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Schönborn Palace (Prague)

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Richard Crane, the first U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, sold the Palace to the United States Government in 1924 for $ 125,000.
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lived and worked in the palace in 1917. The last inhabitant was Count Carl Johann Schönborn (1890-1952), grand nephew of Cardinal
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built the present palace between 1643 and 1656 on the site of an earlier building that had been destroyed during the
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United States Department of State, Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (1 May 2010).
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The Secretary of State's Register of Culturally Significant Property
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Embassy of the United States, Prague, Czech Republic
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Czech
Malá Strana
Prague
United States Embassy to the Czech Republic
Richard Crane
First World War

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improve this article
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"Schönborn Palace" Prague
news
newspapers
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scholar
JSTOR
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Rudolf von Colloredo
Thirty Years War
Battle of Lutzen
Schönborn family
Franz Kafka
Franziskus Schönborn
Christoph Schönborn
World War I
George F. Kennan
Hradčany
The palace in 2012
The palace in winter

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