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Gurdon Wattles was a noted Omaha business leader who was the organizer of the 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha. The Wattles House...

driving ambition, and a ruthless streak." Gurdon Wallace Wattles was the third son of James Wattles and Elizabeth Whitton. He was born on May 12, 1855, in...

movements. Wattles' best known work is a 1910 book called The Science of Getting Rich in which he explains how to become wealthy. Wattles' daughter, Florence...

sufficient gaps to weave the flexible horizontal wattles. In some places or cultures, the technique of wattle and daub was used with different materials and...

banker Gurdon Wattles as his winter home; the estate contains a complex of gardens. It was sold to the city in 1968 and became the Wattles Garden Park,...

The Mary Reed House is a historic house in the Gold Coast area of Omaha, Nebraska. The house is a designated Omaha Historical Landmark, designed by notable...

businessman Gurdon B. Wattles purchased and renovated the house, renaming it as High Watch due to its location. Swift purchased the house for US$17,750,000...

north: it is all woven of serpent-backs like a wattle-house; and all the snake-heads turn into the house and blow venom, so that along the hall run rivers...

base of the beak and tip of the wattles is red and bare of feathers and covered by small round wart-like bumps. Wattled cranes have long bills and black...

for all Australians wattles, in all their variety, as symbols of Australia The history of Wattle Day dates back to the first wattle day in 1910 when it...

construction Wattle and daub Timber framing Framing (construction) In the developed world, energy-conservation has grown in importance in house design. Housing...

Rammed-Earth Style House Yaodong: a dugout used as an abode or shelter in northern China, especially on the Loess Plateau Wattle and daub Adobe: a type...

Wattle Downs is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. The suburb is located in the Wattle farm peninsula of the Manukau Harbour and is in the Manurewa-Papakura...

Historic District Along Vinton Street between Elm Street on the west and South 17th Street on the east Yes Yes Wattles House No Yes Zabriskie House Yes Yes...

Wattle Grove is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Kalamunda. Wattle Grove is approximately 2/3 semi-rural, and 1/3 suburban...

farmers moved into the area, where they smelted iron, built timber and wattle houses thatched with palm leaves, spoke a local dialect of kiSwahili, and engaged...

A great house is a large house or mansion with luxurious appointments and great retinues of indoor and outdoor staff. The term is used mainly historically...

Acacia, commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about 1,084 species of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae...

dilapidated houses were burned for the purpose of recycling the clay within their structure to use in the construction of new buildings. Wattle-and-daub...

replaced with a grocery store and parking lot. Wattles House 1895 320 South 37th Street, Omaha Banker Gurdon Wattles lived here for 25 years, during which time...