dancer and actress (b. 1838)
• November 22 – Claude-Paul Taffanel French flautist and composer (b. 1844)
• December 13 – Augustus Le Plongeon, American archaeologist (b. 1825)

Date unknown[link]

• Qasim Amin, Egyptian writer (b. 1863)

Nobel Prizes[link]

• Physics – Gabriel Lippmann
• Chemistry – Ernest Rutherford
• Medicine – Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich
• Literature – Rudolf Christoph Eucken
• Peace – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer

References[link]

Dorando Pietri.

Dorando Pietri, often wrongly spelt Petri (October 16, 1885, Correggio, Province of Reggio Emilia - February 7, 1942, Sanremo) was an Italian athlete famous for his dramatic finish and eventual disqualification in the marathon at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.^[1]

Biography[link]

Early years[link]

Pietri was born in Mandrio, a frazione of Correggio, but spent his youth in Carpi (Emilia-Romagna region). Here he worked as a shop-boy at a confectionery shop. He was 1.59 m (5 ft., 2½ in.) tall.

In September 1904 the most famous Italian runner of the time, Pericle Pagliani, took part in a race in Carpi. According to tradition, Pietri was attracted by the event and, still wearing his work clothes, ran to the finish ahead of Pagliani. A few days later Pietri débuted in a distance race, finishing second in the 3,000 m of Bologna.

The following year he achieved his first international success, winning the 30 km in Paris. On April 2, 1906 Pietri won the qualifying marathon for the Olympic Games to be held in Athens that same year. In the Olympic race he retired due to intestinal illness when he was leading by 5 minutes.

In 1907 he won the Italian championships. He was by then the undisputed leader of Italian long distance races from 5000 metres to marathon distance.

1908 Olympics[link]

The arrival of Dorando Pietri at the 1908 Olympics marathon.

Dorando Pietri trained hard for the 1908 Olympics in London. In a race in Carpi he ran 40 km (25 mi) in 2 hours and 38 minutes, an extraordinary result for the times. The marathon, which was to take place on July 24, 1908, started with 56 competitors, including Pietri and fellow Italian Umberto Blasi. It began at 2:33pm. The weather was particularly hot by British summer standards. The London course measured 26.2 miles (42.2 km); the distance would later become the official marathon length from 1921.^[2]

Pietri began his race at a rather slow pace, but in the second half of the course began a powerful surge moving him into second position by the 32 km (20 mi) mark, 4 minutes behind South African Charles Hefferon. When he knew that Hefferon was in crisis, Pietri further increased his pace, overtaking him at the 39 km (24 mi) mark.

The effort took its toll and with only two kilometres to go, Pietri began to feel the effects of extreme fatigue and dehydration. When he entered the stadium, he took the wrong path and when umpires redirected him, he fell down for the first time. He got up with their help, in front of 75,000 spectators.

He fell four more times, and each time the umpires helped him up. In the end, though totally exhausted, he managed to finish the race in first place. Of his total time of 2h 54min 46s, ten minutes were needed for that last 350 metres. Second was American Johnny Hayes. The American team immediately lodged a complaint against the help Pietri received from the umpires. The complaint was accepted and Pietri was disqualified and removed from the final standings of the race.

International celebrity[link]

As a compensation for the missing medal, Queen Alexandra gave him a gilded silver cup. Arthur Conan Doyle had been commissioned by the Daily Mail^[3]; to write a special report about the race. He was very impressed by the effort of the Italian at the stadium, which he commented with the words:

The Italian's great performance can never be effaced from our record of sport, be the decision of the judges what it may.

Conan Doyle proposed the Daily Mail to start a subscription to raise money and help Pietri to open a bakery in his native town. The fund reached the consistent sum of 300 Pounds, of which the same Conan Doyle contributed with the initial 5 Pounds.

Pietri suddenly became an international celebrity. Composer Irving Berlin dedicated a song to him entitled "Dorando" and Pietri received requests to participate in exhibition races in the United States. On November 25, 1908, in Madison Square Garden, New York a race between Hayes and Pietri was organized. Pietri won the race as well as a second similar race on March 15, 1909. Pietri won 17 of the 22 races on his tour of America.

He returned to Italy in May 1909 and continued racing professionally in his native country and abroad for two more years. He ran his final marathon in Buenos Aires, on May 24, 1910, where he achieved his personal best of 2h 38min 48:2s.

Pietri's last race in Italy was a 15 km (9 mi) race held in Parma on September 3, 1911, which he won. He also won his very last race this time in Göteborg (Sweden), in October of the same year. He was 26 at the time. In three years as a professional runner he earned 200,000 lire in prize money alone, an enormous sum for the time.

He invested his earnings in a hotel he opened in collaboration with his brother. He was not as successful an entrepreneur as he was athlete, and the hotel went bankrupt. He moved to Sanremo, where he directed a car workshop. Pietri lived in Sanremo until his death, of a heart attack, at the age of 56.

References[link]

See also[link]

• Il sogno del maratoneta （film）

External links[link]

• Biography at CIO site
• The Story of the Marathon

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Robert Joseph "Bob" Vila (b. June 20, 1946) is an American home improvement television show host known for This Old House (1979–1989), Bob Vila's Home Again (1990–2005), and Bob Vila (2005–2007).

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

Vila, a Cuban American native of Miami, Florida, received a Bachelor degree in entomology from the University of Florida in 1969. After graduating, he served as a volunteer in the Peace Corps, working in Panama from 1971 to 1973.^[1]

Career[link]

Vila was hired as the host of This Old House in 1979 after receiving the "Heritage House of 1978" award by Better Homes and Gardens, for his restoration of a Victorian Italianate house in Newton, Massachusetts.^[2] On This Old House, Vila appeared with carpenter Norm Abram as they, and others, renovated houses. In 1989 he left the show under controversial circumstances. Some cite the reason as being a series of conflicts with This Old House executive producer Russell Morash arising from his involvement with outside commercial endorsements,^[3] while others cite a specific instance- Vila's commercial work for New Jersey-based Rickel and the subsequent retaliatory pulling of underwriting from Rickel's competitor Home Depot and lumber supplier Weyerhaeuser- as the reason behind his departure.^[4] He was replaced by Steve Thomas.

After leaving This Old House, Vila became a commercial spokesman for Sears, and beginning in 1990 he hosted Bob Vila's Home Again (known from 2005 on as Bob Vila), a weekly-syndicated home improvement program. The series ran for sixteen seasons in syndication before it was canceled by distributor CBS Television Distribution due to declining ratings.^[5] Vila has also appeared on various episodes of the situation comedy Home Improvement as himself, where main character and cable TV host Tim Taylor (played by Tim Allen) saw him as a rival and went to great lengths to try to beat Vila at things, which he never succeeded in doing. Vila also made a cameo in the 1993 comedy spoof Hot Shots! Part Deux.

Vila has written ten books, including a five-book series titled Bob Vila's Guide to Historic Homes of America. As of 2006, he still appears regularly on television. He can also be seen on the Home Shopping Network, selling a range of tools under his own brand.

Other productions[link]

Bob Vila's less widely known productions include Guide to Historic Homes of America (1996), In Search of Palladio, (1996) for A&E, and Restore America for HGTV.

Historic Homes of America[link]

Guide to Historic Homes of America (1996)^[6] included two-hour segments on each of four major regions of the United States: the Northeast, including New England and the Mid-Atlantic States,^[7] the South, the Midwest and the West.

The Northeast

• Morris-Jumel Mansion overlooking Yankee Stadium in Washington Heights, Manhattan
• Dyckman House on Broadway in Upper Manhattan
• Hancock Shaker Village in western Massachusetts.
• Strawbery Banke restoration in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
• Olana - "a palatial amalgam of Middle-Eastern and European influences."^[6]

The Mid-Atlantic States

• Chesapeake Bay and Annapolis, Maryland - William Paca House and Hammond-Harwood House
• New Castle, Delaware - George Read II House, built by the son of George Read
• Baltimore, Maryland - Homewood House on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus
• Washington, D.C. - Decatur House on President's Park and Tudor Place in Georgetown

The South

• Thomas Jefferson

• University of Virginia - ten residential pavilions surround the great, terraced Lawn.
• Ash Lawn-Highland
• Poplar Forest - octagonal house filmed while undergoing complete restoration
• Monticello - includes Dome Room at top of building (not open to the public) and Honeymoon Cottage.

• Natchez, Mississippi

• House on Endicott Hill - early trader's house
• Rosalie - Federal architecture mansion^[8] with John Henry Belter^[9] furniture and a panoramic view of Mississippi River.
• Stanton Hall - "perhaps the grandest Greek Revival house anywhere."^[6] Designed by Captain Thomas Rose.^[10]
• Longwood - begun in 1860 by Samuel Sloan. Never finished: construction halted in April 1861.^[11]

• Texarkana, Texas - the Ace of Clubs House.^[12]

The Midwest and West

• Ellwood House - built by barbed wire entrepreneur Isaac L. Ellwood in DeKalb, Illinois.
• Frank Lloyd Wright

• Dana-Thomas House in Springfield, Illinois. "It's richer in detail than any other Wright home."^[6]
• Fallingwater in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains

• Cooper-Molera Adobe - early Spanish Colonial owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Monterey State Historic Park.
• Filoli - Woodside, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Designed by Willis Polk.
• Tor House^[13] - stone house and tower overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, built by Robinson Jeffers.

In Search of Palladio[link]

In Search of Palladio (1996) is a three-part, six-hour study of the work and lasting influence of the 16th-century architect Andrea Palladio. Palladio designed various types of buildings, but the series concentrates on his domestic architecture. (See also: Palladian Villas of the Veneto).

I. Villas of the Veneto

• Villa Giustinian, Roncade. - For Vila this building (not by Palladio) provides the context for Palladio's innovative thinking - gothic battlements, portcullis and stone walls concealing a Renaissance palace and farm buildings.
• Villa Pisani^[14] in Montagnana - a descendant of the original owners served as Vila's guide.
• Villa Cornaro - A suburban villa on a town street, a palatial residence which was also an on-site place of business for running a large farming enterprise.
• Villa Barbaro.
• Villa Emo - For Vila this is "perhaps the most dramatic farmhouse ever built".
• La Rocca Pisana - spectacular hilltop belvedere by Palladio's pupil Vincenzo Scamozzi.

II. The Palladians in England and Ireland

• London: Chiswick House, Marble Hill House and Stourhead.
• Bath, Somerset: Queen Square,^[15] The Circus and the Royal Crescent.
• Republic of Ireland: Casino at Marino - "the architectural equivalent of a Fabergé egg".
• Northern Ireland: Castle Ward - overlooking Strangford Lough with both Palladian and Gothic facades and interiors.

III. The Palladian Legacy in America

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Mount Pleasant.
• Marblehead and Waltham, Massachusetts: Jeremiah Lee Mansion and Gore Place
• Hudson Valley, New York: Boscobel House Museum - purchased in 1955 for thirty-five dollars. Meticulously restored, situated on a bluff on the east bank of the Hudson River opposite the United States Military Academy at West Point.^[16]
• Hartford, Connecticut: Austin House - built for Wadsworth Atheneum director Arthur Everett Austin, Jr.
• South Bend, Indiana. In Indiana Vila looks at University of Notre Dame architectural school "where Palladio and classical architecture are taken seriously indeed", Vitruvian House^[17] designed by Thomas Gordon Smith and Villa Indiana designed by Duncan G. Stroik.^[18]

Restore America[link]

Restore America consists of fifty one-hour segments which explore historic preservation and building restoration in each of the fifty U.S. states. Anticipating the turn of the 3rd millennium, it was first broadcast on HGTV between July 4, 1999 and July 4, 2000.^[19]

Bibliography[link]

Bob Vila has written two dozen or more books, which include:

• 1980: This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-17704-0.
• 1990: Bob Vila's Guide to Buying Your Dream House. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-90291-8.
• 1993-1994: Bob Vila's Guides to Historic Homes of America. New York: Quill (HarperCollins imprint).

• Historic Homes of New England. ISBN 0-688-12493-3.
• Historic Homes of the South. ISBN 0-688-12492-5.
• Historic Homes of the Midwest and Great Plains. ISBN 0-688-12495-X.
• Historic Homes of the West. ISBN 0-688-12496-8.
• Historic Homes of the Mid-Atlantic. ISBN 0-688-12494-1.

See also[link]

• List of Famous Cuban-Americans

References[link]

External links[link]

• Bob Vila's Official Website
• Bob Vila Video Channel on BobVila.com
• Bob Vila Biography at bobvila.com
• Bob Vila TV Show at bobvila.com
• Bob Vila's Home Again at bobvila.com
• Bob Vila Contractor Referral Website
• Bob Vila's Profile on LegendaryLife.com
• Bob Vila at the Internet Movie Database