<p>The Church of St Bartholomew at East Lyng in the parish of Lyng, Somerset, England dates from the 14th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican church is dedicated to St Bartholomew, and is thought to have been built by the monks who were displaced from Athelney Abbey when it was dissolved by King Henry VIII of England in 1539. It stands on the site of an earlier fortress.</p><br>
<p>The ornate three-stage tower, which was built around 1497, is of lias with hamstone dressings supported by set-back buttresses connected diagonally across the angles of the tower on the bottom two stages; these terminate as diagonal pinnacles on shafts at the third stage. The paired two-light bell-chamber windows have Somerset tracery flanked by attached shafts and pinnacles, with quatrefoil grilles. There are similar single windows on the stage below. On the stonework are hunky punks representing dragons with the one on the left side of the west face being a mixture between a Basilisk or Cockatrice and a Griffin.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Mary in North Petherton, Somerset, England dates from the 15th century and has been designated as a grade I listed building. It is on the Heritage at Risk register due to the condition of the roof and north aisle parapet.</p><br>
<p>There was a church in North Petherton before the Norman Conquest and the site belonged to Buckland Priory from the 12th century. The current building dates from the expansion of the town around 1490, although it does contain some fabric from the 13th century.</p><br>
<p>The minster church has a highly decorated tower which, at 120 ft high, was described by Nickolaus Pevsner as one of the finest towers in the county. It contains a peal of six bells, and a clock built in Bridgwater in 1807. On the stonework are hunky punks in the shape of animals.</p><br>
<p>The interior has a minstrel gallery from 1623,</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the Alfred Jewel benefice within the Sedgemoor deanery.</p><br>
<p>Hawaii Shingon Mission or Shingon Shu Hawaii  located at 915 Sheridan Street in Honolulu, Hawaii, is one of the most elaborate displays of Japanese Buddhist temple architecture in Hawaii. It was first built in 1915-1918 by Nakagawa Katsutaro, a master builder of Japanese-style temples, then renovated in 1929 by Hego Fuchino, a self-taught man who was the first person of Japanese ancestry to become a licensed architect in the Islands. The building underwent further changes in 1978, and was considerably augmented in 1992. However, its most distinctive features remain: the steep, hipped-gable roof  with rounded-gable projection, both with elaborate carvings on the ends, and the glittering altar and interior furnishings from Japan that signify its ties to esoteric Shingon Buddhism.</p><br>
<p>The temple was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 26 April 2002.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The round tomoe at the top of the entrance roof represents the cycle of life. It is also the traditional symbol of the Koyasan Shingon sect, though the temple has been independent of sectarian affiliations since 2004. The carved phoenix represents death and rebirth, and the carved dragons represent both power and good fortune. The obelisk at the front edge of the property commemorates the first Shingon pilgrimage to Japan by immigrants in Hawaii in 1929. The more recently added statue in front depicts Kōbō Daishi (Kūkai, 774-835 CE), the founder of Shingon. An oil painting of the Daishi by a member, Mrs. Helen Nakagawa Abe, of the local congregation also graces the altar inside the temple. The temple is congregational, and reflects the diversity of Hawaii in its membership.</p><br>
<p>In 2009, the temple added a worship service in English, and planned on a slow transition to primarily English services.</p><br>
<p>The Shingon Shu Hawaii temple commissioned the creation of a ceiling panel (tenjo-e) that depicts the Taizokai mandala which measures 600 ft&sup2;. Done in original pigments mixed by Japanese artisans and suspended in animal fat, the pigments were applied to individually lacquered (urushi) panels, then placed by hand into a grid suspended from the ceiling.</p><br>
<p>In 2007 the arrival of Fujin (Wind God) and Raijin (Thunder God) statues, completed the second phase of the temple&#39;s artistic additions. The statues which can be seen at the immediate entrance of the main hall were chosen to depict the Hawaiian prevailing trade winds with Fujin, and an appreciation for the power and force of nature in Raijin. Each stand over ten feet in height, and weigh over 2800 pounds a piece. Constructed of Japanese Cypress, they are the largest depictions of the Wind and Thunder Gods outside Japan.</p><br>
<p>The Idlewild Farm Complex is a 26 acre  plot of land in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. It was originally part of the Welsh Tract and is now a portion of the Bridlewild Trails Association.</p><br>
<h2>Early Times</h2><br>
<p>In 1698, Welsh farmer Robert Lloyd was deeded 400 acres (161.8 hectares) of land near "the road leading through the Black Rocks" now known as Black Rock Road. In 1700, Lloyd built a one room with loft house on the property, complete with beehive oven and walk-in fireplace for help with cooking. Over the next 14 years, Lloyd had eight kids and tended to the farm. However, in 1714, Robert Lloyd died.</p><br>
<p>Lloyd&#39;s wife, Lowry Lloyd, soon remarried. Her new husband added a new portion to the house in 1717 and a wooden barn was built.</p><br>
<p>The Farm changed hands a few times over the next century. Along with the change of ownership, the barn was rebuilt to stone in 1825, the two portions of the farmhouse were connected in 1825, and a wagon house was added (1827). Eventually the farm was bought by John Williamson (for whom Williamson Road, where the farm currently sits, is named.) He added a springhouse (1860) at the base of the hill, used both as a cool place to store food and a water source. Upon his death in 1864, the farm was partitioned between his two sons, Garret and Samuel Williamson. Garret sold his share back to Samuel, who over the next few years added a carriage house, milkhouse, bull pen, and horse stable.</p><br>
<h2>Saunders Times</h2><br>
<p>In 1897, Frances Saunders (wife of medical publisher Walter Saunders) bought what was Idylwild Farm from Samuel Williamson. She bought only 87 of the remaining 104 acre of the farm. Around 1900, the farm was changed from a crop and horse farm to a dairy farm, using Ayrshire cows. Although they had a house in the Overbrook neighborhood of Philadelphia, the Saunders wanted a place to work and play during the summer months, for example, they dug a pool in 1924, which is still there today. Mrs. Saunders bought neighboring properties, increasing the size of the farm to 167 acre, and tried to keep most of the buildings as original as possible. Although going deaf, she continued to work the farm until Walter deeded it over to his children, Lawrence and Emily, in 1927.</p><br>
<p>Lawrence Saunders, who had married Dorothy Love in 1924, moved onto the farm and began to work the dairy produce. In 1927, Lawrence began the Bridlewild Trails Association on the property. He also formed in 1951 the Saunders Foundation to maintain a plot called Saunders Woods, which he had bought in 1922. In 1968, Lawrence Saunders died, leaving the farm to his estate. Dorothy Saunders, his widow, bought the farm from his estate, along with 26 acre. She wrote poetry, worked the farm, and enjoyed farm life. A book of poetry, titled "Unbroken Time" was written at Idlewild and published in 1982.</p><br>
<h3>Natural Lands Trust</h3><br>
<p>In 1983 Idlewild Farm was entered on the National Register of Historic Places for Pennsylvania. In 1992 Mrs. Saunders gave both Saunders Woods and 21 acre of Idlewild to Natural Lands Trust, a nonprofit organization dedicated to land preservation and stewardship in southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>Benarty Hill rises above and to the west of Ballingry, in the west of Fife, Scotland. It is a prominent feature of the view from the M90 motorway, and from Kinross and Loch Leven. The lower slopes are steep on all sides, but the extensive heath around the summit is relatively flat.</p><br>
<p>Although access from the north is obstructed by an RSPB sanctuary, the summit is easily accessible from its south side, where tracks and paths lead through the forest and up onto the summit heath. From the summit, there is a small path used by locals from Ballingry, known as "the fire escape." It is covered in fallen trees and slippery mud and is very dangerous. There are views across Loch Leven to the Lomond Hills, and across the Firth of Forth to the Lammermuir Hills and Pentland Hills. Distant views to the north and west are dominated by the Southern Highlands; on a clear day the profile of the Isle of Arran may be visible 80 miles to the west.</p><br>
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<p>The Thomas Lyon House, at 1 Byram Road, was built ca. 1690–95 and is considered to be the oldest unaltered structure in Greenwich, Connecticut. The restoration of the house, a Colonial saltbox, is the primary project of the Greenwich Preservation Trust, a not-for-profit organization that grew out of the Thomas Lyon House Committee formed by the Byram Neighborhood Association. Its heritage dates back to the family of Thomas Lyon , one of the earliest settlers of Fairfield County, and particularly his son, Thomas Lyon  who, with his wife Abigail and their children, were the initial occupants. The house stayed in the family line of Abigail and Thomas Lyon in to the 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>Thomas Lyon (1621–1690)</h2><br>
<p>The first Thomas Lyon was born in England about 1621. He is reported to have come first to the Massachusetts Colony, and thence to have gone to seek his fortune in the far west of Fairfield County, CT.</p><br>
<p>His first wife was Martha Johanna Winthrop, the only child of Elizabeth Fones Winthrop and her husband Henry Winthrop, second son of Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Martha had been born May 9, 1630 at Groton Manor, the Winthrop home in England, and as an infant sailed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with her mother, arriving November 2, 1631. In the early 1640s, the young Martha moved with her parents to their newly acquired property encompassing the area known now as Old Greenwich in Fairfield County, CT. Martha married Thomas Lyon circa 1647, and they had one child, Mary Lyon, born August 1649. Having battled frail health for some years, Martha (Winthrop) Lyon died in her early twenties, likely in 1653. Thomas Lyon remarried in 1654 to Mary Hoyt, daughter of Simon Hoyt of Stamford, CT. This Thomas Lyon died in Greenwich in 1690, and was buried in the old Lyon family burying ground at Byram Neck. His will left extensive land holdings in the area to his children, including his son Thomas Lyon.</p><br>
<h2>Thomas Lyon (1673–1739)</h2><br>
<p>Thomas Lyon was born in 1673 to Thomas Lyon and his second wife, Mary Hoyt. This younger Thomas Lyon married Abigail Ogden, daughter of Judith (Budd) and John Ogden. This Thomas Lyon "built the house near Byram Bridge, which is still standing, having been occupied until the present time by his descendants." In 1711, Thomas Lyon was called into short-term military service on the Canada–US border as a member of Col. Robert Hunter&#39;s Company of Fusiliers. This Thomas Lyon died in April, 1739, with his will proven May 1 of that year. His wife, Abigail (Ogden) Lyon, lived until 1760; ownership of the house went to the next generation in their family.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>It is to two sources that we are indebted for much of the knowledge we have of the life and descendants of Thomas Lyon (1621–1690): 1) Robert Charles Winthrop, a lineal descendant of Governor John Winthrop, who in 1891 published a number of letters found among the papers of Governor Winthrop, written by Thomas Lyon, his wife Martha (Winthrop) Lyon, and other members of the family. and 2) Robert B. Miller, who edited the 1907 book Lyon Memorial which gives additional background on Thomas Lyon (#1) as well as detailed genealogical information on his descendants, including is son, Thomas Lyon, of the Thomas Lyon House.</p><br>
<p>The Central Heating Plant is a power station located at 325 13th Street, SW in the Southwest Federal Center neighborhood of Washington, D.C. which serves most of the United States federal government buildings near the National Mall. Operated by the General Services Administration, it was designed by architect Paul Philippe Cret in 1933. At the time of its construction it was the largest such heating facility in the United States and served 22 federal buildings. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Cret used Art Deco styling for the essentially industrial building, a departure from the prevailing Washington classicism, but was able to integrate it with its surroundings through careful massing and detailing. Pilasters and vertical ribbons of windows stand in for classical colonnades. Cret designed the roof profile so that the plants smokestacks did not project above the equipment screen, satisfying the concerns of the District of Columbia Commission on Fine Arts, which had jurisdiction over the design. The three octagonal smokestacks rise only 42 ft. Limestone relief panels illustrate the buildings purpose with depictions of a boiler, safety valve, generator, fan and heat exchanger. The building is noteworthy as an early example of Modernism-influenced architecture, and as a notably attractive building in its own right.</p><br>
<p>Originally designed to burn coal, the Central Heating Plant has been converted to use coal, oil, or natural gas. A central refrigeration plant constructed in 1957 obscures the east elevation.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Hawley House at 514 Purdy Hill Road in Monroe, Connecticut, is a historic Colonial American wooden post-and-beam saltbox farm house built in 1755. Hawley was the great grandson of Joseph Hawley  of Stratford, Connecticut, through Samuel. A drawing and description of the house was included in J. Frederick Kelly&#39;s book, The Early Domestic Architecture of Connecticut first published in 1924.</p><br>
<h2>Thomas and Sarah Hawley</h2><br>
<p>The Thomas Hawley house is a rare survivor from the earliest era of Stepney’s settlement. It is also a reminder that until the mid-20th century, most residents made their living by farming. Present day Stepney or Monroe, was originally the northern part of Stratford, which had been settled in 1639. In the early 18th century, descendants of Stratford’s original settlers, Thomas Hawley among them, carved out farms out of the wilderness. Thomas Hawley was the great grandson of Joseph Hawley, one of the original settlers of Stratford, Connecticut who purchased most of the present town of Monroe from the Paugusset Indians in 1671. Thomas was born on September 8, 1734 in present day Trumbull, Connecticut, married Sarah Olcott on November 16, 1760 and raised ten children.</p><br>
<h2>New Stratford</h2><br>
<p>In 1761, 48 men from North Stratford, including Thomas Hawley, submitted a petition to the Connecticut General Court for permission to form their own religious parish. The nearest meetinghouse, as Congregationalists called their house of worship, was more than three miles (5 km) away. This made it difficult for residents of North Stratford to comply with the Connecticut law requiring everyone to attend all-day worship services on the Sabbath. The Connecticut General Court granted their request, and in 1762 created the New Stratford Ecclesiastical Society. In 1823, this society incorporated as the Town of Monroe.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house, a pre-revolutionary saltbox dwelling, is two and one-half stories high and three bays wide with a side gable roof; center entrance, and center fieldstone chimney. Its dimensions are approximately 37 by 40 ft. The roof pitch is 45 degrees in the main portion, lessening to 30 degrees in the kitchen appendage, a probable indication that this was added at later date. The exterior is clapboard, painted a dark red color. The roof is a natural wood shingle. Window sash is 9-over-6 on the first floor and 6-over-6 on the second, and 9-panel single hung in the attic. None of the early farm outbuildings survive. There are no surface remnants of a barn and slave house mentioned in an early 19th-century estate inventory.</p><br>
<h2>Revolutionary War</h2><br>
<p>Captain Thomas Hawley played a role on the home front in the war for American independence. He is believed to have served on the Committee of Inspection appointed in 1776 to “keep watch and ward” in Stratford, of which Monroe was then still part, and which bordered the vulnerable Long Island coast.</p><br>
<h2>Later years</h2><br>
<p>Records show that as late as 1800, Thomas Hawley owned two slaves. Slavery had existed on a small scale in Connecticut since the 17th century, but never took root and flourished here as it did in the South. By 1800 the vast majority of the state&#39;s black residents were freed. They had been manumitted (or freed) by their owners, bought their own freedom, or been liberated by a law designed to gradually eliminate slavery in Connecticut. By 1810 Thomas Hawley no longer owned slaves. Thomas Hawley died in 1817 at the age of 83, leaving nearly 150 acre of land. An inventory of Thomas Hawley’s estate at the time of his death shows a house valued at $160.00, a slave house at $10.00, and a barn at $130.00. David Hawley was the beneficiary of his father’s estate. His descendants lived in his house for another century. In the 1920s, F. William Behrens, mayor of Bridgeport from 1923 to 1929, purchased the Thomas Hawley house as a summer home.</p><br>
<p>The Alibi Club is a private, traditional gentlemen&#39;s club in Washington, D.C. Its members comprise the Washington elite, including presidents, senators, and diplomats, among other prominent figures.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1884, seven Washingtonians founded the Alibi Club, a private social club consisting of prominent political and social figures. Its name derived from the club practice of providing an alibi when the whereabouts of a member was questioned by the members family. The clubs founding purpose was to foster "mutual improvement, education, and enlightenment" among members of Washington society. Membership also extended to out of town figures from New York City, Boston and Philadelphia, most likely to share information between communities and help in the development of strategies to address civic issues. Throughout its history, it has hosted numerous world leaders, including King Leopold of Belgium, Prince Albert of Belgium, Prince Henry of Prussia, and Viceroy Li Hung Chang.</p><br>
<h3>Clubhouse</h3><br>
<p>The first clubhouse was situated at 17th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Since 1886, the club has occupied a three-story, brick townhouse blocks away from the White House. The clubhouse is furnished with donated memorabilia and artifacts that cover nearly every available section of wall on the first two floors. The clubhouse is also notable as a well-preserved example of residential architecture in a commercial district, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 21, 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Membership</h2><br>
<p>Membership is limited to fifty, with new members admitted upon unanimous vote after the death of a previous member. Membership is not revealed to outsiders, and the first public notice of membership is often in a member&#39;s obituary.</p><br>
<p>Some of the Alibi Club&#39;s most prominent members have included: President George H.W. Bush, his father, Senator Prescott Bush, Supreme Court Justices Potter Stewart and Stanley F. Reed, Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles, Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth, and General George C. Marshall.</p><br>
<p>David M. Abshire</p><br>
<p>David Acheson</p><br>
<p>Dean Acheson</p><br>
<p>Theodore Achilles</p><br>
<p>Lamar Alexander</p><br>
<p>Chandler Anderson</p><br>
<p>Larz Anderson</p><br>
<p>Warren R. Austin</p><br>
<p>Truxtun Beale</p><br>
<p>Gist Blair</p><br>
<p>Robert Woods Bliss</p><br>
<p>Frederick N. Brooke</p><br>
<p>David K.E. Bruce</p><br>
<p>George H.W. Bush</p><br>
<p>Prescott Bush</p><br>
<p>George E. Corcoran</p><br>
<p>Thomas Gardiner Corcoran</p><br>
<p>Dwight F. Davis</p><br>
<p>Allen Dulles</p><br>
<p>John Foster Dulles</p><br>
<p>James Dunn</p><br>
<p>Walter Edge</p><br>
<p>George A. Garrett</p><br>
<p>Charles C. Glover III</p><br>
<p>Gordon Gray</p><br>
<p>Cary Grayson</p><br>
<p>Joseph Grew</p><br>
<p>Alfred Gruenther</p><br>
<p>Frederick Hale</p><br>
<p>George Hamilton, Jr.</p><br>
<p>Nelson Hartson</p><br>
<p>Christian Herter</p><br>
<p>William Hibbs</p><br>
<p>Archibald Hopkins</p><br>
<p>Walter Bruce Howe</p><br>
<p>David C. Karrick</p><br>
<p>Samuel Kaufman</p><br>
<p>John Kean</p><br>
<p>Emory S. Land</p><br>
<p>Nicholas Longworth</p><br>
<p>Robert A. Lovett</p><br>
<p>George C. Marshall</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Mosby McKelway</p><br>
<p>John Lord O&#39;Brian</p><br>
<p>Thomas Nelson Page</p><br>
<p>Stanley F. Reed</p><br>
<p>Henry Roosevelt</p><br>
<p>Jules Henri de Sibour</p><br>
<p>Potter Stewart</p><br>
<p>James W. Symington</p><br>
<p>Maxwell Taylor</p><br>
<p>J.W. Wadsworth</p><br>
<p>John F. Wilkins</p><br>
<p>Clarence R. Wilson</p><br>
<p>Blanton Winship</p><br>
<p>Jerauld Wright</p><br>
<p>William M. Wright</p><br>
<p>Vishnu V. Ramaswamy</p><br>
<p>John Adams Bross</p><br>
<p>Anderson Downtown Historic District in Anderson, South Carolina originally built in the late 19th century is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The NRHP listing area was increased to include a hotel building at 402 N. Main Street, in 1987. The increase included work by architect James J. Baldwin.</p><br>
<h2>National Register Properties</h2><br>
<p>National Register properties within the district include:</p><br>
<p>Palmetto Building ca. 1909, 201 S. Murray Avenue (Formerly Sullivan Hardware Company Warehouse)</p><br>
<p>Sullivan Building c. 1881, 208 S. Main St. (Former Sullivan Hardware Store, now Sullivan&#39;s Metropolitan Grill)</p><br>
<p>Chiquola Condominiums c. 1888, 100 W. Whitner St. (Formerly Plaza Hotel) Courthouse Square/Plaza</p><br>
<p>Historic Anderson County Courthouse, c. 1898, 101 S. Main St., Courthouse Square/Plaza</p><br>
<p>Robert Anderson Fountain, 202 E. Greenville St. (Anderson County Museum, Formerly located in the Courthouse Square/Plaza)</p><br>
<p>The Bleckley Inn, 151 E. Church St. (on former site of Bleckley Building, which was the first building in the area to contain multiple stories and an elevator)</p><br>
<p>Former National Bank of Anderson (no longer in existence), 109 E. Benson St./203 S. Main St (Approximate)</p><br>
<p>Anderson City Hall/Police Department, 401 S. Main St.</p><br>
<p>Woodlawn-Sosbee Funeral Home C. 1909, 401 N. Main St. (Former Anderson Post Office)</p><br>
<p>Anderson County Arts Center C. 1905, 405 N. Main St.(Former Carnegie Library Building)</p><br>
<p>The Calhoun Historic Lofts C. Early 1920s, 402 N. Main St. (Former John C. Calhoun Hotel)</p><br>
<p>The South Main Street Commercial Historic District of Little Rock, Arkansas is a historic district encompassing a five-block stretch of South Main Street, just south of the citys downtown area. Developed between about 1905 and 1950, the section of South Main between 12th and 17th streets represents an architectural cross-section of the commercial development that took place in the city during that time. Early buildings, such as the 1905 Lincoln Building, were Classical Revival in style, while generational changes in style are exemplified by the presence of Craftsman and Art Deco buildings. One residential building, the First Hotze House, predates the areas commercial development, and stands as a reminder of its residential past.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The South Main and Washington Streets Historic District &mdash; 68-139 Washington St. and 2-24 South Main St. is a historic district in South Norwalk, Connecticut. The 110 acre district encompasses 35 buildings and two other structures . Varied architectural styles from the late 19th and early 20th centuries include Romanesque Revival, Second Empire, and Italianate architecture. Half  of the area first became part of the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 . The district was increased in 1985 with the addition of nine buildings on 2.5 acre  and again in 1999, with another 10 buildings on 3 acre, roughly along North Main Street from Washington Street to Ann Street.</p><br>
<p>The original district included 26 contributing buildings and 2 other contributing structures over a 5.5 acre area. The district was first increased to add 9 contributing buildings over a 2.5 acre area. The second increase added 10 contributing buildings over a 3 acre area.</p><br>
<p>The Joshua Hempsted House is a historic house at 11 Hempstead Street in New London, Connecticut. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof that has two front-facing gables. The left gable, in an unusual departure for houses of its age, projects forward of the main block, providing an enclosed vestibule on the first floor. Probably built c. 1678 by Joshua Hempsted, it is one of Connecticut&#39;s oldest surviving buildings, and has long been recognized for its architectural and historical significance. The house was acquired by Connecticut Landmarks in 1937, which operates it and the adjacent 1759 Nathaniel Hempstead House as a historic house museum known as the Hempsted Houses. The houses have been restored to reflect a late 17th to mid 18th-century appearance.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Hoyt-Barnum House at 713 Bedford St. Stamford, Connecticut, was built around 1699, and is the oldest house in Stamford. The builder was a descendant of one of the original founders of Stamford. The large chimney stack of the Hoyt-Barnum House is made of field stone, laid up with clay, animal hair, and straw. The house is braced timber frame construction or post and beam. The foundation is of field stone. The west room of the house is plastered. The east room is whitewashed and the hearth room walls are sheathed with wood paneling, thus showing the various finishing techniques incorporated into the house during its evolution.</p><br>
<p>The house is now owned and maintained as a museum by the Stamford Historical Society. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. It was moved in 2017 and is open for touring at its new location next to the Stamford Historical Society at 1508 High Ridge Road.</p><br>
<p>The Rauher Kulm is a small basalt mountain located in the Upper Palatinate  region of the state of Bavaria, Germany. It is located 23 kilometers southeast of Bayreuth and 5 kilometers south of Kemnath. The town of Neustadt am Kulm is situated at the base of the western side of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is 682 meters (2,238 ft) tall and has a 25 meter (82 ft) tall observation tower at its peak. The observation tower offers views of the northern Franconian Switzerland, the southern wall of the Fichtelgebirge mountain range, and the Upper Palatinate Forest. Since 1949, the mountain has been protected as a federal monument in the Northern Upper Palatinate Forest Natural Park. There are several well marked hiking paths up the mountain and around the surrounding forests.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is one of the most imposing basalt mountains of Bavaria. According to the Bavarian State Geology Office, during the Tertiary, now also called Paleocene-Pliocene period, a number of active volcanoes produced liquid magma in Northern Bavaria, mostly due to the continental collision of Europe and Africa. As a result, not only the Alps but a number of fissure vents and cracks began to form throughout central Europe where magma could rise. Most of the Rauher Kulm&#39;s magma cooled below the surface.</p><br>
<p>During the Middle Ages a castle was built on top of the Rauher Kulm. During the Second Margrave War the castle was destroyed after a long siege.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Michael at Brent Knoll, Somerset, England dates from the 11th century but has undergone several extensions and renovations since then. It has been designated as a grade I listed building. There is a Norman doorway however the rest of the church dates from around 1290. The north aisle was built in the late 15th century.</p><br>
<p>The three-stage tower, which has been dated to around 1397, contains a bell dating from 1777 and made by William Bilbie of the Bilbie family. The church is best known for its unusual carvings on some of its pew ends and in particular the three that make up an allegorical cartoon thought to depict an avaricious Abbot of Glastonbury in the guise of a fox. The pulpit is from the 17th century.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Parish Church of St Michael at Brent Knoll had its origins in the eleventh century, with further construction work taking place in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with a restoration in the nineteenth century. It is built of coursed and squared rubble stone, with lead sheeting on the roofs apart from the chancel roof, which is slated. There are cruciform finials on the gable ends. The church is built mostly in the Perpendicular style, the plan being the nave, the chancel, the north aisle, the fourteenth century south porch and the south transept, now used as a vestry. The fourteenth century tower is at the west end and has three stages with set-back buttresses. It is topped by a parapet with pinnacles, and gargoyles to shed the water. The Norman doorway in the south porch has chevron decorations.</p><br>
<p>The fifteenth century nave has a wagon roof, and fittings inside the church include an eleventh century font, a pulpit dated 1637, a Jacobean coffin-stool and chair, and a Medieval parish chest. The interior of the church is particularly noted for the bench ends of the pews which are elaborately carved and date to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.</p><br>
<p>The church is used as the venue for a series of musical and arts events each summer.</p><br>
<p>The MV Kirkland is a former car ferry with a unique Pacific Northwest history. Originally known as the Tourist II, is a 1924 wooden-hulled car ferry that has served passengers all over the Pacific Northwest. Originally, it took passengers across the Columbia River, with a dock in Astoria, Oregon. Currently, it serves as a tour boat for on Lake Washington, near Seattle. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>With the exception of the Second World War, from 1924 to 1966, MV Kirkland was in service on the Astoria–Megler Ferry route on the Columbia River under the name Tourist II. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US Army purchased the vessel as the FB or JMP 535 to lay mines at the mouth of the river. At the end of the war, it returned to ferry service on the Columbia. The ferry was moved from Astoria, Oregon to Pierce County, Washington in 1967 and renamed the Islander of Pierce County. It worked on Puget Sound for many years, but eventually its wooden-hull design was overshadowed by vessels with more modern steel-hull designs.</p><br>
<p>In 1996, new private owners refurbished the vessel, adding two full-service bars, a galley, and 12-foot floor-to-ceiling windows, making the main deck unique among vessels in the Northwest. The exterior styling, deck plan, and interior and general arrangement were provided by designer Jonathan Quinn Barnett of Seattle. The vessel is listed on the Washington Historic Register and the National Register of Historic Places. In the summer, the Kirkland departs Marina Dock in Kirkland for cruises of Lake Washington.</p><br>
<p>Early morning, August 28, 2010. the vessel caught fire while docked at its Kirkland, Washington pier. The fire was confined to the engine room. Firefighters were quoted as saying everything below deck was "toast". The Boat was moved from Lake Washington during the morning of August 31, 2010 - by the Tug "Dixie"—part of the Fremont Tug Company.</p><br>
<p>Price&#39;s Post Office or the Price House is a house built ca. 1800 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Its name in the USGS Geographic Names Information System is Prices Post Office. It is located at the intersection of Oak View Farm Road , Old Switzer Road , and Price House Road . It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 1969.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Thomas Price moved to the Spartanburg District around 1793. He was a landowner and entrepreneur. He operated a general store and post office next to his house. The post office was operated from about 1811 to 1820. He farmed about 2,000 acre. The house was on the Spartanburg stagecoach line to Cross Anchor, South Carolina. He operated a "publick house" or tavern and stagecoach stop.</p><br>
<p>When his wife, Anne, died in 1821, she left a forty-two page inventory of the estate. In addition to the house furnishings, the inventory included 25 slaves and agricultural machinery. Going beyond "frontier-level," the furnishings included a curtained four poster bed, an 8-day clock, a desk, and a bookcase, and volumes of the Spectator, the Tatler and other publications. The farm equipment included grindstones, a loom, a spinning wheel, a cotton picking machine, and riding chaise.</p><br>
<p>Just after the Civil War, the house came into the hands of Captain George Bobo Dean and, according to Landrum&#39;s History of Spartanburg County it was his primary residence until he was elected Sheriff of Spartanburg and moved into town. In the Will of George B. Dean, the house (called "My Prince Place") was given to his eldest son, James Madison Dean. It remained in the Dean family until about 1936 when it was bought by the Spartanburg County Historical Association.</p><br>
<p>It is a now historic house museum operated by the Spartanburg County Historical Association. It is open on Sunday afternoons throughout the year, on Saturdays in the summer, and by reservations.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is a -story, brick house with a gambrel roof. At that time, a gambrel roof was unusual in upstate South Carolina. The 18 in thick brickwork on the house is Flemish bond with darkened headers.</p><br>
<p>The rooms are paneled with wood on the walls and ceilings. The first floor has a parlor, called the Pine Room because of its wood paneling, and a large dining room for both the family and stagecoach riders. These two rooms are separated by a central hallway that extends through each story. The second floor has two large and one small bedrooms. The top floor under the eaves has one bedroom for male travelers and one for female travelers.</p><br>
<p>An extension was built to the rear around 1820. The extension was probably built as quarters for the servants. It is constructed of English bond, and is now a kitchen.</p><br>
<p>Hurvat Amudim or Sde Amudim was an ancient village, now an archaeological site, in Israel, located south-east of the Beit Netofa Valley, on the eastern side of Highway 65 between Golani Interchange and Kadarim Junction.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The name derives from the columns that once supported the roof of the synagogue and that remained standing.</p><br>
<p>G.Dalman suggested identifying the site with Kfar Uziel, mentioned in rabbinical sources, home to one of the 24 priestly families that settled in the Galilee from the 2nd century CE onward. The town was abandoned in the late 4th century.</p><br>
<h2>Synagogue</h2><br>
<p>A synagogue, one of the largest in the Galilee (25 x 14 meters), was built at the end of the 3rd century or the beginning of the 4th century. The building featured two rows of columns. An Aramaic inscription in the floor mosaic reads: "Remembered well... bar Tanhum, who made this pavement of mosaic and roof. May he be blessed. Amen. Selah." A second inscription reads, "Yo&#39;ezer the hazan and Simeon his brother made this gate of the Lord of Heaven."</p><br>
<p>Felsenegg  is a vantage point in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Felsenegg is located some 7 km to the southwest of the city of Zürich on the Albis chain, between the municipalities of Stallikon and Adliswil. The hilltop station of Luftseilbahn Adliswil-Felsenegg (LAF for short or commonly called Felseneggbahn) aerial tramway is situated on Felsenegg. The Albis area is one of the most important recreation areas of greater Zürich. The area is mostly wooded, but also has extensive fields, often reaching to the summit, some cultivated, some used as pastures for cows or sheep.</p><br>
<h2>Points of interest</h2><br>
<p>Being close to the city of Zürich, the area is heavily visited. Felsenegg includes a restaurant located at the summit overlooking the Sihl Valley and Lake Zürich to the east, and Reppisch valley, Türlersee and the so-called Säuliamt (District of Affoltern) to the west. Well maintained hiking trails from Uetliberg and Uetlibergbahn mountain station to the north, and from the Albis Pass to the south are highly frequented. Türlersee (Lake Türlen) and Säuliamt are popular hiking destinations, too, as well as a mountain pass and a trail, built between 1908 and 1912, heading for Adliswil respectively Hausen am Albis. Among other touristic attractions is the Planet trail (German: Planetenweg) which starts near Uetliberg Kulm. The Planet trail represents the sun and each of the planets at a billionth (1:1,000,000,000) of their actual size and distance from each other, and each planet is represented at its scaled down distance from the sun by a billionth size metal sphere, either atop or embedded in a stone mound. Felsenegg coincides with the midpoint of Pluto&#39;s elliptical orbit, as represented by the Planet trail, and the "Pluto" mound can be found approximately 20m from the Restaurant Felsenegg (see photographs below).</p><br>
<p>Felsenegg IMG 5275 ShiftN.jpgFelsenegg Restaurant</p><br>
<p>Felsenegg - Planetenweg IMG 3225.JPGPlanet trail (former Pluto) terminal on Felsenegg</p><br>
<p>Felsenegg IMG 5269.JPGHiking signs at the LAF hill station</p><br>
<p>Another landmark is the Felsenegg-Girstel TV-tower located nearby the Felseneggbahn mountain station. It is owned by Swisscom and generally not accessible by the public. The tower was built in 1959 for broadcasting of radio and television programs. Just to the north of the TV-tower is the Burgstelle Baldern, the site of medieval castle, marked by earthworks and a plaque.</p><br>
<p>The David Ogden House is a historic house at 1520 Bronson Road in Fairfield, Connecticut. It was built in 1750 as an integral saltbox. The house is an exceptional survivor of a typical mid 18th century Connecticut farmhouse. There is a massive central field stone chimney topped with brick. The house, which escaped the burning of Fairfield by the British forces that invaded during the American Revolution, provides a glimpse into the life of a typical family. The house was called the new house in a 1750 deed. It is believed that the house was built for David Ogden at the time of his marriage to Jane Sturges. For the next 125 years it was home for the Ogden family in this farming and coastal shipping town. The house fell into disrepair and was donated to the Fairfield Historical Society. Presently, the house serves as a museum for the Fairfield Historical Society, which also operates the Fairfield Museum and History Center.</p><br>
<p>Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located on the Kii Peninsula in Japan.</p><br>
<h2>Selection criteria</h2><br>
<p>The locations and paths for this heritage site were based on their historical and modern importance in religious pilgrimages. It was also noted for its fusion of Shinto and Buddhist beliefs, and a well documented history of traditions over 1,200 years. The nature scenery on the Kii peninsula was also taken into consideration, with its many streams, rivers and waterfalls. Technically, independent structures at nominated temples and shrines were nominated for this distinction, and not the entire establishments. Sections of the trails were included for this nomination, but not the full length of their expanses. A total of 242 elements were selected from sites and pilgrimage routes for nomination.</p><br>
<h2>List of sites</h2><br>
<p>Stewart Island/Rakiura  is the third-largest island of New Zealand. It lies 30 km south of the South Island, across the Foveaux Strait. Its permanent population is 381 people as of the 2013 census, most of whom live in the settlement of Oban on the eastern side of the island.</p><br>
<h2>History and naming</h2><br>
<p>The original Māori name, Te Punga o Te Waka a Maui, positions Stewart Island/Rakiura firmly at the heart of Māori mythology. Translated as The Anchor Stone of Maui’s Canoe, it refers to the part played by the island in the legend of Maui and his crew, who from their canoe, the South Island, caught and raised the great fish, the North Island.</p><br>
<p>Rakiura is the more commonly known and used Māori name. It is usually translated as Glowing Skies, possibly a reference to the sunsets for which it is famous or for the aurora australis, the southern lights that are a phenomenon of southern latitudes.</p><br>
<p>For some, Rakiura is the abbreviated version of Te Rakiura a Te Rakitamau, translated as "great blush of Rakitamau", in reference to the latter&#39;s embarrassment when refused the hand in marriage of not one, but two daughters, of an island chief. According to Māori legend, a chief on the island named Te Rakitamau was married to a young woman who became terminally ill and implored him to marry her cousin after she died. Te Rakitamau paddled across Te Moana Tapokopoko a Tawhiki (Foveaux Strait) to the South Island where the cousin lived, only to discover she had recently married. He blushed with embarrassment; so the island was called Te Ura o Te Rakitamau.</p><br>
<p>Captain James Cook and his crew were the first Europeans to sight the island, in 1770, but Cook thought it was part of the South Island so named it South Cape. The island received its English name in honour of William W. Stewart, who was first officer on the ship Pegasus, which visited from Port Jackson (Sydney), Australia, in 1809 on a sealing expedition. Stewart charted the large southeastern harbour that now bears the ship&#39;s name (Port Pegasus), and determined the northern points of the island, proving that it was an island. He made three further visits to the island from the 1820s to the 1840s.</p><br>
<p>In 1841, the island was established as one of the three Provinces of New Zealand, and was named New Leinster. However, the province existed on paper only and was abolished after only five years, and with the passing of the New Zealand Constitution Act 1846 the province became part of New Munster, which entirely included the South Island. When New Munster was abolished in 1853, Stewart Island became part of Otago Province until 1861 when Southland Province split from Otago. In 1876 the provinces were abolished altogether.</p><br>
<p>For most of the twentieth century, "Stewart Island" was the official name, and that is still in common use by most New Zealanders. The name was officially altered to Stewart Island/Rakiura by the Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998, one of many such changes under the Ngāi Tahu treaty settlement.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Stewart Island has an area of 1,680 km&sup2; (larger than Oahu). It is hilly and has a wet climate. The north is dominated by the swampy valley of the Freshwater River. The river rises close to the northwestern coast and flows southeastwards into the large indentation of Paterson Inlet. The highest peak is Mount Anglem (980 m), close to the northern coast. It is one of a rim of ridges that surround Freshwater Valley.</p><br>
<p>The southern half is more uniformly undulating, rising to a ridge that runs south from the valley of the Rakeahua River, which also flows into Paterson Inlet. The southernmost point in this ridge is Mount Allen, at 750 m. In the southeast the land is somewhat lower, and is drained by the valleys of the Toitoi River, Lords River, and Heron River. South West Cape on this island is the southernmost point of the main islands of New Zealand.</p><br>
<p>Mason Bay, on the west side, is notable as a long sandy beach on an island where beaches are typically far more rugged. One suggestion is that the bay was formed in the aftershock of a meteorite impact in the Tasman Sea.</p><br>
<p>Three large and many small islands lie around the coast. Notable among these are Ruapuke Island, in Foveaux Strait 32 km northeast of Oban; Codfish Island, close to the northwest shore; and Big South Cape Island, off the southwestern tip. The Titi/Muttonbird Islands group is between Stewart Island/Rakiura and Ruapuke Island, around Big South Cape Island, and off the southeastern coast. Other islands of interest include Bench Island, Native Island, and Ulva Island, all close to the mouth of Paterson Inlet, and Pearl Island, Anchorage Island, and Noble Island, close to Port Pegasus in the southwest. Further offshore The Snares are oceanic islands, a volcano and some smaller islets, that were never connected to the larger Stewart Island.</p><br>
<p>The climate of Stewart Island is mild for temperatures. However, one travel guide mentions "frequent downpours that make boots and waterproof clothing mandatory", and another guide says that rainfall in Oban, the capital, is 1600 to 1800 mm a year.</p><br>
<h3>Geomagnetic anomaly</h3><br>
<p>Owing to an anomaly in the magnetic latitude contours, this location is well placed for observing Aurora australis.</p><br>
<h2>Settlements</h2><br>
<p>The only town is Oban, on Halfmoon Bay.</p><br>
<p>A previous settlement, Port Pegasus, once boasted several stores and a post office, and was located on the southern coast of the island. It is now uninhabited, and is accessible only by boat or by an arduous hike through the island. Another site of former settlement is at Port William, a four-hour walk around the north coast from Oban, where immigrants from the Shetland Islands settled in the early 1870s. This was unsuccessful, and the settlers left within one to two years, most for sawmilling villages elsewhere on the island.</p><br>
<p>Since 1988 the electricity supply on Stewart Island/Rakiura has come from diesel generators; previously residents used their own private generators. As a consequence electric power is around three times more expensive than on the South Island, at NZ$0.59/kWh in 2016. The Southland District Council has partnered with Meridian Energy to develop renewable energy sources for the island, and experiments with photovoltaic and wind generation are in progress.</p><br>
<h2>Economy and communications</h2><br>
<p>Fishing has been, historically, the most important element of the economy of Stewart Island/Rakiura, and while it remains important, tourism has become the main source of income for islanders. There has also been some farming and forestry. Oban has mainly sealed main roads, and some gravel roads on the outskirts.</p><br>
<p>Southern Air links Ryan&#39;s Creek Aerodrome and Invercargill Airport and aircraft also land on the sand at Mason Bay, Doughboy Bay, and West Ruggedy Beach. A regular passenger ferry service runs between Bluff and Oban. The only ferry/barge link to the South Island for vehicles is to Bluff.</p><br>
<p>Oban has phone and broadband (ADSL) services. Cellphone coverage is provided by Spark and Vodafone. All these services rely on a radio link to Bluff, so broadband speeds are limited.</p><br>
<p>Stewart Island is able to receive most AM and FM radio stations broadcast in the Southland region. Television services are available via satellite using Sky or Freeview. Analogue terrestrial television services could be received on Stewart Island from the Hedgehope television transmitter located on the South Island prior to the analogue switch off on April 28, 2013.</p><br>
<h2>Government</h2><br>
<p>From 1841 to 1853, Stewart Island was governed as New Leinster Province, then as part of New Munster Province. From 1853 onwards, it was part of the Otago Province. In local government today, Stewart Island/Rakiura is part of the Southland District and the Southland Region. However, it shares with some other islands a certain relaxation in some of the rules governing commercial activities. For example, every transport service operated solely on Great Barrier Island, the Chatham Islands, or Stewart Island/Rakiura is exempt from the Transport Act of 1962.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<h3>Flora</h3><br>
<p>Although the clay soil is not very fertile, the high rainfall and warm weather mean that the island is densely forested throughout. Native plants include the world&#39;s southernmost dense forest of podocarps (southern conifers) and hardwoods such as rātā and kāmahi in the lowland areas with mānuka shrubland at higher elevations. The trees are thought to have become established here since the last ice age from seeds brought across the strait by seabirds, which would explain why the beech trees that are so common in New Zealand, but whose seeds are dispersed by the wind rather than birds, are not found on Stewart Island.</p><br>
<p>Noeline Baker purchased land near Halfmoon Bay in the early 1930s, and with a checklist by botanist Leonard Cockayne populated it with all the local indigenous plants. She gifted the land and her house to the government in 1940, and today Moturau Moana is New Zealand&#39;s southernmost public garden.</p><br>
<h3>Fauna</h3><br>
<p>There are many species of birds on Stewart Island/Rakiura that have been able to continue to thrive because of the relative absence of the cats, rats, stoats, ferrets, weasels and other predators that humans brought to the main islands. There are even more species of birds, including huge colonies of sooty shearwater and other seabirds, on The Snares and the other smaller islands offshore. The birds of Stewart Island include weka, kākā, albatross, the flightless Stewart Island kiwi, silvereyes, fantails, and kererū. The endangered yellow-eyed penguin has a significant number of breeding sites here while the large colonies of sooty shearwaters on the offshore Muttonbird Islands, are subject to muttonbirding, a sustainable harvesting program managed by Rakiura Māori. Meanwhile, a small population of the kakapo, a flightless parrot which is very close to extinction, was found on Stewart Island in 1977 and the birds subsequently moved to smaller islands (Codfish Island) for protection from feral cats. The South Island saddleback is similarly preserved.</p><br>
<h3>Threats and preservation</h3><br>
<p>As the island has always been sparsely populated and there has never been very much logging, much of the original wildlife is intact, including species that have been devastated on the larger islands to the north since their habitation by humans. However, although habitats and wildlife were not threatened by invasive species historically, now there are populations of cats, rats and brushtail possums on the island, as well as a large population of white-tailed deer, which are hunted for meat and sport, introduced to coastal areas. There is also a small population of red deer confined to the inland areas. Almost all the island is owned by the New Zealand government and over 80 per cent of the island is set aside as the Rakiura National Park, New Zealand&#39;s newest national park. Many of the small offshore islands, including the Snares, are also protected.</p><br>
<h2>Claims of independence</h2><br>
<p>Residents of Stewart Island/Rakiura have held a number of promotional fundraising mock events regarding a declaration of independence for the island and to have it renamed to its original name of "Rakiura".</p><br>
<p>In the late 1950s or early 1960s they had a local printer overprint “INDEPENDENT RAKIURA” on eight values of some earlier New Zealand postage and health stamps. There were also eight different values from one penny to £1 overprinted on these stamps as well as having their original values blotted out with small black circles. These were sold to collectors with the proceeds helping to refurbish the Rakiura Museum.</p><br>
<p>There was another fundraising effort to raise NZ$6,000 for a new swimming pool for the islands school, by selling 50-cent passports for the newly "independent" island. A mock ceremony featured a declaration of independence on 31 July 1970 when the new republics flag was unveiled.</p><br>
<p>These efforts were not serious attempts for independence, and Stewart Island/Rakiura remains a part of the New Zealand state.</p><br>
<p>The American Institute of Pharmacy Building, also known as the Americal Pharmaceutical Association Building and the American Pharmacists Association Building is a late Beaux Arts style building in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of the American Pharmacists Association. The building, prominently located on Constitution Avenue, is on the only privately held lot in the area, surrounded by protected Federal lands. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The American Institute of Pharmacy Building was designed by architect John Russell Pope and completed in 1933. It is a one-story building with a full basement partially above grade. Structure is steel and brick with reinforced concrete floor and roof. The building is faced with Vermont marble and faces a wide terrace that overlooks the stepped slope leading down to the Lincoln Memorial. The building is arranged with a strongly centralized mass with subordinate wings to either side. A single monumental door flanked by pilasters and large bronze lamps is the sole punctuation of the facade. Allegorical relief sculpture by Ulysses Ricci embellishes the entrance surround. The building was conceived by Pope to be complementary to the Lincoln Memorial.</p><br>
<p>Because of the prominence of the site and its relationship to the Lincoln Memorial the American Institute of Pharmacy was required to make extensive land acquisitions and exchanges with the government to create suitable buffers and to allow for the widening of 23rd Street as it approaches the Memorial. White marble was specifically stipulated as the exterior cladding material.</p><br>
<p>The interior is arranged around a central rotunda, accompanied by a small museum and library, now board room and reception space. Offices are located to the rear, while the basement was planned as laboratory, service and storage space. The rotunda is capped by a low dome resting on pendentives and lighted by an oculus. The flanking museum and library are lighted by skylights.</p><br>
<p>A three-story addition was built in 1959-1961, designed by Eggers and Higgins and subordinated to the design of the main building.</p><br>
<p>Cannington Court in the village of Cannington, Somerset, England was built around 1138 as the lay wing of a Benedictine nunnery, founded by Robert de Courcy. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Cannington Priory, later to be known as Cannington Court, was first established by the De Courcy family in about 1138. Many of the gentry of Somerset sent their daughters to reside there. By the fourteenth century, there was some moral backsliding and in 1328, an inquiry was set up to investigate illicit activities of monks and nuns. Large iron-bound gates were erected to ensure the nuns stayed inside the grounds, and there existed rumours that tunnels connected the nunnery to the village.</p><br>
<p>The Cannington Nunnery built the adjacent Church of St Mary and survived until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536. The nunnery owned significant land in the area.</p><br>
<p>Following the dissolution of the priory the building was bought by Edward Rogers and he made various alterations. These were continued by the Clifford family when they acquired it, particularly in the early 18th century. During the 19th and 20th centuries there has been some redesigning of the interior.</p><br>
<p>From 1807 to 1835, Cannington Court was used by a community of Benedictine nuns who had returned to England following the French Revolution. After the nuns had left, the house was used as a Roman Catholic industrial school for boys. This was removed to Bath in 1917 where it became the Prior Park Industrial School. The Court then became part of the Somerset Farm Institute which later became Cannington College, and this was merged with Bridgewater College in 2004. Since then, there has been significant investment in the site, and a project to revive the walled garden has been undertaken. This garden was officially opened by Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Cannington Court is currently being leased to the energy firm EDF as a residential training centre. EDF have installed renewable energy sources such as ground source heat pumps and solar panels, to provide half of the building&#39;s power requirements.</p><br>
<h2>The house</h2><br>
<p>Cannington Court is a Grade I listed building, having been so designated on 29 March 1963. It is built of red sandstone with some brick sections. There is a moulded cornice and ashlar parapet with a coping. Some of the roofs are hipped; some are slated and others have Roman tiles. The range of buildings consist of a medieval hall and other buildings surrounding an irregular quadrangle, with a chapel wing on the south side. The entrance building has three storeys. The central, three-storey porch is made of ashlar stone and has slender Ionic columns on pedestals on either side. The windows have stone mullions.</p><br>
<p>The John Wilson House is a historic house at 11 Ashland Street in the borough of Jewett City in the town of Griswold, Connecticut. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, two chimneys, and clapboard siding. Its main facade has a slightly projecting center section, marked by two-story pilasters, a detail repeated at the building corners. A pair of doors are topped by an open gable pediment with heavy brackets. The house was built c. 1781-82 by John Wilson, an early settler of Jewett City who married the daughter of Eliezer Jewett. Wilson was a significant early industrialist in Jewett City, establishing a fulling mill in 1790 and incorporating the Jewett City Cotton Manufacturing Company in 1815. His house, originally a center-chimney plan, was moved a short distance in the 1860s by Alfred Young, the agent for the Slater Mills, the area&#39;s largest mill. It is the only surviving house associated with either man.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>William Wilson House, also known as Prospect Hill and the Trammell Hollis House, is a historic home located in Gerrardstown, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was built between 1792 and 1802, and is a large, two story brick dwelling on a stone foundation in a late-Georgian style. It measures 36 ft deep and 70 ft wide and consists of a three-bay central block with a four-bay side wing. The interior features a mural by Baltimore artist Olive Verna Rogers painted in 1936. The property includes four brick outbuildings dated as far back as the 1850s: a kitchen, spring house, privy, and the original stone dwelling house.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>William Wilson House.jpgTrammell Hollis House from HABS</p><br>
<p>PROSPECT HILL OR WILLIAM WILSON HOUSE, BERKELEY COUNTY.jpg2015</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Mary in Woolavington, Somerset, England has 11th-century origins and is a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>There may have been a church on the site prior to the Norman conquest but the present building may have been started around 1154 by Maud and Philip Columber the lords of the manor at that time. In the early 12th century it was granted to Goldcliff Priory in Monmouthshire by its founder Robert de Chandos who was lord of the manor of Woolavington.</p><br>
<p>The tower, the upper stages of which were rebuilt in the 17th century, has a peal of eight bells, the oldest of which was cast in 1400.</p><br>
<p>The interior includes a pulpit and oak panels from the 15th century. There is also a memorial stone to Sir John Hody an English judge and Chief Justice of the King’s Bench who died in the 15th century.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the benefice of Woolavington with Cossington and Bawdrip within the Sedgemoor deanery.</p><br>
<p>Gurney Manor in Cannington, Somerset, England is a 13th-century manor house with an attached chapel wing, is now supported by the Landmark Trust and is available as holiday accommodation. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building</p><br>
<p>The first building on the site was an open hall house erected before 1350. It was rebuilt around 1400 with various additions during the 15th century. William Dodisham added the south wing, porch and kitchen and put in new windows. In 1480 he left it to his niece who married Walter Michael a local landowner, whose family owned the manor until 1616. It then became a farmhouse until the early 20th century. In World War II the house was divided into flats by a Mr Harris, whose descendants sold it to the Landmark Trust in the 1980s. The interior includes the remnants of a 17th-century strapwork plaster ceiling.</p><br>
<p>Restoration work in the late 20th century included the construction of new oak roof trusses made in a traditional fashion with an adze.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Christopher in Lympsham, Somerset, England dates from the 15th century, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>It is known that Bartholomew de England was appointed rector at Lympsham in 1274, although the parish had been given by Ine of Wessex to Glastonbury Abbey in 690 remaining part of the Abbey estates until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539.</p><br>
<p>During the 19th century extensive restoration was carried out by Rev A. J. Stephenson and his son, J. H. Stephenson. Further refurbishment was undertaken in 1909.</p><br>
<p>Archaeological exploration in 2001 uncovered a copper alloy coin from Bath dated 1670.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the benefice of Brent Knoll, East Brent and Lympsham, within the deanery of Axbridge.</p><br>
<p>The Salzburg Slate Alps  are a mountain range of the Eastern Alps, in the Austrian state of Salzburg. Situated within the greywacke zone, they could be regarded either as part of the Northern Limestone Alps or of the Central Eastern Alps.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The range is located between the Kitzbühel Alps (Tyrolean Slate Alps), the continuation of the greywacke zone beyond Lake Zell and Saalach river in the west, and the Dachstein massif in the east. In the north it is adjacent to the Berchtesgaden Alps, while in the south the Salzach and Enns valleys separates it from the High and Low Tauern ranges of the Alpine crest. The Salzburg Slate Alps stretch about 60 km in west-east dirction, from the Salzburg Pinzgau region, north of the Salzach, into the Pongau region and along the Enns river up to the border with Styria.</p><br>
<p>This inner-Alpine Mittelgebirge group, designated by the Alpine Club Classification of the Eastern Alps (AVE) based on its underlying rock, cannot be assigned from a geological perspective either to the Northern or the Central Alps, so it does not fit into the general tripartite division of the Eastern Alps and, as a result, is variously treated in the literature.</p><br>
<h2>Subdivisions</h2><br>
<p>From a topographic perspective there are two subgroups, separated by the Salzach river where it bends northwards near St Johann im Pongau:</p><br>
<p>the Dienten Mountains (Dientener Berge), which are known in the region as slate mountains in the true sense, running from west of the Salzach to Lake Zell and including the Hundstein massif and the Schneeberg-Hochglockner Group (Schneeberg-Hochglockner-Gruppe, (Schneebergkreuz )</p><br>
<p>the Fritztal Mountains (Fritztaler Berge), running from east of the Salzach to the Styrian border and the Dachstein massif, including the:</p><br>
<p>Hochgründeck in the triangle formed by Bischofshofen, St. Johann and Altenmarkt</p><br>
<p>Rossbrand, which runs from Altenmarkt to the Mandling Pass near Radstadt</p><br>
<p>Glutserberg, Halserberg and the Ramsauerleiten, three smaller regions that continue the Rossbrand to Schladming</p><br>
<p>Gerzkopf, north of the Fritztal valley, which geologically belongs to the limestone region between the Tennen Mountains and the Dachstein, and are morphologically less related to the Dachstein massif and more to its southwestern outlier</p><br>
<p>Runyon Lake  is located in Pueblo, Colorado. It was originally used as a dredge pond for the Rocky Mountain Steel Mill, is approximately 5 acres in size, and is fed by the Arkansas River.</p><br>
<p>It is used solely for fishing, and is stocked by the Division of Wildlife. Boating is restricted to hand launched craft under 15’ in length (including float tubes & personal pontoons). Boats may be propelled by hand, wind, or electric motors only. Ice fishing, swimming, open fires and camping are all prohibited.</p><br>
<h2>Fish</h2><br>
<p>Runyon Lake is home to several different fish species. Included species are White Crappie, Black Bullhead, Saugeye, Channel Catfish, Large Mouth Bass and Rainbow Trout. The lake has previously held the record in Colorado for the biggest catfish catch. The catfish was 38.5 inches in length and 29.5 pounds in weight.</p><br>
<p>The Gobero archaeological site, dating to approximately 8000 BCE, is the oldest known graveyard in the Sahara Desert. The site contains important information for archaeologists on how early humans adapted to a constantly changing environment. Gobero is located in the Ténéré desert of Niger, and is named after the Tuareg name for the region.</p><br>
<h2>Site</h2><br>
<p>The area was once the location of a freshwater paleolake named Gobero, approximately 3 km in diameter and, 3 m in depth.</p><br>
<p>Site G1 is a dune that rises from the lake basin to an elevation of 56.035m above sea level and extends east-west. The next phase is an interruption in the occupation of the site from 6200 BCE – 5200 BCE due to the return of dry and arid conditions making the site uninhabitable. Phase III dates from 5200 BCE to 2200 BCE, and is characterized by the second main occupation of the site at Gobero by a group known as the Tenerians. The final Phase, Phase IV, dates from 2500 BCE to 300 BCE and is the period in which the Sahara dries out once more, ending any occupation.</p><br>
<p>A wealth of lithic artifacts were recovered from sites G1 and G3, though most came from the surface. A total of 4,685 artifacts came from G1 and 11,503 came from G3. These included cores, blanks, endscrapers, perforators, burins, backed tools, notches, denticulates, truncations, geometric tools, sidescrapers, arrowheads, tenerian disks, bifacial tools, axes and adzes, grinding stones and polished axes and other retouched tools.</p><br>
<p>4,646 potsherds were collected during excavations in 2005-6, all from G1 and G3. Vessel shapes were open and closed bowls and jars. Types of decorative techniques for the pots included rocker stamping, mainly found at site G1, decorations with cord-wrapped tools, and decorations made with combs. Some decoration styles included plain zigzags, straight zigzags, curved zigzags, zigzags that form fishnet patterns, and dotted zigzags.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations</h2><br>
<p>Discovered by team photographer Mike Hettwer on October 13, 2000, the sheer size and scope of the find, including traces of pottery, human remains and quantities of aquatic-environment animal bones, suggested the site dated to the early- to mid-Holocene, or "Green Sahara" period (7500–3500 BCE).</p><br>
<p>In 2005, Sereno organized an international team of archaeologists to explore the site. These archaeologists discovered that Gobero had been almost continually inhabited for 5000 years, beginning roughly from 8000 BCE onwards when the area fronted a large lake. The 2007 and 2008 expeditions had to be canceled due to hostilities between Nigerien government forces and Tuareg tribesmen. The first comprehensive report on Gobero was published by Sereno in August 2008, and he returned again to the region in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>Human occupation</h2><br>
<h3>Kiffian culture</h3><br>
<p>Evidence of human occupation at Gobero started during the Early Holocene dating around 7550 BCE to 6250 BCE (9500 to 8200 BP). The Early Holocene occupation is associated with the Kiffian culture: they were tall (as much as 6-foot 8-inches). According to Sereno (2008), "Their crania were long and low and are characterized by a distinct occipital bun, flattened sagittal profile, pentagonal posterior outline, broad proportions across the zygoma and interorbital region, broad nasal aperture, and negligible alveolar prognathism." They were heavily muscled hunter-fishers, they left a distinctive pottery with wavy lines and probably remained in the region until around 6000 BCE. A radiogenic strontium isotopic analysis done on the burials at the G3 area of the site show limited variability in the mobility of the group: people stayed and lived in the area for most of their lives, and it was only towards the end of this occupation that evidence indicating possible mobility started appearing. Artifacts associated with this occupation at the Gobero site include microliths, bone harpoons and hooks, dotted wavy-line pottery, and zigzag impressed motifs.</p><br>
<h3>Tenerian culture</h3><br>
<p>The Middle Holocene occupation is associated with the Ténérians, who settled the area 1000 or more years after the Kiffians, 6250 BCE to 2550 BCE (8200 to 4500 BP). According to Sereno, "Their crania are long, high and narrow, and their faces are taller with considerable alveolar prognathism." This was a nomadic herding culture. Artifacts found in association include bones and tusks from fauna, projectile points, ceramics, ivory, bone and shell ornaments. There are also middens with remains of catfish, tilapia, hippos, antelope, soft shell turtles, crocodile, and domesticated cattle.</p><br>
<h2>Burials</h2><br>
<p>At least 182 burial sites were found at Gobero. Of these, 67 have been excavated, and some were found to have pottery and other artifacts located around them. Earlier burials, usually those associated with the early occupation, have bones that are very dark in color which was most likely caused by their submersion when the lake levels rose. This suggests that their bodies might have been wrapped or bound with animal skin, ligament or basketry binding.</p><br>
<p>According to Sereno (2008), the later burials are "most commonly in semi-flexed postures on either left or right sides." Some of the remains uncovered at the area were decorated with jewelry, including a young girl wearing a bracelet made from the tusk of a hippo, and a man buried with the carapace of a turtle. A likely family grave was also found, with a woman and two children buried on their sides, facing each other and with hands entwined. They were buried with four hollow based points, and there was pollen evidence found at the probable family burial, suggesting that flowers decorated the grave.</p><br>
<p>Kona Coffee Living History Farm is located on the Daisaku Uchida Coffee Farm, in the Kona District, on the Big Island of Hawaii. The 5.5 acre historic Kona coffee farm first established in 1900.</p><br>
<p>The open-air agriculture museum depicts the daily lives of early Japanese immigrants to Hawaii during the period of 1920-1945. It is located at coordinates 19&deg;29&prime;24&Prime;N latitude, 155&deg;54&prime;49&Prime;W longitude, the area now known as Captain Cook, but the traditional land division (ahupuaa) known as Kealakekua.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The farm was owned by Daisaku Uchida, who came to Hawaii from southern Japan at the age of 19 on September 27, 1906. After a three-year sugar contract at Līhue Plantation on Kauai, Daisaku came to the Kona District.</p><br>
<p>Between 1868 and 1924, more than 140,000 Japanese workers came to Hawaii with labor contracts at sugarcane plantation. Many, like Uchida, decided to leave the plantations and start their own family businesses when their contract expired.</p><br>
<p>In 1912, Daisaku married his cousin, Shima Maruo. They moved to the farm in 1913, expanding it and the house in 1925. The land was owned by the Greenwell family. Henry Nicholas Greenwell had been in the coffee trading business in the area since the 1870s.</p><br>
<p>The Uchida family lived here until Shima died at the age of 73 in 1966, and Daisaku in 1986 at the age of 99. Three children were born in the original house, and three in the new one after 1925. The eldest son Masao Uchida also farmed the property until he and his wife Masako retired to Honolulu in 1994.</p><br>
<h3>Preservation</h3><br>
<p>The long-term leashold had finally run out, and the land was scheduled to be redeveloped into a residential subdivision. Since the farm had never been modernized, it was instead donated to the Kona Historical Society by Sherwood Greenwell.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The living history museum offers self-guided tours, that include the coffee orchard, farmhouse, and coffee mill. A kiosk is open to visitors, and a full tour by costumed interpreters from the Kona Historical Society is available at limited times. A fee is charged.</p><br>
<p>The state registry of historic places listed the farm as site 10-47-7509 on April 16, 1994.</p><br>
<p>On February 9, 1995 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings on the island of Hawaii as site number 94001621.</p><br>
<p>The original Henry Greenwell Store houses the Historical Society, and is also on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>They are both located on the Mamalahoa Highway, known as the Hawaii Belt Road.</p><br>
<p>Careys Camp was established in 1888 as a Methodist camp meeting near Millsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. Traditionally occupied for two weeks in August for prayer and religious instruction, the camp is composed of 47 wood cabins  in an oval around a tabernacle. As with many such meeting grounds, the camp is located in a grove of oaks trees. The front-gabled cabins almost touch each other. Each cabin has a window in the gable and a porch on the front. The rear of the porch is entirely open to the interior of the house, so that the cabins occupants could see and be seen from the center. An enclosed kitchen is in the back of the cabin. Sleeping rooms are located upstairs.</p><br>
<p>Tents are usually owned by families, although a few tents, such as the preacher&#39;s, are owned by the camp committee. A boarding tent with six sleeping rooms offers food, and a confectionery is located outside the circle. At the center of the circle is the tabernacle. Originally a long shed, two arms were added to make it cruciform in shape, with three arms used for seating while a fourth serves as a chancel. Hinged panels open to allow a view into the tabernacle from outside. Benches outside accommodate overflow.</p><br>
<p>Carey&#39;s Camp was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Reedy River Falls Historic Park and Greenway, now known as Falls Park, runs along both banks of Reedy River from the falls to Church Street, in Greenville, South Carolina.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Before the arrival of Europeans, Cherokees settled the area around the Reedy River. The first white settlements occurred in 1777, and the city of Greenville grew around the river when mills harnessed its power. Evidence of the mills can still be seen along the river today. Furman University built a campus nearby in 1850.</p><br>
<h2>Reedy River Falls Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1907 the first idea of turning Reedy River Falls into a park was introduced. This idea had been ruined when the city began to become industrialized. Industries and even individuals used the river as a dump for waste and trash. The actual pollution hadn&#39;t ceased until the 1960s. Furman donated the land needed to set aside to begin Reedy River Falls Historic Park and Greenway. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The development of Falls Park began in the 1990s when a developer proposed the concept of turning the park into a regional attraction. The development of the park began with a budget of 13,000,000 and was funded through the City of Greenville Hospitality Tax.</p><br>
<h2>Description of Falls Park</h2><br>
<p>Falls Park is located right in the center of Greenville County. This area has become known as Downtown Greenville and is a huge attraction with its citizens. The area today is filled with thousands of stores and restaurants. The park now includes a bridge known as Liberty Bridge and brings together many different types of greenery and benches, and different trails throughout the park.</p><br>
<p>The Chipman Potato House is located near Laurel, Delaware, one of the last surviving examples of its building type. The southern part of Delaware saw a sweet potato boom from 1900 until blight struck in the 1940s. In order to store the crops, potato houses were built. The Chipman House was built in 1913 by Joseph and Ernest Chipman on their property with the assistance of Alva Hudson. The 2½ story balloon-framed house is furnished with sparse, shuttered windows and slatted floors, allowing adjustment of air circulation. Two stoves provided heat during the winter, one of which survives.</p><br>
<p>The Chipman potato house has been modified for tractor access. Windows were once glazed beneath the shutters, a very unusual feature in a potato house. The internal structure uses samson posts, a kind of capped column that is normally employed in mill construction to bear heavy loads, leading to speculation that the feature echos construction in the adjacent, now destroyed Chipman&#39;s Mill. The Chipman house is also unusual in plan, divided into four quadrants with 2.5 ft walkways between. Each quadrant was divided into at least three bins. The attic is divided in two with a center aisle, for a total of 50 bins, typically 9 ft by 3 ft.</p><br>
<p>The Chipman Potato House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Craig House is a historic home located near Lancaster, Lancaster County, South Carolina. The House was originally owned by John Craig, Esquire, whose family originated in southwestern Scotland, immigrated to South Carolina from Northern Ireland in 1772. After receiving a land grant in Lancaster County from King George III, Craig bought additional land in the Waxhaws in 1773.</p><br>
<p>John Craig, Esquire and several of his sons fought in the Revolutionary War battles that occurred in the vicinity. The current Craig House dates from the early 1830s, and was originally a federal-style farmhouse. In 1901, it was significantly enlarged with a Victorian front addition by John Edgar and Amanda Drennan Craig, who were married in 1883 at Kilburnie, then the residence of the Drennans.</p><br>
<p>The fields and woods surrounding historic Craig House are all part of pre-Civil War Craig Farm, which included more than a thousand acres of the area between Highways 200 and 521 from Montgomery Lane to several miles north of Cane Creek.</p><br>
<p>Craig Farm today consists of close to 400 acres, owned by the five siblings of the current Craig generation and Johannes Tromp, and is operated as a cattle farm by Bill Craig, the twin brother of Kilburnie partner John Craig.</p><br>
<p>The House is a two-story, originally L-shaped, frame clapboard covered frame dwelling, with several rear additions. It features a porch and second story balcony.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Chipmans Mill was located near Laurel, Delaware, and is now the name of a Delaware State Park which encompasses the mill pond, including a boat ramp for fishing . Chipmans Mill functioned into the late 1940s. Arson destroyed the structures in November 1986.</p><br>
<p>The relatively remote area had been one of the last remaining residences of the Lenni Lenape, who left Delaware and the Chipman&#39;s Pond area in 1748. Settlers soon came, attracted by the available timber and water power. Christ Church was built nearby, which still survives.</p><br>
<p>The destroyed mill had two structures. In 1884, Joseph Chipman had built a one storey mill over the millrace (which survives), which contained turbines and millstones. The wooden superstructure featured mortise and tenon joinery. An adjoining two story section was moved to the site from elsewhere.</p><br>
<p>The Katzrin ancient village and synagogue  is an open-air museum located in the Golan Heights on the outskirts of the Israeli settlement Katzrin. It features the reconstructed remains of a Talmudic-era village.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>The ancient Jewish farming village of Katzrin was built around a spring, which still flows. Although there were standing ruins on the site, archaeological excavations have increased the number of accessible ancient buildings. An ancient synagogue was discovered in 1967 and excavated between 1971 and 1984. Other parts of the village were excavated beginning in 1983. Some of the buildings have been reconstructed on their ancient foundations and furnished with replicas of household goods and tools. An ancient wine press and olive press have also been made functional with new ropes and beams. Costumed guides demonstrate and explain construction methods, agricultural and manufacturing processes in Hebrew and English.</p><br>
<h2>Synagogue</h2><br>
<p>The Katzrin Synagogue was built in the 6th century CE atop a more modest 4th-5th century synagogue. Fragments of a mosaic floor have been found. The synagogue was apparently destroyed by the Golan earthquake of 749. In the Mamluk period, part of the standing ruin was roofed and used as a mosque. After a brief period, this use and the village itself were abandoned until 1967.</p><br>
<p>The synagogue had two rows of four columns each. The building was two stories tall with rows of windows at the top of the walls. The roof was built of wooden beams covered with ceramic tiles. In the southern wall, which faces Jerusalem, two massive stone steps lead to a raised stone platform (bimah). It is thought that a wooden Torah ark would have stood here. stood on it. Under the bimah there is a long, stone-paved space thought to have served as a Geniza (storage space for sacred texts no longer in use). The walls were plastered and painted white, with the lower walls decorated with red geometric motifs. The walls were lined with stone benches in the form of a double step.</p><br>
<p>The basalt lintel of one of the houses unearthed in the Golan bears a Hebrew inscription that reads: "This is the beit midrash of Rabbi Elazar the Caper Maker." This discovery ties in with a discussion in the Talmud that revolves around wearing new shoes on the Sabbath: What are new shoes? Shoes that have not “walked” a certain distance, in this case the distance between the synagogue at Katzrin and the beit midrash of Rabbi Elazar the Caper Maker.</p><br>
<p>The Picó Pomar Residence, also known as Coamo Historic Museum, is a Spanish Colonial Neoclassical architecture building built in 1840, and is located on the main plaza of Coamo, Puerto Rico. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It was purchased in 1863 by Don Clotilde Santiago, another merchant from Mallorca, who expanded it. During the late 1800s it was one of Puerto Rico&#39;s "most active and important import-export merchandise distribution centers and the most important in the south-central region of Puerto Rico." The business exported coffee, tobacco, and sugar, and imported manufactured goods from the USA and Europe.</p><br>
<p>It was later purchased by Coamo&#39;s Municipal Government and transformed into a museum.</p><br>
<p>Old Christ Church, also known as Old Lightwood, is a historic Episcopal church near Laurel, Sussex County, Delaware. The 1772 church resembles its parent church, Green Hill Church of Stepney Parish in Wicomico County, Maryland, except that while Stepney was built in brick, Christ Church is of wood construction. Its weathered appearance gave rise to a nickname "Old Lightwood," although it now is painted barn red.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Laurel did not exist when the colony of Maryland laid out its original 30 parishes in 1692. Scharfs History of Delaware reportedly states the last Native Americans in Delaware left from the Chipmans Pond area, which became the site of this Christ Church, in 1748. By 1772, a small settlement had been built, including a mill (now Chipman&#39;s Mill State Park), store, some houses, and iron foundry. The large Stepney Parish of the Church of England levied 80,000 pounds of tobacco from citizens and Robert Houston built this chapel of ease for residents of its northern part, often called simply "Broad Creek Chapel."</p><br>
<p>However, it turned out that both Maryland and Delaware claimed this relatively remote area known for its heavy stands of virgin pine trees. This dispute led to clarification of the boundary via the Transpeninsular Line and Mason–Dixon line, which placed the church in Delaware. It then became the "Mother Church" of Western Sussex County, Delaware. By 1821, Rev. Daniel Higbee was elected rector for this church and four others. St. Peters Church in Lewes, Delaware was to pay him $180 per year, and this Christ Church and three others paid him $120 annually. Those less wealthy churches included Prince Georges Chapel in Dagsboro, Delaware (begun 1755 as a chapel of ease for St. Martins parish in Worcester County, Maryland and caught in the same boundary dispute), St. Pauls Church in Georgetown, Delaware, and St. Georges Chapel about 9 miles south of Lewes. Pew rents at this church were once five dollars per year, and this parish helped to form St. Phillips in Laurel in 1834, St. Lukes in Seaford, Delaware in 1835, as well as St. Johns Little Hill, St. Marks in Millsboro in 1848, and All Saints in Delmar in 1886 when the railroad down the Delmarva Peninsula brought relative prosperity to this area. Four Delaware governors have been members: Nathaniel Mitchell, who is buried there, William B. Cooper, William H. H. Ross, and Elbert N. Carvel.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The 40 ft by 60 ft church has been repaired and painted on the exterior. It is particularly known for its simple, original interior, now one of only about a dozen in the Atlantic Coast of the United States that have never been plumbed or electrified. Only the window sashes are painted, and the pulpit stands on the middle of the north wall, with an altar at the east end. Box pews are high, with doors to each family section, signified by chalked names. The ceiling is a flattened barrel vault. A gallery remains at the west end, reached by stairs and was once used for slaves and free negroes, with seats but no back rests.</p><br>
<h2>Current status</h2><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Services are held monthly in the summer and occasionally in the fall.</p><br>
<p>Laurens Historic District is a national historic district located at Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It encompasses 77 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in Laurens. The district includes residential, commercial, religious, and governmental buildings built between 1880 and 1940. Notable buildings include the Laurens County Courthouse, Old Methodist Church, St. Paul First Baptist Church, Public Square commercial buildings, Rosenblum&#39;s and Maxwell Bros. and Kinard Store, Provident Finance Co. and Parker Furniture, McDonald House, Augustus Huff House, Gov. William Dunlap Simpson House, and Hudgens-Harney House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1980 and extended in 1986.</p><br>
<p>It includes the Laurens County Courthouse, the James Dunklin House, William Dunlap Simpson House, and other properties that are separately NRHP-listed.</p><br>
<p>The Corn Exchange and market house in Bridgwater, Somerset, England was built in 1834 by John Bowen and extended in 1875, by Charles Knowles. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The original market hall, which dates from 1791, is fronted by a circular portico with a domed roof with Tuscan pillars. The distinctive portico was added after the north and south sides of the corn market were demolished for road widening in 1825.</p><br>
<p>It was originally surrounded by railings to separate the livestock from the food produce. The railings were removed in 1895.</p><br>
<p>In front of the building is a statue of Robert Blake who was born in the town. The statue was made in 1898 by F. W. Pomeroy and has since been repositioned to face down Cornhill.</p><br>
<p>Gothelney Hall, also known as Gothelney Manor Farmhouse, located in the parish of Spaxton, Somerset, England was built in the 15th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The site was used for an earlier building dated by dendrochronology to between 1238 and 1411.</p><br>
<p>The tall house in the centre of the building dates from the 15th century, however this was extended in the 16th century, with further additions and renovations in the 17th and 19th centuries. Many of the original roof timbers survive. It was originally surrounded by a moat.</p><br>
<p>In World War II the house was used by the War Department and afterwards became a kindergarten. It was later used as a farmhouse and farm outbuildings can be found to the rear. The house remains a private dwelling and centre of a working farm.</p><br>
<p>Blackmoor Farmhouse at Cannington, Somerset, England and the attached chapel, was built around 1480 for Thomas Tremayll. It was designated as a Grade I listed building on 29 March 1963. The farm now offers bed and breakfast accommodation and is a wedding venue.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The farmhouse was originally built for Thomas Tremayll as a manor house, with integrated chapel, in approximately 1480. During the 16th century a porch was added, as well as a service wing. The interior was altered in the 19th century, adding windows to the rear of the property at the same time. The two story farmhouse is made of red sandstone rubble, with roughly cut quoins and rubble chimneystacks. The roof is slate ending in coped verges.</p><br>
<p>The front of the building has a number of bays ending in the chapel wing to the north, which includes tall lancet arch windows as well as an ogee-headed moulded stone door frame. The main entrance to the house is in one of the bays, with a studded door, in a similar ogee-headed moulded stone door frame. On the south side of the house there is a garderobe, also two storeys high, with a turret to the rear.</p><br>
<p>The building has many architectural features of its period with the roof structure comprising a series of jointed crucks together with some curved wind-braces still in place. There are coffered ceilings and a plank and muntin screen with soot blackening to one side now in one of the upstairs rooms (possibly re-sited from being a screens passage at the entrance to the main hall where one would expect to see this type of structure).</p><br>
<p>The Wright Potato House is a small 1-1/2 story building near Laurel, Delaware that was built to store harvested sweet potatoes. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Sweet potatoes were a dominant crop in Sussex County, Delaware, and numerous potato houses were built to store them. After a blight in the 1940s, the crop became less important and many potato houses were allowed to deteriorate or were converted to other use.</p><br>
<p>The frame building is about 20.17 ft by 30.25 ft in plan on a concrete and brick foundation. Windows are confined to the ends of the building, as are doors. The original "triple sheathing" has been covered by asphalt shingles. The triple sheathing system consisted of wood weatherboards over diagonal wood sheathing on wood studs with straw insulation, and an interior sheathing of horizontal beaded tongue and groove boards. A wood shingle roof has likewise been covered with asphalt shingles.</p><br>
<p>The Wright Potato House is typical of its kind, with a center aisle between potato bins on both levels. A sliding trap door provides ventilation between levels. A chimney was provided to allow the house to be heated sufficiently to avoid freezing the stored crop.</p><br>
<p>Bobcat Trail Habitation Cave is a historic site of Ancient Hawaiian living quarters in a remote interior area of the island of Hawaii.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Coordinates are approximate; The site is within the Puuanahulu ahupuaa (region) of the North Kona District on the island of Hawaii. The exact location is kept restricted to avoid damage to the site.</p><br>
<p>It is on USA Federal land which is part of the Pohakuloa Training Area.</p><br>
<p>At an elevation of 5,100 -, the arid area receives only 20 in of rainfall per year. The vegetation is a mix of subalpine and montane dry shrublands.</p><br>
<p>It is named for the nearby Bobcat Trail, which has been proposed to be restored into part of a Mauna Loa trail system. by Thomas S. Dye,</p><br>
<p>March 25, 2005, on Nature Conservancy web site</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The trail was part of a system used before the time of King Umi, who moved the royal residence to a site nearby on the same high plateau in the 16th century, now called Ahu A Umi Heiau.</p><br>
<p>Original studies were focused on the coastal areas that remain inhabited today, but</p><br>
<p>even this more marginal area has evidence of human activity from A.D. 700 until the 18th century. Ancient Hawaiians hunted birds and gathered wood extensively on the plateau.</p><br>
<p>They valued both seabirds that nested here for food, and forest birds for colorful feathers used in ceremonial garments.</p><br>
<p>While hunting, they camped in the caves formed by Lava tubes, placing gourds on the floor to collect water that dripped from the ceiling. The forests provided sandalwood and medicinal plants. Bundles of sandalwood were found where they were left for later transport to the larger communities on the coast.</p><br>
<h2>Protection</h2><br>
<p>The site is state archaeological site number 10-30-5004 (this number, plus "50-" to indicate the state of Hawaii, was appended to its name on the National registry).</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 15, 1986 as site number 86001086.</p><br>
<p>In 1995 a comprehensive survey of the area was funded by the USA Army to produce an environmental management plan.Cleghorn and Clark, "Initial Implementation</p><br>
<p>of the Historic Preservation Plan for Bobcat Trail</p><br>
<p>Habitation Cave (Site 50-10- 30-5004)" submitted to the USA Army Engineer District, Honolulu, Fort Shafter, Hawaii, 1996</p><br>
<p>In 2004, another study was done for some proposed improvements to the training area.</p><br>
<p>Although this cave is the only one listed on the register, there are several others in the area.</p><br>
<p>The National Harbor of Refuge and Delaware Breakwater Historic District encompasses a series of seacoast breakwaters behind Cape Henlopen, Delaware, built between 1828 and 1898 to establish a shipping haven on a coastline that lacked safe harbors. The Harbor of Refuge is at the mouth of the Delaware Bay estuary where it opens into the Atlantic Ocean, at Lewes.</p><br>
<p>The district is almost entirely offshore, touching land only at the former United States Coast Guard station. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Delaware Breakwater</h2><br>
<p>An 1822 study authorized by the United States Congress investigated the possibility of a haven at Cape Henlopen. Led by General Simon Bernard, Major Joseph Gilbert Totten and Commodore William Bainbridge, the committee recommended that a permanent harbor be created.</p><br>
<p>In 1826, William Strickland began to design the breakwater, which would be the first of its kind in the Western hemisphere and the third in the world, after one in Cherbourg, France, and the Plymouth Breakwater at Plymouth, England. Work began in 1828 on what is now the inner breakwater, listed in its own right on the National Register as the Delaware Breakwater. These works consisted of a 2,100 ft main breakwater and a 1,700 ft icebreaker pier. Both were built of granite rubble from New Castle County, Delaware, with earlier portions using smaller stones from the Hudson Palisades. The breakwaters are 160 ft wide at the base and 20 ft at the top. The project used 835,000 tons of stone Strickland also designed a lighthouse for the harbor, which was completed the next year.</p><br>
<p>The harbor was a success, but it soon became apparent that it was too small. During storms as many as 200 ships would seek refuge. Shoaling was also a problem. In 1877, a hurricane destroyed several ships in the harbor, and others that could not get into the harbor. To improve things, work began in 1883 to close the opening between the icebreaker and main breakwater, using the same stone as the original. This project rendered obsolete the Strickland lighthouse, which was replaced in 1885 by the present Delaware Breakwater East End Light. The work dragged on for 16 years, during which 70 sailors perished in the Great Blizzard of 1888.The breakwater closure was finally completed in 1898.</p><br>
<p>An iron pier was built beginning in 1871 by the USA Army Corps of Engineers and completed in 1882. The 1,700 ft pier was designed to carry rail traffic directly out to ships in the harbor. The structure used iron screw piles with wood decking. The pier was later adapted for use by the USA Lifesaving Station and the quarantine station. The iron pier shafts remain visible in the harbor, a hazard to navigation.</p><br>
<h2>National Harbor of Refuge</h2><br>
<p>In 1896 Congress authorized a new, larger program of breakwaters, the National Harbor of Refuge. Located 6,500 ft to the north of the original breakwater on a shoal known as The Shears, the new breakwater used much larger stone. The dressed and fitted masonry used individual pieces of up to 13 tons. The new breakwater was 8,040 ft long at low water and 40 ft wide. Ten icebreaker piers were built 1,250 ft to the north of dressed stone in a 1,300 ft line. Compared with the earlier effort, steam-powered equipment allowed the use of larger stones and sped construction. The project cost $2,090,765.82 and was completed in 1901.</p><br>
<p>The Harbor of Refuge Light was built on this breakwater. Damaged in 1920 by storms, it effectively replaced the 1767 Cape Henlopen Light, which was abandoned in 1924 and fell into the sea in 1926.</p><br>
<h2>Coast Guard Station</h2><br>
<p>The Lewes Coast Guard Station now functions as the Delaware River pilot&#39;s station. The station is a 2.5-story balloon-framed building, built in 1938 in Colonial Revival style. The principal facade faces the harbor with an enclosed porch supported by paired Tuscan columns. Shingle siding covers the station. An enclosed observation platform on the roof has a Chinese Chippendale railing, with adapted Palladian windows on all sides.</p><br>
<p>The building at 73 Mansion Street in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States, was first built around 1890 as a single-family residence. It is next to the city&#39;s post office and across from the offices of the Poughkeepsie Journal, at the corner with Balding Avenue.</p><br>
<p>It was built around 1890 by a local real estate attorney and has had many owners, and some other uses, since then. A prominent example of the Queen Anne architectural style in the city, it was left out of the neighboring historic district because the house was inconsistent with the Balding homes. Fifteen years later, in 1997, it was finally listed on the National Register of Historic Places in its own right, the only property in all of Dutchess County listed on the Register by its street address.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>73 Mansion is a two-and-a-half-story frame house on a painted brick foundation sided in clapboard with decorative shingles and painted trim. It is topped by a hipped roof with the original slate, lower cross-gables and a pyramidal tower with weathervane, pierced by gabled dormer windows and a paneled and corbelled brick chimney.</p><br>
<p>Its facades are characterized by overlapping planes and textures, consistent with Queen Anne Style houses. Bays project, one of which has a cutaway bay window, asymmetrically placed on the south (front) facade and both sides. The east gable end has an arched vergeboard. Yankee gutters run along the roofline.</p><br>
<p>There are three entrances on the first floor, all with their own gable-roofed porch and patterned pediment. Two have curved, routed brackets as supports. The building&#39;s fenestration is similarly eclectic, including round and polygonal windows and colored-glass inserts next to angled muntins.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the floor plan follows the asymmetry of the exterior trim. It has much of its original finish as well: herringbone-patterned oak panels below the front bay windows, plaster ceiling medallions and crown moldings in each room, light fixtures, staircase railing and narrow-strip oak flooring.</p><br>
<p>Behind the house, on the property, is a modern garage added in the 1950s. It is not considered a contributing property to the listing.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Charles Cossum, a local real estate attorney, built the house sometime around 1890. His office was three blocks away on Market Street. He had been very successful, and the location of his home on the northern end of downtown Poughkeepsie, within walking distance of his work, is characteristic of the pre-automobile era, when houses close to a city center were the most desirable.</p><br>
<p>His family owned the house until 1917, whereupon it went through a succession of many other owners until 1933, when a local pediatrician moved in and turned it into his home office. His family owned it for many years. In 1982, when the houses around the corner on Balding Avenue were designated as a historic district and added to the National Register, 73 Mansion Street was excluded because it was larger and more lavishly decorated than the more modest homes on Balding.</p><br>
<p>In 1995 it was sold to its present owner, who renovated and restored it with the help of federal tax credits. Two years later, in 1997, it was added to the National Register in its own right.</p><br>
