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Climbing upward from the cellar, you pass six Jervis generations, starting in 1724 and ending, in the attic, at the dawn of the 20th century. The family is everywhere, and nowhere. In the basement kitchen, the smell of newly baked hot cross buns ... read more...

2 pm It was one of the most inspiring demonstrations of racial potential in the early 20th century: Booker T. Washington's tour of Florida in 1912. So Tallahassee's John G. Riley Museum of African American History and Culture will spend the next year ... read more...

“It feels like an unintentional commemoration of the city built in the first half of the 20th century and that almost is swallowed up and disappeared by the city that was built after, by the so-called metroplex,” she said. “That sense of this dense ... read more...

One of the majestic hotels built in the early 20th century by Canada's railway companies, Ottawa's Château Laurier was scheduled to open on April 26, 1912. But the festivities were to be overseen by Grand Trunk Railway president Charles Melville Hays, ... read more...