Houdini & Bess w/ Oscar Teale exposing slate writing fraud. Has he figured out a way to bring himself back from the grave Find out in Houdini. Haversat & Ewing Galleries auction starts January 25. Happy 147th birthday to everyones favorite magician Harry Houdini. Today the Seay Building is included in the National Register and The NJ Registry of Historic Places. Edward Seay who served as eighth president of Centenary from 1948 until 1976. Years later the main building would be named in honor of Dr. The old cornerstone of the original building was placed beside it, so today one can visit the structure and see not one but two cornerstones, one dated 1869 and the other 1900.īy September 1901 the new buildings were put into use, even though not all construction had been completed. On Decemthe cornerstone of the new building was laid by Dr. Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz, later Ehrich Weiss or Harry Weiss Ma October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-American illusionist and stunt performer, noted for his sensational escape acts. Mediums used this method to allegedly receive messages from the dead. Left: Oscar Teale, Harry Houdini, and Harry’s wife Bess Houdini exposing a practice known as slate writing. When Houdini died, Oscar Teale served as one of his pallbearers and also designed Houdini’s cemetery monument in Queens, New York.Ībove: Oscar Teale, Harry Houdini, and fellow magician Julius Zancig. Teale has written books about magic, one of which is in the collection of Centenary’s Taylor Memorial Library. Oscar Teale was also very interested in magic and was a good friend of Harry Houdini. From Jefferson Street the optical illusion is of a single, massive structure taking up an entire block. To limit the damage fire might pose in the future, he separated the north and south dormitories (for young men and women, respectively) from the main administration building, which still stands on the same footprint as the original school. A New Yorker for most of his life, Houdini was interred here at the Machpelah Cemetery after his death from a ruptured appendix on October 31, 1926. Teale, a prominent architect of churches and homes in the New Jersey and New York area. The grave of Harry Houdini: Born in Hungary in 1874, Erik Weisz rose to magic stardom under the stagename of Harry Houdini. The man who was eventually awarded the contract was Oscar S. Members of the Board of Trustees were determined to rebuild and asked several architects to prepare plans and bids. The most interesting of these items was the door to cell Number 3, which Harry Houdini supposedly escaped from in November 1923.After the fire of 1899, Centenary was in need of a new administration building. At that time, the new owner put items from the Mason Avenue station up for sale. The old facility on Mason Avenue remained unsold until 2007.
The police department finally moved to new headquarters at the old Barrows Building in 2004. The ambulance and the beds from the former hospital were then donated to the North Attleborough Fire Department
The small hospital closed in 1968 and the police department took over the entire 7,000-square-foot building at 16 Mason Avenue. The police station continued to occupy the other half. MAYER SAMUEL WEISS Rabbi & Teacher in Israel Born Aug. Half of the new building was occupied by the MacKreth Memorial Hospital, which opened on January 11, 1941. The plaque on the monument’s right end honors Houdini’s father, with Hebrew script engraved on the first seven lines, followed by: Sacred to the Memory of Our Dearly Beloved Husband and Father REV. This expanded building became known as the MacKreth Memorial Building. In 1939 a much larger building was constructed which incorporated the original police station into the new structure. In 1914 a new North Attleborough police station was built on Mason Avenue at a cost of $6,000.
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