<p>The James C. Lord House is a historic house at 497 Main Street in Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1885 for a prominent local businessman, it is a high quality blend of late 19th-century architectural styles. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
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<p>The Lord House stands north of downtown Lewiston, on a slight rise at the southeast corner of Main Street (United States Route 202 and Maine State Route 100). It is a 2-1/2 story masonry structure, built out of red brick with granite trim. The house is roughly T-shaped, with a polychrome slate roof that is gabled in the side ends and hipped at the rear. The roof is pierced on several elevations by gabled dormers, and a three-story tower projects from the front, capped by a pyramidal roof. A single-story porch extends across the full width of the front; it has square posts rising to arched openings, with low balustrades between. Windows have granite sills and lintels, and there are paired brackets in the corners of the eaves. A period carriage house, also built of brick, stands behind the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1885 to a design by Jefferson Coburn, a local architect from whom only a few designs are known. Its massing is typical of the Queen Anne style, but its design includes elements of Gothic, Italianate, and Stick styles. The house was built for James C. Lord, a prominent local business man who operated a dry goods business at 379 Lisbon Street. The house was purchased in 1920 by Timothy Callahan, a prominent local politician.</p><br>
<p>The John D. Clifford House is a historic house at 14-16 Ware Street in Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1926, it is one of a modest number of examples statewide of Mediterranean Revival, and the only one known to have been built as a year-round residence. The building features an eclectic mix of styles, and has a builtin garage, also a rarity for the period. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
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<p>The Clifford House is set on the north side of Ware Street, in a small residential area between Main Street (United States Route 202) and the Bates College campus, north of downtown Lewiston. It is a 2-1/2 story, constructed of Italian tile blocks and finished on the exterior in stucco. Its massing and broad hipped roof are suggestive of the Prairie School, but it has French wrought iron railings across the second-floor porch, arched window openings reminiscent of the Art Deco style, and modern steel casement windows. Its front door is set in a projecting vestibule section, and the door itself has a round-arch top in which is set a circular window. The house is set on a sloping lot with an exposed basement, which houses a garage (original to the design).</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by the local firm of Gibbs & Pulsifer, and was built in 1926. It is the only known example in the state of a Mediterranean Revival house built for year-round occupancy; all of the others were built along the states coast for summer residents, and most were designed by out-of-state architects. John D. Clifford, Jr., for whom it was built, was an attorney who served briefly in the state legislature and as United States District Attorney, and was active in organizing the states Democratic Party. He was judge of the Federal District Court for the District of Maine from 1947 until his death in 1956.</p><br>
<p>The Lord Block is an historic commercial building at 379 Lisbon Street in downtown Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1865, it is one of downtown Lewistons oldest commercial buildings, and a reminder of the citys early commercial character. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The Lord Block is located on the southern half of Lisbon Street, Lewiston&#39;s main business district, at the southwest corner of Lisbon and Cedar Streets. It is a 2-1/2 story masonry structure, built out of load-bearing brick with granite trim, with a front-facing gable roof that has a cross gable on the north side. The front has two virtually identical storefronts, each with a recessed entrance on the left and a plate glass display window to the right. The doors and windows are separated by rusticated granite piers, with a modern awning now extending across both storefronts and on to the adjacent building. Upper floor and side facade windows are sash windows set in rectangular openings, with granite sills and lintels. The north-facing gable is finished in decorative cut shingles, and has two window bays.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1865 for James C. and Rufus Lord, dealers in "provisions", and was probably one of the first commercial businesses on the southern stretch of Lisbon Street, near the mills. Its deed restrictions limited its height, and required masonry construction. The store was apparently successful: James Lord was able to build an elaborate house on Main Street in 1885.</p><br>
<p>The College Block/Lisbon Block is an historic commercial and civic building at 248-274 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, Maine, United States. Built in 1855-56, it is the oldest surviving building in the city of the Franklin Company, the citys major early developer. The building has house many local civic groups, and served as Lewistons town hall prior to its incorporation as a city in 1863. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The College Block/Lisbon Block stands on the east side of Lisbon Street, the main street in Lisbon&#39;s commercial downtown, at the northeast corner with Chestnut Street. It is a long four-story brick building, with seventeen bays facing Lisbon Street. It has eight storefronts on the ground floor, each with recessed entries flanked by display windows, and a modest building entrance to the right of the leftmost storefront. The second and third floor windows are rectangular sash, with stone sills and lintels. Eight windows near the center of the second floor are taller, with transom panes above the sashes. The fourth floor bays have a combination of fixed-pane windows and blind brick panels. The building is capped with a flat roof with projecting Italianate cornice.</p><br>
<p>The block was built in 1855-56 by the Franklin Company, and was one of the first buildings it erected in what is now Lewistons downtown. The buildings upper-level meeting spaces have been used over the decades as the town hall, space for church congregations to worship, and a wide array of fraternal and social civic organizations. The city&#39;s first Franco-American society, the Institute Jacques-Cartier, met here from the 1870s until 1939. Originally called the Lisbon Block, it was renamed the College Block c. 1881 after ownership of the building was taken over by Bates College.</p><br>
<p>The Lower Lisbon Street Historic District encompasses part of the earliest commercial center of Lewiston, Maine. Located on the west side of Lisbon Street, the city&#39;s main commercial area, between Cedar and Chestnut Streets are a collection of commercial buildings representing a cross section of architectural styles, built between 1850 and 1950. When the historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, it included 18 buildings. Eleven of these have since been demolished, and one has a significantly altered facade.</p><br>
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<p>The city of Lewiston was established in 1850 as a center for the manufacture of textiles, and its downtown area developed along Lisbon Street between then and about 1920, when the textile mills began a slow decline. The upper portion of Lisbon Street, between Main and Chestnut Streets, experienced intensive repeated development, and little of the city&#39;s early commercial architecture survives there. The lower part of the street was less intensively developed, resulting in a collection of buildings architecturally representative of the entire period of development. The historic district extends for one city block, including all of the buildings on the west side of Lisbon Street between Chestnut and Cedar Streets. The older buildings on the east side of this block have for the most part been razed and the land redeveloped, with only the First and Second Callahan Buildings (both separately listed on the National Register) at the northern end; they are not included in this district.</p><br>
<p>When listed on the National Register in 1985, the west side of this block was lined with commercial buildings, most of them built of brick and masonry. Of the eighteen buildings then on the block, twelve were judged historically significant, and only seven are still standing. One of the surviving buildings is the district&#39;s oldest, a 2-1/2 story wood frame gable-front building built c. 1850-55. It is flanked by later four-story buildings, one Romanesque and the other Classical Revival, dating to 1914 and 1896 respectively. To the south stand two more buildings, one four stories and the other one, with commercial Italianate style, but a significantly-altered combined ground-floor storefront. Two three-story brick buildings still stand near the northern end of the block, one of which, the Centennial Block, has Gothic Victorian styling.</p><br>
<p>The Manufacturer&#39;s National Bank is an historic commercial building at 145 Lisbon Street Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1914, it was the tallest commercial building in Lewiston until 1950, and was one of the last major commercial buildings erected in the city before World War I, and one of the few that exhibits Classical Revival style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The Manufacturer&#39;s National Bank building is located at the southwest corner of Lisbon and Ash Streets in downtown Lewiston. The building is seven stories tall, and presents three bays to Lisbon Street and eight to Ash. Ash Street slopes downhill from Lisbon Street, exposing the basement level. Most of the building is finished in yellow brick, although much of the street level facade on Lisbon Street is in limestone. That facade has three bays articulated by two-story pilasters, with sash windows in the outer bays and the upper five floors. The entrance is recessed in the center bay, with a three-part window on the second floor. A cornice line with decorated entablature extends between the second and third floors on both street-facing facades. The first two floors of the Ash Street facade are dominated by tall round-arch windows, with store fronts in the exposed basement level. A projecting belt course separates the sixth and seventh floors, and the building is capped by a flat roof with a projecting cornice.</p><br>
<p>The building was erected in 1914. It was designed by Hutchins & French of Boston, and it is stylistically similar to large office buildings built in New York City and Chicago at the time. The Manufacturer&#39;s National Bank was founded in 1875, and was originally located in the Pilsbury Block. The building continues to house commercial tenants.</p><br>
<p>The Maine Supply Company Building is an historic commercial building at 415-417 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1911, this Renaissance Revival building is the best-preserved local work of Miller & Mayo, and is also notable as housing the first known automotive service center in the state. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The Maine Supply Company Building stands on the west side of lower Lisbon Street, Lewiston&#39;s principal commercial thoroughfare. It is a four story masonry structure, built out of brick with wooden trim. Its facade is divided into three sections, articulated on the first two levels by quoined brick piers, topped in pairs by elaborate cornices. On the third level a massive round arch caps the central two piers. Bays within the arch and on the second level are occupied by bands of sash windows; the first floor has commercial plate glass windows in the outer sections, and a glassed entry in the center. The remaining bays are single sash, set in rectangular openings, which are keystoned on the third level and plain on the fourth. An elaborate cornice with large brackets and dentil moulding crowns the structure.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1911 for the Maine Supply Company, a retailer of agricultural implements. From 1919 to 1928 it housed an automobile sales showroom and service center, with garage service bays in a single-story addition (no longer standing) to the south. Two of the building&#39;s ground floor sections once housed garage bay doors to facilitate vehicular access. The building has since seen use as a warehouse and office building.</p><br>
<p>Marcotte Nursing Home is an historic elder care facility at 102 Campus Avenue in Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1927 and opened the following year, it was the largest facility of its type in New England, representing a major step forward in the regions elder care. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is now part of the dYouville Pavilion of Saint Mary&#39;s Regional Medical Center.</p><br>
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<p>The former Marcotte Nursing Home building is located on the north side of Campus Avenue, just east of the Bates College campus, and across the street from the main medical facilities of Saint Marys Regional Medical Center. It is a five story masonry structure, built of brick with cast stone trim in the Tudor Revival style. In addition to load-bearing brick walls, it has iron beams for added support. Its stairwells are built with steel framing clad in brick. The interior floor framing is wood, and the walls are plaster on lath. There are three (former) principal entrances on the street facade, sheltered by round-arch porticos. The modern dYouville Pavilion extends to the rear.</p><br>
<p>The Marcotte Nursing Home was founded through the efforts of Francois Marcotte, a prominent local French-American businessman, and the local Society of the Sisters of Charity, a Roman Catholic aid organization. Marcotte began fundraising for its construction in 1926, and the building, designed by the Portland firm Miller, Mayo & Beal, was opened in 1928. The facility included nursing care facilities, an orphanage, and, uniquely for the time, 22 small apartments for indigent elderly. The latter were supported by an endowment from Marcotte. Marcotte himself later occupied one of the units, and died there in 1942.</p><br>
<p>The Dingley Building, formerly the Oak Street School, is a historic municipal building at 36 Oak Street in Lewiston, Maine.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1890, it is a distinctive local example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, designed by local architect George M. Coombs.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It now houses the Lewiston school system&#39;s administrative offices.</p><br>
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<p>The Dingley Building stands near the eastern edge of Lewiston&#39;s commercial downtown area, on a lot bounded by Middle, Oak, and Bates Streets. It is a two-story masonry structure, built of red brick with stone trim. It is covered by a tall hip roof, and is set on a raised basement, from which it is separated by a stone beltcourse. The main entrance is recessed in a large round-arch opening, which shelters the stairs providing access. The entrance is set in a projecting gabled section, from which a turret rises at the left corner, topped by an open belvedere and a convex circular roof. Windows in the projecting section above the entrance are set in round-arch openings, in a group of four on the second level, and in a Palladian-style group of three in the gable.</p><br>
<p>The school building was designed by architect George M. Coombs and was built in 1890. The name was changed to the Dingley Building in 1899 in honor of Nelson Dingley, Jr., a former governor of Maine and longtime congressman from Maine&#39;s second district. It was later used as an elementary school, then the headquarters for the Lewiston Board of Education. It remains the central office for the school district today. The Lewiston Historical Commission also meets in the building.</p><br>
<p>A lightning bolt struck the Dingley Building in June 2008, causing no injuries, but resulting in moderate damage to the wooden tower as well as utilities.</p><br>
<p>The Osgood Building is an historic commercial building at 129 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1893, it is one of only two known surviving commercial works by local architect Jefferson Coburn, and the only known use of imported English white brick in the state. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The Osgood Building is located on the west side of Lisbon Street, Lewiston&#39;s principal commercial thoroughfare, just north of its junction with Ash Street. It is a four story masonry structure, built principally out of white brick imported from Leeds in the United Kingdom. Its main facade is symmetrical, with groups of three bays flanking a central bay. These groupings are articulated by pilasters that rise the full height of the building, with decorative capitals between the first and second levels (where they form part of a band of decorative stone), and the cornice. The main entrance is recessed in the central bay in an archway built of red glazed brick. The storefronts to either side consist of a central larger window with smaller flanking windows, each set in segmented-arch openings, with cast frame elements that include a keystone above the larger window. This form is repeated, with slightly different styling, on the second and third levels. The fourth level is nine bays across, with smaller round-arch windows.</p><br>
<p>The block was built in 1893 for H.A. Osgood, a jeweler with a long-established business at this site. It was designed by Jefferson Coburn, a noted local architect whose only other surviving commercial commission is the First McGillicuddy Block, just south of this one. He was particularly noted for his eclectic designs. The builder was E.R. Desjardins, an immigrant from Quebec.</p><br>
<p>The Pilsbury Block is an historic commercial building at 200-210 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, Maine. The block was built in 1870, and is a late example of Italianate architecture, exhibiting some Romanesque details. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
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<p>The Pilsbury Block is located on Lisbon Street, Lewiston&#39;s principal commercial thoroughfare, at the northeast corner with Pine Street. It is a three story masonry structure with a narrow rounded bay at the street corner. The upper floors are divided into large bays, five facing Pine Street and six facing Lisbon, each set in a recessed arched panel. There are paired windows in each panel, set in round-arch openings on the third floor and segmented-arch openings on the second. The ground floor storefrounts are set in groups of segmented-arch or flat-topped segments of stone, with either display windows or entrances topped by transom windows. The building is capped by a corbelled brickwork cornice.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the building, the corner section, was built in 1870 for George H. Pilsbury by Jesse T. Stevens, a local engineer. The architect may have been William H. Stevens, who was closely associated with Pilsbury in the Franklin Company and the Lewiston Institution for Savings (later the Peoples Savings Bank). In 1873 it was enlarged by the addition of three bays on Lisbon Street. The addition is known to have been designed by Stevens, now practicing as Fassett & Stevens. The building is one of Lewistons oldest surviving commercial buildings, and a rare example of transitional Italianate-Romanesque architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Pilsbury Block is now part of Lewiston Public Library.</p><br>
<p>The Lewiston Main Post Office of Lewiston, Maine is located at 49 Ash Street in downtown Lewiston. Built in 1933 and enlarged in 1975, it is a fine local example of Colonial Revival architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as USA Post Office–Lewiston Main.</p><br>
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<p>The Lewiston Main Post Office is located one block east of the citys central Lisbon Street business district. The original 1933 portion of the building faces north onto Ash Street. It is two stories in height, with a frame of steel and concrete, and an exterior of stone brick. The central portion is nine bays wide, articulated by brick pilasters with stone bases and capitals. The first-floor bays have rounded-arch openings, the central three housing entrances, and the outer six windows. A stone entablature is topped by a dentillated cornice and a parapet with stone balusters and brick piers. The central main section is flanked by matching single-story sections, with a modern service wing to the rear. The interior of the central block is houses the main lobby in the front half and a work area to the rear, with the postmasters office to one side, and is richly decorated.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury Department, then under the guidance of James A. Wetmore, and was constructed in 1934-35. Its elaborate detailing probably benefited from an increase of the staff of that office pursuant to the Federal Employment Stabilzation Act of 1931. The modern service wing was added to the rear in 1975.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Catholic Church is a historic former church building at 257 Main Street in Lewiston, Maine. Built 1864-67, it was the first Roman Catholic church in the city, and is one of only two surviving buildings in the state designed by Patrick C. Keely. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The church closed in 2009, and was in 2013 threatened with demolition. Alternative uses for the structure are  still being sought.</p><br>
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<p>The former St. Josephs Church stands on the northeastern fringe of Lewistons downtown area, at the eastern corner of Main Street (Maine State Route 100) and Blake Street. It is a brick building with Gothic Revival style, and a projecting central tower. The main roof is gabled, with a level of clerestory windows. The tower has one of the three main entrances on the ground floor, a Gothic lancet-arch window on the second, and a belfry with lancet-arched openings on the third level. It is topped by an octagonal spire with cross finial.</p><br>
<p>Roman Catholic services began in Lewiston in the late 1840s, provided by traveling priests. St. Josephs was organized 1857, with services held in a former Baptist church. This church was constructed in 1864-67, and was the third church commissioned by the Diocese of Portland from Patrick C. Keely. Keely went on to design several more, as well as the bishops residence in Portland, but of the churches, only this one and the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland survive.</p><br>
<p>The church served the diocese until it was closed in 2009; its stained glass windows and frescoes were then removed from the building. It was purchased in 2013 by Central Maine Healthcare, which announced plans to raze the church and the adjacent rectory. Demolition of the church has been (as of April 2015) delayed to allow alternative uses for the building to be identified, but demolition of the rectory has been approved.</p><br>
<p>The Savings Bank Block is an historic commercial building at 215 Lisbon Street in downtown Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1870, it is a fine local example of commercial Second Empire architecture, and is representative of the city&#39;s early development as an industrial center. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
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<p>The Savings Bank Block is located in downtown Lewiston, at the southwest corner of Lisbon and Pine Streets. It is a three-story brick building, topped by a mansard roof that provides a full fourth floor. The ground floor consists of three storefronts, which have modernized finishes. The building corners have stone quoining, rising to an entablature and modillioned cornice. The roof is pierced by dormers with steeply pitched gable roofs with bracketed eaves. On the second floor the Lisbon Street windows are set in rectangular openings with bracketed cornices, while those facing Pine Street are set in segmented-arch openings. Third-floor windows on both facades are set in round-arch openings with stone hoods.</p><br>
<p>Construction on the block was begun in 1868 and completed in 1870. Built as the home of the Lewiston Institution for Savings, it may have been designed by local architect William H. Stevens, who was closely associated with the bank&#39;s officers. The building originally housed retail spaces on the ground floor, offices on the second, and a Masonic lodge hall above.</p><br>
<p>The Second Callahan Block is an historic commercial building at 282 Lisbon Street in downtown Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1909 to a design by Coombs & Gibbs, it was part of a major development by brothers Timothy and Eugene Callahan. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Although initially developed as a commercial property, it is presently used as housing.</p><br>
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<p>The Second Callahan Block is located on the east side of Lisbon Street, between Chestnut and Spruce Streets. It is just south of the First Callahan Building, which stands at the corner of Chestnut Street. It is a four-story masonry structure, with a facade of yellow brick topped by a gabled cornice with projecting bracketed pediment. The ground floor originally had two storefronts flanking the building entrance, with fluted pilasters articulating the sections. The upper floors have ten window bays, organized in a 3-4-3 pattern. Windows are set in keystoned square openings on the second and third floors, and in rounded-arch openings on the fourth. A stone beltcourse separates the second and third floors, also acting as a sill for the windows. Brick pilasters separate and flank the grouped sections on the upper two floors. The scale, materials, and style of the building is considered to be consistent with other commercial buildings on Lisbon Street.</p><br>
<p>The building was commissioned by Timothy F. and Eugene A. Callahan, dealers in men&#39;s accessories. Prior to the construction of this building, the Callahan brothers had built the neighboring building in 1892. The 1892 building was designed by George M. Coombs, and the new building was designed by his office, Coombs & Gibbs, now led by his son Harry S. Coombs.</p><br>
<p>William A. Robinson House is a historic house at 11 Forest Avenue in Auburn, Maine. Built in 1874, it is one of the regions finest examples of Late Gothic Revival architecture, and is the states only surviving work of local architects Herbert and Balston Kenway. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
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<p>The Robinson House stands in a residential area west of Auburns downtown, on the west side of Forest Avenue, and is set on a hill overlooking the downtown. It is a two story wood frame structure, with a busy roofline featuring several gables and corbelled brick chimneys. The gables are decorated in Gothic vergeboard, with the gable ends topped by small finials. The walls are clad in vertical board siding. A three story square tower rises on the left side, topped by a flared pyramidal roof. A hip-roofed porch extends from the towers left and around to the side, supported by turned posts with brackets.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1874 to a design by local architects Herbert and Balston Kenway. The Kenway brothers were Welsh immigrants, and the designed this house for William A. Robinson, a druggist from whom they received their first known commission, for his retail store. After three years of work (1873–75) the brothers both left the state. This commission represents a success translation of English ideas about Gothic architecture from the more traditional brick or stone into wood.</p><br>
<p>The Roak Block is an historic commercial-industrial building at 144-170 Main Street in Auburn, Maine. Built in 1871-72 as a combined commercial and industrial space, this Second Empire style block was at that time the largest commercial building in the entire state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
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<p>The Roak Block stands on the east side of Auburn&#39;s commercial Main Street, near its junction with Mechanics Row. It is a long 3-1/2 story masonry building, built of brick and stone, with a mansard roof, studded with dormers, providing a full fourth floor in the attic level. The building is 36 bays long, divided into nine sections of four bays. On the ground floor, each section houses a retail storefront except the center one, which provides access to the main building lobby. The storefronts typically consist of display windows flanking a recessed entry. Second floor windows are set in round-arch openings with stone keystones and shoulders, with a narrow stringcourse acting as a sill. The third floor windows have segmented-arch openings, but are otherwise similar. The dormers on the steep roof section have shallow gabled roofs, with drip moulding around the windows.</p><br>
<p>The block was built in 1871-72 to a design by the Lewiston firm of Stevens and Coombs, for Jacob Roak, a shoe manufacturer and leading businessman in the city. At the time of its construction, it was the largst building of its type erected in the state. The upper levels of the building were designed as spaces for incubating businesses related to shoe manufacturing, where small businesses could work until they were successful enough to require larger quarters. The building was used in this fashion for 90 years. Its upper floors have been converted for use as senior housing.</p><br>
<p>The Horatio G. Foss House is an historic house at 19 Elm Street in Auburn, Maine within the Main Street Historic District. It was built in 1914 to a design by Gibbs & Pulsifer for Horatio G. Foss, owner of a major local shoe factory, and is also notable for its well-preserved Colonial Revival styling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
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<p>The Foss House is a 3 story wood frame house with a stuccoed exterior, quoined corners, and a red ceramic tile hip roof. The main facade, facing south, is a symmetrical three bays, with a central entry flanked by rounded bays that are two stories in height. The entry is sheltered by a portico topped by a segmented-arch pediment and supported by paired Corinthian columns. The doorway is flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a triangular pediment The cornices of the portico, doorway pediment, and roof are all modillioned, as are the roof lines of the hip-roof dormers piercing the roof. A sunporch extends along the eastern facade, and a flat-roofed porch on the west side is connected to a porte-cochere. A period garage stands on the northwest corner of the property; it features styling similar to that found on the main house.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Gibbs & Pulsifer, an architectural firm based in Lewiston, and built for Horace G. Foss. Foss was the owner the Dingley-Foss Company, a manufacturer of footwear employing 500-600 workers.</p><br>
<p>The Horace Munroe House is an historic house at 123 Pleasant Street in Auburn, Maine. Built in 1899-1900 to a design by William R. Miller, it is one of Auburn&#39;s finest examples of Queen Anne architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is now the Munroe Inn, a bed and breakfast inn.</p><br>
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<p>The Munroe House is located in a residential area just southwest of downtown Auburn, at the northwest corner of Pleasant and Drummond Streets. It is a rambling 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a roughly rectangular shape that is somewhat obscured by the number of gables, porches, and projecting sections that characterize the Queen Anne style of architecture. A single-story hip-roofed porch extends across the front, supported by groups of Doric columns. A gabled section projects slightly above the stairs leading up to it from Pleasant Street. Two turret-like sections project from the left side of the house (facing Drummond), one with an open second floor porch, with Doric columns supporting a garlanded entablature.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Lewiston architect William R. Miller, and was built in 1899-1900 for the mother of Horace Munroe, and was the latters home for much of his life. Munroes father Noble was one of the founders of the shoe manufacturing industry in Auburn, one of its dominant businesses of the period.</p><br>
<p>The Holman Day House is a historic house at 2 Goff Street in Auburn, Maine. Built in 1895, it is one of the state&#39;s finest examples of Queen Anne architecture, and is further notable as the home of Maine author Holman Day. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
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<p>The Day House is set at the northeast corner of Court and Goff Streets, overlooking Auburn&#39;s downtown area. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, roughly rectangular in plan, with three-story tower at the corner and a two-story ell connecting the main house to a carriage barn. It has a hip roof, with a two-story projecting gable section to the left, and a smaller gable at the front, to the right of the tower. The tower is capped by a conical roof, with swag panels between the levels. The front-facing gable has a small Palladian window, while the left projection has a wide two-story bay window, with an oculus window in the gable. A porch extends across the front and around the side, and is ornately decorated, with a turned balustrade and posts, and a decorative trellis-like valance. The interior is similarly richly decorated in high quality materials.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1895 for Holman Day and his wife, Helen Rowell Gerald, by his father-in-law. At the time, Day was working primarily as a journalist for newspapers in Auburn and Lewiston. It was here that he wrote much of his poetry and fiction, building a reputation for his colorful depictions of life in Maine.</p><br>
<p>The Gay-Munroe House is an historic house located at 64 Highland Avenue in Auburn, in the USA state of Maine. Built in 1878 for Charles Gay, a local shoe manufacturer, it features an architecturally eclectic mix of Late Victorian decorations. It is also notable as the home for many years of Willard Noble Munroe, another leading shoe manufacturer. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Gay-Munroe House stands on the west side of Highland Avenue, in a residential area northwest of Auburn&#39;s central business district. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a roughly T-shaped plan that has a hip roof and cross gable projecting section, with a hip-roof ell extending to the rear. A square cupola with pyramidal roof stands atop the roof between brick chimneys. The building is clad predominantly in vinyl siding, but most of its 19th-century decorative trim elements have been preserved. The front facade consists of a single projecting bay, two stories in height, with a narrow gable-roof dormer projecting from the roof. The dormer is decorated with Stick style woodwork, a detail repeated in the larger projecting side gable section. A single-story porch stands in the corner made by that section, supported by turned posts and balustrade. String courses of trim band the building at the lintel and sill levels of the windows on both levels.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by the Lewiston firm of Stevens & Coombs, and was built in 1878 for Charles Gay, who was involved in Auburns shoe industry, its major economic force. In 1894 the house was purchased by Willard Noble Munroe, founder and first president of the Auburn Shoe Manufacturers Association. He also served as treasurer of Quebecs Brompton Pulp and Paper Company, one of Canadas largest paper companies at the time.</p><br>
<p>Preobrazheniya Island , meaning Transfiguration Island, is an island in the Laptev Sea, Russia.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island is elongated and small. It is situated off the Northern mouth of the Khatanga Gulf (Russian: Хатангский залив), 15 km north of Bolshoy Begichev Island.</p><br>
<p>Preobrazheniya Island is 7 km in length and its maximum width is 2,5 km. This island is granitic and has high rocky cliffs on its eastern side. The west side of the island is sloping to a gravel beach.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This island was useful as a landmark for ships plying the Northern Sea Route in the past. It is also known as "Ostrov Vstrechnyy". There is an abandoned Polar research station on Preobrazheniya.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>For administrative purposes Preobrazheniya Island belongs to the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic of the Russian Federation.</p><br>
<p>The Simsa Bay or Bay of Sims  is a gulf in the Laptev Sea on the coast of the Taymyr Peninsula.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The bay measures about 40 km from the mouth of the Gol&#39;tsovaya River in the west to its broadest opening to the sea in the east. Its average width is 14 km.</p><br>
<p>The cluster of islands deep inside the bay is known as Ostrova Zalivnyye 77&deg;05&prime;N latitude, 104&deg;21&prime;E longitude. The largest island is 4 km in length.</p><br>
<p>Owing to its extreme northerly location, the climate in the area of the Simsa Bay is exceptionally severe, with prolonged, bitter winters. This gulf is covered by ice most of the year, sometimes remaining frozen even in the brief summer period.</p><br>
<p>The Komsomolskaya Pravda Islands lie off the Simsa Bay&#39;s mouth.</p><br>
<p>Simsa Bay, Zaliv Simsa, should not be confused with Simskaya Bay, Bukhta Simskaya, an inlet on the right side of the Khatanga Gulf.</p><br>
<h3>Administration</h3><br>
<p>For administrative purposes the Simsa Bay belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Krai of the Russian Federation.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1940-41 Soviet hydrographers found the remains of people, money, weapons and other items in the Simsa Bay and in the nearby Faddey Islands. Apparently these were traces of an expedition undertaken by Akaky and Ivan Muromets in the early 17th century.</p><br>
<p>The academician A.P. Okladnikov, an expert in the Ancient Cultures of Siberia and the Pacific Basin, studied these findings in 1945. He supposed that the people went there from the west, from the Yenisei River (Historical monument…, 1945).</p><br>
<p>However, in the 1980s hydrographer V.A.Troitsky put forward a different theory. According to his point of view the deceased seafarers tried to sail by sea from the Khatanga Gulf to the mouth of the Yenisei on two ships in order to load furs (Troitsky, 1991). But the first ship was crushed by ice in the area of the Faddey Islands. Even though the crew were able to reach the land, none of them managed to survive. The second ship reached the Simsa Bay, where the crew built a house in order to leave three ill people there. Then the ship made its way to the south, and four people seem to have been able to reach populated places.</p><br>
<p>The Maroochy River is a river in South East Queensland, Australia. The river rises from the eastern slopes of the Blackall Range and flows east through Eumundi, before entering the sea at Cotton Tree, Maroochydore. Other populated centres in the catchment include Nambour, Eudlo, Yandina and Coolum.</p><br>
<p>The suburb south of Airport and North of River and west of Motorway is known as Maroochy River.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The watershed of the Maroochy River encompasses 630 km&sup2; of undulating hills which have been cleared for agriculture and urban uses. There are three dams in the catchment area including Wappa Dam, Cooloolabin Dam and Poona Dam which total to 27,997 ML of capacity.</p><br>
<p>There are two main arms: North and South Maroochy Rivers. Tributaries of the river include Petrie Creek and its major tributary Paynter Creek, Eudlo Creek, Coolum Creek, Doonan Creek and Yandina Creek.</p><br>
<p>There is one Canal system open to the river Maroochy Waters and a second Canal system with restricted access to river namely Twin Waters. There are also numerous lake systems which drain to the river and its creeks such as Sunshine Cove.</p><br>
<p>There are a number of named Islands in the river including Pincushion Island, Goat Island, Channel Island, Chambers Island & Bungee&#39;s Island.</p><br>
<h2>Floods</h2><br>
<p>Significant floods on the Maroochy River have occurred in 1893, 1951, 1974 and 1992. In 1994 the Maroochy River flood warning system was set up to provide river height predictions for the Maroochy Shire Council.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mouth of the river was affected by the 2009 southeast Queensland oil spill, reaching about 2 km upstream to the Maroochy Bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Hans Hanson House, also known as the "Hans-Lindfors House" or "Hans-Lindfors Mansion" is an historic house in Marquette, Kansas at 211 East 5th Street.</p><br>
<p>The 16-room Italianate house was built in 1888 by Hans Hanson, one of the founders of Town of Marquette who helped organize the Fremont Lutheran Church (1869), the first church in the Smoky Valley, and the Elim Lutheran Church in Marquette (1878). Hanson was also an early promoter and grower of broom corn.</p><br>
<p>The house also exhibits a Carpenter Gothic style, influenced by Swedish architecture. In the backyard of the home is Hanson&#39;s original 1871 wood frame cabin, where the Marquette city charter was signed. The wood frame cabin was originally attached to his 1869 log cabin. The houses were owned by the Hanson family for over 100 years. The Hans Hanson House has been restored to its original appearance and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St. Wenceslaus is a Catholic church in New Prague, Minnesota, United States, constructed in 1907. The church is flanked by a 1908 rectory and a 1914 parochial school, and the three-building complex is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its association with the Czech American settlement of south-central Minnesota.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The group of immigrants who settled New Prague had originally settled around Dubuque, Iowa, but many of them died of cholera. Four men from the community traveled up the Mississippi River to Saint Paul, in search of a healthier climate. They met with Catholics in the area who advised them that Benedictines from Saint John&#39;s Abbey near Saint Cloud, Minnesota, were helping settlers find land. The explorers from the Czech community got lost, though, and ended up following the Minnesota River to Shakopee instead. They found that there was ample land to the south, so the four men purchased land and brought their families north from Iowa.</p><br>
<p>The parish of St. Wenceslaus was organized in 1856, and a log church was built the following year. The log church was destroyed by fire in 1864, so a more permanent building was erected in 1866, built of brick and stone. As the parish grew, though, more room was needed. Father Francis Tichy directed the building of the new church, which was designed by St. Paul architect Hermann Kretz. The building was originally slated to cost $53,000, but cost overruns raised the cost to $85,000. As a result of dissatisfaction over the costs, Father Tichy resigned from the parish in 1906, and his successor Father Jaroslav Cermak oversaw the completion of the building. Archbishop John Ireland dedicated the new building on July 7, 1907.</p><br>
<p>Brick and Kasota limestone were used for constructing the spacious building. It dominates the skyline of the small city of New Prague, measuring 165 by, with two towers that rise 110 ft. The architectural style combines neoclassical and Romanesque architectural styles, and it is based on a church in Prague, Czech Republic. The church&#39;s namesake, Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia was born near Prague circa 907 CE. A statue of King Wenceslaus is located in a niche above the main entrance. A large pipe organ at the rear of the church was operational until the 2000s.</p><br>
<p>The church, rectory, and school were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for their local significance in the themes of education, exploration/settlement, and religion. The three-building compex was nominated for its association with the Czech American settlement of south-central Minnesota.</p><br>
<p>As of 2009, there were about 1,440 member families in the St. Wenceslaus parish, making it the largest parish in the local area. A consolidation plan announced in October 2010 by the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis called for five much smaller parishes in the area to be merged into St. Wenceslaus parish. The St. Benedict and St. Joseph churches were closed, while the St. John the Evangelist and St. Scholastica churches are still being used for worship as parts of the "greater St. Wenceslaus community".</p><br>
<p>St. Wenceslaus parish operates an elementary school that enrolls children from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.</p><br>
<p>Swedish Pavilion is an historic site at Mill Street in Lindsborg, Kansas.</p><br>
<p>Designed by Swedish architect Ferdinand Boberg, the Pavilion was built as an international exposition building for the 1904 St. Louis World&#39;s Fair. After the fair, the Pavilion was moved to Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, where it was used for classroom, library, museum and department facilities for the art department.</p><br>
<p>The Swedish Pavilion was moved to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum, also in Lindsborg, in 1969. The facility is used for cultural heritage events at the museum.</p><br>
<p>The Pavilion was added to the National Historic Register in 1973.</p><br>
<p>During the royal visit of Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf to the United States in 1976, he toured the Swedish Pavilion as part of festivities in Lindsborg.</p><br>
<p>Smoky Valley Roller Mill, now known as the McPherson County Old Mill Museum, is an historic mill and museum on Mill Street in Lindsborg, Kansas.</p><br>
<p>Smoky Valley Roller Mill was built in 1898 to make flour from wheat. The Roller Mill was operated by several different owners until closing in 1955. It was originally water powered, but converted to electricity in the 1930s. The building was given to McPherson County in 1962. George Tesarek, a retired Quaker Oats miller from St. Joseph, Mo. led the restoration of the building from 1974 to 1981.</p><br>
<p>The building is now used as a museum. The museum grounds also include the 1904 World&#39;s Fair Swedish Pavilion and other buildings with local history exhibits, especially pertaining to Swedish-American history. The museum is open daily, year round. The mill building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Sierra de los Cuchumatanes is the highest non-volcanic mountain range in Central America. Its elevations range from 500 m to over 3,800 m, and it covers a total area of 16,350 km&sup2;. With an area of 1,500 km&sup2; situated above 3,000 m, it is also the most extensive highland region in Central America. The Sierra de los Cuchumatanes is located in western Guatemala in the departments of Huehuetenango and El Quiché. Its western and south-western borders are marked by the Seleguá River which separates it from the Sierra Madre volcanic chain. Its southern border is defined by the Río Negro which flows into the Chixoy River that turns northwards and separates the Cuchumatanes from the mountains in the Alta Verapaz region. The highest peaks, which reach up to 3,837 m are in the department of Huehuetenango.</p><br>
<p>The name "Cuchumatán" is derived from the Mam words "Cuchuj" (to join or unite) and "matán" (with superior force) and means "that which was brought together by superior force". Cuchumatán may also be a derivation of the Nahuatl word "kochmatlán" which means "place of the parrot hunters".</p><br>
<p>The Cuchumatanes has a variety of different biomes, including pine-oak lower montane and montane humid forest, while lower montane wet forest and neotropic grass & shrub lands are present on higher slopes and plateaus, and subtropical pluvial forest in the northern piemonte.</p><br>
<p>The North End Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district in northwestern Westerly, Rhode Island. The area traces the industrial development of Westerly, with proximity to both its central business district as well as water-based textile mills, and stone quarries further inland. Most of the district&#39;s architecture was built between 1832 and 1955. The district is bounded on the east by High Street; on the south by properties on Friendship, West, Pleasant Streets, Marriott Avenue and Industrial Drive; on the west by properties on Pleasant, Canal, Pierce and Pond Streets; and on the north by properties on Pond, Pierce, Pearl, and High Streets, and Turano Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Fish Lake Valley is a 25 mi  long endorheic valley in southwest Nevada, one of many contiguous inward-draining basins collectively called the Great Basin. The alluvial valley lies just northwest of Death Valley and borders the southeast, and central-northeast flank of the massif of the White Mountains of California. The valleys southern end lies in eastern Inyo County, California. The valley is sparsely populated with ranchers and indigenous Paiute. Business services are located in the valleys only town Dyer.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Fish Lake Valley is a slightly southwest-northeast trending valley, in its northern and central section. It borders the White Mountains on the southwest and receives water from Cottonwood Creek and other small, permanent mountain streams. The extension of the mountains southeasterly provides a feeder valley with some small dry lakes and salt pans. The major section of the valley contains a borax mixed salt pan for 10 mi of the valley. A small dry lake is in the center, approximately 1.5 mi long. It is fed from the White Mountains, and the small subvalley southeastwards. Alluvial fans are west of the dry lake, with Nevada State Route 264 in the hills to the northwest that also feed southeast and eastwards. To the east and southeast, the Silver Peak Range borders the valley with no alluvial fans, and is the smaller massif probably block faulted from the White Mountains, and thru block faulting creating the smaller feeder valley on the White Mountains&#39; southeast, (the Furnace Creek Fault Zone).</p><br>
<p>The center-north of the valley has very narrow fans, and broken salt flats, that end at the valley&#39;s central dry lake. Lower elevation hills and peaks at the north of the Silver Peak Range are the east and northeast border. Coaldale, Nevada on east-west USA Route 6 in Nevada is located at the northern border of the Fish Lake Valley.</p><br>
<h2>Route access</h2><br>
<p>Nevada State Route 264 enters the valleys center west at the foothills of the White Mountains and at Dyer turns southeast at the feeder valley and foothills of the mountains; its terminus point is Oasis, Mono County, California. Nevada State Route 773 intercepts Route 264 in the hills on the Fish Lake Valley northwest border. USA Route 6 at Coaldale, Nevada is in the hills adjacent the valleys north border.</p><br>
<p>Early Shakopee Houses are located at 411 and 419 East 2nd Avenue, Shakopee, Minnesota, United States. They are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The houses are built mainly of brick, which was quite common in Scott County, even for modest residential dwellings. These two houses, as with other structures in Scott County, were designed by local builders, not by well-known architects, but they show the influence of major architectural styles as interpreted by area residents and builders. The houses date back to about 1865, when the county was experiencing a phase of growth associated with the construction of railroads. The Minnesota Valley Railroad, later part of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway, built its line through Shakopee in 1865. Shakopee had been established as a river town in 1854, but the growth of railroad lines in the county accelerated Shakopee&#39;s growth. The Merchants Hotel and these two houses in Shakopee, along with the Hooper-Bowler-Hillstrom House and the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Belle Plaine and several buildings in the Jordan Historic District in Jordan, were nominated to the National Register as examples of the development in the railroad boom era in Scott County.</p><br>
<p>Early Shakopee Houses 411.jpg411 East 2nd Avenue</p><br>
<p>Early Shakopee Houses 419.jpg419 East 2nd Avenue</p><br>
<p>The Hooper-Bowler-Hillstrom House was built in 1871 in Belle Plaine, Minnesota, United States, by Sandford A. Hooper, a local businessman and promoter of the town. In 1886 it conveyed to Samuel Bowler, a founder of the State Bank of Belle Plaine and lumber-yard owner. Bowler added a new kitchen, buttery, and a five-hole, two-story outhouse that is connected to the house via a skyway. He also added a copper-lined bathtub. When the Bowlers moved to Denver, Colorado in 1901, the clapboard frame house was sold to Alfred Hillstrom whose family lived in the house until it was purchased in 1975 by the town&#39;s Historical Society. It is now owned by the city of Belle Plaine and is open to the public. Current furnishings include three periods-1850s and 1860s, Victorian, and early 1900s.</p><br>
<p>Additional features include a well-pump in the kitchen, a wood stove, and a large carriage stone on the front lawn, which acted as a step for ascending into or descending from carriages. Surviving outbuildings include a wood shed used to store coal and wood to fuel the stoves in the house and a brick smoke house. Furnishing include a "courting chair" in which young couples would sit back-to-back.</p><br>
<p>The home has a low-pitched roof and central chimneys; it is adorned with a long, covered front porch and is specially decorated for Christmas. In addition to the winter holiday, the home is open to the public in the summer. Visitors may see the distinctive outhouse, but may not use it. Similar to other two-story outhouses, the waste from the upper level flows behind a false wall in the lower level.</p><br>
<p>Fort Kent State Historic Site is a Maine state park in the town of Fort Kent, Maine. Located at the confluence of the Fish and Saint John Rivers, it includes Fort Kent, the only surviving American fortification built during border tensions with neighboring New Brunswick known as the Aroostook War. The fort was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973. The park features an original log blockhouse, which is open for visits in the summer.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Fort Kent stands on a slight rise overlooking the Saint John River, just west of the mouth of the Fish River. The Saint John is in this area part of the Canada–United States border, and the region on both sides of the river was until the 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty territory disputed by both the United States and the United Kingdom, of which New Brunswick was then a colonial province.</p><br>
<p>All that remains of Fort Kent is a blockhouse, two stories in height, measuring 23 ft square. It is built out of hand-hewn cedar timbers, and has an overhanging second story and a pyramidal roof. Each side of the roof is pierced by a gabled dormer. The main entrance faces west, and is flanked by four rifle ports on the first floor, and there are twelve rifle ports on the first floor of each of the other three sides. On the second floor, which hangs 15 in over the first, there are eleven rifle ports on the east and west sides, and fifteen on the north and south sides. There are two cannon ports on the first floor north and south sides. The interior has been modestly disturbed to install heating and plumbing, and to provide for museum displays.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The boundary between Maine and New Brunswick was a recurring subject of disagreement following the 1783 Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the United States. Part of the eastern border was fixed after the Jay Treaty of 1797, but the upper Saint John River area remained disputed. Both Maine and New Brunswick pressed development of the area to solidify their claims, but this consequently raised tensions beginning in the 1820s, with authorities from each government acting against the other&#39;s settlers and agents.</p><br>
<p>Construction of Fort Kent, named for Governor Edward Kent, was begun 1838 as tensions reached their height. It was one of a series of forts built by the state along the southern banks of the Saint John River, and is the only one surviving. (The blockhouse at Fort Fairfield is a 20th-century reconstruction.)</p><br>
<p>In 1839 the arrest of a US government agent in New Brunswick prompted Congress to authorize 50,000 federal troops for assignment to northern Maine. At this time the fort was enlarged to include barracks officers&#39; quarters, and other buildings. General Winfield Scott was sent to the area with power to negotiate a settlement. Scott and New Brunswick Lieutenant Governor John Harvey, who had a long-established friendship, were able to successfully reduce tensions until the Webster-Ashburton Treaty was negotiated in 1842.</p><br>
<p>After the crisis passed, the fort was sold into private hands. In 1891 the property was sold to the state of Maine for the purpose of establishing a park. The state did no substantive work on the site until 1959, when the historic site was formally established. The museum is now maintained by the Fort Kent Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Vandalism</h2><br>
<p>Fort Kent has been subject to numerous incidents of vandalism in recent history. Most notably in 1977 when the fort was almost burned down when an unidentified individual etched the phrase "Jeano was Here" into the exterior of the upper terrace using a portable torch. Although no arrests were made, officials believed it was a resident of the nearby town of Fort Kent. In 2010 the National Park Services removed over 500 lbs of shredded paper that vandals used to fill the interior of the Fort. This resulted in the fort being closed to the public for almost a month.</p><br>
<p>The Cushnoc Archeological Site, also known as Cushnoc  or Koussinoc or Coussinoc, is an archaeological site in Augusta, Maine that was the location of a 17th-century trading post operated by English colonists from Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts. The trading post was built in 1628 and lies on the Kennebec River. It is adjacent to Fort Western, an 18th-century stockade fort around which the city of Augusta grew. The site is significant as it provides a window into trading, living, and construction practices in the early period of colonial settlement in New England. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The English Plymouth Colony was established at present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 by religious dissidents and English adventurers. In order to repay the investors in the colonization effort, the colonists engaged in a number of ventures, one of which was trading with the local Native American population for furs. Pursuant to this business, the colonists in 1628 established a trading post on the Kennebec River at the site of what is now Augusta, Maine, which the Plymouth colonists called "Cushnoc". The Plymouth colonists were not the only colonists trading on that river, and the Plymouth colonists are known to have operated at at least one other site in the area. They are known to have abandoned their trading on the Kennebec in 1661. In 1754 Fort Western, also a National Historic Landmark, was built "at a place called Cushenoc Near The Spot where one hundred years ago the late Plymouth Colony had a Garrison."</p><br>
<p>The Cushnoc site was identified and excavated between 1984 and 1987. It is located on the eastern bank of the Kennebec River, just south of Fort Western, on land that is partly owned by a local church. The excavation outlined the boundaries of the trading post&#39;s palisaded wall, as well as postholes of earthfast buildings erected at the site. These and other finds at the site were found beneath the surface level plow zone in sandy soil. Artifacts found were consistent with those found at other sites dating to the mid-17th century, including tobacco pipes, glass beads, utilitarian ceramics, French and Spanish earthenwares, and many hand-forged nails. The data uncovered thus far and new excavations are expected to shed light on the relationships between (and among) the English traders, the Native population, and the nearby French Acadian settlements.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Elson-Dudley House is a historic home located at 1101 29th Avenue, Meridian, Mississippi. Built in 1894 by Julius and Dora Neubauer Elson, some of Meridian&#39;s earliest settlers, the home is a Victorian Eastlake Movement home with Queen Anne influence. The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 1979, under the Meridian Multiple Property Submission.</p><br>
<p>The "pink house", as it is known locally, prominently features pedimented gables, a front veranda with a corner, conical-roofed turret, and a conical roofed tower. The front porch features turned balusters with center beads and the multi-panel entrance door is headed by a stained glass transom.</p><br>
<p>The 5,000 ft&sup2, 16-room mansion sits on a 29,620.8 ft&sup2; lot and takes up half a city block. The Elson-Dudley house contains 4 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms. The house holds 10 fireplaces, 5 chimneys, a grand staircase, and sports an asymmetrical facade.</p><br>
<h2>Ownership history</h2><br>
<p>LaWanda Burke, a retired florist, and her son Barry of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, purchased the home in 1989 from long-time owners the Dudley family. A 2-year renovation of the home was completed by the Burkes at this time which included installation of commercial grade central heat and air system, removal of old roof and installation of new roof shingles, structural foundation restoration, automatic driveway gate, construction of a carriage house for storage and car parking behind the home, storm windows, interior paint, historically correct exterior lighting fixtures and historically Victorian correct pink and rose accent paint (the house was previously green). A National Register of Historic Places marker was also added near the front door by the Burkes. A tapestry custom sewn by LaWanda Burke is visible in the front window of the parlor room. LaWanda Burke also filled the home with period correct antiques and resided in the home.</p><br>
<p>LaWanda Burke died of complications of cancer in the home in 1992. The home became owned solely by Barry Burke and he was married to Karen Keith of Meridian in the home on March 28, 1992. Barry Burke sold the home in 1993 upon moving to Atlanta, Georgia.</p><br>
<p>Massachusetts Hall is the oldest building on the campus of Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine. It was built 1798-1802, and has seen a number of uses during the school&#39;s long history. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Massachusetts Hall is located at the northern end of the Bowdoin Campus, just south of Bath Street and east of Memorial Hall, home to the Pickard Theatre. It is a three-story red-brick structure, with a hip roof and granite trim elements, and a 2-1/2 story ell extending to one side. The main block measures 50.5 x, and is five bays wide, with a central entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a half-round transom and cornice. The building&#39;s third-floor windows are smaller, a typical Federal period feature.</p><br>
<p>Bowdoin College was chartered in 1794, and its leadership authorized construction of its first building in 1798. Construction began that year, but was brought to a halt by a lack of funding. The college trustees sold of land elsewhere in Maine to fund its completion, and it was dedicated in 1802.</p><br>
<p>The Prayer Temple of Love Cathedral is located at 12375 Woodward Avenue in Highland Park, Michigan. It was built in 1929 as the Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church was originally a mission on the west side of Detroit, known as the Detroit Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church. The congregation originally worshipped in built a frame Victorian Gothic chapel (built for the Highland Park Presbyterian congregation) one block south of the current site. The present cathedral was built from 1929 to 1930, and was used by the congregation until 1979, when the Grace Evangelical congregation sold their church building to an Apostolic African-American congregation. The building is now known as the Prayer Temple of Love Cathedral.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building is a relatively small, random ashlar, limestone, Neo-Gothic-style structure. It has a tall, gabled nave with lower side aisles extending back to gabled transepts. The entrance is flanked by shallow buttresses, and a large traceried Gothic window dominates the facade. A square, flat-roofed tower with louvered belfry is above the crossing where the nave meets the transepts. The roof is dark slate, contrasting with the masonry of the walls. At the rear of the church is the cross-gabled, Victorian Gothic structure which served the congregation until the present building was erected. A two-story, hip-roofed brick parsonage is also on the property.</p><br>
<p>The National Bank of Rolla Building was opened in March 1931 at 8th and Pine Streets in Rolla, Missouri, midway between St. Louis and Springfield. Because of its architectural character and its importance in the life of the city and history of USA Route 66, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The National Bank of Rolla (1870s-1933) occupied the northwest corner of the first floor and the Edwin Long Hotel (1931-1970s) had the remainder of the building. The basement level served as the College Inn banquet hall, with a capacity of 350. The hotel had 75 guest rooms and the Edwin Long Coffee Shop for daily dining. The hotel was located adjacent to the historic USA Route 66, which ran directly through Rolla, MO on 8th Street.</p><br>
<p>Daily room rates were $2.00 for a single bed and $3.00 for a double bed, with each rooms having a tub shower and radiant heat. The Edwin Long Hotel operated from 1931 until the early 1970s, when the building was purchased by the Phelps County Bank for the headquarters of its banking operation. The hotels business slowly declined after USA Route 66 (now I-44) was rerouted in the late 1950s from downtown to the northern outskirts of Rolla.</p><br>
<p>The First National Bank of Rolla was liquidated in 1933 during the Great Depression. Rolla State Bank, which took over the bank space, occupied the northwest corner of the first floor of the building until 1963. Phelps County Bank then took over the entire building. It has continued to operate in the same location.</p><br>
<p>Phelps County Bank restored the building&#39;s exterior in 2001. It occupies the entire building, using the first floor for the bank service lobby, the second floor for the loan department, third floor for bookkeeping, and fourth floor for executive offices. The bank uses the former banquet hall on the lower level for a large board room and meeting room for bank functions. The First National Bank building has served as a centerpiece for downtown commerce in Rolla, MO since the 1930s. With Phelps County Bank, the building is still a source of regional financial services.</p><br>
<p>Over the years, many famous people stayed at the Edwin Long Hotel, including President Harry Truman, actress Marilyn Monroe, and actor Victor Mature. The hotel served as the premier facility for travelers using Route 66 or the Frisco Railroad from the 1930s through the early 1960s, when passenger railroad service stopped. Motels built on the rerouted Route 66 (I-44) during the 1950s and 1960s drew away travelers from downtown.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church of Meridian is a historic church in Meridian, Mississippi, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>From 1856 to 1867, the church met in the second floor of a store owned by one of the members. In 1867, the church had grown enough to construct a building on the corner of 25th Avenue and 7th Street in which to hold its services. After a fire on January 27, 1883, the building was destroyed; members of the church later rebuilt the structure using brick instead of wood. The church remained at its location on 25th Avenue and 7th Street until September 25, 1911, when it was sold to the city of Meridian. The city currently uses the building to house the Meridian Museum of Art.</p><br>
<p>After selling the old building, the church bought a lot at the corner of 23rd Avenue and 10th Street. The building, designed by architect Penn Jeffries Krouse, was built in 1913 and dedicated on March 29, 1914. In 1951, an educational building addition used for Sunday School was completed under the leadership of pastor Dr. J. Kelly Unger.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The sanctuary was renovated in 1982. In October 1996, the church bought an adjacent building which became the Administration & Education Building and is used for staff offices as well as both Adult Sunday School and committee meetings.</p><br>
<p>The Baltimore County Courthouses are located in Towson, the older original Baltimore County Courthouse  of 1854-1856  houses many of the offices of the County government, of both of the executive branch  and the legislative branch , while the County Courts Building  of 1970-1971 is dedicated to the civil, criminal, family and juvenile divisions of the Circuit Court of Maryland for Baltimore County, as well as the Baltimore County Sheriff&#39;s Office with its protection of the Courthouse and its judicial personnel and law enforcement functions.</p><br>
<h2>Historic Courthouses</h2><br>
<p>The historic Baltimore County Courthouse is an edifice of limetone and marble, two stories in height and nine bays in length surrounded by a modest park and square on the east (and north/south) sides nicely landscaped with a variety of flowers and shrubs and small trees, with winding paths and benches. Several small memorials and historical objects are displayed. The east original facade of 1855-1856 is of Greek Revival styled architecture with a portico/porte-cochere with a pediment supported by fluted Doric columns. The structure is one hundred and twelve feet in length in front, by fifty-six feet in depth. A shallow A-frame roof of the main block is crowned with a centered, eight-windowed, pilastered, frame cupola bearing a domed copper roof. Originally constructed in 1854–55, at a cost then of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000), the building is one of the few H-plan buildings, public or private, remaining in the State. All of the original exterior treatments are preserved intact.</p><br>
<p>The Towsontown Courthouse.was begun in 1854, and replaced the earlier City/County Courthouses that had been shared by both Baltimore Town (and later City) and the surrounding County since 1768. The first one being located in old "Courthouse Square", begun construction in the port town in 1768, one year after the site of the county seat had been moved from old Joppa, a near vanished village near the mouth of the Gunpowder River at Chesapeake Bay along the mid-eastern boundaries of the County then to the newer and bustling port town of Baltimore Town, on the Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River, then thirty-eight (38) years old. The second City/County Courthouse was constructed across the street from the old public square in downtown Baltimore to the west at the northwestern corner facing East Lexington Street and North Calvert Street, facing the empty square of the recently razed earlier colonial era Courthouse for several years. After consideration as the center city site for the proposed first monument to honor commanding General of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and first President of the United States, "His Excellency", George Washington. The town even went so far as to lay a cornerstone for the new planned Washington column on "Independence Day", July 4, 1814, 15 years after his death, just a few months before an pivotal era-defining military attack by British massive sea and land forces later that September. Since local home owners were afraid that the unusually tall marble column was too high and large for the site and might later topple over on their houses, after some consideration during the summer of 1815, the proposed Washington memorial was moved north of the town to "Howard&#39;s Woods" on land donated by Col. John Eager Howard to the west of his mansion on his estate of "Belvidere". Instead the planned memorial for the soldiers and officers in the Battle of North Point with the British Army, southeast of the city on the "Patapsco Neck" and the subsequent Bombardment at Fort McHenry during the recent Battle of Baltimore was designated for the old Courthouse Square, which had always been a gathering place for news, gossip and protests along with mass meetings and assemblies of the citizenry. Built during 1815 to 1822, the east side of the second courthouse faced the new adjoining Battle Monument Square.</p><br>
<p>Across from the City/County Courthouse was the Battle Monument which replaced the previous first County and Town Courts, later known as the "Courthouse on Stilts" as the 1768 building was temporarily saved from razing when it became necessary to extend Calvert Street further north, so later in 1784, local town builder Leonard Harbaugh erected a new brick/stone foundation under the building resting on arches supporting the building and cut away ground around it enabling the street passage beneath, in the Square at the edge of the cliffs then overlooking the bend of the Jones Falls flowing south to the harbor. This first courthouse in the square, was razed around 1804-1805. It was also here on July 29, 1776, that the recently adopted Declaration of Independence proclaimed three weeks earlier by the Second Continental Congress at the old Pennsylvania State House (now renamed Independence Hall) in Philadelphia, was read to the townfolk along the Patapsco River</p><br>
<p>The second courthouse of Georgian style was constructed on the southwest corner of then North Calvert and East Lexington Streets, opposite the old "Courthouse Square" in which the "Battle Monument" commemorating the British attack on the city during the War of 1812 had since been erected from 1815 to 1822, designed by French architect Maximilian Godefroy, (1765-1838), to commemorate "Defenders Day" (a city, county, and state official holiday) of the British attack on Baltimore, with the bombardment of Fort McHenry, the stand-off for a day of the opposing American militia in fortifications east of the city on "Loudenschlagers Hill" (now "Hampstead Hill" in western Patterson Park) opposing the advancing British Army / Kings Army, and the earlier Battle of North Point on the "Patapsco Neck" peninsula in the southeastern portion of the County, September 12–14, 1814 during the War of 1812, occasionally known as the "Second War for American Independence". The "rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air" were lines of a poem, titled "The Defence of Fort McHenry" that soon appeared on printed broadsheets and handbills (from the offices of the "Baltimore American") all around town and appeared shortly later in the newspapers, the "Baltimore Patriot". It was written by the noted Frederick and Georgetown lawyer (and poet), Francis Scott Key, (1779–1843) who had witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry from their truce ship "Minden" anchored further down river on the Patapsco River (probably off Sparrows Point on the north side near the river entrance or the Royal Navys invasion fleets landing site at North Point). Key, who had been asked by Beanes friends / neighbors and Maryland state officials, was trying to negotiate the release from the British officers, a captured Prince George&#39;s County doctor William Beanes, from the county seat, at Upper Marlboro, was accompanied with his companion, the local USA Truce and prisoner-of-war Exchange Agent, John S. Skinner. Later set to music in a few days at a local well-known Baltimore theatre and neighboring tavern on Holliday Street, (between East Lexington and East Fayette Streets - now the site since the 1920s of War Memorial Plaza, across from the Baltimore City Hall). The musical poem quickly became known as the "Star-Spangled Banner", later to become the National Anthem in 1931.</p><br>
<p>After considerable discussion and agitation for several decades, going back as far as 1835, prompted by a fire of several arsons that year during the economic recession and panic begun with the "Baltimore bank riot" which damaged the downtown second Baltimore County/City Courthouse (then only 20 years old, at the southwest corner of North Calvert and East Lexington Streets). After more recent debates, and votes, with the adoption by statewide referendum of the new second Maryland Constitution of 1851, it contained the provisions for elevating the City of Baltimore to the status of an "independent city" on the same status of all of the other counties of the state and increasing its representation and number of votes/members in each chamber of the state legislature—in the House of Delegates and the State Senate in the General Assembly of Maryland. With the positive vote, the City of Baltimore (which had also functioned as the "county seat" of Baltimore County since 1767, an 84-year tenure) was separated and established as an "independent city" (with the status of one of the twenty-three counties of the State of Maryland) as of July 4, 1851. A subsequent series of votes and referendums by the citizens of the remaining reduced territory of new Baltimore County, voted to move the new county seat to what was then called then "Towsontown", as of February 13, 1854.</p><br>
<p>Named for the Towson family of early colonial settlers, brothers William and Thomas Towson, who had moved to the area from Pennsylvania in the early 1750s. Their homestead was located near the current "traffic circle" at Joppa, York and Dulaney Valley Roads, and had begun farming at Saters Hill, just to the northeast. Later, Thomas son Ezekiel built a log tavern where the modern-day Towson Tavern and the old Towson Theatre building for movies (and currently Recher Theatre for rock music concerts). Ezekiels tavern soon became a regular stopping place for travelers and farmers heading north out of the city or south with their crops towards Baltimore, beginning the small cross-roads communitys place as a commercial place for doing business. Several hundred yards to the northwest at the current 617 York Road, is the wood-frame house of Solomon Schmuck (now a bridal boutique store), which is said by local historians to be Towsons oldest house. He married Catharine Towson, (1767–1834), one of hostelier Ezekiels 12 children, (and granddaughter to Thomas), so uniting the Schmuck and Towson families. Ezekiel became an important leader in the County and in the local response to the American Revolution. Her carved tombstone, the last upright stone remaining in a small family plot, surrounded by several other unmarked relatives&#39; graves, including the connected Shealey family, was recently surrounded in 2014 by the construction of the "Towson Square" shopping and entertainment development of four acres, costing $85 million, facing East Joppa Road. In addition, a later member of the family attained a nationally-known military career who was General Nathan Towson, (1784–1854), veteran of the War of 1812, whose reputation made the small town famous in the early 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The cornerstone of the new County Courthouse was laid with elaborate ceremonies and a procession, on October 19, 1854, in front of a "numerous assemblage" in what was still then known as "Towsontown". Coleman Yellott, (1821–1870), a local respected attorney delivered the official address and "oratory" for the occasion saying: "The ceremony which you had assembled to witness, has now been performed. The Corner Stone of the building has been laid; and soon the edifice itself will rise towards the Heavens, attracting, by the beauty of its proportions and the simple grandeur of its walls, the admiring gaze of every traveler along yonder highway. May it stand for ages, in sunshine and in storm, firm and unshaken as the hill in which its foundations are planted; and may it ever be pointed to as a temple of Justice!"</p><br>
<p>Designed by noted local city architects of Dixon, Bilbirnie & Dixon and the famous firm of Baldwin & Pennington, (composed of Ephraim Francis Baldwin (1896–1916), and Josias Pennington (1854–1929). The building was completed in 1855 by the builder, William H. Allen, but the first session of the Court was held here on Monday, January 5, 1857 after a long battle about the land title for the site from Dr. Grafton M. Bosley who owned a large portion of the western side of the town, who had presented it to the county with a "right-of-way" to it from the Baltimore and York Turnpike, and was finally resolved from the nearby turnpike company in December 1856. On the succeeding May 15, 1857, the new courthouse and the jail (two blocks south) were declared finished and formally handed over to the county commissioners. Six years later, the building was the object of an arson attack. According to a blurb in "The New York Daily Times", on Saturday, August 14, 1861, the building was "fired by incendiary". The account goes on to say that the fire was contained to the records office and the rest of the building escaped damage. The building was enlarged in 1910, again in 1925, and a third time in 1958. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>County Courts Building</h2><br>
<p>The "Baltimore County Courts Building" is located on Bosley Avenue in Towson, Maryland and faces the same public square, west of the original historic "Baltimore County Courthouse" (which faces east with the older, traditional square - towards Washington Avenue). Sometimes referred to as the "New Courthouse", it was designed of modernist architecture and constructed about 1970 with matching white stone panels. It houses the 17 judges of the Circuit Court of Maryland for Baltimore County, the Offices of the Baltimore County State&#39;s Attorney, juvenile and equity masters, four retired judges and nearly 100 support personnel. Courthouses, judges bailiffs and staff for the District Courts of Maryland with lower level legal matters, are in several "district courthouses" in various sections of the County, to the east and the west.</p><br>
<p>The Conondale Range is a mountain range in Queensland, located between Maleny, Kenilworth, Kilcoy and Jimna. The range is the most westerly part of the Sunshine Coast hinterland and part of the Great Dividing Range. The highest point on the range is Mount Langley reaching 868 m above sea level. This is also the highest point in the Brisbane River catchment.</p><br>
<p>Lower foothills of the range around Kilcoy are used for grazing. Most of the steep forested slopes of the range are state forests and Conondale National Park. In the south, parts of Stony Creek are preserved in Bellthorpe National Park.</p><br>
<p>The mountains are the source of the Brisbane River. Creeks on the south of the range drain into the Stanley River and directly into Lake Somerset. To the north creeks flow into the Mary River.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>Some 1620 km of the Conondale Range is classified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area because it supports an isolated, and the northernmost, population of the endangered eastern bristlebird, which was only discovered in the 1980s. It is also home large populations of the black-breasted button-quail, pale-yellow robin, paradise riflebird, regent bowerbird, green catbird and Australian logrunner.</p><br>
<p>The extinct gastric-brooding frog and endangered Fleay&#39;s barred frog are two frog species endemic to the Conondale Range and parts of nearby regions.</p><br>
<p>Copps Hill Burying Ground is a historic cemetery in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1659, it was originally named "North Burying Ground", and was the citys second cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first extension was made on January 7, 1708 when the town bought additional land from Judge Samuel Sewall and his wife Hannah. The land was part of a pasture which Mrs. Sewall had inherited from her father, John Hull, master of the mint.</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Weld and his wife Nabby sold the second extension to the town for $10,000 on December 18, 1809 soon after they had bought it from Jonathan Merry, who had used it as pasture. Ten years later, Charles Wells, later mayor of Boston, bought a small parcel of land from John Bishop of Medford and used this as a cemetery that was later merged with the adjacent North Burying Ground. Because of this complicated history, it is no longer possible to discern the original boundaries of the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>On the Snow Hill Street side are the many unmarked graves of the African Americans who lived in the "New Guinea" community at the foot of the hill. In addition to the graves there are 272 tombs, most of which bear inscriptions that are still legible.</p><br>
<p>By 1840 the cemetery had fallen into near disuse but the town continued to maintain the site intermittently. By 1878 it was badly neglected. The cemetery was not an official stop on the Freedom Trail when it was created in 1951 but it has since been added and is much-frequented by tourists and photographers. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>William Copp&#39;s children</p><br>
<p>Shem Drowne, coppersmith, author of the grasshopper weathervane atop Faneuil Hall</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Edes, journalist and agitator</p><br>
<p>Prince Hall, abolitionist, the father of Black Freemasonry</p><br>
<p>Edmund Hartt, master carpenter</p><br>
<p>Samuel Mather, Independent minister</p><br>
<p>Increase Mather, Puritan minister</p><br>
<p>Cotton Mather, Puritan minister</p><br>
<p>Robert Newman, the patriot who placed the signal lanterns in the steeple of Old North Church for Paul Revere&#39;s midnight ride to Lexington and Concord</p><br>
<p>John Norman, publisher</p><br>
<p>Major Samuel Shaw, first American consul at Canton</p><br>
<p>Nicholas Upsall, Puritan and later Quaker leader</p><br>
<p>George Worthylake, first keeper of the Boston Light</p><br>
<p>Kato Pedina  is a village in the Ioannina regional unit in Epirus, Greece. It is in the municipality of Zagori. Its population was counted as 41 in the 2011 census. Kato Pedina is one of the Zagori villages, also known as Zagorochoria, and is in the municipal unit of Central Zagori. It is situated on a mountainside at 940 m elevation, in the northwestern foothills of the Mitsikeli mountains.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The village was once called Kato Soudena (as Ano Pedina was called Ano Soudena). The name is of Slavic origin and either means cold ground or "place of meeting". It is possible that the village was formed after the merge of other villages that existed nearby. Most of the Zagori villages have Slavic names that were given to them during the Slavic raids.</p><br>
<p>In the location of Gkortzia and Lakkia Spanou, an ancient tomb that dates back to the end of the 2nd millennium BC was discovered. As a settlement, Kato Pedina was famous during the Byzantine era (the oldest written reference of the name was found in the edict of Andronicus II Palaeologus, in 1321 along with the villages of Papingo, Elafotopos and Ano Pedina), it is one of the oldest villages in Zagori.</p><br>
<p>The settlement, as all Zagori villages, enjoyed a great growth after the 16th century.</p><br>
<p>The South Main Street Historic District is a historic district in Coventry, Rhode Island. It extends along South Main Street from its crossing of the South Branch of the Pawtuxet River in the north, to just below Wood Street in the south, and includes a few properties on immediately adjacent streets. The area is almost entire residential, and was developed in the 19th century, providing housing for middle-class workers not directly affiliated with the mills that lined the river. About half the houses were built before 1850, and exhibit either Federal or Greek Revival styling, while most of the remaining houses were built before 1920. The principal non-residential structures are a VFW hall, which began as a mid-19th century residential structure associated with Rhode Island&#39;s prominent Whipple family, the Stillwater Company mill at the northern end of the district , and the three-room Cady Street Schoolhouse .</p><br>
<p>The area was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Bristol County Courthouse  is an historic courthouse on High Street in Bristol, Rhode Island, USA built in 1816. It was originally one of five locations in Rhode Island which hosted the state legislature on a rotating basis, and served as the county courthouse through the 1980s. Currently the building is used for educational and community programs, meetings, and events.</p><br>
<h2>The building</h2><br>
<p>The architect of the Federal style courthouse is unknown; official state records of the time do not list any individual involved with the building. There are good architectural and political reasons to believe the architect may have been Russell Warren or possibly John Holden Greene. The building&#39;s structure is of stone, originally faced in brick, although that has since been stuccoed over.</p><br>
<p>The original design of the interior of the building had a central staircase leading to a platform and split risers to the second floor. In 1836, the stairs were moved in a major redesign.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1814, the state General Assembly held a competition for a new courthouse; they accepted Bristol&#39;s offer of a location on Bristol Town Common facing Bristol Harbor, which was then a major transportation hub.</p><br>
<p>The building was used between 1816 and 1854 as one of five locations for meetings of the Rhode Island House of Representatives and Senate. In 1854 the General Assembly decided to meet only in Providence or Newport.</p><br>
<p>The building housed municipal offices and courts, in addition to the state legislature. In the 1930s it was restored by Providence architects Howe & Church.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The building continued as the seat of Bristol County&#39;s court until the 1980s. The Bristol County Sheriff maintained offices there until 1997, when the building was purchased from the state for $1 by the Bristol Statehouse Foundation. The nonprofit foundation has worked to restore and maintain the building. Currently the building is used for education, community programs, meetings, and events. It also serves as the headquarters for the Bristol Fourth of July Committee.</p><br>
<p>Longfield  is an historic house at 1200 Hope Street in Bristol, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The large house was designed in 1848 by architects Russell Warren & Son on sixty acres of DeWolf family land; it was given to Charles Dana Gibson (the grandfather of the famous artist and namesake) upon his marriage to Abbey DeWolf, the daughter of the late US Senator James DeWolf. Warren had built many other important buildings in Bristol for the DeWolf family, who rose to prominence through wealth gained from the Atlantic slave trade.</p><br>
<p>In 1901, the house was passed down from Abbey DeWolf Gibson to granddaughter Josephine Gibson, who became the longtime chatelaine of the estate. Josephine was one of the models of the "Gibson Girl" illustrated by her brother, named Charles Dana Gibson after their paternal grandfather.</p><br>
<p>Josephine Gibson married a Mr. Knowlton and made Longfield a center of social and artistic gatherings until her death in 1969. Her son, bookbinder Daniel Gibson Knowlton, sold the house in 1972. In May of that year, it was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places. The property includes smaller houses and cottages, originally constructed to house servants and caretakers.</p><br>
<p>Knowlton built an adjacent home and bookbindery, named Longfield Studio, on the property at 1202 Hope Street.</p><br>
<p>The property has been sold several times since it passed out of the family. Various owners announced intentions to convert the property to a single-family house, a "green inn", a place for weddings and functions, or an artists&#39; residency. In the early 21st century, renovations were begun, then halted, and the property was sold twice in 2012. By January 2014 the structure was seriously neglected and derelict, missing windows and the porch floor. Its future is uncertain.</p><br>
<p>There is a nearly identical house, built c.1845, at 64 Kay Street in Newport.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is a slightly altered example of Gothic Revival architecture interpreted in wood. According to a National Park Service survey, the foundation of the house is of stuccoed stone and the walls are constructed of wood clapboards. The house has four chimneys. The original cut-out bargeboard trim was removed from the gables around 1907. The front porch was rebuilt with a steeper shingled roof and its Gothic bracing and wooden crockets were removed. The Gothic window over the front porch may have had its sill-level raised. The south side porch was enlarged from a half-octagon shaped protrusion, which had been accessible from only the south parlor window. Its Gothic balustrade, bracing and parapet railing were kept. The original exterior window blinds of the house are stored in the attic. The rear entrance porch was rebuilt in 1963. The original partition separating the front southwest bedroom from a dressing room was removed. The house originally had a wood-shingled roof and was painted light red with darker trim. As of 1979, the house was painted white with black trim.</p><br>
<h2>Literature</h2><br>
<p>Josephine Gibson Knowlton and Andrea Hurley recorded the history of the house and the family in a number of books.</p><br>
<p>Longfield: The House on the Neck (1956)</p><br>
<p>Butterballs and Finger Bowls (1960)</p><br>
<p>What a Life: The Incredible Story of Josephine "Dadie" Jordan (2004)</p><br>
<p>The Boston Young Men&#39;s Christian Union is an historic building at 48 Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts and a liberal Protestant youth association. When Unitarians were excluded from the Boston YMCA  in 1851, a group of Harvard students founded a Christian discussion group, which was incorporated as the Boston YMCU in 1852. In 1873, the organization decided to construct its own building. $270,000 was raised, and construction on the original segment completed in 1875. The building was designed by Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee, constructed in a High Victorian Gothic style, and included ground-level retail. Several additions were made, including in 1956. The building was designated a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1977 and added to the National Historic Register in 1980. Boston YMCU owned Camp Union, a 600 acre camp, in Greenfield, New Hampshire  . From its renovation in 2003 to 2011 it was called the Boylston Street Athletic Club, and later the Boston Union Gym or BYMCU Athletic Club.</p><br>
<p>The Massachusetts Commission for the Blind moved out in 2012, and the organization began failing financially. In 2016, plans were announced to redevelop the site as 46 units of affordable housing, in partnership with the Planning Office for Urban Affairs of the Archdiocese of Boston.</p><br>
<h2>Goal (1852)</h2><br>
<p>The BYMCU goal in 1852 was to furnish the young men of Boston and vicinity a place of pleasant resort where the influences are beneficial and elevating, to provide them with opportunity of self-improvement and healthful recreation, at little or no expense; to give them opportunities for doing good, by engaging in charitable and benevolent work.</p><br>
<h2>Members</h2><br>
<p>All young men of good moral character, and claiming to believe in the truths of Christianity, without distinction of sect or party, were eligible as members of this society.</p><br>
<h2>Activities</h2><br>
<p>The report of 1871 shows the Union organized, with committees as follows: finance; lectures, classes, and entertainments; library</p><br>
<p>rooms; members; benevolent action; public worship and religious study. Sunday religious services were maintained, seats in churches furnished</p><br>
<p>to young men, teachers supplied for Sunday schools and missions, boarding-places recommended, employment secured, savings deposited, and practical benevolent work engaged in. In 1875, there were classes in book-keeping, German, French, parliamentary law, vocal music, astronomy, elocution, and Shakespeare; monthly socials were held, at which many of Bostons most cultured women were present; and a Christmas and New Years festival was given to poor children. In 1895, we note, 2,318 children and 267 adults were sent to the country for short periods, and carriage and other drives for shut-ins and convalescents to the number of 8,070 provided. The report for 1900 showed that the secular classes had grown in variety and attendance, that the library had 15,000 volumes, that the membership was 5,554, that religious services had been held every Sunday except during July and August, and that over $18,000 had been expended in drives, bay trips, and country visits for the poor.</p><br>
<p>The Piano Row District is a historic district encompassing two blocks of buildings facing Boston Common at the corner of Tremont Street and Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The district extends along Boylston from Park Square to Tremont, and along Tremont to Avery Street. The district also includes two buildings on Tremont just south of Boylston: the Cutler Majestic Theater, and the 1925 Union Savings Bank building at 216-218 Tremont. This area was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and became known as "Piano Row" because of the concentration of music-related businesses, including several piano showrooms. The flagship store for M. Steinert and Sons, Boston&#39;s longtime Steinway dealoer, has been located here since 1896, and features a fine underground performance hall, which has unfortunately been virtually abandoned due to fire codes.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Phipps Street Burying Ground is a historic cemetery on Phipps Street in Charlestown, now a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The burial ground was created in 1630, when Charlestown was a separate community from Boston; it is the oldest cemetery within Boston&#39;s present limits. The "Charlestown Carver", an anonymous stone cutter active in the 1660s, began an important regional style that was continued by the Lamson family for many generations.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Interments</h2><br>
<p>Since it was the only cemetery in Charlestown (which was annexed to Boston in the 19th century) for many years, it had a wide range of class and situation:</p><br>
<p>Prince Bradstreet, "an honest man of color".</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Gorham, Congressman 1820-23, 1827–31, 1833-35.</p><br>
<p>Nathaniel Gorham, president of the Continental Congress.</p><br>
<p>John Harvard, for whom Harvard University is named.</p><br>
<p>Oliver Holden, an American composer and compiler of hymns.</p><br>
<p>Edward Wigglesworth, a clergyman, teacher and theologian in Colonial America.</p><br>
<p>Phineas Pratt, a joiner, arrived 1622, aboard Sparrow with Weston&#39;s men. Made a solo, treacherous trek to Plymouth to warn Standish of the Indian uprising at Wessagusset (Weymouth).</p><br>
