<p>Mount Meeker is a high mountain summit of the Twin Peaks Massif in the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,916 ft thirteener is located in the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness, 7.7 km west by north  of the community of Allenspark in Boulder County, Colorado, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Mountain</h2><br>
<p>Mount Meeker is the second highest summit in Rocky Mountain National Park after its neighbor Longs Peak, 1.1 km to the northwest. Due to its location southeast of Longs Peak, Mount Meeker is more visually prominent along much of the northern Front Range Urban Corridor. The peak is considered more difficult to climb, technically, than Longs Peak on certain routes.</p><br>
<h2>Historical names</h2><br>
<p>A couple of French trappers called Longs Peak and Mount Meeker Les Deux Oreilles (French for "two ears") in 1799. The name Mount Meeker was first suggested in 1873 when the Hayden Survey was performed. Present were William Byers, Anna Dickinson, and Ralph Meeker, the son of Nathan Meeker. It was officially named Mount Meeker in 1911.</p><br>
<p>St. Marks Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church located in the High Hills of Santee west of Pinewood, South Carolina. On January 20, 1978, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as St. Marks Church.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Marks Parish was established in 1767 by act of the South Carolina Assembly. The present church, built in 1855, is the fourth church erected by the parish but the first at this location, which was donated by the Richardson and Manning families. The church built in 1767 near Summerton was burned by the British during the American Revolution because of the patriotic activity of its then rector. At least six governors, three Richardsons and three Mannings, regularly attended services at St. Marks either here or at previous locations. St. Mark&#39;s was the parish church for both the Manning family plantations, including Millford Plantation, and the Richardson family plantations, including Bloomhill Plantation.</p><br>
<h2>Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>St. Mark&#39;s Cemetery is included in the historic place designation.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>St. Mark&#39;s Episcopal Church is no longer an active parish.</p><br>
<p>The Cranmore Tower is a 45 m tall 19th century folly in the parish of Cranmore, Somerset, England. The site is 280 m above sea level, and is the highest point on the Mendip Way.</p><br>
<p>The tower was built in 1862-1864, by Thomas Henry Wyatt for John Moore Paget of Cranmore Hall (now part of All Hallows Preparatory School). There is a viewing area at the top with pair of semi-circular headed openings to each face with a restored iron-railed balcony beneath each pair. A similar balcony just over halfway up is continued right round the tower. It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II listed building.</p><br>
<p>In World War II it was used as a lookout tower by the Home Guard and the Royal Corps of Signals.</p><br>
<p>By 1984 the tower had fallen into disrepair and was sold to Donald Beaton who undertook repairs. During the course of the repairs the remains of a Roman fort with a hoard of coins was discovered adjacent to the tower. In 1988 it was sold again, this time to Nick Ridge who opened it to the public. The tower was then acquired by followers of the Baha&#39;i Faith. Further restorations were carried out, including the installation of a new timber staircase to allow access to the balconies at the top of the tower at a height of 320 m above sea level. From early 2008 the tower has been again open to the public, in particular being marketed as a romantic setting for proposals of marriage. A small fee is usually charged to ascend the tower which is open on weekends, bank and school holidays and by arrangement.</p><br>
<p>The Stateburg Historic District is a historic district in Stateburg, in the High Hills of Santee area near Sumter,</p><br>
<p>South Carolina in the United States. It includes two National Historic Landmarks, Borough House Plantation and the Church of the Holy Cross, and at least eight contributing properties within its boundaries. On February 24, 1971, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The historic district extends north and east of the town of Stateburg as far north as Meeting House Road and as far east as South Carolina Highway 441, covering an area of 5,066 acre.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The town of Stateburg was founded in 1783 by General Thomas Sumter, who hoped it would become the capital of the state, but it lost to Columbia by only a few votes. Previously the area had been used by people from Charleston to build summer homes to use to escape the oppressive heat of the Lowcountry. It was the county seat of the former Claremont County from 1783 to 1800. Stateburg was a thriving community until April, 1865, when many of its buildings were destroyed by Union troops under Brigadier General Edward E. Potter.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing Properties</h2><br>
<p>Contributing properties include:</p><br>
<p>Borough House Plantation</p><br>
<p>Brookland Plantation</p><br>
<p>Chapel of Ease — built for Natalie DeLage Sumter, daughter-in-law of General Thomas Sumter</p><br>
<p>High Hills of Santee Baptist Church</p><br>
<p>Maverick House</p><br>
<p>Miller House, also known as Ellison House — the home of Governor Stephen D. Miller, who sold it to William Ellison, a slave who had bought his freedom in 1816.</p><br>
<p>Millwood Plantation</p><br>
<p>Moorhill</p><br>
<p>Oakland Plantation</p><br>
<p>The Ruins — home of General Thomas Sumter in 1784. Despite its name, the home is still extant.</p><br>
<p>Tomb of General Thomas Sumter — a South Carolina State Historic Site, managed as part of nearby Poinsett State Park.</p><br>
<p>The former Rowena Memorial School is located on NY 23A, at the junction with NY 32A, in Palenville, New York, United States. It is a stone Romanesque style building that educated local students for 70 years. It had fallen into disrepair until it was rebuilt in the 1990s and converted to an arts center.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The school stands three stories high, with a panoramic view of the Catskill Escarpment to the northwest. Its entrance bay is topped with a Dutch gable with its original clock. A small, single-story three-by-two-bay wing projects from the north elevation.</p><br>
<p>Despite neglect and vandalism much of the interior remains intact. A bronze dedication plaque remains in the front hall, and in the classrooms and offices there is still much original woodwork. On the second story, an early partitioning system to allow the merging or division of classrooms as necessary, complete with blackboards on the paneling, is still in place. The only major change is the recital hall, where a collapsed ceiling was never replaced and instead the new room enjoys a higher, cathedral-style ceiling.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built by Lysander Lawrence, a wealthy New York City merchant. He, among many others, passed through Palenville during his summers in the late 19th century on his way to the Catskill Mountain House. During those trips, he became acquainted with one of the local school principals. After the death of his wife Rowena in the 1890s, Lawrence decided to pay tribute to her by doing something for the community they had both come to love. He decided to pay for a new school building that would combine the populations currently attending Palenville&#39;s two small schoolhouses.</p><br>
<p>He hired Brooklyn architect John A. Davidson to draw up plans, and local mason George Holdridge began cutting stone from the nearby Empire Quarry. Construction began in 1899; the first classes were held in 1901. The community was at first ecstatic about its new edifice. "How fitting it is", said Catskill High School Principal Charles Hale, "that a village nestled at the foot of the grand old mountains should have a school that speaks so eloquently of the skill of man — a building perfect as a work of art." On September 3, 1900, a dedication ceremony featuring a childrens choir and fireworks display was attended by the states deputy superintendent of public instruction.</p><br>
<p>As the reality of the new school set in, some residents began to express concern about its maintenance costs. Lawrence had paid the $50,000 construction cost himself, but the community would have to pay the annual upkeep for the new school, which could accommodate five times as many students as the district then had, and some residents did not think it could afford to do so. There was also opposition to the choice of C.F. Payne, Lawrence&#39;s friend, as principal of the new school. After a series of political maneuvers that involved the state schools superintendent and led to the removal of one member of the school board, Payne kept his job. The building remained a source of contention, and some residents called for its demolition so that everyone could be friends again.</p><br>
<p>It continued as Palenvilles school until 1977, when the Catskill Central School District was created from the merger of the small rural districts in the area. The new district closed the building down. It continued in use as a library until it was closed again in 1989. For several years it deteriorated until jewelry designer Steven Kretchmer and his wife purchased it and remodeled it into Ringing Metal Studios. Since his death in a motorcycle accident in 2006, Stevens step-daughter moved in, took over the business and building maintenance. The house was occupied full-time until 2009. It is now being occupied part-time and maintained regularly until someone purchases it.</p><br>
<p>The Healy Block is a historic district of 14 Queen Anne style houses in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The district, listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a Minneapolis Historic District, is bounded by Second Avenue South, 31st Street, Third Avenue South and 32nd Street. The houses are readily visible from the Lake Street exit off Interstate 35W. The district represents the most intact and concentrated example of Queen Anne style houses by a single builder in Minneapolis.</p><br>
<p>The majority of homes on this block were built by Theron P. Healy, a Minneapolis home builder. He moved to Minneapolis in 1884 and decided to capitalize on the rapidly growing areas of south Minneapolis, which had been made accessible by streetcars on Nicollet Avenue South and 31st Street. He was the only builder to concentrate on the Queen Anne style in Minneapolis, working between 1886 and 1898. He was a Master Builder, a builder who also designed the homes he built. In addition to building homes on this block, Healy built Queen Anne homes in the Lowry Hill area and elsewhere in south Minneapolis.</p><br>
<p>The Queen Anne style was popularized in the United States after the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. The characteristics of this style include front-facing or cross-gabled rooflines, multiple building materials, trellised balconies, triptychs, window embellishments and stained glass transoms. Healy&#39;s designs included these characteristics, but he often included additional details such as brightly colored art glass transoms, semicircular openings underneath the gables, or off-center entrances. While the houses share common Queen Anne characteristics, each of these houses has its own unique details.</p><br>
<p>The Diavolezza is a mountain viewpoint above the Val Bernina in Graubünden. It has an altitude of 2,973 m and is located between Munt Pers  and Piz Trovat (southeast, 3,146 m.</p><br>
<p>From Diavolezza you can see the highest peak of the Eastern Alps: the Piz Bernina and the Vadret Pers, a tributary of the Morteratsch Glacier (Vadret da Morteratsch).</p><br>
<p>The mountain can be reached by cable car from Val Bernina, the Bernina Pass valley. At the base station of the cable car on 2,093 m there is train station Bernina Diavollezza on the Bernina Line of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB)). At the top station, there is a restaurant with a panoramic terrace, as well as a hotel offering both hotel-class and bunk-style accommodations.</p><br>
<p>The Diavolezza is one of the ski areas of the Upper Engadine (from 1896 m to 3066 m). The skiing area is connected to that of Piz Lagalb, which lies on the opposite side of the valley. The two areas are usually promoted as one, called Diavolezza-Lagalb. The Diavolezza-Lagalb area is known for its difficult slopes, all red and black, as well as the good snow conditions lasting often as long as May. Especially popular is the difficult 10 km slope down the Morteratsch Glacier to the Morteratsch railway station (the slope on the glacier is marked and secured).</p><br>
<p>Each month at full moon, there is moonlight skiing in the evening.</p><br>
<h2>The Legend</h2><br>
<p>“La Diavolezza” – The beautiful she-devil</p><br>
<p>Once upon a time, many, many years ago, there lived on high a magnificent mountain fairy-queen. She lived in her mountain stronghold high up between Chapütschöl and Munt Pers, a place where, among towering crags and vast expanses of rocky scree, a deep-blue lake set among a flower-strewn mountain pasture mirrors the sunlight, where herds of sprightly chamois gambol around and graze on the lush green grass, where grouse and moorhen cluck and cackle, take flight and then elegantly glide to the ground to feed and cackle some more, where wide-eyed mountain hare daydream, then suddenly start and dash in a long-limbed gallop.</p><br>
<p>Hunters rarely spotted this magnificent she-spirit – and only ever fleetingly – but when they did, they gazed fondly as she moved across the rock faces of the Munt Pers to the Lej da la Diavolezza to bathe in its refreshing waters. With time the young huntsmen became quite besotted, and then indiscreet. They followed her, protected as she always was by her herd of chamois, across the rocky cliffs to her fortress of stone.</p><br>
<p>No-one really knows what happened then; one can only guess. One hunter after the other disappeared, erring forever on the Munt Pers (or lost mountain). Such was the fate of Aratsch, a handsome youth from the village, who never returned from the hunt. They searched for him high and low, yet in vain, and in the end forced to assume he had fallen into a glacier crevasse on Munt Pers or plummeted to his death. Indeed, anyone thereafter who at nightfall still lingered among Bernina Massif could hear the wailing voice of the Diavolezza borne on the drifting wind, calling: mort ais Aratsch (Aratsch is dead).</p><br>
<p>This story has been told from one generation to the next and, in time, the beautiful alpine meadow in the caldera of the Bernina group was named Alp Morteratsch.</p><br>
<p>But still the Diavolezza would not rest, not until the glacier had inched its way down and covered the entire mountain alp with ice and scree, right down to the valley. Only then did she finally leave the region, lamenting davent dal Munt dal Pers – and was never seen again.</p><br>
<p>The &#39;Kagerplassen&#39;  is a small lake system in South Holland located to the northeast of Leiden. The Kaag Lakes are a popular area for boating, watersports, fishing, camping and walking. Windmills, waterfront pasture land  with grazing animals, quaint Dutch boats and buildings and  flower fields are all part of the charm of boating and walking in this area.</p><br>
<h2>Places</h2><br>
<p>The Kaag Lakes are part of two municipalities: Kaag en Braassem and Teylingen. Three villages that lies directly on the lakes are:</p><br>
<p>* Warmond (Teylingen)</p><br>
<p>* De Kaag (Kaag en Braassem)</p><br>
<p>* Buitenkaag (Haarlemmermeer, North Holland).</p><br>
<p>A number of other villages and towns (including Leiden itself) are located on connecting waterways providing easy access to the lakes.</p><br>
<p>The Kaag Lakes consist of an interconnected system of smaller lakes and waterways. The Kaag Lakes are fenland lakes (veenplassen) and part of the Holland-Utrecht wet fenland area (veenweidegebied). There are several islands, including the following:</p><br>
<p>* The only inhabited island is Kagereiland, on which De Kaag is situated.</p><br>
<p>* Two others islands, de Lakerpolder en de Kogjespolder, are managed by the Dutch Forestry Commission (Staatsbosbeheer).</p><br>
<p>* Another island situated in the southwestern part of the system is called Boterhuiseiland (literally, "Butterhouse Island"). For at least 50 years this has been the home of the Kaag Lakes Sea Scout Centre (Zeeverkennerscentrum Kagerplassen). During the boating season this centre provides a basis for around two dozen Sea Scout groups in the region. Campgrounds on the island are also used by other Dutch Scout groups.</p><br>
<p>* There is a canal named De Zijl that connects Leiden with the Kager Lakes (in the neighborhood of Leiderdorp).</p><br>
<p>The lakes are home to several sailing schools. The oldest sailing school is &#39;t Vossenhol, founded in 1947 and situated on the Dieperpoel. In 1952 sailing school De Kaag was founded.</p><br>
<p>The Kaag Lakes are connected to a larger network of lakes and waterways called the Holland Lakes (Hollandse Plassen). The other lake systems are called the Braassemermeer, Wijde Aa and the Westeinderplassen. They are all connected by the Haarlemmermeer Ring Waterway, the Does river and many smaller waterways. This network means that much of northern South Holland is enjoyable for boating.</p><br>
<h2>Ferries</h2><br>
<p>There are a multiple ferry lines around the lakes :</p><br>
<p>* De Kaag (island) - Buitenkaag by a 24-hour ferry.</p><br>
<p>* A ferry line between Zevenhuizen and De Kaag-island (June - August).</p><br>
<p>* A ferry service between Leiden (Merenwijk, north) and Eastern Warmond (Bicycles and pedestrian only).</p><br>
<p>Broad Ripple Park Carousel is an antique carousel in The Childrens Museum of Indianapolis. It was installed in 1917 at an amusement park near the White River in Indianapolis, Indiana, where it remained until the building housing it collapsed in 1956. The rides mechanism was destroyed, but the animals were relatively unscathed and put into storage by the park&#39;s owners, the Indianapolis Department of Parks and Recreation. The animals were carved by the Dentzel Carousel Company some time before 1900 but were assembled by the William F. Mangels carousel company, which also supplied the engine powering the ride.</p><br>
<p>The Childrens Museum of Indianapolis acquired its first two carved animals from the ride in 1965, and the last few wooden animals in 1973. The museum planned to sell some to finance the restoration of others until the director of the museum, Mildred Compton, was convinced by carousel enthusiasts that the museum should instead restore all the animals and recreate the working carousel. Restoration of the carved animals began in 1966 and was only finished with the restoration of the entire carousel in 1977. No space had been allocated for the display of such a large exhibit in the museums planned new building, which meant some re-designing was necessary to allow its installation on the fifth floor. A 1919 Wurlitzer organ model 146B, a type manufactured only for carousels, was also installed. As restored, the carousel is 42 ft wide and has a total of 42 animals, including – as well as the usual horses – goats, giraffes, deer, a lion, and a tiger. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Background</h3><br>
<p>The Broad Ripple Park Carousel was installed in 1917 in an amusement park on the outskirts of Indianapolis, Indiana. The White City Amusement Park had been established in 1906 in what is now Broad Ripple Village, alongside the White River. In 1908 a fire caused damage throughout the park, and only the swimming pool remained unscathed. The park closed for three years until its purchase by the Union Traction Company, which restored it and operated it for eleven years. The carousel was installed during the Union Traction Company&#39;s ownership. The park was sold in May 1922 to the new Broad Ripple Amusement Park Association, and renamed Broad Ripple Park. In 1927 the park was sold again, Only the carousel remained in Indianapolis after it was unsold</p><br>
<h3>Installation</h3><br>
<p>The carousel was commissioned by William Hubbs, who had it installed in White City Amusement Park in 1917. Built on a Mangel-Illions mechanism, it used animals carved by the Dentzel carousel company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sometime before 1900.</p><br>
<p>Nothing is known of the history of the animals before their installation in the 1917 carousel assembly. During the 1960s newspaper reports stated that it was believed that the animals had arrived in Indianapolis in 1917, imported from Germany by two brothers named Mangels, but later research revealed the animals were manufactured by the Dentzel carousel company. Also included in the installation were oil paintings on the canopy over the animals and mechanism.</p><br>
<p>Part of the installation appears to have involved the retrofitting of some animals to fit the Mangels mechanism. During this process some of the animals, which were carved in stationary or standing positions and thus not meant to be "jumpers" (animals that moved up and down), were modified to allow them to move.</p><br>
<h3>Park usage</h3><br>
<p>Between 1917 and 1938 the carousel was located near the White City park pool, in an enclosed building with numerous large windows. In 1938, after the park was purchased by William McCurry,</p><br>
<p>The park district does not appear to have moved the carousel after taking over in 1945, as a 1955 newspaper article noted it was still in the same spot it had occupied for 38 years. The carousel was again operated as a concession within the park, this time by the wife of Everett DuBois, the park superintendent. Like Hubbs, Mrs. DuBois operated the carousel for almost 10 years. Although the district did not change the ride&#39;s location, it noted in 1955 that the equipment was showing its age. In 1955 the park district attempted to paint over the oil paintings on the canopy, which had deteriorated. The Indianapolis Art League objected, and volunteered to restore the original paintings rather than have them painted over with Disney characters.</p><br>
<p>The domed pavilion housing the mechanism collapsed in 1956, destroying the mechanism and the sweeps that supported the animals. The park district disposed of the destroyed mechanical parts and stored the animals. In April 1962 newspaper reports stated that the animals were to be donated to the zoo, for installation in the main zoo; the zoo planned to purchase a smaller merry-go-round for the children&#39;s zoo. The animals were apparently still being offered to the zoo in December 1963, as a newspaper story announced that the park district had just given the zoo authorization to use the carousel parts, and volunteers were being sought to restore the animals. The president of the Zoological Society described the animals as "bigger and more realistically colored, and more intricately detailed, sturdier, and they have more different kinds of animals than that aluminum junk they throw out today".</p><br>
<h3>Acquisition by the museum</h3><br>
<p>In 1965 The Children&#39;s Museum of Indianapolis,</p><br>
<p>The park district allowed the museum to use one of the surviving giraffes in a booth at a fall festival held at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1968.</p><br>
<p>The museum intended to keep a few of the animals and sell the others to finance its operations, but Mildred Compton returned from a visit to the 1973 National Carousel Roundtable convinced that it should instead restore all of them and recreate the working carousel in its planned new building. But no space had been allocated to allow the display of such a large exhibit, requiring the plans to be adjusted. Columns required in the original layout were removed to allow the carousel&#39;s installation on the fifth floor.</p><br>
<p>While plans were under way to secure funding for the restoration of the carousel, efforts were made to find some missing animals. By studying old photographs of the carousel, it was determined there had been three deer or stags which had not been found in the park district storage building. No one at the park district knew of their whereabouts, and some employees believed the animals had disintegrated. As well as the missing deer, two horses were missing. The museum contacted local newspapers, which published stories on the efforts to restore the carousel. The reports mentioned the missing animals, and that the museum was trying to locate them. An anonymous tip received in December 1973 revealed the deer were used in the annual Christmas Gift and Hobby Show, where they served as escorts for Santa Claus. Compton was able to secure the animals from the park district for the museum.</p><br>
<h3>Restoration</h3><br>
<p>The mechanical parts were assembled in the fifth-floor area in November 1975, by Carval Stoots of Plainfield, Indiana, in 1976.</p><br>
<p>An artist from Pennsylvania recreated the upper outside panels in the style of the carousels of the period around the time of World War I. The carvings on the panels were provided by Allen and Rita Orre of Ohio and the International Amusement Devices Company of Ohio; the mirrors were produced by an Indianapolis glass firm. The scenery panels were initially some discovered Dentzel company panels, and these were used in 1976 and 1977 while replica Mangels-Illions-style panels were built in the museum&#39;s shops.</p><br>
<p>The animals were restored between 1975 and 1977 by Bill and Caroline Von Stein of Cincinnati, Ohio. The Von Steins were experienced with other types of museum conservation work, but had never restored carousel animals. Because of the animals poor condition, no attempt was made to restore them to their original paintwork; instead, the restorers were allowed to use their judgment on color choices and other decorations. The museums only requirements were that they use reasonably natural decorative schemes and no high-gloss paint.</p><br>
<h3>Changes since initial restoration</h3><br>
<p>The original engine propelling the carousel was a belt-driven mechanism, but after the initial restoration it was exchanged for a fluid drive provided by the Kissell Brothers Amusement Rides company of Cincinnati, Ohio, who suggested the platform for the carousel be improved. To provide crowd control, a pavilion was built over the carousel and a ticket booth was installed. Neither was based on any extant buildings, but each was a composite of several other structures. The animals are removed one at a time from the carousel for routine maintenance and refurbishment, which is carried out in the museum&#39;s own shops.</p><br>
<p>The carousel was designated a National Historic Landmark on February 27, 1987, and the National Historic Landmarks Program assessed its condition as "satisfactory" in 2008.</p><br>
<h3>QRpedia</h3><br>
<p>The carousel features a QR code as part of the museum&#39;s involvement in the QRpedia project. Visitors may scan the code with a suitable mobile device and will be served the Wikipedia article about it, in whatever language their device is set to use, if available.</p><br>
<h2>Carousel composition</h2><br>
<p>The carousel is one of the three oldest surviving Dentzel menagerie carousels. as are the three giraffes; Gustav Dentzel&#39;s love of that animal resulted in all of his carousels including at least one row of giraffes. The animals are arranged in three circles around the central mechanism, alternating leaping or jumping horses with stationary animals. Typical for a Mangels-Illions manufactured carousel, there are 18 jumping animals, all but one of which is original; the horse that could not be found in 1975 was replaced with another Dentzel horse. Although the animals were not originally carved to display jewels, at some point they were so displayed at the amusement park, and thus the museum restored the animals on the outside circle with jewels.</p><br>
<p>The mechanism powering the ride is a 40 ft diameter Mangels-Illions manufactured carousel, but it is uncertain whether this exactly matches the original Mangels-Illions mechanism. The whole assembly has a diameter of 42 ft. The organ, a 1919 Wurlitzer carousel organ model 146B, is of a type designed specifically for carousels.</p><br>
<p>The Allan Herschell 3-Abreast Carousel is a carousel built in 1916 by the Allan Herschell Company. The carousel features 35 hand-carved jumping wooden horses and two hand-carved chariots which serve as benches. The carousel is one of only four large carousels made by the Allan Herschell Company between 1915 and 1927; in addition, the horses on the outer rim feature gentle faces and detailed, deep woodwork, making them a rarity among the company&#39;s designs.</p><br>
<p>After likely operating in an amusement park in the eastern United States, the carousel moved to Seaport Village in San Diego; it began operating in Chase Palm Park, a waterfront park in Santa Barbara, California, in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The carousel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The owner of the carousel, Historic Carousels Inc., announced in November 2017 that they planned to move it to a carousel museum in Hood River, Oregon.</p><br>
<p>Bear Island is the second largest of the 262 islands in Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire, United States. In the summer it is accessible only by boat because it is not connected to the mainland via a bridge. In the winter it can be reached by crossing the frozen lake, including by snowmobile. According to the Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society, the island got its name when a few hunters along with a few members of the Pennacook tribe were sent to survey the island. However, they encountered a few bears, which they decided to hunt. Originally the island was named "Big Bear Island", which was later shortened to "Bear Island" when the island was annexed by the town of Meredith in 1799.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>Bear island is located east of Meredith Neck in Lake Winnipesaukee. Its nearest point to the mainland is about 1,200 ft off the southern end of Meredith Neck, while most of the island is 0.5 to 1.0 mi out into the lake. The island is 3 mi in length with about 8.5 mi of shoreline. The island is divided roughly into two land regions by The Carry, a narrow section in the middle of the island, legendarily named for the practice of carrying one&#39;s canoe to reach the other side of the island. Each of the two halves of the island rise approximately 150 ft above the surface of the surrounding lake. The whole island is generally forested. The shoreline is lined with seasonal cottages, with the exceptions of the summer camps described below. The majority of the interior land is placed into conservation. Walking trails abound. As the rocky soil was once farmed, a number of stone walls cross the island.</p><br>
<h2>St. John's</h2><br>
<p>A non-demoninational church provides ecumenical services to support the religious needs of the scattered island population. The church was established in 1927, built around a circa 1900 observation tower. Services are summer Sundays at 10:00.</p><br>
<p>http://stjohnsonthelake.org/</p><br>
<h2>Summer camps</h2><br>
<p>The island houses two YMCA summer camps, one for boys and one for girls. The boys&#39; camp is called Camp Lawrence, and its sister camp is called Camp Nokomis. Both are sponsored by the http://www.bica.org/ Bear Island Camps Association under the direction of the Merrimack Valley YMCA.</p><br>
<p>Loch Nevis  is a sea loch in Lochaber on the west coast of Scotland.</p><br>
<p>It runs inland from the Sound of Sleat, and is bounded on the north by the peninsula of Knoydart and on the south by North Morar (the region north of Loch Morar, and containing the village of Morar).</p><br>
<p>Two ferry services cross Loch Nevis. One, a small passenger ferry, links the town of Mallaig with the village of Inverie on Knoydart and the hamlet of Tarbet. The other, http://www.knoydartferry.com/ Knoydart Seabridge, a daily ferry service which can transport vehicles as well as passengers and equipment, sails directly between Mallaig and Inverie.</p><br>
<p>The ferry operated by Caledonian MacBrayne to the Small Isles from Mallaig is named after the loch, the MV Lochnevis.</p><br>
<p>Loch Nevis contains a number of fish farms, and in May 1998 it was the location of the first recorded outbreak of Infectious salmon anaemia in Scotland.</p><br>
<h2>Footnotes</h2><br>
<p>The Oakwood Estate is a house in Winchester, Kentucky. The house, "Oakwood", is on the Lewis estate, and has a history that dates from the ante-bellum era. This house is on the banks of Stoner Creek, about a mile off Wades Mill Rd.</p><br>
<p>At the time the house was built, it was home to Alpheus Lewis Sr., his wife and nine children. He was born in 1799. His father was a veteran of the Revolutionary War and a member of the House of Burgesses who acquired 3,000 acre of land and divided it among his sons. Alpheus built his house, which he later named Oakwood. He created a very successful wine business known as "A. Lewis and Sons". What made Lewis and his home known around Kentucky is the story of his son, Alpheus ("Ack") Lewis Jr. and his time in the Civil War.</p><br>
<p>Captain Ack Lewis had important papers to deliver to the Confederate General, Braxton Bragg. His route took him past his parent&#39;s estate, where he stopped and his mother immediately took precautions by sending their most trusted servant, "Wash", to be stationed outside to look out for any Union troops. About two in the morning, Wash gave the signal that Union troops were approaching the house, looking for Ack. His mother quickly threw his dirty Confederate clothes in the fire and hid him in the secret wine cellar through a trapdoor just as the troops knocked on the door, demanding to search the house. Mrs. Lewis answered and graciously welcomed them into the home. She served them the best wines from the cellars. It is said she treated them so well while they were at the house, they only made a partial search and left. Then, Ack got up from the cellar and made his escape.</p><br>
<p>The condition of Oakwood today is detriorating, with major instabilities in the structure. But, in their back yard one may still see a rail fence, made completely of stone, which is quite a rarity. Behind it are the graves of Alpheus Lewis Sr., and his wife, Theodosia.</p><br>
<p>Velda Mound  is a Native American archaeological site located in northern Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, United States. The site was first occupied by peoples of the Fort Walton Culture  in the late prehistoric period and during the protohistoric period was part of the extensive Apalachee Province of the panhandle. The site is now owned by the State of Florida and managed as a park.</p><br>
<h2>History and use</h2><br>
<p>Velda Mound was built in approximately 1450 by Fort Walton peoples and occupied by their descendants the Apalachee until about 1625. The Spanish explorers called this area Apalachee Province in recognition of the tribe&#39;s power, a territory which also included the Lake Jackson Mounds and major center of Anhaica. The platform mound is believed to have served as a residence for a village leader, with a village surrounding the mound. The village inhabitants cultivated vegetables in small family plots and farmed large communal farming fields in the area around the village. They cultivated numerous varieties of maize, beans and squash.</p><br>
<p>Velda Mound was abandoned by indigenous peoples by the beginning of the Spanish Mission Period (ca. 1565). This was most likely the result of their depleting nearby natural resources, such as trees for building homes and for firewood. The soil may have become depleted as well. The people would move to new lands which were more fertile, and allow older areas to recover. No evidence exists showing occupation of the mound by the later Spanish or British colonists.</p><br>
<p>During the 1950s, the large Velda Dairy operation was developed in much of northern Leon County. Their property for cows and pastureland included the Velda Mound. Looters searching for artifacts dug into the mound and damaged it by disturbing the interior and altering the structure.</p><br>
<p>The dairy property was later sold for redevelopment as residences. The mound has since been repaired and is now owned by the state. The mound is located in the Arbor Hill neighborhood within the sub-division of Killearn Estates.</p><br>
<p>St. Philip&#39;s Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church located in the High Hills of Santee, in the antebellum summer resort community of Bradford Springs in Lee County, South Carolina, about six miles north of Dalzell.</p><br>
<p>It is no longer an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, but the historic parish church is maintained by local descendants of the original members with assistance from the diocese.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1840 in what was then part of Sumter County, it is an early example of the Carpenter Gothic style of architecture. It is unusual among such churches in featuring a pointed arch window in its front gable rather than the customary circular rose window. On April 17, 1996, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>St. Philip&#39;s Cemetery is included in the historic place designation. Buried there is the Rev. Charles Pinckney Elliott, the first rector of the church.</p><br>
<p>Singleton&#39;s Graveyard is an historic plantation cemetery located off SC 261 in the High Hills of Santee six miles south of Wedgefield, South Carolina. On May 13, 1976, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Singletons Graveyard was the family cemetery for the wealthy and prominent Singleton family descended from Col. Matthew Singleton (1728–1787) who settled in the area in the mid-18th century. It is located on Melrose Plantation built in 1760, one of the familys many plantations. All that remains of Melrose, though, is the graveyard. There are 43 known graves dating from 1794 to 1944. Many are Singleton family members, including Matthew Singleton himself. The most notable grave marker is that for Governor George McDuffie (1790–1851), husband of Mary Rebecca Singleton, daughter of Col. Richard Singleton. It was designed by noted sculptor, Ottaviano Gori of New York City. William Tennant (1740-1777, noted Presbyterian minister and politician, is believed to be buried here since his widow recorded in their family Bible that he died at "Captain Singleton&#39;s High Hills of Santee, August 11, 1777...".</p><br>
<h2>Singleton - Van Buren connection</h2><br>
<p>Sarah Angelica Singleton, daughter of Col. Richard Singleton and his wife, Rebecca Travis Coles, married Abraham Van Buren on November 27, 1838 at her parent&#39;s home in Wedgefield. Her father-in-law, Martin Van Buren, was then eighth President of the United States and she served as First Lady during the rest of his time in the White House.</p><br>
<p>The Stevensville Bank is a historic bank building located near the center of Stevensville, Maryland, United States, and is in the Stevensville Historic District. The building&#39;s name is a reference to Stevensville Savings Bank which once occupied the building. The classically detailed bank is now used as a law office.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Stevensville Savings Bank</h2><br>
<p>Stevensville Savings Bank was the bank that occupied the building until the 1960s. At that time, the bank moved near a strip mall at the edge of Stevensville and changed its name to Tidewater Bank. Tidewater Bank later merged with larger banks; in recent years it has been owned by Nations Bank and Bank of America. The Tidewater Bank building continues to serve as a Bank of America branch known as the Tidewater Branch.</p><br>
<p>The Riley Center, also known as the Grand Opera House and formally as the Mississippi State University Riley Center for Education and Performing Arts, is a performing arts and conference center in Meridian, Mississippi. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Renovated in September 2006, it has been restored to its original beauty while incorporating the latest in modern technology and amenities. The Grand Opera House and the adjacent Marks-Rothenberg Department store were built in 1889 by half-brothers Israel Marks and Levi Rothenberg. The opera house was a site for entertainment and theatre for decades.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the extensive theater renovation, the Riley Center project redeveloped the department store as a state-of-the art conference facility. Together the theater and conference space make up the Mississippi State University Riley Center for Education and Performing Arts, owned and operated by Mississippi State University-Meridian Campus.</p><br>
<h2>Original Opera House</h2><br>
<h3>Construction</h3><br>
<p>In the late 19th century, Israel Marks and his half-brothers Levi, Sam, and Marx Rothenberg, expanded their retail operations by opening a new wholesale and retail mercantile store and an adjoining hotel. The site chosen covered almost a half a block — five lots facing 5th Street and three lots consuming the entire length of 22nd Avenue between 5th and 6th Streets. Construction began in 1889, under the direction of C.M. Rubush, a builder from Meridian. The exterior of the building was designed by Gustavus Maurice Torgerson, architect of Meridian&#39;s original City Hall. The designs included a mansard roof, establishing the architectural style as late Victorian, Empire/Romanesque.</p><br>
<p>For an unknown reason, construction of the hotel was interrupted in process, and the brothers decided to develop a Grand Opera House instead. Factors that may have influenced the decision may have been:</p><br>
<p>The top price for a ticket to a first-run production by a traveling company with a star, set at $1.50 (about the same price as a room in a decent hotel)</p><br>
<p>The profit margin would be much larger for an opera house than a hotel</p><br>
<p>Torgerson was familiar with the highly successful Grand Opera House of New Orleans, completed only a few years earlier.</p><br>
<p>Marks spent most of the year in New York City. He would have learned about the more successful shows, and, most probably, the booking and production houses of Klaw and Erlanger, the founders of the Syndicate—the most powerful commercial force in the American theatre at the turn of the century.</p><br>
<p>Seeking quality work, the Marks-Rothenberg partnership hired J.B. McElfatrick of New York and St. Louis to design the interior of the Grand Opera House. McElfatrick had designed over 200 theaters in the United States, including the National Theater in Washington D.C. and the Metropolitan Opera House of Philadelphia, among others.</p><br>
<p>The stage, at 30 feet wide by 50 feet deep, could accommodate the largest, most lavish shows from New York. Under the 35-foot high arched proscenium an ornate painted border featured the "Lady." The image of the "Lady" eventually became the symbol of the Opera House, and in the 21st century, the Grand Opera House is often referred to affectionately as "The Lady."</p><br>
<h3>Performances</h3><br>
<p>The Opera House was completed in late 1890, in time for the December 17 opening with Johann Strausss recent operetta, The Gypsy Baron (1885), performed by a German-language company from New York. The same company performed Adolph Müllers romantic opera, The King&#39;s Fool (1891), the next night.</p><br>
<p>Unlike these European works, most plays or entertainments produced at the opera house were simple melodramas that would have been very familiar to the citys residents. But sometimes international figures performed here as part of national tours in the United States, or notable works were produced on similar tours; examples are the actress Sarah Bernhardt appearing in La Tosca, and a production of Henrik Ibsens play, Ghosts (1881). This play about the hidden costs of sexual adventures must have created quite a stir in Southern society. The most popular form of entertainment at the opera house was the blackface minstrel show. White performers with black make-up on their faces impersonated African Americans, usually as caricatures, in a style related to vaudeville. African-American companies, such as "Black Patti," also performed here. Seating was segregated.</p><br>
<h3>Alterations and renovations</h3><br>
<p>The Opera House was remodeled in 1902, reopening on September 17. The original entrance was moved to the left of the former gallery entry. Three marble steps led up to the entrance, which had a metal extension gate that could be closed when the theatre was dark. Electricity upgrades were also added in 1902.</p><br>
<p>The Opera House was remodeled again in May 1920, when it was converted in part to a movie theater, the new art form whose popularity was growing rapidly. The renovated theater opened on June 7, introducing the silver screen, which can still be seen in the backstage area of the theater. In this transition the gallery was divided into two areas, allowing a center opening for the film&#39;s projection.</p><br>
<h3>Fall of the Opera House</h3><br>
<p>The demise of the Opera House began in 1923, when it was leased to Saenger Films of New Orleans, under title of the Plaza Amusement Company, at a cost of $1,000 a month for a period of 25 years. The lease was for thirty years, but in 1927, Saenger bought the larger Temple Theater and wanted to gut the opera house for use as an office building. Because Levi Rothenberg, the previous owner (and builder) of the opera house had inserted a clause into the lease specifying that the building could be used only as a theater, Plaza Amusement abandoned it and refused to pay rent. After Saenger reneged on the lease, a long court battle ensued. The Rothenbergs eventually won the case, but the Great Depression had begun by then, Saenger had declared bankruptcy, Levi Rothenberg had died, and the Grand Opera House was closed.</p><br>
<p>After the Opera House closed, the department store continued to operate under various ownerships. It was in business until 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<h3>Cause for Restoration</h3><br>
<p>In the 1960s the opera house was covered with metal siding as a part of a modernization trend, and the building lost some of its historic character. In the 1980s, part of this siding was removed. As the community was reminded of the building&#39;s original grand appearance, people organized to restore the building. Over the next two decades, local efforts to "save the Grand Opera House" and restore the adjacent Marks-Rothenberg building garnered support.</p><br>
<h3>Funding</h3><br>
<p>In 2000 The Riley Foundation made a $10 million grant for restoration, with a stipulation that Mississippi State University own and operate the center. The Riley Foundation donated another $2.1 million in 2005 for construction and technology upgrades. Other donations by local, state, and federal agencies followed, including a $4 million donation by Lauderdale County, a $3.6 million grant by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and a $3 million grant from the United States Department of Commerce, both related to urban and economic development. The project&#39;s final price tag was slightly under $25 million.</p><br>
<h2>Riley Center today</h2><br>
<p>The MSU Riley Center is designed to entertain and enrich, further lifelong learning, and improve the quality of life for people of Mississippi and West Alabama through education and the arts.</p><br>
<p>The Riley Center includes a theater which seats approximately 950 people, and a 200-seat studio theater. It also includes 30,000 ft&sup2; of meeting space for a conference center, with a large exhibit hall, break-out rooms, and board rooms, all equipped with teleconferencing capabilities and built-in technical features to create the optimal meeting environment.</p><br>
<h3>Specifications</h3><br>
<p>The maple stage is raised 41 in above audience floor and is finished with dark brown stain. The stages proscenium is 29 ft wide and 19 ft tall, with a depth 32 ft, and the apron extends 7 ft into the crowd at center. The stages left wing measures 8 ft, while the right measures 12 ft.</p><br>
<p>Its two sets of black velour legs are 24 ft x 12 ft. The stage includes one brick red teaser with gold trim, measuring 34 ft x 9 ft</p><br>
<p>with fullness, three slimmer black velour teasers measuring 40 ft x 6 ft with fullness, and two 24 ft x 40 ft black velour travelers, operated stage left. A 24 ft x 40 ft blackout is also present, along with a black scrim and a white bounce of the same measurement.</p><br>
<p>Mount Craig, 6,647 ft, is the second highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and second only to 6,684 ft Mount Mitchell in eastern North America. It is located in the Black Mountains in Yancey County, North Carolina. The mountain lies about a mile  north of Mount Mitchell and is within Mount Mitchell State Park and the Pisgah National Forest.</p><br>
<p>Mount Craig was named in honor of Locke Craig, the governor of North Carolina from 1913 to 1917 responsible for establishing Mount Mitchell State Park in 1915 as the state&#39;s first, thereby protecting the area from excessive logging.</p><br>
<h2>Trails</h2><br>
<p>The mountain can easily be reached via an approximately 45-minute hike on the Deep Gap Trail from the picnic area below the summit of Mount Mitchell off N.C. Highway 128. The view atop Mount Craig embraces much of the southern portion of the Black Mountain Range. A North Carolina Geodetic Survey triangulation marker is located on the summit.</p><br>
<p>The Deep Gap Trail proceeds beyond Mount Craig to other North Carolina high peaks including Big Tom, Cattail Peak, Balsam Cone, Potato Hill and through Deep Gap to Winter Star Mountain, Gibbs Mountain and Celo Knob.</p><br>
<h2>Elevation designation</h2><br>
<p>Formerly the third highest point in eastern North America, Mount Craig is currently designated by the USGS as the second. However, there is only a 4 foot (1.3 m) difference in elevation between it and 6,643-foot (2,025 m) Clingmans Dome, the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains. Clingmans Domes elevation is based on a conventional 1920 optical survey. Mount Craigs elevation was revised upwards in 1993 based upon satellite GPS to an accuracy of 4 inches (10 centimeters). Until Clingmans Dome can be remeasured by GPS, Mount Craig retains its designation as second highest.</p><br>
<p>Goat Island/Rakiriri is an island in Otago Harbour in Otago, in the southern South Island of New Zealand. It is located between Port Chalmers and Portobello, to the northeast of Dunedins city centre. It has one of New Zealands dual placenames. The Maori language portion "Rakiriri" was a significant name brought by the original settlers from their Pacific homelands, a simple translation being "Angry Sky "</p><br>
<p>The second-largest island in the harbour, Goat Island/Rakiriri covers 4.5 hectare, and is located to the northwest of the larger Quarantine Island/Kamau Taurua. When the quarantine station was running, single men were quartered in a two storied barrack similar to those on Quarantine Island/Kamau Taurua. Unlike its neighbour, Goat Island/Rakiriri today is uninhabited, and is designated as a scenic reserve and Historic Area. It has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area because it has a breeding colony of bronze shags.</p><br>
<p>The two islands, along with the Portobello Peninsula, are all part of a ridge (anticline) lying across the centre of the harbour, which was the crater of the long-extinct Dunedin volcano - running from Portobello to Port Chalmers.</p><br>
<p>Lower Carden Hall is a historic house in the civil parish of Carden, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The oldest part of the house is the north wing which dates back to the 15th century, or earlier. A south cross-wing was added in the middle of the 16th century and the north wing was enlarged and re-fronted in the early 17th century. Alterations and additions were made to the rear of the house in the late 19th century. The major part of the house is timber-framed with oak frames and plaster panels on a sandstone plinth. The north end gable is built in stone and brick. The rear wing is of brick with steeply pitched grey slate roofs. On the north gable and on south wall of the cross-wing are massive projecting chimneys of stone and brick. The house was substantially restored in about 1984 with a brick inner skin and steelwork.</p><br>
<p>Lake Buel is a 196 acre great pond in Berkshire County, Massachusetts just south of Route 57 and east of Great Barrington. It is surrounded by over one-hundred summer homes and a few dozen year-round homes in about a dozen separate, tight-knit neighborhoods, each with its own private or semi-private road. The roads do not interlink.</p><br>
<p>The lake is named after Samuel C. Buel of Tyringham, Massachusetts who saved people from drowning on the lake (called at the time Six Mile Pond) on July 23, 1812.</p><br>
<p>The northern shore of the lake is in the town of Monterey and the southern shore is in New Marlborough. There is a paved boat ramp on the northwest shore that is owned by the Public Access Board and managed by Forests and Parks and Fisheries and Game. A portion of the Appalachian Trail crosses over a breached mill dam along the northern inlet.</p><br>
<h2>Natural characteristics</h2><br>
<p>The mean depth is 20 ft; the maximum depth is 42 ft. The Lake Buel watershed encompasses 3,268 acre. The lake&#39;s water is well-buffered and hard with a pH between 7.8 and 8.6. This hardness and alkalinity suggest that the lake generally safe from the effects of acid rain. The lake is eutrophic and mesotrophic: eutrophic because of macrophyte production and hypolimnetic metabolism; mestrophic because of total phosphorus content and summer phytoplankton productivity. The normal full water elevation of the lake is 908 ft. The flood elevations for the 10-year and 100-year floods are 911.5 ft and 913.6 ft.</p><br>
<h2>Resorts and inns</h2><br>
<p>Lake Buel was rarely used for recreation until the 1870s when it became a major summer attraction for the outlying area. Gibson’s Grove opened on the south side of the lake’s in the early part of the decade and shortly thereafter Turner’s Landing opened on the lake’s northwest end.</p><br>
<h3>Gibson’s Grove</h3><br>
<p>In the early part of the 1870s, George N. Gibson established a pine grove on the south side of the lake’s outlet as a picnic area, calling it Gibson’s Grove. In 1875, picnickers were caught in a sudden rain storm, which prompted the construction of a dining hall, the lake’s first building. These events were often integrated and never segregated. Gibson’s had 300 visitors on good days. Gibson&#39;s added an ice house in 1893.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1900s Gibson’s had available for rent: three furnished overnight cottages (each included wood, ice, and a boat), an unfurnished farm house, and two extended-stay cottages (each included a boat and telephone service).</p><br>
<p>As early as 1929 Gibson’s had a Sellner toboggan slide. It was eventually removed in the mid-1950s because of liability issues.</p><br>
<p>Between 1933 and 1947, Gibson sold off portions of his land as lots.</p><br>
<p>In 1941 and 1949 Gibson sold lots to the Menaker family as they expanded Camp To-Ho-Ne. In 1952, Gibson’s was leased to Sonny Zanetti, who renovated the boats, including the Minnehaha, which no longer worked but was kept on display at the main dock. During this era, the pavilion had a jukebox that ran throughout business hours.</p><br>
<p>Gibson’s was sold outright in 1955. The new owners opened a tavern, the Blue Gill Club. The property was sold again in 1963; the Blue Gill was razed, and a new restaurant was built, which included a bar and a second story dance floor. The property was sold again in 1968, and efforts were made to continue the Blue Gill Club. In 1975 the main building and other buildings were razed. The Blue Gill was renovated into a private cottage in 1978.</p><br>
<h3>Turner’s Landing</h3><br>
<p>Turner’s Landing was established around 1875. It was also known as Turner’s View House and Turner’s Lakeview Villa. In the 1880s, Turner’s had over 400 visitors a week, sometimes 200 a day. In 1900 Turner’s had its busiest season to date. Prior to World War I, people could overnight there in rented tents.</p><br>
<p>In 1936 Turner’s renovated the main building and updated its cottages, introducing electricity to some. The 150 acre property was sold in 1937.</p><br>
<h3>Littlecrest Inn</h3><br>
<p>The Littlecrest Inn (aka Littlecrest), which boarded summer guests, started in 1937. It included individual cabins. Renovations occurred in 1947, which focused on the main building. It closed in 1959 when a judgment forced the owner to compensate a worker injured on the premises. The following year it re-opened under new ownership as the Seven Arts Guest Lodge, but it only ran for one season. The main lodge eventually burned in 1975. Some of the original buildings still remain as private cottages.</p><br>
<h3>Miami Beach</h3><br>
<p>Miami Beach, an amusement and swimming resort, opened on the north shore of the lake about 1925. The upstairs had a jukebox, a big front porch, a dance hall, refreshment room and kitchen. The main building was destroyed by fire in 1947.</p><br>
<h3>Bigford’s Landing</h3><br>
<p>Bigford’s Landing was established in 1910. It had its own launch, a restaurant and camps.</p><br>
<h3>Hebert’s Beach</h3><br>
<p>Hebert’s Beach opened in 1946. It included a large hall which hosted square dances. In 1955, the building was converted into a 7-unit motel. The beach itself closed in 1962 but continued to rent boats. The motel was then converted into apartments and renamed first the Leeside Lodge, and then Blue Heron Landing.</p><br>
<h2>Private cottages</h2><br>
<p>The first private cabin on Lake Buel was built in 1881 by Dr. Willard Rice, a Great Barrington dentist. In 1894, the lease was transferred for $1 to Charles Booth and John England who renovated the building, raising height of the roof, adding a kitchen, and enlarging the porch around a birch tree. It became the Mahaiwe Club, for men only. In the early 1900s Great Barringtons Sedgwick School, a boys private school, built a cottage north of Turners for its students recreation.</p><br>
<p>In 1904 there were 21 buildings on Lake Buel, 8 in Monterey and 13 in New Marlborough.</p><br>
<p>In the 1930s, New Marlborough had no zoning laws on the books for lot size requirements along the lake. The last lot was sold in 1959.</p><br>
<p>In 1971 the Hebert family purchased neighboring wetlands and began filling it with gravel. Cottages were built on the landfill and eventually sold. The area was known as Cavity Cove and Cavity Row.</p><br>
<h2>Launches</h2><br>
<p>The first launch on Lake Buel was the Wm. B. Gibson, which made its public debut on July 4, 1876. The first steamboat in Berkshire County, it had a 6’ diameter wheel, a 14-hp engine, a 7’-high boiler, and could carry 200 people on its two decks.</p><br>
<p>The Wm. B. Gibson picked up passengers at Gibson’s Grove and at Turner’s Lake View Hall. It made the 1.25 mi trip in 17 minutes. Fares were 20 cents for adults and 10 for children. After being sold by Gibson to Turner, the steamer’s name was changed to the Lake Buell. Around 1891 Turner launched a new steamer, the Lake Buel. It was 20 ft long and 8 ft wide, propelled by a screw, and ran on oil. Turner continued to run this launch until 1934.</p><br>
<p>Another launch, a motorboat, was active in 1911 and run by Levi Huntley out of a cottage owned by J.M. Bigford.</p><br>
<p>Gibson’s started a new launch in 1918. It was constructed in Norwalk, Connecticut by Fay & Bowen and called the Minnehaha. A bigger and improved Minnehaha replaced it in the mid-1950s.</p><br>
<p>In the 1940s, Gibson’s also ran a Chris-Craft.</p><br>
<p>The lake’s first gasoline boat was privately owned by W.E. Hill. It was 24 ft long. He did not offer public rides.</p><br>
<h2>Summer camps</h2><br>
<p>The lake has a long history of summer camps. A Camp Buel existed as early as 1900. Camp Berkshire, a small boys camp, started in 1912 and ended before 1937. It initially used Gibson’s Grove as a home base. Camp Half Moon started about 1920. It became co-ed in 1994 and is still active.</p><br>
<p>Camp To-Ho-Ne started in 1921 on the former Owaissa grounds. To-Ho-Ne used a system of tribal government “to maintain discipline and safety.” 1970 was the camp’s last year. In 1986 the land was sold and turned into a 27-lot housing development, To Ho Ne Shores.</p><br>
<p>In 1937, Turner’s Landing was sold, and the site became a camp, first called Camp Mi Yo Quan and then Berkshire Highland. Berkshire Highland ran until 1956. In 1957 and 1958 the site was the Ted Mack Camp, a summer music camp for kids. Activities at Ted Mack included swimming, boating, weaving, music lessons and pony rides. Weekly shows were put on, including an end-of-the-season Broadway-type show. Guys and Dolls ended one season. Frank Loesser introduced the show; his daughter Susan was a camper there. Marvin Hamlisch was also a camper there as was Bruce Vilanch.</p><br>
<p>From 1939 until 1969 the site hosted the Children’s Colony International Camp, which was home to about 220 campers for eight weeks each summer. Some of campers and counselors came from foreign countries, giving the camp an international flair. Children&#39;s Colony was owned by Trude Frank who also operated a day school of the same name in New York City. The program emphasized waterfront activities, boating and especially swimming; campers as young as 5 or 6 swam the full width of the lake and gained advance Red Cross swimming cards. Campers ranged in age from kindergarten age through high school. Highlights of the summer included a hike along a portion of the Appalachian Trail and berry picking excursions.</p><br>
<p>In 1970 it became Camp Deerwood. Deerwood offered athletics, aquatics, arts, ham radio lessons, crafts, foreign languages and photography.</p><br>
<p>In 2000 the land was sold again and became the Seven Stones, a venue for business retreats, weddings and family reunions. In 2003 Seven Stones hosted the 2003 World Gay Outdoor Gathering. In 2008, the site was purchased by Kutshers Sports Academy, which was moving its camp from Monticello, New York Kutshers hosted 200 campers in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Fokine Ballet Camp leased Littlecrest for eight weeks each summer from 1957 to 1960 before relocating to a site in Lenox, Massachusetts. Bigford’s Landing hosted a Girl Scout Summer Camp throughout the 1950s.</p><br>
<h2>Associations</h2><br>
<p>The Lake Buel Association began in 1938; it focused on the lake’s health, especially the elimination of weeds, and on social events. It was active as late as 1976.</p><br>
<p>In 1986, with a landowners’ vote of 147-4, the Lake Buel Restoration-Preservation district was formed. It was the first of its kind in Massachusetts for a great pond. It allowed non-resident landowners to vote in Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<p>The following charts include species found in wetland, grazed wet meadow, forested wetland and aquatic environments in and around Lake Buel.</p><br>
<h2>Milfoil infestation</h2><br>
<p>Lake Buel suffers from an infestation of milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum). It is likely that this aquatic plant was introduced unintentionally in the early 1960s.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1990s the aquatic plant covered over 85 acres (over 40%) of the lake. This infestation creates a large oxygen demand in the lake, limiting cold water habitat.</p><br>
<p>Aquatic macrophyte harvesting was initiated in 1980. A 90 acre harvest was performed that year.</p><br>
<h2>Zebra mussel concerns</h2><br>
<p>In July 2009, zebra mussels were discovered in Laurel Lake in Lee, prompting the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game to close Laurel Lakes boat ramp. A number of lakes around the area responded by closing their ramps, including Stockbridge Bowl. The Monterey Board of Selectmen voted to close Lake Buels ramp and on July 22, the ramp was blocked off with a concrete barricade and padlocked chain.</p><br>
<p>A non-native invasive species, zebra mussels were originally native to the lakes of southeast Russia. In the 1990s they began colonizing the Great Lakes, and have since spread into streams and rivers nationwide. In some areas they completely cover the substrate, sometimes covering other freshwater mussels. They can grow so densely that they block pipelines, clogging water intakes of municipal water supplies and hydroelectric companies.</p><br>
<p>As of 2009, Massachusetts has no specific legislation to address invasive species, leaving it up to local authorities.</p><br>
<h2>Samuel Buell</h2><br>
<p>On July 23, 1812, Samuel Buell (1796–1865), age 16, saved three of seven people during a row boat accident. Three others drowned and one swam to shore on his own. That September, he was presented with a gold heart medal by the Washington Benevolent Society of Tyringham. Buell eventually married, had a family and lived as a farmer. He died in 1865 and is buried in Mahaiwe Cemetery in Great Barrington.</p><br>
<p>In 1878, the Berkshire Courier dropped the second L from Buell, and soon other papers followed suit.</p><br>
<h3>Other drownings on the lake</h3><br>
<p>John Benton, age 8, in 1904; fell from a boat</p><br>
<p>Joseph Sabban of East Caanan, 27, in June 1925; fell from a canoe</p><br>
<p>Alfred Kotite on Brookyn, 14, June 1925; fell from a boat rented from Turner’s</p><br>
<p>Allen Lasher of Germantown, NY, 18, June 1930; fell from a canoe</p><br>
<p>James Bearder of West Springfield, MA, 51, June 1945; near Gibson’s Grove while fishing alone</p><br>
<p>Paul Schoenfeld of Brooklyn, NY; 14, June 1945; fell from a boat while fishing</p><br>
<h2>Feats</h2><br>
<p>The first person known to swim the length of the lake was Helen Tobey, 17, who, in 1910, swam from Turner’s to Gibson’s (about 1 and a half miles) in 70 minutes.</p><br>
<p>Helen Humphries was the first to swim the length of the lake from Miami Beach to Gibson’s (about 2 miles). She did it in 1928 in 70 minutes.</p><br>
<p>Michael Danek of Westfield, Massachusetts caught a state record northern pike in January 1987; it weighed 32 pounds, 4 ounces.</p><br>
<h2>Notable residents</h2><br>
<p>Roy Lichtenstein - In the 1920s, as a child Lichtenstein summered at Lake Buel.</p><br>
<p>Alan Ford, honeymooned at Littlecrest in 1945.</p><br>
<p>Lud Gluskin</p><br>
<p>Walt Kuhn, maintained a summer studio on the lake from 1940 to 1942.</p><br>
<p>Ted Mack, ran a summer camp, 1957 to 1960.</p><br>
<p>Joel I. Cohen, Honorable father of four and noted pharmacist based out of New Haven, CT has been summering and napping on the lake since his marriage to his loving wife Cathy E. Cohen in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Bridgegate in Chester, Cheshire, England, forms part of the city walls. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Roman city walls were extended to the south in the 12th century with a wall parallel to the north bank of the River Dee. This section of the wall incorporated the original Bridgegate which must have been built by the 1120s, as the office of sergeant of the gate was recorded in that decade. The gate guarded the southern entrance to the town; the road from North Wales ran through the gateway directly after crossing the Old Dee Bridge. It is possible that the gateway was rebuilt at the time the bridge was rebuilt in the later part of the 14th century. Between 1521 and 1624 the bridge tolls were controlled by the Talbot family, the Earls of Shrewsbury, whose town house, now the Bear and Billet, was nearby.</p><br>
<p>At the end of the 15th century the bridge consisted of a Gothic arch with a tower on each side. In 1600–01 a square tower was added which contained machinery for lifting river water into the town. This was known as John Tyrer&#39;s Water Tower, after its builder, but the tower was destroyed in the siege of Chester in 1644–65. The present bridge was built in 1781 for Chester City Corporation, the architect being Joseph Turner.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Bridgegate is built in yellow sandstone ashlar in neoclassical style and consists of a segmental arch over the carriageway with a round pedestrian archway in each abutment. Along its top are balustraded parapets on each side of the footpath.</p><br>
<p>The Abbey Gateway is in Chester, Cheshire, England and leads from Northgate Street into Abbey Square. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The gateway was built as a gatehouse around 1300 and its upper storey was rebuilt around 1800. It was formerly the main access to the precinct of St Werburgh&#39;s Abbey. It is thought that the architect was Richard Lenginour (Richard the Engineer).</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The gateway is built in red sandstone with gables to the front and rear. The west face has a central arch for vehicles and a smaller arch to the south for pedestrians. On each side of the central arch is a blind niche. In the upper storey is a 16-pane window in a Gothic arch. On the east face is one arch, larger than that on the west face. In the upper storey is a central window in a Gothic arch with a rectangular window on each side. In the gable end is another Gothic-shaped window. To the south of the arch is a diminishing turret containing an arched doorway with a small window above it.</p><br>
<p>The Arlington Hills Library is a 1916 Beaux Arts library building designed by Cameron and Company. It is one of three Carnegie Libraries in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Relocation</h2><br>
<p>The public library closed for relocation on Saturday, March 15, 2014 and reopened at 1200 Payne Ave. on May 22, 2014 as part of the Arlington Hills Community Center in collaboration with the parks and recreation department. The building went up for sale by the City of Saint Paul for adaptive reuse that would maintain the historic structure. The nonprofit East Side Freedom Library signed a lease with the city in March, 2014, and will feature a reference book collection along with classrooms and meeting spaces for cultural events. The East Side Freedom Library was expected to open in June, 2014,</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Brunson House is one of the oldest houses remaining in Saint Paul, Minnesota it was built ca. 1856 in the area known as "railroad island," being surrounded by tracks. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Brunson was born in 1823 in Detroit, Michigan. His father, the Rev. Alfred Brunson, was an itinerant Methodist preacher who traveled a "circuit district" along the Mississippi River between Rock Island, Illinois to Saint Anthony Falls. The elder Brunson made his permanent residence in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. In 1847, Benjamin Brunson came to the area to assist his brother, Ira, in making the first plat of the city of Saint Paul. Ira had led a number of soldiers from Fort Snelling in driving a number of squatters off the military reservation and down to the present site of the city, which was first named "Pigs Eye" after its founder Pierre "Pigs Eye" Parrant. The first plat is credited to Benjamin, and he surveyed many other additions to Saint Paul and prepared plats for neighboring communities in Minnesota. Brunson also served in the first Minnesota Territorial Legislature and served as a justice of the peace, a superintendent of mail carriers, a merchant at the Old Steamboat Landing, and as a civil engineer for the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad. He built his house in 1855 in Brunson&#39;s Addition to the City of Saint Paul, which was a semi-rural area at the time but is now within an inner-city warehouse and industrial district. He lived in Saint Paul until his death in 1898.</p><br>
<p>The Church of Saint Agnes is an onion-domed church building designed by George Ries, built 1901–1912 for the German-speaking Austro-Hungarian population of immigrants in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The parish was founded in 1887 by Archbishop John Ireland, who wanted to serve German-speaking immigrants who were settling in the Frogtown neighborhood of St. Paul to find work with the Great Northern Railway. The first building was designed by George Bergmann, a St. Paul architect who was also a parishioner. The current building was begun under the direction of Reverend James Trobec, who later became the third bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud. Two competing designs were submitted by architects Hermann Kretz and George Ries, and the design by Ries was selected. Ries modeled his design after Stift Schlägl, a Praemonstratensian monastery in Northern Austria near Aigen im Mühlkreis. The Baroque architecture style was familiar to immigrants who came from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and southern Germany. It is also influenced by Beaux-Arts ideals of balance and symmetry.</p><br>
<p>Construction began in 1897, when the basement was built. The basement was used for services while funds were raised to build the full structure. In 1909, after around $200,000 was raised, work on the structure resumed, to be completed in 1912. The onion-domed bell tower is 205 ft tall, and placed at an unusual location at the back of the sanctuary. The front of the church has a monumental staircase leading to a terrace with three grand entrance doors. The central entrance door has an ornate window with niches on either side with statues of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Above that, there is a pedimented gable with a statue of Saint Agnes, the patron saint of the church. The church and the tower are clad in Indiana limestone. Architecture critic Larry Millett calls the church, "The monument in Frogtown and one of St. Paul&#39;s finest churches."</p><br>
<p>The church was dedicated in 1912 in a four-hour-long service conducted by Archbishop John Ireland, accompanied by 32 priests. Brass chandeliers were salvaged from the former Minnesota State Capitol building which was located on Wabasha and Exchange Streets in downtown St. Paul. Stained glass windows were installed in 1930, along with a marble altar. The altar has a mosaic depicting the Crucifixion of Jesus with the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint John.</p><br>
<p>The Manhattan Building  is a historic office and banking building located at 360 North Robert Street in Saint Paul, Minnesota.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The seven-story plus basement, Renaissance Revival style building was designed by Clarence H. Johnston, Sr. in 1889 and built in 1890. The exterior consists of Jacobsville Sandstone and pressed brick. The building stands at a height of 117 feet tall.</p><br>
<p>According to its NRHP designation, “From bottom to top, the building has only been altered with applied material on the first story. This was applied sometime in the 1950s by Toltz, King, and Day architects according to historical photos. The current owner intends to remove the applied panels and uncover the original first story.”</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. M.L. Latta House was a historic home located in the Oberlin neighborhood of Raleigh, North Carolina. It was the last remaining building from Latta University, a trade school for African Americans that operated from 1892 until 1920. The house was named after Morgan London Latta, a freedman and former slave who graduated from Shaw University after the Civil War. It was built about 1905, and was a substantial, two-story Queen Anne style residence with a Tuscan order wraparound porch. He founded Latta University to educate freedmen and orphans in Raleigh&#39;s African-American community and built the campus next to his house. His house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, and designated a Raleigh Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>On January 8, 2007, a fire destroyed the house, leaving only the manmade brick foundation. Before the fire, plans had been made by The Latta House Foundation to adapt the house as a cultural center. After the fire, the property owner gave the land to the city of Raleigh for use as a park.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>Pedino  is a community on the Greek island of Lemnos, Greece. It consists of the villages Vounaria, Neo Pedino and Palaio Pedino, and the uninhabited island Alogonisi. It is part of the municipal unit of Nea Koutali. In 2011 its population was 268.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Pedino is situated in the central part of the island of Lemnos, west of the gulf of Moudros. It is 1.5 km southwest of Nea Koutali, 1 km northeast of Portianou and 11 km east of Myrina. The small uninhabited island Alogonisi, in the gulf of Moudros, has an area of 286 hectares and a perimeter of 2,895 m.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Under the older name Pesperagou (Πεσπεράγου), the village was mentioned in the late 14th century. The origin of the name is unknown. One theory is that it could come from a Turkish landowner named Pesper-Aga. But the name predates the Turkish invasion of Lemnos. In 1955 Pesperagou was renamed to Pedino after the plain in which the village is built.</p><br>
<p>In 1856, Pesperagou had 57 men who paid 782 piastres to avoid conscription. The village had 40 families in 1863 and 37 in 1874. In the same year, it had 44 homes and was part of the municipality (koli) of Kontias. Between 1918 and 1921, hundreds of Russian emigrés were settled in the area between Pedino and Portianou. They lived under harsh conditions, and 292 people died during the influenza epidemic of 1920-21. They are buried in a Russian-Cossack cemetery by the coast.</p><br>
<p>Pesperagou became a separate community in 1919. Its population began to rise, it had 230 inhabitants in 1928 and 300 (with 60 houses) in 1938. Its inhabitants produced wheat and cotton.</p><br>
<p>The islands of Lemnos and Agios Efstratios were struck by a severe earthquake in February 1968. The old village of Pedino (now Palaio Pedino) was destroyed by the earthquake, and most inhabitants were resettled in the new village Neo Pedino, built nearby.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church of St. Paul is an historic church building in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. The original steeple, which rose 145 ft above the ground, was removed in 1945. The stone base was sinking into the marshy soil and causing structural strain on the rest of the building. A new, shorter steeple was erected, but without the belfry and clock that the original steeple had.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation started as a Sunday school run by Harriet Bishop in 1847. She came from Vermont to the St. Paul area, still a part of Wisconsin Territory before Minnesota Territory was organized, after hearing that there were about thirty children who had no school or teacher. The school was originally located in an old blacksmith shop, which she described as "a mud-walled log hovel covered with bark and chinked with mud." A new schoolhouse was built on Jackson Street. On February 8, 1849, the Reverend John Parsons was appointed as a missionary to St. Paul. He preached in the schoolhouse at the start. On December 29, 1849, the church formally organized itself. They made immediate plans to build a church on "Baptist Hill", now part of Mears Park.</p><br>
<p>The congregation needed more money than they could raise locally, so Parsons traveled east to New York in 1851 to raise donations. Unfortunately he was robbed in New York City, and he lost the entire amount of $2,300 that he had raised. He spent a couple months recovering his injuries, then set out to return to St. Paul. He died on a riverboat north of St. Louis, Missouri. His funeral was the first service held in the newly built church, which was financed by loans raised in anticipation of Parsons&#39; funds.</p><br>
<p>In 1857 Baptist Hill was graded down to the same level as the surrounding area, leaving the small church 20 ft above its surroundings. The congregation looked for a new site and built a new church on Wacouta Street, which opened on January 1, 1862. This was a larger stone structure, but the rapidly expanding community outgrew its second structure. William W. Boyington of Chicago was commissioned to design a new building, located nearby at the corner of Ninth and Wacouta.</p><br>
<p>The Merchants National Bank or Brooks Building is a commercial building in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, built and opened in 1892 as a financial center in St. Paul&#39;s Lowertown neighborhood at the corner of Jackson Street and Fifth Street. The structure, designed by Edward Bassford, uses sandstone in a Richardsonian Romanesque style. The ground floor was occupied by an influential bank, while the upper stories provided law offices. Several office tenants went on to great state or national prominence, including Cushman Kellogg Davis, Cordenio Severance, Frank B. Kellogg, Pierce Butler, and William D. Mitchell. For many years, the building was known as the McColl Building. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The four-story structure was carefully rehabilitated and restored by David A. Brooks, and the building now carries his family name.</p><br>
<p>Igbon Island  is an island and barangay in northeastern Iloilo, Philippines. It is part of the municipality of Concepcion. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 2,547. The island is moderately known in the Philippines for its scuba diving.</p><br>
<h2>Location and geography</h2><br>
<p>Igbon Island is east of Panay Island in the Visayan Sea. Part of the Concepcion Islands, it is a wooded island and is 774 ft at its highest point. Igbon is 2 mi east of Tago Island. Other nearby islands include Bulubadiangan Island and Danao-Danao Island. Its sole barangay is Igbon, which has one school, the Claudia Morata Villarias Memorial School.</p><br>
<h2>Natural disasters</h2><br>
<h3>Guimaras oil spill</h3><br>
<p>On 11 August, 2006, a tanker capsized off the coast of Guimaras Island south of Panay. The tanker spilled over 200,000 l of oil into the Panay Gulf. By the end of August 2006, oil had covered more than 245 km of coastline. In September 2006, the Regional Disaster Coordinating Council (RDCC) identified Igbon as one of 38 municipalities threatened by the oil spill.</p><br>
<h3>Typhoon Haiyan</h3><br>
<p>In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda) caused heavy damage to Igbon. The typhoon unexpectedly struck Igbon at low tide, although residents were able to take shelter near the mountain areas. Relief workers distributed food aid to island residents after the storm passed.</p><br>
<p>The Tivoli Brewery is a historic building originally home to the Tivoli Brewing Company. It was designed by prominent Denver architect Frederick C. Eberley. The building is located in the Auraria Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Today the building is home to the Tivoli Student Union of the Auraria Campus, serving as a student center for the Metropolitan State University of Denver, Community College of Denver, and the University of Colorado Denver. In August 2015 the revived Tivoli Brewing Company began brewing in a new facility inside the building, in the original brewing area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Tivoli Brewery building, located in the Auraria Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, is considered a historic landmark. The building is the former home of the Tivoli Brewing Company, which was named after the Tivoli Gardens located in Copenhagen Denmark by past owner John Good. The Tivoli Brewery building was built in 1864 by German immigrant Moritz Sigi along with the Colorado territory&#39;s first artesian well. A well known local character and Denver councilman Sigi brewed the best "Buck Beer", a hybrid lager/ale similar to a Bock. Mr. Sigi had a sudden and tragic horse carriage accident that led to his death in 1874. The brewery was then sold to Max Melsheimer. Melsheimer renamed the brewery Milwaukee Brewery and attempted to expand the business production with the purchase of 250-barrel copper brewing kettles. The Milwaukee Brewery was not able to fulfill this mass production, and Melsheimer foreclosed on the loan he took out for the purchase. John Good, who was involved with both banking and brewing in early Denver history, took over the company and renamed it Tivoli Brewing Co.</p><br>
<p>At the time, the Tivoli Brewery and Zangs Brewery were the biggest breweries before prohibition. Zangs never recovered from the prohibition leaving Tivoli to become the iconic Denver Beer for the Western Aristocrat and eventually a dominant brewery in the west. Tivoli continued to grow and the public continued to embrace Tivoli beer. After Good died in 1918, the brewery stayed in the hands of Good’s descendants and his long-time business partner, William Burghardt. By the 1950s, the brewery became one of the largest breweries in the country, producing up to 150,000 barrels a year which were sold everywhere west of the Mississippi. In the early 1960s Tivoli continued to grow with the Hi-En-Brau brand.</p><br>
<p>When Loraine Good, the final Good descendant, died in 1965, Carl and Joseph Occhiatio purchased the Tivoli-Union Brewery from the estate. The brothers immediately faced hardship when the Platte River flooded in 1965, damaging the brewery. One year later, a labor strike set the business back exponentially. In April 1969, the Tivoli Brewery closed for business. Until Tivoli closed, it was the second oldest continuously operating brewery in the country with Pennsylvania’s Yuengling brewery being the only brewery with an existence surpassing that of Tivoli.</p><br>
<p>After years of abandonment it was converted into a shopping center in the mid 1980s by architectural firm HOK.</p><br>
<p>Today, the building is home to the Tivoli Student Union of the Auraria Campus, serving as a student center for the Metropolitan State University of Denver, the University of Colorado Denver, and the Community College of Denver. While it is now used as meeting rooms and student group offices, many of the historic features still remain, including the copper brewing kettles and a barrel lift that is visible from two levels.</p><br>
<p>Tivoli Brewing Co. has since been revived in 2012 by bringing historic Colorado beers back to life, including Tivoli Beer, Sigis Buck Beer, and Neefs Bohemian Girl Pilsner. The brewery serves as the center of the brewing and beer industry education programs at the schools that share the Auraria campus.</p><br>
<p>Selbjørn is an island in Austevoll municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. The 25 km&sup2; island is the second largest in the municipality . Most of the population lives along the northern and eastern coastlines of the island. The commercial centre of Selbjørn is the village of Bekkjarvik, where Bekkjarvik Church is located.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>Selbjørn is based on the old Norwegian word Salbjǫrn meaning the bear in the saddle. The interpretation is that sailors and fishermen used Selbjørn as replacement for a more ancient "Hund" meaning quarry. However, "Hund" is the same as the Norwegian word for dog and "Hund" in the meaning of dog was according to old tradition something not to be mentioned at sea. The result being Salbjorn or Selbjørn as the new word for "Hund" (quarry).</p><br>
<p>The island&#39;s name was used in naming the fjord that lies immediately to the south, Selbjørnsfjorden.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island lies just north of the Selbjørnsfjorden on the southern part of the Austevoll archipelago. The neighboring island of Stolmen lies just to the west and the island of Huftarøy lies just to the northeast.</p><br>
<h3>Kongsafjellet</h3><br>
<p>The highest point on the island is the 185 m tall mountain Kongsafjellet. Kongsafjellet has a strategic position to overview all the shipping lanes for boats coming from the North Sea and going north/south along the coast and in between the nearby islands. The estate of the historic Viking Kings at Fitjar was also seen from the hilltop, and due to this and some archaeological findings, it is believed that King Haakon the Good used the hilltop as a scouting location as part of his Vikings security system.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Selbjørn is connected to the neighboring islands of Stolmen and Huftarøy by the Stolma Bridge on the west side of the island and the Selbjørn Bridge on the northeast side. The municipality of Austevoll is not connected to the rest of Norway by any roads, so one must take a ferry from the mainland of Bergen to the island of Huftarøy or take a ferry from the large island of Stord to the island of Huftarøy. The ferry from Bergen stops at Hufthammar on the north takes about 35 minutes to get to the island and the ferry from Stord stops at Husavik and takes about 25 minutes. Once on Huftarøy, one must drive to the Selbjørn Bridge to cross over to the island of Selbjørn.</p><br>
<p>The Henry L. Kamphoefner House was the first Modernist house built in Raleigh, North Carolina. During the mid-20th century, faculty members from the School of Design located at North Carolina State College  designed and built several modernist houses in Raleigh for themselves, other faculty, and a few clients. Henry L. Kamphoefner, originally the head of Oklahoma State Universitys architecture program, became the first dean of the colleges School of Design. Kamphoefner was awarded the North Carolina Award for Fine Arts in 1978 for his work and encouragement of other Modernists to build and design homes in the state. In 1977 he was awarded the Topaz Medallion for Lifelong Achievement in Architecture by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. The Kamphoefner House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 and is designated a Raleigh Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>George Matsumoto, architect of the Ritcher House, and Kamphoefner designed the Kamphoefner House in 1948. The home was constructed in 1950. It is an example of Frank Lloyd Wright&#39;s Usonian mode of design, characterized by small scale, affordable construction, open plan interiors, integration of interior and exterior spaces, flat roof and large glazed areas such as windows and doors. The house is oriented around a large, central brick chimney. The rear of the house features large insulated windows, the first of its kind in Raleigh. These windows face a large open terrace and offer a view of the nearby golf course. The front of the house contains no windows, allowing privacy to the occupants.</p><br>
<p>The Old Hall Hotel is a public house and restaurant in High Street, Sandbach, Cheshire, England. It was built in 1656 on the site of a previous manor house, and since been extended. In the 18th century it was used as a coaching inn and hotel. It closed as a hotel in 2005; it was unused for four years, and its fabric suffered serious deterioration. In 2010 the building was bought by the owners of a chain of public houses who repaired and restored it. It was reopened as a public house and restaurant in 2011. The building is timber-framed, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The construction of the present building dates from 1656. It was built on the site of the previous manor house of the Sondbache family that had been built in the 13th century, but had been destroyed by fire. There is evidence of an even older building on the site dating from the 12th century. This had been a rectangular wattle and daub structure with a turf roof serving as a seminary for the priests serving the nearby church. The present building was built by John Radclyffe, the son of Sir John Radclyffe, the lord of the manor of Sandbach. The first phase of the building was rectangular, and was constructed in oak timber framing with wattle and daub infill. Later an extension was built to the left; this was also timber-framed, but some brick was used at the rear. The building was further extended in the 18th century and the stables at the rear were enlarged. It then functioned as a coaching inn, and the Liverpool to Lichfield coach stopped to change horses. Passengers were encouraged to stay, and the inn was reclassified as a hotel. In the 19th century the hotel was part of the Crewe estate, and it was extended again, this time adding a carriage arch to the right wing. During the Second World War the hotel was used to house American officers, who were visited here by General Patton. The hotel closed in 2005, and remained empty, its structure deteriorating. It was placed on the At Risk Register of English Heritage at priory A, the highest grading. A pressure group was established, the Save the Old Hall Action Group, to campaign for is repair and restoration. In 2010 the building was purchased by the Brunning and Price group of public houses, who rebuilt and restored it. It opened as a public house and restaurant in June 2011.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The building is timber-framed, with stone flagged roofs and brick chimney stacks.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The left wing has a central entrance that leads to a corridor to an original oak baluster staircase at the rear, with two rooms on each side. In these rooms are three Jacobean fireplaces, 17th-century oak panelling, a left-handed spiral staircase, and a priest&#39;s hole.</p><br>
<h3>Appraisal</h3><br>
<p>The hotel is designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<h2>Associated structures</h2><br>
<p>There is a separate outbuilding to the rear of the hotel. This is timber-framed with brick nogging, and is in two storeys, with various openings for doors and windows. It is designated as a Grade II listed building. Grade II list the lowest of the three gradings, and is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". The building, previously used as stables, has been converted into private housing.</p><br>
<h2>Myths</h2><br>
<p>In the cellar is a tunnel, whose purpose is uncertain. Its said that the tunnel is connected to the church across the road an that priests used it to get from the church to The old hall during persecution. It has also been suggested that it was built for priests to escape from persecution, or even to smuggle girls into the coaching inn. There is also said to be another tunnel linking with a house, but this has not been found. The building is reputed to be haunted, and in 2004 it featured in Series 5 of the television programme.Most Haunted&#39;.</p><br>
<p>Mesa Grande Cultural Park, in Mesa, Arizona, preserves a group of Hohokam structures constructed during the classical period. The ruins were occupied between AD 1100 and 1400  and were a product of the Hohokam civilization that inhabited the Salt River Valley. There the Hohokam constructed an extensive system of water canals. It is one of only two Hohokam mounds remaining in the metro Phoenix area, with the other being the Pueblo Grande Museum Archaeological Park. The site&#39;s central feature is a massive ruin of adobe walls and platforms.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 when it was owned by B-movie actress Acquanetta and her husband Jack Ross. The site was acquired from them in 1988 by the city of Mesa.</p><br>
<p>After the 2013 completion of the Mesa Grande Visitor&#39;s Center, the site is now seasonally open to the public from October, through May.</p><br>
<p>The Mesa Grande Cultural Park, as it is now known, is operated by the Arizona Museum of Natural History. The museum is currently undertaking archaeological studies at the site. The mound remains remarkably intact. The general site remains protected but undeveloped.</p><br>
<p>The ruins are located to the west and across the street from the former Mesa Lutheran Hospital, now a Banner Health corporate center housing billing and Information Technology employees.</p><br>
<p>Artifacts presumably associated with the ruins have been found in the neighborhood to the west. Axe heads, arrow heads, and pottery sherds were regularly uncovered and collected by residents during the 1960s and 1970s just under the surface of the earth in private property there.</p><br>
<p>Moss Hall, Audlem, is a manor house 0.5 mi northwest of Audlem, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. The Hall overlooks the Shropshire Union Canal.</p><br>
<p>The hall was built in 1616 for Hugh Massy. It is timber-framed with rendered infill, and close studded with a middle rail to both floors. It is in two storeys with attics, and has a plain tile roof. The entrance front has five bays with four gables. The house is nearly symmetrical, is E-shaped, and is set on an ashlar plinth. In its centre is a two-storey gabled porch wing, which is a later addition. The first floor is jettied and supported on carved brackets. It has been described as "a surprisingly complete example of a gentleman&#39;s house of the early 17th century".</p><br>
<p>Rocky Gorge Reservoir is located on the Patuxent River in Howard County, Montgomery County and Prince George’s County, Maryland between Laurel and Burtonsville, Maryland. The reservoir was created in 1952 by the construction of the T. Howard Duckett Dam on the Patuxent. The dam is visible from Interstate 95 near mile marker 34. Because of its close association with a dam by the name, the reservoir is sometimes called the T. Howard Duckett Reservoir. It has a surface area of 773 acre. The reservoir is maintained as a drinking water source by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission .</p><br>
<p>WSSC provides recreational facilities to the public on portions of the Rocky Gorge property, including hiking, picnicing, fishing, boating, horseback riding, and hunting. Local fish species include pike and largemouth bass.</p><br>
<h2>Namesake</h2><br>
<p>T. Howard Duckett drafted the law officially establishing the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission as a permanent bi-county agency. Following lobbying by E. Brooke Lee, the law was passed, effective May 1, 1918. Duckett was named one of the three first official commissioners.</p><br>
<p>Henry Clay&#39;s Law Office was the law office of American statesman Henry Clay in Lexington, Kentucky from 1803 to 1810. The building is one of few professional building remaining from that era.</p><br>
<h2>Clay's law office</h2><br>
<p>Clay received formal legal education at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, studying under George Wythe.</p><br>
<p>Clay prepared for the bar by working with the Virginia attorney general, Robert Brooke, and he was admitted in 1797.</p><br>
<p>As a young lawyer seeking to establish a successful law practice, Clay relocated to Lexington in November 1797. In 1803, Clay built and occupied the building located on Mill Street near his wife&#39;s family residence. The one-story brick structure measures a mere 20 by 22 feet. Clay occupied the office while serving in the Kentucky Legislature and in the United States Senate.</p><br>
<h2>After Clay</h2><br>
<p>In 1830, the law office was incorporated into a larger building, and the original roof was removed.</p><br>
<p>The State of Kentucky purchased the building in 1969, and restoration was completed in 1971. The law office is now owned by the First Presbyterian Church.</p><br>
<p>Cochetopa Pass is a mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of south-central Colorado. It lies on the Continental Divide between the city of Gunnison to the northwest and the town of Saguache to the southeast. It also lies on the boundary between the Gunnison and Rio Grande National Forests. Its name is taken from the Cochetopa Hills that it lies within, Cochetopa being the Ute Indian word for "pass of the buffalo". The original pass is traversed by Saguache County Road NN14, a maintained gravel road. Another crossing, sometimes called North Cochetopa Pass and more often simply North Pass, and is located nearby on State Highway 114, which is paved and reaches a slightly higher elevation.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area of the Cochetopa Hills was a hunting ground of the Ute Indians. The area of the pass would be explored by many men in search of a route over and through the Rocky Mountains. Many expeditions would end in disaster.</p><br>
<h3>1848</h3><br>
<p>In 1848, St. Louis businessmen, in an effort to have the transcontinental railroad pass through their city, financed an expedition to find a route over Cochetopa Pass. The explorers set out with John Charles Fremont leading them. The expedition crossed over the San Juan Mountains at Bill Williams Pass, but soon after reaching Pool Table Mesa in mid-December, the men and mules began freezing to death. After one rescue party failed to reach help and began resorting to cannibalism, Fremont, with the help of the Ute Indians, led the men out to Taos, New Mexico. Fremont left the men behind in Taos and ran for California. It took until January to rescue the remainder of the party from the mountains. All told, the expedition was a failure and took the lives of 10 men.</p><br>
<h3>1853</h3><br>
<p>In the fall of 1853, Captain John W. Gunnison also explored and surveyed the area in search of a route for the transcontinental railroad. Not long after exploring the area, Captain Gunnison was killed by Indians, and his second in command, Lt. Edward G. Beckwith, took over and decided that the best route for the railroad would be further north through Wyoming across the Great Divide Basin.</p><br>
<p>Mount Wilkinson is a low mountain immediately north-northwest of and directly overlooking downtown Vinings, in southeast Cobb County, Georgia, USA. Although it rises significantly from the surrounding terrain, it is actually at or slightly below the average elevation for the region, as it is in the Chattahoochee River valley. Formerly called Signal Mountain, today it is commonly known as Vinings Mountain.</p><br>
<p>It is said that in 1864, USA Army General William T. Sherman got his first look at the church spires of Atlanta from the summit of Vinings Mountain.</p><br>
<p>The mountain, left only partly forested, is now topped with high-rise office towers, part of the Cumberland/Galleria edge city of metro Atlanta. Among these buildings lies a small, private cemetery in which Hardy Pace (1785–1864), a founder of Vinings and operator of Pace&#39;s Ferry, is buried.</p><br>
<h2>Namesake</h2><br>
<p>Mount Wilkinson was named in honor of Mell B. Wilkinson, co-founder and first president of the Atlanta Scout Council. It is located at what once was the Bert Adams Scout Camp (now located near Covington, Georgia).</p><br>
<p>The Atlanta Rotary Club contributed one half of the $5,000 cost of the mountain and the other half was quickly made up by smaller gifts.</p><br>
<p>The camp also included land that was sold to build the present day Cumberland Mall and surrounding office complexes and apartments. Streets in the immediate vicinity are still named for the camp (e.g. Bert Adams Road) and the mountain (e.g. Mt. Wilkinson Parkway).</p><br>
<p>The State Cinema is a Grade II* Listed building in Grays, Essex. It opened in 1938 as one of the most modern cinemas of its type at the time with seating for 2200 people. The cinema officially closed in 1988 but has held numerous events since including being used as a nightclub, however the building has now fallen into disrepair and is no longer in use.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1970s the first signs of possible closure reared its head, the stalls were closed off, cuts to staffing were made and the organ fell silent. A campaign was launched to keep the cinema open and the then owners, Mecca Leisure Group, decided to spend £20,000 on improvements to bring audiences back to the old cinema.</p><br>
<p>In 1982 work began to restore the old organ by a group of volunteers who later became known as "Friends of the State", eight weeks later music was again heard in the building and a series of Sunday afternoon concerts were held, many of which were attended by recording enthusiasts who wanted to capture the sounds of the unique organ.</p><br>
<p>The building remained unaltered throughout its life as a cinema, perhaps due in part to its location or not demanding further screens. Once again falling audiences, possibly due to the development of multi-screen cinemas and the rising popularity of video film rental saw the State threatened with closure in the mid 1980s. Owners Mecca eventually left the building, a closing night event was held on 5 September 1988 and the film that opened the cinema 50 years ago to the day was shown once more.</p><br>
<p>The land and the cinema were earmarked for redevelopment and bulldozers were soon brought in, however a preservation order was quickly sought and the State became a Grade II listed building preventing its demolition.</p><br>
<p>After the closure the cinema was handed over to a small independent operator who in 1989 rebadged the building "The Grays State Theatre". Films continued to be shown and organ concerts were once again a feature of the programme as was the £1 entry ticket. Alas, the business model didn&#39;t provide enough income to sustain the cinema and it closed again soon after.</p><br>
<p>The local council received a planning application in August 1998 from the Peniel Pentecostal Church to establish a church in the now disused building. The application was dismissed early the following year as was the subsequent appeal.</p><br>
<p>In February 2000 the Thurrock Heritage Forum approached English Heritage to suggest that the listing on the cinema be upgraded and on 28 June 2000 the building was reclassified as Grade II* to preserve the art-Deco interior.</p><br>
<p>The same month Thurrock Council gave planning permission to supermarket chain Morrisons to build a store on the State&#39;s old car park after purchasing the site for £10 million. Promises were made to Thurrock Council that Morrisons continue the upkeep of the cinema and restore the old building; to that end after an inspection in June 2001 revealed some water damage Morrisons sealed the leak to prevent any further damage.</p><br>
<p>The building ceased to be part of Morrisons plans once the supermarket was complete and was sold in October 2006 amid criticism about its upkeep. The new owners, TSP Properties Ltd, purchased the State for £550,000 and although the company stated that it wouldn&#39;t be used as a cinema again they wished to redevelop it into a new leisure hub. The following year the gutters outside were replaced temporarily to prevent further water damage however it was discovered that the roof was desperate need of repair.</p><br>
<p>Several campaigns have taken place over recent years to highlight the state of the cinema and to kick-start a restoration. The most recent campaign pressured the current owners to release a statement to BBC Radio Essex on 11 February 2008 claiming that they had worked with English Heritage and the building was now watertight, dry and clean inside and the organ had been fully restored.</p><br>
<p>However more recent investigations by members of the Save the State campaign have found that the roof does in fact still leak (as of March 2008 when a council inspection was undertaken) and that although the organ works to a certain extent, it has not been "fully restored".</p><br>
<p>In July 2010, the Thames Gateway Corporation published the results of a feasibility study into future use of the site. The study put forward a plan for an arts and entertainment complex including cinemas, restaurants, bars and live entertainment. The plan was estimated to cost £7,4 million. The plan is under consideration by the site&#39;s owner – TSP Properties.</p><br>
<p>Further to the new plans being submitted, also proposed is a significant change of use, from use class D2 to use class D1. This means that The State could also be used as a church, despite a previous proposal for that use being refused by Thurrock Council.</p><br>
<h2>Compton Organ</h2><br>
<p>This is a pipe organ and contains about 500 organ pipes which are housed in two chambers beneath the stage. The sound is allowed out into the orchestra pit (and hence into the auditorium) through swell shutters – large wooden louvres controlled by the organist. The organ also has a Compton patent Melotone unit which was a supplement to the pipes and produced sounds electronically. The Melotone sounds were fed through a large horn loudspeaker which is still present in the organ chambers at the State</p><br>
<p>Cinemas of the 1920s and 30s usually had pipe organs installed, originally as a means of accompanying silent films but then to provide musical entertainment before and after the film shows and during intervals.</p><br>
<p>In the UK there were nearly 500 such organs in cinemas by 1939, however less than 80 now survive in one form or another and only a handful of these are still in their original buildings.</p><br>
<p>In July 2011, the State Cinema was broken into and a significant number of metal fixtures and fittings was taken. Included in this burglary were all but a handful of the Compton organ&#39;s original pipes, virtually worthless as scrap as they are formed of an alloy which would require costly processing to release the constituent metals, but worth around £10,000 to replace with remade equivalents.</p><br>
<h2>Filmography</h2><br>
<p>Shortly before its closure the cinema was used to film a short piece of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and was featured for about 3 minutes on-screen. The cinema can also be seen in the music video for the Jamiroquai single Deeper Underground, the song was used for the Godzilla theme tune and the monster comes crashing through the cinema screen during the video. Also featured in the film Chicago Joe and the Showgirl and episodes of the television series Jericho and Lipstick on Your Collar.</p><br>
<p>Magnolia Hall is an historic plantation located in the High Hills of Santee at 2025 Horatio-Hagood Road, Hagood, South Carolina. Its Greek Revival plantation house was built in 1821 by its owner Isaac Barnes. After Dr. Swepson Saunders bought the property in 1853, he added onto it in 1855 and 1860.</p><br>
<p>Magnolia Hall was threatened with destruction by Union troops in April 1865, under the command of Brigadier General Edward E. Potter, but was reportedly saved by the actions of Dr. Saunder&#39;s slave cook in feeding the troops when they appeared. Dr. Saunders, who took refuge somewhere between Magnolia Hall and Stateburg, wrote to his wife that he had seen the burning houses in Stateburg and had expected to see their own house burning.</p><br>
<p>On September 2, 1999, Magnolia Hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is also known as the Dr. Swepson Saunders House.</p><br>
<p>Triadelphia Reservoir is located on the Patuxent River, in Howard County and Montgomery County, Maryland near the town of Brookeville.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir was created in 1943 by the construction of the Brighton Dam on the Patuxent.</p><br>
<h2>Triadelphia</h2><br>
<p>The river valley was once occupied by prehistoric Native American settlements surveyed in the 1980s when the modern dam was drained for maintenance.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir is located on a land grant surveyed by Benjamin Gaither in 1725. It was named after the town of Triadelphia which was founded in 1809 by three Quaker brothers-in-law. Isaac Briggs, Thomas Moore, and Revolutionary veteran and silversmith Caleb Bentley built a small town on 276 acres of land with nine houses, sawmill, general store, grist mill, and a mill race. The property was expanded to 515 acres containing the land grant "Benjamins Lot" and "Whats Left". The Triadelphia Cotton Factory (Montgomery Manufacturing Company) managed by Allen Bowie Davis operated 196 spindles from its waterwheel and grew to several dozen buildings by 1850 including Mt.Carmel Methodist Church and a schoolhouse. In 1868 a flood washed away a portion of the city and a second flood destroyed most of the remainder. The Triadelphia Turnpike company operated a toll road from Triadelphia, to Glenelg to the Baltimore-Frederick Turnpike, now labeled Triadelphia road. By 1905 the town was mostly abandoned. The Ligon family purchased the land using it for storage and tenants until it went underwater with the construction of the reservoir.</p><br>
<h2>Reservoir</h2><br>
<p>It has a surface area of 800 acre. The reservoir is maintained as a drinking water source by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC).</p><br>
<p>WSSC provides recreational facilities to the public on portions of the Triadelphia property, including hiking, picnicing, fishing, boating, horseback riding, and hunting. Permits are required for any boating, and only self-powered or battery powered vessels are allowed. This is enforced by law enforcement who actively patrol the area.</p><br>
<p>Lake Phalen is an urban lake located in Saint Paul, Minnesota and in its suburb of Maplewood. It is one of the largest lakes in Saint Paul and is the centerpiece of the Phalen Regional Park System. The lake drains into the Mississippi River after traveling through Phalen Creek. The lake and surrounding 494 acre park receive around 500,000 visitors each year.</p><br>
<h2>Lake</h2><br>
<p>Lake Phalen is one of the Twin Cities most popular fishing lakes. The lake is stocked with walleyes every other year and tiger muskies every three years. The lake also has northern pike, largemouth bass, crappie and sunfish that are able to maintain population levels naturally. The lake has a 23 square miles watershed. The lake is also home to an unusual fish. The rainbow darter was first found in 1996 by workers from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The fish normally lives in fast moving streams. The fish is only found in six to eight other streams in Minnesota. Eurasian watermilfoil, an invasive species to Minnesota, was first discovered in the lake in 1997 and continues to grow in the lake.</p><br>
<h3>Boating</h3><br>
<p>The lake has always had sailing and boating. In the 1890s sailing was very popular. In 1919, 880 canoes were stored onshore. Now the Saint Paul Sailing Club has space to moor 50 boats on the lake. In addition the lake hosts College rowing competitions on a 1,940-meter course. The University of Minnesota holds several meets a year at Lake Phalen. The first competition to be held was in the spring of 2003 after the U of M elevated rowing to a Varsity Sport in 2000. In 2006, the Big Ten Championships were held at Lake Phalen. Currently gas powered motors are not allowed on the lake. Electrical trolling motors however are allowed.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lake Phalen was named after an early Irish settler of Saint Paul, Edward Phelan. Phelan built a cabin near Phalen Creek in Swede Hollow. Phalen Creek travels from Lake Phalen and drains into the Mississippi River just north of Lamberts Landing. The lake that was drained by the creek became known as Phalens Lake despite Phelan never living near its shores. The Saint Paul Water Company set up a supply plant at Lake Phalen in 1869 and the lake was used as Saint Pauls primary source of water until 1913. John Fletcher Williams, a local historian, wrote in 1876 "It is a disgrace, that the name of this brutal murderer has been affixed to one of our most beautiful lakes - one that supplies our households with water." Phalen had been accused of murdering his partner, John Hays in 1839, however another man later confessed to Hays murder.</p><br>
<p>Soon after the park was acquired, in 1899, the Saint Paul Board of Park Commissioners attempted to "tame" the lake shore. Emergent vegetation and other plants, such as bulrush, grew all around the lake shore. The lake shore became almost constantly dredged and wetland areas around the lake were filled in to create lawn space. Eventually 400,000 cubic yards of vegetation and sediment was dredged from around the lake shore. In the 1920s, 50 percent of the shoreline was lined with riprap. Beginning in 1906 with a herd of sheep, the lawn space next to the lake was cut right up to the lake shore. As a result of these practices shoreline erosion became a problem. In 2001, the lake began a five-year shoreline restoration program. The program converted a majority of the riprap to natural vegetation. The percentage natural vegetation around the lake changed from 28 percent to 74 percent.</p><br>
<h2>Park</h2><br>
<p>The city of Saint Paul acquired the lake and surrounding area in 1899 for $22,000. The park has the only swimming lake in Saint Paul. An 18 hole golf course is also located in the park. A Chinese garden is being developed with St. Pauls sister city, Changsha, China. Phalen Park is a sister to that citys Yanghu Wetlands Park. A replica of the latters pavilion is being sent in exchange for five Peanuts statues.</p><br>
<h2>Phalen Creek</h2><br>
<p>Phalen Creek drains the lake and flows into the Mississippi River. Near the turn of the 20th century most of the creek was covered over and routed through sewers. Since then there have been several attempts to completely uncover it. A portion of the lower creek is uncovered and runs along the Bruce Vento Regional Trail.</p><br>
<h2>PLAN Phalen Lake Association of Neighbors</h2><br>
<p>PLAN was founded in 2009 with its stated mission to, "Advocate for and preserve the quality of life of neighborhoods around Phalen lake." The organization consists of people living in and around the Phalen Lake area. The association has no public or private funding, and all of its administrators donate their time. PLAN also hosts an online calendar of events for activities focusing on the lake.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Ward Beebe House, also known as the John Leuthold Residence, is a three-story stucco prairie house built by Dr. Ward and Bess Beebe and designed by Purcell and Elmslie in 1912. Purcell and Elmslie were prolific designers of prairie style homes. It is located in the West Summit Avenue Historic District, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Ward Beebe was a bacteriologist, and the house was built for him and his wife Bess as a wedding present from her parents. The Beebe house is the firm&#39;s only house in Saint Paul, and includes some elements from English Arts and Crafts design as well as the Prairie Style. Purcell and Elmslie designed the primary rooms with good views, since the Summit Avenue location was important. Purcell was quoted as saying, "At the time... it was one of the most talked about residential streets in America, broad and with beautiful trees; the views up and down the street were valued. So the unusual corner windows looking both ways from the living room were accepted as a fine response toward a choice and expensive location." The house has a large cross-gabled roof with deep eaves, giving it a broader look than its narrow structure would otherwise indicate. On the inside, the living room and the dining room are centered around a hearth and have no walls between them, similar to the Dr. Oscar Owre House in Minneapolis. The firm preferred to avoid building walls in first-floor living areas so they could increase the sense of space. The second floor has three bedrooms, a bathroom, and a tiny library sitting room with bay windows and a window seat. Elmslie also designed detailed art glass insets for the bookcases near the entrance.</p><br>
<p>Audubon Terrace, also known as the Audubon Terrace Historic District, is a landmark complex of eight early-20th century Beaux Arts/American Renaissance buildings located on the west side of Broadway, bounded by West 155th and West 156th Streets, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan, New York City. Home to several cultural institutions, the architecturally complementary buildings, which take up most of a city block, are arranged in two parallel rows facing each other across a common plaza. The complex is directly across 155th Street from Trinity Church Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Although the 157th Street subway station on the is one block away, the complex&#39;s location considerably north of midtown has resulted in a perceived detriment to easy access for visitors, especially those from out of town. The complex was designated a New York City landmark in 1979, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Named for naturalist and artist John James Audubon, on whose former land the complex sits, Audubon Terrace was commissioned in 1907 by Archer M. Huntington, the heir to the Southern Pacific Railroad fortune, a philanthropist and a Spanish scholar. The master plan for the site was drawn up by his cousin, architect Charles P. Huntington, in 1908. Archer Huntington chose the location at a time when the two centuries old northward march of fashionable residences and cultural institutions seemed likely to transform the largely rural area. He assumed that other museums and learned societies would soon join him, creating an intellectual citadel atop the islands heights. The widespread adoption of the elevator and steel framing at this time, however, led Manhattan real estate to begin to develop vertically instead and New Yorks other great cultural institutions failed to follow suit - in fact, most of the organizations which located on Audubon Terrace were headed by or strongly connected to Huntington.</p><br>
<p>In 1904, Huntington had founded the Hispanic Society of America, and had commissioned Charles Huntington to design a building for the new institution on the grounds of what would become Audubon Terrace. Huntingtons original building was constructed from 1904–08, with a west wing by Huntington added in 1915 along with an east wing designed by Erik Strindberg. In 1923-30, a library for the Society was added across the plaza, designed by H. Brooks Price. The next institutions to locate on the site all had their buildings designed by Charles Huntington: the American Numismatic Society, built in 1907, the American Geographical Society (1911), the Spanish-speaking Church of Our Lady of Esperanza (1909–12; West 156th Street addition and remodeling in 1924 by Lawrence G. White, Stanford Whites son), and the Museum of the American Indian (1915–22).</p><br>
<p>In 1921-23, William M. Kendall of McKim, Mead & White designed an Anglo-Italian Renaissance building for the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, which was followed by an auditorium and gallery for them designed by Cass Gilbert and built in 1928-30. The two organizations merged as the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The plaza surrounding these buildings is the location of a number of sculptures executed by Anna Hyatt Huntington, Archer Huntington&#39;s wife, between 1927 and 1944.</p><br>
<h2>Resident institutions</h2><br>
<p>A number of the original institutions are no longer resident on the Terrace:</p><br>
<p>The American Geographical Society, founded in 1851, moved its collection of maps, photographs, books, journals and atlases - the largest map collection in the world - to the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1978. The AGS was replaced on Audubon Terrace by a campus of Boricua College, a bi-lingual college.</p><br>
<p>The Heye Foundation&#39;s Museum of the American Indian (founded in 1916) merged into the National Museum of the American Indian, a component of the Smithsonian Institution which opened in 2004 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., with a small permanent gallery remaining in New York City in the Custom House at Bowling Green. The space occupied by the Museum of the American Indian is now used by the Hispanic Society.</p><br>
<p>The American Numismatic Society, founded in 1858, moved in 2008 to a facility on Varick Street in downtown Manhattan. This building has been taken over by the American Academy of Arts and Letters as an Annex, and the space between it and the original Academy building was converted in 2009 into a new entrance link designed by James Vincent Czajka with Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.</p><br>
<p>Of the remaining original institutions, the Hispanic Society has, since 2006, been considering a move to larger quarters downtown. The Society maintains a library and a museum with an important collection of art and artifacts from the Iberian peninsula, as well as from Central and South America. It is normally open daily except Mondays; Tuesday through Saturdays from 10 am to 4:30 pm, and Sundays from 1 pm to 4 pm.</p><br>
<p>The American Academy of Arts and Letters was founded in 1898. Its gallery is open to the public Tuesdays through Saturdays from 1 pm to 4 pm, except from March to June, when it is open Thursdays through Sundays from 1 pm to 4 pm.</p><br>
<p>Mount Ragoona, sometimes Mount Rogoonga, is a relatively high mountain in the southern region of the Walls of Jerusalem National Park in Tasmania, Australia. The mountain, with an elevation of 1,336 m above sea level, is virtually surrounded by four large lakes; Myrtle, Meston, Louisa and Adelaide. The mountain rises from the shores of Lake Myrtle.</p><br>
<h2>Location and faetures</h2><br>
<p>The mountain summit is at grid reference 334619 UTM Zone 55S and high resolution topographical information is available on Tasmap Cathedral (4236) 1:25000. Directly below its sheer cliff face to the immediate west is Lake Myrtle and further west lies Chalice Lake and then Cathedral Mountain, due north is Lake Bill, somewhat distant to the northeast but dominant are the Walls of Jerusalem and due south are The Mountains of Jupiter.</p><br>
<p>Nearby visible mountains include Cathedral Mountain, Mount Pelion East, Walls of Jerusalem, The Acropolis, and Mount Geryon.</p><br>
<p>On the track from Lake Myrtle to Lake Meston shown on the Cathedral Tasmap and at the approximate gridpoint 355624 UTM 55S, a poorly cairned pad follows an eastern ridge towards the summit of Mount Ragoona.</p><br>
