<p>Monte Antola  is a mountain in Liguria, northern Italy, part of the Ligurian Appennines.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is located between the provinces of Genoa and Alessandria. It lies at an altitude of 1597 metres.</p><br>
<p>Close to the summit is located the Rifugio Parco Antola, a mountain hut built by the Ente Parco and managed by the Club Alpino Italiano. It can accommodate up to 32 hikers or alpinists.</p><br>
<h2>Access to the summit</h2><br>
<p>Several foothpaths meet on mount Antola starting from the surrounding valleys. Among them can be cited:</p><br>
<p>the route from Bavastrelli (Propata), which reaches the summit in a couple of hours passing near the new mountain hut built by the natural park</p><br>
<p>the route from Caprile, another village of Propata municipality, which after the saddle near Monte delle Tre Croci reaches the summit following the Po Valley/Ligurian Sea water divide. It takes around 2.30 hours&#39; walking</p><br>
<p>the route from Crocefieschi, through the Incisa pass, demanding more than 4 hours of walk</p><br>
<p>the route from Torriglia through monte Carmo (around 3 hours).</p><br>
<h2>Conservation</h2><br>
<p>The southern side of the mountain since 1989 is included in the Parco naturale regionale dell&#39;Antola.</p><br>
<p>Monte Bignone is a mountain in Liguria, northern Italy, part of the Ligurian Alps. It is located in the province of Imperia near Sanremo. It lies at an altitude of 1299 metres and lies within the San Romolo Natural Park.</p><br>
<h2>SOIUSA classification</h2><br>
<p>According to the SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Western Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=South Western Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Ligurian Alps</p><br>
<p>subsection=Alpi del Marguareis</p><br>
<p>supergroup=Catena del Saccarello</p><br>
<p>group=Gruppo del Monte Saccarello</p><br>
<p>subgroup=Costiera Ceppo-Bignone</p><br>
<p>code=I/A-1.II-A.1.e</p><br>
<h2>Nature conservation</h2><br>
<p>The mountain and its surrounding area are included in a SIC (Site of Community Importance) called Monte Nero - Monte Bignone (code: IT1315806 ).</p><br>
<p>Monte Carmo di Loano is a mountain in Liguria, northern Italy, part of the Alps. It is located in the province of Savona. It lies at an altitude of 1389 metres.</p><br>
<h2>SOIUSA classification</h2><br>
<p>According to the SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Western Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=South Western Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Ligurian Alps</p><br>
<p>subsection=Prealpi Liguri</p><br>
<p>supergroup=Catena Settepani-Carmo-Armetta</p><br>
<p>group=Gruppo del Monte Carmo</p><br>
<p>subgroup=Costiera del Monte Carmo</p><br>
<p>code=I/A-1.I-A.2.a</p><br>
<h2>Nature conservation</h2><br>
<p>The mountain and its surrounding area are part of a SIC (Site of Community Importance) called M.Carmo - M.Settepani (code: IT1323112).</p><br>
<p>Monte Colombin is a mountain in Liguria, northern Italy, part of the Alps. It is located in the provinces of province of Imperia in Italy and Alpes-Maritimes in France. It lies at an elevation of 1,088 meters.</p><br>
<h2>SOIUSA classification</h2><br>
<p>According to the SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Western Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=South Western Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Ligurian Alps</p><br>
<p>subsection=Alpi del Marguareis</p><br>
<p>supergroup=Catena del Saccarello</p><br>
<p>group=Gruppo del Monte Saccarello</p><br>
<p>subgroup=Costiera del Monte Pietra Vecchia</p><br>
<p>code=I/A-1.II-A.1.f</p><br>
<h2>Access to the summit</h2><br>
<p>The mountain can be easily accessed from Airole, Olivetta San Michele, Breil-sur-Roya and Rocchetta Nervina.</p><br>
<p>Monte delle Figne is a mountain in Liguria, northern Italy, part of the Ligurian Appennines. It lies at an altitude of 1172 metres.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is located in the provinces of Genoa and Alessandria. Is divided by Passo Mezzano (1063 m) from Monte Taccone and by Passo della Dagliola (858 m) and a saddle near Cascina Carrosina (825 m) from Monte Tobbio.</p><br>
<h2>Access to the summit</h2><br>
<p>Monte delle Figne is accessible by signposed traks departing from Bocchetta Pass or Isoverde (municipality of Campomorone).</p><br>
<p>The Alta Via dei Monti Liguri, a long-distance trail from Ventimiglia (province of Imperia) to Bolano (province of La Spezia), passes very close to the mountain&#39;s summit.</p><br>
<h2>Nature conservation</h2><br>
<p>North-western slopes of the mountain are included in the Capanne di Marcarolo Piedmontese natural park.</p><br>
<p>Monte Frontè is a mountain in Liguria, northern Italy, part of the Alps. It is located in the province of province of Imperia. It lies at an altitude of 2152 metres. After Monte Saccarello it is the second highest peak in the Ligurian region.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Monte Frontè is located on the main chain of the Alps between Tanaro, Arroscia and Argentina valleys, and is divided from the neighbouring Cima Garlenda by Passo Frontè (2088 m).</p><br>
<h3>SOIUSA classification</h3><br>
<p>According to the SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Western Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=South Western Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Ligurian Alps</p><br>
<p>subsection=Alpi del Marguareis</p><br>
<p>supergroup=Catena del Saccarello</p><br>
<p>group=Gruppo del Monte Saccarello</p><br>
<p>subgroup=Nodo del Monte Saccarello</p><br>
<p>code=I/A-1.II-A.1.a</p><br>
<h2>Hiking</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is accessible by mountain tracks starting from the Alta Via dei Monti Liguri, a long-distance trail from Ventimiglia (province of Imperia) to Bolano (province of La Spezia).</p><br>
<h2>Conservation</h2><br>
<p>The southern side of the mountain since 2007 is included in the Parco naturale regionale delle Alpi Liguri.</p><br>
<h2>Mountain huts</h2><br>
<p>Rifugio Sanremo (2,054 m)</p><br>
<p>Monte Galero is a mountain in Liguria, northern Italy, part of the Alps. It is located in the provinces of Savona and Cuneo. It lies at an altitude of 1708 metres and, after Monte Armetta, is the second highest summit of the Ligurian Prealps.</p><br>
<h2>SOIUSA classification</h2><br>
<p>According to the SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Western Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=South Western Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Ligurian Alps</p><br>
<p>subsection=Prealpi Liguri</p><br>
<p>supergroup=Catena Settepani-Carmo-Armetta</p><br>
<p>group=Gruppo Galero-Armetta</p><br>
<p>subgroup=Costiera Galero-Armetta</p><br>
<p>code=I/A-1.I-A.3.a</p><br>
<h2>Hiking</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is accessible by off-road mountain paths and is crossed by the Alta Via dei Monti Liguri, a long-distance trail from Ventimiglia (province of Imperia) to Bolano (province of La Spezia).</p><br>
<h2>Nature conservation</h2><br>
<p>The mountain and its surrounding area are part of a SIC (Site of Community Importance) called Monte Galero (code: IT1323920).</p><br>
<p>Monte Grammondo is a mountain in Liguria, northern Italy, part of the Alps.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is located in the provinces of Imperia in Italy and Alpes-Maritimes in France. It lies at an altitude of 1378 metres.</p><br>
<h3>SOIUSA classification</h3><br>
<p>According to the SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Western Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=South Western Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Maritime Alps</p><br>
<p>subsection=(Fr:Préalpes de Nice/It:Prealpi di Nizza)</p><br>
<p>supergroup=(Fr:Groupe Rocaillon-Grand Braus/It: Gruppo Rocaillon-Grand Braus)</p><br>
<p>group=(Fr:Chaîne Grand Baus-Razet-Grandmont/It:Catena Braus-Razet-Grandmont)</p><br>
<p>code=I/A-2.II-A.2</p><br>
<h2>Access to the summit</h2><br>
<p>Grammondo&#39;s top can be reached on foot from Bevera valley starting from the villages of Sospel (in France), Olivetta, Torri, San Pancrazio or Villatella (Italy), and also from Castellar and Castillon, located in the valleys nearby Menton (France).</p><br>
<p>Monte Leco is a mountain in Liguria, northern Italy, part of the Ligurian Appennines. It is located in the provinces of Genoa and Alessandria. It lies at an altitude of 1072 metres.</p><br>
<h2>Access to the summit</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is easily accessible by signposed traks departing from Bocchetta Pass or Isoverde (municipality of Campomorone).</p><br>
<p>The Alta Via dei Monti Liguri, a long-distance trail from Ventimiglia (province of Imperia) to Bolano (province of La Spezia), passes very close to the mountain&#39;s summit.</p><br>
<h2>Nature conservation</h2><br>
<p>The mountain and its surrounding area are part of a SIC (Site of Community Importance) called Praglia – Pracaban – M. Leco – P. Martin (code: IT1331501). Its northern slopes are included in the Piedmontese natural park of the Capanne di Marcarolo.</p><br>
<p>Center Street Historic District is a historic district in Ashland, Ohio, United States. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 with a boundary increase that took place in 1992, Center Street features Victorian homes built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The district is established between Town Creek and Vernon Avenue on the east side of Center Street and between the theater and Morgan Avenue on the west side. Once known as Huron Road, Center Street runs current with Ohio State Route 511 and Ohio State Route 60, which travels the entire length of Ohio. is the homeowners&#39; association for the district.</p><br>
<p>From its inception, Center Street intended to be a street of significant homes. A June 22, 1859 Ashland Union article says:But the “star of empire” is establishing its head quarters in South Ashland. The grading of the principal street under the direction of the Supervisor, Mr. Hildebrand, has progressed sufficiently far to convince every one, that, when completed, and when the shade trees which, by next year, will line both sides of the street, shall have had time to accumulate a foliage, there will be no town or city in the State any portion of which will present a more attractive appearance than that of Centre street in South Ashland.Center Street fulfilled its potential, for prosperous businessmen, industrialists, bankers, politicians, and physicians built their significant homes on it. Since these homes were built between 1850 and 1920, a variety of architectural styles are represented. The view of these houses remains much the same as when most of the homes were completed.</p><br>
<p>At one time almost all of the Center Street houses had fences with gates that were kept shut to keep out the swine that were allowed to roam the city and the cattle that were driven along the street. In 1860 Ashland passed a hog ordinance and a cow ordinance in 1867 to prevent these animals from wandering in town.</p><br>
<p>During a city council meeting on April 30, 1894, R. M. Campbell petitioned to have Center Street paved with bricks from Main to Bank (now College Avenue) Streets. Although it was not the first brick paved street in Ashland, Center Street’s paving was accomplished four years before even Main Street was improved.</p><br>
<p>Per Alta Sims, who was central to the street being listed on the Historic Register, “the Center Street Historic District is, in short, a veritable textbook in residential architecture.”</p><br>
<p>Beginning at Town Creek, the houses on the west side of center street are as follows:</p><br>
<p>220 Center Street The Carter - Shinn House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house features a turret with a cone-shaped roof and a metal finial.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1893 by William Carter, who was in the lumber business. Later, his daughter, Louise, who was born in the house, lived here with her husband, T. Ellsworth Shinn.</p><br>
<p>Currently serving as a florist shop,</p><br>
<p>302 Center Street The Hildebrand House, Originally Greek Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built in 1859, this was the home of Jacob Hildebrand</p><br>
<p>Currently serving as</p><br>
<p>308 Center Street The Parsonage, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built in 1896, this house features a turret with a cone-shaped roof and a metal finial.</p><br>
<p>Given as a gift by Mrs. E. P. Smith, this house was the parsonage for the Congregational Church, which is across the street.</p><br>
<p>312 Center Street The Benjamin Myers House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>Dr. Benjamin Myers served in the Ohio General Assembly, as mayor of Ashland, and as a county probate judge.</p><br>
<p>Currently serving as Dr. Starkey&#39;s Chiropractic Clinic</p><br>
<p>414 Center Street The Cowan House, Colonial Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>Originally a simple brick structure, this house was expanded in 1905 using Colonial Revival style by P.A. Myers for his son, Guy and his wife, Kate More. “It is remarkable for the fine detail of the frontispiece which matches that of the roof dormers of both the house and the carriage building.”</p><br>
<p>Built by Dr. Jacob P. Cowan who married Mary Jane Hooker. Dr. Cowan was a physician, served in the Ohio General Assembly, and was a United States Representative in the 44th Congress for what was at the time the 14th district.</p><br>
<p>Currently the home of the</p><br>
<p>414 Center Street The Thornburg Carriage House, Colonial Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>Also part of the Ashland County Historical Society, home of the</p><br>
<p>432 Center Street The Wallack House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built before 1874 by Eli W. Wallack, this house has a projecting portal and imbricated siding. When Veda Winbigler owned the house, she split off the back portion around 1926 and moved it to the rear of the lot. It was made into a house facing Walnut Street, which has been torn down. On May 8, 1946 the house was sold to the Red Cross who added rooms to the back of the house twice.</p><br>
<p>Wallack was in business with J. W. Harman and then later with Randolph and Jonas Freer. Eventually he partnered with W. C. Frazee in a furniture store on Main Street. He served as treasurer for Montgomery Township. He was first married Anne Faws, who passed away in 1873 at the age of 39. He then married Caroline Campbell in 1876.</p><br>
<p>Formerly the home of the American Red Cross of Ashland County, it now serves as the law office of Robert DeSanto</p><br>
<p>508 Center Street The Philip A. Myers House, Italian Villa Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built in 1915, by Philip Andrews Myers, this notable limestone and brick house includes an attached motor car garage. The front of this house is symmetrical with a central entrance topped with a third story dormer and one story bay windows on each side.</p><br>
<p>P. A. Myers was married to Samantha Alice Chase. He was an inventor with over 100 patents whose first notable invention was the double-action force pump. P.A. Myers with his brother, Francis Myers, own largest industry in Ashland, F.E. Myers & Brothers, a pump and hay tool business. In 1880, P. A. Myers was the first in Ashland to have a telephone in his original home at 420 Center Street, which was razed.</p><br>
<p>Currently incorporated into</p><br>
<p>602 Center Street The Frazee House, Italianate Architecture, Romano-Tuscan Mode</p><br>
<p>Built in 1873 by William C. Frazee, this red brick house has a heavy, bracketed cornice, a low roof, and carved lintels above its windows. It features a porch with a projecting hood and an elaborately carved gablet roof. This house was considered "one of the most beautiful and attractive in the city."</p><br>
<p>Frazee, who married to Nancy Swineford, was a businessman who was elected Ashland County clerk of the court of common pleas. After his time as clerk, he partnered with Eli Wallack in the furniture business and also was an undertaker.</p><br>
<p>608 Center Street The McClellan House, Queen Anne Architecture (Moved See 513 Center)</p><br>
<p>622 Center Street The Clark House, Jacobean Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built in 1918, by Jesse Lewis Clark, this is an imposing three story brick and stone house with “steep-sided triangular gables which rise above the roof.” The front features two story bay windows with stone mullions. The house also has a delicate glass canopy extending over the north entrance. Italian artisans were brought to Ashland to create the plaster ceilings in some of the rooms.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Hess & Clark stock-food plant was one of the largest in this industry in the world. is still sold today. Clark built Ashland’s Good Samaritan Hospital (now part of the University Health System) in 1915 with the stipulation that no sick person should ever be denied care there. He was also the president of Ashland&#39;s Y.M.C.A.</p><br>
<p>Currently serving as</p><br>
<p>800 Center Street The Mayner House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built around 1910 by Ed Mayner, this house was originally larger, for part of this house was removed to build another.</p><br>
<p>Currently the Flora House, housing for Ashland Theological Seminary</p><br>
<p>812 Center Street The Brown House, Dutch Colonial Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built in 1908 by Emery Brown, one of the founders of the Home Company department store.</p><br>
<p>Currently the China House, housing for Ashland Theological Seminary</p><br>
<p>818 Center Street The Hunter House, Victorian Vernacular Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built around 1900</p><br>
<p>824 Center Street The Dotterwick House, Victorian Vernacular Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built around 1935 by Dr. Fred Dotterwick</p><br>
<p>Currently the Miller House, housing for Ashland Theological Seminary</p><br>
<p>834 Center Street The Heltman House, Gothic Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built before 1874, this ornate three-story house has a shorter, two-story turret with a finial. It features a wrap-around veranda topped with an open second story gallery. It has a central gable and a small third story veranda. It is finished with complex, imbricated siding.</p><br>
<p>J. H. “Hal” Heltman married Carrie B. Dresskell on August 20, 1884 and lived most of his life in this house. For 45 years he was a grocer and the Heltman building located on Mains Street still bears his family’s name.</p><br>
<p>Currently the Mossey Building, welcome center and offices for Ashland Theological Seminary</p><br>
<p>910 Center Street The J.C. Myers House, Prairie Style Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built in 1908 by John C. Myers, this house is irregular in composition with a horizontal look. It has dark wood stripping, a low-pitched tiled roof, and oblong chimneys. A contemporary photograph shows the house sporting an urn planter, which is one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s signatures, but he has not been authenticated as the architect of this house.</p><br>
<p>Myers was a 1902 Harvard graduate and an art collector.</p><br>
<p>Currently serving as the Ashland Theological Seminary</p><br>
<p>934 Center Street The T.W. Miller House, Spanish Colonial Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built in 1914 by Thomas W. Miller. One of the more grand and unique houses on Center Street, this house has a white smooth stucco walls, a red tiled roof, and arched doorway and windows. It also has a rear courtyard. It features a stately drawing room with a vaulted ceiling and galleries.</p><br>
<p>T. W. Miller founded Camp Rubber Company in Ashland which merged and became Faultless Rubber Company. The company specialized in medical rubber products and had a practical monopoly in sponge rubber products.</p><br>
<p>Currently serving as medical offices for University Hospitals Health System</p><br>
<p>1016 Center Street The Haynes House, English Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house built in the 1920s by R. P. Haynes is made of limestone and stucco and has carved plaster walls.</p><br>
<p>1042 Center Street The Barr-Sheets House, Craftsman Architecture</p><br>
<p>Beginning at Town Creek, the houses on the east side of center street are as follows:</p><br>
<p>209 Center Street The Old Congregational Church, Romanesque Architecture</p><br>
<p>Completed in November 1890, this church is described as “a heavy and elegant brick structure of Gallatian architecture.”</p><br>
<p>The Congregational church was organized in 1889. This church was built during the tenure of its first pastor, Rev. John M. Merrill.</p><br>
<p>Currently serving as</p><br>
<p>303 Center Street The Pancoast House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built by Adaline Pancoast in 1904 after her husband, Ohio, died. The couple used to live in a house on this site built in 1874, which was moved to Ohio Street.</p><br>
<p>Ohio Pancoast was a druggist and one of the first businessmen to use gas jets to light his store windows. He was one of the business men that pledged not to sell alcohol without a prescription during the temperance crusade in 1874.</p><br>
<p>313 Center Street The Randolph Freer House, Italianate Architecture</p><br>
<p>Randolph D. Freer married Harriet Smith had four sons, Frank W., Charles R., Walter M., and George R. "Truly a self-made man," he, with his brother, Jonas, established the Farmers’ Bank of Ashland in 1874.</p><br>
<p>Currently serving as</p><br>
<p>401 Center Street The Old United Brethren Church, Victorian Vernacular Architecture</p><br>
<p>This church, whose "architecture is modern and tasty," was dedicated on November 15, 1896. It was rededicated on February 14, 1909 after some additions and improvements were made.</p><br>
<p>The United Brethren Church was founded in 1867 and the congregation built this church because they outgrew their original one.</p><br>
<p>Currently the</p><br>
<p>413 Center Street The Grabill Home, Colonial Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house built in 1903 by Samuel H. Grabill has an extended carriage entrance on the north side.The front of this house is symmetrical with rounded verandas on either side of the centered entrance which is flanked by two-story Ionic columns supporting a portal. The ballroom was on the third floor. This house, designed by Vernon Redding, has a fan light over the front door and a large center hall that extends to the kitchen rooms in the back. A parlor/music room is on the south side with the family sitting room on the north. Behind the smaller carriage entrance hall is the dining room. A curved stairway on the south side leads to the second floor complete with five bedrooms and a bathroom.</p><br>
<p>Samuel H. Grabill was a farmer and business man. He married Anna Ewing and had four children, Nancy, Howard, John, and Elizabeth. The last three attended Oberlin College. Charles Kettering worked for S. H. Grabill “servicing the first electric street lights in Ashland.”</p><br>
<p>421 Center Street The Topping House</p><br>
<p>William V. B. Topping built the house in 1908 on this site where his father’s 1873 house was originally. This sturdy house sports an orange tile roof with dark, vertical wood siding on the upper portion and brick on the bottom.</p><br>
<p>Young Will Topping and Wils McClellan were listed as “pioneer wheelmen” of Ashland because they were among the first to ride bicycles.</p><br>
<p>427 Center Street The Patterson House, Victorian Vernacular Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built in 1900 by Shearer-Kagey and Co. with the inside finished by David Stark. The original front porch had spindles but was enlarged and enclosed by the Pattersons. There is cherry woodwork in the north parlor and the master bedroom. Quarter sawn oak makes up the rest of the woodwork except for the pine in the maid’s room. Near the leg of the dining room table was a bell that could be stepped upon to ring the maid. An open stairway leads one upstairs which has four bedrooms, a bath, and closets. The third floor is finished and there is a back stairway.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Patterson was the president of the First National Bank of Ashland from 1924-1933. He married Emma Kellogg, who was an accomplished soprano and the organizer of the Ashland Musical Club.</p><br>
<p>431 Center Street The Randolph Freer Homestead, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>This tall home has a second story veranda and an unusual central turret. The upper portion has imbricated siding.</p><br>
<p>The first Randolph Freer home (he later built a house at 313 Center Street) Charles Freer lived here in the early 1880s.</p><br>
<p>503 Center Street The Jonas Freer House</p><br>
<p>One of the oldest houses on Center Street, this house was built in 1859 by Jonas and Mary Freer. This symmetrical house has a tall, central gable with a decorative fret. The entrance sits to the right in this central gable and is hooded with consoles. Recessed side wings were originally one story, but now are two. The house originally had gingerbread along the eaves and had porches with gingerbread in front of both recessed sides. In 1888 plate glass windows were installed and the wings were raised.</p><br>
<p>On November 15, 1888, was the dedication of the Soldiers’ Monument Mrs. Mary Freer donated to honor those who had given their lives in the Civil War. Former President Rutherford B. Hayes came to town for the dedication and likely stayed in the Freers’ home.</p><br>
<p>509 Center Street The Ullman House, Italianate Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built around 1880 by Jonas Freer. Plank I p. 133-134 This house was built by Jonas Freer and sold to George Ullman, a cashier at the Farmers’ Bank, in 1882. Mrs. Carleton Mitchell, daughter of Guy C. and Kate Moore Myers, rescued this house in 1984 with the help of restoration architect, Andrew Cascio and contractor Howard Steigerwalt. The outside of the house features gingerbread trim, porches, and a double front door with beveled glass. It has 11-foot ceilings and two marble fireplaces. The house currently is a duplex with a stairway with a walnut railing leading to the second floor apartment.</p><br>
<p>513 Center Street (formerly 608 Center Street) The McClellan House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>The original part of this house was built during the 1890s.</p><br>
<p>Wilson Marshall McClellan, M.D. began his practice in Ashland in 1898 and also owned a drug store. He was married M. Esther Harley and had two children, Jean Kathryn and Marcia.</p><br>
<p>521 Center Street The Wick House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>C. O. Wick built this house before 1874. Thomas R. Shinn purchased the house in the 1880s and separated the house into two residences, this one at 521 Center Street and the one next door, 525 Center Street, where his son, Carl, lived.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Shinn partnered in business with Beach and Brown to form the Home Company, a central department store for Ashland for years.</p><br>
<p>525 Center Street The Wick House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>Originally part of the same structure as 521 Center Street, these houses both have three-story turrets, second-story bay windows and front porches.</p><br>
<p>531 Center Street The Damp House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>This home was built prior to 1872 by John Damp, who also built the mill in 1869 that used to be on Center Street by Town Creek. This house features a three-story main block with a pointed gable and a first-floor bay window on the south side. The double-bracketed cornice has denticulated molding. The house was restored in the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>603 Center Street The Brinton House, Victorian Stick Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built before 1874 purchased by Joseph Brinton, a railway agent. Joseph’s daughter, Mary Brinton Tubbs, wrote an essay, “Ashland in the Early 1880s” in which she describes the house as Cape Cod.</p><br>
<p>609 Center Street The Sackett House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built in the 1880s by Dr. Clark D. Sackett, who also ran his medical practice from it.</p><br>
<p>707 Center Street The McDowell House, Dutch Colonial Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>The house was built around 1930s by Ed McDowell, a superintendent at the F. E. Myers and Brother Company.</p><br>
<p>713 Center Street The 1st T.W. Miller House, American Four-Square Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built around 1909, this house was the first residence for Thomas W. Miller and his wife, Helen Myers, F. E. Myers’ youngest daughter.</p><br>
<p>717 Center Street The Banning House, Second Empire Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built in the 1880s by J. W. Banning. One of the most remarkable homes on Center Street, its timber may have been imported from Cincinnati. This house originally featured tall Gothic doors, impressive woodwork, and a third story ballroom.</p><br>
<p>The house has been converted to apartments.</p><br>
<p>803 Center Street The Mykrantz House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built during the 1890s by Joseph C. Mykrantz. Unique to this house is its wrap around porch with a corner gabled entrance way and third story crescent windows.</p><br>
<p>Mykrantz was a well-known attorney and “wrote a legal advice column for the Ashland Press.”</p><br>
<p>819 Center Street The Mowrey House, Dutch Colonial Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built in 1906 by H. A. Mowrey, who had a photography and portrait business.</p><br>
<p>831 Center Street The Slocum House, Gothic Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built in the late 1860s, this was originally a farmhouse. This house is symmetrical featuring a main block with a pointed central arch and recessed side wings with verandas. This house has gingerbread details, bracketed cornice, and denticulated molding.</p><br>
<p>841 Center Street The George Freer House, Victorian Vernacular Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built in 1902 by George R. Freer, this house features a large wrap around veranda.</p><br>
<p>George R. Freer married Myrtie Brown. He was a banker with Farmers’ Bank and also in clothing business, Freer Brothers, with brothers Frank and Charles.</p><br>
<p>847 Center Street The Charles Freer House, Vernacular with Colonial Revival Influenced Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built in 1901 by Charles R. Freer.</p><br>
<p>Charles married Alice Wood and was also in clothing business, Freer Brothers, with brothers Frank and George.</p><br>
<p>855 Center Street The Brubaker House, Colonial Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built in 1905 by William Henry Brubaker, who was part-owner of the Ashland Hardware.</p><br>
<p>903 Center Street The Kenney House</p><br>
<p>Built before 1874 by Judge T. J. Kenney, this house began as a “simple red brick farmhouse with three chimneys.” It has a fireplace with tiles reported to have been fired in Germany. The superintendent of the Faultless Rubber Company, Charles Edgerton Campbell, purchased this house in 1915 and enlarged it and covered the brick with stucco.</p><br>
<p>911 Center Street The Beach House</p><br>
<p>Built around 1930 by W. V. Beach</p><br>
<p>919 Center Street The Balch House, English Tudor Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built around 1930</p><br>
<p>925 Center Street The Cordell House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built around 1920 by Will Cordell.</p><br>
<p>931 Center Street The Young House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built around 1920</p><br>
<p>933 Center Street The Stockwell House, English Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built in 1922 by John Stockwell, this Elizabethan stone house has a roof that looks like thatch and stovepipe chimneys.</p><br>
<p>John Stockwell, with Thomas Wick, was one of the founders of the Home Company.</p><br>
<p>16 Vernon Avenue (formerly 1003 Center Street) The Stearns House, Victorian Vernacular Architecture</p><br>
<p>Walton Grange No. 1454 is a historic Grange building located at 137 Stockton Avenue in Walton in Delaware County, New York, United States. Designed by architects Randall and Gilbert of Walton and built in 1886, it consists of a two-story administration building with an attached gable roofed drill shed. It was occupied from 1886-1896 by the 33rd Separate Company then vacated in 1896 and converted for use as a school and a Grange hall. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 as Walton Grange #1454-Former Armory.</p><br>
<p>The Stockton Avenue Armory, a National Guard armory built in 1896, is located next to the Grange building. It was designed by Isaac Perry. It was occupied from 1896 to 1965 and converted to White Castle Department Store in 1966. It is now known as the Castle on the Delaware and is being restored to host events. It is also home to a cafe.</p><br>
<p>The South Street Armory, located at 55 South Street, was constructed in 1965.</p><br>
<p>The Primera Iglesia Metodista Unida de Ponce  was the first structure erected in Puerto Rico by the celebrated architect Antonin Nechodoma. Constructed in 1907, the building houses a Methodist congregation and is located on Villa street in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in the city&#39;s historic district. The structure was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Physical appearance</h2><br>
<p>The First United Methodist Church of Ponce is a magnificent example of early 20th-century eclecticism, integrating Neo-Gothic, Spanish Revival, Spanish Baroque, and byzantine elements. It is constructed entirely of rusticated, reinforced-concrete with gabled wood and corrugated sheet metal roofs. In volume, the church consists of a gabled single-nave, parallel to the street and subdivided into three sections. A large, central cross-gable creates the main facade at Calle Villa, facing north.</p><br>
<p>On Calle Villa, the cross-gable is articulated by a Spanish-baroque style rope pediment. Flanking this gabled, central transept are two square-plan towers, a shorter turret on the west and a taller bell-tower on the east, both resting upon the intersections of the main nave and cross-gable. The main gable is divided into three bays: a wide, central bay with a large, wide, four-centered gothic arch stained-glass window and two flanking bays with similar but smaller and narrower stained-glass windows. Above the central bay, a stained glass Spanish-renaissance oculus (consisting of a square with semicircular projections at each of its four sides) occupies the area within the pediment.</p><br>
<p>The east bell-tower consists of a two-storey rusticated base and step-backs to an onion-shaped cupola above the belfry. At the ground level, an entry vestibule is created by an open, four-centered archway. At the second story, still within the tower&#39;s rusticated base-section, a series of four narrow, stained-glass strip windows provide a distinct, modernist, element. The first segment of the step-backs of the tower contains two smaller strip windows, and the following, taller set-back houses the church-bell behind narrow arches, one on each of the four sides, supported by Corinthian columns. The onion-cupola caps the composition.</p><br>
<p>The smaller, west tower is completely rusticated and terminates in a rope pediment, at a level slightly lower than the base of the opposite tower. At the ground level there is a vestibule similar to that of the other tower and above, a circular opening with an oculus within. The main nave extends only one bay beyond the towers. These bays are identical to the smaller stained-glass bays of the main gable. A series of low buttresses supports all major walls, one at each extreme of. each wall. The side gables of the main nave repeat, exactly, the articulation of the facade of the main cross-gable.</p><br>
<p>A rusticated concrete and wrought-iron gate surrounds the property, articulated by square pillars at approximately 20 foot intervals, and spanned by an approximately 2 foot high rusticated concrete base and bar-like wrought-iron railings above.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Ponce is a very good example of Antonin Nechodomas religious architecture. This Czech architect was one of the first non-Hispanic designers to work in Puerto Rico. A colleague of Frank Lloyd Wright under Louis Sullivan in Chicago, Nechodoma developed the Puerto Rican Bungalow style for residential housing, which spread rapidly throughout the Island during the 1920s and 1930s. Nechodoma was the architect of at least three Protestant churches and many magnificent prairie-style upper-class residences. Most of Nechodomas buildings have been demolished because of later developments. Most of his surviving structures are now considered landmarks.</p><br>
<p>Nechodoma designed his projects between 1907 and 1928. As the original plans of the church are dated 1907, historians believe that the Methodist Episcopal Church of Ponce was the first structure erected in Puerto Rico by the celebrated architect.</p><br>
<p>The materials used to construct the church are of importance in the history of construction in Puerto Rico. Reinforced concrete, the principal material, was seldom, if at all, used at this early date in Puerto Rico. Contemporary concrete buildings exhibited a lack of understanding of the then-new material, evidenced by extremely thick walls and excessive use of iron beams (traditional means of construction were applied to modern materials). These characteristics are not found in the construction of this building. Nechodoma used the concrete in an elegant and even decorative fashion, demonstrating his knowledge of North-American construction techniques and his distance from the local building customs. The building looks as if it is made of stone and not concrete.</p><br>
<p>This church is also important in Puerto Rico&#39;s religious history, as it was one of the first non-Roman Catholic churches built after the change of sovereignty in 1898, when the United States established rule. Until then, the only non-Catholic church allowed by Spanish colonial authorities to practice in Puerto Rico had been the Anglican church, organized by British residents. The Methodist Church is an example of the freedom of worship instated after the United States occupation of the island. State Historian Felix Julian del Campo and State Architectural Historian Hector F. Santiago consider it the most prominent non-Catholic structure in the city of Ponce.</p><br>
<p>The Albergue Caritativo Tricoche or Hospital Tricoche  is a historic building located on Tricoche street in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in the citys historic district. It was designed by the Spanish Royal Corps of Engineers. The architecture consists of 19th-century civil architecture. For its services, its elegant architecture and its excellent location in Ponces urban area the Hospital Tricoche has become a significant part of Ponce&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>The articulated Classical revival style building dates from 1885, according to a report by the Puerto Rico Historic Preservation Office. (San Juan, Puerto Rico) dated April 7, 1987. However, according to local Ponce historian Luis Fortuño Janeiro, the structure was founded on December 11, 1878. The structure was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The hospital was named after Valentin Tricoche, a 19th-century philanthropist and land owner in Ponce with lands on the western bank of Rio Bucana which included lands with a stone mine.</p><br>
<h2>Physical appearance and description</h2><br>
<p>The Hospital Tricoche occupies a whole urban block bounded to the north by Arena Street, to the South Tricoche Street, to the east Bertoly Street and to the west by Union Street. It is located several blocks north of Ponce&#39;s main square.</p><br>
<p>The oldest records found indicate that this structure was built in 1885 consisting of a one-story building organized around two identical anterior courtyards. This original spatial distribution is still preserved. The southern half was altered in 1928 after the 1918 earthquake damaged part of this side. During this remodeling a second story was added to this half. This southern facade is set back from the street by a fence and front yard. Its main element is the entrance portico articulated by flat tuscan pilasters and three arches, the central one slightly protruding to the front (This portico is part of the original 1885 construction). Over the portico, separated by cornice and parapet with the building&#39;s name in sans serif letters. Other decorative elements at this level include overhangs, a segmental round cornice over the recessed center window, louvered casement windows with segmental round openings and plain glass transoms and a rosette on top of the center recess between the two volumes. In contrast, the first floor of this south facade presents large rectangular windows with wide planar moldings and a simple cornice with a segmental pyramidal profile on the top molding, a cornice and rectangular windows with false segmental arch crowned by an equally false keystone all part of the original 1885 construction.</p><br>
<p>The rear half of the building conserves the original one-story configuration with a repetition of rectangular openings surrounded by wide planar moldings and top cornices. Crowning the center bay of the north (Arenas Street) facade there is a simple triangular pediment with the date "1885" on top. The Arenas Street facade presents a certain rhythm in its treatment of pilasters and bays: two pilasters flank each of the central ones, including the one with the pediment, are flanked and separated by a total of six more pilasters. Wherever the pilasters occur on this facade, the wall is slightly set off to the front. The bottom of this rear part is lifted on a podium and the pilasters are surmounted by an entablure with a very simple frieze and architrave.</p><br>
<p>The corners on this rear part of the building are rounded, a somewhat unusual condition for corners in buildings of this type of architecture. After a recent remodeling, most windows and doors were finished in near-duplicative (usually louvered casement) designs. The new annex on the side features arched openings to the street and has glass fenestration. This addition does not contribute to the propertys architectural value but due to its disposition and volume it does not harm the main structures integrity. Even with the 1928 alterations this building is still a magnificent example of Spanish architecture in Ponce and of the neoclassical style.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The "Albergue Caritativo Tricoche" (Tricoche Charitable Shelter) was founded in 1878 thanks to an endowment to the City of Ponce left by Mr. Valentin Tricoche in his will. These funds were to be used for the construction of a shelter-hospital for the poor and needy of Ponce.</p><br>
<p>No records of the original 1878 structure have been found; however, the existing building was commissioned to the Spanish Royal Corps of Engineers. By 1885 they had completed a one-story neoclassical style structure that covered an entire urban block. This building remained unchanged until the 1918 earthquake which damaged part of the southern side.</p><br>
<p>The reconstruction of this side was completed in 1928. During this reconstruction a second story was added to the south side. The architectural vocabulary used for this addition was similar to the 1885 construction. The first floor and main entrance were restored to their original shape.</p><br>
<p>Since then alterations to the structure have been minimal and mostly due to new regulations by the Department of Health or to serve the community better. The main alteration to the structure was the addition of a new emergency entrance on the southern side on the Bertoly Street facade. This small addition does not contribute to the value of the property but neither does it hinder the structure&#39;s architectural integrity since it was designed and built with a compatible architectural vocabulary. This is also true of the 1928 second floor, which was clearly separated from the 1885 construction by means of visually acceptable wall.</p><br>
<p>Hospital Tricoche has served the Ponce community since 1878. In its 121-year history the hospital gave the best free-of-cost medical attention available to the poor and needy in the city of Ponce.</p><br>
<p>The hospital shut down in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Recent developments</h2><br>
<p>In 2009, the Ponce mayor Francisco Zayas Seijo reported that 1 million dollars had been used by the municipality to remove toxic materials from the Hospital, and was optimistic that the inversion would lead to the opening of the hospital.</p><br>
<p>Riis Skov  is a forest and park in Århus, Denmark. It is located south of the district of Risskov, along the Bay of Aarhus.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This small patch of forest, was formally presented to Aarhus in 1395, by Queen Margaret I. Riis Skov was the first public forest in Denmark, where forests traditionally were owned and managed by the Royal family or the nobility and in some cases ordinary farmers. Timber and firewood were very important resources in former times, needed for shipbuilding, house construction and various other important structures, or simply for heating and cooking. Although Riis Skov was a public forest, there was still active forestry going on until around the year 1800, when the large oaks were cut and used for quay-building in the Aarhus harbour. A few of them are still left, as some of the oldest trees in the forest. The forestry aspect gradually diminished and Riis Skov was increasingly viewed as a recreational area by the citizens.</p><br>
<p>On the evening of October 2, 1951, at 18:15, a meteorite exploded above Aarhus and one of two pieces was recovered in Riis Skov, just a few minutes after impact. A memorial stone commemorates the event.</p><br>
<h3>Recreation</h3><br>
<p>Riis Skov has a long cultural history as a recreational area for Aarhus and its citizens and several buildings in the forest still stands as witnesses; the public sea-bath Den Permanente from 1933, the inn of Sjette Frederiks Kro (named after King Frederik VI) from 1825, Aarhus Citizens Shooting Associations headquarters from 1881 and the old Dancing Pavillon from 1869, now a hostel. The forest is a protected area and the commercial forestry activities are limited nowadays.</p><br>
<h2>Nature</h2><br>
<p>The forest is largely dominated by beech, but with oak, larch, maple, ash and birch mixed in at some places. Although beech is dominant, Riis Skov is not a natural beech forest and new trees are planted occasionally to replenish the old growth.</p><br>
<p>As a curiosity, the forest floor of Riis Skov is covered by ramsons in the spring. It is said, that this culinary plant was brought here by camping Spanish soldiers during the Napoleonic wars. While Spanish soldiers indeed camped in Aarhus, ramson have been growing in Denmark since the last glacial period and it might have been here in Riis Skov since the 13th century, before the Spaniards came along.</p><br>
<p>Riis Skov (maj) 01.JPGIn spring, the forest floor is completely covered by ramson.</p><br>
<p>Anemoner i Riis Skov.JPGA few rare spots are dominated by wood anemones (Anemone nemorosa) instead of ramsons.</p><br>
<p>Footpath in Riisskov.JPGFootpaths crisscross the forest.</p><br>
<p>Riisgaards Bæk 03.JPGRiisgaards Bæk, a small stream at the bottom of a broad gully.</p><br>
<p>Væltet træ i Riis Skov.JPGFallen trees are often left to decay in order to increase and sustain the biodiversity.</p><br>
<p>Beskyttelsesrum i Riis Skov.jpgLeaffall brings out the colours. The forest is dotted with concrete air-raid shelters from WW II.</p><br>
<p>The Banks Covered Bridge is a wooden covered bridge in Wilmington Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States. It spans the Neshannock Creek southeast of New Wilmington. Constructed in 1889, the bridge is a Burr arch truss built on stone foundations and supported by steel girders; it is 121 ft long.</p><br>
<p>Unlike many Pennsylvania counties, Lawrence County never possessed many covered bridges; perhaps only five such bridges were ever built in the county. Today, only the Banks Covered Bridge and the McConnells Mill Covered Bridge near Rose Point remain. While the Howe truss used by the McConnells Mill bridge is very rare, the Burr arch truss used by the Banks bridge is employed by many Pennsylvania bridges. Its interior walls are similar to those featured on many covered bridges in Bucks County.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, the bridge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its historical significance, along with the McConnell&#39;s Mill bridge.</p><br>
<p>Plymouth Congregational Church, also known as Plymouth Church or Temple Keser Israel, is a former late-nineteenth-century Congregational Church at 1469 Chapel Street in New Haven, Connecticut. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The church is notable example of adaptive reuse, having been converted into a synagogue and medical office building.</p><br>
<p>The church was built around c.1890 in the Romanesque Revival style with an elaborate octagonal interior sanctuary listed on the National Register of Historic Places that lost many original features and fittings when it was converted into a synagogue. Before the building was abandoned and vacant for several years, the ceiling had been covered with acoustic tiles, and the vacancy invited extensive vandal and water damage. An initial attempt to convert the abandoned building into medical offices with the insertion of three floors and the complete destruction of any extant internal features was denied by the regional National Park Service office since the alterations would "… leave no area for perception of even part of the original. grand, open plan." Upon appeal, however, and a review of the damage already afflicted, the reuse was approved since the damage was seen to be beyond repair and the interior was gutted.</p><br>
<p>The Arroscia is an Italian river in the provinces of Imperia. and Savona.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The river rises from monte Frontè, in the comune of Mendatica, not far from the French border. The Arroscia flows east and receives several tributaries. It then joins the Neva and forms with it the Centa, one of the most relevant rivers of western Liguria. The Arroscia has a basin of 289 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<h3>Main tributaries</h3><br>
<p>Right hand:</p><br>
<p>rio Ponte,</p><br>
<p>rio Ravinasso,</p><br>
<p>rio Rocchino,</p><br>
<p>torrente Giara di Rezzo,</p><br>
<p>rio Bottasso,</p><br>
<p>rio Ubaga.</p><br>
<p>torrente Lerrone.</p><br>
<p>Left hand:</p><br>
<p>rio Gropin,</p><br>
<p>dei Laghi,</p><br>
<p>rio Brignola,</p><br>
<p>rio Teglia,</p><br>
<p>torrente Arogna,</p><br>
<p>rio Varasce,</p><br>
<p>rio Cornareo.</p><br>
<p>rio Parone,</p><br>
<p>rio Merco.</p><br>
<p>Mount Baker is a mountain on the Continental Divide, in Alberta and British Columbia, in the Waputik Mountains of the Canadian Rockies. It was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie after his friend and climbing partner George Percival Baker , textile manufacturer, plantsman and gardener, and keen mountaineer. Baker described his visit to this area which took place in 1897. In this small volume Baker noted that Collie also proposed to name a pass after him.</p><br>
<p>Collie and Baker were accompanied by Peter Sarbach, and for the first week by H. B. Dixon as well as American members of the Appalachian Mountain Club. Mount Sarbach was named at the same time, as well as several other peaks: "We now named the peaks, after presidents of the Club of our time, Freshfield, Dent, Pilkington, and Walker."</p><br>
<p>The mountain has been wrongly identified as "Stremotch Mountain" on subsequent maps and documents after a first map that was submitted by C.S. Thompson to the Surveyor General and subsequently printed in "Map of the Wapta Icefield" in Canadian Alpine Journal Vol 1, No 1, 1907, p.151.</p><br>
<h2>Nearby</h2><br>
<p>Mount Habel (3 m South East)</p><br>
<p>Trapper Peak (2 m North North East)</p><br>
<p>Field (31 m South)</p><br>
<p>Mount Patterson (3 m North) (line parent)</p><br>
<p>Ward&#39;s Reservoir , known locally as the Blue Lagoon, is a small reservoir close to the village of Belmont, Lancashire, England. It is in the West Pennine Moors north of Bolton.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir did not supply drinking water but was built to supply water to Rycroft Works in the early 19th century. It was enlarged in 1893 by Deacons who used the water to supply Belmont Bleachworks.</p><br>
<p>It holds 150,000 cubic metres of water, with a surface area of 28,000 square metres, when full. Most of the reservoir is only a few feet deep, but it has a depth of about 80 ft at its deepest point.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir was drained by its owner, Belmont Holdings, in 2010, despite efforts by local residents to save it. It had fallen into a state of disrepair following the closure of the bleachworks, and was considered a flood risk by the Environment Agency.</p><br>
<p>By the end of August 2010 heavy rain had refilled the reservoir, and in September 2010 it was sold for £50,000. The buyer is thought to be a Horwich-based consortium who will renovate and develop the reservoir for recreational use.</p><br>
<p>Rumworth Lodge Reservoir is a large shallow reservoir in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.</p><br>
<p>It is located to the west of Bolton&#39;s A58 (Beaumont Road) and to the South-East of Lostock railway station. The water from the reservoir is not used for drinking water but provides compensation water so that the Middlebrook, which downstream becomes the River Croal, never runs dry. It is a magnet for birds, particularly on spring and autumn passage when many rare species have been recorded. Fields between the wood and the lodge are also the site of rare autumn crocus.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>The 33 acre reservoir is used for fishing and an annual fishing permit and the appropriate Environment Agency licenses are required. The reservoir is stocked with bream, carp, roach and perch.</p><br>
<h2>Ornithology</h2><br>
<p>Rumworth Lodge Reservoir is of great ornithological interest. The Reservoirs reedbeds have both reed and sedge warbler in summer and once played host to the countys first ever marsh warbler. Many other species of bird have been recorder at the site. These include</p><br>
<p>Arctic skua</p><br>
<p>Avocet</p><br>
<p>Brent goose</p><br>
<p>Little egret</p><br>
<p>Great grey shrike</p><br>
<p>Great northern diver</p><br>
<p>Marsh warbler</p><br>
<p>Pectoral sandpiper</p><br>
<p>Purple sandpiper</p><br>
<p>Temminck&#39;s stint</p><br>
<p>Red-necked grebe</p><br>
<p>Ring-necked duck</p><br>
<p>Richard&#39;s pipit</p><br>
<p>The Eigerjoch is a high Alpine pass lying between the Mönch  and the Eiger . The lowest point  on the ridge is named Nördliches Eigerjoch while another pass  located closer to the Mönch is named Südliches Eigerjoch.</p><br>
<p>The Eiger does not lie in the ridge of the Bernese Alps which divides the basins of the Rhone and the Aar, but forms a promontory extending north-east from the Mönch, and is connected with it by a long and high arête, in which jagged teeth of rock project through a coating of ice. At the southern end, where this arete abuts against the shoulder of the Mönch, it overlooks the gently-sloping plateau which forms the summit of the Mönchsjoch, and the descent on the side of the Aletsch Glacier presents no serious difficulty.</p><br>
<h2>First crossing</h2><br>
<p>The first crossing was made by Leslie Stephen and W. and G. S. Mathews, with Ulrich Lauener of Lauterbrunnen and J. B. Croz and M. Charlet of Chamonix.</p><br>
<p>In August 1859, the three enterprising mountaineers above named, failing to perceive any route by which the Jungfraujoch could be attacked with a fair prospect of success, resolved to attempt to pass from the Wengern Alp by the north and east sides of the peak of the Mönch. Starting at 4 a.m. they soon reached the Eiger Glacier, and ascended for some distance along the side nearest to the Eiger. On reaching the very much crevassed middle region of the glacier, some time was lost in the endeavour to force a direct way. The correct course was to cross to the southern bank below the rocks of the Mönch. After a short ascent the form of the crevasses made it expedient to cross back to the opposite side, nearly to the edge of the glacier, here held up by the great rocky buttress of the Eiger, so remarkable from the Wengern Alp. Further progress seemed to be barred by the menacing condition of the seracs; but the difficulties could be avoided by crossing the glacier diagonally a third time to a sort of snow valley, where the crevasses were apparently filled up by avalanches from the Mönch. By this circuitous but not very difficult route the party reached the uppermost plateau of the glacier, lying immediately below the ridge connecting the two peaks. On the side nearest the Monch the ridge was accessible only by extremely long and steep slopes of hard snow. At the end approaching the Eiger the ridge is far easier of access, and this therefore was the first object of attack. On gaining the summit the travellers found themselves at the top of a tremendous precipice overlooking one arm of the Lower Grindelwald Glacier, while the arête to the right connecting them with the Mönch was broken through by so many jagged teeth of rock, and at the same time so narrow and difficult, that many hours would probably have been consumed in passing along it. It was therefore thought expedient to return, and to attempt the ascent by the ice-slope, as it should be called since the névé is so hard and slippery as to make stepcutting very laborious. Ulrich Lauener on that occasion displayed extraordinary strength and endurance, having in 5 hours of uninterrupted work cut 580 steps on an ice slope of from 50 to 52° inclination. That effort sufficed only to enable the party to gain a patch of rock some way below the summit of the ridge, and more than an hour more was expended in reaching the desired goal. Turning to the right along the arête, they finally reached at 6 p.m. the point on the shoulder of the Mönch which forms the summit level of this pass, which was probably the Südliches Eigerjoch.</p><br>
<p>In descending to the Aletsch Glacier the discoverers of this pass were benighted before they could reach the comparative shelter of the Kaulberg cave, and were forced to pass the night on some exposed rocks at the southern base of the Trugberg, where their position in case of bad weather would have been very critical. The Eggishorn was reached on the following morning about 9 a.m. in about 29 hours trom the Wengern Alp.</p><br>
<p>Gillies Lake Promenade is a 20 hectares  lake located in the heart of Timmins, Ontario. It was developed by the Conservation Authority as part of its lake rejuvenation project in 1986 and it is now served by a publicly accessible 2.5 km walking trail. A boardwalk offers wheelchair access avoiding a hill climb and Lakeshore Road. This small lake was named after Alex Gillies, a prominent figure in the history of the city. In 1915, the lake was about three times its current size. Since then, mine tailings have taken over what was once the northeast part of the lake. Goldcorp is currently in the process of restoring this area.</p><br>
<p>During the summer a swimming area is designated on the northwest side of the lake. Picnic areas and public washrooms are also available. In the winter, skating is often available in the southwest bay.</p><br>
<p>They also just added in a wakeboard park available in the summer.</p><br>
<p>The Beaverkill Valley Inn, formerly known as The Bonnie View, is located off Beaverkill Road  north of Lew Beach, New York, United States. It is a large wooden hotel built near the end of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>It was built as a lodge for anglers coming to fly fish for trout in the nearby Beaver Kill. It is one of the few fishing lodges remaining from that era of resort development remaining in the Catskills, and the only one along the upper Beaver Kill. In 1985 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the westernmost property in the county with that distinction.</p><br>
<h2>Property</h2><br>
<p>The inn property is a mostly rectangular 60.7 acre parcel along Barnhart Road bordered by the Beaver Kill on the south and west, along the streams flood plain at the foot of a wooded hillside near the Delaware County line, at an elevation of 1,680 ft above sea level. There are several other outbuildings and recreational resources on the property besides the inn. All are of recent construction or have been extensively altered from their original appearance; only the inn and the propertys section of the river are considered contributing resources.</p><br>
<p>The main building is a two-story L-shaped frame structure with gabled roof shingled in asphalt and pierced by large gabled dormers with two windows each. It is topped with a cupola with flared hipped roof and louvered arched vents. Siding is clapboard giving way to wood shingles in the gable fields.</p><br>
<p>A shed-roofed veranda, rounded at the northeast corner, supported by square pillars with simple capitals runs the length of the north, south and east elevations. It is broken by stairways at the center of the six-bay east (front) facade, the eastern end of the south, and a porte-cochère on the north. A railing of square-sawn members also runs the length of the porch; spheres on newel posts are the only decoration. All windows are flanked with louvered shutters</p><br>
<p>Three single-story wings have been added to the building. The south one takes in an enclosed portion of the veranda and serves as the manager&#39;s apartment. The north one houses the kitchen, with a former porch now enclosed to create more space. A west wing with shed dormers on the roof and a deck at the end provides lounge space for guests.</p><br>
<p>Inside, a central hall is flanked by sitting rooms on the front and the dining room, reception area on the rear with the stairs. The sitting rooms have their original oak trim and brick-and-stone fireplaces. The dining room has the original trim as well, with a new bay window added to let more natural light in. The original turned oak spindlework and balustrade remain on the stairs.</p><br>
<p>Upstairs, the rooms on the second floor have been enlarged to allow the installation of private bathrooms. The rooms on the third floor are their original size; the shared bathrooms have been enlarged. The original window trim remains on both. The basement has been finished for use as a laundry and game room.</p><br>
<p>Near the house are two attached frame barns dating to the propertys original construction but enlarged today for use as conference rooms and support facilities for an added swimming pool. A wooded area up the hill screens the inns tennis courts. A new springhouse up Barnhart Road replaced a dilapidated original. Hiking trails and footpaths have been built around the property to connect all these facilities and offer their own recreational possibilities.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The combination of minimal arable land, remoteness and continuing land disputes over the Hardenburgh Patent kept the upper Beaverkill Valley from being settled for the first half of the 19th century. The trout in its streams were taken by the few loggers, trappers and (later) tanners who headed up it primarily as food rather than recreation. Their abundance had been written about by Washington Irving as early as 1819, when angling was just beginning to take hold as a recreational activity in the United States. In 1838 The American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine wrote that the Beaver Kill along with Callicoon and Willowemoc creeks were "the three finest trout streams in this country; they are comparatively unknown to city anglers and less fished than any others of like pretension within our knowledge."</p><br>
<p>The Erie Railroad, and later the Ontario and Western, finally made that region of the Catskills more accessible to city anglers in the later half of the century; they began coming in great numbers. With the decline of the tanning industry and the creation of the state Forest Preserve in the 1880s, tourism, in the form of visiting fishermen, became the main industry in the southwestern Catskills. Those fishermen in turn developed the uniquely American technique of dry-fly trout fishing, epitomized in the writings of area resident Theodore Gordon, known in later years as the father of American dry-fly fishing.</p><br>
<p>In the 1895–1915 period, Gordon and other pioneers developed the art of fly tying. Early rod builders perfected the split bamboo fly rod. A community of anglers developed around the Beaverkill and other Catskill rivers, in and out of the private clubs they established to preserve exclusive rights to river frontage. Their lore named pools and bends. They stocked and protected and preserved them. In later years they helped prevent the damming of the Beaverkill and Willowemoc for New York City reservoirs.</p><br>
<p>Hotels and other accommodations were built to cater to sport fishermen during those years, regarded as a golden age of Catskill fly fishing. Three remain today — Antrim Lodge and the Central House in Roscoe, the center of recreational fishing in the Catskills, and the Beaverkill Valley Inn, founded in 1895 as the Bonnie View by a local married couple. Its architecture is typical of the late Victorian architectural styles of its time, with comforts such as its veranda and fireplaces that an affluent male urban guest would have appreciated, built specifically as a fisherman&#39;s hotel.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1980s, new owners renovated the outbuildings, added other recreational facilities and renamed it the Beaverkill Valley Inn. Of the 18 hotels, farmhouses or rooming houses that had fishermen as guests along the upper Beaverkill (above Roscoe), it is the only one intact and in continuous operation today.</p><br>
<p>Casa Cautiño is a house museum in Guayama, Puerto Rico. The museum collection, administered by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, include works of art, wood carvings, sculptures and furniture built by Puerto Rican cabinetmakers for the Cautiño family. It&#39;s listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was owned by Genaro Cautiño Vázquez, a wealthy Guayama landowner as well as a colonel of the Volunteer Battalion of the Spanish Army. During the Spanish–American War, the house was the headquarters for the American forces. After the war, Genaro Cautiño returned to occupy the house.</p><br>
<p>The U-shaped structure is one-story with an interior patio, which local architect Manual Texidor built in 1887 after graduation from the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris.</p><br>
<p>It features some of the elements of the Neoclassical architecture style, such as cornices, pilasters, candelabra, Roman arches, relief motifs, and classical ornamentation. These elements were blended with some of the details of the popular architecture of the southern area of Puerto Rico that prevailed when the structure was built.</p><br>
<p>Clear Lake  is a marine lake located on Eil Malk island in Palau. Eil Malk  is part of the Rock Islands, a group of small, rocky, mostly uninhabited islands in Palau&#39;s Southern Lagoon, between Koror and Peleliu. There are about 70 other marine lakes located throughout the Rock Islands. Clear Lake is notable for endemic subspecies of golden jellyfish and is one of five marine lakes in Palau used for several scientific researches in evolutionary biology the other lakes being Jellyfish Lake, Goby Lake, Uet era Ngermeuangel, Uet era Ongael.</p><br>
<h2>Golden jellyfish</h2><br>
<p>Clear Lake is one of the oldest of meromictic marine lakes in Palay and is circa 15,000 - 12,000 years old. It is connected to the ocean through fissures and tunnels in the limestone of ancient Miocene reef. However the lake is sufficiently isolated and the conditions are different enough that the diversity of species in the lake is greatly reduced from the nearby lagoon. The golden jellyfish Mastigias cf. papua salii and possibly other species in the lake have evolved to be substantially different from their close relatives living in the nearby lagoons.</p><br>
<h2>Lake stratification</h2><br>
<p>Clear Lake is stratified into two layers, an oxygenated upper layer (mixolimnion) and a lower anoxic layer (monimolimnion). The oxygen concentration in the lake declines from about 6 mg/l at the surface to zero at 16 meters (at the chemocline). Stratification is persistent and seasonal mixing does not occur. The lake is one of about 200 saline meromictic lakes that have been identified in the world. However most of these lakes are of freshwater origin. Permanently stratified marine lakes are unusual, but on Eil Malk and on other nearby islands there are eleven other permanently stratified marine lakes, the most renowned one is Jellyfish Lake.</p><br>
<p>Goby Lake is a marine lake located on Koror island in Palau. There are about 70 other marine lakes located throughout the Rock Islands and Koror. Goby Lake is notable for endemic subspecies of golden jellyfish and is one of five marine lakes in Palau used for several scientific researches in evolutionary biology the other lakes being Jellyfish Lake, Clear Lake , Uet era Ngermeuangel, Uet era Ongael.</p><br>
<h2>Golden jellyfish</h2><br>
<p>Clear Lake is connected to the ocean through fissures and tunnels in the limestone of ancient Miocene reef. However the lake is sufficiently isolated and the conditions are different enough that the diversity of species in the lake is greatly reduced from the nearby lagoon. The golden jellyfish Mastigias cf. papua nakamurai and possibly other species in the lake have evolved to be substantially different from their close relatives living in the nearby lagoons. The lake is rich with several species of fish, including goby, giving to lake its name.</p><br>
<h2>Lake stratification</h2><br>
<p>The deepest - north-eastern - part of Goby Lake is stratified into two layers, an oxygenated upper layer (mixolimnion) and a lower anoxic layer (monimolimnion). The oxygen concentration in the lake declines from about 6 mg/l at the surface to zero at 10 meters (at the chemocline). Stratification is persistent and seasonal mixing does not occur. The lake is one of about 200 saline meromictic lakes that have been identified in the world. However most of these lakes are of freshwater origin. Permanently stratified marine lakes are unusual, but in Palau there are eleven other permanently stratified marine lakes, the most renowned one is Jellyfish Lake.</p><br>
<p>The Sheraton Gunter Hotel is a historic hotel in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA built in 1909 and designed by St. Louis architect John Mauran. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Gunter Hotel opened on November 20, 1909, on the site of the earlier Mahncke Hotel. There had been a hotel or inn on the same site since 1837. The eight-story, 301-room hotel was built by the San Antonio Hotel Company and named for Jot Gunter, a local rancher and real estate developer who was one of its financiers. It was designed by Ernest Russell, of the St. Louis firm Mauran, Russell & Garden. It was the largest building in San Antonio at the time.</p><br>
<p>The Baker Hotel Company purchased the hotel in 1924 and expanded it in 1926 with the addition of three stories. The addition was designed by architect Herbert Green.</p><br>
<p>It was restored from 1980-1985, overseen by architect Robert V. Buck. At the same time, a two-story parking garage was added adjacent to the hotel, designed by Gustav Heye. It was renamed the Radisson Gunter Hotel in April 1986 and then the Sheraton Gunter Hotel in 1989. It was sold to the Camberley Group in 1996, becoming The Camberley Gunter. It was sold to Houston Street Hotel Partners in 1999 and became, again, the Sheraton Gunter Hotel.</p><br>
<p>The insurance company United Services Automobile Association was formed based on a meeting of twenty five United States Army Officers on June 22, 1922 at the Gunter Hotel to discuss the procurement of reliable and economical auto insurance.</p><br>
<h3>Military use</h3><br>
<p>The Vance House hotel, now the site of the Gunter Hotel, became the administrative offices for the USA Army during the Mexican–American War from 1846-1847 as the Headquarters for Texas military affairs. At this site, General David E. Twiggs surrendered $1,600,000 in federal property to the forces of Confederate Texas. The Gunter Hotel was also the site of the headquarters of Brevet Colonel Robert E. Lee who assumed command of the Post of San Antonio on August 5, 1857.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>On November 23, 1936, Room 414 of the Gunter was the scene of a historic recording session by blues artist Robert Johnson. Talent scout H. C. Speir had arranged the session with Brunswick Records who set up a temporary studio in the hotel where Johnson recorded a number of songs including the blues classic Sweet Home Chicago.</p><br>
<p>In 2009, John Mellencamp came to the Gunter to record for a new album, No Better Than This in the same room where Johnson had recorded in 1936.</p><br>
<p>In 2016 American singer songwriter Joe Henry and British singer songwriter Billy Bragg recorded a record in room 414 for their Shine A Light collaboration</p><br>
<p>Uet era Ngermeuangel  is a marine lake located on Koror island in Palau. There are about 70 other marine lakes located throughout the Rock Islands and Koror. Uet era Ngermeuangel is notable for endemic subspecies of golden jellyfish and is one of five marine lakes in Palau used for several scientific researches in evolutionary biology the other lakes being Jellyfish Lake, Clear Lake , Goby Lake, Uet era Ongael.</p><br>
<h2>Golden jellyfish</h2><br>
<p>Uet era Ngermeuangel is connected to the ocean through fissures and tunnels in the limestone of ancient Miocene reef. However the lake is sufficiently isolated and the conditions are different enough that the diversity of species in the lake is greatly reduced from the nearby lagoon. The golden jellyfish Mastigias cf. papua remeliiki and possibly other species in the lake have evolved to be substantially different from their close relatives living in the nearby lagoons. In the lake there is living also jellyfish Aurelia sp.</p><br>
<h2>Lake stratification</h2><br>
<p>Uet era Ngermeuangel is a deep, comparatively ancient (12,000–15,000 years old) lake, stratified into two layers, an oxygenated upper layer (mixolimnion) and a lower anoxic layer (monimolimnion). The oxygen concentration in the lake declines from about 6 mg/l at the surface to zero at 18 meters (at the chemocline). Stratification is persistent and seasonal mixing does not occur. The lake is one of about 200 saline meromictic lakes that have been identified in the world. Most of these lakes are of freshwater origin. Permanently stratified marine lakes are unusual, but in Palau there are eleven other such lakes. The most renowned one is Jellyfish Lake.</p><br>
<p>Uet era Ongael  is a marine lake located on Ongael island, Koror, in Palau. There are about 70 other marine lakes located throughout the Rock Islands and Koror. Uet era Ongael is notable for endemic subspecies of golden jellyfish and is one of five marine lakes in Palau used for several scientific researches in evolutionary biology, the other lakes being Jellyfish Lake, Clear Lake, Uet era Ngermeuangel and Goby Lake.</p><br>
<h2>Golden jellyfish</h2><br>
<p>Uet era Ongael is connected to the ocean through fissures and tunnels in the limestone of ancient Miocene reefs. However the lake is sufficiently isolated and the conditions are different enough that the diversity of species in the lake is greatly reduced from the nearby lagoon. The golden jellyfish Mastigias cf. papua remengesaui is substantially different from their close relatives living in the nearby lagoons. This is the most ornate of Palau lake jellyfishes, with solid white spots; younger jellyfish have a pale blue color.</p><br>
<p>The small lake is also home to jellyfish of other species (Aurelia sp., Cassiopea sp.).</p><br>
<h2>Lake morphology</h2><br>
<p>Uet era Ongael is the smallest and shallowest Palau lake with registered endemic subspecies of jellyfish. The lake is holomictic - it does not have layers as it is comparatively shallow and with low banks, permitting for winds and sea tides to mix the water.</p><br>
<p>At the Raßberg is one of the highest mountains in the Eifel region on the German and Belgian border. It lies within the municipality of Arft in the collective municipality of Vordereifel within sight of the Eifel&#39;s highest peak, the Hohe Acht.</p><br>
<h2>Walking</h2><br>
<p>Walkers and naturalists are drawn to its juniper heaths. It is accessible to the public via the Juniper Trail (Wacholderwanderweg), which runs for 15 km through the protected juniper reserve of the East Eifel.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There are good views from its largely unforested plateau, on which there is a US steel lattice mast. This was the previous location of Arft Radio Relay station (AFCC designation Adenau) maintained by the Air Force Communications Command now Air Force Network Integration Center and United States Air Force Europe USAFE. Arft was an unmanned microwave relay station linking the 2139th Communication Squadron at Prum Air Station and various points in Germany.</p><br>
<p>The John J. Suhr House is a historic house located on Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1886, the house was admitted to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Dane County, Wisconsin on June 17, 1982. The residence was built in the French Second Empire architectural style by the local prominent architect Captain John Nader, who also designed Holy Redeemer Catholic Church (1869), St. Patricks Catholic Church (1888–89), the Suhr Bank Building (1887), and the citys first sewer system. The house features a mansard roof, stone window trim and fancy woodwork on the bays. Additional construction occurred in 1902.</p><br>
<p>The houses first owner, John J. Suhr, was certainly an example of the American dream. He was born in Bremen, Germany, in 1836 and immigrated to Madison in 1857. He worked as a bookkeeper in the State Bank until 1871, when he founded the German Bank. He changed the name of the bank to the German-American Bank in 1885. This change represented the community bonds that were forming across nationalistic lines. Shortly thereafter, he had the honor of entertaining President Grover Cleveland. John J. Suhr died in 1901. His family owned and resided in the Suhr House for two generations until the death of John J. Suhrs son, John J. Suhr, Jr., in 1957.</p><br>
<p>The house currently serves as student housing in what has become a boisterous off-campus neighborhood. The houses on Langdon Street have been converted from mostly single family homes to sorority and fraternity residences and student housing.</p><br>
<p>The Arlington Club is a private social club organized in 1867 by 35 business and banking leaders of Portland in the US state of Oregon. First called the Social Club and later renamed the Arlington Club, it offered its all-male members, most of whom were relatively wealthy and powerful, an exclusive place to socialize and discuss their interests.</p><br>
<p>During its first century, a total of more than 3,300 men were club members at one time or another. Many, in addition to pursuing their livelihoods, were officers in civic, cultural, philanthropic, or social organizations, and some held government posts at the local, state, or federal levels.</p><br>
<p>For about 100 years, the club excluded Jews and minorities regardless of other criteria, and for 123 years it excluded women. In response to public pressure, it broadened the membership criteria for men by the late 1960s and for women in 1990., the Arlington Club continues to gather at its building in downtown Portland.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1867, Simeon Reed and 34 other Portland men organized what they called the Social Club to "fraternize for mutual enjoyment and relaxation, and to provide a meeting place for discussing their own and Portlands destiny". The club, "the social headquarters of Portlands male elite" Among the founders were John C. Ainsworth (Ainsworth National Bank), Henry Failing (merchandising, shipping, iron and steel, First National Bank), William S. Ladd (merchandising, transportation, flour milling, Ladd & Tilton Bank), Donald Macleay (merchandising, shipping, United States National Bank), George Weidler (steamships, real estate, lumber), and many others who made a lasting impact on the city.</p><br>
<p>Paul G. Merriam describes the city&#39;s early social elite, including the members of the Social Club, as "primarily businessmen and their close associates, such as lawyers and editors". The social elite were heads of families who "held property valued at $50,000 or more, and who were officers in one or more civic, cultural, philanthropic, or social organizations."</p><br>
<p>Although one of the clubs goals was to pattern itself after gentlemens clubs of Europe and older American cities, it also had "civic interests at heart and civic leaders as members...". However, according to Portland historian E. Kimbark MacColl, club members at times equated self-interest with civic interest:</p><br>
<p>In the 1890s at least, what was good for "them" was usually considered good for "the city". Rarely did the members distinguish between the public interest and their own private interests if actions and words have been reported accurately. It would appear that many of the major decisions affecting Portlands business and political life were actually reached during "informal" discussions held within the clubs portals.</p><br>
<p>Big banks, utilities, railroads, and USA Senators from Oregon were well represented within the membership. Generally in the 1890s four or five club members were part of the Oregon Legislature. Three other clubs—the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club (1891), the Waverly Golf Club (1896), and the University Club (1896)—formed during the 1890s, and memberships often overlapped with the Arlington Club. The Concordia Club, formed in 1878, was the Jewish version of the Arlington Club, which was at the time not open to Jews.</p><br>
<p>Among the club&#39;s self-generated list of notable members between 1867 and 1967 were George H. Williams, appointed Chief Justice of the Territorial Courts of Oregon in 1853, elected to the USA Senate in 1864, named United States Attorney General in 1871, and elected mayor of Portland in 1892. Another was Frederick Van Voorhies Holman, general counsel for an electric utility in the early 20th century, patron of the arts, and author of a biography of John McLoughlin. Journalist Harvey W. Scott, a mid-19th-century editor of The Oregonian and author of a six-volume history of Oregon, is on the list as is Lewis A. McArthur, a 20th-century electric utility executive and author of Oregon Geographic Names. University presidents, a bishop, and an Air Force general are among others on the list. Well-known guests of the club have included USA presidents William Howard Taft, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Ulysses S. Grant, author Aldous Huxley, heart surgeon Michael E. DeBakey, General George C. Marshall, bridge designer Ralph Modjeski, and many others.</p><br>
<h2>Meeting places, buildings</h2><br>
<p>For its first 14 years, the club members met in dining places, hotels, government chambers, or "any place available". At that time, it moved into its first clubhouse, the former J.C. Ainsworth residence at Southwest Third Avenue at Pine Street, which became available when the Ainsworths moved to California. It built its second clubhouse, at West Park Avenue and Alder Street, which it occupied from 1892 to 1910 until moving to the building the club still occupies, on Southwest Salmon Street facing the South Park Blocks. Architects for the latter structure, a four-story, low-rise building of brick and terra cotta in a neo-classical style, were William M. Whidden and Ion Lewis. The Park Blocks just south of the clubhouse are flanked by churches, the Portland Art Museum, the Oregon Historical Society Museum, and Portland State University, as well as other buildings forming part of the city&#39;s core. The building was nominated to become a National Register of Historic Places building in April 2010, and was listed on the registry in August of that year.</p><br>
<h2>Membership changes</h2><br>
<p>From the beginning, only business and community leaders were invited to join the club, a total of 3,300 of them during the clubs first century, but other exclusions applied as well. Jews and ethnic minorities were kept out of the Arlington Club until the late 1960s after Portlands Jewish leaders including Gus Solomon, a federal judge, criticized the exclusion rules. Change occurred slowly; The Oregonian newspaper reported that in 1989 Jews and ethnic minorities made up less than 3 percent of the Arlington Club membership and that the membership included no African Americans.</p><br>
<p>In October 1989, citing a federal law banning discrimination on the basis of gender, the Portland City Council, led by Commissioner Earl Blumenauer, passed a unanimous resolution urging the Arlington Club and the University Club, another men-only club, to admit women.</p><br>
<p>In March 1990, the Arlington Club members voted 320 to 145 to allow women to join the club; 5 members abstained, and others of the 525 members did not vote. Since the ratio of "yes" to "no" votes was 68.8 percent, slightly more than the two-thirds supermajority required to change the clubs rules, women, after 123 years of exclusion, were thereafter admitted. The club building was subsequently remodeled to add womens restrooms and a lounge, and women were officially allowed on February 11, 1991., the Arlington Club still meets at its building on Southwest Salmon Street in downtown Portland.</p><br>
<p>The Sacajawea Hotel, also known as Sacajawea Inn, is a hotel in Three Forks, Montana, United States. Built in 1910, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The listing included three contributing buildings over a 1.8 acre area.</p><br>
<p>The hotel served passengers on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, which terminated in Three Forks until 1927, when the line was extended to Gallatin Gateway. The original building was the Madison Hotel, built in 1862 on the original Three Forks townsite, and moved on log rollers a mile to its present location. At the time, the Milwaukee Depot was across the street, though the railroad That building now is the eastern portion of the current structure, housing support facilities. In 1910, the main lobby and 29 rooms were constructed by railroad agent John Q. Adams, who hired architect Fred Willson to create a grand but warm and welcoming design.</p><br>
<p>The condition of the hotel had declined significantly by the 1990s. In 2002 it was put up for sale and was bought in 2009 by the Folkvord family, which owns the bread company Wheat Montana. The hotel was closed for seven months for renovation, was refurbished and reopened. The hotel now includes a bar in the basement, restaurant with bar and adjoining meeting room, and 29 hotel rooms. They also offer bicycles for use on a trail that was created from one of the abandoned railroad trails.</p><br>
<p>The Bayonne Community Museum is located in the Bergen Point section of Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Designed by architect Lansing C. Holden, Sr., the Bayonne Trust Company building is an excellent example of Beaux-Arts architecture. The general contractor for the building was Wells & Marvin of New York, and the granite work was done by the George Brown Company. Construction began on May 1, 1912, with a budget of $100,000, but it cost $150,000 when completed. The bank opened on November 8, 1913. The Commercial Trust Company, its first occupant, was dissolved in 1948, and the building was sold to the United Jersey Bank. It was subsequently owned by Summit Bank and Fleet National Bank. FleetBoston Financial, which merged with Summit Bancorp in 2001, sold the bank building to the city on December 19, 2001.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 8, 2006.</p><br>
<p>Until its purchase by the City of Bayonne, the building had been used as a bank, which has contributed to the preservation of its architectural integrity. The bank was remodeled in the 1970s. The remodeling involved adding drop ceilings that covered up three stain glass windows. The original bronze doors were replaced with double doors of contemporary glass and bronze oxidized aluminum in 1979. The two-story Vermont granite-clad structure features paired, fluted Ionic columns flanking the front door, with segmented arch windows over the doorway. The entrance is in a pediment portico. The stone lintel over the door has the engraving "Incorporated 1902." The original four-riser granite stairs to the entrance are in good condition as is the contemporary wrought iron railing, which is not original to the building. A large gilt lamp adorns each side of the entrance.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>Fleet Bank donated the building to the city of Bayonne in October 2002. The building is now known as the Bayonne Community Museum planned to open after the completion of the renovation of the facility and installation of its first exhibition. The non-profit organization is creating a collection which contains variety of artifacts and other donated objects. In September 2010 the museum received $240,000 from Hudson County for continued realization of the redevelopment of the building. While the project has exceeded the original $3.1 million projected costs, work proceeds, including the restoration of the terrazzo floor. In January 2012, the Bayonne City Council authorized $175,000 contract for the installation of a HVAC system.</p><br>
<p>While the building has not opened to the public on a regular basis it is available for use for public and private events.</p><br>
<p>The College Avenue Historic District in Appleton, Wisconsin is a 7 acre historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. In 1982, it included 27 buildings deemed to contribute to the historic character of the area, one of which is the 12 story Zuelke Building, and one contributing object, the Soldiers Square Civil War Monument.</p><br>
<p>The contributing buildings include:</p><br>
<p>Zuelke Building, 103 W. College Avenue, a twelve-story gray granite building. Its interior is one of few intact original interiors</p><br>
<p>in the district.</p><br>
<p>Gibson&#39;s Auto Exchange, at 211 W. College Avenue, Art Deco.</p><br>
<p>Bissing Building, 203-205 W. College Avenue, with lions&#39; heads in its roofline pediments. In 1982 two commercial establishments, Boot Hill and Brown Beam Tavern, occupied the building.</p><br>
<p>The Main Street Historic District is a 21 acre national historic district located at Marion, McDowell County, North Carolina. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. In 1991, it included 36 buildings deemed to contribute to the historic character of the area and one other contributing site.</p><br>
<p>Specifically included in the Main Street Historic District are: four churches: St. Johns Episcopal Church (1882), First Baptist (1914), First Presbyterian (1923), and St. Matthews Lutheran Church (1935); two former hotels: the Eagle Hotel, which survived the 1894 fire, and the Hotel Marianna (1910); a bank on Main Street built in 1903; the McDowell County Courthouse, which was constructed in 1928; the Marion Depot (1860s), which is the oldest surviving depot on the Western Rail Line; the Public Library (1937), which was originally built as a post office; and the Marion Community Building, built in 1937. Projects are currently underway to revitalize the downtown area as well as to maintain and restore the character of the long-standing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Alpine Institute was a Presbyterian mission school located in Overton County, Tennessee, United States. Operating in one form or another from 1821 until 1947, the school provided badly needed educational services to children living in the remote hill country of the Upper Cumberland region. In 2002, several of the school&#39;s surviving structures were added to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district.</p><br>
<p>John Dillard (1793&ndash;1884), a minister affiliated with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Southern Appalachia, established the Alpine School atop Alpine Mountain in 1821 and expanded the school in the 1840s. The school was burned by bushwhackers during the Civil War and again by the Ku Klux Klan in the years after the war. The school was re-established in 1880 at its current location at the base of Alpine Mountain, and under the leadership of future Tennessee governor A. H. Roberts continued to thrive into the following decade. In 1917, the better-funded Presbyterian Church (USA) assumed control of the school and helped it develop into one of the state&#39;s most competitive rural schools.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Alpine Institute was located along Highway 52 (Jamestown Highway) in the Alpine community, just over 10 mi east of Livingston. This community is situated in a valley carved by Nettlecarrier Creek (which empties into the Obey River just east of Alpine), and is surrounded by high ridges on all sides, most notably the 1,826 ft Alpine Mountain, which rises prominently to the south. A one-lane road, Campus Circle, accesses the church and adjacent buildings. The farm once operated by the school is accessible from Mountain Lane (which intersects Campus Circle near the church) and Pat Carr Lane.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early history</h3><br>
<p>John Dillard, a minister from Virginia who helped establish the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1810, is generally credited with the founding of "Alpine Academy" in 1821, while others suggest both men founded schools that were later merged. In any case, Dillard and Organ were working together by the 1840s, and had managed to build a relatively sizeable campus atop Alpine Mountain. The schools faculty during this period included Dillards son, William, and future Illinois governor John Beveridge.</p><br>
<p>During the Civil War, law and order almost completely disappeared in the Upper Cumberland region, and the Alpine school was destroyed by bushwhackers. The school attempted to rebuild after the end of the war, but these efforts were thwarted when the Ku Klux Klan burned what remained of the school&#39;s campus. By 1866, Dillard had left the state, and efforts to re-establish the Alpine school were temporarily abandoned.</p><br>
<h3>The Davis and Roberts years (1880s and 1890s)</h3><br>
<p>In 1880, Alpine Academy was re-established at its current location in the Alpine community at the base of Alpine Mountain. The school initially had five faculty who pursued "no stereotyped or threadbare system of instruction," and the school&#39;s first catalog listed an enrollment of 94 males and 48 females. Led by its able principal, W. T. Davis, the school continued to grow throughout the decade.</p><br>
<p>In 1891, Alpine native Albert H. Roberts (1868&ndash;1946)&mdash; who would later serve as governor of Tennessee&mdash; took over as the school&#39;s principal, and renamed the school "Alpine Institute." By this time, the school had six faculty members, of which three had college degrees. The school offered instruction in "primary," "intermediate," and "collegiate" courses. The intermediate curriculum included courses in geography, history, geology, and algebra. The collegiate curriculum included courses in geometry, trigonometry, botany, chemistry, and classical studies, namely Latin and Greek.</p><br>
<h3>Presbyterian Church, USA (1917&ndash;1947)</h3><br>
<p>After Roberts departure, the Alpine Institute dropped its collegiate curriculum, and by the 1900s (decade) had devolved into an ordinary school. In 1913, the Presbyterian Church USAs National Missions superintendent for Middle Tennessee toured the Upper Cumberland, and noted that the Alpine school was meeting only three months out of the year. A subsequent survey found the regions rural areas to badly in need of basic educational facilities, and in 1917 the churchs Board of Missions agreed to re-establish the Alpine Institute. The school&#39;s first class graduated in 1924.</p><br>
<p>A teacherage was built shortly after the school opened, and a larger school building, known as "Miller Hall," was completed in 1922. By the 1930s, the school had its own dispensary with a full-time nurse, a woodshop building, a manse, and two dormitories. The school&#39;s Christ Church Presbyterian, a Gothic Revival-style church, was completed in 1934. A gymnasium was built in 1939 with help from the Works Progress Administration. The school also operated a 100 acre dairy farm where students could work rather than pay tuition.</p><br>
<p>As Tennessees roads improved in the 1930s, rural schools began to consolidate. Overton Countys public school system took over the operations of Alpines grade school in 1936. This grade school was merged with several other schools to form A. H. Roberts Elementary School in Livingston in 1987. Alpine Institutes high school was closed in 1947, and its students were transferred to Livingston Academy.</p><br>
<h2>The Alpine Institute campus today</h2><br>
<p>While Alpine Institutes main school building no longer stands, several important structures associated with the school have survived. The Christ Church Presbyterian is well-maintained and still used for religious services. The schools gymnasium is now used as a community center, and the manse is still in use as a residence. Other surviving structures include the shop building and a dairy barn. The gymnasium, church, and shop building were all built using the same type of native stone.</p><br>
<p>The Tiller Ranger Station is a United States Forest Service compound consisting of twenty-seven buildings in Oregon’s Umpqua National Forest. Over the years, it has been the administrative headquarters for five ranger districts. It is located in the small unincorporated community of Tiller, Oregon. The historic structures were built in the rustic style by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1935 and 1942. Today, the ranger station is the headquarters for the Tiller Ranger District. The ranger station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the early 20th century, the forest road networks were not well developed. To facilitate work in National Forests, the Forest Service built district ranger stations at strategic locations within the forest to house full-time employees and provide logistics support to fire patrols and project crews working in remote areas of the forest. After World War II, the Forest Service greatly expanded its road network, allowing employees to get to most forest areas within a few hours. As a result, many of the more isolated ranger stations were closed or converted to summer guard stations. However, the Tiller Ranger Station has continuously served as a district headquarters since it was established. Over the years, five ranger districts have used the Tiller Ranger Station as their administrative headquarters.</p><br>
<p>In 1908, the Umpqua National Forest was created in southern Oregon. The Summit Ranger District was established in 1913 as an administrative subdivision of the Umpqua National Forest. However, the district was not staffed with a ranger until 1918. The Summit district was responsible for the south bank of the South Umpqua River extending east to the Rogue-Umpqua divide in the Rattlesnake Mountain area. The Deadman Ranger District was also created in 1913 and staffed in 1918. It covered the north side of the South Umpqua River drainage. Both districts had their administrative headquarters at the Tiller Ranger Station.</p><br>
<p>The South Umpqua Ranger District was established in 1916. Its district headquarters was also located at Tiller Ranger Station. In 1920, the Summit and Deadman ranger districts were merged into the South Umpqua district.</p><br>
<p>The Cow Creek Ranger District was created in 1946 from a division of the large South Umpqua Ranger District. Two years later, the two ranger districts were recombined into a single South Umpqua district. In 1954, the South Umpqua district was again divided into a new Cow Creek district and a smaller South Umpqua district; however, the two districts had different boundaries than the earlier division. The South Umpqua district retained authority over the upper South Umpqua River drainage while the Cow Creek district administered the Cow Creek, Elk Creek, and Beaver Creek watersheds. Both districts maintained district offices at Tiller Ranger Station.</p><br>
<p>In 1956, the Cow Creek Ranger District was reduced in size when a large portion of the Oregon and California Railroad lands were administratively transferred to the Bureau of Land Management. The Cow Creek district was renamed the Tiller Ranger District in 1964. In 1968, the South Umpqua Ranger District was consolidated with the Tiller Ranger District. The new district kept the Tiller name because the administrative headquarters was still located at the Tiller Ranger Station.</p><br>
<p>Today, the Tiller Ranger District covers 325,106 acre on the western slopes of the Cascade Mountains in southern Oregon. The Tiller Ranger Station still serves as the administrative headquarters for the district. There are twenty-seven buildings that make up the ranger station complex. Nine of those buildings are historically important. All the historic buildings except the barn are located in close proximity to one and other with the non-historic structures on the periphery of the compound. The historic buildings are all in excellent condition and are still used by Forest Service employees. Because the Tiller Ranger Station is of unique historic value as an early Forest Service ranger station, the compound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 6 March 1991. The historic district covers approximately 12 acre.</p><br>
<h2>Structures</h2><br>
<p>The four ranger residences are all of unique design. All of the residences were built in the late 1930s. The largest (Residence #1058) was built in 1936. It is a T-shaped, one-and-one-half-story wood-frame building on a concrete foundation. It has a high gabled roof with intersecting cross-gabled hip extensions above the main entry. Three stone steps lead to a flagstone porch in front of the main entrance. The front porch is supported by square posts. There is a stone masonry chimney on the east side of the building. The building&#39;s exterior is covered with wood shingles except the gable ends and gablets which have vertical board siding. Like the other three residences, the building has six-over-six double-hung sash windows flanked by decorative shutters with pine tree logo cut-outs. Adjacent to the residence is a hip roof garage with the shingle siding. There is a pine tree cut-out on the main vehicle entry door.</p><br>
<p>The other three residences are all one-story structures. One is a T-shaped design while the remaining two have rectangular footprints. All three are wood-frame structures on concrete foundations. They all have shingles exteriors, flagstone porches, stone masonry chimneys, and gabled roofs. However, each has a different floor plan and exterior look. There is a second garage located next to the T-shaped residence.</p><br>
<p>The Civilian Conservation Corps also built three non-residential structures at the Tiller Ranger Station. The warehouse is a one-and-one-half-story rectangular building with a large drive-in storage area at one end and an interior storage area at the other end. It is a wood-frame structure with horizontal wood siding. The automotive shop is also a one-and-one-half-story rectangular building. It is a wood-frame structure on a concrete foundation with vertical board siding. The shop has three large vehicle bays with pull-down doors and an adjoining storage and work area.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Tiller Ranger Station is in southeastern Douglas County, Oregon surrounded by the Umpqua National Forest. The elevation at the site is 1,043 ft above sea level. The forest around the ranger station is made up of Douglas fir, hemlock, and Western red cedar.</p><br>
<p>The Tiller Ranger Station is 17 mi east of Canyonville, Oregon in the small unincorporated community of Tiller, Oregon. The ranger station is on the south bank of the South Umpqua River, just off Oregon Route 227. The Forest Service district office and all of the historic buildings are on the north side of the highway.</p><br>
<p>The volcano Prestahnúkur is in the west of the Highlands of Iceland to the west of Langjökull glacier, or to be more specific, to the west of Geitlandsjökull glacier, a part of the Langjökull.</p><br>
<h2>The volcanic system</h2><br>
<p>The central volcano Prestahnúkur consists of rhyolite and has a small magma chamber. At its feet is a high temperature area which shows that the volcano is active.</p><br>
<p>In 2009 some geologists of the Icelandic Meteorologic Institute researched the material about earthquake events in the area. This shows that volcanic fissures lie in direction southwest-northeast and reach among others under the glaciers Þórisjökull and Geitlandsjökull-Langjökull.</p><br>
<h2>The rock</h2><br>
<p>The rhyolite of the mountain was for some time very popular and exploited as construction material, partly for export. But the mine has been closed.</p><br>
<h2>The name</h2><br>
<p>The name means "peak of the priests".</p><br>
<p>The origin of the name was an expedition of two priests into the highlands in the 17th century. It was seen as quite an enterprise at the time when they went into this region. They explored especially a valley behind the Þórisjökull called Þórisdalur, which had a bad reputation in sagas and folk stories because it was believed to be haunted by ghosts and that lawless people would be living there. As is clear today, they found nothing of the sort, but they were regarded as heroes when they came back from this expedition.</p><br>
<h2>Highland Road Kaldidalur and mountaineering</h2><br>
<p>The highland road Kaldidalur is situated not far from the mountain and it is possible to access the mountain by a bad jeep track and climb it.</p><br>
<p>The Warrenton Woolen Mill is a historic textile mill at 839 Main Street in Torrington, Connecticut. Founded in 1844, the mill was a major part of the local economy until its closure in 1984. Its surviving complex, dating to the early 20th century, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It has since been renovated into housing, as the Warrenton Mill Condominiums.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Warrenton Woolen Mill Complex is located north of downtown Torrington, on the west bank of the East Branch Naugatuck River. It is accessed from Main Street, which parallels the river on the east bank, via a drive that crosses the river. The mill consists of two large brick buildings, one two stories in height and the other three, connected by other structures. The site includes eight buildings in all, most of which date to the early 20th century. The two main mill buildings, each more than 250 ft in length, are set parallel to each other in a north-south orientation, and exhibit modest commercial Italianate style. A large portion of the weaving shed is topped by a sawtooth roof.</p><br>
<p>The mill site was first used for textile production in 1844, and its investors included members of the prominent Wolcott family. This complex was built in 1908 to designs by prolific mill designer Charles T. Main, and are his only known work in the state. The complex was used for textile production until 1984. From the late 19th century the firm specialized in the manufacture of heavy fabrics for the uniforms of police and military organizations.</p><br>
<p>Villa Friuli, also known as the DeMichiel House, is a historic house at 58 High Street in Torrington, Connecticut. Built in 1915, it is a distinctive local example of Mediterranean Revival architecture, which was built and occupied by the first Italian families to move to Torringtion. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It now houses professional offices.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Villa Friuli is located northwest of downtown Torrington, on the west side of High Street at its junction with Central Avenue. It is a 2-1/2 story masonry structure, built out of terra cotta tile covered in stucco, and topped by a low-pitch hip roof. The roof is pierced by hip-roof dormers, and has extended eaves supported by paired large Stick style brackets. The facade is a symmetrical four bays wide, with a projecting single-story porch sheltering the center two bays. The outer first-floor bays have three-part windows set in segmented-arch openings, while the upper-level windows are sash, in pairs in the center bays and singly in the outer ones.</p><br>
<p>The house was built as a duplex in 1915 by John and Matthew DeMichiel, brothers who were among the first group of Italians to settle in Torrington. The house was designed by Ferruccio (Fred) Guarda, a draftsman working in an architectural firm in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The DeMichiels established a contracting business, primarily in the cutting of stone, and their handiwork is evidenced in the house&#39;s interior. The brothers first major job was providing pillars for Torrington City Hall. John DeMichiel also became active in politics, representing Torrington in the state legislature.</p><br>
<p>The Washington Opera House is a 2 1/2 story structure near the western end of the main downtown shopping district of Maysville, Kentucky. The sides and rear of the theater are of red brick while the facade is of buff brick trimmed with red brick, stone, and cast iron.</p><br>
<p>The tradition of theater in Mason County dates back to at least 1797 according to the Washington, Kentucky newspaper, The Mirror. The performance at the "Court House" is the first record of a stage performance west of the Alleghenies to disclose play titles, performance dates and prices. By 1817, there was a theater in Limestone (Maysville) at the corner of 2nd Street and Fish Street (now Wall Street).</p><br>
<p>A disastrous fire destroyed a significant amount of property on West Second Street in April 1850 including the Presbyterian Church, then known as the Old Blue Church. The church congregation decided to rebuild on Third Street, leaving the Second Street lot vacant. In 1851, two fire companies were formed to prevent a repeat of the town fire and an elegant theater, "The Opera House", was built on the site of the Old Blue Church.</p><br>
<p>In 1898, fire struck again and "The Opera House" was destroyed. Perhaps from remorse, the Washington Fire Company, organized at the time the theater was built - nearly five decades before, decided to rebuild it at a cost of $24,000 and the new structure was thereafter known as the "Washington Opera House".</p><br>
<p>A number of famous artists and actors performed here including Marguerite Clark, Tom Mix, John L. Sullivan, and John Philip Sousa and his band. The Washington Opera continues as a theater and is currently home to the Maysville Players.</p><br>
<p>St. Anthonys Catholic Church is a parish in the Diocese of Davenport. The parish complex is located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States, at the corner of Fourth and Main Streets. It is the first church congregation organized in the city of Davenport and the second, after St. Raphaels Cathedral in Dubuque, Catholic congregation in the state of Iowa. The parish buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as St. Anthonys Roman Catholic Church Complex. The designation includes the church and the former school building, which is the parishs original church building and is the oldest standing church building in the state of Iowa. The designation also included the rectory, which was torn down in 2009. It is also listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 1992 as St. Anthony&#39;s Church Square. The property has been known historically as Church Square.</p><br>
<h2>Development</h2><br>
<p>In 1832, on what is now the city of Davenport, Chief Keokuk of the Sauk tribe signed a treaty with the United States government after the tribe’s defeat in the Black Hawk War. The tribe ceded land on the west side of the Mississippi River, which was then opened to settlement. Antoine LeClaire, who was French-Pottawattamie and served as translator at the treaty signing, received two parcels of land. The original section of the city was laid out in 1836. The next year an addition was made to the small town on one of LeClaire’s parcels. He stipulated that a Catholic church be built on one of the squares. That same year a frontier missionary, the Rev. Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli, OP, arrived in Davenport and started the parish. At that time there were 25 Catholics in a town of 100 people. It is the oldest church congregation in Davenport.</p><br>
<p>Mazzuchelli drew up plans for a simple two-story structure that would serve as a church and priest’s residence. He actually gave the parish two patron saints. St. Peter is the parishs primary patron, and St. Anthony of Padua is its secondary patron. However the parish has always been known as St. Anthonys, the patron saint of its benefactor Antoine LeClaire. Ground was broken for the new church on April 27, 1838, and it was built by Harvey Leonard for more than $2,000. The first bricks manufactured in the city of Davenport were used to build the church. Bishop Mathias Loras of Dubuque dedicated the new structure on May 23, 1839. The building served many purposes for the small community. It was a church, city hall, courthouse, schoolhouse, public forum, and gathering place for the citizens of the town. The churchs bell called parishioners to Mass, children to school, sounded the alarm for a fire, as well as summoning the citys aldermen for their sessions.</p><br>
<p>The title to the property, named Church Square, was deeded to Bishop Loras in 1839 to support the Catholic Church in Davenport. Commercial properties were built on the east side of the block. Income from these properties was a factor in Davenport being named a see city with its own bishop in 1881.</p><br>
<p>The church had a small choir which included Antoine LeClaire and Judge C.G.R. Mitchell, who would provide the land for the citys first Catholic cemetery and two of the churches in the citys west end. There was, however, no organ. Instead, music was led by a small ensemble made up of a violin, clarinet, flute, and cello.</p><br>
<p>The parish&#39;s first pastor was a French missionary priest recruited by Bishop Loras, the Rev. J.A.M. Pelamourgues, who arrived in Davenport in September 1839. He served the parish until 1868 when he remained in his native France while he was visiting there. Initially, Father Pelamourgues resided in a partitioned section of the gallery of the church. He was also responsible for more than the small parish in Davenport. He traveled to other Catholic communities in the region: Muscatine, Iowa City, Burlington, Columbus Junction, DeWitt and Lyons (the north side of present-day Clinton). Bishop Loras was also interested in evangelizing the Native Americans in his jurisdiction and he placed Father Pelamourgues in charge of the Sauk and Fox tribes in southeastern Iowa.</p><br>
<h2>School</h2><br>
<p>St. Anthony’s School opened in 1839 with Father Pelamourgues as its teacher. Initially, classes were taught in the body of the church with a curtain closing off the sanctuary. The most prominent pupil to be educated at St. Anthony&#39;s in its early years was John Forrest Dillon, who would go on to become the Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court and a United States circuit court judge.</p><br>
<p>In 1846 Father Pelamourgues convinced the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary to teach in the school and to start a school for girls. The parish school at St. Anthonys continued until it closed in 1968 because of low enrollment. The building continues to be used for the parishs religious education program.</p><br>
<h2>Growth</h2><br>
<p>The parish continued to grow. By 1847 there were 450 parishioners, which was still a quarter of the town&#39;s population. In 1850 the front section of the present church was begun. Thomas Doyle and Henry Belken were responsible for constructing the new church. The building, completed in 1853 in the simple Greek Revival style, was built of locally quarried stone and measured 94 by. The original building was remodeled for more classroom space at this time. The rectory was built around 1877.</p><br>
<p>New parishes were beginning to form in Davenport that took parishioners from St. Anthony’s. St. Kunigunda (1855), which was renamed St. Joseph in 1881, served the pastoral needs of the growing German Community. St. Margaret’s (1856) was built on top of the bluff to the east of downtown. St. Margaret’s became Davenport’s first cathedral in 1881 with the establishment of the Davenport Diocese. St. Anthony’s was not chosen to be the cathedral because its downtown location was considered inappropriate. St. Margaret’s was renamed Sacred Heart when the present cathedral was built in 1891. St. Mary&#39;s Church was started in 1867 to serve the English speaking Catholics of the west end.</p><br>
<p>Even though these new parishes were being formed, St. Anthony’s continued to grow. Father Pelamourgues was succeeded by several priests who stayed for short periods of time until the Rev. D.J. Flannery arrived in 1882 and remained pastor until 1916. It was during his pastorate that transept wings with balconies were added to the church from 1885 to 1886 and the sanctuary was extended 18 ft. A larger sacristy was also added to the church. The addition was built of brick.</p><br>
<h2>20th Century</h2><br>
<p>By the turn of the 20th century St. Anthonys became the only church downtown. By the end of the first decade the parishs boundaries had become fixed to the central city with the founding of two parishes on top of the hill: Holy Family (1898) in the northwest part of the city and St. Paul the Apostle (1909) on the east side.</p><br>
<p>The grotto to the Blessed Virgin Mary on the north side of the church was added in the 1920s. It was rebuilt in 1998 and the current statue was placed in it in 1999.</p><br>
<p>A major renovation was carried out in 1949 when a manufactured stone facing, or permastone, was put on the 1886 addition to the church, the school (original church) and the rectory. This gave the parish complex a unified appearance. The sacristy was also expanded along the south transept. The north wing was also added to the school building. This was the last addition made to the original building. There was also an addition made to the rectory to create more living space for the resident clergy.</p><br>
<p>In the 1960s changes were made to facilitate the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council. While the communion rail was removed and a new free-standing altar was created so the priest could face the congregation, the old altars, frescos and statuary remain in the church.</p><br>
<p>One of the more colorful chapters in the parish’s history was the Folk Masses of the 1970s. Rev. James Grubb, the associate pastor, inspired the masses that included contemporary music played on guitars, colorful vestments, and young people sitting on the floor of the sanctuary.</p><br>
<p>In 1987 the parish celebrated its sesquicentennial. To commemorate the occasion, a sculpture was commissioned and placed on the front of the church property facing Main Street. It depicts Father Mazzuchelli, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a child representing the children who attended the parish school, Col. George Davenport (for whom the city of Davenport was named) and Antoine LeClaire. The statue group stands atop a pedestal that encloses the church&#39;s original bell.</p><br>
<h2>21st Century</h2><br>
<p>In 2009 the rectory was torn down to make room for a new parish center. Called the Gathering Center, the new facility is a 7,200 ft&sup2; building that includes classrooms with moveable walls for religious education classes, church offices, a kitchen and a renovated “McAnthony’s Window,” a parish-based outreach program. A social hall that holds up to 300 people is also a part of the new facility. The new building and its landscaping are meant to blend into the historic Church Square property. The original church building was also renovated.</p><br>
<p>In 2017 a new pipe organ was built by the Noack Organ Company of Georgetown, Massachusetts and installed in the church. It is the fourth organ the parish has owned since the church was built. The previous instrument dated from the 1940s.</p><br>
<h2>Social Action</h2><br>
<p>The parish has been involved in the social and civic life of the Davenport community almost from its very beginning. The Davenport Temperance Society, which was formed in 1842, held their weekly meetings at St. Anthony&#39;s. In 1985 the parish began its “Care and Share” program under the direction of its pastor, the Rev. Kenneth Martin. Ten percent of the parish’s weekly collection was set aside to aid those in need. His successor, the Rev. James Conroy began what has been dubbed “McAnthony’s Window,” a program that serves lunch to the homeless and indigent people. Another food distribution program collects food for baskets that are distributed to the elderly and poor at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>St. Anthony&#39;s Church follows a Latin Cross plan. The exterior of the front part of the church, which is the oldest section, is composed of quarry-faced, coursed, ashlar limestone. It reflects a period when highly skilled stonemasons and finely worked materials were not readily available in Davenport. The structure features a gable front, deep eave returns and a modillion frieze. Crosses are located at the peaks of the three gable ends. The rear of the church has a hip roof. The interior plan features a larger central nave that is flanked by side aisles. The apse, which appears rounded on the interior, is squared on the exterior. As mentioned earlier, the back addition to the church is covered in permastone. The round arch is used throughout the church. It is found in the stained glass windows, the vault of the ceiling, and on the reredos in the apse. It is also found on the main entrance into the church, which is capped with a fan-shaped tympanum. The stained glass is original to each section of the building when it was built. The ceiling features paintings over the center aisle. From the front entrance to the altar they depict Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead (or possibly raising the daughter of Naim), the Assumption of Mary into Heaven, and Jesus healing the sick. In the middle of the transept over the altar are symbols that represent the Four Evangelists. The statues in the reredos include the Sacred Heart in the center and it is flanked by Saint Patrick and Saint John the Evangelist. A bas-relief of the Last Supper is on the former altar frontal. There are also numerous other statues throughout the church. The church is set back from the street and is located in a park-like setting with mature vegetation.</p><br>
<p>The former school building, which is also the original church, is a two-story, side gable building with a projecting entrance pavilion. It was originally a frame structure with a brick veneer exterior that has since been covered with permastone. Initially, it was rectangular in shape, but additions have created a cross-shaped plan. A round arch in the entrance gable end is its prominent decorative feature. There is also a cross above the entrance pavilion.</p><br>
<p>The rectory, no longer extant, was also a frame structure with brick veneer that was covered with permastone. Designed in a vernacular style, it was a two-story, three bay front-gable house with a two-story side wing and further additions. A portion of one of those additions that included the garages remains behind the Gathering Center.</p><br>
<p>Lake Vrana , in the centre of Cres island, is a fresh water lake, 1.5 km wide and about 4.8 km long. The town of Cres has been supplied with drinking water from the lake since 1953, and the towns of Mali and Veli Lošinj received their supplies ten years later. It was thought at one time that the water in the lake was linked to some mainland source by underground streams, but it has since been established that in fact it originates from the atmosphere.</p><br>
<p>The lake is one of cryptodepression characteristics. It was formed by very heavy tectonic movements along a longitudinal relaxation fault which now contains 220 million m of fresh water. Comprising an area of 5.8 km&sup2;, the depression reaches a depth of around 60 m below the sea level, but its surface lies about 14 m above it, oscillating by about half a metre, meaning the maximum depth is 74 m. It is surrounded by mountains like the 483 m high Mont Elmo and Mount Perskra of 429 m.</p><br>
<p>The lake contains pike, tench and carp. There are also eels, but their origin is still unclear.</p><br>
<p>The village of Vrana, above the lake, is located 15 km south of the town of Cres.</p><br>
<h2>Myth of Lake Vrana</h2><br>
<p>There is a local legend that there is a castle under the lake. According to the legend, a rich sister who lived in the castle would not give her much poorer sister money or food. As a result, she was punished by having her castle flooded during a severe thunderstorm which caused Lake Vrana to be created. The story goes on to tell that on some windy days, if one is to listen very carefully the tower bells can still be heard ringing to this day.</p><br>
<p>Piedra del Cocuy  is a natural monument located nearby the triple border of Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela in the limits of the Amazon and the Orinoco Basins. Piedra del Cocuy is an inselberg made of grantic rock, its peak stands at c. 450 m a.s.l.</p><br>
<h2>Triple border</h2><br>
<p>Administratively the region corresponds to the municipalities of Inírida, Guainía in Colombia, the municipality of Río Negro in the Amazonas State in Venezuela and the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira in the Amazonas State of Brazil. The tripoint border between the three countries is in the nearby island of San José in the Rio Negro.</p><br>
<h2>Border Towns</h2><br>
<p>La Guadalupe, on the Colombian side and the western banks of the Rio Negro with a population of around 300 people, mostly Amerindians.</p><br>
<p>San Simón del Cocuy, on the Venezuelan side and Eastern banks of the Rio Negro.</p><br>
<p>Cucuí, in Brazil. It is actually a military post connected by road to the city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira.</p><br>
<h2>Transport</h2><br>
<p>The Rio Negro is the most important waterway.</p><br>
<p>There is a road (BR-307) that connects the border post of Cucuí in the Brazilian side with the city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira.</p><br>
<h2>Economy</h2><br>
<p>The region has been inhabited for thousands of years by indigenous groups including Baniwa, Karupaka (Kurrin), Karry (Karutama) who belong to the language family Arawak. The main economic activity has been the traditional exploitation of gold which has generated conflicts between the indigenous and the miners (known as garimpeiros)</p><br>
<p>Delaware County Courthouse Square District is a national historic district located at Delhi in Delaware County, New York. The district contains 18 contributing buildings and one contributing structure. It consists of a distinctive and unspoiled grouping of 19th century governmental, commercial, and religious structures built around the village green. It includes the county courthouse and clerks office, the sheriffs office and jail, and a bandstand. It also includes the buildings surrounding the green. The -story brick courthouse building was designed by Isaac G. Perry and features a mansard roof. Also within the district are the Presbyterian church  and Bank building .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Townsville Post Office is a heritage-listed former post office and now brewery at 252-270 Flinders Street, Townsville CBD, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by John James Clark and built in 1886 by Dennis Kellcher. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 30 May 2003.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Post Office was constructed in a number of stages. The first stage was a two-storey telegraph office at a cost of almost £6000, following a 1886 extension for a post office (ground floor) with a residence for the postmaster on the upper floor) costing over £8000. Dennis Kellcher submitted a tender and carried out extensions in 1888, while a clock tower was built by Henry L Davis & Co. Chimes were imported from England in 1889 and installed by 1891.</p><br>
<p>Following the bombing of Darwin, the clocktower was dismantled in 1942 and the mechanism was stored away. A greatly modified tower was built in 1963-64 by JE Allen & Co. of Townsville at a cost of £42,135. The interior was also modernised at this time. Because of its prominent location, the Post Office often became the scene of political rallies around a speaker on a soap box.</p><br>
<p>In 2001, it was redeveloped as The Brewery, owned by the Townsville Brewing Company. The company brews beer on-site and has a restaurant and bar.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Post Office is a cement-rendered brick building, which displays Renaissance features. Its asymmetric facade has a loggia on the lower level, which shades the building along Flinders and Denham Streets and a verandah along the front and side facade of the upper level. The lowpitched hipped roof of corrugated iron extends into four gabled projections, while a slender clocktower and parapeted cupola dominates the corner.</p><br>
<p>On the upper level, French doors open onto the verandah, with sashed windows in all other openings. The interior is not as intact as the facade because of years of alterations. The building stands in a commanding position in the streetscape at the eastern end of Flinders Mall. It can be seen from across Ross Creek and enhances the western end of historic Flinders Street East. Despite interior modifications, the basic structure is intact and in excellent condition.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>The former Townsville Post Office was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 30 May 2003 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>The Post Office is a most significant building of its type and in its particular location. It is a fine example of a purpose-built colonial government building displaying Renaissance elements.</p><br>
<p>For over one hundred years it has been a landmark in the streetscape of the town.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.</p><br>
<p>The Post Office is a most significant building of its type and in its particular location. It is a fine example of a purpose-built colonial government building displaying Renaissance elements.</p><br>
<p>The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.</p><br>
<p>For over one hundred years it has been a landmark in the streetscape of the town.</p><br>
<p>Wilson Hills is a hill station in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is near Dharampur Tahsil and is also the nearest hill station to Surat.</p><br>
<p>Wilson Hills stands in a densely forested region close to the Pangarbari Wildlife Sanctuary. It is one of the few hill stations in the world from which it is possible to glimpse the sea.</p><br>
<p>It has an average elevation of 750m (2500 feet). The Wilson Hills are popular during the summer months as it enjoys a cooler and less humid climate than the surrounding area.</p><br>
<h2>View points</h2><br>
<p>There are a total of six points on the Wilson Hills and other places near Wilson Hills.</p><br>
<p>Marble Chatri Pt</p><br>
<p>Steep Valley Pt</p><br>
<p>Ozone Valley Pt</p><br>
<p>Sunrise Pt</p><br>
<p>Sunset Pt</p><br>
<p>shankar waterfalls pt</p><br>
<p>Barumal temple</p><br>
<p>Lady Wilson museum</p><br>
<p>The district science centre</p><br>
<p>Jalaram dham faladhara</p><br>
<p>Bilpudi twin waterfalls</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Wilson Hills was named in memory of Lord Wilson, the Governor of Mumbai from 1923 to 1928, by Vijay Devji, the last King of Dharampur. Lord Wilson and King Vijay Devji had planned to develop the area into a hill station, but the project failed to take place. A monument to their memory remains on the peak.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Wilson Hills is located at 20.51442&deg;N latitude, 73.218813&deg;E longitude, about 130 km from Surat, 80 km from Navsari, and 60 km from Valsad. It is connected by a tar road to the town of Dharampur, which is 29 km (18 miles) away at the base of the hills.</p><br>
<p>m-Dharampur. Then take the Dharampur-Nasik highway. After 3 km you will reach a junction - one road toward Nasik, one toward Dharampur, and one toward Wilson Hills and Barumal. Take the Wilson Hills road and you will reach the foothills after 10 km. This marks the start of the Wilson Hills Ghat Road. Wilson Hills is reached after a very steep ascent for 20 km including 16 switchbacks.</p><br>
<h2>Distance from towns and cities</h2><br>
<p>Dharampur, India - 25 km</p><br>
<p>Chikhli, Gujarat - 55 km</p><br>
<p>Saputara - 120 km</p><br>
<p>Vapi - 62 km</p><br>
<p>Valsad - 55 km</p><br>
<p>Navsari - 81 km</p><br>
<p>Surat - 126 km</p><br>
<p>Mumbai - 250 km</p><br>
<p>Barumal - 18 km</p><br>
<p>Nashik - 145 km</p><br>
<p>Nanapondha-41 km</p><br>
<p>Ahmedabad - 362 km</p><br>
<p>Manimala River is a 92 km long river in South and Central Kerala. Though the river is a tributary of Pamba River, it is considered a separate river for geographical purposes. It has its origin on the Muthavara Hills  on the Western Ghats, in Idukki district of Kerala, India. The river passes through the districts of Kottayam, Pathanamthitta and finally joins the Pamba River at Muttar near Tiruvalla in Alappuzha district. Yendayar, Koottickal, Mundakayam, Erumeli, Manimala, Kottangal, Kulathurmoozy, Vaipur, Mallappally, Thuruthicad, Vennikkulam, Kaviyoor, Kallooppara, Niranam, Muttar, Thalavadi, Kozhimukku, pulincunnoo, moncompu and Champakkulam lie on the banks of Manimala River. Its running length is estimated at 92 km. It empties itself into the Vembanad Lake.</p><br>
<p>Niranam was an ancient sea port at the confluence of Manimala River and Pamba River. At Kaviyoor ancient rock-cut cave temples can still be seen.</p><br>
<p>Manimala River has been an important water way of Central Travancore. Rising in the hills of Kottayam-Idukki ranges, running westward, the river joins the plains at Manimala junction and then the flows through the midland plains and through the Kuttanad rice bowl area. Sand mining on the river bed has led to depletion of the water ways of the river.</p><br>
<p>Moskovsky Victory Park  is a public park in the Moskovsky District of Saint Petersburg, Russia. The name of the park was given in honor of Victory in the Second World War.</p><br>
<p>Victory Park is situated in the south part of Saint-Petersburg and bounded by Kuznetsovskaya Street, Moskovsky Avenue, Yuri Gagarin Avenue, Basseynaya Street. The address of the park administration is Kuznetsovskaya Street, 25. Park covers an area of 168 acres (0.68 km).</p><br>
<p>Victory Park was created as the area redevelopment of the former site of the brick factory soon after World War II ended. The factory site and surrounding area carried a sorrowful reminder for surviving citizens. During the war, the factory facilities were used to cremate victims of German blockade and bombardments during the Siege of the city. The ashes were transported in mine cars and dumped in the nearby flooded pits. The brick factory was located less than a mile from Russian front-line positions along one of the city&#39;s major routes - International Avenue (now Moskovsky Avenue) - close to the south outskirts of the city. Several pictures taken by Nazi aerial reconnaissance in one of the harsh winters during the Siege shows that the crematory facility was heavily used as seen by markings on snow-covered area. Estimates on how many victims were cremated there widely range from at least 117 thousand to over 600 thousand bodies. Soon after World War II, the factory building was erased and the area was redeveloped into a park.</p><br>
<p>Victory Park was officially opened on July 7, 1946 and covered only the 1/7 of the present-day territory. During the next decade, the park grew to the present boundaries. The original quarries, trenches, and foxholes were preserved and further developed into a system of channels and small ponds. The 1950s saw construction projects in the park led by Soviet architects Evgeniy Katonin and Valerian Kirhoglani. They created a summerstage, fountains and several pavilions including two propylaea-like buildings at the main entrance. In further years, sculptures and monuments were installed throughout the park. A major alley called "Alley of Heroes" features busts of Soviet heroes, hence the name. Among statuaries in the park are the monument dedicated to Soviet marshal Georgy Zhukov and statues of Soviet war heroes Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya and Alexander Matrosov. In the 1990s, the Orthodox chapel and commemorative plaque were erected at the former site of the crematory facility.</p><br>
<p>The park features several entertainment options including a small amusement park, playgrounds, cafés, boat rental, mini-golf, tennis courts and outdoor ice skating rink. Transportation to the park is provided by a namesake subway station (Park Pobedy Metro) at the south-west edge of the park.</p><br>
