<p>The Jonathan Hildreth House is an historic house at 8 Barrett&#39;s Mill Road in Concord, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Built c. 1783-90 by local builder Reuben Duren, this large two-story house is one of the town&#39;s finest late Georgian/early Federal style houses. The Hildreth family operated a store in a separate building on the property until it burned down in 1909. The house is finished on three sides in brick laid in Flemish bond, with the rear of the house finished in wood clapboards. There are two pairs of chimneys set near the sides of the house, piercing the hip roof. The main entry has a dentilated triangular pediment, supported by pilasters, with the door recessed into the brick wall. The interior has lavish Georgian styling.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 3, 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Isaac Davis Trail, also known as the Acton Trail, is an historic 6 mi trail running east-west in the towns of Acton and Concord, Massachusetts. The trail was significant in 1775 when it was used by Captain Isaac Davis and the Acton Minutemen to march on Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord. The trail was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The trail begins at Isaac Davis house (which still stands) in Acton, and ends at western end of the North Bridge in the Minuteman National Historical Park in Concord. Most of the route is now paved roads, where in some cases the alignment no longer matches the exact route. Despite this, the trail route evokes the time of the march, with its roadways lined with stone walls, and houses generally set back from the street. The trail first runs northeast about 1.25 mi northeast, along Hayward Street, Musket Drive, Minuteman Road, Woodbury Lane, and Main Street. It then turns more directly east for 1.5 mi, along a town-owned easement on private property, to Strawberry Hill Road. It follows Strawberry Hill Road southerly for 1.75 mi to Barretts Mill Road, which runs easterly 0.75 mi to meet Lowell Road in Concord. It cross Lowell Road, following Barnes Hill Road and crossing Liberty Road to reach the Muster Field above the North Bridge.</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>The Isaac Davis Trailmarch is held each year on Patriots&#39; Day.</p><br>
<p>The Concord Monument Square–Lexington Road Historic District is an historic district in Concord, Massachusetts. Monument Square, at the center of the district, was laid out in 1635. The district includes a collection of well-preserved residential houses stretching along Lexington Street southeast from the square, and along Lowell northwest of the square. The square is prominently known as the site of British activities on April 19, 1775, the day of the Battles of Lexington and Concord which began the American Revolutionary War, and of earlier meetings by Massachusetts Patriots which were held in the First Parish Church and Wright&#39;s Tavern. The Tavern and the Ralph Waldo Emerson House, which stands near the eastern end of the district, are both National Historic Landmarks. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. John Cuming House is a historic house located west of Concord, Massachusetts, at 998 Elm Street, at Barretts Mill Road and Reformatory Circle.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The 2-1/2 story timber-framed house was built around 1754 by John Cuming, a prominent local doctor. In addition to his role as a leading physician in the town, Cuming presided over Concord&#39;s town meetings in the turbulent years of the American Revolution, and served as a delegate to the 1779 convention that drafted the Massachusetts State Constitution. He left a bequest to Harvard College to be used for the establishment of its medical school. His house later served as the residence of the deputy superintendent of Concord State Prison, and is now owned by the state.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 11, 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Col. James Barrett Farm  is a historic farm at 448 Barretts Mill Road in Concord, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>James Barrett was Colonel of the Concord, Massachusetts Militia during the Battles of Lexington and Concord that began the American Revolutionary War. His farm was the storage site of all the town of Concord&#39;s Militia gunpowder, weapons and two pairs of prized bronze cannons, according to secret British intelligence.</p><br>
<p>On the morning of April 19, 1775, the British Regulars were ordered by General Thomas Gage to march from Boston to the town of Concord, about 20 miles inland, and seize the cannon and raid the arsenal at the provincial farm. The British met resistance at both Lexington, Massachusetts and Concord. Before the British arrived and searched, the stores had been concealed in a field nearby, and the British never found them.</p><br>
<p>The farm was built in 1705 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The farmhouse was in disrepair and was restored over eight years by Save Our Heritage. The restoration was funded by local and private funding as well as a Department of the Interior grant.</p><br>
<p>In March 2009, Congress passed legislation to add Barretts Farm to Minute Man National Historical Park. In August 2012, the National Park Service obtained ownership of the Barrett House and surrounding 3.4 acres from Save Our Heritage. In October, 2012 Minute Man National Historical Park and Save Our Heritage hosted a celebration of completion of the restoration and transfer of ownership of the Col. James Barrett House to the Minute Man Park. Congresswoman Niki Tsongas helped make Barretts Farm part of the national park system and spoke at the event.</p><br>
<p>The Damon Mill is an historic mill complex on the Assabet River and located at 9 Pond Lane in Concord, Massachusetts. The site, which has an industrial history dating to the 17th century, was adapted for the production of textiles in the 19th century, with the surviving complex dating to 1862. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Industrial works in the Assabet River area of western Concord date to about 1660, when there was a bog iron works established. The river was soon dammed, with grist and sawmills serving the surrounding agricultural community. The first textile mill was built in 1808 by John Brown, the son of a local clothier, and produced cotton goods. The mill changed hands several times before coming under the ownership of Calvin Carver Damon in 1834. Under his ownership, improvements were made to the dam and tail race, and a more efficient water wheel was installed. In 1854, Calvin&#39;s son, Edward Carver Damon, assumed control of the mill. Damon Mill produced a unique textile known as domett cloth, a light wool-cotton flannel invented by Calvin Damon, which became a mainstay fabric used in underwear. By the 1870s it was producing a diversified array of materials, and employed 175 workers.</p><br>
<p>On June 19, 1862, the wooden mill burnt to the ground. Edward Damon and architect Elbridge Boyden rebuilt the mill in the same year. The mill continued to produce textiles until the 1890s. It was mortgaged in 1893 and sold by 1898. In the early decades of the 20th century it was used by other textile firms for the production of worsteds, but its small size led to its eventual closure. From about 1930 to 1973 the plant was used for the cold storage of apples. Today, the mill has been rehabilitated, and is used as office space by various businesses.</p><br>
<p>The Concord Armory is an historic former armory at 51 Walden Street in Concord, Massachusetts. It now serves as the Performing Arts Center at 51 Walden, which is operated by the Friends of Performing Arts in Concord . Resident groups include The Concord Players, The Concord Band, and The Concord Orchestra. The armory was built in 1887 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007,</p><br>
<p>The armory was built in several stages, between 1887 and 1927. The front portion, or headhouse, was built in 1887, and the drill shed added in 1888. In 1896 the drill shed was lengthened. When the building was converted for use by veterans organizations and the Concord Players in the 1920s, the area housing the stage was added, to a design drawn up by the noted theater architect Clarence Blackall. In 1927 the stage area was extended to the rear to provide additional space for scenery. The building interior was extensively altered in the 1970s when FOPAC took over the property.</p><br>
<p>The lower level of the head house now serves as a lobby area, which also extends into the former drill shed; its upper level serves as a dance studio. The drill shed has been converted into a theatrical auditorium, with its original ceiling trusses exposed, and acoustic treatments on the walls. The basement houses storage space and dressing rooms.</p><br>
<p>Historical uses of the building during the 20th century include the screening of films by the Red Cross in the 1920s, and for annual town meetings between 1933 and 1946. It was also used to house town offices, and to provide space for a youth center. Due to its deteriorating condition, the building was several times considered for demolition in the 1950s and 1960s, but public outcry was successful in preventing that fate. FOPAC was formed in 1972 to convert the building into a dedicated performing arts space.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Mott Shaw Estate is a historic residential estate located at 317 Garfield Road in Concord, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1909, the main house is a 2-1/2 story L-shaped stucco-clad structure, basically vernacular English Revival in its styling, with some arts and crafts detailing. The house, along with the accompanying carriage house were designed by architect Thomas Mott Shaw, who made the estate his home for most of his professional life. Shaw drew inspiration for the house from the architecture of the Cotswolds in England. The house&#39;s most prominent feature is a three-story octagonal tower that projects from the center of the L.</p><br>
<p>The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Ephraim Potter House, a historic house and former pest house at 158 Fairhaven Road in Concord, Massachusetts, is also known as the Pest House, a name used in the 18th century to describe a building in which to quarantine those afflicted with communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera, or smallpox.</p><br>
<p>The house was built before 1792 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, where it is listed at 153 Fairhaven Road. John Fitzgerald, the current owner of this old property, describes that it is his "dream is to keep it standing."</p><br>
<p>The booklet, "Old Houses of Concord", by Mary R. Fenn contains the following information on the Ephraim Potter House:</p><br>
<p>"Deacon Luke Potter, one of the first settlers, lived on the corner of Heywood Street and Lexington Road. His son Judah was the only one to perpetuate the family name before Judah&#39;s death in that house when it burned to the ground (June 20, 1721). Deacon Luke had acquired a large tract of land in the south quarter, in the vicinity of Fairhaven Road. At the time of the second division, houses were built on the property."</p><br>
<p>"In 1752, Ephaim Potter married Sarah Taylor, which probably dates this house. Ephraim was one of the men who stored provincial supplies in his house prior to the Revolution - tents, tow cloth, canteens, etc."</p><br>
<p>"At the time of the smallpox epidemic, vaccination was a newfangled idea; many people thought it was dangerous. When Ephraim&#39;s wife died of smallpox in 1792, it was thought to be important to engrave on her headstone that she had taken the disease in the natural way. She was buried in the small cemetery diagonally across from the house (across Route 2). Although hers is the only gravestone, it is thought that there are other graves there as well. The Potter House was used at this time as a hospital for those who were recovering from their vaccination treatment. Dr. Barrett was in the house one day when a traveler knocked on the door and asked if this were the hospital. "Yes," replied the doctor, "and I am one of the patients."</p><br>
<p>"Elbridge Hayden bought the house in the early eighteen hundreds".</p><br>
<h2>Historical Ownership of the House</h2><br>
<p>Ownership records below with references were identified during a review of deeds at the Middlesex County Registry of Deeds.</p><br>
<p>Ephraim Potter, builder ca. 1752.</p><br>
<p>Darius Hubbard – sold the house to Elbridge Hayden for $1,000, “Potter Place” including “Potter Wood” 28 acres on July 18, 1846.</p><br>
<p>Elbridge Hayden sold the house to Laura J. Dwelley, July 31, 1894.</p><br>
<p>Laura J. Dwelley to George F. Wheeler, April 25, 1908.</p><br>
<p>Blanche E. Williams, Conservator of the Estate of George F. Wheeler to Leslie L. Keese, April 26, 1924.</p><br>
<p>Leslie L. Keese to Davis et el., December 19, 1941.</p><br>
<p>A.H. Elfner.</p><br>
<p>Robert Venuati, 1971</p><br>
<p>John MacDonald.</p><br>
<p>Ken Brown.</p><br>
<p>John and Maria Fitzgerald, April 1994 to Present (1.5 acres).</p><br>
<p>The Reeveston Place Historic District is a neighborhood of homes and national historic district located at Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana. It was platted in 1911 on land formerly owned by the family of Mark Reeves and the district encompasses 218 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing objects. The architecture is an eclectic mix of styles including Craftsman and English cottages, and impressive homes in the Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Georgian, French, Spanish and Ranch styles. The original Reeves home in the Second Empire style survives as well.</p><br>
<p>The proper borders of the Reeveston area are South B Street to the north, South 23rd Street to the east, South 16th Street to the west and South E Street to the south. However, the northeast corner of South E and South 16th is not a part of the original Reeves property - the house located there predates the Reeves home.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Starr Historic District is a neighborhood of historic buildings and national historic district located at Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana. The district encompasses 102 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Richmond. It developed between about 1853 and 1915 and includes representative examples of Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, and Queen Anne style architecture. Included in the district is a former Hicksite Quaker Meeting House, now the Wayne County Historical Museum and the Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church and Andrew F. Scott House. Other notable buildings include the Miller-Mendenhall House , Dickinson Log House , and Starr-Cadwalader House .</p><br>
<p>Two houses in the District were the former residences of Orville and Wilbur Wright, during their childhood. A long-gone garage at the back of one of these houses was the location of their first bicycle repair shop. This info was reprinted from a Richmond Palladium-Item article.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Lake Yosemite is an artificial freshwater lake located approximately five miles  east of Merced, California in the rolling Sierra Foothills. UC Merced is situated approximately half a mile  south of Lake Yosemite. The university is bounded by the lake on one side and two canals  run through the campus.</p><br>
<h2>Operation</h2><br>
<p>Lake Yosemite is a reservoir built in 1888 for irrigation purposes. It is currently owned and operated by Merced Irrigation District, which supplies irrigation water to farms in Merced County. Recreation on the lake is managed by the Merced County Parks and Recreation Department.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>All boating is permitted, including jet skis and water skiing. The lake is equipped with boat launches, full service marina, and boat rentals (paddle boats, kayaks, and jet skis). Swimming is allowed only in certain designated areas where life guards are present. Swimming outside of these areas is strictly prohibited and could result in a citation.</p><br>
<p>Onshore, shaded picnic areas are available which feature picnic tables, barbecue pits, restrooms, and a small playground.</p><br>
<h3>Lake Yosemite Sailing Association</h3><br>
<p>The lake is home to the Lake Yosemite Sailing Association (LYSA), which was founded in 1988 and currently has more than 90 members. The LYSA hosts sailboat races at Lake Yosemite Thursday evenings during the summer months and also organizes sailing trips to nearby lakes and bays in California.</p><br>
<h2>Alleged Paranormal Phenomena</h2><br>
<p>The lakes tower is said to be haunted by the "Lady of the Lake". According to the horror stories, the ghost has long flowing white hair and wears a long white gown. She is said to walk around the tower cat walk and on the lakes surface looking for her lost child or lover. The ghost has also been reported to walk along Old Lake Road, occasionally stepping into the path of oncoming traffic.</p><br>
<p>The Carlsbad Irrigation District, also known as Carlsbad Reclamation Project or Irrigation system of the Pecos Irrigation and Improvement Company, is a major early water reclamation project located near Carlsbad in southeastern New Mexico. Begun in the 1880s, it is now managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, and provides irrigation water to a large area around Carlsbad, diverted from the Pecos River and the Black River. The late 19th and early 20th-century elements of the project were designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1964.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The city of Carlsbad is located in the northern reaches of the Chihuahuan Desert. In order to work this area agriculturally settlers arriving in the late 19th century turned to irrigation to provide water for their crops. By the late 1880s, this resulted in a patchwork of private canals irrigating small patches of land. Charles B. Eddy and Pat Garrett, two local ranchers and businessmen, hatched the idea of a larger and more organized corporate-run irrigation system to serve the entire lower Pecos River valley. The project got underway in 1889, when construction began on the Avalon Dam, which now serves as a diversion and regulation point for the system. In 1893 the Avalon Dam had to be rebuilt after its destruction in a flash flood, and the McMillan Dam was built further upriver as a major storage facility. The Avalon Dam was once again destroyed by flooding in 1903, sending the system into effective bankruptcy. It was then taken over by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, which completed reconstruction of the Avalon Dam in 1907, and has overseen the project since. The system has since then been augmented by the Brantley Dam, which now serves as its primary storage, and a dam on the Black River near Malaga that provides additional capacity in that area.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the two major dams, the district manages the major canals that distribute water to users, and the various gatehouses that control water flow. Its offices are located in the First Bank of Eddy building in downtown Carlsbad.</p><br>
<p>The Kit Carson House is a historic house museum at 113 Kit Carson Road in central Taos, New Mexico. Built in 1825, it was from 1843 until is death the home of frontiersman Kit Carson . A good example of Spanish Colonial architecture, it is now owned by the local Masonic guild, and serves as a museum dedicated to Carson&#39;s life. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Kit Carson House stands a short way east of Taos&#39;s central plaza, on the north side of Kit Carson Road. It is a modest single-story adobe structure, built in 1825, that is an east-facing U shape with a central courtyard. The oldest portion of the house consists of the front three rooms, and the next room to the north. The interior of these rooms has been furnished in the Spanish Colonial and Territorial styles of the Carson period, while other rooms house museum offices and displays.</p><br>
<p>Kit Carson grew up in the frontier west, and became renowned as a fur trapper and guide on numerous United States Army expeditions against Native Americans. In 1843 he married Josefa Jarmillo, who was from a leading Taos family, and purchased this house. It remained the couple&#39;s principal home until 1868. They were briefly away from it 1851-54 and 1866-67, when Carson was stationed. In early 1868 the family moved to the Colorado Territory, where both died.</p><br>
<p>In 1952, the house was acquired by the Taos Masonic Lodge. It is still owned by the lodge; the museum is operated by the Kit Carson Memorial Foundation, and is open daily; admission is charged.</p><br>
<p>The O. C. Barber Barn No. 1, built in 1909, is an historic farm building located at 115 3rd Street on the Anna-Dean Farm in Barberton, Ohio. It was built by American businessman and industrialist Ohio Columbus Barber, the developer of both Barberton, which he envisioned as a planned industrial community, and the nearby 3,500-acre  Anna-Dean Farm, which he envisioned as a prototype for modern agricultural enterprise. Barber was called America&#39;s Match King because of his controlling interest in the Diamond Match Company.</p><br>
<p>It incorporated all the latest USA government requirements for milk production barns and upon completion was called the largest barn in the world by the Akron Beacon Journal, but it ended up being the smallest cow barn on the Anna-Dean Farm.</p><br>
<p>On February 28, 1973, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The O. C. Barber Colt Barn, built in 1912, is an historic farm building located on Austin Drive on the Anna-Dean Farm in Barberton, Ohio. It was built by American businessman and industrialist Ohio Columbus Barber, the developer of both Barberton, which he envisioned as a planned industrial community, and the nearby 3,500-acre  Anna-Dean Farm, which he envisioned as a prototype for modern agricultural enterprise. Barber was called America&#39;s Match King because of his controlling interest in the Diamond Match Company.</p><br>
<p>It is one of the smallest barns on the Anna-Dean Farm and was first called Bull Barn No 2 and used to house bulls until 1913, when it was renamed the Colt Barn and used to house colts and mares in foal.</p><br>
<p>On October 9, 1974, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The O. C. Barber Creamery, built in 1909, is an historic farm building located at 365 Portsmouth Avenue on the Anna-Dean Farm in Barberton, Ohio. It was built by American businessman and industrialist Ohio Columbus Barber, the developer of both Barberton, which he envisioned as a planned industrial community, and the nearby 3,500-acre  Anna-Dean Farm, which he envisioned as a prototype for modern agricultural enterprise. Barber was called America&#39;s Match King because of his controlling interest in the Diamond Match Company.</p><br>
<p>The Creamery was used to process and bottle the milk produced on the Anna-Dean Farm and to make ice cream, all of which was sold under the Anna Dean Farm brand name. Up to 10,000 pounds of milk were processed per day.</p><br>
<p>On May 22, 1973, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The O. C. Barber Machine Barn, also called the Implement House. built in 1911, is an historic farm building located on Austin Drive on the Anna-Dean Farm in Barberton, Ohio. It was built by American businessman and industrialist Ohio Columbus Barber, the developer of both Barberton, which he envisioned as a planned industrial community, and the nearby 3,500-acre  Anna-Dean Farm, which he envisioned as a prototype for modern agricultural enterprise. Barber was called America&#39;s Match King because of his controlling interest in the Diamond Match Company.</p><br>
<p>The Machine Barn was the service and storage place for all tractors and other equipment on the Anna-Dean Farm. It also housed the blacksmith shop.</p><br>
<p>On October 9, 1974, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Hancock School is a historic former school building on 33 Forest Street in Lexington, Massachusetts. It is a 2-1/2 story brick Romanesque Revival structure, with a tall hip roof pierced by hip-roofed dormers. It was designed by the noted architectural firm of Hartwell and Richardson, and is the only commission of that firm in Lexington. The school was built in 1891 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>For the past 30 years it has housed residential condominium units.</p><br>
<p>A major fire occurred on Halloween Day 2008."Historic Hancock School in Lexington on fire" Wicked Local posted on October 31, 2008 by Bobb Burgess (accessed 10/31/08)</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s roof and interior have been rebuilt and restored.</p><br>
<p>The Fiske House is a historic house located at 1 Billerica Road in Chelmsford Center, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The story wood and brick house was built in 1798 by Simeon Spalding, Jr., a merchant, and occupies a prominent location in the town center. It is roughly square in shape, with brick end walls that include four chimneys. Its corners have pilasters, and its exterior doors have Federal style surrounds. The interior of the house has retained much original finish. Although the house was briefly out of the hands of Spalding&#39;s descendants in the 1830s, when it was operated as a tavern, John Minot Fiske, his grandson, purchased the house in 1839, and it has been in the family since.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and was included in the Chelmsford Center Historic District in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The First Burial Ground or Park Street Burial Ground is a historic cemetery on Park Street near Centre Street in Woburn, Massachusetts. Established c. 1646, it is the city&#39;s first and oldest cemetery. It occupies a 1.4 acre parcel at the corner of Park and Centre Streets near Woburn Square. Most of the burials took place before 1794, and are marked by slate headstones. The last documented burial took place in 1903. In a manner typical of early colonial cemeteries, there is no formal circulation pattern, and graves are not laid out in any formal, organized manner.</p><br>
<p>There are several prominent burials in the cemetery. Probably the most well-known individuals interred here are members of the Baldwin family. Loammi Baldwin, an American Revolutionary War veteran and early civil engineer, is buried here, as are two of his sons, Loammi Baldwin, Jr. and James Fowle Baldwin, both of whom followed their father into the civil engineering profession. Locally notable burials include Edward Johnson (1598-1672), one of Woburn&#39;s founders, and four of its early ministers. Another prominent family monument is that of the Fowle family, an 8 ft column topped by an urn.</p><br>
<p>Some of the early grave markers were carved by Joseph Lamson, a noted Charlestown carver. Stones attributed to him include slate markers carved with a traditional winged-skull motif, where the skull features eyebrows, a unique characteristic of his work. Lamson and other members of his family are known to have carved many markers in the area throughout the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church is an historic Baptist church on 1013 Worcester Road  in Framingham, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The cornerstone of the First Baptist Church was laid in 1826. The first services were held on January 1, 1827 by the Rev. Charles Train. Originally an "open" basement for the horses to stay dry during worship services, the Sanctuary floor was raised around 1881 and the basement closed in. Around 1888 a 4 room addition was added on the west side (rear) of building along with a baptismal on the altar stage. With the exception of some major renovations around 1998 to make the building handicap accessible, the building remains much as it was the day it was built. The original box pews were replaced by curved padded pews in the late 1800s, however the original box pews still exist in the balcony. Also still intact, however sealed in from the Main Sanctuary, are the original gallerys which were closed off around 1840-50.</p><br>
<p>In 1854 several members left with a "mothers blessing" to create the South Framingham Baptist Church in South Framingham. The name was changed to Park Street Baptist Church shortly thereafter. Major renovations were completed on the church in 1881. In 1998 due to dwindling membership in both congregations, the members of First Baptist Church and Park Street Baptist Church began worshipping together. In 2002 The members of Park Street Baptist Church officially rejoined First Baptist Church as one congregation now known as the First Baptist Church in Framingham.</p><br>
<p>The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Venice Canal Historic District is a district in the Venice section of Los Angeles, California. The district is noteworthy for its man-made canals built in 1905 by developer Abbot Kinney as part of his Venice of America plan. Kinney sought to recreate the appearance and feel of Venice, Italy, in Southern California.</p><br>
<p>The canals are roughly bounded by Eastern Court on the east, Court A on the south, Strongs Drive on the west, and Court E on the north. There are four east-west canals (Carroll Canal, Linnie Canal, Howland Canal, and Sherman Canal) and two north-south canals (Eastern Canal and Grand Canal). The lit canals with gondoliers and arched bridges drew widespread publicity and helped sell lots in the development.</p><br>
<p>However, as the automobile gained in popularity, the canals were viewed by many as outdated, and the bulk of the canals were filled in 1929 to create roads. By 1940, the remaining canals had fallen into disrepair, and the sidewalks were condemned by the city. The canal district remained in poor condition for more than 40 years, as numerous proposals to renovate the canals failed due to lack of funding, environmental concerns, and disputes as to who should bear the financial responsibility. The canals were finally renovated in 1992, with the canals being drained and new sidewalks and walls being built. The canals re-opened in 1993 and have become a desirable and expensive residential section of the city.</p><br>
<p>The residential district surrounding the remaining canals was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. However, in recent years, there has been extensive renovation work on many of the old houses, and many large, modern houses have been built.</p><br>
<p>The water enters the canals through sea gates in the Marina Del Rey breakwater, and again in Washington blvd. They open at low tide to drain most of the water and at high tide they are closed, trapping the water for about three days, before being refreshed again.</p><br>
<h2>Former canals</h2><br>
<p>Before 1929, the area covered by canals was approximately three to four times as large as today. The entire area between Abbot Kinney, Pacific, and Venice Blvd. were canals. These canals were:</p><br>
<p>Coral Canal (now Main St.)</p><br>
<p>Cabrillo Canal (now Cabrillo Ave.)</p><br>
<p>Venus Canal (now San Juan Ave.)</p><br>
<p>Lion Canal (now Windward Ave.)</p><br>
<p>Altair Canal (now Altair St.)</p><br>
<p>Aldebaren Canal (now Market St.)</p><br>
<p>Grand Canal (now Grand Boulevard)</p><br>
<h2>Canal Improvement Project</h2><br>
<p>The existing canals were not part of the original Venice Canals built by Abbott Kinney.</p><br>
<p>They were saved by the mere fact that they did not have a large enough tax base and resident improvements on the lots. At the time the Canals were being filled to make vehicle streets, Los Angeles was in a recession, and couldn&#39;t assess the existing canal property owners to pay for the removal and filling in of the canals.</p><br>
<p>Throughout history, there were several attempts to rehabilitate, restore or improve the canals. However, in every case, the projects were met with fierce opposition and those plans all were stopped or died. One Plan, the Deep water plan, received City of Los Angeles Approval, assessments were sent to the property owners, and Mayor Bradley did a news photo with local residents of the first shovel. But a lawsuit and opposition stopped the project. This project was to include access by large boats from Marina Del Rey into the Venice Canals.</p><br>
<p>In 1983 Ruth Galanter was elected to the City Council office and inherited a neighborhood sponsored assessment for improving the Venice Canals. The original assessment project was sponsored by the Venice Canals Association(VCA) in 1977 during Pat Russel&#39;s term as City Councilperson. The first attempted design was done by City of Los Angeles Engineer Luis Ganajas. The design was known as the vertical wall plan, similar to the Marina Del Rey walls. At the time there were at least 3 attempts through history to restore or rehabilitate the Venice Canals, all leading to failure or opposition. The last attempt was a deep water plan that was stopped in the 1960s. Ruth Galanter was not happy with the environmental aspects, the costs, the Historical design and the safety of the Vertical wall plan, so one of her early actions was to stop the city engineers from pursuing such a plan.</p><br>
<p>Galanter asked the Coastal Conservancy to review the options for the canals, and the state agency returned several plans suggestions, including one using Armorflex. The majority of the neighbors who would be assessed by the new design were opposed to the Armorflex plan. Ruth told the head of the VCA, Mark Galanty, that she would be open to another plan if we found it, but the Armorflex plan was the current city direction. So Mark assembled a committee of the VCA to locate a compromise design and material. Loffelstein, or Loffel Block was identified by a VCA site committee member Andy Shores as possibly meeting those goals. It allowed plants to grow inside the material, could be placed on a slope to allow birds and wildlife to climb out of the canals, was safe for small children as it allowed them to hold on to the sides, and or climb out of the Canals, and was lower cost than the Armorflex. Ruth agreed, and instructed the City Engineers to design a plan using the Loffel Block.</p><br>
<p>Councilwoman Galanter, and staff member Jim Bichart, as well as City Engineers Luis Ganajas, environmental engineer Russ Ruffing worked on the City, State and National approvals. At the Coastal Commission hearing the Venice Canals Association supported the plan, and there was finally no opposition to the restoring of the Venice Canals. The estimated costs for the improvements were 6 million dollars, and included dredging the canals and removing the soil to a class 1 toxic site, removing crumbling sidewalks, replacing new sidewalks, 5 feet deep in center, 1 1/2 feet on the sides, Loffel black at 55 degrees through the canals. Rebuilding the foot bridges that go over the canals. The property owners in the canals paid approximately $6,600 over a 10 year-period for a 30 by 90 foot lot frontage, and $7,800 for a 40 by 90 foot lot frontage. Work began in March 1992, and was completed in 1993. The assessment could be paid in full, or paid over time with interest at approximately 5%.</p><br>
<p>In addition, the traffic circle at Pacific and Windward Avenues is located on top of what once was the Venice Lagoon.</p><br>
<p>Brusneva Island , is a small island in the Laptev Sea. It is located off the eastern side of the Lena delta in the Tiksi Bay, only 5 km ENE of Tiksi. Its length is 2.3 km and its maximum breadth less than 1 km.</p><br>
<p>The name of this island is also spelt as "Brusnova" in some maps.</p><br>
<p>Tiksi Bay, the area where Brusneva Island lies, is subject to severe Arctic weather with frequent gales and blizzards. The sea in the bay is frozen for about nine months every year.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In August 1901 Russian Arctic ship Zarya headed across the Laptev Sea, searching for the legendary Sannikov Land (Zemlya Sannikova) but was soon blocked by floating pack ice in the New Siberian Islands. During 1902 the attempts to reach Sannikov Land continued while Zarya was trapped in fast ice. Leaving the ship, Russian Arctic explorer Baron Eduard Toll and three companions vanished forever in November 1902 while travelling away from Bennett Island towards the south on loose ice floes. After its ordeal in the ice, a badly-leaking Zarya was finally moored close to Brusneva Island in Bukhta Tiksi, never to leave the place again. The remaining members of the expedition returned to Saint Petersburg, while Captain Matisen went to Yakutsk.</p><br>
<p>The island was named after Russian Engineer M. I. Brusnev, a member of the Russian Arctic Expedition. Brusnev led one of the two search parties that were dispatched in the spring of 1903 in order to search for ill-fated Baron Eduard Toll. Brusnev&#39;s group searched the shores of the New Siberian Islands, while the other, led by Aleksandr Kolchak travelled by whaleboat to Bennett Island.</p><br>
<p>Brusnev found the remains of a mammoth in the island of New Siberia during his unfruitful search for Eduard Toll.</p><br>
<p>The Tiger Hotel is a hotel in Columbia, Missouri. Built as a hotel in 1928, the building later housed a retirement home and banquet center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 2012, the building was fully restored and reopened as a boutique hotel. Currently, the Tiger Hotel remains fully functional as a luxurious boutique hotel and maintains a prestigious 4-diamond rating.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1920s the Tiger Hotel was designed by renowned architect Alonzo H Gentry. The building finished construction in 1928 by the Simon Construction Company. Upon opening, the building was the first skyscraper between Kansas City and St. Louis. It originally opened with over one hundred rooms, a fully operational elevator, and a cooling system which were impressive feats at that time. The magnitude of the building and its features quickly drew attention from around the state. As a result of the Tiger Hotel&#39;s popularity, the "Tiger" sign on top of the building became an icon in the city of Columbia and surrounding areas.</p><br>
<p>Over the 20th century, the building remained iconic but was not always a roaring success. The rise and decline of the economy affected the hotel like any other business in the country. Therefore, the building had several owners throughout the decades. One owner even turned the building into a Motor Hotel to meet the needs of residents in Columbia and surrounding areas.</p><br>
<p>In 1987 the Tiger Hotel was turned into a retirement community to make use of the vast number of rooms and other facilities on site. In 2011, the hotel building was sold again and obtained a new life from optimistic ownership. The building underwent a complete renovation, restoring the prestige and glory from its vibrant past. In a wondrous transformation, the Hotel kept many of its original features but complements them with modern features and decorations. Now, as of 2014, the hotel offers 62 boutique rooms and suites with 4-Diamond rated luxuries and amenities.</p><br>
<p>The Quay Arts Centre is located at the head of the River Medina, in Newport in the centre of the Isle of Wight. It is the island&#39;s leading art gallery and venue for live events.</p><br>
<p>The complex features three art galleries, a crafts shop, a 134 capacity theatre, conferencing facilities and a cafe and was fully refurbished in 1997 by architect Tony Fretton. The Quay Arts owns and operates Jubilee Stores, also located on Newport Quay.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Quay Arts was first proposed in 1974 by a painter Anne Lewington and graphic designer Nigel Lewington, who proposed the idea of a building to house an arts centre for the island. Disused brewery warehouses on the Quay side at Newport Harbour were first identified as a suitable site, and is the location of the Quay Arts Centre today. In 1976 the buildings were sold to the Isle of Wight Council for £14,000.</p><br>
<p>Since the centre opened in 1982 flooding has been a recurring problem to facilities on the ground floor, and in 1993 a flood wall was built to help prevent further flooding, although it didn&#39;t stop completely. A successful redevelopment bid to the National Lottery in 1996 led to a complete refurbishment and re-opening in 1998. This also included further development of the adjacent Rope Store, also to house art.</p><br>
<h2>Facilities</h2><br>
<p>Anthony Minghella Theatre – The theatre was named after island born Anthony Minghella after he opened it in 1997. It is host to a range of live events including professional touring comedy, world music, folk, jazz, blues, small-scale theatre, children&#39;s shows and a cultural cinema programme.</p><br>
<p>Seminar Room – A small room located adjacent to the Quay Arts Centre&#39;s cafe and measured at around 57 sq. metres it accommodates up to fifty people.</p><br>
<p>Green Room – The Green Room is set in the Rope Store and is slightly smaller than the main seminar room, accommodating around 15 people.</p><br>
<p>Cafe Wall – Recognised as the Quay Art&#39;s fourth gallery space. It mainly hosts the work from amateur artists and younger emerging artists, first time exhibitors and experimental work. It hosts a minimum of 11 exhibitions a year.</p><br>
<p>Michael West Gallery – A large space that encourages and promotes innovation and experimentation in visual arts. It was named after General Sir Michael West who was one of the group of artists led by Anne Lewington who founded the Quay Arts in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Rope Store – The Rope Store was opened in 1997, along with the rest of the Quay Arts after its restoration and is a small space for displaying both solo and group exhibitions. It hosts a minimum of nine exhibitions a year.</p><br>
<p>Learning Curve – A space primarily dedicated to promoting and supporting the work of the islands young people. Occasionally the Learning Curve is linked to the Michael West Gallerys exhibitions as a part of the Quay Arts Outreach programme and hosts a minimum of ten exhibitions per year.</p><br>
<p>Craft Shop – Provides a showcase for more than sixty island and regional craft makers. Many of the crafts featured are unique to the island.</p><br>
<p>Jubilee Stores – Jubilee Stores (pictured) is a separate building on Newport Harbour, housing a Ceramics Workshop, General Workshop, Print Studio and seven private Artists&#39; Studios.</p><br>
<p>The Goodrich Memorial Library is a public library in Newport, Orleans County, Vermont. It is the largest and only one of two full-time libraries in the county. It is located at 202 Main Street in downtown Newport, in a Romanesque building constructed in 1899.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Converse Goodhue Goodrich and his wife, Almira, donated money for the construction of a free library. The land was worth $6000, the building $20,000. Construction was started in 1898. It dedicated on September 1, 1899. Architect William Storey designed the building.</p><br>
<p>The stock used to fund the operations of the library failed during the depression in 1933. This forced the library to enlist public support.</p><br>
<p>It opened with 6500 books.</p><br>
<p>In November 1983, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>The library budget for 2008 is $160,550. Newport city contributes $99,000 of this amount.</p><br>
<h2>Facilities</h2><br>
<p>The upstairs hall consists of an art room, decorated more or less in period style, a long hall for meetings, an office, and a reading room. There are several old paintings on display in the art room, and a display case of postcards and paraphernalia from Newport&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>Perhaps most noteworthy is the floor-to-ceiling wall of glass cases that house a variety of stuffed animals and natural curiosities. These include an alligator shot in Florida in the 1900s, an ostrich egg, and a flying squirrel found in Vermont. As they were originally preserved with mercury, they can only be handled and cared for by trained professionals.</p><br>
<p>The O. C. Barber Piggery, built in 1912, is a historic farm building located at 248 Robinson Avenue on the Anna-Dean Farm in Barberton, Ohio. It was built by American businessman and industrialist Ohio Columbus Barber, the developer of both Barberton, which he envisioned as a planned industrial community, and the nearby 3,500-acre  Anna-Dean Farm, which he envisioned as a prototype for modern agricultural enterprise. Barber was called America&#39;s Match King because of his controlling interest in the Diamond Match Company.</p><br>
<p>The 300 ft brick and block Piggery building, painted patriotic red, white and blue, was only used to house swine until 1915, when cholera was detected in the herd, which was then destroyed. After being thoroughly disinfected with bleach, the building was used to house sheep for two years, before they were replaced by calves because Barber was upset by the fact that the sheep destroyed the pastures by their grazing practices. The building was renamed the Calf Barn.</p><br>
<p>On May 22, 1973, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Muostakh Island , also spelled "Mostakh", is an island in the Buor-Khaya Gulf of the Laptev Sea. It is located off the eastern side of the Lena delta, enclosing the Tiksi Bay, about 35 km ESE of Tiksi.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Muostakh Island is long and narrow; its length is 13 km and its maximum breadth about 0.5 km on average. Off its southern tip lies a much smaller 2 km long island of similar characteristics.</p><br>
<p>The area where Muostakh Island lies, is subject to severe Arctic weather with frequent gales and blizzards. The sea in the bay is frozen for about nine months every year and often clogged with ice floes.</p><br>
<p>Administratively Muostakh Island belongs to the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) of the Russian Federation. There is a weather and biological research station in Muostakh Island.</p><br>
<h3>Heavy erosion</h3><br>
<p>Geologically Muostakh Island is the remainder of an ancient great plain that was part of the Siberian continental about two thousand years ago. The strait which now separates the island from the mainland was just beginning to form at that time.</p><br>
<p>Nowadays its northern headland is subject to spectacular sea erosion, receding at a rate of 6 m a year. Sometimes the receding coastline exposes the bones and tusks of prehistoric animals such as mammoths.</p><br>
<p>The Pitkin Glassworks Ruin is a historic industrial archaeological site at the junction of Parker and Putnam Streets in Manchester, Connecticut. It contains the remains of one of the oldest glass factories in New England, established in 1783. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Pitkin Glass Factory was established when the area was still considered part of East Hartford, and was known at the time as the East Hartford Glass Works. William and Elisha Pitkin had supplied gunpowder to the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War at a financial loss, and petitioned the state in 1783 for an exclusive right to manufacture glass as compensation for their losses. The state granted them a 25-year monopoly, to begin once manufacturing began. The factory went into operation a few years later, and soon ran into financial difficulties. Several lotteries were held to raise additional funds, but the endeavour finally closed its doors in 1830.</p><br>
<p>The factory produced items mostly made of green glass, including demijohns for trade with the West Indies, as well as all manner of utilitarian containers, from inkwells to pitchers and bowls. It is unclear whether or not they manufactured window glass.</p><br>
<h2>Later history</h2><br>
<p>The ruins of the structure of the factory are located on what was once the Pitkin Farm, and what is currently the corner of Putnam and Parker Streets. Between the two streets is a grassy plot of land with a sign that identifies it as the former site of the Pitkin Tavern. The site includes remnants of the factory&#39;s stone walls, as well as other archaeological remains.</p><br>
<p>The ruined remains of the factory were deed by the Pitkin family to the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in 1928. The DAR, citing increasing maintenance costs, suggested selling the property for development in 1977. In response to this threat, a committee of citizens formed to save it. They include members of the DAR and the Manchester Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>Several archaeological digs have taken place on the site, including one done by students at Central Connecticut State University. Displays of artifacts and the history of the site are located in the Old Manchester Museum on Cedar Street.</p><br>
<p>The Outeniqua Mountains, named after the Outeniqua Khoikhoi who lived there, is a mountain range that runs a parallel to the southern coast of South Africa, and forms a continuous range with the Langeberg to the west and the Tsitsikamma Mountains to the east. It was known as "Serra de Estrella"  to the Portuguese. The mountains are part of the Garden Route of South Africa.</p><br>
<h2>Nomenclature</h2><br>
<p>"Outeniqua" is said to be derived from a Khoikhoi tribe that once lived in the mountains, and means "they who bear honey". Rock paintings by those people can still be found in the area.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The range is characterized by gentle southern slopes and steep drops on the north side down to the low valley Little Karoo. High points include Cradock Peak at 1578 m and George Peak at 1370 m located to the north of George. The varying conditions create diverse habitats. On the south-facing slopes there is montane fynbos at higher, moister altitudes, while the north hosts karroid and renosterveld shrubland. On the mesic southern slopes there are Afromontane gallery forests.</p><br>
<h2>Weather</h2><br>
<p>The high rainfall on the range has created numerous perennial streams used for irrigation in the Olifants River valley. While the climate along the range is generally hot to moderate, with an average summer temperature of 20.5 °C, weather conditions can vary greatly. In winter the temperature can drop to 5 °C (and even lower on the southern slopes) and snowfalls may occur on the higher peaks.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna and flora</h2><br>
<p>Among the animals found in the Outeniqua range are klipspringer, grey rhebuck, leopard and various rodents. give hope that the fabled animals might with time become re-established in the Outeniqua reserve. Birds include black eagles and other raptors as well as the Cape sugarbird and other fynbos birds.</p><br>
<h2>Passes</h2><br>
<p>In 1908, work started on a railway route over the range from George to Oudtshoorn. This required the building of seven tunnels and numerous long cuttings. The line was opened in August 1913.</p><br>
<p>The first road pass to cross the range into the Langkloof went via Duiwelskop, some 32 km east of George.</p><br>
<p>In 1816, Cradock Pass, named after the Governor, Sir John Cradock, finished construction, and became known as the "Voortrekker Road". It had a difficult reputation. As early as 1831, Magistrate George van der Riet had inspected the road and found it to be a "complete bar" for all trade activities, and it had been characterised over time variously as "the most formidably bad, if not of all roads I ever saw", a "stupendous mountain" and "dangerous and very bad".</p><br>
<p>In 1847, a vastly improved Montagu Pass was constructed by convict labour, and named after the Colonial Secretary, John Montagu. In 1943, to cope with the increasing demands of modern traffic, construction was started on the Outeniqua Pass, using the labour of Italian prisoners of war. At the end of World War II the Italians returned home with the greater part of the pass unfinished. The pass was opened to traffic in September 1951, having cost approximately £500 000.</p><br>
<p>Two other road passes cross: the Outeniqua, the Robinson Pass west of George; and Prince Alfred&#39;s Pass, which connects Uniondale with Knysna.</p><br>
<h2>Historic incidents</h2><br>
<p>On 1 June 2002, Former South Africa Cricket captain Hansie Cronje&#39;s scheduled flight home from Johannesburg to George, Western Cape was grounded so he hitched a ride as the only passenger on board a Hawker Siddeley HS 748 turboprop aircraft. Near George airport, the pilots lost visibility in clouds and were unable to land, partly due to unusable navigational equipment. While circling, the plane crashed into the Outeniqua mountains northeast of the airport. Cronje, aged 32, and the two pilots were killed instantly.</p><br>
<p>The Columbia Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri has been in use as a cemetery since 1820. The cemetery historically contains Caucasian, African-American, and Jewish  sections. Located in the cemetery are a vernacular stone receiving vault , and a Romanesque Revival style mausoleum .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Philemon Bliss - Politician, Chief Justice, Educator</p><br>
<p>John William "Blind" Boone - Musician</p><br>
<p>Jane Froman - Actress and Singer</p><br>
<p>Odon Guitar - Soldier</p><br>
<p>William Wilson Hudson - Third president of the University of Missouri</p><br>
<p>Richard Henry Jesse - Eighth president of the University of Missouri</p><br>
<p>John Carleton Jones - Tenth president of the University of Missouri</p><br>
<p>John Hiram Lathrop - First president of the University of Missouri</p><br>
<p>Frederick Middlebush - Thirteenth president of the University of Missouri</p><br>
<p>William Lester Nelson - Politician</p><br>
<p>James S. Rollins - Politician and Lawyer</p><br>
<p>Max Schwabe - Politician</p><br>
<p>James Shannon - Academic</p><br>
<p>Willard Duncan Vandiver - Politician</p><br>
<p>Edwin Moss Watson - Newspaper Editor</p><br>
<p>Abraham J. Williams - Politician - Third Governor of the State of Missouri</p><br>
<p>Walter Williams - founder of the Missouri School of Journalism and twelfth president of the University of Missouri</p><br>
<p>The Missouri United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in downtown Columbia, Missouri on Ninth Street. The building was constructed between 1925 and 1930, and is an Indiana Bedford limestone Late Gothic Revival style church. The sanctuary seats 1,000 people. The Stained Glass windows, including the large History of Methodism window at the rear of the sanctuary, are some of the most detailed in Mid-Missouri.</p><br>
<p>The Missouri United Methodist Church has a long music tradition. It has a large Skinner pipe organ (1928, Opus 750). The Church hosts an annual Missouri United Church Concert Series featuring the Columbia Chorale, the 9th Street Philharmonic Orchestra as well as other well-known groups such as Chanticleer and the Vienna Boys Choir. The church is currently pastored by Lead Pastor Fred Leist, and Associate Pastors, Charity Goodwin, Joan DeBoe, Kim Parker and Hank Jenkins.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<p>Frank Stephens. History of the Missouri United Methodist Church, University of Missouri Press</p><br>
<p>The Fort Bayard Historic District encompasses the area that was the location of Fort Bayard, a United States Army military installation north of present-day Santa Clara, New Mexico. Founded in 1866, the fort at first provided security  against Native American attacks on settlers during the settlement of the region in the 19th century. It was then converted into the army&#39;s first tuberculosis sanitarium, and later became a VA hospital. The property is now the Fort Bayard Medical Center, a long-term nursing care facility operated by the state of New Mexico. The only surviving 19th-century elements of the fort are some of its landscaping, and the Fort Bayard National Cemetery. The site was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Fort Bayard was established as a United States Army installation in 1866 to protect miners and other settlers in the area along the Apache Trail. The fort was named for Brigadier General George Dashiell Bayard, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862. Fifteen square miles of land were set aside as the Fort Bayard Military Reservation by presidential order in 1869. In 1886, then-Second Lieutenant John Pershing arrived at Fort Bayard and oversaw the installation of a heliograph, linking the fort to an Army communications network from Arizona to Texas.</p><br>
<p>Fort Bayard was one of many installations throughout the Southwest that was garrisoned by the so-called Buffalo Soldiers. Company B of the 25th United States Colored Infantry Regiment established the post, and they were joined by other black units, including troops from the 9th Cavalry Regiment. Corporal Clinton Greaves, stationed at Fort Bayard with C Company, 9th Cavalry Regiment, received the Medal of Honor for his actions against Apache raiders on January 24, 1877. A monument to the Buffalo Soldiers was erected on the old parade field of Fort Bayard in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Following the capture of Geronimo in 1886, the Apache were no longer considered a major threat. Fort Bayards continued usefulness, like that many posts in the southwest, thus came under scrutiny. Due to its distance from the border with Mexico, the fort was selected for deactivation. However, USA Army Surgeon General George Miller Sternberg, noting the excellent health record of the post, chose Fort Bayard as an Army tuberculosis hospital and research center (Lectures on tuberculosis made at the fort are archived at the National Library of Medicine). The fort was then transferred to the Surgeon Generals Department in 1900. In 1922 the hospital became the part of the Veterans Bureau.</p><br>
<p>The fort was partially reactivated as a military installation during World War II. A number of German prisoners of war were held at the fort from 1943 to 1945. The fort is now administered by the New Mexico Department of Health as Fort Bayard Medical Center, a long term care nursing facility that also contains a chemical dependency treatment center.</p><br>
<p>Fort Bayard is located 0.5 mi north of the intersection of United States Route 180 and New Mexico State Road 152, near Bayard, New Mexico.</p><br>
<h2>Notable soldiers stationed at Fort Bayard</h2><br>
<p>General George Crook, circa 1885</p><br>
<p>Colonel Walter Loving</p><br>
<p>Then-Second Lt. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, circa 1886</p><br>
<p>Sergeant James C. Cooney</p><br>
<p>Clinton Greaves, Corporal, Medal of Honor, circa 1877</p><br>
<p>The Glorieta Pass Battlefield was the site of an American Civil War battle that ended Confederate ambitions to cut off the West from the Union. The Battle of Glorieta Pass took place on March 26–28, 1862, at Glorieta Pass, on the Santa Fe Trail between the Pecos River and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The pass, and the battlefield, are now bisected by Interstate 25. Two portions of the battlefield, now owned by the National Park Service and operated as part of Pecos National Historical Park, were declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.</p><br>
<h2>Description and battle history</h2><br>
<p>The preserved portions of the battlefield consists of two sites, a 294 acre parcel on the west side of Glorieta Pass, and a 150 acre parcel on the east side. Areas in between and other portions of the battlefield have been at least partially compromised by the construction of both a railroad and Interstate 25. The eastern portion is north of I-25, and is roughly bisected by New Mexico State Road 50, which follows the historic route of the Santa Fe Trail. At its eastern end is Pigeon&#39;s Ranch, a historic stop on the trail, of which only foundation remnants survive. The western section is located mainly between I-25 and the railroad tracks near the hamlet of Cañoncito.</p><br>
<p>The Battle of Glorieta Pass, fought March 26-28, 1862, arose out of a Confederate initiative to gain control of the western United States. Confederate forces under Brig. Gen. Henry H. Sibley had penetrated as far as Santa Fe, defeating a Union force under Col. Edward Canby at Valverde in February 1862. William Gilpin, governor of the Colorado Territory, raised a brigade of volunteers to aid in the defense of Fort Union, the next Confederate objective. These two forces fought a largely indecisive battle, with the Union forces forced to retreat northward, but successfully destroying the Confederate supply train. The latter forced a Confederate retreat, ultimately all the way back to Texas.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1993, the Congressionally appointed Civil War Sites Advisory Commission issued its "Report on the Nation’s Civil War Battlefields." The Commission was tasked with identify the nation’s historically significant Civil War sites, determining their importance, and providing recommendations for their preservation to Congress.</p><br>
<p>Of the roughly 10,500 actions of the USA Civil War, 384 (3.7%) were identified by the Commission as principal battles and rated according to their significance and threat of loss. The Battle of Glorieta Pass received the highest rating from the Commission - Priority I (Class A). Class A battlefields are principal strategic operations having a direct impact on the course of the war. With this rating the Commission placed Glorieta Pass on the same level with battles such as Gettysburg and Antietam. The Priority I rating identified Glorieta Pass as being not only one of the most important, but also one of the most highly endangered battlefields in the country. Only 10 other battlefields received the Priority I (Class A) rating. The Commission recommended that Congress focus its preservation efforts on Priority I, nationally significant battlefields.</p><br>
<p>Since 1993 portions of the Glorieta Pass battlefield have been a unit of the National Park Service. The Glorieta Pass unit (Pigeon’s Ranch) comprises roughly 20% of the total battlefield. The remaining 80% is in private ownership. Glorieta Pass Battlefield is managed by Pecos National Historical Park and supported by the Glorieta Battlefield Coalition, a non-profit citizens&#39; organization.</p><br>
<p>Portions of the battlefield have been opened to the public as of 2012 (the 150th anniversary of the battle) featuring convenient, and even some accessible, landscaped paths and interpretive signage.</p><br>
<p>The Rabbit Ears are a pair of mountain peaks in northeastern New Mexico, United States, north of the city of Clayton. The two peaks were a distinctive landmark along the Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail, and major route for westbound settlers in the 19th century. The formation was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Rabbit Ears are part of a formation known as the Clayton Complex, an area of elevated terrain north of Clayton and south of the state line between New Mexico and Colorado. Its principal features are two peaks that are a regular presence on the landscape, especially when approached from the east. They are called Rabbit Ears Mountain and Mount Clayton, although the latter has also been historically called the Round Mound. Rabbit Ears Mountain, which has two peaks, is located directly north of Clayton, and is skirted to the south and west by New Mexico State Road 370. Mount Clayton lies to its west, south of the junction of United States Route 85 and New Mexico State Road 453.</p><br>
<p>The Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail was one of two major branches of the Santa Fe Trail, a major 19th-century settlement route connecting Kansas City, Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Its route branched from the Mountain Route near Fort Dodge, roughly following the watershed of the Cimarron River into what is now northeastern New Mexico, where it then went southwesterly toward Santa Fe. The eastern portion of the route is roughly covered by present-day United States Route 56 and United States Route 412.</p><br>
<p>The Rabbit Ears were a key landmark because they were a highly visible feature of the landscape for more than 30 mi, and because they were one of the signs of a sure water supply across that entire area. As a consequence, there are three areas that were regularly used as camp sites by westbound travelers near the two mountains. McNees Crossing on Corrumpa (or McNees) Creek, Turkey Creek Camp on what is now called Alamos Creek, and Rabbit Ears Camp on Cienequilla Creek. Each of these creeks ran reliably in the spring, and continued to provide water even after they stopped running fully. Camps would be located along their banks, their exact locations varying based on water availability. Remnant trail ruts are visible in each of these areas.</p><br>
<p>The Rabbit Ears formation figures prominently in Louis LAmours novel Mustang Man.</p><br>
<p>The Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington, D.C., , is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the United States. The current ambassador of Uzbekistan to the United States is Bakhtiyar Gulyamov. The embassy is located at 1746 Massachusetts Avenue NW on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., between Scott Circle and Dupont Circle. Constructed in 1909, the Clarence Moore House is an example of Beaux Arts architecture in blond Roman brick with limestone dressings; it was used by the Canadian government until the 1980s. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  on April 3, 1973. The building is also designated a contributing property to the Massachusetts Avenue Historic District and Dupont Circle Historic District, which are both listed on the NRHP.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Clarence Moore residence</h3><br>
<p>Clarence Moore, a coal magnate from West Virginia and member of private clubs in Paris and New York City, chose the New York City-based architect Bruce Price and the Washington-based Jules Henri de Sibour to design his home in Washington, D.C. At the time, Sibour was a prominent architect of large residences in Washington, including the Thomas T. Gaff House, Andrew Mellon Building, and the ambassadors residences of Portugal, France, and Luxembourg. Moore purchased the land from Edward J. Stellwagen for $37,422, and construction began in September 1906 and was completed in 1909. Moore only lived in the house for three years. On April 15, 1912, Moore was one of the 1,517 passengers who perished during the sinking of the RMS Titanic. After Moores death, his widow, Mabelle, remarried and only used the home for diplomatic and social events.</p><br>
<h3>Canadian embassy</h3><br>
<p>On May 28, 1927, Mabelle sold the home to the Crown in Right of Canada for $375,000. A portion of the home&#39;s furnishings were purchased for an additional $100,000. Until 1931, Canada had been represented in the United States by the British Embassy.</p><br>
<p>From 1927 until 1946, the Clarence Moore House served as the Canadian chancery as well as the residence of the Canadian Minister, and later the ambassador. In 1943 the legation was raised to embassy status and Leighton McCarthy became the first Canadian ambassador to the United States. In 1946, the ambassador&#39;s residence was constructed at 2825 Rock Creek Drive, and the Clarence Moore House was then used solely for embassy office space.</p><br>
<p>The Canadian Crown-in-Council purchased land on Pennsylvania Avenue in 1978 for $5 million for use as a new embassy location. Clarence Moore House continued as the Canadian chancery until 1988, when it moved to the new and current location.</p><br>
<h3>Uzbekistan embassy</h3><br>
<p>After diplomatic relations between the United States and Uzbekistan were established on February 19, 1992, the government of Uzbekistan purchased the Clarence Moore House. The new embassy opened in February 1993 and advocates Uzbekistan&#39;s political, commercial, and economic interests to the government of the United States. As of 2012, the value of the Clarence Moore House property is $13,423,870. The Uzbekistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs also maintains a consulate in New York City.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<h3>Exterior design</h3><br>
<p>The Clarence Moore House is a classic example of the Beaux Arts architectural style and features a Louis XV-style exterior. The -story structure includes a basement and comprises brick walls, a concrete floor, and a steel roof. The building measures 79.5 feet (24.2 m) in height and the walls are made of Roman brick. A limestone Tuscan entablature with a bracket cornice separate the third and fourth floors. The building&#39;s north entrance on Massachusetts Avenue has a 6 x 6 foot (1.8 x 1.8 m) stoop flanked by limestone balustrades. Above the entrance and ground floor windows are limestone corbels and guttae. The corbels support limestone second floor balconies and a vase balustrade. The third floor balconies are made of limestone and feature cast iron railings. The second, third, and fourth floor window and architraves are set in a quoined limestone ground. Six limestone chimneys, capped with Tusance entablature, are visible from the ground level. Two chimneys are located at the front and back of the house and a chimney is located on the eastern and western sides. The slate mansard roof has a limestone and metal ridge.</p><br>
<h3>Interior design</h3><br>
<p>The homes interior features 16th, 17th, and 18th century French and English details. The building is heated by an oil-burning, hot air furnace and contains an Otis passenger elevator and freight elevator. The passenger elevator is wood-paneled and the freight elevator measures 5 x 4 feet (1.5 x 1.2 m) in diameter. The flooring consists of black and white marble squares and the walls are plastered to simulate limestone. In the back of the house is a five-bay entrance hall and staircase. The library entrance is located on the right side of the hallway and two reception rooms and a lavatory are located on the left side. Near the end of the hall are service rooms, service elevator, dining room (now the ambassadors office), and a breakfast room. A lavatory is located beneath the main staircase. At the end of the hall are two parlors and a large drawing room. The second floor contains three bedrooms, two baths, and a service area. One of the bedrooms, the master suite, contains a separate staircase that gives access to the upper floors. The third floor contains bedroom suites and a playroom in the southeast corner. The fourth floor contains additional bedrooms and servants&#39; quarters.</p><br>
<p>Lake Massapoag is a 353 acre, natural, springfed lake located in Sharon, Massachusetts. The name Massapoag is Algonquin, meaning "large water".</p><br>
<p>Lake Massapoag is the headwater of the Canoe River, which flows south to join the Taunton River and empty into Narragansett Bay. It is also the headwaters of the Massapoag brook, which flows into the Neponset River.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 18th century, workers deepened the outlet of the lake to draw the water down in order to extract bog iron for the smelting industry.</p><br>
<p>Lake Massapoag was the site of a large 19th-century ice business, with an enormous wooden icehouse at the eastern end of the lake.</p><br>
<p>Because of the lake and the fact that Sharon is at a slightly higher elevation than the surrounding towns, and because it is located on the main rail line going south from Boston, the shores of the lake developed into a minor summer resort with several large hotels, summer camps and cottage colonies. Temple Adath Sharon was built as a summer synagogue, and the houses around it, now occupied year-round, were once summer cottages.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>The site of the former ice house is now a large town beach. The beach was created by trucking in quantities of sand after the ice house burned down.</p><br>
<p>The lake is also popular for sailing and sailboarding. The Wheaton College Sailing Team and Sharon High School Sailing Team train on Lake Massapoag.</p><br>
<p>The Ensenada de Barragán  is a small bay on the Río de la Plata, some 40 km southeast of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The area belongs today to the Ensenada district of Buenos Aires province, centred on the city of the Ensenada. The old cove has partly silted since the 17th century, and the area is now considered to be part of Isla Santiago .</p><br>
<p>The coastal region was first mapped by Magellan in 1520 in his trip around the world; the bay itself was settled by Hernandarias in the early 17th century. In 1629, the land was sold to Antonio Gutiérrez Barragán, hence its toponymy. The town itself was founded in 1801.</p><br>
<p>Until the middle of the 19th century, the bay provided a good natural port. The cove was fortified by the Spanish governors, and later by the Viceroys of the River Plate, several times with batteries and a defensive wall. The place came to be known as "Fuerte Barragán" (Fort Barragán, see below).</p><br>
<p>With the foundation of the new capital of Buenos Aires province (La Plata) in 1882, a new port was built between Ensenada and the nearby town of Berisso. The port relies on a dredged channel cutting through the silt of Barragán Bay and Santiago Island (and another natural channel called "Río Santiago") to connect La Plata with the River Plate. The new haven is now known as Port of La Plata, and it is mostly used for industrial freight.</p><br>
<h2>Fuerte Barragán: A defensive battery on the River Plate</h2><br>
<p>On 2 January 1801 Viceroy Marqués de Avilés granted Colonel Pedro Cerviño the settlement of a town at the Ensenada de Barragán. He was also responsible for building the first defensive wall at Fuerte Barragán (Fort Barragán), as well as its eight-cannon battery.</p><br>
<p>The Ensenada de Barragán played an important role during the British invasions of the Rio de la Plata. In June 1806, Fort Barragán was commanded by Santiago de Liniers and repulsed the first landing of the British under General Beresford; the invading army was forced to come ashore at Quilmes, some 20 km upstream. On the second British invasion in June 1807, however, the fort was left unmanned and it was captured by Lieutenant-General Whitelocke.</p><br>
<p>The fort was rebuilt under the direction of Pedro Benoit in 1855 and again by the Buenos Aires province in 1911. Since 1985, it is a Historic Museum managed by the municipality of Ensenada.</p><br>
<p>The General John Hathorn Stone House is located on Hathorn Road in the town of Warwick, New York, United States, just off NY 94 a mile south of the village of Warwick. It was built by Hathorn in 1773 but expanded considerably in the mid-19th century.</p><br>
<p>It is on a 14-acre (5.6-ha) lot, the remainder of the original 300 acres (120 ha) Hathorn and his family farmed. In 2001 it and an early-19th-century outbuilding were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The six-bay -story house is built of coursed rubblestone and uncoursed ashlar. The foundation is stone and the roof is asphalt shingle. A wooden porch spans the front, with its roof continuing the line of the main roof. Low dormer windows line the second story. Two frame wings come out from the rear and side, Large letters set into the brick on the west gable spell out "E., I & H, 1773", a reference to Hathorn and his wife and the year of the house&#39;s construction.</p><br>
<p>Much of the interior retains furnishings from the Victorian era, when the house was extensively redone. Behind the house is a mid-19th-century Greek Revival building that has been used for several purposes during the course of its existence.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>As a young man Hathorn, a native of today&#39;s Delaware, had been on the surveying team that established the present land border between New York and New Jersey, which had been the subject of a lengthy conflict between the two colonies for much of the 18th century. He settled in Warwick and opened a store and iron forge in 1770, and built the house after marrying Elizabeth Welling, daughter of his local host, in 1772. The inscription of their initials and the year of construction in the side of the house is a tradition more commonly associated with Germanic building traditions, a sign of how influential settlers of that background were in the Hudson Valley.</p><br>
<p>During the Revolutionary War he rose from the rank of captain to colonel, and was promoted to major general afterwards. According to local lore, George Washington spent the night at Hathorn&#39;s house on two occasions. Hathorn commanded the local militia, entrusted with guarding the Ramapo approach to the Hudson Valley. He was one of the few survivors of their defeat by Joseph Brant at the Battle of Minisink Ford.</p><br>
<p>After the war he began a more successful political career, first in the New York State Assembly, where he rose to become speaker, then in the state senate and finally in the House of Representatives in the early 19th century. Upon his death in 1825 his family kept the house for nine more years, then sold it to the Sanford family, who combined it with the lot holding the neighboring Jeremiah Morehouse House. They added the rear building, the wings and the porch in addition to doubling the houses original size. In 1923 they sold it to another family, and it has passed through several owners since then. In that year, and again in 2000, Hathorns descendants held a reunion at the house.</p><br>
<p>Today the road, a former section of Route 94, is named for Hathorn. A nearby restaurant is also known as Chateau Hathorn.</p><br>
<p>As of March, 2009, a Permaculture practice and education initiative has been implemented on the site. Using the 9 acre across the street from the Hathorn Stone House, Hathorn Farm has created a "beyond organic" garden that maximizes rainwater and grows only heirloom and organic produce.</p><br>
<p>The Hathorn Stone House will be home to Hathorn Farm&#39;s education initiative featuring Permaculture and a 72-hour Permaculture Design Certification course. Most of the practical implementations of Permaculture were unknowingly implemented in the days of the founding fathers, as many of the capitalistic absurdities of today were not yet in existence. The current owners of the farm look to return the land and farm, not only to embrace the days of Revolution against the bloody Red Coats for taxation without representation that we experience in 2009, but to educate Warwickians about the age-old teachings of homesteading that are comprehensively taught with the curriculum of Permaculture Design Certification.</p><br>
<p>With running water now available after an ongoing court feud with the Village of Warwick, where the court ordered a temporary restraining order against the Village, a feud dating back over 100 years, the owners of the homestead directing the Permaculture course can graciously greet their guests for their unprecedented educational Permaculture course set for commencement on October 10, 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Lisco State Aid Bridge is located on a county road over the North Platte River south of Lisco, Nebraska. Completed in 1928, the bridge today "is distinguished as an important crossing of the Platte River and one of the last two intact multiple-span state aid truss bridges" in Nebraska.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Nebraska Department of Public Works contracted Western Bridge and Construction Company to begin construction on the Lisco Bridge in October 1927, several months after the company completed the nearby Lewellen State Aid Bridge. One of eight bridges designed by the Nebraska engineer&#39;s office using multiple-span Pratt pony trusses, the bridge featured eight 80 ft spans that range from 60 to 100 ft. The bridge measures 641 ft long and is 15 ft wide, and is supported by concrete abutments and piers. Built for $47,600, Western used steel fabricated by the Inland Steel Corporation and completed the project over the winter season. Originally part of the USA 6 highway system, the Lisco Bridge now carries a county road.</p><br>
<p>Johnstons Creek, formerly Johnston&#39;s Creek, is an urban gully, located in Sydney, Australia and situated in the Leichhardt local government area. The creek flows from Petersham, past Annandale, Camperdown, Forest Lodge and Harold Park, before spilling into Rozelle Bay, within Sydney Harbour.</p><br>
<h2>Course and features</h2><br>
<p>Originally a natural watercourse, Johnston&#39;s Creek was converted into a brick and concrete channel in the 1890s in order to improve sanitation in Sydney. The creek rises in Petersham and initially marked the eastern boundary of the land granted to Lieutenant-Colonel George Johnston in the 1790s, which he named Annandale. The Annandale Estate was subdivided in the latter part of the 19th Century into what is now the suburbs of Stanmore and Annandale. The channel now forms a boundary of Annandale, Forest Lodge, Camperdown and Stanmore.</p><br>
<p>Johnstons Creek has one minor tributary, Orphan School Creek, an urban canal that joins Johnstons Creek at Forest Lodge.</p><br>
<h3>Urban structures</h3><br>
<p>Johnstons Creek is crossed by the Annandale Bridge on Parramatta Road, and road bridges at Booth Street and The Crescent. The heritage-listed Allan Truss Bridge, formerly the Federal Road Bridge, crosses Johnstons Creek near its mouth, connecting Annandale and Glebe. The bridge was decommissioned for road usage and converted as a footbridge in 2000. A small pedestrian and road bridge crosses the canal at Harold Park, and a former tram bridge provides a direct route from Minogue Crescent to Hogan and Spindler Park. The Bowstring Bridge, a footbridge, is an early example of reinforced concrete bowstring arch bridges built in Australia, located on Minogue Crescent, Forest Lodge.</p><br>
<p>A heavy rail viaduct, now used for the Inner West Light Rail, crosses the creek between Jubilee Park and Federal Park, west of Glebe.</p><br>
<p>Completed in 1898, the Johnstons Creek Sewerage Aqueduct connects Sydney&#39;s western suburbs to the Northern Main Sewer extension of the Bondi Ocean Outfall Sewer, managed by Sydney Water. The Johnston and Whites Creek aqueducts, both listed on the Register of the National Estate, were the first reinforced concrete structures in Australia.</p><br>
<p>A salt marsh wetland was constructed in 2001 to filter storm water before it enters Sydney Harbour via Johnston&#39;s Creek.</p><br>
<h2>Marine life</h2><br>
<p>In September 2009 a bull shark believed to be 1.8 m long was sighted in Johnstons Creek. The shark was last seen swimming along the Glebe foreshore in the direction of the Anzac Bridge.</p><br>
<p>Storer House is a Frank Lloyd Wright house in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles built in 1923. The structure is noteworthy as one of the four Mayan Revival style textile-block houses built by Wright in the Los Angeles area from 1922 to 1924.</p><br>
<h2>Design of Storer House</h2><br>
<p>The Storer House was built in 1923 for Dr. John Storer, a homeopathic physician. However, Wright biographer Brendan Gill described the Storer House as a disappointment on this score: "In direct contradiction to everything that Wright had earlier preached about the natural, nearly invisible joining of structure and site, the Storer House, small as it is, asserts its presence with a surprising degree of arrogance—an arrogance far more obvious in the 1920s, when the hillside lacked the softening effect of foliage, than it is today."</p><br>
<p>The house is dominated by a large upstairs living room with a high ceiling, Mayan inspired columns, and tall narrow windows; the living room is the front facade facing the street. The tall banks of windows flood the living room with natural light. Outside the living room, there are two terraces, one with a view of Hollywood and the other with a view of the hillside. The floor plan forms a T and has large public spaces, each with a fireplace. The dining room and kitchen are on the main floor. The house has 2,967 ft&sup2; with three bedrooms, a den, three bathrooms, staff wing and a spa. The house was built without a front door, entrance being offered through a rear door, "as if to finalize the metaphor of privacy and retrenchment." Actually there are five door/window openings in front, being very visually pleasing, but perhaps lacking the definitiveness of "one front door."</p><br>
<p>The house is built on a steep hillside in the Hollywood Hills at a time when the hills did not have the rich foliage present today. At the time of its construction, Storer House is said to have resembled a Pompeiian villa. Frank Lloyd Wright&#39;s son, Lloyd Wright, was both the on-site construction manager and the landscape architect, providing an illusion of a ruin barely visible within its jungle environment.</p><br>
<p>The Storer House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and designated as a Historic-Cultural Landmark (#96) in 1972 by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission. It was also included in Sydney LeBlanc&#39;s book The Architecture Traveler: A Guide to 250 Key 20th Century American Buildings.</p><br>
<p>An homage to Wright was built in the Hollywood Backlot at Disney&#39;s California Adventure Park in Anaheim, California: a textile block restroom and seating area was based on the design of the Storer House.</p><br>
<p>It is considered one of Wright&#39;s great masterpieces.</p><br>
<h2>Wright's textile-block houses</h2><br>
<p>Considered an example of Wrights pre-Columbian or early Modernist architecture, He sought to develop an inexpensive and simple method of construction that would enable ordinary people to build their own homes with stacked blocks, tied together with steel rods. One writer has described Wrights concept this way: "By unifying decoration and function, exterior and interior, earth and sky -- perforated blocks served as skylights -- Wright saw his Textile Block Method approach as an utterly modern, and democratic, expression of his organic architecture ideal."</p><br>
<p>Wright was also intrigued by archaeological discoveries on Mexicos Yucatan Peninsula and used elements from Maya architecture and design in the Storer House. Wright used sledgehammers and aluminum molds to imprint elaborate Maya-inspired patterns into the blocks. The four Southern California textile-block houses represented Wrights earliest uses of the exotic, monumental Maya forms. Storer House is the only one of Wright&#39;s textile-block houses to use multiple block patterns—four in all.</p><br>
<p>Wrights textile block houses did not catch on as he had hoped. As The New York Times later said of the California houses built by Wright in the 1920s: "It didnt help that he was obsessed at the time with an untested and (supposedly) low-cost method of concrete-block construction. What kind of rich person, many wondered, would want to live in such a house? Aside from the free-spirited oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, whom he fought with constantly, his motley clients included a jewelry salesman, a rare-book dealing widow and a failed doctor."</p><br>
<h2>Restoration by Joel Silver</h2><br>
<p>By the early 1980s, the house had fallen into a dilapidated condition before being acquired in 1984 for $800,000 by motion picture producer Joel Silver. In addition to restoring the house, Silver also restored the original landscaping and installed a pool that had been planned but not built. Eric Wright worked with Silver in completing elements included in the original plans. The restoration project won awards from the California Council of the American Institute of Architects and the Los Angeles Conservancy. In 2005, The New York Times wrote that the Storer House "is widely considered the best-preserved Wright building in Los Angeles."</p><br>
<p>While the house had been put on the market for $1 million in 1981, Silver put it on the market in 2001 for $3.5 million. After putting "a small fortune" into the restoration and fixing leaky roofs, Silver had difficulty finding a buyer. Reports indicated that a similar home would sell for $1 million, leading Forbes magazine to ask: "Will someone pay a 400% premium to live in a piece of architectural history? Probably not. Even immaculately restored, the Storer House still has drawbacks: It&#39;s small, the address is just a shade east of swanky Beverly Hills and the other houses on the hills above invade its privacy." Given the landscaping however, the house has great privacy from all of its neighbors. Silver ultimately sold the house in 2002 for $2.9 million, according to Los Angeles County property records.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>One of the blocks in the house was used as the Silver Pictures logo from 1991 to 2005, shown at the end of The Matrix Trilogy, Conspiracy Theory, Cradle 2 The Grave, Swordfish, and Romeo Must Die.</p><br>
<p>The Kingle Valley Bridge, officially known as the Connecticut Avenue Bridge, is an Art Deco steel-arch bridge located near the National Zoological Park on Connecticut Avenue, Northwest in Washington, D.C. The bridge crosses Klingle Valley, running from Macomb Street to Devonshire Place and connecting the Cleveland Park and Woodley Park neighborhoods.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was designed by architect Paul Philippe Cret and engineer Ralph Modjeski. It was built in 1931&ndash;1932. There is no direct connection between Connecticut Avenue and Klingle Road in the narrow valley below. The bridge features two historic lights on each corner. A major rehabilitation of the bridge that began in 2005 included restored ornamental lanterns, refurbished masonry, and additional street lights. The restoration project was completed in 2008.</p><br>
<p>On May 21, 2004, the bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is a contributing property to the Cleveland Park Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Kennedy-Warren is a historic eleven-story apartment house in Washington, D.C. It is located at 3131-3133 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. between the Cleveland Park and Woodley Park neighborhoods. The Art Deco building, which was constructed from 1931, overlooks the National Zoological Park and Klingle Valley Park, which is near the Art Deco Kingle Valley Bridge. The original main building was built between 1930 and 1931 with 210 apartments.</p><br>
<p>The plans of its architect called for a northeast wing and a south wing as well, but construction was delayed because of the onset of the Great Depression. The northeast wing was added in 1935 with 107 additional apartments as economic conditions improved in Washington. The B. F. Saul Company, owner of the building since 1935, added the south wing between 2002 and 2004. The architect of the northeast wing was A. H. Sonneman and of the south wing was Hartman-Cox. The current total number of apartments, ranging from efficiencies to three-bedroom units, is 425.</p><br>
<p>The Kennedy-Warren is considered the largest and best example of an Art Deco building in Washington, D.C. In 1989, the building was listed as a District of Columbia Historic Landmark, and in 1994 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The south wing has won numerous awards for the quality of its architecture and attention to historical detail, including the 2005 award of excellence for historic resources by the American Institute of Architects.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>In 1929, Monroe Warren, Sr. approached Edgar S. Kennedy about the possibility of constructing a large apartment house on a tract that Kennedy owned on Connecticut Avenue. Kennedy was a partner with two brothers, William and Gordon, in Kennedy Brothers Company, a real estate development firm that had built a number of apartment houses in Washington, D.C., including 2400 16th Street, N.W., facing Meridian Hill Park. Warren owned a construction firm, Monroe and R. B. Warren, Inc., that built co-operative apartment houses, including Tilden Gardens.</p><br>
<p>Kennedy and Warren hired the architect Joseph Younger (1892–1932) to design the building. Younger was a native of Washington, D.C., and was graduated in 1912 from the architecture school at George Washington University. Kennedy and Warren obtained $1.75 million in financing from the B. F. Saul Company, American Security Bank, and the Union Trust Company. They started work on the central section and the northwest wing (both facing Connecticut Avenue) in October 1930, and the building opened in October of the following year. Kennedy and Warren had been promised a loan by the Integrity Trust Company in Philadelphia to build the northeast and south wings, but it fell through with the worsening economic depression. In 1932, they filed for bankruptcy. The B. F. Saul Company, as the principal creditor, obtained title to the building in 1935.</p><br>
<h3>Rent control controversy</h3><br>
<p>Shortly after the expansion construction began in 2002, the B.F. Saul Company made several attempts to effectively remove the original wings of the Kennedy-Warren from being subject to the rent control laws of Washington, D.C. Although many tenants originally believed that the owners simply wanted to increase rents to take advantage of what was at the time a strong real estate market, it was later revealed that the company intended to gut the interior of the "Historic Wings" to convert them to high-end luxury apartments. This strategy began in 2002 with an attempt by the buildings owner to have current tenants voluntarily agree to raise rents for all future tenants by 300 percent. When the agreement failed to obtain an adequate number of tenant signatures, the owners pursued rent control litigation in an attempt to charge tenants for the cost of performing repairs and other infrastructure work on the building. Many tenants believed that this action violated the tenant-owner agreement that had helped to resolve the earlier zoning impediments to the expansion, and the buildings tenant association resolved to fight the rent increase litigation in court.</p><br>
<p>In January 2008, Kennedy-Warren tenants began a rent strike in protest of the owner&#39;s attempts to increase rents. Washington, D.C. officials called it the first large-scale rent strike of its kind in the city. Shortly after the beginning of the strike, the B.F. Saul Company again attempted to reach an agreement with tenants to dramatically raise rents for future tenants of the original wings. While the agreement received more than the minimum number of signatures required under the law, the content of the agreement was determined by the city government to be illegal and "patently coercive". Following the rejection of this agreement, many tenants have continued on the rent strike; litigation brought by the owner to increase rents – as well as tenant litigation challenging existing rents – is pending.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Since the site of the Kennedy-Warren slopes steeply from Connecticut Avenue down to the National Zoo, the lobby level is designated as the third floor. The two residential levels below that have apartments that face the zoo. Below those are four basement levels, including a large parking garage. The building is an imposing sight on Connecticut Avenue because of its massive size and fine detailing, which includes tan and orange variegated brick, limestone carvings, and the extensive use of aluminum. The Kennedy-Warren was the first building in Washington, D.C., to use aluminum extensively; applications include the entrance porch, spandrels between the windows on the façade, balustrades in the lobby, and even an aluminum-leaf arched ceiling in the ground-floor corridors, unique in Washington, D.C. The stone carvings are in the Aztec Deco style, influenced by the carved stonework of ancient Mexico, and include griffins, eagles, and a frieze of elephants and starbursts and they rise three floors above street level.</p><br>
<p>An unusual feature of the Kennedy-Warren when it opened in 1931 was its air-cooling system. Three enormous fans drew cool air from Klingle Park at the back of the building and forced it through the public corridors. Residents could then open metal louvers above their hallway doors to cool individual apartments. Cross-ventilation during temperate weather was so effective that doorstops were required to prevent doors from slamming closed if left ajar. Advertisements for the Kennedy-Warren showed that the air was at least ten degrees cooler than on Connecticut Avenue. The fans were removed during the 2009–11 renovation after central air conditioning was installed.</p><br>
<h2>Expansion</h2><br>
<p>In 2002, the B. F. Saul Company undertook construction of the uncompleted south wing. Obtaining the necessary permits and approvals had taken five years. The architect was Hartman-Cox of Washington, D.C. The plans followed Joseph Younger’s 1931 design very closely for the exterior. The Belden Brick Company of Ohio made the variegated brick to match exactly the brick of the historic building. New carvings of Indiana limestone match those in the original building as well. The Boose Aluminum Foundry Company of Reamstown, Pennsylvania, cast the spandrels for the south wing. (ALCOA had cast the originals on the historic main building.) Hartman-Cox diverged from Younger’s plans for the exterior in one respect, by adding balconies to the south and east sides where the south wing faces the National Zoo.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Younger’s plan for the interior called for long corridors running through each floor. Hartman-Cox consulted with Robert M. Swedroe Architects and Planners of Miami, Florida, who are experts in apartment floor plans. They proposed replacing the long corridors with two widely spaced elevators, which in some cases open directly into the apartments. Eliminating the corridors saved space, increased privacy, and allowed for much larger apartments, some of which are unusual “pass-through” apartments. They have windows on both the front and the back of the building. Only the corridor on the ground floor connects to the 1931 building. The layout of the apartments is traditional, with enclosed kitchens and formal dining rooms. The largest, with two bedrooms, two baths, and a den, is 2300 square feet.</p><br>
<p>The south wing was completed in 2004. The amenities include a fitness club with steam rooms and a swimming pool facing the zoo. There is a large parking garage as well.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration of the historic main building</h2><br>
<p>In 2009, the B. F. Saul Company, undertook the restoration and renovation of the historic main building, a project that was expected to cost $60 million. Contractors installed new double-hung mahogany windows, built a new roof and roof deck, and carefully cleaned the brick façade and aluminum spandrels following preservation standards. After discussions with the Art Deco Society of Washington, D.C. as well as the residents, the B. F. Saul Company decided to preserve the original floor plans of most apartments. As the contractors renovated each apartment, they kept the original hardware, including the glass doorknobs and brass hinges, as well as the kitchen cabinets and apartment doors, and they sanded and stained the original wood floors. To bring the building up to current standards, they replaced the wiring and plumbing, and installed a sprinkler system and central air-conditioning in the apartments and public areas. The central air-conditioning replaced the huge basement fans, which had been in use since 1931, as well as window units. The company put new stoves and refrigerators in the apartments and, for the first time, washers and dryers. Shops and businesses on the lobby floor supplied such services for the residents.</p><br>
<p>Valley Craftsmen, of Baltimore, Maryland, restored the elaborate Art Deco lobby. They re-stenciled the beamed ceiling in a geometric Art Deco design using gold leaf, and hand-painted the walls to resemble the original veneer panels. The Saul Company replaced the missing Art Deco chandeliers and wall sconces and restored the handsome inlaid Art Deco elevator doors on the second, third, and fourth floors. On each side of the lobby is a lounge. The south lounge was restored to its original design and the north lounge was converted to a piano-bar, which is open to residents. On the second floor, there is ballroom with fine Art Deco detailing. The ballroom was a popular venue for events of all kinds, and many of the best known big bands of the era played there. It has been closed for many years, but current plans (2011) call for it to be restored and reopened as an event space.</p><br>
<p>The Kennedy-Warren had a dining room, which was operated as a public restaurant from 1931 until it closed in 1990. Such dining rooms once were common in Washington, D.C. apartment houses, but the only one still in operation as of 2011 is in the Westchester, at 4000 Cathedral Avenue, N.W. The B. F. Saul Company reportedly plans to reopen the Kennedy-Warren dining room, but it will be open only to residents.</p><br>
<h2>Notable residents</h2><br>
<p>During the 1930s and 1940s, there were many military officers living at the Kennedy-Warren. In 1937 alone, there were 75 officers in the building, including 5 generals. Admiral Royal Eason Ingersoll (1883–1976) lived there during World War II. He was commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet and is credited with organizing the defeat of the German U-boat fleet during the war. Major General “Pa” Watson (1883–1945) lived with his wife in penthouse apartment 1102 from 1933 to 1945. General Watson was President Franklin Roosevelt’s senior military aide and appointment secretary. He accompanied FDR on all his travels, and died on shipboard in February 1945 while returning from the Yalta Conference. Harry Hopkins (1890–1946), FDR’s closest political adviser, lived in the Kennedy-Warren during the 1930s. Hopkins headed three major New Deal agencies, including the Works Progress Administration. Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973) and his wife, Lady Bird, lived in a three-bedroom apartment in 1937 and 1938 when he first came to Washington as a junior congressman from Texas. Lt. Leslie B. Knox, an Australian-born Coral Sea Battle naval hero after whom USS L. B. Knox was named, lived there with his wife, Louise Kennedy Knox, who sponsored the destroyer in 1943. Biochemist, Benjamin R. Jacobs and his wife, Margaret Connell Jacobs, maintained a residence at the Kennedy-Warren.</p><br>
<p>Cup and Saucer Creek, an urban watercourse of the Cooks River catchment, is located in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia.</p><br>
<h2>Course and features</h2><br>
<p>Cup and Saucer Creek rises in Canterbury local government area, near Wiley Park railway station and flows in an east north-easterly direction through the suburbs of Roselands, Kingsgrove, and Clemton Park, where it makes its confluence with the Cooks River, within the suburb of Earlwood. The upper reaches of the creek are a piped drainage system, which becomes part drain and part creek in the lower reaches. The Cup and Saucer Creek Catchment Management Study by the Water Board in 1992 showed extensive toxic organics in the form of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and organochlorines.</p><br>
<p>The creek is so named because of sandstone formations in the former bed of the creek.</p><br>
<p>A concrete culvert over Bexley Road constructed in 1920 is listed on the NSW State Heritage Register.</p><br>
<p>The Haymarket Martyrs Monument&#39; is a funeral monument sculpture located at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Dedicated in 1893, it commemorates the defendants involved in the labor unrest and bombing related to the Haymarket Affair . On February 18, 1997 it was designated a National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Following the Haymarket affair, trial and executions, August Spies, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Louis Lingg, and Albert Parsons were buried at the German Waldheim Cemetery (later merged with Forest Home Cemetery).</p><br>
<p>The Pioneer Aid and Support Association organized a subscription for a funeral monument. In 1893, the Haymarket Martyrs&#39; Monument by sculptor Albert Weinert was raised at Waldheim. It consists of a 16-foot-high granite shaft capped by a carved triangular stone. There is a two step base, which also supports a monumental figure of a woman standing over the body of a fallen worker, both in bronze. It was dedicated on June 25, 1893, after a march from Chicago. The inscription on the steps read, "1887," the year of the executions. Also, there is a quote attributed to Spies, recorded just before his execution by hanging: "The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today."</p><br>
<p>On the back of the monument are listed the names of the men. On the top of the monument, a bronze plaque contains text of the pardon later issued by Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld</p><br>
<p>The dedication ceremony was attended by 8000, with union flags and the American flag draped on the monument. European unions and American organizations sent flowers to be placed. Many activists and labor leaders were subsequently buried nearby. Michael Schwab and Oscar Neebe were also buried at Waldheim when they died. Samuel Fielden is the only Haymarket defendant who is not buried at Forest Home. For years, annual commemorations were held.</p><br>
<p>Since the 1970s, the Illinois Labor History Society has held the deed to the monument and been responsible for its maintenance and restoration. It conducts monthly guided tours of Forest Home Cemetery from May through October.</p><br>
<h2>Time capsule</h2><br>
<p>In October 2016, volunteers and scientists dug near the base of the monument, where they recovered a time capsule that had been buried under the cornerstone on November 6, 1892, during the monument&#39;s construction. The time capsule, which is 62 cm tall and 30 cm wide, was made of stone or concrete and capped in marble. According to a list in the records of the Pioneer Aid and Support Association, the time capsule contained newspaper articles, letters to and from the Haymarket defendants, and photographs of the men and their families. It also held trial documents, essays, and letters and testimonials from a number of labor unions and fraternal organizations. In addition, it may contain a bust of Albert Spies. The time capsule contained an urn instead of what was described in the records. Research is ongoing to determine the location of the time capsule.</p><br>
<p>During the excavation, the volunteers also found a cube that is believed to be the cremation vault for the ashes of Oscar Neebe, who died in 1916. It was sitting on top of the time capsule.</p><br>
<p>HayMarket100a.jpgUtah Phillips speaking in May 1986, during ceremonies commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Haymarket affair.</p><br>
<p>The John Humphrey House is a historic home in Orland Park, Illinois. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The second permanent house built in Orland Park, it was home to Illinois Senator John Humphrey.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Humphrey, a native of Wisbech, England, came with his family in 1848 to the area that would become Orland Park, Illinois. He was elected to the Cook County Board of Supervisors in 1866 and elected supervisor of Orland Township four years later. Humphrey purchased a large plot of land in anticipation of the expansion of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad and rallied to have the lands named Orland Park in 1879. Humphrey was first elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1870 and to the Illinois Senate in 1886. The town of Orland Park was incorporated in 1892 and Humphrey was elected its first mayor, a position he held until his death in 1914.</p><br>
<p>Humphrey built his residence, the second permanent house in the town, in 1881. It was built in a vernacular four-over-four design with a two-story ell. Humphrey&#39;s son John Stuart maintained the house until 1987. The house was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The main facade of the house faces south. It has three bays with a one-story porch. The main entrance, with French doors, is centrally located. The other two bays feature double-hung windows on each story; wood shutters are original. The porch foundation was originally brick but has since been replaced with stone. The transom over the door and window hoods is generally Georgian in style. The porch roof, with wooden shingles, is hipped.</p><br>
<p>The Baháí House of Worship  is a temple in Wilmette, Illinois. One of ten dedicated temples of the Baháí Faith, it is the oldest surviving Baháí House of Worship in the world.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early plans</h3><br>
<p>In 1903, a small group of Baháís in downtown Chicago first discussed the idea of a Baháí House of Worship in the Chicago area. At the time, the worlds first House of Worship was being built in Ashgabat, in what is now Turkmenistan. The Ioas family was particularly involved in the first requests. A Baháí from Chicago named Corinne Knight True went on pilgrimage to British Mandated Palestine in 1907 to visit `Abdul-Bahá, then leader of the religion, and tell him of the growing interest in a local house of worship. During Thornton Chases pilgrimage, he had asked `Abdul-Bahá about it as well and was directed to work with True as "complete directions" had been given to her. A series of newspaper articles in the fall of 1908 including Chase among a set of women in several newspapers about the aim of the Baháís to build a it.From various of the articles the names include: Geraldine Farrar, Lillyan Shaffner, Ragna Linne, Nellie E Cox, Susan R Moody, Eva Russell, Mrs. A. B. Burrows, Jane Mason, Mrs. Edgar Waite, Mrs. A. R. Windust, Cecillia Harrison, Mrs. Albert Kirchner, Thornton B. Chase, Mr and Mrs. Marshall Roe, and Mrs. Flinn.</p><br>
<p>This interaction led to the next development of a national sense of community: The election of the first national council of the religion, with delegates present from across the US and Canada, in the spring of 1909. and it became a solace to her life in the face of many personal challenges. Subsequently American Bahá’ís came to refer to her as "the mother of the Temple" and she was eventually appointed one of the Hands of the Cause of the religion. The Baháí administrative body True initiated by direction of `Abdul-Bahá, the Bahá&#39;í Temple Unity, began purchasing land and gradually assumed larger responsibilities across communities until it was renamed the National Spiritual Assembly.</p><br>
<p>Baháís from around the world gradually raised funds to pay for the project. For example, French Bahais were noted as contributing even after facing the January 1910 Great Flood of Paris. A Chicago resident named Nettie Tobin, unable to contribute any money, famously donated a discarded piece of limestone from a construction site. This stone became the symbolic cornerstone of the building when `Abdul-Bahá arrived in Wilmette in 1912 for the ground-breaking ceremony during his journeys to the West. The actual construction of the building did not begin until the 1920s, after Baháís agreed to use a design by Louis Bourgeois. The design was seen as a mixture of many different architectural styles.</p><br>
<h3>Construction</h3><br>
<p>By 1922, the first part of the building, the Foundation Hall, was mostly finished, and Baháís began using it as a meeting place. Progress on construction soon stalled, however, as funds began to dwindle, and residents of Wilmette began expressing displeasure with the construction site. At this point, many strange rumors about the structure began to circulate. Some people believed that the building was used by the Baháís to keep a live white whale. Others said that the building was a refueling station for captured German submarines that had been brought to the Great Lakes.</p><br>
<p>Construction resumed as contributions from Baháís began to increase, and in 1930, the George A. Fuller Company was hired to complete the buildings superstructure. The superstructure was completed in 1931, and a year later, John Joseph Earley was hired to begin work on the buildings concrete cladding. A model of the temple was placed on display at Chicagos 1933–34 Century of Progress Exposition, and people began travelling to Wilmette to see the building taking shape. The Temple was featured in a US Postal stationary stamp onto envelopes in the 1930s. The exterior of the building was completed in January 1943.</p><br>
<p>Work remained to be done on the interior cladding of the structure, as well as the landscaping around the building. Louis Bourgeois&#39; designs for the interior were incomplete. He had died in 1930, before he could finish his plans, so in 1947, Alfred Shaw was hired to work on the interior detailing of the building. By the 1940s the Temple was again featured by the US Postal Service and was used by the US Navy at least by 1946 and later to mark a flightpath of a Navy Mars Seaplane.</p><br>
<p>A plan for the building&#39;s gardens was approved in 1951, based on a design by Hilbert E. Dahl.</p><br>
<h3>Dedication and legacy</h3><br>
<p>The temple was finally dedicated on May 2, 1953. Over 3,500 people attended the services, including 91-year-old Corinne True. Ruhiyyih Khanum, the wife of Shoghi Effendi (head of the religion after the death of `Abdul-Bahá), read a prayer at the dedication. Several prominent figures, such as Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and future justice Thurgood Marshall, sent messages of praise to the Baháís.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, the House of Worship was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The building has become a popular destination for tourists, and the Illinois Office of Tourism has named it one of the "Seven Wonders of Illinois". In 2012, the Baha&#39;i community of the United States celebrated the 100 years of the temple cornerstone dedication.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>The House of Worship is a domed structure surrounded by gardens and fountains on a 6.97 (2.82 ha) acre plot of land. The space between the floor of the auditorium and the ceiling of the dome measures 138 feet (42 m) high, and the interior of the dome is 72 feet (22 m) in diameter. The auditorium seats 1,191 people.</p><br>
<p>Since nine is the last number in the decimal system, Bahá&#39;ís believe it symbolizes perfection and completion. Nine is also the value of the word Bahá (Arabic for "glory") in Abjad numerology. Thus, many elements of the building occur in groups of nine. For example, there are nine entrances to the auditorium, nine interior alcoves, nine dome sections, and nine fountains in the garden area.</p><br>
<p>The cladding of the building is composed of a concrete mixture of portland cement and two types of quartz. Many intricate details are carved into the concrete. Various writings of Baháulláh, the founder of the religion, are inscribed above the building entrances and inside the interior alcoves. Symbols of many religions, such as the Christian cross, the Star of David, and the star and crescent, can be found in each exterior pillar. The pillars are also decorated with a symbol used by Hindus, and Buddhists in the form of a swastika. At the top of each pillar is a nine-pointed star, symbolizing the Bahá&#39;í Faith.</p><br>
<p>Inside the center of the dome ceiling, one can see an Arabic inscription. This is a Baháí symbol called the "Greatest Name&quot the script translates as "O Thou Glory of Glories". The secretary of Shoghi Effendi writing on his behalf explained, "By Greatest Name is meant that Baháulláh has appeared in Gods greatest name, in other words, that he is the supreme Manifestation of God."</p><br>
<p>Architect Louis Bourgeois&#39; former studio sits across the street from the House of Worship at 536 Sheridan Road.</p><br>
<p>Sand Lake  is a lake in the town of Kearney, Almaguin Highlands, Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada. An unincorporated community of Sand Lake, Ontario could be found just north of Sand Lake prior to the amalgamation with Kearney in 1979. Sand Lake is also host to only one camp, and much of the shore of the lake is Precambrian rock of the Canadian Shield. There are only a few occurrences of sandy beach around the lake shoreline due largely to runoff water erosion carrying sand from creeks from the surrounding elevated rocky terrain. However, a good portion of the shallow waters around the shore are sand as the name of the lake suggests.</p><br>
<p>Sand Lake is part of the Magnetawan River system. The river enters the lake at the north shore and flows out of the south end of the lake.</p><br>
<p>There are two islands in the lake. Blueberry Island is located near the northern shore of the lake, close to the mouth of the Magnetawan River. The larger Emerald Island is located in the west bay of the lake, west of Rock Point.</p><br>
