<p>Bendru Theertha bendru, bendir, or bend&#39;r ) is a natural hot water spring, located at a distance of about 15 kilometres from Puttur town in the Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, India, which is situated in an area near the river Seeresude ಸುದೆ), a small tributary of the river Netravathi. Now it is considered govt of Karnataka as tourist spot of Dakshina Kannada district.</p><br>
<h2>Religious centre</h2><br>
<p>Bendru Theertha is a pilgrimage centre for Hindus. Every year on the occasion of Teertha Amavasya day (falls first week of September)people consider this day to be auspicious and come to the hot spring for a holy bathe. They believed that the water is said to be more auspicious and a dip in the pool drives away all skin diseases like eczema, allergic rashes and many more ailments.</p><br>
<p>Walthall School, also known as Court Street School, is located at 601 Court Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It was utilized as a public school building from 1902 until 1987. The building is a contributing property to the Hattiesburg Historic Neighborhood District, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The building was designated a Mississippi Landmark in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Walthall School was constructed as a two-story brick building with a 12-bay front facade that contained round-arch windows. The building has a hipped roof, with a Mission style effect achieved by a curvilinear gable. It has one-story flat-roof additions. Stucco was applied to the outer brick walls as a Works Progress Administration project (between 1935 and 1943).</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Shortly after the turn of the 20th century, the Hattiesburg School Board engaged the services of architect Robert E. Lee to design the Court Street school building.</p><br>
<p>The school was named for Edward Cary Walthall, a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a United States Senator from Mississippi (1885–1894).</p><br>
<p>In 1928, the building was expanded and remodeled to reflect a Mission Revival architectural style, under the direction of architect Noah Webster Overstreet. The school was again enlarged by additions made in 1941, by architects Landry & Matthes, and in 1957, by Associated School Architects.</p><br>
<p>Use of the structure as a public school ended in 1987. The Association then created the Walthall Foundation to own and operate the building.</p><br>
<p>In 2006, the Walthall Foundation sold the building to a development company for establishment of condominiums within the structure, while retaining the building&#39;s Mississippi Landmark status, as well as its status on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>27 Old Market Street, Usk, Monmouthshire, forms part of a range of terraced houses which were originally the Great House of Roger Williams, High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in the mid-16th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The original building, "of exceptional height", was constructed in the middle of the 16th century as a townhouse by Roger Williams of Llangybi. The house comprised the entire range, from No.s 17-27. Williams was High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1561-2 and had purchased the majority of the remains of Usk Priory following the Dissolution in 1536-41. Williams must also have had access to the remains of Usk Castle as much of the stone for the construction of his house came from that site.</p><br>
<p>In the early 19th century, the house was divided into a number of separate dwellings and many of the interior fittings, including the main staircase, were removed.</p><br>
<p>The building is of stone, party colour-washed and partly rendered. The interior of No.27 retains its original ceiling plasterwork. The architectural historian John Newman described the ceiling on the lower floor as decorated with "rosettes, shields and floral sprigs." No.27 is designated a Grade II* listed building on account of these ceilings. The remaining buildings in the range are designated Grade II listed buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Palazzo De Ballis is a 15th century historical building of Spanish Gothic architecture; the Tower De Ballis is a part of it. It is located in the town centre of Alcamo, in the province of Trapani.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to the historian Pietro Maria Rocca the palace would date back to 1495.</p><br>
<p>It belonged to the De Ballis family, noblemen native from Piacenza, who built it, and was made after the designs of Tommaso and Pietro Oddo, (father and son) who were from Monreale (Palermo).</p><br>
<p>After the extinction of the De Ballis, and the property transfer to the family Papè and Polizzi, the part including the tower belongs to the D’Angelo family, while the other part belongs to the family Castrogiovanni-Iannitto.</p><br>
<h3>Description</h3><br>
<p>Giuseppe Polizzi describes the palace in this way:</p><br>
<p>On the first floor the square tower has a window with an architrave and small corbels; on the second floor, there is a three-light-window inserted into a round arch; on the eastern side of the court yard there is a mullioned window.</p><br>
<p>The tower is surrounded by merlons, leaning on little niches sustaining pointed arches.</p><br>
<p>In ancient times the main door was in the middle; in the l700s it was substituted by two new doors: the one at the street number 21, has a calcarenite portal with two bases surmounted by lesenes; the second, at the number 23, is smaller and has two irregular bases, owing to the restoration of the road surface; you can enter the tower through a staircase from the entrance at the house number 23.</p><br>
<p>On the first floor there are four balconies, two of them have stone galleries with fluted corbels; on the south side, on the second floor, there are two balconies with two stones galleries too; on the ground floor, in via Madonna dell’Alto, there are three doors and three windows of modern residential buildings. The first floor has four small balconies, and another one on the second floor; at the corner there is the De Ballis family’s coat of arms, with a banded shield having three balls.</p><br>
<p>Inside the palace there is an elegant court yard, with a staircase leading to the first floor; the doors here are lacquered and their panels with glasses, painted with flowers and different figures.</p><br>
<p>Inside the hall there are some frescoes that were restored by the professor Giuseppe Ganga in 1985, representing multicolour flowers and landscapes. The centre of the vault is surmounted by a rose window, instead, and the bedroom is embellished by a canopy bed and some frescoes on the ceiling.</p><br>
<p>In 2005 the palace and its tower were restored and have complied with the originary characteristics of the building: these works were entirely at the D’Angelo family’s own expense.</p><br>
<h3>Associazione Culturale Musikè</h3><br>
<p>It has its own seat in this building and its purpose is to promote art and music, in order to contribute to the growth and interior beauty, of teenagers above all, through exhibitions, concerts, music and singing courses, music therapy, besides the diffusion of literary subjects and Maths.</p><br>
<p>Another goal is to recover tastes, uses and traditions of our past; they give dinners, and you can also make a guided visit at Palazzo de Ballis.</p><br>
<p>Charter Oak Place is a street on the south side of downtown Hartford, Connecticut. Laid out in the 1860s, its residential character is in marked contrast to the commercial development that predominates around it. The street&#39;s buildings, constructed between the early 1860s and 1900, are a cross-section of Victorian architectural styles. The entire length of the street is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Charter Oak Place is located on the southern fringe of Hartford&#39;s downtown area. Its northern end is on Charter Oak Avenue between Main Street and Popieluszko Court, and its southern end is on Wyllys Avenue. It may be seen to continue as St. Prospect Street to the north and Gordon Street to the south. It is a relatively narrow road, but is lined by trees and represents a quiet urban residential enclave in an otherwise more densely built area. The buildings which line the street are all residential, containing either one or two housing units. The majority of buildings are brick and 2-1/2 or 3 tories in height. Stylistically they are diverse, including examples of Italianate, Second Empire, Romanesque, and Queen Anne Victorian styles. Three of the houses at the southern end are wood frame structures. Some of the properties have a carriage house in the rear.</p><br>
<p>The area that became Charter Oak Place was a country estate in the mid-19th century. Charter Oak Place was informally laid out about 1857, and development proceeded from the 1860s until about 1900. The urban density of the relatively high quality construction and upper class focus is somewhat unusual for Hartford, because most of the city&#39;s upper class were during the late 19th century moving to more suburban settings, in neighborhoods such as Clay-Arsenal north of the downtown. Charter Oak Place was populated by merchants, judges, and skilled craftsmen. One notable resident of the street was Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun.</p><br>
<p>Hewitt Public School is a former school building in Hewitt, Minnesota, United States, active 1911 to 1979. It was Hewitts only educational institution up to 1952, hosting first grade through high school at its peak. It was also a key venue for community events, public health services, and extracurricular agricultural instruction. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 for having local significance in the theme of education. It was nominated for its central role in educating and socializing not only Hewitts children but its adult population as well.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in 1981 the Hewitt Historical Society has developed the former school into the Hewitt Museum & Library. It interprets the history and culture of Hewitt and the surrounding Stowe Prairie Township.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Hewitt Public School is a cruciform building rising two and a half stories. Its dominant visual feature is a cross-gambrel roof, which rises to 42 ft on the shorter ridgeline and 36 ft on the longer. The walls are poured concrete covered with stucco, on a foundation of granite ashlars.</p><br>
<p>The main façade is symmetrical and complexly fenestrated. Narrow arched windows flank the main entrance and a Palladian window is centered on the attic level. The rectangular windows feature elaborate hood moulds while the arched and round windows feature elongated keystone moulds. The central section projecting toward the street has corner pilasters topped by elaborate cornices.</p><br>
<p>The front entrance leads into a 12 ft foyer, which has a staircase on either side leading up to the second floor. There are three classrooms on the first floor. The second floor consists of two classrooms on the left, an auditorium in the middle, and three small rooms on the right that served as a superintendent&#39;s office, library, and supply room. The basement level contained classrooms for art and chemistry, the cafeteria, restrooms, and a boiler room.</p><br>
<p>A one-story addition is attached to the southeast corner of the school. It contains a gymnasium, a kitchen, a meeting room, and restrooms. The gymnasium was built in 1952 and the rest added in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Background and construction</h2><br>
<p>The town of Hewitt was platted in 1891 and opened its first school the following year. By the end of the first decade of the 20th century the original building was getting cramped, due more to state initiatives that improved attendance by farm children than any major population growth. At this time state and national education officials were also pushing for consolidation of schools, doing away with the one-room schoolhouses that peppered the countryside. In 1911 a new state law offered grants for construction and operation of larger schools centrally located in towns. Officials from Hewitt&#39;s school district convinced the surrounding rural districts to consolidate with them.</p><br>
<p>The school board hired architect C. Howard Parsons of Minneapolis, who had designed schools in nearby Long Prairie, Wadena, Sauk Centre, and Little Falls. Parsons and the local building committee decided to construct the new school entirely out of concrete. This was a fairly novel building material at the time, garnering widespread praise as durable, fireproof, and modern. Construction began in May 1911 with local laborers under the supervision of Minneapolis-based contractor Medson Brothers. They used a pulley and a horse to raise buckets of cement to cast the two-story walls.</p><br>
<h2>Use</h2><br>
<h3>Education</h3><br>
<p>The consolidated Hewitt Public School opened in the fall of 1911, originally housing grades one through eight plus one year of high school. Upgrades to the heating, plumbing, ventilation, and electrical systems in the 1920s allowed the district to offer two more years of high school. Government funds for these improvements also mandated better library facilities, lighting, science equipment, administration, and record keeping. With these reforms in place, intended to increase student performance on state exams, Hewitt Public School was promoted to a full four-year high school in 1931.</p><br>
<h3>Public health</h3><br>
<p>Hewitt Public School served as the base of operations in Hewitt and the surrounding Stowe Prairie Township for public health efforts, a growing national focus after World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic. A public health nurse sponsored by the Red Cross worked out of the school beginning in 1920, providing childhood health screenings, vaccinations, and classes for local women on nutrition, cooking, and first aid. In this period the sick were usually cared for at home by family members rather than being hospitalized, so the nurse also provided education to caregivers and housecalls to local tuberculosis patients.</p><br>
<h3>Agricultural instruction</h3><br>
<p>The Smith–Lever Act of 1914 provided government funding for agricultural and home economics instruction, and once again Hewitt Public School was the main local venue for these programs. Offered by the state&#39;s cooperative extension service, they helped introduce agricultural communities to the latest and most effective methods of raising crops and livestock. One popular program was the school garden, which students helped plan, plant, tend, harvest, and preserve (the canned produce then being used in school lunches throughout the year).</p><br>
<p>During World War II, agricultural extension services were a key tool for the national and state government to try to boost farm production and address wartime shortages. These programs helped recruit additional farm labor, collect scrap metal, share fertilizer and machinery, and encourage children to buy war savings stamps. They held classes on cooking with local produce and substituting for unavailable foods. Meanwhile the school&#39;s faculty took charge of local sugar rationing.</p><br>
<h3>Community venue</h3><br>
<p>Like all public schools at the time, the Hewitt building was also intended to serve as a community center. The auditorium hosted plays, concerts, and lectures. Community groups, many led by the school&#39;s own teachers, met in the classrooms after hours. Demand for space was high enough that the school board instituted a rental fee in 1922, though organizations open to the public (such as the Boy Scouts) were exempted.</p><br>
<h2>Closure and reuse</h2><br>
<p>Graduating classes from the high school were never large, hitting a maximum of 16 in 1943. In 1946 only four students graduated. The declining enrollment led the school board to approve closing the high school in 1948, but community members successfully lobbied to keep it open. Despite the local support and the addition of a gymnasium in 1952, the school&#39;s superintendent stated that "there will soon be too few pupils left to operate even a grade school in Hewitt." The Minnesota State Board of Education, pushing for consolidation with nearby Bertha, finally broke through the opposition by promising that the grade school would remain in Hewitt. Beginning in 1953 the older students began attending classes in Bertha, while grades one through six continued meeting at Hewitt Public School. In 1964, however, that was dropped to just fifth and sixth grades, and the school closed permanently in December 1979.</p><br>
<p>The building and its grounds were sold to the city of Hewitt for one dollar. The Hewitt Lions Club was granted a 99-year lease on the gymnasium for use as a community center, adding a meeting room and kitchen to that wing in 1980. The following year the Hewitt Historical Society organized and began using the main section as a museum. Outside, half of the former schoolyard has been developed as a public park.</p><br>
<p>In 2010 the building&#39;s roof and windows were restored with a grant from the Minnesota Historical Society funded by the 2008 Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment. With books donated by the school library of Eagle Bend, the historical society opened a lending library in one of the former classrooms in 2011. The society aims to offer internet access as well to help make up for the lack of a public library in Hewitt.</p><br>
<p>Goat Island, also known as Mokuauia, is a flat islet consisting of lithified dunes in Laie Bay on the northeast shore of Oahu, Hawaii.</p><br>
<p>The islet is 13 acre in area with a maximum elevation of 15 ft.</p><br>
<p>The islet is a Hawaii State Seabird Sanctuary.</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife and conservation efforts</h2><br>
<p>Goat Island is home to 16 native plant species, including the federally endangered Sesbania tomentosa. It is a breeding ground for thousands of wedge-tailed shearwaters.</p><br>
<p>The islet contains invasive species, including black rats, fire ants, and big headed ants. Black rats were first documented on the islet in 1967 with multiple eradication attempts in the 1990s and 2000s. The elimination of the rats resulted in increased wedge-tailed shearwater reproduction.</p><br>
<p>The dunes of the islet are a designated State Seabird Sanctuary, but its three beaches remain accessible to the public and attract many people annually.</p><br>
<p>Ashley Reservoir, a Class II hazard reservoir, is the secondary drinking supply for the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts. The reservoir, consisting of Wright Pond and Ashley Pond, has an impound capacity of more than 795 million gallons of water and a safe yield of 2.1 million gallons of water per day.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir&#39;s construction finished and it became fully operational in 1897. Ashley Reservoir is connected to a smaller reservoir McLean Reservoir, named after Holyoke Water Works Commissioner Hugh McLean, through a water-pumping plant that is operated by the Holyoke Water Works. The reservoir has a surrounding gravel road open to civilian recreational use.</p><br>
<h2>Watershed public access and recreation</h2><br>
<p>In order to protect the water supply from the threats from unrestricted motorized vehicle use, most areas around the reservoir are publicly accessible only by foot, with limited parking available at some of the surrounding gates.</p><br>
<p>Fishing is not allowed in the reservoir to protect aquatic invasive species.</p><br>
<p>Regulations designed to ensure pure water include the prohibiting of Dogs, horseback riding, camping, smoking, sledding and motorcycle riding are among prohibited activities from the reservoir and abutting property. Pedestrians are allowed on the paths and roads around the reservoir but the scenic expanse that contains a drinking water supply limits activities.</p><br>
<p>The Former Mount Pleasant Public Library is a historic building located in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. The library here was established in 1875. The community applied to Andrew Carnegie for a grant to build a new building, which was accepted on January 13, 1903. They were initially granted $10,000 and then were given a further $2,500. The Chicago architectural firm Patton & Miller designed the Romanesque Revival structure. They adapted Henry Hobson Richardson&#39;s Thomas Crane Public Library  for this building. Unlike the Crane Library, this building is primarily brick with rough stone used for a short tower on the main facade and for the trim. It also features an asymmetrical grouping of intersecting gables. The building opened on Wednesday, February 22, 1905. An addition was built onto the rear of the building in 1926. It was designed by the Des Moines architectural firm of Dougher, Rich & Woodburn. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The library has subsequently moved to another facility and this building now houses a branch of Southeastern Community College.</p><br>
<p>The Fifth Ward School, also known as the Monsarrat School, is a 19th-century, three-story brick building located on 5th and York streets in Louisville, Kentucky. Over the years the building has served as a school, a hospital, a dormitory, a library, and a museum and is currently occupied by apartments. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original Fifth Ward School was completed in 1854. It burned down the next year, and the architect Isaiah Rogers was contracted to rebuild the school. The result, the current building in modified Renaissance Revival style, was completed in 1857. The school later came to be known as the Monsarrat School, after its first principal, Laura Lucas Monsarrat.</p><br>
<p>The Fifth Ward School would serve three hundred children annually. During the Civil War it served as a hospital. During World War II, the building became a dormitory for soldiers.</p><br>
<p>From 1937 to 1951, the Monsarrat School was used to operate the Free Public Library and Museum, on loan from the Board of Education. This was due to the flood of 1937 that damaged the Louisville Free Public Library building. The museum was located on the first floor. Visitors would have to pack into the small museum location until a new one could be afforded.</p><br>
<p>On May 20, 1940, the library on York Street reopened; however, the museum continued on at the Monsarrat for another thirty-seven years. In 1977, the museum was relocated to downtown, where it is now known as the Kentucky Science Center.</p><br>
<p>In the 1980s the Monsarrat building was transformed into upscale apartments.</p><br>
<p>City Hall is the official seat of government for the city of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. This 1½-story stone structure was designed by Burlington, Iowa architect William Weibley, and constructed by local builder K.A. Bergdahl. It is an eclectic combination of Colonial Revival styles. For the most part it reflects Georgian Revival aesthetics with its symmetrical facade and the pilasters that flank the main entrance. The stepped ends of the gable roof and the projecting gable above the main entrance reflect the Dutch Revival influence. The random ashlar stone used in its construction was salvaged from the Seeley Memorial Y.M.C.A./High School that was destroyed in a 1932 fire. The city halls construction in 1936 was a Works Progress Administration project. The east wing, which has been altered from its original appearance, originally housed the citys police and fire departments before they moved into their own buildings. City Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Siletiteniz  is an endorheic salt lake located in Ualikhanov District of North Kazakhstan, near the Russian border. The lake basin covers 777 km&sup2; but the actual area covered by water varies. The lake reaches a maximum depth of 3.2 m and has a volume of about 1.5 km3. The northern and eastern shores are high and straight while the western shore is low-lying and indented, gradually giving way to salt marshes. Hydrogen sulfide is emitted from deposits at the bottom of the lake.</p><br>
<p>The lake is mainly fed by snow. The Selety River, which is 407 km long and drains an area of 18,500 km&sup2, sometimes reaches the lake during high water but usually dissipates into the marshes south of the lake.</p><br>
<p>Teniz is Kazakh for "sea", while the etymology of Selety is less clear. One hypothesis is that it derives from Yeniseian *sēre, "stag."</p><br>
<p>The Anglican Church of St Martin in Fiddington within the English county of Somerset dates from the 11th century and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Part of the herringbone masonry survives from the 11th century, however the church has been revised several times since. The roof is from the 16th century. A storm in 1729 damaged the building and restoration work was undertaken.</p><br>
<p>The church was restored by John Norton in 1860,</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the Quantock Coast benefice within the Diocese of Bath and Wells.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building consists of a nave, aisle and chancel with vestry. The three-stage west tower is supported by diagonal buttresses.</p><br>
<h3>Sheela na Gig</h3><br>
<p>On the outer south wall of the nave is a 12 in Sheela na Gig.</p><br>
<p>The interior includes a 15th-century piscina. The pulpit and font are Jacobean.</p><br>
<h3>Churchyard</h3><br>
<p>The churchyard contains two Grade II listed structures. Five metres south-east of the porch stands an eight feet (2.5 metre) high cross. The cross head is now missing, but it is described as visually impressive and probably in its original position. The sandstone cross is thought to date from the early 14th century and the shaft has a carved weathered human face on its eastern face. Closer to the porch is the tomb of Matthew Grove which dates from 1680. The sandstone chest tomb is made up four massive stone slabs.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Shapwick within the English county of Somerset was consecrated in 1331. It is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed in the early 14th century and consecrated in 1331. It replaced an earlier building which existed in 1168 but may go back to a charter of 971. The new building had the same dimensions as the previous church. The church was under the patronage of Glastonbury Abbey.</p><br>
<p>Its central two-stage tower is a style that was at least a century out of date when it was built in the 15th century as part of wider alterations to the church. Further restoration was undertaken in 1861 by George Gilbert Scott.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the Polden Wheel benefice within the Diocese of Bath and Wells.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church consists of a nave with a vestry, chancel and south porch. The tower has six bells.</p><br>
<p>Parts of the current building including the piscina and font were moved from an earlier church in fields outside the village.</p><br>
<p>The church contains memorials to the Bull family, including Henry Bull, who were Lord of the Manor and lived at Shapwick Manor.</p><br>
<p>Shapwick Manor at Shapwick in the English county of Somerset is a medieval manor house which was rebuilt in the early 17th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The manor of Shapwick originally belonged to Glastonbury Abbey, forming part of its Pouholt (Polden) estate in 729. The house was built for the almoner of Glastonbury Abbey in the Middle Ages. A survey in 1327 includes a 5 acre garden, moat and fishponds.</p><br>
<p>The manor house (which was previously known as Down House) dates to around 1475; originally it was moated but the moat was filled in during the rebuilding in the first quarter of the 17th century.</p><br>
<p>It was rebuilt in the 17th century for Henry Bull an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1692. Further extension and restoration of the house took place in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>During World War I and II the house was used as a convalescent home for injured servicemen.</p><br>
<p>Between 1956 and 1981 it was a boarding house for boys at Millfield School.</p><br>
<p>There are various stories about the house being haunted and part of the 2010 horror film entitled Psychosis was filmed at the house.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The two-storey stone building has asymmetrical frontage with a glazed veranda supported on iron columns.</p><br>
<p>The stable block, which was built in the 17th century, is also Grade II listed. The dovecote is medieval but was restored in the 18th and 19th centuries, with a new roof being installed in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The stone screen and flanking walls were built around 1658.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin in Nether Stowey in the English county of Somerset has a 15th-century tower, with the remainder of the church being rebuilt in 1851 by Richard Carver and Charles Edmund Giles. It is as a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Nether Stwey had a small church by the 12th century with a three-bay nave. A gallery was added in the early 17th century. In 1791 a failed attempt was made to enlarge the church, but in 1814 a transept was added.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the Quantock Villages benefice of Aisholt, Enmore, Goathurst, Nether Stowey, Over Stowey and Spaxton within the Diocese of Bath and Wells.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The red sandstone church now has a nave, north and south aisles and a chancel with attached vestry. The three-stage west tower is supported by diagonal buttresses and decorated with pinnacles and prominent gargoyles. The tower contains six bells which were recast in 1914.</p><br>
<p>King Square in Bridgwater within the English county of Somerset was laid out with large Georgian houses between 1770 and 1800 on the site of Bridgwater Castle. It is also the site of the Bridgwater War Memorial</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site of King Square was previously occupied by Bridgwater Castle. It was laid out with large Georgian houses between 1770 and 1800.</p><br>
<p>During the later part of the 17th century John Harvey developed the site of the castle. In 1721 the remains of the castle, the house and the land was sold to James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos who developed an industrial centre in the town and demolished the last of the buildings. Much of the site was built on in the 1720s to create the Georgian Castle Street. In 1734 Chandos sold the whole of the redevelopment area to Thomas Watts, who sold it the following year to John Anderton, whose descendants continued to clear old buildings and construct new ones. King Square was built between 1807 and 1814, with many of the buildings incorporating stone from the old castle, although further study would be needed to say how much of their cellars and foundations are in situ castle walls. In 2008, during sewer renovation work, a section of the curtain wall of the castle and a tunnel used to transport goods from the port were discovered.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Bridgwater War Memorial is a Grade II* listed war memorial located on King Square. It was designed by John Angel in the mid-1920s. The green figure of the memorial is allegorical, representing "Civilization as a seated female, holding a globe in one hand and with the book of knowledge on her lap."</p><br>
<p>Number one on the southern side is a house of flemish-bond brick with a roman tile roof. Numbers One to Seven and eight and nine are part of a terrace with similar construction, listed separately. Numbers 10 to 14 are on the east side. Numbers 11 and 12 are on the west side of the square, as is the larger number 24, while 16 and 17 are on the north.</p><br>
<p>The Village is a social service agency providing community services and resources for at-risk families and children in Hartford, Connecticut. With an organizational history dating to the early 19th century, it is one of the oldest such institutions in the state. Its architecturally distinguished campus, located 1680 Albany Avenue, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Services</h2><br>
<p>The Village provides a broad array of services intended to support the needs of children and families. Services offered include financial and social services for at-risk families, more intensive services including outpatient and inpatient residential treatments for children with emotional and mental health issues, and adoption placement services.</p><br>
<h2>Campus</h2><br>
<p>The Village&#39;s primary facilities are located in northwestern Hartford, at the junction of Albany Avenue (United States Route 44) and Bloomfield Avenue (Connecticut Route 189). Resembling an English country village, it was designed by New York architect Grosvenor Atterbury and built in the 1920s. The "cottage plan" of its layout, with multiple smaller buildings, was then a popular form for the institutional treatment of needy individuals. Although there is a similarity of design to the buildings in the complex, each one has unique and distinguishing characteristics, in a bid to give each one a more homelike feeling for its residents.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Villages origins are in a number of early social services organizations whose foundings were in the early 19th century. The Female Beneficent Society was founded in 1809 for the benefit of indigent girls, and the Hartford Orphan Asylum was established in 1833. These organizations merged in 1865, retaining the nmae "Hartford Orphan Asylum". It built a dormitory-style facility on Putnam Avenue in 1879. With the rise in popularity of the "cottage plan" for institutional housing, the organization had its current campus built in the 1920s on land donated by Reverend Francis Goodwin. Through the 20th century, the organizations mission broadened beyond the care of orphaned children to include family services, seeking to address issues caused by poverty and family breakdowwn.</p><br>
<p>West Bower Manor  in Durleigh within the English county of Somerset was largely built in the 15th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>West Bower Manor is all that remains of a large manorial property, the majority of which has been demolished. Parts of the building date from the 15th century though the core of the fabric may even be earlier, further parts were built in the 17th and 19th centuries.</p><br>
<p>It was the seat of the historical estate of "West Bower" (Bower Delamere) once held by Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, the brother of Jane Seymour, Henry the VIII`s Queen, who is reputed to have been born at West Bower Manor. Seymour had inherited it from his cousin Margaret Coker, the last of the Cokers a local landowning family who had been lord of the manor since the Cokers had been granted the land by King Stephen. Coker had been granted the right to add an oratory in 1339.</p><br>
<p>The estate became part of the estate of Halswell House in the second half of the 16th century and has been used as a farm since then.</p><br>
<p>It stands on the banks of Durleigh reservoir which was built in 1938.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The principal surviving element from the Medieval manor is the gatehouse. It is an example of Decorated-Perpendicular architecture.</p><br>
<p>The stone building has been extensively restored, but is a good example of a former courtyard gatehouse with a pair of faceted turrets on either side of the former entrance passageway. The adjacent farmhouse was built in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The Porterdale Historic District in Porterdale, Georgia is a 525 acre historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. Its area is roughly the city limits of Porterdale north of Elm St., and it includes Colonial Revival, Late Gothic Revival, and other architecture. In 2001 it included 496 contributing buildings and eight contributing structures.</p><br>
<p>It includes three mill complexes and mill worker housing.</p><br>
<p>It includes:</p><br>
<p>Porterdale Mill (1899), built on the north bank of the Yellow River (Yellow River (Georgia)?), a three-story brick building stretching about 800 ft along the river, with a four-story tower (see photos #3-#8 accompanying the NRHP nomination document)</p><br>
<p>Welaunee Mill (c.1920), on south bank of the Yellow River, a two-story brick mill with a three-story tower (see photo #1).</p><br>
<p>Osprey Mill (1916), the largest of the three mills, covering two square blocks in the center of town (see photos 35, 36, 37, 41)</p><br>
<p>Other properties in the district include:</p><br>
<p>Porter Memorial Gymnasium, 2201 Main St, Porterdale, Georgia (1938), designed by architect Ellamae Ellis League. winning a Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation award. (See photo #12 in NRHP document.)</p><br>
<p>Edward Lloyd Thomas (surveyor) had some involvement with the district.</p><br>
<p>The North Harris Street Historic District is a 60 acre historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It is roughly bounded by First Ave., Washington Ave., E. McCarty St., N. Harris St., Malone St., and Warthen St. in Sandersville, Georgia.</p><br>
<p>It includes works designed by architect Charles E. Choate and by his niece Ellamae Ellis League. It includes Greek Revival, Queen Anne and Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals architecture. In 1989 it included 88 contributing buildings as well as 11 non-contributing buildings and a non-contributing site.</p><br>
<p>Architect Ellamae Ellis League designed one or more contributing buildings in the district which were built in the late 1930s. She designed the Leonard House (1939), at 213 N. Harris, a one-story brick Colonial Revival style house featuring "paired end chimneys, a parapet roof and an accentuated front door entry." The doorway has a "decorative crown" and "slender columns set in-antis."</p><br>
<p>First National Bank is a historic building located in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. The bank was first located on this corner in the 1860s. Its first building was a small, brick Italianate structure. This building replaced it in 1923. It is a two story stone structure designed by Chicago architect Paul V. Hyland in the Neoclassical style. It is unique in Mount Pleasant in that it is the only stone building facing the square, and it reflects more of a public building instead of a commercial building. It is similar in style to the Henry County Courthouse, which is diagonally across the square. The exterior of the primary and secondary facades is composed of ashlar limestone and features paired pilasters on the corners of the primary facade, and a single column in the Corinthian order that flank the main entrance. It is capped with a simple classical cornice and parapet roof. The alley side of the building is composed of red brick. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>National State Bank is a historic building located in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. Because this two story, brick Italianate structure was built specifically as a bank, it features a chamfered corner, which was commonly used to designate a bank in the last quarter of the 19th century. However, it combines other features typical of an Italianate commercial building in an unusual way. The secondary facade has segmental arched windows that are regularly spaced, while the primary facade has the windows in a sophisticated arrangement that one would expect of an architect-designed building.  The metal cornice has widely spaced brackets on the primary facade and more typically spaced on the secondary facade. It also lacks an identification pediment on the corner, which is typical of the style. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Ingleside Historic District is a planned neighborhood and a historic district in Macon, Georgia which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<p>About 549 acre in area, in 2016 it included 641 contributing buildings, four contributing structures, and two contributing sites, as well as 115 non-contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>Architects W. Elliott Dunwody, Jackson Holliday, Ellamae Ellis League, Harry A. MacEwen, William F. Oliphant, Neel Reid, and Bernard A. Webb each designed one or more works in the district. The neighborhood itself was designed by civil engineers E.L. Gostin and S.R. Shi and landscape architect J.L. Hoffman.</p><br>
<p>Ellamae Ellis League designed a 1948 addition to the Tudor Revival 1932 Alexander School No. IV, at 3769 Ridge Avenue. The addition is contemporary in style and has long banks of windows consistent with the International Style. She also designed 3359 Osborne Place (1955-1956), 3395 Osborne Place (1940 & 1955), 3396 Osborne Place (1950s), 3180 Ingleside Avenue (1964-1965), and other works on Ridge Avenue, Riverdale Drive, and Vista Circle.</p><br>
<p>The Jefferson Street Historic District in Brownsville, Tennessee is a 1.4 acre historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<p>It is an area which "emerged in the early 1900s as the center for the city’s African-American community. While African Americans could shop in the white-owned businesses on the court square, they were often discriminated against. With the rise of the city’s African-American middle class, several businesses evolved along Jefferson Street. The majority of these buildings are One-Part and Two-Part Commercial Block buildings with modest detailing."</p><br>
<p>The listing included 13 contributing buildings and one contributing site (a community park), as well as three non-contributing buildings and a non-contributing site (site of a demolished building).</p><br>
<p>The contributing resources are:</p><br>
<p>C.P. Boyd Park (c.1948), South Jackson Ave. Was a "Negro tent" from 1887 to 1896, a frame residence from 1896 to 1944, and a park from 1948 to present, with a wooden gazebo and park benches.</p><br>
<p>35 South Jackson Avenue (c.1935), a one-part commercial block</p><br>
<p>36(B) South Jackson Avenue (c.1947), a two-part commercial block</p><br>
<p>39(B) S. Jackson Avenue (c.1943), a two-part commercial block</p><br>
<p>14 East Jefferson Street (c.1900), a two-part commercial block with brick corbelling</p><br>
<p>18 East Jefferson Street (c.1919), one-part commercial block, brick</p><br>
<p>22 East Jefferson Street (c.1910), one-part commercial block with two storefronts</p><br>
<p>29 (A) East Jefferson Street (c.1964), one-story commercial building</p><br>
<p>29 (B) East Jefferson Street (c.1948), one-story concrete block building</p><br>
<p>Winfield Lodge #52, 33 East Jefferson Street (c.1910), one-part commercial block, with stepped brick parapet and brick corbelling</p><br>
<p>34 (A) East Jefferson Street (c.1908), one-part commercial block</p><br>
<p>34 (B) East Jefferson Street (c.1957), one-story concrete block commercial building</p><br>
<p>34 (C) East Jefferson Street (c.1948), one story brick veneer concrete block commercial building</p><br>
<p>34 East Main Street (c.1906), one-part commercial block</p><br>
<p>The Hagerty House, also called the Hagerty-Harris House, is a two story house located on 505 East Rusk Street in Marshall, Texas. Built in 1889 by Thomas Higgins, it was the first solid brick residence in Marshall. It was built for William Phillip Hagerty, personal engineer of Texas and Pacific Railroad president George J. Gould by railway craftsmen. Born in 1848 in Ireland during the Great Potato Famine, Hagerty was likely to be arrested by the British government due to his nationalist activities when he emigrated in 1866 to the United States.</p><br>
<p>Members of the Hagerty family owned the house until 1967. Five years later, it was sold to the Harris family. Dr. James H. Harris and his son Dr. Rush C. Harris restored the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was made a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark and a historic marker was installed in 1977. It was also listed as a National Register of Historic Places the following year.</p><br>
<p>Alsea Falls, is a waterfall located in the heart of the Central Oregon Coast Range, just west of Monroe, in Benton County, in the USA state of Oregon. It totals 30 feet fall in one gradual cascade and is the centerpiece attraction of the Alsea Falls trailhead and Recreation Site.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Alsea Falls is located along a Bureau of Land Management Back Country Byway surrounded by Oldgrowth Douglas fir and western redcedar forests. The waters of the Alsea Falls are located downstream of the South Fork Alsea River.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The name of the waterfall and the river the forms it may have stemmed from Alsi, said to be a corruption of Alsea for native people who lived near the mouth of the river</p><br>
<p>Lake Karamık is a lake in Turkey.</p><br>
<p>It is situated to the south of Çay ilçe (district) of Konya Province at 38&deg;25&prime;N latitude, 30&deg;50&prime;E longitude. It is a very shallow lake and in some sources it is called a "marsh".</p><br>
<p>Its elevation with respect to sea level is about 1,000 m. It feeds Lake Eğirdir a bigger lake to the south by means of an underground creek. The total area of the marsh area is about 40 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>The fishes of the lake are common carp and northern pike as well as Turkish crayfish. The birds of the lake are</p><br>
<p>Eurasian bittern, Eurasian coot, Eurasian spoonbill, Ferruginous duck, greater sand plover, gull-billed tern, purple heron, pygmy cormorant, squacco heron and white-headed duck</p><br>
<p>Forest Glade Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Somersworth, New Hampshire. Set on 22 acre on Maple Street, it is a good example of the popular mid-19th century rural cemetery movement. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Forest Glade Cemetery is located southwest of downtown Somersworth, on the west side of Maple Street between Tates Brook Road and Bartlett Avenue. While the road frontage of the property is roughly straight, the rear line of the developed portion of the cemetery follows a broad curve. The rolling landscape has circulation roads laid out harmoniously with the terrain, which is dotted with mature plantings. The cemetery&#39;s prominent architectural features are the Furber Chapel, a stone English country chapel designed by Henry Vaughan and built in 1898, and the entrance gate, a stone arch bearing the inscription "Until the day dawns and the shadows flee away".</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was established in 1851, not long after Somersworth separated from Rollinsford, and was its first municipal cemetery. It has more than 7,000 burials, the oldest dating to 1852. In addition to more than 800 family plots, the cemetery has a dedicated section for members of the American Legion and the Grand Army of the Republic, as well as sections specifically consecrated for Jewish burials, and an area for the burial of the indigent.</p><br>
<p>The Collins and Townley Streets District is a historic district encompassing a cluster of mid-to-late 19th-century residences in the Asylum Hill neighborhood of Hartford, Connecticut. It includes properties on Collins, Atwood, Willard, and Townley Streets, which range architecturally from the Italianate and Second Empire of the 1860s and 1870s to the Shingle style of the 1890s. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Hartford&#39;s Asylum Hill area was farmland until the mid-1850s, when it began to be developed as a residential area. Collins Street has what is believed to be its oldest house, at #287, which stood on the estate of the Collins family. Over the next few decades the area south of Collins Street was turned into a residential neighborhood much as it is today, with a diversity of architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>Townley Street has one of the more consistent streetscapes, with a collection of brick and brownstone Italianate and Second Empire one and two-family houses. The U formed by Collins, Atwood, and Willard Streets has a series of Shingle style houses, most of which have brick first floors and shingled upper levels and touches of Colonial Revival design. East of Willard, Collins is lined with a row of slightly older Queen Anne and Italianate houses. Two of the houses, 171 Collins Street and 970 Asylum Avneue, have a known architect: in both instances it is George Keller.</p><br>
<p>The Budde-Singer Building is a historic building located in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. This three story, brick Italianate structure was built in 1882. It replaced a similar building that had been built in 1856 and destroyed in a fire. Its early Italianate style is unusual for this time period, but it fits into its streetscape with similarly designed buildings, including the neighboring Brazelton House Hotel. The Budde-Singer Building features round arched windows with brick patterned hoodmolds on the second and third floors, and a bracketed wooden cornice. The first floor storefront has been somewhat altered, and the exterior of the building has been painted since about 1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Louisa Building is a historic building located in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. Completed in 1901, this two story, brick structure features a transitional design between the Italianate, that had been popular here, and the Neoclassical that would replace it in popularity. It has a triple storefront with three sets of three windows on the second floor. In place of hood molds, which were typical of the Italianate, each window has a heavy rusticated stone lintel. The metal cornice across the top of the facade is simpler in its decorative elements than earlier Italianate cornices. This building replaced the Ambler Block, which had been destroyed in an 1882 fire. The lot had remained empty in the intervening years. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Fohs Hall in Marion, Kentucky was built in 1926. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It was built to serve as a community center for Marion and was a donation of Ferdinand Julius Fohs, a notable petroleum geologist who grew up in Marion. It was designed by architects Frankel and Curtis of Lexington, Kentucky, and was built at cost of $73,081, on the site of the small house where Fohs had lived. It was donated by Fohs to the Marion Board of Education to serve as a community center and as an auxiliary building for Marion High School, which was located across the street. The building included a music room, a lounge, a study hall, a small library, classrooms, and an auditorium.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story brick building on a limestone foundation. It has a recessed center bay in its front, north-facing facade, topped by a stone pediment supported by four Corinthian columns.</p><br>
<p>The Frances School Gymnasium in Marion, Kentucky was built in 1938 as a New Deal era construction employment project. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The gym is a one-story gambrel roofed structure with both balloon frame and steel beam support. It is 102 x in plan and sits on a poured concrete foundation. It is adjacent to a one-story brick school building built in about 1960.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register along with other New Deal projects covered in one study.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP registration asserts:The gymnasium is a good local example of the education building property type defined by the context. The structure, constructed in 1938, is important for showing that recreation for children was given a priority in the rural school experience. The gym is also important for documenting the partnership between school and community because it provided space for various community activities, within the framework prescribed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). This structure also is important for indicating Crittenden County&#39;s attitude during the late 1930s to school consolidation. Because the structure blends a variety of uses (educational, social, recreational, cultural) it is an important reflection of New Deal program goals, that projects would serve the public good broadly.</p><br>
<p>The Masters Building is a historic building located in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. Completed in 1937, this two story, brick structure is an adaptation of the commercial Art Deco and Art Moderne styles. The decorative elements are found in the brick patterning and cast concrete panels on the facade.</p><br>
<p>There are three other buildings on this same block that were built about the same time and use the same decorative techniques, with the Masters Building being the best example. This area was an expansion of the central business district after the construction of city hall across the street in 1936. A plumbing business, for which this building was constructed, was located on the first floor. There are three apartments on the second floor. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The McCandless Building is a historic building located in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. This three story brick Italianate structure was built in 1862 by local builder William McCandless. With the arrival of the railroad in 1856, Mount Pleasant was in need of new commercial buildings to house businesses and services that were opening in the expanding town. They were built on the north and east side of the town square. The Italianate was a prominent style used in the city at this time having been used by about a dozen buildings. This buildings features three round arch windows on the second and third floors with brick patterned hood molds. The storefront has been altered slightly, and the heavy wooden cornice that graced the top of the main facade was removed some time ago. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The James Turner House, a one-story Greek Revival style building located on 406 West Washington Avenue in Marshall, Texas, was built by a merchant, George Gammon Gregg to be the home for he and his bride, Mary Ann Wilson, who were married in 1851. It was first located at the southeast corner of Crockett Street and Washington Avenue.</p><br>
<p>James Turner, an attorney and former Confederate soldier, acquired the house in 1866. Turner and his wife had nine children and he built a separate structure as a "dormitory" for the expanding family. Turner became mayor of Marshall. In 1890, his son Robert added the Victorian columns and front porch, after he moved into the house with his new wife. Robert owned the house after the death of his father in 1913.</p><br>
<p>It was moved in the 20th century from Lot 1, facing Crockett Street, to Lot 2, now facing Washington Avenue. At that time, the "dormitory" was razed and the salvaged wood was used for an addition of a new kitchen, a bathroom, and another room. The house had been unoccupied and fallen into disrepair several years after being used as an office building by the Harrison County Charities. The house was restored in 1977 by Robert&#39;s daughter and last surviving child, Eleanor Turner Gillespie, to essentially its original design; She removed the addition and replaced the roof and damaged plaster.</p><br>
<p>The house was made a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark and a historic marker was installed in 1979. It was also listed as a National Register of Historic Places that year.</p><br>
<p>The James B. Colt House is a historic house at 154 Wethersfield Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1855, it is a high-quality example of Italianate architecture. It was built for James B. Colt, the brother of industrialist Samuel Colt, whose Armsmear estate is just to the north. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The James B. Colt House is located in the Sheridan-Charter Oak neighborhood of southern Hartford, on the east side of Wethersfield Avenue near its junction with Alden Street. It is situated facing Colt Park, a public city park that was originally part of the Colt family estate, and is south of the larger Armsmear estate of Samuel Colt. It is a three-story masonry structure, built out of brick covered in stucco. It has classic Italian villa features, including a low-pitch hip roof with deep bracketed eaves, and round-arch windows with decorative bracketed caps. The street-facing west facade is restrained, with a single-story porch across its left half that wraps around to the north. The western facade provides vistas of the park through tall windows on all three levels.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1855-57. James B. Colt was then serving as treasurer for the Colts Manufacturing Company, and lived in the house until 1859. It afterward had a number of high-profile occupants, including General William B. Franklin, Colts general manager until 1888, and George H. Day, one of Hartford&#39;s leading businessmen at the turn of the 20th century. In the 20th century the building was subdivided into apartments, and suffered an inside fire in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Congress Street is a city street in the South Green neighborhood of Hartford, Connecticut. Extending for a single block from the South Green to Morris Street, it was developed in the 1850s with modest two-family residences, with infill development of larger apartment blocks around the turn of the 20th century. The entire street was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 as a good example of a well-preserved late-19th century residential street.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Congress Street is located south of downtown Hartford. It is a narrow one-way street extending south from its junction with Wyllys Street at South Green, to Morris Street. It is lined with paved sidewalks on both sides, which are separated from the street by a section of cobblestone construction and granite curbs. At the northern end of the street is its only commercial building, a triangular "flatiron" building shaped by the junction of Maple Avenue, Wyllys, and Congress. It houses commercial establishments on the ground floor and residences on the upper floors. The west side of the street is predominantly lined by a series of Italianate two-family brick houses built in the late 1850s, while the east side is taken up by larger apartment block dating to the turn of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Congress Street was laid out in 1855, serving in part as an access to the back sides of large mansion houses facing Wethersfield Avenue, which it parallels to the east, and whose properties extended all the way to Congress Street. The west side of Congress Street was developed in the 1850s, benefiting from the growth of the Colt Armory to the east. Prominent residents of the early period included Francis A. Pratt and Amos Whitney, machinists who founded a business now known as Pratt & Whitney Measurement Systems, and whose names grace the more well-known Pratt & Whitney aircraft engine manufacturer. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of the estates facing Wethersfield Avenue were subdivided or redeveloped, and the apartment blocks facing Congress Street were built. The area underwent a major rehabilitation in the 1970s to restore its 19th-century character.</p><br>
<p>Hotel Concord at Union Street N. and Cabarrus Avenue in Concord, North Carolina was completed in 1926 and is a contributing structure to the Union Street North–Cabarrus Avenue Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The 46,536-square-foot building is the largest historic property in Cabarrus County, North Carolina and the second-largest privately owned building in downtown Concord.</p><br>
<p>Concord National Bank (later First Charter Bank) moved to the newly built Hotel Concord, a six-story Beaux Arts Classical Revival building with arch windows, "faced with ashlar limestone ornamented with classical motifs", designed by William Lee Stoddart.</p><br>
<p>Union Street Corporation approved the sale of the hotel to Rehab Development in February 2016. The city of Concord agreed to buy properties that were previously part of Fifth Third Bank and planned to donate those to Rehab Development.</p><br>
<p>In December 2016, work began on the $5.3 million Rehab Development project which included the hotel, the First Charter Bank building, and the Concord Telephone Company building on Cabarrus Avenue. The hotel is being converted to 40 apartments on the four upper floors and seven commercial spaces, including an event venue, which was already being used, that included the ballroom, kitchen, lobby and part of the basement. The project should be complete by the end of 2017.</p><br>
<p>The Moultrie Commercial Historic District, in Moultrie in Colquitt County, Georgia, is a 48 acre historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. The district is roughly bounded by NE. First Ave., SE. Second Ave., W. First St. and E. Fourth St. In 1994, the district included 61 contributing buildings and one contributing object. It also included 17 non-contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The district included three properties which were already separately listed on the National Register:</p><br>
<p>Colquitt County Courthouse (1902), listed in 1980, designed by A.J. Bryan and Company</p><br>
<p>Colquitt County Jail (1915), listed in 1980</p><br>
<p>Carnegie Library of Moultrie (1909), listed in 1982, designed by T.F. Lockwood.</p><br>
<p>The district includes Colquitt Towers, a former hotel which was called Colquitt Hotel, a four-story Colonial Revival-style building with balustrade and urns on roof and on arched openings.</p><br>
<p>The Udell Lookout Tower is a fire lookout tower located on Forest Road 5207 in the Manistee section of the Huron-Manistee National Forests, near Wellston, Michigan. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Manistee National Forest was created (as the Manistee Purchase unit) in 1933. In 1936, a fire control plan for the area was designed and implemented. Part of that plan was the construction of Udell Lookout Tower. Soon after a residence and garage were constructed near the tower; these buildings were moved about ten years later. Udell Tower remained a primary fire lookout tower until the 1960s, when aerial observation flights became more common. Many other lookout towers were abandoned at the same time, and were eventually destroyed or demolished. The Udell Lookout Tower is the last standing example of this type of tower in the Huron-Manistee National Forests.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Udell Lookout Tower is a 100 foot tall prefabricated steel frame tower, constructed from galvanized steel angles bolted together, located atop a hill. The foundation is made of four reinforced concrete pedestals. An enclosed hipped roof observation cab made from galvanized sheet steel is located on top of the tower. The cab has a wooden floor and windows on all sides. A small prefabricated metal building is currently located immediately adjacent to one corner of the tower.</p><br>
<p>The Timmerman-Burd Building is a historic building located in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. The previous building on this lot was destroyed in a fire in 1883 and Henry Timmerman had this building constructed to replace it the same year. The two story brick structure is one of several building facing the town square in the Italianate style. This buildings features a single storefront, and four segmental arch windows on the second floor with simple brick patterned hood molds. The bracketed metal cornice at the top of the main facade was mass produced and likely ordered from a catalog. Burd worked for Timmerman and took over the business. This building housed a shoe store as late as the 1990s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Veliko Blato  is a lake in Krnjača, an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Palilula.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The lake is located in the northern section of Krnjača, 10 km north of downtown Belgrade. It is positioned at the tripoint of the neighborhoods of Borča, Ovča and Krnjača.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Veliko Blato is situated in the southern part of the Pančevački Rit marshland. The lake is generally heart-shaped and covers an area of 1.8 km&sup2; or 2 km&sup2; with the adjoining fish ponds. It is the largest body of water in the Pančevački Rit, though it is shallow, as the maximum depth is only 1.5 m. The area of the entire protected zone which surrounds the lake, and includes four fish ponds to the north, is 3 km&sup2;. The lake is embedded in the depression between the reed covered wet floodplains. The lake has no inflows or outflows, though the entire northern part is encircled by the Sebeš canal and another canal closely engulfs the entire lake. Water is replenished from the Danube and through the underground springs.</p><br>
<p>The name of the lake means "great mudflat" in Serbian.</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<h3>Plants</h3><br>
<p>In and around the lake there are 191 plant species, out of which 14 are protected. Since 1865, when Josif Pančić found the first specimen, 30 species of orchids have been registered on the territory of the City of Belgrade. Two of them can be found only in Veliko Blato. One is marsh helleborine (Epipactis palustris (L.) Cr.), with some 200 individual plants. It grows only up to 20 m from the canal which encircles the lake. It was discovered near the lake in 2012. The other, with only some 50 specimens, is Orchis palustris Jacq. It grows between the turfs of grass where the water has dug minute canals. It was spotted for the first time in Belgrade in 1896 on the Great War Island, but was never seen again there. It has been re-discovered in the Makiš area in 1955, but by 2001 it disappeared, too.</p><br>
<h3>Animals</h3><br>
<p>One species of fish, European weatherfish, is protected. Other of the 15 species of fish include carp, northern pike, wels catfish, zander and silver carp, though they are introduced later. There are also 9 species of amphibians and 4 species of reptiles. The lake is suitable for newts, frogs, lizards, grass snakes and dice snakes.</p><br>
<p>Veliko Blato is inhabited by 120 species of birds. There is a mixed colony of heron species which consists of little egrets, squacco herons, grey herons, night herons and purple herons. The colony was discovered only in June 2013 and is the only nesting heron colony on the urban territory of Belgrade, with several dozens of nesting couples. Other birds include Eurasian coot, great cormorant, pygmy cormorant, Caspian gull, black-headed gull, diving duck, common pochard, mallard, tufted duck. Largest European eagle, white-tailed eagle, nests in the other parts of Belgrade (Great War Island, Ada Huja), but feeds in the area. The lake is an internationally important area for the bird protection.</p><br>
<h2>Human interaction</h2><br>
<p>"Mika Alas", carp-breeding fish pond was established in 1961, when the lake was populated with many fish species. Veliko Blato is used as a feedlot for the larger fish. Four basins (including two fry ponds ), north of the lake, are built as a part of the fish pond. The lake is used for the sports fishing and all the fish that has been caught, must be released back into the lake. Every year, after the fishing season is over, the smaller basins are being emptied.</p><br>
<p>In the early 2010s, an illegal dumping created a landfill south of the lake, which hastened the procedure of placing the lake under protection. Veliko Blato is not suitable for swimming and bathing due to the large quantities of mud in it.</p><br>
<h2>Protection</h2><br>
<p>Veliko Blato is a high valuable biotope, especially given its vicinity to the big city. It is part of an ecological area "Sava&#39;s mouth into the Danube" and due to its importance for the nesting, migration and wintering of the birds, it has been declared an Important Bird Area. It has been officially protected by the city government in May 2017, in the status of the "protected habitat".</p><br>
<p>Stillwater Reservoir is a man-made lake located by Beaver River, New York. The lake has a large amount of recreational uses including camping, canoeing, boating, fishing, hunting, snowmobiling, and cross-country skiing. The lake has undeveloped edges with remote camping on both the islands and the shoreline. Camping permits and lake information may be obtained from the hamlet of Stillwater at the Forest Ranger Headquarters. Fish species present in the reservoir are smallmouth bass, splake, rock bass, yellow perch, sunfish and brown trout. There is a state owned hard surface ramp on Stillwater Road, 28 miles east of Lowville, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Islands and locations</h2><br>
<p>Big Burnt Lake &ndash; A bay located north of Dead Man&#39;s Curve point.</p><br>
<p>Georges Island &ndash; Located off the Tower Trail campsite point.</p><br>
<p>Rock Island &ndash; Located by the inlet of Twitchell Creek.</p><br>
<p>Island #2 &ndash; Located by the inlet of Twitchell Creek. Has two primitive campsites on the island.</p><br>
<p>Melody Island &ndash; Located near Devil&#39;s Hole. Has a primitive campsite on the island.</p><br>
<p>Round Island &ndash; Located off Little Burnt Point.</p><br>
<p>Nest Island &ndash; Located by Round Island.</p><br>
<p>Long Island &ndash; Has two primitive campsites on each end of the island.</p><br>
<p>Island #16 &ndash; Located by Little Burnt Point, and has a primitive campsite on the island.</p><br>
<p>Twin Pine Island &ndash; Located off The Notch Point. Has a primitive campsite on the island.</p><br>
<p>Spruce Island &ndash; Located off Hat Point. Has a primitive campsite on the island.</p><br>
<p>Island #26 &ndash; Has a primitive campsite on the island.</p><br>
<p>Picnic Point West Island &ndash; East of picnic island. Has a primitive campsite on the island.</p><br>
<p>Picnic Island &ndash; Located off Picnic Point. Has two primitive campsites on the island.</p><br>
<p>Bay Island &ndash; Located off Bay Island Point.</p><br>
<p>Sand Island &ndash; Located off Dead Man&#39;s Curve.</p><br>
<p>Trout Pond &ndash; A bay located north of Big Burnt Lake bay. It is where the outlet of Salmon Lake enters the reservoir.</p><br>
<p>Island #33 &ndash; Located in the Big Burnt Lake section of the reservoir. Has a primitive campsite on the island.</p><br>
<p>Needle Island &ndash; Located in the Big Burnt Lake section of the reservoir</p><br>
<p>Loon Island &ndash; Located in the Loon Lake section of the reservoir. Has a primitive campsite on the island.</p><br>
<p>Fox Island &ndash; Located near the outlet of Halfway Brook. Has a primitive campsite on the island.</p><br>
<p>Grassy Island &ndash; Located by Grassy Point.</p><br>
<p>Big Island &ndash; Located by Grassy Point.</p><br>
<p>Fly Island &ndash; Located by Gun Harbor.</p><br>
<p>North Island &ndash; Located by Gun Harbor.</p><br>
<p>State Island</p><br>
<p>South Island &ndash; Located south of the Wild Forest.</p><br>
<p>Van Sickle Island &ndash; Located by the outlet of the reservoir.</p><br>
<p>Chicken Island</p><br>
<p>Rapshaw Island</p><br>
<p>Gull Rock</p><br>
<p>Hotel Island</p><br>
<p>Gull Island</p><br>
<p>The Manistee Harbor, South Breakwater is a navigational structure located at the mouth of the Manistee River , in Manistee, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The breakwater is significant due to its construction, which represents a final stage in the United States Army Corps of Engineers&#39;s use of timber crib substructures in pier and breakwater construction.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Beginning in the 1840s, the area around lake Manistee began attracting lumber and mill industries. Although the lake offered a fine natural harbor, access from Lake Michigan was limited due to a series of sand bars. To improve access, in 1854 a new channel was cut across the split of land to the west of Lake Manistee, at the location of the present channel. In 1867, legislation was passed allowing the United States Army Corps of Engineers to improve and maintain the channel, including reconstructing the piers at the entryway. The Manistee area remained an important logging and milling center through the rest of the 19th century, and at the beginning of the 20th century, Manistee was producing upwards of 138,000,000 ft of lumber and 28,000,000 shingles per year, most of which was shipped through the harbor.</p><br>
<p>In 1912, Congress passed the River and Harbor Act, which authorized the USA Army Corps of Engineers to start work on a series of improvements at Manistee Harbor. These included a series of dredging projects, the shortening of the south pier, and the construction of a 1300 foot south breakwater, with a shore connection about 1,200 ft long. The Corps of Engineers contracted Greiling Brothers Company to construct the breakwater, and work began in May 1913. A number of cribs were put in place through 1916 and the shore connection was completed in 1917/18 by John Ginzel. The project, including construction of the superstructure, was finally completed in 1920. The wood decking of the superstructure was replaced by concrete in 1933.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The south breakwater at Manistee, Michigan is one of three navigation structures at the mouth of the Manistee harbor which are maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers, the other two being the north and south piers. The south breakwater is 2,485 feet in length, and consists of two substructural components: an outer timber crib breakwater and an inner shore connection. The outer timber crib structure is 1,300 feet long, and consists of a series of timber cribs anchored with timber piles. The shore connection extends for 1,185 feet. and consists of a stone filled causeway substructure formed with walls of overlapped wooden planks and capped with a concrete superstructure.</p><br>
<p>The Peterson Manufacturing Building, also known as the New London Cooperative Creamery, is a historic building located in New London, Iowa, United States. The first floor of this building was constructed in 1908 by John Edgar Peterson so he could expand his glove and mitten factory. Peterson was also instrumental in the establishing the First National Bank in New London and served as its president, the Henry County Telephone Company, the New London Improvement Company, and the New London Land Company. The second floor of this building was completed in 1909 by the local Masonic lodge. Peterson died in 1917 and glove and mitten factory closed briefly before it was reopened by the Fairfield Glove and Mitten Factory. In 1928 that factory closed and the building housed a creamery until 1968. After being used as a warehouse it was donated to the Dover Historical Society for a historical museum. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Manistee County Courthouse Fountain, also known as the Memorial Fountain, is a decorative fountain located in the Onekama Village Park in Onekama, Michigan. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1878, a Victorian Gothic county courthouse was constructed on Third Street in Manistee, Michigan. In 1887 two fountains were placed on the courthouse grounds,</p><br>
<p>to each side and slightly in front of the courthouse itself. These fountains remained in place until 1950, when the courthouse was destroyed by fire. At that time, the Portage Lake Garden Club, a civic improvement club located in Onekama, accepted one of the fountains to be placed in the Onekama Village Park. It is possible that this fountain was actually constructed from pieces of the two, as only a few fragments of the "other" fountain exist.</p><br>
<p>The fountain was installed in Onekama in July 1950, and landscaping added around it. It was dedicated in August 1951. In 1974, as a result of damage to the fountain, it was removed, repaired, and reinstalled.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Memorial Fountain is an ornamental fountain made of cast iron, standing on a concrete base and topped with a lead statue of a merman riding a dolphin and blowing a horn. The entire fountain is 77 inches high and 88 inches wide. It is constructed in three tiers, with a wide lower basin at the bottom, a pedestal supporting a central basin in the middle, and a second pedestal supporting the upper basin an merman statue at the top. An inscription, "Patented April 11, 1871" appears on the surface of the fountain. The basins are decorated with designs featuring storks, cat-o&#39;-nine tails, lilly leaves, and flowers, as well as acanthus, flute, and scallop designs.</p><br>
<p>Ponta Leste, also as Ponta Leste de São Nicolau or Ponta Calheta is the eaesternmost point of the island of São Nicolau, Cape Verde, hence its headland names etymology, the other being located in a small cove. It is about 7 km ENE of Carriçal and 3 km from nearby hamlet of Castilhano. Also it is 30 km east of Ribeira Brava. The points headland is 3–4 km long from north to south and is 1 km wide. The point is the closest to the Sal at Ilhéu Rabo de Junco or at Monte Leão with the rest of the island, it is located around 110 km apart.</p><br>
<p>About 10 km to the east has a depth of 1,000 meters and 20–30 km east is 3,000 km deep, some 40 km northeast is 4,000 meters deep and these forms a part of the Cape Verde Rise. The small route, linking Carriçal with the Estrada de Ribeira Brava-Carriçal (EN3-ST03) is west of the point but connected with a dirt road.</p><br>
<p>During the Ice Age, the point then unnamed was about a kilometer east.</p><br>
<p>The island along with the point were discovered around late 1461 by Diogo Afonso. The point was mentioned in a 1747 Franco-Dutch map in an atlas collection by Jacques Nicolas Bellin as "Oost-Hoek" (Dutch), "Pointe de l&#39;Est" (French"). It was sometimes known as East Point in English.</p><br>
<h2>Lighthouse</h2><br>
<p>At the point some 100 meters from the sea at higher ground has a lighthouse at the elevation of about 70 meters, one of the island&#39;s three lighthouses. Its focal height is 73 metres and its range is at 19 km (11 nmi). Its use guides ships near the point that heads or leaves and sometimes bypasses the ports of the island of Santiago (Praia Harbor) and Fogo (Vale de Cavaleiros).</p><br>
<p>Ponta da Mina is a point located some 3 km northeast  of Santo António, the island capital of Príncipe in São Tomé and Príncipe. The point is north of Baía de Santo António and is southwest of Praia Grande .</p><br>
<p>Inside the headland is the settlement of Fortaleza, once notable for a fortress known as Fortaleza de Santo António da Ponta da Mina, named after the island&#39;s patron saint, first built in 1695, destroyed in 1719, in the 20th century, the fort became abandoned. Today it is a national landmark, the most famous on the island.</p><br>
<p>Located next to the fortress is a lighthouse, built after the independence of the nation in 1996, a modern style, its focal height is 54 meters and its range extends up to 16 km (9 nmi).</p><br>
