The Keene Glass Works manufactured free-blown bottles and window panes. Lawrence Schoolcraft started a glass factory in Keene in 1814 when townspeople hired him to meet the need for glass in the early 19th century.
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Category: Art/Painting
Currier Museum of Art – Manchester, New Hampshire
The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester. features European and American paintings, decorative arts, photographs and sculpture. The permanent collection includes works by Picasso, Matisse, Monet, Wyeth and Saint-Gaudens. Main entrance Spacious interior Standing Lincoln bronze cast circa 1910 – Augustus Saint Gaudens Saint-Gaudens bas-relief
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Trask House – Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts
The Trask House in Manchester-by-the-Sea was built in 1823 by local businesswoman Abigail Hooper, who ran a general store. She married one year later merchant ship captain Richard Trask. The house now contains the collection of the Manchester Historical Society. Interior Collection
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Queluz Palace – Queluz, Portugal
The Palace of Queluz is an 18th-century palace located at Queluz, a city of the Sintra Municipality, in the Lisbon District, on the Portuguese Riviera. One of the last great Rococo buildings to be designed in Europe, the palace was conceived as a summer retreat
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Jeronimos Monastery – Lisbon, Portugal
The Jerónimos Monastery is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in the parish of Belém, in Lisbon, Portugal. The monastery is one of the most prominent examples of the Portuguese Late Gothic Manueline style of architecture in Lisbon.
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