A Georgian pine doorway from Lombard Street. Ca. 1715. Cartographer_Gerard Mercator Mississippi Railroads

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bridging ancient knowledge with the geographic advancements of the early modern period

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A Georgian pine doorway from Lombard Street. Ca. 1715. Cartographer_Gerard Mercator Mississippi RailroadsAn early Georgian pine doorway from Lombard Street, London. Ca. 1715. Installed on the east wall of the dining room. Surround: 12 1 x 7 1 ; door: 6 4 x 2 10. Lombard Street, sometimes called the Wall Street of London, has long been the center of banking in England. It was named for a land grant made to Lombard merchants, who took the place of expelled Jews as bankers, in the mid XIIIc. It was an area shaped architecturally by Christopher Wren; his