<p>La Certosa  is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. It is located north-east of Venice, less than 250 m from San Pietro di Castello and little more than 500 m from the Venice Lido. A 20 m channel separates it from the Vignole island. La Certosa has a surface of some 22 hectare.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The island housed a community of Augustinian friars starting from 1199. After two centuries, the abandoned island was ceded to the Carthusians, the previous religious edifice being restored from 1490 to 1505. After the Napoleonic conquest of Venice, it became a military installation.</p><br>
<p>The 17th century Castello delle Polveri ("Powder Castle"), the only historical edifice remained today, has been restored from the late 1990s.</p><br>
<h2>Redevelopment</h2><br>
<p>In 2010, plans were revealed for a project called "Parco della Certosa", which would redevelop the abandoned island to include a public green park, a nautical center and training school, as well as restaurants, bars, nature trails and water-based sports facilities. The redevelopment is planned to be implemented in stages, with completion originally scheduled for 2015. However, on 12 June 2012, an F2 tornado struck the island, causing major damage to the island&#39;s trees. Restoration activities began the same year. Current plans are for the first stage park to be opened to the public in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Vignole  is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, with a surface of some 69.20 ha. It is located north-east of Venice, between the islands of Sant&#39;Erasmo and La Certosa.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Vignole is actually made up of two distinct islands, which are connected by a bridge.</p><br>
<p>Like SantErasmo, Vignole houses a scanty population, most of whom work in agriculture. The eastern part of the island is a military zone, housing barracks of the Lagunari regiment. Two bridges connected this sector to the nearby SantAndrea Island, home to the eponymous fort.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Historically, the island was used by the Romans and the Venetians as a vacation place. At the time, it directly faced the Adriatic Sea, as the Punta Sabbioni had yet to form.</p><br>
<p>In the 7th century two tribunes from Torcello built a small church dedicated to St. John the Baptist and St. Christine. The few other points of interest include the small church of St. Eurosia, sided by a small bell tower.</p><br>
<p>Fort San Andrea Isola di Sant&#39;Andrea.jpgForte S Andrea</p><br>
<p>Sacca Sessola loosely translated as "Scoop Bag"  is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy.</p><br>
<p>One of the biggest in the lagoon (16.03 ha) and also one of the youngest. It was artificially created in 1870 in Codas of Reziol, a branch of the Channel Rezzo, with materials from the construction of the Santa Marta commercial port, and has been used a fuel dump, hospital, farming land, UNESCO research complex. The entire island now houses the JW Marriott Venice Resort and Spa</p><br>
<p>A "sacca" or "bag" is an artificial island (see also Sacca Fisola and Sacca San Biagio).</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Taken from the Italian version of this article</p><br>
<p>1860-1870 - The island was artificially created with land-depth reporting from the channels of the maritime station and owned by Royal Administration.</p><br>
<p>1875 - The island was given to the city of Venice with an agreement and used for fuel storage.</p><br>
<p>1892 - Decommissioned from fuel storage. Conversion for use as a hospital for contagious diseases was begun.</p><br>
<p>1904 - Some buildings are restored and converted for hospital use.</p><br>
<p>1909 - Works are completed.</p><br>
<p>1913 - Following the end of the cholera epidemic of 1911, hospital buildings were constructed in Romanesque style.</p><br>
<p>1914 - St. Mark&#39;s Hospital for the treatment of tuberculosis was inaugurated. During the First World War the sanatorium remained closed.</p><br>
<p>1920 - Sanitorium reopened</p><br>
<p>1921 - The church was built in neo-Romanesque style.</p><br>
<p>1923 - A leisure pavilion was built.</p><br>
<p>1927 - The City of Venice gave the island a government agency (the future INPS ) for the building of a new hospital with 300 beds.</p><br>
<p>1931 - Work began on the construction of a new building.</p><br>
<p>1936 - The Pulmonary Hospital, "Achille De Giovanni" was inaugurated by King Vittorio Emanuele III including pavilions, a park, thermal power station, stores, workshops, recreational club with cinema and a water tower.</p><br>
<p>1979 - The Hospital ceases its activity and begins a slow process of abandonment and decay.</p><br>
<p>1981 - The island property is transferred to the Municipality.</p><br>
<p>1992 - The City Council entrusts the island to the UNESCO International Center for Marine Sciences and Technology.</p><br>
<p>2000 - The island was sold to a multi-national company and has been converted into a private tourist hotel complex not advertised openly on the internet.</p><br>
<p>March 2015 - JW Marriott Venice Resort and Spa opens.</p><br>
<p>Terry-Ketcham Inn is a historic inn and tavern located at Center Moriches in Suffolk County, New York. It was built about 1693, expanded about 1710 and 1790, and is a two story, nine by two bay frame structure with a rear wing and gable roof. The original structure was built as a two by three bay, single story timber frame cottage. In about 1710 a three by two bay timber frame half-house was built to the north of the original structure. A 1790 building program tripled the size of the structure.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, and is protected by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. A historic barn behind the inn is used to sell books, records, and compact discs in order to raise funds for the Ketcham Inn Foundation.</p><br>
<p>Alkali Lake is a geographic sink in Lake County, Oregon, United States. It is in the Alkali Subbasin of the Summer Lake Basin watershed in southeastern Oregon, located 26 miles east of Christmas Valley, Oregon, northeast of Lake Abert, to the immediate west of Abert Rim and Highway 395.</p><br>
<p>Alkali Lake is thought to have reached a prehistoric maximum depth of 270.7 feet (82.5 meters) and covered about 1448.4 square miles (2,331 square kilometers). Since then, its water level has varied, with a drying trend.</p><br>
<p>Notable features include dissolved alkaline salts averaging 10% of total brine weight in its seasonal waters and a nearby chemical disaster, Alkali Lake Chemical Waste Dump.</p><br>
<h2>Plants</h2><br>
<p>Plants known to occur in the dunes immediately north of the lake include:</p><br>
<p>Buckwheat Family</p><br>
<p>Broom Buckwheat</p><br>
<p>Goosefoot Family</p><br>
<p>Spiny Hopsage</p><br>
<p>Mustard Family</p><br>
<p>Stanleya or Guillenia sp.</p><br>
<p>Evening-primrose family</p><br>
<p>Desert Evening-primrose</p><br>
<p>Parsley Family</p><br>
<p>Rhysopterus plurijugus</p><br>
<p>Phlox Family</p><br>
<p>Great Basin Gilia</p><br>
<p>Borage Family</p><br>
<p>Matted Cryptantha</p><br>
<p>Sunflower Family</p><br>
<p>Desert Pincushion</p><br>
<p>Gray Rabbitbrush</p><br>
<p>Showy Townsend Daisy</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Alkali Lake has a steppe climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps.</p><br>
<p>Dillington House is a residential adult education college located near Ilminster in the parish of Whitelackington, Somerset, England. The present house, which dates from the 16th century, is owned by Lord Cameron of Dillington and operated by Somerset County Council. There has been a house on the site since before the Norman Conquest, probably taking advantage of the nearby chalybeate spring nearby.</p><br>
<h2>College</h2><br>
<p>Dillington House offers a range of day courses and residential short courses as well as a programme of public lectures. As well as being a centre for residential adult education, Dillington House is also a venue for conferences and meetings, weddings and other private events. The residential accommodation is set in historic parkland and gardens.</p><br>
<p>The house is the venue for regular classical music concerts held mostly on Sunday afternoons.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house has 16th-century origins, but was reshaped around 1838 by its then owner John.E.Lee to the design of Sir James Pennethorne. John Lee, who purchased the house, had been born John Hanning and had assumed the surname Lee on becoming the heir of his uncle Major Edward Lee (d.1819) of Orleigh Court, Buckland Brewer, North Devon. John Lees brother-in-law and his tenant at Orleigh Court was William Speke of Jordans near Ilminster, father of the celebrated discoverer of the River Nile John Hanning Speke. It is now a Grade II* listed building. Dillington House was the country residence of George IIIs Prime Minister, Lord North who acquired it through marriage to Anne Speke. The stables which were built in the 18th or early 19th century were remodelled in 1875 by George Nattress and later in the 1960s when the Coach House was converted into a theatre. The two lodges adjacent to the main gate are also Grade II* listed and are in private ownership.</p><br>
<p>In 1940, the Fortress Ilminster project saw the area prepare for what was thought to be imminent invasion by the Nazis. The drive extending from the town, north toward Dillington House hosted tank barricades and concrete gun emplacements as part of the Taunton Stop Line. Remains of Fortress Ilminster can still be seen today and the drive is now a public footpath.</p><br>
<p>In the spring of 2009 a new building was opened called The Hyde which provides two studio spaces, additional dining accommodation and 15 fully accessible bedrooms. Designed by Tim Rolt and Dan Talkes of Purcell Miller Tritton, the building won the 2010 South-West Region Architecture Award from the Royal Institute of British Architects.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church of Manistee, Michigan is a church located at 412 South 4th Street in Manistee, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church was founded on July 20, 1862 with ten charter members. The Rev. George Thompson who had recently returned to Michigan following missionary work in Africa was persuaded to preach the first sermon and organize the new church. The church first moved into a building on the corner of Second and Oak, but the congregation quickly grew, and by 1886 the existing structure was clearly too small. Plans were made for a new church building, and the church hired William Jenney and William Otis of Chicago to design the building. Construction began in 1888 under the supervision of local contractors Sheridan and Newcombe. The church was dedicated on December 12, 1892. An organ was installed in 1911.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church of Manistee is a Romanesque Revival structure constructed on a cruciform plan, measuring 128 feet by 74 feet. The church has a stone foundation, solid masonry walls clad with red brick, and a black slate roof. The facade is substantially unadorned, and contains a massive arched stone entrance. The windows are topped with masonry arches trimmed with terra cotta.</p><br>
<p>On the interior, the main sanctuary has a ceiling 60 feet high, supported with curved arches and hammer-beam trusses. Several stained glass windows are installed in the church, including one Tiffany glass window.</p><br>
<p>Abbott&#39;s Mill is a historic site that includes an old grist mill in Sussex County, Delaware, 3 mi southwest of Milford.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 with a 0.4 acre area. The listed area was increased in 1979 to include a total of 4 contributing buildings, with an increase of a 9 acre area. The increased area includes a Gothic style work built in 1868.</p><br>
<p>There&#39;s a historical marker for the old mill, placed on the north side of Abbotts Pond Road (County Road 620), across from Abbotts Pond.</p><br>
<p>The Abbotts Mill Nature Center offers tours of the grist mill and rolling mill. It is part of the 313-acre Milford Millponds Nature Preserve, which includes trails, Abbotts Mill, a pond and meadows. The Center features a native small animal collection and offers nature education programs.</p><br>
<p>In the site&#39;s 1972 NRHP nomination, it was reported the grist mill had been operable until 1960, and that plans were for it to be restored.</p><br>
<p>The listing was expanded in 1979 to include a total of 8.5 acres, including other buildings and open space.</p><br>
<p>Sherwood-Jayne House is a historic home and related buildings located at East Setauket in Suffolk County, New York. The property encompasses a two-story dwelling, as well as five accessory buildings, mature planting, split-rail and picket fences, and other landscape features. The construction dates of the house spans from about 1730 to 1940. It is a two-story, six-bay saltbox form dwelling with a two-story rear extansion that forms an "L" shaped plan. The five accessory structures are a large bar, carriage house, corn crib, prive, and pump house.</p><br>
<p>A north addition to the house was designed by architect Arthur C. Nash.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The house is now owned by the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities. It has been furnished with period antiques and is open for visits seasonally by appointment.</p><br>
<p>The Massachusetts Avenue Historic District in Worcester, Massachusetts is a 5 acre historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. At that time, it included 11 contributing buildings and one other contributing site.</p><br>
<p>This district, the Montvale Historic District, and the Hammond Heights Historic District, are northwest of the Worcester core area and are elaborate Victorian districts. They were created for upper class housing through the subdivision of many farms and estates, when southern and eastern sections of Worcester were filling up with three-decker working class housing.</p><br>
<p>It includes a Federal style former courthouse that was converted, during 1801-03, into a Federal style house. It includes houses of the Arts and Crafts movement, Prairie style and Bungalow style.</p><br>
<p>College Hill is a residential neighborhood in Easton, Pennsylvania. The neighborhood is situated on a hill overlooking downtown Easton. Lafayette College borders the neighborhood on its southwest side. The northern boundary of the neighborhood is Forks Township. The boundary lies along Chestnut Ridge, a steep hill that rises to 700 feet.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood has 855 buildings, primarily built between 1830 and 1940. The district contains a mix of architectural styles, including Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Stick Style, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Tudor Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival, Foursquare, and Homestead Temple House.</p><br>
<p>One notable building is McKelvy House (200 High St.) designed in 1888 by McKim, Mead, and White. The building is currently owned by Lafayette College and used as a student residence. It was built John Eyerman, a Lafayette alumnus and faculty member, as a gift to his bride Lucy Maxwell.</p><br>
<p>Specific properties on the National Register of Historic Places include 630 Weygadt Dr.</p><br>
<p>Many College Hill residents are professors at Lafayette College. Generally, residents of College Hill are fairly wealthy and well educated.</p><br>
<p>Fairville, Pennsylvania is an unincorporated area in southern Chester County which developed in the early nineteenth century about a mile north of the Pennsylvania-Delaware border. It is a linear village along the Kennett Pike  that runs between Kennett Square, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware. Businesses along the road served both travelers on the road and residents of nearby farms. The village or hamlet extends about 500 yards along both sides of Kennett Pike from Fairville Road to Hickory Hills Road.</p><br>
<p>About 1900 Phillip DuPont built a mansion just south of Fairville Road that is included in the Historic District that was included in the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The Harlan Log House, which was built about 1715 is about a half mile west of the village on Fairville Road.</p><br>
<p>The old Chester Courthouse was built in 1724 in Chester, to serve as the courthouse for Chester County, Pennsylvania. Chester County was one of the first three counties in the Province of Pennsylvania set up by William Penn. About 1790 the county seat was moved to West Chester, Pennsylvania and the Chester Courthouse no longer served as the county courthouse. A few years later, the area around Chester was separated from Chester County and formed into Delaware County, Pennsylvania and the Chester Courthouse became the courthouse for Delaware County. In 1850 the county seat was again moved - this time to Media and Chester Courthouse served as City Hall for the city of Chester.</p><br>
<p>The court room was the oldest active court in use in the United States until 1967. Every year, one trial was held in the court room. Delaware County&#39;s County Council holds one meeting a year there, and the building is used for educational purposes.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Blackhawk is an eleven-story brick and terra cotta building located in Downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is a Marriott Autograph Collection property and it is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<p>The hotel is connected to the north building of the RiverCenter, Davenport&#39;s convention center, and across the street from the RiverCenter south building. The hotel is just down the street from the Adler Theatre. The Blackhawk has been host to several high-profile people including Presidents Barack Obama, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, writer Carl Sandburg, and boxer Jack Dempsey. Actor Cary Grant was staying at the Blackhawk Hotel when he died in Davenport. The hotel named rooms 412–414 the "Nixon Suite". Big bands such as Guy Lombardo and Stan Kenton played at the Blackhawk on many occasions. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Blackhawk Hotel since 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Before construction of the Blackhawk Hotel, the Saratoga Hotel occupied the land. On February 16, 1915 the first seven floors (225 rooms) of the "New Fireproof Hotel Blackhawk" were completed. The building was built at a cost of $1 million by Davenport businessman W.F. Miller. In 1920 the remaining stories, eight through eleven, were added and it gave the hotel 400 rooms.</p><br>
<p>In 1916 the Blackhawk Hotel Corporation expanded with the purchase of the Davenport Hotel, which is located two blocks to the west. Over the next twenty years, Blackhawk Hotels purchased properties in St. Paul, Minnesota and Des Moines and Mason City, Iowa. The corporation was reorganized in 1935. That same year a Junior Ballroom was constructed and the Gold Room was enlarged. A new dining room called the Pompeian Room was opened. The new additions cost $25,000 to complete. Space on the mezzanine level could accommodate 1,000 diners. A sidewalk canopy replaced a marquee over the main entrance in 1955.</p><br>
<p>In 1967 the hotel was sold to George Norman & Co. who in turn sold it to the Blackhawk American Corporation two years later for more than $1 million. The hotel was once again renovated in 1969. The following year the hotel upgraded its heating system from coal and oil to natural gas.</p><br>
<p>Plans to convert the hotel into a 300 unit low-rent facility for the elderly were announced on October 13, 1971. A petition for foreclosure on the mortgage was filed in Scott County District Court on December 16, 1971. Financing by the Federal Housing Administration to convert the hotel to low-rent housing was delayed in early 1972, and Blackhawk American Corp. announced that the hotel would remain open despite the setbacks. On January 20, 1972, plans for converting the Blackhawk to elderly housing were dropped. On December 13, 1973, stockholders were told the hotel was bankrupt. A foreclosure lawsuit was filed against the hotel on March 14, 1974. A USA Marshal&#39;s sale of the property on June 28, 1974, failed to produce a buyer as did an auction in November of the same year. The Small Business Administration, who now owned the hotel, considered selling the property for less than the $820,000 they had put into the building.</p><br>
<p>The Blackhawk was sold to Blackhawk Hotel Associates, a subsidiary of Knightsbridge, for $1.2 million on January 28, 1975. An auction of the hotels furnishings and accessories was held the following month. In June of that year phase one of a nearly $1 million renovation was completed. A year later the Davenport Bank and Trust Company foreclosed on the hotels $990,000 mortgage. Judge Max Werling ordered the Blackhawk closed on June 29, 1976. The bank bought the hotel in October of that year at a sheriff&#39;s sale for $1 million.</p><br>
<p>The building sat empty until Phillips Enterprises began a major renovation of the Blackhawk in 1978. The multimillion-dollar project was completed the following year. More than 7,000 people showed up to tour the renovated hotel on September 15, 1979. The Sundance Social Club opened as the hotels restaurant. The Blackhawk was part of the "Super Block" development that opened in 1983. It was the first phase of the citys convention center that would be named the RiverCenter. The hotel would also serve as the convention center&#39;s caterer.</p><br>
<p>John E. Connelly, a Pittsburgh developer, bought the hotel in 1990 and it became a part of his gambling enterprise that included the President riverboat. The hotel passed to the Isle of Capri Casino in 2000 when it bought the Davenport riverboat gambling operation.</p><br>
<p>On February 12, 2006, a fire started in a meth lab on the eighth floor. The hotel had been deteriorating steadily since it was purchased by the Isle of Capri. The City of Davenport took over the property from the Isle of Capri. In October 2008, a development agreement was signed which gave ownership of the property to Hotel Blackhawk, LLC, an affiliate of St. Louis-based developer Restoration St. Louis, Inc. The company announced plans for a $46 million-plus restoration. BSI Construction was selected as the general contractor for the project. Demolition work began in January 2009 and renovation work commenced in April of the same year. The hotel re-opened on December 15, 2010.</p><br>
<p>On September 22, 2010 the RiverCenter/Adler Theatre, Hotel Blackhawk, and the Radisson Quad City Plaza Hotel announced a cooperative marketing agreement branding themselves the "Quad Cities Event Center." While each remains a separate entity they will advertise and market themselves together. All three entities form one complex that is connected by skywalks and includes a total of 116,700 ft&sup2; of space.</p><br>
<p>On March 6, 2013 the owner, Hotel Blackhawk, LLC, entered the property into the Marriott Autograph Collection of luxury hotels, a group of independently owned and operated hotels associated with Marriott Hotels and Resorts. The Hotel Blackhawk is now a Four Diamond hotel (AAA), managed by Innkeeper Hospitality Services, LLC of St. Louis, and has been voted the best hotel in Iowa for the last three years by Business Insider. It continues to be a major force behind the resurgence of Downtown Davenport.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Hotel Blackhawk was designed by the Davenport architectural firm of Temple & Burrows. Davenport architect Arthur Ebeling served as an associate on the project. It features Italian Renaissance design along with modern Art Deco. The Italian Renaissance is featured on the rusticated stonework on the entry level, the granite pedestals and terra cotta pilasters on the corners of the main façade, and the decorative pediments of the windows on the second floor. The Art Deco elements are found in the rolled of the corners of the terra cotta pilasters and the streamlined feeling in general of the form itself. The simplified Renaissance Revival style of the hotel is in keeping with the Neoclassicism of other major commercial buildings that were being built at the time in Davenport. When the top four floors were added it required the removal of the building&#39;s original cornice. The resulting termination of the structure makes it more similar to the Moderne style of the nearby Hotel Mississippi, which had been built in 1931.</p><br>
<p>The building is 140 ft tall. It is U-shaped to allow for windows in all the rooms and to allow for air circulation and light. The structure is covered in dark colored bricks that contrast with the white terra cotta. This surface combination sets it apart from the surface monochrome of dressed stone that was being used in other commercial buildings in the city. An elevator shaft was added to the east side of the building in the 1978–1979 renovation. Originally the lobby contained a two-story atrium, but was enclosed in later years to create additional meeting space. The atrium was restored as a part of the 2010 renovation to the building. A new entrance was also added to the east side of the building facing the parking lot.</p><br>
<p>Upon its 2010 re-opening, Hotel Blackhawk includes 20 one- and two-bedroom apartments, 130 guestrooms, nine extended-stay rooms and banquet and meeting facilities that include a renovated Gold Room. A bowling alley was re-created in the basement level and shops were incorporated into the main level along with a restaurant and lounge. A new fitness center and a swimming pool as well as a business center were also created.</p><br>
<p>The Kahl Building, also known as Kahl Education Center, is an historic building located in Downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building also includes the Capitol Theatre.</p><br>
<h2>Kahl Building</h2><br>
<p>The Kahl Building is ten-stories tall and rises 146 ft above the ground. It was designed by Davenport architect Arthur Ebeling who used as inspiration the works of Chicago architects William Holabird, John Root and Louis Sullivan. In fact Sullivan’s Wainwright Building in St. Louis is considered a model after which the Kahl Building was designed. Sullivan&#39;s influence can be seen in the more elaborate ornamentation on the lower floors while the upper floors are relatively plain. Their decoration is confined to recessed spandrel panels. The building is capped with a staccato pairing of round-arch windows and an elaborate cornice.</p><br>
<p>In 1920, the building was constructed by Henry Kahl and Walsh-Kahl Construction for $1.5 million. It is composed of steel frame construction with stone and decorative terra cotta facing materials. The building&#39;s sense of height is highlighted by recessing the spandrel panels between the floors and behind the vertical piers. It is considered an "exceptional example of the influence of the Chicago School on commercial architecture." Historically, the building has contained 184 office suites, several retail shops, a restaurant and the Capital Theater.</p><br>
<p>In 1994 the family of Davenport Banker V.O. Figge and his wife Elizabeth, who was Henry Kahl&#39;s daughter, donated the building to the Scott Community College Foundation, which now uses it for academic purposes. The Eastern Iowa Community Colleges announced in August 2014 their intention to leave the Kahl Building and relocate to a new campus that will be created in the former First Federal Bank and First Midwest Bank buildings on West Third Street between Brady and Main streets. The $50 million project includes renovating the Kahl Building into 80 market-rate apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Capitol Theatre</h2><br>
<p>The Capitol Theatre opened on December 25, 1920. Builder Henry C. Kahl wanted to provide a 2,500-seat, palace-type theater. Kahl planned a luxurious movie theater larger than any in Davenport or Iowa. When opened, the theater boasted grand pianos, gold leaf decoration, and several chandeliers. Its interior was designed by the Chicago firm of Rapp & Rapp. The organ received a $75,000 restoration in 2000, and it is now the only Wicks theater organ that remains in its original home. In 1925, a 10-story stage house and stage expansion were constructed. The theater started to show movies in the 1950s and discontinued operating as a working movie theater in 1977. The theater joined the Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO) circuit in 1927. A variety of performers have performed on its stage including vaudeville shows. It hosted the Winter Dance Party in 1959 that included Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens before their deaths five days later in an airplane crash outside of Clear Lake, Iowa. The Capitol currently has a capacity of 1,550 seats, but is no longer in operation. The $50 million renovation of the Kahl Building would include the Capitol Theatre and turn it into a first-run movie theater again.</p><br>
<p>The Nicholas Newlin House was built in 1742 in Concordville, Delaware County, Pennsylvania by Nicholas Newlin, about a mile west of the Newlin Mill Complex. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is located in the Concordville Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1742 by Nicholas Newlin, and is one of the best preserved eighteenth-century houses in Concord Township. It was built with Flemish bond brickwork and a high stone foundation. Its asymmetrical windows divide the house into two sections, but they appear to have been built at the same time. The windows are unusually large for a house of its period. The interior has retained much of its original appearance and includes fine Georgian panelling.</p><br>
<p>The Newlin family arrived in Pennsylvania in 1683 and purchased 500 acre in what was then Chester County. Nicholas Newlin sold the house in 1751 to Micajah Speakman, who lived there until 1805.</p><br>
<p>Belmont Hall is a Georgian house located in Smyrna, Delaware, built about 1773 by Thomas Collins, who would become the eighth governor of Delaware. The front façade faces US 13.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The brick house front is five bays wide and three stories tall, surmounted by a flattened gable. The crown of the gable is flattened to form a widow&#39;s walk, accessed by a projecting stair tower to the rear of the walk. The house is wide but shallow, one room deep with two rear wings projecting to the north, which were built before the front. The front portion is 46 ft wide by 21.25 ft deep.</p><br>
<p>The interior plan is oriented around a central hall, flanked by parlors on either side. A stair rises from the hall, and is flanked by bedrooms on the second and third floors. Extensive interior woodwork is located primarily in the entrance hall and the west parlor. The interior was renovated during the Victorian era, but was restored in the 1920s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Six hundred acres (600 acre) were granted to Henry Pearman by William Penn in 1684, and became known as "Pearmans Choice." A small brick house was built on this property. This house and two hundred acres were sold to Andrew Love in 1691. The property was bought by Thomas Collins, who would become High Sheriff of Kent County and later a brigadier general in the Continental Army, eventually rising to the governorship of Delaware. He added the present front about 1773. In 1777 a British party attempting to capture Collins shot a sentry posted on the widows walk, who died in the room below. His death is commemorated by a plaque in the front hall presented by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Thomas Collins, the only person to be unanimously elected by the Assembly, had the honor of serving as the 8th President/Governor of Delaware from 1786 until his death in 1789. Collins died at Belmont Hall in 1789.</p><br>
<p>In 1827, John Cloak acquired Belmont and farmed the land according to scientific principles. Belmont brand canned tomatoes became popular in the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>A fire in 1922 gutted the third floor. The existing east and west dormers were added during repairs. The Cloak/Speakman family retained the property into the 1980s. It was sold to the State of Delaware in 1987, as part of a deal to acquire 30 acre for the Route 13 bypass around Smyrna.</p><br>
<p>The Dorilton is a luxury residential housing cooperative in Manhattan, New York City. Construction began in 1900 and was completed by 1902.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by Janes & Leo, the New York City-based architectural firm of Elisha Harris Janes and Richard Leopold Leo for real estate developer Hamilton M. Weed. It is located at 171 West 71st Street, at Broadway (Manhattan).</p><br>
<p>The building is noted for its opulent Beaux-Arts style limestone and brick exterior, featuring monumental sculptures, richly balustraded balconies, and a three-story, copper and slate mansard roof. The exterior masonry, decorative terra-cotta work and chimneys and roof were expertly restored in 1998 by the Walter B. Melvin architectural firm.</p><br>
<p>Architecture historian Andrew Dolkart thinks it may be "the most flamboyant apartment house in New York," with its striking, "French-inspired" sculpted figures and an enormous iron gate "reminiscent of those that guard French palaces."</p><br>
<p>Architecture historian Francis Morrone regards it as one of the city&#39;s great apartment buildings.</p><br>
<p>The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1974. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Eliphas Buffett House is a historic house located at 159 West Rogues Path in Cold Spring Harbor, Suffolk County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It consists of a two-story, three-bay-wide main structure built in about 1835, with a one-story, three-bay-wide east wing built in about 1800. The 1835 main structure is representative of the Greek Revival style. It features two elongated decorative brick chimneys and gable dormers. It is a representative example of a large, upper-income single-family dwelling along Huntington&#39;s north shore. Also located on the property are a contributing barn and shed and the Buffett family cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 26, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home or The Annie Wittenmyer Home located in Davenport, Iowa, United States is a former orphanage for children and is listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties and as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. The home was originally used for orphans from the American Civil War, but starting in 1876, children from broken homes as well as orphans from all of Iowa&#39;s ninety-nine counties were taken in at the home.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Annie Turner Wittenmyer was a Sanitation Agent for Iowa whose job was to oversee the needs of Union Army soldiers during the American Civil War. Iowa contributed approximately 76,237 men to the army, and one of them wrote a letter saying,</p><br>
<p>The letter was read at a convention after which a board was convened to create a residence for the orphans of Iowa soldiers.</p><br>
<p>After the Civil War ended, over 13,500 children were in need of assistance as a result of the war deaths of Iowans—with many more badly wounded. An orphans fair was held asking branches be built in three different Iowa cities and Farmington was soon considered inadequate to the Davenport home. Davenport was a center for Union volunteer units and after the War ended, soldier camps were not needed. Camp Kinsman (on present-day Eastern Avenue) was donated to be used for the home. On November 11, 1865, the Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home received its first occupants by steamboat, when 150 children were delivered to matron Annie Wittenmyers care. On June 6, 1866, the home was taken over by the State of Iowa and Wittenmyer continued to oversee the home until 1867. Eventually the Civil War orphans were grown and left the Home. From 1870, the home began to accept children from all Iowa 99 counties.</p><br>
<p>The Home was soon expanded and redesigned with small, home-like cottages replacing the barrack style dorms.</p><br>
<p>In 1876, the Iowa State Legislature required that residents have employment before they left the home, and starting in sixth grade, students spent part of their school day learning a trade.</p><br>
<p>In 1949, the facility was renamed "The Annie Wittenmyer Home" by the Iowa General Assembly. In 1960, the focus of the home shifted from that of an orphanage to a residential special education and behavioral counseling facility. In 1975, the Wittenmyer Home closed having helped an estimated 12,000 children and provided a century of service.</p><br>
<h2>Historic District</h2><br>
<p>The historic district is made up of 34 resources, which includes 24 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, one contributing structure, six non-contributing buildings, and one non-contributing structure. It is located on the east side of the city to the south of Garfield Park and the Duck Creek Parkway, which are across East 29th Street. Oakdale Memorial Gardens where the orphan&#39;s graves are located is to the east across Eastern Avenue. The former right of way for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad is to the west and south. The railroad right of way is still active and in use by another railroad company.</p><br>
<p>St. Patrick&#39;s Catholic Church was a Roman Catholic church in northwestern Shelby County, Ohio, United States. Located in the southwestern corner of Van Buren Township, the church sat at the intersection of Hoying and Wright-Puthoff Roads in the unincorporated community of St. Patrick.</p><br>
<h2>Parish history</h2><br>
<p>St. Patrick parish was organized in 1862 among a primarily Irish population. Although the region was settled primarily by German farmers, the members at St. Patrick were generally laborers who had been recruited to participate in the construction of the Miami and Erie Canal through western Shelby County. Starting one year later, the parish was served by priests from the Missionaries of the Precious Blood; these priests were based in Minster, nearly five miles to the northwest. The parish built a log church in 1863; it was replaced by a frame church in 1871. Members in the vicinity of McCartyville to the northeast were created a separate parish in 1882, weakening the original parish.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>By the 1910s, the old frame building had proved insufficient for the churchs needs. Consequently, the parish arranged for the erection of its third and final church, a Flemish bond brick structure constructed in a transitional Italianate style of architecture. This building was based on a foundation of concrete and a gabled tile roof; the rectangular church featured a square bell tower on its southwestern corner. The interior featured frescoes and a prominent statue of Saint Patrick (the patron saint of Ireland); it was lit by multiple windows of stained glass. As a large church in a rural setting served by priests of the Society of the Precious Blood, St. Patricks was closely connected to many other churches in western Ohio: wide areas of western Ohio that were primarily settled by Catholics feature large churches at sparsely-populated crossroads. While most of these churches are constructed in the Gothic Revival style of architecture, some of the newer churches of the region — including St. Patricks — appear in a variety of styles; St. Patricks was one of the few that lacked the high steeples of the Gothic Revival structures. The leading role of these churches in western Shelby County and the lands somewhat farther west has caused the region to be nicknamed the "Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches."</p><br>
<h2>Other buildings</h2><br>
<p>St. Patricks Church was one of four properties owned by the parish in the community of St. Patrick. Located to the east of the church was the parish cemetery; across Hoying Road to the north was the former parish school, built in 1906; and to the east is the brick rectory. A square two-story structure, the rectory features a hip roof and a stone foundation. The parish built the rectory in 1919 to house its pastor; before its construction, St. Patricks was served by priests from St. Michael&#39;s Church in Fort Loramie to the southwest.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>In 1977, the church and rectory were recorded by the Ohio Historic Inventory for the purpose of historic preservation; both buildings were ranked in good condition without any significant risks. Two years later, they were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places, along with over thirty other buildings in the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches. When these churches were listed, it was feared that some rural churches were ultimately endangered by changing demographics; while all of the other churches remain active parishes, St. Patrick&#39;s has closed. While the parish was listed as being in operation in 1996, it no longer appears on the website of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, and the church has been destroyed. A small memorial occupies the site of the church, while the rectory remains in its place.</p><br>
<p>The Curonian Lagoon  is separated from the Baltic Sea by the Curonian Spit. Its surface area is 1,619 km&sup2;. The Neman River  supplies about 90% of its inflows; its watershed consists of about 100,450 square kilometres in Lithuania and Russia&#39;s Kaliningrad Oblast.</p><br>
<h2>Human history</h2><br>
<p>In the 13th century, the area around the lagoon was part of the ancestral lands of the Curonians and Old Prussians. Later it bordered the historical region of Lithuania Minor. At the northern end of the Spit, there is a passage to the Baltic Sea, and the place was chosen by the Teutonic Knights in 1252 to found Memelburg castle and the city of Memel — officially called Klaipėda in 1923-39, when the Memel Territory was separated from Germany, and again after 1945, when it became part of the Lithuanian SSR.</p><br>
<p>As the new interwar border, the river that flows into the Curonian Lagoon near Rusnė (links=no) was chosen. The river&#39;s lower 120 km in Germany were called die Memel by Germans, while the upper part located in Lithuania was known as Nemunas River. The border also separated the peninsula near the small holiday resort of Nida, Lithuania (links=no); the southern part of the Spit and the Lagoon remained in Germany until 1945.</p><br>
<p>This border remains today as the border between Lithuania and Russia, as after World War II, the southern end of the Spit and the German area south of the river — the part of East Prussia with the city Königsberg located in Sambia — became part an exclave of Russia called Kaliningrad Oblast.</p><br>
<h3>Kursenieki</h3><br>
<p>While today the Kursenieki, also known as Kuršininkai, are a nearly extinct Baltic ethnic group living along the Curonian Spit, in 1649 Kuršininkai settlement spanned from Memel (Klaipėda) to Danzig (Gdańsk). The Kuršininkai were eventually assimilated by the Germans, except along the Curonian Spit where some still live. The Kuršininkai were considered Latvians until after World War I, when Latvia gained independence from the Russian Empire, a consideration based on linguistic arguments. This was the rationale for Latvian claims over the Curonian Spit, Memel, and other territories of East Prussia which would be later dropped.</p><br>
<h2>Natural history and ecology</h2><br>
<p>The Lagoon, formed about 7,000 years BCE, is classified as brackish. Water depths average 3.8 meters. It is highly biodiverse, although troubled by water pollution. The presence of algal blooms was confirmed in the 2000s.</p><br>
<p>The Garrett Historic District is a national historic district located at Garrett, DeKalb County, Indiana. It is roughly the area bound by Railroad Street on the North, Britton Street on the East, Hamsher Street on the West and Warfield Street on the South with Randolph Street extending to 3rd Ave. to the South. The district encompasses 925 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Garrett.</p><br>
<p>Within the District, there are many buildings dating back to the earliest days of the City of Garrett. Garrett City Hall, former Masonic Temple, Silver Screen Theater, Garret Clinic, Johnson Building, B&O Railroad Freight House, Mountz House and more. Just outside the District are many school houses and the Garrett-Keyser-Butler Community School District complex.</p><br>
<p>In 2008-2009, the downtown area of Garrett was fully revamped with vintage style lamps and decorative planters. All power lines were placed underground and new sidewalks with bricks were laid.</p><br>
<p>While many buildings have been torn down or lost over the years due to unsustainable damages, the District still boasts its heritage with the continuing renovation of buildings and other buildings being built or renovated to look like period buildings of the District&#39;s beginnings in 1875.</p><br>
<p>The Lame–Smith House and the Sydney and Gertrude Smith Barn , about one mile northwest of Halsey, Oregon, are historic structures that were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The barn is a 40 ft by 60 ft timber-frame building built in 1888. It was built to house horses being raised for fire and police departments of the Pacific Northwest. Its ornamented cupolas were assessed to be the finest in Linn County.</p><br>
<p>The farmhouse has Gothic Revival features and was built in c.1864 by Joseph Lame and was enlarged in c.1884 for the J.A. Smith family. Also on the property are an automobile garage (1994), a wood-frame pump house (1940s), and a metal equipment shed (1960s). To the west of the house, in 1998, was a very large Black walnut tree, likely the largest in Linn County.</p><br>
<p>In 1998 the nearby fields were being used to grow grass seed.</p><br>
<p>Church of the Redeemer, built in 1908, was a historic church at 20th and Atlantic Avenues in Longport, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. It suffered a catastrophic fire in June 2012, and was demolished. A re-creation of the church is under construction and scheduled to open in June 2014.</p><br>
<p>Designed by the firm of Duhring, Okie & Ziegler, the building likely was the work of architect H. Louis Duhring, Jr. Duhring&#39;s father was a prominent Episcopal minister in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a friend of Joseph P. Remington, the donor of the land for the church.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It was heavily damaged in a fire on June 30, 2012. The fire was thought to be started when the church was struck by lightning from a storm connected with the June 2012 North American derecho severe-weather event. The surviving structure was deemed unsafe and demolished on July 2, 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Oak Hill Railroad Depot is a historic depot in Oak Hill, West Virginia, United States. The depot is located on the southwest corner of Virginia Avenue and Central Avenue. It opened as a station on the White Oak Railway in 1903 and later became part of the Virginian Railway, which it served until 1957. From this year until closure in 1983, it operated as a depot for the Norfolk and Western Railway. The depot now serves as the meeting place for the White Oak chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. It is the only remaining Virginian Railway depot in West Virginia.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Oak Hill Railroad Depot opened in 1903 on the White Oak Railway, a subsidiary of the White Oak Coal Company. The depot served a line from Glen Jean to coal mines in Summerlee and Lochgelly; it initially served as both a checkpoint for coal cars from these mines and a freight and passenger station for the newly incorporated town of Oak Hill. The station&#39;s opening led to a commercial boom in Oak Hill, which transformed from a farming community to a commercial center with multiple banks, hotels, and stores. The Virginian Railway leased the depot in 1912 and ultimately bought it in 1922. The depot continued to provide passenger and freight service to Oak Hill until after World War II, when passenger service to Oak Hill ended. The depot became part of the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1957 and provided freight service for the railway until it closed to trains in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Norfolk Southern Corp., the holding company for the Norfolk and Western Railway, donated the closed depot to the city of Oak Hill in 1995. The White Oak chapter of the National Railway Historical Society has since restored the depot through donations and a USA Department of Transportation grant. Oak Hill began an annual festival known as Depot Day in 1997 to raise money to restore the depot. The depot presently serves as a meeting place for the White Oak chapter of the National Railway Historical Society but is otherwise vacant; it is the sole surviving Virginian Railway depot in West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, the station caught fire in a suspected arson attempt and suffered slight damage.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The Oak Hill Railroad Depot is a one-story wooden building located on the southwest corner of Central Avenue and Virginia Street, along the Norfolk Southern Railway tracks. It has a board and batten siding with Victorian features, a style representative of small-town railway depots of the early 1900s. The original depot consisted of a passenger waiting area and a station master&#39;s office. A warehouse, loading dock, and ramp were added to the depot in 1922. Restoration on the depot began in 1993, at which point it was painted a period shade of gray. Behind the depot, there is a small steam locomotive.</p><br>
<p>St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church is a historic church at 1409 Pacific Avenue in Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. It was built in 1905 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. It is one of four churches of The Parish of Saint Monica in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>St. Nicholas of Tolentine&#39;s 1916 Moller pipe organ (Opus 2138) was rebuilt by Peragallo in 2006 and will be restored over the course of the next several years. The organ at St. Nicholas is one of the busiest in the country playing at all Masses, several choir rehearsals per week, and a host of weddings, funerals, and concerts.</p><br>
<p>St. Nicholas is the church in Atlantic City to find traditionally celebrated Novus Ordo Masses with music at each of the eleven regularly scheduled Masses.</p><br>
<p>John P. O&#39;Neill, an American counter-terrorism expert, working for the FBI, and killed in the September 11 attacks, once served as an altar boy in this church and is buried in the churchyard.</p><br>
<p>Capt. John Jeffries Burial Marker is an historic burial monument in the cemetery at Scullville Bible Church in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, along County Route 559 near Somers Point. It was built in 1887 and added to both the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Capt. Jeffries (1829-1887) is known for his association with the ship Twenty One Friends, which, following an incident at sea, floated without crew across the Atlantic Ocean for two years before being claimed and returned to service.</p><br>
<h2>The Monument</h2><br>
<p>The Capt. John Jeffries burial marker is approximately 15 ft tall and the largest marker in the Scullville Bible Church cemetery. The church was built in 1866 and, at the time of his death, was named Palestine Bible Protestant Church. The monument is made of marble and stands on a square brick base approximately 4 ft on each side. It is located in the Jeffries family plot behind the church, surrounded by other local-area family plots, many of which also date back to the 19th century. The square center section features an inscription, and above that a bas-relief engraving of the ship associated with Jeffries—and the source of his historical fame—the Twenty One Friends. Another smaller section above bears the initials “J.J.” and a draped urn is carved at the top of the monument. The center inscription reads:</p><br>
<p>Capt. John Jeffries. Born Nov. 15, 1829. Died March 17th 1887. A member of the K. of P.</p><br>
<h2>The Jeffries of Great Egg Harbor</h2><br>
<p>The Jeffries family can trace its genealogy back to 18th-century European settlers of Rhode Island. John Jeffries Sr. (1735-1810) from Egg Harbor earned a pension for his service during the American Revolutionary War. The family owned land where Patcong Creek empties into Great Egg Harbor River, and it was here they built a two-storey plantation house. The area became known as Jeffries Landing and was an active port as well as later becoming a popular destination area for bathers.</p><br>
<p>The settlement that formed inland, north of Jeffries Landing, came to be called Jeffers, also named after the family. In the early 1900s, Jeffers was renamed Scullville, honoring a different family, the Sculls. Currently, where Patcong Creek meets Great Egg Harbor River is still called Jeffries Landing.</p><br>
<p>John Sr. and his wife, Judiah, had three sons, one of whom was John Jeffries Jr. (1789-1834). In 1819 John Jeffries Jr. was named wharf master at Jeffries Landing, responsible for collecting the wharfage of 30 cents per day to dock there. In 1829, John Jr.’s wife, Isabell, gave birth to John III (1829-1887), who would grow up to become a sea captain.</p><br>
<p>Capt. John Jeffries III later lived along English Creek, upstream from Jeffries Landing along the Great Egg Harbor River. He was married to Hannah Barrett Jeffries.</p><br>
<h3>Variations of the name</h3><br>
<p>The family name can be seen spelled different ways; Jeffries, Jeffryes, Jeffrys and Jeffers appear with interchangeability although all reasonably refer to the same family. Some evidence of this can be found within the penned family plot in Scullville (Palestine) Bible Church cemetery. On one side of the Captain, his wife Hannah “Jeffers” is buried and on the other side, his young son Samuel J. “Jeffers”. In between stands the monument to Capt. John “Jeffries”.</p><br>
<h2>Shipbuilding along Great Egg Harbor River</h2><br>
<p>The banks of Great Egg Harbor River, from Mays Landing to Somers Point, were an ideal environment for shipbuilding in the century following the American Revolutionary War due to natural resources in the area. These resources included lumber from pine, oak, and cedar as well as bog ore. The waterways were deep enough for ships up to 2000 tons (1,800 MT).</p><br>
<h3>The Twenty One Friends</h3><br>
<p>In 1872, Capt. Gaskill built a three-masted (tern) schooner for Capt. Jeffries.</p><br>
<p>In 1885, returning to Philadelphia with a full load of lumber from Brunswick, Georgia, the Twenty One Friends was rammed by the John D. May off the coast of Cape Hatteras. Capt. Jeffries removed his crew and abandoned the vessel. The ship and cargo were left to the mercy of the sea.</p><br>
<p>Capt. Jeffries’ concern for the safety of his men was appropriate; however, the Gaskill-made ship proved itself to be more seaworthy than expected. After the collision, the ghost ship was sighted on both sides of the Atlantic over the next two years. It finally came ashore in Ireland, where its cargo was salvaged and it was employed as a fishing vessel. The Twenty One Friends remained in service until 1914.</p><br>
<h2>Historical significance</h2><br>
<p>The Jeffries monument represents not only the life of a sea captain from the Great Egg Harbor River, but also an industry along that river during the 19th century. There are few remaining relics from the marine and shipbuilding industries that mark this region&#39;s history during that time.</p><br>
<p>In addition, the monument has been singled out for its intricate carvings, which helped achieve its NRHP status.</p><br>
<p>Church of the Holy Communion is a historic Episcopalian church building on Summit Avenue in Norwood, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by J. Cleaveland Cady in Late Gothic Revival style and Shingle Style and was built in 1886. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Episcopal services service in Norwood began in the local Presbyterian Church about 1870. Norwood was a weekend and vacation resort for New Yorkers at the time, and the parish served these visitors throughout much of its history. Official consent to form a church parish was given on October 14, 1878 by Bishop Odenheimer of the Diocese of Newark.</p><br>
<p>Land for the church was donated Mr. and Mrs. George W Luckey. Construction began in 1876 and was completed in 1877. This building was destroyed by fire on November 6. 1886. Following the original plans, a new building, costing $8,229.69, was completed in 1888. A Carrera marble altar and a Tiffany window depicting the Resurrection were donated by the William H. Oakley family. An organ built by the J.H. & C.S. Odell Organ Builders was donated by the Suydam family.</p><br>
<p>A parish hall was built in 1930 and an education building in 1969. From 1980 to 1987 the church shared a rector and administrative services with nearby St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Harrington Park.</p><br>
<p>Arneys Mount Friends Meetinghouse and Burial Ground is a historic Quaker meeting house located at the intersection of Mount Holly-Juliustown and Pemberton-Arneys Mount Roads in Arney&#39;s Mount, Burlington County, New Jersey.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1743, Friends living near Shreves Mount, (later called Arneys Mount for an early settler, Arney Lippincott) asked Burlington Monthly Meeting for permission to worship on the first day of each week, during the winter season, at the meeting house standing near Caleb Shreves Mount. Some years later a meeting house was erected. The builder was Samuel Smith, whose name appears on the stone above the front doorway. As years passed the area changed and attendance at Arneys Mount Meeting declined. The Preparative Meeting, established in 1776, was laid down in 1871. The meeting house continued to be used at times for worship and Firstday school. Since 1941 meeting for worship usually has been held twice monthly.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building is an unusual example of early stone masonry construction in a Friends Meeting House. Built of local bog iron stone quarried from the mount on which it stands, Arney&#39;s Mount being constructed of stone is unusual in South Jersey as most Meeting Houses are constructed of brick. A chunk stove replaces the original "pot-bellied" stove which was stolen several years ago but it serves to warm the house when winter meetings are held. Horse sheds stood near the south boundary wall which still holds the iron hitching rings.</p><br>
<p>According to oral tradition, Samuel Smith was the builder. Inscribed in a stone of the meeting house is "S. Smith." It was not uncommon within mainstream culture for the builder to carve his initials upon the structure. Such practices were generally frowned upon by Quakers. It was viewed as vain, and ran contrary to the communal nature of the design and building process. More common among Friends was the practice of carving initials merely as a form of graffiti on the interior benches, and sometimes on the facades of meeting houses, although rarely are they so prominently placed. Members of the Smith family attended Arneys Mount meeting and acted as trustees for the meeting, and therefore could have played an important role in the construction of the meeting house. On the opposite side of the meeting house is the name "I. Coate." This suggests that Smith was not solely responsible for the construction of the meeting house. Perhaps ones role was largely financial while the other served as builder.</p><br>
<p>Twice the interior had been damaged by fire. Oral tradition and various secondary sources provide the only substantive information. According to one source, the fire took place on February 17, 1800, destroying the roof and much of the woodwork. The floor was supposedly saved by the snow, which that was thrown in through the doors and windows. The only piece of information found is a scant reference appearing in a book of "Miscellaneous Accounts, 1797-1882." An entry made on December 28, 1801 reads: "paid Thomas Harrison one Dollar for service done at the time the Mount Meeting House was Burnt."</p><br>
<p>The second was in 1809. The second fire nearly destroyed the building except for its stone walls. Evidence of the fire can be found in the charred remnants of the former landing, visible beneath the cabinet stairs located in the southeast and southwest corners of the meeting house. The only mention that appears within the preparative minutes are the findings of those requested to "examine the accounts of the committee appointed to rebuild the meeting house." The meeting house is remarkably preserved from its 1811 appearance when portions of the building were reconstructed after a fire. The building was vacant from 1871 until the meeting was revived in 1941.</p><br>
<h2>Burial grounds</h2><br>
<p>The burial grounds are still in use and pre-dates the Meeting House by many years. Meeting records indicate settlement in the area before the first petition to Burlington Monthly Meeting to build this existing building in 1743. The stone wall, built in 1680, encloses only a portion of the grave as many persons were literally buried "outside the wall" having lost favor with Meeting or were buried elsewhere on the grounds in unmarked sites before the walls were constructed.</p><br>
<p>According to the custom of Friends, graves in the earliest period were not marked. Records were kept by row. Later, markers were used and some bear dates earlier than the formal establishment of the Meeting. In 1870, a wall of native sandstone was erected around the graveyard. Names in the graveyard include those of the early settlers in the area such as "Lamb", "Lappencott", "Shreve", "Gaskill" and &#39;Newbold", a^ ™any others important to the heritage of Mount Holly and Pemberton, Naw Jersey. It is still in use as a meeting house and the burial ground is still receiving requests for interment.</p><br>
<h3>Notible burials</h3><br>
<p>Barclay White, author, cranberry grower, historian and politician.</p><br>
<p>The Chee Kung Tong Society Hall was a former Chinese society hall located on 2151 Vineyard Street in Wailuku, Maui. Built to provide services to single immigrant Chinese males, mostly working for the sugarcane plantations, it provided religious and political help, in addition to mutual aid. Converted to a dormitory in the 1920s, it suffered neglect until finally collapsing in 1996. The site now contains remnants of the foundation, assorted cement structures, and a distinct lintel gate and wall facing the street. The site was placed on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places , but delisted from the State register after its collapse; it is still listed in the NRHP database.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It is unclear when the society hall was first built due to conflicting information; County of Maui records indicate that the building was first listed as being built in 1897, though an article from December 1904 by the Maui News lists the building being built and celebrations made upon completion of the society hall on January 14 and 15, 1905.</p><br>
<p>The hall provided a place for Chinese immigrants to visit, socialize (such as playing pai gow), and provide aid.</p><br>
<p>Sometime in 1928, it was noted that the society hall was converted for use as a dormitory by single men, and this use was supposedly practiced up until the 1960s. After the last occupant died, the property was neglected.</p><br>
<h2>Collapse</h2><br>
<p>In September 1988, part of a wall of the building collapsed, smashing adjacent trees, plants, and two clothesline poles in a neighboring property.</p><br>
<p>On April 17, 1996, the derelict wood building collapsed due to damage caused by wood rot, termites, and gravity. Before the collapse, Society Elders had planned to meet to discuss the fate of the building. Certain elements of the building were to have been recovered, and possibly reused in the reconstruction of the building.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The property is 4,544 ft&sup2; according to Maui County tax records via the Department of Finance&#39;s Real Property Division and the NRHP nomination form.</p><br>
<p>The entrance gate comprises two concrete posts and a lintel with Chinese characters on it. Formerly delineated in red, the front facing the street contains incused Chinese characters spelling out Chee Kung Fui Kon (the name of the society), and the back containing the phrase (translated as) Everyone is equal.</p><br>
<p>The main building was a rectangular, two-story structure approximately 55 ft by 34 ft, with covered verandas on both floors. Architectural elements included shingled intersecting gabled roofs with gabled ends and fish-scaled shingles painted in various colors. Assorted other details included a scalloped archway, chamfered posts, decorative wheel and quatrefoil brackets, and an entrance gable with a carved bridgeboard. Diamonds and rectangles were also incorporated into the structure via ornamental lintels and balustrades.</p><br>
<p>A trapezoid cinder block structure approximately 19 ft by 32 ft stood next to the building to the east.</p><br>
<h2>Historic listings</h2><br>
<p>The site was placed on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places on July 30, 1982 HAWAI`I AND NATIONAL REGISTER</p><br>
<p>OF HISTORIC PLACES - Maui and the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 1982, but delisted in August 1998 from the State register; it is still listed in the NRHP database.</p><br>
<h2>Current condition</h2><br>
<p>Today, the site consists of only a few cement structures and several trees obscuring the front of the property. The gate and adjoining walls, stairs, sidewalks, foundation pillars, and the cinderblock addition lie in decrepit condition. The phrase Everyone is equal is barely discernible behind the lintel on the gate.</p><br>
<p>As of 2010, a property listing sale noted additional details, including the lack of a water meter and possible building restrictions due to it being under the jurisdiction of a redevelopment authority.</p><br>
<p>Solomon Wesley United Methodist Church is a historic church at 291-B Davistown Road / Asyla Road in the Blackwood section of Gloucester Township, Camden County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1850 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Address change</h2><br>
<p>Blackwood is part of Gloucester Township, Camden County, New Jersey, and the municipality renamed Asyla-Davistown Road as Davistown Road on May 23, 1988, through this Gloucester Township ordinance:</p><br>
<p>Chapter 73. Street Address Numbering</p><br>
<p>§ 73-A. Name Changed</p><br>
<p>Pursuant to N.J.S.A 40:67-1, et seq., said street and roadway in the Township of Gloucester, County of Camden, between Erial Road and Black Horse Pike (sometimes known as "Davistown Road" and sometimes known as "Asyla Road") be and is hereby designated and hereinafter known as "Davistown Road".</p><br>
<p>The church address became 844 Davistown Road, Blackwood, New Jersey.</p><br>
<h2>Historical and architectural significance</h2><br>
<p>Afro-Americans in New Jersey: a short history by Giles R. Wright (Trenton, NJ, New Jersey Historical Commission, 1989), discusses the importance of the community of Davistown where the church is situated and a digital edition is available from the NJ State Library as a free download (pdf) -- see link below. Black Heritage Sites. The North, Volume 1 by Nancy C. Curtis also discusses Davistown and the founding of the church. "A History of Davistown and its residents" by Viola M. Johnson, (Davis family Historian) 2009, second edition.</p><br>
<p>The family settlement called Davistown had its roots in a four-acre parcel of land purchased in 1813 by Solomon Davis. This land was purchased from Daniel and Tamzon Bates for the sum of $10.00.</p><br>
<p>Solomon Davis married Reason Valinda (Lindley) Boyer, daughter of Jacob and Jane Boyer and with her fathered eleven children. Between 1820 and 1840 the Davis family purchased much of the land that became Davistown from the heirs of Jacob and Jane Boyer. By 1840 the family settlement had become a small town. In 1842 Gloucester Township surveyed and built a road that is still called the Davistown Road. 1n 1850 Davistown built a church on land purchased from Zachariah and Catherine Davis by Solomon Davis Sr. Noble Davis, and Perry Frisby. (Father, son and son-in-law) In its 162-year history, the Solomon Wesley Church has been both African Methodist Episcopal, and United Methodist.</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s adjacent cemetery has several graves of Davis descendants and descendants of Caleb and Christiana (Murry) Shaw. (Caleb and his children were early members of the church). See the Camden County Historical Society document that lists Solomon Wesley Cemetery, Davistown. Veterans who served in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the American Civil War and veterans from the Spanish–American War, World War I, and World War II are buried in the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The building is also noted for its mid-19th century vernacular architecture.</p><br>
<p>December 5, 1870 the Davistown School for Colored Children was "set off" from Spring Mills. The Davistown school was the only school for colored children in the county and the only two story building in the area.</p><br>
<p>A picture of the Davistown church is one of eight buildings pictured around the seal of Gloucester Township. The church on listed on the state and national register of historic places.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration efforts and change in denomination</h2><br>
<p>A restoration of the church was first started by its then UM members in the 1990s. Work was done on its interior and a plan made for restoration of the exterior.</p><br>
<p>In 2012 Solomon Wesley was sold by the United Methodist Church to Pastor Toki L. Taylor who is member of the clergy in the Fruit of the Spirit Ministries. As a result, the church was renamed "Fruit of the Spirit Ministries (home of the historic Solomon Wesley United Methodist Church)." Donyale Brown serves as the church administrator.</p><br>
<p>Pastor Taylor, the church elders, and members began fundraising to help restore the church building for use, with support from Gloucester Township, members of the Davistown community, members of the United Methodist Church, among others. A three-day public fundraising event was held August 31 to September 2, 2012 on the church grounds. The church has scheduled November 18, 2012, at 11 a.m., to dedicate the church building, followed by ordination of clergy and installation of church officers at an evening service.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Polish Catholic Church is a historic church at 1010 Liberty Street in Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, United States. It is one of two churches in Camden named St. Joseph. The other is St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The parish was started by a group of Polish immigrants in 1891 and incorporated the following year on October 24. The parish rented a building on Broadway to use as a church. Land was bought at Tenth and Liberty Streets and a combination church and school was completed in 1895. George I. Lovatt, Sr., a Philadelphia architect, designed the present church in the Baroque style. Construction was begun in 1913 and the church was dedicated in May 1914. The church building cost $100,000 to build. The interior was painted in 1923 for $15,000. The stained-glass windows were donated as memorials over the years.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The exterior of the structure is covered in gray Vermont granite. A Romanesque style entrance is located in the tower. The building is cruciform in shape. There are three bells in the tower: Mary (quarter-ton), John (half-ton) and Adalbert (one-ton). The bells were dedicated on December 2, 1917.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the church features a 63-foot (19.2 m) nave and an apse that is crowned by a half-rounded cupola above the main altar. There are two side altars in nitches that flank the main altar. A choir loft is above the main entrance. The church has a seating capacity of 1,000 people.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church and Burying Ground is a historic church in Runnemede, Camden County, New Jersey, United States. The congregation was founded in 1789 and the current church building was designed by George Watson Hewitt and consecrated by the Rt. Rev. John Scarborough on November 9, 1881.</p><br>
<p>The church and burying ground were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>An extant record shows that an organizing meeting was held on November 14, 1789, and St. John&#39;s Church was officially established as part of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America. Available records also include a list of early contributors. A red cedar church was built in August, 1790. Local Revolutionary War hero Aaron Chew raised funds locally and from other soldiers from the war, including George Washington, James Madison, three signers of the Declaration of Independence, Frederick Muhlenberg, the first Speaker of the House of Representatives, a future Director of the USA Mint, several early state governors and USA congressmen.</p><br>
<p>Dennisville Historic District is a historic district in the unincorporated community of Dennisville in Dennis Township, Cape May County, New Jersey. The district is bounded by Petersburg Road, Main Street, Church Road, Hall Avenue, Fidler and Academy Roads, and Route 47</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Dennisville, originally named Dennis Creek, was founded in 1726. The buildings in the district are classified into three periods: 1750-1810, accounting for about 12% of the extent buildings; 1811-1870, accounting for the majority of buildings; and 1871-1899, accounting for about 25% of the buildings.</p><br>
<p>J Johnson 1740 Dennisville HD NJ.JPGJohnson House, c. 1740</p><br>
<p>Crawford 1810 a Dennisville HD NJ.JPGCrawford House, c. 1810</p><br>
<p>Schoolhouse 1874 Dennisville HD NJ.JPGSchoolhouse, 1874</p><br>
<p>H Chester 1898 Dennisville HD NJ.JPGChester House, 1898</p><br>
<p>New Asbury Methodist Episcopal Meeting House, now known as Asbury United Methodist Church, is a historic church in Middle Township, Cape May County, New Jersey, about six miles north of Cape May Court House.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1852 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It should not be confused with the First United Methodist Church in Cape May Court House which stands immediately north of the Old Cape May County Courthouse Building.</p><br>
<p>PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF EAST FRONT AND SOUTH SIDE LOOKING NORTHWEST - New Asbury Methodist Meeting House, Shore Road, Cape May Court House, Cape May County, NJ HABS NJ,5-CAPMAC,6-2.tifHistoric American Buildings Survey photo 1992</p><br>
<p>GENERAL VIEW OF EAST FACADE LOOKING WEST - New Asbury Methodist Meeting House, Shore Road, Cape May Court House, Cape May County, NJ HABS NJ,5-CAPMAC,6-1.tifHistoric American Buildings Survey photo 1992</p><br>
<p>The Giuseppe Verdi Monument is a sculpture in honor of composer Giuseppe Verdi located in Verdi Square Park  in Manhattan, New York City. The statue, by Pasquale Civiletti , depicts Verdi flanked by four of his most popular characters: Falstaff , Leonora of La forza del destino , Aida , and Otello .</p><br>
<p>The monument was dedicated on Columbus Day, October 12, 1906, by the Verdi Monument Committee chaired by Carlo Barsotti (1850–1927), an Italian-American who hoped to inspire young Italian Americans. He was the founding editor of the Il Progresso Italo-Americano Italian-American newspaper, and used its pages to raise funds for this and several other memorials including the Columbus Circle monument, an 1888 monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi in Washington Square Park, a monument to Giovanni da Verrazzano (1909) and the 1921 monument to Dante Alighieri in Dante Square.</p><br>
<p>A permanent maintenance endowment for the monument has been established by Bertolli USA. The monument is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Old Broad Street Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic church on Broad  and Lawrence Streets in Bridgeton, Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States. It was built in 1792 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The church and cemetery are also listed on both the New Jersey Register (ID #1029, since 1973)</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>Ebenezer Elmer (1752–1843), represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from 1801-1807.</p><br>
<p>Jonathan Elmer (1745–1817), represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1789-1791.</p><br>
<p>Lucius Elmer (1793–1883), represented New Jersey&#39;s 1st congressional district from 1843-1845.</p><br>
<p>James G. Hampton (1814–1861), represented New Jersey&#39;s 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1845 to 1849.</p><br>
<p>John T. Nixon (1820–1889), represented from 1859 to 1863.</p><br>
<p>Elias P. Seeley (1791–1846), 11th Governor of New Jersey, serving in 1833.</p><br>
<p>William G. Whiteley (1819–1886), represented Delaware in the United States House of Representatives from 1857 to 1861.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Archibald Clark (1822–1914), one of the founders of Cumberland Glass Mfg. Co.</p><br>
<p>Clement Waters Shoemaker (1848–1914), one of the founders of Cumberland Glass Mfg. Co. and philanthropist.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Whitaker Trenchard (1863–1942), Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1906 to 1941.</p><br>
<p>Hessian soldier from the American Revolutionary war</p><br>
<p>The Red Lion Inn is a 16th-century public house in the ancient Old Shoreham part of the town of Shoreham-by-Sea, in the Adur district of West Sussex, England. Established in the 16th century in part of a former monastery and cottage in the centre of Old Shoreham, opposite the villages former tollbridge, it was extended in the 19th century and became central to life in the old village. Alfred, Lord Tennysons poem Rizpah is based on events at the inn in the 19th century which resulted in the capture and execution of some robbers. English Heritage has listed the building at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Old Shoreham developed on the east bank of the River Adur, just north of the estuary on the English Channel in the Saxon period; longstanding claims that it was the site (Cymenshore) of the first King of the South Saxons Ælle&#39;s arrival in 477 have been disproved. The village was successful: a large church, dedicated to St Nicolas, was founded in about 900 and extended in 1140, and there were 76 residents at the time of the Domesday survey in 1086.</p><br>
<p>A tollbridge to the west bank of the Adur at Lancing was built in 1782. This, and the diversion of the road eastwards to the seaside resort of Brighton, caused the focus of the village to move westwards, towards the river and the west end of the old village street. A cottage, stood on the old road near the tollbridge. It was converted into an inn under the sign of the Red Lion. The building was extended and lengthened to the north and south later in the 18th century and in the 19th century. It developed trade as a coaching inn serving the roads towards Brighton (eastwards) and Steyning (northwards, along the bank of the river). In the 1920s, the main road to Brighton was realigned again: thereafter it ran immediately south of the inn.</p><br>
<p>The inn was central to a locally famous tragedy which gained wider recognition when Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote a poem, Rizpah, based on it. On 1 November 1792, the driver of the local mail coach had to deliver a letter containing half a sovereign (approximate value £ as of ) on his usual route between Brighton and Shoreham. At Hove he was robbed by two Shoreham men, one of whom went on to the Red Lion to meet drinking companions. He was heard discussing the crime by Phoebe Hessel, a well-known Brighton resident who frequented the inn. She reported him to the local parish constable, who arrested both men. The robbery had involved no violence, but the men were sentenced to death at Horsham Assizes: they were tied to horses and sent there accompanied by a military and police escort. On 26 April 1793 a large crowd watched as they were hanged at the place where they robbed the mail coach; their bodies were dressed and left to rot on the gibbet. The younger mans mother was so distraught that she travelled every night to Hove to collect the decaying bones and flesh, and eventually interred them in the graveyard at St Nicolas Church.</p><br>
<p>Another bizarre event involving a dead robber occurred at the inn in the 1850s. A man burgled several houses in Shoreham, but when he broke into Buckingham House (an 18th-century mansion with a history dating back to the mid-17th century or earlier) he was shot dead. Nobody could identify him, so his body was placed in a glass-topped coffin and left at the inn in case any visitors recognised his face. Hundreds of people travelled to Shoreham to inspect the coffin, but the man was eventually identified by his dog, which appeared at the inn, saw the mans face and sat by the body, refusing to leave it. The robber was identified as John OHara and was buried at St Nicolas&#39; Church.</p><br>
<p>A tradition called "The Bushel"—a drinking custom held on New Year&#39;s Day—lasted for much of the 19th century at the Red Lion: it was last documented in 1883. A bushel of beer was covered with greenery and flowers so that when the beer was poured in, the head erupted in a cauliflower shape. The beer was then doled out to all comers, and the "chairman" in charge of the festivities was then allowed to drink from the bushel.</p><br>
<p>The Red Lion Inn was listed at Grade II by English Heritage on 29 September 1972. This defines it as a "nationally important" building of "special interest". As of February 2001, it was one of 119 Grade II listed buildings, and 106 listed buildings of all grades, in the district of Adur.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building is mostly 18th-century, although 16th-century origins have been claimed. It is a low-set, long building in three parts: the central section is the original cottage, and 18th- and 19th-century additions stand to the left (north) and right (south). The exterior walls are plaster-coated, and the roofs are laid with tiles of Horsham stone. The building is roughly L-shaped, with a projecting wing at the north end. Only the centre section is higher than one storey, and even it does not reach a full two-storey height. Furthermore, the building is now set below the level of the road, which has been raised since its origins as a village track. The centre section has a three casement window range, and there are three sashes elsewhere (two on the façade of the southward extension and one in the cross-wing to the north). The substantial entrance door is set in a timbered porch; both were added in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Cornstalk Heights is a neighborhood in Harriman, Tennessee, United States. Platted in the early 1890s as a residential area for Harriman&#39;s upper and professional classes, the neighborhood contains over 100 buildings added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as a historic district for their architectural and historical significance. The neighborhood is named for the home of Harriman founder Frederick Gates, which once stood near the eastern end of the district.</p><br>
<p>Harriman was envisioned as a large-scale industrial center where the application of late 19th-century social reform principles, namely prohibition, would create an ideal living environment. The East Tennessee Land Company, led by Gates, designed the city in late 1889, including in the design several larger, more expensive lots in what is now Cornstalk Heights. Most of the districts earliest houses cost over $3,000 apiece, with some as high as $10,000&mdash; enormous sums for the period. Throughout the 1890s and early 1900s, Harrimans affluent residents built dozens of Victorian homes, most of which are still standing. In 1990, the Cornstalk Heights Historical Community Organization was formed to prevent the district&#39;s Killeffer Park from being converted into a housing development.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Cornstalk Heights is situated atop a low-rising ridge in the original section of Harriman, which is bordered by an oxbow bend in the Emory River on the north, east, and south, and by Walden Ridge on the west. The heights rise to a maximum of about 100 ft above the rest of the city. The district is located along Cumberland, Clinton, and Trenton streets, which run north-to-south, and Walden, Crescent, Queen, and Virginia avenues, which run east-to-west. A narrow alleyway runs along the crest of the ridge between Clinton and Cumberland streets. The district consists of blocks 413-806 Clinton Street, 409-829 Cumberland Street, 502-702 Trenton Street, 418-503 Queen Avenue, 319 Virginia Avenue, and 330, 402-417, and 424-506 Walden Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood contains 110 houses, 100 of which are contributing properties in the National Register listing. Killeffer Park, located along Cumberland Street, is also a contributing property. Two churches in the district&mdash; the First Presbyterian Church and the Open Bible Baptist Church&mdash; were built in 1956 and 1985, respectively, and are non-contributing buildings due to age. The district&#39;s lone contributing commercial building is located at the corner of Walden Avenue and Clinton Street.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Before 1890, what is now Cornstalk Heights (and much of Harriman) was part of a large farm owned by Robert K. Byrd. That year, the East Tennessee Land Company, formed by northern Temperance activists led by Frederick Gates and General Clinton B. Fisk, purchased the land from Byrd&#39;s widow for $26,000. The company hoped to establish a large industrial center that would attract businesses, while at the same time demonstrate the benefits of barring the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages.</p><br>
<p>On Christmas Day, 1889, the East Tennessee Land Company platted a 343 acre section of Harriman that included most of what is now Cornstalk Heights. These lots were sold in late February 1890 at an auction attended by over 4,000 prospective buyers from across the country. In the Cornstalk Heights section, lots along Cumberland Street and the section of Walden Avenue between Cumberland and Clinton streets typically sold for over $2,000. Lots along Clinton Street typically sold for over $1,000. The deeds to these lots required that lot owners construct frame or brick houses with at least six rooms. Over the next two years, fourteen contractors began building homes in Cornstalk Heights, using primarily materials from new industries that had been established across town along the Emory River. The homes of Gates and Gates successor as the East Tennessee Land Companys general manager, William H. Russell (1857&ndash;1911), were probably the earliest homes built in Cornstalk Heights. Gates house was demolished in the 1950s, but Russells house still stands at 525 Cumberland Street.</p><br>
<p>Although the East Tennessee Land Company went bankrupt in the wake of the Panic of 1893, it had succeeded in attracting enough new industry to help Harriman survive. Many of the heads of these new companies built homes in Cornstalk Heights. Henry Winslow, manager of the Harriman Land Company and Harriman&#39;s primary developer after the departure of the East Tennessee Land Company, built his house at 802 Clinton Street. David Gibson, owner of Gibson Agricultural Works, built at 403 Walden Avenue. V. G. Farnham, manager of the Harriman Tack Company, built at 813 Cumberland Street. S. K. Paige, owner of a lumber company, built the house now known as "Bushrod Hall" at 422 Cumberland Street. In the 1920s, Tom Tarwater&mdash; manager of the Roane Hosiery Company&mdash; built at 709 Cumberland Street.</p><br>
<p>The Reverend Alexander Killeffer, a photographer for the East Tennessee Land Company, founded Harrimans St. Andrews Episcopal Church in the early 1890s, and helped build its original meeting house at 630 Trenton Street, where the Open Bible Baptist Church now stands. The original design of Harriman included a park along Cumberland Street, originally named Fisk Park, but eventually renamed "Killeffer Park" after Killeffers son, Louis, a long-time resident of Cornstalk Heights. The site along Clinton Street now occupied by the First Presbyterian Church was originally the site of a school, which operated from 1891 to 1917.</p><br>
<h2>Designs</h2><br>
<p>The earliest (1890&ndash;1895) houses in Cornstalk Heights were mostly Victorian homes designed in Queen Anne, Eastlake, and Folk Victorian styles. Colonial Revival and Bungalow/Craftsman styles were more common for houses built after 1900. Other architectural styles represented in the district include Dutch Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Neoclassical Revival, American Foursquare, and Minimal Traditional.</p><br>
<p>Houses in the district range from one to three stories, and typically follow irregular floor plans. Most have gabled roofs, aluminum, brick, or stone siding, and limestone or brick foundations. The district has 33 contributing outbuildings, mainly carriagehouses, servants quarters, and garages. To compensate for abrupt changes in elevation, limestone retaining walls surround the perimeters of several housing lots, as well as Killeffer Park. The districts sidewalks still consist of the original bricks laid out in the 1890s, some of which bear the stamp of the Robbins Brick Company of Scott County, Tennessee.</p><br>
<h3>Notable houses</h3><br>
<p>Russell-Jackson House (525 Cumberland Street), an Eastlake-style house built in 1890 for William H. Russell, general manager of the East Tennessee Land Company, and believed to be the oldest standing house in Cornstalk Heights.</p><br>
<p>Nottingham-Webb House (417 Clinton Street), also called the D&#39;Armond House, a Queen Anne-style house built in 1890 by early Harriman judge C. W. Nottingham.</p><br>
<p>Hopkins-Sutton-Coleman House (725 Cumberland Street), called "Colton House" a Folk Victorian house built 1890 and once used as a Presbyterian manse.</p><br>
<p>Bushrod Hall (422 Cumberland Street), also called the Paige-Robinson House, a Queen Anne-style house built in 1892 by lumber mill owner S. K. Paige. In 1895, the American Temperance University purchased the house for its School of Domestic Sciences for Young Ladies, which operated until 1900. The house was renamed "Bushrod Hall" after one of the school&#39;s benefactors.</p><br>
<p>Williamson-Jones House (629 Cumberland Street), or Lane House, a Folk Victorian house built by A. T. Waters in 1893. The Williamson and Jones families were later owners. The Lane family lived in the house between 1914 and 1965.</p><br>
<p>Winslow House (802 Clinton Street), a Queen Anne-style house built in 1895 by Harriman Land Company manager Henry Winslow. Winslows son, John Cooper Winslow, lived in the house until the 1970s, but stayed in just one room, leaving the remainder of the house as it was the day his mother died. John Cooper Winslows odd behavior led to the development of a number of ghost stories surrounding the Winslow House.</p><br>
<p>Monte Vista (514 Cumberland Street), or the Cassell-D&#39;Alessandro House, a Colonial Revival-style house built in 1905 by Judge Robert Cassell and his wife, Perle.</p><br>
<p>Killeffer House (506 Clinton Street), a Colonial Revival-style house built in 1939 to replace a 1904 house which had burned. Dr. Louis Killeffer, a physician whose parents were among the city&#39;s earliest residents, lived here until the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>Hendrick- Branham Home (710 Clinton St.), a Two Story Bungalow style home. Built in 1896 by turn of the century mayor Claude E. Hendrick. His administration continued until 1915 and has become known to be longest term any mayor has served in Harriman, TN. This home is situated on 2 lots and features a full wrap around porch, stained glass windows, a two tiered 10 foot fireplace, and lead glass transom and sidelights windows. The largest room is the living room which is 36 ft. long. Upstairs in the bathroom you will find a 6ft Clawfoot tub that is original to the home.</p><br>
<p>Bethany Baptist Church was a historic church at 117 W. Market Street in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The current pastor is the Reverend Dr. M. William Howard, Jr.</p><br>
<p>The church traces its origins to 1870, when a group of African Americans established the church on Broad Street in Newark, in the building of the Peddie Memorial Baptist Church. Under the leadership of the Reverend Ebenezer Bird, who had come from Virginia to lead the congregation of about 26 members, the group was officially sanctioned as a church by the Council of Baptist Churches in June 1871. Thus, the church prides itself as being the "first Baptist congregation founded by people of African descent."</p><br>
<p>The Romanesque style church building was constructed in 1866. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The church was under the stewardship of M. William Howard, Jr. from 2000 to 2015.</p><br>
<p>The old building appears to have been replaced by a housing complex, and has been replaced by a new building at 275 W. Market Street. The new building was dedicated on May 2, 1976.</p><br>
<p>Newark Female Charitable Society  is a group of historic buildings at 305 Halsey Street and at 41 and 43 Hill Street in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>The oldest and most significant building is 305 Halsey Street, a 3-story red brick and terra cotta building that was built in 1886 by the Newark Female Charitable Society and designed by R. H. Rowden. It is "Victorian Eclectic in style with definite Romanesque features." The Society was founded by the leading ladies of Newark in 1803, making it the oldest social organization in New Jersey and the third oldest in the United States. The building at 41 Hill Street, adjacent to 305 Halsey, is a brick townhouse acquired by the Society in 1912 to house its expanding programs, although its maintenance proved expensive and it was sold by the Society in 1923. The two-story building next door at 43 Hill Street was constructed in 1977 as a medical and dental clinic. The entire complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Society is now known as the Newark Day Center and functions as a community organization. It still occupies 305 Halsey and 43 Hill, which together house a child development center, a senior center, and other programs that benefit Newark residents.</p><br>
<p>St. Johns Church is a historic Roman Catholic parish church located within the Archdiocese of Newark at 22-26 Mulberry Street in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. St. Johns Church is the state&#39;s third-oldest Catholic church.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1826 the congregation was held its first meeting in the basement of Charles Durnings home. Construction of the current building began in 1827. Later renovations and additions took place throughout the 19th and 20th centuries and incorporated the original structures walls. When the church was first built, it was the only church in northern New Jersey and was originally part of the Diocese of New York. The church currently runs a soup kitchen, women&#39;s shelter, and art gallery for children. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>John Church Newark 1826 Parish jeh.jpgSchool</p><br>
<p>St. Marks Episcopal Church is a historic church located at 13 Main Street at Valley Road in West Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. After the Episcopal congregation dwindled, the building subsequently housed the Primera Iglesia Evangelica Metodista Libra de los Oranges, a Methodist congregation. The buildings interior was destroyed, and exterior badly damaged, by fire on January 1, 2016.</p><br>
<p>The church was called an "outstanding example of Gothic Revival architecture" by Preservation New Jersey, and was listed as one of the ten most endangered historic sites in New Jersey in 1996. It has been said that the building "represents the beginning and the end of the ecclesiological style in the United States." The Ecclesiological style movement in church architecture advocated Gothic revival architecture using theological arguments.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original Episcopal congregation was founded in 1828 as an offshoot of Trinity Parish in Newark. Within a few decades it had become the largest and wealthiest Episcopal congregation in and around "The Oranges" of New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>Work on the brownstone main church began in 1828. An addition completed in 1860–1861, including the steeple, is attributed to noted architect Richard Upjohn.</p><br>
<p>St. Mark&#39;s ran the first elementary school in West Orange beginning in 1865. This school building was destroyed by fire in 1926. It also ran the first high school in West Orange, which graduated a class of nine students in 1893. A new high school building was opened in 1898, which was destroyed by fire on February 27, 1913.</p><br>
<p>The parish prospered until the 1960s, when declining attendance led to mounting financial hardships. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, but the church and its adjacent cemetery fell into disrepair. In 2004, the Episcopal Diocese of Newark leased it to Lamb of God Fellowship, a Renewal congregation, for what was intended to be a long-term stay, but the Fellowship left in 2009 due to the high cost of maintaining the property. The Diocese sold the property to another religious organization in early 2015.</p><br>
<p>The church caught fire on January 1, 2016 around 5 a.m. (1000 UTC) and was ablaze for three hours. No injuries were reported in the historic church.</p><br>
<p>Update: January 1, 2017. The church currently in the construction phase of being fully restored by architects Zachary Gidich and David Sepulveda.</p><br>
<p>Trinity & St. Philip&#39;s Cathedral is a historic church at Broad and Rector Streets in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It is the seat of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first services for colonists who had settled in Newark were conducted by visiting priests starting in 1729. They organized Trinity Church and built a small stone church building with a steeple in 1743. A charter was granted by King George II in 1746. The building was used as a hospital for both British and American troops during the American Revolutionary War. It sustained damage during the conflict and the present building was planned and built. It was completed in 1810. A chancel and sanctuary were added to the east end in 1857. Trinity Church was elevated to cathedral status in 1944. St. Philips Church, a predominately African American parish on High and West Market Streets, was destroyed in a fire in 1964. Two years later the two congregations were merged. The Very Rev. Dillard Robinson was elected Dean in 1968. He was the first African American to serve as a Cathedral Dean in the United States. The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The name "St. Philips" was added to the cathedral name in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Church  is a historic church on the northwest corner of Church Street and Kings Highway in Swedesboro , in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was founded as a Swedish Lutheran parish in 1703 after local residents tired of crossing the river to Delaware or Philadelphia to worship. The first minister, Lars Tollstadius, arrived in the area in 1701. The church was the first Swedish congregation in New Jersey and originally it worshiped in a log building. Services were held in Swedish until 1784. The building added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>Trinity Church Cemetery (also known as Trinity Episcopal "Old Swedes" Church Cemetery) is located behind Trinity Church on the corner of Church Street and Kings Highway, in the town of Swedesboro, in Gloucester County, New Jersey.</p><br>
<h3>History</h3><br>
<p>In 1641, Peter Hollander Ridder, the second governor of New Sweden purchased from local Indians the entire eastern side of the Delaware River extending from Raccoon Creek to Cape May. The first settlement by the Swedes was on the banks of the Raccoon Creek, originally named Raccoon and later Swedesboro.</p><br>
<p>To attend church, the Swedish settlers in Raccoon had to cross the river to Wilmington or Philadelphia. The difficulty of this crossing led to the decision to build a new church on the banks of Raccoon Creek. The site selected was near the new bridge for Kings Highway, which led from Burlington to Salem. In 1703, they purchased 100 acre along the Raccoon Creek and on part of it established their own church, the first Swedish language church in New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Church was originally a Swedish Lutheran Parish. From 1703 to 1786, it was served by clergy sent from Sweden. With the completion of a new church building in 1786, the Swedish Mission was drawing to a close. The Swedish language was almost extinct and the people no longer felt the same bond of sympathy with the land of their forebears. The congregations in New Jersey did not desire new pastors from Sweden and could not afford to offer them decent support. In October 1789 a semblance of affiliation by Trinity Church with the Episcopal Church in America began. The church is now known as Trinity Episcopal "Old Swedes" Church and is a member parish of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.</p><br>
<h3>Notable interments</h3><br>
<p>Louis H. Carpenter (February 11, 1839 – January 21, 1916) – Indian Wars Congressional Medal of Honor recipient and Spanish–American War General.</p><br>
<p>Charles Garrison Harker (December 2, 1835 – June 27, 1864) – American Civil War Brigadier General in the Union Army.</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Franklin Howey (March 17, 1828 – February 6, 1895) – Republican Congressman to the Forty-eighth United States Congress (1883–1885).</p><br>
<p>Charles Creighton Stratton (March 6, 1796 – March 30, 1859) – Served in the United States House of Representatives and was later the 15th Governor of New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>Volcán Siete Orejas  is a stratovolcano in Guatemala located within the Quetzaltenango Department, in the municipalities of Quetzaltenango, Concepción Chiquirichapa, La Esperanza, and San Martin Sacatepequez. It is in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The volcano has 7 peaks, set around a large crater of which the southern side appears to have collapsed. The highest peaks are located on the north-west side and have an elevation of 3,370 m and 3,157 m.</p><br>
<p>The U-shaped volcanic edifice opens south towards the coastal piedmont, creating both cold and temperate climatic zones within a relatively small area. Within the edifice are hot springs as well as the headwaters of the rio Ocosito which flows into the Pacific Ocean.</p><br>
<h2>Ecological significance</h2><br>
<p>The volcano forms part of the Sierra Madre, hosting an abundance of endemic species such as the endangered Guatemalan Fir or "Pinabete" (Abies guatemalensis) and forming an integral part of one of the largest contiguous biological corridors of southwestern Guatemala. Bird species include the pink-headed warbler, black-capped siskin, highland guan, rufous-collared robin, white-breasted hawk, and rufous-browed wren.</p><br>
<h2>Cultural significance</h2><br>
<p>The volcano&#39;s ridgeline houses over 18 Mayan ceremonial altars, most of which are still actively used by local Mayan priests. The name Siete Orejas originates from the local name in the Mam language: Wuq Xinkan. According to locals, this name originated from a legend about a large boulder on one of the peaks.</p><br>
<h2>Recreational opportunities</h2><br>
<p>On clear days the ridgeline of the volcano has wide views of the surrounding area, from the city of Quetzaltenango, to San Marcos and the coastal piedmont, including views of volcanoes Santa Maria, Santiaguito, Tajumulco, and Tacana. In 2009 the municipality of Concepción Chiquirichapa founded the Regional Ecological Park "Cacique Dormido" which offers hiking, camping, bird-watching, and cultural tours on the volcano.</p><br>
<p>Poile Zedek Synagogue is a historic synagogue at 145 Neilson Street in New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1901 by a group of merchants in downtown New Brunswick&#39;s Hiram Market district. Originally named the Independent Sick and Death Benefit Association of New Brunswick, the congregation moved to its current location in 1905 and at some point began using the name Poile Zedek ("Workers of Righteousness"). The cornerstone ceremony was held for a new building on August 19, 1923, and the building was completed in 1924. In 1995 the building was placed on the National and State Registers of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>On Friday afternoon, October 23, 2015, a massive fire broke out in the synagogue, gutting the building. The fire is believed to be accidental.</p><br>
<h2>2008 cemetery vandalism</h2><br>
<p>In January 2008, almost 500 gravestones at Poile Zedek&#39;s cemetery (also used by Congregation Etz Ahaim, a Sephardic congregation founded by Jews from Salonica) were damaged in an incident of vandalism. Four local teenagers were charged and later sentenced to probation and community service in a juvenile court proceeding.</p><br>
<h2>2015 fire</h2><br>
<p>According to police, a large fire broke out on the first floor of the synagogue on October 23, 2015 at around 4:30 p.m., destroying all but the exterior of the building. One Sefer Torah was rescued by the rabbi before the roof collapsed. According to the congregation&#39;s rabbi, the external structure remains sound and the building may eventually be repaired. Religious documents and scripts damaged by the fire were later buried in the affiliated cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church  is a historic church at 650 Rahway Avenue in Woodbridge Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>The congregation became active on December 29, 1703, and the first church was erected about 1717. The second church, erected on the same site in 1754, was granted a charter by King George III on December 6, 1769. It was destroyed by fire in 1858. The cornerstone of the present church was laid on July 7, 1860. The building was consecrated May 20, 1861.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 12, 2004.</p><br>
<p>The church remains active today, with regular services, as well as community involvement, including hosting Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and running a food pantry.</p><br>
<h2>Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>The churchyard contains a cemetery with graves and tombstones dating back to 1715.</p><br>
<p>St. Remy&#39;s Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church in Russia, Ohio, United States. Built in 1890, it continues to house an active parish, and it has been recognized as a historic site because of its architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Parish history</h2><br>
<p>French-speaking Catholics began to settle in southwestern Shelby County and nearby northeastern Darke County in 1823; in their earliest years, these people were served by an itinerant priest, Father Navarron. In 1839, a parish was created for these settlers and dedicated to St. Valbert; its first building was located 3 mi northeast of Versailles. When the priests and nuns of the Society of the Precious Blood began to settle in western Ohio in the 1840s, St. Valberts became a mother church for the Society. The parish was split three ways in 1846: the members to the west of St. Valberts became part of Holy Family parish, while the members to the southeast became part of St. Remy parish; the remaining members of St. Valbert&#39;s erected a new building in the village of Versailles in 1864, at which time it was rededicated to St. Denis.</p><br>
<p>Russias first settler built his house in the village in 1853; he was followed by many more settlers by the end of the decade. Many of these early settlers had migrated from the Russian Empire; upon seeing the site for the first time in the winter, they were struck by its resemblance to the Russian steppes and named the village for their former home. The members of St. Remys constructed a church in the new village in 1854; built of logs, it was dedicated by Archbishop John Baptist Purcell on June 15, 1854. Growth soon necessitated its replacement; the resulting large brick church was built in 1869. As the parishioners continued to multiply, this structure too became insufficient for their numbers, and the third and present structure was erected in 1890.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>St. Remy&#39;s Church is built primarily in the Romanesque Revival style of architecture, but its tower displays the Gothic Revival style. In the early 20th century, it was rated as one of the most beautiful churches in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and one of its purest examples of Romanesque Revival architecture. The structure rests on a stone foundation with a basement. Sandblasted brick walls, which rise to multiple gables, are topped with a slate roof. The interior is lit by many stained glass windows along both sides. In 1954 and 1976, the church was extensively modified: a vestibule was added to the front, blocking the original facade, and the original altars and statues were destroyed or heavily changed.</p><br>
<p>Architectural historians have classified the Precious Blood-related churches of western Ohio into four generations. The churches of the first generation, which were typically small log structures, have largely disappeared; only St. Johns Church in Fryburg to the northeast has remained without significant changes. The churches of the second generation are generally small and simple brick structures, most of the churches of the third generation are large Gothic Revival buildings with extensive ornamentation, and the churches of the fourth generation exhibit a wide range of styles, including Italianate and Romanesque Revival. Although it is primarily a Romanesque Revival structure, St. Remys falls within the period of the third generation, which includes churches built between 1885 and 1905.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>A 1977 architectural survey ranked the churchs exterior in good condition and its interior as being endangered by modifications. In 1979, St. Remys Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its architectural significance. Thirty-two other properties, including twenty-five other churches, were listed on the National Register at the same time as part of a multiple property submission of properties in western Ohio related to the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. Among these thirty-two other buildings were two other churches and three other related buildings in western Shelby County. The tall Gothic Revival towers featured by many of these churches has caused this region of western Ohio to be nicknamed the "Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches."</p><br>
<p>Today, St. Remy is an active parish of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. It is clustered with St. Louis parish in North Star and St. Nicholas parish in Osgood. The entire cluster is part of the Sidney Deanery.</p><br>
