<p>The Wildkogel is a 2,224 m high grass mountain in the Kitzbühel Alps in Oberpinzgau in Salzburg. It lies north of the Salzach river valley and the nearby towns of Neukirchen and Bramberg.</p><br>
<p>At 2,005 m high, the Wildkogelhaus (built in 1898) can host up to 100 guests (with restaurants, sauna and disco). Here begins a 14 km long toboggan run.</p><br>
<p>During the winter, there is a large ski area with 55 km of groomed ski trails, 45% blue, 40% red and 15% black. The highest lift takes passengers to 2,150 m. There is a 6-seater cable car with a stopover, a six-chairlift, two four-chair lifts, one double chairlift, five lift-e and four T-bar lifts. Descents are possible into the towns of Neukirchen (1,300 m, length 5 km) and Bramberg (length 14 km).</p><br>
<p>On the mountain, at 200 km is the longest trail ("Pinzga") to be found in the Salzburg state.</p><br>
<p>In the summer season, there are many hiking possibilities (altitude hiking). The Wildkogel offers cycling for mountain bikes ( "Bike-Arena"), and also the participants of the yearly held Transalp have to cross. The mountain is also a popular starting point for cross-country flights with the paraglider, as the Pinzgau is thermally very reliable.</p><br>
<p>Linwood Gardens  is an historic estate and national historic district located at York, New York in Livingston County, New York. The estate is a 350 acre property centered around a summer house and surrounded by developed garden areas, woods, and meadows. Most notably, it is home to an historic collection of tree peonies collected and developed by William H. Gratwick III and Nassos Daphnis in about the 1940s-1960s.</p><br>
<p>Linwood Gardens was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>William H. Gratwick, Sr.</h2><br>
<p>William Henry Gratwick, Sr. (1839-1899), was born in Albany and moved to Buffalo, NY in 1877 to found the lumber business Gratwick, White and Fryer Lumber Company, with offices in Tonawanda, Buffalo, and Detroit. The company owned timberland in Michigan and six ships to transport the timber on the Great Lakes. The Gratwick family lived at 776 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo in architect Henry Hobson Richardsons last commissioned home, an imposing brownstone, which stood until 1919. William succumbed to colon cancer in 1899, but notably was treated by Dr. Roswell Park of Buffalo during his illness. Mrs. Martha Weare Gratwick, Williams widow, donated $25,000 to Dr. Park which assisted in the establishment of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the first institution in the world to focus solely on cancer research. The remaining fortune earned by William was split among his three children, including his son, William H. Gratwick, Jr.</p><br>
<h2>William H. Gratwick, Jr.</h2><br>
<p>When his father died, "Harry" assisted in management of the lumber company but preferred other pursuits, including real estate projects in the Midwest and acting as Vice-President of the New York State Board of Charities. With the inheritance he also scouted out a farm property in Livingston County, New York, which proved suitable for the establishment of a summer estate, which was a popular investment for those of means. The property was purchased in 1900 and construction began shortly after. Harry worked with Green and Wicks, a prominent Buffalo firm, to design the summer house, and hired Boston landscape architect Thomas Fox to plan out the surrounding roads and garden areas between about 1901-1910. The results still stand today, with some alterations. The gardens were recognized with the Historic Landscape Award from the Landmark Society of Western New York in 2015.</p><br>
<p>When Harry died in 1934, the estate was taken on by his son, William H. Gratwick III.</p><br>
<h2>William H. Gratwick III</h2><br>
<p>"Bill" was known as a renaissance man; some of his interests included the breeding and showing of heritage horned Dorset sheep, breeding and training Arabian horses for dressage and driving, carriages, sculpture, and local theater and musical productions. His most lasting legacy, however, is the collection of Japanese and hybrid tree peonies that are still curated at Linwood Gardens, many important varieties of which were developed at the property beginning in the 1940s.</p><br>
<p>In 1938, Bill met Arthur P. Saunders, a chemistry professor and prominent American hybridizer of the tree peony. He introduced over 300 herbaceous peony varieties and over 70 varieties of tree peony in his lifetime, most notably creating distinctive yellow cultivars. Bill Gratwick worked with Saunders for a little over a decade, and imported over 100 select Japanese tree peony plants and 500 seeds from the Chugai Monastery in Japan to complement the Saunders collections. Bill carried on Saunders work after Saunders death in 1953, and Gratwick eventually introduced twelve of his own cultivars.</p><br>
<h2>Nassos Daphnis</h2><br>
<p>Born in Greece, Nassos Daphnis (1914-2010) was an American painter who met Bill Gratwick and was introduced to the world of the tree peony in the late 1930s. For most summers of his life, he visited Linwood Gardens and became deeply involved in hybridizing tree peonies as well as painting them. His 48 cultivar introductions are in tones of pink, yellow, white, mauve, and maroon and are named after figures in Greek mythology. The collection of tree peonies at Linwood Gardens reflects the cultivars that he developed on the property and his legacy.</p><br>
<h2>Linwood Music School and York Opera Company</h2><br>
<p>Harriet L. Saltonstall Gratwick (1907-1999) was married to William H. Gratwick III and founded the Linwood Music School in 1948, which operated until 1963. Harriet, who graduated from the Eastman School of Music, ran the school during the summer at the Gratwick Estate and offered courses in voice, piano, organ, cello, and other musical instruments. Children performed in choral concerts in the gardens, and professional musicians were invited from Rochester and Buffalo to perform free concerts for the community. Mrs. Gratwick also helped establish the York Opera Company, which put on community productions of Gilbert and Sullivan musicals.</p><br>
<p>Laguna Salada  is a vast dry lake some 10 meters below sea level  in the Sonoran Desert of Baja California, 30 km southwest of Mexicali. The lake&#39;s shape vaguely resembles a rhombus. When dry, the flatness of the exposed lake bed sediments makes it a favoured location for recreational driving. It is also notorious for its dust storms , usually the result of monsoonal thunderstorms during the summer. During times of significant rain the lagoon can fill completely with water, leaving the unpaved road along its west bank as the only means of traversing the area. Flanked by the Sierra de Los Cucapah and the Sierra de Juárez mountain ranges, the lake is approximately 60 km long and 17 km at its widest point.</p><br>
<h2>Tectonic activity</h2><br>
<p>The lake itself is located on the bottom of a shallow depression, a graben, which is linked to the San Andreas Fault, and the East Pacific Rise as part of the Laguna Salada Fault. This fault is connected to the Salton Trough fault which holds a similar depression, the Salton Sink. This sink is bigger than Laguna Salada and contains the Salton Sea. The 2010 Baja California earthquake occurred here.</p><br>
<p>The Greyhound Bus Terminal in downtown Evansville, Indiana, also known as the Greyhound Bus Station, is a Moderne-style building from 1938. It was built at a cost of $150,000. The terminal, located at the corner of Third and Sycamore streets, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>In July 2008, the long-unused bus terminal and its site had been considered in discussions about potential locations for a new arena that would replace Roberts Municipal Stadium. By December, city council approved plans to build the Ford Center in another downtown location.</p><br>
<p>In December 2011, then Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel announced plans to turn the adjacent property into Bicentennial Park to celebrate the city&#39;s upcoming bicentennial in 2012.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, a restaurant named Bru Burger opened inside the old terminal.</p><br>
<p>Elston Hall, formerly the Hotel Van Curler, is located on Washington Street in the city of Schenectady, New York, United States. It is a tall brick building constructed in 1925 in the Classical Revival architectural style.</p><br>
<p>Its construction was partially financed by local employers General Electric and the American Locomotive Company, which needed space for new workers to live and wanted an architecturally distinctive building comparable with large city hotels of the era. Today, it is one of the main buildings of Schenectady County Community College.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>Elston Hall is located at the northeast corner of the 57 acre college property, right at the corner of State (NY 5) and Washington streets. Only the two acres (8,000 m²) on which the building sits is included in the listing. To the south Washington feeds into Interstate 890; the Schenectady Armory, also listed on the National Register, is located almost across Washington. Directly across from the building, on the east side of Washington, is a garden with a fountain. On the north Washington is part of the Stockade Historic District, the oldest section of Schenectady. One block to the west, State crosses the Mohawk River via the Western Gateway Bridge to Scotia.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The building itself is six stories high, faced in limestone-trimmed brick over a reinforced concrete frame. It is H-shaped, with the north wing shorter than the south due to an extension of the main dining room, topped by a gabled roof with wooden eaves shingled in slate. Some other wings have been built on to the structure since the college began using it. They are too modern to be considered contributing to its historic character.</p><br>
<p>Six Corinthian columns support the main entrance portico. Its entablature, with the words "SCHENECTADY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE" on it in metal lettering, is topped by a dentilled cornice and flat roof with balustrade. Each pillar of the balustrade continues a column below and is topped with a decorative carved urn.</p><br>
<p>The basement level is marked by a stone watercourse. The first floor is fenestrated with alternating rectangular and Palladian windows, and has a belt course of alternating brick and stone dividing it and the second story. White rosettes are between them and their lintels are of white stone with a keystone motif. Some windows are further embellished with swag-decorated friezes. The front doors are surmounted by broken-arch pediments with carved acorns set in blind arches.</p><br>
<p>Decoration is more limited on the upper stories, with each window having just a simple stone sill and lintel. Another belt course like the lower one sets off the top story. The sixth floor&#39;s three central windows are each topped with a blind lunette and have iron balconies. The central five bays of the main block are further set off by rusticated stone quoins at the corner and five brick pilasters supporting a pediment and balustrade on the roofline.</p><br>
<p>On the wings, there are similar touches. The south side&#39;s main entrance is a domed portico with classical detail, matched on the north wing by Ionic columns supporting a flat, dentilled entablature. The belt courses and fenestration are similar to those on the main block. The central window of the fifth (top) story on each wing is marked by a blind carved lunette and balcony, with a blind oculus in the gable. On the inner walls, the central of the three bays has a small circular or square window, alternating by story.</p><br>
<p>A two-story kitchen wing projects from the north. Its windows have been bricked in but have similar decorative patterns (arches and rectangles) to the rest of the building. Two more modern wings, neither contributing, extend from it as well, as does as a large wing from the south of similar materials to the main block. Three emergency exit towers on the corners of the building likewise do not contribute as modern additions.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The first floor retains much of its original finishing. The lobby is in a Georgian mode, with pillars, pilasters and paneling. Its flooring is terrazzo with a genuine marble as a wall base. Another keystoned, lunetted door leads to the Lobby Lounge. Other designs from the exterior, such as the broken-arched niches with acorns, are also repeated inside.</p><br>
<p>The Lobby Lounge itself, now known as the Mohawk Room, is a 50 by room with a semicircular wall. Five sets of double doors overlook the garden and river beyond. Its fireplaces and lunettes on the interior doors are original. The fanlights on the exterior doors are also original but they have been covered with shells on the inside to conceal indirect interior lighting.</p><br>
<p>Just off the Lobby Lounge, the Reception Room now serves as the college president&#39;s office. It has most of its original finishes and has not been altered. The former Dining Room and Assembly Room were combined to make a single Ballroom, and are still together today although they can be divided with a partition. Its original western wall has mostly been removed. What was originally a small private dining room between the Lobby Lounge and Dining Room has now become part of a hallway connecting the building and its western annex. It is lit by the only remaining original chandelier in the hotel building.</p><br>
<p>The upper stories have been gutted to serve college purposes. Nothing of their original layout or finish is left.</p><br>
<h2>Aesthetics</h2><br>
<p>H.L. Stevens & Co., the hotels designers, specialized in small (less than 500 rooms) hotels and apartment houses in a neo-Georgian or Colonial Revival style in either a rectangular or H-shape, seen by the citys Chamber of Commerce as a refreshing change from the small, squarish hotels the city had previously possessed. Their buildings, primarily in the Northeast, are in many cases still extant and show similarities to the Van Curler.</p><br>
<p>Most similar to the Van Curler is the Burritt Hotel in New Britain, Connecticut, also listed on the Register. It is also of brick, has nearly identical limestone decoration and is also H-shaped. The Colonial Hotel in Gardner, Massachusetts, also has a similar design except for the projecting wings and the Federal style decoration at the top.</p><br>
<p>To facilitate it use as a center for local functions, it was designed so that the ballrooms could be entered without having to cross the lobby, seen as the space for commercial travelers. The Georgian Revival style was used for other buildings in the city at the same period, most notably City Hall in 1933.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 35 years leading up to the hotels 1925 construction, Schenectadys population quintupled, making it the fastest-growing city in New York. It became ten times as wealthy. Both of these developments were a result of the city becoming the headquarters of General Electric (GE) and the American Locomotive Company (ALCO). The two corporations contributed $300,000 of the hotel&#39;s $700,000 ($ in contemporary dollars) construction cost. The local Chamber of Commerce and a thousand citizens filled in the rest. It was named after Arendt van Curler, the Dutch explorer who first saw the site of Schenectady in 1661. Ultimately it would cost $1.1 million ($ in contemporary dollars)</p><br>
<p>The Stevens firm was chosen for the design, due to its successful similar contemporary buildings. A branch of the Mohawk River, the Binne Kill was filled in, streets were widened, a sea wall was built along the Mohawk to the Rotterdam line, and streets were widened. The hotel was publicly owned, so some smaller nearby hotels were torn down to eliminate competition. The building became a focus of civic pride, hosting many major events even as the city declined due to suburbanization, GE began moving work elsewhere and ALCO went into decline along with its industry.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the many local functions it hosted, it became a popular lunch spot for workers at the nearby GE plant. Among its many notable guests over the years were then-governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor, John Philip Sousa, Clement Attlee and Robert F. Kennedy.</p><br>
<p>In 1954 the additions were built to accommodate the increasing demands of business travelers. Every one of the new rooms had air conditioning and a private bath. These rooms rented well, but increasingly guests preferred them to the old section of the hotel, with an overall negative effect on the hotel&#39;s occupancy rate.</p><br>
<p>It declared bankruptcy in 1968. Schenectady County bought the building at the ensuing public auction for $710,000 ($ in contemporary dollars), and converted it for its current use by the college. The colleges board of trustees renamed it after Charles Elston, the longtime chairman of the countys Board of Representatives.</p><br>
<p>The Ridgeland–Oak Park Historic District is a historic district in Oak Park, Illinois that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It includes 1558 contributing buildings over 539 acre.</p><br>
<p>The district includes the George W. Smith House, an early example of Frank Lloyd Wright&#39;s work as a contributing property. The house is one of two Frank Lloyd Wright designed buildings within the Ridgeland Historic District; the other structure is the Unity Temple. The Smith House is the only example of residential architecture by Wright found within the boundaries of the Ridgeland Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The district contains many buildings of merit, including the Oak Park Post Office on Lake Street, designed in 1933 by Charles E. White, Jr. and his partner Bertram A. Weber, in 1933.</p><br>
<p>The historic district, overall, lacks examples of Wright&#39;s full-fledged Prairie style that are found in abundance in the nearby Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Hayden Bridge, a Howe truss structure, spans the Alsea River about 2 mi west of Alsea, Oregon, United States. Similar spans such as the Mill Creek Bridge crossed the Alsea or one of its tributaries in the same vicinity, but only the Hayden Bridge has survived. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Located along Hayden Road just south of Oregon Route 34, the bridge was either partly or completely rebuilt in 1945. Changes included larger and less rounded bridge portals that could accommodate larger vehicles. Narrow openings under the side-wall eaves on both sides of the span illuminated the interior. The bridge, repaired again in 2003, required further work in 2006 after a logging truck crashed into it.</p><br>
<p>Of the more than 600 covered bridges once found in Oregon, only 50 remain. After 1915, although some were of queen-post or king-post design, most of the new covered bridges were of Howe-truss design. In that year, the Oregon legislature passed a law giving the Oregon State Highway Department oversight powers for bridges worth more than $500. The department developed plans for Howe-truss bridges, partly because they were relatively easy to assemble, and distributed them to the state&#39;s counties. Many of these bridges, often built with Douglas-fir timber available locally, were replaced in the 1940s and 1950s by bridges more suited to logging trucks and other big vehicles. Although most of the original bridges no longer exist, the remaining bridges have gained value as tourist attractions.</p><br>
<p>Impalila  is an island at the far eastern tip of Namibia, bounded on the north by the waters of the Zambezi river and on the south by the Chobe River. It is home to some 2500-3000 people in 25 small villages, including Tswanas  and Subia people .</p><br>
<p>Impalila is usually accessed from Kasane in Botswana, on the other bank of the Chobe River. There is a Namibian customs and immigration post on the island. There is also an airport with a 1,300 metre runway, used for charter flights to bring tourists to the various lodges on the island. The airport is a relic of a military base used in the 1980s by the South African Defence Forces, strategically positioned within sight of Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.</p><br>
<p>Impalila is a led by a chief who has the power to give land to the people in need.Impalila Island is known by the Big Three Figures or persons of which all are late. The three people were Kachele, Simasiku "Six" and Libalamwe. Those heroes divided Mpalila into three portions. Each one got his portion of land which he could allocate to the community members who requested land for settlement and cultivation. Libalamwe was known for his charms of flying using pumpkins and could reach any place first and faster than his subjects who would have travelled two or three days before by car to Bukalo (Subia Tribal Authority Head-quoter)or Katima Mulilo.</p><br>
<p>Elgpiggen is a mountain located within the municipalities of Tolga and Rendalen,  in the Holøydalen mountain area. The mountain is easily recognizable due to its shape as a pyramid.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>"Elgpiggen" means "the peak (piggen) of the mountain of the Elk", which is seen as the king of all animals inhabiting the Norwegian forest.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Access to Elgpiggen is possible all year around. In the summer you can choose a six-kilometre walk from Orvdalen or a seven-kilometer walk from Heggerådalen. The easiest way of climbing the mountain is from the northwest side. Here you will find hikes along the mountain side which will guide you up the last, but very steep part all the way to the top.</p><br>
<p>In the winter, cross-country skiing is the only possible way to reach the mountain. Here you may choose a longer route, 25 km, starting at Hodalen, a local, rural and cottage community. It is recommended though to go skiing here in the latter part of the winter season, due to problems with large amounts of snow in the area, making cross-country more difficult in unprepared terrain. Its steep pyramid shape makes Elgpiggen a perfect destination for off-piste skiing.</p><br>
<h2>The view</h2><br>
<p>From the top you can view other great peaks. In the west you will spot Snøhetta and Rondane while in the south you are able to see Rendalssølen with its three peaks.</p><br>
<p>Castle Peak  is a mountain in the western United States, the highest peak in the White Cloud Mountains of central Idaho. Located in Custer County, it is the 25th highest peak in the state, and the ninth most prominent.</p><br>
<p>Castle Peak is within the White Clouds Wilderness, which is part of Sawtooth National Recreation Area in Custer County. The towns of Stanley and Challis are both about 21 mi away, and Ketchum-Sun Valley area is about 27 mi from the peak.</p><br>
<p>Castle Peak is managed by the USA Forest Service and the area surrounding the peak can be easily accessed. Camping is permitted anywhere is Sawtooth National Forest and the lakes surrounding Castle Peak provide excellent places to stay. The peak rises to the northeast of Chamberlain Basin and south of Castle Lake and Merriam Peak. There are trails from parking area to the vicinity of Castle Peak, although no trails go up the peak itself. The easiest route up Castle Peak is as class 3 scramble from the Chamberlain Basin.</p><br>
<p>A proposed open-pit molybdenum mine at the base of Castle Peak became a leading issue in the 1970 gubernatorial race, and advanced the formation of the Sawtooth NRA in 1972. In a rematch of the 1966 election, Cecil Andrus defeated incumbent Don Samuelson to become the state&#39;s first Democratic governor in nearly a quarter century, and Republicans did not regain the governorship until January 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Walker Sisters Place was a homestead in the Great Smoky Mountains of Sevier County, in the USA state of Tennessee. The surviving structures&mdash; which include the cabin, springhouse, and corn crib&mdash; were once part of a farm that belonged to the Walker Sisters&mdash; five spinster sisters who became local legends due to their adherence to traditional ways of living. The sisters inherited the farm from their father, and after the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was formed in the 1930s, they obtained a lifetime lease. The National Park Service gained control of the property in 1964 when the last Walker sister died. The surviving structures were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Former Great Smoky Mountains National Park historian Paul Gordon wrote, "of all the people who once lived in what is now Great Smoky Mountains National Park, none exhibited better the character of the mountain people than the Walker family." An article about the Walker Sisters appeared in the April 27, 1947 edition of the Saturday Evening Post.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Walker Sisters Place is located at the upper (northern) end of Little Greenbrier, a narrow valley carved into the southwestern slope of Cove Mountain by Little Brier Branch. The flat in which the cabin and outbuildings are situated has since become known as Five Sisters Cove. Cove Mountain rises to the north and east, and the southwestern flank of Cove Mountain, known as Little Mountain, rises to the west. The Little Brier Gap Trail connects the area to the Metcalf Bottoms picnic area along Little River Gorge Road to the south, and a gravel maintenance road connects the area to Wears Valley Gap Road (which accesses Wears Valley) to the west. The Cove Mountain Trail connects the area with the Sugarlands Visitor Center opposite Cove Mountain to the east.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1820s, much of what is now Little Greenbrier was purchased by John Renfro, although little is known of Renfro. Early Little Greenbrier settler Arthur "Brice" McFalls, who moved to the area from South Carolina, bought what is now the Walker Place from Renfro in 1838. McFalls probably built the smaller half of the Walker Cabin shortly thereafter. Wiley King (1800&ndash;1859) purchased the land in 1853, and built all but the chimney of the larger, 2-story half of the Walker Cabin. His sons completed the chimney shortly after his death.</p><br>
<p>In 1866, Kings daughter, Margaret (1846&ndash;1909), married John Walker, a Union Army veteran who had just returned from the Civil War. The Walkers moved into the cabin in 1870, and in subsequent years dismantled the McFalls cabin and reassembled it as a wing of the Walker Cabin for use as a kitchen. Walker also built the cabins porch during this period. In 1909, Walker deeded the land to five of his daughters&mdash; Margaret (1870&ndash;1962), Martha (1877&ndash;1951), Nancy (1880&ndash;1931), Louisa (1882&ndash;1964), and Hettie (1889&ndash;1947&mdash; and his youngest son, Giles (Walker&#39;s other five children had married and moved away). In 1921, Giles deeded his share of the land to his sisters.</p><br>
<p>While the mountain communities in the surrounding valleys began to modernize to some extent after World War I, the Walker Sisters clung to the old way of life, which emphasized self-reliance. The sisters raised sheep and grew corn and cotton, sometimes plowing their own fields. They made their own clothes from the wool and cotton they had raised, and became well known for their Christmas feasts, which consisted almost wholly of food they had grown themselves. In 1933, the Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission, charged with purchasing property for the creation of the national park, unsuccessfully tried to persuade the Walker Sisters to sell their land. Fearing bad publicity, the Commission refused to initiate a condemnation suit. The Walker Sisters finally agreed to sell the property in 1941 in exchange for a lifetime lease.</p><br>
<h2>Historical structures</h2><br>
<p>The Walker Cabin is an L-shaped log cabin, with a porch filling out the gap in the "L" to make a rectangle. The cabin&#39;s kitchen, which is believed to have been built by Brice McFalls in the 1840s, consists of one story measuring 18 ft by 27 ft, and has a door leading to the porch and a door to the larger half of the cabin. The larger cabin, built by Wiley King in the 1850s, consists of one-and-one-half stories measuring 20 ft by 22 ft. Both cabins are built of hewn logs with half-dovetail notching, and contain sawn board floors. Both have gabled, shingled roofs, and both have stone-and-mud chimneys.</p><br>
<p>The Walker corn crib is a 25 ft by 20 ft structure built of hewn logs with half-dovetail notching. The structure&#39;s large gabled roof overhangs both sides of the crib considerably, creating ample shed space. The interior of the crib has a puncheon floor, and is accessed by a door at the west end. These structures were sometimes called "plunder sheds," as farmers used them to store miscellaneous items such as barbed wire, brooms, firewood, and tools.</p><br>
<p>The Walker springhouse is an 8 ft by 10 ft structure built of hewn logs with half-dovetail notching. The gabled roof is supported by poles, and a board-and a board and batten door allows access. The interior contains a stone trough through which a spring once flowed, cooling the interior. The interior walls contain small storage shelves. Before the advent of refrigerators, springhouses were used to keep perishable items cool.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1912, the First Presbyterian Church of Redmond is the oldest standing church structure in the city of Redmond, Oregon, United States. It is also the second-oldest religious building in Deschutes County. The church was built in the Gothic Revival style with Queen Anne architectural detailing. It was the home of Protestant congregations from 1912 until 1979. Today, the building is privately owned and used as a special events venue. The First Presbyterian Church of Redmond was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first Presbyterian congregation in Redmond was organized in 1906, one year after the city was founded. The church was established by Reverend Jesse C. George under the authority and guidance of an existing Presbytery in Pendleton, Oregon. The Pendleton Presbytery had sent Reverend George to Central Oregon in 1905 to minister to the Tumalo community fifteen miles southwest of Redmond. Shortly after arriving, a number of Redmond residents asked him to conduct Presbyterian services in their community as well. Over the next few years, George established the Redmond congregation with the help of Reverend J. W. Mitchell of the Sisters Presbyterian Church and Reverend Levi Johnson, an itinerant pastor who eventually founded eleven churches in Eastern Oregon communities.</p><br>
<p>The new Presbyterian congregation held services in a number of locations around the city. In 1910, the congregation bought three adjacent lots along 7th Street in downtown Redmond for a permanent church building. A ground-breaking ceremony was held on July 31, 1911. The building was completed the following spring and dedicated on June 30, 1912. Shortly after the churchs dedication, Redmonds local newspaper reported that the church had cost $5,000 to build and had seating capacity for 250 parishioners.</p><br>
<p>The church continued to grow along with the city of Redmond. In 1929, the First Methodist Church of Redmond had lost its minister and was struggling financially so by mutual consent, the First Methodist congregation was merged into the First Presbyterian Church. The combined congregation sold the First Methodist Church property, retaining the First Presbyterian Church and its minister. With permission from the Pendleton Presbytery, the church was officially renamed the Redmond Community Presbyterian Church on October 1, 1929.</p><br>
<p>A major renovation of the church was begun in 1943 and completed in the spring of 1944. The changes included reorienting the sanctuary. The original design had the congregation seated in a semicircle facing east. In the new design, the pews were set in parallel rows along the length of the building facing north. A classroom area was open up and incorporated into the sanctuary to provide space for the altar, pulpit, and choir seating at the north end of the room. The church&#39;s new sanctuary was dedicated on June 18, 1944. A large non-historic education and fellowship hall was built next to the original church in 1948.</p><br>
<p>The church and adjacent fellowship hall were used by the Presbyterian congregation until 1979, when the church was relocated to a new facility on N.W. 19th Street. The buildings were then sold to a private investor, but the historic church structure remained vacant until 1992. The original 1912 building was resold at that time, and the new owners opened the Redmond School of Dance in the historic building. The dance school closed in 2003 and the building was once again sold to investors. In 2004, the building was purchased for use as a special events venue. Today, the building houses a private business known as The Historic Redmond Church. It rents space for weddings, concerts, lectures, art exhibits, workshops, and community meetings.</p><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian Church of Redmond is the oldest church building in the city and the second-oldest religious structure in Deschutes County. Because of the building&#39;s Gothic Revival architecture and its importance to the history of Central Oregon, the First Presbyterian Church of Redmond was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 3, 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The church was built in the Gothic Revival style with Queen Anne architectural detailing. It is a rectangular one-story building with a structural footprint measuring 72 feet by 40 feet. There is a two-story steeple on the southwest corner of the building above the main entrance. At the top of the steeple is a belfry that houses the church-s original 40 in bell, which was cast by the American Bell and Foundry Company of Northville, Michigan. At the peak of the steeple is a tall, ornate finial with decorative globes, fans, and scrollwork.</p><br>
<p>All of the church windows are Gothic arch style. The main sanctuary window is made up of four Gothic arch windows that support a rose window with ornate tracery. The entire window group is set into a large Gothic arch frame. On the east side of the church is a large bay window. In the original church design, this bay window feature was the focal point of the interior sanctuary space.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The ceiling in the church sanctuary is 19 feet high. The sanctuary walls are lath and plaster with a wooden wainscoting to a height of three-and-a-half feet. The sanctuary pews were originally arranged in a semicircle facing a large bay window on the east side of the building. In 1944, the sanctuary was reoriented along the length of the building with the pews facing an expanded altar and choir area at the north end of the room. Today, the sanctuary space is open and can be arranged as required for specific events.</p><br>
<p>There are two rooms in the northwest corner of the building. Both are approximately 12 feet by 12 feet. The rooms have 13-foot ceilings and the same lath and plaster walls and wainscoting as the sanctuary. The rooms have hanging glass-globe lights that are original to the building. A hallway runs from the sanctuary along the northeast corner of the building to the back door. It also provides access to a restroom and an office area that was once the church organ&#39;s mechanical room.</p><br>
<p>The former USA Post Office in Canandaigua, New York, is located on North Main Street . It is a Classical Revival granite structure built in 1910 and expanded in 1938. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places both as a contributing property to the Canandaigua Historic District in 1984 and individually in 1988, as part of a Multiple Property Submission of over 200 post offices all over the state.</p><br>
<p>Its construction was authorized in the first decade of the 20th century under the Tarsney Act of 1893, which authorized the federal government to hire private architects to design buildings for its use. Local philanthropist Mary Clark Thompson, widow of banker Frederick Ferris Thompson, donated the land and paid for Boston-based Allen & Collens to design the new building. It is one of only three post offices in the state built under the act, and the only one outside of New York City. In 1938 it was expanded with an additional story under the auspices of Louis Simon, Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its construction it was also used as a federal courthouse. Three years after it was listed on the Register, the Postal Service moved out for larger quarters. The neighboring YMCA bought the post office building several years later. It has annexed it to its own building and built an extension to the west, but kept the post office building intact.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The former post office building is located in the center of Canandaigua, on the west side of North Main between Atwater Place and Greig Terrace, on the corner with the former. To the south is Atwater Park. Canandaigua&#39;s city hall, also a contributing property to the historic district, is opposite the park on the south, across West Street.</p><br>
<p>On the north is the building now occupied by the local YMCA, separate from the post office building at the time of construction but now annexed to it. Across North Main, a four-line road with a narrow planted median strip at this point,</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a three-story granite structure on a raised basement with a rear addition. A driveway is set on the south side between the building and a sympathetic stone retaining wall. In the front is a flagpole and a short walk, with a line of large shrubs setting off the driveway on the south.</p><br>
<p>Its east (front) facade has a projecting central portico. Four round fluted Doric columns flanked by in antis Doric piers supporting a Doric entablature in which "United States Post Office And Courthouse" is engraved in the architrave. It is the center of a frieze with metopes ornamented with round panels. Above it is a dentilled cornice topped by an attic. At the top of the entire portico is an anthemion set between the engraved words "A.D. MCMXI" and capped with volutes on the end. A small brick section rises up from the center of the flat roof.</p><br>
<p>Climbing up to the portico is a full-width set of six stone steps. On either side are pedestals with pedimented pylons supporting cast iron anthemia-shaped lamps with glass globes. They are set with a cast iron caduceus. On either side is a single bay with a two-over-two double-hung sash window topped by a two-light transom in a recessed surround on the first story, where a water table forms their sills, and a smaller two-over-two with no surround on the upper story. The attic has two similar windows flanking the anthemion.</p><br>
<p>Behind the portico colonnade is the main entrance, set within a battened, crosetted enframement with "Canadaigua" carved into the top. Above the modern entrance doors is a transom with a classically inspired grille. It is illuminated by a large metal lamp that hangs by a chain from the ceiling. On either side are two double casement windows topped by a three-pane transom with a similar grille. Above them are spandrels carved with a Greek key pattern separating the two stories. The second story has simpler two-over-two double-hung sash similar to those outside the portico.</p><br>
<p>On the south facade, the only other original one remaining exposed, the fenestration retains many of the same treatments, but with deeper recessing. A secondary entrance near the east corner has two paneled wooden doors with a crosetted upper light and blind transom. To its west, two barred windows open into the basement as the driveway rises toward the former loading dock at the end of the block. The water table continues, supported by brackets at the base of the two largest first-story windows, set with narrow four-light casement in the same surrounds as their counterparts on the east. A single narrow casement window is to the west, followed by a dropped single-pane transomed casement window.</p><br>
<p>The second story on the south side has one-over-one double-hung sash with no surrounds, likewise set deeper than the east windows. Above it the cornice continues as well. In the rear the former loading dock entrance, now barred off, is on a small extension. A brown brick extension with some architecturally sympathetic elements continues further west; it was built by the YMCA after the Postal Service discontinued use of the building and is not part of the NRHP listing.</p><br>
<p>The entrance doors open into a wooden vestibule with Doric pilasters. Five more, this time of white marble, divide the main lobby beyond it into five bays. The walls are of the same stone, with light and dark green marble used for the baseboards and sills; it has a terrazzo floor, also with marble trim. The screenline, between the pilasters, has oak frames and classical grilles. At the top of the pilasters is a plaster Doric entablature and crossbeams with a Greek key design similar to that seen on the east facade.</p><br>
<p>A stairway and elevator lead upstairs. To the west of the lobby is a large work area. At the west of the building, in the loading-dock addition, is the former courtroom. It, too, has Doric pilasters, crosetted windows with grilles and stylized fretwork on its metal vents.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Canandaigua was established as a European-American settlement in the last years of the 18th century, as a base for the settlement of the rest of Western New York. As it was roughly on the same corridor and transportation routes of the many other communities that had been established between Utica and Buffalo, it was established as the county seat as soon as Ontario County was created.</p><br>
<p>Mail delivery began in 1794. Canandaigua continued to grow and railroads made the city a stop as soon as tracks could be built there. In 1860 the federal government negotiated a lease with the county that allowed it to operate a post office in perpetuity in a corner of the county courthouse.</p><br>
<p>By the later decades of the 19th century its location at the north end of Canandaigua Lake made the city a popular destination for summer residents. In 1886 two arrived who would leave a major mark on the city, including the current post office building. New York City banker Frederick Ferris Thompson and his wife, Mary Clark Thompson, a native of Canandaigua whose father had served as governor, built Sonnenberg Gardens, also listed on the Register and designated a state historic site, as their summer home. They commissioned Boston architect Francis B. Allen to design the house.</p><br>
<p>The Thompsons became very committed to Canandaigua, funding the planting of trees along its streets and founding the hospital building later used as county offices. In 1906, with the post office outgrowing its space in the courthouse, Congress authorized a post office building for the city, although no site was available. Four years later Mary Thompson, now widowed, bought the current site and donated it to the federal government.</p><br>
<p>Normally, at that time, post office buildings, like all other federal government buildings, had been designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect at the Treasury Department. But the Tarsney Act of 1893 allowed a limited number of commissions, such as the 1900 Ellis Island Immigrant Inspection Center, to be awarded to private architects. Mary Thompson paid for Allens new firm of Allen & Collens, best known for the Union Theological Seminary building on Manhattans Upper West Side, to design the new Canandaigua post office. It was one of only three post offices in the state designed privately under the Act, and the only one outside of New York City.</p><br>
<p>The post office moved into temporary offices at the YMCA while it awaited the construction of its new home. First the Atwater Block, the existing 1850 building on the site that had served mainly as lawyers&#39; offices and, briefly, the first office of the Ontario County Historical Society, was demolished. Construction began on the new post office in 1910; it was completed and opened two years later.</p><br>
<p>Allen produced a building less restrained than his other ventures into the Classical Revival mode, which often used simple engaged pilasters on their front facades rather than the full colonnaded portico he employed in Canandaigua. Behind the portico, the window design is meant to reflect the Erechtheum on the Acropolis in Athens. While the building is quite monumental for a small city in upstate New York, its front entrance and lobby are more modestly scaled than that monumentality would suggest.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its completion the building was two stories tall, with a parapet on the edge of its flat roof. A third story was built on the roof inside the parapet, and a small two-bay extension was added to the west (rear) elevation. Inside, a staircase was extended and elevator added to reach the new floor.</p><br>
<p>Over the years, the post office would fulfill other federal government functions as well besides occasional court sessions. Local draft boards met here during all the major wars and military conflicts the USA was involved in during the 20th century. In 1991 the Postal Service, having outgrown the building again, moved to a new facility on the eastern edge of the city, off routes 5 and 20.</p><br>
<p>The building then sat vacant for three years. In 1994 the YMCA, where the post office had briefly been quartered during the building&#39;s construction eight decades earlier, bought the building for an expansion. In the process it added the rear extension and joined its building next door to the post office.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office—Geneva is a historic post office building located at Geneva in Ontario County, New York. It is a symmetrically massed one story structure faced with red brick and trimmed in limestone. It was constructed in 1905-1906 and is the first post office constructed in New York state in the Colonial Revival style. It is one of 13 post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under James Knox Taylor. The entrance portico features four Doric columns supporting a full Doric entabulature and pediment with an oculus in its tympanum. The interior features a mural titled "The Vineyard" by Peter Blume and installed in 1942.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It is located in the Geneva Downtown Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Breakers Hotel is a landmark 14-story building on East Ocean Avenue in downtown Long Beach, California. The building opened in 1926 as a luxury oceanfront resort hotel. The building has gone through multiple changes of ownership and has been renamed at various times the Hilton, the Wilton, and the Breakers International Hotel. It has had a history of financial problems and closures and operated for many years as a retirement home. The building has been designated as a Long Beach Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<h2>Development and opening (1925&ndash;1927)</h2><br>
<p>The Breakers Hotel was developed by a local Long Beach banker and capitalist, Fred B. Dunn.</p><br>
<p>The original structure consisted of a single-story base that spanned an entire city block with a central tower rising thirteen stories above the main body of the building. The complex also included arcade and basement floors beneath the Ocean Boulevard level.</p><br>
<p>The development, with architecture described at the time as “ultra Spanish,” opened in September 1926. At the time, the total cost of the luxurious building was said to be $3,000,000. The building opened with a banquet and dinner at which Long Beach’s Mayor Condit and Fred Dunn spoke of an era of success. The banquet also included a program of entertainment by vaudeville artists.</p><br>
<p>When the hotel opened in 1926 (three years before the opening of the Villa Riviera), the building’s imposing tower, rising 15 stories from the beach, gave it “a prominence greater than that of any other in the city.” On its opening, the Breakers was promoted as one of Southern California’s finest luxury resort hotels. The hotel had 330 guest rooms and of prime ocean frontage in downtown Long Beach. Other features of the hotel included an elaborate 500-seat dining room known as the “Hall of Galleons,” roof garden, coffee shop, beauty shop, barber shop, Turkish bath, and “smart shops.” The hotel catered to “surf bathers” with a special elevator that transported the bathers, after they had “donned their bathing suits in their rooms,” to the Arcade level, from which there was an entrance to the beach.</p><br>
<p>One of the hotel’s unusual features was the availability of radio broadcasts in each guest room. An October 1926 article in the Los Angeles Times described the “outstanding” in-room entertainment feature as follows:Each room in the new hostelry has four radio jets, each connecting with the radio-receiving room in the tower. By plugging in on any of these four jets, programs from broadcasting stations are heard … If there is a particular program on the air which a guest particularly desires to hear, it is only necessary to phone the receiving room and the operator will tune it in.</p><br>
<p>At its opening, the Breakers was available for both temporary guests and others who made it their permanent residence. The hotel was expected to “be the means of attracting thousands of people to Long Beach.”</p><br>
<h2>Years of decline (1929&ndash;1935)</h2><br>
<p>Less than a year after its opening, the hotel was sold by Fred Dunn to an unnamed group of investors from Pasadena, Los Angeles and New York. The sale price in 1927 was reported to be $1,750,000. The new owners announced plans for extensive remodeling, including the closure of several dining rooms and conversion of the ballroom into a summer garden.</p><br>
<p>The onset of the Great Depression and the 1933 Long Beach earthquake pushed the Breakers into bankruptcy. The 1933 earthquake, which resulted in over 100 deaths, caused only minor damage to the Breakers, but the widespread destruction in Long Beach caused major damage to the city’s tourist trade. The hotel served as the headquarters for the Red Cross relief efforts following the earthquake. In August 1934, the Los Angeles Times reported that the hotel had sustained a significant operating loss in 1933 and was delinquent on its real estate and personal properties taxes for the past three years.</p><br>
<h2>Hilton years and Sky Room (1938&ndash;1947)</h2><br>
<p>In 1938, the hotel was purchased by Conrad Hilton at a reported cost of $150,000 and $35,000 in back taxes. and converted the penthouse into the Sky Room.</p><br>
<p>In 1938, Hilton opened the Sky Room atop the hotel, and it became one of the most popular restaurants gathering spots in Southern California. One customer recalled the Sky Room as follows: "It was a dating place, like the Brown Derby and Coconut Grove. It was the place to go."</p><br>
<p>During World War II, two pillboxes with gun-mountings were installed on the rooftop for harbor defense, and the Sky Room became the official Airwatch headquarters for Long Beach harbor. One of the pillboxes and gun mountings remained intact on the roof as late as 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Wilton (1947&ndash;1961)</h2><br>
<p>In 1947, Hilton sold the hotel to Frank Fishman, who renamed it the Wilton Hotel. The hotel remained the "Wilton" for 14 years. During the 1950s, the hotel changed ownership several times, and promises to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to remodel the aging hotel were not kept.</p><br>
<h2>Breakers International and closure (1961&ndash;1964)</h2><br>
<p>In 1961, the hotel was purchased by Fred Miller. Miller was one of the founders of Flying Tigers Airlines and purchased US Airlines in 1951. After buying the Breakers in 1961, Miller renamed the hotel the Breakers International and spent $1.25 million refurbishing the property from top to bottom. In November 1963, Miller gave up and closed the hotel.</p><br>
<p>The Long Beach Press-Telegram pronounced the hotel "a dead behemoth on the beach." Others noted the hotels over-reliance on convention business: "This hotel had to try to make 80 percent of its revenues from convention business. There is no rail service or air service to Long Beach, and the 20-minute run on the freeway to Los Angeles where the industry is hurts all the hotels." One commentator opined, "God and Conrad Hilton couldnt have saved this hotel." The hotel&#39;s head bellman, Paul Grantham, who had been employed at the hotel since 1928, blamed the "coming of the motels."</p><br>
<p>In January 1964, the hotel was sold at auction to pay off the hotel&#39;s creditors.</p><br>
<p>The hotel remained shuttered for nearly three years and was referred to as "the West Coast&#39;s largest pigeon roost."</p><br>
<h2>Retirement hotel (1967&ndash;1982)</h2><br>
<p>The hotel remained closed for three years as plans to convert it into a retirement hotel stalled. In September 1966, the hotel re-opened as a combination permanent retirement hotel and transient hotel for overnight guests. By January 1967, the property was occupied 70% by permanent residents who had the option of an American plan at $175 per month including hotel conveniences and three meals a day, or a European plan at $115 a month without meals.</p><br>
<p>In 1975, the residential retirement hotel was refurbished again. The renovations included all new carpets, drapes, furnishings, automated elevators, and an updated phone system. The owners stated their intention to create the ultimate in retirement living for the senior citizens of Long Beach.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, New Breakers Hotel Company sold the property to Stoneridge Management Company for less than $3 million.</p><br>
<h2>Re-conversion to hotel use (1986&ndash;1987)</h2><br>
<p>In 1986, the hotel was re-converted into a tourist hotel and placed under the management of the same company responsible for management of the city&#39;s major tourist destinations, the Spruce Goose and the Queen Mary. Before its re-opening in 1986, the hotel had undergone a three-year $15 million renovation and restoration.</p><br>
<p>The new version of the Breakers opened with 242 guest rooms, including 20 suites, a restaurant and night club on the top floor, and a ballroom restored to its original 1920s decor. The Sky Room, which had been given a Polynesian theme by prior owners, was renovated in an Art Deco style. At the time of the re-opening, the Los Angeles Times wrote: "Its 60 years have been a roller-coaster ride of ups and downs, prosperity and penury, bright lights and gloomy emptiness. Just now, its direction is up."</p><br>
<p>The excitement about the Breakers&#39; restoration was short-lived as the hotel failed to draw a sufficient number of guests to turn a profit. The hotel closed its doors again in January 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Designation as Historic Landmark (1989)</h2><br>
<p>In 1989, the Breakers, still vacant after its closure in 1987, was designated as a Long Beach Historical Landmark, requiring approval from the Cultural Heritage Commission before making any major changes in the building&#39;s appearance.</p><br>
<h2>Senior citizen housing (1990&ndash;2015)</h2><br>
<p>The property was purchased following its 1988 closure by Ocean Boulevard Associates, which spent $23 million on earthquake retrofitting and restoring its 1920s-style Romanesque architecture. The building re-opened in November 1990 as an "Assisted Living" Residence for senior citizens. As of October 1991, the Breakers had 38 residents with an average age of 84, paying rents starting at $1,000 a month, including three meals a day, housekeeping and local transportation. An in house Medical Staff provided medication administration and routine activities for those in need of leadership. The facility closed in March 2015 after state authorities revoked its license.</p><br>
<h2>Renovated Sky Room (1997&ndash;present)</h2><br>
<p>In 1997, the Sky Room, originally developed by Conrad Hilton in 1938, was restored and re-opened by the property&#39;s new owner Bernard Rosenson. Rosenson restored the Art Deco look of the Sky Room and redesigned it to focus on its 360-degree view. The new Sky Room offered an "ultra-retro menu" and music by a swing and jazz band called the Sky Room Orchestra.</p><br>
<p>Torrens Island is an island in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Port River Estuary between the Port River and Barker Inlet, about 15 km northwest of the state capital of Adelaide. Since European settlement of Adelaide in 1836, it has been used for a number of purposes.</p><br>
<h2>Quarantine Station</h2><br>
<p>Being uninhabited, an island, adjacent to Port Adelaide, and near Outer Harbor, Torrens Island was initially used as the site of a Quarantine Station for new arrivals (by sea) to South Australia. One example of its use was during the so-called "Boonah crisis".</p><br>
<p>There were two quarantine stations on the site at different times; the surviving Torrens Island Quarantine Station is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register.</p><br>
<h2>Internment Camp</h2><br>
<p>The Torrens Island Internment Camp was a World War I detention camp which held up to 400 men of German or Austro-Hungarian background between 9 October 1914 and 16 August 1915.</p><br>
<h2>Power Stations</h2><br>
<p>There are two power stations on Torrens Island:</p><br>
<p>Torrens Island Power Station, completed in 1967, and since 2007 operated by AGL Energy; capacity of 1,280 MW.</p><br>
<p>Quarantine Power Station, built and operated since 2002 by Origin Energy; original capacity 95 MW, expanded in 2009 to 216 MW.</p><br>
<h2>Protected areas</h2><br>
<p>Protected areas associated with Torrens Island or the waters immediately adjoining its shores include the Torrens Island Conservation Park, the Barker Inlet-St Kilda Aquatic Reserve, the St Kilda – Chapman Creek Aquatic Reserve and the Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary.</p><br>
<p>The Forum was built as an art deco cinema in Bath, Somerset, England, in 1934, and was designated as a Grade II* listed building on 28 May 1986. The building closed as a cinema in 1969, and has subsequently been used as a dancing school, a bingo hall and a church. Its main auditorium has 1,600 seats, making it Bath&#39;s largest event venue.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The Forum was built by William Henry Watkins and E Morgan Willmott, assisted by A Stuart Gray, with a steel frame covered by Bath Stone cladding in a combination of art deco and neo-classical style. Inside the walls are brick with concrete floors, with large art deco candelabra lighting. Above the auditorium is a ballroom with a sprung floor and below it on the exterior of the building are shops. The building was heated by radiators, but also by washed air, a novelty in the 1930s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Forum initially sat 2000 and was opened on 19 May 1934 by the Marquis of Bath and was used as a cinema until 1969 when it was home to a dancing school and bingo hall. The building is owned by Bath and North East Somerset Council, and from 1988 is let on a 700-year term lease to the Bath Christian Trust as the home of Bath City Church. It presently has 1600 seats, making it Bath&#39;s largest venue for events</p><br>
<p>The Forum has undergone a programme of extensive renovations under the supervision of Stubbs Rich Architects.</p><br>
<p>The Dry Dock Complex consists of six interconnected buildings located at 1801–1803 Atwater Street in Detroit, Michigan, as well as the remains of a nearby dry dock at 1900 Atwater Street. The 1801-1803 Atwater complex is also known as the Globe Trading Company Building. The complex is significant as a historic maritime manufacturing facility. The earliest structure, an 1892 machine shop, is also significant as an early example of an industrial building entirely supported by its steel frame, but using traditional brick and standard windows to infill the curtain walls. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. In 2012, the Department of Natural Resources received funding for historic redevelopment of the complex, along the city&#39;s east riverfront promenade.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Dry Dock Engine Works-Detroit Dry Dock Company Complex includes pieces of two once-independent companies—the Dry Dock Engine Works and the Detroit Dry Dock Company—which merged in 1899.</p><br>
<h3>Detroit Dry Dock Company</h3><br>
<p>In the 1840s, Captain Stephen R. Kirby began a shipbuilding firm in Cleveland, Ohio, and by 1852 had moved to Saginaw, Michigan. In 1870, Kirbys son Frank, a Cooper Union-trained engineer, joined the firm as lead designer. the Kirbys firm purchased a shipyard in Wyandotte, Michigan.</p><br>
<p>In 1852, Campbell, Wolverton and Company opened a ship repair yard on the Detroit River at the foot of Orleans Street. In 1860 the firm, now known (with the addition of John Owen as president) as Campbell & Owen, constructed a 260&#39; dry dock in the same location. They constructed their first steamship in 1867.</p><br>
<p>In 1877, Campbell & Owen reorganized, changing its name to the Detroit Dry Dock Company. At about the same time, Detroit Dry Dock purchased the Kirby&#39;s Wyandotte shipbuilding firm. Also in the late 1870s, railroad and shipping magnate James McMillan became interested in shipbuilding, purchasing shares in Detroit Dry Dock. By 1890, McMillan was president of the company, and by 1892 was also president of the nearby Dry Dock Engine Works.</p><br>
<h3>Dry Dock Engine Works</h3><br>
<p>Dry Dock Engine Works, a marine engine manufacturer, was formed in 1866 by William Cowie, Edward Jones, and Robert Donaldson, with Cowie as president. The firm set up shop on Atwater, between Orleans and Dequindre, across from the dry dock firm that was then called Campbell & Owen. (The city vacated Dequindre in the vicinity of the Dry Dock Engine Works in 1917, and Guoin some time later; neither street currently exists in the area.)</p><br>
<p>The main product line of the Dry Dock Engine Works was marine engines, and they produced 129 engines between 1867 and 1894. However, the firm also produced stationary and portable steam engines, as well as mining equipment, mill gearing, and brass and iron casting.</p><br>
<p>Although unimportant at the time, the Dry Dock Engine Works is significant as an early employer of Henry Ford. The future automobile magnate worked at the firm between 1880 and 1882 as an apprentice machinist. His work with steam engines at the Dry Dock Engine Works inspired in part Ford&#39;s later idea of adding an engine to a carriage for road use.</p><br>
<p>The Dry Dock Engine Works had always had a special relationship with the nearby Detroit Dry Dock Company, which only increased as the years passed. In 1892, James McMillan took over the presidency of Dry Dock Engine Works, and the two firms were controlled by the same person. It was around this time that the oldest of the remaining structures in the complex, the machine shop and dry dock no. 2, were built.</p><br>
<h3>Integration: Detroit Shipbuilding Company</h3><br>
<p>Although even after 1892 the two firms were technically separate, they essentially operated as a single business unit, with the same principals in charge of both. The integration of these operating units created a substantial company: in 1900, the Detroit Shipbuilding Company employed 1337 people, and was the fourth-largest employer in Detroit.</p><br>
<p>A few years later, in 1902, the Detroit Shipbuilding Company built two more still-surviving structures, the foundry and the industrial loft building. Sometime in the 1910s, three more structures were built, which completed the enclosure of the block where the original Dry Dock Engine Company was founded, and represent the latest of the surviving buildings of the complex.</p><br>
<p>Shipbuilding continued at the facilities in Wyandotte and Detroit through the 1920s, with a substantial number of ships constructed in the World War I years of 1917-1919. However, business soon decreased and in 1920 the yard in Wyandotte was closed as a cost-cutting measure. The Detroit Shipbuilding Company completely ceased operations in 1929.</p><br>
<h3>Use post-maritime construction</h3><br>
<p>The property owned by the Detroit Shipbuilding Company at Atwood and Orleans passed through several hands, being used by a cabinet shop and a stove manufacturer in the early 1930s. In 1935, the property was acquired by the Detroit Edison Company. It is unclear what use, if any, Detroit Edison put the property to in the 1930s and 40s, but in the 1950s and 60s Edison used the engine-building plant as a reconditioning and appliance shop. By 1968, the property was occupied by the Globe Trading Company, a machinery and mill supplies dealer. In 1981, Edison sold the property to Globe. At some time later, the property was abandoned, and by 2002 was empty and owned by the city of Detroit.</p><br>
<h3>Redevelopment</h3><br>
<p>In 2006, a $15-million redevelopment plan was announced, with 45 condominiums and 10,000 ft&sup2; of ground floor retail space. To facilitate the renovation, in 2007, the city received an Environmental Protection Agency brownfields grant to clean up the building. However, the economic downturn in 2008-2009 forced a reconsideration of the renovation project, and the project plan was converted to incorporate rental units. The redevelopment was intended to be financed in part by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and in part by using historic tax credits,</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and Structures</h2><br>
<p>The Dry Dock Engine Works began manufacturing engines on Atwater Street in 1867; however, the earliest buildings used by the company were replaced by later buildings, built between 1892 and 1919. These early structures were located throughout the city block owned by the company, and included a sheet metal works, boiler shop, forge, machine shop, and the Dry Dock Hotel. The Detroit Dry Dock Company began shipbuilding in the same area as early as 1852. Their earlier dry docks, including Dry Dock No. 1, no longer exist. A complex of six buildings, as well as Dry Dock No. 2, do remain.</p><br>
<h3>Detroit Dry Dock Co. Dry Dock No. 2 (1892)</h3><br>
<p>In 1892, the Detroit Dry Dock Company constructed a new dry dock near the foot of Orleans Street, just west of their original dry dock facility. Dry Dock No. 2 was 378 ft long, 20.5 ft deep below the water line, with a width of between 91 ft (at the top) and 55 ft (at the bottom). As constructed, the dock could be flooded in twenty minutes and pumped dry in about ninety minutes. The dock was sized to be able to accommodate any vessel traveling on the Great Lakes at that time, and could house even fully loaded vessels.</p><br>
<p>A monument with sculpture depicting the Dry Dock and the steamer Pioneer is located at the north end of the dry dock.</p><br>
<h3>Dry Dock Engine Works Machine Shop (1892)</h3><br>
<p>Also in 1892, Detroit Dry Dock built a machine shop at the corner of Atwater and Orleans, running parallel to Orleans. The shop replaced a portion of the earlier machine shop which fronted on Atwater. The building was designed and built by Berlin Iron Bridge Company, a firm from Connecticut now part of the American Bridge Company. The building featured a load-bearing steel frame and non-load-bearing brick curtain walls, at the time a novel construction technique. Also in 1892, Berlin Iron Bridge also built a boiler shop of the same construction across Dequindre from the main complex; this building has since been demolished.</p><br>
<h4>Description</h4><br>
<p>The machine shop is 200 ft long, 66 ft wide, and 48 ft tall to the top of the wall; a roof monitor extends the height an additional 10 ft. The building consists of thirteen bays dividing the length into 15 ft, with the northernmost bay a full 2 ft wider. Internally, the shop is separated by columns into a 37 ft running the length of the building on the west side, and a 27 ft on the east side.</p><br>
<p>Pediment walls at each end of the building rise above the roof and are capped with limestone. Two windows per bay were included along the west side. The original windows were replaced sometime between 1912 and 1932. The roof is supported by a series of trusses spaced at nearly 12 ft. A 13 ft runs most of the length of the roof. Although now covered with sheet metal, the sides and roof of the monitor were originally glass.</p><br>
<h4>Background</h4><br>
<p>The 1892 machine shop was constructed to take advantage of what was at the time the most modern innovations applied to manufacturing buildings: electric drive machinery and an electrically driven traveling overhead crane. The tall, wide construction of the building, containing an open space lacking support columns, reflects the desire to implement the crane into the company&#39;s manufacturing process.</p><br>
<p>The open space in the building was possible due to the construction of the building in what was at the time a novel method. Steel frame construction had emerged in 1880s Chicago in the construction of office buildings, the first being the nine-story Home Insurance Building, constructed in 1884. However, the first building to be completely supported by a riveted all-steel frame was the 1889 Rand McNally Building.</p><br>
<h4>Significance</h4><br>
<p>The machine shop is an early example of an industrial building which was entirely supported by a rigid structural steel frame, with exterior walls that were merely a curtain around the structure. This building may very well have been the first such structure in Detroit.</p><br>
<p>The particular design used by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company represented a conservative, hybrid design. The steel frame completely supported the structure, but the non-load-bearing curtain walls were nonetheless designed the same way as traditional brick load-bearing walls. The windows in the infill were standard-sized windows arranged in a traditional two per bay, side-by-side configuration.</p><br>
<p>The construction gave the Dry Dock Engine Works the advantages of the open interior space provided by the steel frame construction combined with the more substantial, traditional appearance afforded by the brick exterior. In addition, the brick gave some protection from cold during winter months, with enough windows to maximize the interior light. This particular building exemplifies a link between the traditional past style of industrial architecture and the revolutionary change represented by steel framing.</p><br>
<p>Eric J. Hill and John Gallagher, in their American Institute of Architects guide to Detroit architecture, state that this building is perhaps "the most important surviving nineteenth-century industrial building in Detroit."</p><br>
<h4>Machine Shop photo gallery</h4><br>
<h3>Industrial Loft Building and Foundry (1902)</h3><br>
<p>In 1902, the company constructed two structures: the Industrial Loft Building and a foundry. The Industrial Loft Building ran along Atwater from the east side of the machine shop to what was then Dequindre. The loft building fronted on Atwood, stretching from the machine shop to Dequindre; the foundry faced Dequindre north of the loft building, completing the enclosure of the entire city block from Atwood to Guoin and Orleans to Dequindre.</p><br>
<h4>Foundry</h4><br>
<p>The foundry is 151 ft long and 75 ft wide, and stands 50 ft high to the top of the wall; a roof monitor adds another 14 ft to the height. Clerestory windows run the length of the building. The interior is sectioned into a 46 ft main section and a 26 ft.</p><br>
<p>Like the machine shop, the foundry is constructed with a load-bearing steel frame sheathed with non-load-bearing brick. The interior bays ran the full height of the building to make room for an overhead crane.</p><br>
<p>The foundry building operated as a foundry for only a little over a decade. Sometime in the 1910s, the company built a new foundry and this building was converted into an erecting shop. At some time afterward, possibly as late as the 1950s, the southernmost bay of the building was turned into a loading dock with the addition of an interior concrete block wall. Balconies above the dock were constructed, likely for storage.</p><br>
<h4>Industrial Loft Building</h4><br>
<p>At the same time as the foundry was constructed, the Detroit Shipbuilding Company also built a three-story loft building.</p><br>
<p>The building was originally occupied by a blacksmith&#39;s shop, bolt-cutter, and office space on the first floor, a pattern shop and tool room on the second floor, and engineering offices and storage on the third floor. Other alterations of the facade over time include bricking in of windows on the east side and the addition of doors on the south side.</p><br>
<p>Like the machine shop and foundry, the loft building had a steel-framed structure with brick curtain walls. The framing supported the loads on the floors as well as the weight of the roof. The steel framing, however, was wholly contained within the building rather than being encased in the brick.</p><br>
<h3>Machine shop addition, chipping room, and shipping/receiving (c. 1910s)</h3><br>
<p>Sometime between 1910 and 1919, three more structures were built, enclosing the yard between the 1892 machine shop and the 1902 foundry.</p><br>
<h4>Machine shop addition</h4><br>
<p>The machine shop addition is a steel-framed structure 122 ft long, 41 ft wide, and 43 ft high to the roof trusses. A roof monitor extended the height another 4 ft. It was built along the east side of the 1892 machine shop; the brick in-fill of the machine shop was removed to provide a continuous inner area. The north wall of the structure had a large steel-framed window wall, although the lower portion of it is now bricked in.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the addition was originally a wide, open space with an overhead crane similar to the one in the original machine shop. However, some time after 1922 a wooden floor was constructed within the building to provide a second story on top of a 22 ft first-floor bay.</p><br>
<h4>Chipping room</h4><br>
<p>Some time later, a chipping room was built along the north end of the block between the machine shop addition and the foundry building, displacing remnants of earlier buildings in the same place. Much of the north side was originally steel-framed windows; these have since been covered with blocks.</p><br>
<h4>Shipping/receiving</h4><br>
<p>In 1918, the company constructed a shipping/receiving building in the center of the complex, within what was previously an interior courtyard. This structure is a two-story steel-framed building measuring 5 by 72 feet (1.5 m × 22 m). The first floor was originally a shipping/receiving area, with access to Atwater via the drives running through the industrial loft building. The second floor functioned as a stockroom. A roof monitor provided light for the second floor, but the completely encased first floor required artificial lighting.</p><br>
<p>The Schenectady Armory is located on Washington Avenue in the city of the same name in the USA state of New York. It is a brown brick building dating to 1936.</p><br>
<p>New York&#39;s state architect at that time, William Haugaard, used the Art Deco architectural style for the exterior of the building and the Tudorbethan mode for the interior. The armory remains virtually intact today. It was home to two units of the New York Army National Guard until it was closed in 2008. In 1995 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The armory is on a one-way extension of Washington Avenue just north of its interchange with Interstate 890 and just south of Schenectady County Community College&#39;s Elston Hall opposite, the former Hotel Van Curler. To its east is Fuller Street and some industrial buildings.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>It is on a 1.9 acre lot with one other building, a modern garage not considered a contributing resource to the Register listing. The armory itself is a T-shaped building of brick on a steel frame structural system. The main block is three and a half stories in height with slightly asymmetrical two-story side wings. It has a projecting entrance pavilion on the west (front) elevation, with a segmented arch over its sally port, filled with two heavy oak doors with medieval-inspired hardware. The facade is otherwise embellished with details representing both the Art Deco and Tudorbethan styles.</p><br>
<p>Projecting perpendicularly to the main administration building on the east is the drill shed, a gable-roofed wing with its windows spaced by buttresses with stone caps. The brick-faced concrete block garage is to the southeast.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The main entrance vestibule is a two-story octagonal space with concrete wainscoting painted to look like red sandstone. Doors leading to offices off the entrance have half-sidelights and scored concrete surrounds. Corridors on the first story are cross-vaulted, with those on the second story using barrel vaults. Both have concrete ceilings and brick walls.</p><br>
<p>At the end of the north wings first story, the company meeting room, later converted into a bar and dining room, features paneled wainscoting, stuccoed concrete walls and a concrete ceiling encasing the support beams. The offices elsewhere in the wing have generally been subdivided and modernized, although the second-story corridors barrel vault, accentuated by spandrels supported by brick piers, is intact.</p><br>
<p>In the drill shed, the ceiling is wainscoted, with steel trusses, exposed brick walls and an intact balcony at the west end. The original hardwood flooring has been covered with wooden tiles.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Schenectadys first armory was built in 1868 to serve two local units, the Washington Continentals and the Citizens Corps. The former, formed in 1839, had first served in the Mexican War. It was broken up during the recent Civil War but reformed afterwards. The Citizens&#39; Corps was not formally organized until 1873. It joined the New York National Guard in 1880, becoming the 36th Separate Company.</p><br>
<p>Their armory was built with a $30,000 ($ in contemporary dollars) appropriation from the state obtained by newly elected assemblyman Robert Furman. A three-member commission including Furman chose the hill in Crescent Park overlooking the city as the site for a three-story red brick building with a polychrome slate roof. Records show an "83rd Regiment" drilling in the armory until it disbanded in 1874. It may have become the 36th and 37th Separate Companies.</p><br>
<p>In 1890, sentiment began to grow to build a new armory. State architect Isaac Perry&#39;s new building was completed and built on the same site in 1898, just in time for the Spanish–American War. It was well-received locally and continued to serve the local Guard units as they prepared and mustered for World War I, where they were designated as the 105th Infantry of the American Expeditionary Force, a name that remained associated with Schenectady for many years. After the war, as many as five separate companies were using the armory, and throughout the 1920s they began lobbying for another new armory.</p><br>
<p>The state finally began construction of the current building in 1936. Unlike other armories built in New York during the Great Depression, Schenectady&#39;s was located in the core of the city, near the hotel, the General Electric plant a quarter-mile (400 m) away, and businesses that had flocked to Erie Boulevard, the recently filled former route of the Erie Canal. The old armory in Crescent Park was demolished in 1946.</p><br>
<p>The armory continued to serve local military needs through World War II, the Korean War and the early years of the Cold War. In the early 1960s it was isolated in the neighborhood when I-890 was built. The hotel went bankrupt but was quickly reused as Schenectady County Community College&#39;s Elston Hall.</p><br>
<p>By the 21st century the armory had again grown outdated, and the state&#39;s Division of Military and Naval Affairs closed it down on November 10, 2008, to save heating costs. College sporting events and other gatherings that had been held in the armory were likewise suspended. The 206th Military Police Company, which had been based there, moved to a new facility in Latham, and the other tenant, the 501st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Battalion, moved to the new Scotia Armed Forces Reserve Center at the Schenectady County Airport. The state sold the armory at auction in July 2012 for $260,000. It has since reopened as The Schenectady Armory Center, www.schenectadyarmorycenter.com; a multi-use event center focusing on turf sports, trade shows, concerts and community events.</p><br>
<p>Fremont Island, at 2,943.04 acre, is an island located in Great Salt Lake in the USA state of Utah. Privately owned, Fremont Island is the lake&#39;s third largest island after Stansbury Island and Antelope Island.</p><br>
<h2>Human history</h2><br>
<p>Fremont Island is named for military leader and explorer John C. Frémont.</p><br>
<p>In April 1848, a year after Mormon pioneers made it to the Salt Lake valley, Albert Carrington and other pioneers boated around the area and dubbed it “Castle Island” due to a throne-like shape at the north end of the island.</p><br>
<p>It was first dubbed Fremont Island in 1850, when Capt. Howard Stansbury surveyed the Great Salt Lake. That name eventually stuck.</p><br>
<p>In 1859, two Farmington men placed 153 head of sheep on the island, even calling it “Miller’s Island” after one of the men, Dan Miller.</p><br>
<p>In 1862, a grave robber named Jean Baptiste was banished to the island by Brigham Young after Baptiste was arrested for robbing at least 300 graves, according to an article by Yvette D. Isom for History Blazer.</p><br>
<p>After three weeks there, Baptiste escaped. Cattle herders on the island found a heifer that had been killed and tanned for leather, as well as pieces of wood torn from a ranch house on the island. It was believed Baptiste attempted to escape by making a makeshift raft.</p><br>
<p>However, his whereabouts and fate of his breakout attempt were never known.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1870s, the island became a spot for precious metal mining — though only 38 claims were made over a two-year span.</p><br>
<p>In 1886, a judge named Uriah J. Wenner moved his family to the island. Wenner was diagnosed with tuberculosis and moved his family to Fremont Island because of its remote location.</p><br>
<p>He and his family remained there until he died in 1891 and was even buried on the island. His wife, Kate, left the island and eventually remarried. When she died in 1942, her ashes were placed next to Uriah&#39;s on the island.</p><br>
<p>In 2003 the island was leased by the Barrow Land and Livestock company. Exotic species of animals were brought to the island with the intent to provide unique hunting opportunities.</p><br>
<p>In October 2013 a feral pig was spotted near the Antelope Island causeway. This prompted the state authorities to investigate and find populations of illegal species. The state and owners then proceeded to hunt the remaining animals by air to prevent the potential spread to the mainland.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Fremont Island is privately owned and permission is required for access. The island is accessible via an exposed land bridge when the Great Salt Lake water level is lower than 4,195 feet in elevation. The start point of the land bridge is approximately 1 mile east of the Antelope Island Marina and can be accessed via the Antelope Island causeway.</p><br>
<h2>Flora</h2><br>
<p>There are certain plant species that occur on Fremont Island, and there is historic evidence that some species that were earlier documented to occur on the island are no longer present. For example, explorers who visited this island in the mid-1800s noted the presence of abundant "onions" which they identified as Calochortus luteus. However, this name was applied to plants that were later renamed as other species. While it is unlikely that the California endemic C. luteus occurred on Fremont Island, it is clear that some species of Calochortus once present is now extinct.</p><br>
<p>Raspberry Island  is an island in the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Buildings for the Minnesota Boat Club have sat upon the island since 1885; the current boathouse was built in 1910. Between 1949 and 1968, the island was used by the United States Navy. Today, it is the last true island in Saint Paul, and is home to paths, a plaza, and a bandshell.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Raspberry Island was originally named for the wild raspberries that grew on it, with the name appearing on the first map of downtown Saint Paul in 1851. In 1885, a wooden structure was built to house the Minnesota Boat Club, the oldest athletic club in the state. The Club constructed a new home in 1910, a George H. Carsley-designed building in Mission Revival-style architecture that is still used today. The name Raspberry Island remained until 1949, when the United States Navy built a small base on the eastern side of the island—the west side was owned by the Boat Club—and it subsequently became known as Navy Island. Flooding in 1965 washed the 150 ft wooden bridge connecting the island to the mainland from its moorings and away downstream. The Navy departed from the island in 1968. Many downtown Saint Paul employees used the island as an unofficial parking lot during the 1970s and 1980s. A 1995 Saint Paul City Council resolution changed the name back to Raspberry Island.</p><br>
<p>Log jams were recorded near the bridge that connects the island to the mainland in 2010 and again in 2013. These caused trouble for local boaters whose docking space was diminished by the presence of the logs. The City of Saint Paul funded removal of the logs in both instances.</p><br>
<h2>Attributes and features</h2><br>
<p>Raspberry Island is the last true island in Saint Paul and is located under the Wabasha Street Bridge. It has a total area of 2 acre and sits at an elevation of 696 ft above sea level. The Raspberry Island Bridge connects it to the mainland.</p><br>
<h3>Renovation</h3><br>
<p>A renovation of Raspberry Island occurred in 2007-8 that bolstered and added amenities to the "rather scruffy, barren place". The shoreline was strengthened with limestone riprap; public restrooms were added to the Boat Club building; a plaza, trails, and an event lawn were constructed near a new bandshell designed for Saint Paul&#39;s Schubert Club; and 131 trees and numerous other shrubs, grasses, and flowers were planted. The project cost $5 million.</p><br>
<p>Local WCCO-TV named the islands Boat Club one of Minnesotas best places at which to hold a wedding reception, noting that "hile it might be located downtown, none of the bustle or the noise of the city reaches the island".</p><br>
<p>The Barnett–Criss House is an Italianate style house constructed on the much traveled National Road a few miles east of New Concord, Ohio. The house was placed on the National Register on 1978-12-08.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Born in Westland Township, Oliver Barnett made himself one of the area&#39;s most important farmers following service in the Union Army during the Civil War. He and his wife arranged for the construction of the house in 1875, relying on contractors from Pittsburgh. Here they lived for fifteen years before selling the property to Elijah and Carrie Criss, another well-known farming couple.</p><br>
<h2>Exterior</h2><br>
<p>The rectangular house sits on top of a sandstone basement with water table separating house from basement. The house facade is lined with wooden siding. The front of the house is accentuated by a front porch containing slender posts on broad bases. The posts are decorated with trusses reaching from each post to make an arch. The large front double-doors are capped by a transom window. The porch is framed to either side by a bay window.</p><br>
<p>The second floor is accentuated by a central tower with a decorative double window with a porthole window above it. The tower is capped by a gabled roof with decorative brackets and entablature. To either side of the tower are a pair of windows. The sloping roof is punctured to either end by a brick chimney.</p><br>
<p>The side of the house contained an open porch with a water pump. The porch was covered over into a sunroom sometime around 1900.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The main entrance at the front of the house opens up into the central hall with a staircase leading to the second-floor bedrooms. To the left of the hall is the parlor which contains an original brass gas chandelier with springs and a pulley for easier maintenance. A fireplace with decorative carved wooden panels add a touch of sophistication.</p><br>
<p>The parlor once opened up onto another open porch with a necessary located nearby. The porch was covered over and was split into a study and a bathroom. This room opens up into the large kitchen. A large cooking fireplace graces the center of the outside wall with a food pantry to its right. This pantry is said to be designed by a specialist who could maintain a consistent cool temperature. The kitchen opens up onto the central hall or continues into the dining room or sunporch.</p><br>
<p>The dining room contains a fireplace much like the one in the parlor. The bay window at one end of the room was used as a tea area. The doors throughout the house are framed by oak frames with a frosted levered window. The doors are all hung on decorative iron hinges.</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office in Scotia, New York, is located on Mohawk Avenue  in the middle of the village. It is a brick Colonial Revival structure built at the end of the 1930s, serving the 12302 ZIP Code, which covers the village and some surrounding areas of the Town of Glenville.</p><br>
<p>It is one of five nearly identical post office buildings across the state, all featuring elaborate detail and decoration. In the lobby a mural depicts a 1690 confrontation between Native Americans and an early settler family. In 1989 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2009 the Postal Service announced that it was considering closing it down, sparking a community effort to save it.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The post office occupies a small lot at the western corner of Mohawk and Center Street. The neighborhood, the villages downtown, is a mix of small commercial and residential structures. To the buildings west is a house; to its north a parking lot. It is set back slightly from the street, with landscaping and plantings in front.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a one-story, five-by-five-bay steel frame building on a poured concrete foundation faced in brick laid in English bond with a hipped slate roof pierced by two zinc-coated ventilators. The hipping is lower over the three central bays on the rear; a one-bay loading dock projects from that area.</p><br>
<p>A molded brick watercourse sets off the basement, and the roofline is marked by a corbeled course giving the effect of a denticulated cornice. The western (front) facade is symmetrically composed around a centrally located, recessed segmented arch with a lintel of radiating voussoirs. A carved metal eagle is situated above the door in front of the transom. A row of stars is set in the arch above, and "SCOTIA, N.Y. 12302" is etched on the glass in the transom. Metal lettering saying "UNITED STATES POST OFFICE" is above the door, with "SCOTIA" on either side.</p><br>
<p>The windows on all facades are similarly shaped and decorated. Small brick corbels between the window openings suggest brick piers with denticulated capitals, and the recessing and arching of the windows combines with this to suggest an arcade.</p><br>
<p>Concrete steps with modern railings rise to the entrance, with a recently added wheelchair ramp coming in from the north. The original lampposts have been mounted on separate pedestals. The modern aluminum and glass door leads into a wooden vestibule with fluted pilasters and a curved ceiling.</p><br>
<p>The lobby itself takes up four of the five bays of the facade, with the postmasters office occupying the buildings southeast corner. A modern plywood wall has been built on the west with a partition and sliding doors further subdividing the space. New teller windows and Formica countertops have been added, but the original wooden customer tables remain. Also original are the finishings, from the terrazzo floor to the marble base and counter height dado that rise to a plaster ceiling with cornice. On the east wall is a mural, The Glen Family Spared by French Indians, above the door to the postmaster&#39;s office.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>As Scotia grew into a broom-making center during the 19th century, its postal needs were easily handled by a small building at what is now 109 Mohawk Street. In 1935, as a relief measure during the Depression, Congress authorized construction of the current building, replacing an old house and garage at the site.</p><br>
<p>Louis A. Simon, then Supervising Architect at the Treasury Department, handled the design, as he did for many of the other post offices built in New York during the 1930s. His design for Scotia&#39;s was almost identical to one used for four other post offices in small communities around the state: Akron, Horseheads, Middleburgh and Oxford. All are modestly scaled brick Colonial Revival buildings, showing no original variations save for minor later alterations.</p><br>
<p>Construction did not get underway until 1939, at a time when Congress was scaling back on new post office construction in anticipation of war. The local firm of Loucks and Clarks was awarded the contract and finished the building the following year, making it one of the last to be completed in the state under a Depression-era relief program. It was originally considered a branch of the post office in Schenectady to the southeast, hence its NRHP listing as "Scotia Station".</p><br>
<p>The next year, 1941, Buffalo artist Amy Jones painted the 56" by 12 (1.7 by 3.7 m) mural, depicting the sparing of the Glen family during the 1690 Schenectady massacre, a key turning point in the early history of Scotia. She had also painted a similar confrontation between early settlers and Indians for the Painted Post post office, and did at least one other postal mural, in Winsted, Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>In 2009 the USA Postal Service (USPS) announced Scotia was one of 600 local post offices around the country it was considering closing because of the difficult economy. The community rallied to persuade the USPS to keep it open, partly because of its historic status. The Schenectady County legislature passed a resolution to that effect, and its leader, Susan Savage, started an Internet petition along with two other legislators. The Postal Service has still not taken Scotia off the list of potential closures, as of September.</p><br>
<p>The Coca-Cola Building is a Coca-Cola bottling plant modeled as a Streamline Moderne building designed by architect Robert V. Derrah with the appearance of a ship with portholes, catwalk and a bridge from five existing industrial buildings in 1939. It is located at 1334 South Central Avenue in Los Angeles, California.</p><br>
<p>It was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument Number 138 on 5 Feb 1975. It is often referred to as the Coke Building.</p><br>
<p>A former Coca-Cola manufacturing plant is located nearby at 4th and Merrick streets. it underwent an elaborate makeover into an office and retail complex in 2014. The three-story brick-clad building was described as the "headquarters for the company&#39;s Pacific Coast business and for its export trade in the Hawaiian Islands and Old Mexico" when it was built in 1915.</p><br>
<p>The building at 426 South Main Street  is located in Canandaigua, New York, United States. It is a two story brick dwelling in the Italianate architectural style built around 1880. In 1984 it and its neighboring barn were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It is the only remaining house from that era on that block. While its form is Italianate, its upper arches are more typical of Renaissance Revival buildings, a style that was starting to become popular at the time of the building&#39;s construction. Its architect is unknown. At the time of its listing on the Register it doubled as a residence and antique shop. Today, however, as at the time of its construction, it is solely used as a residence.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The building is located on the west side of South Main, midway between the intersections with Parrish and (on the west side) Phelps, and Clark streets. running parallel to the north shore of Canandaigua Lake. The terrain is level, reflecting the proximity of the lake.</p><br>
<p>To both the north and south are houses of newer construction, mostly smaller in size as well. These give way to larger commercial properties, such as the gas station on the Parrish corner. Across the street is a similar combination of newer houses and larger commercial buildings with large parking lots, with a large storage facility on the land behind them. To the west the land is wooded and largely undeveloped as far as Sucker Brook, other than the back lots of commercial properties on Parrish.</p><br>
<p>The house sits on a one-acre (4,000 m) lot sheltered by mature trees, in contrast to the more open, and smaller, neighboring lots, with its gravel driveway on the south. It is a two-story, three-bay structure on an exposed stone foundation, topped with a truncated hipped roof pierced by two corbellled brick chimneys at the ends. A two-story, one-bay projecting pavilion is located in the center of the north elevation, matched by a two story bay window on the south side.</p><br>
<p>Attached to the west (rear) elevation is a two-story wing, also with a hipped roof and chimney, projects. On its west is a one-story wood frame addition with a gable roof and clapboard siding with irregular fenestration. A small one-story enclosed frame clapboard-sided porch is nestled in the southwest corner between it and the main block.</p><br>
<p>On the east (front) facade the main entrance, in the northernmost of the three bays, is sheltered by a flat-roofed wooden porch supported by four ornate wooden pillars with scroll brackets and pierced woodwork at the roofline. Wooden steps with pierced quatrefoils rise up to it, flanked by metal handrails. The porch&#39;s brick foundation is topped with a wooden deck.</p><br>
<p>A stone water table sets off the foundation stone from the brick facing the house. Windows on the facade are all one-over-one double-hung sash windows set in a slightly recessed wooden surround and topped by segmentally arched drip molds, as are all windows elsewhere on the building. The only deviation is above the front porch, where two narrower versions of the windows echo the double main entrance doors below.</p><br>
<p>Above the second story is a projecting molded cornice that continues around the entire main block. The frieze it sets off features a large semi-circular cross-gable set with a round-arched single-pane casement window in paneled stone trim. At the top of every bay except those on the pavilion and bay window is a recessed elongated oval oculus set in stone trim. The roofline is marked by a wide overhanging eave with another molded cornice.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance has two sets of double doors set in a segmental-arched entryway topped with a drip mold, similar to the windows. The outer doors are wooden with three large glass panes. They protect a pair of wooden inner doors with decoration similar to that on the porch just outside. Among the original interior features in the house are its original stairwell and two marble mantels.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Very little is known about the house&#39;s origins. Its builder, architect and original owners or inhabitants are unknown. It is, however, believed that the house and adjacent barn, a contributing resource to the National Register listing, were built around 1880. An Italianate overall form was combined with upper-level decoration that reflected the newer Renaissance Revival style.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its construction neighboring houses were in similar Late Victorian modes. Over time they were all demolished, leaving only 426 to exemplify its two styles. In 1984, when the house was listed on the Register, its owner was operating an antique shop on the ground floor, leading to the use of "building" rather than "house" in the listing name. The front steps also had wooden balustrades rather than their current metal rails.</p><br>
<p>The Lancaster Court House Historic District is a national historic district consisting of 25 structures, including one monument, located in Lancaster, Virginia, Lancaster County, Virginia. Four of the buildings make up the Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library, founded in 1958, whose purpose is to preserve and interpret the history of Lancaster County, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>The Lancaster Court House Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lancaster County was formed from Northumberland County in 1651, and plans for a courthouse were prepared three years later, and it was built by William Norgham. Although the original Buildings exact location is now unknown, it is assumed to have stood very near the Coromotan River, given the order referencing "ye building of a courthouse in Coromotan..." and mentions an inlet. However, the location proved unpopular, so the courthouse was moved to land of Captain William Ball by 1698. It was moved again circa 1738, and the county seat in 1740. The current courthouse was opened in 1861 and built on what had once been the Upper Tavern. It was remodeled consistent with Thomas Jeffersons Roman Revival courthouse designs in 1937. The complex includes the old clerks office and former jail, both dating back to the 18th century. The town itself was authorized in 1691 by Virginias General Assembly, on the west side of the Corrotoman River. Furthermore, the county&#39;s records date back to the colonial period, unlike many Tidewater counties whose records were destroyed in the American Civil War, since Lancaster County avoided much devastation.</p><br>
<p>After the war, the county encouraged emigration, even distributing a pamphlet The Northern Neck of Virginia as a Home for Immigrants in Northern States, Canada and Europe. The 1872 Confederate memorial dates from this effort and is believed to be the first such monument erected in the Commonwealth. The historic district, essentially a linear village, also includes a tavern built circa 1800, a mid-19th-century post office, Carpenter-Gothic church, turn-of-the-century store, and many detached mid-19th-to-early-20th-century dwellings.</p><br>
<h2>Notable structures</h2><br>
<p>Clerk&#39;s Office *</p><br>
<p>Confederate Monument</p><br>
<p>Jail *</p><br>
<p>Job Carter&#39;s Tavern (Cornwell House)</p><br>
<p>Lancaster Court House</p><br>
<p>Lancaster House *</p><br>
<p>Steuart Blakemore Building (Old Post Office) *</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church</p><br>
<p>Elements of the Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library</p><br>
<p>Brigham Hall, also known as Grove Home, is a historic psychiatric hospital located at Canandaigua in Ontario County, New York. It is a complex of 10 buildings designed as a facility for the care and confinement of the mentally ill. The Gothic Revival style main building was built about 1855 and is surrounded by the contributing outbuildings. The central section is a - to 2-story brick and fieldstone structure, flanked by two-story brick wings. Other structures on the property are Heritage House , an early 20th-century residential unit; Female Unit #1 and Male Unit #2, also constructed in the early 20th century; a frame storage building; paint shop; cistern; gazebo; and Recreation Building, built between 1908 and 1924. By 1960 the complex was converted for use as a nursing home for the elderly.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Sigriswiler Rothorn is a mountain of the Emmental Alps, located north of Sigriswil in the canton of Bern. With an elevation of 2,051 metres above sea level, it is the culminating point of the chain named Sigriswilergrat.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The ridge is located about 12 km east of Thun. The Sigriswilergrat chain stretches from Lake Thun at Merligen over some 7 kilometres to the northeast to the edge of the Zulgtals. Major peaks are found from the southwest to the northeast including Fluh (1,658 m above sea level), Merra (1,954 m above sea level), Sigriswiler Rothorn (2,051 m above sea level, which is also the highest mountain in the chain), Mittaghorn (2,014 m above sea level), Schaflägerzähne (1,952 m above sea level) and Burst (1,969 m above sea level).</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Sigriswilergrat was formed by the Helvetic System over the course of approximately 160 million years. From a geological point of view Sigriswilergrat was formed of Helvetic sediments, these were deposited between approximately 225 to 66 million years ago.</p><br>
<p>The Pythian Temple, built in 1906 for Commencement Lodge Number 7 of the Knights of Pythias, is an historic building located on Broadway in the Theater District of Tacoma, Washington. It was designed by noted Tacoma architect Frederick Heath.</p><br>
<p>Like many multistory urban fraternal buildings built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, its lower floors were rented out for retail and office spaces while the upper floors were reserved for lodge use. This pattern of usage continues into the 21st century for this building, although Commencement Lodge plans to renovate the building to permit the rental of its hall for cultural events.</p><br>
<p>On August 23, 1985, Pythian Temple was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The building was featured in the summer 2008 newsletter of the Marian Dean Ross Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. The group reported that the Pythian order remains active and is working to preserve its 1906 building and has received grants for work on the Knights of Pythias Castle Hall. "This two-story hall, completely hidden within the building&#39;s interior, is a rich confection of early 20th Century woodwork, plaster, lighting, murals and carpeting."</p><br>
<p>For a short period in the mid-1990s, the Pythian Temple hosted a local gypsy theater company, and its ornate auditorium was the setting for productions of such plays as Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, Inherit the Wind, 12 Angry Men, and Talk Radio.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the Knights of Pythias, the building houses the Tacoma Youth Theater and Seabury Middle School.</p><br>
<p>Nester House, also known as Geneva-on-the-Lake, is a historic home located at Geneva in Ontario County, New York, USA. The Renaissance Revival building&#39;s design is based upon the Villa Lancellotti, a 16th-century suburban villa in the village of Frascati near Rome. It was built in 1911 and is a large three story, "U" shaped villa, built of brick and concrete block and coated in stucco. In 1949, the Capuchin Order acquired the property and operated the Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary on the property. In 1973, the Capuchins sold the property and the house and its 1949 additions were later converted into 30 apartments. It is now operated as a resort.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Holy Corners Historic District, so named because of its concentration of early 20th-century churches, temples and other large buildings of public assembly, is located on both sides of North Kingshighway Boulevard between and including Westminster Place and Washington Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. On December 29, 1975, the district was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>Contributing properties in the district include:</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Methodist Church, 5000 Washington Boulevard (1902)</p><br>
<p>First Church of Christ, Scientist, 475 North Kingshighway Boulevard, corner of Westminster Place (1904)</p><br>
<p>Racquet Club, 476 North Kingshighway Boulevard (1906)</p><br>
<p>Second Baptist Church, 520 North Kingshighway Boulevard (1907)</p><br>
<p>Temple Israel, 5001 Washington Boulevard (1908); and</p><br>
<p>Tuscan Masonic Temple, 5015 Westminster Place (1908).</p><br>
<p>The Sebastian Indian Reservation , more commonly known as the Tejon Indian Reservation, was formerly at the southwestern corner of the San Joaquin Valley in the Tehachapi Mountains, in southern central California.</p><br>
<p>It was located in the southwestern Tehachapis, from Tejon Creek and Tejon Canyon, west to Grapevine Canyon (Canada de las Uvas).</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Establishment</h3><br>
<p>Edward F. Beale, the federal Superintendent of Indian Affairs for California, established this as the first Indian reservation in California in 1853.</p><br>
<p>The 75,000 acre Tejon Reservation was within the private Rancho El Tejón Mexican land grant. However, Beale hoped if the land claims were upheld the land could be purchased by the federal government. To gain support for his efforts, Beale named the reservation after United States Senator William K. Sebastian of Arkansas, Chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee. He supported Beale&#39;s plans to form a series of reservations, garrisoned by a military post, on government owned land.</p><br>
<p>The Indians were to support themselves by farming. However, throughout the reservation&#39;s existence, drought, insects, and crop disease undermined the attempts at farming. The newly constructed Stockton – Los Angeles Road, replacing El Camino Viejo, skirted the western and northern sides of the reservation.</p><br>
<p>The reservation became operational in September 1853, and some California Indians moved in voluntarily. Among the tribes of Mission Indians the reservation held, were 300 Emigdiano Chumash, whose homeland had included Tejon Canyon. In 1854, Lieutenant Beale reported that 2,500 Indians were living on the Sebastian Reservation.</p><br>
<p>In 1854, Fort Tejon was built 25 mi to the southwest, to protect both the reservation&#39;s Indians and white settlers in the region from raids by the Paiutes, Chemeheui, Mohave peoples, and other Indian groups of the desert regions to the east. It was also to control the Indians who were living on the Tejon Reservation, and protect them from attacks by American immigrants and settlers.</p><br>
<h3>Operations</h3><br>
<p>Farm equipment, cattle and sheep were brought to Tejon Reservation, and a staff of white employees hired to teach the Indians agriculture and supervise their activities. Hundreds of aces of land were plowed and planted with wheat, barley, and corn. Tejon Creek irrigated gardens, vineyards, and orchards. From the forest in upper Tejon Canyon Indians hauled timber from which they sawed the lumber needed at the reservation. Additionally there was wild game to hunt for in the Tehachapi Mountains and the San Joaquin Valley. In that year the Indians gathered an abundant wheat harvest.</p><br>
<p>In early 1854, with political change in Washington, Beale&#39;s detractors charged him with embezzlement of government funds. Settlers in the San Joaquin Valley resented the agricultural competition from the Indians, and claimed that too much land had been set aside for them. He was removed from his office, but was exonerated of the charges.</p><br>
<p>Colonel Thomas J. Henley, was Beale&#39;s replacement as Superintendent of Indian Affairs for California. When Henley took charge, he noted only 800 Indians, with fewer than 350 present at one time, and only 1,500 acres under cultivation, indicating that numbers of Indians and amount of acreage under cultivation had been inflated by Beale. Henley established other reservations in California, and appointed Colonel James R. Vineyard as the resident agent at the Sebastian Reservation.</p><br>
<p>In 1855, some of the reservations Indian residents fled, and Vineyard requested assistance from Fort Tejon to find them and force their return. The forts commander refused, stating their role was to protect the Indians and punish any that committed hostile acts, but not return Indians that voluntarily resided on the reservation.</p><br>
<p>In 1856, rainfall was sparse but the harvest was enough for the 700 inhabitants that remained. A flour mill, granary, storehouse, and dwellings for the resident agent and the chiefs were built. A physician was also provided. In November 1856, the reservation was reduced to 25,000 acres. For 1856, the 700 Indians were reported as having 700 acres under cultivation.</p><br>
<p>In 1857, drought continued, resulting in crop failure except were irrigation reached them and those grapevines and fruit trees that began to yield a harvest. The Indians were also encouraged to collect wild food during the winter. Despite that setback, new buildings were constructed and new arrivals increased the population to over 1,000.</p><br>
<p>A post office was established at the reservation in September 1858, but it was moved in 1859 to Sinks of Tejon Station, one of the stagecoach stations of the Butterfield Overland Mail. By 1858, nearly all of the remaining inhabitants were living in houses. Several families were raising livestock, and the women had learned to make American style clothing.</p><br>
<p>By 1859, Henley had been replaced as Superintendent of Indian Affairs for California.</p><br>
<p>Finally, the winter of 1861—1862 was very wet causing Great Flood of 1862. It did break the 5-year drought, so the Reservation&#39;s Indians planted larger fields of grain, and there was a productive harvest during 1862. Additional Indians were encouraged to settle at the Sebastian Reservation, beyond the thirteen hundred that already lived there.</p><br>
<p>During the 1863 drought year, all the crops were lost except for 30 tons of hay. Settlers encroached on the Tejon Reservation&#39;s unsurveyed and unfenced land, with their cattle and sheep eating reservation crops.</p><br>
<h3>Demise</h3><br>
<p>Meanwhile, by 1863 former agent Edward F. Beale had purchased five contiguous ranchos in the Tejon area, which included the Tejon Reservation land, and was raising 100,000 sheep. In 1863, he offered to lease 12,000 acres to the government, but withdrew the offer when he found that the government planned to move Owens Valley Paiute Indians there. He noted that he had made the offer only because Indians already on the reservation were his friends.</p><br>
<p>In the summer of 1863, over 900 Owens Valley Paiute were marched through the Mojave Desert towards the Tejon Reservation, following their capitulation in the Owens Valley Indian War. They ended up in the Tule River Indian Reservation.</p><br>
<p>The reservation was ordered closed in June 1864. Fort Tejon was also abandoned in 1864.</p><br>
<p>Jose Pacheco, a Tejón leader, wrote to General Wright on April 16, 1864: "I should not have troubled you with this letter, Dear General, did I not think the agents here had wronged us. You and our great father at Washington do not know how bad we fare, or you would give us food or let us go back to our lands where we can get plenty of fish and game. I do not think we get the provisions intended for us by our Great Father; the agents keep it from us, and sell it to make themselves rich, while we and our children are very poor and hungry and naked."</p><br>
<p>On July 11, Austin Wiley wrote: "I have the honor to inform you that all the Indians on the Tejon Farm and in the vicinity of Fort Tejon, some two hundred in number, have been removed from there to the Tule River farm." Wiley noted that there was no food for the Indians at Tejon.</p><br>
<p>Shortly thereafter, D. N. Cooley, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, summarized the reasons for the reservation&#39;s failure: "The lack of legal title to the land severely restrained investment in construction and development, leaving the reserve and the Indians on it in a state of constant uncertainty. The ideal of converting Indians from food gathering to settled agriculture was never realized."</p><br>
<p>The McCracken-McFarland House is a historic house built in 1825 in the city of Cambridge, Ohio, United States. It was once home to one of the city&#39;s political leaders, and later a Presbyterian minister. Few extant buildings in the city can compare to it architecturally, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>William McCracken settled in Cambridge in 1809 at the age of twenty-two. Although he began his residency as a simple blacksmith, McCracken later made himself into one of the most prominent members of local society. McCracken arranged for the construction of the present house, built in 1825, but his wealth was sufficient to pay for the erection of a brick house in the same neighborhood in 1830. Two years later, William McFarland was born in New Athens. At the age of twenty-five, he was ordained as a minister in one of the denominations that later formed the United Presbyterian Church of North America. McFarland moved to Cambridge in 1860 to pastor its United Presbyterian congregation, soon taking possession of the house, and it remained the property of the McFarland family until his daughter conveyed it to the Guernsey County Historical Society in 1966. Since that time, the society has converted the house into its museum.</p><br>
<p>Greek Revival in style, the McCracken-McFarland House is a weatherboarded structure with a slate roof. It sits slightly above the sidewalk; one must climb two small sets of steps to attain the six-columned porch on the front of the house. Both stories of the facade are divided into five bays, with windows in all except for the center of the first story; this place is occupied by the main entrance, its transom light, and its sidelights. The gabled roof is topped with a chimney on either end of the roofline. Although the Greek Revival influence is present, the house is primarily a vernacular structure, retaining a settlement-period mode of design with few extant parallels in the city.</p><br>
<p>In early 1979, the McCracken-McFarland House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its architecture and because of its place as the home of William McCracken. Among the other National Register-listed locations in Cambridge is the McCracken-Scott House, the brick house that William McCracken had built in 1830.</p><br>
<p>Lag Tuleritg is a lake at Flims in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland.</p><br>
<p>As close as 500 metres to the Caumasee, well known for swimming, is another dell, home of Lag Tuleritg which is just 18 metres higher. This lake falls completely dry in autumn and remains empty until being filled by a small river of just about half a mile in length (falling some 100 metres in level) that will start flowing around May depending on temperatures and snow melt rate in the mountains. Its origin is another lake, Lag Prau Pulté, which is fed by underground water only in spring, disapperaring in autumn and staying dry all winter. During a cold period in spring, water that entered the dell of this lake may disappear again as snow melt decreases and all water remains in the underground flow. Due to its origin the water of both lakes is grey all summer until the level starts to go down in autumn. In Lag Prau Pulte one can see another special effect caused by air being forced out of the underground, causing the lake not only to remain grey but offernig frequent bubbles on the surface.</p><br>
<p>Because its proximity it is very likely that the water from Lag Tuleritg continues underground to Caumasee, although no experiments using colour was ever to prove this.</p><br>
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<p>The Pythian Castle is a historic 3-story brick and stone Knights of Pythias building located at 610-612 Court Street in Portsmouth, Virginia. Built between 1897 and 1898 for the Atlantic Lodge, Knights of Pythias, it was designed by architect Edward Overman in the Romanesque Revival style of architecture. Like many multistory urban fraternal buildings built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, its street floor was rented out for retail and office spaces while the upper floors were reserved for lodge use. In 1908 a single-story brick and stone Romanesque Revival addition was built to the north of the original building. In 1979 the Pythian Castle was sold by the knights. On October 30, 1980, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Today the ground floor is a Mexican eatery.</p><br>
<p>It is located in the Downtown Portsmouth Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Abraham Glen House is located on Mohawk Avenue  in Scotia, New York, United States. It is a white frame house from the 18th century that is currently used as the local branch of the Schenectady County public library system.</p><br>
<p>Built in the 1730s, it is a rare surviving example in the region of a Dutch Colonial heavy timber frame house. It was extensively modified at the beginning of the 20th century but still retains its basic form and original materials. In 2004 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is situated in Collins Park, on the north side of Route 5 just west of the Western Gateway Bridge which crosses the Mohawk River to nearby Schenectady. It is aligned north-south, giving it a diagonal orientation from the road. Mature trees screen it on several sides. There is a parking lot to the north, accessible from nearby Collins Street, and a baseball field to the northeast.</p><br>
<p>Its main block is a two-and-a-half-story rectangular (20 by) steeply pitched gable-roofed frame house on a mortared fieldstone basement. Two wings extend from the north end, both built later on. The larger is one and a half stories high, with full basement. A one-story storage wing projects from its north end.</p><br>
<p>Mortise and tenon joints were used in the framing. Rafters rest on the roof plate. The slate-shingled roof is pierced by brick chimneys at either end and three shed dormer windows on both east and west elevations. A wraparound porch on the first story has turned posts and is enclosed on the east side. Siding includes a variety of materials, from early weatherboard to later clapboard.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the first floor consists of two large rooms with the fireplaces in their original positions. The second story&#39;s bedrooms have been divided to create office space. The larger of the north wings has three rooms on the first floor and five on the second arranged around a narrow hallway. The smaller wing is a single room.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Scotia owes its name to Alexander Lindsey, the only one of the original founders of Schenectady who was not Dutch. He was a Scotsman who, after taking refuge in the Netherlands, emigrated to New Netherland. There he obtained a patent to land on the north side of the Mohawk.</p><br>
<p>Upon his death, his three sons divided the estate, which had been named Scotia for Lindseys native country, and changed their last names to Glen in Scotlands honor (this led to the surrounding town taking the name of Glenville, as well). Later, one of those sons dictated in his own will that a house be built on his property for his son Abraham.</p><br>
<p>This, the main block of the current building, was erected around 1730. Its vernacular Dutch framing is responsible for its steeply-pitched roof. Masonry fragments found in the basement suggest that at the time of its construction it may have the standard Dutch-style jambless fireplaces.</p><br>
<p>The larger of the northern wings was built at some yet-undetermined time around the end of the 18th century. The Glen descendants continued to own the house until 1842, when it was sold to Charles and James Collins. The two continued to farm the land and harvest ice from the nearby lake.</p><br>
<p>In 1880 James Collins converted the land around the house into a garden and landscaped park. When the last member of the family died in 1924, the village acquired the property. Five years later, in 1930, a new village library was opened in the house. Since 1948 it has been part of the county library system. During the 1980s the interior was renovated and, on the upper floors, its layout altered.</p><br>
<p>The Forêt d&#39;Écouves  is a large area of woodland in the Normandy region of northern France.</p><br>
<h2>Location and topography</h2><br>
<p>The forest is located in the Orne département of France, north of Alençon, between the communes of Carrouges in the west and Sées in the east. It covers an area of approximately 15,000 hectare, being 18 km east to west and between 8 to 10 km wide. It is generally between 100 to 400 m above sea level, although at one point the elevation rises to 417 m above sea level, which is the highest point in all of Normandy.</p><br>
<p>The forest comprises part of the Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park, founded in 1975, along with the Andaines and Perseigne forests.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>Approximately 8,200 hectare hectares of the land covered by the forest is varied planting of broad-leaved (mainly sessile oak and beech) and pine (mainly Scots pine) trees. It is well known for its varied wildlife, particularly deer and birds. Wolves were historically a common feature of the forest, the last recorded capture being in 1882.</p><br>
<p>The Lothar Storm hit the forest on 26 December 1999, with recorded gusts reaching 166 km/h. This devastated 838 hectares, felling 180,000 m of woodland (approximately 40% deciduous and 60% coniferous trees). The Office national des forêts authorities implemented a replanting programme shortly afterwards to restore the forest habitat.</p><br>
<h2>The Battle of Le Gatey</h2><br>
<p>A significant skirmish took place in the forest in August 1944 as part of the wider battle of the Falaise Pocket. The 2nd French Armoured Division had landed at Utah Beach in Normandy on 1 August 1944, about two months after the D-Day landings, and served under General Pattons Third Army. Following the recapture of Alençon on 12 August 1944, the Division, led by General Leclerc, proceeded north towards Argentan. The armoured column entered the forest by the south in order to tackle the 9th Panzer Division, which was hidden in the forest. In Le Gateys, on the only road, a Sherman tank was hit by a German anti tank missile, resulting in the death of Colonel Rémys eighteen-year-old son, Roger. At La Croix de Medavy, Sherman and Panzers clashed but the French were reinforced by the Putz armoured column which had recently set out from Sées. The following day, on 13 August 1944, the two French armoured columns, named Roumiantzoff and Putz, triumphed.</p><br>
<h2>Notable sites</h2><br>
<p>A 16th-century priory dedicated to St. Catherine of Alexandria</p><br>
<p>The Château de Carrouges</p><br>
<p>The Château d&#39;Ô</p><br>
<p>The Château de Sassy</p><br>
<p>Two monuments from the Battle of Le Gatey - a small cemetery of nineteen French soldiers of the 2nd Armoured Division and a memorial to Roger Rémy.</p><br>
<h2>The forest in art</h2><br>
<p>The Écouves Forest is particularly present in the work of artists Georges Lacombe (1868–1916) and Charles Maundrell (1860-?1924)</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>On the first Sunday of September each year, the forest is host to the Trans Écouves mountain biking event. This meeting of VTT (vélo tout terrain) enthusiasts has been part of the all-terrain biking scene since 1990. The event is usually based from Radon, a small commune in the south-east of the forest.</p><br>
<p>R.E. "Bob" Woodruff Lake is a lake on the Alabama River in central Alabama. Woodruff Lake stretches along 80 mi of the Alabama River and has an area of about 20 square miles.</p><br>
<p>Woodruff Lake was made possible through the construction of the Robert F. Henry Lock and Dam which was completed in 1975. The dam backs up the river to a minimum depth of nine feet from the upper end of the William "Bill" Dannelly Reservoir to the Alabama Power Companys Walter Bouldin Dam on the Coosa River. The dams power plant produces enough electricity to serve approximately 45,000 homes.</p><br>
<p>The lake&#39;s level varies little, making it an ideal location for outdoor activities. The lake provides for fishing, boating, water skiing, picnicking, camping, swimming, and hiking. The parks at the lake have beaches, campgrounds, picnic areas, and boat ramps.</p><br>
<p>The Tusciano is a river of Campania in southern Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The source is between Monte Polveracchio and Monte Cervialto, in the Monti Picentini range of the southern Apennines. It passes through the territories of</p><br>
<p>Acerno and Campagna, where it runs at the foot of Monte Costa Calda, then enters the commune of Olevano sul Tusciano. Having passed the settlements of Ariano and Monticelli it crosses Battipaglia to flow into the Tyrrhenian Sea at Spineta on the Gulf of Salerno.</p><br>
<h2>Tributaries</h2><br>
<p>Its left tributary is the Canale Acque Alte Tusciano; its right tributaries are the torrents Cornea, Isca della Serra, Lama, Rialto and Vallemonio.</p><br>
<h2>Hydropower</h2><br>
<p>At Presa, a locality of Olevano sul Tusciano, part of the water is diverted to the hydroelectric power station at Ariano. This, the earliest hydropower facility to be built in southern Italy, was planned in 1895 and constructed during the years 1901–1905 for the Società Meridionale di Elettricità.</p><br>
<p>Cameron Lake is a lake in central Vancouver Island located 15 km east of Port Alberni, on the north side of Highway 4. It has an area of 477 hectares and an elevation of 184 metres above sea level. The lake is between Mount Arrowsmith to the south and Mount Wesley to the north. The lake was named by Captain Richards in 1860 for David Cameron, the first Chief Justice of Vancouver Island.</p><br>
<p>The entire southern shore of the lake is incorporated in the Little Qualicum Falls Provincial Park</p><br>
<p>In the summer of 2009, the B.C. Cryptozoology Club was not able to identify the source of earlier sightings of what may have been a large trout or something larger leading to speculation about some sort of sea serpent.</p><br>
<p>UPDATE: In February 2016 researcher John Kirk and his team detected something big in the water, however, their underwater camera became detached. Kirk speculates the mysterious lake creature could be a giant sturgeon, a huge eel or a massive salamander.</p><br>
<p>The John Ownby Cabin is a historic cabin in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States. Located in The Sugarlands, it lies within the boundaries of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It was built in 1860, and is the last surviving structure from the pre-park Forks-of-the-River community. Repairs were carried out on the dilapidated cabin in 1964, which included replacing the front porch, and the cabin was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The cabin currently stands along the Sugarlands Nature Trail, an interpretive trail accessible behind the Sugarlands Visitor Center.</p><br>
<p>The cabin is a one-story, single-pen cabin measuring 20 ft by 18 ft. The walls are built of hewn white pine and poplar logs with dove-tail notching. The cabins interior contains a sawn board floor, and lacks a loft. The 4 ft porch consists of sawn boards over a hewn log sill. The cabins gabled roof is covered with split oak shingles, and the roof of the porch, which is slightly lower than the cabin roof, is supported by hardwood posts. The cabin has two board and batten doors and two windows, and a chimney constructed of rubble and red clay.</p><br>
<p>The Little Greenbrier School is a former schoolhouse and church in the ghost town of Little Greenbrier in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States. Located near Gatlinburg in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it was built in 1882, and was used as a school and church almost continuously until 1936. When the residents of Little Greenbrier asked Sevier County to provide it with a teacher, the county replied that if the community would build a proper schoolhouse, the county would pay the teacher&#39;s salary. The land on which the school was built was donated by Gilbert Abbott, and the logs were provided by Ephraim Ogle and hauled to the site by oxen teams. Dozens of Little Greenbrier residents, among the John Walker, father of the Walker Sisters, gathered on an agreed-upon day in January 1882 and raised the schoolhouse.</p><br>
<p>Classes were first held at the Little Greenbrier School in Fall 1882. Richard Perryman was the first of 39 teachers who would teach at the school until its closure in 1936. Students throughout the Little River Valley attended the school, some making a 9 mi daily journey from the Meigs Mountain community. The school was also used for church services by a local Primitive Baptist congregation, which established the cemetery on the other side of the road.</p><br>
<p>The schoolhouse, located near what was once the center of the Little Greenbrier community, is one story with an attic, and measures approximately 20 ft by 30 ft. The walls are built of hewn yellow poplar logs resting on a stone foundation. The interior consists of a sawn oak board floor and a sawn chestnut ceiling, and was accessed by a white pine door on iron hinges. The school&#39;s gabled roof is covered with rived oak shingles. The chimney, located in the center of the building, was built of bricks, and fitted with an iron pipe and cook stove.</p><br>
<p>The John Messer Barn is a historic structure within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States. Located along the Porters Creek Trail in the Greenbrier valley, it was constructed in 1875 by Pinkney Whaley. The Whaleys later sold their farm to John H. Messer, who was married to Pinkneys cousin, Lucy. In the 1930s, the Smoky Mountain Hiking Club, which constructed the Smoky Mountain Hiking Club Cabin nearby, leased the barn from the National Park Service. The barn was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and is the last surviving structure from the pre-park Greenbrier Cove community. This barn should not be confused with the Messer Barn in Cataloochee, which was built by Johns cousin, Will Messer.</p><br>
<p>The Messer Barn is a type of double-cantilever barn unique to East Tennessee, and rarely found outside Sevier, Blount, and Cocke counties. The barn is one story with a hayloft, and measures 25 ft by 45 ft. The gabled roof, as with all double-cantilevers, has considerable overhang, allowing livestock shelter in inclement weather. Unlike the reconstructed double-cantilever barn at the Tipton Place in Cades Cove, the Messer Barn&#39;s overhang is supported by poles along the outer edge.</p><br>
<p>The barns foundation is dry field stone, and is higher on one end to compensate for the hillslope. The barn interior consists of two pens, each divided into two stalls, with a "drive-through" in the middle. While the barn walls are built of wooden boards, the pens are built of hewn logs. The barns hayloft consists of poles set on two-foot centers.</p><br>
<p>The Alex Cole Cabin is a historic house in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States, along Roaring Fork within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The last remaining building of the community of Sugarlands community proper, it was built by Albert Alexander "Alex" Cole . The cabin was originally located at 35&deg;40&prime;0&Prime;N latitude, 83&deg;31&prime;17&Prime;W longitude, across the Little Pigeon River from what is now the "Quiet Walkway" opposite the Huskey Gap Trailhead, just off Newfound Gap Road. After being placed on the National Register of Historic Places in the 1970s, the cabin was moved to the Jim Bales Place along the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail .</p><br>
<p>Alex Cole was one of the most industrious residents of the Sugarlands. In the early 1900s, Cole and his sons made a weekly trek across Sugarland Mountain via what is now the Huskey Gap Trail to Elkmont, where they worked for the Little River Lumber Company. As tourism increased in the mountains in the 1920s, Cole began offering his services as a mountain guide, especially for tourists wanting to hike to the summit of Mount Le Conte. Historian Vic Weals wrote that Cole&#39;s "considerable knowledge of his wilderness" made him "one of the more sought-after native guides."</p><br>
<p>The cabin is a single-pen one-story cabin measuring approximately 20 ft by 18 ft. The walls are built of hewn logs with dovetail notching. Fieldstone and loose rock comprise the cabins foundation, and the cabins gabled roof is covered with hand-split shingles. The interior contains a sawn board floor and a loft, and is accessed by a sawn board door. The chimney is built of masonry rubble.</p><br>
<p>Lake Phú Ninh is an artificial lake in Phú Ninh District, Quảng Nam Province, Vietnam.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Lake Phú Ninh is 7 km south from Tam Kỳ Town, 70 km from Da Nang City and about 15 km from Chu Lai International Airport, Quảng Nam Province. On its banks are villages belonging to Phú Ninh District and Núi Thành District.</p><br>
<h2>Resources</h2><br>
<p>Phú Ninh Lake water is the main source of water for residential and agricultural use in Tam Kỳ Town and other places in Phú Ninh and Núi Thành districts. Lake Phú Ninh has hot mineral spring waters. Hydroelectric power from Lake Phú Ninh contributes up to 3 million kwh per year. Annually, about 80 tons of fish are taken from Phú Ninh Lake.</p><br>
<h2>Forest protection</h2><br>
<p>The total protective area surrounding Phú Ninh Lake is 23,409 ha, belonging to Phú Ninh and Núi Thành District. According to the Quảng Nam Forestry Bureau (in 2000), the area included 15,768 ha of forest including 1,500 ha of plantation forest. There is a great variety of animal and plant life, which are recorded in Vietnam&#39;s Red Data Book. It is the place to conserve hundred of plants and precious herbs with various zoology and plantation management systems. Phú Ninh Lake was recently awarded national historical heritage status.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>The area is made up of low hills, average height 100–300 m, but some are 500–700 m above sea level. The average slope is 100 m, sloping to the west, south west and north east to form a small valley. To the south are mountain ranges with high peaks and sharp inclines which make this area strongly isolated. To the north and northwest are low mountains with easy slopes, creating many flat and large valleys surrounding Phú Ninh Lake.</p><br>
<p>The soil is mostly yellow-red feralite soil on sandstone (comprising app. 61.11% of the total) which is easily eroded and not conducive to growing vegetables and crops. Red yellow feralite soil on igneous rock (app. 20%) is often covered by forest. Fertile soil makes up the remaining 15-17% and exists in valleys along the springs where the residential areas and fields are concentrated.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>Phú Ninh Lake&#39;s climate belongs to the Middle South climate area. It is not cold in autumn. Daily and yearly temperatures are both relatively low for Vietnam. There are two seasons: rainy and dry. The average readings taken at the Tam Kỳ weather station show the following characteristics:</p><br>
<p>Temperature</p><br>
<p>Yearly average temperature: 25.6 °C</p><br>
<p>Average temperature high: 29.7 °C</p><br>
<p>Monthly lowest average temperature: 22.7 °C</p><br>
<p>Monthly average temperature fluctuation: 7 °C</p><br>
<p>Monthly average approximate humidity 82%. From September to October, approximate humidity is 82%-88%. From April to September, monthly average approximate humidity is about 75%-81%</p><br>
<p>Precipitation</p><br>
<p>Rainfall is concentrated from September to December</p><br>
<p>Yearly average rainfall: 2,491mm</p><br>
<p>Highest rainfall: 3,307 mm</p><br>
<p>Lowest rainfall: 1.111 mm</p><br>
<p>Daily lowest rainfall: 332 mm</p><br>
<p>Wind</p><br>
<p>Phú Ninh Lake has two main wind directions: East and Northeast. The east wind prevailss from March to August. The northeast wind prevails from October to November</p><br>
<p>Average wind speed: 2.9 m/s; highest wind speed: 40 m/s (in stormy weather).</p><br>
<p>Strong wind speed is from 14 m/s to 28 m/s</p><br>
<p>Storms occur from September to October. There are 0-5 direct storms yearly and 2-3 indirect storms and tropical pressure systems.</p><br>
<p>Hot and dry West wind: Southwest wind happens in May. From May to August, there are 10 to 15 hot and dry days.</p><br>
<h2>Terrain/Ecosystems</h2><br>
<p>Regenerated forest and mountains.</p><br>
<p>Low mountain.</p><br>
<p>Lakes and small islands.</p><br>
<p>Field, milpas and residential areas.</p><br>
<h2>Zoology and plant resources</h2><br>
<p>Forest cover:</p><br>
<p>Plants on mountain includes thin forest (about 860 ha, cover to the south) and extremely thin forest (about 530 ha)</p><br>
<p>Bush, grass: total area is about 10,000 ha, covering everywhere. The soil is dry, low regenerated capability</p><br>
<p>Plantation: about 700 ha, mainly concentrate on the north boundary of the lake which is mostly eucalyptus.</p><br>
<p>*The forest surrounding the lake has been negatively impacted by the lingering effects of the war and continued exploitation.</p><br>
<p>Plants:</p><br>
<p>Phu Ninh forest has approximately 369 species of plants, 10 of which are recorded in Vietnam&#39;s Red Data Book.</p><br>
<p>Plant resources:</p><br>
<p>There are 250 useful plants, which include 211 plants with medicinal uses, 85 types of wood, 66 used for ornamental and shading purposes, 50 types of fruits and crops, 14 used for handicraft materials and 22 that produce rubber or various oils. (Some plants have more than one use.)</p><br>
<p>Animals:</p><br>
<p>Land vertebrates with 148 species representing 69 families, 27 groups and 4 classes</p><br>
<p>Aquatic animals:</p><br>
<p>*Floating animals: 13 species.</p><br>
<p>*Fish: 14 species.</p><br>
<p>*Seabed animals: 11 species (clams, snails)</p><br>
<p>Land invertebrates:</p><br>
<p>Insects: 150 species, representing 11 groups which are tremendous and various. Some are colorful, attracting tourists.</p><br>
<p>Protected species</p><br>
<p>According to the research by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (in 2003), the Phú Ninh area has many endangered species such as:</p><br>
<p>*11 kinds of mammals recorded in the Red Data Book need to be protected. Notably, these include the red monkey, yellow monkey and the long tail monkey. The last known Javan rhinoceros was killed in 2010.</p><br>
<p>*7 reptiles, including: python, cobra, egretta garzetta.</p><br>
<h2>Current land use</h2><br>
<p>North Lake area:</p><br>
<p>Dams: Chinh dam, Tu Yen dam, Long Son dam, and Duong Lam dam</p><br>
<p>Management office, Security office: lake management team, forest protect station</p><br>
<p>Power station</p><br>
<p>Chap Tra mountain is a small natural mountain in the North of the lake with some endangered animals. It is available for sightseeing.</p><br>
<p>Agriculture land, fish pond and agricultural channel</p><br>
<p>Mineral water and security station</p><br>
<p>Island and peninsula:</p><br>
<p>Phú Ninh Lake has 15 small and big islands. The small islands often flood in rainy season. The North and East islands no longer have any natural forest. The new plantation area includes pine, eucalyptus. There is very little fauna.</p><br>
<p>Rua Island: natural forest, small animals, especially two small kinds of monkey.</p><br>
<p>So Island: the biggest island of Phú Ninh Lake. The natural forest is being recovered. There are many animals, birds, reptiles. The quantity is low but with potential for growth.</p><br>
<p>61st Island: This is the location of the old two-story structure that houses the lake management team. Because most of the forest on this island is planted, the landscape and the zoology system are poor and need to be improved.</p><br>
<p>The South and West Islands and peninsulas (belonging to Tam Son and Tam Lanh communes): many wild animals are present such as deer, reptiles, birds.</p><br>
<h2>Mineral water</h2><br>
<p>At the heart of the lake, near Chap Tra valley, there are many mineral water resources with useful elements for digestion and health improvement. The temperature of Phú Ninh&#39;s mineral water is 900C underground, 600C-700C when flowing out; the flowing speed is 0,5l/s. The mineral water company in Tam Ky commune uses it to make various products (planned output: 15 million bottles/year) However, they have not used this mineral water for medicinal purposes yet.</p><br>
<p>Saltdean Lido at Saltdean Park Road, Saltdean, in the city of Brighton and Hove, is an Art Deco lido designed by architect R.W.H. Jones. Originally listed at Grade II by English Heritage for its architectural and historical importance, its status was upgraded further to "Grade II*" on 18 March 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Art Deco design has been described by The Daily Telegraph as "particularly glorious, with its elegant, curved lines – rather like a stately ocean liner."</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The pool measures 140 x and can accommodate 500 bathers.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The lido was built in 1937-38 to designs by the architect Richard Jones, and was hailed as the most innovative design of its type in Britain. With its tea terrace, sun deck, café, perched on the flat roof and distinctive curved wings at either end, it became the only lido to be featured in the Design Museum in London.</p><br>
<p>In 1958, Butlins attempted to buy the derelict lido for development, the application was opposed by residents and eventually rejected by the Ministry of Housing.</p><br>
<p>In 1998, the lido was reopened by Sports Minister Tony Banks. The restoration was achieved through a public and private sector partnership costing £2 million. Banks revealed he had a personal link to the Grade II listed building through his mother, who used to visit it during the Second World War. He said: "Open air sites are not able to attract National Lottery funding, so the money for this had to come through private investors having the vision to bring a piece of our heritage back into use." The reopening ceremony came two days after the lido let in its first visitors for three years.</p><br>
<p>On 18 March 2011, John Penrose, the Minister for Tourism and Heritage in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, approved the upgrade of Saltdean Lido&#39;s listed status from Grade II to the second highest grade, Grade II*.</p><br>
<p>On 30 May 2012, it was announced that the ownership of the Lido would be handed back by leaseholder Dennis Audley to Brighton and Hove City Council after legal discussions.</p><br>
<p>After an extensive campaign by local residents, the Save Saltdean Lido Campaign successfully lobbied the freeholders of the site (Brighton & Hove City Council) to stop housing development and take back the lease on the site. Following a 9 month procurement process the Saltdean Lido Community Interest Company (set up by the campaign group) will take ownership of a 60-year lease in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The lido reopened in 2017.</p><br>
<p>The Verbeck House is located on Church Street  just south of downtown Ballston Spa, New York, United States. It is a frame house built in the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>It was one of the last buildings designed by regionally important architect Marcus F. Cummings. The building is one of the few houses he designed late in his career, and one of his few in the Queen Anne architectural style. It retains much of its ornate period interior decorations.</p><br>
<p>In 1983 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was used for a time afterwards as the National Bottle Museum, which obtained a state matching grant to restore it. The museum later moved to larger quarters in the village&#39;s downtown following a legal dispute with its parent organization. Today the house is home to some professional offices.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house sits on a small lot on the west side of the street, just south of High Street (NY 67), partially shaded by tall trees. A parking lot has been built on the south side to serve the offices. The surrounding neighborhood is mostly residential.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-and-a-half-story, four-by-six-bay house on a stone foundation, mostly sided in narrow clapboard with bands and panels emphasizing the structural supports. The slate roof is surrounded by a modillioned cornice. There are projecting two-story bays on the south and east, with a one-story raised balustraded porch on the east at the main entrance. Windows have decorative lintels. A corbeled brick chimney rises on the south end.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance is a six-panel wooden door with stained glass sidelight and transom. It opens onto a central hall, decorated with early Art Nouveau style wallpaper in an embossed floral pattern, running nearly the length of the house, giving access to parlors and other rooms paneled in cherry. A walnut staircase with turned balusters rises to the second floor. Doors at the west end of both hallways have stained glass in the pattern of the hall decoration.</p><br>
<p>On the floor, the oak in a parquet pattern is original. The house also has rare chandeliers that can support either gas or electric lights, functional steam radiators and an intact butler&#39;s pantry. It does not appear to have ever had any outbuildings.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was designed for James Verbeck, a prominent local attorney. It was one of the last houses built by Cummings, an architect known primarily for his commercial buildings in downtown Troy, before he retired in 1891. Most of his previous houses were built before 1869, in the wake of a devastating fire in Troy, and those were in the Italianate and Second Empire styles. His use of elements of the Queen Anne style here is a strong contrast to his earlier residential work.</p><br>
<p>Verbeck&#39;s descendants owned the house until 1978, maintaining it and its furnishings near their original state. The next year, it was donated to the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs, and converted into the National Bottle Museum. In 1989, the museum obtained a $46,000 state grant to restore the house, repainting it in the original colors, ascertained through paint chip analysis.</p><br>
<p>Three years later, during a dispute between the federation and the museum, run by the National Bottle Museum Society, the museum was evicted. A covenant in the deed by which the Verbecks donated the house provided that if it were not used as a museum, ownership would revert to the family. As a condition of the grant that restored the house, which required that the house continue to be used as a museum for at least 23 years, the covenant was lifted. The federation put the house on the market. It is now the offices of a local insurance agency. and financial management firm.</p><br>
<p>Šćedro is an island in the Adriatic Sea with an area of 8.36 km,</p><br>
<p>2.7 km off the south coast of the island of Hvar, Croatia, opposite the settlement of Zavala. The name comes from štedri, meaning charitable in old Slavonic, because the island offers two deep, well-protected coves. The Latin name of Šćedro was Tauris from which derived the Italian Tauricola or Torcola.</p><br>
<p>According to the Hvar Statute of 1331, the island was communal property and reserved for use as a pasture. The island is very fertile, and has a milder climate then Hvar and, thanks to night dew, was even used to grow grain.</p><br>
<p>A Dominican monastery was founded in the Bay of Mostir (1465), together with a hospice for sailors, and abandoned in the 18th century. There is an old quarry at Stare Stine, and gypsum from the island was used in the Baroque chapels of Hvar cathedral.</p><br>
<p>Around 30 people live on the island in summer. The old settlements of Mostir and Nastane are now largely abandoned, except for restaurants and other tourist facilities in the summer season.</p><br>
<p>The name St Peters Church has been borne by two Roman Catholic churches in the town of Shoreham-by-Sea in the district of Adur, in the English county of West Sussex. The original church with that dedication was the towns first permanent Roman Catholic place of worship; founded in 1875, it was paid for by Augusta, Duchess of Norfolk, a member of the most important Dukedom in England. After its closure, a new St Peter&#39;s Church was built nearby. The old building, which still stands and is in residential use, has been listed by English Heritage at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.</p><br>
<h2>The former St Peter's Church</h2><br>
<h3>History</h3><br>
<p>The settlement of Old Shoreham developed inland from the English Channel and next to the east bank of the River Adur. Its focus was the 10th-century St Nicolas&#39; Church. Later development filled the gap between the village and the sea, and the growth of trade from its harbour in the 18th and 19th centuries brought prosperity to what was by then a small town.</p><br>
<p>By the mid-19th century, two large Anglican churches were supported—St Nicolas&#39; Church had been joined by the substantial St Mary de Haura Church The land on which this stood had been acquired in the 1860s by the former Vicar of Shoreham, Reverend William Wheeler. He had left the Church of England and was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1855, and donated the land to enable a permanent church to be built.</p><br>
<p>The funds to build the church came from Augusta, Duchess of Norfolk. She had married into the Dukedom of Norfolk, England&#39;s most important Roman Catholic family, in 1839; was commissioned to design and build the church. It was registered for marriages in April 1877.</p><br>
<h3>Architecture</h3><br>
<p>Charles Buckler used the Decorated Gothic style, imitative of 13th- and 14th-century churches, for his design for St Peters Church. The structure is of cobbled flint dressed with ashlar. It lacks a spire or tower, but there is a bell-tower at the west end of the roof, which is tiled and gabled. There are four large lancet windows in the north and south walls, separated by buttresses; until the buildings conversion from a nursing home into flats, these had elaborate tracery. As originally built, the church had a four-bay nave and two further bays in the chancel, which also had a transept. A porch led into the nave on the west side. Inside, below the roof trusses, there was a gallery at the west end. Fittings included a reredos and a marble altar.</p><br>
<h3>The building today</h3><br>
<p>The church was closed and sold for redevelopment in 1982. It was converted into a nursing home, retaining most of its ecclesiastical features including the intricate window tracery. The latter was lost when the building was converted into flats in 2002, being replaced with plain modern windows instead, but there has otherwise been little structural alteration. The flats are named "St John&#39;s Court"—a reference to the former name of John Street. "St John" referred to the Knights of St John Hospitallers, who had been active in Shoreham since the mid-12th century.</p><br>
<p>English Heritage granted the former St Peter&#39;s Church Grade II listed status on 16 August 1983. As of February 2001, it was one of 106 Grade II listed buildings, and 119 listed buildings of all grades, in Adur district.</p><br>
<h2>The new St Peter's Church</h2><br>
<p>A new church—a low building with a rectangular plan—was built just north of its predecessor after it closed in 1982. Construction started in 1983. The building, which stands on the corner of West Street and North Street, is on the site of a Roman Catholic school which had closed and moved elsewhere in the town in the 1960s. Before that, a 17th-century house stood on the site; its grounds extended some distance to the north.</p><br>
<p>The church is part of the parish of Our Lady Queen of Peace, Adur Valley, which covers three Roman Catholic churches in the area (the others are at Steyning and Upper Beeding in the neighbouring district of Horsham). One priest serves all three.</p><br>
<p>Two Masses are celebrated every Sunday, and on Holy Days of Obligation an evening Mass is said.</p><br>
<p>La Suze is a river in the Bernese Jura, Canton of Berne, Switzerland.</p><br>
<h2>Down flow</h2><br>
<p>It takes its source in a moorland at over 900 metres of altitude, in the high valley of Les Convers, (see: Renan). It flows down the whole length of the valley of Saint-Imier, (Erguel), leaving it through the gorge of Taubenloch, it flows across the city of Biel/Bienne into the Lake of Bienne, at the altitude of 429 metres, upon a stretch of 45 kilometres. It leaves it through the last leg of the Thielle river, merging into the Nidau-Büren channel (Aare river), just before the regulating dam Port.</p><br>
<h2>Tributaries</h2><br>
<p>Its main tributaries are la Dou, la Raissette, le Terbez and l&#39;Orvine.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On December 21, 1991, the river has provoked significant flooding along its course: i.e. in Sonceboz, its level had raised by a significant 1,10 meter, with 65 cubic meters of water per second.</p><br>
