<p>Cascadilla School Boathouse is a historic boathouse located on Cayuga Lake at Ithaca in Tompkins County, New York. It was built in 1894-1896 in the Shingle style. It was built by the Cascadilla School as a structure to store rowboats.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The currently leases from the city of Ithaca the first floor of this historic structure for $46.17 per year in perpetuity. Continuing to use the boathouse for its original purpose, CBC runs a competitive Scholastic Rowing Program as well as Youth and Adult Learn to Row classes from April through October. Cascadilla Boat Club is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 1977, with the mission of making the sport of rowing available to the entire Ithaca area community.</p><br>
<p>The Vista Theater is a theatre located at 218 Iron Street in Negaunee, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Jafet J. Rytkonen was born in Finland in 1879 and came to Negaunee to work in the iron mines in 1902. However, he quickly changed professions and partnered with John Lammi to open a grocery and soda pop business. In 1911, Rytkonen partnered with August Allen to build and operate the Star Theater, located a short distance from the current site of the Vista. In 1925, Rytkonen purchased the lot where the Vista stands in order to build a new theater. Rytkonen wanted to construct a larger, grander, and more modern theatre than the Star.</p><br>
<p>Rytkonen hired architect David E. Anderson of Iron River to design the Vista, and construction began in the spring of 1925. Rytkonen hired Pfeffer Construction Company of Duluth, Minnesota and John Kielinen of Ishpeming to construct the Vista, and Trembath Brothers of Ishpeming to do the interior decorating. The new theatre opened on September 20, 1926. Rytkonen ran the theatre until his retirement in 1950, after which his son, William, and son-in-law, Peter Ghiardi, took over management of the Vista.</p><br>
<p>The Vista Theater remained open until 1972, when William Rytkonen died. In 1973, a group of local citizens formed the Peninsula Arts Appreciation Council (PAAC). This group took over the Vista and in 1975 began using it as a venue for multiple artistic forms, including amateur theater productions, musical programs and concerts, films, puppet shows, art exhibits, and arts workshops. In the 2000s, the group began restoration of the theatre, and on July 22, 2005 the structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. PAAC continues to operate the Vista and in 2014 thanks to a grant from the Cliffs/Eagle Foundation installed a digital projector and screen making it one of the few facilities left in the United States that acts as both a playhouse and movie theater.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Vista is a three-story Commercial Brick theater which was designed both for stage and motion picture productions. It measures 50 feet by 150 feet, and is constructed of yellow-buff brick over hollow tile. The facade has a slightly projecting bay at each end flanking a central entrance area. The projecting bays each contain a large rectangular panel of basket-weave brickwork, and the central area contains the entryway on the first floor, and broad banks of square-head windows on the second floor, and broadly arched windows on the third floor. A narrow metal classical cornice runs across the top of the facade, arching above the central third floor windows to match their curve. The first floor of the facade was modernized in the 1940s, and now contains banded salmon and maroon enameled metal paneling, with a V-haped marquee projecting above the entrance.</p><br>
<p>The interior contains an auditorium with a flat ceiling and a deep rear balcony. The balcony has simple classical architectural details such as pilasters and cornices The walls and ceiling are painted in an Art Deco style, with tapestries hung on the side walls between the pilasters. The front of the auditorium contains a stage, with fly loft and wings, and six dressing rooms below it.</p><br>
<p>Paramount Film Exchange is a building at 1727 Boulevard of the Allies in the Uptown or Bluff neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, designed in 1926 by R. E. Hall Co. architects from New York City. In 2010, the building was bought by arts-oriented local entrepreneurs who founded the Paramount Film Exchange , Inc., to redevelop the then-abandoned building in a historically sensitive manner.</p><br>
<p>"Film exchanges" were, in the words of film historian Max Alvarez, "agencies engaging in the practice of renting or trading motion pictures" and in the early part of the 20th century, they served as "full-service stores for theater owner/managers." Motion-picture studios owned exchanges and used them to screen their films for potential exhibitors in a local market. Once videocassettes came into use in the 1970s, it was no longer necessary to screen a film in a screening room, and film exchanges fell out of use. The Paramount Film Exchange, which belonged to Paramount Pictures, was one of several film exchange buildings in the area. The Duquesne University Tamburitzans occupy the former location of the Warner Bros. exchange at 1801 Boulevard of the Allies, and the auction and real-estate firm Harry Davis & Co. is located next door, at 1725 Boulevard of the Allies, in the building that once housed 20th Century Fox&#39;s exchange.</p><br>
<p>The Paramount Film Exchange was the subject of a contentious battle over historic preservation in Pittsburgh, which is redeveloping many of the older neighborhoods in its urban core. Initial attention to the Paramount Film Exchange came in 2008, when 21-year-old Drew Levinson entered and won a video contest sponsored by the Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh (YPA) with his short film on the Paramount Film Exchange. Levinsons video rallied support behind saving the Film Exchange from sale or demolition by then-owner University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). In 2009, YPA proposed the Paramount Film Exchange for official historical designation by the City of Pittsburgh. The Historic Review Commission of the City of Pittsburgh granted landmark designation in early 2010 based on "the importance of a particular place to Pittsburghs heritage." The YPA attributed the sites historical significance to its status as the last remnant of Pittsburghs "film row". UPMC and the Exchange&#39;s other large institutional neighbor, Duquesne University, both opposed landmarking the building, while Rick Schweikert and his co-investors in PFEX, Inc. did not. The proposal moved to City Council, which in a preliminary vote on Jan. 20, 2010, approved historic designation for the Exchange by an 8-1 margin.</p><br>
<p>The Negaunee State Bank Building, also known as the Old Bank Building, is a bank building located at 331 Iron Street in Negaunee, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The lot on which the Negaunee State Bank Building currently sits was previously home to the Mitchell Building, constructed in 1873 for Captain John P. Mitchell for use as a bank and office building. The construction, however, was ill-timed: due to the Panic of 1873 the planned bank was never incorporated and the structure was used only as a general commercial building. Then, in 1881, a private bank rented space in the building, and in 1887 the First National Bank of Negaunee was established and moved into the Mitchell Building. The First National Bank of Negaunee moved out in 1907, and in 1909 the newly organized Negaunee State Bank moved into the building, which was now known as the "Old Bank Building." The Old Bank Building was destroyed by fire on January 3, 1912.</p><br>
<p>The Negaunee State Bank quickly purchased the lot from the Mitchell estate and began construction on the current building on the same site in 1912. The bank hired D. Fred Charlton of Marquette to design the new building, and moved in when construction was complete. The building housed the Negaunee State Bank until 1933, when the bank failed during the Great Depression due to both the national economic conditions and the embezzlement of funds by an employee.</p><br>
<p>Following the failure of the Negaunee State Bank, the building housed a series of businesses, primarily insurance agencies and professionals, including lawyers, doctors and dentists. As of 2017, the building houses an antique store.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Like the original Old Bank Building, the Negaunee State Bank Building has a triangular footprint, measuring 62 feet along the north (Iron Street) side, 102 feet along the southwest (Kanter Street) side, and 84 feet along the east wall side. The building consists of two stories, plus a basement intended for commercial space. The structure is framed of wood, with brick facing, siting atop a stone foundation. The exterior walls are painted; this may be original to the design of the building. Some portion of the walls of the original 1873 Old Bank Building were incorporated into the structure of the current building.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance is located on the Iron Street facade, and gives access to both the bank area on the first floor and the offices on the second floor. A separate basement entrance is located at the corner of the building.</p><br>
<p>On the interior, the first floor contains the white tile floor lobby and the banking area, a private office for the cashier, a directors&#39; room, and two office suites. The first floor also contains the main bank vault and two small vaults in the offices. The second floor has nine office rooms, a store room, and two vaults\ which are directly above those on the first floor. The basement contains a large commercial space, a storage area, and another large vault. The building has retained the original floor plan, floor coverings, woodwork and other ornamental building features.</p><br>
<p>Madron Lake is a 65 acre lake situated in the northwestern quadrant  of Buchanan Township in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The outlet of Madron Lake drains west into the East Branch of the Galien River. Buchanan Township maintains a public boat launch off Burgoyne Road. Boats may be powered with electric engines only.</p><br>
<p>The former Wabano Council (now a District in the Southwestern Michigan Council) of Boy Scouts of America operated Camp Madron, located on the shores of Madron Lake, for many years as an overnight summer camp for boys. Camp Madron was closed and sold to private developers in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The "new" Camp Madron &ndash; a 49-unit private homeowners&#39; association situated on 216 acre &ndash; opened in 1989.</p><br>
<p>it is considered a great location for fishing because it contains "monster" fish.</p><br>
<p>The former Union Free School is located at the end of Conklin Street in New Hamburg, New York, United States. It is a red brick building constructed in the 1870s.</p><br>
<p>For many years it was the only public building in the hamlet. It remained in use as school for over a half a century. Since then it has been converted into a residence. In 1987 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The school is at the western edge of a one-acre (4,400 m²) lot at the top of a rise on the northeastern edge of the older section of the city of New Hamburg. It has a view south toward the Wappinger Creek estuary at the Hudson River. The land to the west and north is wooded. Some of the original property has since been subdivided and developed with more modern houses.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a two-story brick structure on a stone foundation with a gabled roof. Asphalt shingles cover the original tin. Its line is marked by broad projecting eaves with a bracketed cornice on all sides. The slightly arched windows have projecting hoods and sills of cast iron. A round vent is in the gable peak on the south (front) elevation, and a fire escape runs across the front.</p><br>
<p>On the east and west are two projecting entrance pavilions. They are similar to the main block in decoration but have flat roofs. The west one, which originally rose to a bell tower on the third story, has a transomed entrance with a decorative hood stopped with corbels.</p><br>
<p>The interior plan is intact. A second floor gym/auditorium space has not been further partitioned, and a large classroom on the first floor still has cast-iron columns in the center and one of its original blackboards.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was probably begun in the early 1870s, during New Hamburg&#39;s peak years as a river port. It replaced an old one-room schoolhouse on the main road towards Poughkeepsie, and is first shown on an 1876 map. At the time of its construction it was the only Free School in the Town of Poughkeepsie, with its own local school board.</p><br>
<p>It is still in basic form a one-room schoolhouse, but five times large than the extant Grammar School in Chelsea to the south. Its size and placement on the rise overlooking the river suggest the pride the community of New Hamburg took in it. The modest decoration shows the widespread acceptance of the Picturesque aesthetic in the area at the time.</p><br>
<p>It remained in use until the district was absorbed into the Wappinger Central School District in 1940. After the war it was used as a plastic factory for a while. It lay vacant and was later restored into a house, with art studio space.</p><br>
<p>The Weis Manufacturing Company, currently known as WoodCraft Square, is a former factory located at 800 West 7th Street  in the city of Monroe in Monroe County, Michigan. It was listed as a Michigan Historic Site and added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 26, 1981.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The factory complex was constructed between 1905–1912 for Weis Binder Company, originally from Toledo, Ohio. It was built along with many other new industries during Monroe&#39;s sudden economic growth at the turn of the twentieth century. The original section of the plant was completed in 1905, and the factory began producing file folders, cardboard binders and index cards in early 1906, with a staff of 60 people. A few years later, the company began constructing wooden bookcases and other office furniture. The company made an addition in 1909, doubling the floor space. Business boomed, and a few years later another addition was constructed.</p><br>
<p>When completed in 1912, the complex consisted of three main buildings for a total of 120,000 ft² (11,150 m²) and employed 300 people. From 1912–1964, the company produced paper and office equipment. In 1964, the complex was purchased by Floral City Furniture Company, a subsidiary of La-Z-Boy, which was based in Monroe. A few years later, the Weis complex was renamed the La-Z-Boy Chair Company. In 1978, the facility was completely vacated when the main La-Z-Boy headquarters on North Telegraph Road expanded to include their own manufacturing complex.</p><br>
<h2>WoodCraft Square</h2><br>
<p>The city of Monroe purchased the unused complex from La-Z-Boy for only $1 in 1980, where it continued to remain abandoned and boarded up for several more years. The city converted much of the main building into a low-income senior citizens residence, although the outside of the structure has remained unchanged since it was originally built. The complex&#39;s name was changed to WoodCraft Square and currently has 208 renovated units.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Weis Manufacturing Company complex contains five brick structures. Three of which are combined into a single building located along Union Street; the other two structures are separate buildings located behind the Union Street section. The three buildings along Union Street are of nearly identical construction, but have varying heights, making them distinguishable from one another.</p><br>
<p>The northernmost portion of the Union Street building was constructed in 1905/06, and is a two-story, flat-roofed, 30-bay structure with segmentally-arched</p><br>
<p>four-over-four light windows and a corbelled brick cornice. The central portion of the Union Street building, built in 1909, is similar, but sits on a high basement, lifting it above grade. The southernmost portion of the Union Street building, built in 1917, is a fourteen-bay extension of the central wing, and reflects the same design elements, but stands three stories high. However, the elevations of this portion not facing Union Street are dissimilar to the front elevation, and have wide bays of almost floor to ceiling windows separated with brick piers.</p><br>
<p>The larger of the two structures behind is a three-story, brick, flat-roofed, trapezoidal structure built in 1911. It displays similar design elements to the Union Street buildings. The smaller structure is a former boiler house, and is a single-story rectangular brick building with a gable roof.</p><br>
<p>The USA Customs House , located at Bonaire and Aduana streets in barrio La Playa, Ponce, Puerto Rico, is the oldest customs house in Puerto Rico, and the only one of its type under the USA flag. As of February 10, 1988, the building was owned by the USA Customs Service, Washington, D.C. The building is listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places as "USA Custom House". It was listed on February 10, 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Historical background</h2><br>
<p>The Ponce Customs House opened in 1842. At that time, customs administrative offices and warehouses were located on the first floor, while the second floor was devoted to dwelling units for the director of the customhouse and for the captain of the Port of Ponce. In 1845 the customhouse survived a terrible fire that destroyed most of the Ponce port vicinity. During the Spanish-American occupation, In 1898 General Nelson A. Miles established the headquarters of the American army in the customhouse during the Spanish–American War, from which he directed the invasion of the southern part of Puerto Rico. Salvador Brau, noted Puerto Rican historian, served as the head appraiser for the Spanish customs service in Ponce; after the American occupation, he was appointed by General Miles as Customs Administrator of Puerto Rico, a post he held for many years.</p><br>
<p>During the period of significance, Ponce was the second most populous city in Puerto Rico, with a population of about 70,000, and for most of the period, the second busiest port, after San Juan.</p><br>
<p>Following a major earthquake in 1918, the USA Customs Service undertook a comprehensive program of rebuilding and new construction. The remodeling may have been under the supervision of Albert B. Nichols, architect and inspector of buildings in the Supervising Architect of the Treasurys San Juan field office. A sheet of drawings, unsigned and undated, for the remodeling are in the San Juan Custom House files, and USA Customs Service believes that they may be Nichols work. Three other sheets signed by Rafael Carmoega, Chief architect of the insular government and presumed to date from August 1930, exist in the Public Building Service records.</p><br>
<p>The Ponce Custom House was designated a historic customhouse by the Secretary of the Treasury in 1972. Despite its 1924 remodeling, it remains an important example of Spanish Colonial architecture outside Old San Juan.</p><br>
<h2>Building Description</h2><br>
<p>The building is a Spanish-period building which was remodeled by the United States in 1924, with small changes since then. The two-story building has massive masonry walls and large arched entrances to a central courtyard that reflects its Spanish origins, while the false partial gables with Spanish barrel tiles are typical of the United States Spanish Revival architectural work of the 1920s. The building is situated on the waterfront facing the Caribbean Sea and next to the port of Ponce, two miles from the center of this second-largest city in Puerto Rico. The customs house fully occupies a small city block. Its principal facade faces Bonaire Street and looks toward the ocean across a grassed area containing a Coast Guard beacon. It is located in an area of traditional warehouses, commercial buildings, mostly one-story and many from the Spanish period. There is a sidewalk around the four sides of the building, with the one on Bonaire Street wider and providing three mature trees.</p><br>
<p>The building is a simple rectangle measuring 97 feet wide x 83 feet deep. The plan is typical of Spanish construction, with interconnected rooms, around the outside perimeter that also open to a central courtyard. There is a wide arched vehicular passage leading from the front through the courtyard to the rear exit from the building. The original courtyard has been partially closed in on the first floor only on each side of the passageway to create two additional rooms. Between the front rooms and the courtyard, a fine masonry staircase rises on the left side off the central passage. The second floor repeats the first-floor layout of perimeter rooms with later modifications, but includes the full extent of the original courtyard or patio in the center. Originally there may have been a roofed courtyard gallery for circulation around the courtyard. At present, there are two short modern gallery sections bridging between the quarry-tile-paved roofs of the infilled first-floor courtyard areas. At the head of the stairs is a large public lobby that opens to the courtyard and to the front of the building. There is also a small circular iron stair to the roof from the southeast corner of the second-floor courtyard.</p><br>
<p>The facades are similar with regular door and window openings and with small balconies to the second-floor openings. There is a small partial false gable roof of Spanish barrel red-clay tiles around the four sides and around the courtyard. On the front (south) facade, facing the ocean, there are five bays with a large elliptical arch-headed passageway large enough for vehicular traffic. It is architecturally marked only by a plain, flat frame painted differently from the body of the building. There are plain board, double doors with a smaller pedestrian port in the right door. In the elliptical arch there is a simple fanlight window. Flanking the arched entrance are two large high windows on each side. The windows are two-leaf casements with exterior solid and Jouvered combination paneled shutters. Metal grilles are at each window. The walls have a simple low projecting base course, and the first floor walls are marked by horizontal incised coursing, all in stucco. There is a large molded string course between stories and on the second floor, five door openings, each with double-leaf doors that are half sash, which replaced the original louvered and paneled shutter combinations. Over the doors are sashed transoms, although the right group has been replaced by air conditioners. Each opening has a decorative wrought iron balcony with scroll support dating from the USA remodeling of the building. Previous to these wrought-iron balconies, the building had cast iron railings. "USA Customs" is lettered over the central window. At the top is a large double masonry molded cornice, surmounted by the small false partial gable in Spanish tiles, both from 1924. On the front only, there are three flag poles on the roof, and a large antenna system. On each side of the first floor passage entry is an alarm box and a plain light fixture.</p><br>
<p>The rear facade is identical to the front, except that the right first-floor opening is a plain board door rather than a window and that some of the second-floor doors still retain their original louvered and paneled shutter systems and have not had glass inserted.</p><br>
<p>The side facades are similar to the front and rear, except for the absence of the arched passageway. Both sides are in five bays, all windows, on the first floor, with the exception of a door on the east side. The second-floor openings and balconies match the front with air conditioners generally mounted in the transoms. On the west side one second-floor door has a modern boxed-out bar grille around it.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the original 1841-42 building is in traditional heavy masonry walls two feet thick. The ceilings are high: 15 on the first floor, 14 on the second. There are several large structural arch openings in the interior masonry walls. The exposed floor joists are heavy 4x10 beaded edge ausubo wood members laid 24" on center. These old joists support modern concrete slab second floor laid over wire mesh and composition board forms laid during the 20th century remodeling. Also added at this point was reinforced concrete framing adjoining the old walls on the first floor. It is now in deteriorated condition, while the original walls appear generally sound.</p><br>
<p>In the interior, the central passage extends from front to rear through the open courtyard, paved in quarry tiles. On the left side at the front of the building, are two Immigration and Naturalization Service offices. On the right front are two USA Department of Agriculture offices. Behind the offices on the left side of the passage is a fine enclosed stair with two runs and a landing. The remaining first-floor rooms are storage rooms and a shop with concrete floors, several 8&#39; wide masonry openings with slat fanlights (sol truncos). Storage room windows are solid vertical board shutters without sash and with outside metal grilles. Two rooms flanking the passage in the center fill in an original part of the courtyard in a manner similar to the older construction.</p><br>
<p>On the second floor, the staircase from the entry passage opens on a large lobby from a two-arched staircase arcade. The lobby extends from the front back to the courtyard and is floored with diagonally laid gray and white marble tiles. The walls, as are old walls in the building, are plastered, and the ceiling has exposed 4x10 beaded ausubo wood beams. Old double four-paneled doors and a transom open to the courtyard. The window in the stairhall has been filled in with glass brick.</p><br>
<p>The offices on the second floor generally have been modernized with acoustical tile ceilings, fluorescent fixtures and vinyl floors. The old exterior doors remain, generally with glass replacing the shuttered sections, except for several windows on the rear lavatories and kitchen. Air conditioners are mounted in the transoms over the doors. On the southeast corner is a large inspectors office, with a counter for public business. Some old masonry partitions had been removed or altered to create this space. Along the east side, small rooms have been partitioned off and in the rear northeast corner is the large Port Directors office, in its original configuration. Across the north rear are a mens lavatory, a womens lavatory and a kitchen, all with black and white floor tiles. The kitchen appears to be original to the building and has traces of the original masonry cooking stove and flue. The left rear north corner room now used for training is also floored in old black and white tiles.</p><br>
<p>In the San Juan customs house files, there is one large sheet of remodeling plans for the Ponce Customs house, possibly by Albert B. Nichols, although not signed. In 1985 Customs Service commissioned a set of fifteen measured drawings by architect Rene Acosta, Hato Rey, P. R. which are reproduced in a report by the architect on the rehabilitation needs of the Ponce Custom House. (Feasibility Study for the Rehabilitation of the USA Ponce Custom House, Ponce, P. R.)</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>This United States Custom House is the oldest extant customhouse in Puerto Rico. Built in 1841-42, the adobe building of the Spanish era was remodeled by the United States in 1924. It is historically and architecturally significant for its antiquity and its importance in the Spanish period of customs administration in Puerto Rico, as it is the only one of its type among USA Customs Service properties. It is also significant for the role it played in the transitional phase of the American customs service in Puerto Rico, from 1898 to 1930. This period is bracketed at one end by the cession on December 10, 1898, of the island of Puerto Rico to the United States by Spain and on the other by the completion in 1930 of the major building and rehabilitation program undertaken by the USA Customs Service following World War I. The Ponce Custom House is an important example of the Spanish-Colonial architecture outside of Old San Juan.</p><br>
<p>The Rudolph Nims House is a private residence located at 206 West Noble Street in the city of Monroe in Monroe County, Michigan. It was listed as a Michigan Historic Site on October 29, 1971 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 18, 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1846 by Jacques Godfroy, who acquired the land from a government grant. While the house was built by Godfroy, it is unknown if he ever actually lived in the house. He sold the house to his business partner Rudolph Nims in 1848. Several additions were made to the house in subsequent years, including the addition of a dining room in 1850, another small room in 1863, a summer kitchen in 1911 and a small porch in 1914.</p><br>
<p>The Nims family owned the house for over a hundred years before selling it. It remains privately owned.</p><br>
<p>The Rudolph Nims House is a block away from the St. Mary&#39;s Church Complex Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Rudolph Nims House is a two-story frame Greek Revival structure covered with clapboards. The house measures 32 feet by 32 feet, and sits on a fieldstone foundation. The house has a two-story extension at the rear, as well as a single story addition behind and another to the side. The main section of the house has a gable roof, and separate gable roofs top the additions. Atwo-story Doric portico fronts the house, and separate one-story polygonal one-story entrance porch is located on one side.</p><br>
<p>The portico shelters a blind recess simulating a door. The recess is flanked by floor-length windows which slide into the wall. Despite the several additions to the house, and the heavy modification of the interior, the front facade has remained unchanged.</p><br>
<p>Antero Reservoir is a reservoir in the US state of Colorado. It was created by the first dam placed on the South Platte River in Park County, central Colorado. It is owned by Denver Water and supplies drinking water to the greater Denver metro region almost 140 mi away.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1909, the earthen dam sat on a site believed by geologists to be a dry lake bed some 300 years old. This lake, named Green Lake, lies submerged in Antero Reservoir.</p><br>
<p>Denver Water acquired the reservoir property in 1924, along with the High Line Canal, and it has remained a part of the Denver Water system since 1924.</p><br>
<p>The Reservoir was closed in 2002 for five years due to drought. The lake went completely dry, and the Colorado Division of Wildlife, in concert with Denver Water resurrected it in 2007. The Colorado Division of Wildlife re-stocked the lake with rainbow trout, brook trout, cutbow, cutthroat trout, brown trout, and splake.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, engineers began lowering the water level by two feet due to excess seepage. The dam has leaked since its construction, requiring it to operate under state restrictions.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in May 2013, Antero reservoir was planned to have been drained because of drought conditions. It was not drained because of substantial snowfall in April 2013. In 2013, a $17 million project to rehabilitate the dam began. The reservoir was then expected to be drained in 2015 for necessary repairs, with re-filling in 2016.</p><br>
<p>In the event, Denver Water began to empty the reservoir in June 2015 for "significant repairs to Antero Dam".</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>The shallowness of this reservoir makes it relatively warm for the location and altitude. This makes for exceptionally large, fast growing fish. Antero Reservoir is owned by Denver Water and overseen by Colorado Division of Wildlife. Because it is not a state park, there are no fees for fishing. Fishing is year &#39;round, with ice fishing in the winter.</p><br>
<h2>Stats</h2><br>
<p>Elevation: 8,942 ft,</p><br>
<p>Capacity: 20,000 acre.ft,</p><br>
<p>Surface area: 2,500 acre.</p><br>
<p>The North Maumee Bay Archeological District is a historic district containing archeological sites located in the southeasternmost corner of Erie Township in Monroe County, Michigan. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 5, 1980.</p><br>
<p>While the official address of the archeological site is restricted, the district incorporates the area of the North Maumee Bay at the mouth of the Ottawa River and Maumee River in Lake Erie. The sparsely populated area includes the Woodtick Peninsula, Gard Island, Indian Island, the Erie Marsh Preserve, the Erie Fish and Hunt Club, and much of the grassy shoreline and interior wetlands.</p><br>
<p>Public access is permitted, and the area is a well known fishing destination. It is also known for one of the areas under dispute during the Toledo War between Michigan and Ohio from 1835–1836, although no actual conflict took place on the land.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The district spans 130 acres and contains 20 sites.</p><br>
<h2>Later history</h2><br>
<p>In 2006, the Erie Marsh Preserve was incorporated into the expanding Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge. At 3.46 mi² (8.97 km²), the Erie Marsh Preserve doubled the size of the growing refuge and remains the refuge&#39;s largest property. At 19 acres (7.7 ha), Gard Island was also incorporated into the wildlife refuge at the same time. These two areas represent the southernmost portions of the wildlife refuge. Properties within the district are owned by private land owners, The Nature Conservancy, and the USA Fish and Wildlife Service.</p><br>
<p>Coles County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Charleston, Illinois. The courthouse is located in a public square in central Charleston and houses most of Coles County, Illinoiss administrative offices as well as its courts. It was built in 1898 and designed by architect Cornelius W. Rapp in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The buildings exterior is faced in brown stone from the Embarras River; Bedford stone is used for several architectural details. The corners of the building feature pavilions topped by pyramids, and a clock tower topped with a pyramid is situated atop the center of the courthouse. The four main entrances, located on each side of the building, feature an arcaded porch with recessed doors.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Edward Loranger House is a private residence located at 7211 South Stoney Creek Road in Frenchtown Charter Township in Monroe County, Michigan. It was listed as a Michigan Historic Site on October 2, 1980 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 31, 1984. The house is significant as one of the oldest authentic structures in Michigan — having undergone very little modifications since it was first built.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Edward Loranger was born in Trois-Rivières, Canada in 1796. He moved to Michigan in 1816, and in 1822 purchased the land on which this house is now located.He became one of the most prominent landowners and architects in early Monroe County, and constructed many buildings in the area. This house was built in 1825. Loranger married Marianne Navarre In 1826, and the couple had five children. Loranger died in 1887.</p><br>
<p>The house fell into disrepair over the years but was restored in 1941. It was during this restoration that the dormers were added to the roof. The house remains privately owned.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Edward Loranger House is a 1½ story, red brick gabled farmhouse on the banks of Stoney Creek about five miles (8 km) north of Monroe and three miles (4.8 km) south of the village of Carleton. The house is a fairly simple and common French-Canadian-style house with no exterior decor. A single-story addition, constructed in 1861, is connected to the rear.</p><br>
<p>The house is rectangular, and symmetrical in plan, with a center entrance with windows on each side; the windows are six-over-six double hing units, and have stone lintels and sills. A chimney is located at each gable end. It sits on a stone foundation.</p><br>
<p>The house originally had two rooms and an attic inside. The wall separating the two rooms constructed of brique en poteaux, meaning brick placed between vertical posts. This was an early French-Canadian construction technique. There are two more rooms in the 1861 addition.</p><br>
<p>The property also includes five outbuildings - a brick smokehouse, a barn, a playhouse, and two storage buildings. Loranger also constructed a gristmill and sawmill on his property. These have since been moved to The Henry Ford.</p><br>
<p>Albert S. Brandeis Elementary School is a former elementary school in Louisville, Kentucky that began operation in 1913. It is listed as a historic building with the National Register of Historic Places. It was patterned after the Charlton House in England. It was designed by J. Earl Henry, the renowned early 20th century Louisville architect.</p><br>
<p>The historic building is located at 1001 South 26th Street. The school itself operates at 2817 W. Kentucky St. in a modern facility. It became a math/science/technology magnet school in fall 1990. It was Louisville&#39;s first magnet program in an elementary school.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The original school building occupies a city block between the Parkland and California neighborhoods. It is built of brick and has 2½ stories as well as a raised basement. The windows on the first and second floor are identical. A decorative gabled entrance spans the height of the building and includes a decorative scroll which reads "L.P.S." for Louisville Public School (the predecessor of Jefferson County Public Schools).</p><br>
<p>The building is designed in the Tudor Revival architecture style, although the entrance includes Gothic elements. Architect J. Henry Earl was heavily influenced by Robert Smythson, especially his designs for Wardour Castle and Charlton House.</p><br>
<p>A modestly styled addition was added to the back of the building in 1954. The elaborate original windows were replaced in 1962 steel frame vent windows.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Brandeis was one of the first schools built under the Louisville Independent School District, which spent equally in rich and poor neighborhoods, accounting for the large and stylish building in a working-class neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>The school was named after Albert S. Brandeis, who was one of the founders of the Louisville Board of Education.</p><br>
<p>In 1990, the school board announced Brandeis would be leaving its old building because it was too small and maintenance costs were too high. At the time, its principal said "The building has a lot of charm, but we&#39;ve outdated it. Most of the major systems are in constant need of repair." A new 6 acre site was selected a few blocks away, which was previously the location of about 20 houses and some small businesses.</p><br>
<p>The move was completed in 1992. At the time, city officials hoped to buy the building and convert it to housing. The city bought the property in 1993 for $220,000. The property was used for public meetings in the mid-1990s as various plans were proposed to convert it to a new use. A non-profit group built a day care center on the original school property, behind the school building, in 1995.</p><br>
<p>However, the property suffered during this time, as parts of the roof caved in and vandals repeatedly struck. In 1996, it was finally converted to 50 private apartments. It was converted by the same not-for-profit group, New Directions Housing Corporation, that turned Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School in Portland into apartments. It continues to be an important landmark in its neighborhood. The building now includes 50 apartments, an after school Learning Center and community garden.</p><br>
<p>The USA Customs House or "Edificio Aduana" is a historic Custom House building located at Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. As of February 10, 1988, the building was owned by the USA Customs Service, Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1838 to accommodate and lodge distinguished visitors that reached the port of Mayagüez. In 1898 the building became a Custom House. It originally had two floors but the second story was destroyed by the earthquake of 1918. Its present architectonic line is from the year 1924, being the work of engineers Huiguera and Besosa, being its architect Mr. Rafael Carmoega. On September 30, 1981 it was declared a Historical Building of the United States.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The most important construction of the city of Mayagüez in attention to its general aesthetic values it is a beautiful building of "anfipróstilo" (two portals) style. Doric order (capitel) its influence being grecoroman, Tuscan and numbering "octástila" in smooth column (fuste) and "basas áticas". The building is surrounded by arches and semi-pilasters that puts one in contact with a neoclassical style of Roman influence. It exhibits two pediments very sincréticos decorative and balustrades. The structures upper portions are adorned with plates and "dentellones" of baroque influence. Its interior is of great beauty and of a Renaissance aesthetics of the Michelangelo style. The structure is manufactured completely in reinforced concrete and the floors of terrazzo edged with white marble.</p><br>
<p>Brown & Hawkins is a general store in Seward, Alaska. It was founded in 1904 to serve the town and those constructing of the Alaska Central Railroad, and has been the oldest continuously operating business in Seward. It was announced in 2013 that the owners were retiring without finding anyone to buy their business.</p><br>
<p>Brown & Hawkins was a business venture between partners Charles E. Brown of Montreal, Quebec, Canada and T.W. Hawkins of Roanoke, Virginia. The two men met in Nome during the Gold Rush. They first started business together in Valdez in 1900 before moving to Seward in 1903. Their business in Seward included a store and bank.</p><br>
<p>The store building began as a one-story 12 x frontier store with a low false front in 1903. It evolved through four periods of construction to add and modify additional structures.</p><br>
<p>As of 2009 Brown & Hawkins was still owned by the Hawkins family, making it the oldest store in Alaska under the same ownership. The original Mosler safe and brass cash register were displayed in the store.</p><br>
<p>The Lowell Creek Diversion Tunnel is a flood control project located in Seward, Alaska, United States. The project was constructed to alleviate flooding of Lowell Creek in Seward. It was the first flood control project completed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Alaska.</p><br>
<p>Originally, Lowell Creek ran through Seward along what is now Jefferson Street. Beginning with the town&#39;s establishment in 1903, the fast-moving stream produced one to three severe floods a year until the tunnel was built in 1939. The floods carried large amounts of debris from the mountains; one flood deposited 10,000 cubic yards in an 11-hour period in 1935.</p><br>
<p>In 1927 the Alaska Railroad constructed a small diversion dam and flume to carry debris down Jefferson Street to drain into Resurrection Bay. However, by 1937 these structures had deteriorated beyond repair. Consequently, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction of the new project in August 1939. The project consisted of:</p><br>
<p>a diversion dam, 400 ft in length and up to 25 ft high that diverted the creek away from its original path</p><br>
<p>a tunnel through Bear Mountain, 2,068 ft in length and 10 ft in width</p><br>
<p>an outlet flume, 109 ft in length and 10 ft in width which drains into Resurrection Bay.</p><br>
<p>Completed in 1940, this system withstood the 1964 Alaska earthquake, as well as severe floods in 1966, 1986, and 1995, which brought the water level within inches of cresting the dam.</p><br>
<p>The tunnel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Though the project has prevented significant flooding of the city of Seward, debris continues to accumulate at the outlet of the flume and the city must work to move the debris further into the bay. With the significant risk of debris accumulation during a flooding event, new projects are being considered to replace the diversion tunnel — including construction of a new, wider tunnel through Bear Mountain at a cost of $30 million, or an aqueduct underneath Jefferson Street.</p><br>
<p>The Cornelius Carman House is located along River Road South in Chelsea, New York, United States. It is a wooden house built in the 1830s, overlooking the Hudson River, for Carman, operator of a local shipyard and inventor of a moveable centerboard.</p><br>
<p>Its architecture exemplifies a late vernacular application of the Federal style common in western Dutchess County at that time, showing the transition to the Greek Revival mode and both Dutch and English influences. In 1987 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is currently vacant and undergoing some repairs.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is situated on a wooded 10-acre (4 ha) lot along River Road South on the south side of Chelsea. It is above the level of the road, which itself is elevated above the river and the tracks of the Metro-North Railroad&#39;s Hudson Line to its immediate west. Trees screen the house from the road. Access to the house is provided by an unpaved driveway which begins to the north and parallels the road. There is a garage on the property that is of more modern construction and thus not considered a contributing resource to the National Register listing.</p><br>
<p>Its one-and-a-half-story rectangular five-bay clapboard-sided gable-roofed main block sits on a raised stone foundation. The roofline is marked by a plain frieze and articulated cornice.Pairs of brick chimneys rise on the north and south.</p><br>
<p>There are wings on all four sides. On the front (west) facade is the three-bay projecting entrance portico, with a pediment originally supported by four Doric columns (now temporarily replaced by wooden beams). On the rear is a one-story shed-roofed addition. On the north and south are two flat-roofed one-story wings, added later. The south wing was a library; the north one probably an office. It has a small porch. A freestanding third wing, one and a half stories with a gabled roof on a brick basement, was also later attached near the north end of the shed-roofed addition. The connecting passageway between it and the house was itself later adapted into a garage.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance, framed by stylized pilasters, leads to a central hall that goes all the way to the back of the shed-roofed addition. The interior has been stripped for repair work, but original pieces included a mahogany balustrade on the main stairway and a black marble mantelpiece.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Carman acquired the land in 1833 from the Ashburys, local farmers who had subdivided, probably to take advantage of a growing local economy. It is not known what Carman did before 1820, or if he came from somewhere other than Chelsea, but after that year he had operated a shipyard where the Chelsea Yacht Clubs clubhouse now stands. He may have been leasing the Ashburys property for some time before 1833.</p><br>
<p>At first he built wooden sloops, the most common ship along the river in those days. In their 1908 history The Sloops of the Hudson, William Verplanck and Moses Collyer (whose own house, Driftwood, is nearby) credit him with the invention of a moveable centerboard that allowed sloops more stable maneuvering in the deeper sections of the river without having to sacrifice their ability to put ashore at shallow ports. The one Carman installed on his boat the Freedom is believed to have been the first. It became a standard feature shortly thereafter.</p><br>
<p>He also changed with the times. When steam-powered vessels began to be used following Robert Fulton&#39;s voyage up the river on the Clermont in the 1820s, he began building them. One, the Plow-Boy, was the first steam ferry used on the Newburgh-Fishkill Landing route in 1828.</p><br>
<p>The home he built in 1835 shows an awareness of the vernacular building traditions of the area. It is basically Georgian in form and Federal in plan, styles associated with Americans of English descent, but maintains the one-and-a-half-story scale of Dutch houses common in the region.</p><br>
<p>There are some influences of New England traditions, particularly the Greek Revival detailing, typical of houses in that style built in similar settings by merchants and other successful men of the era. The decor is more restrained than on those found in New England. Also relating to that region is the shed-roofed rear addition, not seen on most Hudson Valley homes.</p><br>
<p>The property originally stretched down to the riverfront, where Carman had his wharves. In the mid-19th century the coming of the Hudson River Railroad, which would eventually displace most river shipping, cut the land in two, although Carman retained access across the tracks.</p><br>
<p>It remained a private residence in active use until sometime after 1983. At some point between then and the beginning of the 21st century the property fell into its present disused, overgrown state.</p><br>
<p>The M. A. Benton House is an historic landmark in Fort Worth, Texas , located on a four-lot corner at 1730 Sixth Avenue. This Victorian-style house, still owned by Benton descendants, was built in 1898 and is one of the oldest homes in Fort Worth. The descendants have preserved the cottage’s architecture features, including the one-and-a-half-story structure and the fence that has surrounded the cottage since it was first built. As a family home, it is not open to the public. The Benton House is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural qualities. In 1981, the Benton House was designated a Texas Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Benton House was owned by a tobacco seller, Meredith A. Benton, and his wife, Ella Belle. M. A. Benton’s father, a Kansas City builder, erected the house for the couple in 1898. It was built originally with a barn and hayloft and a two-room servants’ house, but the servants’ quarters were redesigned into a garage building in 1937. Ella Belle Benton lived alone for most of the time because her husband was an active civic worker. She helped start the Rose Gardens, now part of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, as well as a public kindergarten program.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>The Benton House is a Victorian gingerbread home. Made of cypress, it contains six rooms, a central hall, and tiled fireplaces. Some special features of this house are an asymmetrical floorplan, fine spindle work, cross gables over a hipped roof, and a cutaway window.</p><br>
<p>SM U-87&#39; was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy  in World War I.</p><br>
<p>U-87 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic. She sank some 22 merchant vessels before 25 December 1917, when rammed U-87 in the Irish Sea and depth-charged her. Then the P-class sloop P.56 sank her. U-87s entire crew of 44 were lost.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>German Type U 87 submarines were preceded by the shorter Type U 81 submarines. The first of its type, U-87 had a displacement of 757 t when at the surface and 998 t while submerged. She had a total length of 65.80 m, a pressure hull length of 50.07 m, a beam of 6.20 m, a height of 9.35 m, and a draught of 3.88 m. The submarine was powered by two 2,400 PS engines for use while surfaced, and two 1,200 PS engines for use while submerged. She had two propeller shafts. She was capable of operating at depths of up to 50 m.</p><br>
<p>The submarine had a maximum surface speed of 15.6 kn and a maximum submerged speed of 8.6 kn. When submerged, she could operate for 56 nmi at 5 kn; when surfaced, she could travel 11,380 nmi at 8 kn. U-87 was fitted with four 50 cm torpedo tubes (two at the bow and two at the stern), ten to twelve torpedoes, one 10.5 cm SK L/45 deck gun, and one 8.8 cm SK L/30 deck gun. She had a complement of thirty-six (thirty-two crew members and four officers).</p><br>
<h2>Summary of raiding history</h2><br>
<h2>Fate and Discovery</h2><br>
<p>In August 2017, researchers from Bangor University in Wales announced they had discovered the sunken wreck of U-87 while conducting ‘multibeam’ surveys around the coast of Wales as part of the marine renewable energy SEACAMS 2 project. Detailed sonar images reveal the wreck to be lying in one piece with what appears to be a large area of damage near the conning tower, presumably caused by in the ramming collision by escort P.56.</p><br>
<p>The Van Gilder Hotel is a historic multipurpose commercial and civic building at 307 Adams Street in Seward, Alaska, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The building was originally constructed as an office by E.L. Van Gilder of Kellogg, Idaho, who decided to invest in the Alaska Territory. Van Gilder purchased the property adjacent to the Seward bank for $4,000 in February 1916. He obtained supplies in Idaho, and then returned to Seward via the steamer Evans with his wife and daughter. Construction for the two-story structure with an excavated basement began in May 1916. In addition to offices, the building would have meeting halls for local organizations. During construction, Van Gilder decided to add a third story to the building. Extra construction costs and a poor economy forced Van Gilder to sell the building shortly after it was completed. The new building was purchased by Charles Brown, a partner in the Brown & Hawkins Store in Seward.</p><br>
<p>The Van Gilders planned to return to the states and travelled to Ketchikan, Alaska via boat. While in the town waiting for the boat to leave, Van Gilder and his wife Sarah were both offered jobs. They stayed for a year and earned money to invest in business in St. Helens, Oregon.</p><br>
<h2>Rooms and Guests</h2><br>
<p>Upon completion, the first and second floors contained 27 rooms, while the basement had seven. The third floor held a Masonic and Odd Fellows lodge rooms, as well as meeting space for the Christian Scientists and the Seward Women&#39;s Club. Tenants on the lower floor included the law firm Morford & Finnigan, a doctor, and the Alaska Importing Company. The basement held offices for the Gateway Newspaper. The newspaper was the second in Alaska to join the Associated Press and had been called the second-largest paper in Alaska in 1915.</p><br>
<p>In early 1921 the building was converted to apartments. Joe Badger, who came to Alaska from Chelsea, Massachusetts during the gold rush in Nome, served as manager. Badger took over ownership in September, and had the building converted again, this time to serve as a hotel. Early guests to the hotel included salesman, railroad, and government officials including Austin E. Lathrop, a prominent Alaskan industrialist. In 1923 when Warren G. Harding became the first USA president to visit the territory, many of the executives stayed in the Van Gilder.</p><br>
<p>In 1924, Seward and the Van Gilder were a stop for the Army Air Service team that made the first aerial circumnavigation of the globe. The four pilots and their crews landed their Douglas World Cruiser aircraft—the Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, and Seattle—in Resurrection Bay. The event was the first time many of the 1,000 residents saw an airplane.</p><br>
<h2>Varied Owners</h2><br>
<p>Ownership passed hands several more times, and the hotel was known as "Hotel Renwald" during parts of the 1950s and 1960s. For a time the building was leased to the state and served as a dormitory for the Seward Skills Center. When the state&#39;s lease expired in 1978 the building was refurbished and has served as a hotel since.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Albania Plantation is a plantation house located on the Bayou Teche right outside of the town of Jeanerette, Louisiana. The home was built between 1837 and 1842 by Charles Alexandre Grevemberg, who operated a successful sugar plantation on the surrounding 6,500 acre. The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>After Charles Alexandre Grevemberg’s death at Albania in 1851, his wife, Euphemie Fuselier (d. 1886), managed the plantation. Records of the sugar crops made in Louisiana 1859–1860 shows Mrs. Charles Grevemberg producing 475 hogsheads of sugar on the Bayou Teche.</p><br>
<p>Samuel and Isaac Delgado acquired the property in 1885. Isaac Delgado bequeathed it to the City of New Orleans which operated the sugar plantation through the Delgado-Albania Plantation Commission.</p><br>
<p>In 1957 the City of New Orleans sold the plantation house and surrounding acreage at public auction. It was acquired by Emily Cyr Bridges, who restored Albania Mansion and opened it to the public showcasing her well-known collection. Miss Emily was an enthusiastic antiquarian who traveled the countryside knocking on doors to add to her collection of Southern plantation furniture and Acadian artifacts, at a time before such objects were highly prized.</p><br>
<p>Miss Emily was the daughter of Paul N. Cyr, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1931, under Governor Huey Long. In one of the more colorful Long era incidents, Cyr had himself sworn in as Governor in October 1931, stating that Long had vacated the office when he was elected USA Senator. Long called out the National Guard and the State Police to bar Cyr from the Governor’s Mansion. Miss Emily shared her father’s disdain for Huey Long, and banned his name from being spoken at Albania.</p><br>
<p>Never a conventional woman, Miss Emily was a pioneer aviator who flew patrol missions over the Louisiana coast as a member of the Civil Air Patrol during World War II.</p><br>
<p>In Miss Emily’s heyday at Albania she loved to entertain on the galleries; her coterie included artist-in-residence Lucius Lacour. In her later years Miss Emily became reclusive, rarely receiving guests and never leaving her beloved Albania.</p><br>
<p>The home is currently owned by Hunt Slonem, the celebrated New York artist. Slonem bought the house for about $625,000 in 2005;.</p><br>
<p>Bayside is a plantation house built in 1850 by Francis DuBose Richardson on the Bayou Teche in Jeanerette, Louisiana, United States. Richardson, a classmate and friend of Edgar Allan Poe, purchased the land for a sugar plantation. It has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since January 29, 1987. Richardson attended St. Marys College in Baltimore, Maryland. He was elected to the Louisiana Senate and sponsored legislation establishing the Louisiana School for the Blind, which institution is extant in Baton Rouge. His daughter, Bethia Richardson, married Donelson Caffery II, a Louisiana State Senator and a United States Senator. Richardsons great grandson, Patrick Thomson Caffery served as a Louisiana State Representative and a United States Representative</p><br>
<p>It is believed that Edgar Allan Poe slept at Bayside while visiting Richardson.</p><br>
<p>The YMCA Building is a structure in downtown Riverside, California, that has been used for various functions over the years but is currently the Life Arts Center. The Life Arts Center rents its three halls on the main floor for wedding receptions, business events, graduations and qienceañeras. The top floor has 25 studios rented by artists. These were once the hotel rooms rented to guests by the YMCA. The bottom floor is now a full gymnasium called the City Gym. The building was designed in the style of an Italian Renaissance palazzo.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1909, it was the second YMCA building in Riverside. The YMCA vacated the building in 1968, moving to premises at 4020 Jefferson Street. In 1974 the building was purchased and refurbished by Bent Corydon for use as a franchise of the Church of Scientology. The 40,000 square foot building was, at the time, the largest Mission of the church. Corydon left the Church a few years later. In 1992 Corydon won a ten year legal battle against the Church of Scientology for ownership of the building. The building is now owned by Life Arts Center Incorporated, with Corydon as president.</p><br>
<p>The West Queen Anne School was a Seattle public elementary school located in the Queen Anne, Seattle neighborhood from 1896 to 1981 and is now high-end condominiums. The School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 as Queen Anne Public School and two years later became a Seattle landmark. The old sign “West Queen Anne Public School” still hangs over the former Galer Street main entrance.</p><br>
<p>Designed in the popular Richardsonian Romanesque style by Warren P. Skillings and James M. Corner, construction on the Queen Anne School began in 1895 and classes opened in the fall of 1896. As the neighborhood grew, several additions were added to the school. Classrooms were added in 1899 and again in 1902; in 1916, an additional 10 classrooms and an auditorium were added on the south end, and the school&#39;s main entrance, originally facing Lee Street, was moved to Galer Street. Until its renovation in 1984, the last major addition to the school was the principal’s office, added in 1920.</p><br>
<p>Originally the Queen Anne School, in 1908, the school&#39;s name was changed to the West Queen Anne Elementary School to avoid confusion with Queen Anne High School.</p><br>
<p>In 1974, after the Boeing Bust and subsequent Seattle recession, Seattle School District staff recommended closing the school due to declining enrollment. A grassroots effort of parents, teachers and local residents worked together to keep the school open and nominated the building for historic status as part of their effort. It was the first Seattle school to receive National Register of Historic Places status. The school remained open through 1981.</p><br>
<p>In 1983, the Seattle School District gave Historic Seattle a 99-year land lease on the school’s 1.76 acre property, with an option to renew for another 99 years. Historic Seattle transferred the site to the West Queen Anne Association, formed for the condominium conversion, and in 1983-84, the architectural firm of Cardwell/Thomas and Associates renovated and converted the school into 49 condominium units.</p><br>
<p>The school is now home to over 75 residents, has been featured in magazines including Architectural Digest and Metropolitan Home magazines, and has been a stop on Historic Seattles Queen Anne tour. Historic photos of the school adorn the walls, including a picture of students on the front lawn holding bird houses, students playing "What have you in your basket" and one of a classroom with this excerpt written on the chalkboard from "Hiawathas Childhood" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:</p><br>
<p>" &#39;Tis the heaven of flowers you see there</p><br>
<p>All the wild-flowers of the forest,</p><br>
<p>All the lilies of the prairie,</p><br>
<p>When on earth they fade and perish,</p><br>
<p>Blossom in that heaven above us."</p><br>
<p>West Queen Anne School&#39;s classrooms-to-condominiums conversion was the largest privately financed rehabilitation-and-reuse project of its type in the Northwest and is now a national model for salvaging surplus schools.</p><br>
<p>Unionville Historic District is a national historic district located at Unionville, Centre County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 173 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites in the central business district and surrounding residential area of Unionville. The buildings are primarily residential and date as early as 1848 and include a number of plan "I"-pan houses and other vernacular or folk house types. Notable non-residential buildings include the Moses-Taylor Tavern, Peters Temperance House, Union Church, Methodist Church , Griest Store, and Union Grange Hall.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Fleming Free Methodist Unionville Union TWP CentreCo PA.jpgFleming Free Methodist Church</p><br>
<p>St. Patrick&#39;s Church is a historic Roman Catholic church in Glynwood, Located north of USA Route 33 between St. Marys and Wapakoneta,</p><br>
<h2>Establishment</h2><br>
<p>The parish was founded as St. Thomas Church in the community of Six Mile in 1857. While most Catholic churches established in Auglaize and Mercer counties during this time were primarily German, St. Thomas was established by Irish settlers. Mass was celebrated in private homes until a leading member donated land for a cemetery and church, which was built in 1860. Starting in the 1840s, the church was served by priests of the Society of the Precious Blood who were based at Minster, approximately 15 mi to the south.</p><br>
<h2>Expansion</h2><br>
<p>During the 1870s, Six Mile prospered due to the discovery of oil and natural gas in the region and the coming of the Lake Erie and Western Railroad; when the railroad built a depot in Six Mile, it renamed the community for local resident John Glynn. St. Thomas&#39; Church also grew, reaching the point that the old frame church was becoming too small for the number of parishioners. Accordingly, the cornerstone was laid for a new brick church in 1883. In this same year, the parish was rededicated for Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland; the cemetery retained its former name.</p><br>
<p>Architectural historians have divided the Precious Blood-related churches of western Ohio into multiple generations. Only a few buildings remain from the first generation, which consisted primarily of small wooden churches, and only St. Johns Church in Fryburg to the east remains essentially unchanged. Replacing these wooden buildings were the churches of the second generation, which were generally small brick buildings without tall spires. St. Patricks occupies of a transitional place between the churches of the second and third generations; although it is a small brick building that replaced an early wooden church, its tower resembles those of the High Gothic Revival churches of the third generation.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>In 1979, St. Patrick&#39;s Church was recognized for its architecture by being added to the National Register of Historic Places. Twenty-seven other churches, including the old mother church in Minster, were added to the Register at the same time.</p><br>
<p>Today, St. Patrick&#39;s remains an active parish of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. It is clustered with Holy Rosary parish in St. Marys, and both churches are a part of the St. Marys Deanery.</p><br>
<p>Adramyttium  was an ancient city and bishopric in Aeolis. It was originally located at the head of the Gulf of Adramyttium, on the River Caicus in the Plain of Thebe, 4 kilometres west of the modern town of Burhaniye, but later moved 13 kilometres northeast to its current location and became known as Edremit.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Classical period</h3><br>
<p>The site where Adramyttium sits was originally settled by Leleges, the indigenous inhabitants of the Aegean littoral, and people from the neighbouring region of Mysia. The area was later settled by Lydians, Cimmerians, and Aeolians, who gave their name to the region of Aeolis. and the city of Adramyttium was founded in the 6th century BC. Prior to his ascension to the throne, Croesus, Alyattes&#39; successor, was governor of a district centred on Adramyttium. The fall of the Kingdom of Lydia in 546 BC led Adramyttium to form part of the Persian Empire and was administered as part of the province of Hellespontine Phrygia from the early 5th century BC onward. In 422 BC, Pharnaces, the Satrap (governor) of Hellespontine Phrygia, offered asylum to exiles from the island of Delos, who subsequently settled in the city and was thereafter considered a Greek city. Arsaces, a general subordinate to Tissaphernes, the Satrap of Lydia and Caria, massacred a number of the Delian exiles. The Delians returned to Delos in 421/420 BC when the Athenians permitted them to do so.</p><br>
<p>Following the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC, Adramyttium came under the control of Mytilene. Autophradates, Satrap of Lydia, and Mausolus, Satrap of Caria, besieged Ariobarzanes at Adramyttium in 366 BC. However, the siege of Adramyttium was abandoned following the arrival of Agesilaus II, King of Sparta, in 365. Following his victory at the Battle of the Granicus in 334 BC, Adramyttium came under the control of Alexander the Great. After Alexander&#39;s death in 323, his empire was divided at the Partition of Babylon and Leonnatus was appointed Satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia.</p><br>
<p>At the Partition of Triparadisus in 321 BC, Arrhidaeus succeeded Leonnatus as Satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia. In 319 BC, Adramyttium and Hellespontine Phrygia was seized by Antigonus I Monophthalmus, Satrap of Greater Phrygia. Adramyttium and Hellespontine Phrygia remained under the control of Antigonus until the Fourth War of the Diadochi, and the city was taken by force by Prepelaus, a general of Lysimachus, Basileus of Thrace, in 302 BC. Adramyttium and Lysimachus other Anatolian territory was annexed to the Seleucid Empire after Lysimachus defeat at the Battle of Corupedium in 281 BC. An artificial port was constructed at Adramyttium in the early third century BC which subsequently allowed the city to overshadow the neighbouring port of Cisthene.</p><br>
<p>Adramyttium came under the control of the Attalid dynasty during the rule of Eumenes I, a nominal vassal of the Seleucid Empire, in the mid-third century BC. The alliance between Attalus I, Eumenes&#39;s successor, and Rhodes during the Cretan War led Philip V, King of Macedonia, to invade the Kingdom of Pergamon and pillage the countryside surrounding Adramyttium in 201 BC. and thus, in 133 BC, Adramyttium came under Roman control. The city became part of the province of Asia.</p><br>
<p>Manius Aquillius, governor of the province of Asia from 129 to 126, rebuilt the road that connected Adramyttium and Smyrna. In the first century BC, a famous school of oratory was located in Adramyttium. Adramyttium was the centre of a conventus iuridicus, and its jurisdiction included the Troad and the western half of Mysia. Adramyttium was also the centre of a conventus civium Romanorum in the second or early first century BC. During the First Mithridatic War, Diodorus, a strategos and supporter of Mithridates VI, King of Pontus, had the members of the city council killed and granted control of the city to Mithridates. Following the completion of the conquest of the province of Asia in 88 BC, Mithridates ordered the execution of all Roman settlers, and, at Adramyttium, the Romans were driven into the sea, where they were slaughtered. At the conclusion of the war, the province of Asia returned to Roman control and Xenocles of Adramyttium, a prominent orator, was sent to Rome to defend the actions of the city during the war. Adramyttium, however, was deprived of its autonomy, and was henceforth obligated to pay regular taxes to Rome.</p><br>
<p>Whilst en route to Rome, St. Paul departed Caesarea Maritima on a ship from the city of Adramyttium which took the saint to Myra in Lycia. Adramyttium later also became the seat of a portorium. Adramyttium was damaged by an earthquake during the reign of Emperor Trajan, who subsequently rebuilt the city. In 325 AD, the Diocese of Adramyttium was made a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ephesus. Upon the death of Emperor Theodosius I in 395, and subsequent division of the Roman Empire into eastern and western halves, Adramyttium became part of the Eastern Roman Empire.</p><br>
<h3>Medieval period</h3><br>
<p>The administrative reforms of the 7th century led Adramyttium to be administered as part of the Thracesian Theme. In early 715, soldiers of the theme of Opsikion mutinied and travelled to Adramyttium where they proclaimed Theodosius, a praktor (tax-collector), as emperor. However, Theodosius did not wish to become emperor and fled to the mountains, but was found and forced to become emperor at sword-point. Adramyttium later came under the administration of the theme of Samos in the ninth century and became the seat of a tourmarches (commander of a tourma). A tourma of the hinterland of Adramyttium remained part of the Thracesian Theme, but was also based at Adramyttium.</p><br>
<p>Adramyttium was sacked by Tzachas, a Turkish pirate, in c. 1090 and subsequently rebuilt and repopulated by Eumathios Philokales in 1109. During this period, Adramyttium was used as a base to defend against Italian and Turkish attacks. Upon discovering that Malik Shah, Sultan of Rum, planned to invade in early 1112, Emperor Alexios I Komnenos sent an army to Adramyttium ahead of him as he travelled to the Chersonese peninsula. During the reign of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, Adramyttion formed part of the theme of Neokastra. French crusaders passed through Adramyttium on their march south to Ephesus during the Second Crusade. After the ascension of Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos in 1183, Andronikos Lapardas, sebastos, revolted against the emperor and travelled to Bithynia to join the rebels, however, Lapardas was seized at Adramyttium and imprisoned. Michael Stryphnos, megas doux, levied a fine on the Genoese merchant Cafforio, who subsequently raided the cities of the Aegean Sea, and sacked Adramyttium in 1197.</p><br>
<p>Following the Fall of Constantinople in 1204 and the formation of the Latin Empire, Emperor Baldwin granted the land between Abydos on the Hellespont to Adramyttium to his brother Henry of Flanders who went on to capture Adramyttium in the winter of 1204-1205. Theodore Mangaphas, a usurper, attempted to seize Adramyttium but was defeated by Henry of Flanders at the Battle of Adramyttium on 19 March 1205. Adramyttium was recovered by the Empire of Nicaea, a successor state of the Eastern Roman Empire, later that year and maintained control of the city until 1211. Henry of Flanders regained Adramyttium in October 1211 after his victory over Emperor Theodore I Laskaris at the Battle of the Rhyndacus. Theodore I subsequently ceded Adramyttium to the Latin Empire in the Treaty of Nymphaeum. During the second period of Latin occupation, a Latin bishop of Adramyttium was appointed and the diocese of Adramyttium was made a suffragan of the archdiocese of Cyzicus. In 1224, Latin territory in Anatolia collapsed and Adramyttium was recaptured by the Empire of Nicaea.</p><br>
<p>The Treaty of Nymphaeum of 1261 granted the Republic of Genoa trading privileges, such as marketplaces, at Adramyttium, amongst other Aegaen cities. In 1268, the Venetians were granted a concession in Adramyttium. In early 1284, a synod was held at Adramyttium by Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos, accompanied by his aunt Theodora and his cousins Anna Palaiologina Kantakouzene and Theodora Raoulaina, with the intention of reconciling with the "Arsenites", supporters of Arsenios Autoreianos, the deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. Arsenites who were poorly treated by Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, Andronicus&#39; predecessor who had deposed Arsenius, were declared martyrs and the Arsenites temporarily recognised Gregory II, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, as legitimate patriarch. During the synod, the two factions agreed to settle their dispute by setting fire to separate documents containing their arguments, the undamaged document was said to contain the truth, however, both documents were destroyed in the fire.</p><br>
<p>Following victory at the Battle of Bapheus in July 1302, Osman I raided the countryside surrounding Adramyttium. The threat of Turkish attacks led the Genoese of Phocaea to seize the Venetian concession in Adramyttium in 1304. The city fell to the Karasid Turks before 1334. The Karasid Beylik, including Adramyttium, was annexed by the Ottoman Beylik in the mid-fourteenth century.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Debate exists as to when Adramyttium moved to its current site at the modern city of Edremit. According to Wilhelm Tomaschek, Adramyttium moved to the site of modern Edremit under Trajan, however, it has been argued that there was no cause for this during Trajans rule as piracy, the sole cause for such a move, was negligible. Kiepert argued that this move took place in 1109 after the citys destruction in 1093 at the hands of Tzachas, however, scholars note that it is not stated in contemporary sources that the city was rebuilt inland. It has also been argued that the relocation of Adramyttium took place after its destruction by Genoese pirates in 1197.</p><br>
<h2>Notable people</h2><br>
<p>Andriscus (r. 149–148 BC), King of Macedonia</p><br>
<p>Diodorus of Adramyttium (1st-century BC), strategos and philosopher</p><br>
<p>Atyanas (fl. 72-62 BC), boxer</p><br>
<p>Theodosius III (fl. 715-717), Roman Emperor</p><br>
<p>George Mouzalon (c. 1220-1258), megas domestikos</p><br>
<p>George Galesiotes (c. 1275/1280−1357), patriarchal official and writer</p><br>
<p>Luossajärvi is a small 260 acre lake in Kiruna in northern Sweden beside Luossavaara. The mining company LKAB has gradually emptied the southern part of the lake in 2007-8 to allow mining of iron ore in the peat bog. These drained areas today consist of mostly marshes.</p><br>
<h2>Environmental problems</h2><br>
<p>The remaining portion of the lake has a chemical composition which shows the influence of mining activities. The lake has high concentrations of sulphate and nitrite. The high sulfate concentrations indicate extensive weathering processes of mainly carbonate and sulphorous materials.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>Fishing is practised on, and every winter ice fishing contests are held out on the ice. The name Luossajärvi derives from the rich number of trout that were in the lake. The original stocks consisted of perch, trout and pike, but these are now depleted to the point that now only perch naturally remain. The playground for the natural brown trout populations has disappeared due to the mining. However, other fish species have now been planted into the lake, including whitefish, grayling, char, rainbow trout and splake.</p><br>
<p>The landmark Fine Arts Building is located at 811 West 7th Street in Downtown Los Angeles, California. Also known as the Global Marine House, it was declared a historic cultural monument in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by the architects Albert Raymond Walker (1881–1958) and Percy Augustus Eisen (1885–1946) in 1927. It is a compact twelve-storey block on an H-shaped plan with a facing of smooth and squared slabs of light-coloured stone.</p><br>
<h3>Façade</h3><br>
<p>The first three storeys present a striking façade with a trapezoidal profile. The façade rises the entire height of the building, the side of which on the street is divided into three horizontal registers that echo the classic arrangement of a Renaissance palace in distinct lower, central and upper sections. In the Fine Arts Building as in its ancient Italian models, being closest to the eye of the beholder, the bottom section is the part on which the most sumptuous decoration and precise architectural definition is lavished.</p><br>
<p>The façade&#39;s central axis is emphasized by a large entrance portal, with a rounded arch that rises the height of two storeys. This deep, splayed passageway has an arched lintel decorated with plant motifs that introduces serried ranks of arches on either side. They are resting alternately on small columns and pillars variously decorated with fantastic creatures and inlaid geometric patterns. The wall beneath the great arch is densely worked with volutes of acanthus leaves and concatenated circles simulating rope made entirely of terracotta reliefs. The entrance is divided in two by a column of green marble with a capital and decorated entablature on which the two smaller arches rest.</p><br>
<p>Echoes of the architecture of the temple and the religious edifice return boldly in the three uppermost storeys, with a double order of arches on spiral columns, capitals decorated with foliage, and keystones with small animal heads. A tympanum with a curious internal colonnade crowns the façade in a riot of minute decoration and majestic architectural sculpture groups.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The two-storey interior lobby is set in large wall arches that enclose smaller arches on brackets at the lower level. A large balcony-type gallery is above, with spaces designed for artists’ studios. It is modelled on the matroneum overlooking the nave of a church. A shallow pool adorned with bronze sculptures, by the sculptor Burt Johnson, reflects light in the center of the lobby.</p><br>
<p>The lobby walls are decorated with ceramic relief panels, small sculptural inserts, and seventeen showcases made of glass and finely chased bronze like reliquaries. They now display a tenants’ paintings, sculptures and artworks.</p><br>
<p>The Fine Arts Building still asserts itself in the 21st century as a total work of art — where architecture, sculpture, and painting coexist in one extraordinary edifice.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Oil wildcatter Russell E. Havenstrite owned a penthouse in the building. In June 2012, Los Angeles Fine Arts Building was purchased by Sorgente Group of America.</p><br>
<p>The building appears in the film (500) Days of Summer, where the protagonist — an aspiring architect — describes it as his favorite building.</p><br>
<p>The lobby has housed art galleries in recent years.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1909, the Murray LDS Second Ward Meetinghouse is a historic building in Murray, Utah, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. The building is significant for its association with the history and development of Murray between 1909 and 1950.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural style</h2><br>
<p>The design of the meetinghouse came from Niels Edward Liljenberg, a Swedish-American architect. It is significant as a well-preserved example of a meetinghouse influenced by the Gothic Revival style, a popular style for Mormon meetinghouses in the Salt Lake Valley during the first decade of the twentieth century. The original architectural features are still evident, the fenestration patterns as well as the size of the openings have not been modified, and there have been very few alterations. The Murray Second Ward represents not only the growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and development of the Murray community, but the building is also an excellent example of the influence of the Gothic style in LDS Church architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Influences</h2><br>
<p>During the first decade of the twentieth century, the English parish style became the model for many LDS meetinghouses including the Murray Second Ward. This style was concurrent with the resurgence of medieval influence in American architecture. As the LDS Church wanted to follow current trends in architecture professionally trained architects were employed to design new buildings. The popularity of the Victorian Gothic influence in American architecture happened to coincide with the LDS Church&#39;s program to build new meetinghouses. These typical Gothic-style influenced meetinghouses are characterized generally by either an asymmetrical or symmetrical facade which is dominated by a square Norman architecture-style entrance tower; Gothic or Romanesque arches or a combination of the two, are used throughout the building. The Murray Second Ward Meetinghouse fits this description well; it has an asymmetrical facade dominated by an entrance tower with a crenellated parapet, and tall, Gothic (pointed) arch windows framed in wood tracery.</p><br>
<h2>First meetinghouse</h2><br>
<p>The first LDS or Mormon meetinghouse in Murray was built in 1856. As in most pioneer LDS communities, the first meetinghouse was vernacular classical in style and was built with the nearest and most available materials. It was understood that in time, a larger, more substantial facility would replace this first building. In communities that did not have a temple or tabernacle, the ward meetinghouse was the primary physical symbol of their relationship to God; it was a common element within the Mormon concept of sacred space.</p><br>
<h2>Scandinavian ward</h2><br>
<p>Many of the men employed at the Franklyn and Germania smelters were immigrants from Scandinavian countries who had joined the LDS church in their homeland and moved to Utah; most spoke very little English. In 1883 Bishop Rawlins of the South Cottonwood Ward allowed the Scandinavian population to hold separate services in the Swedish language. At first the group met in the homes of various members; by 1893 the group had built a small wood frame meetinghouse located "west of the state road". This became known as the "unofficial" Scandinavian Ward.</p><br>
<h2>Murray ward organized</h2><br>
<p>On October 28, 1900, the Murray Ward was formally organized as an outgrowth of the South Cottonwood Ward, and Uriah G. Miller was appointed as the first Bishop. Six years later, on March 4, 1906, the ward was divided, creating the Murray First Ward and Murray Second Ward; Jacob E. Erekson was Bishop of the Second Ward. The geographic boundaries of the Murray Second Ward included the area west of the Oregon Short Line Railroad tracks to the Jordan River, and between the north and south Murray City limits.</p><br>
<h2>New meetinghouse built</h2><br>
<p>The newly created Second Ward held their meetings in the twenty foot by thirty-five foot wood frame meetinghouse built by the Scandinavians in 1893. Almost immediately, steps were taken towards establishing a new meetinghouse. On September 10, 1906, a one and one-half acre parcel was purchased from Peter Adamson for $400.00; the property was located on the west side of Second West Street (now Third West Street). In 1909, the new brick meetinghouse was completed; it was formally dedicated in 1911. With seating, fixtures and musical instruments, the price of the new facility came to $13,000.00. The floor plan is in the shape of a T; the stem of the T (or front) was used for assembly and services, while "amusements" were located in the (rear) section perpendicular to the chapel. The old "Scandinavian" meetinghouse continued to be used as a storage facility.</p><br>
<p>According to a 1933 Stake Report, during the months of November and December the chapel, amusement hall and classrooms were renovated. The exterior wood trim was painted, and the interior wood trim was re-varnished. The ceiling in the auditorium was painted, and the walls and ceilings in the chapel and amusement hall were replaced, painted and "starched". The walls in the classrooms were "re-calcimined", the boiler was overhauled and new flues were installed, and new linoleum flooring was laid in the front entrance hall.</p><br>
<h2>Sale of former meetinghouse</h2><br>
<p>In 1956, the boundaries of the ward were changed no doubt due to growth in the population of Murray. Beginning in 1970, proposals were made for construction of a new meetinghouse. In 1977 the building was sold to the current owners, the Alano Club. The Alano Club is a not-for-profit non-denominational support agency for recovering alcoholics and their families.</p><br>
<p>The Stagecoach Inn of Chappell Hill  is a historic stagecoach inn at Main and Chestnut Streets in Chappell Hill, Texas.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1850 by Mary Elizabeth Haller (née Hargrove), the founder of Chappell Hill. Mary and her husband Jacob Haller (d. 1853), the towns first postmaster, built the stately 14-room Greek Revival inn along the road from Houston to Austin, where some of Texas first stagecoach lines, the Smith and Jones, and later the F. P. Sawyers, would stop for the night. Prior to the building&#39;s use as a stagecoach stop, it served as a boarding house for students attending college in Chappell Hill. At that time it was called Hargrove House or Hargrove House Hotel.</p><br>
<p>Charlotte Hargrove, Mary Haller&#39;s mother, operated the Inn until 1859; when it was bought by Judge Benjamin Thomas, who operated the Inn until about 1870.</p><br>
<p>John A. Hargrove, Marys brother, wrote shortly before his death in 1906 of traveling to "the Cedar breaks" to cut wood for building the inn. Throughout this period, the town of Chappell Hill (which was named after Mary Hallers maternal grandfather) was a part of a booming cotton-farming economy.</p><br>
<p>As the cotton economy faded after the turn of the 20th century and highways were built bypassing the town, the Inn fell into disrepair, until it was purchased in 1976 by noted Houston architect Harvin C. Moore and his wife Elizabeth. Moore had often seen the Inn while traveling in the 1920s, to and from Austin as a student and member of the Rice University band, and had dreamed of one day bringing it back to life. At the completion of the Moores&#39; restoration, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Inn continued to be operated as a bed and breakfast for many years. However, the property was put up for sale in 2014, and the Inn&#39;s website is no longer available (late in 2015).</p><br>
<p>Accessed 01 December 2015.</p><br>
<p>Old Slains Castle  is a ruined castle near Collieston in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The 13th-century castle was originally the property of the Comyn, Earl of Buchan. After their forfeiture in the 14th century it was given to Sir Gilbert Hay by Robert the Bruce in recognition for his support against the English.</p><br>
<p>In 1594, Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll led a rebellion which was put down by James VI. The castle was destroyed with gunpowder and cannon.</p><br>
<p>After returning from exile, Hay built a New Slains Castle on the site of the former Bowness Castle near Cruden Bay.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>Originally a strongly built 5-storey oblong keep (of which a small part remains), a wall defending the landward side was added in the early 16th century.</p><br>
<h2>Modern day</h2><br>
<p>One wall of the castle remains standing, at approximately 25 m in height. In the 1950s, a 3-storey house was built within the ruins, adjoining a fishing cottage built in the 18th century. Since 1991 several archaeological excavations have been effected, the last one in 2007. The remains of the old castle are designated a scheduled ancient monument</p><br>
<p>Mahendragiri, is a mountain peak at in the Paralakhemundi  subdivision of the district of Gajapati, Orissa, India. It is situated amongst the Eastern Ghats at an elevation of 1,501 m.</p><br>
<h2>Mythology</h2><br>
<p>The Mahendra mountain is associated with east direction which clearly says that it is non other than Eastern Ghats. It is associated with mythological stories from the Ramayana as Mahendra Parvata (mountain). It is a Kula Parvata along with Malaya, Sahyadri, Parijatra, Shuktiman, Vindhya and Malyavaan. In the Puranas and Mahabharata that Parashurama practiced penance for a long time on the Mahendra mountain.</p><br>
<p>The epic mountain Mahendragiri is situated in Gajapati district, Orissa.Legend says that it is the place where Lord Parashurama, a chiranjeevi staying eternally and doing tapasya. Temples built by Pandavas are seen. The main festival observed here is Shivaratri.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>This is the second highest mountain peak of Odisha after Deomali in Koraput district. It has interesting archaeological remains.</p><br>
<h2>Biodiversity hot spot</h2><br>
<p>Mahendragiri hill and its surrounding areas are recognized as a biodiversity hot spot due to numerous medicinal plants and other species that are found here. A haven for medicinal plants, Mahendragiri Hills, which is part of the Eastern Ghats, is home to over 600 flowering plants. The faunal diversity of the region is huge and particularly known for being a herpetofaunal hotspot.</p><br>
<p>The Ministry of Environment and Forests, GoI had proposed the State Government of Odhisa in 1986 to declare the Mahendragiri hill as a Biodiversity Hotspot area. An expert committee of the Forest and Environment Department has also recommended that the bio-diversity hotspot Mahendragiri Hills should be declared as a Biosphere Reserve in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Mahendragiri Biosphere Reserve Committee, which was constituted in November, 2011, held its last meeting in December last after which it submitted its final report recommending that a Biosphere Reserve in Mahendragiri Hill Complex should be created.</p><br>
<p>As per the survey carried out by Odisha Space Application Centre, the core area could be spread over 42.54 km while the buffer zone will have an area of 1577.02 km. The transitional area is estimated at 3095.76 km. The entire biosphere reserve, proposed at 4715.32 km area.</p><br>
<h2>Citations</h2><br>
<p>1–11 and 13 Bath Street consists of a row of six attached cottages and a separate town house on the east side of Bath Street, Chester, Cheshire, England. Both the row of cottages and the house are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated Grade II listed buildings.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The buildings were designed by the local architect John Douglas and built on his own land in 1903.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Nos. 1–11 stand at the north end of Bath Street. They are built in buff sandstone with grey-green slate roofs in two storeys. The frontage is asymmetrical and includes a variety of features, including two large plain gables with their upper storeys jettied on corbels, two smaller dormers with shaped gables, and three round turrets with conical roofs. The cottages containing dormers are set back from the rest, have bay windows in the lower storey, and small forecourts with wrought iron railings in front. Over the door of No. 11 is a cartouche containing the date 1903. On the gables and on the summits of the turrets are finials. The chimneys and the rear of the cottages are constructed in brick.</p><br>
<p>No. 13 is at the south end of the street and has two storeys. It is built in red brick with panels containing stonework in the upper storey, and has Westmorland green slate roofs. Its plan consists of a main square part with a wing to the north. On the front of the main part of the house are, from the left, a round turret with a conical roof containing a hipped lucarne and surmounted by a finial, a high shaped chimney, and an octagonal turret with an octagonal spire and finial. The upper storeys of the main part of the house and the octagonal turret are jettied on terracotta corbels. The wing contains the front door and a jettied dormer with a casement window.</p><br>
<p>The St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church in Juneau, Alaska, United States, was built in 1893 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Russians did not settle in the Juneau area while this territory was a Russian colony (1784–1867). Nor did the Russian Orthodox Church send missionaries to Juneau when the mining settlement started in 1881.</p><br>
<p>But the Orthodox Church became strongly established here through the efforts of the local Tlingit leaders. In 1890, the Taku leader Anathahash traveled to Sitka to be baptized into the Orthodox faith. More traditional Tlingit gravitated toward the Orthodox Church among Christian offerings, as it had used local languages in worship since about 1800 in Kodiak and 1824 in the Aleutian Islands. The Holy Scriptures and much of the Divine Liturgy (as the Orthodox call the Mass, or Lord&#39;s Supper) had been translated into Tlingit by St. Innocent (Veniaminov) during his years as a priest in Sitka (1834–40) and later as Bishop of Alaska (1842–50).</p><br>
<p>Anathahash returned from Sitka in 1890 with the Rev. Vladimir Donskoy, the first Russian Orthodox priest to conduct services in the area. During Fr. Vladimirs stay, he instructed and baptized many of the local Tlingit people. That year Alexei Yaakwaan, son of a Tlingit leader, converted to the Orthodox Church and encouraged his father, Yees Gaanaalx, leader of the Leeneidí (Dog Salmon) people of Auke Bay, to be baptized. Sitka Chief Khlantych told the church that Yees Gaanaalx wanted to convert to Orthodoxy and that Tlingit would follow his example.</p><br>
<p>On July 26, 1892 Bishop Nikolai (Ziorov), Bishop of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska (1891–1898), visited Juneau from San Francisco, where the seat of the church in America had been located since 1872. The bishop was met by the Tlingit leaders wanting to convert. According to oral tradition, he was told that the Tlingit leaders had each been having a common, recurring dream. In their dream, a short, white-bearded, elderly man encouraged them to become Christian. When these leaders saw an icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, they "recognized" him as being the man in their dreams. Three days later, the Priest-monk Mitrofan baptized both Yees Gaanaalx and his wife, giving them the Christian names of Dimitri and Elizabeth. Following their example, some 700 of approximately 1500 Tlingit in the area also converted to the Orthodox church.</p><br>
<p>With such a large Native congregation to be served, the Orthodox Missionary Society in Russia sent architectural drawings, interior church furnishings – such as candlestands, a chalice set, censers, banners, a full iconostasis (the icon screen), and festal icons – and two hundred silver rubles to support construction of a church for them. The six large panels on the iconostasis are the original icons received from Russia. The newly baptized Tlingit and Serbian gold miners, who were already Orthodox, helped build the traditional structure. It is a high-quality example of the “Russian Colonial” style of architecture. In June 1894, Bishop Nikolai returned to Juneau and consecrated the new church in honor of St. Nicholas.</p><br>
<p>Washington Island is an uninhabited island in Lake Superior. It is within the boundary of Keweenaw County and Isle Royale National Park, a national park located within the USA state of Michigan. It is the westernmost point marked on most maps of the elongated archipelago that makes up this park. However, a small islet called Bottle Island and an even smaller shoal that breaks the lake surface, Rock of Ages, are located further westward.</p><br>
<p>Washington Island is approximately 2 mi long and 0.5 mi wide. Like the rest of the Isle Royale archipelago, the island is an ancient ridge of basalt oriented from the southwest to the northeast.</p><br>
<p>Washington Island is separated by Grace Harbor from Isle Royale. It has relatively low visitation, with the majority of day trippers being sea kayakers from nearby Windigo Ranger Station. The waters of Lake Superior around Washington Island are notoriously dangerous, however, and inexperienced kayakers are not encouraged to navigate them.</p><br>
<p>Many Great Lakes boats and lake freighters have succumbed to the stormy waters that surround Washington Island. The nearby 1908 lighthouse and light tower, Rock of Ages Light, tries to warn boats away from these dangerous waters. The federal government has also constructed a radio beacon tower on Washington Island&#39;s eastern tip, facing Isle Royale.</p><br>
<p>Passenger ferry vessels that circumnavigate the Isle Royale archipelago use Grace Harbor as a navigable sound, and pass close by Washington Island.</p><br>
<h2>Points of interest</h2><br>
<p>Rock of Ages Light</p><br>
<p>Mount Alayta is a shield volcano in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Afar Triangle , a highly active volcanic region which includes the adjacent Mount Afdera, this volcano covers an area of 2700 square kilometers southwest of Lake Afrera. A chain of younger craters are aligned along a north-northwest axis in the basaltic-to-trachytic shield along the east side of the shield volcano, which extends to the western flank of Mount Afdera. The Alayta Lavafeld covered by fresh lava streams was formed from a series of north-south fissures. In two areas on the southern side of the volcanic complex, fumaroles can be observed.</p><br>
<p>Two historical eruptions that were formerly attributed to Mount Afdera are believed to have originated from Alayta. One of those eruptions, between June and August 1907, produced a large lava flow from a vent on its southeastern flank. Its most recent eruption was in 1915.</p><br>
<p>Aldford Lodge consists of a pair of cottages at the Aldford entrance to Eaton Hall, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The National Heritage List for England states that the design was probably by Alfred Waterhouse. The authors of the Buildings of England series also attribute the design to Douglas. The lodge was built in 1877–79 for the 1st Duke of Westminster.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The lodge is built in brick with stone banding and dressings on a stone plinth in 1½ storeys. It is roofed with red tiles. It has two gables, each with pargeting decorated with foliated geometric patterns. The windows have moulded stone surrounds; those on the ground floor have camber arches and on the upper floor the window arches are semicircular. Over the doors are Tudor style arches. The whole building is irregularly shaped and this is emphasised by the addition of buttresses.</p><br>
<p>Brierfield Plantation was a cotton plantation located in Davis Bend, Mississippi, south of Vicksburg and the home of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. The more than 1,000 acre plantation was given to Davis by his much older brother, Joseph E. Davis , and had previously been a part of Joseph Daviss much larger Hurricane plantation which it adjoined on a bend of the Mississippi River twenty miles from Vicksburg. With financial assistance and slaves given by his brother, Jefferson Davis became a successful planter on the acreage following his brief first marriage to Sarah Knox Taylor ; after his second marriage to Varina Banks Howell in 1845, Davis erected a large comfortable frame house on the property that was home to himself, his wife, their children, as well as Daviss widowed sister and other relatives.</p><br>
<p>Brierfield had very profitable years as well as years of disastrous flooding, but generally provided a very comfortable living to subsidize his relatively modest earnings from public office. Davis left the plantation for large periods of time including during his term in the House of Representatives, his service in the Mexican–American War, his terms in the Senate, and his four years as Secretary of War in the Franklin Pierce Administration. He considered Brierfield his primary residence and it was the home to which he returned when not in office and to which he returned upon his resignation from the United States Senate following the Secession of Mississippi in 1861. His return to Brierfield was very brief as he was soon notified, while tending the flower gardens of the house with his wife he would recall, that he had been chosen as president of the newly formed Confederate States of America and was summoned to Montgomery, Alabama, the Confederacy&#39;s first capitol.</p><br>
<p>Davis did not visit Brierfield during his tenure as Confederate president. The plantation, along with Hurricane, began to be pilfered by Union troops and deserters soon after the fall of New Orleans in 1862, with many of the more than 200 slaves who lived on the plantation in 1860 fleeing from the advancing armies. Much of the family&#39;s personal property was crated and shipped from the house for safekeeping, though most was left behind and looted when Union forces officially seized and occupied the property during the undefended Vicksburg campaign.</p><br>
<p>Unlike the far larger and finer mansion of Joseph Davis at the adjoining Hurricane Plantation, which was burned to the ground, the house at Brierfield was spared the torch and used as, consecutively, field headquarters, a hospital, and a supply house for Union troops during the Mississippi campaigns. A photograph of the occupied house bearing the banner "The House Jeff Built" was widely circulated in newspapers.</p><br>
<p>When Jefferson Davis and his family visited the property after his release from prison in 1867 they found the fields neglected and the house unlivable. Joseph Davis, who had never given Jefferson Davis title to the property, negotiated its sale after the war on a mortgage to members of the Montgomery family, former Davis family slaves, bequeathing the income from the mortgage, but not the real estate, to Jefferson in his will. The Montgomery family defaulted on the mortgage after Joseph Daviss death and the property reverted to his estate. The heirs to Joseph Daviss Hurricane plantation (his grandchildren by an acknowledged illegitimate daughter) claimed ownership of the reverted Brierfield as well, a claim disputed by Jefferson Davis, resulting in a lengthy lawsuit that was ultimately decided in Jefferson Davis&#39;s favor in 1881, giving him undisputed title to the Brierfield property for the first time more than forty years after he first settled the plantation.</p><br>
<p>Though his primary residence in the final decade of his life was at Beauvoir (the house and farm he had inherited near Biloxi), Jefferson Davis spent much of the remaining years of his life attempting to make Brierfield profitable again, though fluctuating cotton prices and floods and the price of free versus enslaved labor combined to deprive him of the fortunes the land had once provided. He was in residence at Brierfield in autumn of 1889 seeing to harvest when a lingering cold developed into pneumonia and he had to be physically carried onto a riverboat bound for New Orleans to receive medical attention; he died a few weeks later.</p><br>
<p>After Jefferson Davis&#39;s death, his widow and surviving children left Mississippi and none of his descendants ever resided at Brierfield again. The house was destroyed by fire in 1931. A drainage canal converted what had been a peninsula into the Mississippi River into an island.</p><br>
<p>Some of the family&#39;s belongings that were taken from the house by troops were returned to the Davis family over the following decades and may now be found at various museums associated with the Davis family and the Civil War.</p><br>
<p>Hurricane Plantation located near Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the home of Joseph Emory Davis , the oldest brother of Jefferson Davis. Located on a peninsula of the Mississippi River in Warren County, Mississippi called Davis Bend after its owner, at its zenith Hurricane comprised more than 5,000 acre with approximately 5 mi of river frontage worked by hundreds of slaves. Joseph Davis was the owner of 346 slaves and had a personal worth of more than $600,000 in the 1860 USA Census, easily making him one of the wealthiest men in the state of Mississippi.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Davis, who had several legally acknowledged illegitimate daughters but no legitimate children, had served as de facto guardian for his brother Jefferson Davis, who was more than 20 years Joseph&#39;s junior and who regarded him as a father figure. Joseph Davis gave Jefferson the full use of more than 1,000 acre adjoining Hurricane in the 1830s, a bequest Jefferson Davis named Brierfield. Specific details are uncertain as Joseph Davis, though an attorney, never made the bequest to his brother permanent or public nor did he ever give him a deed, though Jefferson Davis and later his wife and children occupied Brierfield until the beginning of the Civil War in 1861.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Davis relocated with members of his family and a few of his slaves to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, after the fall of New Orleans to Federal troops and the increasing military presence near Vicksburg. The mansion at Hurricane, a three story main house with two large semi detached wings for entertaining, a detached library, and numerous outbuildings, contained indoor plumbing and an early form of air conditioning; the residence was described in detail in the memoirs of Varina Davis (Jefferson Davis&#39;s second wife). The main house was burned by Federal troops in 1862 and the plantation looted numerous times by both armies during the campaign of Vicksburg; only the library, a building independent of the main house, survived the war.</p><br>
<p>After the war Joseph Davis sold the property to Ben Montgomery, a former slave, financing it on a long term note which his heirs later foreclosed upon when Montgomery was unable to make payments due to declining cotton prices and floods. Confusion as to the titles to the properties led to lawsuits between Jefferson Davis and his brothers heirs, with Jefferson ultimately gaining title to the Brierfield property and Josephs grandchildren (the issue of a legally acknowledged illegitimate daughter of Joseph Davis) receiving Hurricane.</p><br>
<p>A canal originally cut across the peninsula for flood control and later claimed by the main channel of the Mississippi River changed the named of the peninsula to Davis Island. Neighboring Brierfield Plantation,</p><br>
<p>the plantation home of Jefferson Davis, burned in 1931.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
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<p>Upper Belgrave Lodge is a house at the east end of Belgrave Avenue, the road connecting the B5445 road between Chester and Wrexham, and Eaton Hall, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The lodge was built in 1877–79 and designed by the Chester architect John Douglas. The patron was the 1st Duke of Westminster.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is built in a T-plan with 1½ storeys in Jacobethan style. It is constructed in red brick with scattered sandstone blocks; the hipped roofs are tiled and have terracotta finials. The upper storey of the main part of the house is timber framed and jettied with pargeting in the panels; the gable end contains a four-light window and above this is tile hanging. Under the gable is a carved bressumer. To the west is an oak-framed porch on a sandstone plinth. The doorway has a Tudor arch above which is a pargeted panel. The rear wing is single-storeyed.</p><br>
<p>St. Stephen&#39;s Episcopal Church, in Beverly, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, is located on the corner of Warren and Wilmerton streets in Beverly. While the St. Stephen’s community worshipped at the site beginning in 1837, the current church building was consecrated in 1855 and the rector presently serving the congregation is Fr. Robert Legnani.</p><br>
<h2>Founding and erection</h2><br>
<p>The congregation of St. Stephens Episcopal Church formed in 1837 at the request of 44 families to Bishop Doane of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey for services of the church in the City of Beverly. The first church, a white frame building erected on Copper Street, had an adjacent cemetery that still exists today. When the City of Beverly was incorporated in 1857, St. Stephens established would become Beverly&#39;s first church.</p><br>
<p>By 1853, the congregation had outgrown the original wood church and land was purchased at the corner of Warren and Wilmerton Streets for a new structure. The new property allowed for the construction of a larger more elaborate church. The location also increased the prominence of the parish by its place on Warren Street, a main transportation corridor between Beverly, Burlington City and other industrial river towns. The churchs steeple acted as a landmark beacon for shippers on the Delaware. On October 1, 1855, the present St. Stephens Church was consecrated by the second bishop of the Diocese of New Jersey, the Right Reverend George W. Doane.</p><br>
<h2>Early Church history and architecture</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1853 and 1855, St. Stephens represents a period in church architecture that sought to revive the spirit of the Gothic parish church, creating a worship space that was both spiritually reverential while at the same time expressing an architectural vocabulary of rational truth; in the buildings ornament, materials and plan.</p><br>
<p>This return to the English Gothic architectural form was promoted in the 1830s in England and was at its height in America when St. Stephen&#39;s was constructed. The Ecclesiology movement was a reaction to a period in church history when architectural form of new churches became increasingly variable. The Ecclesiology movement feared this informality and inconsistency distracted from the basic moral and theological mission of the church.</p><br>
<p>The Basic principles underlying the Ecclesiological model church, which are exemplified in St. Stephen&#39;s, are a simple plan, basic materials and ornament that is complementary to the overall simplicity of the church.</p><br>
<p>The plan of the Ecclesiological church is simple: the nave (the portion of the church containing the center aisle and pews) and the chancel (the portion of the church containing the altar and choir). Ideally, the materials of the church should be stone, but wood could be used with the hope that the means to afford stone would become available in the future. The ornament of St. Stephen&#39;s, both simple and elegant in its execution, illustrates the restrained propriety the Ecclesiologists used in creating the medieval sense of the place they felt most spiritually truthful in a place of worship.</p><br>
<p>While much has changed outside the walls of St. Stephen&#39;s Church since its construction, the church interior that is similar to what visitors have been seeing for the better part of 130 years. The photographs show the view looking through the nave to the altar from just inside of the church interior doors.</p><br>
<p>At the ceiling, a hybrid truss-arch system of roof support resembles the inside of a ship&#39;s hull. Though these structural timbers seem massive, they are actually secondary to the main rafters that are buried under the ceiling plaster.</p><br>
<h2>St. Stephen's stained glass windows</h2><br>
<p>The collection of stained glass windows of St. Stephens Church displays a historically significant range of stained glass styles from the 1850s into the early 20th century. Generally, the age of the windows range from the oldest located in the chancel to the newest located in the vestibule. St. Stephens has windows ranging from the textured muffle and reeded glass panels of mid-19th century American Gothic windows; to works by J.R. Lamb, a rival of the Tiffany Glass studios; and even comparatively modern windows dated from the 1970s and 80s by Cherry Hill artist F. Paul Skelly.</p><br>
<h2>Church preservation effort</h2><br>
<p>With the help of architectural firm Farewell Mills & Gatsch, the St. Stephen’s community navigated through a seven-year-long New Jersey Historical Trust grants process obtaining awards for a preservation plan, engineering studies and finally construction.</p><br>
<p>Wu & Associates, Inc, the selected preservation contractor from nearby Cherry Hill, New Jersey, focused on restoring the church’s “beacon” feature, the steeple. Following a lightning strike in 1983 the structure burned down two-thirds of the way. While the immediate problem was solved with a lightning rod, the replacement cedar shakes continued to be damaged by area wildlife.</p><br>
<p>In accordance with the New Jersey Historic Trust’s wishes to preserve the origin of the church, the community and construction team researched the church’s history. According to some old photos and a 1909 postcard, the steeple looks as dark as the roof and there is a good chance the original was slate as the newly constructed roof was decided upon.</p><br>
<p>Steel girding anchored in the tower masonry walls rather than the 150-year-old wood beams now support the steeple. New flooring, fresh but historically accurate paint colors, a clean church bell, and a releaded and repaired stained glass window in the tower were all additional improvements in St. Stephen’s preservation efforts.</p><br>
<p>While the range of stained-glass window styles and woodwork within the building are the most elaborate of the church’s designs, Wu & Associates work stabilizing the structure and preserving the simplicity of the building’s design was important in saving the history of its architectural story and its place in Beverly’s.</p><br>
<p>The grants funding the project were supplemented by not only the contributions of members, highlighted by the over $4,000 raised by the parish children’s “Mile of Nickels” campaign, but also businesses and other people in the larger town community.</p><br>
<p>The Levi Snell House is a house with Greek Revival and Italianate architecture in Fayetteville, New York. It was built in 1855 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>It&#39;s a "substantial, largely intact, mid-nineteenth century brick residence which illustrates the residential designs frequently favored by the prosperous but conservative merchant classes in small upstate New York communities of that period. The house incorporates square massing of the relatively new Italianate style, such as wide eaves and a bracketed cornice, into a traditional five-bay center hall-plan residence with porches, doors and windows treated in the older Greek Revival style."</p><br>
<p>Its first two owners were Levi Snell and Marquis L. Peck.</p><br>
<p>The Memorial Park Site  is an archaeological site located near the confluence of Bald Eagle Creek and the West Branch Susquehanna River in Lock Haven in the USA state of Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Stratified in age-related sequence, the deposits represent every major prehistoric period from the Middle Archaic to the Late Woodland. The site&#39;s dominant component holds the remains of an early Late Woodland (500–1000 CE) village inhabited by people of the Clemson Island culture. The convergent streams and their two valleys made the site readily accessible to pre-Columbian people living in both drainage basins. Among the components of the site are two strata, dating from 5000-6000 and c. 2600 BP respectively. Both components were radiocarbon dated from fragments of Cucurbita pepo, the squash plant; the absence of wild squash plants near the site and its distance from well-documented wild populations is evidence that the gourds were intentionally brought to the location by humans.</p><br>
<p>Memorial Park contains the only area on the West Branch side of the point of land between the river and the creek that has not been disturbed by subsequent development. Alluvial deposits 20 to 28 in deep cover the site and have protected it from recent activity on the surface. The Veterans of Foreign Wars acquired the property in the 1920s and used it for a park.</p><br>
<p>Piper Aircraft bought the fields adjacent to the park in the 1960s to use for airport runways and airplane storage. In the 1970s, Conran A. Hay, a consultant, discovered the prehistoric site during an archeological survey conducted for the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Subsequent research sponsored by the Office of State Archeology and the Office of Historic Preservation of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in 1980 helped determine the site boundaries.</p><br>
<p>Your Home Public Library is a historic library building located at Johnson City in Broome County, New York. It is a Late Victorian style building built as a residence in 1885 and converted for use as a library in 1917. The original section of the building is two and one half stories and constructed of brick with a stone foundation, concrete and cast stone water tables, sills, lintels, and band courses. The design features projecting and recessed pavilions, a complex multi-gabled roof, a projecting dormer, and a turret with conical roof and tall weathervane. A large wing was added in 1920. Your Home Library was developed by Harry L. Johnson, brother of George F. Johnson , founder of Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Negaunee Fire Station is a fire station located at 200 South Pioneer Avenue in Negaunee, Michigan. It is also known as the Negaunee Hose House. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Negaunee Fire Department was established in 1868, and by 1876 consisted of two fire companies. The early stations constructed in Negaunee were very utilitarian in nature. In 1909, the City of Negaunee planned the construction of a new fire station, and leased land from the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company on which to build the station. The city hired architects Charlton and Kuenzli to design an attractive and significant building, reflecting the pride of the city. Construction began in 1909 and was completed in 1910.</p><br>
<p>Shortly after the construction of the station, a vestibule entrance was added on one corner of the building. Soon after, the wood floor in the equipment bay was replaced with terrazzo. The clock faces originally in the tower were removed in 1914 and placed in the city hall.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Negaunee Fire Station is a two story structure made of brick with limestone accents with a stone and concrete basement and a flat roof. An extensive metal cornice runs around the roof line. On one side of the station is a 76 foot tall tower which was originally used for hanging hose to dry. A belfry with a large bell sits atop the tower, originally used as a fire alarm signal. Four round openings in the belfry originally housed a clock. There are small balconies projecting from the hose tower below the belfry. The large doors in the front of the building were originally swinging wooden doors. In time, the entrances were modified to allow for the passage of larger equipment, and currently have</p><br>
<p>modern overhead sectional doors.</p><br>
<p>On the interior, the first floor originally housed and equipment bay on one end of the building, and stables on the other end. The interior is finished with plaster and lath with wood wainscoting and some wood paneling between the equipment bay and the stables. The original flooring cork pine, but this flooring was replaced with terrazzo early in the life of the building. The terrazzo includes red colored inlays outlining vehicle tires tracks and an NFD badge in the center. In the 1930&#39;s the stables were removed and a concrete slab installed in the former stables ti support another equipment bay.</p><br>
<p>The second floor originally had a large hall on one end and dormitory space on the other end. Two staircases, one large grand one and a smaller circular one connected the two stories. The second floor was originally finished in lath and plaster with maple strip flooring.</p><br>
<p>Puntzi Lake is a lake in the Chilcotin District of the Central Interior of British Columbia. It is located on the western side of the upper Chilcotin River to the northeast of Tatla Lake, and is connected to the Chilcotin River via Puntzi Creek, of which it is an expansion. The area around the lake has been the setting for many important events in the history of the region.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>One of the larger lakes in the central Chilcotin, the lake is in the heart of the traditional territory of the Tsilhqotin people and was the site of a large village. This village was devastated by the Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1862, in which native populations were reduced by 50-90% of their former totals. In the wake of the epidemic, Reverend Turner, one of early British Columbias "saddlebag parsons", came through the village, finding only a few children and elders huddled in some of the underground houses, but in other houses there were only the dead; others had been thrown in the lake, which had frozen. The survivors told Turner about a huge beast of some kind which came down off the icecaps and dug up the bodies out of the other houses and out of the frozen lake. The village was never fully repopulated, although there is an Indian Reserve of today&#39;s Alexis Creek First Nation on its shore, Puntzi Lake Indian Reserve No. 2, as well as several others nearby.</p><br>
<p>By 1864 a white settler had taken up a pre-emption around the lake. This settler was one of the first casualties of the Chilcotin War. During that conflict, the lake became the setting for the encampment of the assembled forces of the Colonies, which consisted of troops from Victoria, accompanying Governor Frederick Seymour and his officials, and a posse of mostly Americans raised from the Cariboo goldfields but also including Donald McLean, former Chief Trader at the HBCs Fort Kamloops who came out of retirement to join in the hunt for the leaders of the Tsilhqotin revolt and who would in the course of events die near the lake. It was at a meadow in this area where the Tsilhqot&#39;in war-leader Klatassine surrendered</p><br>
<p>During World War II, nearby Puntzi Mountain became the site of a radar station of the Mid Canada Line, with a large airport built in the area, then the second-longest airstrip in British Columbia. 100 US troops and some Canadians were stationed there, with the base also employing some of the local Tsilhqot&#39;in.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church, Chocowinity, North Carolina, is an Episcopal parish established in 1774 by the Reverend Nathaniel Blount.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1773, Nathaniel Blount sailed from Bath, NC to London, England to be ordained a priest. The Bishop of London ordained Mr. Blount to the priesthood in Saint Pauls Cathedral, London. Upon his return to Bath, "Parson Blount," as he was known, had a church built. Giles Shute and John Herrington served as carpenters, according to a signed wooden panel in the sanctuary. The little building became known as Blounts Chapel.</p><br>
<p>In 1826, the Right Rev&#39;d John Stark Ravenscroft consecrated the building as, a parish in the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. During the 19th century, the Grimes family were active in this parish. The Grimes held large tracts of land in Beaufort and Pitt Counties.</p><br>
<p>The nearby town of Grimesland was named for them. Major General Bryan Grimes of the Confederate Army was a member of the parish. The parish&#39;s centennial in 1874 was marked by the addition of a formal chancel and sanctuary with stained glass windows. In 1883, Trinity Church became part of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina, following the subdivision of the Diocese of North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>During the first half of the 20th century, the Revd N. C. Hughes, Jr, Trinitys rector, was influential in encouraging Chocowinity&#39;s citizens to retain the name of their town. There were citizens who desired to change the name. Belview was one of the names considered. Hughes is also credited with learning the meaning of the name of the town from an Indian in South Carolina who offered a translation, "fish from many waters." By keeping this Indian word, the town has retained a unique name for itself.</p><br>
<p>In 1939, the church building was moved on log rollers drawn by horses from its original location to a plot of land owned by the parish. The parish hall (built ca 1900) already stood on this site, and the church was placed alongside that building.</p><br>
<p>A two story addition was built in 1949 to provide room for Sunday School, offices, a kitchen, and general purpose space.</p><br>
<p>The historic chapel has remained in continuous use since it was built in 1774.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Church is located at 182 NC Hwy 33 West in Chocowinity.</p><br>
<h2>Trinity Episcopal Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>In the mid-19th century, land was given to the parish to serve as a cemetery. Many notable town leaders and Beaufort County citizens were buried therein, including Revolutionary and Civil War veterans. Penelope and Aspley Grist (sisters) donated further tracts of land to expand the cemetery. The Major General Bryan Grimes cenotaph was erected in the center of the cemetery in his memory and has remained a popular site for Civil War enthusiasts and historians to visit.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery has continued to serve the parish and community to the present day. In August 2011, the cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>List of Priests and Deacons who have served Trinity Episcopal Church</h2><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d Nathaniel Blount</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d Israel Harding</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d Nathaniel Harding</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d Nicholas Collin Hughes</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d Nicholas Collin Hughes, Jr. (later served as Archdeacon of Raleigh)</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d Alexander C. D. Noe</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d Charles Malone</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d Samuel Black</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d James Alves</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d Richard Ottaway</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d Fred Ferris</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d Kenneth Townsend</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d Irwin Hulbert</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d Jeremiah Day</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d Lawrence P. Houston</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d William Bomar Etters</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d Michael C. Nation</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d James Cooke</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d J. M. Browne, III</p><br>
<p>Deacons</p><br>
<p>The Rev&#39;d Deacon Susan Moody DuVal</p><br>
<p>The Venerable Joy Morgan Dosher</p><br>
<p>Mount Kosvinsky Kamen, Kosvinsky Mountain, Kosvinski Mountain, Kosvinsky Rock or Rostesnoy Rock  is a mountain in the northern Urals, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.</p><br>
<p>Its summit is bare of vegetation with an uneven rocky surface and small lakes fed by melting snow. The Kosva River flows from the mountain, hence the name.</p><br>
<p>The Great Soviet Encyclopedia describes Kosvinsky Rock as "mountain massif" of height 1,519 m.Brockhaus and Efron say that its elevation is 2,375 ft., mountain foot circumference is about 40 km.</p><br>
<p>Its constitution is pyroxenites and dunites of lower and middle Paleozoic era. The slopes are covered with conifers with some birch up to 900–1000 m, with alpine tundra above.</p><br>
<h2>Military</h2><br>
<p>According to a 1997 article in the Washington Times, a CIA report stated that there were construction works for a "nuclear-survivable, strategic command post at Kosvinsky Mountain". The Russian Government later stated the bunker had been completed as a continuity of government facility in 1996.</p><br>
<p>It was designed to resist US earth penetrating weapons and serves a similar role as the American Cheyenne Mountain Complex. The timing of the Kosvinsky completion date is regarded as one explanation for USA interest in a new nuclear bunker buster and the declaration of the deployment of the B61 Mod 11 in 1997: Kosvinsky is protected by about 1,000 ft of granite.</p><br>
