rookery

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Animal lovers will likely want to make a stop at Piedras Blancas Rookery, which claims to be the world’s only elephant seal rookery that is free and open to the public 365 days a year.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 8, 2022

Dan Wallis, who runs Rookery Farms in Newbury, Berkshire, said he made the decision this week to sow spring wheat on land that was not due to be planted on until next autumn.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2022

Extra attraction: Travel about 10 miles south to the Rookery Building, which Burnham and Root designed in 1888.

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2019

The Rookery Building was finished in 1888, the work of architects Burnham and Root.

From Washington Times • Jul. 11, 2019

A far more important outcome of the Rookery meeting, however, was Olmsted’s recognition that the architects’ noble dreams magnified and complicated the already-daunting challenge that faced him in Jackson Park.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson