<p>The Benjamin Bowen House  is a historic house located at 7482 Main Street in Newport, Herkimer County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a two-story, nearly square limestone block residence in the Federal style, and was built in 1812 by Benjamin Bowen (1759-1824) who came from Rhode Island with the financial backing of his brothers, Dr. William Bowen and Ephraim Bowen Esq. to establish a saw mill, a grist mill, a distillery, and the Newport Cotton Manufacturing Co. along the banks of the West Canada Creek using a dam and diversion canal. Bowen left Newport for Tennessee after suffering financial losses in 1815. His daughter, Lydia, eventually acquired the property and it was subsequently passed down through the generations through her oldest stepson, Standish Barry Jr., until 1944. Since then the house has had a new family about every ten years.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 5, 1998. Also on the property is a stone smokehouse.</p><br>
<p>The Norwalk River Railroad Bridge  is a swing bridge built in 1896 for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. It currently carries Amtrak and Metro-North Railroad trains over the Norwalk River.</p><br>
<p>In 1896, the New Haven Railroad built the bridge and widened its route to four tracks, as it simultaneously built its South Norwalk Railroad Bridge over the intersection of Washington Street with North Main and South Main streets. The 562 ft span, with a rotating swing span 202 ft long was provided by the Berlin Iron Bridge Co. This type of swing bridge is one of just two on the Northeast Corridor. The swing span has a rim-bearing system of 96 rollers, allowing tall vessels to pass by. It is or was also known as Norwalk River Bridge. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>It is one of eight moveable bridges on the Amtrak route through Connecticut surveyed in one multiple property study in 1986. The eight bridges from west to east are: Mianus River Railroad Bridge at Cos Cob, built in 1904; the Norwalk River Railroad Bridge at Norwalk, 1896; Saugatuck River Railroad Bridge at Westport, 1905; Pequonnock River Railroad Bridge at Bridgeport, 1902; Housatonic River Railroad Bridge, at Devon, 1905; Connecticut River Railroad Bridge, Old Saybrook-Old Lyme, 1907; Niantic River Bridge, East Lyme-Waterford, 1907; and Thames River Bridge (Amtrak), Groton, built in 1919.</p><br>
<p>As a single movable span with aging mechanical mechanisms, the Norwalk River Bridge represents a frequent point of failure for Amtrak and Metro-North Service and has been targeted for replacement with dual movable spans.</p><br>
<p>30 Bridge Street, Chester is a shop in Chester, Cheshire, England. It stands on a corner on the west side of the street and the south side of Commonhall Street, and contains a section of the Chester Rows. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was originally a town house, then a public house, and is now a shop. Plans for rebuilding it were prepared by the local architect John Douglas in 1873 but were never executed. More modest plans by the same architectural firm, then known as Douglas and Minshull, were submitted to Chester City Council in January 1899. These were amended and then approved in September of that year, and the rebuilding was carried out the following year. At that time the rebuilding was unique in central Chester in that the new building is no higher than the building it replaced. Before rebuilding it had been a public house named the Harp and Crown; after rebuilding it was renamed the Grotto. It was converted into a shop in the 1980s.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building has three storeys plus cellars. The lower two storeys are constructed in painted sandstone on the front facing Bridge Street and in painted brick on the other front. The top storey is timber framed with plaster panels, and the roof is of grey slate and is hipped to the south and to the rear. The corner between the streets is canted. The front facing Bridge Street has stone piers and a modern shop front at street level. To the left of the window is a recessed doorway, and to the left of this are ten stone steps plus one wooden step leading up to the Row. At Row level are railings with a wooden balustrade between stone piers surmounted by capitals, and with a newel at the head of the steps. Behind the railing is a stallboard, then the wooden walkway of the Rows, and at the rear another modern shop front. To the north an S-shaped flight of concrete steps lead down to Commonhall Street, and a concrete footbridge dating from the 1970s leads over the street to the Row of number 28. The top storey is jettied and carried on wooden corbels on the capitals of the piers; the corner is supported by a shaped bracket that extends the full height of the middle storey. The top storey contains three three-light casement windows, with panels below and to the sides. Over the northern two windows is a jettied gable with slightly curved herring-bone struts. At the top of the gable is a bargeboard and a finial. The front facing Commonhall Street contains a variety of windows including a curved oriel window. This view may also be seen in a nineteenth-century painting by Thomas Walshaw.</p><br>
<p>122 Foregate Street is a building at the corner of the north side of Foregate Street and the east side of Bath Street, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by the local architect John Douglas for Prudential Assurance, and constructed in 1902. It has since been used by the Lombard Bank and later as a shop. In the late 2000s it was a beauty salon and in 2009 planning permission was given by Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council for it to be converted into a café and offices.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building is constructed in red sandstone rubble and it has a red clay tile roof. Its style is "Douglas&#39; Germanic 17th-century manner". The building has two storeys plus a loft in the roof. It stands adjacent to the terrace of houses designed by Douglas in Bath Street. The corner of the building between the streets is angled with an arched doorway in the ground floor. The upper storey is jettied and carried on consoles over pilasters flanking the door. This storey contains a mullioned three-light sash window over which is a cornice and a carving of the Chester City coat of arms. Above this a Baroque-shaped gable containing a two-light window and at its summit is an obelisk finial.</p><br>
<p>The front facing Foregate Street contains three arched windows on the ground floor, the middle one being narrow than the others. The upper storey has eight sash windows over which are a frieze and a cornice. Over the easterly six windows is another Baroque-shaped gable similar to that over the entrance door, but larger. The front facing Bath Street has two arched windows at the north end, then an arched doorway. Beyond this in the south bay, are two sash windows. In the upper storey are nine sash windows; over the pair of windows in the south bay is a cartouche. Over the south bay is a plain gable with coping and a short finial. In the roof facing Foregate Street and in that facing Bath Street is a lucarne with a finial. Two brick chimney stacks rise from the roof. A stone screen with a balustrade links the building to the house at number 1 Bath Street.</p><br>
<p>The Dodd Ford Bridge is a bridge spanning the Blue Earth River about one mile southwest of Amboy, Minnesota in Blue Earth County, Minnesota.</p><br>
<p>The bridge is a steel, pin-connected, nine-panel, overhead, Pratt-truss highway bridge. Constructed in 1901, it is among the states earliest remaining examples of the overhead Pratt type. The bridge also is significant for its association with Lawrence Henry Johnson, a prominent Minnesota bridge builder of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This bridge is one of only two authenticated surviving examples of Johnsons work.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Although Amboy stood only about one-half mile east of the river, there was no nearby highway bridge. A road did enter Amboy from the west, but it crossed the river at a shallows known as Dodd Ford, which apparently was often an obstacle to vehicular traffic. In the fall of 1900 the Blue Earth County Board of Commissioners decided to have a bridge built at that location. The official county surveyor N.F. Brooks prepared the preliminary design documents.</p><br>
<p>The local contracting firm of Carlstrom Brothers built the two stone piers. At that time bridge building in Minnesota was dominated by six Minneapolis companies: Gilette Herzog Manufacturing Company (a subsidiary of the American Bridge Company), William S. Hewett and Company, Minneapolis Bridge and Iron Company, L. H. Johnson, M. A. Adams Bridge Company, and Hewett Bridge Company. Although the last two firms did not bid on this project, the others did and their proposals were within a few hundred dollars of each other, ranging from $2948 by L. H. Johnson to $3320 by the Minneapolis Bridge and Iron Company. The contract went to the lowest bidder, L. H. Johnson.</p><br>
<p>As the contractor, Johnson undoubtedly turned to an established bridge fabrications shop, possibly the Wisconsin Bridge and Iron Company, with which he had been associated earlier. Completion was required by June 1, 1901, and he apparently delivered the bridge on schedule for he was paid in full on June 6.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The Dodd Ford Bridge is one of only two surviving bridges known to have been built by Johnson while he operated as a contractor under his own name. In its design and engineering it is a conventional, pin-connected, nine-panel, 148.5 ft, steel truss of the overhead Pratt variety. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this general type of truss was commonly used throughout the United States for highway crossings of approximately 90 to 150 feet in length. Reflecting the prevailing bridge-engineering practices of its time, this bridge has relatively light construction by later automobile-inspired standards. The bridge employs laced channel sections for vertical compression members, paired eyebars for horizontal tension members and lower chord members, angle sections for overhead sway bracing and portal bracing, and crossed eyebars for top-lateral and bottom-lateral bracing. The bridge further evokes its period by virtue of its narrow 15 ft roadway with a plank deck supported on wood stringers. Such design was later prohibited by the Minnesota Highway Commission (established in 1905). The Commission advocated a 16-foot minimum roadway, steel stringers, and preferred a reinforced-concrete deck.</p><br>
<h2>Status</h2><br>
<p>The Dodd Ford Bridge survived for most of its life with minimal alterations. The Blue Earth County Highway Department repaired some cracking of the north abutment during the 1970s and reinforced, by welding and bracing, a few collision-damaged members of the east web during the 1980s. In April 1993, however, the bridge suffered severe substructural damage when high water undermined a portion of the south abutment and swept away the southeast wing wall. The county immediately closed the structure and made plans for its replacement.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was closed to heavy traffic for thirty years before it was closed to all traffic in May 2009. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in December 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Dodd Ford Bridge was rehabilitated, and reopened to traffic the summer 2016. Since the original abutments were in poor condition, the truss, or metal, portion of the bridge was lifted off the original abutments and placed on temporary supports while the contractor rebuilt new abutments. New I-beams were placed on the new abutments and the historic truss was placed on top. The new supports will help the over 100 year old bridge carry modern traffic loads, while maintaining its historic character.</p><br>
<p>The US 12 Bridges are two bridges carrying USA Route 12  over Interstate 94  and the westbound I-94 ramp in Dearborn, Michigan. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The utility of constructing a cross-town expressway through Detroit was recognized as early as the 1920s. Planning continued off and on through the early 1940s, when the state began anticipating post-war projects. Originally called the "Crosstown Expressway," the Detroit City Council approved a petition to rename the proposed stretch the "Edsel Ford Expressway" in April 1946. The 14 mi Edsel Ford would ultimately require the construction of over 70 structures, of which the US-12 bridges are two.</p><br>
<p>Work began on the freeway in 1948, starting on the Detroit–Dearborn border, with the US 12 bridges being the first structures opened for bidding. The firm of Darin & Armstrong won the construction contract with a bid of $925,000, and began work in August 1948. The bridges were completed by August 1949. A ribbon cutting ceremony, presided over by State Highway Commissioner Charles Ziegler, was held on August 17.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Of the two bridges, the span over I-94 is the longer. The shorter span over the westbound I-94 ramp is 50 ft long and 90 ft wide. The bridge has eighteen stringers, more closely spaced in the center of the deck to support what once was a streetcar line. Channels are laid over and riveted onto the stringers. The railing, installed in 1967, has a precast base and horizontal pipe.</p><br>
<p>James Sanders House is a historic home located at Little Falls in Herkimer County, New York. The house is a two-story, gable roofed brick residence, five bays long and two bays wide originally constructed in 1827. It consists of a rectangular main block with a two-story brick rear wing. It features a center hall plan and Federal style decorative elements. Also on the property are a frame, gable roofed carriage barn and garage/agricultural equipment barn. James Sanders was a local building contractor who also built a number of mills, residences, and civic buildings including the original Little Falls Academy.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. It is located in the Little Falls Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Mount Doane el. 10,551 ft is a mountain peak in the Absaroka Range in Yellowstone National Park. The peak is named for Lieutenant Gustavus Cheyney Doane, a USA Army cavalry officer who escorted the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition into Yellowstone in 1870. During that expedition, Doane and Nathaniel P. Langford ascended several peaks east of Yellowstone Lake. Henry D. Washburn, the leader of the expedition named a peak for Doane, but that peak&#39;s name was later changed to Mount Schurz. Mount Doane was officially named by the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871 to honor the first truly official report of an exploration of the Yellowstone region that Doane wrote after the Washburn expedition. Doane also participated in the 1st Hayden expedition in 1871.</p><br>
<p>Doanes account of his and Langfords ascent into the Absaroka Range (The Peak ascended is today&#39;s Colter Peak):</p><br>
<p>78–94 Foregate Street is a range of shops in Foregate Street, Chester, Cheshire, England. It extends round the corner into Love Street. The building is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. The building was designed as a department store but has since been converted into separate shops. The style was different from the styles that had previously been used by the architect.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by the local architect John Douglas as a department store for the Chester Cooperative Society and built in 1904. It was extended in 1914 and during the 1980s it was converted into a range of separate shops.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The range of shops is built in brick with stone dressings in Baroque style. It has two storeys plus attics. The building extends as nine bays along Foregate Street and three bays along Love Street. On the ground floor are modern shop fronts between a series of Roman Doric-style columns in cream-coloured stone. In the upper storey are broad display windows with decorated stone surrounds that have arches above them. The windows are transomed and above the transoms the glazing is stained and patterned glazing. Over these windows is a stone frieze with a cornice that is carried on corbels. Above the eaves are more windows. These have timber surrounds and are in quasi-Palladian style. Also above the eaves is a stone-dressed dormer casement window in Baroque style on each face of the building. Over the corner of the building is a lead-roofed cupola with a lantern and a domed roof bearing a tall finial. Beneath the cupola is an arched three-light window on each face of the building.</p><br>
<p>The department store was designed in a style different from any of the styles formerly used by Douglas and it "shocked the City Council Improvement Committee".</p><br>
<p>Egerton Street School is in Chester, Cheshire, England, and has fronts on Egerton Street, Albert Street and Crewe Street. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade listed building.</p><br>
<p>Today the building is used a private nursery school.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school was designed jointly by John Douglas and W. T. Lockwood (son of Thomas Lockwood) for Chester City Council and built in 1909–10. Douglas&#39; biographer Edward Hubbard comments that "the joint authorship is clearly obvious".</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The school is constructed in red brick with yellow terracotta dressings and it has a brown tile roof. It is in one or two storeys and has three shaped gables.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office-Cooperstown is a historic post office building located at Cooperstown in Otsego County, New York, United States. It was built in 1935-1936, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Louis A. Simon. It is one story in front and two stories in the rear with and exposed basement. It is constructed of brick on a raised concrete foundation and limestone watercourse and beltcourse. The principal facade is symmetrically composed with a three bay pedimented central section faced entirely with ashlar limestone. The building displays Colonial Revival style details. The interior features a 1938 sculpture by artist Bela Janowsky depicting James Fenimore Cooper and two characters from his writings, Chingachgook and Natty Bumpo.</p><br>
<p>In 1988, the post office was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. which was listed on the National Register in 1980.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office-Richfield Springs is a historic post office building located at Richfield Springs in Otsego County, New York, United States. It was built in 1941–1942, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Louis A. Simon. It is one story, five bay building with a granite clad foundation, brick facades laid in common bond and limestone trim. The roof is surmounted by an octagonal cupola with metal window tracery and a decorative iron weathervane. The building displays Colonial Revival style details. The interior features an untitled 1942 mural by artist John W. Taylor depicting a local landscape. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>and It is located within the East Main Street Historic District. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Kahaluu Fishpond, historically known as Kahouna Fishpond, on Kāneohe Bay in windward Oʻahu, is one of only four surviving ancient Hawaiian fishponds on Oahu that were still in use well into the 20th century. In the previous century there were at least 100 such fishponds around the island. Kahouna was in use until about 1960 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, after members of the surrounding community raised concerns that it would be destroyed by development. The Kahaluu Taro Lo&#39;i Historic District was also added to the National Register at that time.</p><br>
<p>Kahouna features a semicircular seawall about 1,200 ft long. The inner and outer faces of the original wall were of stacked stone, with gravel, coral rubble, and soil as fillers between them.</p><br>
<p>Like its larger counterparts at Molii and Heeia, Kahouna Fishpond is now private property. Of the four major fishponds on Oahu, only Huilua Fishpond is open to the public. Kahaluu Pond, Inc., now leases its property for Hawaiian weddings. There is a wedding chapel at one end and a pavilion and garden area at the other, each leased to different vendors. Columbia Pictures also filmed part of The Karate Kid Part II, at the site.</p><br>
<p>Megijima  is an island located in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan, north of the city of Takamatsu, and is part of Kagawa Prefecture. It has an area of 2.66 km, a coastline of 8.9 km, and a population of about 200. Megijima is a popular destination in summer on account of its public beach and close proximity to Takamatsu City . Additionally, with over 2000 cherry blossom trees, Megijima also sees an influx of visitors during the springtime when people congregate for cherry blossom viewing.</p><br>
<p>The island has been linked to the mythical island Onigashima ("island of ogres"), visited by the folktale character Momotarō. The caves at the top of Washigamine Summit, as the home of the ogres from that story, are a popular tourist spot. There is an observation platform at the peak of Washigamine Summit where one can get a 360 degree view of the Seto Inland Sea.</p><br>
<p>Megijima is also one of the host sites of the Setouchi Triennale. During the festival period, many temporary and permanent art exhibitions are installed across the island.</p><br>
<p>Pine Knot is a historic cabin located 14 miles south of Charlottesville, Virginia in Albemarle County, Virginia. The cabin was owned and occupied by former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt and his wife Edith Kermit Roosevelt, and used by Roosevelt and the first lady while he was president, although no official business took place there. In 1905, Mrs. Roosevelt spent $280 to purchase the fifteen-acre property with its rustic worker&#39;s cabin, and she bought an additional seventy-five acres in 1911. The cabin is owned by the Theodore Roosevelt Association and is open for visits by appointment.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>The idea of purchasing the cabin was to be an escape for both the First Lady and the President. President Roosevelt was known throughout his presidency to travel frequently, many times to experience the natural wonders of certain areas such as in the states of Oklahoma and Colorado. While traveling Mrs. Roosevelt decided to purchase the property after visiting family friends Joe and Will Wilmer on May 6, 1905. Realizing her husbands love for the surrounding countryside, Mrs. Roosevelt decided to purchase the cabin to help her and her husband "rest and repair" from the strain of political life in Washington D.C. The cabin was surrounded by the wilderness, which appealed to Mrs. Roosevelt. A description characterized it thus: "tucked away among red and white oak, red cedars, dogwoods, red maples and black cherry trees, was a rustic workers cabin".</p><br>
<p>The cabin was built in 1905, and is a simple two-story, single-pile frame dwelling. It features a deep, full two-story front porch which extends across the front of the facade. It has an unfinished interior and is without modern conveniences of any kind.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Cape Schmidt  is a headland in the Chukchi Sea, part of Iultinsky District of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>This headland is a rocky promontory located at the end of a spit. Cape Yakan is located to the west and Cape Vankarem to the east of Cape Schmidt.</p><br>
<p>The settlement of Mys Shmidta is located southeast of the headland and the Chukchi locality of Ryrkaypiy is located closer to the southwest.</p><br>
<p>An abandoned military base sits on the coast of the headland. Photos of it in its present state are available at on the Web.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A Neolithic site of ancient marine hunters was found on the shore of Cape Schmidt. There are remains of ancient huts at the foot of the cliffs on the western side and there was an ancient Chukchi fortification at the top.</p><br>
<p>The local name of the landhead was Il-Kappeya, meaning "Walrus constipation" in the Chukchi language. James Cook named the headland Cape North in 1778 when he sailed through the Bering Strait and into the Chukchi Sea, demonstrating to people in Europe and North America that Russia and Alaska were separated. The cape was later renamed after Soviet scientist and first head of the Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route, Otto Schmidt.</p><br>
<p>Colter Peak el. 10,640 ft is a mountain peak in the Absaroka Range in the southeastern section of Yellowstone National Park. The peak is named for mountain man John Colter, reputedly the first white man to visit the Yellowstone region. Colter Peak was first ascended in 1870 by Lt. Gustavus Cheyney Doane and Nathaniel P. Langford during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition. Henry D. Washburn, the expedition leader named the peak for Langford and Doane. For unknown reasons, geologist Ferdinand V. Hayden moved those names to peaks farther north in 1871 during the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871. In 1888, Philetus Norris the second park superintendent, named the peak Mount Forum for unknown reasons. In 1885, geologist Arnold Hague gave the peak its official name: Colter Peak.</p><br>
<p>The first detailed map of Yellowstone Lake was sketched by Langford from this peak on September 7, 1870.</p><br>
<p>Doanes account of his and Langfords ascent into the Absaroka Range (The peak ascended is today&#39;s Colter Peak):</p><br>
<p>The Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House is a historic Friends meeting house located near the community of Colerain, Ohio, United States. Constructed in 1815 for a group formed in 1801, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Founded as "Concord", Colerain was the second community to be founded in present-day Belmont County. The founders were Friends who emigrated largely from North Carolina and Virginia to escape slavery. The first monthly meeting at Concord was held on December 19, 1801, but in the early years, its locations varied from the vicinity of Wheeling, the nearby Short Creek, and Plainfield in Coshocton County. Until Miami Monthly Meeting was established in 1803, many Friends settling in southwestern Ohio were members at Concord. Virtually none of the members remained in communion with Orthodox meetings, and from the Orthodox perspective, the meeting was quickly laid down, i.e. disorganized.</p><br>
<p>Constructed in 1815, the Concord meeting house is a simple brick building with no architectural style; the foundation is stone, and slates cover the roof. The structure is a basic rectangle, with doors on both long and short sides; one window pierces the end, and two shuttered windows (one on either side of the doorway) pierce the front. The end rises to a gable, and a small chimney sits atop the peak of the roof. Transom lights are placed above the entrances, which sit atop small flights of steps that rise from a footpath that runs around the building.</p><br>
<p>In 2009, the Concord meeting house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its place in local history and because of its historically significant architecture. It is Coleraine Township&#39;s only National Register-listed site, and one of twenty-six countywide.</p><br>
<p>The former Blume High School is a historic building in downtown Wapakoneta, Ohio, United States. Built in 1908 in a mix of architectural styles, it was designed by architects Frank Packard and W.M. Runkle. It was the first exclusive home of Wapakoneta High School. Prior to that time, WHS was housed with other grades.</p><br>
<p>The original part of the high school was built at a cost of $41,315. In the mid-1920s, it was expanded with the construction of a gymnasium, a library, and the "Red Brick Section" addition; while the last portion was built with money raised from bonds, the library and gym were financed with a bequest from L.N. Blume.</p><br>
<p>Growth in the Wapakoneta City School District resulted in overcrowding by the mid-1950s. After a series of failed attempts, the school board succeeded in winning voter approval for the construction of a new school in 1956, and the new Wapakoneta High School building, which today serves as the Wapakoneta Middle School, opened at the beginning of 1959. Blume was converted into a junior high school for several years, but a 1978 vote resulted in the school&#39;s closing by 1980.</p><br>
<p>In 1996, the former Blume High School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<p>Neil Armstrong (1947) - NASA astronaut, first man to walk on the moon</p><br>
<p>The Marshall House is a house in Schuylerville, New York listed on the National Register of Historic Places for both its place in American history and its architectural significance.</p><br>
<h2>Pre-Revolutionary history</h2><br>
<p>The Marshall House is listed on the National Register of Historical Places for both its place in American history and its architectural significance. Constructed in 1770–1773 as a gambrel-roofed, heavy timbered farmhouse and remodeled in 1867–1868 in the Italianate Style, the Marshall House retains substantial integrity of design and materials. Despite its modifications, the building remains understandable as a rare, extant example of pre-Revolutionary residential architecture. It is one of only two extant “witness” buildings associated with the pivotal Revolutionary Battles of Saratoga that took place in 1777.</p><br>
<p>Pressed into service as a British field hospital, the building became the refuge of the Baroness Frederika Riedesel, whose well known diary chronicles the tribulations, deaths and heroism of other noncombatants, wounded officers, and men who sheltered with her through a six-day artillery bombardment and siege.</p><br>
<p>The pre-Revolutionary history of the property referred to as the Marshall House is incomplete. The building was erected “on lot number one of the tenth allotment in the general division of the Kayderosseras patent, bounded on the south by the north line of the Saratoga patent, containing about 40 acre”. The property now comprises 7.6 acre.</p><br>
<p>The area, originally called Saratoga, was inhabited by Dutch and English settlers beginning in 1684 who came to advantage themselves of the plentiful water power afforded by the confluence of the Hudson River, the Fish Creek, and the Batten Kill at this point, in addition to being aided by rich soils. There are some indications that the subject house and its surrounding farm served as a collection point for timber and local produce for shipping down river to Albany, to be sold there by the three-man partnership that built it.</p><br>
<p>Known with certainty is that the property soon came into the hands of Peter Lansing, an Albany merchant, whose family were prominent land owners and fellow merchants in the upper Hudson Valley. However, local nineteenth-century accounts hold that the Lansings and others fled south upon the approach of the British army and its Indian allies in the summer of 1777.</p><br>
<h2>The Battles of Saratoga and the Baroness Frederika Riedesel</h2><br>
<p>The Marshall House attained its fame for the rôle it played in the events leading to the British surrender following the Battles of Saratoga fought during September–October, 1777. Traveling with the British army was the Baroness Frederika Riedesel, the young wife of Major General Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, commander of the German mercenary troops who formed part of the British army led by Lieutenant General John Burgoyne. During the afternoon of October 10 American batteries emplaced on the east side of the Hudson River opened fire on Riedesel’s defenses some fifty rods south of the Marshall House. The baron, seeing the house, urged his wife and their three young children to seek safety in its stone cellar. Baroness Riedesell was soon joined by other women in like circumstances as well as by wounded military personnel.</p><br>
<p>Observing the commotion surrounding the house the Americans mistakenly supposed it to be an enemy headquarters and began firing upon it. As aforesaid, the baroness recounted in her diary the ordeal of those besieged in the house:</p><br>
<p>“We were at last obliged to resort to the cellar for refuge, and in one corner of this I remained the whole day, my children sleeping on the earth with their heads in my lap; and in the same situation I passed a sleepless night. Eleven passed through the house, and we could distinctly hear them roll away. One poor soldier who was lying on a table for the purpose of having his leg amputated, was struck buy a shot, which carried away his other; his comrades had left him, and when we went to his assistance we found him in a corner of the room, into which he had crept, more dead than alive, scarcely breathing”.</p><br>
<p>The bombardment resumed the following morning. As their danger continued, the refugees and wounded suffered for want of water, the well having gone dry:</p><br>
<p>”At length we found a soldier’s wife who had courage enough to fetch us some from the river, an office nobody else would undertake, as the Americans shot at every person who approached it; but, out of respect for her sex, they never molested her”.</p><br>
<p>The Baroness Riedesel organized the female refugees (the wives of several British officers) to attend the wounded as best they were able. For her tireless efforts throughout the six day siege the baroness won the affection of all who shared her fate in the Marshall House. On October 16, with British surrender imminent, the noncombatants at last were free to emerge in safety. The following day, October 17, 1777, Burgoyne surrendered to the Americans. As a result of the American victory at Saratoga (present day Schuylerville) the French government threw its support to the American cause assuring success in the War of Independence.</p><br>
<h2>The Marshall House after the American Revolutionary War</h2><br>
<p>Following the Revolution the Marshall House property changed hands. Captain Samuel Bushee, a war veteran and settler from Connecticut, purchased it from Peter Lansing in 1802. Bushee subsequently conveyed the property to his father-in-law, Abraham Marshall, in 1817. Thereafter the property remained in the Marshall family until 1930 when it was purchased by Kenneth and Adelaide Bullard whose descendants remain its owners and inhabitants.</p><br>
<p>After the war, the house was recognized for its dramatic role in the Battles of Saratoga. Though always a private residence the Marshall House has ever been a favorite destination for persons touring the Saratoga battlefields. Cannonballs that struck the house are displayed as are the floor in the northeast room bloodstained from its use as a makeshift hospital, and the capacious stone cellar. Structural features damaged by cannon fire testify to the events that thrust fame upon this two century and more old house. Remaining and still in use from the time of the Battles of Saratoga are the hinges and great lock on the front door and the delicate thumb latch and the wooden door itself in the cellarway.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural significance</h2><br>
<p>The Marshall house is found a mile north of the center of Schuylerville, Town of Saratoga, Saratoga County, New York, It is approached by means of a long, curved and sloping driveway atop a steep rise nineteen rods west of New York highway 32. The site features mature white pine, towering black locust and spruce trees upon a broad lawn. The Hudson River below flows north to south.</p><br>
<p>In its present configuration the Marshall House is a 2-story, single-sloped-roof building, five bays long by three bays wide, oriented with its principal elevation facing east. The original form of the house was as constructed c. 1770 a -story, heavy timbered post-and-beam, gambrel-roofed main block with a recessed, gable-roofed kitchen wing attached to the southwest corner. The entire structure rests upon a fieldstone foundation enclosing a full basement.</p><br>
<p>Until the renovations of the mid-nineteenth century the main block incorporated interior end chimneys; a single chimney for a cooking hearth appears in old pictures showing the small kitchen wing. The original five-bay center-hall plan of the colonial farmhouse was retained when the full second story was added at the time of the Italianate remodeling of 1867–68. The lighter timbers used for the second story improvement were recycled from another building. Simultaneously the original kitchen wing was razed and a new, larger kitchen added at the rear.</p><br>
<p>The building was partially nogged with ballast brick, particularly beneath window openings, sheathed with 1 in by 10 in rough pine boards covered by narrow clapboard siding. An “L” shaped narrow wrap-around porch featuring a series of decorative arches was added to the first story, primarily oriented eastwards. The original small windows on the east elevation were lengthened floor-to-ceiling and triple-hung (now double-hung). The wide entrance architrave of the original house was retained. The present divided “Dutch” door of the 1930s restoration features the original forged iron hardware and massive lock and key hardware from the first construction.</p><br>
<p>The interior, too, retains many features of the original construction as well as elements reflecting improvements undertaken in the 1840s, 1867–68 and 1931. The center hall contains a staircase with a landing slightly below the second floor; the balustrade and oaken newel remain from the post-civil war remodeling. The library and parlor rooms flank the center hall and a dining room faces south. A “modern” nineteenth century kitchen and two small utility rooms are located in the west wing above a crawl space containing a disused cistern.</p><br>
<p>Above it are two simple bedrooms, probably occupied by servants or farmhands in earlier times. Fireplace hearths were rebuilt in 1931, but with exterior chimneys, upon the footprint of the originals. The mantel in the north (library) room is simple and reflective of Italianate styling. The mantel in the south (parlor) room exhibits dentelle and intricate carving and is believed to be original to the house. The floors downstairs and upstairs are wide native white pine boards secured to the heavy adz-hewn joists below with 4 in hand-cut iron nails.</p><br>
<h2>The Apple Cottage</h2><br>
<p>Behind and west of the building that is the chief subject of this article stands a small lodge erected in 1957 called the Apple Cottage (Ringo-an in Japanese). It is remarkable in that it is entirely built using local materials together with orientalia. The roof is Granville slate, its siding is Adirondack white pine board-and-batten, its entry steps are taken from a nearby old Champlain Canal commutation bridge abutment, and its wooden window sash were made locally. Within, the ground floor is paved with Granville flagstones, the second floor with box car siding. Throughout, the interior walls are unstained white pine darkened by the passage of time.</p><br>
<p>An upstairs passageway is walled with Japanese cedar bark. The ceiling in the main room is finished with woven bamboo(sawali) from the Philippine Islands, supported by cherry false rafters. There are fireplaces on each of the two floors built of local “ruckytuck” sandstone. The mantel shelf downstairs is fashioned from white oak; the mantel upstairs of red mahogany from Thailand. The balustrade is composed of cedar poles and mulberry boards. The bedroom ceiling is covered with Korean grass paper. The oriental features recall the present owner’s life in the Far East where he for some years represented an American manufacturer.</p><br>
<p>The ground floor houses a kitchen and dining area. From it is accessed a screened porch fronted by a wildflower garden. The second floor features a bright room furnished with a grand piano and music library, at present the studio of Hilary Tann, the well known Welsh-American composer of modern classical music. At the north end is a small bedroom. The east elevation commands a view of the Hudson River and the Green Mountains of Vermont; the west elevation stands above a pond populated by koi (Japanese carp). The north elevation overlooks a Japanese garden with an imaginary pond and tori (stone lantern). To the south there is a lawn where stand a large sycamore, spruce, oak, white cedar and several species of pine trees.</p><br>
<p>The Tektek Mountains  are a range of mountains located east of Şanlıurfa  in southeastern Turkey near the border with Syria.</p><br>
<p>The Tektek Mountains are known for the proliferation of large stone markers and cairns at summit of every height. There are also at least two ancient sites located there: Karahan Tepe and Sumatar Harabesi.</p><br>
<h2>Physical geography</h2><br>
<p>The Tektek Mountains are located on the northern border of the Urfa-Harran plain, between the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Reaching an altitude of 801 m, this spur extends southward from the Tur Abdin mountain range about 30 km away. The Şebeke Mountains to the west form a chain together with the Tektek and Susuz Mountains. The Viranşehir plain, which covers an area of 1,200 km&sup2, lies between the Tektek and Karacadağ Mountains.</p><br>
<p>The mountain range is composed of Eocene and Miocene limestone, its valleys formed in the humid climatic conditions characteristic of the interglacial and post-glacial periods. There is no basalt present. The Tektek Mountains are devoid of woodland, with the exception of an area at the northwest end of the range where pistachio (pistacia khinjuk) trees grow.</p><br>
<h2>Inhabitants</h2><br>
<p>Villages in the Tektek Mountains are inhabited by semi-nomadic pastoralists and agriculturalists of uncertain origin whose housing is constructed low to the ground, and sometimes within it, using the mud upon which they are situated. Crops can be grown in the spring, but the summer heat drives away most of inhabitants, many of whom graze their livestock elsewhere at that time of the year. Nomadic families from the Karacadağ Mountain come to the Tektek Mountains for the autumn and winter seasons to graze their animals and hunt wild game. Near a hill known as Keçili Tepe, there is a small village of the same name.</p><br>
<h2>Ancient sites</h2><br>
<p>The two ancient sites located in the Tektek Mountains are Karahan Tepe, some 63 km east of Urfa, and Sumatar Harabesi, some 60 km from the same.</p><br>
<p>Sumatar Harabesi is an oasis that served as an ancient watering hole for semi-nomadic peoples, as well as a sacred site with baetyls and altars dedicated to the worship of the deity, Sin.</p><br>
<p>Karahan Tepe is a site that was discovered in 1997 and was dated to c. 9500–9000 BC by Bahattin Çelik, a Turkish archaeologist. Covering an area of 325,000 m&sup2, it consists of a number of stone T-pillars and high reliefs depicting, among other images, a winding snake and the battered torso of a naked man. There are also polished rock statues of goats, gazelles and rabbits.</p><br>
<h2>Specialty products</h2><br>
<p>The butter used in Baklavacı Güllüoğlu, baklava made by a company founded by the Güllü brothers in 1871, is made from milk taken from sheep and goats in the Tektek Mountains. The butter is on average five times more expensive than the margarine used by other baklava producers, costing some 15 USD per kilo.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>Bresee Hall is a historic institutional building located on the campus of Hartwick College at Oneonta in Otsego County, New York. It was designed by noted architect John Russell Pope and built in 1928. It is a rectangular, three story brick building with a symmetrical thirteen bay facade. The east facade features a projecting, pedimented three bay pavilion. The formal entrance is located at the center of the pavilion and consists of a portico composed of flanking pilasters and columns with composite capitals, a broad entabulature and a segmental pediment. The building is topped by a hipped roof with a two-stage octagonal wooden cupola topped by a weather vane. The building has Colonial Revival style detailing.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Wilson Barn  is a barn located at the northeast corner of Middlebelt and W. Chicago Roads in Livonia, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Ira Wilson was born in 1867, and began his career in dairy farming at an early age, working on the farm owned by his family since 1847. He built a barn on this site in 1888; in 1919 the barn burned and he built the present structure on the foundations of the earlier barn. Wilson died in 1944, and the lower level of the barn was converted for use as a horse stable in the same year.</p><br>
<p>As of 2011, the Wilson Barn is managed by "The Friends of the Barn," a volunteer group.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The barn is a post-and-beam structure faced with wood siding, resting on a stone foundation and having a gambrel roof. A silo made of dark brown, glazed tile is attached to the barn.</p><br>
<p>The Kahaluu Taro Loi Historic District, also known as the Āhuimanu Taro Complex, in Kahaluu on the windward side of Oʻahu, is the most complex and largest intact system of terraces for growing wetland taro on Oʻahu. It contains at least 18 loi  terraces once watered by Āhuimanu Stream and associated auwai  over about 25 acre that start from headwaters just below the cliffs of the Koolau Range. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, after windward residents raised concerns about development plans in the area. The Kahaluu Fish Pond was also added to the National Register at that time.</p><br>
<p>The terraces are roughly rectangular in shape and average 5 by 10 meters in size, with front facings of stacked stone ranging up to 2 meters or more in height. The pondfields have all been silted in and are often obscured by heavy overgrowth of hau, mango, and guava trees, but they have withstood many generations of heavy rainfall on steeply sloping hillsides, in silent testimony to ancient Hawaiian expertise in irrigation and flood control. In 1973, a University of Hawaii archaeology program field school excavated soil profiles from the terraces, and the site was cleared during the 1980s, but the State of Hawaii Historic Preservation Division is now seeking community organizations willing to clear the site and make it operational again.</p><br>
<p>The site is owned by Temple Valley Corp., which has continued to develop new houses around it. At the time of the NRHP nomination, the Historic District was said to lie 900 meters west of the west end of Hui Kelu Street and to be accessible via an abandoned jeep road. Even as late as July 1996, a hiker described returning via the jeep road. But Hui Kelu Street has since been extended across Āhuimanu Stream, where the hiking trail begins, and the lower portion of the jeep road is now Heno Place.</p><br>
<p>The former Spencertown Academy is located along the NY 203 state highway in Spencertown, New York, United States. It is a mid-19th century building in the Greek Revival architectural style.</p><br>
<p>Founded as a private school for teacher training, it eventually became a public school. It continued to be used in that capacity until 1970. Three years later it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is currently used as an arts center.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The building is located just northeast of Spencertown, the small center of the Town of Austerlitz, along the north side of Route 203. It is on a slight rise above road level, surrounded by woods on two of its three sides.</p><br>
<p>It is two stories tall, three bays wide by five deep, on a stone foundation with a gabled roof pierced by a belfry at the south end and a brick chimney at the north. It is sided in clapboard on the sides and rear and flushboard on the front. There is a fire escape on the rear.</p><br>
<p>The south (front) elevation has a pedimented portico with four fluted columns topped with Ionic capitals. A single rectangular window is located in the entablature. The pilasters at the corners of the walls are done as imitation antae, and the front entrance has a classically styled architrave. Pilasters also frame the louvered vents on the hip roofed belfry.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the first floor has two rooms. Upstairs is a library and auditorium.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The academy was incorporated by an act of the state legislature in 1845, after extended lobbying by the Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, pastor of the nearby St. Peter&#39;s Presbyterian Church, for a school to train teachers for the region. The land was purchased for $224 ($ in contemporary dollars). Local builder Benjamin Ambler did the construction for $2,459 ($ in contemporary dollars). It was opened and dedicated in October 1847.</p><br>
<p>In 1863 some small repairs were done. Ten years later, it became a public school. Four decades later, in the 1910s and &#39;20s, the only major physical changes were made to the building. The front porch was resurfaced in concrete in 1915, and the first story divided a decade later when modern heating and plumbing were added.</p><br>
<p>The newly formed Chatham Central School District took over control of the academy in 1955. It discontinued use of the building 15 years later.</p><br>
<p>Tianderah is a historic home located at Gilbertsville in Otsego County, New York. It was built in 1887 by Boston-based architect William Ralph Emerson. It is an "L" shaped, stone Romanesque Revival and Shingle style residence dramatically overlooking the village and complemented by a stone and shingle style stable. The house is three stories and has a steep gambrel roof, a full two stories high. It is built of rock faced bluestone and features a 15 ft verandah that runs across the front of the main facade. Also on the property is a carriage shed, carriage house, and much of the original landscaping. The estate was placed on the market in July 2007 for $3 million, the highest price ever asked for a private residence in Otsego County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Majors Inn and Gilbert Block is a historic inn and tavern and commercial building located at Gilbertsville in Otsego County, New York. The Gilbert Block consists of three 2-story attached brick commercial structures varying slightly in height in the Neo-Tudor Style. It was built between 1893 and 1895, and hosts shops and artist’s studios. It was designed by Boston architect Henry Forbes Bigelow. Majors Inn was started in 1896 and finished in 1917 on the site of the original 1822 Gilbert homestead which burned in 1895. It is a -story structure with a gable roof covered in slate, interrupted by a number of chimneys, dormers, and conical roofs on towers. It has a rambling effect accented by the use of a variety of projecting balconies and bays, towers, and several porches. The medieval English Tudor and Gothic building was commissioned by Major James L. Gilbert using Augustus Nicholas Allen to construct it. Decorative elements on both buildings incorporate the quatrefoil. The Inn went through a series of owners during the 1950s to 1970s and, beginning in 1980, a group founded by Alan Cleinman which became the Majors Inn Foundation, Inc. began to raise funds for the purchase of the property. Today, under the ownership of the Foundation, the Majors Inn has been significantly restored and serves as a cultural center.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Puunēnē School, also known as Puunene School, is a historic school building in the community of Puunēnē in the central part of Maui, Hawaii, United States. Built in 1922 by the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company , which ran the community, it was erected on 10 acre of land donated by the company in 1913. Upon completion, it replaced an earlier four-room school on the site that was built to hold 350 students. The Classical Revival 1922 two-story concrete building became Maui&#39;s largest elementary school with about 1000 students. In the 1950s the area went into decline, and the building was used for special education classes. In 1979 it became an administrative annex for the Department of Education. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hawaii on August 22, 2000.</p><br>
<p>In 1937 Puunene School science teacher Soichi Sakamoto began training boys in a Three Year Swim Club to compete for the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were originally scheduled to be held in Tokyo, Japan. Jose Balmores, Keo Nakama, "Bunny" Nakama, "Halo" Hirose, and Bill Smith swam 50-yd sprints against the 15 mph current (much clearer in those days) and went on to compete nationally but were never able to participate in the canceled 1940 and 1944 Olympics. However, Smith was finally able to win gold on the 400- and 800-meter relay team in the 1948 Olympics.</p><br>
<p>The coach and team&#39;s was described in a 2015 book.</p><br>
<p>Stag Island is a Canadian island located in the St. Clair River between Corunna, Ontario and Marysville, Michigan. The island currently houses over 100 cottages owned by both American and Canadian citizens.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Stag Island used to be a resort destination in the Georgian period until Great Lakes cruises went out of favor due to the introduction of cars. As of 1903, there was a beach, 100-room hotel, 6- to 8-room cottages, a dining hall, and sports and amusements. Transport to the island was via Star Line Steamers with rail transit available to the mainland dock. By 1906, another hotel had been built and a pavilion was advertised with a dining room and ball room. (It&#39;s not clear if this was an upgrade to the dining hall mentioned initially, or if it was an additional food establishment.) One of these facilities was called "La Salle Hall". Products sold in the dining hall were also offered for purchase at Island Farm. All park buildings by then had electric lighting and drinking water. A total of 23 cottages were available. Amusements included croquet, tennis, bowling, bathing, boating, and fishing - with accessories and a guide provided.</p><br>
<p>The island seems to have fallen on harder times after World War I. Although season rates were up to $150, the hotel base rates were $1.00 - $1.50 per day and as low as only $8 per week in 1921. The following year, the park came under new management. Still, business must have declined because cottages and land began to be offered for sale in the area, many at bargain rates. A July 2, 1925, ad states "At Stag Island - 10 Cottages to Rent". Ads on July 12 and July 19 still offered cottages. Although this was for weekends, it shows that accommodations not available in previous years that late after the start of the season, were able to be rented.However, a roller coaster was built there around 1928.</p><br>
<p>Canadian astronaut, Chris Hadfield, in the introduction to his book,An Astronauts Guide to Life on earth, mentions staying at the family summer cottage on Stag Island when he was 9 years old, when very late in the evening of July 20, 1969 he watched Neil Armstrong step on the surface of the Moon. He knew, with absolute clarity" that he wanted to be an astronaut.</p><br>
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<p>Telescope Hill, at 334 ft, is the highest point of elevation in the Town of Brookhaven, on Long Island, New York, United States. The hill is located at the end of Tower Hill Ave., on the border of the ZIP codes of the hamlets of Selden and Farmingville, and west of Bald Hill.</p><br>
<p>Notably, Telescope Hill was the site of a fire observation station operated by the New York State Conservation Commission and later the Conservation Department from 1918 to 1959.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>As with the Bald Hill area, Telescope Hill is part of the Ronkonkoma Moraine, which runs east to west along the center of the Town of Brookhaven, and marks where the glacier which formed Long Island stopped its advance.</p><br>
<h2>Fire Lookout Tower</h2><br>
<p>Visitors were invited to climb the tower and enjoy the view.</p><br>
<p>The first fire observer was Al Lucas, who served for two years, followed by Frank Forsyth, who served until 1948. Starting in 1922, the Suffolk County fire observers were supervised by State District Fire Ranger Clarence Dare of Selden.</p><br>
<p>During World War II, a new cab was built below the original cab to be used for fire watching, and the original was used by Civil Defense observers.</p><br>
<p>As suburban growth spread through the area and fire tower use began to decline across the country, the State ended its support of fire towers on Long Island after the 1959 season. The Telescope Hill tower was removed in 1960.</p><br>
<h2>Radio Tower</h2><br>
<p>Telescope Hill currently host radio tower facilities at its summit, including the facilities that broadcast WALK-FM.</p><br>
<p>Mount Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church at 913 East Calhoun Street in Palestine, Texas. It is the third oldest AME church in Texas. The church was organized by freedmen in the early 1870s. The congregation originally worshiped at a church that it shared with Missionary Baptist Church. In 1878 the church bought 2.2 acres at its present location and constructed a wood frame structure in 1885. In 1921 the structure was razed and a new church designed in a Gothic vernacular style was built. The churchs two front bell towers are typical of the AME faith-based churches of the 1920s. Mount Vernon was the first church to introduce Palestine to integrated low-income apartment housing. In 1968 a 100-unit apartment housing project was erected at 2020 Sterne Avenue. In 1985 the church received a Texas Historical Marker. In 1988 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The church closed its doors in 2014. In 2015 Mount Vernon placed on Preservation Texas Most Endangered places list.</p><br>
<p>Sacred Heart Catholic Church and School is a historic church and school at 503 North Queen Street in Palestine, Texas. It was designed by the prominent Texas architect Nicholas J. Clayton. It was built between 1890 and 1893 and replaced an earlier Catholic church that was destroyed by fire. It served the spiritual needs of the railroad workers stationed there in what was a large depot of the International–Great Northern Railroad. The railway deeded the site to Bishop Dubuis The bricks were locally made from mud from the Trinity River. It is the best example of Victorian Gothic architecture in North East Texas.</p><br>
<p>Additional plots were acquired in the years after the church was built and a school and cemetery were added.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1890 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Archer County Courthouse and Jail is a historic courthouse building on Public Square and Sycamore and Pecan Streets in Archer City, Texas.</p><br>
<p>Archer County was organized in 1880. The Romanesque style courthouse was built in 1891 and replaced a wooden courthouse from 1880. The building was designed by Alonzo N. Dawson of Fort Worth in Romanesque Revival style. The contract amount for construction was $32,500. The exterior walls of the courthouse are of brown sandstone obtained from a nearby quarry. Originally, the building was two-story and rising from the center of the courthouse was a massive octagonal tower, with four clock faces, terminated with a cupola. The tower was removed in 1928 and a third floor was added. The courthouse and jail were added to the National Register of Historic Places December 23, 1977.</p><br>
<p>Immaculate Conception Cathedral is a historic church at 1218 East Jefferson Street in Brownsville, Texas, United States. It is the cathedral church for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville. It was built in 1856 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as Immaculate Conception Church.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate were the first priests to celebrate Mass in the area of Brownsville in 1849. The present Gothic Revival style building was designed by Peter Yves Keralum. The Oblates operated a seminary in the rectory, which also was a haven for priests who fled the revolutions in Mexico. On July 10, 1965 Pope Paul VI established the Diocese of Brownsville from Corpus Christ and Immaculate Conception became the cathedral for the new diocese.</p><br>
<p>The DeWitt-Seitz Building is a building located in the Canal Park neighborhood of Duluth, Minnesota, United States. The building was designed in 1909 in the commercial style popularized by Louis Sullivan. Its original tenant, the DeWitt-Seitz Company, was a furniture jobber and mattress manufacturer. After World War II, the company&#39;s wholesale role declined, and they focused their business on mattress manufacture and distribution.</p><br>
<p>The company was purchased in 1961 and renamed The Happy Sleeper. In 1983, the mattress company relocated to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and the owner&#39;s son Sam E. Atkins began renovating the building into the DeWitt-Seitz Marketplace. The building now houses retail shops in the basement and on the first and second floors, along with office space on the floors above. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Hirschberg is a 1,670 m mountain in the Bavarian Fore-alps south of Lake Tegernsee.</p><br>
<p>The summit may be reached via a gentle mountain path either from Scharling, Kreuth or Bad Wiessee, all three routes being classified as not difficult. Below the summit at a height of 1,520 m is the Hirschberghaus restaurant, which is open all-year. The Hirschberg is the Tegernsee&#39;s observation point with an extensive panorama in all directions of the compass. In winter it is climbed by skiers from Kreuth via the Rauheck Alm or on foot from Scharling. The path is a gentle walk via the toboggan run (Rodelbahn) as far as Hirschlacke, then becomes steep and, in places, icy as it runs along the so-called Kratzer to the Hirschberghaus and finally along the open ridge to the summit. The summer route is susceptible to avalanches in winter and should not be used at that time of year.</p><br>
<p>The aforementioned Kratzer is a 1,544 m high sub-peak of the Hirschberg with a summit cross and the Hirschberghaus.</p><br>
<p>Ringsjön is a lake situated in the middle of Skåne County, Sweden. At 41 km&sup2;, it is the second largest lake in the county.</p><br>
<p>Ringsjön provides drinking water for the inhabitants of Skåne if the water tunnel connected to the lake Bolmen would cease to work. This happened in 2009, when the tunnel was almost completely blocked after a collapse.</p><br>
<p>Fish species found in Ringsjön are European perch, carp bream, moderlieschen, northern pike, zander, common carp, burbot, common roach, rainbow trout, crucian carp, common rudd, common whitefish, tench, eel, and brown trout. Ringsjön has had an overpopulation of carp bream and common roach for a long time, leading to an increased algal bloom, and in 2005 work began on removing 80% of these species from the lake.</p><br>
<p>Many cranes make stopovers in Ringsjön on their migration to the northern parts of Sweden. They usually arrive to the lake at the end of March, but have been seen as early as 2 March.</p><br>
<p>In the winter, Ringsjön is a popular place for ice yachting because of its smooth ice, and the lake gets visitors from all over Europe. The European Championships in ice yachting were held on Ringsjön in 2006. A biking competition, titled Ringsjön Runt (English: Around Ringsjön), is held annually by the lake. It attracts an average of 4000–5000 cyclists, and has been held for over forty years. The course consists of four laps around Ringsjön; one lap is 3.5 Scandinavian miles (35 km) long.</p><br>
<p>Bosjökloster Castle is located on the shore of Ringsjön in Höör Municipality.</p><br>
<p>The Muskingum County Courthouse is a historic building in Zanesville, Ohio. It was designed by T.B. Townsend and H. E. Myer, and built in 1877 with stone, brick, and slate in the Second Empire architecture style. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is located at 4th and Main Streets.</p><br>
<p>The site served as the capitol of Ohio from October 1, 1810, until May 1, 1812, and the 9th and 10th sessions of the Ohio General Assembly met here at the building that was formerly at the site before those sessions were returned to Chillicothe in May 1812. The former building on the site was then used as the Muskingum County Courthouse until current one was constructed in 1874. The 1809 date stone from the old building was incorporated into the new building and may be seen over the front steps.</p><br>
<p>Townsend was also involved in the building of the third Tuscarawas County Courthouse designed by architect Thomas Boyd and Wood County Courthouse and Jail.</p><br>
<p>The Department Store Historic District is a historic district in the Downtown Hartford neighborhood of the city of Hartford, Connecticut, United States.</p><br>
<p>It is a 5 acre area that, in 1995, included three contributing buildings, one other contributing structure, and one contributing object. It includes a building that is separately listed on the NRHP: the Cheney Building which is also known as the Brown Thomson Building.</p><br>
<p>The district is significant because of the important economic role of the three department stores in the district.</p><br>
<h2>G. Fox Building</h2><br>
<p>The G. Fox & Co. building at 960 Main Street is a neoclassical structure, designed by Cass Gilbert and built in 1918. Besides the department store itself, a warehouse and a bridge attaching the store to the warehouse are listed as contributing properties to the district.</p><br>
<p>In 1935, a streamlined Art Deco canopy was added over the storefronts, but this addition in itself is historic as one of Hartford&#39;s best expressions of the style. Each Christmastime, an elaborate display would be constructed atop the canopy, featuring scale replicas of famous Connecticut buildings and Christmas decoration. It drew shoppers from throughout the state.</p><br>
<h2>Brown Thomson Building</h2><br>
<p>The Brown Thomson (originally the Cheney Building) building was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, in the Richardsonian Romanesque style which he created and built in 1877. At one time, the G. Fox & Co. department store extended into this building.</p><br>
<h2>Sage-Allen Building</h2><br>
<p>The Sage-Allen flagship store building was built in 1898 and designed by architect Isaac A. Allen. It is located at 884-902 Main Street, near Talcott Street.</p><br>
<p>The building has been restored and now contains both retail space and luxury apartments. As part of the restoration project, an adjacent 1960s building was given a new historically sensitive façade to make it more compatible with its neighbor.</p><br>
<p>The store was known for the free-standing Sage-Allen sidewalk clock, a local landmark built in 1899, that was located on the Main Street sidewalk in front of the store until the clock was damaged in a windstorm in 1992. The clock was later repaired and erected on another sidewalk in the city. Its importance as a Main Street landmark was known to the re-developers of the Sage-Allen building, and a deal was struck to return the clock to its traditional place. A clock specialist was called upon to restart the clock after its return to Main Street in the summer of 2007.</p><br>
<p>Snowshoe Lake is a lake in the Madawaska River drainage basin in South Algonquin, Nipissing District, about 11.5 km southeast of the community of Madawaska, and Madawaska Valley, Renfrew County, about 16 km southwest of the community of Barry&#39;s Bay, in the province Ontario, Canada. It is about 650 m long and 330 m wide, and lies at an elevation of 334 m. The primary outflow is an unnamed creek to Sand Bay on the west side of Bark Lake on the Madawaska River, which flows into the Ottawa River. Only a small sliver of the lake at the northwest tip lies in South Algonquin, Nipissing District.</p><br>
<p>Another Snowshoe Lake in the Madawaska River system, Snowshoe Lake (Frontenac County), lies 80 km southeast in Frontenac County.</p><br>
<p>Factory Hill el. 9,527 ft is a mountain peak in the Red Mountains of Yellowstone National Park. It is directly north of Mount Sheridan and west of the Heart Lake Geyser Basin. Early in the history of Yellowstone, this peak was call Red Mountain by the Hayden surveys, a name later transferred to the range in which it resides. In 1885, the Hague Geological Survey gave the peak its present name based on the following passage by Nathaniel P. Langford in his 1871 Scribners account of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition. Langfords party was camped near the south arm of Yellowstone Lake at the time.</p><br>
<p>Factory Hill was so named because the noise and steam proceeding from them resembled in this respect an active factory town.</p><br>
<p>The Annapolis Park Historic District is a historic district located along Julius, Matthew, Hanover, Farnum, Alan, and Paul Streets in Westland, Michigan, covering 71 acre and 354 buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During World War II, the African-American population in Detroit ballooned to 300,000 residents. However, blacks were restricted in where they could live due to housing covenants, overpriced rent, and other forms of discrimination. A fourth Annapolis Park platting, in 1961, is not included in the Historic District. When local banks proved reluctant to provide mortgages to prospective home owners, the Schwartzes also established the Franklin Mortgage Company to make loans to residents.</p><br>
<p>Annapolis Park was quickly successful, with the first two houses constructed in 1953, 134 more built in 1954, 168 more during 1955, and 51 houses built in 1956/57, completely filling the subdivision. It is likely that a substantial percentage of the original homeowners were World War II veterans who used the mortgage guarantee provisions of the GI Bill to purchase their house. Sales were apparently mostly by word of mouth, but the availability of adequate financing and the efforts of part-time salesmen Jimmy Nelms (the first African American male school teacher in the Wayne school system) Levi Jackson (a former Yale football captain) boosted sales.</p><br>
<p>Annapolis Park residents formed the Southeast Homeowners Association (now the Southeast Westland Homeowners Association) in 1955 to promote community unity. In 1966, the city of Westland was incorporated from the remainder of the former Nankin Township, and Annapolis Park was included. Today&#39;s Annapolis Park is an attractive, well-cared-for neighborhood, which includes many descendants of the first homeowners.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Annapolis Park contains 354 houses situated along a series of curved streets. The houses are ranch houses, primarily with brick exteriors, and all constructed in 1953-57. Lots are roughly 50–60 feet wide and 110–140 feet deep, and typically slightly irregular due to the curved streets. Although the houses are of uniform size and placement, the curving streets and variations in rooflines gives a pleasing visual character to the neighborhood. The streets are paved, with parallel sidewalks and a grass berm between. During the original construction, maples were planted on the berm at each lot; substantial numbers survive. The entire neighborhood is located on a roughly L-shaped, nearly level site, and is surrounded by similar residential subdivisions, some constructed around the same time and some of more modern vintage.</p><br>
<p>The district contains a single brick bungalow, at the southwest comer of Middlebelt and Hanover, that was constructed before the neighborhood was platted. The remainder of the district consists of one-story two or three-bedroom ranch houses, either hopped roof or side gabled. A small percentage of the neighborhood, primarily the first houses built, are clad with siding, but the vast majority are brick. Brick veneers are typically of red brick, but orange-red, buff, and grayish brick were also used. Stone veneer or brick of a different hue is incorporated in many houses on the front above window-sill level and in decorative panels. Most houses have detached garages located at the back end of the lot.</p><br>
<p>The Ann Street Historic District is a historic district encompassing part of Downtown Hartford in Hartford, Connecticut. A commercial and light industrial area, the district includes properties along Ann Uccello Street  from Chapel Street south to Hicks Street. It also includes properties east of Ann Street fronting Pearl Street and Hicks Street to roughly Haynes Street, as well as properties west of Ann Uccello Street fronting Allyn and Asylum Streets to roughly a third of the block. The districts architecture typifies the citys development between about 1880 and 1930; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Within the district are the former Sport and Medical Science Academy building (a non-contributing property), and the Central Fire Station of the Hartford Fire Department. The district includes location of the Hartford Steam Company generating plant. Other contributing properties in the district include St. Patrick - St. Anthony Roman Catholic Church (built in 1849), the Masonic Temple (built in 1894) and the Hotel Lenox (also known as Hartford Hotel), a Beaux-Arts eclectic style building at 280-294 Ann Street, built in 1899. One unusual inclusion is Metropolitan Garage on Hicks Street; built in 1930, it is an early example of a multi-level parking garage. Another property that shows evidence of the rise of the automobile in importance is 316-320 Ann Uccello Street, which was built for a maker of electrical equipment for automobiles.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, Ann Street was renamed "Ann Uccello Street" in honor of Ann Uccello, Hartford&#39;s first female mayor.</p><br>
<p>Dicks-Elliott House is a historic home located in Lynchburg, Virginia. It was built in 1813 by Agatha Terrell Dicks, widow of Windsor chair-maker William Dicks. Agatha was the daughter of noted Lynchburg-area Quakers Micajah Terrell and Sarah Lynch. On August 6, 1812, Agatha Dicks uncle John Lynch  sold half-acre Lot Number 175 to Agatha for $1.00.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The dwelling that was built on the property is a -story three-bay Federal-style house. It is constructed of brick laid in three course American Bond, and is covered with a side-gable slate roof. First floor windows are six-over-nine double-hung sash, and upper-story windows are six-over-six double-hung sash. A pair of four-pane casement sash flank the chimney at the third, or garret, level. The front entrance is located in the middle bay, which is somewhat unusual for Lynchburg houses of the period. The six-panel door is accessed by a small frame porch that was constructed in the early 21st century. A -story, gable-roofed frame addition (built c. 2000) projects from the rear of the house, and a 2-story porch occupies the remainder of the rear facade. A small 1-story shed-rood addition projects from the northwestern elevation. According to insurance maps and physical evidence, the house originally had a -story, gable-roofed brick wing on this elevation. This wing was demolished in the early 20th century. A -story frame outbuilding dating to the early 21st century is located in the northwestern corner of the lot, which now measures approximately 1/12 of an acre.</p><br>
<p>While uncommon for three-bay houses of the period in Lynchburg, the interior floor plan is remarkably similar to plans of houses found in the Quaker communities surrounding Guilford County, North Carolina (William Dicks&#39; home). Visitors entering through the front door immediately enter the primary chamber of the first floor, rather than a hallway or antechamber. A smaller room is accessed via a small hallway in the northeastern corner of the house. This hallway also contains a switchback winding staircase that serves all three floor levels. Combined with the wing that was demolished in the early 20th century, the house exhibited a modified three-cell plan that was typical for Quaker-built dwellings of the period. Trim details in the house are relatively spartan, and typically display Roman, rather than Greek, ovolo profiles.</p><br>
<p>In 1814, Agatha Dicks sold the house to Peter Elliott, a builder from Richmond. Dicks then traveled with her children to Ohio to flee the slaveholding state of Virginia. In 1815, she married noted Quaker missionary Isaac Harvey. She died in 1828 and is buried at the Old Springfield Friends Meeting House in Wilmington, Ohio.</p><br>
<p>Peter Elliott (1774–1863) was born in Gloucester County, Virginia. In the early 1790s, he moved to Richmond and began working for William McKim, a carpenter. In 1794, he served as a private in Captain John Stewarts Company, Major George Benns Battalion, Colonel William Campbells Regiment of Virginia Militia during the Whiskey Rebellion. In 1814, he moved to Lynchburg where he continued his profession of carpentry and building. In 1824, he moved to Lexington, Kentucky and added the blacksmiths trade to his repertoire. Around 1849, he moved to Evansville, Indiana to live with one of his sons, Joseph Peter Elliott. Peter Elliott died in Evansville, Indiana in 1863.</p><br>
<p>A partial list of subsequent owners of the house includes Irish tobacconist James V. Knight (from 1836–1858), merchant John T. Murrill and family (from 1858–1891), and WWII (in the 1950s). The house was rental property from 1891–1952, and the family of Arthur Walkup occupied the house from about 1918–1943.</p><br>
<p>The Dicks-Elliott House was determined to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It was included as a contributing property in the 2002 Boundary Increase of the Court House Hill-Downtown Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house is a recipient of a Merit Award from the Lynchburg Historical Foundation, and has been featured on HGTV&#39;s "Dream Builders," "Old Homes Restored," and "If Walls Could Talk" ( "Emily and Scott Smith buy their 1812 (sic) home in Lynchburg, Va., for only a dollar and get way more than they bargained for. Throughout the five-year renovation, the couple has discovered marbles, buttons, carpenter tools, wedding rings, an 1800s bullet mold and apotropaios (good luck symbols) engraved into the fireplace."</p><br>
<p>Mount Langford el. 10,623 ft is a mountain peak in the Absaroka Range in Yellowstone National Park. The peak is named for Nathaniel P. Langford, the first superintendent of Yellowstone and a leader of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition to Yellowstone in 1870. The expedition and Langfords subsequent promotion in Scribners helped in the creation of the park in 1872.</p><br>
<p>On September 7, 1870 the Washburn expedition was camped along the southwestern shore of Yellowstone Lake. That day Langford and Lt. Gustavus Cheyney Doane chose to ascend a nearby peak. From that peak, Langford sketched the first reasonably accurate map of Yellowstone Lake. Upon their return to camp, Henry D. Washburn named the peak they ascended and a nearby secondary peak: Mount Langford and Mount Doane. They are annotated on the map Langford sketched. Langford described the summit with these words:</p><br>
<p>During the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871, Hayden, for unknown reasons, moved the names of Mount Langford and Doane to peaks farther north. The original Mount Langford remained unnamed until 1885 when Arnold Hague named it Colter Peak.</p><br>
<p>The Naveta d&#39;Es Tudons, or Naveta of Es Tudons , is the most remarkable megalithic chamber tomb in the Balearic island of Menorca, Spain.</p><br>
<p>It is located in the Western part of the island, on the Ciutadella de Menorca-Mahón road, approximately 3 miles out from Ciutadella, and 200 m south of the road. It stands on slightly rising ground in a sloping valley. Currently the Naveta d&#39;Es Tudons is open to the public for visits (except for its interior as a measure of protection). It is one of the main tourist attractions of Menorca.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In Menorca and Majorca there are several dozen habitational and funerary naveta complexes, some of which similarly comprise two storeys. Navetas were described in the early 19th century but not excavated until the 20th, notably during the 1960s and 1970s. Navetas were first given their name by the rather imaginative Dr Juan Ramis (1818) from their resemblance to upturned boats.</p><br>
<p>The Naveta dEs Tudons is the largest and best preserved funerary naveta in Menorca. The Naveta dEs Tudons served as collective ossuary between 1200 and 750 BC. The lower chamber was for stashing the disarticulated bones of the dead after the flesh had been removed while the upper chamber was probably used for the drying of recently placed corpses. Radiocarbon dating of the bones found in the different funerary navetas in Menorca indicate a usage period between about 1130-820 BC, but the navetas like the Naveta d&#39;Es Tudons are probably older. Pre-Talaiotic constructions are dated using an uncalibrated radiocarbon chronology from 1640 to 1400 BC.</p><br>
<p>Although listed in the Spanish heritage register on 3 June 1931 (), the naveta d&#39;Es Tudons was excavated and restored by archaeologist Lluís Pericot García in 1959-1960. It was found to contain the remains of at least 100 skeletons (one with trepanned skull). Various recovered objects like bronze bracelets or bone and ceramic buttons are today on display in the Museu de Menorca in Mahón. Restoration works were carried out and the two or three missing courses at the top were put back in place. For protection, it was surrounded at a distance by a recently restored modern dry stone field wall.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The shape of the Naveta d&#39;Es Tudons is that of a boat upside down, with the stern as its trapezoidal façade and the bow as its rounded apse. Its groundplan is an elongated semicircle. Externally, the edifice is 14.5 m long by 6.5 m wide and 4.55 m high but it would originally have been 6 m high. It is orientated SWS/ENE, the entrance being at the SWS, in the centre of the slightly slanted (or battered) façade.</p><br>
<p>The front, side walls and apse of the edifice consist of successive horizontal corbelled courses of huge rectangular or square limestone blocks dressed with a hammer and fitted together without mortar, with an all-round foundation course of blocks of even greater size laid on edge.</p><br>
<p>The narrow, low entrance doorway (0.57 m x 0.75 m) is rebated to receive a closing slab. The once sealed-off entrance leads by a short, flag-roofed passage to an antechamber 1.3 m long and then another short passage to the main or lower chamber (7.45 m x 2.45 m), the ceiling of which is made of giant horizontal slabs inserted into the side walls, with an average span of 1.5 m c. 2.25 m above the floor. Above this is an upper chamber which is accessible from the upper part of the antechamber. It is slightly shorter (7.10 m) and narrower (1.90 m) than the lower chamber, with a similar although much lower (0.85 m) ceiling of horizontal slabs. These have holes in them, presumably for ventilation.</p><br>
<h2>Folklore</h2><br>
<p>According to Phil Lee, the author of The Rough Guide to Menorca, folkloric memories of the navetas&#39; original purpose may have survived into modern times, for the Menorcans were loath to go near these odd-looking and solitary monuments until well into the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>A modern tragic lore tells that two giants were competing for the love of a girl. They agreed that one would build a naveta and the other would dig a water well and the first to finish would marry the girl. As the giant who was building the naveta was about to lay the last stone, the other struck water. Mad with jealousy, the first giant threw the last stone (the one that is missing from the top of the façade) into the well, killing the other giant. Then, feeling remorse, he killed himself. It is said that the girl died a spinster and was buried in the naveta.</p><br>
<p>The American Security and Trust Company Building is a Neoclassical bank office in Washington, D.C., designed by the architectural firm of York and Sawyer. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The neoclassical exterior closely matches that of the Riggs National Bank building next door, also designed by York and Sawyer and completed in 1902, so that they are sometimes taken to be a single building. The west facade of the building presents a multiple bay arrangement with two plain bays flanking a hexastyle portico of six Ionic columns and entablature, while the narrower and plainer south face has a single bay with two plain Doric pilasters flanking the entrance in a shallow recess. The parapet conceals three skylights. Although the exterior has two rows of windows, the interior is in fact a single floor, also decorated in the neoclassical style; it was remodeled in 1931&ndash;1932 but retained essentially the same form excepting the removal of a pair of balconies and new openings into the adjoining annex which was constructed at the same time to the north. A basement floor formerly contained vaults, but with the construction of the annex these were moved to the adjoining building. The building exterior is constructed of granite ashlars with deep horizontal joints at the corners creating a striped effect; the interior is largely faced in a variety of marbles.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>American Security Bank was founded in 1889 in Alexandria, Virginia, as a banking and trust concern, operating a branch in the District of Columbia at 1419 G Street, NW; the following year it reincorporated in the District and moved to 1405 G Street. It was the second trust company established in the District and the first to offer a woman&#39;s department. By 1903 business had grown to the extent that a new location was once again sought. The present location (a block from Lafayette Square and part of the Lafayette Square Historic District) was selected, and construction began in 1904. The design was praised in the banking press, and it was featured in The American Architect and Building News in 1905.</p><br>
<p>The building now houses a branch of Bank of America as a result of the latter&#39;s merger with NationsBank, which purchased MNC Financial in 1993. MNC had purchased American Security Bank in 1987 but continued to operate it under the original name.</p><br>
<p>Due to its location immediately north of the Treasury Building the building appeared on the back of the ten dollar bill for many years, a fact exploited in advertising with the slogan "right on the money."</p><br>
<p>The Old Thames Shipyard is a historic shipyard on the Thames River at the end of Farnsworth Street in New London, Connecticut. Established in 1900, the shipyard included, at the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, a complete working steam-powered marine railway system, one of the few such in the nation. It was built by Thomas Chappell, who operated a fleet of tugs and barges for hauling coal, to service his ships at the Thames Tow Boat Company. During World War I and World War II the yard was used for shipbuilding, producing military and commercial ships.</p><br>
<p>John Wronowski took over the business (but not the property) from the Chappells in 1967. The shipyard property was taken by the United States Coast Guard in 1972, with plans to tear down the shipyard and expand its adjacent facilities. These plans were stalled by the National Register designation, and abandoned in 1976, amid disagreements with the city over the plans. Wronowski had fought the acquisition of the property, and was later given a waterfront area on Ferry Street in compensation, from which the Thames Shipyard operates. Wronowski, who had continued to lease this property from the Coast Guard, successfully acquired it in 1981. It now serves as the Thames Shipyard&#39;s North Yard, including its two main drydocks.</p><br>
<p>Norwich City Hall is a historic city hall at Union Street and Broadway in Norwich, Connecticut. It is a large red brick building, occupying a prominent location overlooking Norwich&#39;s central business district.</p><br>
<p>It is Second Empire in style, with a mansard roof and complex wood-carved ornamentation on its exterior. A tower at one corner has a mansard-roofed stage topped by a clock, belfry, and bulbous turned finial. It was designed by Burdick & Arnold, a local architectural firm, and built in 1870-73, with an addition to the rear c.1909, by Cudworth & Woodworth.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1983. The building is part of the Downtown Norwich Historic District. It continues to house offices of the city and township of Norwich.</p><br>
<p>The Lebanon Green Historic District encompasses the historic town center of Lebanon, Connecticut. It extends along the nearly mile-long town green, including historic buildings that face it, as well as a few on nearby streets. The green is bounded on its north by Connecticut Route 87 and on the south by West Town Street, and extends from a junction with Connecticut Route 289 to a triangular point south of Connecticut Route 207. The district includes a number of prominent civic and religious buildings, including the town hall, library, and Congregational church, although these are all 20th century buildings . Prominent buildings including the National Historic Landmark John Trumbull Birthplace and the 1730 War Office .</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
