Empire Garden – Boston, MA

The Empire Garden restaurant in Boston was once the Globe Theatre, a movie theater built in 1903. Architect Arthur Vinal designed it in the French…

The Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Whitney, a sculptor and art collector, when her donation of over 500 artworks…

Amelia Island Lighthouse – Florida

“Friends are like lighthouses with the sources of light coming from their hearts”  –  Tom Baker Perched atop a sixty foot high bluff overlooking the…

Submarine Becuna

Submarine Becuna is moored at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia and like the Cruiser Olympia is a part of the Independence Seaport Museum open to the…

St Augustine Lighthouse – Florida

Today this is an active lighthouse on Anastasia Island and is St Augustine’s oldest surviving brick structure.   In its history it went back and forth…

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