<p>Franklin Bay  is a large inlet in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is a southern arm of the Amundsen Gulf, southeastern Beaufort Sea. The bay measures 48 km long, and 40 km wide at its mouth. The Parry Peninsula is to the east, and its southern area is called Langton Bay.</p><br>
<p>Franklin Bay receives the Horton River. There are gales in the early winter months.</p><br>
<p>Franklin Bay was named in honor of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin by John Richardson in 1826.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Based on hearsay rather than exploration, Émile Petitot, a French Missionary Oblate and a notable Canadian northwest cartographer, ethnologist, and geographer charted the Hornaday River&#39;s mouth at Franklin Bay, instead of Darnley Bay in his flawed 1875 maps and account.</p><br>
<p>Langton Bay was the base of operations for the three-year expedition, 1909 to 1912, of Arctic explorers Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Rudolph Anderson</p><br>
<p>Pine Mountain is a gigantic monolith, said to be 1.5 times bigger than Uluru, situated in the Burrowa-Pine Mountain National Park in Australia.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The base of Pine Mountain is located 10 km southeast of the small town of Walwa, Victoria which is a 440 km drive northeast of Melbourne or 115 km east of Albury-Wodonga. The mountain is part of the Burrowa-Pine Mountain National Park which offers a large number of 4wd and walking tracks, waterfalls, picnic and camping areas and numerous lookouts. The park&#39;s remote and rugged character is a major attraction for visits and also contains Mount Burowa which is (1300m).</p><br>
<h2>Geology, flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>Pine Mountain is argued to be the largest monolith in Australia at 1.5 times bigger than Uluru.</p><br>
<p>The Mountain offers a diverse range of vegetation types. It is of great botanical significance due to its number of rare and threatened plant species. Over 200 native plants have been identified on the mountain, 19 of which are rare or local to the area. Rare plant species include Pine Mountain Grevillea (Grevillea jephcottii), Fan Grevillea (Grevillea ramosissima), Broad-leafed Hopbush (Dodonaea rhombifoli) and Phantom Wattle (Acacia phasmoides). Other vegetation includes Black Cypress-pines and Kurrajongs which fringe the steep granite outcrops.</p><br>
<p>Animal life is abundant and varied. Black wallabies, eastern grey kangaroos and wombats, possums and gliders are especially numerous. The lyre bird is rarely seen but often heard. Over 180 species of birds have been recorded in the park.</p><br>
<h2>Walking track</h2><br>
<p>From the west side base there is a scenic walking track which traverses large granite outcrops and leads to the summit of Pine Mountain. Access to the walking track is achieved along a 5 km dry weather only 4WD track from the entrance of the park. The walk is very difficult and requires a high level of Australian bush craft skills, mountaineering experience, advanced navigational skills, and a very high level of physical fitness. The walk to the summit is long and extremely strenuous with a number of steep rock climbs and descents, it is advised that only extremely fit persons attempt this walk, and rock climbing skills and experience are advised to complete this walk. The weather is capable of changing very rapidly so it is necessary to be prepared with warm and waterproof clothing, high energy food supplies and sufficient water. The reasonably worn walking track is a 12 km trip, 8 hrs return (or longer, especially if less than perfectly fit or weighed down with equipment). It is marked out with numerous markers on trees and cairns (ducks). The track is sometimes poorly defined so it is necessary that a map and compass is carried, and are used by a properly trained and experienced user. The summit area offers panoramic views of the surrounding Murray River Valleys and the Snowy Mountains, NSW. For the less adventurous there is also a small walk of 2 km, 1hr return, to Rocky Knob.</p><br>
<p>The Harding River is a river in the Pilbara of Western Australia.</p><br>
<p>It was named on 31 July 1861 by the surveyor and explorer Francis Gregory while on expedition in the area, after one of the volunteer members of his expedition, John Harding.</p><br>
<p>The headwaters of the river rise in the Chichester Range in the Millstream-Chichester National Park near Merrinyaginya Spring and flow is a northerly direction. The river flows through Lake Poongkaliyarra and out through Lockyer Gap.</p><br>
<p>The river continues northward and crosses the North West Coastal Highway near Roebourne then discharges into the Indian Ocean via Butcher Inlet.</p><br>
<p>The river flows through a number of permanent and semi-permanent pools such as Murringa Pool, Karrawingina Pool and Bamba Pool.</p><br>
<p>The river has six tributaries; Harding River East, East Harding River, Murray Camp Creek and Miller Creek.</p><br>
<p>The Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center is a historic hotel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, originally built in 1927 as the Heidelberg Hotel. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The Heidelberg Hotel was a favorite dwelling of Louisiana Governor Huey Long, who had a seventh-floor suite. For a time it was known as the Capitol House Hotel, when under the management of former State Representative Chris Faser, Jr. Huey P. Long, John F. Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Jimmy Carter, Will Rogers, and Fidel Castro were all guests of the hotel.</p><br>
<p>The hotel closed in 1985, and was mostly derelict until 2005. It reopened after a $70 million renovation on August 30, 2006 as the Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center.</p><br>
<p>The hotel&#39;s NRHP listing was increased in 2008 to include the Hotel King across the street and the listing was renamed Heidelberg Hotel and Hotel King.</p><br>
<p>Mount Tenabo  is the principal peak in the Cortez Mountains. The mountain is of cultural and religious significance to the Western Shoshone people.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>There are various theories as to the name&#39;s etymology. The mountain may have been named by New Mexicans after an ancient pueblo, or Tenabo may be a Paiute word with the meaning of "dark colored water".</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The summit elevation of Mount Tenabo is 9,157 ft, and 5,000 ft above the surrounding valleys. Its base is covered with scrub pine. The summit and 1,500 ft below is overgrown with grass and shrubs. Approximately 25 miles to the north is the Humboldt River and its valley. Eastward, there are hills and valleys. To the west is the Smoky Valley, Mount Hope, Bunker Hill, and other peaks of the Toiyabe Range. Mount Tenabo, east of and near the north end of the Toiyabe Range, is about 30 miles south of Beowawe.</p><br>
<p>At an area approximately 3,000 ft above the mountain&#39;s base, a vein of silver-bearing quartz cuts through obliquely, penetrating into the valley after for 18,650 ft. Its width is 400 ft. This vein (stratum) contains ore beds, and is encased in crystalline limestone.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Silver ore was discovered at Mount Tenabo in 1862 by a group of New Mexicans. By the later half of the 1860s, there were at least 20 working mills. In 2008, the Te-Moak tribe, the Timbisha tribe and others sought an emergency injunction that would have halted further development of Barrick Gold&#39;s Cortez Hills mining operation which includes facilities on the slopes of Mount Tenabo. As of July 2016, mining continues while the BLM prepares a court-ordered supplemental environmental impact statement.</p><br>
<p>Stratoni  is a community of 1057 inhabitants , situated on the north-eastern coast of the Chalkidiki peninsula, in Northern Greece. It is part of Aristotelis municipality and the municipal unit Stagira-Akanthos.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The main feature of this area is the rich mines, whose activity dates from 600 B.C. In antiquity the city of Stratonicea was located there. Modern Stratoni was built in the 19th century and its first residents were the miners of the local mines. After the Asia Minor Disaster the population increased due to the arrival of refugees from Asia Minor. In 1932 the village suffered great damages from the earthquake in nearby Ierissos. Nowadays the mining activity continues to be the main occupation of the residents.</p><br>
<h2>Historical population</h2><br>
<p>Lützelau  is an island located, with the neighbouring island of Ufenau, in Lake Zürich in Switzerland between Rapperswil  and Freienbach .</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Lützelau lies in Höfe district in the Canton of Schwyz. Since the 13th/14th centuries, it has belonged to the community of Rapperswil (now called Ortsbürgergemeinde). The island measures 33,480 m&sup2; in all, 430 m from east to west and 150 m from north to south. The highest point of the island is 414 m above sea level or 8 m above lake level at 406 m.</p><br>
<p>On occasion of the formation of the Alps, the fossilized sediments material of the body of water between the Ricken and Etzel chains unfolded. There arose the typical rock bands that form the Lindenhof hill in Rapperswil, or the islands of Ufnau, Lützelau and Heilighüsli. During the last Ice Age the island was under a thick layer of ice, and the hard layers of conglomerate rock and the sandstone ridge survived the sanding by the glacier.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>First mentioned in the year 741, there was formerly a nunnery here, given by the Alamannic noblewoman Beata, daughter of Rachinbert and wife of Landolt. In the year 744, the nunnery, or abbey, was sold to Einsiedeln Abbey. Historians mention a 10th-century ferry station assumably at the so-called Einsiedlerhaus in Rapperswil – in 981 AD as well as the vineyard on the Lindenhof hill – between Kempraten on lake shore, Lützelau and Ufenau island and assumably present Hurden, which allowed the pilgrims towards Einsiedeln to cross the lake before the prehistoric bridge at the Seedamm isthmus was re-built in 1358.</p><br>
<p>In the late Middle Ages, Einsiedeln sold the island to the Counts of Rapperswil who used its sandstone besides the Bollingen quarries to build the town of Rapperswil. On 12 May 1433 Heini Murer von Grueningen and his wife Anna Keller confirmed the transfer of their lands on Lutzelnoew for 100 Pfund Pfennig Zürcher Währung to the Abbot Johans and the convent of the Rüti Abbey, including buildings and lands in the Herrschaft Grüningen, and to be enrolled in the abbey&#39;s libri anniversariorum (German: Jahrzeitbuch).</p><br>
<p>From the 16th century the Hospital of the Holy Ghost (Heiliggeistspital) of the city of Rapperswil was located here, which from 1810 was a quarantine hospital, in Swiss German Siechenhaus which in ancient times was situation in Kempraten. Remains of the former abbey church (8th century) were found in 1964.</p><br>
<h2>Transport</h2><br>
<p>The island has a small restaurant and a campsite. Tourist boat trips – run by the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft – sail from Zürich and Rapperswil to the island of Ufenau only; to Lützelau there is a commercial "island taxi" service from Rapperswil between May and September.</p><br>
<h2>Protection</h2><br>
<p>In 1927 the Ufenau and the Lützelau islands, as well as the so-called Frauenwinkel area at the Seedamm area towards Hurden were placed under conservation, being since 1993 a «Moorlandschaft von besonderer Schönheit und nationaler Bedeutung», i.e. a bog environment of extraordinary beauty and national importance. Swimming, camping and other leisure activities are permitted on Lützelau campsite, but forbidden on Ufnau, as well within the Frauenwinkel lake area.</p><br>
<p>Cerro Provincia is a mountain on the eastern side of Santiago, Chile. It is a popular climb due to its accessibility and low level of difficulty by mountaineering standards . The peak has an altitude of 2,750 m and a climb requires an altitude gain of almost 2000 meters from the highest road-accessible point. There is a small dome-shaped refuge shelter at the summit. There are fairly well traveled paths that go to the summit and marker posts. The peak offers a spectacular view of Santiago to the west, the Andes to the east, and Cerro El Plomo  to the north.</p><br>
<h2>Attempting a summit</h2><br>
<p>There are several trails to access the mountain. The shortest, best marked and most commonly used trail starts near (the Ñilhue Bridge) in the valley on the north side that contains a stream feeding the Mapocho River. The entrance at Puente Ñilhue is accessible by taxi ride from Santiago. As of 2011, there is a guard at the entrance of the trail where all hikers need to register and pay 1,500 Chilean pesos. The trail officially opens at 8:00 and closes at 20:00. If you are planning on hiking outside these times you need to contact the guards in advance.</p><br>
<p>People in fair physical condition can make the full ascent and descent in one day but it is quite exhausting. The ascent takes about 5&ndash;7 hours (without heavy backpacks) and the descent about 4&ndash;5 hours for average hikers. The start of the ascent from the northern-route includes a steep, rocky section where hikers need to hold on to an installed iron chain (a via ferrata) for several meters. This may give a false impression of the subsequent climb because no such fixture is encountered afterwards. Subsequently, the first two hours of the trail are steep, reaching a wide-open area known as Alto del Naranjo, with the biggest tree of all the trail (the Great Tree) right in the middle, which is visible from most of the rest of the trail all the way to the top. This is followed by about an hour of relatively flat section, which ends at the last tree on the trail (Pawel&#39;s Tree). The next two hours are again steep, and on loose rocky ground which makes it difficult to walk up and down. The last hour requires climbing up and down some big boulders, and there is a small section just before the summit where hands must be used (see scrambling).</p><br>
<p>People who are not in good condition should allow for extra time in climbing, give longer breaks, take into account the return trip which is also physically demanding, and should consider doing the hike in two days.</p><br>
<p>There are several excellent camping sites on the lower part of the mountain, and there is a refuge at the top which can accommodate 6 people comfortably. However, the nights at the summit can be near freezing even in the hottest days of the summer, and while the refuge protects from the strong winds at the top, it does not protect from the cold. Climbers intending on camping at the summit should bring warm clothing and an appropriately rated sleeping bag.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is extremely hot, dry, and shadeless during the summer and an ample amount of water is crucial. There is a watering-station early on in the climb on the north route to the summit of the sub-peak called Alto del Naranjo, but in general hikers should start with their full water supply: 3 liters or more per day is recommended.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is not technical and a non-winter summit requires little equipment besides perhaps a hiking stick and a comfortable pair of boots. Rope is not necessary.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>The mountain does not contain much vegetation or animal life and their presence dwindle with altitude. Mostly there are cacti, small shrubs, short trees, lizards, occasional viscachas, and birds, including hawks and condors. There are also feral horses and even donkeys and cows. The horses can occasionally be seen grazing even at the summit.</p><br>
<p>Bolehyde Manor is a 17th-century manor house at Allington, near Chippenham, in Wiltshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building within the Allington conservation area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house takes its name from Thomas de Bolehyde who was a tenant, however, it is said to have been built with money embezzled from the monks, and thought to have been in the possession of Glastonbury Abbey.</p><br>
<p>It later came into the possession of the Snell family of Kington St. Michael, probably in the 16th century, and was sold by Sir Charles Snell to John Cole in 1635, remaining in the possession of that family until the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Between 1957 and 1967 the house and farm were in the hands of David and Diana Tylden-Wright, who, for reasons of their own, renamed the house to "Bullidge House". It would appear that as soon as they sold it, the previous name was restored.</p><br>
<p>Andrew and Camilla Parker Bowles moved there in 1973. Its vegetable garden was reputed, incorrectly, to be the location of Prince Charles&#39; proposal of marriage to Lady Diana Spencer. It is now occupied by the Earl and Countess Cairns.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is a large 17th-century stone-tiled rubble stone building. Some parts are possibly 16th century, containing a Tudor-arched fireplace. The grounds have a mid 17th-century dovecote and two summer houses. The frontage includes a two-storey porch topped by a balustrade having Georgian busts at its front corners. It has been said that a skirmish between Cornish troops of King Charles I and the Roundheads took place in the locality.</p><br>
<h2>Modern times</h2><br>
<p>The gardens of the house are open to the public on one day each year through the National Gardens Scheme.</p><br>
<p>Ise Fjord  is a deeply branched arm of the sea into the Danish island Zealand.</p><br>
<p>From its relatively narrow entrance from the Kattegat at Hundested and Rørvig, branches of Ise Fjord stretch 35 km inland and divide the northern part of Zealand into the peninsulas of Odsherred, Hornsherred, and Nordsjælland.</p><br>
<p>Some branches have names of their own, such as Roskilde Fjord which joins Ise Fjord proper close to its northern end, Holbæk Fjord, and the now drained Lammefjord and Sidinge Fjord at the west. The depth of the water in the fjord averages 5 to 7 meters, the deepest areas being those on the western side of Orø. Salinity is from 1.6 to 2.2%.</p><br>
<h2>Flora</h2><br>
<p>The banks of Ise Fjord are full of interesting flowers and plants. The river valley of Ejby north of Roskilde near Ise Fjord is a nature reserve with many rare plants.</p><br>
<h2>The Ise Fjord workshop</h2><br>
<p>Ise Fjord is also remembered for its 15th-century artists who decorated many of the region&#39;s churches with frescoes (kalkmalerier) depicting stories from the Old and New Testaments. A good example is Tuse Church near Holbæk in northwestern Sealand, which is richly decorated with both Romanesque and late Gothic murals. Here the life of Jesus is particularly interesting as it combines the biblical accounts with images of kings, devils, and women brewing beer.</p><br>
<p>Jackson Historic District in Jackson, Louisiana, is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It includes the Centenary College and the East Feliciana Parish Courthouse, which are both separately listed on the NRHP.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant as a "surviving rural town center from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with banks, shops, residences, churches, warehouses and all manner of other buildings which might be expected in such a town.... But the historic area of Jackson is superior to most historic town centers because it is unusually well-preserved."</p><br>
<p>The district included 124 structures. Of these, 29 buildings, or 24 percent, are Federal or Greek Revival or other early buildings built from 1815 to 1845. Ten buildings (8 percent) are from 1845 to 1875, including three churches. For 1875 to 1910, there are 15 buildings (13 percent), including Late Victorian and Queen Anne styles. For 1910 to c.1930 there are 43 buildings (35 percent). Twenty buildings (24 percent) are intrusions.</p><br>
<p>The Maitland River is a river in the Pilbara of Western Australia.</p><br>
<p>The headwaters of the river rise in the Chichester Range near Zebra Hill and it flows in a north-westerly direction. The river crosses the North West Coastal Highway south of Karratha then discharges into the Indian Ocean. The river flows through a number of permanent and semi-permanent pools on the way to the coast including Miaree Pool, Toorare Pool and Charrowie Pool.</p><br>
<p>The river has four tributaries; Four Mile Creek, Cockatoo Creek, Munni Munni Creek and Corringer Creek.</p><br>
<p>The first European to discover the river was the surveyor and explorer Francis Thomas Gregory during an expedition to the area in 1861. Gregory named the river after another member of the expedition party, volunteer Maitland Brown.</p><br>
<p>The traditional owners of the area that the river flows through are the Ngaluma people.</p><br>
<p>Flood damage caused by Cyclone Monty in 2004 washed away over 200 m of North West Coastal Highway approaches to the Maitland River Bridge and damaged 300 m of shoulders and embankment. Repairs cost an estimated $1.5 million.</p><br>
<p>The Fowler House, also known as the Allen-Fowler House is a historic two-story modified L-plan house built in 1852 in Bastrop, Texas, United States. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1978 and was designated a Texas Historic Landmark on March 1, 2009.</p><br>
<p>The House was built by Professor William J. Hancock of Aberdeen, Mississippi in 1852 after he arrived in Bastrop to become headmaster at the Bastrop Academy, one of the leading schools in Texas at the time. The house was not only for him and his family but also for student boarders.</p><br>
<p>In 1857, Bastrop Academy became Bastrop Military Institute, which trained young men for service during the Civil War. Colonel Robert Thomas Pritchard Allen replaced Hancock as headmaster and Allen and his wife Julia moved into the house. They continued to board cadets that attended the Institute. Sam Houston, a hero of the Texas Revolution, was a frequent guest of the Allens while his sons attended the Institute.</p><br>
<p>John Preston Fowler and Maud Maynard Fowler bought the property in 1876 and added Victorian detailing and a projecting bay window to the structure. Fowler became, mayor of Bastrop, county attorney and a Texas state senator.</p><br>
<p>The current owner of the house is Geoff Connor who purchased the house in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Bluenose Lake is a lake in Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located north of the Arctic Circle within the large, shallow basin of the Melville Hills. It is approximately 33 mi long, 12 mi wide, and is situated at 1,800 ft above sea level. The Croker River flows north from Bluenose Lake to the Arctic Ocean, entering at Dolphin and Union Strait.</p><br>
<p>It was officially named in 1953 by John Kelsall and James Mitchell subsequent to their biological investigation of the previously unnamed lake.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>The area barren-ground caribou are divided, genetically, into two herds, Bluenose-east and Bluenose-west. Other mammals include Arctic fox, Arctic ground squirrel, Arctic hare, Back&#39;s lemming, barren-ground grizzly bear, collared lemming, muskox, short-tailed weasel, tundra vole, and wolf.</p><br>
<p>Birds that frequent the area include Arctic loon, Arctic tern, Baird&#39;s sandpiper, black-bellied plover, buff-breasted sandpiper, Canada goose, glaucous gull, golden eagle, golden plover, herring gull, king eider, Lapland longspur, long-tailed jaeger, mallard, northern phalarope, oldsquaw, parasitic jaeger, pectoral sandpiper, pintail, raven, red-breasted merganser, red-throated loon, rough-legged hawk, sanderling, semipalmated sandpiper, short-eared owl, snow bunting, snowy owl, tree sparrow, water pipit, whistling swan, willow ptarmigan, and yellow-billed loon.</p><br>
<p>The Chicago and Northwestern Depot is a former railway station in Wilmette, Illinois, which has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975. The station served the Chicago and North Western Railway along what is now Metras Union Pacific/North Line. It was built in 1873 as a passenger station and became a freight station in the 1890s before closing in 1946. The station was relocated to its current location on June 13, 1974, and it has since been remodeled as a restaurant. The depot has been called "Wilmettes most historic building," and the Chicago Sunday Times referred to the station as "the finest station on the entire line" upon its opening.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first railroad depot in Wilmette was built in 1870-71 for $700 by a group of landowners hoping to develop the area. As well as being used as a railroad depot, this original depot was used for local elections, including the referendum on the incorporation of Wilmette in 1872. This depot burned down, and residents built the Chicago and Northwestern Depot in 1873. The depot was built to be fireproof and cost $3,400, which was donated by ten residents. In the 1890s, Wilmettes growing number of commuters wanted a new depot to be built on the inbound side of the tracks. The Chicago and Northwestern Depot was moved one block north from the passenger station and became Wilmettes freight depot. The depot remained a freight depot until 1946, when Wilmette&#39;s freight service was transferred to Evanston; the station was then boarded up, and its platform was removed. On June 13, 1974, the station was moved away from the railroad tracks to its current site to avoid demolition. The depot was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. A cable television company leased the station for several years after its relocation. The building was leased to a different family and converted into a restaurant called the Old Ouilmette Depot in 1992. The restaurant closed after a 2004 fire, and the building remained vacant until 2008, when a new restaurant called Depot Nuevo opened in the building.</p><br>
<p>Meyers Castle or the Joseph Ernest Meyer House is a former private residence in the town of Dyer, Indiana in the United States. The castle was constructed from 1927-1931 in the Jacobethan style by architect Cosbey Bernard, Sr. The house was built for Joseph Ernest Meyer as his private residence, a herbologist and one of Hammonds first millionaires. The building now serves as a special events venue and is also home to "Rivelli", an Italian steakhouse.</p><br>
<p>The castle was built as a replica of a Scottish castle Meyer had once seen. When it was completed in 1931, the Meyer&#39;s Castle was the largest and most lavish mansion in the surrounding Calumet region. Its location in the forested area allowed Meyer to continue his practice of herbology. The hill on which the estate sits atop of is called "Indian Hill" due to the many Sauk and Potowami artifacts found in and around the vicinity. It is also one of the highest points in Lake County, IN.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Meyer lived in Meyers Castle until his death in 1950, leaving the castle to his wife Cecilia, who lived there for several years after his death. After the death of Cecilia Meyer in 1975, the entire castle grounds and complex was sold to the East Dyer Development Company, which subsequently became todays Castlewood Subdivision of Dyer.</p><br>
<p>The property was purchased in 1987 by Sergio & Elizabeth Urquiza. At the time of purchase, the property was in an abandoned and dilapidated state. The Urquiza&#39;s renovated the property returning it to its original majestic state. They now operate the property as a special events venue and along with a reservation only restaurant. Visitors are welcomed by peacocks that roam the grounds.</p><br>
<p>Quincy Bay is the largest of the three small bays of southern Boston Harbor, part of Massachusetts Bay and forming much of the shoreline of the city of Quincy, Massachusetts. Locally in the Wollaston neighborhood of Quincy it is known as Wollaston Bay. The bay is home to Moon Island, Long Island, and Hangman Island.</p><br>
<p>Quincy Bay extends from Squantum and Dorchester Bay in the northwest to Hough&#39;s Neck and Hingham Bay in the east. Its southwestern shore is Wollaston Beach. The Squantum Yacht Club and the Wollaston Yacht Club are on Quincy Bay along Wollaston Beach. Quincy Shore Drive, one of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation parkways in the Greater Boston area, travels 2.1 mi along Quincy Bay, offering panoramic views of the Boston Harbor Islands and the Boston skyline.</p><br>
<p>Gayhurst House  is a late-Elizabethan country house in Buckinghamshire, with important contributions by the Victorian architect William Burges. It is located near the village of Gayhurst, several kilometres north of Milton Keynes. The house itself and the adjacent Church of St Peter are Grade I listed buildings and the dovecot and gate piers in the grounds Grade II* listed buildings.</p><br>
<p>The house has early sixteenth-century origins, was expanded in 1597 by William Moulsoe and completed by his son, Sir Everard Digby, one of the conspirators involved in the Gunpowder Plot. In spite of the Digby familys disgrace at the time, Sir Everards widow was able to retain the property. Ironically, both sons – John and Kenelm – became fervent Royalists during the English Civil War in the 1640s. Sir Kenelm, in fact, became a distinguished figure in his own right and his initials can be found to this day on stone pillars in the propertys extensive gardens. During the Civil War, parliamentary troops were billeted at Gayhurst and an inscription in the porch showing an X&#39; and the date 1649 is said to have been scratched into the stone by a bored roundhead recording the execution of King Charles the First. The estate was subsequently inherited by Sir Kenelm Digby, the courtier, diplomat and natural philosopher. In 1704 the estate was sold to Sir Nathan Wrighte.</p><br>
<p>It was extensively refurbished, 1858–72, by William Burges for Robert Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington, and his son. The style chosen was Anglo/French Renaissance, which Burges considered in keeping with the date of Moulsoes rebuilding. Rooms contain some of his most splendid fireplaces, with carving by Burges long-time collaborator Thomas Nicholls, in particular those in the Drawing Room which include motifs from Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Burges&#39;s contributions to the house were subsequently undervalued, an undated and anonymous guidebook, probably dating from the late nineteen seventies, described his work thus; "Burges made considerable alterations and additions, mostly of a disastrous nature."</p><br>
<p>The estate has a fine series of out-buildings including a seventeenth-century dovecote, turreted stables, a brewhouse, bakehouse and dog kennels. Perhaps the most extraordinary addition is the Male Servants Lavatory, a large circular privy based on the Abbots kitchen at Glastonbury and surmounted by a, now-eyeless, statue of Cerberus.</p><br>
<p>The park was laid out by Capability Brown and remodelled by Humphry Repton. The landscaped park and formal gardens of Gayhurst are Grade II listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.</p><br>
<p>The estate was broken up in the twentieth century and the house was converted into 14 flats between 1971 and 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Pepper Pot, also known as the Pepperpot, or simply The Tower, is a listed building in the Queens Park area of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Designed and built in 1830 by architect Charles Barry in the grounds of a villa built for the owner of Queens Park, it survived the villa&#39;s demolition and is now one of its only surviving remnants. Its original purpose is unknown—several possible explanations have been given for its construction—and it has had a wide variety of uses in the 20th century. It is now owned by Brighton and Hove City Council, and is protected as a Grade II listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Queen&#39;s Park was designed and laid out in 1824 in the east of Brighton, In 1825, Thomas Attree—a property owner and developer in this part of Brighton—bought the park (at that stage known as Brighton Park) from its first owner, and employed architect Charles Barry to design a villa for him on the edge of the park. The Attree Villa, as it became known, stood in substantial grounds north of the park and was one of the earliest Italianate buildings in England. Barry designed the square building in the Quattrocento style; it was intended to be one of several around the park, but no more were built. Between 1909 and 1966 it was a Xaverian Roman Catholic college, but it fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1972 despite being a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>Few structural elements of the villa remain, but the Pepper Pot—which originally stood in the western part of the grounds—remains intact. It was built at the same time as the villa, but its original function is uncertain: theories include a water tower for the villa, a vent for the network of large Victorian sewers beneath Brighton, an observatory or even a folly. Research in 2011, based on a record in the Arcana of Science and Art (published in 1836), suggested that the tower stood above a well and housed a steam engine which drew the water out. Its name was given in the Arcana as "Belvedere Tower". Its present name, which has historically been used locally and has now been adopted more generally, makes reference to its shape.</p><br>
<p>Since it passed out of Attrees ownership, the structure has had a remarkable variety of uses. George Duddell bought Attrees estate in 1863, and used the Pepper Pot to print and publish his local newspaper, the Brighton Daily Mail. Three years later, it (along with the park, the villa and all associated buildings) had passed to the Brighton Corporation, the equivalent of the present city council. During World War II, the military used the 60 ft structure as an observation post. Later uses included the headquarters of a Scout troop, an artist&#39;s studio and—after an extension was built in the base in the 1960s—a public toilet.</p><br>
<p>The Pepper Pot was designated a Grade II listed building on 13 October 1952.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Pepper Pot is a ten-sided, cylindrical structure, 60 ft tall and standing on an octagonal base. It is topped by a cupola and a green metal urn. There are 11 Corinthian columns around the exterior. The tower rises in four stages. The lowest is the octagonal plinth which was extended to the north in the 1960s when toilets were installed. The short second stage is circular; its upper boundary is defined by a cornice. The columns extend all the way up the third stage; at the top of this section, between each column, is a small window. An entablature and cornice rest on top of the column and marks the division with the uppermost stage, which has 11 pilasters directly above the columns. Another entablature sits between the pilasters and the circular cupola.</p><br>
<p>The design is based on the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, which was widely copied by British neoclassical architects.</p><br>
<p>The main building material was said to be cement by English Heritage in its listing description,</p><br>
<h2>Restoration plans</h2><br>
<p>The Friends of the Pepperpot group was formed in January 2010 to promote the conservation of the Pepperpot and try to get it back into use. In May 2011, Brighton and Hove City Council undertook a £50,000 restoration of the exterior. In the same month, the Friends of the Pepperpot announced that three new uses were being considered for the building—conversion into a bed and breakfast, a community centre or a café—and that they were in negotiations with the city council about the possibility of taking over the ownership of the building. In September 2011, it was stated that more structural work was needed and that the final cost could be £100,000, or even more if the interior was restored. Heritage bodies such as English Heritage, The Georgian Group, The Regency Society and The Landmark Trust consulted with the Friends of the Pepperpot and the city council to decide what should happen.</p><br>
<p>The former Bloomingburg Reformed Protestant Dutch Church is located on Main Street  in Bloomingburg, New York, United States. An ornate wooden Federal style building dating to 1821, it is one of the oldest churches in the county. It remains mostly as it was originally built save for some changes to the interior.</p><br>
<p>Its 80-foot-tall (24 m) bell tower visible for some distance, is a local landmark. In 1980 the church, no longer in use, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is currently a local and regional history museum, although the town of Mamakating plans to sell it to another congregation.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The church building is a two-story, three-by-five-bay rectangle sided in white clapboard. The heavy timber framing is supported by a fieldstone foundation. The moderately-pitched gabled roof is shingled in asphalt, with a single chimney near the roofline on the east side. The church is entered at the tower or south end. Unusually, this originally brought the congregation in at the sides of the altar, which was also at this end.</p><br>
<p>From the projecting central front bay, the multi-staged tower rises, interrupted only by the bracketed cornice on the front roofline. It continues to a narrow frieze with cornice and modillions. All four sides have a window, a small roundel on the front and sides and a small rectangle on the rear, overlooking the roof. Above the oculus there has traditionally been a painted clock face, set at 11:07.</p><br>
<p>The belfry above is octagonal and ornate. Tuscan columns frame panels that are alternately louvered and plain. These support a similar frieze and cornice as the one below. The final stage uses the same treatment, with all panels louvered, and the tower&#39;s cap is an octagonal dome with weathervane.</p><br>
<p>All the three front bays are filled with entrances. The main entrance is a pair of doors recessed behind fluted architraves. A fanlight surmounts the doorway, their muntins making intersecting Gothic arches. These are echoed on the side entrances.</p><br>
<p>Both sides are fully fenestrated on both stories with 20-over-20 double-hung sash windows. The rear elevation features no decorative treatment at the roofline, and one window in each story at the sides, similar to the windows along the sides.</p><br>
<p>A vestibule separates the main door from the sanctuary, while both side entrances lead directly to it. The altar is of plain wood, with some elliptical framing in the wall above paralleling a larger frame opposite that leads to the stairway to the choir loft, supported by thin octagonal columns. Simple round columns support the 10-foot–deep (3 m) second-story galleries with balustrade on either side. All walls except the front have wainscoting to the sill level; the front has shelving.</p><br>
<p>All the woodwork inside save the altar and gallery handrails is painted white. Much of it is original. The ceilings are pressed metal.</p><br>
<p>A set of stone steps from the front leads to a flagstone walkway that in turn descends a set of steep stone steps to Main Street. In the back is a small bungalow that once served as a parsonage.</p><br>
<h2>Aesthetics</h2><br>
<p>The Bloomingburg Reformed Protestant Dutch Church is similar to the style of churches that began to appear in New England after 1800, as well as some of Charles Bulfinchs designs. It was common to copy church designs at the time, usually from other nearby examples. The steeple appears to be some similarity between the Bloomingburg church and a pattern for a rural church in Asher Benjamins influential 1797 The Country Builder&#39;s Assistant.</p><br>
<p>But unlike the other designs, there is no small pediment on the front of the tower, matching the larger pediment on the front face, nor is there any sign there ever was. The three-bay front is a variant found more frequently in New York, as opposed to the five-bay facades found in New England. Also unusual is the placement of the altar at the front of the church, later changed.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Associate Reformed Church was formed in Bloomingburg in 1799. Twenty years later, in 1819, some members who wished for a pastor recognized by the Dutch Reformed Church broke away to form the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Bloomingburgh (as it was then spelled). They chose the small Gillen&#39;s Hill, which overlooked the village, and established a building committee.</p><br>
<p>The cornerstone was laid in 1821. Church records credit Peter Weller, an elder of the church and George Miller, a local builder and carpenter who was not a member of the congregation, with the construction. A year later, the pews were finished and subscribed. The church was dedicated in spring 1822 and opened in December.</p><br>
<p>At the time, the church interior was slightly different. The altar was at the entrance end, and a small semicircular window in the gable apex opened into the rear. These were changed in the middle of the century, along with the conversion of the box pews into slips, the extension of the galleries and construction of the choir loft and accompanying stairways. A new bell was installed in 1868.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1880s, the exterior got renovated. The roof eaves were extended and the brackets installed, per the late Italianate trends of the era. A memorial stained-glass window was installed in 1901 above the front door. Other stained-glass windows installed shortly afterwards have since been lost. New carpets and pews were installed later in that decade.</p><br>
<p>To celebrate the churchs centennial, in 1922 the parsonage was built. In 1950 the roof was converted from tin to asphalt shingling, the last major change to the churchs exterior. A decade later, in 1962, the dwindling congregation merged with Bloomingburg&#39;s Methodist Church to form the Community Church of Bloomingburg. The old Reformed Church building was for a time used as a church school, but then a new educational wing was added to the Community Church building, and the old church was sold to the county.</p><br>
<p>It was neglected for a few years, with some of the interior furnishings stolen and vandalized. In 1977 the Bloomingburg Restoration Foundation was established to preserve the church and use it as a regional history museum; it is open today for that purpose by appointment. In 1999 the county transferred the church to the Town of Mamakating.</p><br>
<p>In 2017 the town notified the foundation, which paid the town $1 a year to rent the property, that it was planning to sell the church to a Pentecostal congregation from nearby Middletown for $85,000, and thus the foundation should vacate the premises. Town supervisor Bill Herrmann claimed the foundations maintenance of the property "has been less than acceptable", citing numerous defects in the building such as cracks in the interior plaster, a leaning steeple and front steps in such disrepair that they are blocked off from use, requiring visitors to enter through the side. The foundation countered that it had invested $50,000 in the building during its ownership, adding carpeting and a bathroom and a new furnace. It said it would hire a lawyer to fight any eviction proceedings, and suggested the towns real goal was to sell it to the areas growing Hasidic community, an allegation Hermann called a sign of the foundations desperation.</p><br>
<p>Indian Hill-North Village is a residential historic district encompassing the largest planned worker housing community in Worcester, Massachusetts. Located in the suburban northern part of the city, it was developed in the 1910s by the Norton Company, then the city&#39;s largest employer. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The North Village of Indian Hill is located in northern Worcester, just west of Interstate 190 and south of Ararat Steet. It includes houses located on a roughly rectangular grid of streets bounded by Ararat Street, Delaval Road, Heroult Street, and Marconi Road. Roughly bisecting the area are Watt Road and Westinghouse Parkway; the latter is a divided road with a tree-lined median.</p><br>
<p>The company-designed houses in this area fall into two broad categories. The first type, which are the most common, are 1-1/2 story wood frame structures, with steeply pitched slate-covered gable roofs, a three-bay facade with center entrance, and a porch sheltering the entrance. The second type, of which only two examples exist on Watt Road at Westinghouse Parkway, are type 1 cottages with a single-story ell projecting from the rear. The district also includes four ahistorical ranch houses on Heroult Road dating to the 1960s. There are two originally non-residential buildings in the district: the former community hall at 24-26 Watt Road, and the community store at 8-10 Watt Road.</p><br>
<p>The village was created as a model planned company town for its workers by the Norton Grinding Company in 1915. Its design is attributed to Grosvenor Atterbury, who designed the South Village (since compromised by the construction of I-190), and the home of Aldus Higgins, then president of the Norton Company. The company established the Indian Hill Company as a worker real estate subsidiary in 1914, when the South Village was developed. The exact construction dates of the North Village complex is not known, but it probably took place with great rapidity during World War I, when there was an acute housing shortage. Unlike the South Village, whose properties were immediately sold (at cost) to company employees, the company retained ownership of most of the North Village until the 1920s. The complex is unique in Worcester, whose other major employers have no history of similar developments.</p><br>
<p>The IOOF Building is a historic building at 674 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The four story brick Beaux Arts style building was designed by Clellan W. Fisher and was constructed in 1906 for the local chapter of the International Order of Odd Fellows. The building is primarily brick, laid in Flemish bond, with dressed limestone trim. Prominent on the front facade is the main entry, an elaborate limestone archway which occupies the center of three bays. On the second floor the side bays are highlighted by balconies that retain their original wrought iron railings. The third floor windows are large with rounded arch tops, while all three of the fourth floor windows have limestone balconies with wrought iron rails.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Ingleside Avenue Historic District is a residential historic district on 218-220 and 226-228 Ingleside Avenue in Worcester, Massachusetts. It consists of a cluster of four triple decker residences and three period garages, all built c. 1928, during the last phase of triple decker construction in the city. All have retained some of their Colonial Revival styling. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Ingleside Avenue is located on Worcester southeast side, north of Grafton Street (Massachusetts Route 122), one the major arteries through the area. Ingleside runs north from Grafton Street to Plantation Street, with the historic district located on the west side of the southernmost block. Located on this block are four similar triple deckers, all built about 1928. They are roughly matched pairs of buildings, each pair having one building with a hip roof, and the other with a gabled roof, that are otherwise virtually identical in their construction and Colonial Revival styling.</p><br>
<p>The buildings of the district have undergone a number of changes since the district was listed on the National Register in 1990. The buildings then had clapboard siding, with cut shingles on the skirts between the levels, but all have since had their exteriors reclad in modern siding. 218 Ingleside has had its upper two porches removed; these were previously similar to those of the other buildings, supported by groups of square columns. The district originally included three period garages, of which only one is still standing.</p><br>
<p>The Harry B. Ingraham Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house at 19 Freeland Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was built c. 1892 for Harry B. Ingraham, an absentee owner based in Boston. When listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, the building was specially noted for its fine Queen Anne styling, but much of this has been lost due to later exterior refinishing . The porches on the front were supported by narrow turned posts with decorative brackets, and third floor porch had a Stick Style frieze across its top. The house was sheathed in wood clapboard, although there were bands of cut shingles providing a decorative touch. The house has since been sided in synthetic sided, and its upper porch details have been replaced by simpler designs.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Institutional District of Worcester, Massachusetts is an historic district encompassing a significant concentration of civic and municipal buildings north of the city&#39;s downtown area. It is centered on Lincoln Square and Wheaton Square, and includes properties on Main, Salisbury, and Tuckerman Streets. It includes the 1840s Worcester County Courthouse, the War Memorial and Memorial Auditorium, and the former Worcester Historical Society building at 39 Salisbury Street. The 1897 Worcester Art Museum is included in the district, as is the c. 1890 armory building at 44 Salisbury Street.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>Worcester County Courthouse, 2 Main Street (1845), by Ammi B. Young; 1878 addition by Stephen C. Earle; 1899 addition by Andrews, Jacques and Rantoul; 1950s addition (non-contributing).</p><br>
<p>Worcester War Memorial, Lincoln Square (1935) by Lucius W. Briggs and Frederic C. Hirons</p><br>
<p>Worcester Boys&#39; Club (1930), Lincoln Square by Frost, Chamberlain & Edwards</p><br>
<p>Worcester War Memorial Auditorium (1932), by Lucius W. Briggs and Frederic C. Hirons</p><br>
<p>Central Church, Salisbury Street (1885), by Stephen C. Earle</p><br>
<p>Worcester Historical Society, 39 Salisbury Street (1981), by Barker & Nourse</p><br>
<p>Worcester Woman&#39;s Club (aka Tuckerman Hall), 10 Tuckerman Street (1902), by Josephine Wright</p><br>
<p>Worcester Industrial Technical Institute (aka Worcester Voke), 2 Grove Street (1909), with additions (1916-1917) by Frost, Briggs & Chamberlain</p><br>
<p>Worcester National Guard Armory, 44 Salisbury Street (1890), by Fuller & Delano, with addition (1907)</p><br>
<p>North High School, 46 Salisbury Street (1889), by Fuller & Delano</p><br>
<p>Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury Street (1897), by Stephen C. Earle, with later additions</p><br>
<p>The Junction Shop and Hermon Street District is a historic district comprising 28 industrial properties on Jackson, Hermon, and Beacon Streets on the south side of Worcester, Massachusetts. It is a remnant of a once larger 19th and early 20th century manufacturing district just west of the railway junction between the Boston and Maine Railroad and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The area was first developed in the 1850s by James Estabrook and Charles Wood, and continued to be developed by the Estabrook family into the early 20th century. The oldest building, known as the Junction Shop, was built in 1851 by Worcester&#39;s famous teacher, inventor and abolitionist Eli Thayer, and followed a previously successful model of factory ownership in which the facility owner provided rental space, power, and other facilities to small manufacturers. Eli Thayer also built Adriatic Mills, formerly on Armory St and was the inventor of the hydraulic elevator. Power was provided by two Corliss steam engines. It is well known for its later occupation by the Knowles Loom Company, a major manufacturer of textile processing equipment. This three story stone building is 450 ft long and 50 ft. It is located in the block surrounded by Jackson, Hermon, and Beacon Streets, and the railroad tracks, and is surrounded within that block by a series of brick additions (built from the 1870s to the 1910s) which obscure much of its bulk.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the Junction Shop, a series of smaller factory blocks line Beacon Street between Herman and Jackson Streets. Those on the east side were built between the 1870s and 1890s by the Estabrooks for the Glasgo Thread Company. The north side of Jacskon Street between the tracks and Harris Court is also lined with Estabrook-built factories, as is the south side of Hermon Street.</p><br>
<p>In 2012, the Planning Board gave the nod to a developer to turn the abandoned and derelict buildings into affordable housing units now known as the Junction Shops Mill Project. The Junction Shop lofts officially opened their doors in late 2015. Now, under Brady Sullivan’s ownership, the historic building has been transformed into luxury apartments for rent in Worcester. Featuring apartment homes that range in size from one to four bedrooms, each apartment captures the historic past of the building, while providing modern comfort for today’s residents. These renovated mill lofts in Worcester feature stainless steel appliances, original reclaimed hardwood or bamboo floors, granite countertops, and sophisticated designer paint colors, all in combination with the mill’s characteristic soaring ceilings and large, bright windows.</p><br>
<p>There are two noteworthy triple decker apartment houses built by Erick Kaller at 146 and 148 Eastern Avenue in Worcester, Massachusetts. Both were built in 1894 in a Queen Anne style, and were nearly identical, with projecting polygonal bay windows, and a single-story porch sheltering the entrance. The principal difference between the two is that 148 Eastern has flared siding skirts below its projecting bay windows. Both have lost some of their styling due to subsequent exterior alterations, including the application of modern siding.  Erick Kaller was a worker in a local wire factory, and lived at #146. Most of the tenants were Scandinavian immigrants.</p><br>
<p>Both buildings were listed separately on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Knollwood is an historic estate at 425 Salisbury Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Originally encompassing about 122 acre, the estate has been reduced to only 15 acre, and is now home to the Notre Dame Academy. The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is one of the city&#39;s grandest surviving early 20th-century estates.</p><br>
<p>Knollwood was built in the 1910s for industrialist Lyman Gordon (1861-1914), cofounder of Wyman-Gordon, although he died before it was completed. The main house is a 2.5 story stucco construction, topped by a complex hipped tile roof. Its basic form is that of a central block with slightly asymmetrical flanking wings. The central portion has a slightly recessed pavilion that rises a full three stories to a decorated gable. The eastern flanking wing housed kitchen facilities, while the west wing end features a Palladian window on the first floor which leads out to a terrace. The approach to the house is along an imposing tree-lined allée. The estate includes several outbuildings, also built c. 1914, which are styled similarly to the main house. Among them area caretakers house, carriage house or garage, and servants quarters.</p><br>
<p>Following Gordons death, the estate was purchased in 1917 by Lucius J. Knowles, president of Crompton and Knowles, and in 1928 by Theodore Ellis, another local company owner and art collector. After Ellis death much of the original estate was subdivided. The remnant portion of the estate has been home to the private all-girl Notre Dame Academy since the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>The Lucius Knowles House is a historic house located at 838 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is locally significant as one of the city&#39;s best preserved Second Empire style buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The three-story, wood-framed house was built around 1870 for industrialist Lucius Knowles, best known for his innovations in the manufacture of looms. It has a symmetrical front facade with mansard roof, and a front entry sheltered by an elaborately decorated porch. Another entry on the south side also had a decorated porch, now glassed in, above which there is an oriel window. A unique music room was added to the northeast corner of the house around 1880, to a design by Stephen Earle, which featured stained glass skylights (now covered over but still in place).</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1980.</p><br>
<p>Larchmont is a historic house at 36 Butler Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The two story wood frame house was built in 1858 as a country house for Ransom Taylor, one of the citys largest landowners in the latter half of the 19th century. It is a rare surviving Italianate villa, of a type that once dotted the hills of Worcester, and is one of the finest Italianate houses in the city. The house may have been designed by Boyden & Ball; there is documentary evidence suggestive of this, which is supported by stylistic analysis. The buildings original octagonal cupola has been removed, and the house has been sided in aluminum, although its decorative woodwork has been retained. The porte cochere is also an addition.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Lundberg Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house at 67 Catharine Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The house was built c. 1892, and is a well-preserved local example of the form with Queen Anne styling. The building follows a standard side-hall plan, with a flanking polygonal bay. The projecting section has shingled skirt sections between the floors, with small brackets in the resulting overhang. The main roof cornice is deep, with decorative brackets regularly spaced. The front entry is sheltered by a single-story porch which has a spindled frieze and balustrade. It is supported by very slender turned columns with brackets at the upper end, below the frieze. The stairwell windows feature decorative stained glass. Charles Lundberg, the first owner, also owned the adjacent houses; he was a clerk. Most of the early residents were of Swedish extraction.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Jefferson Ordnance Magazine in Jefferson, Texas, United States, is located 0.3 miles northeast of the US-59B crossing of Big Cypress Bayou. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>It is located across the Big Cypress Bayou waterway from Jefferson and Cypress Bayou Railway. It is claimed by the railway operators and tour guides to be the only remaining Confederate powder magazine from the 1860s. That claim, appearing at, appears to be false, as it does not take into account powder magazines that are included in surviving confederate forts. A specific counter-example to the claim is the Confederate Powderworks, in Georgia, whose powder magazines disprove the claim.</p><br>
<p>A narrower claim, that it is the only surviving Confederate powder house in Texas and one of few in the USA, is stated by the Historic Jefferson Foundation. An even more narrow claim, that it is "the most intact example in East Texas of a Civil War era brick ordnance magazine directly associated with the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederate States of America," appears in a planning document prepared by the Texas Historical Commission.</p><br>
<p>The magazine was built in late 1863 or early 1864. "Ninety percent of the building is original and remains unaltered except for some weathering, aging brick and some sympathetic repairs." However, two smaller associated buildings have been dismantled, apparently for their bricks.</p><br>
<p>The Ordnance Magazine and the property it sits on is owned by the Historic Jefferson Foundation. You can find out more about the magazine by visiting the HJF web site This property is landlocked and the road to the magazine is on private property, today it can only be viewed by riding the Jefferson and Cypress Bayou Railway, or taking the Turning Basin Riverboat Tour, both of which are attractions in Jefferson, Texas.</p><br>
<p>The Malvern Road School is a historic school building on Malvern Road and Southbridge Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1896 and enlarged in 1907, it is a high quality example of Beaux Arts and Renaissance Revival architecture. It is also significant as a well-preserved work of the local architectural firm Fuller & Delano. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The building has been converted to residential condominiums.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Malvern Road School is set prominently overlooking the junction of Malvern Road and Southbridge in southern Worcester. It is a two story masonry structure, built out of red brick with wooden and marble trim. Its main facade is symmetrical, with a central section flanked by slightly projecting wings. The entrance is at the center, sheltered by a porch with Ionic columns and entablature. The entrance is topped in the second level by a Palladian window. Marble stringcourses run below and above the basement windows, and at the base of the first floor windows. The main roof cornice projects significantly and is adorned with modillion blocks.</p><br>
<p>The school was designed by prominent local architects Fuller & Delano, and its western two-thirds, housing two classrooms and offices, were built in 1896. The building was enlarged in 1907 to its present extent (four classrooms), in a scheme of planned enlargement used in other Worcester school designs of the period. The school was one of ten schools built in the city in 1896-97, and was located in an area that was at the time relatively sparsely developed. The building now houses condominium residences.</p><br>
<p>The Jerome Marble House is an historic house at 23 Harvard Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1867 to a design by Elbridge Boyden, it is one of the city&#39;s fine examples of Second Empire architecture, and one of the few for which an architect is known. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It now houses professional offices.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Marble House is located on the west side of Harvard Street, a north-south road paralleling downtown Worcesters Main Street on a rise to the west. It is a 2-1/2 story brick structure, with a slate mansard roof providing a full third floor. The buildings corners have brick quoining, and the main facade is symmetrical, with polygonal bays (rising to the roof level) flanking a center entrance. The entrance is sheltered by an open porch that spans the inner front corners of the flanking bays, and is topped on the second level by two narrow round-arch windows set in a single segmented-arch opening. The windows of the flanking bays are set in rectangular openings, with stone beltcourses serving as sills, and stone lintels above. The roof is studded with dormers, some with round-arch openings and windows, others with center-gable caps and pointed-arch windows.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1867 to a design by E. Boyden & Son, and is a little-altered example of the Second Empire style in the city. It was built for Jerome Marble, a dealer in pharmaceuticals and chemicals. Marble was also a director of the Quinsigamond Bank, and made an unsuccessful foray into establishing an excursion railroad.</p><br>
<p>The May Street Historic District of Worcester, Massachusetts encompasses a well-preserved collection of mid-19th century residences that are predominanty Queen Anne in their styling. The district, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, extends along May Street from Florence Street to just beyond Woodland Street, including houses numbered from 29 to 56 May Street.</p><br>
<p>Although May Street was laid out early in the 19th century, it was not developed in any significant way before the 1880s. Although there are older houses along the street, the oldest in this district is the Second Empire house built c. 1867 at 30 May Street, after lot lines had been drawn on maps of the period. The only other Second Empire house, at 33 May Street, was built c. 1873 and significantly restyled c. 1891 with Queen Anne details. The other early buildings were Victorian Gothic houses at 32 and 34 May Street, built in the late 1870s, and a third at number 29, built c. 1880. Most of the remaining buildings were built between 1888 and 1896, with Queen Anne styling. The notable exceptions are a triple decker at 49 May Street, and Victorian cottages at 31 and 56 May Street, built c. 1882 and c. 1886 respectively.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood was during this period of development catering to businessmen and the owners of small manufacturing operations. Early owners included a jeweller, a lumber dealer, owner of a machinist shop, and a school principal. Two houses were owned by real estate dealers, and only one had an absentee owner.</p><br>
<p>The John B. McDermott Three-Decker is a historic triple decker at 21 Freeland Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1910, it is distinctive for its preservation, and the scale and profusion of its Colonial Revival details. It has a typical side hall plan with a side bay, and a hip roof that is unusual for the presence of pedimented gable sections. The cornice of the roofline is decorated with evenly spaced heavy brackets. The front entry is highlighted by a two story gable-end pedimented porch, of which the first floor section wraps around to the right side of the building. The porch is supported by slender round columns, and its roof has bracketing similar to that of the main roof.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Mechanics&#39; Hall District is a historic district encompassing a city block of downtown Worcester, Massachusetts that preserves its late 19th-century appearance. Itis located on Main Street between Exchange and Foster Streets, including both the Worcester Five Cents Savings Bank building and Mechanics Hall. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Mechanics Hall District is located on the north side of Worcesters downtown, west of the DCU Center and north of City Hall. It consists of eight buildings on both sides of Main Street, between Exchange and Foster Streets to the east, and Sudbury and Maple Streets to the west. The eponymous Mechanics Hall is located roughly in the center of the east side of this area; it is an Italianate structure built in 1857 to a design by Worcester architect Elbridge Boyden, and is one of the city&#39;s cultural centers. To its north is the large Central Exchange Building, constructed in 1895-96 with later Renaissance Revival styling. South of Mechanics Hall is a vacant lot, beyond which is the Burnside Building, built in 1886-87 to a design by Boston architects Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell.</p><br>
<p>The block opposite Mechanics Hall is taken up by five buildings, all of which are historically significant. The northern end is anchored by the Flagg Building (1854), one of the citys best-preserved Italianate office buildings, with the 1897-1906 Day Building adjacent. South of these is the 1891 Worcester Five Cents Savings Bank building, designed by Worcester architect Stephen Earle, and the 1925 Classical Revival Central Building. The districts southern end is the former State Street Mutual building, built in 1894-97; it is considered to be the city&#39;s first formal skyscraper, with a steel frame and Romanesque exterior.</p><br>
<p>A much larger stretch of Worcester&#39;s Main Street was one lined with a series of connected commercial bulidings similar to this block. Urban renewal has taken its toll on the larger area, and this block is now one of the few that retains a significant concentration of high quality late 19th-century architecture.</p><br>
<p>Montvale is a residential historic district in northwestern Worcester, Massachusetts. It is a portion of a subdivision laid out in 1897 on the estate of Jared Whitman, Jr., whose property contained a single house, now 246 Salisbury Street. The central portion of this house was built in 1851 in a conventional Greek Revival style, and was expanded with the addition of side wings by the developers of the 1897 subdivision, H. Ballard and M. O. Wheelock.</p><br>
<p>Ballard and Wheelock laid out 73 lots on the Whitman property, on which a large number of fine Queen Anne Victorian and Colonial Revival houses were built. The district contains 37 properties, including the Whitman house and 36 others built between 1897 and 1924. This cluster of houses is centered on Whitman Road between Sagamore Road and Salisbury Street, and also includes properties on Waconah and Monadnock Roads.</p><br>
<p>One of the more notable houses in the district is a Queen Anne/Shingle style house at 254 Salisbury Street, built in 1897 to a design by prominent architect George Clemence. Other properties were designed by the architectural firm of Earle & Fisher, including 96 Sagamore Road, a Colonial Revival house built in 1902, and 11 Monadnock Road, an 1899 Queen Anne Victorian executed in brick and stucco. Earle & Fisher were also responsible for the additions and modifications to the 1851 Whitman house.</p><br>
<p>Some houses in the district were occupied by wealthy and high-profile individuals in the city. Harold Ashley, vice president of a sprinkler manufacturer, lived at 14 Whitman Road, a 1920 Eclectic house. Frederick Lines, treasurer of the Matthews Manufacturing Company, lived in the 1918 Colonial Revival house at 24 Whitman Road, and mathematician and WPI professor Levi Conant lived at 254 Salisbury Street.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Norcross Brothers Houses are historic houses at 16 and 18 Claremont Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. They are named after their builders and first occupants, James and Orlando Norcross, principals of the Norcross Brothers construction company.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The houses, which are located on the corner of Claremont Street and Woodland Street in the Main South area of Worcester, have been regarded as some of the earliest and finest examples of Queen Anne architecture in the city. They were built in 1878 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 16 Claremont Street is home to the of Clark University. The Marsh Institute studies the human dimensions of environmental change and coupled natural and human systems.</p><br>
<p>Oxford–Crown Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Chatham, Congress, Crown, Pleasant, Oxford Streets and Oxford Place in Worcester, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The district contains Mid 19th Century Revival, Greek Revival, and Renaissance architecture. The area was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and expanded in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Due to its proximity to the citys downtown and the assemblage of historically significant properties, the Crown Hill Neighborhood Association gathered to petition City Council to form a Local Historic District in 2008. In October 2010, the Crown Hill Survey Project commenced and in February 2011 the boundaries were created with the help of the neighborhoods property owners. Approval was granted by the Worcester Historical Commission two years after efforts began.</p><br>
<p>The Perry Avenue Historic District is a historic district at 49–55 Perry Avenue in Worcester, Massachusetts. It includes four well-preserved triple-decker houses that were built in the late 1920s at the base of Vernon Hill, representing one of the last phases of development in that area. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Perry Avenue, a predominantly residential street, is located in southeastern Worcester, running parallel to and east of Interstate 290, roughly between Massachusetts Route 122A and Massachusetts Route 146. The four buildings that make up this district are located on the east side of the street, about midway between Seymour and Stone Streets.</p><br>
<p>All four buildings are wood frame structures, three stories in height, and have gable roofs and a combination of clapboard and wooden shingle siding. All have an overhanging front gable that is fully pedimented, with modillions in the eave and raking edges. Their fronts are divided into two sections, one a projecting bay window stack rising the full height, and the other a stack of porches. On two of the buildings, 51 and 55 Perry, the porches project and are set under a separate gable, while those of 49 and 54 are recessed under the main gable. The recessed porches are supported by grouped columns, while the projecting porches have shingled supports, and extend on the first level across the building width.</p><br>
<p>These houses were built about 1928, during Worcester&#39;s last period of triple decker construction. This area, located lower on the slopes of Vernon Hill, was developed as infill in an area originally populated by Irish immigrants; these new buildings were at first owned and occupied primarily by Polish and Lithuanian immigrants.</p><br>
<p>The Pleasant Street Firehouse is an historic former firehouse at 408 Pleasant Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. One of three fire stations built by the city in 1873, it was Worcester&#39;s oldest active firehouse when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Pleasant Street Firehouse stands in a mixed residential-commercial area west of downtown Worcester, at the southwest corner of Pleasant and Winslow Streets. It is a two-story brick building, with a hip roof topped by an open cupola, and a pedimented gable with oriel window atop the center section of the main (north-facing) facade. There are three equipment bays on the ground floor, all of which have been enclosed with wood frame walls clad in shingles. The outer bays each have a door in them, that on the right also with a plate glass window to the right. Two similar glass windows are found in the central bay. Windows in the second floor are topped by eared granite lintels.</p><br>
<p>The city built this firehouse in 1873-74 on land purchased from Daniel Waldo Lincoln, a prominent local landowner. Its architect is unknown; although the city paid the local firm of Earle and Fuller for design services related to fire stations in 1873, the building is stylistically different from the other firehouses built at the time. It is somewhat curiously retardaire in style, with the cupola and projecting side pavilion more reminiscent of earlier Federal and Greek Revival styles than the then-current Second Empire and Renaissance styles. Since its listing on the National Register in 1980, the city closed and sold the building, and it has been converted to commercial use.</p><br>
<p>The Providence Street Firehouse is a historic former firestation at 98 Providence Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1899, it is unusual among the city&#39;s firehouses for its Beaux Arts stylings. The building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980,Now it houses Worcester EMS .</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Providence Street firehouse stands on the west side of Providence Street, in a predominantly residential area southeast of the city&#39;s downtown. It is a 2-1/2 story brick building, rectangular in plan, with a hip roof and a square tower on the north side. The tower is topped by a pyramidal roof. It has two garage bays set in rectangular openings, topped by sandstone lintels, with a pedestrian entrance to their right. That entrance has a Beaux Arts style surround, with rosettes decorating the trim elements, and a gabled pediment above. THe second floor has four paired sash windows set in rectangular openings. The roof eave is studded with heavy brackets.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Earle & Fisher and was built in 1899 to serve what was then a rapidly developing neighborhood. Although similar in size and scale to other period firestations in the city, this one is distinctive for its heavy Beaux Arts decoration.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Engine 12 and Ladder 5 ran out of this station until 2009. Worcester Emergency Medical Services took over the station, providing space for Paramedic 1 and Paramedic 4, and for a training facility.</p><br>
<p>The Providence Street Historic District is a historic district at 127-145 Providence Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It includes a cohesive collection of triple decker houses built in the late 1920s in the Vernon Hill section of the city. The ten primary buildings in the 1.39 acre district are fine examples of Colonial Revival and Craftsman styling; there are also seven period garages. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The development of triple deckers on Worcester&#39;s south side had reached the vicinity of the Worcester Academy grounds by the mid-1920s. A series of them were laid on along Providence Street (Massachusetts Route 122A), and built between 1926 and 1930 during the last phase of triple decker development. They were probably built by the Dworman Building Company, and many of them were first occupied by predominantly Jewish families moving to the area from homes closer to the city center. In 1930, four of the ten buildings were owned by Hyman Zive, a realtor with other property holdings in the city, and only two were occupied by their owners.</p><br>
<p>The seven buildings at 127-139 Providence Street are nearly identical in their construction. These Colonial Revival structures have hipped roofs and full three-level porches topped by a gable with a diamond light window. The porches have square columns, and each level has a slightly different styling: the first level has an arched opening, the second a peaked one, and the third a bracketed square opening. Railings on the upper levels have narrow spindled balusters. Most of these seven buildings have wood clapboard siding on the first level and wood shingles on the upper levels; those at 131 and 133 Providence have clapboards on all levels, with bands of shingles between the floors. The three buildings at 141-145 Providence are all Craftsman in their styling.</p><br>
<p>The Otis Putnam House is an historic house at 25 Harvard Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1887 to a design by Fuller & Delano for a prominent local department store owner, it is a fine local example of Queen Anne architecture executed in brick. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It now houses offices.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Putnam House is located on the west side of Harvard Street, a north-south road paralleling downtown Worcester&#39;s Main Street on a rise to the west, southwest of its corner with Dix Street, and adjacent to the Jerome Marble House. It is a 2-1/2 story brick building, with a front-facing gable roof and a stone foundation. It is roughly rectangular in plan, with asymmetrical projecting sections to the sides. On its east-facing front facade, a two-story porch is recessed under the gable, with the first-floor section projecting beyond, with a shed roof across part of its width, and a gable above the granite steps. The second-floor porch has turned posts set on shingled piers, with a latticework frieze between them at the top. The main gable is framed in wood and finished in shingles set in a wavy pattern, with a projecting bay at the center with two round-arch windows in the front. First-floor windows are set in segmented-arch openings capped by brick lintels, while second floor windows are in square openings with stone lintels. A band of decorative brickwork acts as a frieze below the roofline.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1887 to a design by Fuller & Delano, and is one of the citys finer examples of Queen Anne brickwork. It was built for Otis Putnam, a native of nearby Leicester who worked his way through the ranks to become a leading partner in one of the citys largest department stores. He also served as a director of the local electric company, and of the Worcester and Holden Street Railway Company.</p><br>
<p>The Draper Ruggles House is a historic house at 21 Catharine Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built about 1848, it is an important local example of Greek Revival architecture. It is further notable as the home of Draper Ruggles, owner of one of the city&#39;s major industrial firms, a plow manufacturer. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Ruggles House is set on the north side of Catharine Street, just north of the UMass Medical Center on Worcester&#39;s east side. It is a rare local example of hip-roofed Greek Revival house with a temple front; the Dowley-Taylor House is the only other city property that also has these characteristics. The facade has four full-height reeded columns, with a projecting entry at the center that has a Victorian hooded portico sheltering the entry, and paneled pilasters flanking the balcony entrance above. The two-story porch on the left side is also a later 19th-century addition.</p><br>
<p>The house was probably built around 1848, not long after residential development began in this part of the city. The building&#39;s style is distinctively influenced by the work of Elias Carter, a regionally notable architect of the period, and was at the time somewhat common.</p><br>
<p>The reeding of the columns is a distinctive element of Carter&#39;s work, suggesting he may have been involved in the design of this building. The owner, Draper Ruggles, was a principal partner in a plow manufacturer, that he later sold to Oliver Ames. The house was moved a short distance on its lot in 1889-90 to facilitate the construction of 25 Catharine Street.</p><br>
<p>The Russell is an historic apartment house at 49 Austin Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1894, it is one of the few surviving apartment blocks, of many built, in the Main-Wellington-Chandler area, which had one of the city&#39;s highest concentrations of such buildings by 1900. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Russell stands on the southwest corner of Austin and Irving Streets, a short way southwest of Worcester&#39;s central downtown area. It is a four story masonry structure, built out of red brick with brownstone trim. The main facade faces north toward Austin Street, and is five bays wide, with stone beltcourses below and above the first floor. Windows are set in rectangular openings at the first floor, and in segmented-arch openings above, with stone sills and lintels of soldier bricks. The entrance is in the center bay, set in a Romanesque round-arch openings with stone voussoirs. The bays above the entrance have paired narrow windows set on shared stone lintels. The building name appears in a panel between the second and third floors. Pilasters rise flanking the central three bays, beyond the top of the building to form a parapet, with corbelled brickwork between.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Barker & Nourse and built in 1894 at a cost of $25,000 for Abigail Russell Parsons. The Main-Wellington-Chandler area, convenient to downtown Worcester, experienced rapid growth in the 1880s and 1890s. Many of its apartment blocks have since been torn down, and this is one of a few surviving remnants of that past.</p><br>
<p>Mount Sobo is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains. The 1,756 m mountain lies on the border of Taketa and Bungo-ōno in Ōita Prefecture and Takachiho, Nishiusuki District in Miyazaki Prefecture. It is the highest peak in Miyazaki Prefecture. In Ōita Prefecture only the 1,791 m middle peak of Mount Kujū is higher.</p><br>
<p>The Sobo Mountain range extends into three prefectures: Ōita, Miyazaki and Kumamoto.</p><br>
<p>Because of the volcanic activity which formed the mountain, huge rocks can be found everywhere around the mountain. There is a great variety of mountain climbing routes, ranging from animal trails to well maintained paths. Courses ae available from relaxed hiking for enjoyment to cliff climbing routes aimed at advanced climbers. Steep rock climbing routes can be seen from all trails in the neighbourhood of the summit.</p><br>
<p>The surroundings of Mount Sobo abound in mineral resources which were mined from the Edo period to the mid-Shōwa period.</p><br>
<h2>Formation</h2><br>
<p>It is believed that the foundation of the Sobo mountain range occurred in two periods of volcanic activity. In the first period, around 13 million years ago, two cauldrons, the Sobo caldera and the ? caldera, were formed in an eruption accompanied by pyroclastic flow. The two cauldrons formed at this time, were buried in the second period of volcanic activity leaving the caldera which can be seen today.</p><br>
<p>About 12.5 million years ago, a cauldron opened up once more. During this time ore was formed. Around 10 million years ago the volcanic activity ceased. Erosion levelled off the mountain until 3 million years ago when the large scale activity of the rising Mount Aso system caused a pyroclastic flow which gave Mount Sobo its present shape.</p><br>
<h2>Environment</h2><br>
<p>Thanks to volcanic activity, granite is ubiquitous. In the valleys at the bottom of the mountain and at medium and high altitude rock-climbing fans are fascinated by the cliffs which can be found everywhere.</p><br>
<p>Miyama Kirishima (Rhododendron kiusianum), Japanese gentian and the Japanese maple grow in great numbers and are visited by mountain climbers in all seasons.</p><br>
<h3>Flora</h3><br>
<p>The mountain is covered by old-growth forest. Typical species include Japanese beech and Tsuga. Going up from the lowland, the vegetation changes from evergreen (glossy-leaved) forest over conifer forest halfway up the mountain, to Suzu-take and beech close to the summit. Angelica ubatakensis is only found on parts of Shikoku and in the Sobo mountain range is a precious plant. The pseudonym of Mount Sobo, Mount Uba (uba meaning "elderly woman" in Japanese), goes back to the discoverer of the plant, Tomitaro Makino, who called it that.</p><br>
<h3>Fauna</h3><br>
<p>It is thought that the southern range limit of the Special Natural monument, the Japanese serow lies in the mountain range. Even though sightings have been rare in recent years, the Asian black bear is believed to be living here as well. In addition Japanese dormice and sika deer can be seen.</p><br>
<h3>Mining</h3><br>
<p>At the foot of Mount Sobo lie the remains of the Obira mine. From its opening in 1617 until its closing in 1954, it had been flourishing as the leading Japanese mine. Apart from Obira, there are the Kyūsetsu mine and the Kiura mine on the side of Ōita Prefecture as well as the Mitate mine and Toroku mine on the side of Miyazaki Prefecture. The mines produce scarce minerals like copper, tin, lead, manganese and quartz.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On August 30, 1945, a B-29 Superfortress of the United States Air Force on a supply flight crashed in bad weather in the neighbourhood of Mount Oyaji located south of Mount Sobo. All twelve crew members died in the incident. Part of the fuselage and the Stars and Stripes still lie among the mountains. A Prayer for Peace monument was erected on August 26, 1995 to commemorate this event.</p><br>
<p>There are two historic Salisbury Factory Buildings in Worcester, Massachusetts. The first of these, at 25 Union Street, was built in 1879, and is a five story brick building with modest Victorian Gothic trim. The second, at 49-51 Union Street, was built in 1882, is a three story brick building designed by local architect Stephen Earle. These two buildings are the only ones that survive of a series of factory buildings built by Stephen Salisbury II and Stephen Salisbury III in the Lincoln Square area north of Worcester&#39;s downtown. The Salisburys rented space out to small manufacturers in these buildings, introducing a trend that dominated the industrial development of the city. Most of their buildings were demolished during redevelopment of the area in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Both buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Salisbury Mansion and Store is an historic house museum at 40 Highland Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The house was originally built on Lincoln Square in 1772 by Stephen Salisbury I with an attached storehouse from which he sold imported goods under the name S. & S. Salisbury. He and his brother Samuel had originally been in business together selling hardware goods in Boston, and Stephen moved to Worcester to expand the operation. In 1820 the store was closed down, and the space was converted for residential use by the family, which occupied it until 1851. Thereafter it served as a girls school, tenant house, and then a gentlemans social club until 1929, when the building was threatened with demolition by the then occupants, the Worcester Lincoln Square Boys Club, who wanted to build more modern premises. It was saved by local efforts and moved to its current location on the former Salisbury estate near the museum and next to Salisbury House. It was donated to the American Antiquarian Society, which promptly gave it to the Worcester Art Museum, both of which were founded by Stephen Salisbury III. The museum undertook to restore the much-altered building to its condition as of 1830, and opened it for group tours as a historic house museum.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
