Photo : Jo David for Sotheby’s International Realty A colonnade leads to the front door.
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Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
4 Apr. 2025
The company has proposed demolishing four buildings in the neighborhood that have fallen into poor condition: a four-plex on Jefferson Street from 1909, a house on Summit Street from 1905, and two century-old colonnades on Summit Street.
Or are Allende’s grandes alamedas still beckoning all these years later?
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Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
But what has resonated most, the words that adorn hundreds of monuments erected in plazas, streets, and playgrounds across the world, is his prophecy that someday the grandes alamedas, the great avenues lined with trees, would open for the free people of tomorrow to walk through.
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Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
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