<p>The Salem YMCA is a historic YMCA building at 284-296 Essex Street in the Downtown Salem District in Salem, Massachusetts. Its large building is an anchor of the western end of Salem&#39;s business district, of which Essex Street is a major component, and is one of the finest Classical Revival buildings in Salem. The Salem YMCA was first organized in 1858, and it commissioned the construction of this building in 1898. The three story brick and limestone building was designed by Walter J. Paine, and has retained most of its exterior styling. The ground floor was designed to house primarily retail establishments, with the YMCA entrance highlighted by an ornate entablature supported by twin columns on either side. Entrances to the retail establishments are also indicated by building bays that project out less prominently than the main entrance. The ground floor is built in limestone, while the upper floors are predominantly brick. The building originally had a loggia on top of the roof, but that was removed in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>Faced with declining enrollments through the 1970s, the YMCA sold part of the second and third floors to the Salem Housing Authority, which converted that area to senior housing. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Thomas March Woodbridge House is a historic house at 48 Bridge Street in Salem, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The three story brick house was built in 1809 for Thomas March Woodbridge, owner of a local tannery. Its construction has been attributed to noted Salem builder Samuel McIntire, based on its similarity to other McIntire works. It is square, with five bays on each side. The front door is centered on the main facade topped by a semi-elliptical fanlight and flanked by sidelight windows. Entrances on the side elevations are sheltered by broken pediments supported by Doric columns.</p><br>
<p>Woodbridge died in 1822, after which the house went through a succession of owners. It was briefly owned by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (now Historic New England) before it was bought by Children&#39;s Friend and Family Service Society of the North Shore, Inc. in 1955.</p><br>
<p>Bellevue Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Lawrence and Methuen, Massachusetts. Established in 1847 and owned by the city of Lawrence, it is the first and principal cemetery of that city, and a notable example of a rural cemetery. In conjunction with adjacent cemeteries and Lawrences High Service Water Tower and Reservoir, it provides part of the small citys largest area of open space. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Bellevue Cemetery is located in northwestern Lawrence, with a small strip of land in southern Methuen. It is bounded on the east by May Street, and on the north by Barker Street and St. Marys Cemetery. To the west and south are residential areas, with the park containing the High Service Water Tower and Reservoir also to the south. The cemetery is just over 96 acre in size, and is roughly U-shaped, with St. Marys Cemetery and the center of the U. The oldest portion of the cemetery is a 33 acre section between May Street and Reservoir Street, and was established in 1847. The area west of Reservoir Street and south of Barker was acquired in 1893. The "Old Yard" was laid out in the park-like landscape setting of winding lanes amid terraced hillsides in the then-popular rural cemetery style, while "New Bellevue" has a slightly less formal feel.</p><br>
<p>Major buildings and structures in the cemetery include the c. 1922 main gates, built of brick and iron, and the "Hearse House" in the Old Yard, which now houses the cemetery offices. Near the Hearse House is the now-unused Cremation Tomb, built into a hillside with a plain granite facade and bronze cremation urns above the door. In the New Bellevue section, the 1893 Brick Stable is an imposing Classical Revival structure with Queen Anne details, which anchors the cemetery&#39;s main maintenance yard. Other buildings in the yard are a garage, gasoline house, and tool house, all built before 1940.</p><br>
<h2>Noted burials</h2><br>
<p>It is the final resting place of many victims of the Pemberton Mill disaster of January 10, 1860. It is also the burial place of comedic movie actress Thelma Todd, whose performance in title role in Laurel and Hardy&#39;s movie The Bohemian Girl was truncated due to her death, believed by some to have been a murder. And it is the burial place of three USA Congressmen: William S. Knox, William A. Russell and John K. Tarbox.</p><br>
<p>Lake Salda is a mid-size crater lake in southwestern Turkey, within the boundaries of Yeşilova district depending Burdur Province, and it lies at a distance of about fifty kilometers to the west from the province seat of Burdur.It extends over part of an area known as the Lakes District in southwestern Anatolia.</p><br>
<p>Salda is often cited as part of the Turkish Lakes Region that corresponds to the lands that extend across inner west- to southern Anatolia, especially in the provinces depending Isparta and Afyonkarahisar, although Lake Salda is geographically separate from the larger lakes which are more to the west and, being a crater lake, is morphologically different.</p><br>
<p>The lake area covers 4,370 hectares, and its depth reaches 196 meters, making it one of the deeper lakes in Turkey, if not the deepest.</p><br>
<p>It is a popular excursion spot across the region or from beyond, the more so due to the hydromagnesite mineral found along its coasts which are believed to offer remedies for certain dermatological diseases. The shoreline surrounded by black pine forests are also popular among hunters, the game and the fowl available including quails, hares, foxes, boars and wild ducks, aside from the lake&#39;s fish. White sandy beaches, limpid water and seven crystal-white islets within the lake complete the scenery.</p><br>
<p>A township that starts almost at the shore to the southwest of the lake carries the same name, Salda. The local administrative seat of Yeşilova is located to the east of the lake at a distance of about four kilometers and Yeşilova municipality manages the lake&#39;s camping facilities.</p><br>
<p>Its peculiar morphology led a number of academic studies to be conducted on Lake Salda. The unusual alkaline nature of the lake means that is one of the few locations where ancient stromatolite (1) algae still grows.</p><br>
<p>Methodist Episcopal Society of Tyringham  is a historic church at 128-130 Main Road in Tyringham, Massachusetts. The property includes a Greek Revival church building built in 1844, and a parsonage house next door. The house was built around the same time as the church as a private residence, and was only later acquired for use as a parsonage. The church is a large single-story wood frame structure on a marble foundation. Its tower rises to a height of 70 ft in square tiered stages. The parsonage is a modest 1-1/2 story gable-front structure, with a single-story ell  extending to the south. Between 1844 and 1907, the church was also used for town meetings.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Leavitt–Hovey House is an historic house located at 402 Main Street in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1797, it is a prominent work of local architect Asher Benjamin, and a good local example of Federal period architecture. Since 1909 it has served as the home of the Greenfield Public Library. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983,</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Leavitt–Hovey House stands in downtown Greenfield, on the north side of Main Street east of the main business district and opposite Hope Street. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with numerous additions to its sides and rear. The main block is topped by a hip roof, with two interior chimneys. Its exterior is finished in wooden clapboards. The front facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a gabled porch supported by clustered columns. Front-gabled wings are attached to each side at a recess, with similar styling.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was designed by the noted architect Asher Benjamin in 1797 for Judge Jonathan Leavitt. Leavitt was a graduate of Yale College. He began his career as an attorney in Greenfield. He later served as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1812, and Judge of Probate from 1814 to 1821, as well as the first president of the Franklin Bank of Greenfield. He used the west wing of this house as an office for his business activities. Judge Leavitt married the daughter of Yale President Ezra Stiles.</p><br>
<p>Some original architectural elements of the Leavitt–Hovey House are in the collection of Historic Deerfield in Deerfield, where they may be seen by appointment.</p><br>
<p>The town of Greenfield took the home by eminent domain in 1907, and in 1909 opened the Greenfield Public Library in the building.</p><br>
<p>The Weldon Hotel is a historic hotel at 54 High Street in Greenfield, Massachusetts. It was one of the first poured concrete buildings in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The first part of the five story concrete and stucco building was built in 1905 as an apartment house, but was converted into a hotel in 1907. F. O. Wells, the proprietor, was thought to be overly ambitious in operating such a large hotel, but his business eventually improved in the 1910s. It is said the name "Weldon" comes as a contraction of "Well Done". In 1914 Wells added a dining room on the north side of the building, and in 1927 added sixty rooms above that addition. The business benefited from tourist traffic along the Mohawk Trail. When this went into decline, the hotel also declined, and closed in 1977. The building has since been converted into a senior living facility.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was designed by William B. Reid, an architect from Holyoke. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Johnston–Jacobs House is a Greek Revival style brick house located near downtown Georgetown, Kentucky. The original structure was built in approximately 1795 by Adam Johnston for use as a tavern-inn.</p><br>
<p>The property was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on October 2, 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Adam Johnston and his son Thomas were among the first permanent settlers in Georgetown, Kentucky. Around 1795, Adam Johnston established an ordinary; a place where travelers could have lodging, meals, whiskey, and stable their horses.</p><br>
<p>Adam Johnston died in 1810 and Thomas owned the building until 1830 when his daughter Mary Ann and her husband James M. Shelton acquired the property. William Jacobs, a blacksmith, bought the building and several pieces of property around it. In 1860, Nathan Payne purchased the house and renovated the structure with stylish Greek Revival additions. After Payne&#39;s death, the dwelling was sold J. C. Cravens, and soon resold to James Rawlins, and then Virginia W. Hamilton, wife of Dr. John A. Hamilton.</p><br>
<p>The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Depot in Aberdeen, South Dakota was built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad  in 1911.</p><br>
<p>The depot is rectangular in shape, two stories, and is built of brick and concrete. Its style reflects the Craftsman/Prairie influences of the early 20th century. It was built to replace an earlier wooden depot that burned. Aberdeen served as a division point on the Milwaukee Road and the upper floors of the depot contained railroad offices. In its heyday the station served the Milwaukee Road&#39;s Olympian Hiawatha, which ran from Chicago to Seattle and Tacoma. Passenger trains last served the station for Minneapolis in April 1969.</p><br>
<p>The depot is the largest brick passenger depot still standing in South Dakota. It was listed in the National Register due to its architecture and association with the development of railroads in South Dakota.</p><br>
<p>The building was bought by an investment company that leases office space. The basement of the depot houses a model railroad club.</p><br>
<p>The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center is a theater in Old Saybrook, Connecticut that opened in 2009. It is the only theater in the world that is named for Katharine Hepburn, the 4-time Academy Award winning actress.</p><br>
<p>The building in which the venue is housed dates from circa 1910 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 as Old Saybrook Town Hall and Theater. The property is also known as The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center and Theatre.</p><br>
<p>The 250 seat theater has the full backing of the Hepburn Estate and the actresss family. Cynthia McFadden of ABC News, an executor of the Hepburn Estate, is an honorary capital campaign committee member. Hepburns brother-in-law, Ellsworth Grant, is currently instrumental in helping the Board of Trustees honor the actress with his knowledge of Hepburn and her family. Grant is an author and former Mayor of West Hartford, Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center is a non-profit performing arts organization located in a historic theater/town hall on Main Street in Old Saybrook. Originally opened in 1911 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Center has been renovated with public funds from the Town of Old Saybrook and donations raised by the Trustees of the Center. It includes a 250-seat theater and a small museum (still under construction) honoring Katharine Hepburn, Old Saybrook’s most celebrated resident. As befits an organization born of such a public/private partnership, programming is eclectic, offering something for all ages and income levels on the Connecticut shore and in the lower river valley.</p><br>
<p>Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell has said the following about the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center:</p><br>
<p>"It is my pleasure to recognize that one of Connecticut&#39;s own is being honored in the naming of an historic building that will perpetuate her legacy. Katharine Hepburn contributed much in her long career in film and theater, not only to Connecticut, but throughout the world. To remember her in this manner is most fitting and I salute the efforts of all those involved."</p><br>
<p>Connecticut USA Senator Christopher Dodd has also recognized the theater in saying:</p><br>
<p>"I commend everyone participating in this grand effort to restore the old Town Hall building in Old Saybrook to create in its place the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, I&#39;m honored that I can lend my name in support of what will be a meaningful and inspiring tribute to our Connecticut treasure, Katharine Hepburn."</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by New London architect James Sweeney, and "is a fine example of the Colonial Revival Style." The general contractor was William L. Roe, Jr., of New London. and</p><br>
<p>Municipal Warehouse No. 1 is a six-story warehouse built in 1917 located on the outermost point of land on the main channel at the Port of Los Angeles. It played an important part in the establishment of Los Angeles as a major center of international trade and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its role in the development of the region&#39;s international trade and commerce.</p><br>
<h2>Construction and early years</h2><br>
<p>The development of the Panama Canal led Los Angeles business leaders to believe that, if modern port facilities could be built, the worlds commercial fleet would descend on Los Angeles. When the canal opened in August 1914, World War I had postponed the citys plans. However, the city&#39;s Municipal Wharf No. 1 was nearly complete in 1914, and harbor officials next turned their attention the construction of a large bonded warehouse to handle the "sea caravans" that were expected to crowd the harbor at the end of the war.</p><br>
<p>By late 1914, foundation tests and paving activities were underway for a six-story warehouse to be built on Municipal Dock No. 1. And in December 1914, the Harbor Commission unveiled the structural plans (pictured to the left) prepared by Chief Harbor Engineer S.A. Jubb for the "mammoth new warehouse." The Los Angeles Times reported at the time on the proposed design as follows:"The massiveness and character of the structure, of course, preclude the idea of architectural beauty and make any considerable degree of ornamentation undesirable. Both commissions, however, are desirous that the warehouse shall be more than merely a gigantic fireproof box with four walls, a roof and various openings. Considerable study, therefore, has been given to the treatment of cornice and wall panels, to the end that as pleasing and symmetrical an effect may be obtained as is consistent with the purposes and proportions of the building.The warehouse will be of reinforced concrete construction and six stories in height. It will be 480 ft in length and 150 ft wide, being the largest structure of its kind ever erected west of Chicago.... The warehouse is to stand at the seaward end of the city&#39;s present great outer harbor dock..."</p><br>
<p>The original projected cost of the structure was $200,000 for the structural work and another $50,000 for equipment,</p><br>
<p>When Municipal Warehouse No. 1 opened in April 1917, nearly 100 members of the citys Merchants and Manufacturers&#39; Association toured the warehouse and were told of its potential to assist them in their business. The Times described the operations at the warehouse as follows:"Freight received by steamers will be sorted in the transit freight shed and taken into the warehouse on electric trucks. Sixteen electric hoists have been provided to convey the freight to the various lofts in the warehouse. There are nearly twelve acres of floor space in the warehouse, which will be leased by the city merchants and manufacturers. Here goods may be readied for shipment and send direct from the warehouse by rail. Tracks run into the warehouse and elevators are provided to take the goods from the lofts to the loading platforms in the basement."</p><br>
<p>The warehouse was the Port&#39;s only bonded warehouse for many years and played a significant role in the establishment of the Port of Los Angeles as an international trade hub. The 475,000 ft&sup2; structure was built with an interior arcade with room for 24 freight cars.</p><br>
<h2>Rooftop operations</h2><br>
<p>Because of its commanding view of the harbor, the roof of the warehouse has long been the site of various operations. Starting in the early 1920s, the Marine Exchange operated on its roof, providing lookout reports on ships entering and leaving the port. In 1925, the Radio Corporation of America located its harbor receiving station to the top of the massive warehouse. A new four-room lookout station for use by the Marine Exchange was built in 1928 atop the warehouse. The new station had a large circular window giving telescopes a commanding view of the harbor and ocean, and also included a neon red beacon which shed a red glow over the building at night. In 1939, the Los Angeles Times described the Exchange as "a world all its own up there on Warehouse No. 1." In eight-hour shifts, three men manned the Exchange, climbing seven flights of stairs to reach the lookout station. The Times described the station as follows: "In one room with big windows commanding every approach from the sea, there is a large telescope on wheels. It can be pointed in any direction with the touch of a finger. At a little desk looking out over the channel and the harbor sits one of the three men who are on duty as lookouts..." The roof was also the site of a weather observation and signal facility for many years.</p><br>
<h2>Navy depot, Foreign Trade Zone 4, and historic designation</h2><br>
<p>During World War II, the warehouse was turned over to the USA Navy for use as a supply depot. From 1949 to 1956 (when the foreign trade zone was terminated), the warehouse became "in effect a foreign island" or "free city" where important goods could be manipulated, sorted, graded, inspected, and re-exported without payment of duties unless and until they were taken from the warehouse for distribution within the United States. By 1950, more than 100,000 local citizens were employed directly in foreign trade grossing $530 million, and the Los Angeles Foreign Trade Zone at Municipal Warehouse No. 1 was credited with helping Los Angeles become a major center of world trade.</p><br>
<p>Over the years, as items were held for various customs or other reasons, Municipal Warehouse No. 1 became the home for a number of unusual items. In 1949, a group of camels being imported from Australia for a Shriners convention were held at the warehouse while quarantine requirements were met. And when an American museum imported the railroad car that carried Winston Churchill&#39;s body to burial, the railcar got no further than the port and was stored for many years in the Municipal Warehouse No. 1.</p><br>
<p>In the 1970s, the introduction of cargo containerization eliminated the need for break-bulk warehousing, but Municipal Warehouse No. 1 has continued to be used as a bonded warehouse at the Port. It also serves as a visual landmark for ships entering the Port. In 2000, Municipal Warehouse No. 1 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places based on its contributions to international trade and commerce along the Pacific Coast.</p><br>
<p>Carteia was a Phoenician and Roman town at the head of the Bay of Gibraltar in Spain. It was established at the most northerly point of the bay, about halfway between the modern cities of Algeciras and Gibraltar, overlooking the sea on elevated ground at the confluence of two rivers. According to Strabo, it was founded around 940 BC as the trading settlement of Kʿrt . The area had much to offer a trader; the hinterland behind Carteia, in the modern south of Andalusia, was rich in wood, cereals, oranges, lemons, lead, iron, copper and silver. Dyes were another much sought-after commodity, especially those from the murex shellfish, used to make the prized Tyrian purple.</p><br>
<p>The towns strategic location meant that it played a significant role in the wars between Carthage and the Roman Republic in the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC. It may have been the site of Hamilcars landing with his army and elephants in 237 BC, and in 206 BC the Carthaginian admiral Adherbal retreated there with the remnants of his fleet after being defeated by Gaius Laelius in the Battle of Carteia. Around 190 BC, the town was captured by the Romans.</p><br>
<h2>Roman and medieval period</h2><br>
<p>Livy records that in 171 BC, the Roman Senate was petitioned by a group of Romano-Spanish people, the sons of Roman soldiers and Spanish women. Although they were of Roman descent they were not regarded as Roman citizens, nor were they allowed to marry Roman citizens. The Senate responded by elevating Carteia to the status of a colonia (Roman colony) and granting around 4,000 Romano-Spanish people the right to live there and receive a grant of land on a similar basis to Roman colonists. The existing inhabitants were permitted to remain there, while all of the inhabitants were given the right to marry Roman citizens and to carry on trade with Romans. This marked a significant innovation for Rome&#39;s overseas colonies; the Carteians were the first outside Italy to receive a civic status known as the Latin Rights, half-way between being a non-citizen provincial and a full Roman citizen. Other cities in Spain were later granted a similar status.</p><br>
<p>The Colonia Libertinorum Carteia (Freedmens Colony of Carteia) prospered for another 580 years under Roman rule. Carteia acquired a mint, amphitheatre, temples and port, and played a significant role in late Roman Republican affairs. Pompey made it his western base for his campaign against Mediterranean pirates in 68 BC. His sons Gnaeus and Sextus raised an army there in 45 BC before being defeated by Julius Caesar at the Battle of Munda. While Gnaeus was captured and executed, Sextus escaped via Carteias port and fled to the Pyrenees.</p><br>
<p>Little is known of the remainder of Carteia&#39;s Roman history, but it appears to have been sacked by the Visigoths around 409 AD, by which time it was probably already in decline. Nonetheless, archaeological evidence shows that urban life continued there into the medieval period. The foundations of an early Christian basilica have been found,</p><br>
<h2>Rediscovery and current condition</h2><br>
<p>The site of Carteia was rediscovered by a young British Army officer, John Conduitt, who served in Gibraltar as commissary to the garrison between April 1713 to early 1717. He identified the city as having stood on a hill then known as El Rocadillo, which Richard Ford described in his A Handbook for Travellers in Spain (1845):</p><br>
<p>Conduitt communicated his discovery to the Royal Society in London and was invited to read a paper on Carteia on his return to the capital. He did so on 20 June 1717, with Sir Isaac Newton in attendance as chair. Coincidentally, Newton was also interested in Carteia, as he was in the middle of writing his work The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms, and he invited Conduitt to his home to discuss the ancient city. It was there that Conduitt met Newton&#39;s niece, Catherine Barton. After a whirlwind courtship the two were married on 26 August 1717, though Barton was almost a decade older than Conduitt, albeit still renowned for her beauty.</p><br>
<p>An early 19th century writer, the anonymous "Calpensis", described how he had "often walked over the site of Carteia, attracted by the rich variety of broken pieces of marble scattered over the fields. Part of the wall enclosing the farm-house was then rudely made up of broken pillars, columns and cornices, of marble of the finest workmanship." Some of the earliest excavations were carried out at the behest of the British; in 1811–12, Vice-Admiral Charles Penrose reached agreement with the estate&#39;s owners to allow amateur antiquarians from Gibraltar to "excavate and examine any part of its ground for antiquities." The excavations found the remains of a tessellated Roman pavement, which was thought to belong to a temple, as well as foundations of Roman buildings.</p><br>
<p>Although the area around Carteia was open farmland in the time of "Calpensis", it is now heavily industrialised. The site of Carteia is surrounded on three sides by an oil refinery. It was not given protection until as late as the 1960s, by which time the necropolis and city gates had been lost to encroaching development. However, the main urban area has been preserved and can be visited. A number of significant structures can still be seen, including the original Carthaginian city gate, a monumental sandstone flight of steps leading down to what was possibly the forum, a large temple, a number of houses and an extensive Roman baths. The 16th century Torre de Rocadillo can also be seen. From 1971 to 1974, excavations were carried out which found part of a bust of the Emperor Augustus and a headless statue of a man wearing a toga. The Carteia Archaeological Museum in San Roque displays archaeological finds from the site.</p><br>
<p>The historic village of Aurora, Cayuga County, New York, rises on a hill above the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake. The village was named by Captain Benjamin Ledyard, who settled there in 1793, in the post-Revolutionary development of the Finger Lakes region. Up until the mid-nineteenth century, Aurora played an important part in the history of Central New York.</p><br>
<p>County seat for first Onondaga County and later Cayuga County, the village was also a leading market town in the region. A steam-powered flour mill was built in 1817, the first of its kind west of Albany, contributing to Auroras importance as a commercial center. Aurora was a major shipping point for goods bound up the Lake and through the Erie Canal, until the canals role was replaced by railroads in the mid-19th century.</p><br>
<p>Its significant business entrepreneurs included men such as Henry Wells, founder of American Express and Wells Fargo, whose operations created new express mail and banking services that spanned New York state and reached to the developing state of California. Having earned capital in shipping and trade, Edwin Barber Morgan invested with Wells and served as a director for Wells Fargo for years. In addition, Morgan founded the United States Express Company, which provided express mail to the South, and he was an important early investor in the New York Times. They and other successful men built ambitious grand houses in the village, an architectural legacy which has contributed to its significance.</p><br>
<p>With wealth, Auroras capitalists supported education. Wells founded Wells Seminary, later Wells College, in 1868, starting Auroras second period of historic significance. Morgan also supported the college.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, the Aurora Village–Wells College Historic District was entered on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Aurora Village properties</h2><br>
<p>The contributing properties in the village of Aurora are of varied styles and vintage. They include commercial buildings, the Masonic temple, three churches, many homes, some barns and two cemeteries.</p><br>
<h3>Commercial properties</h3><br>
<p>The vernacular-design Patrick Tavern was built in 1793 and is the oldest building in the village. Built in 1898, the Tudor Revival style Aurora Free Library/Morgan Opera House served until 1996 as the Public Library/Town Hall, as it was originally intended by benefactor Louise Morgan Zabriskie. The brick, Greek Revival style Aurora Inn was built in 1833. A complete renovation was completed in 2003. The Shakelton Funeral Home is a large, white, neo-classical wooden structure built in 1903-1904.</p><br>
<p>Solomon Myers, a mason, built The Bank of local limestone circa 1840 for use as his home. In 1864 the second owner sold the building to a consortium forming the First National Bank of Aurora. At that time, several physical improvements were made and the Italianate features were added before the bank opened. Edwin Barber Morgan, a leading citizen of Aurora, had the E. B. Morgan House built in 1857-1858. It was designed by New York City architect Joseph C. Wells, who also designed the Presbyterian Church in Aurora. The imposing stone mansion on the shore of Cayuga Lake now operates as a bed and breakfast inn. Other commercial properties that contribute to the district include: the Shakelton Hardware Store, the Aurora Office Building, Mack&#39;s Drug Store, the Aurora Village Hall, the White Elephant Shop, the Aurora IGA, and the Thompson Block.</p><br>
<h3>Masonic Lodge</h3><br>
<p>Robert Livingston, who administered George Washington&#39;s oath of office and was Grand Master of the Masons, signed the charter for the Masonic Lodge in Aurora, received in 1797. It is known as the Scipio Lodge #110. New York State Governor DeWitt Clinton, also Grand Master of the Masons, laid the cornerstone for the existing structure in 1819. The Masonic emblems incorporated in the design of the structure survive to this day.</p><br>
<h3>Churches</h3><br>
<p>Three churches contribute to the historic district. The Presbyterian Church, built in 1860, is of Romanesque design, with a Gothic steeple. It was designed by New York City architect Joseph C. Wells, who also designed the E. B. Morgan House. St. Pauls Episcopal Church is Greek Revival in style and was built in 1870-1871. It is located on the east side of Main Street. Across the street is St. Patricks Catholic Church, built in 1873 of Italianate design. Both were designed by local architect Samuel Mandell.</p><br>
<h3>Homes</h3><br>
<p>Over fifty homes contribute to the historic district, too many to enumerate. The imposing Taylor House on the east side of Main Street was built around 1838 and was the site of many village celebrations. Mandell House was built by local architect Samuel Mandell for his own use. It is designed in a combination of Queen Anne and Stick styles. The romantic Queen Anne-style Abbott House is at the northern end of town. The Leffingwell House was the first house built of brick in Aurora, circa 1826.</p><br>
<p>The Cuyler House is the birthplace of Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, Presbyterian clergyman and writer, according to the historical marker in the front yard. The Federal-style Peter Fort House was built in 1819-1820.</p><br>
<h2>Wells College</h2><br>
<p>In 1868, Wells Seminary, later Wells College, was founded by Henry Wells, founder of American Express (1850) and Wells Fargo (1852). The campus includes fourteen properties contributing to the historic district. Glen Park, built in 1852, was originally the home of Henry Wells and later donated to the college. The house was designed by noted architect A. J. Davis, while the grounds were designed by equally notable architect A. J. Downing.</p><br>
<p>Another event in the life of Henry Wells happened in 1850 &mdash; he moved with his family from New York City to Aurora to a large house that stood on the east side of Court Street in the middle of what is now Cherry Avenue. This house burned May 18, 1851, and he began planning his new home immediately. His choice of a location for his home could scarcely have turned out better either for him or for Wells College. It was part of a farm, just south of Aurora, formerly owned by John Morgan, one of the six sons of Christopher Morgan. Henry Wells purchased thirty-eight acres of this farm, a strip of land beginning at Cayuga Lake and running eastward north of the ravine. He named his estate Glen Park and located his residence on the north side of Glen Park Ravine.</p><br>
<p>The following description of Glen Park is taken from a prospectus written in 1875. "The house is of Tuscan villa architecture &mdash; the outer walls are of blue limestone, the inner of brick with a chamber between, rendering them impervious to dampness and making the rooms cool in summer and warm in winter. The partitions of the main building are of brick from the foundations upward. The halls and rooms are spacious and sunny, commanding charming views from each window."</p><br>
<p>On the newel at the bottom of the circular staircase in Glen Park is a silver plate engraved as follows: "C. N. Otis, Architect; N. H. McGrath, Builder. Erected A.D., 1852." This circular staircase is one of Glen Park&#39;s unique features.</p><br>
<p>Miss Annie MeGreevey, Mr. Mandell&#39;s housekeeper for many years, tells the story of its building. Samuel D. Mandell (1829-1917), educated as an architect, began his career away from Aurora. Early in 1852 his father wrote him that there would be plenty of work in Aurora and that he should come home. Mandell arrived just before Glen Park was completed. The architect had left the well for the circular staircase, but had postponed building it because he was not sure how best to do it. When he heard that Mandell had returned, he asked him to construct the staircase. The circular staircase in Glen Park, therefore, was the first work that Mandell did in Aurora. Afterward he was the architect of the first Wells College building, the three churches, and several residences including that of Edwin B. Morgan.</p><br>
<p>Pettibone House is a Gothic Revival structure built of stone in 1858. The Main Building was built in 1890. The Wells College Boathouse, on Cayuga Lake, was built in 1898. The science building, Zabriskie Hall, was built in 1905.</p><br>
<p>The remaining nine contributing properties on campus are Fritt House, Power House, Boyer Cottage, Macmillan Hall, South Hall, Bellinjou, Dining Hall, Cleveland Hall, and Morgan Hall.</p><br>
<p>The William Russell Allen House is a historic house at 359 East Street in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1886, it was the first local design of H. Neill Wilson, and is an important example of Shingle style architecture in Berkshire. It is also a rare surviving reminder of East Street&#39;s residential past. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The William Russell House stands east of the downtown Pittsfield, in a builtup area on the north side of East Street between 2nd and 4th Streets. It is closely sandwiched by a tall government office building to its left, and the Providence Court housing complex to its right. It is a 2-1/2 story structure, with a cross-gabled roof configuration and an exterior finished in a variety of materials. Its foundation is rusticated granite, the first floor is finished in rusticated bluestone, and the second floor is finished in terra cotta tiled. The upper gable ends are finished in a combination of stucco and terra cotta tile. The porch extending along one side is decorated in marble and brownstone. The interior has very high quality woodwork and tile.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by H. Neill Wilson, and built in 1886 as a town house for William Russell Allen, a wealthy member of a locally prominent family. The house was the first major commission in the region by Wilson, who went on to a long a successful career as an architect in the county and elsewhere. The house is an early example of the Shingle style of design, influenced by the work of H.H. Richardson, which Wilson was known to have studied.</p><br>
<p>The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum is a historic house museum at 67 East Road in Adams, Massachusetts. It is notable as the birthplace of suffragist Susan B. Anthony in 1820 and for its association with early educators and industrialists in Adams. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The house is now a learning center and museum dedicated to showcasing Susan B. Anthonys early years. One room is dedicated to Anthonys later activist life.</p><br>
<h2>House architecture</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1817, the house is a conventional, center hall, 2.5-story colonial in the Federalist style. Twin chimneys rise from the buildings center line. A modest 1.5-story ell was added onto the rear of the house, and a porch, added onto the side of the rear ell in the 1950s, was enclosed in the 1960s. A barn on the property was replaced by a modern garage, which houses the museums gift shop. Inside the house, the original floorplan has been retained, with a central hall flanked by large public rooms in front of the house and smaller service rooms in the rear. The rear ell contains two small rooms. Most of the original woodwork has been retained, although one fireplace has been bricked up.</p><br>
<h3>Museum displays</h3><br>
<p>The museum shows Susan B. Anthony’s daily family life and influences, such as her Quaker background, in the early 19th century and how the house was restored in 2006-2009 and museum consists of permanent and changing exhibits. The rooms include Kitchen and Heath, Daniel Anthony’s store, the Birthing Room, the Portrait Gallery and the Legacy Room.</p><br>
<p>Kitchen and Hearth depicts the main gathering space for the Anthony family and their dependents, approximately 23 girls who worked in Daniel Anthony’s 26-loom mill on Tophet Brook, across East Road.</p><br>
<p>Daniel Anthony’s store, which Susan’s father ran out of the northeast room of the family home to supply the needs of his textile workers and neighbors, has been recreated the way it may have been in 1817.</p><br>
<p>The Birthing Room is where the first five of the Anthony children were born.</p><br>
<p>The Portrait Gallery holds reproductions of Anthony family members and friends.</p><br>
<p>The Legacy Room contains a timeline from 1820 to 1906 with the major events of Anthony’s life and important world events; an artifacts collection with period pieces; and ephemera, including suffrage postcards and meeting notices, which provide insight into the issues for which early feminists advocated, such as:</p><br>
<p>Abolitionism. Anthony was raised by anti-slavery Quakers. Slavery was among the most pressing moral question of the mid-19th century, and the Civil War resulting from disputes around it, tore the nation apart. Anthony fought against slavery in her early adult years.</p><br>
<p>The Temperance movement. Anthony became deeply involved in temperance, one of the great reform movements of the 19th century. In her temperance work, she experienced the relative voicelessness of women in the political process. She began advocating for suffrage as a means to influence moral and social reforms.</p><br>
<p>Suffrage. After the Civil War, Anthony devoted her life to women&#39;s suffrage. Others continued the work after her death, and the 19th amendment was passed in 1920, giving women the right to vote.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first of the Anthonys to arrive in Adams, Massachusetts, was David Anthony, the great-grandfather of Susan B. Anthony, in the years before the American Revolutionary War. He came as part of a more general migration of Quakers to the area from Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. He established a cider mill that remains in the Anthony family to this day. His grandson, David Anthony, built this house in 1817 as a gift to his son, Daniel Anthony, the father of Susan B. Anthony. David was a strong proponent of education, teaching at the East Road School, and joining with others in the tightly knit Quaker community to found the Adams Academy in 1825 on land owned by his father. Daniel Anthony also continued the family interest in mills, establishing a cotton yarn-producing mill, known as the Pump Log Mill, in 1822.</p><br>
<p>It is in this house that his second child, Susan B. Anthony, was born on February 15, 1820. In 1827 he was lured by financial interests to Battenville, New York.</p><br>
<p>The house remained in Anthony family hands until 1895, after which it went through a succession of owners. The Society of Friends Descendants acquired the property in 1926, and established a museum. The building was returned to private hands in 1949.</p><br>
<h2>Susan B. Anthony abortion dispute</h2><br>
<p>One of the exhibits is about Restellism, a name for abortion that was first heard in a popular lecture, portions of which were reprinted on March 4, 1869, by editors Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Parker Pillsbury in the pages of Anthonys newspaper The Revolution. The display describes how suffragists took a stance opposing the practice of abortion. It shows 122 references taken from Anthony’s newspaper—mentions of Restellism which offer insight into how the womens rights activists came to oppose this practice.</p><br>
<p>The owner of the museum is Carol Crossed who is a pro-life feminist and advisory board member of the Susan B. Anthony List. (emphasis added.)</p><br>
<p>A local paper reported that the exhibit about Restellism implies that the rejection of advertisements shows Anthony&#39;s personal views about abortion, though Anthony never explicitly stated her opinion about abortion or Restellism.</p><br>
<p>The Armory Block is a historic commercial building at 39-45 Park Street in Adams, Massachusetts. Built in 1894-95, it is a fine example of Renaissance Revival architecture, and one of the town&#39;s most architecturally sophisticated commercial buildings. It served as the local National Guard armory until 1914, and now houses commercial businesses. It was listed on the National Historic Register in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Armory Block is located in downtown Adams, on the east side of Park Street almost opposite the First Congregational Church. It is one of the four large brick buildings on Park Street along with the P. J. Barrett Block, Jones Block, and the Mausert Block. It is a three-story masonry structure, finished in yellow brick on the main facade, and red brick on the sides. The ground floor has three storefronts with recessed entries and glass display windows, with the building entrance to the right of the middle storefront in an arched surround. The upper floors are divided into three sections, with paired round-arch windows above the entrance. To its right is a slightly recessed panel with bands of three round-arch windows on each level, and on its left is a larger panel with two pairs of similar windows on each level. The building is crowned by a modillioned cornice and low parapet.</p><br>
<p>The block was built in 1894 by A.J. Daniel, a developer from a locally prominent family. It was built to serve as an armory for the Massachusetts National Guard, a role it fulfilled until new facilities were built in 1914. After it was decommissioned from military use it was converted into commercial and retail space, uses which continue today.</p><br>
<p>The Armstrong House is a historic house located at 60 Brooklyn Street in North Adams, Massachusetts. Built about 1875, it is a well-preserved example of a locally idiosyncratic Italianate style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 25, 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Armstrong House is located on a residential street on the north side of North Adams, on the east side of Brooklyn Street. It is a two-story wood frame structure, three bays wide, with a low hip roof supported by decorative brackets at the corners and studded with modillion blocks. Its main entrance is in the leftmost bay, with a portico that is also bracketed, with 20th-century columns and balustrade that are sympathetic to its Italianate style. A single-story polygonal bay projects from the right side of the main block. A two-story ell extends to the rear, connecting the house to a barn that is of the same vintage as the house, with an oculus window in its gable end. Extending across the ell&#39;s side is a bracketed shed-roof porch.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1875, during North Adams industrial boom time. Its combination of features are a locally distinctive variant of the Italianate style, which is found repeated elsewhere in the community. The house was built for W. W. Armstrong, a worker at the Arnold Print Works, and is considered one of North Adams best-preserved Italianate houses.</p><br>
<p>The P.J. Barrett Block is a historic block at 70—76 Park Street in Adams, Massachusetts. It is one of the four brick buildings on Park Street along with the Jones Block, Armory Block, and the Mausert Block, opposite the Town Hall. The block was built in roughly 1880, during a period of rapid industrial expansion in Adams. The original uses of the building were to provide retail shops on the ground floor and apartment-style housing above, a common feature of buildings of the period. It has a somewhat utilitarian appearance, which may be reflective of the relative haste in which it was designed and built. The building has a brick face, and the windows on the upper floors have curved pediments. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>In 1984, after a period of abandonment, the building was rehabilitated by Dawson Associates into two commercial spaces and eight apartments of affordable housing. Financing was a blended form from an area bank, the (then) Massachusetts Government Land Bank under a pilot program to encourage changes in local tax abatement procedures to incentivize the redevelopment of abandoned properties, and the Town of Adams. Dawson Associates consisted of Mr. Donald Ruffer a prominent area Realtor, Mr. Richard Moscatelli, Executive Director of Housing Now, and Carter Terenzini, the City of Pittsfield&#39;s first Commissioner of Community and Economic Development and subsequently a Principal of RCT Associates. All were from Pittsfield, MA.</p><br>
<p>Beaver Mill is a historic mill located at 189 Beaver Street in North Adams, Massachusetts. With a construction history dating to 1833, it is the oldest surviving mill building in the city, and was the first local acquisition of Sprague Electric, a major local employer in the 20th century. The mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The complex now houses artist studios and other facilities.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Beaver Mill is located east of downtown North Adams, on the north bank of the North Branch Hoosic River, originally the source of its power. It consists of a series of large attached masonry structures, built mainly out of brick. Its main building (mill #1) is built in part on foundations that date to 1833, and its lower floors were built in 1850 out of stone following a fire. This portion is the oldest mill building in North Adams, and its only surviving stone mill structure. The mill was owned for many years by A.C. Houghton, one of the city&#39;s leading businessman and its first mayor. In 1875, Gallup & Houghton owned the majority of the mill, with about one quarter owned by Harvey Arnold. A 1,000 ft long, 12 ft high, 4 ft thick wall was built along the water in 1888 to protect the mill.</p><br>
<p>The mill achieved its largest extent in 1900, with 25,000 spindles, as part of the Arnold Print Works properties; business failures in 1878 and 1908 caused the mill to be part of the Arnold Print Works Reorganization Agreements. In 1929 Arnold sold the property to Sprague Electric, whose first major facility it was. Sprague moved some of its facilities from Quincy, Massachusetts to the Beaver Mill in 1930. Sprague went on to take over most of the Arnold complex. Sprague sold it to Hoosuck Community Resources Corp. by 1977.</p><br>
<p>Becket Center Historic District is a historic district encompassing the historic early center of Becket, Massachusetts. Centered at the junction of Massachusetts Route 8 and YMCA Road, this area was the town&#39;s civic heart and a center of industry until it was eclipsed in importance by North Becket, which was served by the railroad. Most of the architecture in the district is in the Federal and Greek Revival styles popular in the late 18th to mid 19th centuries. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Becket was first laid out by colonial settlers in the 1737, but was not settled until the 1750s, and was incorporated as a town in 1765. Its earliest civic structures include the Center Cemetery (1756) on the south side of YMCA Road, militia training and parade ground (at the junction of MA 8 and YMCA Road), the first meetinghouse (1762-64), now demolished, with the site marked north of the parade ground, and a stone animal pound (1768) on the west side of MA 8 that is the finest surviving pound in Berkshire County. The present Greek Revival First Congregational Church was built in 1850, across YMCA Road from the old meetinghouse, but the latters 19th-century horse sheds were retained. The villages decline began after the 1841 construction of the Western Railroad bypassed it in favor of North Becket. As a result, the village retains a significant number of Federal and Greek Revival buildings, with relatively little subsequent development.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is geographically centered on YMCA Road, an east-west route joining Route 8 to Hamilton Road. The district extends along the latter two roads south from their junctions with YMCA Road, and a short way north on Hamilton Road. In addition to houses and the buildings already mentioned, the district includes an old post office, old town hall, and a former schoolhouse that has been converted to a residence.</p><br>
<p>The Berkshire Mill No. 1 is a historic mill complex on Hoosac Street in the center of Adams, Massachusetts. Built in 1895 by the locally prominent Plunkett family, it is an important surviving reminder of the town&#39;s industrial textile past. Now converted into mixed residential and commercial use, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Berkshire Mill No. 1 stands just north of Adams&#39; central business district, on a parcel bounded by Columbia and Hoosac Streets to the west and south, and a railroad right-of-way to the east. The mill consists of a large main building, 3-1/2 stories in height, built out of red brick with granite foundation and trim. Architectural detailing is limited, with windows set in segmented-arch openings and a cornice with some corbelled brickwork. The most prominent decoration is in the tower that projects from the center of the south-facing main facade, rising four stories to a hip roof. The upper level on three sides consists of a series of round-arch openings.</p><br>
<p>The mill is one of the surviving remnants of the Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Company, established in Adams in 1888 by the locally prominent Plunkett family, and one of the town&#39;s largest employers at its height. The company eventually merged several times, and is now known as Berkshire Hathaway, a company managed by Warren Buffett. The manufacturing company was originally successful despite a drop in demand for the products of other Adams mills because the Plunketts decided to focus on more fashionable fine cotton fabric. The company grew rapidly between its founding and 1900, when President William McKinley, a friend of the Plunketts, laid the cornerstone for their Number 4 Mill. This mill was built on the site of the former Adams Paper Company mill, in which the Plunketts had been leasing space. Mill No. 2 was located north of this building, where the parking lot is located. The company eventually acquired other mills by purchase, but business declined in the 20th century, and the mills changed ownership several times. Portions of them were converted to other manufacturing uses, and mills 2 and 3 were demolished due do a drop in demand for industrial space. The building was converted into 65 apartments in 1987 and is currently managed by Harvest Properties LLC.</p><br>
<p>Berkshire Life Insurance Company Building is a historic commercial building at 5-7 North Street in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It is located in the heart of downtown Pittsfield, facing Park Square across North Street. Built in 1868, it is one of a trio of Second Empire buildings designed by Louis Weisbein, a Boston architect, whose style influenced later construction in the city. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986,</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Berkshire Life Insurance Company Building stands at the northwest corner of Park Square, in the heart of downtown Pittsfield, at the corner of North and West Streets. It is a five story masonry structure, built out of Nova Scotia freestone. Its main facade faces east, and is seven bays wide, with the main building entrance at the center bay, sheltered by a portico supported by clustered columns and topped by a low balustrade. The other first-floor bays have round-arch openings, the rightmost one housing a store entrance. Windows are set by floor in rectangular, segmented-arch, and round-arch windows, with a variety of topping elements. There is a modillioned cornice above the third floor (the building&#39;s original roofline), and another at the top.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1868 to house the headquarters of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company. It was designed by Boston architect Louis Weisbein, who also designed the nearby County Courthouse and House of Correction. All three buildings originally featured mansard roofs, and were influential on subsequent architecture in downtown Pittsfield. The building was extended westward in 1906, in work designed by Pittsfield architect Henry Seaver. In 1911 the mansard roof was removed and replaced by two additional stories, to plans by Joseph McArthur Vance. The building&#39;s interior was extensively damaged by fire in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Bidwell House Museum is a historic house and museum on Art School Road in Monterey, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>The Bidwell House</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in the 1760s by the Reverend Adonijah Bidwell, the first minister in what was then Township No. 1. At that time, the house was the demographic center of the township and was located on the route of the Boston-Albany Post Road. It is a classic Georgian Saltbox built around a central chimney. Four fireplaces and two beehive ovens feed into the chimney structure, which is supported by a classical Roman Arch in the basement. The house has two additions, the Ell Addition (1820s) and a Greek Revival/Carriage Barn addition (1840s).</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Henry Knox</h3><br>
<p>Reverend Bidwell, a patriot, was an active supporter of the United States Army. Henry Knox, famous for his leadership of the expedition that carried strategically crucial cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester Heights, passed through Monterey on that famous mission, most likely on the post road. Historical evidence suggests that Knox may have passed through the Bidwell property on his famous journey, now the basis for books, films, and the historic Henry Knox Trail. He may have even stopped at the house in the middle of winter, possibly to stay a night or obtain supplies.</p><br>
<h3>Ownership</h3><br>
<p>The Reverend died in 1784 and left the house to his son, Adonijah the Younger. Adonijah the Younger utilized the house and grounds (approximately 125 acre at the time) as a family farm, before selling the house in his old age to his son, John Devotion Bidwell, for "love and affection and one dollar." In 1853, John Devotion Bidwell sold the house to the Carrington family after 103 years of Bidwell ownership. At the time, John Bidwell was a selectman, justice of the peace, and prominent personality in the newly incorporated town of Monterey, Massachusetts (1847).</p><br>
<p>The house remained with the Carrington family for three generations and 61 years until they sold it to a lumber company in 1914. After using the house as a base for local operations, the company sold it to an Art School. It was used as a faculty house by the school until 1935. By this time it had acquired the name "Deepwood Manse." By the 1950s, the house was in an increasing state of disrepair.</p><br>
<h3>Restoration</h3><br>
<p>In 1960, it was purchased by Jack Hargis and David Brush, two fashion designers from New York City. They bought it and 196 acre surrounding for the sum of $30,000 and proceeded to spend the next 25 years restoring the house. They were fortunate enough to come across the inventory of the Rev. Bidwell&#39;s estate, which listed all his worldly possessions at the time of his death. Hargis and Brush proceeded to fill the restored house with dated pieces of furniture, artwork, and other objects, many of them originally owned by the Reverend.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. In 1990, the house became a museum, the result of a death request by David Brush. It is open for tours from Thursday through Monday between Memorial Day and Columbus Day, as well as for special events. It is open from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM, with guided tours of the house starting on the hour.</p><br>
<p>The Blackinton Historic District is a historic district in the western part of North Adams, Massachusetts, roughly along Massachusetts Avenue between Ashton and Doanes Avenues and Church Hill and the Boston & Maine Railroad. The district, which encompasses North Adams&#39; best preserved mill village, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The neighborhood in which the historic district is located in is around the mills of the Blackinton Company, founded on the north bank of the Hoosic River in 1821 by Sanford Blackinton, Rufus Wells and J.L White. It would become one of the largest manufacturers of woolen goods in Western Massachusetts, buoyed especially by large orders from the Union Army during the American Civil War.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The historic district is basically linear in character, extending along Massachusetts Avenue west of downtown North Adams and north of the Hoosic River. It extends along the north side between Church Hill Road and Wood Street, and on the south side east from Ashton Avenue, to about midway between Wood and Church Hill. The district includes the surviving brick mill buildings between Massachusetts Avenue and the river, the 1839 Blackinton Company Store, two churches, and the c. 1850 Greek Revival residence of Sanford Blackinton. There are also fine examples of later Victorian architecture, including a Queen Anne/Stick style home built by John P. Blackinton in 1880 across the street from the mill complex.</p><br>
<p>The Boardman is a series of rowhouses at 39-53 Montana Street, occupying an entire city block between Hoosac and Blackinton Streets in North Adams, Massachusetts. The building was, at the time of its construction , one of the most elaborate multiunit buildings in the city. They were built by developer Walter Penniman in two stages on land subdivided from the estate of F. R. Blackinton in response to the demand for housing occasioned by the establishment of the normal school . The first four units were built in 1899, the other five in 1901. The first floor was built of stone, while the second floor was of clapboarded wood frame construction. Each unit featured porches in front and in back, and had a servant staircase in the rear, an indication of the status of the occupants. The architect was Edwin Thayer Barlow, who designed the row in Colonial Revival style. The rowhouses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Coleman Bridge is a historic Ball-patent pipe pony truss bridge in Windsor, Massachusetts. It is the only known surviving in situ bridge of its type in Massachusetts. It is located on an abandoned stretch of Windsor Bush Road which crosses Phelps Brook in what is now a remote upland section of Windsor. The bridge was located near farms owned by the Coleman family, giving the bridge its name. The bridge type was invented by Charles H. Ball, an entrepreneur from nearby Peru who developed the idea of using pipes as structural elements of bridges over smaller bodies of water. Only three instances are known to exist, two of which were  disassembled and in storage.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1894 on the site where there had previously been a wooden bridge, and spans 31 ft. The top cords of the pony truss are pipes 5.75 in in diameter, with doubled iron rods functioning as the truss&#39;s bottom chord. The bridge originally had wooden stringers, which were at some point replaced by iron ones. The wooden floor of the bridge is also a replacement. The bridge is accessible on foot. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Cranesville Historic District is a historic district in Dalton, Massachusetts, centered on the business and residential proprerties associated with the papermaker Crane and Company. Papermaking began as an industry in Dalton in the early 19th century, and was dominated by Zenas Cranes operations by the early 1820s. Crane and Company controlled numerous papermaking operations throughout the Berkshires, but it was headquartered in Dalton, where the Crane family lived. The Cranesville area, running along Main Street in Dalton, is dominated by the large homes built by various members of the Crane family over the years, as well has more pedestrian mill worker housing. The historic industrial facilities of Crane are also included in the district, although they are generally screened from view from Main Street. The most notable of these facilities is the National Historic Landmark Crane and Company Old Stone Mill Rag Room, the oldest surviving building on the Crane premises. Of the Crane family homes, those of Zenas Crane and Winthrop Murray Crane  have the most prominent positions on Main Street, near the industrial complex.</p><br>
<p>The district features Early Republic and Mid 19th Century Revival architecture; It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Crowley House is a historic house located at 365 West Main Street in North Adams, Massachusetts. It is one a small number of houses in North Adams built in a transitional Federalist-Greek Revival style. Little is known of its early history; it first enters the documentary record in the 1860s when its owner defaulted on debts and lost the property. It was occupied from the 1880s into the early 20th century by David Crowley, a clothes finisher working in the local textile mills. It is unknown if Crowley owned the property. The house follows a fairly typical Greek Revival plan, with a central hall and wings on either side of the main block. The front facade has Greek Revival details, including Doric pilasters and Greek fret molding, but the workmanship of some of the details shows that it was probably done by someone with more practice in the Federalist style.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Dwight-Henderson House is a historic house at 390 Main Street in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. It is the second oldest house in Great Barrington, built in 1759 for Joseph Dwight, a brigadier in the colonial militia, by local builder Daniel Allen. The saltbox home was originally built into a slope, and had three stories on the front and one in the rear. The house as been moved twice, but remains within 200 ft of its original site. The second move, the foundation that formed the wall for the original first floor, so it now presents only two stories in front.</p><br>
<p>The house is notable for several historical associations. In addition to General Dwight, who was also town moderator and selectman, and a county judge, the houses notable guests include British General John Burgoyne, who surrendered his army after the Battles of Saratoga in 1777, and spent several days here while en route to the Boston area as a prisoner. It is also the house where poet and newspaper editor William Cullen Bryant was married; he was a guest of the owner, Allen Henderson.</p><br>
<p>Since then, the house has seen a variety of uses. It served for a time as housing for the nearby Berkshire Motor Inn, and now houses professional offices.</p><br>
<p>The Elm–Maple–South Streets Historic District is a historic district encompassing part of the historic downtown of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The most prominent parts of Stockbridge lie within the Main Street Historic District, which abuts this district to the north. The southern boundary of this district is the railroad tracks that run parallel to the Housatonic River. The eastern boundary of the district is Laurel Hill, a wooded park overlooking the town, and the western boundary is a terraced shelf in the plains of the river. The district includes properties on Depot, Elm, Maple, and South Streets, and Laurel Lane. Unlike Main Street, this district consists of more densely place residences, and narrower roads containing businesses just off Main Street. Its buildings were mostly constructed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and partially reflect Elm Street&#39;s function as an industrial part of the town.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Farnams Village Historic District is a historic district in Cheshire, Massachusetts. It encompasses the historic limestone mining community known as Farnams Village and the associated surviving industrial and mining infrastructure associated with a mining operation active from the late 19th century into the mid-20th century. The main village area is centered on Lanesborough Road in southern Cheshire, near Farnams and Quarry Roads, with quarry sites on the hillside to the west. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Farnams Village is located in southern Cheshire, a rural town on the eastern slope of Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts. The geology of southwestern Cheshire includes ridges of outcrops with deposits of limestone and marble, which were mined on a small scale, primarily for local use by farmers, beginning in the early 19th century. The arrival of railroad infrastructure in the area in the mid-19th century prompted a more organized expansion of mining efforts. The Dean family were one of the first to establish a small mining operation (c. 1840), located roughly at the western end of Quarry Road. Brothers Alfred and Albert Farnam in 1874 opened a lime processing facility, and greatly expanded mining in an area adjacent to the small Dean mine. The Farnams were economically successful, producing a high quality white plaster lime, and eventually expanded their holdings to more than 1,500 acre. They overextended their finances in the process, and sold the business in 1905. The business was acquired by US Gypsum in 1927, and operated until 1969, when it was closed down.</p><br>
<p>The historic district covers a total of 1,400 acre. The center of the district is the historic village center, at the junction of Lanesborough, Farnams, and Quarry Roads, where there stand a cluster of buildings, including worker housing and buildings related to the operation of the quarries. The district also includes the quarries and abandoned quarry equipment, former mining structures, worker housing, and public facilities of the village. There are significant areas of primarily industrial archeological interest, due to the large number of abandoned and destroyed buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Five Corners Historic District is a historic district encompassing the central district of the village of South Williamstown, Massachusetts. It is centered at the junction of Cold Spring, Green River, New Ashford. The junction has been a prominent center in the area since 1760. Prominent buildings in the district include the South Center School, the Store at Five Corners, and the Second Congregational Church. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Williamstown was laid out as a township in 1739 and incorporated in 1765. Its early development was centered in the modern town center to the north, and the southern part of the town was not laid out until 1765. South Williamstown, now Five Corners, was formed out of the junction of four large parcels of land, and developed in the late 18th century as a stop on the main north-south stagecoach route (today United States Route 7). By the turn of the 19th century the village had a tavern, store, and cemetery, and the first church was built in 1808. The area remained agricultural through the 19th-century, having been bypassed by railroad construction and significant industrial activity.</p><br>
<p>The district consists of about 58 acre of land, ceneter on the junction of Route 7, Massachusetts Route 43, and Sloan Road, a local road serving the area west of the village. The area&#39;s slow pace of development and relative isolation has resulted in the accumulation of an architecturally diverse set of buildings, most of which are residential. Many of them are vernacular interpretations of popular 19th-century styles, with versions of the Federal and Greek Revival periods predominant. Significant non-residential buildings include the Second Congregational Church, a Gothic Revival structure built in 1875, the Sloan Tavern, built c. 1770 and later restyled in the Greek Revival, and the 1868 South Center School.</p><br>
<p>The Freeman&#39;s Grove Historic District is a residential historic district in North Adams, Massachusetts. It encompasses a neighborhood north of the city center that is a well-preserved instance of a working class area developed during the its industrial heyday in the late 19th century. It includes all the houses on Bracewell Street, Chase Avenue, and Hall Street, and some houses on Chase Hill and other streets adjacent to those. It is roughly bounded by Liberty Street, Eagle Street, Bracewell Avenues and Houghton Street.</p><br>
<p>The housing stock in the district includes single- and multiple-family homes, built in a variety of architectural styles. There are only a small number of houses that were built before the boom of the late 19th century, most of which are in a Greek Revival style. Most of the housing in the district was built between 1887 and 1894. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Glendale Power House is a historic power station on the Housatonic River, just off Massachusetts Route 183 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The 1905 power house was the one of the first places in the United States where electricity was generated for the purpose of providing power to an industrial facility. It was built by Monument Mills of Housatonic, at the site of a dam that dated to the 1840s for a papermaking operation. The stone building uses stone originally quarried for the Glendale Woolen Mill. The power station was taken out of service in 1946, and most of its original generation equipment removed.</p><br>
<p>The property was redeveloped to provide hydro power in the 1980s. Its four turbines can produce 1.07 MW of electricity. Electricity generation depends on the availability of water; during a drought, the water level might fall too low to run the turbines.</p><br>
<p>The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Golden Hill Bridge is a historic bridge on Golden Hill Road over the Housatonic River in Lee, Massachusetts. It is a lenticular pony truss bridge built c. 1885 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, and is the state&#39;s oldest surviving bridge of this type. It is one of only five Berlin Co. bridges in the Berkshires, and is the only known surviving bridge to implement modifications to the pony truss design patented by William O. Douglas in 1885. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Golden Hill Bridge is located in a rural setting in northern Lee, carrying Golden Hill Road, a local through street, across the Housatonic River in an east-west orientation. It is a single-span iron lenticular pony truss structure, 80 ft long and 16 ft wide, resting on concrete abutments. The truss depth at the center of the span is 7 ft. The bridge deck consists of modern steel I-beam stringers supporting a concrete road surface.</p><br>
<p>A bridge has been documented to stand at this location as early as the 1790s. A bridge at the site underwent repairs in 1866, but was judged to be in need of repair or replacement in 1885. The town contracted for the trusses with the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, then a major producer of bridge trusses, and the bridge was completed for $1,000. In 1965, the state added a metal grid deck, and in 1970 it replaced the original deck supports with I-beams. In 1992, after the bridge was closed to vehicular traffic, the state began proceedings to consider replacement of the aging structure. It was further closed to pedestrians in 1996. The bridge finally underwent major restorative work in 2005, and is again open to traffic.</p><br>
<p>Goodwood is a historic house at 311 Summit Road, near its intersection with Dublin Road, in Richmond, Massachusetts. Built c. 1792, the house is one of the best examples of late-Georgian early-Federalist houses in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. The property&#39;s importance is further enhance by its association with a number of high-profile owners.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first significant owner of the Goodwood property in Richmond, Massachusetts was one Jeremiah Pierson, who acquired the property in 1792, and sold it, with a house and outbuildings on it, five years later. In 1820 it came into the hands of Reverened Edwin Welles Dwight, a distant relative of Yale College president Timothy Dwight. Dwight was for eighteen years minister at the local Congregational Church, and was also notable in the foreign missionary movement, writing an account of a South Sea islander named Henry Obookiah. Dwights memoir of Obookiahs life sparked the first missionary expedition to the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii).</p><br>
<p>In 1838 Dwight sold the property to geologist Stephen Reed. He gained international exposure for his descriptions of the Richmond Boulder Train, a series of glacial erratics in Richmond and neighboring New York State. His accounts and presentations sparked a long-running debate in the geological community on the subject of glaciation. Reed sold the property in 1850, and it went through a success of owners. The purchaser in 1896, Mrs. Henry March, gave the property the name "Goodwood", after Goodwood House, the seat of the Dukes of Richmond. Richmond was named for the third duke, who supported American independence in the late 18th century.</p><br>
<p>In 1933 Goodwood was purchased by Raymond Leslie Buell, an influential diplomat, and onetime editor of Fortune magazine. In 1982, the house was owned by a descendant of both Buell and Reverend Dwight. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Goodwood is a four-square two story wood frame house that incorporates both late Georgian and early Federalist features. The main feature of the front is the entry porch, featuring sidelights, Palladian windows, and a semi-circular gable window. The interior of the house is well preserved, consisting of a central hall plan with two interior chimneys. The original kitchen, the room to the back and right of the hall, retains its original cooking fireplace, but has been converted to a library, housing Dr. Buell&#39;s 2,000 volume collection. The two front drawing rooms are both elaborately decorated.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Harrison House is a historic house at 82 Third Street in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Built about 1850, it was for many years home to Samuel Harrison, a regionally prominent African American minister who served as chaplain to the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>House</h2><br>
<p>The Samuel Harrison House stands on the east side of Third Street near its junction with Silver Street in a residential area northeast of Pittsburg&#39;s central Park Square. It is a 1-1/2 story plank-framed wooden structure, with a gabled roof, and a shed-roof porch extending along its south side. It has modest vernacular Greek Revival elements, include gable returns and a Doric column supporting the porch, whose rear section is enclosed.</p><br>
<h2>Samuel Harrison</h2><br>
<p>Rev. Samuel Harrison was a 19th-century African American born into slavery in 1818. By 1821, he and his mother were given their freedom. At an early age, he had the desire to become a minister. He sought out an education at the Peterboro Manual Labor school in Peterboro, New York. This school was closed shortly after his arrival. He then traveled to Hudson, Ohio where he attended and graduated from the Preparatory School at Western Reserve College (now Western Reserve Academy). In 1850, Samuel Harrison moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts and became the first minister of the Second Congregational Church in Pittsfield.</p><br>
<p>In 1862, Rev. Harrison resigned from the church and worked for the National Freedmans Relief Society during the American Civil War. In July 1863, the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Regiment spearheaded the assault on Fort Wagner in Charleston, South Carolina. The regiment suffered heavy losses. Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew sent Rev. Harrison to South Carolina to express the sympathies of the commonwealth to the men of the 54th. Later that year, Rev. Harrison received a commission as chaplain and mustered into the 54th. The following year, Rev. Harrison was honorably discharged for health reasons. He would work for the National Freedmans Relief Society until the war was over.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1860s, Rev. Harrison filled the pulpit in various places around New England. But in 1872, Rev. Harrison returned to his home in Pittsfield and returned as pastor of the Second Congregational Church. Rev. Harrison would serve in this capacity until his death in 1900. During this time, Rev. Harrison would have 2 sermons published, one in 1874 and the other in 1877. In 1899, he was commissioned to write his autobiography.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, the Samuel Harrison Society was formed to save Rev. Samuel Harrisons house from demolition after learning that it had historic value. Now with Rev. Harrisons house on the Registry of Historic Places, the Samuel Harrison Society is committed to restoring and preserving the home.</p><br>
<p>The Hathaway Tenement is a historic tenement house located at 311—321 River Street in North Adams, Massachusetts. A row of six apartment units, it was built in about 1850, and is a rare surviving example of the early period of North Adams&#39; industrial development. A similar nearby property has been extensively altered. The building dates to the first period of industrialization in North Adams: River Street was laid out in 1836, and over the next decade, ten mills were built along the banks of the Hoosac River. The building is named for Nathaniel Hathaway, one of the mill proprietors. The two story tenement is built in a Greek Revival style. Each unit has porches sheltering its front and rear entrances.</p><br>
<p>The tenement was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Milwaukee Road Freight House in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States, was built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad  in 1923 to store and ship freight. The building is single story, rectangular, and constructed of brick. Offices were placed at one end with warehouse space occupying the rest of the building. Large freight doors and bays are along each side. The circa 1915 depot is located east of the freight house.</p><br>
<p>The Milwaukee Road built its line from eastern South Dakota to Rapid City in 1906-07. With the increase of tourists in the late 1910s, the railroad built the freight house. It was built of brick. The design was a modern one, based on other early 20th century commercial buildings. When The Milwaukee Road went bankrupt and abandoned its lines in South Dakota in 1980, it sold the freight house to local businesses for use as offices.</p><br>
<p>The freight house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its association with The Milwaukee Road and railroad development in South Dakota.</p><br>
<p>The Hoosac Street School is a historic school building at 20 Hoosac Street in Adams, Massachusetts. Built in 1887, it is a good local example of transitional Queen Anne/Colonial Revival architecture, and a significant reminder of the town&#39;s rapid growth in the late 19th century. It was listed on the National Historic Register in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Hoosac Street School stands in a mixed residential and commercial area east of Adams&#39; downtown area, at the northeast corner of Hoosac and North Hoosac Streets. It is a two story brick structure with a hip roof topped by a cupola. The main facade is divided into three sections, the center one, which contains the entrance, projecting slightly. The flanking sections have pairs of sash windows on each level; the center section has the entrance, flanked by small windows and sheltered by a small gabled portico, on the first level, and a double window topped by an elliptical window flanked by narrow windows of equal height on the second.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1887, when Adams was experiencing burgeoning growth due the growth of its industrial capacity. In addition to general population growth occasioned by the improved economy, the need for additional schools was prompted by state requirements mandating education for children to the age of sixteen. Along with several other schools of the period that have survived, it was built in a Queen Anne/Stick style. It was designed by Charles Rathbun of Pittsfield, and completed at a cost of $20,000. The land it occupies was previously farmland. It remained in use as a primary school until 1981, when all of the town&#39;s elementary schools were consolidated into a single facility.</p><br>
<p>Hyde House is a historic house at 144 W. Park Street in Lee, Massachusetts. The house was built in 1792 as the home of Lees first minister, Alvan Hyde. The three story colonial house features six working original fireplaces and original wide pine flooring. Rev. Hyde served as minister to Lees First Congregational Church for 41 years; the house eventually passed to his son, Alexander, who opened a school at the residence. The "Hyde House Boarding School for Boys" drew students from as far off as Boston, New York City, and Chicago; among its notable students was James Roosevelt, father of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. At this time an academic wing was added to the back of the house, with a schoolroom on the lower floor and student bedrooms above. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Hyde School is a historic Romanesque Revival school at 100 High Street in Lee, Massachusetts. The school was built in 1894 from locally quarried marble. It is named for Alexander Hyde, who established the towns first school in his house on West Park Street, and was built on the site of the towns first public school.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The town of Lee, Massachusetts was incorporated in 1777, and quickly became known as a center of the papermaking industry. Marble quarried in the area achieved a reputation for strength and quality in the 19th century, seeing use in a number of high-profile buildings, including the United States Capitol and the Massachusetts State House. The town&#39;s first secondary school was established by Alexander Hyde, son of its first minister, in his house on West Park Street. Townspeople not long thereafter banded together to form the private Lee Academy on a parcel of land above the town center. Lee Academy was gradually transferred to town ownership, and became its public grammar school. It was destroyed by fire in February 1894.</p><br>
<p>The town had the new Hyde School constructed on the original site of Lee Academy in 1895; it was dedicated to Alexander Hyde. It was designed by James Bryning and constructed of locally quarried marble, a response to several high-profile fires in the town, at a cost of $30,000. It served as the town&#39;s high school until 1916, when Rice High School was built. It then served as an elementary school until 2003, when it was taken out of academic service. The building was enlarged by an addition in 1936 that added a library and gymnasium, and again in 1977 when the Rice School was demolished.</p><br>
<p>The building is now known as Crossway Village, and includes a senior housing complex and senior center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The school sits on an irregular parcel of land on a rise above Main Street in Lee. The original 1895 building is sited at the end of Acaedmy Street, and the 20th century additions, located to its south and east, do not intrude on the view. The three story building was built in a cross-shaped plan, with a seven bay core section, and wings three bays wide. A four story tower rises above the center of the front facade. The exterior wall and trim work is all of local marble. The original slate roof was replaced in 1994 with asphalt shingles, at which time the building was also equipped with gutters and downspouts. At the time of its National Register nomination, the exterior marble had never required maintenance.</p><br>
<p>Inside the main building, each floor had six classrooms, and the layout remains fairly intact. The classrooms retained their blackboards and much of the original woodwork. The original floors were covered by vinyl tiling. In the front entry, one of the two stairs was removed to comply with modern fire codes, but the other retains its original woodwork.</p><br>
<p>In 1936 a two story addition was added to the southeast corner of the building. This addition, built with a steel frame, housed classrooms on both levels, and a gymnasium/auditorium complex. This construction was faced with Lee marble and trimmed with Indiana limestone in a style sympathetic to that of the main building. A corridor connecting the two sections was added in 1976, when fire code necessitated the removal of some wooden stairs from the main building. A modern 1977 classroom addition further extended the 1936 addition.</p><br>
<p>The Johnson Manufacturing Company is a historic mill complex at 65 Brown Street in North Adams, Massachusetts. The site was used for the production of textiles from its initial construction in 1872 until 1937, when it was sold to the Sprague Electric Company. The Johnson Company was founded in 1850 by Sylvander Johnson, Nathaniel Hathaway, and Peter Blackinton. They purchased an existing mill building, producing textiles until 1871, when, after achieving record profits, they decided to expand the business. They retained architect Marcus F. Cummings, who designed the Italianate style buildings, built in 1872, that now stand on the site. In addition to the main mill building, the complex includes an office building built in 1880. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Johnson School is a historic former school building on School Street in North Adams, Massachusetts. Built about 1898, this Romanesque Revival school is a significant work of the prominent local architect Edwin Thayer Barlow, and was the last of the city&#39;s neighborhood schools to be closed. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is now used for Head Start and other social programs.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Johnson School is located on the north side of School Street, occupying the entire block between Williams and Cady Streets in the city&#39;s Amity Square neighborhood. It is a two story brick building, with a hip roof and granite foundation, with red sandstone trim elements. The roof is pierced on three sides by gabled center sections, that on the southern side, over the main entrance, more prominent than the others. The main facade is nine bays wide, the central three (below the gable) slightly recessed. Windows in the outer bays are set in segmented-arch openings, with sandstone sills and brick lintels with slightly projecting keystones. Windows in the central section are set in square openings with stone lintels and sills, except in the gable, where there are three windows set in round-arch openings. The main entrance is recessed in a round-arch opening with brick pilasters at the corners. The interior of the school retains significant original finishes.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1896 to a design by Edwin Thayer Barlow, a prominent local architect, at a time when the surrounding neighborhood was experiencing significant growth. In 1924 the school was enlarged, to a sympathetic design by Springfield architect Newton Bond. The school was one of the last neighborhood school in North Adams to be closed, and is now used for Head Start and other social programs.</p><br>
<p>Kenmore is a historic house  at 1385 State Road  in Richmond, Massachusetts. It was built by Henry Sherrill, one of Richmond&#39;s early settlers, and is a fine example of transitional Georgian-Federalist architecture. The house has retained much of its historic integrity despite significant renovation and modernization in the 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Kenmore, a two story five bay wood frame house, was built c. 1792 for Henry Sherrill, an American Revolutionary War soldier who was first exposed to the area as a refugee from Long Island, which was under British occupation during the war. Sherrill became a merchant, operating a store in town. Sherrills success in business is shown by the size of the house and the quality of its workmanship, which are locally rivalled only by Goodwood, built by Sherrills builder Jerimiah Peirson around the same time. Sherrill&#39;s daughter married eventual Goodwood owner, the Rev. Edwin Welles Dwight.</p><br>
<p>Owners or occupants of the house during the 19th century include Selden Jennings, the local physician, and Jared Reid, Jr., principal of a Stockbridge school; Reid was married to Henry Sherrill&#39;s granddaughter. The Reids operated a successful boarding school on the property, and were responsible for naming the property "Kenmore". The Reids expanded their offerings in the 1880s to include summer art school at the urging of their son Robert. Sessions were coordinated by Frederic Crowninshield, and students included Daniel Chester French, Newton Mackintosh, and their son Robert, who later gained notice as a painter.</p><br>
<p>In 1931 the property was acquired by Richard Harrison, a successful New York businessman, as a summer house. He had the house plumbing and electrical systems upgraded, and had a guest house and chicken coop built on the property. He also hired New York landscape designer Noel Chamberlain to oversee the landscaping of the property. Harrison&#39;s modifications to the house are notable for their sensitivity in preserving the integrity of the early Federal and Georgian details in the house, resulting in a blending of original details and later Colonial Revival designs.</p><br>
<p>The property was sold by the Harrison estate in 1938 to Reverend E. Pomeroy Cutler. Cutler operated the property as a boarding house, at which time it came to be used by a number of high-profile musical tenants associated with nearby Tanglewood, which began operations in 1937. This use continues to this day under its current owners. Notable residents and visitors to the house have included Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Gunther Schuller, and Olga Naumova Koussevitsky, widow of conductor Serge Koussevitsky.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Lenox Academy is a historic school at 65 Main Street in Lenox, Massachusetts. The Federal style building was constructed in 1803 and the school incorporated the same year. The structure served as a private academy until 1866. It served as the town&#39;s public high school from 1869 to 1879, at which time it was closed for repairs and renovations. In 1888 it again began to serve as the high school, a role it fulfilled until 1908. A private school, the Trinity School, used the property from 1911 until the 1920s, when that school failed.</p><br>
<p>The building then sat vacant and deteriorated, until the defunct academy, under threat of demolition, was turned over to the town for preservation. It now serves as an office building for local civic groups. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Lenox Railroad Station is a historic station on Housatonic Street and Willow Creek Road in Lenox, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The station was built in 1902 by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, replacing the one that had been built around 1850 by the Stockbridge & Pittsfield Railroad and which had burned to the ground the previous year. The station and line were acquired by the Housatonic Railroad, which became the Berkshire Division of the New Haven Railroad in 1892. The line had among places, stops at Great Barrington Station, Stockbridge, and Lee Station. It Pittsfield it terminated at Pittsfield Depot, and later, Union Station. The Lenox station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, and serves as the home of the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum.</p><br>
<p>The Main Street Historic District is a historic district encompassing the scenic and historic portions of Main Street in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The downtown portion of Main Street is widely recognizable due to its use by Norman Rockwell in his 1967 painting, Main Street, Stockbridge at Christmas. The central portion of Main Street is a broad street with wide green lawns, anchored by a traditional New England town center containing a church and municipal buildings. Along this part of Main Street is the Mission House, a National Historic Landmark that is one of oldest buildings in Stockbridge, dating to the early 1740s. Further to the west the road is more rural, and the district&#39;s western boundary is at the crossing of Main Street over the Housatonic River. The eastern part of the district includes the retail heart of the town, including the Red Lion Inn and several blocks of shops. The far eastern part of the district is Laurel Hill, a wooded park with views of the town center. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Mausert Block is a historic block at 19—25 Park Street in Adams, Massachusetts designed in the Romanesque architectural style. It is one of the four brick buildings on Park Street along with the P. J. Barrett Block, Jones Block, and Armory Block.</p><br>
<p>The Mausert Block was built in 1900 and 1901 by George and Conrad Mausert, brothers and local businessmen. Walter J Donovan established his law offices on the second floor from 1920 until 1970. F.W. Woolworth moved into 19-21 Park Street in 1930s. It once contained the Adams Masonic Hall. In 1982 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In 2009 the building was formally condemned, although its tenants were not evicted. It was purchased by Braytonville Properties in 2011, and rehabilitation begun.</p><br>
<p>The Middlefield-Becket Stone Arch Railroad Bridge District is a historic district extending through parts of the towns of Chester, Middlefield, and Becket, Massachusetts. The district encompasses a 3.7 mi stretch of railroad right of way in which there are ten bridge crossings, including nine over the west branch of the Westfield River. The bridges were built in four time periods: 1840, 1866, 1912, and 1928. Nine of the ten bridges are stone or concrete masonry work, and one is a truss girder bridge. All are, with only minor exceptions, in excellent and original condition. The bridges were built to carry the Western Railroad through on its run from the Connecticut River to the Hudson River. This section of railroad was the most expensive the company had to build, costing over $1 million in 1840.</p><br>
<p>The 1840 bridges were designed by George Washington Whistler, and constructed by the firm of Alexander Birney. Of the original nine stone bridges built, only three survive, all of which are now out of service. Some of the bridges were either demolished or encased in concrete during work performed in 1912 and 1927, and one bridge was demolished in 1927. One of the listed bridges (#4) was built of concrete in 1912, adjacent to one of the 1840 stone bridges (#3) that was taken out of service. The one steel truss bridge was built in 1912 by the Pennsylvania Steel Company. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. A hiking trail providing viewing points to the lower seven bridges was opened in 2004. All of the bridges are viewable via whitewater-appropriate watercraft from the river.</p><br>
<h2>Bridge list</h2><br>
<p>Unless otherwise noted, all bridges were in service at the time of the National Register listing (1980), and crossed the West Branch Westfield River.</p><br>
