<p>The Dr. S. O. Richardson House is a historic house at 694 Main Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Built in the late 1830s, this wood frame house is one of the finest Greek Revival houses in Wakefield, and was the home of Dr. Solon O. Richardson, a locally prominent physician and real estate developer. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Richardson House is located at the southeast corner of Main and Summer Streets in northern Wakefield, just east of Lake Quannapowitt. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with Greek Revival styling, distinctive for being five bays wide while presenting a gabled roof end to the street. It has a particularly elaborate Greek Revival entry treatment, deeply recessed, with flanking sidelight windows and fluted pilasters, and a transom window above. The front gable has a window at its center, which is topped by a dummy fanlight.</p><br>
<p>This house was probably built in late 1830s, and originally stood just off Main Street near where Richardson Street now runs. It was built by Dr. Solon O. Richardson, son of the inventor of Richardsons Sherry Wine Bitters, and is where his son, also named Solon, was born in 1841. Solon O. Richardson, Sr., was also trained as a doctor, but he continued his fathers successful business, developing new packaging and marketing for the product, which made him quite wealthy. He was active in the towns civic life, founding Richardsons Light Guard, a militia company, in 1851. The house was move in the late 19th century by Solon, Jr., to make way for development of Richardson Street on part of the family estate.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Thomas Simpson House is a historic house at 114 Main Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It is a -story timber-frame house, in a local variant of Georgian style that is three bays wide and four deep, with a side gable roof. Its primary entrance, facing west toward Lake Quannapowitt, has sidelight windows and pilasters supporting an entablature, while a secondary south-facing entrance has the same styling, except with a transom window instead of sidelights. The core of this house was built by Dr. Thomas Simpson sometime before 1750, and has been added onto several times. It was restyled in the Federal period, when the door surrounds would have been added.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>South Reading Academy is a historic former school building at 7 Foster Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA. Built in 1828-29 for the First Baptist Church, the building has served as a religious school, public high school, clubhouse, and commercial space. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The South Reading Academy is located on the west side of Foster Street, a short street in the center of Wakefield that runs parallel and west of Main Street. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, three bays wide, with a front-facing gable roof. The main facade, facing east, is symmetrically arranged, with the entrance centered in a recess that is framed by pilasters and an entablature. The front gable is fully pedimented, with a decorative shingle pattern at its center.</p><br>
<p>The academy was built c. 1828&ndash;29 for the First Baptist Church as an academy and meeting house, and was one of the earliest of its kind. It was originally located on Academy Hill, where the Lincoln School was later built. The Baptists used it until 1847, when the town acquired the building for use as a public high school. The town stopped using it as a school in 1871, and in 1891 it was moved to its present location, where it has served over the years as home to a chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Methodist church congregation, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. It was severely damaged by fire in the 1970s, but was restored for use as a commercial building.</p><br>
<p>Independence Historic District in Independence, Oregon, United States is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Main Street, running along the Willamette River, is notable as an example of a late-nineteenth/early-twentieth century main street and features two commercial buildings with prominent Victorian-era towers. Most of the buildings on Main Street were built of brick between 1880 and 1900.</p><br>
<p>Independence thrived as a shipping point, by both rail and boat, for agricultural products and lumber until the 1950s. The city was known for its hops production from the 1890s through the 1940s, dubbing itself the "Hop Capital of the World." When the demand for hops dropped, the citys fortunes began to decline. One reason Independence is so well-preserved today is that it was bypassed by major freeways in the 1960s, so there wasnt a push to modernize the downtown. Today the historic district is being revitalized as a tourism destination.</p><br>
<h2>Individual listings within the district</h2><br>
<p>The district includes five buildings separately listed on the NRHP:</p><br>
<p>Dr. John E. and Mary D. Davidson House (c. 1878)</p><br>
<p>Independence National Bank (1891) designed by architect Walter D. Pugh</p><br>
<p>Kersey C. Eldridge House (1914)</p><br>
<p>J. A. Wheeler House (c.1880)</p><br>
<p>Saint Patrick&#39;s Roman Catholic Church (c. 1874)</p><br>
<p>The United States Post Office–Wakefield Main is a historic post office building at 321 Main Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Built in 1936 as part of a Depression-era works project, it is a Classical Revival structure that harmonizes with its neighbors. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, and included in the Common District in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Wakefield Post Office is set on the west side of Main Street, at the southwest corner with Yale Avenue. A single-story Classical Revival brick and limestone building, it stands between two other Classical Revival buildings, the former YMCA, and the Lucius Beebe Memorial Library. Its front facade is five bays wide, the center three recessed behind a pair of fluted Doric columns and flanking square pillars, which are also found at the building corners. The pillars support a stone entablature, above which is a parapet obscuring the building&#39;s flat roof. The outer bays each have a large sash window, above which are circular panels with decorative plaques, giving the building a hint of the then-popular Art Moderne style.</p><br>
<p>Wakefield&#39;s first post office was in the private home of its postmaster, David Norcross, at Main and Chestnut Streets. In 1860, after a series of moves occasioned by the change of postmaster, it was located in commercial spaces in the downtown. The current structure was built by the federal government as a Depression-era works project, which including hiring a local architect, Edward M. Bridge, to design it.</p><br>
<p>Wakefield Park Historic District is a residential historic district encompassing a portion of a late-19th/early-20th century planned development in western Wakefield, Massachusetts. The district encompasses sixteen properties on 8 acre of land out of the approximately 100 acre that comprised the original development. Most of the properties in the district are on Park Avenue, with a few located on immediately adjacent streets.</p><br>
<p>The Wakefield Park development was laid out 1888 by J. S. Merrill, a local developer, on land southwest of the town center that had been used as farmland until the 1850s. Merrill developed some of the properties himself, and instituted deed restrictions on the sale of lots to ensure that the area would contain only high quality upper middle class homes. In the 1890s, when development in the area was at its peak, Merrill partnered with Charles Hanks, who successfully marketed the development as a healthy "garden suburb" alternative to city living.</p><br>
<p>Architecturally, the houses that were built exhibited a variety of styles popular around the turn of the 20th century, often mixing architectural elements from different styles. One example of this eclecticism is the house at 8 Park Avenue: built c. 1900, it is a 2.5 story wood frame house with a steeply pitched Colonial Revival-style roof, but with an entrance that is stylistically Craftsman/Bungalow. Its corner tower is typical of Queen Anne Victorians. A number of houses, including thouse at 2 and 4 Park, combine Shingle and Colonial Revival styles, while 24 Park is a more typical Queen Anne Victorian.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Wakefield Rattan Company was the worlds leading manufacturer of furniture and objects made from rattan in the second half of the 19th century. Founded by Cyrus Wakefield in 1851 in South Reading, Massachusetts , the company perfected machinery for working with rattan, developing looms for weaving chair seats and mats. The companys products also included wicker furniture and baby carriages. The company also successfully found uses for previously wasted portions of the plant, using shavings to create baling fabric and floor coverings. Its products were available throughout the United States.</p><br>
<p>In 1868 Cyrus Wakefield donated a new town hall to South Reading, which renamed itself Wakefield in his honor. Wakefield was also a major benefactor and investor in the town.</p><br>
<p>By 1873, the year of Cyrus Wakefield&#39;s death, his company employed 1,000 workers at an 11 acre site just outside the town center. In the 1890s the company merged with Heywood Brothers to become the Heywood-Wakefield Company, and its manufacturing facilities in Wakefield were updated after several fires did significant damage to the plant.</p><br>
<p>By 1930 the company&#39;s business had declined, and its facilities were redeveloped for other uses. In 1972 a fire destroyed all but four buildings. In 1989 those buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2005 they were demolished and replaced by a supermarket.</p><br>
<p>The Wakefield Trust Company is a historic commercial building at 371 Main Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Built in 1924, it is one of three buildings on the west side of Main Street  that give the town center a strong Classical Revival flavor. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Wakefield Trust Company building stands on the west side of Main Street in downtown Wakefield, at the southwest corner of Chestnut Street. It is a two story structure, built out of limestone. Its main facade has a projecting Greek temple pavilion, with four smooth round columns supporting an entablature and a fully pedimented and dentillated gable. The main entrance, accessed via a low set of steps between the central columns, is set in a tall round-arch opening. The bays of the front and north sides are separated by pilasters, and the windows on the north side, while rectangular sash, are set in panels that echo the rounded arch of the entrance.</p><br>
<p>The Wakefield Trust Company was founded in 1854 as the South Reading Bank (Wakefield then being called South Reading). After several reorganizations and mergers, it acquired that name in 1926. This building was constructed in 1924, when it was known as the Wakefield National Bank. It was built at a cost of $300,000 to a design by Hutchins & French of Boston. Its Classical Revival features followed those of the library, which stands one block north and was built in 1922, and precede those of the post office, which stands beyond the library and was built in 1936.</p><br>
<p>The H. M. Warren School is a historic school building at 30 Converse Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Built c. 1895-97, it is locally significant as a fine example of Renaissance Revival architecture, and for its role in the town&#39;s educational system. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It now houses social service agencies.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Warren School building is set on the south side of Converse Street, in a residential area on Wakefields west side. The two story brick and limestone building was designed by Charles E. Park, and built c. 1895-97, during the towns most significant period of suburban development (1870-1910). It was named for Major Horace M. Warren, a Wakefield native killed in the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>The Renaissance Revival structure is one of the highest quality school buildings built for the town. It consists of a central section, which is flanked by matching side sections which project. The side sections are five bays wide, and have hipped slate roofs whose spine runs perpendicular to that of the central section. The central section, where the main entrance is located, has a projecting triple-arched single story portico sheltering stairs to the entry doors. The portico is topped by a low parapet, above which are the second story round-arch windows. Three hip-roof dormers project from the central section&#39;s roof.</p><br>
<p>Lake Bato is a freshwater lake and the 7th largest in the Philippines. It is located in the town of Bato, approximately 9 km southwest of Iriga City, Camarines Sur Province, southeastern Luzon, Philippines. It has extensive marshes and swamp forests. The lake drains into a tributary of the Bicol River which enters the sea near Naga City. Average depth is 8 m, and the bottom is muddy clay. The pH value is 6.1, the average dissolved oxygen 10 p.p.m., and the total hardness  2.4.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The lake was originally called Caligno by natives living around the area and a small settlement was founded on its shores during pre-Spanish times; the early settlers thrived on the lake&#39;s rich resources and use it as a primary medium of travel. The settlement flourished on to become the present-day town of Bato, Camarines Sur and the lake came to be named after the town, which was established by a decree of the Superior Government (National Government) on February 15, 1758, when the Philippines was still under the Viceroyalty of New Spain.</p><br>
<h2>The Sinarapan</h2><br>
<p>Lake Bato is part of the Rinconada (Bicol) Lakes System, which also includes Lake Buhi and Lake Baao-Bula. It is known that the Sinarapan (Mistichthys luzonensis), the worlds smallest commercially harvested fish in the world, is also found in its waters. Sinarapan literally means "caught by sarap" in Buhi in this early historical context. However, the same fish is called tabios in Bato, Nabua, Baao and Bula, Camarines Sur. The etymology of tabios, however, is quite vague. The name is not found in the scientific literature unlike "Sinarapan". It is believed that Tabios is only used in the vernacular pertaining to the local fishery. At present, the Sinarapan is threatened by extinction due to over-fishing and other factors but efforts to conserve it are ongoing. Such is this species importance to the lake&#39;s ecosystem since it is endemic only to this region.</p><br>
<p>The West Ward School is a historic school at 39 Prospect Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Built in 1847, it is the only surviving Greek Revival schoolhouse  in the town. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It is now maintained by the local historical society as a museum property.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The West Ward School is located on the north side of Prospect Street, just east of its junction with Nichols Street. Prospect Street is a major east-west route through northwestern Wakefield, and is predominantly residential in this area. The school is a two-story wood frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and a projecting gable-roofed entry vestibule. The gable end is fully boxed, with a triangular louver at its center. An entablature encircles the building, supported by corner pilasters. The front facade is three bays wide, with the entry vestibule at the center, echoing on a smaller scale the details of the main facade.</p><br>
<p>The town of Wakefield experienced a boom in growth following the arrival of the railroad in town in 1845. Four district schools were built in response, including this one in 1847. In 1858 continued growth in the student population prompted the addition of the second story classroom. The school remained open, the town population resisting administration calls to close it, until 1998, when a failure of the second floor ceiling led to its closing. The building has been restored by the Wakefield Historical Society, and now serves as its museum.</p><br>
<p>The Kuykendall Polygonal Barn was an early 20th-century polygonal barn in the South Branch Potomac River valley near Romney in Hampshire County, West Virginia. The Kuykendall Polygonal Barn was the only 15-sided barn built in West Virginia, and one of only a few such known to have been constructed in the United States. The barn utilized a number of sophisticated technological innovations not found in West Virginia&#39;s other round and polygonal barns. The Kuykendall Polygonal Barn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 9 July 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Kuykendall farm is one of the oldest in Hampshire County.</p><br>
<p>The Kuykendall Polygonal Barn was built around 1906 by the Kuykendall family on their farm. The chief carpenter in its construction was John Clowser.</p><br>
<p>The barn collapsed during a storm in 2005. Restoration efforts are on hold.</p><br>
<p>Salt Spring Island  is one of the Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia between mainland British Columbia, Canada and Vancouver Island.</p><br>
<p>The island was initially inhabited by various Salishan peoples before being settled by pioneers in 1859, at which time it was officially called Admiral Island. It was the first of the Gulf Islands to be settled and the first agricultural settlement on the islands in the Colony of Vancouver Island, as well as the first island in the region to permit settlers to acquire land through pre-emption. The island was retitled to its current name in 1910.</p><br>
<p>Salt Spring Island is the largest, most populous, and the most frequently visited of the Southern Gulf Islands.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Salt Spring Island, or xʷənen̕əč, was initially inhabited by Salishan peoples of various tribes. Other Saanich placenames on the island include: t̕θəsnaʔəŋ̕ (Beaver Point), čəw̕een (Cape Keppel), xʷən̕en̕əč (Fulford Harbour), and syaxʷt (Ganges Harbour).</p><br>
<p>The island became a refuge from racism for African Americans who had resided in California. They left California in 1858 after the state passed discriminatory legislation against blacks. Several of the families settled on this island; others on Vancouver Island. Before the emigration, Mifflin Wistar Gibbs traveled with two other men up to the colony to interview Governor James Douglas about what kind of treatment they could expect there. The Governor was a Guyanese man of multi-ethnic birth, and assured them that people of African descent in Canada would be fairly treated and that the colony had abolished slavery more than 20 years before.</p><br>
<p>The island was the first of the Gulf Islands to be settled by non-First Nations people. According to 1988s A Victorian Missionary and Canadian Indian Policy, it was the first agricultural settlement established anywhere in the Colony of Vancouver Island that was not owned by the Hudsons Bay Company or its subsidiary the Pugets Sound Agricultural Company.</p><br>
<p>Salt Spring Island was the first in the Colony of Vancouver Island and British Columbia to allow settlers to acquire land through pre-emption: settlers could occupy and improve the land before purchase, being permitted to buy it at a cost per acre of one dollar after proving they had done so. Before 1871 (when the merged Colony of British Columbia joined Canada), all property acquired on Salt Spring Island was purchased in this way; between 1871 and 1881, it was still by far the primary method of land acquisition, accounting for 96% of purchases. As a result, the history of early settlers on Saltspring Island is unusually detailed.</p><br>
<p>Demographically, early settlers of the island included not only African Americans, but also (largely) English and British Isles settlers, including Irish and Scottish, as well as aboriginal and Hawaiian. The method of land purchase helped to ensure that the land was used for agricultural purposes and that the settlers were mostly families. Ruth Wells Sandwell in Beyond the City Limit indicates that few of the islands early residents were commercial farmers, with most families maintaining subsistence plots and supplementing through other activities, including fishing, logging and working for the colonys government. Some families later abandoned their land as a result of lack of civic services on the island or other factors, such as the livestock-killing cold of the winter of 1862.</p><br>
<p>During the 1960s, the island became a political refuge for United States citizens, this time for draft evaders during the Vietnam War.</p><br>
<h2>The island's name</h2><br>
<p>The island was known as "Chuan" or "Chouan" Island in 1854, but it was also called "Saltspring" as early as 1855, in honour of the islands salt springs. In 1859, it was officially named "Admiralty Island" in honour of Rear-Admiral Robert Lambert Baynes by surveyor Captain Richards, who named various points of the island in honour of the Rear-Admiral and his flagship, HMS Ganges. Even while named "Admiralty Island", it was referred to popularly as Saltspring, as in James Richardsons report for the Geological Survey of Canada in 1872. According to records of the Geographic Board of Canada, the island was officially retitled Saltspring on March 1, 1910, though the year 1905 is given by unofficial sources. According to the Integrated Land Management Bureau of British Columbia, locals incline equally to Saltspring and Salt Spring for current use. The official chamber of commerce website for the island, which gives a date of 1906 for the renaming, adopts the two word title, stating that the Geographic Board of Canada, in choosing the one word name, "cared nothing for local opinion or Island tradition."</p><br>
<h2>Geography and locale</h2><br>
<p>Located between Mainland British Columbia and Vancouver Island, Salt Spring Island is the most frequently visited of the Gulf Islands as well as the most populous, with a 2011 census population of 10,234 inhabitants. The largest village on the island is Ganges. The island is known for its artists. In addition to Canadian dollars, island banks and most island businesses accept Salt Spring&#39;s own local currency, the Salt Spring dollar.</p><br>
<p>The island is part of the Southern Gulf Islands, (Salt Spring Island, Galiano Island, Pender Island, Saturna Island, Mayne Island), which are all part of the Capital Regional District, along with the municipalities of Greater Victoria. Salt Spring Island&#39;s highest point of elevation is Bruce Peak, which according to topographic data from Natural Resources Canada is just over 700 metres above sea level.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<h2>Hiking trails</h2><br>
<p>Salt Spring Island has several hiking trails. Two of hiking trails are rough and windy trails that lead to the summit regions of both Bruce Peak 709 meters (2,326 feet) above sea level, and Mount Tuam 602 meters (1,975 feet) above sea level. These two mountain peaks are the tallest points of land on the Southern Gulf Islands. Other short hikes can also be found on the island. One of these is the 2.5 km long trek to the summit of Mount Erskine, which is 441 metres above sea level.</p><br>
<h2>Notable residents</h2><br>
<p>Michael Ableman - author, organic farmer</p><br>
<p>Nick Bantock - author and artist</p><br>
<p>Robert Bateman - wildlife artist</p><br>
<p>Arthur Black - CBC personality and humourist</p><br>
<p>Brian Brett - poet and novelist</p><br>
<p>Michael Colgan - nutritionist/bodybuilding writer</p><br>
<p>Bill Henderson - singer-songwriter (The Collectors, Chilliwack)</p><br>
<p>Dan Jason- author, organic farming advocate</p><br>
<p>Sky Lee - artist and novelist</p><br>
<p>Pearl Luke - award-winning author</p><br>
<p>Harry Manx - musician and singer-songwriter</p><br>
<p>Stuart Margolin - actor and director (The Rockford Files—former resident of Salt Spring Island)</p><br>
<p>James Monger PhD, award-winning geologist</p><br>
<p>Kathy Page - writer</p><br>
<p>Briony Penn - professor (UVIC), author, and environmental activist.</p><br>
<p>Jan Rabson - voice-over actor</p><br>
<p>Raffi - singer-songwriter</p><br>
<p>Clare Rustad - Canada women&#39;s national soccer team</p><br>
<p>Malcolm Smith - motorcyclist</p><br>
<p>Sylvia Stark</p><br>
<p>Patrick Taylor - Northern Irish author</p><br>
<p>Valdy - folk and country musician</p><br>
<p>Phyllis Webb - poet and radio broadcaster</p><br>
<p>Simon Whitfield - Olympic triathlon champion</p><br>
<p>Ronald Wright - author</p><br>
<h2>Education</h2><br>
<p>Sprott Shaw College, a private post-secondary institution, has a satellite campus on the island.</p><br>
<p>Gulf Islands Secondary School</p><br>
<p>Salt Spring Island Middle School</p><br>
<p>Fulford Elementary School</p><br>
<p>Salt Spring Elementary School</p><br>
<p>Salt Spring Centre School</p><br>
<p>Phoenix School</p><br>
<p>Fernwood Elementary School</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Local bus transit on the island is provided by BC Transit.</p><br>
<p>BC Ferries operates between Tsawwassen and Long Harbour, as well as between Fulford Harbor-Swartz Bay and Vesuvius-Crofton.</p><br>
<p>Salt Spring Air, Seair Seaplanes and Harbour Air Seaplanes operate floatplane services from Ganges Water Aerodrome to Vancouver Harbour Water Airport and Vancouver International Water Airport. Kenmore Air operates between Ganges and Lake Union, Seattle, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Communications</h2><br>
<p>Telecommunications service providers include Telus and Shaw, with most wireless carriers providing coverage. The Island is served by the Ganges and Fulford Harbour exchanges.</p><br>
<p>The William Blodgett House is a historic house at 11 Fairmont Avenue in the Newton Corner neighborhood of Newton, Massachusetts. Built about 1875, it is a prominent local example of Stick style architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, where it is listed at 645 Centre Street.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The William Blodgett House stands in a residential area southwest of the village center of Newton Corner, at the northwest corner of Centre Street and Fairmont Avenue. The house is set facing Centre Street on a low rise edged by a low stone retaining wall. It is 2-1/2 stories in height, and is basically rectangular in footprint, although this is obscured by numerous projections. It has a side-gable roof, with two large front-facing gables, between which is a small hip-roof dormer. A polygonal turret projects from the left side. Gable eaves are adorned with brackets, single and in pairs, and there is applied woodwork on some sections. An elaborate front porch is matched in decorative detail by a porte-cochere on the side of the house, where a semicircular drive provides access from Fairmont Avenue. The brick chimneys that project from the roof have panelled sides and corbelled tops.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1875 and is an excellent representation of Stick style architecture. William Blodgett, who bought it in 1879, was a Boston carpet merchant, and typifies the upper-class suburban residences built in Newton during the post-Civil War years.</p><br>
<p>The Boston Edison Power Station is a historic power station at 374 Homer Street in Newton, Massachusetts. Built in 1904 and twice enlarged, it is a significant reminder of the city&#39;s early electrification efforts, providing power to both area buildings and the local streetcar network. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It presently serves as a power distribution hub.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Boston Edison Power Station stands on the south side of Homer Street, just west of the Newton Free Library and across the street from the Newton City Hall and War Memorial. It is a single-story structure, finished in stucco and brick, with a flattened hip roof. The angled portion of the roof is red tile, with exposed rafter ends in the eaves below. The corners of the building have brick quoining, which also articulate the major sections of the facade. The facade is divided into three sections, with the entrance in the left section, framed by an elaborate temple-like surround. The right section has a window in a similar position, with a less elaborate surround. The narrow central section has a bricked-over garage-style entrance, framed by a leaf-molded cast stone surround.</p><br>
<p>In 1904, the Edison Electrical Illuminating Company built a portion of this building, at first to provide power to the surrounding neighborhood. It was built next to a carbarn and power station of the local streetcar line. It was enlarged twice, in 1910 and 1913, each time stylistically sympathetic to the original design of Bigelow and Wadsworth. With the later additions, the company took over the provision of power to the streetcar system. It an important historical component in the early period of the citys electrification, and a rare surviving example of that periods industrial architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Brae Burn Road Historic District is a residential historic district on Brae Burn and Windermere Roads in Newton, Massachusetts. It encompasses as modest residential subdivision that was laid out in the then-rural area of Auburndale in 1911. Many of its houses were designed by the regionally notable firm of Gay & Proctor, and represent a well-preserved collection of modestly scaled Craftsman and Colonial Revival style houses. The district includes 26 houses. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Auburndale is a village and neighborhood in northwestern Newton, Massachusetts. Brae Burn and Windermere Roads are located on the southeastern part of the neighborhood, bounded on the north by Greenough Road, on the south and west by Commonwealth Avenue (Massachusetts Route 30), and on the east by Arapahoe Road. Brae Burn Road runs roughly north-south between Greenough and Commonwealth, and Brae Burn runs north from Commonwealth before bending west to end at Brae Burn Road. These roads were laid out in 1911, in a period of renewed growth following an economic downturn.</p><br>
<p>More than a dozen houses were built on these two roads between 1911 and 1916, with the remainder built no later than 1940. The houses are generally moderately-scaled frame structures, almost all of which are either Craftsman or Colonial Revival in style. Seven houses were designed by the regionally notable firm of Gay and Proctor, while four of the houses built after World War I were designed by C. C. Crowell, a prolific local architect. Many of the early houses (including most of the Gay and Proctor houses) were apparently built on speculation, and were marketed by Attwood, Pattee, and Potter of Boston.</p><br>
<p>The Brandeis University President&#39;s House, also known as the Leland Powers House, is an historic house on 66 Beaumont Avenue in Newton, Massachusetts. Built in 1913–14 for Leland Powers, it is a prominent large-scale example of Craftsman architecture. It has also served as the official residence of two presidents of Brandeis University and Roger Berkowitz, the CEO of Legal Sea Foods. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Brandeis University President&#39;s House stands in a subdivision known as Grove Hill Park, on the south side of the village of Newtonville. It is set at the northeast corner of Beaumont and Prospect Streets, amid other houses of similar scale. It is a two-story L-shaped structure, oriented with its main facade to the north, presenting a side to Beaumont Street and the house rear to Prospect. It is covered by a hip roof with broad raking eaves, under which rafters are exposed. The main facade has bands of windows on either side of the center entrance, which has sidelight windows articulated by brackets supporting a projecting cornice, which transitions to a half-round shape that houses a transom window. The exterior is finished in stucco applied over rubblestone walls The interior is richly decorated with Arts and Crafts features.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1913–14 as the residence of noted educator Leland Powers, and was severely damaged by an anarchist bomb attack in 1919. Powers, at the time a state legislator, was active in legislating against the rise of anarchist activity; his family moved out of the house in 1921. It was acquired in 1948 by the recently founded Brandeis University as the home of its first president, Abram L. Sachar. During Sachar&#39;s residence, the house was a center of entertainment related to the university, playing host to high-profile guests from politics and academia. The university sold the house in 1992 to Roger Berkowitz, the chief executive of Legal Sea Foods, but repurchased it in 1994 as the official residence of Jehuda Reinharz, its seventh president. The university sold it again in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Mayall Bruner House is a historic house at 36 Magnolia Avenue in the Newton Corner neighborhood of Newton, Massachusetts. Built in 1923, it is a well-preserved example of Craftsman architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Mayall Bruner House stands in a residential area on the south side of Newton Corner, on the west side of Magnolia Avenue south of Kenrick Street. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a complex roofline that includes two front facing gables joined by a high cross ridge. At the sides the gable roofs extend further downward, to garden gate on one side and the main entrance on the other. The entry is sheltered by a hip-roof portico with a segmented-arch opening. Windows are of differing shapes and sizes, with one sash window topped by a rounded-arch fixed-pane window, and another that is a three-part picture window. The front-facing gables each have narrow four-over-four windows near their peaks. The south facade is defined by banks of tripled sash windows on both levels.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1923 to a design by Arthur H. Bowditch, a Boston-based architect best known for his commercial buildings. The house is an excellent local example of rustic Craftsman styling. Its exterior has been little altered since construction; the most prominent change is the installation of the picture window, probably in the 1960s. Mayall Bruner was a wool merchant with offices in Boston.</p><br>
<p>The John Buckingham House is a historic house at 33–35 Waban Street in the Newton Corner village of Newton, Massachusetts. Built about 1864, it is a good local example of Second Empire architecture, typical of built at that time for upper middle class commuters to Boston. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The John Buckingham House stands in a densely built residential area northwest of the center of Newton Corner, on the north side of Waban Street opposite Hovey Street. Its lot is fronted by a low stone retaining wall, which continues to a posted drive on the adjacent property, where the house&#39;s original carriage house is located. The house is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a bell-cast mansard roof with fish-scale slate shingles and segmented-arch dormers. The cornice is denticulated, and there are single-story projecting bay windows on both sides, topped by bracketed roofs. A single-story porch extends across the front, supported by bracketed chamfered square posts; a similar porch is set on the right side near the rear.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood was laid out sometime after the railroad arrived at Newton Corner in 1844, and may have been designed by landscape architect Alexander Wadsworth. This house is estimated to have been built c. 1864, and was bought in 1866 by John Buckingham, pastor of the Chestnut Hill Unitarian Church. It remained in his family until the 1970s. The Second Empire style house is typical of commuter-oriented housing built in Newton Corner after the American Civil War, and is notable for the surviving carriage house.</p><br>
<p>1–6 Walnut Terrace in the Newtonville village of Newton, Massachusetts is a distinctive Shingle style rowhouse. Built in 1887, it is one of the city&#39;s few examples of a 19th-century rowhouse. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Walnut Terrace is a short spur road on the north side of Newtonville, extending from Central Avenue in the east to the rear of a commercial block fronting onto Walnut Street, one of the village&#39;s commercial thoroughfares. It is little more than an access drive for this rowhouse, which is on its north side. It is a wood frame building, with three brick firewalls, stepped at the tops, separating it into four sections. The end sections have front-facing gabled roofs with gabled dormers at the ends, while the center sections have side-gable roofs with dormers that have recessed windows. The two center units have single-story projecting rectangular bays, while the units flanking those have projecting rounded bays. The deeply recessed entries were originally Queen Anne in style, with sidelight and transom windows, but have modernized.</p><br>
<p>The rowhouse was built in 1887 by William Claflin, a Newtonville resident and former Governor of Massachusetts. He was also one of Newtonville&#39;s principal real estate developers, owning a number of commercial and residential properties in the village. This is the oldest multiunit housing of its type in Newton, most of whose housing stock is less densely built single-family residences.</p><br>
<p>The Adams Claflin House is a historic house at 156 Grant Avenue in the village of Newton Centre in Newton, Massachusetts. It is a large 2-1/2 story cross-gable wood frame structure, built in the Shingle style to a design by Samuel Brown for Adams Davenport Claflin. Claflin was the son of Massachusetts Governor and Newtonville resident William Claflin, and was a major landowner in Newtonville as well as president of the Boston and Suburban Electric Company. Claflin was a major developer of the streetcar system that served Newton. Architecturally, the house shows vestiges of the Queen Anne style, with its asymmetrical massing and wealth of projections and gables, as well as elements of the Colonial Revival, exemplified by a Palladian window, and by the pedimented front porch. The house is one of several designed by Brown for the Claflin family.</p><br>
<p>On September 4, 1986, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Hook Tavern is a late 18th-century tavern along the Northwestern Turnpike  east of Capon Bridge in Hampshire County, West Virginia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 29, 2011.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Located near the eastern base of Bear Garden Mountain in the Mill Branch valley, Hook Tavern was constructed along the Northwestern Turnpike between the 1790 and 1809 on property belonging to early Hampshire County settler Peter Mauzy.</p><br>
<p>In 1840, the property was purchased by the Hook family who began operating the building as a tavern. Samuel Hook and John B. Sherrard obtained a hotel license on May 26, 1848 to operate the tavern as a fully functioning hotel. On June 1, 1862, Hook paid $10 for another hotel keeper&#39;s license.</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War, on February 3, 1862, J. A. Hunter of the Confederate States Army stated that because of severe weather, it was necessary for the Confederates to commandeer Samuel Hook&#39;s tavern and wood for the comfort of 80 sick men in his charge.</p><br>
<p>Renovations in July 1956 revealed the name and date "William C. Black, May 7, 1845" on a plaster wall. Other names and remarks discovered included: "I can throw any mule driver on the road, John New" and "Too much snuff, McCauley" dated May 7, 1853.</p><br>
<p>The Hook family and its descendants owned the tavern and its surrounding property from 1840 until 1987 when it was purchased by real estate developer Edward Noble of Atlanta, Georgia. The property is now a junk store owned by Judson Eversole, of Eversole Enterprises.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Hook Tavern is an ell-shaped structure with one leg parallel to USA Route 50 and the other parallel to Smokey Hollow Road (County Route 6). Hook Tavern is a clapboard-covered, two-story structure with floors on three varying heights indicating that it was built in several phases. The tavern&#39;s front face along USA Route 50 is graced with a two-story porch. Its oldest constructed section contains a large fireplace with printles upon which a crane swung pots over the fire. Hook Tavern contains approximately 4,000 ft&sup2; consisting of ten rooms and two bathrooms.</p><br>
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<p>Sherman Island is an island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta at the confluence of the two rivers in Sacramento County, California, two kilometres northeast of Antioch. The 5,500 hectare island is the meeting point of Sacramento-, Solano-, and Contra Costa-Counties, and is bordered on the north and northwest by the Sacramento River, on the northeast by Three Mile Slough, and on the east, and south west by the San Joaquin River.</p><br>
<p>Access to the island is provided by California State Route 160, which uses the Antioch Bridge to link Sherman Island with the city of Antioch to the south, and the Three Mile Slough Bridge to link Sherman Island with Brannan Island State Recreation Area to the north.</p><br>
<p>The southwest of the island features a large marshy area and Sherman Lake where there is fishing and other water sports, particularly windsurfing and kite boarding.</p><br>
<p>The Commonwealth Avenue Historic District of Newton, Massachusetts, encompasses roughly the eastern half of Commonwealth Avenue, extending from Waban Hill Road, near the city line with Boston, westward to Walnut Street. The roadway was laid out in 1894 and completed in 1895. Its design was influenced in part by the local residents, who were willing to give land for some of the route, and the design of Boston portions of the road, in which Frederick Law Olmsted was involved. Construction of the roadway was followed by the construction of fashionably large residences along its route, which took place mostly between the road&#39;s construction and about 1920. The district includes 188 residential properties, which are mainly built in the revival styles popular in the early 20th century. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Commonwealth Avenue in Newton was built in 1895 as an extension of the boulevard of that name that ran through Boston, that would pass through the central part of the city, providing vehicular and street car service to an area not well served by its Circuit Railway. It was modeled to some degree on that road and Beacon Street in Brookline, as a wide right of way with space for a street car line. It differs from those roads, in that the terrain is much hillier, requiring the road to wind in a more picturesque manner, and in the city&#39;s aversion to multiunit apartment blocks.</p><br>
<p>A significant number of houses lining Commonwealth Avenue were designed by architects. The most prolific was Harry Morton Ramsay, who is documented to have designed at least 17 of them. Ramsay&#39;s work was in a variety of styles, with the Colonial Revival predominating in his work along this road. Most of these houses were built for well-to-do Boston businessmen and professionals. There are two areas along the road where small commercial blocks were built: near the eastern end in the vicinity of Boston College, and at the corner of Centre Street.</p><br>
<p>The West End South Historic District encompasses a neighborhood of mid 19th to early 20th century residential architecture in western Hartford, Connecticut and eastern West Hartford, Connecticut. Roughly bounded by Prospect and South Whitney Streets, West Boulevard, and Farmington Avenue, the area includes a large number of Colonial Revival and Queen Anne houses, as well as numerous buildings in other period styles, with only a small number of losses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The part of Hartford west of the Park River remained largely agricultural until the 1870s, when it began to see increasing residential development. Most of the land on either side of Farmington Avenue belonged to three owners, including William B. Smith, a Hartford tailor and breeder of cattle. Smith lived in the districts oldest house, a c. 1855 house that has Queen Anne alterations. This area was platted for development in the early 1870s, but financial panics later in the decade delayed substantial development until 1890. In 1889 a streetcar line was extended westward on Farmington Avenue, spurring development. By 1909, much of the area had been developed. Prominent residents of area included Moses Fox, the president of Hartfords leading department store, G. Fox & Co.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is about 46 acre in size, and includes 177 historically significant buildings. It is bounded on the east by the Park River, and on the south by Farmington Avenue, although it excludes the modern buildings on that road. It is bounded by four transportation arteries, but includes only a few buildings on West Boulevard and Prospect Street, and none on Farmington Avenue or South Whitney Street. The area is characterize by long rectangular blocks, with mature tree plantings and uniform building setbacks. Porches are a regular feature of the houses in the district, regardless of their architectural style. Most buildings are 2-1/2 stories in height, and of wood frame construction. The most common styles seen are the Queen Anne, Shingle, and Colonial Revival, reflecting the period of most intensive development.</p><br>
<p>The Crystal Lake and Pleasant Street Historic District encompasses a streetcar suburban residential subdivision developed between 1860 and 1895 in Newton, Massachusetts. The district roughly bounded by the Sudbury Aqueduct, Pleasant Avenue, Lake Avenue, and Crystal Street and Webster Court. The subdivision was laid out in the 1850s after the Boston and Charles Railroad line  was extended through Newton from Brookline. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The oldest houses in the district are on Pleasant Street, and date to the 1850s. The street has a series of well-preserved Carpenter Gothic houses, with fanciful scroll-sawn vergeboard decoration in the gables, dormers, and porches. Another of the older houses in the district is the c. 1858 Bracketed Italianate house at 21 Lake Avenue. The only Second Empire house in the district is a modest cottage at 112 Pleasant Street.</p><br>
<p>Later styles are also well represented in the 23 properties in the district. 97 Lake Avenue is a particularly well-sited Queen Anne Victorian, with flared eaves, conical tower, and elaborate porte cochere. Stick styling is represented in the house at 908 Beacon Street, and an excellent Colonial Revival home is found at 38 Lake Avenue. This house was built c. 1893 for David Andrews, president of the Boston Bridge Works Company, and has excellent views of Crystal Lake.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Roswell Turner, a local businessman, began amassing land in this area in the 1840s. Turner was responsible for extending Beacon Street to the area, and laid out Lake Avenue. Many of his lots in his subdivisions were later developed by Charles Davis, a Boston-based piano merchant and local real estate developer. Crystal Lake was at the time also developed as a recreational resource.</p><br>
<p>The William Curtis House is a historic house located at 2330 Washington Street in the Newton Lower Falls village of Newton, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>This 2-1/2 story wood frame house was built in 1839 for William Curtis, and is an important local example of transitional Federal-Greek Revival styling. It has Federal massing, with a five bay front facade and four side chimneys, but it has Greek Revival corner pilasters, and a front entry sheltered by a Doric porch. William Curtis and his brother owned a local paper mill, which was the first in the area to install a Foudrinier machine, enabling the production of paper on rolls.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 4, 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Day Estate Historic District encompasses part of a subdivided estate at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Dartmouth Street in Newton, Massachusetts. The district is bounded by Commonwealth, Dartmouth, Chestnut, and Prince Streets, and includes six houses located on Commonwealth and Dartmouth. It was originally owned by Henry Day, a banker, who in 1896 built the house at 321 Chestnut Street. They subdivided the block during a building boom in the 1920s, and the new houses were built between 1928 and 1930. All six houses are high quality Tudor Revival structures, five of them designed by William J. Freethey. Day&#39;s estate house  is now home to the All Newton Music School, and the rest of the northeastern portion of the estate has more modern construction. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Three of the four properties in the district on Commonwealth Avenue were designed by Freethey. The fourth, #1415, was designed by Hawley Morton. The house at #1395 is a cubic building with a strongly French-influenced design. That at #1429 is distinguished by having limestone trim, and #1445 has half-timbered styling on the upper level, and a conical tower.</p><br>
<p>Both house on Dartmouth Street were designed by Freethey. #10 has an asymmetrical facade, with Gothic-inspired trim elements and medieval crenellations above a bay window. #26 is similar to #10, with the addition of half-timbered detailing.</p><br>
<p>The Farlow and Kendrick Parks Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district in the Newton Corner area of Newton, Massachusetts. The district is roughly triangular in shape, and is bounded on the north by the Massachusetts Turnpike, Park Street to the east, and Franklin and Newtonville Avenues to the west. It is roughly bisected by Church Street, and is named for two parks that are significant focal elements of the district. Kendrick Park is a small lozenge-shaped park at the southern tip of the district designed by Alexander Wadsworth; it was laid out at the request of William Kendrick, a horticulturalist whose c. 1822 Federal style house was moved to the area after the park was completed. Farlow Park is a larger rectangular park in the district&#39;s northwest, which was established by a gift from John Farlow. It is landscaped in a manner similar to the Boston Public Garden, with specimen trees and an artificial pond with bridge.</p><br>
<p>The district was one of the first major areas of suburban residential development in Newton, spurred by the railroad station at Newton Corner, and the development of streetcar lines. There was some early development in the 1840s, resulting in a number of Greek Revival and Italianate houses being built in the area, but major development occurred between 1870 and 1910, resulting in a significant number of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival houses. The district includes two significant churches: the 1885 Immanuel Baptist Church, designed by H. H. Richardson, and the 1897 Newton Methodist Episcopal Church by Cram, Wentworth and Goodhue.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and expanded in 1986,</p><br>
<p>The Farlow Hill Historic District is a residential historic district in the Newton Corner area of Newton, Massachusetts. It includes houses on Shornecliffe Road, Beechcroft Road, Farlow Road, Huntington Road, and a few properties on immediately adjacent streets. Most of the houses in the district were built between 1899 and the late 1920s and are either Craftsman or Colonial Revival in their style. The area was created by the subdivision of the estate of John Farlow, and includes 37 large and well-appointed houses, generally architect-designed, on ample lots. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>John Farlow was a local businessman whose landscaped estate occupied 40 acre on Farlow Hill. After his death in the 1890s it was subdivided according to a plan by the engineering firm of Aspinwall and Lincoln. The area was outfitted with all of the latest amenities: water, sewer, and gas lines, and electrical service, and was described in a 1907 newspaper article as "Newton&#39;s choicest residential section".</p><br>
<p>The preponderance of houses in the district are Colonial Revival in character. Of particular note is the 1902 Smith-Peterson House at 32 Farlow Road, which was separately listed on the National Register; it is distinguished with a monumental pedimented front. Another particularly elaborate example is 114 Farlow Road, with a row of pedimented dormers in its gabled slate roof, a modillioned cornice, and corner quoining. The house at 52 Farlow Road is a typical example of Tudor Revival styling: a stucco clad 2 1/2 story house built in 1922, the left side of its main facade is an expanse of half-timbering. Craftsman style houses include the unusual</p><br>
<p>106 Shornecliff Road, a shingled instance of the style built in 1911.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Gane House is a historic house at 121 Adena Road in Newton, Massachusetts. Built c. 1860s, the two-plus story wood frame house is distinguished as one of Newton&#39;s finest Second Empire houses. Its eaves are lined with dentil moulding and paired brackets, its windows have elaborate hoods, and its porch, which wraps around two sides of the house, has elaborate woodwork detail. The house was built for Henry Gane, a successful Boston merchant, and originally stood on 16 acre of manicured grounds at the corner of Waltham and Derby Streets. The land was subdivided in 1897, after which adjacent Northgate Park was developed; the house was moved to its present location after World War I.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Gray Cliff Historic District is a residential historic district encompassing a cluster of exceptionally high quality houses built in Newton, Massachusetts, between about 1890 and 1940. When first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, it included only the eight houses at 35, 39, 43, 53, 54, 64, 65, and 70 Gray Cliff Road, which were predominantly Shingle style house built before the turn of the 20th century. The district was expanded in 1990 to include an adjacent area known as The Ledges, where the houses were built between 1900 and 1940, and are mainly Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival in their styling.</p><br>
<p>The Gray Cliff area was the estate of Massachusetts politician Robert Bishop before it was subdivided for development. The construction of Commonwealth Avenue increased development pressure, and his was one of many estates that was subdivided. The houses are large, and sited on well-proportioned lots that take advantage of the topography of the area, which features rocky outcrops and ledges. It is possible that the subdivision was laid out by a draftsman who once worked for Frederick Law Olmsted. The house at 53 Gray Cliff Road is one of Newton&#39;s finest Shingle style houses.</p><br>
<p>The area of The Ledges was laid out between 1906 and 1912, and includes the original Bishop House at 40 The Ledges Road. This house was originally built in 1861, probably with Italianate styling, but was completely enlarged in the 1890s and restyled in the Colonial Revival style. Two of the houses in this area include two that were designed by architects for their own use: James Ritchie designed the Tudor style house at 10 The Ledges Road, and Henry J. Carlson designed the Colonial Revival house at 91 Bishopsgate Road for his own use; he also designed 131 Bishopsgate Road.</p><br>
<p>The Hammond House is an historic house located at 9 Old Orchard Road in the village of Chestnut Hill in</p><br>
<p>Newton, Massachusetts. With an estimated construction date of 1700–1720, it is believed to be the oldest house in Newton. It is also a rare example of a First Period house that was started as a single cell (three bays with chimney behind one bay), that was expanded to five bays later in the First Period; such expansion usually took place later in the 18th century, during the Georgian period. The house has been extended multiple times over the intervening centuries; the original core now lies just east of the main entrance. The original house was built by Hon. Ebenezer Stone when he moved from the Stone homestead at Mount Auburn in Watertown.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Henry I. Harriman House is a historic French château style house at 825 Centre Street in Newton, Massachusetts. Built in 1916 for Henry I. Harriman, it is one of Newton&#39;s most elegant 20th-century suburban estate houses. It is now part of the campus of the Boston College Law School. It was known as Putnam House, in honor of benefactor Roger Lowell Putnam, when the campus was that of Newton College of the Sacred Heart. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Harriman House is located on the campus of the Boston College Law School, just west of Centre Street, and south of Colby Road, which separates the campus from that of the Newton Day School of the Sacred Heart. The house is fully integrated into the campus and has not retained any other elements of the original Harriman estate. The house is a 2-1/2 story stuccoed structure, seven bays wide, with a steep hip roof pierced by a series of hip-roof dormers. The cornice is highlighted by a band of egg-and-dart moulding. The entrance, centered on the facade, is sheltered by a balustraded portico supported by Tuscan columns, and set in an arched opening. There are sunporches attached to both sides of the building.</p><br>
<p>The house was built for power company executive Henry I. Harriman (who later became president of the United States Chamber of Commerce). The architect was John Barnard and the landscape architect was Arthur Shurtleff, both of Boston. It was the first major commission for Barnard, a local architect, and its success led to a number other high-profile commissions. The house was acquired in 1950 by the Newton College of the Sacred Heart (founded 1946), and integrated into its campus. In 1967 the school dedicated the building a major benefactor, Roger Lowell Putnam. The school merged with Boston College in 1974, which uses the campus to house its law school. The building is identified on its maps as "825 Centre Street".</p><br>
<p>1008 Beacon Street is a historic house in the Newton Centre neighborhood of Newton, Massachusetts. Built about 1897, it is a well-preserved suburban Shingle/Colonial Revival house, typical of the style built as the Beacon Street area was developed in the late 19th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>1008 Beacon Street is located west of the village center of Newton Centre, on the south side Beacon Street at its junction with Newbury Street. Beacon Street is a major east-west route in the city, connecting Newton Centre to Waban. The house is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a cross-gabled roof and shingled exterior. The main roof is a side-facing gable, but is crossed by large gambrel sections on both front and rear faces. The front gambrel projects over a recessed porch which is made of dressed stone, with a round Syrian arch providing access. The gambrel is finished in decorative cut shingling, and has two round-arch windows in its lower level and a small sash window near its peak. To the left of the gambrel is a two-pane fixed-pane window with a stained-glass transom above on the first floor, and a projecting oriel window on the second. A chimney rises through the roof, made of brick with fieldstone quoining. The gable frieze on the side-facing gable is decorated with applied garland swags.</p><br>
<p>The Beacon Street area west of Newton Centre was developed in the late 19th century as a fashionable suburb with high-quality, often architect-designed, houses for the upper middle class. The land this house was built on belonged to a prominent local developed, Charles Davis, as late as 1895. The quality of its design and construction suggest that it was designed by an architect, and not built on speculation. Its first owner Joseph Barrows, only lived there a short time; its second owner, Christopher Goddard, as an insurance broker working in Boston.</p><br>
<p>102 Staniford Street in the Auburndale section of Newton, Massachusetts, is a rare surviving element of Auburndale&#39;s agricultural past, including both a 19th century house and barn. Built about 1869 and enlarged in 1915, it exhibist vernacular Italianate styling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. As of 2014, it was still within the family of its original owner.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>102 Staniford Street stands in a residential area north of the village center of Auburndale, on the east side of Staniford Street north of West Pine Street. It stands on over 1 acre of land, along with a 19th-century barn that has been repurposed into housing. The house is a 2-1/2 story wood-frame structure, that is basically T-shaped with a cross-gabled roof. The original main block is oriented facing south, but subsequent modifications have relocated the main entrance to the west side of the north-facing T leg. A single-story porch extends across the western facade, decorated with latticework balustrade and posts. A nod is made to Italianate styling with a round-arch window in the west-facing gable.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1869 for Patrick Carey, an Irish immigrant who came to the United States in 1859, settling in Newton by 1865. Originally working as a laborer, Carey developed the property as a dairy farm. One of his descendants converted the property to poultry farming in the 1930s, a role continued until the 1950s. The barn is of 19th-century construction, but has undergone numerous modifications, first for conversion to support the raising of poultry, and then as a residence. It is one of the few surviving agricultural buildings in the city.</p><br>
<p>Sulphide Creek Falls is a tall, moderately large volume waterfall within North Cascades National Park in Washington state. The falls drop from Sulphide Lake on the southeast side of Mount Shuksan down a narrow flume-like canyon to a broad basin below. Because of the narrow, twisting shape of the canyon the waterfall is exceptionally difficult to see from ground-level perspectives. The total vertical drop of the waterfall is in the range of 2,100 ft to 2,200 ft feet, but it has not yet been accurately measured. Foot access to the bottom of the waterfall involves 2.5 mi of off-trail travel in extremely brushy terrain and several potentially dangerous fords of a large stream.</p><br>
<h2>Other waterfalls</h2><br>
<p>Another waterfall, which is on the opposite side of the valley and joins Sulphide Creek Falls at its base, should not be confused with Sulphide Creek Falls. This falls is much more visible, but only about one-half as high as Sulphide Creek Falls. This falls is sometimes referred to as Sulphide Valley Falls.</p><br>
<p>Above Sulphide Lake is a further 1,000 ft of cascades, informally referred to as Sulphide Basin Falls, flowing from the Sulphide and Crystal Glaciers, which provide most of the water that flows over Sulphide Creek Falls. This drop is geographically separate from Sulphide Creek Falls, and should not be confused with it, despite their close proximity and location on the same feeder stream.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>There is no trail to Sulphide Creek Falls. The closest trail is the Baker River Trail, which parallels the Baker River (which Sulphide Creek flows into). The trail crosses Sulphide Creek at the confluence. From there, one must proceed upstream along the wide, rocky streambed, which continues to within about 1 mi of the base of the falls. Thick avalanche brush prevents further access.</p><br>
<p>Kautz Creek Falls is a waterfall on Kautz Creek in the Mount Rainier National Park in the state of Washington. It was formed when the Kautz Glacier retreated in the last 50 years, creating a series of long and slender cascades totaling about 400 ft in height down a tall glacial cliff, with a highest drop of 150 ft. The falls consist of two parts, each with two distinct tiers. One of these parts flows from the upper lobe of the Kautz Glacier and disappears under the lower lobe. The water flowing over this stage is generally clear. As the water passes underneath the lower lobe, however; it has a muddy appearance caused by glacial moraine, which explains the muddy appearance of Kautz Creek.</p><br>
<p>On Pearl Creek (a sub-tributary of Kautz Creek) a few miles to the west, is Pearl Falls.</p><br>
<p>Whicher Range, also known as Whicher Scarp, is a range in the South West region of Western Australia.</p><br>
<p>The range has an average elevation of 170 m above sea level.</p><br>
<p>Bounded by the Swan Coastal Plain to the West and the South, the Darling Scarp to the North and the Blackwood Plateau to the East, the range is approximately 20 km South of Busselton. The range has the form of a crescent shaped scarp.</p><br>
<p>Composed of lateritic Mesozoic sediments the range marks the Southern and Western edge of the Yilgarn Block.</p><br>
<h2>Ecological fragility</h2><br>
<p>The range is also the location of endemic rare flora and this had been identified in the 1970s. It has also been surveyed more recently in 2008, showing that further interest in the range&#39;s floristic uniqueness deserved more study.</p><br>
<p>The most critically endangered species that inhabits the Whicher range is Petrophile latericola also known as Laterite petrophile, Ironstone Petrophile or the Ironstone Pixie Mop which has a range of approximately 4.1 km&sup2; within the range.</p><br>
<p>Another threatened species that inhabits the range is Grevillea elongata or the Ironstone grevillea which is found mostly in one single community known as Southern Ironstone; this species is under continuous threat from weeds such as Watsonia.</p><br>
<h2>Issues</h2><br>
<p>Despite its unique environmental features of rare flora and residual native vegetation the range is under pressure as a water and gas supply location. The Abba River and the Vasse River both rise in the range and then flow north before finally discharging into the Vasse-Wonnerup Estuary near Busselton. The Margaret River and its tributary Margaret River North also rise from the Whicher Range and then flow west before discharging into the Indian Ocean.</p><br>
<p>Large gas reserves are known to exist under the range. Discovered over 30 years ago, the field is estimated to be over 4 trillion cubic feet in size.</p><br>
<p>However, working out means of extracting the gas proved difficult for an earlier company Amity Oil in 2004.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, the player for the gas resource included Westralian Gas and Power, which endorses hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" to release the gas. The Western Australian Minister for Mines and Petroleum, Norman Moore has also made public comments regarding legislation in relation to fracking. Also at the same time Whicher Range Energy is in the process of drilling on the location.</p><br>
<p>The range and the rivers that originate in its area were under review for potential dam sites and water allocation.</p><br>
<p>It has also been proposed to be used as a National Park due to its natural features.</p><br>
<p>Mount Nokogiri literally "saw mountain" is a low mountain on the Bōsō Peninsula on Honshu, Japan. It lies on the southern border of the city of Futtsu and the town Kyonan in Awa District in Chiba Prefecture.</p><br>
<p>The mountain runs east to west, having the characteristic sawtoothed profile of a Japanese saw.</p><br>
<p>It falls steeply into Tokyo Bay on its western side, where it is pierced by two road tunnels and a rail tunnel, carrying the Uchibo Line south from Futtsu to Tateyama. Both features are due in part to the mountain&#39;s history as a stone quarry in the Edo period, the marks of which are still picturesquely evident.</p><br>
<p>The western side of the mountain is also the site of the sprawling Nihon-ji temple complex, which is the home of two Daibutsu sculptures - a huge seated carving of Yakushi Nyorai that at 31.05 m tall is the largest pre-modern, stone-carved Daibutsu in Japan, and the "Hundred-shaku Kannon", a tall relief image of Kannon carved into one of the quarry walls - as well as 1500 hand-carved arhat sculptures, which combined with the spectacular scenery of the Bōsō Hills and Tokyo Bay, make Mount Nokogiri a popular tourism destination.</p><br>
<p>The temple is accessible by road and by a cable car, the Nokogiriyama Ropeway, which runs from Hamakanaya Station on the JR Uchibo Line to a lookout deck near the top of the temple precinct.</p><br>
<p>The western end of the mountain falls precipitously into Tokyo Bay, where Cape Myōgane (明鐘岬) is a good place to watch large ships pass through Uraga Channel at sunset.</p><br>
<h2>Highlights</h2><br>
<p>The Paul Londershausen House, at 309 Main Street, Dayton, Oregon, is a Bungalow/Craftsman-style house that was built in 1921. It is also known as the Londershausen Residence or as the Walters Residence and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The house was deemed significant "as one of the best examples of the Craftsman Bungalow style in Dayton, and the best preserved example locally." Its front porch has four turned columns with capitals; its rear porch has been enclosed. It is a 1-1/2-story house that is 34 ft by 36 ft in plan.</p><br>
<p>The house is associated with Germany-born Paul Londerhausen (b.1883), a hops farmer who lived in Dayton for 59 years, who moved into the house in 1921 when it was built. Londerhausen was one of nine children, and one of the five who lived with their father Gottlieb Londershausen in Dayton in 1910 according to the 1910 census. Londerhausen served as a City Councilman and in other city positions.</p><br>
<p>The house is one block away from the NRHP-listed Gottlieb Londershausen House, located at 402 Main Street. Both houses were listed on the NRHP with the same name, Londerhausen House, in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Jacob Sloat House, originally called Harmony Hall, is located on Liberty Rock Road in Sloatsburg, New York, United States. Built in the late 1840s, it is a wooden house that shows the transition from the waning Greek Revival style to the newer Picturesque and Italianate modes.</p><br>
<p>It was built late in the life of Jacob Sloat, a descedant of village founder Stephen Sloat who had made a fortune as a textile merchant earlier in the century. He was a close friend of Jasper Cropsey, who historians believe may have helped him design the house. After leaving his family at the beginning of the 20th century, the house passed through a variety of owners and uses, including two restaurants and a home for the elderly. It is currently the property of the Town of Ramapo, which intends to develop it into a historic house museum and cultural center. In 2006 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house stands on a two-acre (8,000 m²) lot south of the other houses on the street, accessible by a narrow winding route called Oak Street, atop a gentle rise leading up from the Ramapo River a mile to the east. A few vestiges of the original siting, such as the large lawn, some of the trees, and parts of the former roads to nearby Orange Turnpike (now NY 17) remain. Two large Norway spruce trees screen the front.</p><br>
<p>It is supported by an ashlar granite foundation, from which it rises three stories in the front. Aluminum siding covers the original pine clapboard. The house is topped by a slightly pitched gabled roof.</p><br>
<p>Two wings in the rear give the house an asymmetrical L-shaped footprint. A full-length veranda with six antae runs along the first story of the eastern (front) facade; a wooden wheelchair ramp now connects to it as well. The windows are tall and narrow.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the main block has a central-hall plan, with a large parlor to the south and a smaller dining room to the north, since further partitioned. The original veranda has been enclosed to create additional rooms; one of its antae is still visible. The second floor is more intact, with its central hallway between bedrooms running north-south, perpendicular to its counterpart below. The basement is fully finished, with three large rooms whose function is not clear divided by another central hall.</p><br>
<p>The on the two main floors is mostly intact from the original construction. All wall plaster, decoration and woodwork remain. Of particular note are the twin fireplaces in the parlor, with veined marble mantels and cast iron grates.</p><br>
<h2>Aesthetics</h2><br>
<p>The Jacob Sloat House, or Harmony Hall as Sloat called it, exhibits a combination of features from the Greek Revival style, then declining in importance for houses, and newer trends like the Picturesque and Italianate styles. The former is more noticeable on the outside; the latter on the inside.</p><br>
<p>Like a Greek Revival home, Sloat&#39;s was built on high ground that overlooked his lands and the source of his wealth, his mills and the river. The lawn and plantings around it, in turn, reflect the contemporary theories of Andrew Jackson Downing, who disliked Greek Revival houses as wasteful and false, advocating instead cottages that looked like comfortable places to live, in harmony with their natural surroundings rather than attempting to dominate them.</p><br>
<p>The strictly symmetrical fenestration is a hallmark of Greek Revival classicism as is the center-hall plan. The liberal use of ornament and marble on the inside suggest the influence of Italian design.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Jacob Sloat (1792–1857), a grandson of Stephen Sloat, who first settled the area in 1763, built his mills on the Ramapo in the mid-1810s. During the next decade, he invented the cap spindle and gimlet-pointed wood screw, his family later claimed. These helped his business take off, and the New York and Erie Railroad&#39;s route through the area extended his reach to new markets in later decades.</p><br>
<p>He began building the house in 1846, starting with the foundation. After waiting for it to settle, giving rise to rumors that he was financially strapped, he completed the framing and the rest of the house, in time to move his family in two years later.</p><br>
<p>There is no architect of record. Sloat, who admired Downing&#39;s works and ideas, may have undertaken much of it himself. He may also have been helped by his friend, the Hudson River School painter Jasper Cropsey, who dabbled in architecture. Cropsey frequently traveled through Sloatsburg in the mid-1840s, and visited Sloat frequently. Around 1850 he made an early pencil sketch of the house from the northeast.</p><br>
<p>The house remained in the Sloat family until the early 20th century. A 1912 postcard of the village shows it being used as the Henry Inn. It later became the Ramapo Inn, a popular local eatery until the mid-1930s. The next decade, it became an Italian restaurant, and in the mid-1950s was once again converted into a boardinghouse, the Martin Home for Women.</p><br>
<p>In the 1980s it was modified slightly into an elder care home that was closed by the state in 2003. The town purchased the abandoned home with the intent of converting it into a local historical museum. In 2007 it received a grant for major restorations that will help recreate the house as it was during the Sloat family&#39;s years of ownership.</p><br>
<p>Rainy Lake Falls is a waterfall on the inlet stream of namesake Rainy Lake in Chelan County, Washington. The stream heads in a pair of small lakes and the remaining portions of the Lyall Glacier, and flows down a cascade that is said to be approximately 850 ft high.</p><br>
<p>The falls drop over several tall rock steps, with a largest single drop of 300 ft. Each of its three tiers is about 80 ft wide. A steep talus cascade is also found at the foot of the falls. Rainy Lake’s outlet stream eventually flows into the Stehekin River.</p><br>
<p>The drainage area of Rainy Lake Falls is very small, but its sources allow it to retain water all year long, with best flows from May through August. It is located alongside the North Cascades Highway.</p><br>
<p>Lake Doberdò  is the name of a sinkhole in the Province of Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. It is located on the westernmost edge of the Karst  plateau, close to the border with Slovenia. It is named after the village of Doberdò .</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>It has an area of approximately 0.36 km², depending on the time of year, and it is located around 2 km southwest of the village of Doberdò, not far from the Adriatic coast. The water is filtered through various ponors, and it is connected with the springs feeding the Timavo River, which are located a few kilometers southeast. The depth varies from 5 to 10 m. The lake is usually largest in autumn, when it is 1.2 km long and 350 m wide. During the frequent drought periods, the lake almost completely disappears, becoming a marsh-like area.</p><br>
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<p>Druid Lake is a kettle lake located in the town of Erin, Wisconsin, Washington County, Wisconsin</p><br>
<p>located near Hartford, Wisconsin. Druid Lake is a natural glacial-formed lake. Druid Lake is surrounded by rugged mixed woods and glacial drumlins in the Southern Savannah Region of southeastern Wisconsin&#39;s Kettle Moraine area about 25 miles northwest of Milwaukee The lake has a maximum depth of 53 ft. The lake covers 120.9 acre, has 2.3 mi of shoreline and has an average depth of 25 ft.</p><br>
<h2>Fish Species Present</h2><br>
<p>Bluegill</p><br>
<p>Largemouth Bass</p><br>
<p>Northern Pike</p><br>
<p>Walleye</p><br>
<p>Yellow perch</p><br>
<p>Yellow Bass</p><br>
<p>White bass</p><br>
<p>Warmouth</p><br>
<p>Pumpkinseed</p><br>
<p>Black Crappie</p><br>
<p>Carp</p><br>
<p>Yellow Bullhead</p><br>
<p>Rock Bass</p><br>
<h2>Usage</h2><br>
<p>Launch Fee: Yes</p><br>
<p>Ramp Type: Gravel</p><br>
<p>Number Of Ramps: 1</p><br>
<p>Trailer Parking Spots: 4-5</p><br>
<h2>Organizations associated with this lake</h2><br>
<p>Druid Lake P & R District</p><br>
<p>Lago di Ledro is a lake in Trentino, Italy. The lake is at an elevation of 655 m, and its surface area is 2.187 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>Lake Ledro is reputed to be one of the cleanest lakes in Trentino and during the summer it reaches a temperature of 24 &deg;C, which allows for swimming and relax at one of the four beaches around the lake. One of the beaches allows dogs. Available lake activities include renting a canoe or a sailing boat.</p><br>
<h2>Origin and history</h2><br>
<p>The origin of Lake Ledro is from a morainal bank during the fourth glacial era. Since 1929, the lake level is maintained to suit the energy requirements of the hydroelectric power station of Riva del Garda that uses the water of the lake to produce electricity.</p><br>
<p>The Lake&#39;s water sources are mainly underneath the lake. There are also the tributaries if Massangla, Assat of Pur, and Assat of Pieve, although these are dry for most of the year.</p><br>
<p>Lake Ledro is also best known for the discovery of an archaeological area situated on the east river flowing into the lake. The area was discovered when the level of the lake was lowered to supply the hydroelectric plant being built at Riva del Garda. This archaeological site is one of the most important in Europe for evidencing the extent and wealth of the manufactures of its time.</p><br>
<h2>Statistics</h2><br>
<p>Lake Perimeter: 8.9 km</p><br>
<p>Maximum depth: 48 m,</p><br>
<p>Average depth: 35 m,</p><br>
<p>Principal tributaries: Massangla, Assat di Pieve, Assat di Pur</p><br>
<p>Principal Outflowing: Ponale</p><br>
<p>Lago di Pilato  is a glacial lake located in Sibillini Mountains, among the Apennines.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>It is located in a narrow glacial valley beneath Mount Vector (2476 m) and Redeemer Peak (2448 m) summits. It is supposed to date back to the superior pleistocene.</p><br>
<p>The lake takes its name from a legend in which Pontius Pilate was killed there and buried under lake bed as punishment for his role at passion of the Christ time.</p><br>
<p>Geo-politically the lake is situated in Marche, and it is the sole natural lake of the region (excluding small shoreline lakes), the province is Ascoli Piceno, and is part of the Monti Sibillini National Park.</p><br>
<p>During water abundance periods the lake assumes the shape of a pair of eyeglasses while when there is a lack of water it retreats into two smaller pools. For this reason it is nicknamed the lake with glasses".</p><br>
<h2>The Chirocephalus</h2><br>
<p>Chirocephalus marchesonii, a freshwater shrimp is endemic to this lake.</p><br>
<p>Lago del Predil  is a lake near Cave del Predil, part of the Tarvisio municipality in the Province of Udine, in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The lake is located at an elevation of 969 m, situated in a high valley of the Julian Alps north of the Sella Nevea. In the east, the Predil Pass road leads up to the Slovenian border. With a surface area of about 1 km&sup2, it is the second largest natural lake of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, after Lago di Cavazzo.</p><br>
<p>Due to its picturesque setting beneath the Kanin massif, the lake is a popular tourist destination for hikers and day trippers.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>For centuries, the southern border of the Imperial Duchy of Carinthia with the Venetian Domini di Terraferma ran along the nearby mountain crests of Predil Pass and Sella Nevea. After the loss of the Venetian territory to the Kingdom of Italy in 1866, the Austro-Hungarian Army from 1885 to 1887 had a fortress erected on the lakeside, to protect the road down to Tarvisio.</p><br>
<p>In World War I, the fort was badly damaged during the Battles of the Isonzo on the Italian Front. Some ruins are preserved and accessible to the public.</p><br>
<p>Lake Massaciuccoli  is a lake in the Province of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. Its surface area is 6.9 km². It is located mainly in the municipality of Massarosa and partly in Torre del Lago, a civil parish of Viareggio.</p><br>
<p>The lake was known in ancient times as the Fossis Papirianis, a name used in the Tabula Peutingeriana. The composer Giacomo Puccini lived nearby and frequently hunted around the lake; the nearby village of Torre del Lago is sometimes mentioned with suffix "Puccini" in his honour.</p><br>
<p>The lake is home to the large extent of Cladium mariscus in Italy. However, vegetation and wildlife have shrunken substantially since the 20th century, due to eutrophication and expansion of Louisianan Crayfish, which are now disappearing from the lake because of predatory birds.</p><br>
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<p>Lago di Piediluco is a lake that straddles the border between the Province of Terni, Umbria, Italy and the Province of Rieti, Lazio. At an elevation of 375 m, its surface area is 1.58 km². The lake is formed by the inflow of water from three sources: the Rio Fuscello, the Velino river and the Nera river. The flow from the Rio Fuscello is naturally occurring, while the flows from the Nera and Velino rivers are each influenced in some part due to man-made means. A partial diversion of the Nera in the Nera river valley  conducts the flow via a lengthy aqueduct and canal system built in the 1920s during the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, entering the lake at the northwestern end of the village of Piediluco, near the entrance to the town from the "Via Ternana" SS79 motorway. A canal of approximately 400 meters&#39; length was built, also in the 1920s, to divert the Velino river from its existing natural course into the lake. The purpose of this work was to improve hydroelectric power production.</p><br>
<p>At one time the lake was part of a much larger lake, known from Roman times as "Lacus Velinus" or Lake Velino. Lake Piediluco was formed as a result of cuts downstream from the lake that drained the waters of Lake Velino into the lower Nera River, which also created the Cascata delle Marmore waterfall. Lake Piediluco is the site of the Italian National Rowing Center, which hosts many training and competition events at the national, European, and international level. The lake is ideal for the sport due to its shape, central geographical location, and the relatively calm winds.</p><br>
