<p>The Los Rios Historic District is a neighborhood in the city of San Juan Capistrano, California and, with buildings dating to 1794, is the oldest continually occupied neighborhood in the state. The nearby Mission San Juan Capistrano was the first of the 21 California Missions to have Indians, soldiers and workers live outside the mission grounds. Three adobes are remaining in the Los Rios neighborhood itself, although there are a number of others close by outside of it which were part of what was once a larger neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood originally had 40 adobe structures but most were replaced in the 19th century by wooden board and batten structures. Thirty-one of the buildings in Los Rios and the surrounding area are on the national register of historic places.</p><br>
<p>Other points of interest in or adjacent to the district include the historic train depot, El Adobe de Capistrano and the Basilica.</p><br>
<p>Korab  is a mountain range in the eastern corner of Albania and the western part of the Republic of Macedonia, running along the border between both countries. It forms also the European Green Belt. In Albania, it is also called Vargu lindor , but this term encompasses mountains further north, such as the Koritnik and Gjallica. The highest peak is Mount Korab at 2,751 m above sea level. With a prominence of 2,169 m, Korab is the 18th most prominent mountain peak in the European continent. The mountains are composed of sedimentary rock, including shale, sandstone, dolomite and limestone. The name refers to a Paleochristian sea god.</p><br>
<p>Geographically, the Korab mountain range extendes 40 km from the Dibër Valley in a north-south direction, between the river valleys of the Black Drin and its tributary the Radika. It is located near the tripoint of Albania, Macedonia, and Kosovo, southwest of the Šar Mountains. The Drin Valley lies around 400 m to the west, the bed of the Radika at about 1,000 m above sea level.</p><br>
<p>The geology of the park is dominated by mountains made up of exposed faulted sedimentary rock and valleys containing glacial lakes.</p><br>
<p>The Albanian part has numerous high peaks and ranges, almost as tall as the Korab massif. To the north of this double-peak there are many other nameless peaks of a similar height. Korab-Pforte (Maja Portat e Korabit, Mala Korapska Vrata) lies around 2 km southwest of Korab massif and is almost as tall as the main mountain, at 2,727 m. A few hundred meters further south, there are another peaks, Maja e Moravës 2,718 m and Mali i Gramës 2,345 m. The mountains are composed of shale and limestone. Much of the range is protected by nature parks; the Korab-Koritnik Nature Park.</p><br>
<p>South of the complex of peaks around Mount Korab, there are other large mountains: Mali i Gramës (2,345 m) and Dešat&#39;s Velivar summit (2,375 m). After that, the range falls away to the city of Debar and the Debar Lake. The city of Peshkopi is to the southwest of Mali i Gramës and has geothermal baths.</p><br>
<p>MountKorab.jpgThe range from the Macedonian side</p><br>
<p>Velky Korab 2011.jpgFusha e Korabit</p><br>
<p>Liqeni i Gramës.jpgGlacial Gramë Lake</p><br>
<p>Deshat-from-Trebishte.jpgDešat</p><br>
<p>The Falkenberg lies in the northwestern part of the district of Celle in northern Germany. It is one of the highest points on the Lüneburg Heath. In good weather Hanover is visible from its summit. It is on the terrain of the NATO facility, the Bergen-Hohne Training Area, in the vicinity of the village of Becklingen.</p><br>
<p>In 1820 King George IV the United Kingdom tasked the Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory at Göttingen University, Carl Friedrich Gauss, to survey the Kingdom of Hanover. Gauss used the summit of Falkenberg, amongst others, as a triangulation station for his land surveys. Another central trig point was the Falkenberg (150 m über NN) which lay further south.</p><br>
<p>The Wilseder Berg (169 m above NN), further north, was another central trig point as was the Haußelberg to the east. The trig points of Haußelberg and Falkenberg, which today are hidden by woods, then lay on open, unforested hilltops, probably surrounded by heath. Not until the large systematic afforestation in the 2nd half of the 19th century did the landscape begin to look like it does today.</p><br>
<p>Part of the triangulation network used for Gauß&#39;s survey, depicting the Falkenberg, was represented on the reverse side of the 4th series of 10 Deutschmark banknotes.</p><br>
<p>Couchwood is the summer estate of Harvey C. Couch, an industrialist and founder of Arkansas Light and Power in the early 20th century. The estate, located at 601 Couchwood Road, is southeast of Hot Springs, Arkansas, straddling the border of Garland and Hot Spring counties on the north shore of Lake Catherine.</p><br>
<p>The 17 acre estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for two separate reasons. It was first listed on 1986 for the five naturalistic sculptures by Dionicio Rodriguez that are located on the property; these were commissioned by Couch. The estate was again listed on 2001 for its association with Couch, and for its well-preserved collection of Rustic architecture. Several of the estate&#39;s eight buildings were designed by the noted Arkansas architect John Parks Almand.</p><br>
<p>Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt both spent time at Couchwood as guests. There are five red cedar log-houses on the estate: the Big House, Calhoun, Little Pine Bluff, Remmelwood and the Traincar.</p><br>
<p>Today, the estate serves as a retreat for descendants and visitors. The estate is sometimes available for renting for such purposes as weddings, business trips or as a vacation getaway.</p><br>
<p>Connestee Falls and Batson Creek Falls are two waterfalls in Western North Carolina, located near Brevard.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Batson Creek flows less than 1 mile from its source, feeding two manmade lakes along the way. It meets Carson Creek at a point where both Batson Creek and Carson Creek fall over bedrock. The falls meet in an area called "The Silver Slip" before continuing on down Carson Creek.</p><br>
<h2>Natural history</h2><br>
<p>The falls were supposedly named for a Native American princess named "Connestee" in 1882 by Dr. F. A. Miles, owner of the Caesar&#39;s Head Hotel.</p><br>
<p>A legend is told that the princess lost her life at the falls due to a relationship with an Englishman.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting the Falls</h2><br>
<p>The falls were recently closed to the public until April 16, 2011 when a new, handicapped accessible, county park was unveiled. The parking lot for the falls is found by traveling on USA Highway 276, 6 miles south of the intersection of 276, USA Highway 64, and NC Highway 280 in Brevard, North Carolina. From the viewing platform, you stand at the top of Connestee Falls and watch it just below your feet. In front of you is Batson Falls, which is located on private property within the Connestee Falls Community</p><br>
<h2>Nearby Falls</h2><br>
<p>High Falls</p><br>
<p>Hooker Falls</p><br>
<p>Bridal Veil Falls</p><br>
<p>Wintergreen Falls</p><br>
<p>Triple Falls</p><br>
<p>Key Falls</p><br>
<p>Glen Cannon Falls</p><br>
<p>Turley Falls</p><br>
<p>Clarksville Historic District is a national historic district located at Clarksville, Pike County, Missouri. The district encompasses 65 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Clarksville. It developed between about 1840 and 1930, and includes representative examples of Greek Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Clifford-Wyrick House. Other notable buildings include the City Hall , Sentinel Building , Clifford Banking Company , La Crosse Lumber Company , Presbyterian Church, Methodist Church , Masonic Temple , and Clarksville Public Library .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Wheeler Hall is a building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California in the Classical Revival style. Home to the English department, it was named for the philologist and university president Benjamin Ide Wheeler.</p><br>
<p>The building was opened in 1917. It houses the largest lecture hall on the Berkeley campus, Wheeler Auditorium.</p><br>
<p>On February 29, 1940, UC Berkeley professor Ernest O. Lawrence received the Nobel Prize in Physics in Wheeler Auditorium from Carl Wallerstedt, Consul General from Sweden, due to the danger of crossing the Atlantic during World War Two. The building was the site of many of the Free Speech Movement protests in the 1960s and is a focal point of the Berkeley campus. In the 2010s, it has been the place for many university protests and several building takeovers.</p><br>
<h2>Footnotes</h2><br>
<p>The John Thompson House is a historic house near Richboro in Northampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was built in 1740 and was owned by John Thompson, a local American Revolutionary War veteran. Despite also being known as the Hip Roof House, the house has an elongated-gambrel roof instead of a hip roof.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 16, 1973.</p><br>
<p>John Thompson, born 16 Nov 1726 in County Tyrone, Ireland, emigrated to the USA in the mid-1700s with his mother and three brothers. He served as an Ensign during the American Revolution in the Northampton Company of Associators. Son of Elizabeth (McGraudy) Thompson and brother of Robert Thompson who owned the now Historic Thompson-Neeley House in Washington&#39;s Crossing.</p><br>
<p>John, a miller like his brother Robert, married Mary Houston (the twin sister of his brother Williams wife) on 17 Feb 1762. They had nine known children: Elizabeth, Hugh, Jane, John, Robert, John, William, Thomas & James. He was commissioned Sheriff of Bucks county, March 22, 1777(3) and served until October 17, 1779, being the first Sheriff of Bucks county commissioned under the constitution of 1776. He was appointed wagon master January 9, 1778; sub-agent for purchasing flour for the French fleet, on July 13, 1779; and Collector of Excise on October 20, 1783. Its probable that his position as a commissioned officer, as well as the fact that he had funds in his hands collected for the use of that government, caused him to receive a visit from the "Tory Doans" during the Revolutionary War. Their animosity was generally directed towards tax collectors.</p><br>
<p>At his death on 18 July 1799, he was one of the largest land owners in Bucks County with over 900 acres. According to his Will, his land was divided between his six sons. He was buried in the Presbyterian Graveyard, Newtown, Bucks County, PA.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Bullenkuhle lies about 15 kilometres south of the town of Uelzen and a good kilometre west of the village of Bokel (in the municipality of Sprakensehl) at the edge of a large pine forest at a height of about 95 m above NN. A stream emerges in the immediate vicinity which is initially called the Bokeler Bach and, later, becomes the Aue and finally, after combining with other streams, becomes an Elbe tributary, the River Ilmenau. The area belongs to the southeast fringes of the Hohen Heide in the centre of the Lüneburg Heath. This landscape formed from end and ground moraines and periglacial sediments was created geomorphologically mainly by the edges of the ice sheet during the later phases of the Saalian glaciation, i.e. during the so-called Drenthe II stage and the final glacial advance of the Warthe stage. The crests of the undulating ridges of end moraines are usually covered with pine forests growing on sandy soils; the ground moraines were used for agriculture. The typical open heath landscape of the Lüneburg Heath - which arose anthropogenically through overexploitation of forests, burning, plaggen cutting and grazing - only exists today in fragments in the area around the Bullenkuhle. The macroclimate of the Lüneburg Heath is maritime temperate.</p><br>
<h2>Formation of the sinkhole</h2><br>
<p>In north Germany there are numerous salt domes under the ground – relicts of the Zechstein Sea from the Permian period, which were later relocated and deformed tectonically. When rock salt comes into contact with ground water it leaches away; i.e. the salt is absorbed by the water and transported off. This can lead to the development of large underground caverns that finally cave in. Sometimes such an event at a depth of several hundred metres can result in the ground collapsing right up to the surface. This results in prominent, often steep-sided and deep hollows called sinkholes or dolines (although dolines can have other morphogenetic causes, particularly in karst regions). Many of these funnel-shaped hollows remain dry, in others water collects that can later become marshy. Sinkholes are geologically often very recent; it is not uncommon for them to be only a few thousand years old and many hollows only date back a few hundred years.</p><br>
<p>Examples of sinkhole lakes and marshes include very large lakes like the Arendsee and the Zwischenahner Meer – both at least 500 hectares in area – the Seeburger See, the Sager Meer in Oldenburg district, the Rudower See in Westprignitz district or the "bottomless marsh" (Grundloses Moor) in Soltau-Fallingbostel district and Maujahn in Lüchow-Dannenberg district. The Bullenkuhle belongs to this group, albeit considerably smaller. This sinkhole has a diameter of about 130 m and attains a depth of 15 m. Exactly when the Bullenkuhle was formed is not known. This would need a stratigraphic investigation and pollen analysis of the vertical profile of the sinkhole (see Maujahn Moor).</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The visitor to the Bullenkuhle comes across a basin-shaped hollow with steep sides of 30 to 60° in places. At the foot of the slopes of glacial sands is a marsh covering about 0.5 hectare that on closer inspection turns out to be a quaking bog (Schwingrasen or Schwingmoor) - a floating mat of moss and other plants, under which there is presumably no homogeneous layer of peat, but at least in places just a body of water.</p><br>
<p>The floating mat covers at least 80% of the wetland or marsh, only in the northeast is there stretch of open water about 0.1 hectare in area and several metres deep; a so-called bog pond. With an electrolytic conductivity of 24 µS/cm this wetland is very oligotrophic, it is rich in humus and, with a pH value of 5.0, moderately acidic. It is populated by typical marsh plants like peat mosses, bladderworts and the rare Dwarf White Water Lily (Nymphaea candida). In addition to peat mosses, the floating mat pressing in on the bog pond consists mainly of Hare&#39;s-tail Cottongrass, Cross-leaved Heath, Common Heather and Crowberry; as well as White Beak-sedge and Cranberry. The largely unwooded terrain can be described as flat to slightly rounded intermediate marsh (Zwischenmoor). On its periphery is a ring-shaped bog, which is slightly better supplied with nutrients from precipitation running down the slopes than the centre of the marsh. Bottle Sedge reeds thrive particularly well here.</p><br>
<p>The slopes of the funnel-shaped terrain are covered with low vegetation such as Common Heather, Bilberry, and Cranberry, and also with Purple Moor Grass and trees. The latter include several very large and old Juniper bushes and trees, especially conspicuous and typical of the terrain. Other varieties include birch trees, Buckthorn bushes and pines. The animal world is also noteworthy and some species are peculiar to marsh biotopes. In particular there are up to eight species of amphibian as well as adders.</p><br>
<h2>Literature</h2><br>
<p>J. Delfs: Die Bullenkuhle. In: Naturschutzgebiete im Raum Gifhorn-Wolfsburg. 1986</p><br>
<p>R. Pott: Lüneburger Heide. Exkursionsführer Kulturlandschaften, Ulmer-Verlag, Stuttgart 1999,</p><br>
<p>R. Tüxen: Die Bullenkuhle bei Bokel. Abhandl. naturwiss. Ver., Bremen 1958, 35/2: 374-394</p><br>
<p>Ernst Andreas Friedrich: Naturdenkmale Niedersachsens. Hannover, 1980.</p><br>
<p>Eberhard Rohde: Die Sage von der Bullenkuhle in: Sagen und Märchen aus dem Raum Gifhorn-Wolfsburg, Gifhorn, 1994</p><br>
<p>Pawnee County Courthouse in Pawnee City, Nebraska was built in 1911. It was designed by architect William F. Gernandt in Classical Revival style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The tan brick building has three stories over an ashlar limestone raised basement and is 67x78 ft in plan. The third story is partly hidden behind a brick parapet; windows poke through the entablature; the parapet and entablature are relatively unadorned.</p><br>
<p>Its more elaborate and prominent feature is a monumental four-column entry portico on its north, front facade. The four columns have complex capitals, and there are squared pilasters behind the end columns. The portico has a pair of stairways leading up to it, and a pediment above including figurative sculpture. The pedimental sculpture is described in its 1989 NRHP nomination as "A rather delicate feature".</p><br>
<p>The Mineral County Courthouse, also known as the 1883 Esmeralda County Courthouse and the Old Mineral County Courthouse, is an historic county courthouse building located at 551 C Street in Hawthorne, Mineral County, Nevada. Built in 1883 at the Esmeralda County Courthouse, it served as such until 1907 when the county seat was moved to Goldfield. In 1911 when Mineral County was created, it became the first Mineral County Courthouse, and served until 1970, when a new Courthouse was constructed. It is the only building in Nevada to have served as the courthouse of two different counties.</p><br>
<p>On January 29, 1982 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. As of 2008 (photo), it was fenced off and in disrepair.</p><br>
<p>Pfannenstiel  is a wooded mountain respectively a region overlooking the Lake Zürich and Zürcher Oberland in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Pfannenstiel (Swiss German: Pfannenstil meaning pan handle) is commonly used for the mountain and the region of a longish mountain area. It is located in the district of Meilen, some 15 km in the southeast of the city of Zürich, bordered by Greifensee and Zürcher Oberland in the northeast, Lake Zürich in the southwest and the area around the municipality of Hombrechtikon in the east. In the northwest, Pfannenstiel is bordered by the village of Forch and a former mountain pass (668 m) leading from Glatt valley to the Lake Zürich shore. Its highest point (Okenshöhe) is about 450 metres above the Lake Zürich. From southeast to northwest, Pfannenstiel is part of a chain of peaks respectively mountains: Guldenen (778 m), Wassberg (715 m), Öschbrig (696 m), Adlisberg (701 m), Zürichberg (676 m), Käferberg-Waidberg (601 m) and Hönggerberg (541 m).</p><br>
<p>The area alongside Lake Zürich had been formed as the left moraine of the Ice Age glacier, the bed of which is now the Lake Zürich.</p><br>
<h2>History and origin of the name</h2><br>
<p>On the origin of the name Pfannenstiel remembers the plate (Inn sign) of the Vorderer Pfannenstiel restaurant: A pan containing pitch used to send smoke signals. In the 17th century or much earlier, the government of the city of Zürich established a system of Hochwachten to warn, in cases of emergency as threat of war, the neighboring Hochwachten on the Albis, near Forch, on Zürichberg, Käferberg, Bachtel, Uetliberg, and so on, by fire and smoke. The Pfannenstiel Hochwacht was located on the summit called Okenshöhe as from there numerous other Hochwachten were in direct sight. For the same reason, in 19th century Okenhöhe was uses for a triangulation point as other triangulation points can be measured. These measurements form the backbone of the national geographical survey. Nevertheless, the pan with the fire as sign of "bad luck" it&#39;s not the real origin of the term Pfannenstiel: It was first mentioned in documents of the year 1333, and it is assumed that the term points to a meadow and farmland nearby forming a panhandle.</p><br>
<h2>Literary honor</h2><br>
<p>Pfannenstiel got further literary honor: The Swiss poet Albin Zollinger (1895-1941) immortalized Pfannenstiel in his novel „Pfannenstiel: Die Geschichte eines Bildhauers“ („The Story of a Sculptor“). In the novel, a sculptor returns to Switzerland, and disappointed by the political reality, he retires on Pfannenstiel, builds a house and finds an intact village community. Three weeks before his death at the age of 46, Zollinger met the young Max Frisch on the Pfannenstiel.</p><br>
<h2>Pfannenstiel tower</h2><br>
<p>In 1893 on the Bachtel mountain was built an observation tower of steel which was declared in 1979 by the government of the canton of Zürich as an object of historic preservation. Six years later, the tower was stored by the Swiss Post (former PTT) on technical reasons, and in 1992, the tower was rebuilt on Pfannenstiel. The tower is riveted and is made of steel and cast iron. The reconstruction was done by specialists from Eastern Europe where this technology still was in use. The new location for the reconstruction was initially controversial: The cantonal authorities preferred the highest elevation on the mountain in the middle of forested area. The exucutive of the municipality of Meilen was not satisfied as it is a protected area. The final location is somewhat below located in the municipality of Egg.</p><br>
<h2>Further points of interest</h2><br>
<p>Pfannenstiel is a picturesque area, and the upper side of the mountain houses four restaurants overlooking Lake Zürich, Etzel, Zimmerberg, Albis, Uetliberg to the south and to the west, and Greifensee, Glattal, Bachtel and Zürcher Oberland to the north and east. The upper part of the mountain is mostly woodland and a popular recreational area with picnic sites, in addition there are hiking routes, among the Küsnachter Tobel pathway. In winter season a cross-country skiing trail is a popular point of interest.</p><br>
<p>Pfannenstiel Aussichtsturm IMG 4790.jpgPfannenstiel tower</p><br>
<p>Pfannenstiel - Hochwacht IMG 4835.JPGRestaurant "Hochwacht" on the summit</p><br>
<p>Pfannenstiel - Okenshöhe IMG 4836.JPGOkenshöhe</p><br>
<p>ZSG - 100-Jahre Stadt Zürich IMG 3122.jpgPaddle steamers Stadt Rapperswil (to the left) and Stadt Zürich on centennial tour, Pfannenstiel summit in the background (June 2009)</p><br>
<p>ZSG - MS Pfannenstiel IMG 0450.JPGMotor ship "Pfannenstiel" of the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft</p><br>
<p>As mentioned, Okenshöhe triangulation point is the highest elevation on Pfannenstiel allowing beautiful views. It is named after the natural scientist Oken who, in the beginning of the 19th century, did a lot of tours on mountains rarely visited. In 1838 he bought the area now called Okenshöhe. His heirs donated the land to citizens of the municipality of Meilen. They formed the Mittwochsgesellschaft (Wednesday society) which did not allow to overbuilt this area.</p><br>
<h2>Region Pfannenstiel</h2><br>
<p>The term "Region Pfannenstiel" usually refers to the mountain, the area and plateau between Zollikon-Zollikerberg and Hombrechtikon-Feldbach bordered by the upper Glatt valley–Zürcher Oberland and Lake Zürich. This region includes the municipalities of Egg, Erlenbach, Herrliberg, Hombrechtikon, Küsnacht, Meilen, Männedorf, Oetwil am See, Stäfa, Uetikon am See, Zollikon and Zumikon.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>The Forchbahn line (S18) from Zürich Stadelhofen railway station to (preferred) Forch or Esslingen train station, S-Bahn Zürich on the lines S6 and S16 (Küsnacht: Küsnachtertobel to Forch), as well as S6 and S7 to Meilen (Bus line 922, stop Vorderer Pannenstiel) or Stäfa or Hombrechtikon-Feldbach and local bus lines 955 and 970, run up to different parts of the Pfannenstiel area. In the summer there are regular boats to Zürich as well as along the lake to Rapperswil, run by the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft (ZSG). A small motorship of the ZSG is named after the mountain.</p><br>
<p>Sabine Hill, also known as Happy Valley, Watauga Point, and the General Nathaniel Taylor House, is a historic house in Elizabethton, Tennessee. The two-story Federal style building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is an excellent example of federal architecture. It was threatened by demolition in 2007 when the owners sought to have the property rezoned for apartments. The rezoning request was denied and the home was bought by several preservation-mined locals who secured it until the State of Tennessee/Tennessee Historical Commission could purchase the museum-quality property. It is now restored and opened to the public on November 1, 2017 as a unit of Sycamore Shoals State Park. The property will be operated by the Park under a memorandum of understanding with the Tennessee Historical Commission.</p><br>
<h2>Construction history</h2><br>
<p>Brigadier General Nathaniel Taylor began building Sabine Hill between 1814 and 1816, after returning home to Elizabethton following the War of 1812. By 1796, when Carter County was formed and Tennessee became a state, Taylor owned 1,500 acre of land. That same year, he became the first sheriff of Carter County and one of the first officers in the new state militia. He later served in the Tennessee General Assembly. After Taylor returned from the war, he sought to build an impressive home for his family. His wife, Mary "Polly" Patton Taylor, completed the project circa 1818–20, after her husband&#39;s death. She outlived her husband by 37 years, presiding over Sabine Hill until her death in 1853.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is built on a two-story I-house plan with a five-bay front facade. It has a foundation of limestone quarried in the local area. The exterior walls are built from logs that are completely covered by clapboard siding. The floors are random-width pine laid over hand-hewn timber joists. There are brick chimneys on both ends of the structure. The clapboard siding, a fanlight transom over the front door, and the hand-wrought wood trim in the house&#39;s interior appear to have been added a few years after the house was built. Originally the house had a split-shingle roof, which had been replaced by galvanized iron as of 1936, when Sabine Hill was visited for the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). A one-story service wing extends from the rear, in an arrangement that was common at the time the house was built.</p><br>
<p>The HABS analysis observed that the interior details of the house were of particularly high quality. Noteworthy features mentioned included "delicate and almost elaborately carved" fireplace mantels and camfered joints in the wood paneling on the walls. HABS also saw indications that Sabine Hill&#39;s design might have been influenced by architecture in Williamsburg, Virginia, particularly the design features of the Capitol Building there. One design detail noted as similar to features seen in Williamsburg was the use of "marbleized" wood for wainscoting along the stairway. The interior of Sabine Hill also reflected the patriotism of its owners; traces of the original paint indicate that the interior was painted in the colors of the USA flag, with white walls, red molding, and blue wainscoting.</p><br>
<h2>Later history</h2><br>
<p>In its early decades, Sabine Hill served as both the home of the Taylor family and the headquarters of a large estate that was tended by slaves. At his death, General Nathaniel Taylor was recorded as the owner of a very large amount of land and about 20 slaves.</p><br>
<p>Although the younger members of the family had homes of their own, the Taylor family had a major presence in the Happy Valley area in the vicinity of Sabine Hill. The family grew in prominence and influence during the 19th century. Nathaniel Green Taylor, a grandson of Nathaniel and Mary Taylor, served in the USA House of Representatives. His sons Robert Love Taylor and Alfred A. Taylor both were later to become Governor of Tennessee, and Robert Love Taylor also served in the USA House and USA Senate.</p><br>
<p>The property remained in the Taylor family until 1947, but the family stopped living in the home some time in the 19th century. In 1892, a journalist who visited Sabine Hill found the house vacant and in a state of deterioration, although much of its decor and furnishings were intact. In 1936, HABS found the house occupied by a tenant farmer who also rented some surrounding farmland. HABS found the house to be in reasonably sound condition in spite of a lack of recent maintenance. A basement had been added some time before 1936.</p><br>
<p>In 1947 a member of the Taylor family sold the property to the Sabine Hill Realty Company with an instruction that “the old house located on this tract must either be razed or remodeled.” The property was sold again in 1948 and 1949. James L. Reynolds, who acquired it in 1949, was interested in preserving the house. During his ownership, which continued until 1999, many repairs and alterations were made, including foundation and chimney repairs, installation of new window sashes, and addition of a porch. Reynolds replaced much of the clapboard siding and flipped and sanded many pieces of siding. The house was also equipped with modern kitchen and bathroom fixtures. In 1973, during the Reynolds ownership, Sabine Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>After Reynolds&#39; death, his heirs decided to sell the property. After officials of the city of Elizabethton were unsuccessful in an effort to acquire it in order to preserve it, in 2003 it was sold to a couple from Johnson City who hoped to renovate the house and make it into a historic site attraction. They were unable to achieve their goals, and the property was optioned to a developer who wanted to demolish the house and build condominiums on the 4.8 acre site.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>Sabine Hill was saved from demolition by a group of locals who bought it and held it until it could be purchased by the Tennessee Historical Commission in 2007. The restoration is nearing completion and it will be operated as a unit of Sycamore Shoals State Park. It is an excellent example of federal-style architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Sturgeon Bay Post Office, located at 359 Louisiana Ave., is the main post office in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, United States. The post office was built in 1937 and designed by Louis A. Simon in the Moderne style. The building is constructed in red brick; the front of the building surrounding the main entrance is faced in limestone, and the building also has limestone trim. The entrance is located atop a set of granite stairs with limestone sides; a pole lamp is located on each side of the stairs. A mural by Santos Zingale titled "Fruits of Sturgeon Bay", which was funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, was painted in the post office&#39;s lobby in 1940.</p><br>
<p>The post office was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 24, 2000.</p><br>
<p>Tangon River   is a river passing through the Indian state of West Bengal and Bangladesh. It is tributary of Punarbhaba River. It was named after Tankonath, zamindar of Ranisankail in Thakurgaon District.</p><br>
<p>After originating in West Bengal, it passes through Panchagarh District, Pirganj in Rangpur District, Bochaganj and Biral in Dinajpur District in Bangladesh before it flows through Kushmandi and Bansihari community development blocks of Dakshin Dinajpur district in West Bengal. There is also a dam constructed on tangan river near boda town, 261132"N 882802" E.</p><br>
<p>It re-enters Bangladesh and meets Punarbhava River near Rohanpur in Naogaon District.</p><br>
<h2>Barrage</h2><br>
<p>In 1989, a barrage was built across the river 10 km west of Boda in Panchagarh District.</p><br>
<p>Bethel Historic District is roughly bounded by Liberty, King, 1st, and 4th Sts. in Bethel, Missouri. Construction of the town, which was for over thirty years a successful experiment in communal living, began in 1844. The leader of the community was a German emigrant, charismatic autocrat Dr. William Keil. After his death, the communal structure gradually collapsed and the communal property was split among the community members. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. There are twenty-six contributing properties.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<h3>Main Street, West Side</h3><br>
<p>The Vandiver House, which was the existing structure when the community purchased the property in 1844.</p><br>
<p>The Blair Residence, home to the community wheel-right, a two story, clapboard, frame house.</p><br>
<p>A brick house, two stories tall.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Ziegler Residence, a hip roofed, brick building, two stories tall.</p><br>
<p>The Mose Miller Residence, a brick building, two stories tall, was the last building constructed while the town as still communally owned.</p><br>
<p>The Nicholas Will Tailor Shop and Residence, a frame building, two stories tall.</p><br>
<p>A Colony House, clapboard clad brick building, two stories tall.</p><br>
<h3>Main Street, East Side</h3><br>
<p>Two frame dwellings, two stories tall.</p><br>
<p>The John Bower Business District, a row of tin faced brick buildings, two stories tall.</p><br>
<p>The Bethel Communal Men&#39;s Home, brick structure, two stories tall.</p><br>
<p>A brick residence, two stories tall.</p><br>
<p>The Bauer Residence, a brick building and later frame addition, two stories tall.</p><br>
<p>The Bauer Drug and Jewelry Shop, a frame building, two stories tall.</p><br>
<h3>King Street, West Side</h3><br>
<p>A Colony House and Smoke House, central stair, brick house, two stories tall.</p><br>
<p>Brick house, frame addition, one story tall.</p><br>
<p>The Erich Colony House, a brick home, two stories tall.</p><br>
<p>A brick home, two stories tall.</p><br>
<h3>King Street, East Side</h3><br>
<p>A Colony House, brick, two stories tall.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Schriber Residence, home to the community millwright, brick home and frame addition and porch.</p><br>
<p>A Colony House, clapboard class brick, two stories tall.</p><br>
<p>A mansard roofed brick home.</p><br>
<h3>Liberty Street, West Side</h3><br>
<p>A Colony House, clapboard clad brick building, two stories tall.</p><br>
<h3>Liberty Street, East Side</h3><br>
<p>The Ziegler Colony House., home to a community blacksmith, clapboard clad brick building.</p><br>
<h3>First Street, North Side</h3><br>
<p>The Bethel School, brick structure, one story tall.</p><br>
<p>A colony home, brick with additions, two stories tall.</p><br>
<p>The Ashtabula lift bridge  is a Strauss bascule bridge that carries Ohio State Route 531 over the Ashtabula River in the harbor of Ashtabula, Ohio.</p><br>
<p>Besides its importance as a major transportation route in Ashtabula, the bridge occupies a crucial location in the citys built environment; the Ashtabula Harbour Commercial District terminates at the bridges western end.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A river crossing had been at the bridge&#39;s site long before it was constructed.</p><br>
<p>In 1889, a 19th century pontoon bridge on the site was replaced by a through truss bridge, which permitted river access because it was a swing bridge.</p><br>
<p>In 1925, the bridge was constructed by a Cleveland firm, Wendell P. Brown, for $179,000. The lifting action depends on electric motors and a massive concrete counterweight. It is one of only two of its type that remain in service in the state of Ohio, and the only one extant in the state highway system.</p><br>
<p>In 1985, the bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In 1986, the bridge was restored.</p><br>
<p>From March 2008 through May 2009, the bridge was closed for repairs and repainting.</p><br>
<p>The Haußelberg is a hill, 119.1 m above NN, in the Lüneburg Heath in the north German district of Celle. It is a popular viewing point in the otherwise very flat terrain of the Südheide Nature Park.</p><br>
<p>In 1820 King George IV of England tasked the Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory at Göttingen University, Carl Friedrich Gauss, to survey the Kingdom of Hanover. The mathematician Gauss used the summit of the Haußelberg as one of the triangulation stations for his land surveys, triangulating it to the Falkenberg, 150 m AMSL, further west near Wardböhmen and to the Wilseder Berg, 169 m AMSL, to the north. Another triangle was formed by the Haußelberg, the Falkenberg and Breithorn (Breitenhorn), 117 m AMSL, south of Unterlüß. It has to be deduced that these points - the Breithorn, Haußelberg and Falkenberg - which are all hidden by woods today, were then on open, unforested hilltops, probably surrounded by heathland. Not until the large, systematic afforestation in the 2nd half of the 19th century did today&#39;s wooded hilltops emerge.</p><br>
<p>In 2005 a new trig point was erected on the Haußelberg, near the original stone.</p><br>
<p>Part of the triangulation network used for Gauss&#39;s survey was pictured on the reverse side of the 4th series of 10 Deutschmark banknotes.</p><br>
<p>Whilst he surveyed from the Haußelberg, Gauss lived for 10 days on the farm of von der Ohe in Oberohe (today in the municipality of Faßberg). In a letter to his friend Dr. Olbers he wrote:</p><br>
<p>The Brunsberg is a 129 m high hill on the northwestern edge of the Lüneburg Heath in northern Germany. It lies in the Brunsberg Nature Reserve, reserve no. LÜ 010 with an area of 60.6 hectare, near Sprötze between the towns of Buchholz in der Nordheide and Tostedt. From its summit, covered with heather and grazed by moorland sheep, there is a good view over the neighbouring heaths and in good visibility the Wilseder Berg, 169 m, and Heidepark at Soltau can be seen to the south. To the southwest the tower of St. John&#39;s Church  can be seen in Tostedt. The view towards Hamburg is blocked by the Harburg Hills. Not far from the top is the holiday home for the youth organisation Deutsche Schreberjugend Landesverband Hamburg eV.</p><br>
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<p>The Cinca  is a river in Aragon, Spain. Its source is in the Circo de Pineta, in the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, in the Aragonese Pyrenees. It is a tributary to the Segre River, with its confluence at La Granja d&#39;Escarp, not far from the point where the Segre flows into the Ebro River. The Cinca River flows through a rich agricultural region.</p><br>
<h2>Path and tributaries</h2><br>
<p>The Cinca is born in the area of Pineta and begins its descent between cascades and torrents, in the mountains of the Tres Sorores. It flows across the entire Pineta valley. In Bielsa it joins with the Barrosa, and somewhat later the Cinqueta. Upon reaching Aínsa it is joined on the right side by the Ara River, where the Mediano Reservoir is located. Immediately after the Mediano, after crossing the throat of the Entremón, it is again dammed at the El Grado Reservoir near El Grado. Just after this, it is joined on the left side by the Ésera River, the Cinca&#39;s most important tributary.</p><br>
<p>On the right side it is joined by the Vero River, and in Monzón by the Sosa River on the left. Later, the Alcanadre pours into it on the right. Finally, in Massalcoreig, it joins the Segre to flow into the Ebro River.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The presence of humans is not found in the upper stretches of the river, but only in the middle stretches, although it is known from ancient accounts.</p><br>
<p>The migratory villages, in the first Iron Age, used the Cinca Valley in their path to the interior; they were populated by the Ilergetes. The current name of the river comes from Cinga, because Julius Caesar in his account of the civil war used that name. It underwent a change of name under the Moors because it came to have the name Az-Zaytum, which meant the River of Olives.</p><br>
<p>Hotel Woodland is a historic hotel located in Woodland, California and designed by William Henry Weeks. The hotel is on the National Register of Historic Places, and is a contributing property of the Downtown Woodland Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1920 the idea of an upscale hotel in Woodland was discussed by a group of local businessmen, who then formed an investment group that offered stock ownership for this idea. This group approached W.H. Weeks with their preliminary plans after enough funds were raised to make the project seem possible.</p><br>
<p>The plans werent carried out until 1928, however. At this point in Woodlands history, there were many tourists and visitors to the city, and this prosperity prompted the plans years earlier for an upscale hotel, to come to fruition. The hotel was developed by Weeks Securities Corporation, a corporation Weeks had just started the same year, which had developed several other hotels in northern California. Around 50 local businesses also invested in the hotel, raising 10% of the $500,000 spent to construct the building. A site on the corner of Main and College Street was chosen, where just ten years earlier a hotel by the name of Byrns Hotel had been condemned and demolished. Hotel Woodland was thus made real. In the 25 years since his first project in Woodland, this would be Weeks 14th project and last major work in the city.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was completed with four stories, 80 guest rooms, and was built reflecting the Spanish Colonial Revival style, also sometimes synonymous with the Churrigueresque style. The Spanish Colonial Revival style of the building shows a simplified commercial version, but has more detailed Churrigueresque features like the "festively painted" moldings that are grouped together in the upper window of the central tower of the building. The building also shows off a clay tile roof and decorated spiral columns near the entryway. The building&#39;s lobby features 2,000 ft2 of cement floor, meant to appear like Mexican tile, wrought iron chandeliers and "beamed, stenciled ceilings". The ground floor also had a restaurant and a banquet room for social events.</p><br>
<p>Its elegance made it a spot for important community events and gatherings. Because of its visibility on Main Street, as well as its beauty, it was one of the buildings that contributed to the splendor of Downtown Woodland.</p><br>
<p>By the 1980s, the hotel had become dilapidated and worn. Main Street merchants and city residents all agreed that something had to be done to the building, either to demolish it or to renovate it. After much discussion over several years, the path of renovation for the hotel was chosen. Near the end of 1994 a non-profit organization and a local developer purchased the hotel for $925,000. They made $5.5 million in subsequent renovations to make the hotel livable. The hotel was converted into a place for low-income residents. The renovations were funded from local, state, and federal grants. The upper floors were planned for housing while the bottom floors were projected to have shops.</p><br>
<p>Norcliffe Hall is a large house near the village of Styal, Cheshire, England. It stands to the west of the village and to the north of Styal Country Park. It was built in 1831 for Robert Hyde Greg, the owner of Quarry Bank Mill, and designed by the Lichfield architect Thomas Johnson. In 1860 a four-stage tower and a billiard room were added.</p><br>
<p>It is constructed in orange brick in Flemish bond brickwork with pink sandstone dressings. It is roofed in Welsh slates, and has octagonal brick chimney stacks. The architectural style is Elizabethan. It has an irregular plan, and is in 2½ storeys with a south front of four bays. It was designated as a Grade II listed building on 6 March 1975.</p><br>
<p>During the 20th century the house was used as a care home for the elderly. As of 2007 it was being converted into residential apartments. The house is surrounded by parkland and lawned areas.</p><br>
<p>Eldorado Peak is a 8,868 ft peak, and is the 25th highest peak in Washington. The mountain is located in the North Cascades of Washington, approximately 27 mi east of Concrete. It is located in North Cascades National Park at the head of Marble Creek and just west of the Inspiration Glacier. Other glaciers in the immediate vicinity include Eldorado Glacier and McAllister Glacier; thus Eldorado is flanked by the largest continuous non-volcanic ice sheet in the lower 48 states.</p><br>
<h2>Orography</h2><br>
<p>Eldorado appears quite different depending on the side one is viewing. On the west side the peak is a steep face made of vertical slabs and small gullies. From the east side the mountain is a small rocky outcropping surrounded by ice. The south face is a triangular face flanked by long ridgelines. The most popular and easiest climbing route is from the south and east, via the Inspiration Glacier and a moderately steep snow ridge. Eldorado is a popular climbing destination due to easy access, being one of the 100 highest peaks in Washington, and superb mountain views. Most climbers will take two days to complete the trip, though the climb can be completed in one long day.</p><br>
<h3>Routes</h3><br>
<p>West Arete rock route up the west face Grade IV</p><br>
<p>East ridge Glacier travel to steep snow ascent</p><br>
<p>Northeast ridge ice and snow ascent Class AI2</p><br>
<p>Northwest Ice Corridor ice and rock class M3 to M4</p><br>
<h3>Geology</h3><br>
<p>Eldorado is very simple geologically when compared to other mountains in the Cascades, with only one major rock type, Cretaceous orthogneiss, more specifically biotite granodiorite. Only the lowest flanks are made of different rock types, mostly heterogeneous metamorphic rock. There are only two normal faults: one on the east flank, the other on the west flank.</p><br>
<p>Mottram Hall  is a former country house to the northeast of the village of Mottram St. Andrew, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. Not to be confused with Mottram Old Hall .</p><br>
<p>The house was built around 1750 by William Wright for his son. It is constructed of Flemish bond orange brick with buff sandstone dressings, with a Kerridge stone slate roof, nine brick chimneys, and a facade with projecting end pavilions which have 20th-century extensions. Since the mid-1970s the building has been used as a hotel and is part of the QHotels group.</p><br>
<p>In 2012–13 the hotel underwent improvements and refurbishment at a cost of £5.5 million. This included a new restaurant, refurbishment of bedrooms, creation of conference suites, and restoration of the Garden Suite.</p><br>
<h2>The Wright family</h2><br>
<p>The family tree of the Wrights is shown. There were six generations of this family that owned the house and these are numbered from 1 to 6 in red starting with William Wright its originator.</p><br>
<p>William Wright built Mottram Hall in about 1750. He built the house for his son Randle but unfortunately his son died soon after its completion. William Wright was a wealthy landowner who was the proprietor of Offerton Hall near Stockport and also owned a townhouse in this village. He built St Peters Church in Stockport. He died in 1770 and as he had no heirs his estate was passed to the eldest son of his first cousin Rev Henry Offley Wright. It was then inherited by his son Laurence Wright and as he had no heirs it went to his nephew Rev Henry Wright. His daughter Julia Catherine who married James Frederick D’Arley Street then became the owner. When she died in 1916 her daughter Julia Mary who married twice inherited the house. It was she Julia Mary Wallis Wright who sold the house in 1922 and the advertisement is shown. It was bought by Walter Pownall who enjoyed gardening and often held open days to the public. He sold the house in 1939 (this advertisement is also shown). It then became a hotel.</p><br>
<p>Mottram Hall sale ad 1922.jpgMottram Hall sale advertisement in 1922</p><br>
<p>Mottram Hall sale ad 1939.jpgMottram Hall sale advertisement in 1939</p><br>
<p>Buchanan County Court House in Independence, Iowa, United States was built in 1940. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 as a part of the PWA-Era County Courthouses of IA Multiple Properties Submission.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A small wooden structure that was built in 1847 was used for the first county courthouse. The first term of court was held in a log cabin belonging to Rufus B. Clark and the second term was held in the storeroom of a schoolhouse. A courthouse was finally built in Independence in 1857 for about $10,000. Voters elected to build a new courthouse in 1880 for $7,500.</p><br>
<p>Des Moines architects Dougher, Rich & Woodburn were retained to design a new courthouse. The county applied for and received a grant from the Public Works Administration (PWA) in 1938. County voters approved a bond referendum for additional funding on June 6, 1938. Five houses were removed from an expanded courthouse square and groundbreaking for the new courthouse took place November 15, 1938. The cornerstone was laid on September 20, 1939, and the county board of supervisors received the completed building on March 22, 1940. The courthouse was dedicated on May 22 of the same year. Nearly 4,000 people attended the parade and heard the address by retired Rear Admiral Harry Yarnell, who was the main speaker.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The architectural style of the building is known as Depression Modern or PWA Moderne. The building features a symmetrical façade with a central section that is flanked by two lower sections. The exterior is clad in buff colored brick with Bedford limestone trim. It is three-stories above a raised basement. A central corridor on each floor extends the length of the building with the offices opening onto the corridors. The building features multi-colored terrazzo floors, marble wainscoting and acoustic tiles. The court room was originally decorated in dark wood tones and Art Deco ornamentation.</p><br>
<p>Bonanza Peak is a tall peak in the North Cascades in the USA state of Washington and the Glacier Peak Wilderness of the Wenatchee National Forest. At 9,516 ft in elevation, it is the highest point in Chelan County, and the Cascade Range as a whole. Bonanza Peak&#39;s prominence is 3,711 ft, making it the 26th most prominent peak in Washington. The nearest higher peak is Glacier Peak, 14.4 mi to the southwest.</p><br>
<p>Bonanza Peak is flanked with three large glaciers: Company Glacier to the north, Mary Green Glacier to the east, and Isella Glacier to the south.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bonanza Peak was originally named North Star Mountain, with a minor mountain to the southwest given the name Bonanza Peak. The USGS&#39; first topographic map of the region in 1904, however, mistakenly interchanged the names and the USGS naming was retained.</p><br>
<p>Bonanza Peak was first summited in 1937 by Curtis Ijames, Barrie James, and Joe Leuthold, all members of the Mazamas.</p><br>
<p>The Merchant Street Historic District in Honolulu, Hawaii, was the city&#39;s earliest commercial center.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Bounded roughly by Fort Street at the southeast end and Nuuanu Avenue at the northwest, its older, low-rise, brick and stone buildings, surrounded by contemporary, concrete high rises, serves as an open-air, human-scale architectural museum of the city&#39;s commercial development between the 1850s and the 1930s. Its architectural styles range from nondescript 19th-century commercial through Richardsonian Romanesque, Italianate, and Mission Revival. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Directly to the north is Chinatown, another historic district.</p><br>
<h2>Notable buildings</h2><br>
<h3>Melchers (1854)</h3><br>
<p>The earliest structure is Melchers Building at 51 Merchant Street, built in 1854 for the retail firm of Melchers and Reiner. Its original coral stone walls are no longer visible under its layers of stucco and paint, and it now houses city government offices, not private businesses.</p><br>
<h3>Kamehameha V Post Office (1871)</h3><br>
<p>The Kamehameha V Post Office at the corner of Merchant and Bethel Streets was the first building in Hawaii to be constructed entirely of precast concrete blocks reinforced with iron bars. It was built by J.G. Osborne in 1871 and the success of this new method was replicated on a much grander scale the next year in the royal palace, Aliiōlani Hale. The old post office building was separately added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h3>Bishop Bank (1878)</h3><br>
<p>The Bishop Bank Building at 63 Merchant Street was the earliest of the Italianate (or Renaissance Revival) structures on the street, built in 1878 and designed by Thomas J. Baker (one of the architects of Iolani Palace). Its distinctive features include a corner entrance, arched windows and doors, fine masonry work, and brick pilasters below an ornamental cornice and parapet along the roofline, all of which are obscured to some extent by its current exterior of monotone white stucco. In 1925, Bishop Bank moved to much larger quarters along "Bankers Row" on Bishop Street, and later changed its name to First Hawaiian Bank, now one of the largest in the state.</p><br>
<h3>T.R. Foster Building (1891)</h3><br>
<p>The T.R. Foster Building at 902 Nuuanu Avenue was built by Thomas R. Foster, one of the founders (in 1882) of the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company. In 1880, Foster had purchased the estate of the renowned botanist William Hillebrand (1821&ndash;1886), which was bequeathed to the city as Foster Botanical Garden at the death of his wife, Mary E. Foster (née Robinson), in 1930.</p><br>
<p>The architectural style of the two-story T.R. Foster Building resembles that of the one-story Royal Saloon Building across the street, which was built in 1890 on the site of a former corner bar. Both are modestly Italianate brick buildings, with pilasters, cornices, and balustrades along the streetside rooflines. The Royal Saloon ceased to be a bar during Prohibition, but both buildings were renovated during the 1970s and now house OTooles Irish Pub and Murphy&#39;s Bar & Grill.</p><br>
<h3>Bishop Estate (1896)</h3><br>
<p>The bare stone face of the tiny Bishop Estate Building at 71 Merchant Street is a fine example of the stolid Richardsonian Romanesque style that was popular when it was built in 1896. Its architects were Clinton Briggs Ripley and his junior partner, C.W. Dickey, a well-connected local boy with a fresh degree in architecture from M.I.T., and it initially housed the executive offices of not only the Bishop Estate, but also the Charles Reed Bishop Trust and the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Constructed of dark lava from the Estate&#39;s own quarries, its notable features include arches above the lower door and window frames, four rough stone pilasters on the upper level, and a corniced parapet along the roofline.</p><br>
<h3>Judd Building (1898)</h3><br>
<p>The Judd Building at the corner of Merchant and Fort Streets combines elegant features of Italianate architecture with businesslike functionalism. Designed by Oliver G. Traphagen, newly arrived from Duluth, Minnesota, it boasted Hawaiis first passenger elevator when it opened in 1898. A fifth floor was added on top in the 1920s, the interior was remodeled in 1979, and the ground floor has also been reconfigured. However, the exterior of the middle three floors reflects Traphagens original design, with arched windows, simulated keystones, and decorative wreaths and floral designs. Built on land that used to house the medical offices of Dr. Gerrit P. Judd, the new building served as the first headquarters of Alexander & Baldwin, and also of the Bank of Hawaii until 1927. The bank bought the building in 1998, and A&B repurchased it in 2000.</p><br>
<h3>Yokohama Specie Bank (1909)</h3><br>
<p>Overseas branches of the Yokohama Specie Bank (横浜正金銀行 Yokohama Shōkin Ginkō, est. 1880) were chartered to act as agents of Imperial Japan. The Honolulu branch was the first successful Japanese bank in Hawaii. The building at 36 Merchant Street dates from 1909 and was designed by one of Honolulu&#39;s most prolific architects, Henry Livingston Kerr, who considered it not just his own finest work, but the finest in the city at the time. The brick and steel structure is L-shaped, with a corner entrance and a courtyard in back. Its Italianate design includes a triumphal arch over the main door, copper window casings, glass wainscoting, marble trim, and paintings inside by a local artist. Bank personnel received Japanese-speaking, Chinese-speaking, and English-speaking customers in separate areas.</p><br>
<p>On the day that Pearl Harbor was bombed, the building was taken over by the Alien Property Custodian, the first floor became a warehouse for confiscated possessions, and extra showers, toilets, and holding cells were installed in the basement to accommodate up to 250 drunken military personnel. The bank&#39;s former customers spent years trying to get their money back, and never managed to collect interest on their old deposits until the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>The building was renovated in the 1980s by local restoration architect Spencer Leineweber and became home to Honolulu Magazine from 1982 to 2001. It currently serves as a preschool and childcare center.</p><br>
<h3>Honolulu Police Station (1931)</h3><br>
<p>The last significant old structure in the district was the old Honolulu Police Station at 842 Bethel Street, which occupies the whole block of Merchant Street between Bethel Street and Nuuanu Avenue. Built in 1931 at a cost of $235,000, it replaced an earlier brick building on the same site that dated from 1885, during the era of the notorious Walter Murray Gibson, so the new structure is also known as the Walter Murray Gibson Building. Architect Louis Davis designed it in a Spanish Mission Revival style that matches very well that of the newly built city hall, Honolulu Hale (1929). (Davis had designed the ornately Chinese New Palama Theatre two years earlier. It was leased in the 1970s to show Filipino films and renamed Zamboanga Theatre.) Building materials include 11 tons of marble from France, mahogany from the Philippines, and sandstone from Waianae. It served as the headquarters of the Honolulu Police Department until the latter moved to the old Sears building in Pawaa in 1967. It was renovated in the 1980s and now houses other city offices.</p><br>
<p>Mount Fernow is a tall peak in the North Cascades in the USA state of Washington and within the Glacier Peak Wilderness of the Wenatchee National Forest. At 9,249 ft in elevation it is the eighth-highest peak in Washington and the states third-highest non-volcanic peak. It is also the highest peak of the Entiat Mountains, a sub-range of the Cascades. Mount Fernows prominence is 2,811 ft, making it the sixtieth-most-prominent peak in Washington. The nearest higher peak is Bonanza Peak, 5.9 mi to the north.</p><br>
<p>Mount Fernow is flanked by several glaciers. Other large glaciated peaks are nearby, such as Seven Fingered Jack to the south. The headwaters of the Entiat River rise from the south slopes of Mount Fernow and the east slopes of Seven Fingered Jack.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mount Fernow was named by Albert H. Sylvester in honor of Bernhard Fernow, a German forester who moved to the United States and worked for the Division of Forestry in the United States Department of Agriculture in the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Mount Fernow was first summited in 1932 by a party including Oscar Pennington and Hermann Ulrichs.</p><br>
<p>A small unnamed lake sits on the northwestern slopes of Fernow. Travelling here requires crossing loose boulder fields.</p><br>
<p>Buckner Mountain  is a tall peak in the North Cascades of Washington state and in the Stephen Mather Wilderness of North Cascades National Park. At 9,114 ft in elevation it is the highest in Skagit County and one of about ten of Washington&#39;s non-volcanic peaks above 9,000 feet high. It is ranked as the 14th highest peak in the state, and the third highest peak in North Cascades National Park.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The mountain has two summits of nearly the same elevation, separated by a ridgeline of a few hundred feet. Sources differ over the exact height of the southwestern summit. The current United States Geological Survey quadrangle shows the southwest summit to have an elevation between 9080 and 9119 feet. According to Peakbagger.com the southwestern peak is the higher one, at 9,114 ft, based on Edward Earl&#39;s pixel analysis of the height of the peak as derived from a digital photograph. The broader northeastern peak is agreed to be 9,112 ft. Noted climber Fred Beckey also claims in his Cascade Alpine Guide books that the Southwest summit is two feet higher but gives no source for the claim and this approximation is second-hand since Beckey has never summitted Buckner. Most mountain climbers visit the southwest peak since it is arrived at first via the standard Horseshoe Basin route.</p><br>
<p>Buckner Mountain, with a prominence of 3,034 ft, is the 51st most prominent peak in Washington state.</p><br>
<p>The nearest higher peak is Goode Mountain, 4.13 mi to the east.</p><br>
<p>Buckner Mountain is located on the border between Chelan and Skagit counties. It is connected to Horseshoe Peak, Boston Peak, and Sahale Mountain to the west by Ripsaw Ridge, which marks the county line for several miles. Cascade Pass is located a few miles south of Sahale Mountain. Boston Glacier, the largest glacier of the North Cascades, covers the entire region north of Ripsaw Ridge. South of Ripsaw Ridge the terrain slopes down into the vast Horseshoe Basin, from which some the headwater tributaries of the Stehekin River flow. Long high ridges extend from Buckner Mountain east to Park Creek Pass, and south to Booker Mountain and Park Creek Ridge. Other glaciers near Buckner Mountain include Thunder Glacier, to the north, and Buckner Glacier, to the south.</p><br>
<p>Buckner Mountain marks the boundary between the Skagit River watershed, to the west, and the Columbia River watershed, to the east, via the Columbia&#39;s tributaries: Chelan River, Chelan Lake and Stehekin River.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Buckner Mountain is one of the more accessible high peaks of Washington, being located just east of Cascade Pass and a well-maintained trail. Boston Glacier, on the mountains northern face, has become one of the best known ice climbs in the North Cascades.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Buckner Mountain is named for Henry Freeland Buckner, who in the early 20th century managed a mining company which had claims in Horseshoe Basin, southwest of the peak.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Bartholomew in Crewkerne, Somerset, England dates from the 15th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>St Bartholomews Parish Church stands on high ground to the west of the town. The first Saxon church was founded before the end of the 9th century as a "minster", or main church of a Saxon royal estate that included an area which later became the parishes of Seaborough, Wayford and Misterton. This church was replaced after the Norman Conquest with a larger stone cruciform building, with a central tower. This was almost completely rebuilt and enlarged in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. This is, for the most part, the church building visible today. It is an excellent example of the Perpendicular style with many unusual and individual features. These include the west front, the nave, the six-light aisle windows and the Tudor-style chapels and windows in the north east corner. The building material is golden-coloured Ham Hill stone, quarried a few miles north of Crewkerne. There is a notable pair of green man&#39; carvings within the church.</p><br>
<p>No major alterations have been made since the Reformation in the 1530s and 1540s, but there have been many changes to the interior to accommodate various phases of Church of England worship. Among these are an oven used for baking communion bread in the south east corner of the north chapel.</p><br>
<p>During the Civil War, considerable damage was done including the destruction of nearly all of the medieval stained glass. William III of England worshipped in the church following his landing in the Glorious Revolution of 1689. By the early 19th century, all the medieval furnishings, except the Norman font had disappeared. New pews were made and the west galleries were added in 1808-11. The latest restoration that has left the church interior visible today, took place in the late 19th Century; it was more sympathetic to the church&#39;s architectural character than many Victorian restorations. At this time, the central section of the west gallery was removed to reveal the great west window and the organ was relocated to the south transept. The pews date from around 1900 and have attractive carved bench-ends.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican Church of St Martin in Fivehead, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The church built of Hamstone includes a three-bay nave, chancel, south aisle and porch, and a west tower.</p><br>
<p>The three-stage tower dates from around 1505. It is supported by diagonal buttresses and embellished with corner pinnacles and gargoyles. There are six bells the oldest of which was cast around 1500.</p><br>
<p>Within the church is a palimpsest depicting Jane Seymour. There was a gallery at the back of the nave, however this was removed along with the box pews during Victorian restoration. The Norman font has a cylindrical stem and bowl, which has an intricately decorated rim.</p><br>
<p>Outside the church next to the village green is the War Memorial</p><br>
<p>The parish is within the benefice of Curry Rivel with Fivehead and Swell which is part of the Diocese of Bath and Wells.</p><br>
<p>St. Luke&#39;s Chapel is a historic chapel located in Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>The chapel was commissioned by Dr. and Mrs. Henry Norris of Philadelphia, founders of Rutherford Hospital, to serve its staff and patients, arising out of the Social Gospel Movement.</p><br>
<p>Completed in 1908, it is a small, one-story, frame, vernacular Gothic Revival style gable-front building. A one-story gable-roofed frame wing was added about 1915. It was restored in 1945 and again in 1965, and had its exterior renovated in 1991. It is the oldest building on the grounds of Rutherford Hospital, and the only remaining original building.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>St. Lukes Hospital, in Chicago, Illinois, is a former hospital. Its set of Gothic Revival style buildings, the St. Lukes Hospital Complex, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The hospital eventually outgrew its original building, moved to a new location, and eventually became Rush University Medical Center, a major Chicago hospital. The original building has been redeveloped into condominiums.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Luke’s Hospital was founded in 1864. The St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing was established in 1885. St. Luke’s merged with Presbyterian Hospital to form Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital in 1956. Their nursing schools also united to create the Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing.</p><br>
<p>In 1969, Rush Medical College reactivated its charter and merged with Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital to form Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center. Rush University, which now includes colleges of medicine, nursing, health sciences and research training, was established in 1972. The institution officially changed its name in September 2003 to Rush University Medical Center.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Huish Episcopi, Somerset, England has 12th-century origins, but was largely rebuilt in 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>St Marys Church also serves nearby Langport. Built in blue lias with golden hamstone decoration, the church is most noted for its classic 100 ft Somerset tower, deemed to be an architectural companion piece to St Martins Church in Kingsbury Episcopi.</p><br>
<p>A church was present on the site during the 11th century. The current church was built after a fire in the previous structure. It was dedicated in 1232.</p><br>
<p>St Mary&#39;s tower dates from around 1500 and was built in four stages replacing an earlier central tower. It is extensively embellished with pinnacles and quatrefoil panel bands. In the north-east corner is an octagonal stair turret which reaches the full height of the tower. The tower was depicted on a postage stamp in 1972.</p><br>
<p>A stained glass window by Edward Burne-Jones is also noteworthy.</p><br>
<p>The churchyard contains two Commonwealth war graves, of a Lincolnshire Regiment soldier of World War I and a Royal Artillery soldier of World War II.</p><br>
<p>Loch Monzievaird is a loch in Scotland, located in the region of Perthshire.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>King Kenneth III of Scotland was killed at the battle of Monzievaird in 1005.</p><br>
<p>On the north side of the loch are the remains of an old fortress called Castle Cluggy. This was the original home of the lairds of Ochtertyre. The fortress was referred to as ancient in a charter of 1467. It belonged to Red Comyn, who was killed in 1306 by Robert the Bruce in the convent of the Minorites (Greyfriars Kirk) at Dumfries. It is thought that Sir William Murray, 1st Baronet of Ochtertyre, last inhabited the castle in the middle of the 17th century.</p><br>
<p>About 80 yards to the west of the ruin is a small artificial island that served as a prison. At the west end of the loch is a large mound where plague victims were buried in the reign of Charles I.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Loch Monzievaird is situated two miles west of Crieff in Highland Perthshire, one of the most popular holiday destinations in Scotland. Aberfeldy, Dunkeld, Perth and Pitlochry are all within easy reach by car. St Andrews, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh are only about an hour&#39;s drive away.</p><br>
<p>The Afro-American Sons and Daughters Hospital, in Yazoo City, Mississippi, also known as the Afro-American Hospital, was built in 1928. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Afro-American Sons and Daughters was a fraternal organization in Mississippi and one of the leading black voluntary associations in the state. Organized in 1924, it had 35,000 members by the 1930s. The founder of the group was Thomas J. Huddleston, Sr., a prosperous black entrepreneur and advocate of Booker T. Washington&#39;s self-help philosophy.</p><br>
<p>In 1928, the association opened the Afro-American Hospital of Yazoo City, Mississippi to give low-cost care to the members. Dr. Lloyd Tevis Miller served as the facility&#39;s first director. The hospital, which offered both major and minor surgery, was a leading health care supplier for blacks in Mississippi. It had a low death rate compared to other hospitals that served blacks in the South during the period.</p><br>
<p>The hospital ceased operation in 1966 as a fraternal entity after years of increasingly burdensome regulation, competitive pressure from government and third-party health care alternatives, and the migration of younger dues-paying blacks to the North. The Afro-American Sons and Daughters disbanded during the same period.</p><br>
<p>Huddleston&#39;s grandson is Mike Espy, a former member of the House of Representatives and USA Secretary of Agriculture.</p><br>
<p>The Oliver House is a historic house at 203 West Front Street in Corning, Arkansas. It is a -story wood-frame L-shaped structure, with a gambrel-roofed main block and a gable-roofed section projecting forward from the right side. A single-story hip-roofed porch extends through the crook of the L and around to the sides, supported by Tuscan columns. The interior retains original woodwork, including two particularly distinguished fireplace mantels. Built c. 1880 and last significantly altered in 1909, it is one of Corning&#39;s oldest buildings. It was built by J. W. Harb, and purchased not long afterward by Dr. J. L. Oliver Jr., whose son operated a general store nearby.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Village Diner, sometimes called the Halfway Diner or the Historic Village Diner, is located on North Broadway  a block north of New York State Route 199, in Red Hook, New York, United States. It is a 1951 diner that has been in two other area locations during its history.</p><br>
<p>Its design reflects the era when diners were modeled closely after railroad dining cars, with chrome exteriors and curved walls. In 1988 it became the first diner in New York, and the fourth in the nation, to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Frommer&#39;s called it "one of the best... midcentury American diners".</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The diner is in the center of a 75 by lot in downtown Red Hook. To the south is a Queen Anne Style house, to the north a small store and, across Cherry Street, the Elmendorph Inn. Across North Broadway are many 19th century residences. The front and rear of the lot are used as parking.</p><br>
<p>The restaurant building itself is on a cement block foundation. Its exterior is stainless steel, curved at the corners fluted and painted with horizontal bands on a steel frame structural system. Windows are rectangular and retractable, high up the wall. A screen door on the south side is centrally located. All these features mimic those of a rail dining car.</p><br>
<p>Atop the roof is a red neon sign reading "DINER". The main entrance is off-center, towards the south, as a result of a later expansion. A rear wing, added later, is sided in vinyl.</p><br>
<p>The interior further emulates its rail model, with tables in booths along the east and west walls with a single aisle between them. The ceiling is also vaulted. The rear is mostly given over to counter and cooking space; it has no windows as a result, a deviation from the model. A later rear addition expands the kitchen facilities to the east.</p><br>
<p>Much of the interior trim is original, such as tiled floor and wainscoting in turquoise and black, cream enameled walls, a laminated counter with 16 stools and a back wall with ribbed metal covering for all the kitchen functions. These treatments are more utilitarian, more typical of a lunch counter than a lushly-furnished rail diner of the era. The rear wing has some open dining space with freestanding tables and chairs, plus restrooms with their original doors.</p><br>
<p>The diner retains its original builder&#39;s plate upon which Paterson Vehicle stamped a serial number 5113 indicating that it was the thirteenth unit built in 1951. This was a typical practice employed by Paterson and is seen on many of its remaining Silk City structures still in existence.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>From their origins as horse-drawn hot lunch carts, diners had evolved during the early 20th century into stationary, yet movable, fixtures of the developed urban landscape of the urban Northeast. The increasing use of the automobile during the 1920s for intercity travel brought them into the countryside. Manufacturers offered prefabricated models with lessons in management, giving entrepreneurs the chance to get into the restaurant business with less capital than it usually took.</p><br>
<p>In 1925, Lou Dubois of Kingston, across the Hudson River from Red Hook, bought a popular Silk City Diner from the Paterson Vehicle Company, one of the leading diner manufacturers. He chose to install it first in an area along recently designated Route 9, the Albany Post Road, just north of nearby Rhinebeck called Astor Flats. They called it the Halfway Diner because he thought it was about halfway along Route 9 between New York City and Albany. Dubois&#39;s wife managed the diner while her husband continued to drive trucks for a beer distributor.</p><br>
<p>Three years later he died, and his family sold the diner to Bert Coons. He moved it to its current location and continued to make a profit. When the Taconic State Parkway was completed through northern Dutchess County after World War II, he moved the diner east, to where Route 199 intersected with the new road, to take advantage of changed transportation patterns. It is not clear whether he changed the name at the same time.</p><br>
<p>In 1957, with the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge having restored some of the lost through traffic to Red Hook, Coons moved the diner back to its present location. He rented it to others and then finally sold it in the 1960s, after adding onto it to make it more of a traditional restaurant. A new roadside sign announced its new name to travelers — the Village Restaurant. The current owners refer to it as the Historic Village Diner. It has become a local institution.</p><br>
<p>Boston Peak is a tall peak in the North Cascades in the USA state of Washington and within North Cascades National Park. At 8,894 ft in elevation it is the 26th highest peak in Washington. Its nearest higher neighbor is Buckner Mountain, 1.66 mi to the east.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Boston Peak is located just north of the border between Chelan and Skagit counties. It is connected to Buckner Mountain, to the east by the sharp arête of Ripsaw Ridge, which follows the county line. Sahale Peak is located directly south of Boston Peak, connected by a short ridge. A longer ridge to the northwest connects Boston Peak with Forbidden Peak. The north slopes of Boston Peak and Ripsaw Ridge are covered by Boston Glacier, the largest glacier of the North Cascades. The west side of Boston Peak is covered by Quien Sabe Glacier. Davenport Glacier occupies the southeast side of Boston Peak. To the east of the high summits of Forbidden Peak, Boston Peak, and Sahale Mountain the land slopes down into the vast cirque of Boston Basin. Numerous headwater tributaries of the Cascade River flow down the slopes of Boston Basin. Cascade Pass, an important mountain pass of the North Cascades, is located about 2.2 mi south of Boston Peak.</p><br>
<p>Boston Peak sits on the boundary between the watersheds of the Skagit River to the west, via the Cascade River and other tributaries, and the Columbia River to the east, via the Stehekin River and other tributaries.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Boston Peak is named for Boston Mine, which operated on the southeast side of the peak in the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Boston Peak was first summited in 1938 by Calder Bressler, Ray Clough, Bill Cox, and Tom Myers. It is a difficult climb as the slope is steep and the rock very loose and friable.</p><br>
<p>The Church of Saint Andrew is an Anglican parish church located on Turnhill Road, in High Ham, Somerset, England. It shows evidence of 12th- and 14th-century building and was largely rebuilt in 1476. On 17 April 1959, it was designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church is built in the Perpendicular style. The date 1474 is recorded in an inscription on the tomb of the rector who re-built it. The rebuilding of the church in 1476 took about one year, and was performed under John Selwood, then Abbot of Glaston, who was also the patron and donor of the rectory. The rector John Dyer built the present chancel in 1476.</p><br>
<p>The rector Adrian Schall wrote a memoir about the church in 1598. Some 19th-century restoration work was done by John Norton.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<h3>Structure</h3><br>
<p>The design is a four-cell plan with a three-bay chancel, and five-bay nave. There are north and south aisles, a south porch, and a west tower. Building materials include local lias stone and hamstone. The main roofs are composed of Welsh slate with moulded coped gables, battlemented parapets. The aisle and porch roofs are of sheet lead.</p><br>
<p>The tower dates from the early 14th century, and is in three stages. It is squat with triple plinth bands, parapets, corner gargoyles, angled and straight buttresses.</p><br>
<p>The chancel was built in 1499. It has a double plinth course, gargoyles, parapets, coped gables, and angled buttresses. Each buttress had an east window of five-light panes; the north and south sections had three-light windows. The chancel was built with a moulded king post truss roof and many rosettes, angels and other carvings. The wide panelled chancel arch has a well preserved Devon-style timber screen.</p><br>
<p>The north aisle has similar features as the chancel with double plinth eaves course, gargoyles, battlements, buttresses, and three-light windows of standard tracery in hollowed pointed-arched recesses. The nave dates from 1476; it is visible as a clerestorey and includes three-light windows. 15th-century stained glass fragments are found in the east window tracery, and there are also late-17th-century windows resembling those of Low Ham Church. There is a small, almost triangular, arched, moulded doorway, an arched chamfered doorway, and a near semi-circular arched doorway with 19th-century wrought iron gates. Other features of note include a canopied statue niche with a 19th-century figure and an empty statue niches along the east wall.</p><br>
<h3>Fittings and furniture</h3><br>
<p>Choir stalls are of the 15th century, as are many of the pew bench ends. The pulpit and lectern are also of the 19th century. There is a canopied stoup, and a 12th-century lead-lined tulip bowl font A brass engraving in the chancel floor is dedicated to the rector John Dyer (died 1499) who paid for the rebuilding of the chancel.</p><br>
<h2>Churchyard</h2><br>
<p>There are several Grade II listed structures, enlisted 7 February 1986, in and by the churchyard.</p><br>
<p>The Gillet Monument is a late-18th-century altar tomb with an obelisk made of hamstone and it is located in the churchyard, 17 m southwest of the tower. The Swain Travers Monument is also located in the churchyard, just east of the chancel; it is a 19th-century chest tomb, a possibly reuse of an 18th-century tomb. An unidentified late-17th-century monument in the churchyard is located just south of the chancel.</p><br>
<p>Adding to the setting of the churchyard which it abuts is a portion of the east boundary wall, to Ham Court, 15 m south of the church. Also historically important is the section of the south boundary wall with railings, 15 m south of the church, with cast iron railings and patterned with cross/Fleur-de-lis caps.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St George in Hinton St George, Somerset, England includes 13th-century work by masons of Wells Cathedral, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The vestry and north chapel of 1814 are said to be by James Wyatt, however it is more likely to be by Jeffry Wyatt, (later Sir Jeffry Wyattville). The four-stage tower is dated to 1485–95. It is supported by full-height offset corner buttresses, and has battlemented parapets with quatrefoil panels below merlons on the corner and intermediate pinnacles. The weathervane was added in 1756 by Thomas Bagley of Bridgwater. There is a hexagonal south-east corner stair turret. Stage 2 has small light on the north side and a statue niche on the south. All the faces on the two upper stages 2-light mullioned, transomed and traceried window under pointed arched labels, with pierced stone baffles. The clockface is under the east window.</p><br>
<p>During restoration work the parapet of the tower was examined and a stone was discovered with a carved date of 1731 which suggests that the decorative parapet may have been added then. The tracery on the north side has been marked out but never cut. In general there is little sign of more than one phase of construction although repairs are evident.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Mary in Ilminster, Somerset, England dates from the 15th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>Ilminster takes its name from the River Isle and its large church of St Mary, which is known as The Minster. The 15th century Hamstone building was refurbished in 1825 by William Burgess and the chancel restored in 1883. Further restoration took place in 1887-89 and 1902.</p><br>
<p>Among the principal features are the Wadham tombs; those of Sir William Wadham and his mother, dated 1452 and Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham, 1609 and 1618.</p><br>
<p>The tower, which was built in the first quarter of the 16th century, rises two storeys above the nave. It has three bays, with a stair turret to the north-west corner. The bays are articulated by slender buttresses with crocketed finials above the castellated parapet. Each bay on both stages contains a tall two-light mullioned-and-transomed window with tracery. The lights to the top are filled with pierced stonework; those to the base are solid. The stair turret has string courses coinciding with those on the tower, and a spirelet with a weathervane. It contains a ring of 8 bells, with the 4th and 6th of the ring dating from 1611 and 1614 respectively (cast by George Purdue), the 5th dating from 1732 cast by Thomas I Bilbie, and the tenor from 1790 cast by William Bilbie of the Bilbie family.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Isle Abbotts, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century with several restorations since. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>It has a tower of four stages. The embattled parapet is pierced by quatrefoils, the merlons pierced with lancet openings. The very large corner pinnacles have attached secondary pinnacles, and intermediate pinnacles to each side. The crocketted niches to each face of tower have surviving medieval figures, to west the risen Christ stepping from His sarcophagus, the Blessed Virgin with Bambino, St Peter and St Paul; to south St George, St Catherine, St Margaret; to east St John Baptist, St Clement; to north St Michael. The wealth of architectural detail and sculpture has required specific approaches to the methodology of repair and protection using lime-based materials. On the stonework are hunky punks which have been severely damaged by the weather, however one appears to be a person playing bagpipes.</p><br>
<p>Bristol Road Methodist Church is a former Methodist place of worship in the Kemptown area of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Built in 1873 to an Italian Romanesque Revival design, it served this part of eastern Brighton for more than a century until its closure in 1989, after which it became a recording studio. It is owned by Brighton College, an independent school based nearby. The building has been listed at Grade II in view of its architectural importance.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Brightons first Methodist church opened in 1808 in Dorset Gardens off St Jamess Street, a recently developed road east of the Old Steine and the Royal Pavilion. By the 1870s, housing had spread much further east, and the area between Thomas Read Kemps high-class Kemp Town estate and the earlier development around St Jamess Street had been filled in with high-density housing. The area became known as Kemptown. In 1872, Reverend J. Martin, a Methodist minister, proposed the construction of a new church to serve this area. Architect Thomas Lainson, who also designed several buildings (including a Congregational church) in Hove and the Middle Street Synagogue in Brighton, was commissioned to draw up a design. He submitted this on 1 March 1872. A builder named John Fielder was responsible for construction, which continued through 1873. A stone tablet (now partly illegible) at the base of the tower, dated 7 October 1873, names Lainson, Fielder and Reverend Martin, and bears the inscription.</p><br>
<p>The church was part of the Wesleyan Methodist tradition, and during the early 20th century became part of a circuit of six local Wesleyan churches; the others were the nearby Dorset Gardens Methodist Church (also in Kemptown), Hove Methodist Church, and others in Hurstpierpoint, Portslade and Southwick.</p><br>
<p>A closure proposal was announced in 1987. In 1989, the congregation moved out and began to share St Mary the Virgin, a nearby Anglican church. After this, the building was sold and converted into a recording studio. It is now owned by Brighton College.</p><br>
<p>The former church was listed at Grade II on 26 August 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Thomas Lainson adopted the Italian Romanesque Revival style for his design. The building is of brown and red brick, laid in the English bond pattern, with dressings of stone and pale brick. There is a tower at the southeast corner, rising in three stages and capped by a short spire and a lead roof. Most of the main roof area is laid with slate, but there is one timber-framed section as well. The south face has a stair turret at the southwest corner and the tower at the opposite corner; and between these is the entrance porch, a portico with three arches separated by columns of granite topped with abaci of stone. Three round-arched windows, with stone surrounds and an architrave, are above this; and the façade is completed by a rose window below the gabled roof. There is another entrance in a small porch on the east face of the tower. The internal layout consisted of a three-bay nave leading into a sanctuary, and a single-storey vestry with four arched stone-dressed windows on the northeast side.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Martin in Kingsbury Episcopi, Somerset, England dates from the 14th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The church which stands on the site of an earlier Saxon church of which no trace remains, is dedicated to St Martin boasts an ornate Somerset Tower, 99 ft tall, made of stone from nearby Ham Hill. There is a four bay aisled nave. Pevsner describes the chancel and chapels of the church as "gloriously lit" and advises visiting on a fine morning. He writes that the nave is older than the rest of the church, "no doubt of before 1400, and not yet infected with the later exuberance" of the Late Perpendicular style of the tower and other parts of St Martin&#39;s. Poyntz Wright suggests the 100 ft high, west tower was built in 1515.</p><br>
<p>The four stage tower is supported by buttresses and has bands of blank quatrefoils, and is surmounted by battlements with pinnacles.</p><br>
<p>The church was renovated between 1845 and 1849.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the benefice of Kingsbury Episcopi, East Lambrook and Hambridge within the deanery of Crewkerne and Ilminster.</p><br>
<p>The Manning–Kamna Farm is a private farm adjacent to Hillsboro in Washington County, Oregon, United States. Settled in the 1850s, ten buildings built between 1883 and 1930 still stand, including the cross-wing western farmhouse. These ten structures comprise the buildings added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 as an example of a farm in the region from the turn of the 20th century. Until the 1950s the farm was used to grow seeds, including rye grass and vetch. Listed buildings on the property include a barn, smokehouse, pumphouse, woodshed, and privy.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Farming here began in 1851, when Carlos Dudley Wilcox and his wife Elizabeth settled a Donation Land Claim on the Tualatin Plains in Washington County, Oregon. Carlos had immigrated to the Oregon Country in 1847 with his parents and married the 15-year-old Elizabeth Scoggin on July 3, 1851. The couple had five children on their 640 acre farm, though Carlos sold 62 acre in 1857. In 1872, the Wilcoxes divorced, with Elizabeth gaining the southern part of the farm and Carlos the northern part, of which he sold half in 1874.</p><br>
<p>Elizabeth re-married on January 29, 1874, to native New Yorker Louis Manning. Manning, born in 1836, had previously lived in Kansas, Ohio, Colorado, and Eastern Oregon before settling in Washington County. On Elizabeth’s 320 acre farm, the two raised her children from the prior marriage and grew various crops. They built a new farmhouse on the property between 1876 and 1883. The Mannings also built a two-story barn on the farm in the early 1880s.</p><br>
<p>Herman Kamna (1870–1924) from Bassen, in what was then the Province of Hanover, in Germany (now Lower Saxony) immigrated to Washington County with his family in 1886. He married Anna Rehse on February 14, 1900, and the couple purchased 175 acre from the Mannings in June 1903. The Mannings retained a life estate to a small portion of the farm that included the farmhouse, and remained on the farm until after Louis&#39; death in 1910 and Elizabeth’s in 1916. The Kamnas then moved into the farmhouse.</p><br>
<p>The Kamnas had four children, though one died in an accident at the farm at age three. One son, Edgar, in time took over the farming on the farm. About 1910 the Kamna family built an addition to the barn, and around 1920 built a second addition to the barn. They continued adding buildings to the farm in the early 1900s including a woodshed, privy, pumphouse, chicken coop, smokehouse, potato shed, and a canning shed. The last addition was a garage in the 1920s. In the 1920s the family added indoor plumbing to the farmhouse, and in the process enclosed parts of two porches. The Kamnas grew oats, fescue, rye grass, vetch, and sub-clover on the farm and used the barn for sorting and packing the seeds, running the farm into the 1950s. As of 2007 the farm was owned by Wayne Reed and Petrina Pometto. On October 10, 2007, the Manning–Kamna Farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Farmhouse</h2><br>
<p>Located along northwest Evergreen Road at Jackson School Road, the Manning-Kamna farm sits across the street from the city of Hillsboro. The largest and oldest building on the farm is the residence. Built as early as 1876 and as late as 1883, the house stands 1.5 stories tall and is of a late Victorian style in a cruciform shape. The cross-wing Western Farmhouse designed structure has a gabled roof (double Gabled-Ells) with four hip-roofed porches, one on each corner. The home is a wood framed building that had a concrete foundation added in 2006. Materials include mainly Douglas-fir for the wood, and a composite shingle roof.</p><br>
<p>Details on the home include double hung windows, two chimneys, seven doors, and a catwalk that attaches to the neighboring woodshed. Architectural features include a corbelled chimney, crown moulding window casings, and on the porch are triangle shaped decorative wood brackets that are on top of the turned porch columns at the eaves. Inside, the main floor includes the kitchen, laundry room, a bathroom, the dining room, a parlor, foyer, a mud room, a fireplace room that features a Rumford fireplace. The second floor has a bathroom, a sewing room, and three bedrooms.</p><br>
<h2>Out buildings</h2><br>
<p>The 2.22 acre farm has nine other buildings organized in a rectangular pattern, with the home in the middle, the barn to the west, and the privy on the eastern boundary. The original two-story barn is the oldest and largest of these remaining buildings. Built of hand hewn timber posts, it measures 35 ft by 70 ft and has white shiplap siding. The two newer barn buildings and the older portion form one interconnected building. These newer parts are one story tall, with the middle one measuring 20 ft by 30 ft and the northern most 20 ft by 20 ft. White board and batten siding was used on the middle portion that was built around 1910 and tongue and groove siding on the end section added about 1920. The barns were used for the seed growing operation of the farm.</p><br>
<p>Attached to the residence is the woodshed, or chop house, that stands one story tall and has a gabled roof. Built in the early 1900s by the Kamna family, it was remodeled in the 1970s and turned into a finished space complete with half-bath. The chicken coop was built about 1920 with an unfinished interior, and also has a gabled roof. The 12.5 ft by 20 ft structure has a dirt floor and shiplap siding. The potato shed also features the shiplap siding and gabled roof. Measuring 16 ft by 22 ft, the concrete floored structure was built circa 1910 and was used for storing crops.</p><br>
<p>The smallest structure is the privy, which is 6 ft by 8 ft. It was used from about 1910 until the 1950s. Inside were three holes, while outside was shiplap siding and a cedar shake roof. The pumphouse featured a brick foundation and brick lined well. Built about 1910, it is a wood frame structure with a hip roof of composition shingles. The well was used for irrigation on the farm.</p><br>
<p>Also built around the same time was the smokehouse which had a dirt floor. Measuring 8.5 ft by 10.5 ft, it has white shiplap siding and a cedar shake roof on the exterior. The canning shed on the property is the only brick structure. Built in the late 19th century, it was used for canning, food storage, and summer kitchen. Measuring 14 ft squared (1.3 m²), it also has a hipped roof which features a wooden ventilation chimney at the apex. The exterior of the brick is covered with stucco.</p><br>
<p>The newest building on the farm is the garage that was built in the 1920s. It has a gabled roof, exposed rafter tails, weatherboard siding, and composition singles. Located between the farmhouse and the barn, it measures 24 ft by 16 ft and has a 10 ft wide double-car garage door on the south side. There is a single window on both the east and west ends of the building. A large Pignut Hickory and Black Walnut trees shade the garage.</p><br>
<p>The Church of All Saints in Langport, Somerset, England, has 12th-century origins but was rebuilt in the late 15th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>New aisles were added in 1499.</p><br>
<p>The Perpendicular octagonal tower, which is in three stages, dates from around 1455, but the top section was rebuilt in 1833. It has a number of interesting gargoyles known locally as hunky punks. The portcullis in the stonework above the battlements is from the coat of arms of Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby who was Lord of the Manor of Eastover in the Parish of Langport. Two of the hunky punks are believed to represent Margaret Beaufort and her son Henry VII of England.</p><br>
<p>The East window of the chancel contains a set of late 15th century glass depicting various saints, appropriate to the dedication "All Saints". Although restored in the 19th century it is one of the best preserved medieval windows in Somerset. Additionally it is unusual in that the window contains a full set of glass from the same period.</p><br>
<p>The church is no longer used for services, its congregation has been merged with nearby St Mary&#39;s. It is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The church was declared redundant on 1 July 1994, and was vested in the Trust on 28 June 1995. The Trust has carried out extensive rebuilding work.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, the Churches Conservation Trust and the community of Langport started an innovative regeneration project at All Saints church. Now the Regeneration Taskforce at the Churches Conservation Trust is working in partnership with a group of local young people aged 16–25 to regenerate All Saints church with a new use. The group of young people is called the New Saints.</p><br>
<p>The Charf Hill  is a hill in Tangier, northern Morocco. Its elevation is 93 metres above sea level and it overlooks the city between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The hill offers a panoramic view of Tangier and the coastline from Cap Malabata in the east to La Montagne in the west.</p><br>
<p>Charf Hill has a number of high-rise buildings and towards the foot of the hill are some of the poor residential districts of Tangier and the Plaza de Toros. The Syrian Mosque of Tangier is also located on the hill and is noted for its style of minaret, rare to the region.</p><br>
<p>Legend says that the Charf hill is the burial place of the massive body of Antaeus after he was defeated by Hercules.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Holy Trinity in Long Sutton, Somerset, England dates from the 15th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>An earlier church would have stood on this site from the 9th century or earlier. The current church, which was consecrated in 1493, was built of local lias stone cut and squared, with hamstone dressings. It has stone slate roofs between stepped coped gabled with finials to the chancel and north porch. The tower, which dates from around 1462, has a ring of six bells, the tenor weighing 136 st. On the corner plates of the tower are hunky punks in the shape of daemonic animals.</p><br>
<p>Internally, the chancel has a ceiled wagon-roof, with moulded ribs and plaster panels. The tower exhibits the tracery typical of Somerset churches. The under-tower space has a lierne vault, and a 15th-century octagonal font with quatrefoil panels.</p><br>
<p>The coloured timber pulpit, with a fly approach stair, dates from 1455–58 and is older than the church itself. It has 20th-century wood figures in the statue niches.</p><br>
<p>The wood screen is also ornately carved and dates from the late 15th century. Memorials in the church include a tablet to Elizabeth Banbury, died 1716, with Corinthian columns and entablature, side and bottom swags, as well as a number of 16th- and 17th-century Keinton stone slabs in the floor.</p><br>
<p>Lake Webster is a fresh water lake located in Kosciusko County, Indiana, United States. Formerly it was known as Boydston Lake. It borders the town of North Webster to the west of the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Geographic place names</h2><br>
<p>Big Island</p><br>
<p>Backwater Lake is the body of water south of Webster Lake proper</p><br>
<p>Dickerson&#39;s Point is located on the north shore</p><br>
<p>Epworth Forest</p><br>
<p>Hayden&#39;s Point is the point of land before entering Webster Bay</p><br>
<p>Highbanks</p><br>
<p>Ruple&#39;s Beach is located on the south shore</p><br>
<p>Webster Bay</p><br>
<p>Yellowbanks</p><br>
<h2>Attractions</h2><br>
<p>North Webster is home to Dixie, Indiana’s oldest sternwheel paddleboat. Dixie has cruised Webster Lake since 1929, providing tours of the lake to generations of residents and visitors. A number of private owners cared for and operated the boat from 1929 until 2007 when title was transferred to a nonprofit organization called Dixie Sternwheeler Inc., which operates the boat for regular summer cruises from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day and to allow chartered events such as weddings, retirement home outings, and company and community gatherings. Regular cruises last about 75 minutes and are each evening Monday through Saturday and during the afternoon and evening on Sunday. Many of the regular cruises feature period music and a narration with some history of the area, the lake, and Dixie.</p><br>
<p>Dixie was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Historical</h2><br>
<h3>Boats</h3><br>
<p>Cuban Girl (1902-) was a small steam launch approximately 28 ft in length.</p><br>
<p>The City of Webster (1906—1913) was a 40 ft sternwheel paddle boat</p><br>
<p>Ethel H (1904—1909) was a sidewheel steamboat, approximately 45 ft in length. The Ethel H was also known to have gone to Lake Tippecanoe and Lake James around 1909.</p><br>
<h3>Webster Lake Dam</h3><br>
<p>The Webster Lake dam was created at the southwestern point of the lake and a gristmill was built by an Ephriam Muirhead in 1837. This damming created one large lake from as many as seven smaller lakes. In 1842, Thomas Boydston purchased the gristmill. It is said that he is a descendant of Dr. Zabdiel Boylston. The mill served as a general store and post office in the 19th century. It burned in 1949 and replaced by the current dam.</p><br>
<h3>Yellow Banks</h3><br>
<p>The Yellow Banks hotel was formerly the M.J. France hotel (1902—1905). The Yellow Banks owned several yellow row boats for the use of its guests. It is said that when the boats were stored on the banks of the hotel property, the banks appeared yellow. Though unconfirmed, it has been said that John Dillinger and gang stayed at the Yellow Banks hotel in October 1933 or April 1934.</p><br>
