<p>The Francois Cousin House near Slidell is located on Bayou Liberty in eastern St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, west of the City of Slidell, Louisiana. The house is a French Creole Cottage, likely built between 1778 and 1790, by Francois Cousin. Cousin, born in 1745 in New Orleans, managed his father&#39;s lumber and brick making business interests on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. He built this home facing Bayou Liberty which has direct access to Lake Pontchartrain. Behind the home are the pits used to mine the clay. Cousin also owned property in Lacombe, Louisiana.</p><br>
<p>The core of the home, built c. 1790, was constructed with briquette entre poteaux walls (bricks between posts). The front gallery, running the length of the home, has chamfered gallery columns. Behind the gallery are two rooms of equal size, with one large additional room behind, all served by a central chimney with wrap around mantels. There is a dormer located above this section of the home.</p><br>
<p>In the late 19th century or early 20th century, an additional three rooms were added to the rear of the home, along with side galleries.</p><br>
<h2>Hurricane Katrina</h2><br>
<p>The home is now owned by William Thompson Lowry who originally bought the home with his late wife Pomeroy Lowry.</p><br>
<p>In 2005, the home was flooded with four feet of water from Hurricane Katrina, and again in 2008 to a much lesser extent by Hurricane Ike. The Lowrys worked with historic prevervation offices and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to save the home by raising it while at the same time preserving the home&#39;s historic architecture. It was finally finished in May 2011.</p><br>
<p>Permission was received from FEMA and the National Park Service to raise the home in order to preserve it on November 13, 2009.</p><br>
<p>Work began in December 2009 to save the house and was finally finished in November 2011.</p><br>
<p>Hurricane Katrina also wore away some of the top soil on the property, exposing brick molds and discarded bricks from the Cousin brick business. With the Great New Orleans Fire (1788), followed by the Great New Orleans Fire (1794), destroying most of the buildings in the City of New Orleans, bricks made from the clay on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain were much in demand. The brick company operated six schooners to carry its products across the lake.</p><br>
<p>The American Thermos Bottle Company Laurel Hill Plant, located in the Laurel Hill section of Norwich, Connecticut, in the United States, includes 11 contributing buildings and two other contributing structures. The original plant was built during 1912–13 and used a historic Italianate house as a company office building. The plant was the primary factory where Thermos bottles were manufactured from 1913 to 1984. The plant is historically significant to its connection to the Thermos Company and the history of Norwich. The complex is architecturally significant because it displays the adaptive use of industrial mill design to new industry. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Since its nomination, numerous changes and renovations have occurred. The surrounding area has seen the construction of condominiums and the large manufacturing building being renovated and re-purposed for loft-style apartments. Renovations on the northern end of the property would require the demolition of two buildings to construct the Integrated Day Charter School. Completed in 2008, a new two-story addition created an indoor gymnasium, kitchen, offices and a new lobby for the school.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>The citizens of Norwich, Connecticut, sought out the Thermos company to build and operate a plant on the banks of the Thames River. A group of citizens under the group "Norwich Boomers" rallied the community to purchase 27 acre of land for 750 $/acre so that it could be used for the Thermos Plant. The house of Dr. William H. Mason was included in the purchase. Together, the citizens and the city raised $78,000. A contract was signed on February 14, 1912, designating Norwich as the home of the Thermos Plant. In return, Thermos would include the citys name in the companys advertisements. The operations expanded into nearby Taftville, operating until they were phased out and shut down in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Plant overview</h2><br>
<p>The plant was laid out roughly north to south orientation along the Thames River. The plant itself is a mixture of interconnected buildings and stand-alone structures. The stand-alone structures included three propane sheds (Buildings 63, 64 and 65) that were located near the Human Resources building (Building 86) and its storage shed (Building 30). The main structure of the plant was a string of connecting buildings that were erected and integrated into the production and operation of the plant. At the north end of the plant was the Research and Development building (Building 87), it was located connected to two large storage buildings (Building 1 and 2). On the front of Building 2 was the main offices (Building 85). Building 2 is connected to the largest building, the Manufacturing Building (Building 3), which is connected to the Manufacturing Glass House (Building 5) and Glass House 2 (Building 32). Building 32 also served as storage building. Connected to Building 5 is the Glass House Cullet & Mix House (Number 7) and the Compressor & Auxiliary Generator building (Number 9) at the southern end.</p><br>
<p>Originally, the plant consisted of the company offices and the large Manufacturing Building. The Mason house, which would become the company office was originally constructed in 1861. It is a two-story brick Italianate style house that was converted to be used as an office building and significantly modified throughout the years. The 1929 addition added a wing that connected it to the metal products building which was built that year. In 1942, a two-story front addition was added and another addition to the west was added around 1950. These additions also resulted in the removal of the cupola, brick chimneys, front entry, and veranda. The Manufacturing building, constructed from 1912 to 1913, is three stories high on the river side and two stories on the east. It is divided into 31 bays with pilasters. At each end of the building are stairs and elevator towers. The structural remains of the original glass house survive as a sub-basement in a one-story extension at the south end of the building.</p><br>
<p>The Human Resources and Research and Development buildings were originally constructed around 1912 by the MacKay Copper Process Company. The property was acquired in 1923 by the Thermos Company following the foreclosure of the MacKay company. The Human Resources building was used by the enameling department until its conversion in 1948. The Research and Development building was previously the Engineering building. A one-story hipped frame gatehouse was constructed in the 1920s. The Carpenter Shop (Building 62) was constructed in 1926. The Thermos factory completed construction of a storage building in 1929 (Building 2) and another storage building in 1941 (Building 1). Glass House 1 (Building 5) was constructed in 1939 and incorporates a warehouse dating from 1930 into its construction. Glass House 2 was constructed in 1951 and is connected to the Manufacturing Building by a conveyor.</p><br>
<h2>Modern use and adaptation</h2><br>
<p>The plant was a set in the 1990 movie Everybody Wins, afterwards the property was partially developed to condominiums. The project failed and resulted in the closure of the Brooklyn Savings Bank in 1990. The factory was also converted to loft-style apartments.</p><br>
<p>In 1997, the Integrated Day Charter School renovated a 16,000 ft2 section of the factory for use as a school. This required the demolition of two buildings to serve as space for a playground and parking spaces. The total cost of the renovations were estimated at $750,000 and would be partly paid by the State of Connecticut. The renovations were expected to be completed by August 27, 1997, in time for the school&#39;s opening. Integrated Day Charter School has a maximum enrollment of 330 students across pre-kindergarten to eighth grade with a majority of children residing in the Norwich area and 15% in nearby towns. The charter school has an application wait list and holds a lottery for admittance of pre-kindergarten students.</p><br>
<p>Since the time of its NRHP nomination, the plant and the surrounding area have undergone numerous changes which have impacted and removed buildings. The construction of the Integrated Day Charter School removed the Research and Development and Storage Building 1. The "Colosseum" as it was termed, was an outdoor gym which retained sides of the former building. Completed in 2008, the two-story addition created an indoor gymnasium, kitchen, offices and a new lobby for the school at a cost of $2 million. The renovation of the large Manufacturing building included the installation of new windows and energy-efficient roofing along with the installation of modern mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The American Thermos Bottle Company Laurel Hill Plant is historically significant as the primary factory for the production of Thermos bottles that would allow the company to dominate in the world market. It is also historically significant as an example of the Norwich community coming together to attract the company and diversify the local industry. The plant was the primary factory where Thermos bottles were manufactured from raw materials between 1913 and 1984. The complex is architecturally significant as an example of late-19th century and early 20th century industrial mill design being adapted for new industry. The American Thermos Bottle Company Laurel Hill Plant was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Winslow Ames House is a prefabricated modular International Style house in New London, Connecticut, United States. It was designed by Robert W. McLaughlin, Jr. and was built in 1933. Winslow Ames, a professor of art history at Connecticut College and the art director of the Lyman Allyn Museum, had the home built after attending the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. Constructed for $7,500, the prefabricated house is one of two surviving Motohomes produced by McLaughlin&#39;s company American Houses Inc. The modular house, comprising three rectangles and a flat roof, was constructed on a concrete slab with a welded steel framework. It was made with asbestos panels and features a core component that provides the heating and plumbing functions for the house. The other two modules feature two bedrooms and a one-car garage.</p><br>
<p>Ames and his family resided in the house briefly, the Connecticut College acquired the house in 1949 and used it for faculty housing until 1986. The house was in a state of disrepair by 1989 and was a hazard due to its construction with asbestos panels. It was slated to be demolished, but Ms. Hendrickson rallied supporter to the save the house after uncovering its history. A restoration and rehabilitation project was completed in 1994 and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The other prefabricated house built by Ames, House at 130 Mohegan Avenue, was also added the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The Winslow Ames House was unlike other homes of the 1930s, it is a modular home that was constructed on a concrete slab and constructed with a welded steel framework. The designer of the house was John B. McLaughlin Jr., who co-founded American Houses Inc. in 1932. McLaughlin&#39;s designs focused on inexpensive housing through mass production and new materials and technology. The International Style house was modular and intended to allow easy enlargement, dismantling and relocation of the structure if needed. The houses, termed "Motohomes", featured modular "motounits" that contained heating and plumbing equipment. The use of steel in the prefabricated homes would later be limited by World War II, which made steel unavailable for civilian use. After the war, prefabricated homes were typically made of wood and offices were normally constructed of steel and concrete.</p><br>
<p>The house bears the name of Winslow Ames, a professor of art history at Connecticut College and the art director of the Lyman Allyn Museum. In 1933, Ames decided to construct two houses on the museum-owned property after seeing prefabricated homes at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. Ames had a strong interest in the Modernism movement and believed such houses would become predominant. The Ames house cost $7,500, similar to other McLaughlin houses from 1933 and 1934, which ranged from $3,500 to $7,500 each. Later, Ames and his family would briefly take up residence in the house. The other house, known as the "House at 130 Mohegan Avenue" would be added the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Winslow Ames house rests on a concrete foundation and has a welded steel skeleton. The walls were made of 4 ft white-painted panels that were constructed of asbestos board over an insulating core. The two-story house is composed of three rectangular modules, offset to create an irregular plan, with a flat roof structure. The largest block in the middle contains the service core with the kitchen and bathroom. The left block contains the main entry, stair hall and two bedrooms. The right block consists of the one-car garage and its second story only covers its overlap with the middle block.</p><br>
<h2>Use</h2><br>
<p>The house was ready for occupancy in 1934 and was used by many tenants, but the Ames sold the house to the Connecticut College in 1949. Sometime after its completion, Winslow Ames and his family lived in the house for a brief period. From 1949 to 1987, the college used it for faculty housing. One of the tenets, Mary Kent, lived in the house with her husband and three children from 1958 through 1961. Throughout its life the original furnace, kitchen cabinets, plumbing fixtures were replaced, but the core module has retained its purpose. The house fell into a state of disrepair, becoming an "eyesore". By 1989, the college was concerned with the asbestos in the building and obtained a permit to demolish the house; the college intended to use the land for a boathouse. After its restoration was completed, the Connecticut College uses the house as an office and for meeting rooms.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>The house was saved through the efforts of Ms. Hendrickson, who uncovered the history surrounding the house and its designer. The interior and exterior of the house was coated with white paint, but the restoration did not revert the flooring to the original Masonite rectangles. The restoration project was completed in 1994 and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Chelsea Parade Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The district is located north of downtown Norwich and includes the Chelsea Parade Green and its monuments.</p><br>
<p>It includes 565 contributing buildings, two other contributing sites, and six contributing objects over an 205 acre area.</p><br>
<p>It includes the Nathaniel Backus House, the Broad Street School, and the Converse House and Barn which are separately NRHP-listed. Other notable buildings include the Norwich Free Academy, Park Congregational Church (UCC), St. Patrick Cathedral, and the Slater Memorial Museum.</p><br>
<p>The J. F. Slater Memorial Museum, aka Slater Memorial Museum, is a contributing property at 108 Crescent Street, now 285 Broadway.</p><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Backus House is a two-story Greek Revival clapboarded house with a gable roof in Norwich, Connecticut. The house was built around 1750 by Nathaniel Backus and served as his home, it was later moved to its current location in 1952. The house originally began as a Colonial, but was greatly modified to Greek Revival around 1825, reconfiguring the central door to the left of the facade and adding two chimneys. The house is a historic house museum operated by the Faith Trumbull Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.</p><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Backus House was submitted to the National Register of Historic Places for its historical value in local history and as an example of Greek Revival domestic architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1970 and was also included in the NRHP&#39;s Chelsea Parade Historic District designation in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Nathaniel Backus</h2><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Backus House&#39;s namesake is its builder Nathaniel Backus, a descendent of William Backus and William Backus, Jr., two of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut. Nathaniel Backus was born on April 5, 1704 and he married Hannah Baldwin in 1726. Together they would have seven children. Nathaniel Backus was also recorded to be one of six men in Norwich to own their own carriages before the American Revolutionary War. Nathaniel Backus died in 1773.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Backus Houses construction date is unknown, but it is believed to have been around 1750. The History of Norwich, Connecticut places it around 1734 and makes mention of a highway being added in 1750 specifically by Nathaniel Backus house. In the 1970 National Historic Register of Places nomination, the Daughters of the American Revolution indicated it dates from 1750.</p><br>
<p>The house originally stood on Broadway Street in the center of Norwich, Connecticut. It was originally Colonial at its time of construction, but has been modified to Greek Revival style. The house is a white two-story clapboarded structure with its gable end facing the street. The three-bay facade faces south and the front entrance is located on the left bay. The eaves cornice is decorated with mutules that span the length of the gable ends and combines with the roof cornice to make a pediment that encloses an elliptical window in the center. The window is of the "rising sun pattern" with glass panes radiating out through two rings. The entrance on the left of the facade has a paneled door, stated to be original, that is enclosed in a rectangular frame, supported by Ionic columns and framed by fluted moldings. The frames of the 6-over-6 windows project slightly from the clapboard exterior. The foundation and steps to the house is of stone.</p><br>
<p>An alteration saw the addition of two chimneys and additional alterations to the window and door openings on the northeast and southwest sides of the house. It is believed that the central door and window alterations were done as part of the Greek Revival renovations. Luyster states, "urther investigation would undoubtedly reveal additional changes in the interior, including changes in the position of the fireplaces and their chimney connections."</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Backus House is a historic house museum operated by the Faith Trumbull Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution following its completed move in 1952. The Nathaniel Backus House was submitted to the National Register of Historic Places for its historical value in local history and as an example of Greek Revival domestic architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Norwich Historic District is a historic district representing the core of the downtown area of the city of Norwich, Connecticut in the United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It includes 115 contributing buildings and one other contributing structure over a 64 acre area.</p><br>
<p>Several buildings in the historic district are also individually listed on the National Register, including the Norwich Town Hall, the Telephone Exchange Building and the Carroll Building.</p><br>
<p>Norwichs downtown grew up near the confluence of the Shetucket, Yantic, and Thames Rivers and the citys harbor, which was once a major center for trade and commerce. The area includes many intact 18th-century buildings centered on the now-picturesque harbor.</p><br>
<p>The Carroll Building in Norwich, Connecticut, also known as the Flat Iron Building, was built in 1887. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1982. It is included in the Downtown Norwich Historic District, which is also listed on the NRHP. Originally used as offices and retail stores, the building is now currently used primarily as an apartment building. The Carroll Building is located on a triangular tract created by the intersection of Main and Water Streets. The building is highly visible from Washington Square  and is one of the most noticeable aspects of the downtown streetscape.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>The building was commissioned by, Lucius W. Carroll, a commission merchant with investments that included a textile mill. The Carroll Building was a real estate investment of income derived from manufacturing and retailing, an important factor in the development of Downtown Norwich. The building was designed by Stephen C. Earle of Worcester, Massachusetts. It bore resemblance to the Salisbury Building, constructed the year prior, but was more refined. Earle&#39;s works in Norwich are not limited to the Carroll Building, for the Rockwell Building, Lee and Osgood Building, and the A. H. Vaughn & Sons Office. Various business leased spaces in the building, including the Southern New England Telephone between 1894 and 1902. The difficult siting of the building combined with the visual impact made the Carroll Building an excellent example of downtown Norwich architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>Constructed in 1887, the Carroll Building is a built on a triangular site between the intersection of Main Street and Water Street in Downtown Norwich. This intersection also takes place at different grades and required the design of the building to be specially adapted to its unique location. The site has an upward incline on the north-to-south axis and slopes downward on the east-to-west axis on Main Street and upwards on the same access for Water Street. The building fully occupies the site and varies between four and five stories tall across the plan. An 18 ft wide semicircular turret projects outward at the intersection of the site.</p><br>
<h2>Modern use</h2><br>
<p>In the late 1980s, Norwich passed an ordinance on property owners that stipulated that properties "shall reflect a level of maintenance in keeping with the standards of the community and not constitute a blighting factor for adjoining property owners." The building was also part of Society of the Founders of Norwich Inc.&#39;s "Walking Through History" guide. In 1992, the Connecticut Trust For Historic Preservation placed the Carroll Building at the top of their list the most important historic sites that were endangered.</p><br>
<p>In 2012, Norwich&#39;s Vibrant Communities Initiative (NVCI) noted that the property was vacant. The Carroll Building structure itself is listed as 9-15 Main Street, but directly opposite and owned by the same owner is 16 Main Street. Though not included in the National Register of Historic Places listing, 16 Main Street was the former site was a Dunkin Donuts shop that has become vacant. NVCI noted that owner of the properties would like to sell and stated total assessed value is $474,000. NVCI reconfirmed the properties iconic nature, but also highlighted structural issues with the roof and floor framing. They also concluded that despite an unusual floorplan, the building would have significant interest for residential units and that the former Dunkin Donuts location could provide 15 parking spaces.</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>The Carroll Building is an excellent example of both Romanesque-style of architecture that is also the best surviving example of commercial Romanesque Revival architecture in Norwich. Earle&#39;s design shows influence of H. H. Richardson, but it is the successful execution and adaptation of the building to the principal intersection of the two streets which is also important. The design maximizes the constricted and different inclines of the site by making essentially two separate buildings connected by a common staircase and utilizing the differences in grade for storefront use. The Carroll Building is also historically significant because it is representative of the real estate practice in the city in the late 19th-century and the wealth and influence of Carroll. Instead of taking up office in the building, Carroll rented the property as a realty investment, the same way in which other prominent buildings in Downtown Norwich were constructed. The building is also situated in a prominent position when viewed from Washington Square and is a notable aspect of the downtown landscape.</p><br>
<p>The Bean Hill Historic District is a historic district in Norwich, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The district is located in the vicinity of West Town Street  between I-395 and Connecticut Avenue, and also extends northeast along Huntington Avenue to include properties further beyond Bean Hill Plain .</p><br>
<p>It includes 37 contributing buildings over a 22 acre area. Greek Revival and Late Victorian architecture is represented, including the 1833 Bean Hill Methodist Church.</p><br>
<p>The district is a well-preserved grouping of 18th- and 19th-century buildings focused on the Bean Hill Green. It captures the period when Bean Hill was a local center for manufacturing and commercial activity.</p><br>
<p>Greeneville is a neighborhood of the city of Norwich, Connecticut, located northeast of downtown Norwich along the west bank of the Shetucket River. Most of the neighborhood is designated Greeneville Historic District, a historic district that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register in 2005 and includes 683 contributing buildings, seven other contributing structures, and one other contributing site over a 300 acre area.</p><br>
<p>The district is drawn to "correspond to the village as it was laid out in 1833, but also include additional streets laid out and developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to accommodate population growth. Areas north and south of the district boundaries were excluded...." as those areas included undeveloped land, or fewer contributing relative to non-contributing buildings, or reflected a "shift in architectural character."</p><br>
<p>According to the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation the district "is a historically significant industrial village that was created to support and sustain water-powered industry from 1828 to about 1940. Much of the enduring success of this industrial enterprise can be attributed to the entrepreneurial vision of industrialist William P. Greene (1795–1862). His development of this planned community and a company to deliver a centralized power system, combined with significant technological infrastructure improvements in the late 19th century, supported the largest industrial presence in Norwich. Although nominally a part of the City of Norwich after 1875, from its creation in 1833 until after World War I Greeneville remained a relatively independent and self-sufficient, working-class community-an evolution fully expressed by the district&#39;s large, cohesive collection of generally well-preserved domestic, institutional and commercial architecture. While much of the architecture has the vernacular character expected in a mill town, the district also includes representative examples of the major styles of the period, including Greek Revival, Second Empire, Italianate, and Carpenter Gothic."</p><br>
<p>Christ Episcopal Church and Tashua Burial Ground is a historic property including an Episcopal Church building and cemetery at 5170 Madison Avenue in Trumbull, Connecticut. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Two prior church buildings had been on the site before the cornerstone of the existing church was laid in 1826. This building is believed to have been designed by Alexander Jackson Davis and was consecrated in 1847. The original building was a 36’ X 26’ structure and stood at the north end of the graveyard. The second, larger building was built across from the first and consecrated in 1795 after the first building was abandoned five years earlier.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>The current building is an example of Carpenter Gothic, a variant of Neo-Gothic architecture. The church parish is still active, with two services held on Sunday mornings at 8 AM and 10 AM.</p><br>
<h2>Burial Ground</h2><br>
<p>The burial ground on the site dates to 1766, and includes 241 plots.</p><br>
<p>The Putnam Farm is a historic farm on Spaulding Road in Brooklyn, Connecticut. The property, now just 9 acre of agricultural land with a house on it, was the centerpiece of a vast landholding in the mid-18th century by Major General Israel Putnam, a major colonial-era military figure who saw action in both the French and Indian War and in the American Revolutionary War. The oldest portion of the house, a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure eight bays in width, was built c. 1750 to accommodate Putnam&#39;s growing family, and was the second he built, having purchased 500 acre of land from Massachusetts Governor Jonathan Belcher in 1739. The house Putnam built was doubled in size in the early 19th century, at which time it was also given modest Federal styling.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Rectory and Church of the Immaculate Conception is a historic Roman Catholic church complex at 4 North Street in Norfolk, Connecticut. The church and adjacent rectory are two 19th-century buildings that were extensively altered by architect Alfredo S. G. Taylor in 1925. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for its association with the architect. The church is part of a unified parish with St. Joseph Catholic Church in Canaan Village.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Church of the Immaculate Conception stands on the northern edge of the village of Norfolk, on the east side of North Street (Connecticut Route 272) at its northern junction with United States Route 44. The main church building is a cruciform tall single-story building, which is basically a wood-frame structure finished in stucco and covered by a cross-gabled roof. The church was originally a somewhat typically Greek Revival mid-19th century New England country church in appearance, but is now fronted by a larger stuccoed tower with a rubblestone base that gradually transitions to stucco. The rectory stands immediately north of the church; it is a basically square two-story wood frame structure with a hip roof, whose exterior has been finished in stucco to match the church.</p><br>
<p>The alterations of the original church building were designed by Alfredo S.G. Taylor, a New York City architect who summered in Norfolk for several decades in the early 20th century. Taylor is credited with more than 30 designs in Norfolk, including this work. It typifies Taylor&#39;s use of stone in many of his designs, with the stucco serving to give the building a somewhat Spanish Revival appearance. The design documents Taylor prepared also include drawings for an altar, one of the rare surviving examples of his interior design drawings. The altar he designed is not the one presently in use.</p><br>
<p>Hallville Mill Historic District is a historic district in the town of Preston, Connecticut, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Contributing properties in the district are 23 buildings, two other contributing structures, and one other contributing site over a 50 acre area.</p><br>
<p>Hallville is a historic textile mill village. The first mill on the local stream, Indiantown Brook, was a fulling mill built in 1752 for finishing of locally produced homespun woolen cloth.</p><br>
<p>The district has significance "as an intact representative small-scale 19th-century mill village containing a high concentration of contributing buildings and structures built as components of a company-owned town based initially on so-called Rhode Island manufacturing system." As such, the mill and its associated village provide physical evidence of the area&#39;s economic transition to industrial production during the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Route 2A, a two-lane undivided highway, passes through Hallville. Increased traffic volumes on this road, attributed to the nearby Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casinos, are considered to be a threat to the historic character of the village.</p><br>
<p>St. Andrew&#39;s is a historic Episcopal church at 247 New Milford Turnpike , in the Marbledale village of Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Built in 1822, it is believed to be one of the first Gothic Revival style churches to be built in rural Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>St. Andrew&#39;s is located in the rural village of Marbledale, on the south side of New Milford Turnpike at its junction with Wheaton Road. It is a brick structure with a projecting square tower whose upper stages are finished in wood, and slightly projecting transepts. It has Gothic-style lancet windows with marble sills and wood frames. A 20th-century brick addition to the rear provides office and meeting spaces, and a kitchen.</p><br>
<p>The St. Andrew&#39;s Episcopalian congregation was established in 1764 in New Preston. The largely Loyalist congregation was harassed during the American Revolutionary War, and abandoned its original building, meeting in private homes. Formed anew in 1791, the congregation rented and then purchased a local Quaker meeting house, which served as its home until 1816. The present edifice was begun in 1821 and completed in 1823. The church was enlarged in 1855, mainly through the efforts of Dr. Nathaniel Wheaton, one of the founders of Trinity College who may have been born here. The only earlier known example of Gothic Revival architecture in Connecticut is the 1814 Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven, designed by Ithiel Town.</p><br>
<p>The South Canaan Congregational Church is a historic Congregational church building at Connecticut Route 63 and Barnes Road in the town of Canaan, Connecticut. Built in 1804, it is a remarkably well-preserved example of early Federal period church architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The South Canaan Congregational Church is located in central western Canaan, at the southwest corner of Barnes Road and CT 63. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboarded exterior, and stone foundation. A two-stage square tower rises from the roof ridge, including a belfry stage and octagonal spire. The main roof eave and first tower stage cornice are decorated with modillion blocks, and the building corners have wooden quoin blocks. The front facade is three bays wide, with a project center entrance bay topped by a pedimented gable. The entrance is framed by pilasters and a pedimented gable, and is topped by a Palladian window; Palladian windows are also found on the first stage of the tower, and at the building rear above the pulpit. The interior retains the original early 19th-century layout, and a wealth of high-quality Federal decorative woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The South Canaan Church is one of three Connecticut churches modeled after a church in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, that was built in 1793 according to a design by Charles Bulfinch. As such, it is a representative of the first generation of architecturally stylish church buildings, built between 1790 and 1810, that were replacing the earlier plain-style meetinghouses. At the time of its construction, the church&#39;s site in South Canaan was the approximate geographic center of the town of Canaan, which was then a farming community and included the area that later became the town of North Canaan. In later decades of the 19th century, South Canaan was eclipsed in importance by the new manufacturing centers of Falls Village and East Canaan and the railroad-junction community of Canaan village.</p><br>
<p>As of 1982, the building was no longer used as a church but was preserved by a local historical society.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Church is a historic church at 160 Main Street in Thomaston, Connecticut. Built in two stages, 1871 and 1880, to a design by Richard M. Upjohn, it is a good example of Gothic and Stick Style architecture. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is now part of a merged parish with St. Peter&#39;s of Plymouth.</p><br>
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<p>Trinity Church is prominently located in the center of Thomaston, between the opera house and the public library on the north side of Main Street. It is a wood frame Stick style structure, with a complex roof line and a board-and-batten exterior that is a modern aluminum covering for the original, which lies underneath. Its main roof has a front-facing gable, from which cross gables at full height extend, giving a basically cruciform shape to the roof. At the front there is a hip-roofed extension to the left, and a gabled extension to the right that ends in the square tower. A larger hip-roofed cross section extends at the back of the main building. The tower is square for two stories, then begins a steeply-pitched roof section that ends in an open belfry, with a small pyramidal roof at the top. Stick decorations adorn its gables. The interior is modestly decorated, with exposed curved roof trusses, and decorative woodwork in the chancel area.</p><br>
<p>The church was designed by Richard M. Upjohn, and is in some respects a continuation of his fathers promotion of the Gothic Revival, albeit in a more modern sense. The younger Upjohns best-known work is the Connecticut State Capitol, and he had already designed four similar churches when he created the design for the Thomaston church, which is larger and more elaborate than those earlier designs.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Church is a historic church at 536 Milton Road in the Milton section of Litchfield, Connecticut. Built beginning in 1802, it is a distinctive blend of Gothic and Classical Revival architecture that is rare in rural Connecticut. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
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<p>Trinity Church stands in the village of Milton, on the north side of Milton Road just east of its junction with Shearshop Road. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gable roof and clapboarded exterior. It has tall Gothic-arched windows on the front and sides, and its main entrance is set in a Gothic-arched recess, framed by pilasters and a cornice. A fully pedimented gable above has a small Gothic window. The tower rising above the roof ridge has Gothic-arched louvered openings in the square belfry stage, and pinnacles at the corners beside the steeple base. The interior houses an organ that was built in 1823, making it possibly the oldest in New England.</p><br>
<p>The church congregation was established in 1795 as an offshoot of the St. Michaels Episcopal Church located in Litchfields main village. This church was designed and built by Oliver Dickinson, with its construction beginning in 1802 and ending in 1826. Dickinson began his design in 1802, seeking to emulate the second building of the Trinity Church in Manhattan (torn down in 1839).</p><br>
<p>The Union Church/St. Paul&#39;s Church is a historic church building at 3 Robertsville Road in the Riverton section of Barkhamsted, Connecticut. Built in 1829 to be shared by multiple congregations, it is an architecturally distinguished example of Greek Revival design with Gothic features. It became an Episcopal church in 1880 which closed in 1971, and served for a time as a local history museum. It now houses a glass-blowing studio. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
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<p>The former Union Church/St. Paul&#39;s Church building is located on the west side of Riverton village, on the south side of Robertsville Road west of its junction with Riverton Road (Connecticut Route 20). It is a granite structure with Greek Revival proportions, but with tall Gothic Revival windows. A two-stage square tower projects from the main facade, with a stone lower stage topped by stages of wood with pinnacles at the corners. The walls are randomly coursed ashlar. The interior retains many original features despite its adaptive reuse in the later 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1829, originally to serve as a common meeting house for several Christian denominations. As they grew and built their own churches, this one declined, and was eventually converted to St. Pauls Episcopal Church in 1880. It served in this role until 1971, when it was sold to the revived Hitchcock Chair Company, who opened a museum. The museum closed in the early 2000s (along with the chair factory), and the church was then repurposed as a glass-blowers studio by Peter Greenwood.</p><br>
<p>The Warren Congregational Church is a historic Congregational Church at 4 Sackett Hill Road in Warren, Connecticut. Built in 1820, it is a well-preserved example of Federal architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
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<p>The Warren Congregational Church occupies a prominent position in the small village center of Warren, at the southwest corner of Sackett Hill Road and Kent Road (Connecticut Route 341). It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a projecting entry pavilion topped by a gabled pediment. The pavilion is divided into three bays by two-story pilasters, with each bay containing an entrance. The identical entrances are slightly recessed behind a frame of pilasters, and are topped by half-round transom windows. Above each of the outer entrances are sash windows with shutters. The pediment has a three-part window in the center, consisting of a round window resting on two smaller half-rounds.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the church began in 1818 and was formally completed in 1820. It was built as a replacement for a Georgian style meetinghouse built in 1769 for a congregation established in 1750, when the area was still part of Kent. Its design is fairly typical of Federal style churches of the period, drawing its inspiration from pattern books such as the American Builders Companion published in 1803 by Asher Benjamin. Its pulpit is one of only three Federal-period pulpits documented in the state. The Palladian window above the window is a careful restoration of the original, carried out in the 20th century by one of Connecticuts leading architectural historians of the early 20th century, J. Frederick Kelly.</p><br>
<p>The J. S. Halpine Tobacco Warehouse is a historic tobacco warehouse at West and Mill Streets in New Milford, Connecticut. Built c. 1900-02 for one of the areas leading tobacco processors, it is a reminder of tobaccos historic economic importance in northwestern Connecticut. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It has been converted to residential use.</p><br>
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<p>The J.S. Halpine Tobacco Warehouse stands in what is now a largely residential area south of downtown New Milford, at the southwest corner of West and Mill Streets, and adjacent to the railroad tracks of the Housatonic Railroad. It is a 5-1/2 story brick structure, with a two-stage roof that is mostly gabled, with a slight gambrel. Its modest stylistic elements include segmented-arch window openings and a gabled surround for the main pedestrian entrance, which is on the north side. Openings formerly used for loading and unloading tobacco (now largely boarded over) are located on the long east and west facade. The interior has heavy timber framing supporting wooden floors.</p><br>
<p>The warehouse was built c. 1900-02, at a time when this region of the Housatonic River valley was a major tobacco production region. It was built for J.S. Halpine, agent for Rossin & Sons, a tobacco firm that was at the time one of the regions largest employers. The property was used for tobacco sorting and curing until that business collapsed in the late 1930s. During this period the Housatonic valley produced cigar wrapping leaves for major domestic cigar manufacturers. This warehouse is one of the few buildings left in New Milford that is associated with that business and time period, and is the regions largest surviving tobacco warehouse.</p><br>
<p>The Allis-Bushnell House is a historic house at 853 Boston Post Road in Madison, Connecticut. It was built in 1785 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The house is owned by the Madison Historical Society and operated as a historic house museum.</p><br>
<p>In 1772, the 94.5-acre tract upon which the house stands was sold off to four men including Nathaniel Allis, Sr. The tract was divided, and Allis received a portion including the site of the Allis-Bushnell House. Following more transfers, by 1774 Samuel Brown and David Landon owned the property. They sold the land to Aaron Blatchley in 1785. The house was built as a one-and-a-half-story building. It had two large rooms in the front and a smaller kitchen and bedroom behind. On the second floor, there were four small rooms. At an unknown point in the house&#39;s history, the roof was raised along the front facade to create a full second floor. The Victorian addition was likely added after the Civil War. The Allis-Bushnell House was built between April 23, 1785 (when Blatchley bought the four acres) and December 16, 1789 (when Blatchy sold the "dwelling house").</p><br>
<p>In 1917, the Madison Historical Society rented the property for its collections and as a meeting place. On July 13, 1920, the organization bought the house and 0.56 acres. The house was the headquarters of the Madison Historical Society until 2010. Currently it is open to members and the public for special events.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church of Cheshire is a historic church at 111 Church Drive in Cheshire, Connecticut. It was designed by David Hoadley and built in 1827. It features a shallow oval dome.</p><br>
<p>Five other Congregational churches were built on essentially the same design in the Connecticut towns of Old Lyme (the 1816-17 Old Lyme Congregational Church), Milford (1823), Litchfield (the 1829 First Congregational Church of Litchfield), Southington (1830), and Guilford (the 1830 First Congregational Church of Guilford). All six churches have front porticos with four fluted columns, the doors of all six have the same dimensions, all six steeples are of the same design and are surmounted by weathervanes that appear to have been cast from one mold, and all six churches have twenty-over-twenty double-hung windows. The similarities suggest that some of the building elements may have been prefabricated.</p><br>
<p>The church was described by Connecticut architectural historian J. Frederick Kelly. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Beardsley–Mix House is a historic house at 81 Rockledge Drive in West Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1774, it is one of the town&#39;s few surviving 18th-century buildings. It was originally located on South Main Street, and was moved to its present location in the 1930s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The Beardsley–Mix House stands on the south side of Rockledge Drive, a residential street just east of South Main Street and south of downtown West Hartford. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade faces north, and is five bays wide, with a slightly overhanging second story. The centered entry is flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, which support an entablature and gabled pediment.</p><br>
<p>This house was probably built around 1774, on land that was transferred in that year from Noah Webster Sr. (father to the famous Noah Webster, Jr.) to Adam Webster. It and the associated farmland were bought in 1810 by Elisha Mix, who later sold it to Jeremiah Beardslee. After Beardslee died, the property passed to his son-in-law, Henry Mix. The farmland was subdivided in the 1930s, the house moved back from South Main Street to its present location around that time. It is one of West Hartford&#39;s few remaining 18th century houses.</p><br>
<p>The Moses Brace–Uriah Cadwell House is a historic house at 11 Flagg Road in West Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1766, it is one of West Hartford&#39;s few surviving 18th-century buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The Moses Brace–Uriah Cadwell House is located in northern West Hartford, on the south side of Flagg Road just west of its junction with Albany Avenue. It is a 2-1/2 story wood-frame structure, four bays wide, with a large central chimney and gabled roof. The main entrance is located in the second bay from the right, and is flanked by pilasters and topped by a simple entablature. It is unusually deep for a house of its period, with broader and shallower eaves. The corners are finished with slender pilasters. A 20th-century single-car garage is connected to the right side by a breezeway.</p><br>
<p>The first house to stand in this area was built in 1733 by Ebenezer Steele. It was sold by Thomas Merrell to Moses Brace in 1790, and was purchased by Uriah Cadwell in 1811. This house was built on the western portion of Steele&#39;s property in 1766, which was purchased by Uriah Cadwell in 1799. Cadwell replaced the original Steele house in 1811. Cadwell apparently lived in the other house while this one underwent alterations, sometime between 1811 and 1832.</p><br>
<p>The First Church Parsonage is a historic parsonage house at 160 Palisado Avenue in Windsor, Connecticut. Built in 1852 for the new minister of the First Congregational Church, it is a well-preserved example of transitional Greek Revival-Italianate architecture in brick. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
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<p>The former First Church Parsonage stands a short way north of Windsor&#39;s Palisado Green, on the east side of Palisado Avenue (Connecticut Route 159). It is a 2-1/2 story brick structure, three bays wide, with a front-facing gable roof. A full entablature extends around the sides and front of the house, just below the roof line, and forming an enclosed pediment in the gable end. The main entrance, set in the leftmost bay, is sheltered by an early 20th-century Colonial Revival portico. The ground-floor front windows on the west and south sides are tall French-style windows. The property includes a 19th-century barn.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1852 by the First Congregational Church for the Reverend Leete, whose service began that year. It was the first church-funded parsonage for the congregation. It is a good local example of transitional Greek Revival-Italianate styling. It was originally adorned with an elaborate Italianate front porch.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church of East Hartford and Parsonage is a historic church at 829-837 Main Street in East Hartford, Connecticut. The congregation was founded around 1699 and the current church building was constructed around 1833. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The congregation is currently affiliated with the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
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<p>First Congregational Church of East Hartford was founded somewhere between 1699 and 1701. The original members used to have to travel across the Connecticut River to Central Church in Hartford. The weekly quest began to take a toll on its traveling members, who decided to start their own church on the eastern side of the river. The building was completed in 1699, and the members began worshiping here, but had to gain religious approval by the King of England. The church received their anticipated approval in 1701, when the church officially gained its status as a recognized church. The churchs first meeting house was actually built down the street from its current residence. There is now a large stone on the corner of Pitkin Street and Main Street marking the site of the first meeting house, which burned in the late 18th century. After the fire, the building was resurrected at its current site, on the corner of Main Street and Connecticut Boulevard. Then, in 1834, there was a second fire. Luckily, the building was not lost in this blaze. In 1835, the church was rebuilt, using charred timbers from its predecessor, which can still be seen in the churchs attic). The organ in the sanctuary was originally built into the balcony to look out over the congregation on Sunday mornings. In 1952, the organ was moved down to the front of the sanctuary. The sanctuary itself was remodeled around the same time, turning its four aisles to just three.</p><br>
<p>The parsonage, next door to the church, was constructed in 1850, and served as the residence of the minister of the church, Rev. Woodward. The later-named Woodward house served in the capacity until the mid-20th century, when it was turned into an extra meeting place for the churchs many groups and boards. Soon thereafter, daycare was held in the parsonage during the church services. Then in the early 1990s, the churchs sexton was given the opportunity to live in part of the parsonage, as the front area was turned into offices. These offices were, in turn, rented out to various organizations, such as Esperanza Nueva Iglesia and the YWCA of East Hartford. The parsonage has also been the site of a few community service projects, including the rebuilding of the front steps and railings in a Boy Scout Eagle Project in 2004.</p><br>
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<p>The present church is a fine local example of Greek Revival architecture. It is a two story wood frame structure, with a Greek temple front consisting of six Ionic columns supporting a fully pedimented triangular gable above an entablature that encircles the building. The tympanum of the pediment is adorned with a round wagon-wheel spoked window. A two-story tower with belfry and clock rises above front facade, its corners embellished by pilasters.</p><br>
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<p>First Congregational Church has been a rock in the town of East Hartford, as it is the site of many blood drives for the American Red Cross, home of an East Hartford YMCA First Church child care center serving children ages 3 – 5 years during the weekdays, and, until 2008, was the interim meeting place of Esperanza Nueva Iglesia (New Hope Church), a local Hispanic congregational in search for a more permanent home. First Church is also proud to boast that it is the home of the oldest continuously sponsored Boy Scout troop in the United States. Boy Scout Troop 1 was founded October 14, 1910, and has called First Church home ever since its inception. The troop is now celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2010. There is also a Cub Scout pack the meets at the church, as well as a Girl Scout troop and a Brownie troop.</p><br>
<p>The members of First Church range in age from newborns to century-old "lifers." First Congregational Church of East Hartford is one of only a handful of churches in the country that can say has had a half-dozen 100-year-old members, with four of them being baptized in the church as babies. The church is currently affiliated with the United Church of Christ. Worship services are held every Sunday at 10am with Sunday School for children (ages infant to high school) held simultaneously.</p><br>
<p>The former Grace Church Rectory is a historic church rectory and house at 301 Broad Street in Windsor, Connecticut. Built about 1865, it is a good local example of Gothic Revival architecture executed in brick. It was listed the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
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<p>The former Grace Church Rectory is located in the town center of Windsor, on the east side of Broad Street, just north of the church itself. It is a -story brick structure with a steeply pitched slate roof. A projecting pavilion in the front is decorated with vergeboard, as are the main entranceway and other gable ends. A single-story porch extends to the right of the pavilion, supported by chamfered posts with Gothic brackets. The main entrance is sheltered by this porch, and is framed by sidelights and a transom window. Gable sections on the building sides continue the Gothic decorations found on the front facade. Windows are set in groups of one to three in size, with stone sills and lintels. A single-story wood frame ell extends to the main block&#39;s rear.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1865, and is one of the best local examples of Gothic Revival architecture. It was built by the church as a home for its rector, Revel H. Tuttle.</p><br>
<p>The Marlborough Congregational Church is a historic Congregational Church at 35 South Main Street in Marlborough, Connecticut. Built in 1842, it is a well-preserved example Greek Revival architecture. In addition hosting religious services, it also hosted town meetings for many years. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
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<p>The Marlborough Congregational Church stands near the southern fringe of the village center of Marlborough, at the junction of South Main Street and Johnson Road. Set on a rise facing north, it is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof. Its main facade has a recessed central area, in which a wide double door provides entrance to the building. This is set behind a pair of fluted Doric columns, and the recess is framed by pilasters at either end, as are the corners of the building. The pilasters and pillars support a simple entablature that extends along the sides of the building, above which is a fully pedimented gable pediment. A three-stage square tower rises above the entrance, the upper two stages with louvered centers and corner pilasters, with a shallow dome and weathervane at the top.</p><br>
<p>The town of Marlborough was incorporated in 1803 from territory taken from surrounding towns. Its congregational society was established in 1747, with the construction of a meetinghouse. By the 1830s, that building was too small for the congregation, and the present building was constructed in 1842 with funds raised by subscription. Although Connecticut had formally required separation of church and civic functions in 1818, the church continued to be used for local town meetings into the 20th century, because it was the only building in the small community with large enough seating capacity. In addition to hosting religious services, the building has been the site of community meetings and social events.</p><br>
<p>The Rocky Hill Congregational Church is a historic church at 805-817 Old Main Street in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, USA. Built in 1808 for a 1723 congregation, it is a distinctive late example of Georgian architecture, and a prominent landmark in the town center. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
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<p>The Rocky Hill Congregational Church occupies a prominent position in the town center of Rocky Hill, on a triangular parcel bounded by Church, Old Main, and Center Streets. It is a two story gable-roof wood frame structure resting on a brownstone foundation. It has distinctive late Georgian styling, with a projecting gabled entry section with corner pilasters, and three doorways. The central doorway is framed by engaged columns and topped by triangular modillioned pediment, while the flanking doorways are framed by pilasters and topped by an entablature and modillioned cornice. A three-stage square tower, housing a clock and belfry rises at a small setback from the projecting entry section.</p><br>
<p>The first church in Rocky Hill was built in 1727, after it was established as a separate parish of Wethersfield. By 1800 there were calls in the congregation for a new church. In 1805 it was agreed to build a new structure, modeled on a church in Middletown. Construction was begun the same year, and the new building was dedicated in 1808. After a lean period of membership in the late 19th century, the congregation rebounded, and funded construction of the adjacent parish house 1948-52 to a design by Kelly & Kelly architects. The building is noted for its fine Georgian features, and was documented in the 1830s as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey.</p><br>
<p>St. Johns Episcopal Church is a historic church building at 1160 Main Street in East Hartford, Connecticut. It was designed by Edward T. Potter and was built in 1867, and is a prominent local example of High Gothic Revival executed in stone. Its congregation, begun as an Episcopal mission in 1854, has recently been merged into the St. Johns Episcopal Church in Vernon. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
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<p>St. John&#39;s occupies a prominent location in downtown East Hartford, occupying a lot bounded on three sides by Main Street (United States Route 5), Burnside Avenue (United States Route 44), and Rector Street. It is a large single-story brownstone structure, with a steeply-pitched polychrome slate roof, and a series of lancet-arched Gothic windows in the gable end facing the street. At the rear of the church, oriented perpendicular to its main axis, is a parish hall, built in 1912, in an early use of concrete blocks as a building material.</p><br>
<p>The first Episcopal mission in East Hartford was established by students of Trinity College in 1842, but did not last. A second effort in 1852 was more successful, resulting in the formal establishment of the mission in 1854. Prior to the construction of this building, the congregation met in a variety of locations, and had several different names before settling on St. John&#39;s Church in 1868. Its first minister was John James McCook, a Trinity graduate. McCook served as the parish minister for 61 years, and was probably involved in the design and construction plans for the church. The church is one of a small number of works in Connecticut by Potter, who was a protegé of Richard Upjohn, and would attend services here.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic church at 92 Main Street in the Warehouse Point section of East Windsor, Connecticut. Built in 1804, its interior was extensively restyled in the second half of the 19th century to resemble a Gothic English country church. The building, still in active use by the original congregation, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
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<p>St. Johns is located in the center of the Warehouse Point village, just south of the junction of Main and Bridge Streets. It is a tall single-story wood frame structure, with a projecting entry section, and a two-stage square tower housing a clock and bell. The main blocks corners are pilastered, as are those of the projection, and there are full-height pilasters flanking the main entrance, above which is a stained-glass Palladian window.</p><br>
<p>The interior is a distinct contrast to the building&#39;s exterior. As originally built, it had a fairly traditional 18th-century meetinghouse plan, with a flat ceiling, galleries on the sides, and a Palladian window behind the pulpit. In 1855, the congregation retained the New Haven firm of Henry Austin to redesign it in the Gothic style. The side galleries were removed and the ceiling was transformed into a barrel vault, with a new chancel at the rear.</p><br>
<p>The church was designed by Samuel Belcher and built in 1809, and originally stood on the village green. It served as a union church serving both Methodists and Episcopalians until 1832, when the Methodists built their own church. It was moved to its present location in 1844.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Parochial School is a historic former parochial school on Beaver Street south of Broad Street in New Britain, Connecticut. Built in 1904, it was the first brick school building in the city, and a fine example of Classical Revival architecture. It served as a school until 1972, and was converted into elderly housing in the 1990s. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
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<p>The former St. Marys Parochial School is located on the north side of New Britains downtown area, behind St. Mary&#39;s Church on the east side of Beaver Street. It is a three-story brick structure on a brownstone foundation, with a hip roof and a slightly projecting gabled entry section. The main entrance stands under a large round-arch recess, which is flanked by narrow sash windows with transom. A brownstone beltcourse separates the floors, and there are a pair of sash windows above the entrance arch, with flanking narrow sash windows; these windows are all topped by transoms with diamond grillwork.</p><br>
<p>St. Marys parish was established in 1850 to serve the citys growing Irish immigrant population. Its first parochial school was established in 1862, in a frame building at High and Myrtle Streets. This building was constructed in 1904 as a replacement for that one, and was the citys first brick school building. It continued to serve New Britains increasingly diverse Catholic population as its only parochial school until 1938, when a second school was built by St. Ann&#39;s. This school was closed in 1972, and used by the parish for other purposes until 1974, when it was permanently shuttered.</p><br>
<p>The Shade Swamp Shelter is a historic rustic shelter on the north side United States Route 6, just east of New Britain Avenue in Farmington, Connecticut. Built in 1934 by a crew of the Civilian Conservation Corps , it is one of the states finest examples of the CCCs Rustic architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The Shade Swamp Shelter is located in southwestern Farmington, a largely rural-suburban area. It stands at the southern end of the Shade Swamp Wildlife Management area, a 174 acre state-owned area bounded on the south by US 6, and the west by New Britain Avenue, with the Pequabuck River draining most of its swampland near its eastern edge. It stands adjacent to a small gravel parking area, which serves as a trailhead for a Blue-Blazed Trail into the area. It is a modest open post-and-beam log structure, with lattice framing at the corners and diagonal support braces. The interior floor is flagstone, with a rustic bench built around the perimeter. The roof is supported by log rafters and finished in wooden shingles; in a distinctive flourish, the interior ceiling is finished in white birch logs arranged in a chevron pattern.</p><br>
<p>The state began acquiring portions of Shade Swamp as a management area beginning in 1926. The shelter was built in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, as part of a trail-building program into the underutilized area. Despite its public location (it is visible from the road), the shelter remains in good condition, and the ceiling is a stylistic detail not seen in the state&#39;s other surviving CCC structures.</p><br>
<p>The South Congregational Church is a historic church at 90 Main Street in New Britain, Connecticut. It is a large brownstone Gothic Revival structure, located at a central intersection in the city&#39;s heart. The church was built in 1865, with the parish house added in 1889. Both were designed by the noted Boston architect George F. Meacham. The congregation was established in 1842, and was merged with a local Baptist congregation in 1974. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The South Congregational Church occupies a prominent position in downtown New Britain, occuping a triangular parcel bounded on the west by Arch Street and Main Street on the east. It is a long rectangular structure, built out of brownstone, with a tower at the northwest corner and the parish house attached at the southeast corner. It is covered by a steep gabled roof, with a band of clerestory windows between the central main roof and that over the side aisles. The walls have Gothic buttressing, and windows are generally lancet-arched in the Gothic style. The tower has three stages and is 170 ft in height, with a belfry that has Gothic arched louvers, and a clockfaces set in gable dormers at the base of the steeple. The attached parish house, builts four years after the church, also exhibits Gothic features.</p><br>
<p>The South Church congregation was founded in 1842, and grew rapidly as the citys industrial base expanded. This church was built in 1865 to a design by Boston architect George F. Meacham, who was already known for his institutional designs. The parish house was added in 1889, also designed by Meacham. The church was a mainstay and welcoming influence to the citys immigrant communities, providing outreach services to a variety of ethnicities. The congregation merged with a Baptist congregation in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic former church building at 69 Main Street in New Britain, Connecticut. Built in 1891 to a design by Amos P. Cutting, it is a distinctive local example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. Now a performing arts venue known as Trinity-on-Main, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Trinity Church is located in downtown New Britain, at the southeast corner of Main and Chestnut Streets. It is a large stone structure, built of granite and slate, on an Akron Plan design, with Richardsonian Romanesque style. It is particularly distinguished for its polychrome uses of both granite and slate to create distinctive effects. The facade facing Main Street presents a rounded apse on the left, and a square tower on the right, with corner turrets and a pyramidal roof.</p><br>
<p>The first Methodist congregation in New Britain was organized in 1816, but did not acquire a permanent home until 1828, apparently due to local hostility. The first sanctuary was replaced due to rising membership in 1855, and by the 1880s the replacement was again judged too small. The present church was completed in 1891, and was a major work late in the career of the notable architect Amos P. Cutting. Membership peaked in the early 1950s, suffering thereafter due in part to the city&#39;s urban renewal efforts, which destroyed surrounding residential areas. Unable to maintain the large building, the congregation decided to demolish it in 2000. It was rescued from that fate by local preservationists, and has been converted into a performing arts space.</p><br>
<p>Tephereth Israel Synagogue is a synagogue at 76 Winter Street in downtown New Britain, Connecticut. The Orthodox congregation, founded in 1925, meets at a two-story brick temple with Colonial Revival and Renaissance features, designed by Hartford architect Adolf Feinberg and built in 1925. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>Tephereth Israel Synagogue is located a few blocks northeast of downtown New Britain, on the north side of Winter Street west of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. It is a two story masonry structure, built out of red brick with stone trim. Square towers flank a central entry section, which has three entrances at the top of a broad series of steps. The entrances are set in round-arch openings with keystones, as are the windows set above them. The towers have brick corner quoining, with tall round-arch windows, above which are stone panels bearing the Star of David. The interior is arranged with a social hall and classroom space on the ground floor, and the main sanctuary on the upper level. The fixtures of the sanctuary date to the period after a 1962 fire. Services are usually conducted every Saturday morning, led by Rabbi Robert Schectman.</p><br>
<p>The synagogue was built in 1925, following a doctrinal split in New Britains Jewish community. The citys first congregation, Ahey B&#39;Nai Israel, was formally adopted as a Conservative organization, and more recently arrived Orthodox adherents broke off to form Tephereth Israel. The building is an architecturally distinctive blend of Romanesque and Colonial Revival features.</p><br>
<p>The Allyn Steele House is a historic house at 114 North Main Street in West Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1775, it is one of West Hartford&#39;s few surviving 18th-century buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Allyn Steele House is located north of the center of West Hartford, on the east side of North Main Street, north of its junction with Fern Street. It is set on a lot fringed at the front by a low brownstone retaining wall. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof, large central chimney and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide, symmetrical in appearance, with the main entrance at the center. The entry is flanked by pilasters and topped by an entablature. A two-story polygonal window bay, probably a 19th-century addition, projects from the right side. The interior retains a number of period features, including the winding staircase at the front, and raised paneling in the front parlor.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1775 by Allyn Steele, the son of one of West Hartford&#39;s early proprietors. It was probably built on the site of an earlier building. It is one of the few surviving 18th century houses in the town. It was sold out of the Steele family in 1814, and remained the centerpiece of a farm until about 1925.</p><br>
<p>The Eastman Dental Dispensary was built in 1917. Prior to that time local benefactors provided funds for the indigent children of Rochester to receive free dental services in several city locations. George Eastman provided the funds to build a free dispensary in Rochester. In 1978, the entity now named Eastman Dental, moved to the University of Rochester campus. The original dispensary sits vacant on East Main street. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, Home Leasing LLC, a for profit developer of affordable housing based in Rochester, NY, announced plans to redevelop the Eastman Dental Dispensary into 57 rental apartments. On April 16, 2014, New York State Homes & Community Renewal (HCR) announced awards of $2,200,000 in Housing Trust Fund (HTF) program funds, $946,000 in federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) and $449,356 in New York State Low-Income Housing Credits (SLIHC) to the project.</p><br>
<p>The Banco de Ponce building, a historic building in Ponce, Puerto Rico, was the first and main office of Banco de Ponce until the company merged with Banco Popular in 1990. Though its headquarters had moved to a presumptous building in Hato Rey&#39;s Milla de Oro by then, Banco de Ponce continued to consider this building its main office, until the company merged with Banco Popular in 1990. The building was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 1987. It was built in 1924.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The building is located facing Plaza Degetau. The large structure occupies a small city block. It is bounded by Mayor, Francisco Parra Duperon (also known as Comercio), Marina, and Amor streets. Amor street was also called Callejon Amor, or Amor Alley; literally, Love Alley. In 1991, Amor street was converted into a promenade and renamed Paseo Antonio Arias Ventura, after the long-time employee of the bank who started as a custodian and rose to become the bank&#39;s general manager.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building&#39;s architect was Francisco Porrata Doria.</p><br>
<p>The Banco de Ponce building is a four-story brick and concrete structure. As it is set in a very narrow triangular lot defined by near-parallel Amor and Comercio Streets, the architects solution to the lots footprint geometry was the development of a continuous facade enveloping these two streets and the narrow front to Plaza Las Delicias.</p><br>
<p>The predominant style is related to the Beaux art neoclassical, with three</p><br>
<p>horizontal bands defining this wraparound facade. The base is made of a pinkish stone</p><br>
<p>extracted from a quarry close to the city. This stone has been commonly used in other</p><br>
<p>Ponce buildings.</p><br>
<p>The second and third floors house bank office. "These are rendered in elaborate plasterwork with square Corinthian columns, brackets, medallions and panels between the structural beams ornamented with paterae. Naturalistic motifs are ubiquitous." For a while, the buildings third floor was used as a ballroom for Ponces old casino.</p><br>
<h2>Contemporary use</h2><br>
<p>In 1990, at the time of the merger between Banco de Ponce and Banco Popular, Banco de Ponce continued to operate at this building as Banco de Ponce, but eventually the BanPonce Corporation branded all of its branches with the Banco Popular name. Subsequently, the building was sold to Scotiabank, the Canadian concern, but later Banco Popular switched with Scotiabank the Banco de Ponce building, and Banco Popular has been using it since as its downtown Ponce branch. Today, the first floor of the building houses a branch of Banco Popular. The fourth floor houses Banco Popular&#39;s regional offices and the Commercial Banking Center.</p><br>
<p>The Arlington Green Covered Bridge is a covered bridge located off Vermont Route 313 in Arlington, Vermont.</p><br>
<p>The Town lattice truss bridge carries Covered Bridge Road across Batten Kill. It was built in 1852 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is one of Vermont&#39;s oldest surviving bridges.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Arlington Green Covered Bridge is located at the village of West Arlington, crossing Batten Kill just south of Route 313. It is a single span structure, with a length of 80 ft, a total width of 17.5 ft, and a roadway width of 14 ft (one lane). It rests on mortared stone abutments, of which the northern one has since been faced in concrete. Guying cables are fastened near each of its corners. The sides are finished in vertical board siding, and the roof is metal. There are five small square openings in each of the sides.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1852, and is one of the states oldest surviving covered bridges. It is also unusual in that it has not had any 20th-century strengthening elements added, a common feature to many of the states older bridges. On August 28, 2011, the Arlington Green Covered Bridge was damaged by flooding caused by Hurricane Irene; it was fixed in the following months and reopened to traffic.</p><br>
<p>The Lincoln Historic District is a historic district in Hingham, Massachusetts, United States. It is roughly located on North and South Streets from West to Water Streets, Main Street south to Garrison Road, and Lincoln Street and Fearing Road north to Miles. It encompasses the earliest streets laid out in Hingham at the time of its founding in 1635, covering more than 300 years of development and a cross section of Hinghams architectural history. It includes some of the towns oldest buildings, including most notably the Old Ship Church and the General Benjamin Lincoln House, both National Historic Landmarks. The district takes its name from the large number of Lincolns who were among Hingham&#39;s early settlers.</p><br>
<p>The district features Early Republic, Late Victorian, and Colonial architecture and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Ravensberg is a 659 m high mountain in the South Harz mountains in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is relatively isolated and visible for a long way. It lies in the district of Osterode am Harz, north of Bad Sachsa.</p><br>
<p>The mountain top is crowned with a prominent 64 m high tower, which was built in 1970. This tower acted as a listening post during the Cold War; today it is used by Deutsche Telekom.</p><br>
<p>The Ravensberg is a wonderful viewing point, and is also very easy to get to by car, a road about 3.5 km long, running up to the summit from Bad Sachsa. There is an old boundary stone, the Dreiherrenstein, on this road shortly before the summit. Until 1866 this was where the borders of the Kingdom of Prussia, Kingdom of Hanover and Duchy of Brunswick met. Today the Dreiherrenstein is the starting point for several walks, mountain bike routes and the South Harz cross-country skiing trail, that runs, for example, to the Stöberhai mountain and town of Braunlage. On the summit is a restaurant catering for day-trippers. There is also a skiing area with several downhill runs and 3 lifts.</p><br>
<p>See also: List of mountains and hills in Lower Saxony</p><br>
<h2>Photos</h2><br>
<p>The John P. Cahoon House is a historic home in Murray, Utah, United States. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a significant example of residential Victorian Eclecticism in Murray and as the home for over twenty years of John P. Cahoon, a pioneer in the brick industry in Utah and the western United States.</p><br>
<p>The large, -story brick house referred to in 1902 as "easily the finest home in the county outside Salt Lake City," has remained virtually unchanged since its construction around 1900. Although its Victorian styling is more subdued than that found on many houses in Salt Lake City, this house represents the fullest expression of "high style" architecture, in its community, where the: housing stock consists, mainly, of smaller scale, modestly ornamented cottages.</p><br>
<p>The home has since been purchased and restored by Bill and Susan Wright in the 1980s. It currently is christened the Murray Mansion and functions as a reception center that is coupled with a small chapel next door to handle complete weddings. It has also been included in the Murray Downtown Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>John P. Cahoon</h2><br>
<p>John P. Cahoon was the principal founder of what is claimed to be the first commercial brick manufacturing plant in both Utah and the western United States in 1878. Brick played an especially important role in the construction business in Utah because of the scarcity of readily available lumber, and by the start of the 20th century there were several dozen companies competing in the brick manufacturing industry. Under John P. Cahoon&#39;s leadership, his company, incorporated in 1891 as Salt Lake Pressed Brick Company, emerged as one of the most successful in the industry, and Cahoon himself made important contributions to the industry.</p><br>
<p>He was appointed to the War Service Committee on Brick in Washington, D.C. in 1918, and served as an organizer and vice president of the Brick Manufacturers Association of America. Also, under his leadership, his company started the first trade school program in Utah, teaching bricklaying to students. Interstate Brick Company, as it was renamed in 1939, has become the largest company of its kind in the Intermountain West.</p><br>
<p>El Infiernito , is a pre-Columbian archaeoastronomical site located on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the outskirts of Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colombia. It is composed of several earthworks surrounding a setting of menhirs ; several burial mounds are also present. The site was a center of religious ceremonies and spiritual purification rites, and also served as a rudimentary astronomical observatory.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area was known by this name long before the discovery of the archaeological site. Spanish Conquistadors called it infiernito, or "little hell," because they thought it was diabolical and labeled it as a site of Pagan worship. The first description of the site was made in 1847 by the Colombian army geographer Joaquin Acosta, who reported 25 stone columns, half-buried in the Monquirá Valley. The findings were studied by Alexander von Humboldt who believed that the site could be used to anticipate astronomical phenomena such as solstices and equinoxes, as indicated by the alignment of the stones with the sun and moon.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The lithic pieces are carved in pink sandstone, many of them in columnar shapes with an incised ring. A total of 109 monoliths have been excavated to date: 54 in the north stone row and 55 in the south, aligned in an east-west orientation, apparently representing the Muisca calendar, dividing the area in two main parts: the north sacred field (Infiernito N° 1) and the south sacred field (Infiernito N° 2).</p><br>
<h2>Chronology</h2><br>
<p>Archaeological excavations have collected a large number of samples of wood charcoal which have been useful for radiocarbon dating. Three distinct stratigraphic levels can be observed, showing an early inhabitation of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense:</p><br>
<p>IAN - 119 - "El Infiernito", N° 2: 2.490 ± 195 years Before Present</p><br>
<p>IAN - 128 - "El Infiernito", N° 1: 2.180 ± 140 BP</p><br>
<p>IAN - 148 - "El Infiernito", N° 2: 2.880 ± 95 BP</p><br>
<p>The first stratum is rich in animal remains, vegetal ashes, red ochre, incienso and resins. The second one shows mainly remains of maize oblations. In the third stratum, several pieces of burned carved rocks and lithic flakes, in the remains of a large bonfire, are gathered around a large monolith in the south sacred field.</p><br>
<h2>Threats</h2><br>
<p>The first formal archaeological excavations at the site were led by anthropologist Eliecer Silva Celis in 1981; these resulted in the declaration of the site as an archaeological park. The burial mounds were found to have been heavily affected by grave robbery, and the human remains dispersed. The central column (about 5 meters high) described by Joaquin Acosta in 1850, which apparently allowed the measuring of the sun&#39;s astronomical alignment during the equinoxes, was missing.</p><br>
<p>The column alignments have been the subject of a more detailed study by archaeoastronomer Juan Morales who has found that the main columns are aligned at an azimuth of 91° to the top of Morro Negro hill pointing to the rise of the sun in the equinox. The summer solstice sun will be seen from the columns rising above the sacred Lake Iguaque, birthplace of the Muisca.</p><br>
<h2>Other monuments</h2><br>
<p>Other lithic monuments of the Muisca culture exist in Sutamarchán, Tunja, Ramiriquí, Tibaná and Paz de Río among other locations.</p><br>
<p>The Iberg Dripstone Cave  is a public cave and geology museum in southern Lower Saxony near Bad Grund, Germany. It is located on the western edge of the Harz mountains in the 563 m Iberg mountain at a height of 440 m above sea level in the chalk of an upper Devonian atoll reef. The actual dripstone cave is 123 metres long. With its 78 m Captain Spatzier Gallery, the Yellow Climb  and two other caverns, the total length of the cave is 300 m.</p><br>
<p>Between 2006 and 2008, the cave was turned into a cave experience centre with the three main themes of "Fascination Cave" "The oldest family in the world" and "A reef on a journey".</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The cave was discovered in the 16th century by miners, who were looking for deposits of limonite or brown iron ore. In 1524, the presence of caverns in the Iberg massif was mentioned for the first time. The first account in 1737 described a visit to the cave by a doctor, Franz Ernst Brückmann, on 30 March 1723. In 1874, paths and steps were laid out and the show cave was opened to the public with a viewable length of 220 metres. The entrance gallery, the Captain Spatzier Gallery (Hauptmann-Spatzier-Stollen), was built in 1910 and 1911. Electric lighting was added in 1912 and was extended in 1935.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The limestone mountain was originally a coral reef, formed about 385 million years ago on the spot where Madagascar lies today. it was subsequently moved to its present-day site as a result of tectonic plate movements over several hundred million years.</p><br>
<p>The gallery built in 1910–11 runs through two natural caverns, the first being opened up as a new section, the Yellow Climb (Gelben Stieg), a former space largely filled with brown iron ore that had probably been excavated in the 16th century. In one chamber, blue and green speleothems coloured by copper minerals can be seen. The usual red coloration of the speleothems in the cave is due to the presence of iron. Narrow crevices that enter from the north are richly clad with sinter. Helictites may be seen at the southern main entrance. This entrance continues in the direction of the Spatzier Gallery in curves with splendid scour holes (Auskolkungen).</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>The dripstone cave soon became very popular and one of the tourist attractions of the Harz. There were 556 visitors in 1881 and 8,436 came in 1913. Up to the Second World War, visitor numbers continued to climb, reaching 15,000 in 1937. After the war the numbers rose enormously, because the two popular Rübeländ dripstone caves, Baumanns Cave and Hermanns Cave, now lay in East Germany. The construction of a new main entrance, a new car park and the installation of the first special effects lighting raised visitor numbers even more. In 1950 there were 88,000 visitors and, in 1953, 165,000. In 1972 the numbers crossed the 200,000 threshold for the first time. In 2003 there were 63,872 visitors, in 2007 still 50,847. In 2008 numbers rose again, to 76.971, as a result of the opening of the Cave Experience Centre (HöhlenErlebnisZentrums). From 2004 to 2008 the average annual number of visitors was 60,479. This makes it one of the most popular show caves in Germany.</p><br>
<p>The high visitor numbers may also be put down to the cave&#39;s location which is easily accessible by road, being close to the B 242, which is a main access route for day trippers in the Upper Harz area.</p><br>
<h2>Cave Experience Centre</h2><br>
<p>Between 2006 and 2008 the caves were converted into a Cave Experience Centre (HöhlenErlebnisZentrum). A clearly visible cubic building was constructed next to the car park and the B 242. This so-called Museum am Berg ("museum on the mountain") has a 160 m, 17 to 19-degree sloping tunnel (Museum im Berg) linking it to the old Iberg Dripstone Cave. This expansion and conversion has the clear imprint of the district conservationist, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Roseneck, who two years earlier had come up with a new concept for the Cistercian abbey at Walkenried. The cost of the conversion was 3.85 million euros.</p><br>
<h3>Museum am Berg</h3><br>
<p>In the Museum am Berg, the oldest family in the world is displayed: By researching the bones found at the Lichtenstein Cave about 10 miles to the south, several Bronze Age families could be genetically identified. DNA tests on 300 local inhabitants showed that 40 of them were descendants of these Bronze Age people.</p><br>
<p>In addition, the museum looks at life in the Bronze Age and displays a number of artefacts from the period. A replica of the Lichtenstein Cave, which is not accessible to tourists, may be considered.</p><br>
<h3>Museum im Berg</h3><br>
<p>The Museum im Berg is located in a new gallery built between 2006 and 2008 and portrays the theme "A reef on a journey" (Ein Riff auf Reisen). The presentation explains the formation of the Iberg as a coral reef and its subsequent move to its present-day location.</p><br>
<h3>Fascination Cave</h3><br>
<p>This section known as "Fascination Cave" (Faszination Höhle) runs through parts of the Iberg Dripstone Cave opened up over 100 years ago.</p><br>
<h3>Owner</h3><br>
<p>The owner of the Cave Experience Centre is the district of Osterode am Harz.</p><br>
<p>The Lyman Viaduct is a buried railroad trestle built over Dickinson Creek in Colchester, Connecticut in 1873. It is a wrought iron post deck truss design and originally carried a single track. The viaduct was built by Phoenix Iron Works for the Air Line Railroad, and was 1,112 ft long and 137 ft high. The viaduct trestle was buried in sand and covered in cinder rocks in 1913.</p><br>
<p>Passenger train traffic peaked on the Air Line route in the 1880s and 1890s, but the winding course and speed limitations of the Air Line could not compete with the Shore Line Railway, a faster route following the shore of Long Island Sound. At the beginning of the 20th century the viaduct was still used for local passenger trains and freight trains, but the increasing weight requirements for freight trains led to a large construction project at the site beginning in 1912. To stabilize and strengthen the creek crossing, the viaduct was filled with sand and the trestle was covered with cinders. The rail line suffered major disruptions from flooding in 1955, and the Air Line was abandoned in the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>The Air Line route later was converted to the Air Line State Park Trail. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Centerbrook Congregational Church is a historic church on Main Street in Essex, Connecticut. It is a single-story wood frame structure resting on a granite foundation, which is set on a knoll on the north side of Connecticut Route 153. The main block was built in 1790, making it the oldest known church in Middlesex County and one of the oldest in the entire state. The church has seen numerous alterations, having had stylistic alterations during the Greek Revival period as well as later in the 19th century, when the projecting pavilion was added. A two story addition was added to the rear in 1972, adding space for a parish hall, Sunday school, and kitchen.</p><br>
<p>The building added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Camp Bethel is a historic Christian camp meeting facility at 124 Camp Bethel Road in Haddam, Connecticut. It is located on a bluff overlooking the Connecticut River, surrounded by woods. The main facilities of the camp include a chapel, memorial hall, boarding houses, and a dining hall, as well as more than 40 cabins. Most of these facilities were built between 1889 and about 1920; the dining hall is the notable exception, built in 1992 after the old dining hall burned down. Founded in 1877, Camp Bethel is one of the few surviving camp meeting sites left in New England. It is owned by the Camp Bethel Association , a non-denominational, evangelical organization and is open to rent.</p><br>
<p>The camp was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Emmanuel Episcopal Church is an historic church building at 50 Emmanuel Church Road in Killingworth, Connecticut.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church society was organized in the mid-eighteenth century and known as the Epsicopalian Society of North Bristol (now North Madison) and North Killingworth. In 1800, the society was organized as a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut. The society erected the present church in 1803 and it was called Union Church after 1805.</p><br>
<p>The church, located off Route 148, was organized in July 10, 1800, by 19 residents of North Madison (then North Bristol, named after the Bristol family who were founding members of the church) and two residents of Killingworth. The church building was completed and formally consecrated by Bishop Hobart of New York in 1817. The first part-time pastor, Nathan Bennett Burgess, was hired in 1801.</p><br>
<p>The church was slightly enlarged and formally renamed Emmanuel Church, which is Latin for "God is with us," in 1869. The church fell on hard times in the late 19th century. The handful of families remaining in the congregation considered selling the building.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. George B. Gilbert, a native of Randolph, Vermont, arrived as pastor in 1909. Gilbert, a graduate of Trinity College and Berkeley Divinity School (now associated with Yale University) who lived in Middletown, had just had a falling out with leaders of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Middletown over his informal style and populist political views.</p><br>
<p>Gilbert revitalized Emmanuel Church, building the congregation and holding picnics that would draw hundreds of people to the remote Killingworth location. During nearly four decades at Emmanuel Church, he also was pastor of the Church of the Epiphany in Durham and St. James Church in Haddam, also in Middlesex County.</p><br>
<p>When the Christian Herald was looking for a "traditional country preacher" to be the subject of a book in the late 1930s, the magazines readers recommended Gilbert as the perfect choice. The autobiography he wrote for the magazine, Forty Years a Country Preacher, was published by Harper and Brothers in 1939. It topped The New York Times Best Seller list for several months and made Gilbert the subject of a photo spread and article in the July 24, 1939, edition of Life magazine as well as an article in Time. Gilberts son, Charles, said his father wrote the book in long hand while recovering from an operation on his foot. The manuscript was typed by his daughter, Virginia Gilbert.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Gilbert, who also was a state representative and chaplain of the state Senate, died in 1948 at age 76. Gilbert said his father was a man who believed that dedicating his life to the church also required a dedication to the least fortunate members of society. Gilbert would take in homeless people and parolees from the old Wethersfield State Prison to live and work at his 25-acre farm, which was located at the intersection of Millbrook Road and Prout Hill Road in Middletown. "He liked to help poor people, that was his bent," Gilbert said. "We always had one or two strangers, people who were down on their luck, living with us."</p><br>
<p>Emmanuel Church was down on its luck within a few years after Gilbert&#39;s death. Virginia Gilbert, who worked as the librarian at Woodrow Wilson High School in Middletown, struggled to hold the dwindling congregation together during the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1960s, the church was changed from a parish to a mission to secure additional financial support from the state Episcopal Diocese. The aid included installing electricity at the church for the first time, in 1970.</p><br>
<p>In 1980 the church joined the Middlesex Area Cluster Ministry, a regional ministry that for the past three decades has provided rotating ministers for small Episcopal churches in Killingworth, Durham, Haddam, Westbrook and Nortford.</p><br>
<p>The construction of a parish hall and kitchen in 1989 brought Emmanuel Church its first indoor plumbing facilities. The congregation had used an outhouse for the preceding 189 years.</p><br>
<h2>Inside the Church</h2><br>
<p>The church houses an organ built by the firm Karl Wilhelm Inc. of Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. In its design and construction, the organ is true to historic principles, dating back to the 17th Century. The free-standing self-contained case is made of white oak with hand-carved butternut pipe shades, which are gilded with 22 karat gold leaf. The natural keys are covered with ebony and the sharps are rosewood and plated with cow bone. There are 8 stops of metal pipes which are of tin-lead alloy, that provide an amazing versatility of sounds, from soft to bright and full. The Bourdon 16’ and 8’, played with the feet on the pedal board, are made of wood and are used to play the bass notes. There is a total of 636 pipes.</p><br>
<p>The church also has a single stained glass window and a brass chandelier.</p><br>
<h2>Current Use</h2><br>
<p>The congregation is Episcopal. The churchs outreach programs include Helping Hands Food Bank, Amazing Grace Food Pantry, St. Vincent dePauls Place, Bishops Fund for Children, Heifer International, Lulac Head Start, New Horizons Womens Shelter, and Mision Divino Salvador in Bogota, Colombia.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Avon Congregational Church is a Congregational Church building at 6 West Main Street in Avon, Connecticut. Built in 1819 for a congregation founded in 1754, it is a high-quality example of Federal period architecture, and one of the finest works of architect David Hoadley. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The congregation is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Avon Congregational Church is prominently located in Avon&#39;s town center, at the northwest corner of Route 44 and 202. It is a two-story rectangular wood-frame structure, with a projecting entry section and a multistage tower with steeple. The projecting section consists of three bays, separated by two-story Doric pilasters, with an entry and window above in each bay. It is topped by a fully pedimented modillioned gable. The tower begins with a plain square clapboarded stage, which has a circular panel with a globe motif, and is topped by a low balustrade with urned posts. The next stage is an octagonal belfry with louvered round-arch openings separated by pilasters. The third stage is also octagonal but smaller in footprint, and is capped by a short spire and weathervane. Each of these stages is also surrounded by a low spindled balustrade.</p><br>
<p>The church congregation was organized in 1754, when the area was still part of Farmington. Its first church building, located on the east bank of the Farmington River, was destroyed by fire in 1817. That congregation then divided, and the present church was completed in 1819 for the western half. The building has been judged one of the finest works of David Hoadley, showing evidence of influence on him by the works of Charles Bulfinch. The church was damaged by fire in 1876, and lost part of its steeple (since restored) in the 1938 New England hurricane.</p><br>
