The Glebe

The Glebe is a neighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located just south of Ottawa's downtown area in the Capital Ward with its northern border being demarcated by the Queensway highway. It is bounded by the Rideau Canal to the south and east. Many maps show the western edge as Bronson Avenue, but some also include the triangle farther west formed by Bronson, Carling Avenue, and Dow's Lake. The Glebe Community Association uses the latter definition. As of 2011, the area's population was 11,184.

The Glebe has a strong community association which, in addition to running a large community centre, lobbies the local government on issues such as traffic calming and neighbourhood development.

The Glebe is mostly populated by families; the area has many children, and consequently its social services are oriented towards youth. The Glebe lies in the federal riding of Ottawa Centre, and the same provincial electoral district.

The stretch of Bank Street that runs through the Glebe is one of Ottawa's premier shopping areas, with many small stores and restaurants offering a wide variety of services. Much of the rest of the Glebe consists of detached homes, many of them constructed in the early decades of the 20th century. Some of these homes are owner-occupied family residences, while others have been subdivided into multiple rental apartments.

Glebe (disambiguation)

Glebe is an area of land within an ecclesiastical parish used to support a parish priest.

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The Glebe (Amherst, Virginia)

The Glebe, also known as Minor Hall, is a historic Glebe House located near Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia. The original section, now the rear ell, was built about 1762, with the two-story, five bay main block dated to about 1825. Other additions are the kitchen wing, added about 1919; two porches attached to the south and east elevations and added about 1937; and the laundry room wing, built in the second half of the 20th-century. Also on the property are the contributing garage (c. 1900), tool shed (c. 1900), and site of a 20th-century barn. It was built by the Reverend Ichabod Camp, the only Anglican minister to serve Amherst Parish and the only Anglican minister to occupy The Glebe while it was owned by Amherst Parish between 1762 and 1780.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

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The Glebe (literary magazine)

The Glebe was a literary magazine edited by Alfred Kreymborg and Man Ray from 1913 to 1914. The first issue was published from Grantwood, New Jersey while the rest of the run was published in New York by Albert & Charles Boni. Ten issues were produced, with a circulation of 300. Issue number 5 comprised the first anthology of Imagism: Des Imagistes.

Issues and Contributors

Vol. 1, No. 1 - September 1913 - Adolf Wolff: Songs, Sighs and Curses (collected poems).
Vol. 1, No. 2 - October 1913 - Wallace E. Baker: Diary of a Suicide (diary).
Vol. 1, No. 3 - December 1913 - Charles Demuth: The Azur Adder (play).
Vol. 1, No. 4 - January 1914 - Leonid Andreyev: Love of One's Neighbor (play, translated by Thomas Seltzer)
Vol. 1, No. 5 - February 1914 - Ezra Pound (editor): Des Imagistes: An Anthology (poetry by 11 authors)
Vol. 1, No. 6 - March 1914 - Alfred Kreymborg: Erna Vitek (novel).

Vol. 2, No. 1 - April 1914 - Horace L. Traubel: Collects (essays).
Vol. 2, No. 2 - September 1914 - George W. Cronyn: Poems
Vol. 2, No. 3 - October 1914 - Frank Wedekind: Erdgeist (Earth Spirit; play in verse translated by Samuel A. Eliot, Jr.).
Vol. 2. No. 4 - November 1914 - Frank Wedekind: Pandora's Box (play in verse translated by Samuel A. Eliot, Jr.).

The Glebe (Lower Hutt)

The Glebe is probably the oldest surviving house in the Hutt Valley, New Zealand, and was the first vicarage to be built in the Hutt Valley. The building is classified as a "Category I" historic place by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.

Built in 1856 on land given to the Anglican church by Edward Gibbon Wakefield. The house was designed by William Corbett, a church warden for the Naenae district. At the turn of the 20th century a new vicarage was built, and the house was on sold to prominent Wellington architect Frederick de Jersey Clere. Clere renamed the house "The Glebe", which is an old term for land owned by the church. He also added on a southern wing extension to the house.

The building is a two-storey, timber weatherboard home with a gable roof - originally the roof was made from shingles. The window hoods aren't original, and an original exterior staircase has since been removed.

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The Glebe of Fairfax Parish

The Glebe, built in 1815, is a historic house with an octagon-shaped wing that is located at 4527 17th St., North in Arlington, Virginia. It served as the glebe house of Fairfax Parish, Virginia. On February 23, 1972, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is also preserved by the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust with a conservation easement.

The Glebe of Fairfax Parish was a 500-acre (200 ha) farm established in 1775 which included the Glebe House. Glebe lands were public lands set aside in colonial times for the support of the established Anglican church. These glebe lands were for the benefit of Fairfax Parish and the original house served as the rectory, or dwelling house for the minister.

It has also been known as Glebe House of Fairfax Parish and is listed as Virginia Department of Historic Resources with number 000-0003 (?).

It was a home of Caleb Cushing.

A conservation easement was established in 2005.

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