<p>Ports de Tortosa-Beseit, also known as Ports de Beseit, or simply as Els Ports or Lo Port by locals, is a limestone mountain massif located at the north-eastern end of the Sistema Ibérico, a complex system of mountain ranges and massifs in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula. Its highest point is Mont Caro, 1,441 m. Rivers such as the Matarranya and the Sénia have their source in these mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>At the 1350 m high Tossal dels Tres Reis (Peak of the Three Kings), where the borders of the ancient Kingdoms of Valencia, Catalonia and Aragon meet, there is a cairn marking the meeting point of the ancient three kingdoms of the Crown of Aragon.</p><br>
<p>It is mostly a limestone massif, with many steep cliffs, jagged peaks, deep valleys, shafts and caves.</p><br>
<p>The area is mostly uninhabited except for small villages. These mountains were one of the last redoubts of the Spanish Maquis in the 1940s and 50s.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>One of the largest colonies of griffon vultures in Europe, as well as Spanish Ibex, Roe Deer, Wild Boar, European badgers, common genets, grey wagtails, among others, have their habitat in these lonely mountains. Among the aquatic animals there are trout in some of the rivers and amphibians such as the Marbled newt in many of the ponds of the range.</p><br>
<p>The vegetation of the Ports is rich and varied. Besides the Mediterranean species, there are also species belonging to Alpine flora and colder temperate regions at high altitudes and in protected valleys.</p><br>
<h2>Mountain ranges</h2><br>
<p>The Ports Massif comprises several mountain ranges, like the Muntanyes de Benifassà, Serra de les Falconeres, Serra del Àguila, Serra de Rastell, Los Curullons, Moles de Raudorar, Serra de la Fortalesa, Serra de Caro, Serra de la Puca, Serra de Rafalgari, Serra de Paüls, Serra de les Deveres, Serra de lEscaleta, Serra dEncanader, Serra del Pedregal, Serra del Coc and Serra de l&#39;Espina. The latter, located at its northern end, connects with the Catalan Pre-Coastal Range.</p><br>
<h2>Peaks</h2><br>
<p>Some of the main peaks of the massif are: Mont Caro (1447 m), the highest point, Castell de lAirosa, Tossal den Cervera, Mola del Boix, Mola del Boixet, el Castellar, la Portella del Pinell, Curullons, el Negrell, Punta de lÀliga, Farrubio, Penyaflor, Mola de Catí, Tossal dels Tres Reis, Tossa Blanca, Roques de Benet, Penyagalera, Mola de Lli, Tossal de Tall Nou, Tossal de lEspada, la Ballestera, Mola de la Paridera, Muntanyola, La Tossa, Mola Castellona, Tossal de Joan Gran, Tossal de la Forca, Tossal den Grillo, Muntanya de Santa Bàrbara, LEspina and La Moleta d&#39;Alfara.</p><br>
<h2>Protected areas</h2><br>
<p>There are two natural parks in the massif; there is no protected area on the Aragonese side:</p><br>
<p>Parc Natural dels Ports on the Catalan side</p><br>
<p>Parc Natural de la Tinença de Benifassà on the Valencian side.</p><br>
<p>Davenport City Hall is the official seat of government for the city of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The building was constructed in 1895 and is situated on the northeast corner of the intersection of Harrison Street  and West Fourth Street in Downtown Davenport. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Davenport started to outgrow its previous city hall, which had been built on Brady Street from 1857-1858. The role of city government expanded during the mayoral administration of Henry Vollmer (1893-1896). Among his major achievements were several public works projects. Streets were paved in the older sections of the city and developers laid out new subdivisions around the perimeter.</p><br>
<p>In 1895, in the midst of a deep national economic depression, Davenport built an ornate new City Hall. The cost was about $90,000 — an astronomical sum at that time — and the City constructed the new building without issuing any municipal bonds. Local legend has long suggested that the city retired the debt so quickly by taxing the citys brothels, but the fines levied against the brothels accounted for only between $7,000-$9,000 per year, just a portion of the financial windfall the city reaped in the mid-1890s. The bulk of the funds came from a new state law (the "mulct tax") which applied to the citys 150 illegal saloons and amounted to around $50,000 per year. This tax allowed for construction not only of City Hall, but also paved streets and a new sewer system, and from 1902–08, the city eliminated its property taxes altogether.</p><br>
<p>Besides Vollmer there were two other noteworthy Davenport mayors associated with this city hall. Alfred C. Mueller served the city during two separate periods (1910-1916, 1922–24). He was responsible for initiating the citys building code, sewer planning and construction, street paving, and planning and implementing improvements to the riverfront. Dr. C.L. Barewald (1920-1922) was the citys first Socialist mayor. Davenports German community had become a political force by the early 20th century and they had become disenchanted with the Democratic Partys war stance that lead the country into World War I and the anti-German sentiments that resulted. They were also opposed to the Republican Partys support for national prohibition of alcohol so they threw their support behind the Socialist Party of America. Two years prior to Barewalds election as mayor two Socialists were elected as aldermen and they were reelected in 1920. During his term as mayor, Barewald began several public works projects that put people to work and enhanced city improvements. The municipal natatorium was built, new streets were opened and a major sewer was completed. Barewald and the other two Socialists were overwhelmingly voted out of office in 1922 because of the debts these projects and others incurred.</p><br>
<p>The prohibition of alcohol was a major issue in the city of Davenport from the 1840s until national prohibition became official in 1919. The activities of the local temperance movement thrived in the 1880s and were renewed during the Progressive Era, especially between 1906 and 1916. Local ordinances were passed that exempted the city of Davenport from state prohibition laws and mayors, especially Ernst Claussen, stated that the citizens personal liberties would not be violated. Debates were held in the city council and among other civic groups until Iowas prohibition amendment was passed in 1916. It was reinforced by the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1919. However, the illegal production and consumption of alcohol continued in the city.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>City hall was designed by Davenport architect John W. Ross, and built by Morrison Bros. Construction Company. The 60 by, four-story building is constructed of Ohio Berea sandstone in the Richardsonian Romanesque style.</p><br>
<p>The former Trinity Episcopal Church is located on NY 23B in Claverack, New York, United States. It is a Shingle Style church building from the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>It replaced the church&#39;s second building, destroyed by fire, which had itself been a replacement for another fire-destroyed building. In 1975 the church moved out and sold it. Changes were made to convert it into a residence but it retains its historic integrity. In 1997 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The former church is on the north side of Route 23B, set back somewhat from the road. It is located near the west side of a 1.3 acre lot with tall, mature trees, particularly along the driveway in the center of the lot. To the east along the highway are institutional public buildings such as a school, library and a memorial chapel. To the west are other houses, many from the 18th and centuries. There is one other building, a garage not considered a contributing resource to the National Register listing.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a frame structure on a stone foundation capped by a steeply pitched gable roof. At the south (front) end, the roof extends to an overhanging hood meant to shelter the bell originally there, a feature called a wolf dak. It is sided in board-and-batten on its lower sections and wood shingles above. A datestone at the corner gives 1901 as the date of construction.</p><br>
<p>On the southern facade are a group of five stepped stained glass windows. At the south end of the east facade is a projecting vestibule for the main entrance with a gabled roof. One stained glass window lights it from the south. The flat-arched windows along the rest of the profile also retain their stained glass.</p><br>
<p>There are three similar windows in the north elevation. Their stained glass has been replaced with clear glass. The west side has a small transept, with a stained glass oculus in its gable field above another group of three windows. There is a secondary entrance on the west elevation of the wing. At the south end of the facade is a shed-roofed addition.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the nave, now the house&#39;s main block, is still open to the roof. King post trusses are still visible at either corner of the transept, in natural wood finish contrasting with the dark-stained ceiling. Other wood supports are visible and serve both decorative and structural functions. Open lofts in the front and rear expand the available living space.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There was no Episcopal presence in Claverack, whose population descended predominantly from Dutch settlers who worshipped primarily at the Reformed Dutch Church, until 1853. That year The Rev. Fred T. Tiffany came to the hamlet as a missionary. He gained enough followers to formally establish a parish three years later, in 1856, which he served as rector.</p><br>
<p>Two years after that, the parish raised $5,000 ($ in contemporary dollars) to build a church on the current site, land donated by the Philip family. The cellar of the current church suggests it had a similar footprint. Tiffany died in 1863, three years before the church was finished and consecrated. By then the church had replaced him with the first of several rectors.</p><br>
<p>Contemporary accounts suggest there may have been two fires in the late 19th century that necessitated the rebuilding of the church. A late 1890s history of Columbia County mentions an 1891 fire, and when the Hudson Daily Register reported on the opening of the 1901 structure it describes the fire as having occurred the previous year.</p><br>
<p>The current church may have been built by an architect who designed other, similar Episcopal churches elsewhere in the country. He has not been identified; research continues. Aesthetically it is mostly in the Shingle Style of the late 19th century. Its use of medieval lines anticipates some aspects of the American Craftsman style that would become prominent within a decade of its construction.</p><br>
<p>It was used as a church until 1975. At that point many of the overtly religious aspects of the interior, such as the pews, organ, baptismal font, altar and the three stained glass windows in the rear triptych (the only ones in the building to have religious imagery on them) were sold. Whether the church moved to a new building or simply dissolved is not known.</p><br>
<p>It was converted into a house shortly thereafter, with great sensitivity to its prior use. A cellar door has been added next to the vestibule on the east side, resulting in the removal of the stained glass window on the north side of that vestibule. There have been no other significant changes to the structure since then.</p><br>
<p>Taveuni is elongated shield volcano on Taveuni Island, Fiji, and its peak  reaches 1,241 meters above sea level.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Volcanism on Taveuni began circa 780,000 years ago, but most volcanic activity took place during the Holocene Epoch, which started about 11,000 years ago.</p><br>
<h3>Holocene Activity</h3><br>
<p>Since 9500 B.C. 167 volcanic vents have formed, mainly along the southern inland tip. The youngest vent formed sometime between 4690 and 4900 B.C. Eruptions occurred at an interval of about 70 years, but since 1200 B.C., there have been six periods of time with frequent eruptions, each spanning between 200 and 400 years.</p><br>
<h2>Hazards</h2><br>
<p>If an eruption does occur, Taveuni&#39;s economy could easily be destroyed. Nearly all farms will catch on Fire and nearly every port in Taveuni is in a hydrovolcanic hazard zone or a lahar hazard zone, and all imports/exports would be completely stopped until the ports are repaired.</p><br>
<h3>Lava Flows</h3><br>
<p>Unlike many other volcanoes, the largest hazard from Taveuni is actually its lava flows, which are exceptionally hot (940-1125 degrees Celsius). Because Taveuni is heavily forested, fires can spread fast and easily, but mainly the southern flank of the island will be directly affected by the lava.</p><br>
<h3>Ballistic Ejection</h3><br>
<p>Another major hazard of an eruption on Taveuni is the lava being shot into the air. In some cases lava has been ejected about 1.8 kilometers into the air, and the sheer force of the lava falling can easily destroy any structure on the island that it hits.</p><br>
<h3>Volcanic Gases</h3><br>
<p>Volcanic gases are another major hazard to Taveuni, as they can easily cause respiration problems, poison water, and corrode metal. Most of the gases include:</p><br>
<p>and a few others.</p><br>
<h3>Lahars</h3><br>
<p>Lahars are a fast-moving mixture of volcanic debris and water that are fatal towards creatures and have the potential to destroy many buildings. The path of lahars on Taveuni will be significantly affected by Taveuni&#39;s topography. It is likely that they will strike the southern flank of the island, as many of the vents formed are on a slope leading there.</p><br>
<h3>Hydrovolcanic Potential</h3><br>
<p>A hydrovolcanic eruption occurs when lava comes into contact with water. Hydrovolcanic eruptions can cause violent explosions and large waves. Radiocarbon dating has shown that many hydrovolcanic eruptions occurred in the past. It is quite possible they will occur again during a future eruption.</p><br>
<h2>Economic Effects of Taveuni</h2><br>
<p>The volcano on Taveuni island has a generally good effect on its economy, as it leaves behind rich volcanic soils for farming, in fact, Taveuni island is sometimes referred to as the "Garden State" because of the soil. Since Taveunis main income is from agriculture, copra, dalo, and kava crops (Taveunis major crops) thrive in the rich soil.</p><br>
<h3>Tourism in Taveuni</h3><br>
<p>Taveuni has attracted many tourists, as there are a total of 13 resorts on the island. Most of these resorts have the same activities as you may call it. Tourists came to Taveuni to see the world Heritage Park which is located in Bouma. Among these there are cascading waterfalls in Bouma and Lavena and Natural Waterslide, blow holes, Lagoons, the famous Rainbow Reef, the great white Wall Dive, the Location of the second Blue Lagoon Movie, Somosomo Straits and scenic Lookouts.</p><br>
<p>LeRay Mansion, also known as James LeRay Mansion Complex and Jules Payen Estate, is a historic home located northeast of the village of Black River in Jefferson County, New York. It is a Classical Revival style structure. It consists of a 47 foot by 54 foot main block flanked by two one story wings of 19 feet by 27 feet. The main block is believed to have been built in 1806-1808 and the wings added 1821-1823. It features an entrance portico supported by four Ionic columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and has been described as "one of the most beautiful houses in America."</p><br>
<p>The Mansion is located within the US Armys Fort Drum. According to the Fort Drum webpages, "The Mansion, servants quarters, and farm managers house are used for Visiting Officers Quarters and are managed by the Directorate of Community Activities (DCA). The Mansion is also used by protocol for formal military events and celebrations. DCA has provided the Mansion with period appropriate furnishings. DCA and Cultural Resources work together for the preservation and appreciation of Fort Drum&#39;s most valued historic resource."</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>Poughkeepsie Meeting House  is a historic Quaker  meeting house at 249 Hooker Avenue in Poughkeepsie, New York. It was built in 1927, and is a two-story, rectangular, Colonial Revival style brick building, with a basement. It has a gable roof and projecting entrance pavilion.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The design of the meeting house is unusual, having swayed away from the designs of traditional Quaker meeting houses. It was a result of the reunification of the two groups of Quakers that had initially separated from a schism in 1827, where two thirds of Quakers abandoned the philosophies of their founder, George Fox, and instead turned to the ideals taught by Long Island preacher, Elias Hicks. By 1926, when it was time to construct a new meeting house in Poughkeepsie, the number of local “Hicksite” Quakers was diminishing, so many had joined the Orthodox Quakers. Alfred Bussel, a New York City architect, was chosen to design a meeting house that appealed to all members. Since he had studied at Haverford College, a Quaker school, Bussell was very familiar with the Society of Friends traditions. One branch had suggested a church-like structure with steeple, organ, and stained-glass windows, while the other wanted a more traditional style meeting house, i.e. evoking simplicity, equality, community, and peace. The design therefore was a unity between the two branches, a sign of what was to come with the official reunification in the 1950s. The result is a simple, colonial revival building without stained-glass or any sort of liturgical ornamentation or symbols, as per Quaker tradition, but had a single front door (Quaker meeting houses had separate entrances for men and women) and an interior layout akin to a church; a central aisle with rows of pews on either side all facing the front of the building.</p><br>
<p>Smith Metropolitan AME Zion Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church located at Smith and Cottage Streets in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York. It is the oldest predominantly African-American church in Dutchess County, NY. The church was a part of The Underground Railroad led by Civil Rights leader Harriet Tubman. The first black female judge in America, Ms. Jane Bolin, was a member of this church, along with other influential people. The church has experienced phenomenal new growth under the leadership of their Pastor, Reverend Edwrin Sutton. The Church as a ministry began in 1836. The church building was built between 1908 and 1910, with the parsonage added in 1914. The one-story, rectangular Gothic Revival church has an attached two-story bell tower topped by a pyramidal roof and a raised basement. The brick building features pointed arched openings and stained glass windows.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Church of the Holy Innocents is a historic Roman Catholic parish church in the Diocese of Brooklyn located at 279 E. 17th St. in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, New York. The church was built in 1923 in the Late Gothic Revival style. It is built of granite with limestone trim. It consists of a tall, clerestoried nave with gable roof, lower flat-roofed side aisles, transepts, chancel, and a tall bell tower. Attached to the church is a rectory  and school .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Music</h2><br>
<p>The organ at Holy Innocents Church was built in 1922 by the Ernest M. Skinner Organ Company of Boston, Massachusetts as their Opus 390 3 manuals, 33 stops, 32 ranks. The instrument was rebuilt in 2005 by the Peragallo Pipe Organ Company of Patterson, NJ.</p><br>
<p>The current Director of Music is Dr. Alfred E. Cresci, himself a 1968 graduate of Holy Innocents School. Dr. Cresci has been regularly attending the church since 1964, and is solely responsible for obtaining $360,000.00 grant from the Joseph G. Bradley Charitable Foundation of Bryn Mawr, PA. The grant for the historic grant led to the church becoming the first in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn to be classified as a member of the National Historic Registry. The grants garnered by Dr. Cresci on behalf of Holy Innocents have totaled in excess of one million dollars. It all started with the funding for the Skinner organ.</p><br>
<p>The organ is primarily used for the Saturday 5pm Mass in English, the Sunday 8am Mass in English, the 9:30am Mass in Spanish and the 11:30am Mass in English. The English Adult Choir which is heavily dependent on the organ for choral accompaniment, is one of the longest running in Brooklyn, beginning its existence in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Cuyler Presbyterian Church, also known as Cuyler Chapel and Cuyler Presbyterian Church and Parsonage, is a historic Presbyterian church at 358-360 Pacific Street in Brooklyn, New York, New York. It was designed by noted architect Edward Sargent . It was built in 1892 and is a two story rectangular plan building with a steeply pitched, slate covered gable roof and molded terra cotta copings. It was converted to a private residence in the early 1980s. The former parsonage was built c. 1851 and is a Greek Revival style dwelling.</p><br>
<p>The church served as the cornerstone for the Mohawk community in Boerum Hill (formerly known as North Gowanus). The Mohawk called their neighborhood "Little Caughnawaga," after their homeland in Canada. For nearly 50 years, most Mohawk in New York lived within 10 square blocks in Brooklyn; they were from Kahnawake, a reserve in Quebec, Canada. The men were ironworkers on the bridge and skyscraper projects of New York. The women, some of whom had gone to New York separately for economic opportunity, and others who were wives and mothers, worked in a variety of jobs, as well as creating community for their families.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Flatbush Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, also known as the Flatbush Reformed Church, is a historic Dutch Reformed church &ndash; now a member of the Reformed Church in America &ndash; at 890 Flatbush Avenue in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. The church complex consists of the church, cemetery, parsonage and church house.</p><br>
<p>H.P. Lovecraft mentions the complex in passing in his story "The Horror at Red Hook", speaking of its "iron-railed yard of Netherlandish gravestones". The Church House and grounds are featured in season 2 of the Hulu TV series The Path, where they are used as the Meyerists&#39; New York City headquarters.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1654 and the first church on the site built at the order of Peter Stuyvesant. The 2.5-story stone Federal style church building designed by Thomas Fardon was constructed in 1793-98 It features a stone tower with stone belfry. The stained glass windows are by Tiffany studios and commemorate the descendants of many early settlers of Flatbush. The building was constructed of Manhattan schist, and the architecture includes Romanesque features such as arched windows and doors, as well as Tuscan colonettes. The church&#39;s bell was imported from Holland, and paid for by John Vanderbilt.</p><br>
<p>The bodies of American soldiers who died in the Battle of Long Island during the American War are reportedly buried underneath the church structure.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery is the last resting place of most of the members of the early Dutch families of Flatbush. The earliest legible grave marker dates to 1754. The 1853 parsonage is a 2.5-story wood-frame house designed in a vernacular style transitional between the Greek Revival and Italianate styles.</p><br>
<p>The complex was initially designated a New York City Landmark in 1966, with the boundary expanded in 1979. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Friends Meetinghouse and School is an historic Quaker meeting house and adjacent school building at the corner of Schermerhorn Street and Boerum Place in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.</p><br>
<p>The meeting house, at 110 Schermerhorn Street, was built in 1857 and is a 3 1/2-story building built of red brick with brownstone details. Its design is attributed to Charles T. Bunting.</p><br>
<p>The school, located at 112 Schermerhorn Street, was built in 1902 and is a three-story red brick building located adjacent to the meeting house, at 112 Schermerhorn Street. It was designed by William Tubby, a prominent Brooklyn architect, to house the Brooklyn Friends School. Tubby was himself a Quaker and an early graduate of the school.</p><br>
<p>The meeting house remains in regular use as a house of worship by the Brooklyn Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. The Brooklyn Friends School moved to another site nearby in 1973. As of 2015, the school building houses Brooklyn Frontiers High School, an alternative school operated by the New York City Department of Education.</p><br>
<p>The meeting house was designated a New York City landmark in 1981, and the meeting house and school together were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Hanson Place Seventh-day Adventist Church, is an historic church at 88 Hanson Place between South Oxford Street and South Portland Avenue in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, which was built in 1857-60 as the Hanson Place Baptist Church. It was designed by George Penchard in the Early Romanesque Revival style. The building, which is constructed of brick on a brick foundation covered in stucco, features an entrance portico topped by a steeply pitched pediment supported by four Corinthian columns, while the side facade on South Portland features pilasters. The building&#39;s interior and exterior were restored in the 1970s. It has been a Seventh-day Adventist church since 1963.</p><br>
<p>The church was designated a New York City landmark in 1970, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The noted 1864 Baptist hymn, "Hanson Place," by Robert Lowry, was named after this church.</p><br>
<p>Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord is a historic Russian Orthodox cathedral at 228 North 12th Street in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. The cathedral was designated a New York City landmark by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1969, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The cathedral was built from 1916 to 1921 and was designed by Louis Allmendiger. The plan is based on a Greek cross and is designed in the Russian version of the Byzantine style, but with a Renaissance flavor. The building features characteristic copper Onion domes atop four octagonal belfries and a large central copper-covered dome. Each done is topped by a large, gilded Russian Orthodox cross.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s facade is constructed from yellow bricks with a small amount of trim made from stone. The windows and doors are primarily round-arched, with stairs leading to the front entrance.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>Exterior shots of the cathedral were used in the Seinfeld episode "The Conversion" where it represented a Latvian Orthodox church.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church at 230 Classon Avenue in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York, New York. It was built in 1858 in the Gothic Revival style. It is constructed of Belleville brownstone. It features a square tower with polygonal extension and a broach spire. The Johnson Memorial Parish House was built in 1892. Also on the property is the rectory; a -story brick house with a mansard roof and large oriel window.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Parishioners are largely Anglicans of West Indian descent. Community events include concerts, flea markets, brunches, classes, and lectures. In July 2011, the Sacristy of the Church was renovated.</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex is a historic Episcopal Gothic Revival church at 2500 Westchester Avenue and Saint Peters Avenue in the Bronx, New York City.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1853 to designs by the architect Leopold Eidlitz in the Village of Westchester, now the East Bronx. The church was damaged heavily by fire and reconstructed and changed by Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz in 1878. It is a Gothic Revival style, cruciform plan, church constructed of rock faced schist. It features a square corner tower with buttressed corners and an octagonal belfry.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 20, 1998.</p><br>
<p>It was designated a New York City Landmark in 1976. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance relocated from the American Bank Note Company Building to the chapel on the grounds of St. Peter&#39;s Church.</p><br>
<p>St. James&#39; Episcopal Church and Parish House is a historic Episcopal church at 2500 Jerome Avenue and 190th Street, in the Fordham section of The Bronx, New York City, New York.</p><br>
<p>It was founded July 5, 1853, becoming the first Episcopal parish in Fordham. The parish at first met at the Manor Reformed Church on Kingsbridge Road, then on June 11, 1854 acquired an old schoolhouse for use. On October 1, 1854, the Rev. Joshua Weaver became its first rector.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The church was designed in 1863 by noted architect Henry C. Dudley (1813-1894). Bishop Horatio Potter laid the cornerstone of the present building on May 28, 1864, and the church was consecrated by the same on All Saints&#39; Day, November 1, 1865.</p><br>
<p>It is a "native stone" building with brownstone trim in the Gothic Revival style. It was completed at a cost of $25,000.</p><br>
<p>The stone parish house, located on Jerome Avenue, was built 1891-1892 to the designs by Henry Franklin Kilburn. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was designated a New York City Landmark in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The parish also operated an apartment building on its property, built to relieve the housing shortage after World War I and as a business venture to raise revenue for expanding the church and parish house. It opened in 1924; however, the debt proved onerous with the coming of the Great Depression. The property was finally sold in 1924.</p><br>
<p>George C. Boldt Yacht House is an historic yacht house located on the northeast shore of Wellesley Island near Alexandria Bay in Jefferson County, New York. It was commissioned by George Boldt as a principal dependency of Boldt Castle.</p><br>
<p>The yacht house was designed by the Philadelphia architects G. W. & W. D. Hewitt and built in 1903. It is a massive, eclectic, Shingle-style structure composed of five elements, which are:</p><br>
<p>a circular tower containing reception rooms,</p><br>
<p>a central group of three yacht bays,</p><br>
<p>a large east yacht bay,</p><br>
<p>a combination office and storage wing with a crenelated tower, and</p><br>
<p>a large caretaker&#39;s residence.</p><br>
<p>The yacht house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. On display in the yacht house is the steam yacht Kestrel, as well as various other vintage boats, a number of which are on loan from the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, New York.</p><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church Complex is a historic Episcopal church complex at 155-15 Jamaica Avenue in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, in USA state of New York. The complex includes the church, parish house, and cemetery. The church was built between 1861 and 1862. It is constructed of rough-cut sandstone and features a steeply pitched roof and tall, sharp spire in the Gothic Revival style. A chancel, designed by Cady, Berg & See, was added at the rear of the church in 1901-1902. The parish house, known as Grace Memorial House, was built in 1912. It is three-story brick building in the Tudor Revival style. The surrounding cemetery includes burials dating to 1734, when the church located at this site. Notable interments include Rufus King , Charles King  and William Duer .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This church is the oldest Episcopal Church on Long Island, as well as the second-largest in New York State. Grace Episcopal Church was founded in 1702, long before the American Revolution. The parish’s unofficial church life began in 1693. During that time, an English organization called the “Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts” sent a missionary minister to respond to the request made by a group of Jamaica residents. It was founded by the Rev. Patrick Gordon, who was appointed by the Bishop of London to serve as “rector of Queens County with residence in Jamaica." The reason for this response was to provide spiritual help and religious teachings. Gordon died in Jamaica before performing his ministry in 1702, but his duties were succeeded by the Rev. John Bartow. Furthermore, a group of Anglicans founded their own church in 1704. In 1733, around ½ acre of land was provided by many heirs to Thomas Colgan, where the members of the Church of England built their first church; it was christened/ titled the “Grace Church,” of which its first rector and bishop were the Rev. Thomas Colgan and Rev. Samuel Seabury, respectively. The first church on the present site opened for worship in 1734.</p><br>
<h2>Figures buried</h2><br>
<p>Various people have been buried in the cemetery or burial grounds of Grace Episcopal Church. The tombstones of each person have been inscribed with a sacred and emotional message. One such person buried here was Edward Willet. Willett died at the age of 93 on Dec. 8, 1974, and his tombstone contained the following verse: “Exact my soul in the joys that follow from God’s Almighty hand. While here my mould’ring body lies to rest at God’s Command."</p><br>
<p>The burial grounds of Grace Episcopal Church are also the resting place of Robert McCormick, a New Yorker and war correspondent. According to Felix T. Cuervo, president of the Native New Yorkers Historical Association, McCormick was a man who sought to “expand the frontiers of the Old West and was also a conservationist, who did much to protect our native wild life." As a war correspondent, McCormick provided detailed accounts and descriptions of his experiences during both the Crimean War and the American Civil War. Additionally, he was also a member of the new Republican Party and a friend of Abraham Lincoln.</p><br>
<h2>Activities, services and recreations</h2><br>
<p>Aside from holding weekly prayers and masses, Grace Episcopal Church has also hosted a number of special events for its community. October 1966 marked the 262nd anniversary of the founding of Grace Episcopal Church. To celebrate the occasion, the rector (the Rev. Philip F. Lewis) conducted and held anniversary services, assisted by the Rev. Joseph H. Titus, who retired the previous year. The church’s anniversary also provided a display featuring the royal charter granted by King George of England, and ancient silver chalice (one of eight remaining in the United States), a painted coat of arms of the church provided by Queen Anne of England, and a set of six collection plates (“alms bassins”).</p><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church has been known for volunteering its services toward gun control and removals. In August 1980, five churches, Grace Episcopal Church included, were named as places where those possessing illegal firearms turned in their weapons: this was done under the city’s amnesty program. Mayor Koch and Dr. Robert Polk of the Council of Churches felt it best to use five houses of worship, where the weapons would be accepted with no issues or complications for the volunteers. Threats of arrest were dismissed as part of this service, as were questions and the provision of names. This amnesty program went into effect on July 10, 1980 and ended in August when a tougher gun law was enacted. Around 163 guns were surrendered.</p><br>
<p>In August 1995, the church welcomed the Black Heritage Foundation and Cultural Collaborative Jamaica, which, in association with the New York Foundation on the Arts, presented several jazz musicians to perform for fans and residents of Queens. The performers included the Bross Townsend Orchestra, composed of Bross Townsend (on the piano), John Dooley (on bass), Walter Perkins (on drums), Bubber Brooks (on tenor saxophone), Fred Smith (trumpet), and 80-year-old Al Casey, a “pioneer of the amplified guitar.” This free jazz concert provided an in-depth, historical perspective on jazz and the contributions made by jazz pioneers.</p><br>
<h2>Symbolism and significance of the church</h2><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church is seen by many people as "a place of inspiration." Historians view this structure to be an ancient institution with an interesting and trouble past.</p><br>
<h2>Vandalism</h2><br>
<p>In 1957, the church was struck by vandalism, when a dozen tombstones within its burial grounds were smashed and another dozen toppled. Some of these tombstones were 100 years old. The tombstones belonging to Charles and Henrietta King, and those of the Cornell family, were among those smashed. Sergeant Paul Keane of the Jamaica Squad, ascertained that this was the result of “teenage hoodlums."</p><br>
<h2>Landmark status</h2><br>
<p>It was listed as a New York City Landmark in 1967 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. A campaign was launched in December 2010 by members of the Grace Episcopal Church; their intention was to meet with members of city council in order to overrule the Landmarks Preservation Commission&#39;s designation of the Church as a historical landmark when it voted the following year. According to the Rev. Darryl James, this designation "siphons off potential funding." The nearby Grace Episcopal Church Memorial Hall was listed separately as a New York City Landmark in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Riker-Lent-Smith Homestead and Cemetery is a historic house and cemetery at 78-03 19th Road in East Elmhurst, New York. The neighborhood, within the New York City borough of Queens, is called Steinway in the National Register of Historic Places designation document.</p><br>
<p>The earliest part of the house was built by Abraham Riker in 1656. He was an early settler of New Amsterdam, and a member of the Riker family, for whom Rikers Island nearby is named, The house was owned by the Riker and Lent families for much of its history. In 1729, the house was expanded and additions were built by then owner Abraham Lent, a descendent of Abraham Riker. The small graveyard contains not only the graves of family members, but also that of Irish revolutionary and physician William James MacNeven who died in 1841 and who had stayed with the Riker family. Around 1800 the house was again expanded to its current size. It remains an intact house in the Dutch Colonial style. Current owner Marion Duckworth Smith and her late husband Michael Smith began restoration work in 1980, and the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The house is the oldest known existing residential structure in the borough of Queens, New York. See the list of oldest buildings in the United States of America.</p><br>
<p>St. George&#39;s Church is an intercultural, multilingual Episcopal congregation in Flushing, Queens, New York. with members from over twenty different nations of origin. A landmark church, it has served an ever changing congregation for over 300 years.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Georges was organized in 1702 as a mission of the Church of England by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The group consisted of the Rev. George Keith, the Rev. John Talbot, and the Rev. Patrick Gordon, who was sent to be the missionary to Jamaica, Queens. Keith, a former Quaker, went into Flusings Quaker Meeting House in September 1702, announced his presence as a missionary, and engaged in both preaching and debate. This happened several times, and the subsequent early history of St. Georges is intertwined with the history of Grace Church in Jamaica, which was where the first Rector, the Rev. Patrick Gordon, resided. Gordon was succeeded in 1704 by the Rev. William Urquhart. Urquhart held services in Jamaica one week, and would then rotate the following weeks to Flushing and then Newtown (now Elmhurst). The community in Jamaica grew into Grace Church; the one in Flushing became St. Georges; and the one in Newtown became St. James.</p><br>
<p>Services were conducted in the old Guard House until 1746 when the first church building was constructed. A certain "John Aspinwall, Gentleman" donated ￡600 for a steeple and bell in 1760. Francis Lewis, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was a Warden at St. Georges Church, 1765–1790, and his son, Francis Lewis, Jr., was a Warden from 1791-1794. The official union of the three parishes lasted for a century, and ended with the resignation of the Rev. Rattoone, when the vestry of St. Georges decided to unite with Newtorn in hiring the Rev. Clarke in 1803. In 1809, the Rev. Clarke withdrew to Newtown, leaving Flushing without a rector and marking St. George&#39;s independence.</p><br>
<p>A second church was built in 1821 and the present church structure, the third on the site, was built in 1854. It was designed by Henry C. Dudley (1813–1894) and Frank Wills (1822–1857), architects who were associated with The New York Ecclesiological Society, in the Neo-Gothic style. The great tower bell was recast at Troy, New York, using the metal from the original bell, and still bore the inscription "The gift of John Aspinwall, Gentleman, 1760." The parish received a Royal Charter from King George III of Great Britain, dated June 17, 1761. After the American Revolution, the "Prayer for the King" in the church&#39;s prayer book was covered over with the "Prayer for the President."</p><br>
<p>As church attendance and membership began to decline and the population of Flushing changed with the influx of immigrants from Latin America and Asia, St. Georges began to reach out to the new immigrants. In 1988, the Rev. Dr. Franco Kwan was hired to provide outreach to the Asian community and to be the Vicar for the Chinese-speaking members of the congregation. Similarly, a part-time priest from another parish in the diocese was brought in to be the Vicar for the Spanish-speaking members of the congregation. Over the years, some critics have pointed out that the three bodies that make up St. Georges (i.e., English-, Chinese-, and Spanish-speaking congregations) share a building but do not interact enough. Because of his success in revitalizing the parish, the vestry of St. Georges attempted to hire the Rev. Dr. Franco Kwan as its permanent Rector in October 1996, and the New York Times even published an article about the new Rector. Fr. Kwans appointment, however, was rejected by the Rt. Rev. Orris G. Walker, Jr., Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island. Subsequently, three clergy from the diocese and twenty members of St. Georges congregation signed a canon law complaint against Bishop Walker, alleging that the Bishop violated the Constitution and Canons of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church. Bishop Walker denied the charges, and a Review Panel of Bishops appointed by the Episcopal Churchs Presiding Bishop ruled in favor of Bishop Walker. A motion to reconsider the decision was denied. The parish continues to hold trilingual services to mark special occasions, with readings done in English, Chinese, and Spanish, and copies of sermons distributed in those languages.</p><br>
<p>The church, the Old Parish House and the Graveyard along the side of the church were officially designated as City Landmarks by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2000. St. George&#39;s celebrated its tercentenary in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The September 16, 2010 microburst across Brooklyn and Queens destroyed the church&#39;s 45-foot wooden steeple which crashed down on top of two New York City buses parked on Main Street. It is unknown whether the destruction was caused by the 100+ mph winds or a reported lightning strike. It was rebuilt in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Saint Benedict Joseph Labre Parish is a historic Roman Catholic parish church complex in the Diocese of Brooklyn, located at 94-40 118th Street in Richmond Hill neighborhood of Queens, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The complex consists of the church, rectory / parsonage, school, and cloister. The church was designed in 1916 by noted architect Thomas Henry Poole (1860–1919) and completed in 1919. It is a large brick Romanesque-style building in the basilican plan. It features a standing seam copper-roofed dome and a bell tower. The rectory is a -story brick building built in 1939. The cloister also dates to 1939 and connects the rectory to the sanctuary. It features a 1938 statue of the patron Saint Benedict Joseph Labre. The brick school building was built in 1912 and substantially enlarged in 1938–1939.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Chapel, also known as St. Johns Church and Beth-El Temple Church of God in Christ, is a historic Episcopal church at 1874 Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York. It was built in 1858 to the design of noted architect Richard Upjohn . It is a frame Gothic Revival style chapel on a brick foundation and three bays wide by five bays long. It has a steeply pitched roof and sided in wood shingles. Atop the roof is a wooden belfry with steeply pitched pyramidal roof. It was founded as Trinity Chapel as a mission of Trinity Church in Hewlett, New York. Its name was changed to St. Johns of Far Rockaway in 1881 when it became an independent parish. St. John&#39;s merged with Trinity Church in 1974 and the building was sold the following year to Beth-El Temple Church of God in Christ.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Vander Ende–Onderdonk House  is a historic house at 1820 Flushing Avenue in Ridgewood, Queens. It is the oldest Dutch Colonial stone house in New York City.</p><br>
<p>The original house on the site was built in 1661 by Hendrick Barents Smidt, from land that was granted to him by Peter Stuyvesant. The house was mentioned in a 1769 survey that established the boundary between Kings and Queens counties and may have been largely constructed around this time. The Onderdonk family acquired the property in 1821. In 1975 the house suffered a serious fire that destroyed many of its wooden elements. It was rebuilt in the early 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Poppenhusen Institute is a historic building at 114—04 14th Road in College Point, Queens that housed the first free kindergarten in America. In addition, this institute provided the first free evening classes for adults . Currently, the Institute operates as a community cultural center. The institute stands at five-stories and was constructed in a stern Victorian style.</p><br>
<p>The Poppenhusen Institute is similar to the Cooper Union Institute in Manhattan: the reason for this is because the so-called "home arts" and the study of machinery were principally taught free to ambitious residents of the North Shore.</p><br>
<p>It was constructed in 1868 with private funds donated by Conrad Poppenhusen, the benefactor of College Point, New York. He began work on the institute on his 50th birthday in 1868, when he provided $100,000 to set up this project as a private educational venture: this venture remains one of the principal features of College Point. Conrad Poppenhusen&#39;s zeal, ability, and civic pride brought unprecedented prosperity to College Point.</p><br>
<p>The original charter specified that it be open to all, irrespective of race, creed or religion, giving people the opportunity to improve their lives either by preparing them for better jobs or improving their leisure time. The institute was established for vocational training and is also served in the interests of Poppenhusen to provide educational opportunities for industrial workers. This institute was also built with the purpose of teaching English and factory crafts: even though it was still teaching these classes, the English courses have been supplemented or replaced by those in French and Spanish.</p><br>
<p>The institute housed the Justice of the Peace, the first home of the College Point Savings Bank, German Singing Societies, the first library in the area, a court room, the Sheriff&#39;s Office (2 jail cells remain today), as well as the first free kindergarten in the United States which began here on July 1, 1870."</p><br>
<p>Furthermore, this institute was also established for the protection, care, and custody of infants under the age of five years. The institute, to this day, has survived and is well known as a recognized trade school, enrolling about 400 men and women a year for evening classes.</p><br>
<p>The Poppenhusen Institute also became the location in which many historical exhibits and artifacts of Queens were displayed. In 1962, around Spring time in May, the first anniversary of the opening of the College Point Historical Room commenced at the institute and included a new exhibit on "Volunteer Fire Fighting Companies at College Point. Conrad Poppenhusen started the Enterprise Engine Company Two in 1861. A group called the smokeeaters later changed the units name to Enterprise Hose Company and established headquarters in the barns adjoining the institutes property on 14th road: this occurred after the engine was retired from service in 1875. The exhibit displayed fire equipment used during the 1800s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1970 and then added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Maple Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 127-15 Kew Gardens Road in Briarwood/Kew Gardens, Queens, New York City, New York. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Maple Grove is a 65-acre cemetery established in 1875 on the "Backbone of Long Island" by Colonel William Sterling Cogswell and business associates. It consists of two sections; Monumental Park and Memorial Park. The Victorian Era Monumental Park was the first section opened in 1875 and laid out in the rural cemetery tradition with panoramic winding roads through a forest covered hilly terrain, with the original entrance at Queens Boulevard. The Lodge Building, located at the Queens Boulevard entrance, and the Receiving Tomb were erected in 1875. The Victorian Administration Building was erected in 1880 at the Lefferts Boulevard and Kew Gardens Road Entrance. All were designed by noted New York City architect James E. Ware (1846-1918).</p><br>
<p>The Memorial Park section was opened in 1943. The Lodge was torn down and the original Queens Boulevard Entrance was moved further south on Queens Boulevard, next to Briarwood subway station. Memorial Park&#39;s Presidential Circle includes a memorial to the 21 people interred at Maple Grove who died in the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. There are approximately 83,000 interments, with approximately 30,000 of them in the Monumental Park section. In Memorial Park the new Center at Maple Grove building, designed by noted architect Peter Gisolfi, was opened in 2009. The Maple Grove offices were moved from the old Victorian Administration Building into the Center. It also houses the Celebration Hall, Community Room, the Columbarium etc. A third entrance was created next to the Center on Kew Gardens Road at 129th Street.</p><br>
<h2>Friends of Maple Grove</h2><br>
<p>The Friends of Maple Grove Cemetery, Inc. is a not-for-profit, membership organization with the purposes of supporting and enhancing the operations of Maple Grove Cemetery, located in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York. Friends members desire to increase public knowledge and appreciation of the artistic, historical, horticultural and cultural resources of the Cemetery. The Friends promotes ties between Maple Grove Cemetery and the community it serves and sponsors a variety of programs and activities.</p><br>
<p>Ressequie Farm is a historic farm complex located at Hounsfield in Jefferson County, New York. The farm complex consists of a -story gabled ell, L-shaped farmhouse built about 1840 in the Greek Revival style and five outbuildings. Contributing outbuildings are a cattle barn, granary, pig house, chicken coop, and former carriage house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Samuel Resseguie</h2><br>
<p>The home was built by Samuel Resseguie and his wife Lydia Brown, who came to the area shortly after their marriage in 1822. Samuel was born 28 November 1800 in Northampton, Fulton Co., New York, son of Daniel Resseguie and Mary Monroe. Lydia was born around 1800 in Saratoga, New York, daughter of John Brown and Lydia Sprague.</p><br>
<p>Morris&#39; history of the Resseguie family (1888) states:</p><br>
<p>Samuel died on 24 March 1853. Lydia died 8 July 1882 or 1883. They are both buried in Sulpher Springs Cemetery on the nearby Sulpher Springs Road.</p><br>
<p>In the 1960s, the home was occupied by the Chandler family.</p><br>
<p>Today, the property still serves as a private residence, and is well maintained. The crossroad immediately to the west of the property is called the "Resseguie Road."</p><br>
<p>The Claverack Free Library is located on NY 23B near the center of the hamlet of Claverack, New York, United States. It is a small Colonial Revival building constructed in the early 1930s from a design by local architect Lucius Moore.</p><br>
<p>The library itself formally dates to 1891. It had been in several buildings before the expansion of nearby NY 9H forced it to move a short distance west to its current building. In 1998 the library building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The library is located on the north side of Route 23B, a short distance west of Route 9H. A row of mature trees screen the building from the latter highway. An unpaved driveway on the west leads to parking in the rear. A firehouse is located to the north, and a small former elementary school to the west. A gas station is across the road.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a single-story, three-bay frame structure on a concrete foundation sided in beaded wideboard and topped with a gabled roof shingled in wood pierced by a brick chimney at the west end. A single-story frame wing is on the west elevation.</p><br>
<p>Two small brick steps lead to the main entrance in the center of the south (front) facade. It is sheltered by a porch with a pair of Ionic columns supporting an entablature and pediment. The paneled main door is flanked by glass sidelights and topped with a transom. The two windows on either side bay have paneled green shutters.</p><br>
<p>The east facade has a Palladian window topped by an attic vent. There are three evenly spaced windows on the north (rear) elevation. The west wing, slightly offset from the front, has three windows on the south side and one on the west with similar treatments to the front of the main block.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the main block has an open, vaulted ceiling. At its west end, lit by the Palladian window, is a fireplace and chimney breast with ornate moldings inspired by 18th century originals. The west wing is partitioned into two spaces. The front one is the childrens room; the rear has most of the librarys stacks.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The library began informally in the parlors of the nearby Oakledge mansion sometime in the 1880s. Later it moved to an old stone house across what is now Route 9H from the current building. In 1891 it was formally organized as the Claverack Free Library and Reading Room Association.</p><br>
<p>That organization soon bought the 1.5 acre lot where the current structure is located. An old store that had also served as a post office was converted into the first dedicated library building. It remained adequate for many years, but in the 1920s began to show its age.</p><br>
<p>Forty years later, in 1931, the state Highway Department was planning to expand Route 9H, an eastern loop from US 9 between Bell Pond to the south and Kinderhook to the north that avoids the city of Hudson. It would be necessary to condemn the library building, and after several months of negotiations the association accepted an offer of $5,000 ($ in contemporary dollars). This would later rise to almost the full $7,800 it would cost to build the present library ($ in contemporary dollars). The association turned to alumni of Claverack College, closed 30 years earlier, to make up the difference. It rented space in several houses and other locations for the year it took to build the new library.</p><br>
<p>The association hired Hudson architect Lucius Moore to adapt a design from models sent to them by the state Education Department. They selected a small Colonial Revival building that had been used, and built for a similar cost, by the library in the Long Island community of Bellport. The model was slightly adapted to be more consistent with local buildings from the Colonial era. The wideboard siding is beaded, as is the case on 18th-century Claverack houses, and the roof pitch steeper than the original design.</p><br>
<p>The first association meeting in the new library was held late in 1932, although the building was not yet quite finished. A thousand-dollar bequest from one local estate paid for the furnishings. Moore bought the bronze sconces on the chimney in New York City at his own expense. The woodwork was custom-milled for the library.</p><br>
<p>Since its construction, the only significant alteration was the addition of the west wing in 1950. Moore was still practicing, and designed it to be completely sympathetic to the original building. The local Lions Club donated money for the lighting of the new wing.</p><br>
<p>Fairview Manor also known as Longue Vue Manor, Our Lady of Fairview, and Fairview Manor Restaurant and Lodge, is a historic home located at Clayton in Jefferson County, New York. It was built in 1937 as a summer retreat for Carl Zimmerman. It is a very interesting and intact interpretation of a European castle/Manor house with a distinctive eclectic French flavor.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>As of April 2011, the property was permanently closed, and had been for quite some time, due to the overgrown nature of the surroundings. The property includes approximately 16 acres, several out buildings, guest cabins, a chapel, and a river front location.</p><br>
<p>In July 2014, current owners purchased 7.6 acres, after the property was subdivided, including the French Eclectic Manor, the chapel, cottages near the manor, and of course the St. Lawrence River view! The property had fallen into disrepair after nearly 8 years of vacancy. The original slate roof was harvested and replaced with a composite slate roof, the original slate will be repurposed as cheese boards, coasters, etc. All the windows were replaced by Marvin Windows, replicating their original style. A new geothermal heating and cooling system was installed. Interior and Exterior renovations were complete to preserve the history.</p><br>
<p>The St. Francis River Bridge carries United States Route 70 over the St. Francis River near Madison in St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States. It consists of three Parker through trusses, each 162 ft long, and a swing bridge span 230 ft long. With approaches, the bridge has a total length of 921 ft. The swing span is mounted on a central pier, and is rotated by two workers operating a large hickory handle. The bridge was built in 1932-33, with the swing span design made to accommodate the demands of the United States War Department that the river remain navigable by military vessels. The bridge is one of three swing-span bridges in the state. It is likely that the swinging mechanism has never been used.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Fountain Inn is a 16th-century public house in the village of Ashurst, in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. After a period as a farmhouse, it was converted into the village inn and was extended and given a Georgian façade in the 18th century. English Heritage has listed the building at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Ashurst is a small village and civil parish about 3 mi north of the town of Steyning. The parish covers a large area (2,494 acre) and consists mostly of well-spaced farms and other scattered buildings, but a small settlement had developed around the Horsham—Steyning road by the early 16th century. Many of the present buildings are 16th-century, although in some cases they replaced older buildings. Development spread along the road in the 17th century.</p><br>
<p>The first inn in the parish was to the south of the main settlement, near Horsebridge Common. It existed by the 17th century and over time was known by at least three names, the last of which was The Fountain. It became an inn under the sign of the Red Lion by 1788, and adopted the name Fountain Inn soon afterwards.</p><br>
<p>In the early 19th century, the building was extended: an extra wing was added on the north side, perpendicular to the original structure, in brick. In contrast to the tiled roof of the older part, the newer wing had a roof of slate. At the same time, the façade was altered from its original timber-framed appearance: the Georgian style, popular at the time, was adopted.</p><br>
<p>Author Hilaire Belloc, who wrote extensively about Sussex in his fiction and non-fiction works, mentioned the Fountain Inn in his novel The Four Men: a Farrago; he wrote approvingly about the beer.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the pub was used to film the video for Wonderful Christmastime, Paul McCartney&#39;s Christmas song with his band Wings.</p><br>
<p>Actor Sir Laurence Olivier lived just south of Ashurst, and the Fountain Inn was his local pub.</p><br>
<p>The Fountain Inn was listed at Grade II by English Heritage on 9 May 1980; As of February 2001, it was one of 1,628 Grade II listed buildings, and 1,726 listed buildings of all grades, in the district of Horsham.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The façade of the newer (east) part of the Fountain Inn, facing the road, was clad in painted cement during the 19th-century alterations. It has a range of two evenly spaced sash windows, a hipped roof of tiles, a steep-roofed entrance porch and two gable-end chimneys. The wing to the north is of brick with a slate-covered roof and sash windows. Both parts of the building have two storeys. Inside, there is a smaller bar with a large inglenook, and a larger bar to the rear.</p><br>
<p>The B.F. Jones Memorial Library is a historic library in Aliquippa, a city in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. Named for steel tycoon Benjamin Franklin Jones, it was built in 1927 with money donated by Jones&#39; daughter. As a product of the profits of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, for which Aliquippa was a company town, it resembled a Carnegie library.</p><br>
<p>Rated a high-quality example of small-scale Renaissance Revival architecture, the two-story library is built primarily of Indiana Limestone with a bronze roof. Among its leading features are multiple plaster casts, windows of stained glass, carvings in imitation of those made by Italian sculptor Andrea della Robbia, and a large statue of Jones.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, the library was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its architecture and for its association with Jones in the development of Aliquippa. The library continues in operation to the present day.</p><br>
<p>J. N. Adam–AM&A Historic District is a national historic district located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. The district resulted from the agglomeration of commercial structures over many years of commercial growth and still reflects conscious decisions made by the original planners of the J. N. Adam & Co., and later AM&A&#39;s department stores. The main department store was designed by Starrett & van Vleck and built in 1935, with additions made in 1946-1948. The service building and entrances date to 1909 and is a six story, brick flat roofed commercial structure. Two six story, brick commercial structures fronting on Washington Street were designed by Green & Wicks in the 1890s. A five story steel frame warehouse building fronting on Washington Street dates to 1911-1912. Connected to it are a warehouse building dating to 1882, one dating to 1906-1907, and one fronting on Ellicott Street and dating to 1912-1913.</p><br>
<p>Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>Plans announced in January 2010 are for the complex to be converted to apartments and offices.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Wilson is a historic Renaissance Revival apartment building located at 643 Fort Wayne Avenue in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.</p><br>
<p>In 1983, the Wilson was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the "Apartments and Flats of Downtown Indianapolis" multiple property submission. The apartments in this group were added to the Register for their architecture and for their place in the development of commerce and real estate development in Indianapolis.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP nomination states: "The Wilson is significant for its use of numerous distinctive Renaissance Revival motifs derived from the classical vocabulary of architectural design." It has a five bay Doric order terra cotta entrance arcade and other architectural details.</p><br>
<p>Fort Aubrey, in eastern Hamilton County, Kansas, was established by the US Army in the 1850s. It originally had no name and was not made a truly permanent post until 1865. It was originally established to serve as a temporary resting place for traveling troops. The location of the fort is based upon a recommendation by François Xavier Aubry, for whom the fort is named.</p><br>
<p>The intermittent camp was established at the site of a spring fifteen feet wide and three feet deep. The spring was on Spring Creek, near the Arkansas River, and was on the Santa Fe Trail. The spring was used by soldiers, civilian travelers and Indians as they passed through the area.</p><br>
<p>The camp had no name for most of its existence. Some structures were built there and these were at times left completely unused. Sometimes details of a few men stayed in the camp to keep it ready for use.</p><br>
<p>The camp was named Camp Wynkoop in May 1864, in honor of Fort Lyon&#39;s commander, Maj. Edward W. Wynkoop. Around that time a stage station was built at Camp Wynkoop. When the camp was again abandoned in August the stage station remained. The camp was in a dangerous area, as hostile Indians at least once killed four soldiers working near the camp.</p><br>
<p>Indian troubles in the area increased, so in August or September 1865 a permanent fort, named Fort Aubrey, was built by two companies of the 48th Wisconsin Infantry. The permanent fort was short lived, being closed April 15, 1866.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, the site of the fort was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Alexander State Forest Headquarters Building serves as the headquarters of the Alexander State Forest in Woodworth, Louisiana. The building, a log cabin, was constructed in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, who had established a camp in the forest in 1923. Alexander State Forest, which was established in 1923 and continued to grow until 1938, was the first state forest in Louisiana and marked the first effort by a Southern state to preserve its yellow pine forests. The headquarters building is the only remaining structure from the forests early years and is the main physical remnant of Louisianas conservation efforts in the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 21, 1987.</p><br>
<p>Indian Boundary Park is a 13 acre urban park in the West Ridge neighborhood of North Side, Chicago, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It opened in 1922. It is named after a boundary line that was determined in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis between the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes and the United States government. The line ran through the present park.</p><br>
<h3>Former zoo</h3><br>
<p>Indian Boundary Park once had a small zoo, The zoo was maintained by the Zoological Society of the Lincoln Park Zoo. In 2013, the zoo at Indian Boundary Park was closed and the remaining few animals were sent to Lincoln Park Zoo.</p><br>
<h3>Facilities</h3><br>
<p>Indian Boundary Park is noted for its fieldhouse, which was completed in 1929. The design of the fieldhouse incorporates Native American and Tudor elements. In 1989, a large playground was added to the park and assembled with the help of neighborhood residents.</p><br>
<p>The park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, and the fieldhouse was named a Chicago Landmark in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The historic fieldhouse was extensively damaged by a fire on May 20, 2012.</p><br>
<p>Restoration to the fieldhouse began in the late summer of 2013 after extensive negotiations between the Chicago Park District and the insurance provider. It was fully restored on July 14, 2014 with help from the park supervisor, Philip Martini.</p><br>
<p>Watertown Masonic Temple is a historic Masonic building located in Watertown in Jefferson County, New York. It was constructed in 1914 as a meeting hall for a local Masonic lodge. and is a three story, Neoclassical style rectangular, masonry and steel structure. The front of the building features a large prostyle temple front with six columns in the Doric order supporting a triangular pediment.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980</p><br>
<p>In 2003, the Masonic Hall Association decided to sell the building, citing the cost of maintaining the structure, and declining membership for its decision. No lodge currently meets in the building.</p><br>
<p>A plan to renovate the building as a performing arts center is included in a ten million dollar New York State Empire State Development Corporation revitalization grant.</p><br>
<p>Lake Palčje  is an intermittent lake in the Pivka basin north of the settlement Palčje in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia. It fills an oval-shaped karst depression, crossed by Pivka, and approximately 1.5 km long and 0.5 km wide. Its bottom is relatively level at between 543 and 557 m above the sea, but the banks are steep. Lake Palčje is the largest among the Pivka Lakes with average maximum water area around 1 km².</p><br>
<p>The bottom is at the groundwater level, so the amount of water depends on current hydrological conditions. Usually, the lake fills after the heavy rains in late autumn and again in spring. On average, the area is flooded for around three months every year. The lakes main inflow is the estavelle Matijas Cave (Matijeva jama) out of which the water flowing from the Javornik Hills erupts.</p><br>
<h2>Use</h2><br>
<p>The area is filled with water for significant part of the year, so the lake&#39;s bottom cannot be used for agriculture, but the grassy surface makes it possible to allows graze livestock and harvest hay. The farmers in nearby Palčje begin mowing at the end of July, when they finish with surrounding pastures. The garlic that grows on the bottom affects the taste of the milk, so the hay is used for feeding horses instead of cattle.</p><br>
<p>Ice-making was a supplementary source of income for locals from the end of the 18th century until the middle of the 20th century; farmers from Pivka used to break off ice blocks and store them until spring, then transport them on horse-pulled carts to Trieste where it was used in butcher shops, fisheries and restaurants before the onset of electric cooling. Women would pick herbs for herbal remedies, mostly juniper berries, ribwort plantain, yarrow, thyme, and others. Branches of willows that grow around the lake were used for basket weaving.</p><br>
<p>Abandoned military facilities in vicinity bear witness of military use of this area. The broader area of the Pivka Lakes was used as a military training ground first by the Austro-Hungarian army, and later by the Italian and Yugoslav armed forces. During military exercises, local inhabitants were compensated for their inability to use it. The area has not been used for military purposes since 1991, and the damage to the bed of Lake Palčje has been repaired.</p><br>
<p>Today, the lake and its surroundings form part of the Natura 2000 network. Cutting hay continues until this day and development is directed towards ecotourism and sustainable agriculture.</p><br>
<p>The Jeremiah Reeves House and Carriage House is located at 325 East Iron Avenue in Dover, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The house is also alternatively known as the Dover Historical Museum and the J.E. Reeves Victorian Home and Carriage House Museum. The property was listed on the National Register on 1982-07-15.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1870 by Valentine Wills as a two-story farmhouse. The brick house had large spacious rooms with high ceilings. When Jeremiah E. Reeves, an industrialist and banker, purchased the house in 1898 he extensively remodeled the house to meet his high standards of living. The house was transformed into a 17-room Italianate mansion house, equipped with a ballroom, drawing room, and a large dining room, to name a few. The Reeves family moved into the home in 1901 and within a short time the area came to be known as Reeves Heights.</p><br>
<p>The house was situated on a small hill overlooking the river and was close to the rolling mills Reeves had purchased for his steel business. The area grew as more and more Reeves relatives built homes around the original property.</p><br>
<p>Jeremiah Reeves died in the house in 1920, and the house remained occupied until the death of his wife, Jane, in 1926. The house was vacant save for a few times of sporadic inhabitation by the Reeves family and underwent a "modernization" in the 1940s. The Dover Historical Society (DHS) obtained title to the property when the last remaining child of Jeremiah Reeves died. The DHS restored the home with the help of Samuel Reeves, Jr. until his death in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The property is maintained today as a museum by the DHS and showcases life during the Victorian Era.</p><br>
<p>Bayouside is located south of Bayou Rapides on a slight ridge, about 9 mi northwest of Alexandria in Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It is a Creole raised plantation house showing influence of Greek Revival or Classical Revival architecture, with a five bay gallery having a full entablature and posts with heavy molded capitals.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in about 1847 by John Augustin Texada (1789-1869) who came to the area in 1809. It was sold a few years after his death to the Bank of America, then bought at auction in 1876 by Milton Dunnam for $4600, then remained in the Dunnam family until 1969. At the time of NRHP listing, the house was owned by a descendant of John A. Texada who had been restoring it since 1970.</p><br>
<p>Dorchester Bay is the smallest of the three smaller bays of southern Boston Harbor, part of Massachusetts Bay and forming the south shoreline of the South Boston neighborhood and northeast shoreline of the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, as well as the north shore of the city of Quincy in Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The bay is home to Thompson Island, one of the Boston Harbor Islands. The Neponset River empties into Dorchester Bay between south Dorchester and Squantum Point Park in Quincy. The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum is located on the west shore of the bay at the end of the Columbia Point peninsula. Day Boulevard, one of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation parkways and part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston, travels 2.6 mi along the northern shore of Dorchester Bay, offering panoramic views of the bay and islands.</p><br>
<p>The waters of Dorchester Bay include Pleasure Bay, Old Harbor, Western Way, Squantum Channel, Savin Hill Cove, and Dorchester Bay Basin.</p><br>
<p>Oligyrtos  is a mountain located at the junction of Arcadia, Corinthia and Argolis in the northeastern Peloponnese in Greece. The mountain diagonally stretches from southwest to northeast, with about 35 km length and 15 to 20 km breadth. Its highest point is the peak Skipiza, at1,935 m elevation. Other peaks are Gkrimini , Parnias , Skiathis  and Mavrovouni . Neighboring mountain ranges are Kyllini  to the north, Mainalo to the southwest, Trachy to the south and Chelmos  to the northwest. Local flora consists mostly of grasslands and bushes. Pine trees and barren lands are found in higher areas. It is drained towards the Lake Stymphalia to the north, and towards the plain of Kandila to the south.</p><br>
<h2>Nearest places</h2><br>
<p>North: Lafka</p><br>
<p>South: Skoteini and Kandila</p><br>
<p>West: Limni and Mati</p><br>
<p>The George Felpel House is located on NY 9H in Claverack, New York, United States. It is a stone Colonial Revival and Dutch Colonial Revival house built in the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>Its stones are the remnants of Claverack College, which existed on the property from 1779 to 1902. Local architect Henry Mouls designed it in Colonial revival style, with some aspects of genuine Colonial architecture from the region. In 1997 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Property</h2><br>
<p>The house is on an 11 acre lot on the east side of Route 9H just south of the Reformed Dutch Church of Claverack. It is set back from the road, on the top of a low ruse, at the end of the north fork of an unpaved Y-shaped driveway. At the other fork is a garage, the other contributing resource to the Register listing. There are many mature trees around the lot, providing shade and screening. The rear slopes down to a pond that was once part of the college campus. The surrounding neighborhood has other older larger houses on large lots.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a two-story, three-bay structure topped by an asphalt-shingled gambrel roof. It is sided in rough-dressed local stone, except for asbestos shingles in the gable ends. A porte cochère projects from the south entrance, and on the east (rear) is another gambrel-roofed wing. A screened porch is on the north end.</p><br>
<p>At the center of the west (front) facade is the entrance portico. Its pedimented roof, two stories high, is supported by two Doric columns. An overscaled broken pediment on brackets shelters the main entrance. A triple window is above the main entrance on the second story.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance is a Dutch door with a glass transom. It leads into a large central hall with a prominent staircase. Its bannister and newels reflect the Arts and Crafts style; all the other woodwork in the house is Colonial Revival.</p><br>
<p>To the north of the central hall is a large living room. Its fireplace has a wooden Federal style mantel flanked by French doors which lead to the porch. The other side of the house has a dining room and front room with similar windows to the living room. The kitchen wing to the south has original cabinetry. The upstairs rooms are planned similarly to their downstairs counterparts.</p><br>
<p>Outside, the garage has a hipped roof and clapboard siding. It has been extended to the east to accomododate longer vehicles. There is also a modern shed, and a modern wellhouse-styled structure covering a cistern used by the college in the rear lawn. Some of the original drain tiles from the diversionary channel have been found in the nearby soil.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Claverack College, also known as Washington Seminary and Hudson River Institute, was founded by Reformed Church pastor John Gabriel Gebhard during the Revolutionary War. It was located on the property (and an adjacent, similarly-sized parcel) until its closure in 1902. During its existence, it educated Martin van Buren, Margaret Sanger and Stephen Crane. The buildings were razed shortly after it was closed.</p><br>
<p>Some of the stones they were built of remained, and when George Felpel, a successful farmer from nearby Ghent, bought half of the former campus, he wanted to use them. He hired Gloversville architect Henry Moul, who had recently moved there from Hudson, near Claverack, to design a stone house in the newly popular Colonial Revival mode.</p><br>
<p>Moul&#39;s design was extremely sensitive to local architectural traditions from the Colonial era. It had many features typical of Colonial Revival buildings, such as the colonnade, pediment, ornamented entry and central-hall plan. But it also uses some distinctly regional touches, such as the triple-run interior stairway. Common in many early Dutch houses in the Hudson Valley, they have rarely been preserved. On the outside he used the gambrel roof, an English feature later copied by the Dutch, and stoep benches flanking the entrance, similar to those seen on old engravings of streets in Albany.</p><br>
<p>The building has remained a residence ever since. It has not been significantly altered by any other owner, save the addition of the mock wellhouse.</p><br>
<p>Douglas Lake is an inland lake located in Cheboygan County on the northern tip of Michigan&#39;s lower peninsula. It is the 28th largest lake in Michigan with an areal coverage of 3,395 acres  and a maximum depth of 79 feet . The Lake has two tributaries, Bessey Creek and Beavertail Creek and one outlet, the East Branch Maple River. Douglas Lake is part of the headwaters for the Maple River, a Blue Ribbon trout stream.</p><br>
<p>Much of the southern shoreline of Douglas Lake is undeveloped as it is owned by the University of Michigan Biological Station and is used for research and educational purposes. The University of Michigan Biological Station and the Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council both maintain extensive records describing the biotic and abiotic features of Douglas Lake.</p><br>
<p>Grebe Lake is a 156 acre backcountry lake in Yellowstone National Park most noted for its population of Arctic Grayling. Grebe Lake comprises the headwaters of the Gibbon River. Grebe Lake is located approximately 3.1 mi north of the Norris-Canyon section of the Grand Loop Road. The trail to the lake passes through mostly level Lodgepole Pine forest and open meadows. The lake was named by J.P. Iddings, a geologist with the Arnold Hague geologic surveys. There are four backcountry campsites located on the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Arctic Grayling</h2><br>
<p>In 1921, USA Fish Commission personnel stocked Grebe Lake, at that time fishless, with the Montana strain Thymallus arcticus montanus of a lacustrine form of Arctic Grayling. The original stocks came from Georgetown Lake near Anaconda, Montana. The fluvial form of Arctic Grayling was native to the Madison and Gibbon Rivers below Gibbon Falls. In an effort to re-establish grayling in western states, over 72 million grayling eggs were harvested from Grebe Lake between 1931 and 1956 and distributed to hatcheries. Most lake dwelling grayling in the west today can be genetically traced to the Grebe Lake stocks. Grebe Lake was closed to fishing until 1944 because of the fish culture operations at the lake. Wolf Lake 2 mi west and Cascade Lake 3 mi east also contain grayling.</p><br>
<h2>Angling</h2><br>
<p>Today, Grebe Lake holds both Arctic Grayling and Rainbow trout. The lake is a popular summer angling destination for park visitors. Although the lake can be fished from shore, many anglers carry in float tubes to access the deeper portions of the lake. Using a float tube on Yellowstone lakes requires a park service boating permit. The lake is open to angling during the entire Yellowstone season (end of May to early November) but generally cannot be easily accessed until mid June because of snow on the trail. The trailhead to Grebe Lake is approximately 4 mi west of Canyon on the Norris to Canyon road 44&deg;43&prime;3&Prime;N latitude, 110&deg;32&prime;58&Prime;W longitude.</p><br>
<p>Exochiko  is a village in the municipal unit of Filiatra in western Messenia, Greece. Its population is 179 people . Exochiko is situated near the Ionian Sea coast, at 60 m elevation. It is 4 km north of Filiatra, 10 km southwest of Kyparissia and 50 km northwest of Kalamata. The Greek National Road 9  passes west of the village.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The origin of the former name Katsimpalis may have been a Turkish local leader Katsibali (Kacibal, Kacibali?), or a companion of revolutionary leader Theodoros Kolokotronis that was named Katsibali. Exochiko was founded by Arcadians in the mid 19th century, most of these arrived from Alonistaina. Its residents are employed in agriculture including olive oil production, groves and greenhouses.</p><br>
<p>Lapithas  is a mountain located in southern Elis in the western Peloponnese in Greece. The mountain is named after the mythical people, the Lapiths. In the west the mountain touches the Ionian Sea. It is 15 to 20 km long and 10 km wide and covers and area of 100 to 150 km². A large part of the mountain is covered with pine forests, but has suffered great damage in the forest fires of August 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Kaiafas Lake lies between the Lapithas and the Ionian Sea, northwest of the town Zacharo. The Greek National Road 76 (Megalopoli - Andritsaina - Krestena) passes northeast of the Lapithas, and the Greek National Road 9/E55 (Patras - Pyrgos - Kalamata) lies to the west.</p><br>
<h2>Nearest places</h2><br>
<p>Smerna, Vrina and Xirochori are villages on the mountain.</p><br>
<p>North: Krestena, Gryllos, Graikas</p><br>
<p>East: Platiana and Makistos</p><br>
<p>South: Zacharo</p><br>
<p>West: Kato Samiko</p><br>
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<p>The Onondaga Highlands–Swaneola Heights Historic District is a historic district in the Strathmore neighborhood of Syracuse, New York. The historic district was nominated to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 2009. The New York States Board of Historic Preservation described the district as "a turn-of-the-20th-century subdivision where the rolling topography, uniform building setback and popular residential styles form a cohesive neighborhood that retains its architectural integrity.&#39;"</p><br>
<p>It includes at least three previously NRHP-listed houses designed by Ward Wellington Ward:</p><br>
<p>Dunfee House (Syracuse, New York) at 206 Summit</p><br>
<p>Fairchild House (Syracuse, New York) at 111 Claremont Ave.</p><br>
<p>Sanford House at 211 Summit</p><br>
<p>The Niagara Mohawk Building is an art deco classic building in Syracuse, New York. It is a building of the Niagara Mohawk power utility company, now owned by National Grid plc. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Niagara Hudson Building in 2010.</p><br>
<p>According to the National Park Service:</p><br>
<p>The Niagara Hudson Building in Syracuse is an outstanding example of Art Deco architecture and a symbol of the Age of Electricity. Completed in 1932, the building became the headquarters for the nation’s largest electric utility company and expressed the technology of electricity through its modernistic design, material, and extraordinary program of exterior lighting. The design elements applied by architects Melvin L. King and Bley & Lyman transformed a corporate office tower into a widely admired beacon of light and belief in the future. With its central tower and figurative winged sculpture personifying electric lighting, the powerfully sculpted and decorated building offered a symbol of optimism and progress in the context of the Great Depression.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places in June, 2010.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1932. It was headquarters for what was "then the nation&#39;s largest electric utility company".</p><br>
<p>It was nominated by New York States Board of Historic Preservation for listing on the National Register of Historic Places in December, 2009. The Board described the building as "an outstanding example of Art Deco architecture and a symbol of the Age of Electricity.&#39;"</p><br>
<p>The Harmon Miller House, also known as Brookbound, is located on NY 23/9H on the south edge of Claverack, New York, United States. It is a wooden house on a medium-sized farm built in the 1870s.</p><br>
<p>It is one of the few buildings in the Second Empire architectural style in the Claverack area. In 1997 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Property</h2><br>
<p>The house is on the west side of the highway. It is on a small rise surrounded by trees in the middle of 42 acre of fields and meadows. Claverack Creek is on the south. Across the highway are some other homes; the center of Claverack is to the north. In addition to the house there is a small carriage barn to the south.</p><br>
<p>The house itself is a two-and-a-half-story, five-by-two-bay frame building on a brick foundation with a concave mansard roof covered in slate with an overhanging bracketed eave. A one-and-a-half-story side wing wraps around the south and west sides of the building.</p><br>
<p>On the east (front) facade, the main entrance is centrally located. Wood steps with a balustrade lead up to it, and consoles support a small sheltering hood. Above it is a double window with similar treatment. All the windows have cornices – molded and flat on the first story, rounded on the second. The roof has three arched dormer windows, with the central one having a pair of windows.</p><br>
<p>The north facade has a projecting bay window in its easternmost bay. The two dormers on the roof have a chimney in the middle. The south side has a similar treatment without the chimney. Another bay window is on the rear next to the porch, with a flat bracketed roof supported by chamfered posts. There are three dormers on the upper level on this side.</p><br>
<p>The wing is similar to the main house in materials. It has a full-width enclosed porch on the west. A tower with four-segment window band and a similar slate-covered mansard roof, rises from the central bay. The east elevation, where the entrance is, has an open porch.</p><br>
<p>From the main entrance, paired doors with etched glass panels set in a segmental arched frame, there is a central hall with staircase. To its north is a large parlor with a small alcove in its rear wall. A kitchen in the wing has been enlarged. The 6 bedrooms on the second floor have been reduced to 4 bedrooms, with a new master bedroom made by combining 3 of the original bedrooms with. Walls have been removed from servants&#39; quarters in the attic to create one large ballroom space. Many original finishes survive, including the plaster, flooring, marble and wood mantelpieces and woodwork such as the walnut balustrade and newel on the main stair.</p><br>
<p>The carriage barn is sided in clapboard and topped with a slate mansard roof. Its east face has paired, arched entrances and a central round-arched dormer. It is considered a contributing resource to the Register listing.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Harmon Miller, a farmer who had built the land his father gave him at his 1854 wedding into 106 acre valued at $15,000 ($ in contemporary dollars) by 1875, hired local architect and builder John McClure to erect Brookbound in 1878. The total cost was $5,366 ($ in contemporary dollars) He lived there until his death in 1905; members of the family remained in the house until selling it to a family in 1953. It remains a private residence and has had a major restoration by the current owner, Marty Davidson, who bought the house in 1983. The total restoration took 7 years including a new slate roof, a back porch added, plus a breakfast room, and French doors above with a skylight which are now part of the master bedroom. In the house a staircase to the lower level was removed and a new one added in the center hall. The original carriage house from 1878 was moved to align with the front of the house when a 75 foot lap pool was added and became the pool house. This was done in 2003. A new 2,750 sq ft carriage house was added in 2000 just west of the house.</p><br>
