<p>The Main Street Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Main Street in Dalton, Massachusetts. Although the cemetery dates to 1781, much of it was laid out in the 19th century, during the rural cemetery movement. Located on the outskirts of Dalton&#39;s historic center near the town line with Pittsfield, its most visible element is a large concrete wall that separates it from Main Street. The cemetery grounds consist of meandering gravel paths, dotted with mature trees and other plantings. The cemetery, encompassing 10.2 acre and some 850 plots, continues in active use. Its most prominent burials are those of the Crane family, whose papermaking business, Crane and Company, has dominated Dalton since the 1820s. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Josephine Porter Boardman, socialite and patron of the arts who co-founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art</p><br>
<p>Bruce Crane, Businessman and politician who was president and chairman of Crane & Co. and a member of the Massachusetts Governor&#39;s Council</p><br>
<p>Winthrop Murray Crane, political figure and businessman who was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, Governor of Massachusetts, and a United States Senator</p><br>
<p>Byron Weston, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1880 to 1883</p><br>
<p>Dalton Grange Hall No. 23 was a historic Grange hall at South Street and Grange Hall Road in Dalton, Massachusetts. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and demolished in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Dalton, Massachusetts Grange was founded in 1873, initially meeting in the Dalton Town Hall. Six years later the organization raised funds, received donations of materials and land, and constructed a grange hall for $300. The building was first used (in an unfinished state) in May 1879, and was formally dedicated December 10, 1879. It was the first grange hall in the state to be owned by the membership. The building became a social center in the town, and was expanded c. 1900, adding a dining hall and kitchen. A bowling alley was added at the same time. In the 20th century the hall played host to a number of civic activities and organizations. After World War II the decline in agriculture in the area led to an aging membership, and a decline in the ability to maintain the facilities. Despite appeals for assistance from the state-level grange, the building was demolished in 1987. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Our Lady Help of Christians Historic District encompasses a complex of Roman Catholic religious buildings in the Nonantum village of Newton, Massachusetts. It includes four fine examples of brick Gothic Revival architecture: the church, convent, and rectory, as well as Trinity Catholic High School. The first three buildings were designed by noted ecclesiastical architect James Murphy, and were built between 1873 and 1890. The high school building was built in 1924, also in the Gothic Revival style. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Our Lady Help of Christians is located on a large parcel at the northwest corner of Washington and Adams Streets, just north of the Massachusetts Turnpike. The church is located nearest this corner, oriented south toward Washington Street. The rectory is located to its west, and the convent to its north. The school complex extends northward from Washington Street, to the left of the rectory and behind the convent, with the 1924 high school building at the front, and a 1960 elementary school at the rear.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1872, and was originally known as St. Brendan&#39;s. It was established to cater to the growing Irish Catholic population in the Nonantum/Newton Corner area. The church was designed by Providence-based ecclesiastical architect James Murphy, and construction took two years (1873–75), hampered by funding difficulties and the death in a fall of its principal brickworker. Due to defects in the construction, the building underwent a major renovation in 1900 that added further supports to the walls, as well as the facade with three Gothic porches. The rectory, also a Murphy design, was added in then 1880s</p><br>
<p>The first convent was built on the site in 1890, replaced just three years later by the present Colonial Revival structure. A three-story elementary school was built in 1892-93 (demolished in 1960), with the high school following in 1924. The present elementary school building was built about the same time the old one was demolished. The high school closed in 2012, and the space is now occupied by a secular private school. The elementary school building now houses the Newton School for Children, a private preschool and day care center.</p><br>
<p>The Newton Theological Institution Historic District is an historic district in the village of Newton Centre in Newton, Massachusetts. It encompasses not only the campus of the Newton Theological Institution, now known as the Andover Newton Theological School, but also a cluster of fashionable 19th century houses north of the campus, on Herrick Road and Chase and Cypress Streets. The school was the first outside educational institution in Newton. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Andover Newton Theological School, the nations oldest interdenominational religious seminary, was founded in 1931 by the merger of two other religious schools: the Newton Theological School, founded in 1825 as the nations first Baptist seminary, and the Andover Theological Seminary, a Congregational seminary founded in 1807. The property in Newton Centre was purchased in the 1820s by the Baptists, who built the school&#39;s oldest surviving building, Farwell Hall, in 1828. Originally Federal in style, it was raised with a mansard roof in 1857. Colby Hall, separately listed on the National Register, was builtin 1866 to accommodate a growing student population. Sturtevant Hall (1873) was followed by Burgess Gymnasium (c. 1880) and Hills Library (1895) before the school merger took place.</p><br>
<p>Just north of the campus is a small residential area with high-quality mid-to-late 19th century houses, some that have association with the school. The house at 70 Chase Street is probably Newton&#39;s finest example of Second Empire styling; it was built for John Sanborn, a Boston merchant and politician. The 1906 Colonial Revival house at 120 Herrick Street may have been built by the school to house visiting teachers. 102 Herrick Street, a Queen Anne/Stick style house built c. 1883 was home to a clergyman.</p><br>
<p>The West Somerville Branch Library is a historic library at 40 College Avenue in Somerville, Massachusetts, just outside Davis Square. It is a fine local example of Classical Revival architecture, built in 1909 with funding support from Andrew Carnegie, and was the city&#39;s first branch library. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The West Somerville Branch Library is located on the west side of College Avenue, opposite Morrison Avenue, on the north side of Davis Square. It is a 1-1/2 story granite structure, with elaborate Classical Revival styling. The main facade, facing roughly southeast, is three bays wide, with a center projection housing the entrance, which is set in a round-arch opening flanked by fluted Ionic columns and broad square pilasters. The entry columns support a gabled pediment with a modillioned cornice. The building&#39;s corners are quoined, and it is capped by a shallow-pitch hip roof with a modillioned cornice. On each side of the building is a projecting round bay.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Mclean and Wright of Boston, and was built in 1906-09 with funding from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and the city. It is the city&#39;s best example of Classical Revival architecture, also exhibiting Beaux Arts details that were then in fashion. It was the first branch library in Somerville. The library has served the city since opening in 1909; it is part of the Minuteman Library Network system.</p><br>
<p>The Beth Eden Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church building at 82 Maple Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built in 1891, it is a fine local example of Romanesque Revival architecture, and is further notable as the oldest church on Waltham&#39;s South Side. The church was added to the National Historic Register of Historic Places in 1989. Its current minister is Rev. Dr. Sylvia Torrence Johnson.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The church is located on the north side of Maple Street, just west of its junction with Moody Street. Maple Street is a major east-west route through Waltham&#39;s South Side, and Moody Street is its economic spine. The church is built principally of brick, but the lower half of the ground floor is fashioned out of uncoursed fieldstone. The gabled roof is oriented north-south, with a tall tower at the southwest corner, that has an open belfry topped by a pyramidal roof with gable-topped clock faces. The main entrance is housed inside a large round-arch opening at the base of the gabled section, and has two board-and-batten doors flanked by Romanesque windows with simple tracery.</p><br>
<p>The church was designed by William M. Butterfield of Manchester, New Hampshire, and completed in 1891. It is the oldest surviving church building on Walthams South Side, built during expansion related to the success of the Waltham Watch Company. The congregation was organized out of the citys First Baptist Church in 1887. The building suffered a major fire in 1908, from which it was rebuilt to largely the same plan, allowing increased space for an organ. The tower originally housed a city-owned clock.</p><br>
<p>Christ Church is a historic Episcopal church at 750 Main Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The church is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, and was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The church was founded in 1848, but a local hall was used for services until a wooden church was built in 1849. The wooden structure eventually proved inadequate and a larger church designed by Peabody and Stearns was built of local fieldstone at the current location between 1897 and 1898.</p><br>
<p>The church contains stained glass windows produced by several noteworthy manufacturers, including Clayton and Bell, Charles Connick, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Donald MacDonald. Eight rectors have served the church since its founding.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The community of Christ Church was founded in 1848 by Albert C. Patterson, an Episcopal clergyman and missionary who identified the growing industrial city of Waltham as an ideal place to build a church. The new Episcopal community met in Rumford Hall (later Waltham City Hall) until a Gothic wooden church was completed on Central Street in Waltham in 1849. The land for the church and much of its funding was provided by founding member J.S. Copley Greene.</p><br>
<p>Christ Churchs first rector was the Rev. Thomas F. Fales, from St. Pauls Episcopal Church in Brunswick, Maine. Fales remained the churchs rector for more than 40 years, until retiring in 1890. During this time, Christ Churchs membership grew from 15 members to more than 400.</p><br>
<p>At about the time Fales retired, the church outgrew the Central Street building. In 1892, the parish bought land with the intent of building a larger church at 750 Main Street. In 1895, the old church building was sold to a French Canadian Roman Catholic community. Christ Church held services in Waltham&#39;s Maynard Hall until the new building could be completed.</p><br>
<p>In 1896, after four years of planning, the architectural firm of Peabody and Stearns was hired to design the new structure and construction began in the early months of 1897. Philanthropist and Christ Church senior warden Robert Treat Paine, Jr. signed the contract for construction, and financed much of the building with his own fortune. Philanthropist sisters and Christ Church parishioners Harriet Sarah and Mary Sophia Walker also contributed significantly to the funding.</p><br>
<p>The first service in the completed building was held on June 17, 1898. That Sunday, the retired Rev. Fales delivered the church&#39;s inaugural sermon from the wooden pulpit that was his gift to the new building.</p><br>
<p>The church is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, and was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and design</h2><br>
<p>Christ Church was designed by Peabody and Stearns, masters of American Shingle style architecture, and was constructed of native Waltham fieldstone in the English Country style. The inspiration for the churchs stone exterior came indirectly from architect H. H. Richardson, who was also a friend and Harvard classmate of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. When Paine remodeled and expanded his Waltham home in 1883, it was Richardson who designed the residence that would become Stonehurst, a Shingle style mansion built of glacial stones quarried on site from Paines estate. Richardson died in 1886 and played no part in the planning of Christ Church, but it was his Stonehurst design that inspired Robert Treat Paine, Jr. to use the same stones from his property for the exterior of the church.</p><br>
<p>The church features several stained glass windows of significance. The east window, by Clayton and Bell, was a gift from Robert Treat Paine, Jr. in memory of his wife, Lydia Lyman Paine, who died in 1897 during the construction of the church. At Paines request, his wifes likeness was incorporated into the left panel of the window as a red-clad figure kneeling before Christ. The west window, designed by Charles Connick, pays homage to Walthams manufacturing history. In addition to images of Ruth, Solomon, and Noah — all industrious figures in the Bible — the window features rivets, a bicycle wheel, a watch escapement, a Metz car, and other symbols that reference Walthams industrial character. Along the south wall is a signed Tiffany window, designed by Tiffany artist Frederick Wilson. The window depicts the Nativity, and was given to the church in 1908 by John H. Storer in memory of Frank Henry Perkins and Mary Ella Perkins. Also along the south wall is a window by noted Boston stained glass artist Donald MacDonald. This work, given in memory of Harriet K. Parmenter, depicts the Easter scene of the risen Christ revealing himself to Mary Magdalene.</p><br>
<h2>Rectors</h2><br>
<p>Since its founding, eight clergy have been elected by the Christ Church parish to serve as rector:</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Thomas F. Fales (1849–1890)</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Herbert Noel Cunningham (1890–1895)</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Hubert Wetmore Wells (1896–1900)</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Francis Ellsworth Webster (1901–1930)</p><br>
<p>The Rev. George O. Ekwall (1930–1960)</p><br>
<p>The Rev. John S. Kromer (1961–1970)</p><br>
<p>The Rev. William R. Mawhinney (1971–1999)</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Sara H. Irwin (2009–present)</p><br>
<p>Note: In the intervening years listed above, a priest-in-charge appointed by the bishop served as the leader of the church.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church, now known as Trinity Church, is an historic church at 730 Main Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The present church building, an architecturally distinctive blend of Romanesque and Georgian Revival styling, was built in 1870 for a congregation established in 1820. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The First Congregation Church stands on the south side of Main Street (United States Route 20), one block west of Waltham&#39;s Central Square. It is separated from the street by lawn, and stands opposite the Francis Buttrick Library. Its main body is oriented north-south, with a gable roof, and a square tower rising at the northeast corner. The main entrance is set at the base of the main block in a segmented-arch opening, and is topped by a tall Palladian window with balcony. The tower corners are pilastered, and the tower includes a belfry stage with round-arch openings before rising to an octagonal spire. The interior is predominantly Georgian Revival in character, the result of extensive interior and exterior alterations in 1925. The building was built in 1870, and originally had Italianate styling, some of which is still evident in its round-arch windows and bracketed gable.</p><br>
<p>First Congregational Church was founded in 1820 as a Trinitarian congregation called the Trinitarian Congregational Church, brought about in part by schism from the Second Religious Society, which chose Unitarianism. Its first church was located at Main and Heard Streets. Growth in the congregation prompted construction of this larger structure in 1870 to a design by Boston-based Thomas Silloway. The schism between the two congregations was healed in 1906, and they were reunited as the First Congregational Church. The church was damaged by fire in 1925, while undergoing the renovations that added its Georgian features. It became a member of the United Church of Christ when that body was formed in 1955, but withdrew in 2006 when the congregation "voted to establish itself as an independent, trans-denominational congregation," and changed its name to Trinity Church. Its current pastor is the Rev. J. Howard Cepelak.</p><br>
<p>The First Parish Church is a historic church at 50 Church Street in Waltham, Massachusetts, whose Unitarian Universalist congregation has a history dating to c. 1696. The current meeting house was built in 1933 after a fire destroyed the previous building  on the same site. It is a Classical Revival structure designed by the nationally-known Boston firm of Allen & Collens. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The church is located at the northwest corner of School and Church Streets, one block north of Waltham&#39;s Central Square. It is a rectangular single-story structure, with a gable-roofed central section four bays wide that is flanked by flat-roof single-bay sections. A Classical Revival portico with fluted columns projects at the south-facing front facade, with the church tower set astride the transition between the projection and the main body. A school structure, added in 1957, is attached to the rear of the building.</p><br>
<p>The First Parish congregation dates to about 1695, when the area was part of Watertown, and had grown sufficiently in population to merit a separate parish from the original 1630 congregation in Watertown. In 1720 the congregation acquired its first meetinghouse, moving a building from what is now Newton. Its second meetinghouse, located at Lyman and Beaver Streets, was built in 1767, and its third was built at this location in 1838. That building was destroyed by fire on August 24, 1932. The present church was built, partly on the foundations of the previous one, soon afterward. It was designed by the noted ecclesiastical architectural firm of Allen and Collins of Boston.</p><br>
<p>St. Marys Roman Catholic Church Complex is a historic multi-building church complex at 133 School Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Established as a parish in 1835, it is the citys oldest Roman Catholic establishment. Its 1858 Romanesque Revival church and 1872 Second Empire rectory are particularly fine architectural examples of their styles. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>St. Marys is located on School Street west of Lexington Street, one block north of Walthams Central Square, and its property extends around the district court just to its east, and north to Pond Street. The oldest building in the complex is the Romanesque Revival brick church, whose construction began in 1858 and was not completed until 1872. Work to enlarge the church began soon thereafter, in 1875. The rectory, built in 1882-83, is one of Waltham&#39;s finest Second Empire buildings, and includes a period carriage house. A parochial school built later in the 1880s was demolished in the 1970s. The Classical Revival high school was built in the 1920s, and a Georgian Revival education center was built behind the church in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>The parish was established in 1835 to minister to the city&#39;s growing Irish Catholic population, and its first church was built soon afterward. That wood-frame structure was destroyed by fire in 1846, forcing a relocation of the parish to Watertown. It returned to Waltham with the construction of the present church.</p><br>
<p>The St. Charles Borromeo Church is a historic Catholic church building at Hall and Cushing Streets in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built in 1922, it is a high quality example of Italian Renaissance Revival architecture, and is emblematic of the shift on Waltham&#39;s south side from a predominantly Protestant population to one of greater diversity. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The St. Charles Borromeo Church is located at the southwest corner of Hall and Cushing Streets, in a residential area east of Moody Street, the main commercial artery on Waltham&#39;s south side. It is a tall cruciform structure with no tower, built out of terra cotta brick with stone trim. Its front facade, oriented toward Hall Street, is dominated by two colossal Corinthian columns set in a recess on either side of the main entrance, which is flanked by clustered columns and topped by a rounded arch. A modillioned and dentillated fully pedimented gable stands above. The interior of the nave has rows of Tuscan columns, round-arch clerestory windows, and murals on the walls.</p><br>
<p>The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston decided in 1909 to establish a second parish in Waltham, and services were first held in a community hall on Moody Street later that year. Construction of this building began in 1915, but was delayed by funding concerns, and was not restarted until 1922. A fire gutted the interior of the nearly finished building in 1927, after which it was refurbished. The building was designed by James F. Monaghan, a noted ecclesiastical architect.</p><br>
<p>The Grove Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 290 Main Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Established in 1703, the cemetery was Waltham&#39;s only cemetery until 1857, when Mount Feake Cemetery opened. It was authorized in 1703, but its initial 2.3 acre parcel of land was not purchased until 1704. The first documented burial, however, took place in November 1703. The northwest section of the cemetery is its oldest portion, and includes a number of unmarked gravesites. The cemetery continues in active use today, and contains a representative sample of funerary art spanning 300 years. It now covers more than 9 acre, extending between Main and Grove Streets. Its main entrance features posts with an Egyptian Revival theme, a style continued with the presence of obelisks dispersed on the grounds.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Sierra del Lacandón is a low karstic mountain range in Guatemala and Mexico. It is situated in the north-west of the department of El Petén and the south-east of Chiapas. Its highest points are located near the Mexican border at coordinates</p><br>
<p>The range consists of southeast to northwest trending ridges of folded cretaceous limestone and dolomite hills rising above the lowlands of the Petén Basin.</p><br>
<h2>Sierra del Lacandón National Park</h2><br>
<p>The Sierra del Lacandón National Park is situated in the tropical rain forest in the north west of Guatemala. It is part of the Maya Biosphere Reserve and is unique for its biodiversity. It is also considered of great importance for the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor as it connects the protected areas of northern Guatemala with those of southern Mexico, like the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve in Chiapas.</p><br>
<p>Several ancient Maya archaeological sites are located within the park boundaries. These include Piedras Negras, El Porvenir, Macabilero, La Pasadita, El Hormiguero, and El Ceibo.</p><br>
<p>The Bryson Apartment Hotel is a historic 110,000 ft&sup2, ten-story apartment building on Wilshire Boulevard in the MacArthur Park section of Los Angeles, California. Built in 1913 in the Beaux Arts style, it was one of the most luxurious residential buildings in Los Angeles for many years. The building is also closely associated with the citys film noir history, having been featured in Raymond Chandlers works and the 1990 neo-noir The Grifters. The building&#39;s stone lions and large rooftop "Bryson" sign have become Los Angeles landmarks. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and designated a Historic Cultural Monument  by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Construction and architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Bryson was built in 1913 by real estate developer, Hugh W. Bryson, along a stretch of Wilshire Boulevard that was considered to be the "West Side" and which was then principally a residential area. Bryson acquired the property in 1911, purchasing and razing four houses that occupied the space.</p><br>
<p>Bryson hired architects Frederick Noonan and Charles H. Kysor to design the building. The total cost, including land, construction, and furniture, was approximately $750,000 ($ million today).</p><br>
<p>The building combines Beaux Arts and Classical styles. The structure was built around a central court 26 ft wide and 50 ft deep. At the time of its opening, it had 320 rooms divided into 96 apartments, with a configuration allowing apartments to be connected to form suites with as many as 12 rooms. The interior was finished with cut-glass chandeliers, Italian marble stairs and wainscotting, tile floors, and richly upholstered mahogany furniture. The top floor was dedicated to common use, with a ballroom, library, billiard-room and three enclosed loggias. Bryson reportedly spent $60,000 ($ million today) for rugs, fine art, rare plants and furnishings for the top floor. Being located at an elevated spot in the city, and being the only high-rise in the area, the building&#39;s top floors offered panoramic views. A 1920s brochure for The Bryson touted the view:</p><br>
<p>It has three large loggias from which one can see the Pacific Ocean, Catalina Island 67 mi away, on a clear day; green foothills, orange groves and snow-capped mountains.</p><br>
<p>Because of its 100 ft setback, The Bryson was also able to make room for tennis courts and a wide lawn and gardens&mdash;though this has been reduced as the streets were widened in later years. One writer in the building&#39;s early days noted: "The landscaping of the place constitutes one of its principal charms."</p><br>
<h2>Operation as an apartment hotel</h2><br>
<h3>Early success</h3><br>
<p>When the new building opened in January 1913, it was met with glowing praise. The Los Angeles Times called it "magnificent" and opined that it "is probably the finest apartment-house west of New York City, comparing favorably with the splendid apartment-houses and apartment-hotels in the Riverside drive district of Manhattan." When Bryson had announced his plans, some thought Los Angeles was too small to support "an institution of this character," but the building proved to be a success. In fact, the building was fully occupied within two days of its opening. In 1915, the building was sold for $1,250,000 ($ million today), nearly 70% more than it had cost to build just three years earlier.</p><br>
<p>In its early years, The Bryson was reportedly a favorite location for the "beautiful people" of the day." It was not until 1921 that The Bryson was joined by the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire, followed by The Gaylord in 1924, The Arcady in 1927 and Bullocks Wilshire in 1929.</p><br>
<h3>Association with Raymond Chandler and film noir</h3><br>
<p>Novelist Raymond Chandler added to The Brysons landmark status when he featured it in his 1943 work The Lady in the Lake. Owing to its connection with Chandler, The Bryson has been described as one of the citys "high-rises that were meant to house wealthy transplants from back East but became the faded palaces of L.A. noir." In the novel, detective Philip Marlowe visited the Bryson Tower in pursuit of the title character. Chandler described the Bryson:</p><br>
<p>Twenty five minutes brought us to the Bryson Tower, a white stucco palace with fretted lanterns in the forecourt and tall date palms. The entrance was in an L, up marble steps, through a Moorish archway, and over a lobby that was too big and a carpet that was too blue. Blue Ali Baba oil jars were dotted around, big enough to keep tigers in. There was a desk and a night clerk with one of those moustaches that get stuck under your finger nail."</p><br>
<p>The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce reports that thousands of Chandler fans travel to Los Angeles to see the locations of Chandlers works, including the Bryson and the Montecito Apartments. In a 2007 article about Raymond Chandlers Los Angeles, one writer described the view of The Bryson, with "its enduring rooftop sign," as "a symbol of a cityscape that is rapidly disappearing"—the city "as it looked to Philip Marlowe, heading toward the Bryson Apartment Hotel for another rendezvous."</p><br>
<p>Chandler used The Bryson as a setting when he co-wrote the screenplay for the 1944 film noir classic Double Indemnity, which starred Fred MacMurray (see also next section). When Stephen Frears shot his 1990 neo-noir, The Grifters, he chose The Bryson Apartments as one of the principal locations, serving as the home of a main character and the site of the bloody climax.</p><br>
<h3>Post-war years</h3><br>
<p>In 1944, shortly after starring in the Bryson-located film Double Indemnity (see above), Fred MacMurray purchased The Bryson for $600,000 ($ million today). MacMurray owned the building for approximately 30 years. By the late 1940s, as other parts of the city expanded, The Bryson began to lose some of its prestige. In 1949, MacMurray secured a reduction in the property tax assessment to $100,000 ($ million today), arguing that high costs made the building unprofitable.</p><br>
<p>By the 1970s, as glitzier locations on the westside and in other areas became more popular, the shine was gone from The Bryson. In 1977, the Los Angeles Times reported that the 10th floor, formerly the building&#39;s showplace, had been stripped and was used only for storage.</p><br>
<p>In 1999, the building underwent a $5.5 million renovation ($ million today). The project drew attention by dressing the buildings landmark statues of the lions in hard hats and orange construction vests. The contractor noted: "Its become quite a conversation piece for people along Wilshire Boulevard."</p><br>
<h2>Historic designations</h2><br>
<p>The Bryson was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and designated a Historic Cultural Monument (HCM #653) by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission in 1998. It is one of several Registered Historic Places encircling Lafayette Park, including the Granada Shoppes and Studios, The Town House, the Felipe De Neve Branch and Bullocks Wilshire one block to the west</p><br>
<p>The Cuyama Valley is a valley along the Cuyama River in central California, in northern Santa Barbara, southern San Luis Obispo, southwestern Kern, and northwestern Ventura counties.</p><br>
<p>It is a sparsely inhabited area containing two primary towns – Cuyama and New Cuyama, and also Ventucopa. The land is largely used for ranching, agriculture, and oil and gas production. California State Route 166 runs along most of the east/west length of the valley, connecting the Kern County and the southern San Joaquin Valley with Santa Maria and coastal Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties. State Route 33 runs north/south through the eastern end of the valley, connecting the southern San Joaquin Valley with Ojai and coastal Ventura County.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The valley encompasses an area of approximately 300 square miles. It is bounded on all sides by mountains: the Sierra Madre Mountains along the south and west, La Panza Range on the north, and Caliente Range along the northeast − all of the California Coast Ranges System; and the San Emigdio Mountains on the east − of the Transverse Ranges System.</p><br>
<p>The headwaters of the Cuyama River are just north of Pine Mountain Summit on State Route 33. The valley widens from the river&#39;s entry to a maximum width near the highway junction of Routes 166 and 33, near the corner of the four counties. Then it narrows again as the river flows west out of the valley through a narrow canyon between the Sierra Madre and La Panza ranges, to the Santa Maria Valley and its river mouth on the Pacific Ocean.</p><br>
<p>The agricultural fields are in the center of the valley, near the Cuyama Highway junction and the two primary towns, where the alluvium is rich and the valley is a wide floodplain.</p><br>
<p>North of the major portion of the valley is the Caliente Range rises, over which is the Carrizo Plain, a much larger inland valley. To the southeast is the high backcountry of Ventura County, which includes the highest summit in the region, Mount Pinos and other features of the San Emigdio Mountains. The far eastern end of the valley the San Andreas Faultzone crosses, and forms a low jumble of hills which Route 166 passes over to reach the southwestern San Joaquin Valley, with Maricopa, I−5, and Bakersfield.</p><br>
<p>The Los Padres National Forest lands are adjacent to the Cuyama Valley on the south, east, and northwest sides. Much of the land to the northeast, including most of the Caliente Range, is managed by the USA Bureau of Land Management (BLM).</p><br>
<h3>Geology</h3><br>
<p>Geologically, the valley is an alluvium-filled synclinal basin, at an elevation of approximately 2,000 to 2,500 feet (600 to 800 meters). Most of the rocks are sedimentary, and the Miocene-age Monterey Formation outcrops to the south, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre. Pliocene and Pleistocene sedimentary formations occur in the foothills along the south side of the valley as well. The large Morales Thrust Fault separates the abruptly-rising block of the Caliente Range from the valley itself on the north. Scenic badlands occur in the upper reaches of the valley, north and northeast of Pine Mountain Summit; they are reachable from Route 33 via Lockwood Valley Road.</p><br>
<h3>Climate</h3><br>
<p>The climate of the valley is semi-arid with hot summers and cool winters. Almost all precipitation occurs in the winter in the form of rain, although snow has fallen on occasion; only five inches of rain falls annually on the valley floor, making it the driest place in coastal Central California. Since the valley is open to the sea, there is occasional marine influence. The principal native vegetation on the valley floor is grassland and scrub, with chaparral and oak woodland in the hills to the south.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The native inhabitants of the valley were Chumash Indians. The name "Cuyama" comes from an Indian village named for the Chumash word kuyam, meaning "clam" or "freshwater mollusk".</p><br>
<p>In the early to middle 19th century, the first European settlers arrived, and near the end of the Mexican period of Alta California the valley was split into two land grants along the Cuyama River, the 22,193 acres Rancho Cuyama de Rojo in 1843, and the 48,827 acres Rancho Cuyama de Lataillade) in 1846. The main land use in the second half of the 19th century was cattle grazing, although some homesteading took place in the latter part, especially in the side canyons where there was more water. In 1939, the first successful water wells using a pumping system were drilled. The groundwater aquifer is deep below the Cuyama Valley. The availability of irrigation water transformed the valley into an agricultural crops region.</p><br>
<p>Little further economic development took place in the Cuyama Valley until the discovery of oil in 1948 at the Russell Ranch Oil Field, and more significantly in 1949 at the much larger South Cuyama Oil Field. Richfield Oil Company, later part of ARCO, built the town of New Cuyama to house the oil workers and their associated services. They shipped the oil pumped from these two fields by pipeline to their refinery near Long Beach. For a brief time in the early 1950s, the Cuyama Valley was the fourth-most productive oil region of California.</p><br>
<p>As oil production declined − only about two percent of the South Cuyama Field&#39;s oil is estimated to remain − the main economic activity in the valley again became agriculture, although with the sharp rise in the price of oil in 2007 and 2008, petroleum exploration has again been of interest.</p><br>
<p>Recently E&B Natural Resources purchased the rights to develop the South Cuyama Oil Field from Hallador Petroleum.</p><br>
<p>Foufas, known before 1927 as Paleor ,  is a village is a village and a community of the Eordaia municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of Mouriki, of which it was a municipal district. The 2011 census recorded 575 inhabitants in the village.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1845 the Russian slavist Victor Grigorovich recorded Paliora as mainly Bulgarian village. Stefan Verkovich, folklorist from Bosnia, noted in 1889 that there were 50 Bulgarian and 30 Turkish houses in Paleor. On May 11, 1907 during an armed clash with the local villagers the captain from Hellenic Army Foufas (Zaharias Papadas), commander of a Greek paramilitary squad, was killed. In 1932 the village was renamed Foufas (Fufas) after the nickname of Captain Papadas.</p><br>
<p>The Nevada Theatre, also known as the Cedar Theatre, located in downtown Nevada City, California, is California&#39;s oldest existing theater building. Its principal periods of significance were 1850–1874, 1875–1899, 1900–1924, and 1925–1949.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>After the three-story Bailey House Hotel, at Broad and Bridge Streets, burned down in 1863, the Nevada Theatre Association began fundraising for a new building. Stock was sold at $100 a share, and a ball was held June 1865 to cover the remaining costs for the rustic vernacular Victorian building. The buildings architect, builder, and engineer are unknown. When the theater opened on September 9, 1865, the first performance was the John Poole two-act comedy entitled The Dutch Governor, or Twould Puzzle a Conjurer.</p><br>
<p>Silent films were screened as early as 1908, and the theater underwent a remodel in 1909, retrofitted as a movie house. A slanted floor and electric lights were added in 1915. By 1957, it closed because of a sluggish economy, but it was later purchased through public donations and reopened in 1968.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>With over 200 seats, including balcony seating, the theater is in use year round for both live performance and movies. It is wheelchair accessible.</p><br>
<p>The backstage area is located under the stage and is painted baby blue. It includes a small room with makeup mirrors.</p><br>
<h2>Performers</h2><br>
<p>Notable past performers include Lotta Crabtree, Mötley Crüe, Jack London, Emma Nevada, Mark Twain, and The Second City comedy troupe.</p><br>
<p>Present day main users include:</p><br>
<p>LeGacy Productions</p><br>
<p>Nevada Theatre Film Series</p><br>
<p>Sierra Stages</p><br>
<p>Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra</p><br>
<p>Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival</p><br>
<h2>Commissions</h2><br>
<p>The Nevada County Liberal Arts Commission was formed in the 1960s to purchase the building from United Artists. The Nevada Theatre Commission, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, followed the first commission and, with a Board of Directors, is the governing body of the Nevada Theatre. It owns, operates, restores, and utilizes the theater "To preserve and develop the historic Nevada Theatre and its other historic properties in order to provide the community with an accessible, usable and valuable cultural asset" (Mission Statement).</p><br>
<h2>Landmark</h2><br>
<p>The theater is registered as California Historical Landmark No. 863, and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on March 14, 1973. The landmark plaque reads:</p><br>
<p>CALIFORNIA&#39;S OLDEST EXISTING THEATRE BUILDING, THE NEVADA OPENED SEPTEMBER 9, 1865. CELEBRITIES SUCH AS MARK TWAIN, JACK LONDON, AND EMMA NEVADA HAVE APPEARED ON ITS STAGE. CLOSED IN 1957, THE THEATRE WAS LATER PURCHASED THROUGH PUBLIC DONATIONS AND REOPENED MAY 7, 1968 TO AGAIN SERVE THE CULTURAL NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY.</p><br>
<p>CALIFORNIA REGISTERED HISTORICAL LANDMARK NO. 863</p><br>
<p>PLAQUE PLACED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION IN COOPERATION WITH THE HISTORICAL LANDMARKS AND LIBERAL ARTS COMMISSIONS OF NEVADA COUNTY, APRIL 27, 1974.</p><br>
<p>Sarichef Island is a long and narrow coastal island on the Chukchi Sea-facing coast of Alaska. It is located at the mouth of the Shishmaref Inlet, Kotzebue-Kobuk Low. It is located hundred miles east of Russia, which can be seen on clear days. The highest point on the island is the 6-meter cemetery in Shishmaref. The island is rapidly disappearing due to the sea level rise associated with global warming.</p><br>
<p>Sarichef Island is 7 km in length. The highest point on the island is 6 m above sea level.</p><br>
<p>Shishmaref town and Shishmaref Airport are located on this island.</p><br>
<p>This island was named in 1816 by explorer Lt. Otto von Kotzebue, of the Imperial Russian Navy, "in the honor of his worthy" Vice Admiral Gavril Sarychev (1763–1831).</p><br>
<p>The Albert Field Tack Company is a historic industrial site located at 19 Spring Street in Taunton, Massachusetts, next to the Mill River. Built in 1868 for a company founded in the 1820s to manufacture fasteners , the main office building is an unusually high-style building given its industrial setting. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It has since been converted into apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Albert Field Tack Company is set east of Spring Street and south and west of the Mill River, southeast of Taunton&#39;s center. The front-facing main office building is an ornately decorated 2-1/2 story building, with a hip roof pierced by large gabled sections, and a tower at the rear left corner. A series of more utilitarian brick ells extend southeastward toward the river.</p><br>
<p>The site of the Field Tack Company had seen industrial uses since the early 18th century, when mills for carding and dying wool operated there. The Field Tack Works was established in leased space in Taunton beginning in the 1820s. Albert Field purchased this property in the 1850s, and soon expanded. The ornate office building was built in 1868 in the Italianate stylem reflecting the company&#39;s success in the manufacture of upholstery tacks, brads, and shoe nails.</p><br>
<p>The Field Tack Works later added a second factory in Taunton, and another one in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. The company was acquired by the Atlas Tack Company in 1896. The Spring Street plant closed in 1902. The building was used as a Pentecostal Church in the 1930s, and was later occupied by various businesses.</p><br>
<p>The Fairbanks-Williams House is a historic house located at 19 Elm Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. Built in 1852, it is the city&#39;s only known residential work by the noted architect Richard Upjohn, and is a fine example of Italianate architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house stands in a residential area east of downtown Taunton, on the east side of Elm Street opposite its junction with Vine Street. It is a 2-1/2 story wood-frame structure, with a cross-gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It is a roughly T-shaped plan, with a central front-gable section, a section projecting right from its mid-section, and another projection to the left near the rear. Its roof has extended eaves with large modillion blocks, and windows are set in segmented-arch openings. The front entrance is sheltered by a porch whose sections have a similar segmented-arch valances, supported by chamfered square posts. Windows on the second floor have elaborate surrounds with a bracketed sill and gabled hood. The frontmost section of the main block has a first-floor polygonal bay, topped by a turret-like roof with modillioned eave.</p><br>
<p>The house was built for W.W. Fairbanks in 1852 and is the only documented residence in the city to be designed by noted architect Richard Upjohn, who designed several public buildings and churches in the area during the mid-1800s. It was later owned by Abiathar King Williams, a local textile manufacturer, from 1865 to 1890. Between 1910 and 1940, it was owned by Edward Lovering, president of the Whittenton Mills.</p><br>
<p>The Martin House and Farm is a historic farm at 22 Stoney Hill Road in North Swansea, Massachusetts. The main house is a 1-1/2 story gambrel-roofed wood frame structure, with a crosswise ell at the rear. The oldest portion was built in 1728 by John Martin, as a single pile structure with a gable roof. It was soon afterward extended with a kitchen space, and was enlarged about 1814, when the gambrel roof was added. The property was farmed by Martin&#39;s descendants until 1934, when the property was bequested to The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. The house is operated by the Dames as a historic house museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Martin Farm sign.jpgA sign marking the location of the Martin House and Farm, with the farmhouse seen through the trees</p><br>
<p>Martin Farm 02.jpgThe farmhouse viewed from Stoney Hill Road</p><br>
<p>The Martin House is a historic house at 940 County Street in Seekonk, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The house is a frame structure with clapboard exterior. It is two and a half stories, plus an 18-foot square monitor above. It has an entrance porch with two Doric columns. There are eight rooms distributed around a central hall plan. The house was built c. 1799–1801, and is stylistically similar to houses built at the time in Newport, Rhode Island. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Simeon Martin</h2><br>
<p>Simeon Martin (October 20, 1754 – September 3, 1819) was born to an old family who had lived in Rehoboth for five generations, going back to 1665.</p><br>
<p>Martin was a captain in Christopher Lippitt&#39;s regiment in the American Revolutionary War. He fought at the Battle of Trenton with George Washington. After Newport was evacuated by the British in 1779, Martin lived in Newport. He represented Newport in the General Assembly, and was Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island for seven nonconsecutive one year terms, serving from 1808–1810 and 1811–1816. He also served as a Trustee of Brown University 1794–1819.</p><br>
<p>Martin is buried at Burial Place Hill in Rehoboth, not far from this home. His epitaph, at 405 words, is claimed to be the longest in the United States and possibly the world.</p><br>
<p>Luthers Corner is a historic district encompassing the original economic center of Swansea, Massachusetts. The district is centered on the junction of Old Warren and Pearse Roads, the former being a major stage route between Fall River and Providence, Rhode Island, and was for many years associated with the locally prominent Luther Family. Luthers Corner was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Luther&#39;s Corner is located in western Swansea, just southwest of the intersection of United States Route 6 and Interstate 195. Old Warren Road, the east-west route through the junction, was originally a major through street, but has now been truncated by that highway interchange. The corner developed as a stage coach stop in the early 19th century, providing services to passing travelers, and developed as the major economic center of Swansea in the first half of the 19th century. Three of the four principal structures in the 1.5 acre district are associated with the locally prominent Luther family, including the Luther Store (c. 1815-18, now a local history museum), the James Luther Tavern (c. 1800), and the John Brown-Luther House (c. 1811). The fourth building is the Seth Eddy House and Store, built in 1871, and now strictly residential in use. All four buildings are 2-1/2 story wood frame structures.</p><br>
<p>Luther&#39;s Store was one of the most successful mercantile businesses in Swansea in the mid-19th century, also housing the local post office and library. After it closed in 1870 (the building converted to just a residence), the Eddy Store replaced it, but the area was declining in importance due in part to increased use of the railroad, which ran further south. The town green, originally located at the center of the road junction and housing a bandstand, was removed in 1901 to make way for a streetcar line.</p><br>
<p>The Luther Store is a historic store at 160 Old Warren Road in Swansea, Massachusetts. It is a 2-1/2 story brick structure with a saltbox profile. Its main facade is five bays wide, with entrances in the second and fourth bays, and interior chimneys at each end. The store retains original fixtures, including solid mahogany counters, drawers for goods storage, and the proprietors desk. The store was built in 1815 by John Brown Luther, and was operated by the Luther family as a store until 1903. The Luthers Corner area was in the mid-19th century the economic center of Swansea, and Luther&#39;s Store served as post office and library. It was acquired in 1941 by the Swansea Historical Society, which now operates it as a local history museum.</p><br>
<p>The store was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Luther Store 1935.jpgThe Luther Store in 1935</p><br>
<p>Luther Store fountain.jpg</p><br>
<p>Luther Store detail.jpg</p><br>
<p>Luther Store garden.jpgGarden commemorating Captain John Luther</p><br>
<p>The Lord-Baylies-Bennett House is a historic house located at 66 Winthrop Street in Taunton, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1831 for Joseph L. Lord, Postmaster of Taunton. The 1-1/2 story house, with its wide front gable and portico and fieldstone construction, is a unique form of Greek Revival architecture. The low-pitched gable roof is broken by four, very tall paneled brick chimneys with paired caps.</p><br>
<p>The house was sold to Francis Baylies in 1836. Baylies was an author, lawyer, judge and foreign diplomat. In 1959, the property was sold to the King David Masonic Lodge, who added a large modern brick addition off the rear of the main house.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 1984. It is next door to the Samuel Washburn House.</p><br>
<p>Buttonwood Park Historic District is a historic district on Kempton Street, Rockdale Avenue, Hawthorne Street and Brownell Avenue in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Its focal point is Buttonwood Park, a 97 acre municipal park planned by Charles Eliot in the 1890s, and part of its surrounding neighborhood. The neighborhood was developed in the first decades of the 20th century as a complement to the park, and contains a fine selection of Colonial Revival and Craftsman style houses. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Buttonwood Park is a roughly L-shaped public park located west of downtown New Bedford. The northernmost section of the park is wooded, and is separated from the rest of the park by a 7 acre pond. The southern edge of the pond is dammed, and a road, part of the parks circulation, passes east-west across the dam. The southwestern part of the park is occupied by Buttonwood Park Zoo, and the southeastern portion is a combination of an open lawn (for passive recreation) and formal athletic facilities. The parks state represents a partial implementation and subsequent modification to a master plan drafted by Charles Eliot in the 1890s.</p><br>
<p>The park is bounded by four major local roadways: Brownell Avenue on the west, Kemoton Street to the north, Rockdale Avenue to the west, and Hawthorn Street to the south. The northeastern portion of this quadrangle is subdivided into streets of residential housing, and the opposite sides of the bounding streets are also generally lined with housing. These are typically one or two-family wood-frame buildings, built in styles popular in the early 20th century. The most commonly found styles are the Craftsman (particularly in the Bungalow variant) and the Colonial Revival, although there are some clusters of Queen Anne Victorians. Lot sizes are small, and the houses are generally set back similar distances from the street. There is one church, and a few modern commercial intrusions.</p><br>
<p>The Cadman–White–Handy House, also known as the Handy House, is a historic house museum at 202 Hixbridge Road in Westport, Massachusetts. The house, built in stages between about 1710 and 1825, provides a window into architectural trends of 18th-century southern Massachusetts. The house is operated as a museum by the Westport Historical, and is open on some Saturdays between June and October. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Handy House is located in central Westport, at the northwest corner of Hixbridge and Drift Roads, near the western bank of the East Branch Westport River. Both roads are historically old, with the east-west Drift Road based on a former Indian trail. The house is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof and clapboarded exterior. It has an eight-bay front facade, with entrances in the second and fifth bays from the left. Both are framed by Federal style surrounds, with pilasters, four-light transom windows, and gabled pediments.</p><br>
<p>The house was probably built in three stages, beginning c. 1710. The oldest portion consists of the rightmost three bays, and probably formed a typical early Rhode Island stone ender. The central two bays were added between 1730 and 1750, giving the house a traditional Georgian five-bay facade with center entry. In 1825, the left three bays were added, and the exterior was given its present Federal styling. The building interior has preserved elements from all three periods of constructions, despite restylings during the 18th and 19th centuries.</p><br>
<p>The house is owned by the Westport Historical Society and operated as a historic house museum. It is mostly unfurnished, and visitors are able to examine the 18th and 19th-century building techniques and decorative elements.</p><br>
<p>The Yana Bay  is the most important gulf of the Laptev Sea. It is located between Cape Buor-Khaya on its western side and the Ebelyakh Bay at its eastern end.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Yana River flows into the Yana Bay, forming a huge river delta (10,200 km²) that takes up much of the bay&#39;s coastline. The sea in this wide gulf is frozen for about nine months every year and is often clogged with ice floes.</p><br>
<p>Yarok is a large flat island located east of the main mouths of the Yana. Other islands in the Yana Bay are Makar and the Shelonsky Islands. East of these islands lies a deep inlet stretching southwards known in Russian as Sellyakhskaya Guba.</p><br>
<p>Administratively the Yana Bay belongs to the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) of the Russian Federation.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1712 Yakov Permyakov and his companion Merkury Vagin, the first recorded Russian explorers of the area, crossed the Yana Bay on dogsled from the mouth of the Yana River to Bolshoy Lyakhovsky over the ice in order to explore the then unknown island. Unfortunately Permyakov and Vagin were killed on the way back from their exploration by mutineering expedition members.</p><br>
<p>In 1892–1894 Baron Eduard von Toll, accompanied by expedition leader Alexander von Bunge, carried out geological surveys in the area on behalf of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences.</p><br>
<p>The Abiah Bliss House is a historic house located at 154 Agricultural Avenue in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. With a claimed initial construction date of 1666, it is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the Rehoboth area.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house stands in a rural area of northern Rehoboth, on the south side of Agricultural Avenue east of its junction with Rocky Hill Road. It is a 2-1/2 story, wood-framed house, with a gabled roof, roughly centered chimney, and an ell extending to the right side. It is oriented facing west, and has an asymmetrically arranged six-bay front facade. Its main entrance is in the third bay from the left, sheltered by a small porch with a segmented-arch pediment. The third bay from the right exhibits evidence of once also housing an entrance, but now houses a window.</p><br>
<p>The house has a complex construction history, which may begin as early as 1666, making it one of the oldest houses in the region, and one of the few to survive King Philip&#39;s War, which ravaged the area in the 1670s. The property was traditionally owned by Jonathan Bliss, and the southern three bays are said to have been built by him. Architectural evidence suggests that this portion was built before 1740. The northern extension was made in the mid-18th century. The southern ell is a three-bay timber-framed former barn, which also dates to the 18th century. It was in the Bliss family into at least the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 6, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Carpenter Homestead is a historic colonial American house and farm at 80 Walnut Street in Seekonk, Massachusetts. Also known as Osamequin Farm, this 166 acre property includes a farmhouse and outbuildings whose construction history begins c. 1720. The farmland historically associated with the property includes 113 acre in Seekonk and 53 acre in Rehoboth. The main house, now a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure with a gable-over-hip roof and central chimney, was begun c. 1720, underwent numerous alterations and expansions, and was given a historically sensitive restoration in the 1940s. The core portion of the main barn dates to the same time, with numerous additions in the intervening centuries, and also underwent restoration work in the 1940s. The property was under continuous ownership by the Carpenter family from its construction until 1939, and is one of Seekonk&#39;s oldest houses.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Christopher Carpenter House is a historic house at 60 Carpenter Street in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Built about 1800, it is a particularly fine local example of Federal period architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Christopher Carpenter House is located in a rural area of central Rehoboth, on the north side of Carpenter Street, about half way between its endpoints at Perryville Road and Danforth Street. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. It has a five-bay front facade, with a center entrance, whose fine surround includes pilasters supporting a pediment, and a delicately-traced fanlight design. Interior features include molded finishes in the left front parlor, and bake ovens on both floors of the central chimney. A kitchen ell extends to the east, also with a chimney housing an oven.</p><br>
<p>This house was built about 1800, possibly by Deacon Thomas Carpenter (aka Thomas Carpenter III in local histories), who gave 35 acre of land to his grandson Christopher in that year. There is evidence that the property has for a much longer period seen active use, and this house may incorporate elements of an older structure. The house remained in the Carpenter family until about 1871.</p><br>
<p>The Col. Thomas Carpenter III House is a historic house at 77 Bay State Road in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The Georgian architecture style house was built in 1755 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Family</h2><br>
<p>Thomas Carpenter was born October 24, 1733 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts and died April 26, 1807 in Rehoboth. He married on December 26, 1754, Elizabeth Moulton (born 1736 Bristol County, Massachusetts, died May 17, 1804 in Rehoboth) and they moved into the newly built house now on 77 Bay State Road before it was fully finished in September 1755. On December 22, 1755 their first daughter Elizabeth was born in their new home.</p><br>
<p>By August 1776 they would have twelve children born in the now historic house. Unfortunately, several children would also die within the walls of their home. These were an unknown child in 1759, Sarah in 1775 who was age 15, William in 1763 as an infant, James in 1764 as an infant, and Nathan in 1772 who died as an infant. Another Nathan, age 12½, in 1789 may have died due to an accident outside the house. Those children who reached maturity were Elizabeth (born 1755), Thomas (born 1758), Stephen (born 1765), James (born 1767), Rebecca (born 1769), and Peter (born 1772).</p><br>
<p>Colonel Thomas Carpenter was the son of Thomas Carpenter (born 1692 and died 1779 in Rehoboth) and Mary Barstow (born about 1696 and died 1783 in Rehoboth) and he was the great great grandson of the William Carpenter the immigrant who was born in England in 1605 of the Rehoboth Carpenter family).</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Colby House is a historic house located at 74 Winthrop Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. Built in 1869 for a prominent local businessman, it is one of the city&#39;s best examples of high-style Italianate architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Samuel Colby House is located south of downtown Taunton, on the south side of Winthrop Street at its junction with Walnut Street. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a stuccoed finish, and a low-pitch hip roof capped by a large square cupola. The main roof has elongated eaves studded with paired brackets, and the cupola roof has a curtain-style valance. The house is three bays wide, with a polygonal bay above the main entrance at the center of the front facade. The bays are demarcated by pilasters, and a single-story porch extends across the width of the front. The porch has a flat roof with bracketed eave, and is extensively decorated with stickwork. A similar porch extends along the side of the rear ell, facing Walnut Street.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1869 for Samuel Colby, a manufacturer and retailer of mens and boys clothing who operated a store in the Union Block in downtown Taunton. It is one of the city&#39;s least-altered post-Civil War 19th-century houses, and a particularly distinctive example of high-style Italianate architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Cole House is a historic house at 412 Old Warren Road in Swansea, Massachusetts, United States. Built in 1701, this house is the oldest documented building in Swansea.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Cole house is set on the south side of Old Warren Road, a historic early road through what is now southwestern Swansea. It is a 2-1/2 story, wood-framed structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof and a large central chimney. The exterior has Federal-period styling (probably added in the late 18th century), and an ell, built c. 1850, extends to the rear of the main block. The main entrance is set in a projecting hip-roofed vestibule, which is decorated with corner pilasters. Outbuildings of the property include a barn (c. 1890) and garage (c. 1950).</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Cole, who built the house, was the grandson of James Cole, who was the first of the Coles to come to North America, and for whom Cole&#39;s Hill in Plymouth is named. It continued to be the center of a major farmstead into the 20th century, operated for many years by the Wilbur family.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 16, 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Commonwealth Avenue Historic District is a historic district on Commonwealth Avenue on the north side from Stanley Street to beyond Robinson Street in North Attleborough, Massachusetts. The area encompasses a variety of stylish 19th-century houses, as well as two 19th-century industrial buildings, depicting the proximity of wealthy industrial owners and managers to their factories. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Commonwealth Avenue runs east-west through the Attleborough Falls section of North Attleborough, one of its principal industrial areas in the 19th century, and originally connected the town centers of North Attleborough and Attleboro. Its western portion, between Mt. Hope Street and Robinson Avenue, roughly parallels the Ten Mile River, the power source for the industries during that time. The area has been industrially significant since the early 18th century, when a grist mill was operated near the falls. Industrial activity became more intense in the early 19th century, with the construction of the nation&#39;s first button-making factory in 1809, and a number of jewelry-related industries followed.</p><br>
<p>Robinson Avenue and the area just to its west was the site of several early factories. A wood frame factory stands at 35 Robinson Avenue, which was home to the B. S. Freeman Company, a jewelry maker, between 1858 and 1913; it may incorporate elements of an even older building in its rambling structure. A second jewelry factory, at 140 Commonwealth Avenue, was built in 1858 by V. H. Blackington. Both of the owners of these factories lived not far away, Blackington within this district at 172 Commonwealth Avenue, and Freeman lived to the west on Mt. Hope Street, in an area that is part of the Attleborough Falls Historic District. Later factory owners continued this trend, with Samuel Mason, a boxmaker, building a Gothic Revival house at 204 Commonwealth, and jewelry maker Frank Sturdy a Queen Anne Victorian at 234 Commonwealth.</p><br>
<p>Mary Point Estate is a historic property located on the north coast of Saint John, United States Virgin Islands on Mary&#39;s Point. The plantation was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land on which Mary Point Estate is located was originally held by Danish West India and Guinea Company officials during the early years of Danish settlement. Not being prime land for planting, the land was held until new settlers needed property. The van Stell family was the first controlling landholding on Mary&#39;s Point.</p><br>
<p>In the aftermath of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John, Franz Claasen was deeded the Marys Point estate for alerting the family of the rebellion and assisting in their escape to St. Thomas, a nearby island. Franz Claasens land deed was recorded on August 20, 1738 by Jacob van Stell. Claasen was the first "Free Colored" landowner on St. John.</p><br>
<p>Augustus Kragh and the Grancis family were owners of the Mary Point Estate during the late 18th century. Hans Hendrik Berg, a governor and president of St. John and St. Thomas, was an owner of the Mary Point Estate during the 19th century. During this time an L-shaped factory and the one-story Great House were constructed on the property. In addition to the Great House, a servant&#39;s quarters, farm building, and cemetery remain.</p><br>
<p>The Golden Gate Building, built in 1925, is an historic real estate and land development office building located on State Road A1A at 3225 South East Dixie Highway  in the unincorporated community of Golden Gate south of Stuart in Martin County, Florida. It was built by the Golden Gate Development Company to serve as the sales office for its 200 block subdivision called Golden Gate. which was a re-subdivision of a part of the 1911 subdivision called Port Sewall. The Florida Land Boom, however, collapsed before it could be used as such. In 1926, it became the Port Sewall Post Office and it was later used as a church and then as an art studio, before being abandoned and falling into disrepair.</p><br>
<p>In 1989, the Golden Gate Building was listed in A Guide to Florida&#39;s Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press.</p><br>
<p>In 2002, the Board of County Commissioners of Martin County bought it in order to prevent its destruction. Renovations which began in 2005 were directed first to shoring up the four walls which were in serious danger of collapse. Exterior renovations were completed in 2008 with a $48,000 grant from the state and it is anticipated that the interior will be restored by 2010. The Friends of the Historic Golden Gate Community is spearheading the renovation efforts. Plans call for the 2-story 2,200 ft&sup2; building to be increased to 4,000 ft&sup2; with the new space to be used to provide amenities such as the bathrooms necessary for a public community center.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<p>Buttermilk Falls is a 23 metre high plunge waterfall found below Oak Knoll Park  in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.</p><br>
<p>Best viewed after a major rain storm. From this location you get a stunning view of the Red Hill Valley.</p><br>
<p>Nearby attractions include the Albion Falls, Escarpment Rail Trail, Felkers Falls, scenic views of Hamilton, Chippawa Rail Trail, King’s Forest Golf Course and Park, Mohawk Sports Park, Gage Park, Hamilton Childrens Museum and the Bruce Trail.</p><br>
<h2>Directions</h2><br>
<p>On Hamilton mountain travel east on Mohawk Road until you get to Mountain Brow Boulevard where you will follow it to the first parking lot on the left side. This is called Oak Knoll Park, pull in this parking lot and then walk to Buttermilk Falls.</p><br>
<p>Reef Bay Sugar Factory Historic District is a historic section of Saint John, United States Virgin Islands located on the south central coast adjacent to Reef Bay. The land is the site of a sugar factory. The property was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on July 23, 1981.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is part of Virgin Islands National Park. The park maintains an exhibit of a well preserved sugar factory.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early inhabitants</h3><br>
<p>Archaeological research shows that the first inhabitants of the Virgin Islands were Ortoiroid people. The Arawaks migrated over a period of many centuries to the Virgin Islands and engaged in the first agriculture on the land. Local archaeological excavations confirm a Classic Taino culture on Saint John.</p><br>
<h3>Plantation era</h3><br>
<p>Intermittently starting in the 1670s, the land along the shorelines of Saint John was occupied by settlers with diverse nationalities. The property was used for maritime activities and cotton production.</p><br>
<p>The Danish claimed Saint John on March 25, 1718. The Danish established large plantations worked by slaves brought from Africa.</p><br>
<p>The present Reef Bay Estate was formed in the mid-19th century from two neighboring plantations near Reef Bay.</p><br>
<h3>Par Force Estate</h3><br>
<p>Par Force Estate was located on the east side of Reef Bay Valley and early documents indicate that the land was in use at the time of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John with Anthony Zytstems the original owner. A 1780 maps shows Zystems continuing to own the land and a sugar factory and animal mill on the property.</p><br>
<h3>Reef Bay</h3><br>
<p>An unnamed parcel of land located on the north east end of Reef Bay was identified on a 1780 map as being owned by C. Wyle and as a cattle and cotton plantation.</p><br>
<h2>Sugar factory</h2><br>
<p>The first sugar plantation on the land was started in 1725 on the Par Force Estate. Oxholm&#39;s 1800 map shows a sugar plantation with an animal mill on Par Force land.</p><br>
<p>After Reef Bay Estate was formed by joining the neighboring properties, a new sugar factory was built. The factory was used for processing sugarcane into sugar and distilling rum. The factory buildings include a boiling room, an animal powered mill, and a still with a cooling cistern for distilling rum.</p><br>
<p>O.I. Burguest and Company purchased the property in 1855. With W. H. March managing the estate, the sugar factory was modernized and converted to steam in the 1862. An "engine room" measuring approximately 25 feet by 27 feet was added to house the cast iron steam engine and sugar cane crushing machinery. In 1864 March purchased the property at auction and he continued to operate a sugar factory on the land until 1908. Bay Oil was produced at the factory during the St. John bay oil boom in the early 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>Virgin Islands National Park</h2><br>
<p>In the 1960s the sugar factory ruins were restored by Virgin Island National Park and the ruins are one of the best surviving examples of a West Indies sugar operation.</p><br>
<p>Canyon Diablo  is a canyon near Two Guns in Northern Arizona. Part of it is located in the Navajo Indian Reservation.</p><br>
<p>Canyon Diablo was named by U. S. Army Lieutenant Amiel Weeks Whipple. Whipple, of the Army&#39;s Topographical Engineers, made a survey in 1853-1854 along the 35th parallel. In mid December 1853 Whipple found a steep canyon while riding west from a point near Winslow with a reconnaissance party. He named the canyon, Canyon Diablo.</p><br>
<p>The canyon passes 3 mi west of Meteor Crater. The community of Canyon Diablo, Arizona on the edge of the canyon about 12 mi northwest of the crater was the closest community to the crater when scientists began investigating the crater. Consequently, the meteorite that caused the crater is officially called the Canyon Diablo meteorite.</p><br>
<p>Canyon Diablo ("devil canyon") is the Spanish translation of the Native American name. The Canyon Diablo Bridge, once used by USA Route 66 to cross the canyon south of the present I-40 bridges, is on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The BNSF Canyon Diablo railroad bridge is a well-known railfan site.</p><br>
<p>The Mason County Courthouse is in Mason County, Michigan. It is in the town of Ludington in Michigan&#39;s Lower Peninsula.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area early in its history attracted several lumbermen because of the abundance of white pine timber. He built a frame house from driftwood in 1849. This was the first frame building in Mason County and is still at White Pine Village.</p><br>
<p>The Caswell farmhouse served as the first official county seat and as the first courthouse structure. Caswell moved his family upstairs and turned the first floor of his farmhouse over to Mason County to use for a courthouse and trading post. There was even a jail below the house. The Mason County Historical Society restored Caswells house and the house is now part of "Historic White Pine Village". There were two additional structures before the final present day fourth structure was built in 1893 to serve as Mason Countys courthouse.</p><br>
<p>Mason County was officially organized in 1855.</p><br>
<p>Prior to then the area was an unofficial settlement in the upper northwestern part of Michigan&#39;s Lower Peninsula. In 1873 the permanent county seat moved to the town of Pere Marquette in Pere Marquette Township of Mason County. The land was donated by Charles Resseguie.</p><br>
<h2>Present building</h2><br>
<p>The present multi-story building was erected between 1893 and 1894. The tower clock was built by Nels Johnson as one of his Century tower clocks and installed in 1907. The building was designed by the architect Sidney J. Osgood from Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is a Richardsonian Romanesque structure built of Jacobsville sandstone from Houghton County in Michigan&#39;s Upper Peninsula. The courthouse is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and also as Michigan Registered Site L0404.</p><br>
<p>Since October 2010 the tower clock has had thirteen strikes of the clock bell at 1 o&#39;clock, day or night.</p><br>
<h2>State Historical Marker</h2><br>
<p>According to a News Release Mason County Courthouse receives State Historical Marker on 18 May 2000 by the Mason County Historical Society, the Director Ronald M. Wood congratulated the Mason County Board of Commissioners for receiving from the Michigan Historical Commission the above historical marker. There was an official dedication and unveiling at 5:30 P.M. on 14 June 2000 on the lawn of the Mason County Courthouse near downtown Ludington, Michigan. It represents that the State of Michigan deems the present Mason County Courthouse worthy of being preserved. This present existing structure was placed on the National Register of Historic Sites on February 24, 1988. It was placed on the State Register of Historic Sites on August 15, 1975. The existing Mason County Courthouse celebrated its 100th Anniversary on September 18, 1994. The first Mason County Courthouse at White Pine Village received a historical marker in 1986 and appeared on the State Register of Historic Sites on May 17, 1978. The News Release explaining the above is dated 2:34 P.M. of 18 May 2000 from the Historical Society to the Mason County Administrator. The official historical marker that was placed on the premises reads</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>County Administrator, Fabian Knizacky</p><br>
<p>County Clerk, James Riffle</p><br>
<p>Drain Commissioner, David Hasenbank</p><br>
<p>Prosecuting Attorney, Paul Spaniola</p><br>
<p>Register of Deeds, Diane Englebrecht</p><br>
<p>Sheriff, Kim Cole</p><br>
<p>Surveyor, Jack</p><br>
<p>Treasurer, Shirley Smith</p><br>
<p>Circuit Court Judge, Richard I Cooper</p><br>
<p>District Court Judge, Peter J. Wadel</p><br>
<p>Judge of Probate, Jeff Nellis</p><br>
<p>Juvenile Court</p><br>
<p>Magistrate, Paddy Baker</p><br>
<p>Friend of the Court, Mark Niemeyer</p><br>
<p>Equalization Department, Thomas A Routhier(Director)</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Harilaid Peninsula is a peninsula on the northwest coast of the island of Saaremaa in Estonia. It should not be confused with the islet of Harilaid which lies between the islands of Vormsi and Hiiumaa.</p><br>
<p>Harilaid covers an area of 4.5 km&sup2; and is low lying (the highest elevation is 4.6 m). It is connected to the mainland by a 300 m wide neck of land, and was a separate island until the end of the 17th century.</p><br>
<p>Large numbers of birds stop on Harilaid on their migration route, and there is a resting site of grey seals on the west coast. There is a large pine plantation on the peninsula, started in the 1970s and inhabited by elk and wild boar. The peninsula was added to the Vilsandi National Park in 1993.</p><br>
<p>There is no record of a settled population on the peninsula. The Kiipsaare lighthouse was built at the tip of the peninsula in 1933. At that time the lighthouse was almost 100 m inland, but it is now a few metres offshore. It is now unused, and has a pronounced lean as a result of erosion. The Estonian war film Somnambuul was shot there in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Access to the peninsula is by a rough road from Kihelkonna.</p><br>
<p>The Caleb Cushing House and Farm is a historic farm property at 186 Pine Street in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. The farm, established about 1750, includes a pre-Revolutionary Georgian farmhouse and an 1836 Federal-Greek Revival Cape house, and was owned by the Cushing family into the mid-20th century. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Caleb Cushing House and Farm property is located in a rural area of central western Rehoboth, on the west side of Pine Street a short way south of its junction with Salisbury Street. The main house is set in a yard lined by a picket fence; it is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof, central chimney and clapboarded exterior. A small gabled porch shelters the center entrance. The interior retains original fireplace mantels, and some doors, in addition to other period features. Built sometime between the 1740s and 1770s by Joseah Cushing, it is one of the best-preserved and least-altered pre-Revolutionary houses in the town.</p><br>
<p>A short way north of the main house stands a 1-1/2 story Cape, also of wood frame construction. It has a side gable roof pierced by two gabled dormers, a central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. A three-bay ell to the left nearly doubles the size of the house; it houses a secondary entrance, and its roof has three dormers. The main entrance features a Greek Revival surround. This house was built in 1836, by family lore due to a dispute involving a spinster aunt, who then resided here.</p><br>
<p>The Lloyd Dean House is a historic house located at 164 Dean Street in Taunton, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1825 in a transitional Greek Revival/Federal style. The property was later owned by Dr. J.W. Hayward.</p><br>
<p>The five bay wide, 1-1/2 story cottage originally contained clapboard siding with operating wooden shutters and a central doorway with molded wooden trim and a large leaded transom with sidelights. It also had two symmetrical end chimneys.</p><br>
<p>However, then house has since been significantly altered, with vinyl siding added and the original doors, windows, shutters replaced. The chimneys have been removed and second floor dormers have also been added and the rear roofline raised to a salt box. The central doorway has been modified with a large projecting pediment. It is now occupied by a dental office.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Dighton Wharves Historic District is a historic district at 2298-2328 Pleasant Street in Dighton, Massachusetts. It encompasses an area that was in the 18th and 19th centuries a port facility on the Taunton River for the town, including three 18th-century wharves and four houses of early to mid 18th-century construction. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Dighton, located on the west bank of the Taunton River in central Bristol County, Massachusetts, was settled by European colonists in the 1680s and incorporated as a town in 1712. It became significant as a maritime shipping endpoint in the 18th century because seagoing vessels were unable navigate further up the river. As a result, shipyards and wharves were built in several places on the banks of the river. This district is located in the south-central part of the town&#39;s waterfront, just south of Muddy Cove, where there was also at one time a ferry service across the river. The area declined in importance as a shipping center due to the ascendancy of Fall River as a deep-water shipping destination.</p><br>
<p>The district extends along Pleasant Street, which runs close to the river, and includes four houses on the west side of the road, and three wharves that jut into the river. At the southern end of the district stand the house and wharf of Darius Perry, a ship&#39;s captain who sailed to the West Indies. His house, built about 1750, is a 1-1/2 story Cape that has repeatedly been enlarged and extended over the following centuries, but its basic form is still recognizable and its interior has been preserved. His wharf is about 30 ft wide and a similar length, and was hand-built out of dry-laid stone, as were the other two wharves.</p><br>
<p>North of Perry&#39;s house stands the Eddy House (2320 Pleasant Street), a 3-story Georgian style house, which was built about 1730 and given extensive Italianate styling about 1870. This house, along with the two remaining houses, were all built by Elkanah Andrews, another West Indies merchant who built one for himself and the other for two sons. It was acquired by Darius Perry in 1825 for his daughter and son-in-law, Captain William Eddy. The Eddys operated a guest house on the premises from the 1870s to mid 1900s.</p><br>
<p>The next house was Andrews own house (2308 Pleasant Street), was built about 1740, and is an imposing 2-1/2 story structure. It was restyled about 1830 with an elaborate Greek Revival treatment. Andrews was probably responsible for the construction of the Spooner Wharf, which stands opposite this house, and the Andrews Wharf to its north. The Spooner Wharf is similar to that of Perry, while the Andrews Wharf is the longest of the three, at 70 ft. Andrews house was purchased in 1803 by Captain James Spooner, a wealthy Rhode Island ship&#39;s captain.</p><br>
<p>At the northern end of the district stands the "Old Customs House", built by Andrews for his son Thomas about 1770. Between 1809 and 1834 it was owned by members of the Williams family, who acted as local customs collectors, and had one of the house&#39;s rear rooms outfitted as a small customs office. This house, like that of Andrews, was restyled in with Greek Revival features.</p><br>
<p>King Airfield Hangar is a historic airplane hangar on Middleboro Avenue in Taunton, Massachusetts near the Taunton Municipal Airport. It is a wood-frame structure, roughly 80 x, with a curved corrugated metal roof.</p><br>
<p>The hangar was built in 1919 as part of "King&#39;s Field", one of the first private airports in New England, and is its oldest surviving remnant. The airfield was built by Henry King on his 50 acre dairy farm. King and his family established a flying school with the purchase of a Curtiss Jenny World War I surplus airplane. The Kings also offered sightseeing tours over the Taunton area.</p><br>
<p>In the 1940s and 50s the family acquired a small fleet of aircraft and operated an air taxi service. Local businesses also hangared their planes at the airfield. In 1959, the main runway was paved and improved to 3,400 feet through the Federal Airport Aid Program, and the airfield was renamed Taunton Municipal Airport. A small portion of the original farm where the 1919 hangar is located was left undeveloped.</p><br>
<p>The historic hangar was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Hixville Village Historic District is a historic district at the junction of Old Fall River Road and North Hixville Road in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The intersections of North Hixville Road and Old Fall River Roads, the historic cemetery, The North Hixville Road Fire Station, Cornell Pond on the Copicut River, Hixville General Convienence Store and The First Church of Hixville define the center of Hixville Village in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. This area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The term "Hixville" generally refers to the north-northwestern section in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts north of Interstate 195 along North Hixville Road, Hixville Road, Reed Road, Old Fall River Road, Collins Corner Road, and Flag Swamp Roads. The Center of Hixville is located equi-distant, half-way, approximately 5 mi from the nearby cities of Fall River and New Bedford.</p><br>
<p>The boundaries of Hixville extend to the Westport border to the west, Fall River and Freetown to the North-West and north, the woods between Collins Corner and Flagg Swamp Roads (going south from the Collins Corner/Flagg Swamp Road Intersection) and the woods between the Shingle Island River and Harry M. Renyolds Drive along Old Fall River Road (going east-west) to the east, and Interstate 195 to the south.</p><br>
<p>The Asa Lincoln House is a historic house located at 171 Shores Street in Taunton, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The simple vernacular house was built in about 1760, and is locally significant for its status as the original homestead of Asa Lincoln, one of Taunton&#39;s first settlers. The asymmetrically-bayed, 1-1/2 story house features a central chimney, entrance and 6/6 sash windows that are irregularly spaced. The small house is next door to a newer, larger (non-NRHP listed) 18th century house located 173 Shores Street, that has been added on to.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 1984. Since that time, the historic house has been significantly altered with three large dormers added to the upper level. A new garage has also been constructed on the property.</p><br>
<p>The Kingsley House is a historic First Period house at 108 Davis Street in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. The oldest portion of this house is estimated to have been built around 1680, making it the oldest structure in Rehoboth. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, where it is listed at 96 Davis Street.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Kingsley House is located in southernmost Rehoboth, in a rural-residential area. It is set on the north side of Davis Street, just west of its junction with Meadowlark Drive, on a lot fronted by low fieldstone wall. It is a 2-1/2 story timber frame structure, with a gable roof, central chimney, and shingled exterior. The main facade is five bays wide, but there are deviations from symmetry, including only one window on the second floor left side. The rear of the main block is extended by a shed-roof extension down to the first floor, giving it a saltbox profile, and there is a single-story gabled ell extending to the main block.</p><br>
<p>The construction date of this house is not known, but it seems likely that the oldest portion of the house was built about 1680 by John Kingsley, as a three-bay "stone ender" house. This is based on the presence of a basement only under the eastern three bays. Differences in roof construction and window placement on either side of the central chimney indicate different construction periods, although both parts of the main block exhibit First Period construction methods, including heavy timber framing, chamfered beams, and gunstock posts. The stairs of the staircase were made by splitting square-cut timbers diagonally in half, and there is a chimney tree consisting of a single square-cut oak beam 16 in in thickness. The rear leanto section was added before 1785, and the western ell is of 19th century construction. The house is probably the oldest in Rehoboth, and is one of its best-preserved 17th-century houses.</p><br>
<p>The Cass Park Historic District is a historic district in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, consisting of 25 buildings along the streets of Temple, Ledyard, and 2nd, surrounding Cass Park. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area surrounding Cass Park was originally laid out as part of a French ribbon farm extending from the Detroit River. Lewis Cass, the park&#39;s namesake, purchased the farm in 1816 when he moved to the area. He constructed a house on Larned Street between First and Second Avenues, and in 1840 a larger house on the northwest corner of Fort and Cass Streets. Starting in 1836, Cass began subdividing his land, platting lots between Larned and the river. Over the next 30 years, Cass platted more northerly sections of his claim. The area that now encompasses the Cass Park Historic District began to be sold as lots after 1859. In 1860, Cass deeded a section of land to the city of Detroit, bounded by Second, Ledyard, Cass and Bagg (now Temple), to be used as a public park.</p><br>
<p>In 1863, the Detroit City Railway Company began streetcar service Along Woodward Avenue, only a few blocks away from Cass Park. The streetcar cervice spurred development northward along Woodward, including the Cass Park area. The area soon became a fashionable suburb of the city. In 1875, the city landscaped Cass Park, planting a number of new trees. By the 1880s, some of Detroits most prominent citizens lived along the park, including James Vernor, E. W. Voigt, and John H. Avery. Averys house at 457 Ledyard is the only residence remaining from this period within the district.</p><br>
<p>The Cass Park area continued to be a fashionable address into the 1900s. However, the 1890s saw the introduction of upscale apartment buildings. In 1895, the Alhambra Flats at 100-112 Temple was constructed, followed in 1905 by the Cromwell Flats at 2942 Second, and in 1908 by the Ansonia Flats at 2909 Second. As Detrtoit continued developing, apartment buildings with smaller but more numerous units began to appear, including the Manhattan Apartments at 2966 Second in 1905, and the Altadena Apartments at 2952 Second in 1911. This marked a transformation of the Cass Park area, as the single family homes surrounding the park were replaced with apartment buildings to house the city&#39;s expanding population. By 1925, a number of new apartment buildings had been constructed.</p><br>
<p>In addition, by the early 1920s, the business development of the city center reached into the Cass Park area, with businesses constructing their headquarters near the park. The first one of these was the Standard Accident Insurance Company, who built their headquarters at 640 Temple in 1921. Also by 1920, the city&#39;s Freemasonry had purchased a plot of land on what is now Temple Avenue to construct a new building, replacing the lodge on Lafayette which the organizations had outgrown. Construction on the Detroit Masonic Temple, the largest building in the district, began in 1920 and was completed in 1926. The Knights of Pythias followed suit, building a headquarters adjacent to the Masonic Temple in 1926. In 1927, the S. S. Kresge Corporation built its World Headquarters along the park.</p><br>
<p>Smaller businesses located along the more heavily traveled Cass Avenue near the Park. A number of structures were constructed in this area, including a commercial buildinghousing the Lasky Corporation at 146-166 Temple in 1923, the Will Mar Garage at 131 Temple in 1924, and a film exchange building at 479 Ledyard in 1936. During World War II the city&#39;s exploding population caused apartment owners in the area to subdivide their units to house the influx of workers.</p><br>
<p>After the war, the Cass Park area declined economically, with the apartment buildings being further divided into substandard units. Many buildings fell into disrepair or were abandoned. During the 1950s-1970s the Cass Park area became one of the most economically depressed neighborhoods of the city, and a number of charitable organizations moved into the area. In 1955, the Episcopal Diocese of Detroit constructed the Mariners Inn at 445 Ledyard as a shelter and treatment center for alcoholic sailors. The construction of Interstate 75 in Michigan, cutting off the park from downtown, hastened the decline of the neighborhood. Businesses moved into the suburbs, and the buildings left behind were taken over by nonprofit organizations, abandoned, or razed.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Cass Park Historic District includes Cass Park, a formal square with angled paths and scattered statues, as well as various commercial headquarters buildings, apartment buildings, the monumental Detroit Masonic Temple and other structures surrounding the park. Cass Park is a landscaped green space, containing abundant trees, park benches and modern, multi-color</p><br>
<p>playground equipment. A fountain was once located in the center of the park. A statue of Robert Burns, sculpted by George Anderson Lawson in 1921, is located at the north side of the park, facing the Masonic Temple. The new Cass Technical High School is located just to the south of the park, and various other buildings, all of which are contained within this historic district, surround and frame the park space.</p><br>
<p>The national designation includes 25 buildings, two of which are demolished (the Adams Apartments and Williams Apartments) and two of which are classified as non-contributing to the district (Park Plaza and the Cass Park Baptist Center). The city of Detroit designation includes 19 of the 25 buildings included in the national designation, excepting the four demolished and non-contributing structures, as well as the Mariners Inn and the Will Mar Garage. Two of the buildings in the district (the S.S. Kresge Company Headquarters and the Detroit Masonic Temple) are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The buildings in the district include:</p><br>
<h3>South of Cass Park</h3><br>
<p>Mariners Inn, 445 Ledyard: This two-story, rectangular brick office building was designed by architect Charles Vogel for the Episcopal Church to house sailors who had substance abuse problems. It was constructed in 1955 and is still in use. The Mariner&#39;s Inn is not included in the city historic district designation.</p><br>
<p>John H. Avery House, 457 Ledyard: This 3-1/2 story, three bay wide, red brick Italianate house with a flat roof was constructed in 1878, with the upper floor likely added in about 1905. It was constructed for prominent businessman John H. Avery, son of lumber baron Newell Avery. It is one of the few remaining single family homes in the area and the only one in the district. The front facade has elaborate carved stone hoods over the first and second floor windows, with a denticulated stringcourse separating the lower floors from the later third floor addition.</p><br>
<p>Michigan Chronicle, 479 Ledyard: This two-story, three bay, brick office building was constructed in 1936 by builder H.G. Winter as a film exchange building. In the 1960s the building became the home of the Michigan Chronicle, the first paper in Detroit owned and operated by African-Americans. The building has a Art Moderne limestone facade with large metal-framed windows separated by ridged vertical piers.</p><br>
<p>Park Plaza, 2560 Second: This four-story building was constructed in 1956, A.J. Etkin as the Park Plaza Motor Hotel, containing 10 ten apartments and 58 single rooms. In 1971, the building was converted to the Park Plaza Home for the Aged and an addition was constructed. The facade is white brick, with red brick in end walls. The Park Plaza is a non-contributing structure, and is not included in the city historic district designation.</p><br>
<h3>West of Cass Park</h3><br>
<p>S.S. Kresge Company / Metropolitan Center for High Technology, 2727 Second: This is a 5-1/2 story, brick and limestone Art Deco office building designed by Albert Kahn and built in 1928-30. Kresge used these offices until the firm moved to suburban Troy in 1972. For some years after that, the building was used by the Detroit Institute of Technology. The broad facade fronts on the entire western side of Cass Park. The symmetric building has a projecting 5-1/2 story central section flanked by four-story wings with projecting ends.</p><br>
<h3>East of Cass Park</h3><br>
<p>Cass Park Baptist Center, 2700 Second: This is a Two-story yellow brick building with a recessed corner entrance constructed in 1966. The Cass Park Baptist Center is a non-contributing structure, and is not included in the city historic district designation.</p><br>
<p>Cass Park Apartments, 2714 Second: This 4-1/2 story brown brick apartment building, three bays wide, was constructed in 1914, and originally contained 37 units. The vernacular Georgian Revival / Arts and Crafts facade has a central portico running the height of the building, tiered with balconies.</p><br>
<p>Adams Apartments, 2764 Second: This was a 4-1/2 story, three bay, brown brick apartment building constructed in 1916 and holding 36 units. The center bay, recessed between flanking bays, held an arched entryway. The Adams Apartments has been demolished, and is not included in the city historic district designation.</p><br>
<h3>North of Cass Park</h3><br>
<p>Fort Wayne Hotel / American Hotel, 400-426 Temple: This 11 story, brown brick and terra cotta building was designed by Ellington and Weston and constructed in 1926 as a lodge headquarters and hotel for the Knights of Pythias. The first and second floors are finished in smooth ashlar and a decorative string of red and blue terra cotta tiles separate the ninth and tenth stories. The upper two stories have decorative stone surrounds.</p><br>
<p>William Apartments / Temple Towers, 439 Temple: This 6-1/2 story, U-shaped, brown brick and masonry apartment building was designed by Joseph P. Jogerst, and constructed in 1915. It originally held 60 units. The basement level was concrete block, the first floor was faced with smooth ashlar, and the upper floors had two three-sided window. bays. The William Apartments has been demolished, and is not included in the city historic district designation.</p><br>
<p>Detroit Masonic Temple, 500 Temple: This English Gothic building was designed by George D. Mason, and construction began in 1922. It is the largest Masonic Temple in the world, extremely ornate and structurally complex. The Temple consists of three separate buildings, unified by their exterior details: the fourteen-story Ritualistic Building, the ten-story Shrine Club, and the seven-story Auditorium Building connecting the other two. All three buildings are sheathed in Indiana limestone sculptural details by Corrado Parducci.</p><br>
<p>Standard Accident Insurance Building / Wayne County Department of Social Services, 640 Temple: This eight-story, seven bay, Classical Revival brick and stone office building was designed by Albert Kahn and constructed in 1920. The first and second floors have sets of three double hung windows separated by stone pilasters. The upper floors have sets of two 1/1 double hung windows.</p><br>
<p>Ansonia Flats / Ansonia Apartments, 2901-23 Second: This 4-1/2 story yellow brick apartment building was constructed in 1908, and originally held 20 luxury units. It is divided into three separate sections with three separate entrances. Two entrances are on Second and the third is on Temple. The Georgian Revival facade contains multiple bays, giving it an undulating form. The Temple facade has three bow front bays with a semi-octagonal corner bay. The Second facade has three round bays and one square bay.</p><br>
<p>Boulevard Hotel, 2931-33 Second: This 3-1/2 story, brown brick apartment building, was constructed in 1924, and originally had 36 units. The Craftsman-style structure is five bays wide, with a central entrance bay flanked by two projecting bays topped by Flemish gables.</p><br>
<p>Cromwell Flats / Cromwell Apartments, 2942 Second: This 3-1/2 story brown brick apartment building was designed by Almon C. Varney and constructed in 1904. The building is three bays wide, with a central entrance bay flanked by three-sided window bays containing alternating bands of brick and stone. The Cromwell is one of three buildings, along with the Altadena Apartments and Manhattan Apartments, that located together and constructed with closely matching setback and design.</p><br>
<p>Altadena Apartments, 2952-58 Second: This 4-1/2 story, brown brick apartment building was designed by Pollmar & Ropes and constructed in 1911. It originally contained 12 units. It has two entrances, and two three-sided window bays running from the second to the fourth floor on each end of the building.</p><br>
<p>Manhattan Apartments, 2966-72 Second: This 4-1/2 story, brown brick apartment building was designed by Pollmar & Ropes and constructed in 1905. It has a center entrance bay flanked by two three-sided window bays running from the second to the fourth floor. Design details include metal spandrels painted green within the window bays, a cornice with quatrefoil inset details, and a battlemented parapet.</p><br>
<p>Wilburne Apartments, 487 Charlotte: This 3-1/2 story, three bay, yellow brick apartment building contains 32 units, and is now known as the Vernon Murphy Apartments. It was constructed in 1916 in a Renaissance Revival and Arts and Crafts style, with a recessed, arched entrance, and a wide hipped roof supported by brackets and rafter tails.</p><br>
<h3>On / East of Cass Avenue</h3><br>
<p>Temple Bar, 2906-14 Cass Avenue: A single-story brick commercial building constructed in 1925. The storefront was updated in 1941 with a streamlined Art Moderne look. The front facade has two entrance doorways set back between curved glass block windows.</p><br>
<p>2930 Cass Avenue: A three-story brown brick commercial building with four bays, constructed in 1915 by Albert G. Riesterer to house his drug store. Ten apartments were located on the upper floors. The first floor has a storefront and entrance to the upstairs apartments; there are identical fanlights in the transom above the storefront and above the apartment entrance. Panels of green tile line the parapet at the top of the building.</p><br>
<p>2949 Cass Avenue: This two-story, three bay, reinforced concrete commercial building faced with red brick was designed by Albert Kahn and built in 1922 as a film exchange building. The three bays are divided by projecting piers.</p><br>
<p>Alhambra Flats / The Embassy, 100-112 Temple: This six-story, brick and stone, Romanesque Revival apartment building, was designed by J.R. Gentle and constructed in 1895. The first and second floors of the main facades are faced with rock-faced stone, while the upped floors are faced with pink brick. Entryways are covered with heavy rounded arches. The second through sixth floors have rounded bays on the corners and a three-sided bay in the center of the south facade, along with a bay consisting of recessed open porches in each facade.</p><br>
<p>Will Mar Garage, 131 Temple: This two-story brick and reinforced concrete garage was constructed in 1924. It has a central entrance flanked by large window openings, and a truck bay at the building end. Will Mar Garage is not included in the city historic district designation.</p><br>
<p>The Alden, 145 Temple: This 3-1/2 story brick Renaissance Revival apartment building was constructed in 1922 by George P. Rogers. The original building contained 22 units, but an addition constructed six months later held an additional 20 units. The limestone front facade contains a Classic door surround with stylized columns. The first floor has arched window openings with French doors.</p><br>
<p>146-166 Temple: This three-story, reinforced concrete Classical Revival commercial building was constructed in 1923. The first floor contains storefronts, while the window groups in the floors above are separated by pilasters that span both stories.</p><br>
