<p>The Hasbrouck House, also known as the Evelyn Samuels Memorial Building, is located on Market Street in downtown Poughkeepsie, New York, United States, next to the Amrita Club building. It was built in 1885 as the home of Frank Hasbrouck, a local judge and historian. The architect was Frederick Clarke Withers.</p><br>
<p>Withers&#39; design, a red brick house of two and a half storeys and raised basement, features many Romanesque Revival touches, such as a recessed front porch with two round-headed arches divided by a spiral column with molded floral design and Corinthian capital. Below the railing are two fielded panels with foliate relief. On the upper stories, there are brownstone windowsills and courses around the house. Other ornaments include an oriel window on the second story, pentagonal dormer on the third, and a parapet roofline.</p><br>
<p>The interior remains intact. The fireplace, brick chimney, glazed tiles and oak woodwork are especially well-preserved examples of late 19th-century decor.</p><br>
<p>The house is the citys most distinguished building in the Romanesque style, complemented nearby by the similar New York State Armory and Harlow Row. It is unusual to find a Romanesque dwelling of this scale in a city Poughkeepsies size. Normally they were reserved for larger cities, or prison compounds and military bases.</p><br>
<p>In the later years of the 20th century the house became the home of the United Way of Dutchess County, which named it after Samuels, a former benefactor. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Harlow Row, also called Brick Row, is a group of brick townhouses in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. While their address is given as 100-106 Market Street, they are actually located on a short side street referred to as Little Market Street, across from a small park with the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Fountain, on the residential southern fringe of the city&#39;s downtown.</p><br>
<p>The row consists of four red brick Second Empire townhouses, three stories in height with the mansard roofs typical of the style. The lower stories are rusticated, with arched doorways. An unusual Romanesque Revival tower is located on the north end.</p><br>
<p>They were probably built in the 1870s by William Harlow, a former mayor of the city and architect of St. Paul&#39;s Church in the city. He may have been inspired by the attempt of another former mayor, Harvey G. Eastman, to build affordable townhouses near the park now named for him, but on a smaller scale. The row appears on city tax maps from the mid-1870s with Harlow identified as owner of the whole property. However, he was not apparently successful, since the same maps list no traceable owner of the houses themselves.</p><br>
<p>In the 1880s, two local lawyers are identified as owners, and later on Charles Robinson, a liquor wholesaler. He probably added the tower sometime between 1887 and 1895. Other than some gutting of the south and west bays in 1981 to replace the windows, the houses and their period interior features remain intact. In 1982 the row was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The houses fell into disrepair in the late 20th century, one of many highly visible historic buildings in the city to do so. In 2000 Dutchess County awarded a local nonprofit, Hudson River Housing, $194,000 to rehabilitate the row into eight rental units and four commercial spaces. In 2002 the project was completed at a total cost of almost $2 million, and the company began making the units available for lease.</p><br>
<p>Currell College, completed in 1919, is an historic two-story redbrick university building on the campus of the University of South Carolina  in Columbia, South Carolina in the United States. It was designed by Darlington native William Augustus Edwards who designed academic buildings at 12 institutions of higher learning as well as 13 courthouses and numerous other buildings in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. Currell, which is pronounced as if it were spelled Curl, is the only building that Edwards built for USC. The Cain House at 1619 Pendleton Street which he designed in 1912 for a private owner, though, is now part of the expanded USC campus and is used as The Inn at USC.</p><br>
<p>It was originally named Petigru College and was built to serve as the USC law school, which had outgrown its quarters in Legare College. When a new law school building was built in 1952, the name Petigru College was given to it and the 1919 building was renamed Currell College to honor William S. Currell, USC&#39;s president when it was built, and it was then used by the history department.</p><br>
<p>The buildings redbrick exterior was a departure from USCs standard of gray-painted stucco over brick on all of its previous buildings, except the South Caroliniana Library and Lieber College, and according to USC historian Daniel Walker Hollis: "... it has been something of an architectural misfit on the inner campus ever since."</p><br>
<p>In the mid-1950s the two-story Currell College Annex was built to the south of the 1919 building and joined to it by a two-story glass and metal stairwell-hallway structure. The annex, while built of redbrick, is utilitarian and does not continue the collegiate Gothic features of the original building.</p><br>
<p>Currell College today is the home of the USC Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. The Currell College Annex houses the USC Office of Special Events/</p><br>
<p>The 1919 building excluding the annex is a contributing property in the Old Campus District, University of South Carolina, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 5, 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Pogórze Bukowskie  is one of the Beskids mountain ranges of the Outer Eastern Carpathians in southeastern Poland, part of the Central Beskidian Piedmont. Is a hilly region in Poland , between Beskid Niski and Bieszczady near the river Osława and San. Its name comes from the west Slavic dialect word buk, meaning "beech".</p><br>
<p>Important villages in the region include Bukowsko, Komańcza, Nowotaniec, Zagórz, Wola Sękowa, Wola Piotrowa, and Lesko. It is home to the Uniwersytet Ludowy, opened in 2005, which contains many artworks and effects of the folk handworks inspiration. Pogórze Bukowskie is situated in the poorest region of Poland.</p><br>
<p>The region was a site of contention between Poland, Kievan Rus and Hungary starting as far back as the 9th century.</p><br>
<p>Until 1947, 45% of the population of this part of the mountains were Lemkos and Dolinians (both subgroups of Rusyns), 45% Polish Uplanders and 10% Jews. The killing of the Polish General Karol Świerczewski in Jabłonki by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in 1947 was the direct cause of the replacement of the Lemkos, the so-called Operation Vistula.</p><br>
<p>Original flora and fauna was preserved because of the area&#39;s remoteness. The mountain range is covered with beech forests. The area is protected by Jaśliski Park Krajobrazowy. Animals living in this reserve include black storks, deer and wolves.</p><br>
<p>There are many tourist attractions, including historic wooden churches (Wisłok Wielki, Komańcza, Kulaszne, Rzepedź, Szczawne etc.), the increasingly popular skiing resorts of Karlików and Puławy Górne, and the Regional Championship of the Hucul Horse at Rudawka Rymanowska.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h2>Hiking trails</h2><br>
<p>European walking route E8</p><br>
<p>Iwonicz-Zdrój – Rymanów-Zdrój - Puławy – Tokarnia (778 m) – Przybyszów – Kamień (717 m) – Komańcza (Główny Szlak Beskidzki)</p><br>
<p>Pasmo Bukowicy - Kanasiówka (823 m) – Wisłok Wielki – Tokarnia (778 m), 1 km – Wola Piotrowa</p><br>
<p>Komańcza – Dołżyca – Garb Średni (822 m) – Kanasiówka (823 m) – Moszczaniec – Surowica – Darów – Puławy Górne– Besko</p><br>
<h2>Rivers</h2><br>
<p>Wisłok</p><br>
<p>Sanoczek</p><br>
<p>Osława</p><br>
<p>Pielnica</p><br>
<h2>Division</h2><br>
<h2>National Exposition of the Simmental Cattle</h2><br>
<p>Simmental cattle were brought to Poland at the end of 18th century. In 1909, there were 21 Simmental cattle farms in the Polish Kingdom and in 1920 the Association of Highland Cattle Breeders was founded. In the period between the wars, breeding of Simmental cattle was concentrated in Eastern Małopolska Region and, specifically, in two districts: Krośnieński and Sanocki. At the time, the best cattle farms in Biłoboki reached the capacity of 6,295 kg of milk with 3.9 l fat content. From the outburst of the Second World War until 1995, a strong downward trend in the popularity of the breed among Polish breeders could be observed. Simmental bulls were liquidated and cows were typically mated with bulls of the Polish red breed. In 1955, by virtue of a decision issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, the breeding of Simmental cattle was located in south-eastern part of then Rzeszów Region in several counties and the Pedigree Breeding Center was set up in Brzozów. Between 1956 and 1950, cows and bulls were imported from Switzerland, Romania and Austria and, from 1972 to 1974, also from Germany. In total, between 1956 and 1974, 1,770 Simmental cows and 61 Simmental bulls were imported to Poland. From the early 1990s, the breeding of the Simmental cattle experienced another crisis resulting directly from a general recession in the whole Polish farming sector. The sale of the State Pedigree Breeding Center in Brzozów followed by the Center’s liquidation aggravated the crises. In the end of the 1990s, the condition of the sector began to improve slightly. At present, the population of Simmental cattle in Poland is nearly 40,000.</p><br>
<h2>Literature</h2><br>
<p>Prof. Adam Fastnacht. Slownik Historyczno-Geograficzny Ziemi Sanockiej w Średniowieczu (Historic-Geographic Dictionary of the Sanok District in the Middle Ages), Kraków, 2002.</p><br>
<p>Prof. Jadwiga Warszyńska. Karpaty Polskie: przyroda, człowiek i jego działalność; Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Kraków, 1995</p><br>
<p>Prof. Jerzy Kondracki. Geografia fizyczna Polski Warszawa: Państ. Wydaw. Naukowe, 1988,</p><br>
<p>Horsham Friends Meeting is a Quaker meeting house located in Horsham, Pennsylvania, home to Horsham Monthly Meeting. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1991-06-21. In addition to serving as a place of worship, the Quaker School at Horsham is located on the meeting&#39;s grounds. A carriage house is located next to the meeting and an attached graveyard is situated across Easton Road, the street that the Meeting sits on.</p><br>
<p>Made of squared and cut pink sandstone, the meeting house is an example of a style of meeting houses known as "double meeting houses", so named due to their separate entrances for men and women. A central partition can be closed to divide the interior into mens and womens sections. An interior balcony encircles the entire meeting room.</p><br>
<p>The current meeting house, built in 1803, is the third on the site. Horsham Friends Meeting was founded in 1716. Land in the area was originally deeded from William Penn to Samuel Carpenter. p.90 Hannah Carpenter deeded the surrounding fifty acres to the meeting in 1718.</p><br>
<p>Horsham Meeting is an active Quaker community, and is a member of Abington Quarterly Meeting, of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting</p><br>
<p>The President Gerald R. Ford Jr. House is a historic house at 514 Crown View Drive in Alexandria, Virginia. Built in 1955, it was the home of Gerald Ford from then until his assumption of the United States Presidency on August 19, 1974. The house is typical of middle-class housing in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington from that period.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Ford House is located in a suburban residential area of central Alexandria, on the south side of Crown View Drive near its northwestern end. It consists of a rectangular 2-story main block with a two-story eastern section that once housed a garage on the ground floor and the master bedroom above. A single-story ell extends to the rear, and a 20 x swimming pool was added by the Fords in 1961. The Secret Service converted the garage into a command post when Ford became Vice President of the United States in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1955 for Gerald Ford, then a member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan. Ford and his family made this house their primary residence from the time of its construction until they moved into the White House on August 19, 1974, following the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon. The house is representative of the period in Fords career when he rose to become one of the nations most influential Congressmen, and set the stage for his ascent to the Presidency.</p><br>
<p>Saluda Lake is a 331 acre reservoir formed by a spillway from the uppermost dam on the Saluda River in South Carolina, United States. The lake was constructed in 1905 for the purpose of creating hydroelectric power. Duke Power Company formerly owned the lake then sold it to North Brook Energy, LLC.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>There is a weekly bass tournament hosted by the original public ramp. The lake is also stocked. A neon green rattle trap has been successful as well as the traditional worm. Reeling fast tends to be more fruitful as the lake has a high average temperature of around 80 degrees in the summer. A depth of around eight feet seems to be where the majority of the bass are caught. There are also huge catfish in there. The only public access&#39; are two pay ramps, one is eight and the other five.</p><br>
<p>On a shallow boat, a ride up the river is beautiful and peaceful. There are steep faces surrounding the main body of the lake. The depth is forty feet at the dam.</p><br>
<p>Lauraville is a neighborhood located in northeast Baltimore, Maryland. The neighborhood is bounded on the east by Harford Road, on the north by Echodale Avenue, on the south by Argonne Drive and Herring Run Park, and on the west side by Morgan Park and Morgan State University, with East Cold Spring Lane passing through the center of Lauraville.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lauraville is named for the daughter of John Henry Keene, who was a local property owner and businessman active after the American Civil War. Soon after the Civil War, Lauraville became an official village, with its own post office, and as a result its present name. Local residents who had lobbied for a local mail service were confronted when they discovered the Post Offices requirement for a village name as a mail destination. At a local meeting, chief supporter for the village post office, John Henry Keene, a local property owner who also operated a planing mill and lumber yard on the site of todays Bond Lumber, suggested that the community be named after his daughter Laura. Apparently that was acceptable to all present, for the area has been Lauraville since.</p><br>
<p>Until Hamilton got its own post office, the Lauraville post office which was located in William Emmel&#39;s confectionery store on the west side of Harford Road, south of Southern Avenue, handled all of the mail service along Harford Road, between the Herring Run, and Parkville.</p><br>
<p>In the last decades of the 19th century Lauraville became thoroughly self-sufficient. Blacksmiths and carpenters practiced their trades along Harford Road, and virtually any necessity could be bought locally for the house or farm. Truck farms covered the area and a wide variety of locally raised produce, as well as fresh meat, poultry, and dairy products were available. Webers Park, a brewery, with adjoining picnic grounds and beer garden operated for many years along Harford Road in the Southern end of Lauraville, about opposite todays Overland Avenue. A fire station for the volunteer fire company was also built, on the site of the present modern engine house.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1870s the Hall Springs Passenger Railway opened its limited horse-drawn passenger service on the Harford Road between the Hall Springs Hotel and a car barn south of 25th Street, where connections could be made for downtown Baltimore. While never wildly successful, the line operated continuously until it was electrified and extended north to Hamilton Avenue in the 1890s, and eventually absorbed into the United Railways and Electric Company street railway system.</p><br>
<p>This growth and improvement of the Harford Road transit service coincided with the rapid development of Lauraville as a residential suburban community. First commuter transit, then automobile travel, made communities like Lauraville increasingly accessible to the Baltimore Downtown.</p><br>
<p>In 1895 land was acquired from the Garrett family for a new schoolhouse, which was built in the late 1890s at Morello Road, between Rueckert and Ailsa Avenues. The school was and is still called Garrett Heights, though it previously had junior high grades as well as the elementary grades. The 1932 addition to Garrett Heights is the only portion still standing, as the older wing was destroyed by fire in 1969. By 1918, when most of Lauraville was annexed to Baltimore City, many houses had already been built.</p><br>
<p>In 1918, residents of Lauraville were incensed that the nearby Ivy Mill property, where Morgan State University would eventually be built, had been sold to a "negro college." They attempted to have the sale revoked by filing suit in the circuit court in Towson, which dismissed the suit. They then appealed the case to the state Court of Appeals. The appellate court upheld the lower court decision, finding no basis that siting the college at this location would constitute a public nuisance. Despite some ugly threats and several demonstrations against the project, Morgan State was allowed to be constructed at this site and would later expand.</p><br>
<h2>Housing</h2><br>
<p>The area was developed by several subdivisions during the period between 1910 and 1930 as an upper middle class neighborhood, with many houses built on double lots. Sales in 1910 indicated houses were priced at $4,000 at a time when the typical house in Baltimore sold for $1,200. While Lauraville was built over a period of years by various developers, most of the houses are detached, single family frame or cedar shingle structures, similar in style. The Lauraville neighborhood benefits from irregular street patterns, and from the considerable number of shade trees that the residents have striven to protect.</p><br>
<h2>Trivia</h2><br>
<p>Lauraville is mentioned on the Baltimore-based HBO drama The Wire as the home neighborhood of fictional Baltimore Police Detective Jimmy McNulty.</p><br>
<p>The Chehalem Mountains are a mountain range located in the Willamette Valley in the USA state of Oregon. Forming the southern boundary of the Tualatin Valley, the Chehalems are the highest mountains in the Willamette Valley. Composed of a single land mass that was uplifted by tectonic forces, the mountain range includes several spurs and ridges such as Parrett Mountain, Ribbon Ridge, and Bald Peak. The range extends from the Willamette River east of Newberg northwest to the foothills of the Oregon Coast Range south of Forest Grove. The highest peak in the Chehalem Mountain Range is Bald Peak, rising to 1,629 ft, which is also the highest peak point within the Willamette Valley.</p><br>
<p>The word "Chehalem" is a corruption of the Atfalati Indian word "Chahelim," a name given in 1877 to one of the bands of Atfalati.</p><br>
<p>Leake Mounds  is an important archaeological site in Bartow County, Georgia built and used by peoples of the Swift Creek Culture. The site is 2 mi west of Etowah Mounds on the Etowah River, although it predates that site by hundreds of years. Excavation of nearly 50,000 ft&sup2; on the site showed that Leake Mounds was one of the most important Middle Woodland period site in this area from around 300 BCE to 650 CE, a center with ties throughout the Southeast and Midwest. It was abandoned about 650 CE and not occupied again until by different peoples near the end of the Mississippian culture period, about 1500.</p><br>
<p>The site includes at least three major mounds and a large semi-circular moat/ditch. While much of the mounds were razed to be used as road fill for the expansion of the Georgia State Route 113 and Georgia State Route 61 in the 1940s, significant portions of the site remain. Several sites on nearby Ladds Mountain were integrally associated with Leake, including Shaw Mound, a stone burial mound; Indian Fort, a stone wall enclosure; and Ladds Cave, a large cave.</p><br>
<p>Examples of a type of pottery decoration consisting of a diamond-shaped checks found at Leake Mounds are also known from Hopewell sites in Ohio (such as Seip, Rockhold, Harness, and Turner), the Mann Site in southern Indiana, as well as other sites in the South such as the Miner&#39;s Creek site, 9HY98, and Mandeville Site in Georgia, and the Yearwood site in southern Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The former Philip Livingston Magnet Academy is located along Northern Boulevard in the West Hill neighborhood of Albany, New York, United States. It is a large brick building predominantly in the Colonial Revival architectural style, with some Art Deco touches inside, erected during the 1930s. Additions were made in the 1960s. In 2014 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Philip Livingston Junior High School, the only purpose-built public school building in the city so recognized.</p><br>
<p>During most of its existence, it was one of four middle schools operated by the City School District of Albany, later converted into a magnet school for its final years, during which it declined academically and developed a reputation for crime and violence. It was described as the citys most outstanding school building upon its opening. It also became one of Albanys architectural landmarks due to its location at the main arrival point for travelers arriving from, or passing by, the city&#39;s north. Since its closure it has been sold to a private developer and converted to senior housing, a decision some members of the school board have come to regret as the district still has overcrowding issues.</p><br>
<p>From its inception the school played a role in developing the community, an early center of African American migration into Albany, beyond its educational function. The Albany Symphony Orchestra played its concerts in the buildings auditorium for many years. Amelia Earhart spoke at the school, and a 1947 concert by Paul Robeson at the school caused a major local controversy when the city government attempted to block it due to the performers known sympathies with the Communist Party.</p><br>
<h2>Building and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The school building is located at the south end of a 9.83 acre parcel at the west corner of Albanys West Hill neighborhood, a mile and a half (1.5 mi) north of the citys downtown. The terrain around the building is drastically different. On the south it remains relatively level; in the other directions it drops off roughly 100 ft into one of the ravines carrying small tributaries of the Hudson River that characterize Albany&#39;s topography in the eastern section of the city.</p><br>
<p>On the south side of the building, across McCrossin Avenue, are detached single-family homes on small lots. These continue into the rest of the city. On the east, across the wider Northern Boulevard, or Dudley Heights, there are more residences, on larger lots, with some businesses. Behind them is undeveloped land, a buffer zone for railroad tracks used by CSX freight trains and Amtrak&#39;s Empire Service passenger trains. To the northeast, is the elaborate multilevel interchange of USA Route 9 and Interstate 90.</p><br>
<p>North of the school property, on either side of the street, are two charter schools, KIPP Tech Valley on the east and Green Tech High on the west across Manning Boulevard North. Beyond them is wooded buffer, the railroad tracks and the interstate. To the west is the 82 acre Tivoli Nature Preserve, centered around Tivoli Lake, the largest urban protected area in the state after New York City&#39;s Central Park.</p><br>
<p>Most of the school property is taken up by a large athletic practice field, with soccer goals, to the north of the building. Park Drive borders it on its west and comes around the south to serve as the main entry road, with some parking spaces on its south side. A larger parking lot is located on the south side of the building, accessed from the intersection of McCrossin and Thornton Street.</p><br>
<h3>Building</h3><br>
<p>The building itself is a three-story, "Y"-shaped, steel frame building clad in brick and cast stone. It consists of a three-story central pavilion with flanking wings themselves ending in pavilions. On the west of the central section is a shorter wing housing the building&#39;s auditorium.</p><br>
<h4>Exterior</h4><br>
<p>In the center, the main block consists of the five-bay central pavilion, flanked with a recessed bay on either side. Both the main and recessed portions have a gambrel roof with parapets along their end walls. A tall copper-clad cupola rises from the center.</p><br>
<p>On the east (front) elevation, the pavilion is faced in cast stone imitating a coursed ashlar pattern. In the middle, the three bays of the entrance are recessed in a projecting section of their own, flanked by pilasters and topped with a paneled frieze. To either side are three six-over-six lower-level hopper sash windows with a splayed pattern in the cast stone above. At the corner of the front pavilion&#39;s first story is a similar window with four-pane sidelights. The corner face is set with four-light triple-hung sash. The recessed bay on the ends of the front pavilion is set with six-over-six with sidelights similar to those at the flanks of the middle section; the corners are quoined</p><br>
<p>A stone beltcourse divides the first and second stories. At the center a decorative wrought iron fence makes for a small balcony atop the entrance. The top of the fence is level with a ribbon course that also serves as the sill for windows on that story.</p><br>
<p>At the center of the second story is an aluminum double door, each with eight narrow lights, flanked by four more such lights on the side, topped by a rectangular 15-light transom. On each side are double-hung 12-over-6 sash with a lower hopper, flanked by fluted pilasters that rise to the next story. The two bays to their sides are set with nine-over-six double-hung lower-hopper sash in an arched surround with a keystone and five-light sidelights, on a brick face. Below each is a recessed panel. Around the corner, the bay is blind, recessed below another arch. The recessed bay is set with eight-over-eight double-hung lower-hopper arched sash in a decorative surround.</p><br>
<p>The third story has a carving of the city of Albany&#39;s coat of arms in the center, topped by a broken arch pediment with dentilled cornice. It is flanked by two 12-light windows with sills and dentilled cornices supported by a scroll bracket on the side next to the coat of arms. Recessed panels are above and below both.</p><br>
<p>Flanking on the next two bays are two nine-light windows with three-light sides topped by a broken scroll pediment, their sills resting on the keystones below. The corner bay is set with a plain, recessed blind panel. Next to it on the end bay is an oculus with keystones at the cardinal points in a stone surround, set with a 16-pane grid.</p><br>
<p>Above the third story is a frieze and cornice. Between those and the roofline is an entablature with five recessed panels. In the middle one, wider than the other four, is set metal lettering reading "Philip Livingston Junior High School".</p><br>
<p>The roof is clad in asphalt shingles. On the east side it is pierced by six segmental-arched dormer windows sided in copper. They are set with four-over-four double-hung sash with a lower hopper and four-light sides. Large scroll brackets mark the end of the north and south parapets.</p><br>
<p>Wooden fencing on the east and west sets off the flat top of the roof. On the brick-faced north and south of the central section, an oculus similar to the one on the third-story corners is located in the center. The parapets have a recessed central portion with cast stone coping and a stone course in the middle of the central portion.</p><br>
<p>The cupola has three stages. At its base the square pedestal is clad on all sides to resemble the upper half of the second-story windows. On the corners of the north and south faces are short projections connecting to the wooden fence topped with scroll brackets. A cornice sets off the second stage, with scrolled pilasters on the corners framing a paneled section topped by a circular window with radiating muntins set in a molded surround with a keystone. The third stage, at the top, is a grooved curving roof topped by a small finial.</p><br>
<p>Both wings have a similar design. A cast stone water table at ground level is topped by 16-light windows with an eight-light lower hopper, with smaller versions at the corners. At the lintel level is a cast stone beltcourse, with a wider one above serving as the sill line for similar windows, also found above. Topping those windows is a cast stone frieze that ends below the applied metal at the roofline.</p><br>
<p>Engaged cast stone piers divide the facade at regular intervals. Within them the first and second stories are set with rectangular windows similar to those in the central pavilion&#39;s dormers without the sidelights; the third story has an elliptical oculus. Above it is some decorative stonework and an inverted arch at the roofline.</p><br>
<p>The pavilion at the south end is similar in plan and treatment to the central pavilion, seven bays by three, three stories tall and topped with a gambrel roof and parapet. In the center of the first floor, at the top of some stone steps, is a monumental entrance with double door framed by decorative cast stone, topped with a broken arch pediment. Above it is a similarly treated window.</p><br>
<p>All other windows are tall 12-over-8 with a lower hopper. Corners are quoined in cast stone. As with the east facade, stone beltcourses serve as the lintel line for the first story windows and the sill for those immediately above. The centers of both gables are set with oculi similar to those on the main section. The north pavilion is similar, but with a more modest central door meant primarily as an exit.</p><br>
<p>The south and west (rear) facades of the two wings are less decorative. Most windows are set with lower-hopper windows of the same size as their counterparts on the front but with no paning; there is an area of the rear of the south wing on the second and third stories where this pattern is interrupted for some irregularly sized and placed windows. A small three-bay shed-roofed projection, with glass windows on all sides to the roofline, is along the middle of the first story. The roofline of the wings is decorated only with a strip of applied metal.</p><br>
<p>On the west side the central pavilion&#39;s end bays are not recessed; there is a secondary entrance with double doors and stone surround on the south corner. A six-by-five-bay wing projects westward from it, three stories high, faced in brick with a flat roof. At its rear is a freestanding brick chimney stack, counted as a separate, contributing structure for the purposes of the National Register listing.</p><br>
<p>The four eastern bays on the north and south facades of the auditorium wing are set with simulated sash, broken by vertical and horizontal mullions, two stories tall rising from a stone beltcourse sill within slightly recessed round arches with keystones at the top. In the fourth and fifth bay exposed basement levels are a pair of double-door entrances with stone surrounds. The fifth bay has a 12-over-8 similar to those on the building&#39;s east facade midway along the height of the taller windows, with a simulated oculus closer to the roofline, marked by a cast stone cornice.</p><br>
<p>At the corner the wing has a blind diagonal facet, with engaged brick piers dividing them from the side elevations. An entrance with metal double doors is located. In between the corners are four evenly spaced single and double windows on both stories, set with the lower hopper windows seen elsewhere on the building. The third story has another simulated oculus similar to the other ones.</p><br>
<h4>Interior</h4><br>
<p>Behind the three main entrance doorways is an interior vestibule. It has polished concrete floors, simulated stone walls and Art Deco piers. Three more doors, wooden with glass panels topped by five-light transoms, open into the main lobby.</p><br>
<p>The concrete floors and simulated stone walls continue into the lobby. They are complemented by Art Deco pilasters rising to a coffered ceiling. Elaborate surrounds with cast stone entablatures frame the doorways to the two former main administrative offices off the lobby.</p><br>
<p>On the second and third stories 10 ft corridors run through the center. They are surfaced in tile, walled in concrete and drywall over terra cotta walls, and have modern acoustic tile ceilings. A few alcoves remain from where display cases were set into the walls.</p><br>
<p>The former library occupies the east side of the second and third stories. The monumental windows on that face of the main block provide abundant natural light. Entrance is through the wood and glass doors, set in decorative wooden surrounds, along both walls. Casement windows in the third floor let in additional light from within. A cast iron spiral staircase provides access to the mezzanine, which has an iron railing, tiled floor and painted walls and ceilings.</p><br>
<p>Upstairs, a single open space was later partitioned into classrooms. They all have gypsum walls and modern dropped ceilings. All rooms have solid metal doors; some have closets with wood and glass doors. Metal staircases on either end of the section provide access to the roof.</p><br>
<p>Within the block are two sets of staircases connecting the basement to the third floor. They are primarily metal, but with an additional wooden handrail. An elevator is also located on the south side.</p><br>
<p>The corridors continue into both wings, where classrooms have been converted into apartments in various configurations. Both end pavilions contain gymnasiums with an acoustic ceiling, bleachers and a mezzanine level. Near them are locker rooms and staircases similar to those found in the central section. The basement of the north wing also has steam tunnels.</p><br>
<p>A boiler room is located in the basement of the auditorium wing. The auditorium itself has seats on the first floor with a stage at the west end; a balcony level is located at the east end, with access from the second floor. The walls are of plaster covering terra-cotta brick laid in running bond, with salt glaze on the window trimmings. Art Deco pilasters frame the stage and windows. Stairs similar to those elsewhere in the building are located backstage.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school was built in response to increasing demands on the educational system, and changes in educational theory. During the 77 years it was open, it went from being a junior high school to a magnet school.</p><br>
<h3>1796–1928: Public education in Albany</h3><br>
<p>Albany established its public school system in 1796, shortly after American independence. In 1832 it built it first school building. Over the next century the state expanded the funding options available for local schools if they expanded their offerings in turn, such as providing secondary education. By the 1920s Albany&#39;s school district operated 25 elementary schools and its high school.</p><br>
<p>Since the beginning of the 20th century, education professionals had been advocating for an intermediate level of schooling between the elementary schools, which focused on teaching basic skills to children, and the high schools of the time, where curricula centered around specific subjects with the intent of preparing students for careers or higher education. A significant number of high school freshmen, unprepared for the change in emphasis, left school and sought work instead. With high immigration to the cities at the time, the unskilled workforce was already growing steadily. School administrators and elected officials were receptive to any proposal that would keep more of these students in school until graduation.</p><br>
<p>The new junior high school model put students in grades seven through nine in a separate building, where they could be adjusted to the academic rigor expected of them at the high school level more slowly. Elsewhere in New York, Rochester became the first city to establish a junior high school in 1915. A year later the state&#39;s Education Department began encouraging other municipalities to start their own.</p><br>
<p>Albany established its first junior high schools in 1922, using space in its existing buildings. William Hackett, elected mayor that year, committed $1.5 million of the city&#39;s money to build its first junior high school. The school, designed by prominent local architect Marcus T. Reynolds and named after Hackett, opened its Delaware Avenue campus to 600 students in 1927.</p><br>
<p>Almost immediately it was evident that another such school would be needed. Two years later, the city council passed an ordinance authorizing the city to acquire land in the north of the city. By the end of 1929, a million-dollar loan had been secured, and very soon thereafter the city bought four parcels of land near the Arbor Hill neighborhood, combining them into a single lot where the present school building stands.</p><br>
<p>At that time, Arbor Hill was growing. Albany, like other Northern cities, was experiencing the Great Migration of African Americans leaving the South in search of jobs in manufacturing and the other industries that sprung up around it. Most of those new arrivals, like previous migrants to Albany, settled first in the South End. Those who prospered and could afford to do so had begun to settle in Arbor Hill.</p><br>
<h3>1929–32: Design and construction</h3><br>
<p>Andrew Delehanty was commissioned to design the school. The son of an Irish-born mason, he had taught himself architecture and designed several other schools for the city, as well as a church and firehouse. His plan called for an 800 ft building in a "Georgian" architectural style. What was at the time referred to as Arbor Hill Junior High School was expected to cost a million dollars and be "one of the most modern equipped and furnished schools in the state," according to the Albany Times Union. The original plans also called for a roof garden, but it was never built.</p><br>
<p>At the outset of construction the school district hoped to have the building completed in time for the 1930 school year. That estimate was pushed back a year when closing the land acquisitions took longer than expected, meaning grading and other site preparation was delayed. These delays in turn led to difficulties with the labor unions representing workers on the job, anxious with the onset of the Great Depression. By January 1931 only the foundation was complete.</p><br>
<p>Three months later workers found the body of a 10-year-old boy while draining a pond at the site, highlighting some safety concerns the unions had raised. But later that year the pace of work finally picked up. By fall the school superintendent and mayor both announced that the school would be open for the next school year, even as the district began planning a third junior high in the western neighborhoods of the city.</p><br>
<h3>1932–46: School and community center</h3><br>
<p>In September 1932 the school opened, now named for Philip Livingston, an Albany native who had signed the Declaration of Independence. Mayor John Boyd Thacher II proudly noted that despite its delayed opening, its enrollment was more than double Hacketts yet it had cost less to build. Its amenities included a thousand-seat auditorium, gymnasium, swimming pool and conservatory. "It would be difficult to find anywhere a building more satisfactorily planned and built, and more efficiently equipped," the school superintendent wrote in the districts annual report. The school cafeterias kitchen prepared food not just for its own students but for other schools in the city; for its entire lifetime it remained the main office of the districts food-services department.</p><br>
<p>Philip Livingston soon became one of the citys distinctive buildings, despite its location away from downtown. "Because of its great size, impressive appearance and splendid location," a 1936 guidebook to the Albany schools said, "it is considered Albanys outstanding school building... It is the embodiment of the ideals of beauty and utility."</p><br>
<p>The building did more than just educate students through early adolescence. Until the city canceled the program at Philip Livingston in 1938 due to declining enrollment, it hosted night school classes as well. Arbor Hill residents came to the school to cast their votes in election.</p><br>
<p>Cultural activities were also held in the auditorium. The recently established Albany Symphony Orchestra, then known as the People&#39;s Symphony of Albany, rehearsed there and sometimes performed concerts. In 1934, its founder John Carabella, premiered his original work The Helderbergs, "a symphonic poem dedicated to the citizens of Albany", at Philip Livingston.</p><br>
<p>Other notable people of the era made appearances at the building. Amelia Earhart spoke at the school at the end of 1935 just after she became the first person to fly solo over the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to California. The next year, dancer and choreographer Ted Shawn brought his Men Dancers to the auditoriums stage as part of his effort to show that ballet could be for men, too, an effort that culminated in the establishment of the annual Jacobs Pillow dance festival in nearby Western Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h3>1947: Paul Robeson controversy</h3><br>
<p>In May 1947 the school board granted permission for a concert by Paul Robeson in the auditorium that was primarily to consist of traditional African American spirituals. However, they were overridden by Erastus Corning 2nd, then five years into his four-decade run as Albany mayor. Corning justified the decision by saying Robeson, who he called "one of a group invariably found supporting the Communist Party and its front organizations", often sang Communist songs at his concerts. as he did not believe school buildings should be used for "controversial affairs."</p><br>
<p>Corning was attacked as a racist, not only in Albany but by telegrams and letters that his office received from all over the country. The Civil Rights Congress of Albany called it "a flagrant violation of our civil liberties" and retained a local lawyer, Arthur Harvey, to file suit. He argued before state Supreme Court Justice Isadore Bookstein that the agreement between the board and the church cultural organization that sponsored the concert was a contract, rather than a permit, that the city could not so easily revoke. Harvey characterized Cornings action as "a slur on the Negro people as a whole." On the other side, veterans organizations held pickets outside City Hall, urging citizens to boycott the performance as a patriotic duty.</p><br>
<p>Bookstein soon ruled on the case. He issued an injunction requiring the city to let Robeson perform, but only as long as he sang and did not give any speeches. When the concert was held, Corning had city police standing by to stop the performance if Robeson began making a speech. But they did not interrupt—before a capacity crowd, Robeson performed to great acclaim, although he did include on the program two songs sung during the Spanish Civil War.</p><br>
<h3>1948–1969: Expansion</h3><br>
<p>The school continued in its role as a community and cultural center throughout the postwar years. Despite its access to larger and better space, the orchestra continued to give concerts there as late as the mid-1950s. For years, a local church raised money through performances of its gospel choir. A performance of The Mikado was staged there in 1958, and touring glee clubs and a cappella groups found the Philip Livingston auditorium an ideal venue.</p><br>
<p>In 1967 came the most significant alteration to the building. Architect William Gleason designed a one-story cafeteria wing (no longer extant) that projected from the back of the building. It was of more modern design, and thus considered a non-contributing portion of the building when it was later listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Two years later the school was again the focus of a race-related controversy in the city. A hundred protesters against racial discrimination in the school system were arrested in the building. With tensions high in the wake of the incident, the city closed all its schools for two days afterwards.</p><br>
<h3>1970–2009: Magnet school era, decline and closure</h3><br>
<p>In response to the protesters&#39; concerns, the school district applied for grants from the Magnet Schools Assistance Program, established by the federal government under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The intent was to remake the school as a magnet school and thus ease racial segregation. By the early 1970s this had been done and the school was officially renamed Philip Livingston Magnet Academy.</p><br>
<p>However, over the last quarter of the 20th century the school itself began to decline. The building began showing signs of aging, at the same time as financial shortfalls led to maintenance being deferred. Within it, educational achievement began to decline as disciplinary problems rose. By the end of the century it was on the state&#39;s Persistently Dangerous Schools list. Pressure from parents in Arbor Hill led to the establishment of private charter schools in the area, and enrollment at Philip Livingston began to fall as that option became available to parents.</p><br>
<p>Under new leadership in the late 1990s, the school began to reverse those trends. By the late 2000s, it had been taken off the dangerous schools list, and student test scores were increasing again. However, the building&#39;s physical plant continued to deteriorate.</p><br>
<p>In 2005 the district diverted $19 million meant for maintenance to Philip Livingston to other schools instead. Two years later the superintendent proposed remodeling the building into a high school dedicated to engineering, nanotechnology and environmental science, but the school board rejected the idea. Parents, believing that the district was unwilling to make the necessary investments in the aging school, increasingly chose to send their children to the new charter schools in the Arbor Hill neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>By that time, the school was down to 250 students, well below the amount it had been designed for. Enrollment increased slightly the next year, as did test scores, but not to the level where the school board felt it could justify keeping it open any longer. In 2009 the school graduated its last class of eighth graders, and closed permanently.</p><br>
<h3>2010–present: Adaptation to senior housing</h3><br>
<p>Assuming that students whose parents had chosen the charter schools would never return, the district put the building up for sale.</p><br>
<p>Support for the sale among the school board members was not unanimous. "Im concerned that were getting rid of a building we had for a long time, we had big plans for that building," said one, Melissa Mackey. "We still have space concerns," she added, noting that the district&#39;s remaining middle schools were almost at capacity.</p><br>
<p>Renovations were completed and the apartments opened in 2013; the 1967 cafeteria wing was removed during that time to provide more parking. Two years later, other members of the city school board came to share Mackeys regrets. By 2015, some of the charter schools had closed, leaving many students with no other option but to return to Albanys public schools. In elections that year, voters rejected the district&#39;s plans for a new high school. Shortly afterward, the district learned it needed more middle school space.</p><br>
<p>The board hoped to be able to obtain space for a fourth middle school on the north side of the city by 2018. One member, Rose Brandon, lamented that Livingston could no longer be reused. "We had a beautiful one there," she said at a meeting. "Prior boards and superintendents decided to close that school... Now it appears we need a school on exactly that side of the city." While the decision was irreversible by that time, she still called it "a serious injustice."</p><br>
<p>The James Monroe Tomb is the burial place of United States President James Monroe in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, United States. The principal feature of the tomb is an architecturally unusual cast iron cage, designed by Albert Lybrock and installed in 1859, after Monroe&#39;s body was moved from Marble Cemetery in New York City. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971 for its unique architecture. It has been given the local nickname of "The Birdcage".</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The James Monroe Tomb is located in the southern reaches of Hollywood Cemetery, in a prominent location surrounded by a circular drive and overlooking the James River. Monroe&#39;s body rests in a simple granite sarcophagus that is set on a granite plinth (platform). Surrounding the sarcophagus is an elaborate Gothic Revival cast iron "cage", measuring about 9 x. Each face of the cage has a lancet-arched shape similar to that found in the tracery of larger Gothic stained glass windows, with a rose window pattern at the top of the arch. On the long sides, this main arch is flanked by narrow arches. The corners of the cage have colonettes surmounted by tabernacle-like structures. The top of the cage consists of ogee-curved elements meeting at a central spire. The grave of another president, John Tyler, is located just a few yards away.</p><br>
<p>James Monroe died in New York City in 1831, and was interred in New York City Marble Cemetery. In 1856 Virginia Governor Henry A. Wise sought to repatriate his remains to his native Virginia. The state appropriated funds, and Monroe&#39;s remains were transported to Richmond aboard the steamship Jamestown. The tomb, erected in 1859, was designed by the German-born architect Albert Lybrock, and its cast iron elements were cast by Wood and Perot of Philadelphia. The tomb is considered architecturally significant first for the scale of its use of cast iron, a material not commonly used at that time for that purpose, and for delicacy and degree of flamboyancy achieved in its creation, which could not have been done in stone.</p><br>
<p>In 2015, as a part of plans to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Monroes election as Americas fifth president, Monroes tomb received a $900,000 USD makeover from the Department of General Services in the state of Virginia. Almost 40 percent of the tombs cast iron structure was repaired and the entire structure was returned to a color closer to its original state. The restoration took close to a year to complete, and was finished in September of 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Ellen Glasgow House, also known as the Branch-Glascow House, is a historic house at 1 West Main Street in Richmond, Virginia. Built in 1841, it is nationally significant as the home of writer Ellen Glasgow  from 1887 until her death. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Ellen Glasgow House is located in Richmonds Monroe Ward neighborhood, at the southwest corner of Foushee Street. It is a two story stuccoed brick structure, with a hip roof. A narrow ell extends to the rear, and a porch extends across the rest of the rear. The main entrance is centered on the northern facade, sheltered by a porch supported by Greek Revival Doric columns. The interior is laid out with public rooms on the ground floor, with kitchen and servants quarters in the ell, and two bedrooms upstairs. One was used by Ellen Glasgow has her bedroom, and the other as her office, where she did much of her writing.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1841 by David Branch, and was acquired by the parents of Ellen Glasgow when she was a teenager. She made this her home for the remainder of her life, during which time she wrote a series of novels, all set in her native Virginia. The combined opus provides a window into the social life of the region from about 1850 well into the 20th century. Glasgow was recognized in 1942 with the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for her 1941 In This Our Life.</p><br>
<p>After Glasgow&#39;s death in 1945, the house was purchased by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (now Preservation Virginia). The organization has since sold the property.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, some of the rooms of the Ellen Glasgow House served as office space for Richmond Public Schools. On the property beyond the backyard garden was The Carriage House Gallery, part of the Ellen Glasgow House which featured exhibitions by local Richmond artists, including pinhole photographer Willie Anne Wright.</p><br>
<p>Shelter Island is approximately 20 km due west of Albany, Western Australia.</p><br>
<p>It is often mistakenly referred to as Muttonbird Island. The island is approximately 130 m off-shore from Muttonbird Beach separated by a channel that has an average depth of 8 m it is regarded as a suitable open-water dive site.</p><br>
<p>The island consists of a mass of granite but has sufficient soil for plant growth and is well vegetated on top. The island supports breeding populations of flesh-footed shearwaters and little penguins as well as small populations of feral cats and black rats.</p><br>
<p>Little penguins have also been seen on the island.</p><br>
<p>The total area of the island is 10 hectare. It was declared a Class 1A Nature Reserve in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Livø is a 320-hectare Danish island with approximately 10 year-round residents. The island is located in the Limfjord, about 20 minutes by boat from Roenbjerg in the middle of the Limfjord. It is midway between Nykøbing Mors, Løgstør, Fjerritslev and Thisted. Northeast of the island lies Løgstør Bredning while Livø Broads lies west and south of the island.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Livø island has been inhabited since the Stone Age, and for long period after 1150 was home to the Vitskøl Monastery. The chapel was built in the early 1700s. After 1911 the island was taken over, then for the next 50 years was used as a prison island and populated by criminals and the mentally ill, along with staff and their families. The population did agricultural work, ran workshops, tended the forest, and produced dairy products. Birgit Kirkebæk is the primary researcher on this period of Livø&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>In 1971 the island was briefly occupied by a number of artists, including Bjørn Nørgaard and Per Kirkeby. Their attempts at farming failed due to lack of proficiency, and their occupation of the island ended when the police intervened.</p><br>
<h2>Livø today</h2><br>
<p>The island is currently used for educational and recreational purposes. The SF Socialist People&#39;s party runs an annual three-week summer camp on the island including political, cultural and practical elements. A second annual camp of about 200 people with mental disabilities, called Activity Week, takes place in September. Viborg Karate school hosts an annual karate camp including Swedish, Belgian, Polish, Dutch and Danish participants.</p><br>
<p>The town today consists largely of a street with a grocery store and a tiny power station from 1950s, along with the town&#39;s inn and cafeteria. The island produces its own beer, called Livøl, available at the grocery store and inn. There is also an educational camp facility with 275 beds.</p><br>
<p>The island is known for the annual Livø Jazz Festival, as well as being featured in a television series about the Danish islands, where island ranger Per Gjættermann discussed Livø&#39;s natural environment.</p><br>
<p>The Mousam River is a 29.7 mi river in York County, Maine, in the United States. Its primary source is Mousam Lake located between the towns of Shapleigh and Acton, Maine, and it flows into the Atlantic Ocean just west of Kennebunk Beach. It flows through the towns of Shapleigh, Sanford and Kennebunk.</p><br>
<h2>Major tributaries</h2><br>
<p>Littlefield River</p><br>
<p>Middle Branch Mousam River</p><br>
<p>Square Pond, outlet</p><br>
<h2>Dams</h2><br>
<p>The Mousam River is one of the most heavily dammed rivers currently in the State of Maine, with a total of 13 (this is excluding major and minor tributaries). Most of the dams on the list below are used for hydroelectric production, while others are for impoundment and recreation, with former industrial uses. The list below is from river source to the mouth at the Atlantic Ocean:</p><br>
<p>Emery Mills Dam or Mousam Dam, Shapleigh</p><br>
<p>Mill Street Dam or Alpaca Dam, Springvale (completed 1910)</p><br>
<p>Bridge Street Dam, Springvale</p><br>
<p>Dam (name unknown), Springvale</p><br>
<p>River Street Dam or Stump Pond Dam, Sanford</p><br>
<p>Number 1 Pond Dam, Sanford (completed 1911)</p><br>
<p>Dam (name unknown), Sanford</p><br>
<p>Dam (name unknown), Sanford</p><br>
<p>New dam or Estes Lake Dam, Sanford (completed 1905)</p><br>
<p>Old Falls dam, Kennebunk</p><br>
<p>Dane Perkins Dam, Kennebunk</p><br>
<p>Twine Mill Dam, Kennebunk</p><br>
<p>Kesslan Dam, Kennebunk</p><br>
<p>Green Island is an island in Oyster Harbour located approximately 6.5 km northeast of Albany in Western Australia.</p><br>
<p>The island has a total area of 2 hectare and was designated as a Class 1A Nature Reserve in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The nearest point on the mainland, Bayonet Head, is located approximately 750 m north west of the island.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Green Island was named by George Vancouver, who also named Oyster Harbour when he visited the area in 1791. It is one of only four permanent pelican breeding grounds in Western Australia, the others being Mandurah, Shark Bay and Rockingham. The breeding pelicans can be seen from the Kalgan Queen Riverboat, as the Island itself is a reserve.</p><br>
<p>When the colony in Albany was first settled in 1826, Green Island was planted for vegetables. By 1830 it supported a vegetable garden, and a hut was erected on the island for the gardener to live in.</p><br>
<p>In 1827 a group of sealers took 5 Aborigines to Green Island to catch birds. The sealers rowed away, leaving the Aborigines behind, then returned the next day bringing water. The Aborigines attempted to take the boat, and the sealers fired on them killing one Aboriginal man. The remaining Aborigines were removed to Michaelmas Island and left there making "great lamentations".</p><br>
<p>In 1991 the government department Fisheries Western Australia granted a fish farm license to the company Ocean Foods who have leases north and north east of Green Island where blue mussels are farmed".</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>The island is noted as an important breeding ground for small numbers of the Australian pelican. It was estimated in 1993 that 7 active nests were located on the island.</p><br>
<p>Warrington Town Hall is in the town of Warrington, Cheshire, England. It consists of a house, originally called Bank Hall, flanked by two detached service wings at right angles to the house, one on each side. The house and the service wings are each recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated Grade I listed buildings. Being in that part of the town north of the River Mersey, the house falls within the historic county of Lancashire. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner declared it to be "the finest house of its date in south Lancashire".</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bank Hall was built in 1750 for Thomas Patten. The architect was James Gibbs and it is likely that it was the last important building of his design to be completed in his lifetime. When it was built it stood in open countryside to the north of the town of Warrington. The Patten family were important merchants in the town. Thomas father had made the lower River Mersey navigable from Runcorn to Bank Quay, Warrington, and had established a copper smelting factory at Bank Quay. In 1870 John Wilson-Patten, 1st Baron Winmarleigh, sold the hall to Warrington Borough Council for £9000 (equivalent to £ in ), and 13 acre of surrounding land for a further £15,000 (equivalent to £ in ). Almost all of the land was opened as Warringtons first public park in 1873. When the house was built, it was surrounded by a high wall. In 1895 this was replaced by iron railings and a fine set of gates.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The hall is built in Palladian style and has three storeys and a hipped slate roof. The front (south) façade has nine bays. The ground floor is in rusticated ashlar, as are the central three bays while the outer three bays on each side are in brick. The central area consists of a portico with four large ¾-attached Composite columns with a pediment bearing the arms of the Patten family. An open two-arm staircase, with a wrought iron balustrade, leads to the main entrance on the first floor. The north side of the hall is entirely of brick and is simpler. The whole house is built on a foundation made of blocks of copper slag from the Patten&#39;s smelting works. The detached service wings each have 13 bays and are similar to each other. Their middle three bays have three storeys and are in rusticated ashlar while the lateral bays have two storeys and are in brick.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The entrance hall is spacious and contains coats of arms of the Patten family, a stone chimney piece and a mosaic floor. The floor replaced a wooden one in 1902 and was laid by Italian workmen. It includes the initials J. W. P. for John Wilson Patten, L. W. for Lionel Whittle, was the town clerk at the time, T. L. for Thomas Longdin, the borough engineer, and Q. V. for Queen Victoria. The former great hall and the music room have been combined to form the council chamber. The former ladies retiring room and the dining room are now committee rooms and the reading room is used as the mayor&#39;s parlour. There are two similar staircases with wrought iron handrails. The window frames, which appear to be made of wood, are made from a combination of copper and iron, painted white.</p><br>
<h2>Park gates</h2><br>
<p>The gates were made in cast iron by the Coalbrookdale Company at Ironbridge and had been shown at the International Exhibition in London in 1862 It is believed that they were originally commissioned as a gift to Queen Victoria, but she declined them. They were seen at Ironbridge in 1893 by Frederick Monks, a member of the council, and he offered them as a gift to Warrington Borough Council. They were formally opened on 28 June 1895. On each side of the gates is an ornate screen which contains four columns. On top of each column is a statue of Nike, the goddess of victory. In the centre of the archway over the gate are the arms of Warrington Borough Council. The gates, piers and associated lamps are listed at Grade II*. The park was initially surrounded by iron railings, but these were removed in 1942 to provide iron for use in the war effort.</p><br>
<h2>Other features</h2><br>
<p>The lamps on the east and west drives of the town hall are also listed at Grade II*.</p><br>
<p>Carter Glass House is a historic house at 605 Clay Street in Lynchburg, Virginia. Built in 1827, it is nationally significant as the longtime home of United States Congressman, Senator, and Treasury Secretary Carter Glass , who championed creation of the Federal Reserve System and passage of the Glass-Steagall Act, which constrained banking activities. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976. It now serves as a parish hall for the adjacent St. Paul&#39;s Church.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Carter Glass House is located in Lynchburgs Court House Hill area, on the west side of Clay Street south of 6th Street. It shares the block with St. Pauls Church, from which it is separated by a broad lawn. It is a 2 1/2-story, almost square, red brick dwelling. It sits on a raised basement and has a shallow slate covered hipped roof. The front facade features a one-bay wide, wood-floored, Ionic order portico supported by four columns and two pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1827 by John Mill, a local lawyer and architect. In 1853 it passed to his daughter and son-in-law, George Dixon Davis. In 1907 it was purchased by Carter Glass, who made the house is primary residence until 1923, and owned it until his death in 1946. It was acquired by the church in 1960. Glass was responsible for modernizing the house&#39;s systems and adding dormers to its roof; there have been only modest changes since his ownership.</p><br>
<p>Carter Glass was a major political figure in the fundamental development of the United States financial systems. As a Congressman, he chaired the House Committee on Banking and Currency, co-sponsoring the Glass-Owen Bill which in 1913 established the Federal Reserve System. In 1920 he was elected to the Senate, where he sponsored the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which required separation between investment and commercial banking. During the 1930s he was a leading critic and opponent of President Franklin Delano Roosevelts New Deal reforms.</p><br>
<p>Devil&#39;s Kitchen is a small cave on the southwestern shore of Mackinac Island in Michigan, USA. The cave was carved during the Nipissing post-glacial period by the waves of Lake Huron. It consists of two hollows in a rocky cliff, one directly on top of the other.</p><br>
<p>Mackinac Islands brecciated limestone has eroded into a variety of unusual formations. The caves appearance is comparable to that of a human face with an open mouth.</p><br>
<p>Although shallow, Devil&#39;s Kitchen is much visited because of its location within Mackinac Island State Park on M-185, the state highway that circles Mackinac Island. Local stories allege that the Native Americans of the Straits of Mackinac considered the cave to be a numinous location inhabited by bad spirits. Allegedly, the spirits were cannibals who would capture and eat victims who ventured too close to the ill-omened location.</p><br>
<p>The cave is blackened with soot to this day, allegedly from the evil spirits cooking fires; hence the name, Devils Kitchen. It is not known whether these stories derive from actual Indian legend or were generated after the beginning of the tourism industry on Mackinac Island in the mid-19th century.</p><br>
<p>Vodno  is a mountain in Macedonia. It is located in the northern part of the country, to the southwest of the capital city Skopje. The highest point of the mountain is at Krstovar peak, on 1066 meters and the submontane is on 337 meters . In 2002, on Krstovar peak the Millennium Cross was built, one of the biggest Christian Crosses in the world.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>The climate in Vodno is cold and temperate. Vodno has a significant amount of rainfall during the year. This is true even for the driest month. The average temperature is 23 &deg;C. The lowest temperature measured on the mountain, in January 2017, is -24 &deg;C; and the highest measured temperature, in July 2005, is 43 &deg;C.</p><br>
<h2>Hydrography</h2><br>
<p>Vodno has a heterogeneous hydrographic web: streams, vaults, waterfalls, springs. Vodno has a lot of streams which are used by the shepherds for feeting their goods and for watering the wild chestnuts.</p><br>
<p>Vodno has two types of vaults</p><br>
<p>Arterial</p><br>
<p>Well water</p><br>
<p>The objects that are on a higher above sea level are using the arterial underground water, and the objects that are placed on lower above sea level use the well water ones.</p><br>
<p>The water is bacteriologically and chemically clean.</p><br>
<p>Vodno has a mini waterfall which is high 15 meters and is more active in spring when the snow coverlet is melting.</p><br>
<p>Vodno has a lot of springs too that are used for the need of the local people.</p><br>
<h2>Vegetation</h2><br>
<p>From vegetation on Vodno mountain you can find deciduous and evergreen plants.</p><br>
<p>From the deciduous you can find the wild chestnut, lime tree, oak etc.</p><br>
<p>The evergreen plants are in bigger number related to the deciduous one. From the evergreen plants you can find the pine from the both sides of the mountain. In smaller number there are the juniperus and the boxwood.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>Animals:</p><br>
<p>Small animals: partridge, rabbit, fox, squirrel, marten, snake, birds of smaller type and insects.</p><br>
<p>Larger animals: boar, wolf, deer.</p><br>
<h2>Vodno today</h2><br>
<p>Although Vodno is a significant tourist center, the revenues from tourism are relatively low.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>The tourism on Vodno mountain can be divided in:</p><br>
<p>Recreational tourism</p><br>
<p>Cultural tourism</p><br>
<p>Modern Tourism</p><br>
<h3>Recreational Tourism</h3><br>
<p>On Vodno mountain one of the most impressive destinations is the waterfall "Prskalo" However, there are many other sights and activities to experience.</p><br>
<p>One of them is the village of Dolno Sonje, which is one of the most beautiful sights around the mountain. The small village, made on the side of the mountain, was historically inhabited by local hunters. Recently it has attracted people from Skopje, who have a weekend house or have permanently relocated there, due to its proximity to the capital and its clean air, beautiful surroundings, and medieval churches.</p><br>
<p>Additionally the hike from Middle Vodno (557m) to the Krstovar Peak(1066m), where the Millennium Cross is located, has become a highly attractive leisure activity. The increase in interest in this activity can be attributed to the opening of a bus-line that makes round-trips from the Skopje City Centre to Middle Vodno, as well as the availability of cable transport from Middle Vodno to Krstovar Peak.</p><br>
<h3>Cultural Tourism</h3><br>
<p>Various manifestations, churches, monasteries and monuments can be found on Vodno.</p><br>
<h4>Churches and Monasteries</h4><br>
<p>Churches:</p><br>
<p>Saint Spas - Dolno Sonje</p><br>
<p>Saint Spas - Sopishte</p><br>
<p>Saint Mina - Sopishte</p><br>
<p>Saint Nicolas - Gorno Sonje</p><br>
<p>Saint Panteleimon - Dolno Nerezi</p><br>
<p>Monasteries:</p><br>
<p>Saint Panteleimon - Nerezi</p><br>
<p>Saint Trifun - 5 km from Vodno</p><br>
<p>The Churches are an important part of the cultural-historical heritage, and have remained there for years. The older churches and monasteries are very significant because they have kept their authenticity, due to not having been reconstructed, but rather having survived through the ages. They attract more visitors due to their historical significance.</p><br>
<h4>Manifestations</h4><br>
<p>Christmas Eve Celebration</p><br>
<p>Seasonal Car Races</p><br>
<p>Eco Projects</p><br>
<h4>Monuments</h4><br>
<p>Millennium Cross</p><br>
<p>Big Stone</p><br>
<p>War Caves from the 1940</p><br>
<p>Destroyed houses from 1944</p><br>
<p>Remnant war objects from 1950</p><br>
<p>The monuments are the most visited attractions on Mount Vodno. One of the most distinct landmarks on Mount Vodno is the Millennium Cross. Found on the peak of Mount Vodno, and standing at 66 metres high, it is one of the most visited locations in the Skopje region. It was constructed in 2002, in order to commemorate 2000 years since the birth of Christ, and serves as a memorial of two millennia of Christianity.</p><br>
<h3>Cable car</h3><br>
<p>As of 2011, a gondola lift has been in operation to allow an easy ascent to visit the Millennium Cross. The ropeway includes 28 regular gondolas for eight persons and two VIP gondolas for four people. The lift starts at Middle Vodno and ends at the Millennium Cross.</p><br>
<p>The route is 1,750m long, with the ride lasting 6–8 minutes.</p><br>
<p>The Market Street Row is located on the west side of that street in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States, just south of Hulme Park and across from the Adriance Memorial Library, on the southern edge of downtown. It includes three houses, including the Mott-Van Kleeck House, the oldest frame house in the city.</p><br>
<p>Market Street is Poughkeepsies oldest, in existence in 1709 when a royal decree made it part of the Kings Highway, later to become the Albany Post Road after independence. The Mott-Van Kleeck House was built around 1780 by a descendant of the Van Kleeck family, one of Poughkeepsie&#39;s oldest. Stylistically it is a precursor to the Federal style, in which later decorative motifs were added. For many years it indicated the beginning of Poughkeepsie to travelers.</p><br>
<p>In the late 19th century, around 1880, the two neighboring houses were built. They were ornate -story brick structures with peaked slate roofs, iron cresting, and Shingle-style porches. A tower was added to the Mott-Van Kleeck House, in sympathetic colors and materials.</p><br>
<p>In the automotive era, Market Street was incorporated into US 9, the main route for drivers from New York City to Albany until the construction of the New York State Thruway and the subsequent rerouting of Route 9 onto a new expressway through the city. The houses became decrepit and were threatened during urban renewal efforts in the 1970s. They were preserved instead, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Today they have been redeveloped into commercial offices, like the Hasbrouck House and Amrita Club nearby.</p><br>
<p>Dauer Hall is a historic building on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States.</p><br>
<p>Dauer Hall is a contributing property in the University of Florida Campus Historic District which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 1989.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Designed by Rudolph Weaver in the Collegiate Gothic architectural style, the building was built in 1936. Because the Great Depression caused a shortage of funds, the building took several years to construct, and its distinctive stained glass windows on the east facade were not placed until 1938. William Jennings Bryan was one fundraiser for the construction of the hall.</p><br>
<p>Originally the site of the student union, the building was called the Florida Union. The building housed a bookstore, small library, hotel, soda fountain, banquet hall and ballroom (in what later became the Keene Faculty Center, see below), chapel, game room, "sundry ship," and student organization offices (including those of not-yet independent student newspaper, the Florida Alligator, whose officers were in the basement). Later part of the second floor was used by the Religion Department and the YMCA. The Florida Union, moved to the new building on Museum Road (later renamed the J. Wayne Reitz Union) when that building was completed in 1967.</p><br>
<p>The building was then given to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to be used for classrooms and faculty office space, and was renamed the Arts and Sciences Building. The building adopted its current name in 1975 in honor of Manning J. Dauer, the longtime chairman of the political science department.</p><br>
<h2>Keene Faculty Center</h2><br>
<p>The Keene Faculty Center located in the western wing of Dauer Hall is a multipurpose room used mainly by College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty.</p><br>
<h3>Facilities</h3><br>
<p>The high-ceilinged room comprises 1,600 ft&sup2; and has wood panelling and flooring as well as arched windows. The main floor consists of a commons room (measuring 32 by 54 feet), a storage room, and a small kitchen. The commons room has couches, easy chairs, 20 trestle table, and 75 dining chairs. Open to faculty and guests weekdays from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. as a coffee, reading, and discussion room, it can be reserved for use in late afternoons, evenings, and on weekends, for other activities, such as dinners (with seating for up to 50), receptions, concerts, lectures, conferences, and meetings.</p><br>
<p>The gallery on the second floor overlooks the main floor and is used for smaller functions. It can accommodate up to 14 people at a luncheon.</p><br>
<h3>History</h3><br>
<p>The Keene Faculty Center was built in the late 1930s as the Banquet Hall, and it was the upper part of the two-story Food Services building, connected to Florida Union (Dauer Hall) on the east, and the University Dining Hall on the west. (The University Dining Hall, UF&#39;s original dining hall, was designed by William Augustus Edwards and was built in 1912. It was also known as "the Commons" and was later named Johnson Hall. It was destroyed in a fire in 1987 and the Academic Advising Center now occupies the site).</p><br>
<p>The Banquet Hall opened in 1936 or 1937 and included chandeliers left over from the construction of University Auditorium. Originally the basement part of the room was used as a "short-order café" and bookstore and the upper portion was used for banquets.</p><br>
<p>During World War II, Army officer trainees that lived in UF residence halls used the room as a mess hall. After the war, the hall was designated part of the Florida Union and became known as the Florida Union Social Room. Most "large University dinner events" shifted to The Hub after that building was completed in 1950, but the Union Social Room was still use for banquets occasionally, such as for the annual Caribbean Conference.</p><br>
<p>In the 1950s and 1960s, the room was used as a ballroom and for student activities, including information fairs, student elections, and pep rallies. William E. Rion, an early director of the Florida Union, said that "smaller campus dances" were held almost every Friday night, with "street dances right outside for the larger crowds." Bands would play music from the balcony down to guests below. A series of international dinners was also held in the room.</p><br>
<p>After the Florida Union moved to Museum Road in 1967 (where it remains as the J. Wayne Reitz Union), Dauer Hall was given to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to alleviate a critical shortage of classroom and office space, and from 1970 to 1997, Social Room was a language lab with close to 50 listening stations.</p><br>
<p>The Social Room was restored to its early 20th century appearance in a $500,000 project funded by Kenneth and Janet Keene, for whom the room was renamed. The restored room was dedicated on November 12, 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Infirmary, now known as the Student Health Care Center, is a historic building on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida in the United States. It was designed by Rudolph Weaver in the Collegiate Gothic style and was built in 1931. Since 1983, it has served as a student outpatient clinic.</p><br>
<p>The Infirmary is a contributing property in the University of Florida Campus Historic District. On April 20, 1989, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Accreditation</h2><br>
<p>The center was successfully granted its latest three-year Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) accreditation term (May 31, 2014 through May 30, 2017) on April 21, 2014.</p><br>
<p>While more than 5,000 ambulatory health care organizations across the USA are accredited by the AAAHC, just 220 of those accredited are college health services. The center was first accredited in 1984 by The Joint Commission, later changing to AAAHC accreditation to better match the facility and its services.</p><br>
<p>The Blauen or Hochblauen is a 1,165 m mountain in the southern Black Forest. The peak lies within the municipalities of Schliengen and Malsburg-Marzell in Landkreis Lörrach and the community of Badenweiler in LandkreisBreisgau-Hochschwarzwald. It is an ideal viewpoint with views of the Black Forest, Vosges, Jura Mountains, and the Alps.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>In the 14th century, the mountain was recorded as the Blauwen or Blawen. Matthäus Merian&#39;s Topographia Sueviae in the mid-17th century calls it the Hoche Blawen ("High Blawen"). The parish boundary plan of the first Baden state survey of 1769/1770 distinguishes between the Hoch Blauen ("High Blauen") and the Hinter Blauen ("Posterior Blauen"), a 1,087 m sub-peak, 700 m north-northeast of the main summit. As the Blauen M the mountain is shown on the Black Forest map owned by St. Blaise Abbey dating to the year 1788. And in 1845 in the Topographischen Atlas ueber das Grossherzogtum Baden ("Topographic Atlas of the Grand Duchy of Baden") it is called the Blauen, as in other geographical publications of the 19th century. In addition in 19th century travel literature the name Hochblauen occurs frequently, sometimes with the explanation that this is to distinguish it from the Zeller Blauen, 12 km away. In fact, the name Hochblauen was normal for the latter on as shown on topographic maps of the time, while the mountain near Badenweiler can still be found on maps today as the Blauen.</p><br>
<p>The name Blauen is borne by various mountains, hills and settlements in Germany and Switzerland. In 1880 in his book on Upper German place names, Oberdeutschen Flurnamenbuch, the cultural historian, Michel Buck, made a connexion between the name Blauen and historical mining activity, by proposing that name was derived from the word Bla=smeltery. However, it could also be derived from the blue colour (German: Blau="blue") of coniferous forests or the bluish hue of a mountain when seen from a distance.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The High Blauen Road (Hochblauenstraße) was opened to private vehicles in 1928. About half the route is in the county of Freiburg-Hochschwarzwald. In its northwestern section it thus bears the designation K 4948, in the southeastern section it runs under the number K 6314, where the Wollbach highway agency is responsible. Winter clearance of the whole route is undertaken by the Müllheim highway agency by arrangement between the counties. In addition, variant A of the West Way, a long-distance path maintained by the Black Forest Club that runs for 280 km from Pforzheim to Basle, crosses the Blauen.</p><br>
<p>Between 1957 and 1980 there was a reallocation of land in the mountain forest which, after comprehensive and expensive survey work, resulted in 42 small parcels of land being consolidated into twelve larger ones. To commemorate this, a monument was erected in 2007 with a brass plate that records the names of all the participants.</p><br>
<p>Tourist facilities on the Blauen first appeared in 1872 when a covered forest inn (Waldschenke) was opened. In June 1875 the first house was opened; it bore the name Krone des Blauen ("Crown of the Blauen"). It was expanded in 1890 and again in 1965–1966, in order to handle the increase number of tourists.</p><br>
<p>The water main installed in 1898 is still used and runs 150 m down to a spring. Since 1925, when a cable was laid to the Blauen from Marzell there has been electricity at the summit. Three years later the first motorised vehicles made their way up the mountain road.</p><br>
<p>At the summit is the Berghaus Hochblauen (also called the Blauenhaus), an inn with overnight accommodation. Since spring 2013 the inn has been closed. In 2015 it was being modified and should be open in 2016.</p><br>
<h3>Towers</h3><br>
<p>An steel lattice observation tower was built in 1895 here by the Black Forest Club, replacing a rather low wooden tower dating to 1875. It was inaugurated on 30 August 1895 and fully restored in 1984 with the funding from the Bundespost. The originally 14 m tower has a total height today, including antenna, of 21 m. It is open at all times. In 1985 not more than 100 m south-southeast of the observation tower, a transmission tower, the Sender Blauen, was built. It is not open to the public and restricts the view of the Alps from the observation tower.</p><br>
<p>Northeast of the Hochblauen, at a height of 1,074 m, lies what is probably the highest castle site in Baden-Württembergs, Stockberg Castle.</p><br>
<p>Since summer 2011 there have been discussions about erecting a wind farm on the Blauen with three generators to produce electricity.</p><br>
<h2>Transmission tower</h2><br>
<p>Also at the peak stands a 93-metre-high Deutsche Telekom VHF and microwave radio relay tower. The tower is a reinforced concrete Typenturm, built in 1985. The following radio stations are broadcast from this tower: SWR1 Baden-Württemberg (89.2 FM/8.4 kW), SWR2 (92.6 FM/8.4 kW), SWR3 (97.0 FM/8,4 kW), Deutschlandfunk (105.1 FM/10 kW), Radio Regenbogen (101.1 FM/8,4 kW) und baden.fm (106.0 FM/8,4 kW). The tower is also used by the amateur radio repeater DB0YE.</p><br>
<p>The tower serves mainly the southern Upper Rhine valley as well as a large portion of the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and Lörrach rural districts. The stations transmitted from the Blauen are also easily received in northwestern Switzerland. Until the end of the 1980s the former SWF broadcast could be heard well beyond the Vosges mountains to the west. Since then the power of the transmissions toward France have been limited by international agreements.</p><br>
<p>Catholic Cemetery, formerly known as the Stone Street Cemetery, is a historic 150 acre cemetery located in Mobile, Alabama. It was established in 1848 by Michael Portier, a native of Montbrison, France and the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Mobile. The cemetery contains roughly 18,000 burials and has plots dedicated to various Roman Catholic religious institutes, including the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, Daughters of Charity, Little Sisters of the Poor, and Sisters of Mercy. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 1991 as a part of the Historic Roman Catholic Properties in Mobile Multiple Property Submission.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Catholic Cemetery was established by the Archdiocese of Mobile on December 18, 1848 when the first acreage was purchased north of Three Mile Creek by Bishop Michael Portier. It was founded to serve the needs of Mobiles Roman Catholic citizens after the Catholic section of Church Street Graveyard was filled to capacity after various yellow fever epidemics struck the city in the 1830s. The 1848 section covers 5 acre and features an unusual design consisting of three large concentric rings, instead of the more typical east-west configuration. The circular design surrounds a square plot dedicated to the Daughters of Charity, with a large marble monument in the center commemorating their sacrifices during a yellow fever outbreak in 1853. It was platted in this manner under the direction of Portier and was possibly executed by Claude Beroujon, who designed Mobiles Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception a decade earlier. The vast majority of burials predate the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>By January 1866 the older section of the cemetery was full, prompting Bishop John Quinlan to purchase an additional 15 acre adjacent to the existing area. The new section was planned with a grid configuration, with the grave plots oriented to a new central drive. This section contains the plots for the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, Little Sisters of the Poor, and Sisters of Mercy. It contains the graves of Father Ryan and Admiral Raphael Semmes, which made it an important Confederate pilgrimage site during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This area of the cemetery was expanded numerous times by land purchases in 1903, 1910, and 1921. In keeping with its main purpose as a religious burial ground, a permanent altar with a tall bronze Crucifixion scene was added by 1929 for the All Soul&#39;s Day Mass and Rosary.</p><br>
<p>The New Catholic Cemetery was opened to the rear of the older burials in 1948, greatly expanding the total acreage of the cemetery as a whole. This newest section offered perpetual care, something lacking within the older sections. The oldest areas of the cemetery became neglected, vandalized, and overgrown after this period, as family members died or moved away. Efforts to tame this area began in 1984, but it had become overgrown again within a decade. The archdiocese hired a crew to keep the cemetery clear of overgrowth in 1998</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Timothy Meaher, a wealthy 19th century shipyard owner and shipper. He owned the infamous slave-ship Clotilde.</p><br>
<p>John L. Rapier, owner of the Mobile Register and postmaster of Mobile.</p><br>
<p>Father Abram Joseph Ryan, widely known as the "Poet-Priest of the Confederacy."</p><br>
<p>Admiral Raphael Semmes, captain of the famous commerce raider CSS Alabama.</p><br>
<p>Skull Cave is a small and shallow cave on the central heights of Mackinac Island in Michigan, United States. The cave was carved during the Algonquin post-glacial period by the waters of Lake Algonquin, a swollen meltwater ancestor of today&#39;s Lake Huron.</p><br>
<p>Skull Cave is primarily of interest for its historical associations. It is believed to have been used as an inhumation site by Native Americans of the Straits of Mackinac area in the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>While in active use as a site for human remains, the cave was also used as a refuge in 1763 by fur trader Alexander Henry, a survivor of the capture of Fort Michilimackinac by Native Americans during Pontiac&#39;s War. In his "Memoirs," Henry recalled a night spent as a refugee in the bone-strewn cavern.</p><br>
<p>Henry recalled his ordeal as follows:</p><br>
<p>On going into the cave, of which the entrance was nearly ten feet wide, I found the further end to be rounded in its shape, like that of an oven, but with a further aperture, too small, however, to be explored. After thus looking around me, I broke small branches from the trees and spread them for a bed, then wrapped myself in my blanket and slept till day-break. On awaking, I felt myself incommoded by some object upon which I lay, and, removing it, found it to be a bone. This I supposed to be that of a deer, or some other animal, and what might very naturally be looked for in the place in which I was; but when daylight visited my chamber I discovered, with some feelings of horror, that I was lying on nothing less than a heap of human bones and skulls, which covered the floor!</p><br>
<p>Skull Cave is contained within Mackinac Island State Park. It is located 0.4 miles (0.6 km) north of Fort Mackinac in the island&#39;s interior. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site on January 12, 1959, and granted state historical marker #L0004.</p><br>
<p>The Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad Depot in Kadoka, South Dakota is a rectangular, single story, wood frame building built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad  in 1906 during the railroad&#39;s expansion across South Dakota from Sioux Falls to Rapid City in 1906-07. The depot was built to handle passenger and freight traffic as well as agricultural products. When the railroad went out of business in the mid-1980s, the depot was bought by the Kadoka Community Betterment Association and converted into a museum showcasing artifacts and life on the South Dakota prairie.</p><br>
<p>The depot was listed in the National Register of Historic Places because of its association with the development of railroads in South Dakota.</p><br>
<p>Aratz  is a mountain of the Basque Country in Spain located at the mountain range Altzania  that provides the extension for the massif Aizkorri. It lies right on the line between provinces Gipuzkoa and Álava, the summit rising at 1,443 m high, next to Elurzuloak . The whole Aizkorri and Aratz area was declared the Aizkorri-Aratz Natural Park in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Access points and trails</h2><br>
<p>The main access points are located both in the town of Araia on the fringes of the Alava plains (840 m drop from the summit) and at the spring Ezkaratza (drinking water) by the Way of St James west of the San Adrian tunnel.</p><br>
<p>The route starting off in Araia (PR-A11) heads north past the ruins of the fortress Marutegi on a rock halfway (8th century). Soon after, the trail with yellow and white signalization must be abandoned right to get to the spring Iturriotz (1h10, drinking water), and on to the switching point with both GR-121 and PR-A12 coming from Ezkaratza. The summit of Aratz lies on the south-east after surmounting steep limestone karst slopes with no clear trail (1h45).</p><br>
<p>From Ezkaratza, some minutes away from the pass of San Adrian, the PR-A12 circuit trail penetrates south-east up into the forest until it merges with GR-121 (red and white signalization) and the above route coming from Araia.</p><br>
<p>A third but less popular route sets off in Beunda on the way to San Adrian. The concrete track winds down west until the milestone Aldaola where it forks (altitude 850 m). The option is to follow the left track, which going down reaches and crosses the stream. At this point, the northern face of Aratz towers on the left covered with a vast beech forest. In no more than 150 metres, the track veers sharply to the east and on to south-east until the pass of Allarte (1,141 m high) is reached.</p><br>
<p>Mialoquo  is a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The site saw significant periods of occupation during the Mississippian period  and later as a Cherokee refugee village. While the archaeological site of Mialoquo was situated on the southwest bank of the Little Tennessee River, the village&#39;s habitation area probably included part of Rose Island, a large island in the river immediately opposite the site. Rose Island was occupied on at least a semi-permanent basis as early as the Middle Archaic period.</p><br>
<p>Both the Mialoquo site and Rose Island are now submerged by the Tellico Lake impoundment of the Little Tennessee River. The area is now managed by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. Both sites are visible looking north from the USA Route 411 bridge over the river in Vonore or looking west from Wildcat Point, a cliff on the eastern bank of the river.</p><br>
<h2>Geographical setting</h2><br>
<p>The Little Tennessee River enters Tennessee from a gap between the Great Smoky Mountains and the Unicoi Mountains and flows for just over 50 mi before emptying into the Tennessee River. Tellico Lake, created by the completion of Tellico Dam in 1979, spans the lower 33 mi of the river. Before inundation, the Mialoquo site was located at the rivers Island Creek confluence, just under 17 mi above the rivers mouth. Rose Island spanned the river between 16.8 mi and 18.4 mi above the mouth of the river. Both sites were just south of a bend in the river known as Wears Bend and just north of the river&#39;s confluence with the Tellico River.</p><br>
<p>Wildcat Point, a cliff overlooking the now submerged Rose Island and Mialoquo sites, is connected to Tellico Parkway via seasonal hiking trail. The hills and knobs that flank the river on both sides are part of the Appalachian Ridge-and-Valley Physiographic Province.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to ethnologist James Mooney, the term "Mialoquo" comes from the Cherokee word for "Great Island." This name refers to the village&#39;s situation on and adjacent to what is now known as Rose Island, which was the largest island in the Little Tennessee River before the creation of Tellico Lake.</p><br>
<p>Mialoquo doesnt enter the historical record until 1761, when it appeared on Henry Timberlakes "Draught of the Cherokee Country." Timberlake&mdash; visiting the Overhill towns as a peace emissary&mdash; reported 18 houses at Mialoquo, both on the mainland and Rose Island, but doesnt indicate the existence of a townhouse. Timberlake reported 24 warriors residing at Mialoquo under the governorship of Attakullakulla, who at the time was the chief of the nearby village of Tuskegee. Since the Cherokee didnt consider a village a "town" unless it had a townhouse, the lack of a townhouse at Mialoquo may have been the reason for its relatively late appearance in historical records.</p><br>
<p>Historical evidence suggests Mialoquo may have been formed by refugees fleeing the destruction of the Lower and Middle towns by Colonial forces in 1761. John Norton wrote in his journal that after James Grant destroyed the Cherokee town of Kittowa (near modern Bryson City, North Carolina) that year, the survivors fled to "Big Island." Mialoquo doesnt appear on a 1757 map of the Overhill towns, but appears on Timberlakes map, suggesting the town may have been formed between 1757 and 1761.</p><br>
<p>By the time the Revolutionary War was being fought, Dragging Canoe had become chief at Mialoquo. In 1776, after the Cherokee aligned themselves with the British, the colonies dispatched Colonel William Christian to subdue the hostile Overhill towns. Christian arrived unopposed and established his headquarters at Mialoquo, where he held peace talks with tribal leaders Attakullakulla and Oconastota. When Dragging Canoe refused to negotiate, however, Christian destroyed Mialoquo and four other Overhill towns.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeological findings</h2><br>
<p>Cyrus Thomas, working for the Smithsonian Institution, conducted a mound survey in the Little Tennessee Valley in the 1880s, and claimed to have located Mialoquo. After the construction of Tellico Dam was announced in 1967, the University of Tennessee conducted salvage excavations at both Rose Island (40MR44) and Mialoquo (40MR3).</p><br>
<h3>Rose Island</h3><br>
<p>Rose Island was being used by hunter-gatherers on a seasonal basis by 6000 BC, and possibly as early as 7500 BC (the Icehouse Bottom site, which yielded material dating to 7500 BC, was located just over 2 mi north of Rose Island). These early inhabitants probably made use of the chert outcroppings found in the surrounding hills. Rose Island also saw a period of significant occupation from approximately 350 BC through 100 AD, during the Woodland period.</p><br>
<p>Archaic period artifacts found on Rose Island include notched and stemmed projectile points, splintered wedges, various ground stone artifacts, and a drill. Woodland period artifacts include projectile points, drills, scrapers, axes, gorgets, and a bird effigy. Several Woodland-period burials were also uncovered at Rose Island.</p><br>
<h3>Mialoquo</h3><br>
<p>The Mialoquo site was probably occupied as early as the Archaic period, but to what extent is unknown. Of the 60 features uncovered at the site, 8 (mostly refuse pits) were classified as Mississippian, the rest were Cherokee. The distribution of the features suggests a short-term occupation. The Qualla pottery type&mdash; which is associated with the Middle towns in North Carolina&mdash; comprised 13.5% of the site&#39;s 6,000+ sherds, lending support to the theory that refugees from the Middle towns lived at Mialoquo in the 1760s. The pottery assemblage was similar to that found at nearby Tomotley, also believed to have been a "refugee town."</p><br>
<p>The features uncovered at Mialoquo included the postmold layouts of a townhouse, 6 dwellings, and one smaller rectangular structure with an unknown purpose. The dwellings included one circular winter structure/rectangular summer structure pairing typical of Overhill houses. The townhouse was octagonal in shape and had a diameter ranging between 52 ft to 60 ft. The rectangular dwellings had lengths ranging from 22 ft to 32 ft and widths ranging from 12 ft to 14 ft. The circular "winter house" had a diameter of 23.5 ft and the unknown rectangular structure had dimensions of 15 ft x 9.6 ft.</p><br>
<p>Nearly 5,000 stone artifacts were recovered at Mialoquo, including projectile points, scrapers, drills, and a stone pipe.</p><br>
<p>Euro-American artifacts uncovered at Mialoquo included tobacco pipes, gun parts and ammunition, glass beads, and two Jew&#39;s harps.</p><br>
<p>The John Marshall House is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at 818 East Marshall Street in Richmond, Virginia. It was the home of Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall, who was appointed to the court in 1801 by President John Adams and served for the rest of his life, writing such influential decisions as Marbury v. Madison  and McCulloch v. Maryland .</p><br>
<p>Built in 1790, the house was home to Marshall, his wife Mary Willis Ambler Marshall (known within the family as Polly), and their six children. Marshall lived at the house until his death in 1835.</p><br>
<p>The house is a Federal-style brick building featuring a dining room, parlor, and large parlor/dining room on the first floor and three bedchambers on the second. It was originally surrounded by an outbuildings including a law office, kitchen, laundry, and stables and sat on a full city block in Richmonds fashionable Court End residential neighborhood. Marshalls neighbors included the attorney John Wickham, who defended Aaron Burr in Burr&#39;s infamous treason trial.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Marshalls account books show that he began to make payments for the purchase of the property from "Mr. B. Lewis" on October 7, 1786 and finished the payments on November 19, 1786. The Marshalls called a small wooden house their home while the building on the corner of Marshall and Ninth Streets was being built. The actual date the Marshalls moved into their house is sometimes stated as 1788 and other times stated as January 1791. When John Marshall built his house, Richmonds population was rapidly growing and many new homes were being built. The John Marshall House was one of the first homes to be built in the beginnings of a neighborhood which would later be known as the Court End of Richmond.</p><br>
<p>The first insurance policy regarding this home, which is dated 1796, states that "whole square, with the house as it is now except for the little wing, and a wooden office on Marshall Street, a wooden kitchen on Ninth, and the laundry" were in John Marshalls ownership at that time. The insurance policy notes that the location of the previously mentioned buildings was lot 786 and that a stable was located at the extreme northwest corner of the square. Without deduction for decay, all the buildings on the property in 1796 were valued at $5500. Luckily for historians, John Marshall kept good records of his finances in his account book. In his account book, he recorded the names of everyone who worked on his home. Mr. Sydnor, Keeling and Smith, W. Goode, W. Duke, and W. B. Lewis are listed as working on the house, with the last payment for work on the home in November 1790. According to Marshalls account books, the total cost of the house was 1211 pounds, 1 shilling, and three pence. Though Marshall&#39;s account book shows the last payment for work on the house being in November 1790, construction of fences and outbuildings was still in progress during July 1791. Sometime before the insurance policy was updated in 1810, the John Marshall House expanded with a new wing and three porches, which were not included in the 1796 insurance policy.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The exterior appearance of the house has been described as "unpretentious" and "simple in outline and detail." The style of hand-carved woodwork that was common in eighteenth-century houses is found inside the John Marshall House. Panels cover one end of both the parlor and the library, which also both feature small cupboards beside the chimney. The main floor rooms all have dadoes except for the small addition added to the first floor. Though the dining room is absent of any paneling such as that located in the library and parlor, it has a "particularly beautiful" cornice and ornamented mantles. In Houses of Old Richmond, Mary Wingfield Scott describes the rooms as "bright and well proportioned" and notes how "particularly charming" the stairway is. She does, however, criticize the arrangement of the rooms as haphazard and unflattering, noting how upon entrance from a tiny vestibule the visitor must choose between turning right to the library or left to the parlor.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>The house, while owned by John Marshalls daughter Mary, was rented out to people such as Thomas B. Bigger, Robert Gwathmey, Professor Charles H. Winston, Henry A. Wise, and Mrs. Mattie Paul Myers. By the time his granddaughters, the Misses Anne and Emily Harvie, came into ownership of this house, the lot had been shrunk to only 64 ft on Marshall Street and 154 ft on Ninth Street. Misses Anne and Emily Harvie sold the lot in 1907 to the City of Richmond, who planned to destroy the house and build John Marshall High School on the site. Womens organizations were able to successfully unite to preserve the John Marshall House. In 1911, the house was placed into the perpetual care of Preservation Virginia (formerly known as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) who has operated it as a historic house museum ever since.</p><br>
<p>The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960. In 2005, in honor of the 250th anniversary of John Marshall&#39;s birth and in recognition of more than 80 years of stewardship responsibility, the house was deeded to Preservation Virginia by the City of Richmond. Since then the house has undergone major restoration work including a new roof, repainting to the original color scheme, and other physical and mechanical upgrades.</p><br>
<p>The John Marshall House is open seasonally for drop-in tours and throughout the year by appointment and for special events.</p><br>
<p>Raven Rocks is spur of Blue Ridge Mountain in Jefferson County, West Virginia. The peak is located just north of Jefferson County&#39;s border with Clarke County, Virginia and west of its border with Loudoun County, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>Raven Rocks is formed by the drainage gorges of Rocky Branch Creek to the north and Raven Rocks Creek to the south (both direct tributaries of the Shenandoah River) on the mountains western watershed. Raven Rocks is the northern most spur in a series spurs and hollows that occur along the western slope of Blue Ridge Mountain south to Ashby Gap. The formation is often referred to as the rollercoaster by Appalachian Trail hikers as the trail undulates between theses spurs and hollows along the western face of the mountain along this stretch of the ridge.</p><br>
<p>The peak is notable for the Crescent Rock cliffs. The Appalachian Trail crosses the saddle of the ridge.</p><br>
<p>The Poughkeepsie Trust Company building is located on Main Street in that city in the USA state of New York. It is immediately to the east of, and joined to, the Dutchess County Court House.</p><br>
<p>Local architect Percival Lloyd designed the building, the banks second on that site, as the Hudson Valleys first modern skyscraper at six stories in height. It cost $100,000 to build and included an ornately-carved stone facade. Brick, steel and stone were used in the interior framing. Inside, the ground floor was the site of a Mycenaean marble banking room, with intact mahogany furniture, brass fittings and bronze lighting. A special "ladies corridor" was built near the womens restroom so that women could go to and back from it without having to use the main corridor. The upper floors were reached by means of an elevator, then another pioneering piece of technology.</p><br>
<p>The three-bay Beaux Arts facade begins at the top with masks on the cornice and molded egg-and-dart rear modillion blocks. It gives way to a leafy swag motif above the molded frieze. Similar patterns continue down the stories, joined by quoined pilasters. The ground level is totally quoined and projects, with an intricate wrought-iron gate on the main door and decorative Doric columns. On the sides, a red-and-yellow brick diamond pattern runs from front to rear at the fifth story.</p><br>
<p>It opened in 1906. The New York City Water Supply Commission, then looking in the region for future supplies for the growing city, was an early tenant. It rented the entire fifth floor and half the fourth, ultimately planning and supervising the land acquisition and construction for what became the Catskill Aqueduct from the bank building.</p><br>
<p>The bank would eventually leave the building and become part of the Bank of New York. The county took it over, joining it to the adjacent courthouse, built a few years earlier. In 1982 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places, one of three downtown bank buildings in the city eventually listed. Today it is headquarters to the district attorney&#39;s office.</p><br>
<p>Menokin, also known as Francis Lightfoot Lee House, was the plantation of Francis Lightfoot Lee near Warsaw, Virginia. Lee was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. Menokin was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971.</p><br>
<p>Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) documentation, including photos from the 1940s, shows the house standing and reported that it was in poor condition, awaiting a restorer. The National Park Service webpage shows the house in ruins, but reports that woodwork had been removed and placed in storage in the 1960s. Although the house has partly collapsed, the Menokin Foundation has developed a plan to restore the house using glass segments to fill missing portions of the building instead of trying to restore the house to its original condition.</p><br>
<h2>Native American settlement</h2><br>
<p>Before the Menokin plantation was ever developed, this area along Cat Point Creek (also called Rappahannock Creek) was home to the Rappahannock Indian Tribe. In 1608, Capt. John Smith explored the creeks that feed into the Rappahannock River and recorded his meetings with the Rappahannocks, which gives us a written glimpse into the area and its people at that time. The general plantation site was referred to as "Menokin" by the Rappahannocks, which likely translates to "He gives it to me" in their Algonquian-based language. Francis Lightfoot Lee kept the name for his home.</p><br>
<h2>Construction of Menokin and subsequent decline</h2><br>
<p>Menokin was built c. 1769 on the occasion of the marriage of Francis Lightfoot Lee and Rebecca Tayloe. Rebecca was the daughter of John Tayloe II, who built neighboring Mount Airy. John Tayloe II gave the couple the large plantation on Cat Point Creek, approximately five miles upstream from the Rappahannock River, and financed construction of the two-story stone Menokin and its dependencies. Soon after, Francis Lightfoot Lee joined the cause of American independence, serving in the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1779 and signing the Declaration of Independence (together with his brother Richard Henry Lee) and the Articles of Confederation. Both Francis Lightfoot and Rebecca Tayloe Lee died in the winter of 1797. Menokin was then owned by Rebecca&#39;s nephew John Tayloe III, who lived at Mt. Airy and later built the Octagon House in Washington, D.C. Between 1809 and 1819, John Tayloe Lomax lived at Menokin with his family. Lomax would later become the first Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. During the 19th and 20th centuries, Menokin passed hands several times and went into serious decline around 1935 when it lay, for the most part, vacant before coming into possession of The Menokin Foundation in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Francis Lightfoot Lee</h2><br>
<p>The full story of Francis Lightfoot Lee, and the mark that he made on both the Commonwealth of Virginia and the developing United States of America has not been told. Bits and pieces come from many sources: his letters, letters about him, comments by friends and relatives, and the fact that he was a signer of both the Westmoreland Resolves (February 27, 1766) and the Declaration of Independence (1776). He served in the Virginia House of Burgesses, first from Loudoun, and then from Richmond County. He was in Philadelphia in 1776 as a Virginia delegate to the second Continental Congress, returning to Virginia in 1779. He served briefly in the Viate after that, but for the most part he was content to be at home at Menokin with his books and his farm and his beloved wife, Becky Tayloe. Research concerning the life and work of Francis Lightfoot Lee is an ongoing project of the Menokin Foundation.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural significance</h2><br>
<p>Although Menokin is now in ruin, a remarkable collection of Colonial architectural elements remains. Approximately 80 percent of Menokins original materials have survived, including: original stones, brick and mortar; queen posts and dragon beams; intact framing assemblages; and the interior woodwork. In 1940, while the house and one outbuilding were still standing, the Historic American Buildings Survey produced detailed photography and comprehensive measured drawings of the property. In 1964, the original pen and ink presentation drawings for Menokin were discovered among some Tayloe family papers in the attic of Mount Airy. Four years later, as the house was in serious trouble of collapsing, the interior woodwork was removed by the owner and put into storage. The surprisingly intact woodwork is back at Menokin and can be viewed at the Foundations King Conservation and Visitors Center. Menokin&#39;s dining room paneling is on loan to the Virginia Historical Society where it is now on display. In 1971, Menokin was designated a National Historic Landmark by the USA Department of the Interior.</p><br>
<h2>Timeline</h2><br>
<p>1657 John Stephens patents the Menokin Tract.</p><br>
<p>1734 Francis Lightfoot Lee born in Westmoreland County, VA on October 14.</p><br>
<p>1743 Charles Grymes leaves Menokin Tract to Philip and Frances Grymes Ludwell</p><br>
<p>1751 John Tayloe II acquires Menokin Tract.</p><br>
<p>1758 Francis Lee and Phillip Ludwell Lee among founders of Leesburg, VA.</p><br>
<p>1758-69 Francis Lee serves in House of Burgesses from Loudoun County, VA.</p><br>
<p>1766 Francis Lee signs the Westmoreland Resolves against the Stamp Act.</p><br>
<p>1769 Francis Lee marries Rebecca Tayloe of Mt. Airy, Richmond County, VA.</p><br>
<p>1769 1,000 acre Menokin plantation a wedding gift from Colonel John Tayloe II.</p><br>
<p>1769 Menokin plans completed and mansion construction begun.</p><br>
<p>1769-76 Francis Lee represents Richmond County in the Virginia House of Burgesses.</p><br>
<p>1771 Francis and Rebecca Lee move into Menokin.</p><br>
<p>1775-79 Francis Lee a member of the Continental Congress.</p><br>
<p>1776 Francis Lee and Richard Henry Lee sign Declaration of Independence.</p><br>
<p>1779 Francis Lee retires from Congress and returns to Menokin "with delight."</p><br>
<p>1780-82 Francis Lee serves in the Virginia State Senate.</p><br>
<p>1797 Francis and Rebecca Lee die in January and are buried at Mount Airy.</p><br>
<p>1797 Menokin descends to heir of Francis Lightfoot Lee.</p><br>
<p>1799-1800 In a series of seven court-recorded transactions, John Tayloe III gains title to the entire Menokin property.</p><br>
<p>1809-18 Menokin is home of John Tayloe Lomax, first professor of law at the University of Virginia.</p><br>
<p>1823 John and Anne Tayloe sell Menokin to Benjamin Boughton.</p><br>
<p>1836 Benjamin Boughton sells Menokin to Richard Henry Harwood</p><br>
<p>1872 Estate of Richard H. Harwood sells 700 acre of Menokin to John L. Irgens</p><br>
<p>1879 John L. Irgens defaults on payment and Menokin is bought at public auction by the Belfield family</p><br>
<p>1928 Virginia historical marker placed at Menokin.</p><br>
<p>1935 Menokin is inherited by E. Stuart Omohundro as specified in Alfred H. Belfield&#39;s will</p><br>
<p>1940 Historic American Building Survey documentation begun.</p><br>
<p>1964 Original pen and ink drawing of Menokin found among Tayloe family papers in the attic of Mt. Airy</p><br>
<p>1968 Paneling and interior woodwork removed by Omohundro family for safekeeping.</p><br>
<p>1968 Menokin placed on the Virginia Landmarks Register.</p><br>
<p>1969 Menokin listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>1971 Secretary of the Interior designates Menokin a National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>1995 T. E. Omohundro gives the mansion, woodwork and 500 acre to The Menokin Foundation in his name, and as a memorial to his deceased sister Dora O. Ricciardi.</p><br>
<p>2002 The Menokin Foundation receives a Save America&#39;s Treasures Grant from the National Park Service to aid in preservation of the ruin.</p><br>
<p>2004 The Martin Kirwan King Conservation and Visitors Center is dedicated and opened to the public.</p><br>
<p>2005 Original interior woodwork returns to Menokin by Preservation Virginia</p><br>
<p>2006 Storage Facility is completed and opens to the public</p><br>
<p>Holly Knoll, also known as the Robert R. Moton House, is a historic house at 6496 Allmondsville Road in rural Gloucester County, Virginia, near Capahosic. It was the retirement home of the influential African-American educator Robert Russa Moton , and is the only known home of his to survive. It now houses the Gloucester Institute, a non-profit training center for African-American community leaders and educators. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1981.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Holly Knoll is located on the northeast bank of the York River, between the communities of Capahosic and Allmondsville. The main house is a 2-1/2 story brick building with a side gable roof, which is flanked by single-bay single-story wings. A two-story porch and portico extends across much of the facade, supported by smooth Tuscan columns. The interior is organized in a typical Colonial Revival central hall plan, and includes several pieces of furniture that originally belonged to Moton. The property also includes a reproduction of the log home in which Moton grew up.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1935 for Robert Russa Moton, and was his home until his death in 1940. Moton was one of the most influential African-American educators of his generation, succeeding Booker T. Washington in the leadership of Hampton University and the Tuskegee Institute, and helping found the National Urban League. The property was then transformed into a conference center, now The Gloucester Institute, dedicated to continuing Moton&#39;s educational legacy. It was at the center of strategy discussions amongst African-American intellectuals and activists during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.</p><br>
<p>Grant-Humphreys Mansion in Denver, Colorado, was built in 1902, in the Neoclassical style of architecture by Boal and Harnois, for James Benton Grant following his one term as the third Governor of Colorado . The house has been home to two families.</p><br>
<h2>Grant history</h2><br>
<p>Grant is best known for his role in the ore smelting industry, the first in Leadville, and then in Denver, where the Grant Smelting Company, located two miles northeast of downtown Denver, boasted the tallest furnace stack in the country and the third-largest in the world. Mr. Grants wife, former Mary Matteson Goodell, was prominent in Denver society. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and helped to found a home for destitute children. Following her husbands death in 1911, she continued to live in the house six more years, selling it in 1917 to Albert E. Humphreys.</p><br>
<h2>Humphreys history</h2><br>
<p>A.E. Humphreys is remembered as "The Wildcatter Deluxe" and the "King of the Wildcatters" for his successful discovery of oil in Wyoming, Oklahoma and Texas. He was also well known for his philanthropic activities, which were shared by his wife, Alice. The couple came to Denver in 1898 with their two sons Ira and Albert E. Jr. Ira married Lucille Pattison, and they lived with the senior Humphreys in the house until the deaths of his parents.</p><br>
<p>Ira was the mechanical genius of the family, while A.E. Jr. enjoyed the managerial side of the family oil business. Both young men were fascinated with airplanes and opened Denvers first commercial airport in 1918 at 26th Avenue and Oneida Street in North Park Hill, ten years prior to the Denver Municipal Airport that was eventually to become Stapleton International Airport. In 1919, Ira Boyd "Bumps" Humphreys formed the Curtiss-Humphreys Airplane Company. In 1941, Ira invented the Humphreys Spiral Concentrator, which was used extensively in the mining industry for the separation of minerals and heavy metals in low grade ores. And, in 1969, Ira and Albert were both inducted into the Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame, which is located in the Colorado Aviation Historical Societys Heritage Hall at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, Denver, Colorado.</p><br>
<h2>Curatorship</h2><br>
<p>The Colorado Historical Society took possession of the mansion, a bequest of the late Ira Boyd Humphreys, in 1976. The walls were originally covered in damask which fell into disrepair and has since been removed.</p><br>
<p>The Paxton Hotel, formerly known as Paxton Manor and currently known as The Paxton, is located at 1403 Farnam Street in Downtown Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Designed by local architect Joseph G. McArthur, the current building was constructed in 1928, with its predecessor dating from 1882. Named for local businessman and community leader William A. Paxton, today the building houses luxury condominia. It is one of the few significant Art Deco structures in Omaha today. Among some of the prominent guests who stayed at the Paxton were Buffalo Bill Cody and William Jennings Bryan, as well as President William McKinley stayed at the Paxton  during the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in 1898.</p><br>
<h2>Original building</h2><br>
<p>The building is located on the site of pioneer Omaha&#39;s magnificent Grand Central Hotel, which burnt down in 1878. Brothers C.W., W.T. and J.B. Kitchen built the original Paxton Hotel in 1882 to replace it, spending $250,000. The building contained 175 rooms, including an elegant dining room and a bar. The Kitchen Brothers ran several hotels throughout the Western United States, with one operating the Thornburg House in Laramie City, the Maxwell House at Rawlins, the Desert House in Green River and the Mountain Trout House at Evanston, all in the Wyoming Territory. Another ran the Pacific Hotel in St. Joseph, Missouri and the third operated the Paxton, as well as the Withnell House in Omaha.</p><br>
<p>The Omaha building was named the Paxton after William A. Paxton, an Omaha pioneer who lived at the hotel soon after it was built. He reportedly donated five thousand dollars to add a fifth story to the structure. Other notable residents included General George Crook, as well as prominent Omaha families including the J. L. Brandeises and Emil Brandeis, the Baums, the Wilhelms, and the Hanscoms. Woodmen of the World was founded at the hotel in 1890. The hotel was the site of one of Omaha&#39;s grand "live" signs of the day, which was a Krug Brewing Company advertisement featuring a 20 ft wide by 34 ft tall beer stein with a Luxus logo.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1900s the hotel was the site of the murder of Harry King, a son of the millionaire owner of Browning, King & Co. mens apparel store in Omaha. Kings mistress, Elizabeth Bechler, fired two shots at him as he walked away from her in the hotel lobby. William Jennings Bryan addressed Omaha&#39;s Jacksononian Club at the hotel in 1900, and stayed there for several nights. That same year the hotel hosted Maud Gonne, an Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress.</p><br>
<p>President McKinley was a guest during the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in 1898. In the United States presidential election of 1912 the Paxton housed the Progressive, Democratic and Republican parties, with dignitaries including Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt registering as guests. Other steady customers were Buffalo Bill and prizefighter Bob Fitzsimmons.</p><br>
<p>The original building was demolished in 1927.</p><br>
<h2>Current building</h2><br>
<p>In 1928 the new Paxton Hotel opened after eight months construction that cost $1.5 million. The Kitchen brothers commissioned the new building in the Art Deco style, with 420 rooms on 11 stories on a steel frame that measured 151 ft by 132 ft. It opened for business on June 26, 1929. With interior design by Marshall, Field and Company of Chicago, features included four dining rooms, a barbershop and a ballroom, along with amenities including elevators, telegraph and cable services, and a rooftop dog kennel with runways. Room rates started at $2.50 a night.</p><br>
<p>The Kitchen brothers sold the Paxton to Joseph Huckins III in 1930, with the sale was regarded as the largest real estate deal ever to take place in Omaha at that time. Throughout the rest of the history of the hotel several notable events were held there. National radio broadcasts during the 1930s and 40s featured the hotels in-house big band, the Paul Moorhead orchestra. The first annual convention of the Missouri Valley Association of Fire Chiefs was held at the Paxton in 1935. The first Omaha Magical Society Conclave was held at the hotel in 1941. The Nebraska Womens Press Club was founded in 1946 at a gathering of newspaper women. In 1950 the College World Series was held in Omaha for the first time, with teams staying at the Paxton throughout the duration. In 1954 the hotel hosted 400 people to view the first-ever color television broadcast in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The hotel closed in 1964, and from 1966 to 1969 the building was leased to the Federal Women&#39;s Job Corps as a residential facility. After sitting empty for two years it was rehabilitated and opened again as a hotel in 1971. It was decorated in a traditional Mediterranean style featuring carpeting on all floors and smoked glass mirrors on the lobby walls. The entirety of the building was refurbished. However, the hotel lasted for only a few years because of a high vacancy rate. In the late 1970s it was again rehabilitated, this time being converted into a senior housing, which lasted for almost 25 years, until the facility was closed in 2000.</p><br>
<p>After sitting empty for three years, in 2003 the building was rehabilitated, and in 2004 opened as The Paxton with high-end condominia.</p><br>
<p>Stoneacre is a small National Trust property in Otham, near Maidstone, Kent in southern England. The property is a half-timbered yeoman farmer&#39;s house dating from the 15th century, together with a small garden, orchard and meadows. The house is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>It is a private residence but opened to visitors on Saturdays and Bank Holiday Mondays from mid March to the end of September. There are toilet facilities, refreshments and car parking available for visitors.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site overlies an outcrop of Kentish ragstone and from this the name is thought to originate. Hasted&#39;s History of Kent mentions that during the reign of Edward II one John Ellys resided here. A will from a century later records another John Ellis who died a wealthy man. His son (also called John Ellys) built the hall house in the 1480s. The steep slope and poor foundation led to problems with the north wing in the middle of the 16th century. The cellars and ground floor had to be rebuilt in stone with buttresses to stop the slippage, as is visible today. At this date high hall houses were going out of fashion and the opportunity was taken to insert and upper floor into the original hall. The Ellys family continued to hold Stoneacre until 1725 when it was sold and occupied by tenants.</p><br>
<p>In 1920 the ruin was purchased by Aymer Vallance. Aymer was a 58-year-old bachelor when he bought the property, but in 1921 he married Lucy Ada Hennell. Aymer set about reconstructing the house to his vision of a Tudor yeomans dwelling. As a consequence of reopening the hall to its full height, two bedrooms were lost. These were provided by an extension to the south with the library underneath. The old single-storey scullery to the rear was removed and a 16th-century farmhouse which was to be demolished, North Bore Place from Chiddingstone Kent, was used to build a new two-storey wing westwards from the north end. The new wing provided a servants hall and kitchen below with two maid&#39;s bedrooms above. In 1928 the property was presented to the National Trust.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The front of the house is the eastern elevation. The north end has a stone built lower floor with a timber framed upper. There is no jetty. The central section has the main door and to its left the large hall window going from the foundation plinth to the eaves, the building is timber framed with rendered infilling. This is the hall section, so there is no upper floor and hence no jetty. A two-storey bay with jetty marks the end of the original hall; beyond is a brick-built lower room with a timber-framed upper floor. In the upper floor is a 12-light window which was moved to the new structure. Originally it had lit a bedroom on the 16th-century inserted floor. On the western elevation, at the junction of the new south extension to the original hall, is an octagonal stair turret. Moving northwards there is the original two-storey jettied quarters, the double-height hall with its reconstructed west window. The original building is obscured from just beyond the screens passage by the 20th-century north wing.</p><br>
<p>It should be noted that the stair turret and west front of the north wing were brought from North Bore Place when it was demolished and therefore are original 16th-century work (dates on arches are 1547 and 1629) although incorporated into a 20th-century structure.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The main entrance door was restored by Vallance, but is original.</p><br>
<p>The drawing room or parlour formed part of the original house, presumably fulfilling a similar function as a private room apart from the hall. The fireplace is from North Bore, and the stained glass is reproduction. The curtains are original 1880s and rare enough to be noted as such in the guide book.</p><br>
<p>Above the drawing room is a solar with a similar, if smaller-scale, roof to that of the hall. The oriel window dates from the restoration but is based upon the plan of the original. Flanking the oriel are two original windows with rare slots to carry vertical shutters.</p><br>
<p>Vista House is a museum at Crown Point in Multnomah County, Oregon, that also serves as a memorial to Oregon pioneers and as a comfort station for travelers on the Historic Columbia River Highway. The site, on a rocky promontory, is 733 ft above the Columbia River on the south side of the Columbia River Gorge. The building shows great sensitivity to its site in the Columbia River Gorge near Corbett, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Crown Point Vista House was completed in 1918. It was designed by Edgar M. Lazarus. With its marble interior and brass fixtures, some Oregonians at the time derided it as the "$100,000 Outhouse". The original idea for an observatory at the site came from Samuel Lancaster, the consulting engineer for the Columbia River Highway. Lancaster proposed</p><br>
<p>an observatory from which the view both up and down the Columbia could be viewed in silent communion with the infinite</p><br>
<p>Lancaster also suggested the name "Vista House." The Vista House Association was established to raise money for the project, composed of 52 Portland-area leaders. Funding subscriptions failed to raise sufficient money, and most of the cost of construction was paid by Multnomah County. Construction was supervised by John B. Yeon.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Lazarus&#39; design incorporates elements of the Jugendstil, the German interpretation of Art Nouveau which had been popular in Europe in the late 19th century up to 1910. The building is essentially a domed rotunda 44 ft in diameter with an octagonal plan on a 64 ft diameter base which houses toilets and a gift shop. The rotunda is 55 ft high. Stairs lead from the rotunda to an elevated viewing platform at the base of the dome. The exterior is gray sandstone, with a green tile roof. The interior is extensively finished in marble, even in the toilets. The dome interior has bronze lining. The clerestory windows feature opalescent glass in a simple tracery pattern, with similar colored glass at the tops of the windows at the main level.</p><br>
<h2>Renovation</h2><br>
<p>The building is a popular tourist stop for drivers on the Historic Columbia River Highway. The building was refurbished and the interior restored to its 1916 appearance; it reopened in 2005 after five years of restoration work. The roof was completely rebuilt with new tiles and an underlying membrane. Exterior restoration was complete by 2002. Interior work comprised finish repair and replacement, upgrading the sewer system, and the installation of a geothermal heat pump system. The restoration also made Vista House accessible to the handicapped with a disappearing lift between levels. From the top of Vista House, which is accessible by stairs, one can view Portland and Vancouver, Washington to the west. Beacon Rock, on the Washington side of the gorge, is visible to the east.</p><br>
<p>Vista House is owned by the Oregon Department of Transportation. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 5, 1974. Crown Point was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971. Vista House is a major contributing structure in the Columbia River Highway National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>Prestwould is a historic house near Clarksville, Virginia. It is the most intact and best documented plantation surviving in Southside Virginia. The house was built by Sir Peyton Skipwith, Baronet, who moved his family from his Elm Hill Plantation to Prestwould in 1797. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2003. It is located on the north side of the Roanoke River, 1 mi inland, approximately 6 mi southwest of the intersection of Route 15 and Route 701, and approximately one mile north of Clarksville&#39;s city limits. Now a museum property, it is open for tours from April to October, or by appointment.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Prestwould Plantation today consists of almost 46 acre on the north side of the Roanoke River, its main house set on a hill overlooking the upper reaches of John H. Kerr Reservoir, a result of damming the river in the 1960s. The plantation complex includes eight buildings, all built before 1830 and most dating to the 1780s. The house is a handsome brick building with a hip roof and a pair of interior chimneys. The main facade is symmetrical, with seven bays. The center three bays of the first floor are sheltered by a gabled porch, supported by Doric columns. Similar porches are found on two other sides of the building. The secondary buildings of the complex are all wood frame structures, and include an office, plantation store, slave quarters, and a pair of smokehouses.</p><br>
<p>Saint Benedict&#39;s Monastery is a monastery  of the Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict, in St. Joseph, Minnesota, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Sisters trace their roots to Saint Walburg Abbey in Eichstätt, in the Kingdom of Bavaria. Six of them emigrated to St. Cloud in 1857, moving to St. Joseph in 1863. Mother Benedicta Riepp, considered the founder of Benedictine women&#39;s communities in the United States, is buried in the monastery cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Recognizing the need for higher education, they founded Saint Benedict’s Academy in 1878, which developed into the College of Saint Benedict in 1913. In 1961, the Sisters transferred ownership to the College, constituting it a separately incorporated institution. As two fiscally independent corporations, the College and the Monastery share adjacent campuses but are governed by two separate Boards (the Monastic Council governs the Sisters).</p><br>
<p>Saint Benedict&#39;s Monastery has been the largest Benedictine community of women in the world, with a peak membership of 1,278 in 1946. In 2010, it was the largest Benedictine community of women in the United States with nearly 300 members.</p><br>
<p>On August 15, 2012, the 27 Sisters living at Saint Bede Monastery became members of Saint Benedicts Monastery. On March 27, 2012, the Sisters of Saint Benedicts had voted to receive the Benedictine Sisters of Saint Bedes Monastery in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Their Monasterys land was purchased by the University of Wisconsin for use in a children&#39;s education program.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>Several buildings of the convent and college are listed in a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. The historic district contains 14 buildings, as well as two other structures and five objects, built between 1882 and the late 1920s.</p><br>
<h3>Sacred Heart Chapel</h3><br>
<p>During the early 1900s, the Sisters of Saint Benedict&#39;s Convent saw expansion. There were about thirty new members each year. Because of the lack of space, building plans were made in 1910 to create both a new chapel and a college hall. The original Sacred Heart Chapel was officially opened on March 25, 1914.</p><br>
<p>The chapel, in Beaux-Arts style, is the most prominent building in the town. It was designed by architect George Stauduhar. The ribbed dome is 135 ft high, rests on a base surrounded by Ionic columns, and incorporates several oculus windows. The main altar is located directly below the dome. At the time, the roof was supported by sixteen granite columns.</p><br>
<p>In 1981, the Benedictine Monastery decided that they wanted a space that reflected their new awareness of modern Benedictine spirituality. The chapel was extensively renovated, which involved rearrangement of the seating and the removal of eight of the granite columns. The columns that were removed were incorporated into the Gathering Place, an addition to the west side of the chapel. The Gathering Place hosts liturgical, social, and educational events; an oratory for the prayer of the Divine Office; and the monastery&#39;s archives. The renovation was designed by Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, with Frank Kacmarcik consulting on liturgy and design. By the spring of 1983, the new Sacred Heart Chapel was complete, with a final cost of $4.5 million. The Sacred Heart Chapel is an important symbol of Benedictine tradition and demonstrates how the Benedictine heritage can meet modern spiritual vitality.</p><br>
<h2>Outreach</h2><br>
<p>A commitment to education led the Sisters to open and staff schools in Central Minnesota and abroad, including in Native American communities. Since 1857, 1,653 Sisters have taught in 163 elementary and secondary schools located primarily in the Diocese of St. Cloud.</p><br>
<p>The Sisters’ role in providing health care is reflected in the establishment and staffing of St. Cloud Hospital; the Queen of Peace Hospital in New Prague, Minnesota; the St. Cloud School of Nursing; a school of anesthesia, a school of x-ray technology, St. Benedict&#39;s Senior Community, and other institutions.</p><br>
<p>A key development in the history of Saint Benedicts Monastery has been its role in the founding of other independent houses of Benedictine women in the United States and abroad. It is a member of the Federation of St. Benedict, which includes Saint Benedicts Monastery, St. Joseph, Minn. St. Pauls Monastery, St. Paul, Minn. St. Placid Priory, Lacey, Wash. St. Mary Monastery, Rock Island, Ill. Annunciation Monastery, Bismarck, North Dakota; St. Scholastica Monastery, Duluth, Minn. Saint Benedicts Monastery, Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan; Saint Benedicts Monastery, Tamsui, New Taipei, Taiwan; Saint Martin Monastery, Nassau, NP The Bahamas; Mount Benedict Monastery, Ogden, Utah; and Monasterio Santa Escolastica, Humacao, Puerto Rico. In addition, Saint Benedicts Monastery founded three Native American missions in Minnesota.</p><br>
<p>The Sisters are involved in Benedictine Friends, a program that connects students at the College of St. Benedict with the Monastery. The program is meant to engage the spirituality of students by allowing them to meet and bond with the Sisters.</p><br>
<h2>Notable residents</h2><br>
<p>Sister Annella Zervas (1900–1926), a nun of St. Benedict&#39;s, has been recognized by the Church as a Servant of God for her work.</p><br>
<h2>Art and Heritage Place</h2><br>
<p>The Sisters opened the Art and Heritage Place in 2000 to share their art and history. The Haehn Museum features a rotating annual exhibit about the lives and ministries of the Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict; it includes their influence locally, around the state, and around the world. The Whitby Gift Shop and Gallery offers four art exhibits a year, in addition to selling works by the Sisters and local artists.</p><br>
<h2>Spirituality Center</h2><br>
<p>The Sisters operate the Spirituality Center for individual and group retreats, programs, and spiritual direction. Known for its spiritual direction internship, the Spirituality Center has trained people in the art of spiritual direction and provides access to spiritual directors. It also holds daily sessions and regular workshops in centering prayer, a form of Christian meditation. A number of other programs and retreats are offered throughout the year. Since 2007, the Spirituality Center has operated Subiaco Hermitage, a cabin on the property for individual retreats.</p><br>
<p>The Arlington Apartments or The Arlington was the first apartment building to open in Edmonton, Canada, in 1909. The 49 suite, five-storey redbrick building stood at 100 Avenue and 106 Street until 2005 when it was destroyed by fire. The building was a prime example of Edmonton&#39;s pre-Great War building boom that managed to survive into the 21st century.</p><br>
<p>The building was financed by a consortium of local business leaders who formed the Arlington Apartment Company. Among the original owners were George Swaisland, an Ontario-born banker who managed the Molson&#39;s Bank in Edmonton and Patrick O. Dwyer, president of Northern Investment Agency Limited.</p><br>
<p>Building construction was supervised by Robert Grant of Winnipeg; it was erected between July and December 1909 at a cost of $130,000.</p><br>
<p>The building was purchased by the Northern Investment Agency in 1932 for $85,000. In 1943 G. Patrick Ryan purchased it and founded Arlington Apartment Limited.</p><br>
<p>The building was a popular home for professionals and artists until the 1970s. By the 1980s residents were complaining of problems with prostitution. A fire in 1990 damaged but did not threaten the building.</p><br>
<p>The building was designated a Provincial Historic Resource in 1995, and a Municipal Historic Resource in 1998.</p><br>
<p>After the 2005 fire, there was an acrimonious confrontation between Edmontons city government and the owner of the site, Saraswati Singh. The City demanded that the original facade (including the original bricks) be maintained during any reconstruction. In 2007, Singh agreed to incorporate three brick walls of the building into a 20-storey condominium project. In 2008, however, the sites architect said that that plan was no longer feasible, and asked for permission to demolish the ruins and reconstruct the facade with new bricks.</p><br>
<p>In September 2008, the City finally give the owners permission to tear down the building. In mid-November demolition began.</p><br>
<p>The former Innis Dye Works factory is located along North Water Street in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States, on a triangular lot between the street, Fall Kill and the railroad tracks of the Metro-North Hudson Line, just across from the Mid-Hudson Children&#39;s Museum. It has served a variety of industrial functions, and remains in good condition today.</p><br>
<p>It is a three-story, twelve-bay structure with a raised basement. At the roofline is a projecting cornice and frieze with large carved brackets. A triangular pediment in the center gives the year of its construction, 1880. There is a wooden hoist at the center of the second story and the main entrance is a double door with vertical planking.</p><br>
<p>The Innis Dye Works company dates to at least the 1830s. The first record of its existence, in 1838, is founder Aaron Innis&#39;s transfer of the company to his son George, later a three-time mayor of the city. The building itself was used for pulverizing and storage of materials to be made into dyes. It is shown on an 1887 map of the city.</p><br>
<p>At the end of the century the building outlived its original purpose when the traditional dye industry gave way to aniline-based mixtures. By 1913 it would be reused as the David H. Schmidt Piano Hammer factory, whose name is still visible on the facade between the second and third stories. It was converted back to dyemaking again by 1934; since then it has been used as a warehouse. In 1982 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Kulm is a ski flying hill located in Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf, Styria, Austria. Opened on 8 March 1950, the hill is one of only five of its type in the world, allowing for jumps of more than 240 metres. The current hill record of 244 m was set by Peter Prevc during the 2016 Ski Flying World Championships. The womens world record of 200 m was set by Daniela Iraschko-Stolz in 2003, who remains the only woman in history to have jumped to 200 m. Furthermore, the mens world record has been set three times at Kulm.</p><br>
<p>The venue has hosted the Ski Flying World Championships five times, in 1975, 1986, 1996, 2006, and 2016. For the World Cup event in 2015, the hill was completely renovated to a K-point of 200 m and a hill size of 225 m, making much longer jumps possible.</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<h2>Hill record</h2><br>
<h3>Official</h3><br>
<h3>Invalid</h3><br>
<h2>Technical data</h2><br>
<p>The Canal de l&#39;Aqueduc is an open-air aqueduct canal on the Island of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, serving part of the drinking water needs of the city of Montreal.</p><br>
<p>The canal was built in 1853 by a commission headed by city councillor Edwin Atwater, for whom adjacent Atwater Street is named.</p><br>
<p>The canal draws water from the Saint Lawrence River on the southernmost shore of the island in the borough of LaSalle, in the Lachine Rapids downstream of the Honoré Mercier Bridge. It then runs northwesterly, through LaSalle and then between the boroughs of Verdun and Le Sud-Ouest, finally ending at a City of Montreal pumping station and underground reservoir on av. Atwater just south of the Pointe-Saint-Charles neighbourhood. At this point the canal passes within 300 metres of the Lachine Canal. The canal is approximately 8100 metres in length and varies between 35 and 50 metres in width (approximate).</p><br>
<p>The canal is lined with wetland along its route, and although the canal itself is fenced off, a linear park and bicycle path runs along its southern bank. Boul. de La Vérendrye and Boul. Champlain, major streets, run along its northern and southern banks respectively, with the Décarie Autoroute running along the end nearest the pumping station.</p><br>
<h2>Crossings</h2><br>
<p>The canal is crossed by a number of bridges, listed here in order from the river to the pumping station:</p><br>
<p>*Boul. LaSalle</p><br>
<p>*Avenue Dollard</p><br>
<p>*Boul. Bishop-Power/Boul. Shevchenko</p><br>
<p>*2e Ave</p><br>
<p>*Rue Crawford (footbridge)</p><br>
<p>*Av. Stephens</p><br>
<p>*Av. Woodland</p><br>
<p>*Rue Jolicoeur</p><br>
<p>*Rue Galt</p><br>
<p>*Av. de l&#39;Église</p><br>
<p>The Gari Melchers Home, also known as Belmont, is a National Historic Landmark and historic house museum at 226 Washington Street in Falmouth, Virginia. This much-altered 18th-century house was the home and studio of the popular American artist Gari Melchers  from 1916 until his death. It was given to the state of Virginia by his widow, and is now administered by the University of Mary Washington. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965, commemorating Melcher&#39;s influential role in bringing American art to European attention.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Gari Melchers Home is located just west of the center of Falmouth, on the south side of Business United States Route 17. The property is 27 acre, roughly bisected by County Road 1001, which provides access to the main house. The house is a two story wood frame structure, its main block five bays wide, with a two story ell extending it to the left, and a polygon-sided sunroom to the right. The oldest part of the house was built sometime in the mid-to-late 18th century, and achieved much of its present form during the ownership of the Ficklin family, which owned it from 1825 to 1916. In that year it was purchased by Gari Melchers and his wife Corinne, both artists, for $12,000. The stone studio building on the grounds, and a stone garage, both date to the period of the Melchers ownership, and the sunroom was added by Mrs. Melchers sometime after her husbands death in 1932. Mrs. Melchers bequeathed the property to the state; it includes most of the family possessions in the house.</p><br>
<p>Gari Melchers was a popular, if not particularly innovative, painter, who was trained in Europe. In 1882 one of his paintings was accepted by the Salon of Paris, the most prestigious art exhibition of the period. The Melchers settled at Belmont in 1916. His best known works include the murals depicting War and Peace in the rotunda of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Melchers&#39; work contributed to a general increase of interest in the fine arts in the United States.</p><br>
<p>Unlike most historic homes in the commonwealth of Virginia, it is not furnished with antiques that correspond to the house’s origins. Rather, it is a snapshot of the international tastes and lifestyle of a famous artist, and is fully furnished with the unusual European antiques and objects Melchers and his wife collected. It is also an art museum with about 2,000 works of art, about 500 of which are Melchers’ paintings. Other works of art include his sketches and studies, works by other artists he collected, and paintings by his wife.</p><br>
<p>British Landing is a place within Mackinac Island, Michigan and is located on the shore of Mackinac Island, two miles  northwest of the island&#39;s downtown and harbor. British Landing is the site of a War of 1812 amphibious operation on July 16–17, 1812, by a joint force of the British Army and their allies among the Native Americans and indigenous people of Canada. The operation led directly to the surrender of Fort Mackinac by the USA Army.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>As the war began, Fort Mackinac, located at the northwestern end of Lake Huron, was a strategic strongpoint that dominated the Upper Great Lakes. Adjacent to the fort, a trading post for furs was a key supply point for Euro-American-Native American commerce and exchange.</p><br>
<p>While poor American military intelligence failed to communicate to Fort Mackinac the news that war had broken out, the British military command in Upper Canada was not idle. They promptly notified the commander of Fort St. Joseph, a British strongpoint located approximately 40 miles (65 km) northeast by canoe. Ft. St. Joseph&#39;s British commander, Charles Roberts, determined to recruit Native allies and assault Mackinac Island.</p><br>
<p>With a single sailing vessel and a flotilla of war canoes, the expeditionary force arrived on the north shore of Mackinac Island on the night of July 16–17, 1812. Full secrecy was maintained and the warriors landed without detection by the American army.</p><br>
<p>The sailing vessel had brought one or more light cannon, which were wrestled ashore at British Landing and hauled up through the interior of the Island to a location above Fort Mackinac. On the morning of July 17, the British and Natives displayed their troops and cannon surrounding the fort, and demanded its surrender. The operation was completely successful. Fort Mackinac fell to the British without a single casualty.</p><br>
<p>Two years later, on August 4, 1814, as the War of 1812 moved towards its conclusion, an American expeditionary force landed here at British Landing in an attempt to recapture Fort Mackinac from the British. Unlike the British landing of 1812, the American landing of 1814 was not a surprise and was not successful. The 1814 amphibious operation was a failure and the American detachment was forced to re-embark on the same day.</p><br>
<h2>Recent years</h2><br>
<p>British Landing is now an important intersection on M-185 (Lake Shore Road), the state highway that serves as a non-motorized road and bicycle pathway around the shore of Mackinac Island. Like the rest of Mackinac Island, M-185 is not open to motor vehicles. During the summer months, British Landing is frequented by visitors who have arrived by bicycle or horse-drawn carriage.</p><br>
<p>British Landing was for many years the home of noted Shakespearean and drama scholar John McCabe.</p><br>
<p>Much of the land in the British Landing area is located in Mackinac Island State Park.</p><br>
<h2>Registered historic site</h2><br>
<p>In 1958, British Landing was added to the list of registered Michigan historic sites as Registered Site SO187. A historic marker was erected.</p><br>
<p>Lone Butte is a low, steep-sided mesa butte or volcanic plug in southern British Columbia, Canada, located on the southern Cariboo Plateau to the southeast of 100 Mile House. It is composed of columnar basalt that formed within a prehistoric volcano six million years ago. It is part of the geological formation known as the Chilcotin Group, which lies in between the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains and the mid-Fraser River. BCWireless Ltd uses Lone Butte as one of its main access point for Broadband Internet distribution.</p><br>
<h2>Location and terrain</h2><br>
<p>Lone Butte is located 13 km southeast of 100 Mile House and is immediately north of the recreational lake-community of Green Lake. The vertical structure of Lone Butte forms a prominent monument that rises more than 50 m above the surrounding lowlands of the Cariboo Plateau. Its appearance is like a butte-like hillrock, similar to the more famous Devils Tower in Wyoming. The ranching and recreational community of Lone Butte is located on the mountain&#39;s north side. There are two communication towers located at the butte; BCWireless on its level summit and Navigata on its eastern flank.</p><br>
<p>Ampersand Mountain is a 3,352 ft mountain in Franklin County in the northeastern Adirondacks, west of the High Peaks in New York State. The trail up the mountain begins on New York State Route 3 8.1 mi southwest of the village of Saranac Lake, near Middle Saranac Lake; it is a popular day hike. The mountain takes its name from nearby Ampersand Creek, so named because it twists and turns like the ampersand symbol. The summit is bare rock, with extensive views of the High Peaks to the east and the Saranac Lakes to the west.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>W.W. Ely made the first recorded ascent of Ampersand Mountain in 1872. Ely and Dr. William Reed and three others later cleared the summit of trees, and built a lean-to. The following year, Verplanck Colvin cleared the remaining trees while working on his survey of the Adirondacks, and subsequent fires and erosion left the summit bare. Colvin credits Ely for the mountain&#39;s name. New York State built a fire lookout station on the summit in 1911, although a fire tower was deemed unnecessary due to the open views available. By 1920, tree growth was such that a 22-foot (7-meter) fire tower was erected. The tower was used until 1970, when the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation closed it, as it had become more cost-effective to spot fires using aircraft. The tower was removed in July, 1977. There is a memorial near the summit to hermit Walter Channing Rice, who manned the fire tower from 1915 to 1923.</p><br>
<p>Ampersand was the first mountain that wilderness activist and explorer Bob Marshall climbed, in 1915, when he was 14. In 1925, Marshall, his brother George and Herbert K. Clark became the first to climb all 46 of the Adirondack peaks over 4,000 ft, becoming the first Adirondack Forty-Sixers.</p><br>
<p>The James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library is a historic museum at 908 Charles Street in Fredericksburg, Virginia. It is located on the site of the James Monroe Law Office, used by future United States President James Monroe from 1786 to 1789. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966. It is now owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia and operated by the University of Mary Washington. The museum features original objects and memorabilia related to James Monroe, and includes several items relating to other members of his family, including dresses worn by First Lady Elizabeth Monroe.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Monroe Museum is located in central Fredericksburg, on the west side of Charlest Street, between William and George Streets. It is housed in a two-part building that is roughly L-shaped. The older portion is a long 1-1/2 story brick structure, with a gabled roof, built in 1758. To this is attached a larger 1-1/2 story square brick building dating to 1964, when the museum and library were organized. The addition houses Monroe memorabilia, and a small library containing volumes similar to those that might have been in Monroe&#39;s library. The museum also houses a collection of furnishings and other artifacts belonging to the Monroes, although most date to the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The outside includes a memorial garden to James Monroe, which features a bust of him sculpted by Margaret French Cresson, daughter of Daniel Chester French.</p><br>
<p>This building housed the law office of the future United States President James Monroe from 1786 to 1789. Monroe had prior to this time served in the Virginia House of Delegates, and in the Congress of the Confederation, from which he resigned in 1786, dissatisfied with the politics of that body. In 1788 he was involved in the delegate to the Virginia convention on the adoption of the United States Constitution, which he opposed.</p><br>
<p>Monroes&#39;s law office was acquired in 1928 by Laurence Hoes, a Monroe family descendant who established the Monroe Foundation to manage the property. He accumulated a variety of artifacts related to his illustrious ancestor, restored the property, and opened it as a museum. In 1964 the addition was built, and the Monroe Foundation gave the property to the state. It is now managed by a board consisting of members of the Monroe Foundation and the regents of the University of Mary Washington.</p><br>
