(Image is from National Park Service Website)

The Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is the first Catholic church in Atlanta and was completed in 1873. The original Catholic church in Atlanta was built in 1848 but sustained critical damage after the occupation in 1864 by the Union and was subsequently rebuilt into the present building known as the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. The church was designed by William H. Parkins to mimic the Victorian era Gothic Revival by implementing many European, primarily English, designs to create this structure. While mimicking the European Victorian-style, the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception takes on many aspects of the American style by combining French, English, and Italian Gothic styles and mixing it with local...

The image I provided is a drawing of Steeple Inn in 1900.

“Holborn.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 29 Oct. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holborn.

Most of the action in Bleak House happens around 1850 London in the neighborhood of Holborn.  Holborn is located in the center of London and is now a major cite for offices and historic museums. The Holborn neighborhood was soley a community until the Holbron District was created 1855. This district included the parishes of St. Andrew, St. George, and...

The Spa Fields Burial Ground was an infamous place during the 19th century with its closeness to London. The Spa Fields themselves are much more expansive than just the burial grounds and holds quite a dark history, from unsanitary conditions to the Spa Field Riots that occurred. Before the Spa Fields became a burial ground, in the more rural area of the large park there was a duck pond, that would eventually become the cemetery grounds, which lent to its 17th-century name of Ducking-pond Fields. After the transition to a burial ground, there has been a lot of confusion surrounding the type of cemetery the Spa Fields Burial Ground is considered. While the Spa Fields area itself is known as a nonconformist chapel, the burial ground itself was privately owned...

Dickens sets David Copperfield in places recognizable to his audience,19th-century English people. Thus, his descriptions and the world where his fictional characters exist more real. One of the first mentions of the Westminster area is when David crosses the Westminster Bridge with Ms. Pettogy in his search for Emily. The bridge was built in 1862 and mimics the Gothic style of Westminster Hall. Westminster Hall is the oldest building in the Houses of Parliament and the most ancient Palace of Westminster which still stands tall in its original form. It was built around 1100 AD and survived a fire in 1830. According to the Dickens' Trail, Dickens considered the place "a very hideous church...generally resembling some petrified monster, frightful and giant, on its back with legs in the air." He was buried in Westminster Abbey, near Westminster Hall, in the Poet's Corner in 1870. However, the UK Parliament describes Dickens' first interaction with...