<p>The Windham Village Historic District is one of two historic districts in Windham, Vermont, encompassing the dispersed rural village near the town&#39;s geographic center. The area was principally developed in the early decades of the 19th century, and has had only modest alterations since then. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Windham Village is a dispersed rural settlement, extending along Windham Hill Road between Harrington Road and Stone Bridge Road. The focal point of the village is the Congregational Church, located at the junction with Harrington Road, which was built in 1802 and given Greek Revival styling in 1825. There are twelve other primary buildings, of which ten are historically significant, in an area of about 45 acre. All of these are residences, typically 1-1/2 or 2-1/2 stories in height, with wood frame construction and either vernacular Greek or Gothic Revival style. Most were built before 1858—there are only a few 20th century houses in the area, and they are sympathetic in style and scale to the older buildings.</p><br>
<p>The town of Windham was chartered in the early 1770s, but settlement of this, its central village, did not begin until the 1780s. The village is unusual in the state as a well-preserved and still-occupied high hill villages, many of which were abandoned in the 19th century and early 20th centuries. At the middle of the 19th century, when the town population was at its peak, the village included a small commercial complex, which declined and collapsed in the 1940s, its building materials eventually salvaged by area residents.</p><br>
<p>The Chinatown Historic District is a Chinatown neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii known for its Chinese American community, and is one of the oldest Chinatowns in the United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area was probably used by fishermen in ancient Hawaii but little evidence of this remains. Kealiimaikai, the brother of Kamehameha I lived in the area at the end of the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>One of the first early settlers from outside was Isaac Davis and lived there until 1810. Spaniard Don Francisco de Paula Marín lived in the southern end of the area in the early 19th century, and planted a vineyard in the northern end, for which Vineyard Boulevard is named.</p><br>
<p>During the 19th century laborers were imported from China to work on sugar plantations in Hawaii. Many became merchants after their contracts expired and moved to this area. The ethnic makeup has alway been diverse, peaking at about 56% Chinese people in the 1900 census, and then declining. Honolulu is traditionally known in Chinese as 檀香山 (Tánxiāngshān), meaning Sandalwood Mountain.</p><br>
<p>Two major fires destroyed many buildings in 1886 and 1900. The 1900 fire was started in an attempt to destroy a building infected with bubonic Plague, which had been confirmed December 12, 1899. Schools were closed and 7000 residents of the area were put under quarantine. After 13 people died, the Board of Health ordered structures suspected of being infected to be burned. Residents were evacuated, and a few buildings were successfully destroyed while the Honolulu Fire Department stood by. However, on January 20, 1900 the fire got out of control after winds shifted,</p><br>
<p>and destroyed most of the neighborhood instead.</p><br>
<p>Many of the buildings date from 1901. Very few were over four stories tall.</p><br>
<p>The natural boundary to the south is Honolulu Harbor, and to the northwest Nuuanu stream. Beretania Street is usually considered the northeastern boundary, named after the first British Consul Richard Charlton&#39;s ship, and southeastern boundary is Nuuanu avenue. A few blocks to the east is the Hawaii Capital Historic District, and adjacent to the south is the Merchant Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>In 1904 the Oahu Market was opened by Tuck Young at the corner of King and Kekaulike streets, coordinates 21&deg;18&prime;45&Prime;N latitude, 157&deg;51&prime;51&Prime;W longitude. The simply designed functional construction (a large open-air but covered space divided into stalls) remains in use today for selling fresh fish and produce.</p><br>
<h2>Great Honolulu Chinatown Fire of 1900</h2><br>
<p>From witnesses a wave of bubonic plague was introduced to Honolulu on October 20, 1899 by an off loaded shipment of rice which had been carrying rats from the America Maru. At that time, Chinese immigration to Hawaii resulted in a crowded residential area called Chinatown with poor living conditions and sewage disposal. Plague infected 11 people. The response by the Board of Health included incinerating garbage, renovating the sewer system, putting Chinatown under quarantine, and most of all burning infected buildings. 41 fires were set, but on January 20, 1900 winds picked up and the fire spread to other buildings which was undesired. The runaway fire burned for seventeen days and scorched 38 acres (15 Ha) of Honolulu. The fire campaign continued for another 31 controlled burns after the incident. The 7,000 homeless residents were housed in detention camps to maintain the quarantine until April 30. A total of 40 people died of the plague.</p><br>
<p>Critics accused the government of being driven by Sinophobia; regardless of the fire most likely being an accident, an exodus occurred. While the people rebuilt, they began to live in suburbs while continuing to work in Chinatown, to avoid going homeless if another disaster occurred. In addition the post-fire architecture began using masonry rather than wood, since the stone and brick buildings proved much more fire resistant during the fire.</p><br>
<p>Many of the people who filed damage claims were represented by lawyer Paul Neumann (not to be confused with the actor), but he died before the cases went to court.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>After World War II the area fell into disrepair and became a red-light district.</p><br>
<p>About 36 acre of the district was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Oahu on January 17, 1973 as site 73000658.</p><br>
<p>During the administrations of mayors Frank Fasi and Jeremy Harris the area was targeted for revitalization. Restrictions on lighting and signs were relaxed to promote nightlife.</p><br>
<p>Special zoning rules were adopted for the area.</p><br>
<p>The Hawaii National Bank was founded in the district in 1960, and has its headquarters there.</p><br>
<p>On the eastern edge of the district, the Hawaii Theatre was restored and re-opened in 1996. The area around the theatre is called the Arts District. In 2005 a small park near the theatre at the corner of Hotel and Bethel streets was opened and called Chinatown Gateway Park.</p><br>
<p>In November 2007 the park was named in honor of Sun Yat-Sen who came to Chinatown in 1879 where he was educated and planned the Chinese Revolution of 1911.</p><br>
<p>Honolulu Chinatown was included in the Preserve America program.</p><br>
<h2>Government and infrastructure</h2><br>
<p>The Downtown Police Substation of the Honolulu Police Department is located in Chinatown. Officials broke ground for the substation on Friday September 18, 1998. Mayor Jeremy Harris said that he wanted a police station built at that location because of crime had been occurring in that area, and the presence of a police station would deter crime.</p><br>
<h2>Popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The character Charlie Chan was based on detective Chang Apana (1871–1933). Earl Derr Biggers read about Apana and based the character in Honolulu after a vacation in 1919.</p><br>
<p>The character Wo Fat in the TV series Hawaii Five-O was named after a restaurant in Honolulu&#39;s Chinatown. The business first opened in 1882, but the building was destroyed in the 1886 fire. A new building was built after the 1900 fire, and then another in 1932. It was located at 115 North Hotel Street, 21&deg;18&prime;44.4&Prime;N latitude, 157&deg;51&prime;47&Prime;W longitude. The Wo Fat Restaurant closed in 2005, and the building housed a nightclub in the early 2000s.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is located at 1702 Iowa Street, Davenport, Iowa Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Development</h3><br>
<p>When the city of Davenport was formed in 1836 there were between 10-12 people who were Presbyterian. In the first couple of years they worshiped with other Protestant congregations. In April 1838 they formed their own congregation. They gathered in a small building owned by T.S. Hoge on Ripley Street between Front (present day River Drive) and Second Streets. They managed the best they could with supply ministers who visited from time to time. The group was organized into a church on May 5, 1839 in a small frame school house on the corner of Fourth and Harrison Streets. The clergy in attendance at the service that day included Rev. Ithamar Pillsbury of Macomb, Illinois, Rev. M. Hummer of Stephenson (present day Rock Island), Illinois, and the Rev. Enoch Mead of Rockingham, Iowa, which is now the southwest section of Davenport. They were also the supply clergy who visited the congregation occasionally. In 1842 J.M.D. Burrows and T.S. Hoge were chosen and ordained elders of the church.</p><br>
<p>Rev. Samuel Cleland had charge of the Davenport and Stephenson congregations for four years starting in 1843. At this time they built their first church in Davenport even though the congregation was still very small. In 1846 the congregation only numbered 17. From 1847-49 the congregation was irregularly served by a pastor. Stability for the congregation came in November, 1849 when the Rev. J.D. Mason became the pastor. At this time the church consisted of about 30 members. By 1857 the congregation had grown to 200.</p><br>
<p>The congregation built another church building in 1853 on Third Street between Harrison and Main Streets. In 1864 they sold that property and purchased the former St. Lukes Episcopal Church on Brady Street. This building served the congregation for over thirty years when the decision was made to build a new church closer to the center of the parish. The ground was broken for the new church at the corner of Kirkwood Boulevard and Iowa Street on March 18, 1898. The churchs cornerstone was laid the same year on July 20, and the new church was dedicated on December 17, 1899. The old church became the Academy of Sciences, a forerunner of the Putnam Museum</p><br>
<h3>Present Church</h3><br>
<p>The new church was designed by the Galesburg, Illinois architectural firm of Gottschalk & Beadle. They were the same firm that designed an almost identical Central Congregational Church in Galesburg. The building is constructed of Marquette brown stone and has a magnesian stain. The architectural style is Romanesque with a tower in the Richardsonian style. There are carved oak leaves and foliage on the gables in the Renaissance style. The interior is octagonal in shape and the ceiling is marked with a Maltese cross and a Greek cross.</p><br>
<p>The congregation continued to grow. By 1935 it numbered 1,300 people and was one of the largest congregations in the city.</p><br>
<h2>Pipe organ</h2><br>
<p>The Casavant Frères Ltée (1999, Op. 3455A) pipe organ is located in the front of the sanctuary with some pipes exposed. It features a traditional style console with a roll top. It is located in the center in a fixed position. It is equipped with four manuals, five divisions, 61 ranks, the manual compass is 61 notes, and the pedal compass is 32 notes. It has electric key action and electric stop action. The drawknobs are in vertical rows on angled jambs. There are balanced swell shoes/pedals in standard AGO placement. The combination action is a computerized/digital system. Rounding out the features are AGO Standard (concave radiating) pedalboard, crescendo pedal, reversible full organ/tutti thumb piston, reversible full organ/tutti toe stud, combination action thumb pistons, combination action toe studs, coupler reversible thumb pistons, and coupler reversible toe studs.</p><br>
<p>Stoplist:</p><br>
<p>GREAT ORGAN</p><br>
<p>16 Spitzflöte (ext)</p><br>
<p>8 Bordun (Sw)*</p><br>
<p>4 Oktave</p><br>
<p>2-2/3 Quinte</p><br>
<p>2 Oktave</p><br>
<p>1-3/5 Terz</p><br>
<p>VI Mixtur</p><br>
<p>16 Trompette</p><br>
<p>8 Trompete</p><br>
<p>8 Tuba (So)*</p><br>
<p>Tremulant</p><br>
<p>Chimes</p><br>
<p>MIDI*</p><br>
<p>SWELL ORGAN</p><br>
<p>16 Bordun (ext)</p><br>
<p>8 Prinzipal*</p><br>
<p>8 Spitzgeigen</p><br>
<p>8 Vox Coelestis</p><br>
<p>8 Bordun</p><br>
<p>8 Flute douce*</p><br>
<p>8 Flute celeste*</p><br>
<p>4 Oktave</p><br>
<p>4 Rohrflöte</p><br>
<p>2 Gemshorn</p><br>
<p>IV Scharf</p><br>
<p>16 Klarinette</p><br>
<p>8 Trompete</p><br>
<p>4 Klarine</p><br>
<p>Tremulant</p><br>
<p>MIDI*</p><br>
<p>CHOIR ORGAN</p><br>
<p>8 Dulzflöte</p><br>
<p>8 Schwebung</p><br>
<p>8 Rohrgedackt</p><br>
<p>4 Traversflöte</p><br>
<p>2 Italienisch Prinzipal</p><br>
<p>1-1/3 Quinte</p><br>
<p>II Kornett</p><br>
<p>8 English Horn</p><br>
<p>8 Tuba (So)*</p><br>
<p>4 Tuba Clarion (So)*</p><br>
<p>MIDI*</p><br>
<p>SOLO ORGAN*</p><br>
<p>8 Montre*</p><br>
<p>8 Flute majeure*</p><br>
<p>8 Flute harmonique*</p><br>
<p>4 Prestant*</p><br>
<p>II-IV Cornet*</p><br>
<p>8 Hautbois*</p><br>
<p>8 Tuba*</p><br>
<p>4 Tuba Clarion*</p><br>
<p>PEDAL ORGAN</p><br>
<p>32 Soubasse (Electronic)*</p><br>
<p>32 Bourdon (Electronic)*</p><br>
<p>16 Kontrabass</p><br>
<p>16 Spitzflöte (Gt)</p><br>
<p>16 Bordun (Sw)</p><br>
<p>8 Oktave</p><br>
<p>8 Spitzflöte (Gt)</p><br>
<p>8 Bordun (Sw)</p><br>
<p>III Theorbe*</p><br>
<p>IV Mixture</p><br>
<p>32 Contra Trompete (Electronic generators)*</p><br>
<p>16 Posaune</p><br>
<p>16 Trombone (Gt)</p><br>
<p>8 *Tuba (So)*</p><br>
<p>8 Trompete (ext)</p><br>
<p>4 Klarine (Sw)</p><br>
<p>4 Tuba Clarion (So)*</p><br>
<p>(*) Additions in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Other Presbyterian congregations</h2><br>
<p>Other congregations sprang up in the city including First Associate Reformed Presbyterian in 1856. The congregation changed its name to "United Presbyterian" four years later, to "McClellan Heights" in 1907, and finally "St. Andrew&#39;s" in 1960. The congregation was disorganized in 2008. Newcomb was organized by the YMCA in 1869 in the northwest part of the city. It became a mission of First Presbyterian between 1883 and 1916. Renwick Chapel was established in 1876. It had a succession of names including: College Avenue Presbyterian, Second Presbyterian and Mt. Ida Presbyterian. It no longer exists. West Park Presbyterian was founded in the mid 20th century on the Westside of the city. It changed its name to New Hope in the first decade of the 21st century.</p><br>
<p>The Winegardner Village  is an archaeological site near Rushville in Fairfield County, Ohio, United States.</p><br>
<p>Located on a flat two-part bluff, the site was formerly used as pasture until the middle of the 20th century, when it came under cultivation. The resulting plowing brought up enough artifacts to warrant further investigation of the site, and in 1954, archaeologists conducted a test excavation. Among the artifacts discovered during this process were pottery, bones, and stone chips.</p><br>
<p>Archaeologists believe that the Winegardner Village was once occupied by a Middle or Late Woodland people. It is one of several Woodland period villages in the area, and its position atop a bluff overlooking Little Rush Creek gives it a defensive advantage that has often been cited in archaeological analysis of the site. Artifacts such as broken pottery and fire-burned stones have been seen as evidence that the site was occupied by a dense population.</p><br>
<p>In recognition of the site&#39;s archaeological significance, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The landmarked area encompasses an area of approximately 5 acre.</p><br>
<p>The German American Heritage Center also known as the Germania-Miller/Standard Hotel, is a cultural center and museum in Davenport, Iowa, United States, that chronicles and preserves the history of German-Americans in the Midwest region. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The German American Heritage Center was incorporated in 1994, and the board of directors purchased the Standard Hotel on the Davenport riverfront in 1995. The building was built by John Brus and opened in 1862 as the Germania House, a gasthaus (guest house), for immigrants. The hotel&#39;s name was changed several times in the 20th-century. It became the Arcade Hotel around 1906, the Henry Blessing Boarding House around 1917, and the Standard Hotel from 1924 to 1995. The retail space on the main floor was occupied by various tenants over the years. In 1983, the building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places,</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building is a fine example of high Victorian commercial architecture in Davenport. Of particular merit is the metal cornice that was apparently added by John Miller, whose name appears on it. The original storefronts had been removed and were restored in the 2009 renovation. The easternmost bay, where the hotel&#39;s main entrance was located, is more decorative than the other six and is below the cornice arch.</p><br>
<p>The Clemuel Ricketts Mansion  is a Georgian-style house made of sandstone, built in 1852 or 1855 on the shore of Ganoga Lake in Colley Township, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It was home to several generations of the Ricketts family, including R. Bruce Ricketts and William Reynolds Ricketts. Originally built as a hunting lodge, it was also a tavern and post office, and served as part of a hotel for much of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>After 1903 the house served as the Ricketts familys summer home; they kept it even as they sold over 65,000 acre to the state of Pennsylvania from 1920 to 1950. The house was included in the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) in 1936 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1983. A group of investors bought the lake, surrounding land, and house in 1957 and developed them privately for housing and recreation. The house became the Ganoga Lake Associations clubhouse, and is not open to the public.</p><br>
<p>The original mansion is an L-shaped structure, two-and-a-half stories high, with stone walls 2 ft thick. It was built in a clearing surrounded by old-growth forest with a view to the lake 900 ft to the east. In 1913 a -story wing was added to the north side of the house and the original structure was renovated. The house has twenty-eight rooms, four porches, and its original hardware and woodwork. Dormers and some windows were added in the renovation, and electrical wiring and modern plumbing have been added since. According to the NRHP nomination form, the Clemuel Ricketts Mansion "is a stunning example of Georgian vernacular architecture".</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Clemuel Ricketts Mansion is on the southwest shore of Ganoga Lake in Colley Township in the southeastern part of Sullivan County. The mansion and lake are on a part of the Allegheny Plateau known as North Mountain; the plateau formed about 300 to 250 million years ago in the Alleghenian orogeny. Rocks—gray sandstone with conglomerates and some siltstone—of the Mississippian Pocono Formation more than 340 million years old, underlie the house and lake. The lake is in a shallow valley, 13 ft deep, which is impounded by glacial till up to 30 ft thick at the southeast end, where Kitchen Creek exits.</p><br>
<p>The earliest recorded inhabitants of the region were the Susquehannocks, who left or died out by 1675. The land then came under the control of the Iroquois, who sold it to the British in the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768. The land on which the house was later built was first part of Northumberland County, then became part of Lycoming County in 1795. The Susquehanna and Tioga Turnpike, which followed the lake&#39;s western shore, was built between 1822 and 1827; it connected the Pennsylvania communities of Berwick in the south and Towanda in the north. The lake was then known as Long Pond, and the Long Pond Tavern, just north of where the house was later built, was a lunch stop for the stagecoach on the turnpike. Sullivan County was formed from Lycoming County in 1847, and two years later Colley Township was formed from Cherry Township.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Lodge and tavern</h3><br>
<p>Brothers Clemuel Ricketts (1794–1858) and Elijah G. Ricketts (1803–1877) were frustrated at having to spend the night on a hotels parlor floor while on a hunting trip on Loyalsock Creek north of Ganoga Lake in 1850, and wanted their own hunting preserve. They bought the lake, Long Pond Tavern, and 5,000 acre of surrounding land in the early 1850s and soon began building a stone house between the turnpike and the lake shore to replace the log tavern. According to William Reynolds Ricketts HABS history of the house,</p><br>
<p>According to Ricketts family tradition, Gad Seward built the mansion. While it was originally known as "Ricketts Folly" for its isolated location in the wilderness, the official name was the Stone House. The house served as the brothers&#39; lodge and as a tavern for travelers on the turnpike. Clemuel was named postmaster of a new post office at the lake on October 3, 1853, and received a tavern license from Sullivan County on August 7, 1854. When Clemuel died in 1858, Elijah bought his share of the house and land. The post office closed April 12, 1860.</p><br>
<p>Elijahs son Robert Bruce Ricketts (1839–1918), for whom the nearby Ricketts Glen State Park is named, joined the Union Army as a private at the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, and rose through the ranks to become a colonel in the artillery. After the war, R. B. Ricketts returned to Pennsylvania and purchased the stone house, lake, and some of the land around it from his father on September 25, 1869, for $3,969.81 (approximately $ in ); eventually he controlled or owned more than 80,000 acre, including the lake and the parks glens and waterfalls.</p><br>
<p>From 1872 to 1875 Ricketts and his partners operated a sawmill 0.5 mi southeast of his house. In 1872 Ricketts used lumber from the mill to build a three-story wooden addition about 100 ft north of the stone house, with a verandah connecting the two. The addition cost $45,000 (approximately $ in ), and was known as the Ark for its resemblance to Noah&#39;s Ark. That same year Ricketts put new white birch floors in the stone house, which are still there as of 2008.</p><br>
<h3>Hotel</h3><br>
<p>The Ark and stone house together formed the North Mountain House hotel, which opened in 1873, and was managed by Ricketts brother Frank until 1898. Many of the guests, who came from Wilkes-Barre, Philadelphia, New York City, and other places, were Ricketts friends and relations. The hotel was open year-round; in summer, guests frequently arrived after school let out in June and stayed until school resumed in September. In 1876 and 1877, Ricketts ran the first summer school in the United States at his house and hotel; one of the teachers was Joseph Rothrock, later known as the "Father of Forestry" in Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>By 1874 Ricketts had renamed Long Pond as Highland Lake, and by 1875 had named the highest waterfall on Kitchen Creek as Ganoga Falls. That year the North Mountain House hotel was featured in John B. Bachelder&#39;s travel guide Popular resorts, and how to reach them, which praised its location in a virgin forest, the lake and nearby waterfalls, and opportunities for hunting, fishing, and hiking. In 1881, Ricketts renamed Highland Lake as Ganoga Lake. Pennsylvania senator Charles R. Buckalew suggested the name Ganoga, an Iroquoian word which he said meant "water on the mountain" in the Seneca language.</p><br>
<p>The house and hotel were on the east side of the old turnpike; a 100 acre field on the other side of the road had a small herd of milk cows and a vegetable garden to provide for the guests&#39; needs. The field also had a rifle range and a nine-hole golf course. Guests could enjoy tennis and croquet, and a lawn stretched from the house east to the lake, which offered boating and bathing. There was an outlook point 0.5 mi southwest of the house, and Ricketts built a 40 ft observation tower at the highest point on North Mountain, 3.5 mi south. After the first tower collapsed, he built a 100 ft replacement, and named the site Grand View.</p><br>
<p>Ricketts was a lumberman who made his fortune clearcutting nearly all his land, but no logging was allowed within 0.5 mi of the lake, and the glens and their waterfalls in the state park were "saved from the lumberman&#39;s axe through the foresight of the Ricketts family". One hemlock tree cut near the lake to clear land for a building in 1893 was 6 ft in diameter and 532 years old. The North Mountain House hotel was threatened by a forest fire in 1900; the subsequent loss of much of the surrounding old-growth forest led to decreased numbers of hotel guests. Changing tastes may have also played a role in the decline in popularity; the hotel had over 150 guests in August 1878, but only about 70 guests in August 1894.</p><br>
<p>In 1903 another large fire on North Mountain threatened the sawmill in the lumber town of Ricketts northeast of the lake. Beginning in 1893, a 3.85 mi branch line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad ran from Ricketts to a log station at the north end of the lake; a boardwalk and coach service brought guests from the station to the hotel. There was daily passenger service to Wilkes-Barre and Towanda, and the line also served freight trains hauling ice from the lake for use in refrigeration from 1895.</p><br>
<p>The North Mountain House was long known for its rustic charms; it was heated with open fireplaces, decorated with animal skins and hatracks made of antlers, and had two live black bears on chains in the field across the road from the house. In 1895 and 1900 the stone house was refurbished, and telephone service, acetylene lighting, and steam heat were added. In 1900 The Sullivan Review newspaper recalled its former state and wrote of the changes: "We hardly call that an improvement.... When the North Mountain House is lighted by gas, heated by a modern furnace, etc., its great charm is gone."</p><br>
<h3>House</h3><br>
<p>The wooden addition to the stone house was torn down in either 1897 or 1903, and the land became a garden. The hotel closed in November 1903, and passenger train service ended at that time. The sawmills at Ricketts closed when the timber was exhausted in 1913, and the ice company closed in 1915. As part of Ricketts&#39; will, the stone house and its outbuildings were valued at $12,000 in 1918 (approximately $ in ).</p><br>
<p>R. B. Ricketts and his wife had three children; their son William Reynolds Ricketts (1869–1956) lived in the house after his parents deaths. Beginning in 1920, the Ricketts heirs began selling land to the state of Pennsylvania, but still owned over 12,000 acre surrounding the house, Ganoga Lake, and the glens with their waterfalls. The stone house was included in the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) in 1936 as the William R. Ricketts House. Atherton, the architect for the 1913 addition, helped prepare the HABS architectural drawings, which gave the houses name as "Ganoga". William Reynolds Ricketts&#39; history for the HABS refers to it as the stone house.</p><br>
<p>In 1942 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania began buying the glens and their waterfalls from the heirs for $82,000 (approximately $ in ) William Reynolds Ricketts died in 1956 and the lake and surrounding land were sold in October 1957 for $109,000 (approximately $ in ). it serves as the association&#39;s headquarters and clubhouse, and is used for association meetings, weddings, and picnics. As part of a private development, the house and lake are not open to the public: "To all outsiders that have no property around the lake, the lake and grounds are off limits."</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Clemuel Ricketts, the architect of the stone house, was very interested in architecture from the colonial period and had traveled widely. In the 1840s he published a book which examined the British and European sources of colonial architecture in the United States. Clemuel designed the house in the colonial or Georgian style in the early 1850s; construction began in either 1851 or 1854 and finished the next year.</p><br>
<p>The Clemuel Ricketts Mansion lies 900 ft west of Ganoga Lake, on what the HABS map described as a 2.2 acre "clearing completely surrounded by primeval forest", with a view to the lake. The house was originally on the east side of the turnpike and faced it, but when what became Pennsylvania Route 487 was built in 1907, the course of the highway was changed so that it now runs on the other (east) side of the lake. Since then, the house is on a private road 1.5 mi from the highway.</p><br>
<p>The original house built in the 1850s is L-shaped. According to the architectural drawings made for the HABS, the bottom of the L is 60 ft north–south by 35 ft east–west. In 1935 the ground floor of this part of the house included the main door and entrance hall, living room, parlor, library, and stairs. The main entrance is on the west side, which has a porch 60 ft wide by 12 ft deep, supported by pairs of square pillars with stairs on the north, south, and west sides. The top of the L is 24 ft north–south by 40 ft east–west, and in 1935 the ground floor of the top of the L had the dining room, gun room, "brush up room", toilet, stairs, and a passage to the 1913 addition. The inside corner of the L has a two-story covered porch along the south side, and an open terrace on the east side&#39;s ground floor. In 1935 the second story of the original house had four bedrooms and a bathroom in the lower part of the L and two bedrooms and a bath in the upper part, as well as two staircases and hallways.</p><br>
<p>The mansion&#39;s stone walls are 2 ft thick; the individual building stones are "field sandstone about 17 inches square, of various thicknesses" (17 inches is 43 cm). There is a basement below the original house. The lower part of the L is five bays by two bays; the original double-hung sash windows in each bay of the 1850s house have six panes of glass per sash. All the original windows have shutters, these are paneled on the first floor and louvered on the second. The main door is in the Federal style with a large fanlight above the door and sidelights on either side. The attic in the 1850s part of the house is not finished, and the gable roof has "boxed cornices with returns".</p><br>
<p>In 1897 or 1903 a formal garden was added north of the stone house, on the site of the razed wooden structure where most of the hotel guests had stayed. In 1913 a two-and-half story wing was added on the north side of the original house, which was renovated; Thomas Henry Atherton was the architect. The new wing is 48 ft north–south and 20 ft east–west, with a large enclosed one-story porch on the north and east sides. In 1935 the addition had the kitchen, pantry, storage and refrigeration rooms, and a "maid&#39;s dining room" on the first floor, two bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor, and two servant rooms and a bath in the finished attic.</p><br>
<p>The new wing has six dormers (three on a side), and six dormers were added to the old house in the 1913 renovation (four on the east side, two on the west). The windows on the first floor of the new wing matched the old windows, but the windows in the second story of the addition have twelve panes in the upper sash and eight in the lower. As part of the renovation work, four new windows were placed in the 1850s house: two just west of the new wing, and two on the east wall of the lower part of the L. A small porch was added in the corner where the west wall of the new wing meets the north wall of the old house, and all the old porches were restored. In the original house two chimneys were restored and two replaced, and new fireplaces were installed in the living room, library, and dining room. The house has a total of 28 rooms.</p><br>
<p>The NRHP nomination form lists two other structures on the property: a utility building made of brick and covered in stucco east of the house, and a large barn to the southwest. Since the houses 1913 renovation, the only changes have been the installation of electrical wiring and modernization of the plumbing. The original hardware and woodwork are still present inside the house. According to the NRHP nomination form, the Clemuel Ricketts Mansion "is a stunning example of Georgian vernacular architecture" which "represents the manifestations of one mans architectural dream preserved within the wilderness for over a century".</p><br>
<p>The Jayne Estate Building, near the Delaware River waterfront in Old City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was built in 1870 to house eight stores by the estate of Dr. David Jayne , who became a millionaire by selling patent medicine. The architect was John McArthur, Jr. who is best known as the designer of Philadelphia&#39;s City Hall.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. Plans fell through that year to develop the four-story warehouse into a hotel and the property was sold at auction. The building was torn down soon afterward and the property has been an empty lot ever since. The Jayne Estate Building was the last example of the 19th-century commercial character of North Delaware Avenue (now, Columbus Boulevard), other such structures having been demolished due to the construction of Interstate 95 and other development.</p><br>
<p>The building was delisted by the National Register of Historic Places on January 18, 2011.</p><br>
<p>Fort Jefferson was a fortification erected by soldiers of the United States Army during the Northwest Indian War. Built to support a military campaign, it saw several years of active fighting. Today, the fort site is a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Establishment</h2><br>
<p>Located in present-day Darke County in far western Ohio, the fort was built under the direction of General Arthur St. Clair in October 1791 as an advance post for his campaign from Fort Washington against local Native Americans. A square of approximately 100 ft on each side, the fort was built of wood and intended primarily as a supply depot; accordingly, it was originally named "Fort Deposit." Before St. Clair&#39;s army departed the fort, a court-martial was conducted for an unknown crime; the three soldiers who were convicted and hanged became the first whites to be executed in present-day Darke County.</p><br>
<h2>Isolation</h2><br>
<p>One month later, after St. Clair&#39;s army was badly defeated in battle near modern-day Fort Recovery to the north, the scattered remnants of his force reconstituted at Fort Jefferson. Because it was not intended to house many soldiers, and because few supplies were actually stored at the fort, St. Clair found the fort insufficiently large for his men; consequently, he took most of his surviving soldiers and returned to Fort Washington, leaving only a small garrison to guard his many wounded. It is believed that the garrison was under the command of Captain Joseph Shaylor.</p><br>
<p>The defeat of the American army left Fort Jefferson deep in enemy territory. Determined to drive the American soldiers back to the Ohio River, a Native American force (possibly under the command of Simon Girty) raided the fort in the early summer of 1792. This raid began with an attack of one hundred warriors against a party gathering hay for the forts supplies on June 25; sixteen soldiers were killed or left missing by the fight. It is possible that another raid was conducted a short while later with the intention of capturing or killing Captain Shaylor; if a story told by locals be accurate, Shaylors love of hunting was exploited by some of the besiegers, who lured Shaylor and his son into the woods by imitating the call of the wild turkey. While Shaylor escaped the ensuing pursuit, his son was killed. The siege continued intermittently for three years, as continued Native American attacks were made to neutralize the fort.</p><br>
<h2>Wayne's campaign</h2><br>
<p>As the United States Army prepared to return to the offensive in the western Ohio country, Fort Jefferson became more than an isolated location outside of the control of the hostile Miamis: projections were created of using the fort as a base for the protection of local settlers and for raids on nearby Native Americans. When Anthony Wayne and his Legion of the United States, fresh from Legionville, began their expedition to avenge St. Clair in the fall of 1793, they erected a new supply fort at the site of Greenville, 5 mi north of Fort Jefferson. Nevertheless, they relied heavily on the supplies of Fort Jefferson in their campaign during the following year.</p><br>
<h2>After the war</h2><br>
<p>After the end of the war, white settlers began to take up residence in the vicinity of the abandoned fort. A blockhouse was built by one nearby resident in 1810; by 1820, more settlers had built houses, a mill, and a school near the fort site. The new community was named "Fort Jefferson."</p><br>
<p>In the fall of 1907, the Greenville Historical Society dedicated a memorial on the site of the fort. Fort Jefferson was further recognized in 1970 when it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The area designated as historic encompasses approximately 6.5 acre.</p><br>
<p>The Ellis Mounds are a complex of Native American mounds near Marysville in Union County, Ohio, United States. These three mounds form an east-west line on a small ridgeline in a farm field. Believed to have been built by Hopewellian peoples, the mounds are important because they may reveal information about daily life in the Hopewell culture. Archaeologists who study the Hopewell have generally concentrated on their largest ceremonial centers: as a result, while the mortuary customs of the Hopewell are well known, other aspects of their culture are little understood. For this reason, a site such as Ellis that bears the potential of yielding information about such aspects is valuable indeed, especially because its date has not yet been established: Ellis may have been built as early as 300 BC and as late as AD 600. Furthermore, the location of the mounds outside of the Hopewellian heartland farther south may demonstrate the spread of Hopewell influence, since excavations in numerous locations have demonstrated the necessity of assembling a complex society with many workers in order to construct the ceremonial mounds for which the Hopewell are well known.</p><br>
<p>In 1974, the archaeological significance of the Ellis Mounds was recognized when they were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. They are one of seven National Register sites in Union County and the only one in the countys northern regions: three of the other six are within Marysvilles city limits; the other three are south and west of Marysville.</p><br>
<p>Kastanitsa  is a village in Arcadia in Greece, on the southern slope of Mount Parnon. It is considered a traditional settlement. It is noted for its production of chestnuts, from which it takes its name, and for formerly being a majority Tsakonian-speaking settlement.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Kastanitsa is first mentioned in writing in 1293, but the settlement is thought to be nearly two centuries older, founded by Tsakones fleeing the rule of Slavic tribes that had invaded the Peloponnese. According to Kastaniot tradition, the village was founded by two families called Pentalonas and Bezenikos.</p><br>
<p>A Byzantine fort called Koutoupou was placed on the nearby hill of Pyrgos while the restored Byzantine monarchy warred with the Frankish lords of the Peloponnese to recover territory lost in the wake of the Fourth Crusade.</p><br>
<p>Further documentary evidence is scant until the eighteenth century. In 1788, a French traveller named Villehouson wrote that Kastanitsa "...has four hundred houses." In 1808, an Englishman, Martin Leek, reported that "This was once a city of great note." On 21 July 1821 the inhabitants proclaimed their independence from Turkish rule from atop the old Byzantine tower and joined in the Greek struggle for independence.</p><br>
<h2>Present-day Kastanitsa</h2><br>
<p>Currently, the village contains around two hundred-fifty inhabitable houses, representing a significant shrinkage from Villehouson&#39;s figure of four hundred. This is not unusual in the area where many towns and villages were ruined by the depredations of Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt and never fully recovered; those that were spared eventually lost population due to economic migration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.</p><br>
<p>Most houses are built from local stone, and the village is classified as a heritage site by the Greek government, which places controls on external renovations. Most roofs in Kastanitsa are made of slate, which, because of its low water absorption, is more resistant to frost damage during the winter snows.</p><br>
<p>Chestnut forests still surround the village: The largest contains 4,500 acre. In the past, these produced up to four hundred tonnes of chestnuts annually. (Historically, chestnuts were used to make dye for leather and other materials). In addition, there are thirty lime kilns for the production of plaster. (Men in Tsakonian villages often made their living in winter as itinerant plasterers in other parts of the Peloponnese and as far north as Attica, departing their villages at the feast of Saint Demetrius and returning for Holy Week). Wintertime population loss has accelerated in the automobile age, and the village presently has only around fifty year-round inhabitants, with a large influx of residents and visitors in summertime.</p><br>
<p>The village centre contains shops, cafes, taverns, a library, and the Church of the Transfiguration dating to 1780 and containing Russian woodwork donated by Catherine the Great. There are fifteen country chapels in the countryside outside the village and a church of Saint Pantaleon built on the ruins of the former monastery dedicated to Saint Nicholas, founded in 1628 and destroyed in 1826 by Ibrahim Pasha. Automobiles, with few exceptions, may not be driven in the village, and visitors are asked to park in designated areas on its outskirts.</p><br>
<p>Important holidays in the village include the Feast of the Transfiguration (August 6) and the annual Chestnut Festival, held in October.</p><br>
<p>The Dodge Site is an archaeological site in the northwestern part of the USA state of Ohio. Located north of Bowling Green in Wood County, the site was inhabited by Middle Woodland and Upper Mississippian peoples. Among the artifacts discovered at the site are ceramics and stone tools. The site&#39;s stratigraphy is obvious: the Middle Woodland village site and cemetery can easily be distinguished from the Upper Mississippian occupation zone that sits on top of it. While only a small portion of the 2.2 acre  site has been excavated, the artifacts that have been discovered at Dodge have contributed significantly to an understanding of the western basin of Lake Erie around AD 1300. Enough material has been recovered to facilitate radiometric dating, as well as identifying the peoples who once inhabited the site. The excavations also revealed the intensity of occupation: the Middle Woodland layer was substantially larger than the exceptionally thin Upper Mississippian component.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, the National Park Service recognized the Dodge Site&#39;s archaeological value by listing it on the National Register of Historic Places. Five years later, owners Henry Dodge and his wife donated the site to The Archaeological Conservancy in the interests of preservation.</p><br>
<p>The Pryor Mountains are a mountain range in Carbon and Big Horn counties of Montana. They are located on the Crow Indian Reservation and the Custer National Forest, and portions of them are on private land. They lie south of Billings, Montana, and north of Lovell, Wyoming.</p><br>
<p>The mountains are named for Sergeant Nathaniel Hale Pryor, a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition who vainly pursued horses stolen from the expedition in the area. The Crow Nation, a Native American tribe which lived nearby, called the mountains Baahpuuo Isawaxaawuua ("Hitting Rock Mountains") because of the abundance of flint there (which was chipped into arrowheads).</p><br>
<p>According to Crow Nation folklore, Little People (a race of 18 in high dwarf-like people with spiritual powers) lived in these mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Pryor Mountains are a 145,000 square miles region of Montana and Wyoming. The Pryor Mountains consists of Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary rocks the most prominent unit is limestone (known as the Madison Group limestone) laid down about 300 million years ago. The limestone and older sediments rest on Archean metamorphic rock consisting of gneiss and schists. The gneiss is exposed along the northeast escarpment of East Pryor Mountain. During the Laramide orogeny in the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene Period (about 70 to 60 million years ago), the limestone was faulted and uplifted. The 705 to 740 ft thick limestone blocks were tilted and uplifted as large blocks with the northeastern corner of the blocks forming the Bighorn and the Pryor Mountains.</p><br>
<p>Caves, carved by groundwater, can be found in the limestone throughout the Pryors. Among the better known are Big Ice Cave on the eastern edge of Pryor Mountain, and Mystery Cave (which contains some of the best speleothems of all the caves in the Pryors). Among the more notable are False Cougar Cave on East Pryor Mountain (which was used by Native Americans at times in the past), Shield Trap Cave (which features a vertical shaft about 33 ft deep), Little Ice Cave, and Bell Trap Cave (which is similar to Shield Trap). Other popular features of the Pryors include Froggs Fault, a huge fissure in the earth, and a buffalo jump near Dry Head Lookout. Just below Dry Head Lookout is a small pocket in the cliff face surrounded by a low man-made fence of rock. This is a place used by several Native American tribes for vision quests, and as of 1971 was perhaps the last undisturbed such place in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The tallest peak in the Pryor Mountains is East Pryor Mountain (elevation 8,822 ft).</p><br>
<p>The Bighorn River flows north from Wyoming and through the plateau between the Bighorn and Pryor mountains. The river flows between the two mountain ranges, and has cut the Bighorn Canyon deep into the limestone.</p><br>
<p>Crooked Creek, one of the few perennial streams in the area, divides the Pryors in two and is one of the few places where Yellowstone cutthroat trout may be found. The Pryors contain the most diverse bat habitat in Montana as well, with 10 species found there.</p><br>
<h2>Wild horse refuge</h2><br>
<p>The Pryor Mountains are also home to the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range, a protected area that is home to a herd of free-roaming feral horses. This herd was the subject of the 1995 documentary film Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies and its sequel, the 2003 documentary film Cloud&#39;s Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns.</p><br>
<p>is a lake in the south west of Berlin, in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough of the city and on the edge of the Grunewald forest. After Nikolassee and the neighbouring Schlachtensee, it is the southernmost of the Grunewald chain of lakes.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>To the north east, the Riemeistersee flows into the Riemeisterfenn nature reserve, the Langes Luch nature reserve, the Grunewaldsee and ultimately the Hundekehlesee. Krumme Lanke is 1100m long with a circumference of 2.5 km, is up to 6.6m deep and has a surface area of 154,000m². A path running along the edge of the lake is popular with joggers and walkers. There are also two bathing spots on the lake, one of which is used for naturism. There is also an exercise area for dogs on the northern bank, although this is currently overgrown. Unlike other lakes in the area, which contain eels, tench, pike, carp, catfish and perch, the Krumme Lanke is home only to asp.</p><br>
<p>On the northern bank is a memorial to Sergeant Fritz Göhrs, who was killed there in 1928. Whilst riding around the lake, Göhrs&#39; horse was startled and threw him into the lake. The horse then fell on top of him and Göhrs drowned.</p><br>
<p>Around a kilometre from the lake is the Krumme Lanke station of the Berlin U-Bahn, on the U3.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Crumense</h3><br>
<p>Having already bought the then villages of Zehlendorf, Schlachtensee and Nikolassee in 1242, the monks of the influential Cistercian Lehnin Abbey sought nine years later to expand their estate further north into Teltow. In 1251, they bought the village of Crumense by the Krumme Lanke for one hundred and fifty marks from the Ascanian Margraves Johann I and Otto III, who ruled the area together. As the village is not recorded in the Land Book of Charles IV of 1375, it is very likely that the village was abandoned soon after the purchase.</p><br>
<p>As excavations in the abandoned site have uncovered remnants of Slavic pottery, it is thought the settlement was originally a Slavonic foundation. Crumense in Middle Low German indicates a site by a crooked lake, meaning the village was named after the lake. There are references to the lake itself in documents from 1543 and 1591, in which it is referred to as the Krummensee.</p><br>
<h3>SS colony</h3><br>
<p>Between 1938 and 1940, the GAGFAH property company built an SS colony by the Krumme Lanke. The firm worked in co-operation with the Office for Race and Settlement to create what Reichsführer of the SS Heinrich Himmler called "a closed community for the officers of the SS." Since 1945, almost all of the streets have been renamed: Sigstraße was renamed Bürstadter Weg (after the town in southern Hesse); Treuepfad became Alsbacher Weg (the name of several places in Germany); and Ahnenzeile became Jugenheimer Weg (after Jugenheim in Rheinhessen). The name of one street, Im Kinderland (In the land of children) remained. The name was suggested by the wife of an SS officer, on the grounds that "the men, who represent the racial elite of the German people, pass on their high-quality genetic material to a large number of genetically wealthy offspring."</p><br>
<h2>Music</h2><br>
<p>In 1923, Berliner folk singer Fredy Sieg wrote Das Lied von der Krummen Lanke (The Song of Krumme Lanke).</p><br>
<p>In 1973, the quartet, Insterburg & Co., sang about the Krumme Lanke in song of that title on their album, Die Hohe Schule der Musik (The High School for Music).</p><br>
<p>Indie artist Ducktails included an instrumental on his album St. Catherine by the name Krumme Lanke.</p><br>
<p>Prastos  is a settlement in Arcadia, Greece. Formerly, Prastos was the premier town of the Tsakonian region, but declined in importance after its devastation by Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt during the Greek War of Independence and a general economic migration to urban areas that occurred in the following decades. It is considered a traditional settlement.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the Ottoman period, Prastos was the leading city of Tsakonia, and one of the richest in the Peloponnese. The inhabitants had special trading rights granted by the Sublime Porte, which contributed to the town&#39;s economic success. It was the seat of a bishopric, that of "Rheoi and Prastos."</p><br>
<p>During the Greek War of Independence, the town was sacked by Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt and its olive groves burned, making the settlement unsuitable for habitation for decades hence. Much of the surviving population fled to Leonidio and the Argolid and could not be persuaded to return to the relatively less fertile mountains even after the olive groves had recovered.</p><br>
<p>Mount Mtelo  is the fifth-highest mountain in Kenya , after Mt Kenya, Mt Elgon, Aberdares and High Cheranganis, and is situated in the North West highlands of West Pokot County, approximately 120 km north of Kitale Town.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing the mountain</h2><br>
<p>Marich Pass Field Studies Centre represents a good base from which to explore the mountain and guides are available to help you with the ascent. It is a three-day hike to the top and back, and it is advised that hikers stay a night or two at the wonderful Mount Mtelo Viewpoint Camp, a campsite with cottage accommodation run by the Ywalasiwa family. However, it is possible to get to the campsite by vehicle, an amazing drive up the Sekerr escarpment. No specialist equipment or training is required for the climb, and there are different trails that can be taken to the campsite and peak passing through cultivated areas of the Pokot, forest, bamboo and open moorland, with extensive views of eastern Uganda and north-west Kenya on a clear day. The mountain is considered sacred, as it is described as the cradle of pastoral Pokot according to oral traditions. Mount Mtelo is home to black-and-white colobus monkeys, small antelope, 3 species of turaco and 10 sunbird species.</p><br>
<p>The altitude means the temperature and humidity is lower than in Marich, making hiking far more comfortable as well as being unfavourable for mosquitoes.</p><br>
<h2>Community and development projects</h2><br>
<p>The area is home to six clans Chapin, Kamket, Ngusurot, Silokot, Talai and Tungo with an overall population of over 30,000. However, the area is isolated, and most people are involved in subsistence farming (maize and beans). In recent years local people, with outside assistance, have worked to set up a number of community projects aimed at helping the Pokot people of the Mbara sub-location. These projects have included: the creation of a number of water pipeline projects which provide safe drinking water to the local population; the building of a new clinic; and a tree nursery controlled by a local women’s group.</p><br>
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<p>The Harra Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge in Washington County, Ohio, United States. Located in western Watertown Township, about 2 mi north of the community of Watertown, the bridge spans the South Branch of Wolf Creek near the intersection of State Route 339 and Township Road 172. Among the bridge&#39;s more distinctive features are its cut stone abutments, its metal roof, and the vertical siding. Although it has been open for well over one hundred years, it remains in strong structural condition, and it served daily traffic into the late twentieth century.</p><br>
<p>A single-span structure completed in 1875, the bridge was constructed under the leadership of Marietta bridge builder William Meredith. One of his primary employees was stonemason Billy Gamble, who used locally-quarried stone to construct the abutments. The source for this stone was the farm of James Harrah, whose name (minus its final letter) was given to the bridge. The plan for the bridge used the Long truss design; fewer than ten historic Long truss bridges remain in Ohio today. In 1976, the Harra Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its historically significant architecture and because of its importance in the history of Ohio.</p><br>
<p>St. Marys Historic District is a national historic district located at St. Marys in Elk County, Pennsylvania. It includes 399 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, one contributing structure, and five contributing objects. It encompasses the historic central business district, adjacent residential district, and St. Josephs Convent. Also located in the district are several historic churches. The oldest building in the district is a stone structure built about 1845. The earliest section is oriented around the "Diamond." Located within the district is the separately listed John E. Weidenboerner House. Also located in the district are two buildings designed by noted architect William P. Ginther; the Sacred Heart Church  and the addition to St. Josephs Convent .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Hervey Range is a large mountain range about 39 km north of Townsville, in Queensland, Australia. It is one of the highest peaks in the Townsville region and is also the location of the Herveys Range Heritage Tea Rooms. The highest point of the range is Mount Cataract, which is 709 m high.</p><br>
<p>Thorntons Gap is a historic feature on the range, where a walking track that provided access to goldfields crossed the range.</p><br>
<p>Apart from the tea house, there are few houses, no estates and no shops around the Hervey Range because it is mostly preserved wetlands. There are other attractions on the range, such as the former Greenvale Rail Trail, which runs up the range and into a tunnel in the mountain.</p><br>
<p>A rail line was opened from Cobarra, north of Townsville, to the nickel mine at Greenvale in 1974, and closed in 1993 with the closure of the mine. The line passed under the Hervey Range through a series of tunnels. The tracks were removed and re-used on coal rail lines in Central Queensland.</p><br>
<p>The Shelby House is a historic building in Botkins, Ohio, United States. Built in 1864, it was constructed by local businessman Philip Sheets as a hotel for railroad passengers originating from or destined for northern Shelby County and southern Auglaize County. By the early twentieth century, railroad traffic had declined with the advent of the automobile, and the house was converted into an apartment building. It remained in operation until abandonment in the 1940s; for periods of time, it housed businesses or was used as a storage building, but it never reopened as a hotel or apartment building. Eventually, the house was donated to the Botkins Historical Society, which converted it into a museum.</p><br>
<p>The Shelby House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978; at this time, it was seen as significant both for its architecture and for its contribution to broad patterns of American history.</p><br>
<p>Mount Warrenheip is an inactive volcanic cone in Victoria, Australia. The mountain has an elevation of 714 m. The mountain is a landmark of Dunnstown, Victoria the closest town, with the mountain being located 9 km east of the Ballarat central business district, in the suburb of Warrenheip.</p><br>
<p>Mount Warrenheip ceased volcanic activity around 100,000 years ago. Along with Mount Buninyong, it is one of only two forested scoria cones in Victoria.</p><br>
<h2>Location and features</h2><br>
<p>Mount Warrenheip is surrounded by farmland. The foothills are the location of Kryal Castle and cattle grazing.</p><br>
<p>The name Warrenheip originates from the Wathaurong word Warrengeep, meaning "emu&#39;s feathers" in reference to the resemblance of the fern like vegetation coverage which once covered it. In spring, forget-me-not flowers appear on the slopes. Most of the mountain is designated as a nature conservation reserve and there are a small number of koalas and wallabies in residence.</p><br>
<p>Hundreds of trees on the mountain have died in recent decades from an unknown cause, predominantly peppermints, manna gums and stringy bark gums.</p><br>
<p>The mountain was subjected to fire in 1866, 1901, 1939 and again in February 2013. Light snow falls on Mount Warrenheip occasionally.</p><br>
<p>Mount Warrenheip has four telecommunications towers installed at its peak, including antennae for Radio 3BA, Voice FM 99.9, ABC News Radio, Telstra mobile and WiMax services, an amateur radio repeater and police dispatch radio.</p><br>
<p>Hilo Masonic Lodge Hall, also known as the Bishop Trust Building, is a historic structure in Hilo, Hawaii. Constructed between 1908 and 1910, it was designed to house commercial space on the ground floor and a meeting hall for a local Masonic lodge on the second floor. In 1985, the Masons moved to new premises, and since then the second floor has been rented to a variety of tenants.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Masonic Lodge in Hilo was founded in 1896 at the home of William W. Goodale. On October 15, 1897 Kilauea Lodge #330 was officially chartered.</p><br>
<p>Named for the nearby active Kīlauea volcano, it was the first Masonic lodge on Hawaii Island.</p><br>
<p>John Troup Moir (1859–1933) manager of the Onomea sugarcane plantation in Papaikou, Hawaii, was master of the lodge. He was also the first chairman of the board of supervisors for the County of Hawaii.</p><br>
<p>A delegation from the Grand Lodge of California officially presented Kīlauea lodge with its charter in February 1898.</p><br>
<p>The lodge met in a room of a building owned by Frederick S. Lyman, son of early Hilo missionaries Sarah Joiner and David Belden Lyman. The Lyman building was on leased land, so an association (with Moir as president) was formed to purchase a lot uphill from the town, assuming urban Hilo would grow in that direction.</p><br>
<p>The association raised most of what they thought a building would cost by October 1900.</p><br>
<p>When a federal building was being planned in Hilo around the same time, the lodge proposed swapping their land for a corner of the federal lot, but public protests prevented the deal at first.</p><br>
<p>By January 1906 they were successful in arranging a deal with Territorial Governor George R. Carter to swap their land (desired for a school) for a more central parcel, paying the difference in value.</p><br>
<p>Based on a sketch by freemason William McKay (1841–1909), architects were interviewed in Honolulu and the mainland.</p><br>
<p>Henry F. Starbuck of Oakland, California was selected to design the building. He was a freemason and had designed several other lodges and churches. Harold Vaughan Patten was given as "architect" in one account, but he probably served to supervise the financial aspects of the project since he was an accountant.</p><br>
<p>Plans were ready to be finalized at the end of March 1906. Construction was scheduled to begin in July when leases expired on the land which they were purchasing from the territory.</p><br>
<p>The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck less than a month later, before construction could begin. Rebuilding of San Francisco after the resulting fire caused building materials to become scarce and more expensive, causing delays and cost over-runs on the Hilo project. Finally ground was broken in May 1908. In June Starbuck traveled to Hilo to oversee construction with workers he had selected. After a few months Starbuck and the workers were dismissed; Fred Harrison from Honolulu became construction contractor. The cornerstone was laid February 18, 1909.</p><br>
<p>The dedication ceremony was held on February 24, 1910. Construction cost ended up being double what had been planned.</p><br>
<p>At the ceremony Moir said "nothing but the best would satisfy the boys" and called it "a substantial, fireproof, earthquakeproof, up-to-date building, first class in every respect, a credit to the town of Hilo and the Territory of Hawaii."</p><br>
<p>It was completed about the same time as the Volcano Block Building and S. Hata Buildings within a few blocks in downtown Hilo. Just to the south, Kalakaua Park serves as the town square, flanked by the historic District Courthouse and Police Station and Hilo Federal Building finished a few years later.</p><br>
<p>The 28,000 ft2 building was built of reinforced concrete in the Renaissance Revival style. It had three floors and a full basement. From the lobby, an elaborate granite stairway with an ornate oak balustrade leads to the second and third floors. The roof formerly held a garden.</p><br>
<p>The second floor consisted of a foyer, a ceremonial temple room of about 35 ft by 55 ft, and a banquet room about the same size. The temple included high ceilings with cast brass suspended lighting fixtures and an organ gallery.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic order used the second and third floors as a temple until 1985, when they moved out to protest a liquor license being awarded to the first floor tenant.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>The building was purchased by Toyama Hawaii, Inc. in 1992. It was added to the state registry of historic places on June 28, 1993 as site 10-35-7508, and added to the National Register of Historic Places listings on the island of Hawaii on April 21, 1994 as site 94000383.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s ground floor has had various tenants. Bishop Bank (now First Hawaiian Bank) used the ground floor before moving to their own building.</p><br>
<p>A 1990s restoration effort rebuilt modern restrooms and added an elevator, using some original and salvaged materials.</p><br>
<p>Howard and Mary Ann Rogers (as the Kaikodo Building, LLC) bought the building in 2001 and opened the Kaikodo restaurant in the ground floor in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Their plans were to open an Asian art gallery on the second floor after a further remodel. The Rogers were former art researchers who had previously opened a gallery in New York City.</p><br>
<p>After a struggle to be profitable, it was closed for four months and reorganized in 2005. Kaikodo closed in August 2007 and the building was put up for sale.</p><br>
<p>A restaurant on the first floor was re-opened in 2009 as "Uncle Don&#39;s Ohana Grill" but closed less than a year later.</p><br>
<p>The building is located on the northwest corner of Keawe (originally known as Bridge Street) and Waianuenue Streets in Hilo, Hawaii, (address 60 Keawe Street).</p><br>
<p>The Kilauea lodge is one of two on the island today.</p><br>
<p>Bisitun cave is an archaeological site of prehistoric human habitation in the Zagros Mountains in the Kermanshah province, north-west Iran, associated with the discovery of Mousterian stone tools of the Middle Paleolithic.</p><br>
<p>Dibble described the stone tools as having strong Levallois components. All artefacts are apparently from the same period. Coon described two hominid remains from the site, an upper IJ and a radius shaft fragment, both from a Layer designated F+. Trinkaus and Bilgari described the material in detail, arguing that the incisor is not a hominin IJ, but a bovid IJ/M. According to their analysis, the radius fragment shows Neanderthal affinities, as it is mediolaterally expanded at the interosseus crest. Metrically, it is outside the range of variation of early anatomically modern humans, but in the range of Neanderthals and early Upper Paleolithic humans.</p><br>
<p>Applewood Farm is a farmstead in Ledyard, Connecticut, United States. Constructed in 1826 by Russel Gallup, the farmhouse was built with a colonial center chimney design with Federal style details that has been modernized to the early 20th century without significantly changing the floor plan. Named after the apple orchards planted by Russel Gallup, Applewood Farm developed significantly under the ownership of Everett Gallup, the last member of the family to own the property. The property was later owned by Arlene Meyer Cohen and a 40-acre parcel was sold off in November 1984. After the Betz family became the owners it was added to the National Register of Historic Places and operated as a bed and breakfast through the 1990s. In 1987, the property included five contributory structures, the farmhouse, corn crib, barn, silo and chicken coop. The property also has one non-contributing structure, a machinery shed from the 1960s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The farmhouse was built by Russel Gallup in 1826 before the incorporation of the town of Ledyard in 1836. A 40-acre parcel of the original property was sold to Sarter in November 1984. In 2005, the property was sold from Applewoods Estates LLC</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Built around 1826 by Russel Gallup, the two-and-a-half-story Applewood Farm&#39;s farmhouse design harkens back to the earlier colonial center chimney design with Federal style details.</p><br>
<p>The National Register of Historic Places nomination form states that the house&#39;s construction may have been influenced by an earlier house built on the opposite side of Colonal Ledyard Highway, but there is no evidence for that design, but notes that it was a retardetaire example. The farmhouse is 36 ft feet long and 28 ft. Around 1842 a 20 ft by 16 ft one-and-a-half-story wing was added to the east side. The rear ell, a one-and-half-story structure measuring 20 ft by 14 ft, connects to a 60 ft by 15 ft shed. The house and its additions are all topped with gable roofs and were using wooden shingles at the time of its historic nomination in 1987. The farmhouse has six fireplaces, with those on the first floor are made of cut granite blocks also with granite hearthstones and the second floor are made of brick with granite lintels with brick hearths. The house has had modernization throughout the years, including modernizing the kitchen and bathrooms that has not significantly altered the floor plan. The hardware in the house was modernized and updated over the years, but had reproduction colonial hardware and early 20th-century hardware at the time of its nomination. Some changes, like the installation of a new door in 1986 were done specifically to meet fire code regulations.</p><br>
<p>Contributing to the property is a 12 ft by 15 ft corn crib that has been previously rebuilt and dated to around the 19th century at the time of its nomination. The barn, a post-and-beam construction, is 32 ft long and 20 ft with large double doors on the east and west sides. The rafters were made with a single planed side and the "rest is left round". Attached to the barn is an early 20th century dairy shed measuring 43 ft long by 20 ft wide. Other contributing assets include a 31 ft in circumference silo and a 20 ft by 45 ft, both likely built in the early 20th century. A machinery shed dating to the 1960s was specifically listed a non-contributory asset. In 1987, the listed property had 3.6 acre out of the original 144 acre farm.</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>Applewood Farm has served as a farm for over a century, with an 1850 census reporting it produced butter, cheese, rye, Indian corn, oats, wool, Irish potatoes and hay. Three apple orchards planted by Russell Gallup would become an important part of Applewood Farms and owe its name to those orchards. After Everett Gallup took over the farm in the 1920s, the farm produced fresh fruits and vegetables and poultry, eggs and dairy products. In 1994, the Applewood Farm reported having 700 trees tapped for maple syrup production and showed visitors the process of producing the syrup. Applewood Farms was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 under criteria A for the Gallup family history that played an important role in the local history and under criteria C as an architecturally important example of a late colonial center chimney house.</p><br>
<p>The Ashland Mill Bridge was a lenticular pony truss bridge over the Pachaug River in Griswold, Connecticut that was built in 1886 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company. It was built following the Ashland dam break of February 1886 which washed away the previous bridges. The bridge served the millyard of the Ashland Cotton Company, in the Jewett City section of Griswold. The bridge was 65 ft long and crossed a millrace on a skew angle. The Ashland Mill was damaged by arson in March 1994 and subsequently torn down, but the bridge itself remained. By 1999, the town deemed the bridge unsafe and closed it, and by February 1999, the bridge was moved to a vacant parking lot and was replaced with a new bridge. The bridge was added to the state of Connecticut historic register and it was later added to the National Register of Historic Places in April 1999. It was removed from the National Register in February 2016.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Heavy rains in February 1886 caused the Ashland dam to break and the resulting flood damaged the Ashland Cotton Companys buildings and washed away the previous bridges at the site. The Berlin Iron Bridge Company was contracted to build a total of three bridges in the area, the Ashland Mill Bridge, another larger lenticular truss for Ashland Street and another 33 ft bridge for the Slater mill which was located further downstream. Clouette and Tinh note that the mill owners may have been influenced in their decision by the Berlin Iron Bridge Companys bridges that were already in place in the surrounding area.</p><br>
<p>The Ashland Mill Bridge was a single-span lenticular pony truss bridge. Completed in 1886, it was a roadway from Ashland Street to the millyard. The bridge was made of four 16 ft long panels, totaling 65 ft in length. The roadway was 10 ft wide. The bridges wrought-iron truss was 6.5 ft deep and it crossed the river at a 28° angle. All but the trusss joints were pinned except for the endposts lower-chord nut connections; as was distinctive of the Berlin Iron Bridge Companys bridges. The plate-girder floor beams supported wooden stringers and floored with planks across the width of the bridge. The bridge&#39;s railing were made of two 5/8-inch (1.5875 cm) rods bolted to the inside of the trusses. A 1905 postcard depicts the bridge being painted red, but the paint was nearly absent by 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Fate</h2><br>
<p>In March 1994, the manufacturing buildings were damaged by arson and were subsequently demolished. The site became a town park and the bridge was anticipated to be rehabilitated and serve as a pedestrian bridge in the park. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in April 1999 for being a historically significant example of late 19th-century bridge fabrication and as a surviving example of a bridge built by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company without significant modification or deterioration. It was also locally significant as a remaining artefact of the Ashland Cotton Company, formerly a major employer in the city.</p><br>
<p>In 1999, the town closed the bridge as it was deemed unsafe and badly deteriorated. The bridge was also on the state of Connecticut&#39;s historic register list.</p><br>
<p>Mount Echigo-Komagatake or Uonuma-Komagatake  is a mountain located on the border of Uonuma and</p><br>
<p>Minamiuonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, with an elevation of 2,002.7 m It is one of the 100 famous mountains in Japan.</p><br>
<p>Mount Echigo-Komagatake, along with Nakanodake and Mount Hakkai, is also one of the three great mountains of Echigo, the old name for this area of Niigata Prefecture.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Mount Echigo-Komagatake lies in central part of Echigo Mountains, a mountain range over Niigata, Fukushima, and Gunma Prefecture. Between late autumn and early spring, large amounts of snow fall in this region because of the monsoon from Siberia, with an average of 3 to 4 meters. Avalanches eroded the surface of the mountain and formed steep precipices, especially on the west and north face. Hikers can see snow on the mountain even in late summer. Thanks to the heavy snowfall, this mountain is the source of several rivers such as the Kitanomata River, the Mizunashi River, and the Sanashi River, which all flow into the Sea of Japan. Such abundant water is used mainly for paddy fields, and hydroelectricity.</p><br>
<p>In contrast to the winter season, summers are hot and humid and there are thunderstorms in the afternoon almost every day during the summer. Hikers must pay attention to hyperthermia and thunderbolts.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing routes</h2><br>
<p>There are several climbing routes to the mountain&#39;s peak. The easiest and most popular route is from Shiori Mountain Pass. (Japanese: 枝折峠) Other routes are the Kushigahana route, the Komanoyu route, and the Echigo Sanzan mountain ridge route. All routes are</p><br>
<p>long and demanding, but special technique isnt needed. Its possible to get back to the starting points except for the last one if climbers start in the early morning. The best climbing season is between June and early October.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Some bus routes are available from train stations (Muikamachi, Urasa or Koide) to the starting points. However, they are much less convenient than by car and taxi. At the starting points, several dozens of parking lots are available for free, but during the best season, the parking lots are quickly inundated with a lot of cars.</p><br>
<h2>Facilities</h2><br>
<p>There is only one mountain lodge called Komanokoya (Japanese:駒の小屋) at about 100 meters below the summit. The caretakers stay between late April and the end of October. It costs 2000 Japanese yen to stay there without food, with no reservation. In the snow season, climbers also use the lodge for shelter.</p><br>
<p>The Ahavas Sholem Synagogue is a historic religious building at 30 White Street in New Haven, Connecticut. It was better known as the White Street Shul. It is a two-story structure built of brick and limestone in 1928 for a Jewish congregation established in 1912. The building has a particularly handsome Classical Revival facade, with limestone on the first level, which is continued on the second level around that floors windows. A panel above the main entrance identifies the congregation and the year of the buildings construction in the Hebrew calendar. Some of its original windows are incised with the Star of David, which is repeated in a pediment at the roof level. Jewish services were conducted here until the 1960s. The building is now used by the Church of Christ and is known as the Thomas Chapel.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Ruby Range is a mountain range in Madison and Beaverhead counties Montana. The range lies east of Dillon and southwest of Sheridan. The highest point, Ruby Peak with an elevation of 9,391 ft, lies in the northeast portion of the range. Gordon Peak with an elevation of 8,478 ft lies in the southwest part of the range to the southeast of Dillon. The range is oriented NE–SW with a length of about 42.7 km. The Beaverhead River lies to the northwest of the range. Ruby River runs along the southeast and east flanks of the range with Ruby Reservoir on the southeast flank. Blacktail Deer Creek drains the southwest portion of the range and the Blacktail Mountains lie to the southwest. The Tobacco Root Mountains and the Greenhorn Range lie to the northeast and east respectively.</p><br>
<p>The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) owns most of the range, and 26,611 acres of BLM land are protected as a Wilderness Study Area.</p><br>
<p>The Rubies are dry mountains, so springs are few. The terrain is steep, especially in the northern end, with more than half the land above 8,000&#39;.</p><br>
<p>This causes trees to be stunted in the shallow soils. Despite this, forest cover is extensive, with Douglas-fir, lodgepole pine, and spruce common, while the highest slopes are home to vast stands of pure limber pine intermixed with small parks, a habitat type found more commonly far to the south. Other features of the Rubies include free-standing rock walls, caves, cliffs, and talus. Wildlife includes a few elk, a large mule deer herd and excellent blue grouse habitat.</p><br>
<p>The Oude Maasje  is a former distributary of the river Maas , which runs parallel to the current canalised Bergse Maas.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The hydrological distribution of the Maas changed during the later Middle Ages, when a major flood forced it to shift its main course towards the Merwede river. However, during another series of severe floods the Maas found an additional path towards the sea near Geertruidenberg, resulting in the creation of the Biesbosch wetlands and Hollands Diep estuaries. Thereafter, the Maas split near Heusden into two main distributaries, one flowing north to join the Merwede, and one flowing directly to the sea. This latter branch is the current Oude Maasje. The branch eventually silted up, and in 1904 a new parallel channel was dug in the drainage basin, the Bergse Maas. This channel then took over the functions of the silted-up branch, which has since been known as the Oude Maasje. At the same time, the branch leading to the Merwede was damned at Heusden, (and has since been known as the Afgedamde Maas) so that the vast majority of water from the Maas now enters the old Hollands Diep estuary, rather than mixing with the Rhine distributaries. Like many old river beds in the Netherlands, the Oude Maasje now primarily acts to drain the surrounding fields, and does not receive water from the Maas river. However, it drains into the Bergse Maas near Geertruidenberg, therefore retaining a connection with the Maas.</p><br>
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<p>The Snowcrest Range, el. 10,581 ft, is a small mountain range southeast of Dillon, Montana in Madison County, Montana. The Snowcrest and adjacent Gravelly Range is one of Montana&#39;s most popular hunting grounds. The two mountain ranges are home to nearly 10,000 elk and a growing population of grizzly bears.</p><br>
<p>The Snowcrest Range is extremely wild, with about 166,000 acres of roadless country, including 97,000 acres of roadless National Forest, as well as adjacent private and state lands.</p><br>
<p>Wolke characterizes the Snowcrest thus: "Spectacular grassland foothills and slopes rise through a thin band of Limber Pine, Douglas-Fir, Aspen, spruce, and fir to alpine summits... his is high, dry, east-slope country, and the rich habitat mosaic is superb for Elk, Bighorn, Moose, Mule Deer, Red Tailed Hawk, Swainson&#39;s Hawk and Golden Eagle." The Snowcrest Range receives very little use outside of hunting season.</p><br>
<p>Sunset Peak, el. 10,581, is the highest point in the Snowcrest Range. (Although Wolke lists Sunset&#39;s elevation at 10,573, lists its elevation as 10,581).</p><br>
<p>The Elisha Blackman Building, also known as York-Chapel Building, was built in 1883. It occupies a corner of York and Chapel Streets in the Downtown New Haven neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. It is a four story commercial building which has "brick and stone work that is first rate". The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The building was an investment by Elisha Blackman, a carriage maker. It is "quite possible" that neighbors, on what were nice residential-only streets, were displeased by the development of this multi-storey building with commercial space on its first floor and apartments above.</p><br>
<p>The design is by an unknown architect, and the workmanship of the building is quite fine. The brick and stone is arranged into pilasters, corbelling and string courses. It has a metal clad cornice.</p><br>
<p>There was a fire in the building in 1977 and the building was vacated. At the time of the NRHP application there were rehabilitation plans.</p><br>
<p>The Chapel Street Historic District is a 23 acre historic district in the Downtown New Haven area of the city of New Haven, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The district covers the southwestern corner of Downtown New Haven, including properties from Park Street to Temple Street between Chapel and Crown streets, and properties from High Street to Temple Street between George and Crown streets. It is bordered on the north by the New Haven Green and the Yale University campus. The western edge borders the Dwight Street Historic District. The eastern and southern edges of the district abut areas of more modern development.</p><br>
<p>In 1984 the district included, over a 5 and a half block area, 102 buildings, of which 76 were contributing buildings. The predominantly brick structures represent a wide range of architectural styles. Maps show that the area was residential in the eighteenth century and through the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Commercial development began to take over at that time, though residential properties remained well represented. The oldest building in the district is the Ira Atwater House, built in 1817. Most of the buildings now in the district were built in the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries.</p><br>
<p>Uummannaq is a 1,170 m high, prominent, isolated mountain in western Greenland, located on the small Uummannaq Island in the central part of the Uummannaq Fjord. It entirely dominates the landscape of the island, its base occupying its entire northern half. Formed of granite and basement gneiss, it is the most prominent mountain in the Arctic part of the west coast of Greenland. The mountain is a landmark of Greenland and a tourist magnet, often reproduced in art.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>The mountain has two summits of similar height (the eastern summit being the higher), hence the name Uummannaq, Greenlandic for heart-shaped. Deep chimneys fall to the south and the north from the col between the western and eastern summits.</p><br>
<p>Its eastern wall has no significant depressions, falling in a uniform cliff into Assorput Strait between Uummannaq Island and Salliaruseq Island.</p><br>
<p>There are several trabant bastions in the southeastern pillar, to the northeast of the black bands in the southern wall.</p><br>
<h2>Ascent</h2><br>
<p>Due to its remote location and considerable difficulty, few mountaineers have attempted the ascent. Only two known ascents had been done before 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Photographs</h2><br>
<p>Gabal Sha&#39;ib El Banat is a mountain in Egypt, situated in the Saharan Eastern Desert, 40 km from the Red Sea, between the cities of Hurghada and Safaga.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Gabal Sha&#39;ib El Banat is the highest peak of the Eastern Desert mountain range, and is the highest peak of mainland Egypt (excluding the Sinai Peninsula).</p><br>
<h3>Peaks</h3><br>
<p>The group of peaks of the Shaiyb al-Banat is composed of four mountains:</p><br>
<p>Gabal Abu Dukhan (1,705 m.),</p><br>
<p>Gabal Qattar (or Gattar, 1,963 m.),</p><br>
<p>Gabal Shayeb El-Banat (2,187 m.),</p><br>
<p>Gabal Umm Anab (1,782 m.).</p><br>
<p>Seasonal rivulets on its slopes are from precipitation and springs.</p><br>
<h2>People</h2><br>
<p>The area of Gabal Shaib El Banat is mainly inhabited by the Maaza tribe, also known as Bani Attia, which is composed of about 1,000 people that live in an area of 90,000 km². These people are nomads and live with their chattel of sheep, goats and dromedaries. The Bedouin Arab of Banu Hilal have lived in area between 11th and 12th centuries.</p><br>
<p>Dock Bridge is a pair of vertical lift bridges crossing the Passaic River at Newark, Essex County and Harrison, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, used exclusively for railroad traffic. It is the seventh crossing from the river&#39;s mouth at Newark Bay and is 5.0 mi upstream from it. Also known as the Amtrak Dock Vertical Lift, it carries Amtrak, New Jersey Transit, and Port Authority Trans Hudson trains. It is listed on the state and federal registers of historic places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The bridge was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) for its main line. The west span carries three tracks and opened in 1935 along with the west half of Newark Penn Station. The lift span is 230 ft over bearings (clear channel 200 ft), the longest three-track lift span in the world when built. The east spans opened in 1937 when the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad (H&M, later called PATH) shifted its rapid transit trains from the Centre Street Bridge to the newly built station. With the opening of the eastern span, the PRR closed Manhattan Transfer station in the Kearny Meadows, where previously steam and electrical trains were changed and passengers could transfer to trains to New York Penn Station on the PRR or to Hudson Terminal on the H&M.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The west span carries three tracks for the Northeast Corridor (NEC). The east span carries two PATH tracks and one Amtrak/NJ Transit track.</p><br>
<p>The lower 17 mi downstream of the 90 mi long Passaic River below the Dundee Dam is tidally influenced and navigable. It is infrequently lifted and, prior to 2014, had not received a request for a river traffic opening since 2004. During four-year removal of dredged materials from the Passaic the bridge is expected to open upwards of 10 times per day.</p><br>
<p>The Krueger-Scott Mansion is located in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The mansion was built on the corner of Court and High Street  in 1888 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 9, 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The 40 room mansion was built in 1888 by Gottfried Krueger (1837–1926), founder of Newarks Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company and owner of several other breweries. The construction cost at the time was $250,000. The mansion was sold to the Valley of Newark Scottish Rite Freemasons in 1926 for $100,000. A 700-seat auditorium was added to the mansion to accommodate for various meetings. The mansion was purchased in 1958 by Louise Scott for $85,000. Scott operated a beauty school out of the first floor of the mansion while keeping the upper levels as her private residence. The mansion was added to the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic places in 1972. Scott died in 1982 and ownership of the mansion passed to the city of Newark. In 1991, the New Jersey Historic Trust funded a bond for $625,812 to stabilize the exterior of the building. The city of Newark matched that amount, and over the years devoted more than $4 million to turning the home into a center focusing on the black contribution to Newarks development. The federal government contributed an additional $1.5 million., but after a decade of work, plans to turn the house into an African-American cultural center were frozen by the city&#39;s Municipal Council, which refused to allocate any more money for the project.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The mansion is a three story brick Late Victorian style building with a five story circular tower. A wrap around porch, steeply pitched roof, asymmetrical facade and arched front entryway are characteristic of the Queen Anne Style. The building is a balloon frame structure with a brick facade. The interior consists of lath and plaster walls with wallpaper covering and wood molding. The flooring is made of hardwood set into patterns. The pedimented windows are an Italianate influence here.</p><br>
<p>G.G. Green&#39;s Block is located in Woodbury, Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. The building was built in 1880 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 25, 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Earthquake damage</h2><br>
<p>Following the 2011 Virginia earthquake the vacant building and attached structures, which were also vacant, were ruled structurally unsafe. The sidewalk in front of the building as well as the adjoining streets were fenced off by the City of Woodbury. Due to several liens placed on the building and against the owner, the decision on what to do with the building fell to the City. Estimates to demolish the building ranged as high as $950,000. Woodbury City reached out to developers to take control of the property. A deal was struck with the RPM Development Group to repair the building, turn the ground floor into retail space, and construct age restricted apartments on the upper floors.</p><br>
<p>The Großer Steinberg is a high hill in the south of the Solling range. It lies within the district of Northeim, in the southwestern part of the German state of Lower Saxony.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The densely wooded hill of the Großer Steinberg is in the southern part of the Solling-Vogler Nature Park just under 6 km north-northeast of the town of Uslar. The hill may be climbed on several paths from the villages of Meinte and Vahle north of Uslar.</p><br>
<p>The summit region of the Großer Steinberg comprises two gently sloping hilltops that lie around 500 metres apart in a northwest-southeast orientation and have the following heights and :</p><br>
<p>Northwest hilltop (Nordwestkuppe): (51&deg;42&prime;18&Prime;N latitude, 9&deg;39&prime;57&Prime;E longitude)</p><br>
<p>Southeast hilltop (Südostkuppe): (51&deg;42&prime;3&Prime;N latitude, 9&deg;40&prime;2&Prime;E longitude)</p><br>
<h2>Harzblick Observation Tower</h2><br>
<p>On the southern slopes of the Großer Steinberg at a height of around 430 m is the Harzblick ("Harz View") observation tower, which is made of wood. Originally a tower was supposed to have been erected on this hill, the Solling Tower (Sollingturm), but after this had been built on the neighbouring Strutberg around 4.5 km away to the west, the Harzblick was set up on the Großer Steinberg.</p><br>
<p>From its viewing platform there are excellent views, for example, east to the Harz Mountains where the Brocken may be made out, south-southeast to the Gauß Tower on the Hoher Hagen in the Dransfeld Town Forest, south to the Kaufungen Forest and southwest to the Reinhardswald.</p><br>
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<p>Sruwaddacon Bay is a tidal estuary which runs through the middle of the Gaeltacht Kilcommon parish in Erris, County Mayo, Ireland. It is of historical importance in Irish legend, an important marine habitat, an E.U. Special Area of Conservation  and an EU Special Protected Area . Its translated name in English, "Stream of the Long Hound", reflects its general shape. It enters the Atlantic Ocean through Broadhaven Bay, another Special Area of Conservation.</p><br>
<p>The estuary measures approximately 8.4 square kilometres and consists of a north-westerly-orientated main channel fed by the Glenamoy and Muingnabo rivers. A second channel flows around the village of Rossport from the northwest and is fed by the Gweedaney stream. Both channels join into a fast flowing channel which widens out into an exposed bay at the mouth of the estuary. The lower portion of Sruwaddacon Bay has exceptionally strong currents.</p><br>
<h2>Natural history</h2><br>
<p>Most of the estuary is dominated by marine species with little depth in the upper and middle sections at low water and a significant intertidal area. It has few anthropogenic impacts with a mostly agricultural catchment and the small village of Rossport located at the centre of its two main channels. The outer area of the estuary is predominately sand and sand dunes where it flows into and out of Broadhaven Bay, the mid-estuary is mainly hard substrates of cobble and rock while the upper estuary has a mixture of sand and mud substrates. There are patchy areas of Fucus cover in the middle and lower areas of the estuary but the majority is unvegetated.</p><br>
<p>Salinity values recorded at beach sites were high in the middle and lower estuary – around 30 p.p.t. Salinity values close to freshwater were found at the confluence of the Glenamoy and Muingnabo rivers.</p><br>
<p>This estuary and Broadhaven Bay into which it drains, is an important breeding ground for salmon, whales and dolphins and of importance to the local fishing and recreation industries. There are extensive areas of intertidal mudflats characterised by polychaete communities and bivalves. There are Atlantic salt flats which fringe on the blanket bog, particularly in the lower reaches of the bay. Species growing here include sea thrift, sea arrowgrass, sea plantain, common salt marsh grass, Juncus gerardii, Juncus maritimus and turf fucoids.</p><br>
<p>The bay supports breeding terns of several varieties and black-headed gulls, including the red-breasted merganser and sand martin.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The 18th-century song Liam Ó Raghallaigh is based on the drowning of a young man on his wedding day in Sruwaddacon Bay when he and friends rowed across the bay to collect the priest for his wedding and their boat sank. The song, written in the first person as spoken by his bride and widow, Neilí Nic Siúrtáin, mourns the loss, and curses the craftsmen who made the boat with cheap wood; in translation, she sings: "Your eyes are with the eels, Your mouth is with the crabs, Your two bright, clear-bright hands Are under the sharp discipline of the salmon".</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology</h2><br>
<p>The archaeological survey carried out in 2008 for Royal Dutch Shell by the Archaeological Diving Company in Sruwaddacon Bay took some sample cores from the bay. One of their cores close to Aghoose townland turned up hazelnut shells at a depth of 10.7 metres under the bay. These have been held for analysis to be dated by the archaeological team concerned.</p><br>
<h2>Corrib Gas Project</h2><br>
<p>The latest plans of the controversial Corrib gas project are to run a high pressure, raw, unodourised natural gas pipeline up the middle of this bay. Shell are planning to construct a tunnel under the bay in order to receive planning approval from An Bord Pleanála. The local community and representatives of Pobal Chill Chomáin and Shell to Sea have fought the project through the Courts, through Oral Hearings and through direct action campaigns for the last ten years as gas was first mooted to be flowing from here to Galway in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Pictures</h2><br>
<p>Jubilee Hill is situated in the range of Malvern Hills that runs about 13 km north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border. It lies between Perseverance Hill and Pinnacle Hill and has an elevation of 327 m.</p><br>
<p>Jubilee Hill was named by the Malvern Hills Conservators in 2002 in honour of The Queen&#39;s Golden Jubilee. The Duke of York unveiled a plaque at the top of the hill, commemorating its new identity, in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The site was also previously known, and is still today by a group of locals, as Dads Hill&#39;, after a well-loved local bicycle shop-owner called Mr Earp who climbed Jubilee Hill frequently. Commemorated there upon his passing a local group still climb the hill on the same day every year in his name.</p><br>
<p>Jubilee Drive, the road which runs along the western (Herefordshire) side of the hills, was built and named for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, in 1887.</p><br>
<p>Table Hill is situated in the range of Malvern Hills that runs about 13 km north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border. It lies between North Hill and Sugarloaf Hill and has an elevation of 373 m.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Although the flint route from North Wales to Wessex lay to the north of Malvern, there is some evidence to suggest that traders passed over the Malvern Hills. Parts of an arrowhead, a scraper and flint flakes have been discovered between North Hill and Table Hill. A 19th-century guidebook describes both a collapsed burial mound on North Hill, named the Giant&#39;s Grave, and a tump on Table Hill. These tumuli may have been connected to the Dobunni settlement in Mathon:</p><br>
<p>Upon the Table Hill you will perceive the figure of a large table, whence the name is derived. In the centre is a cross, of the same size as that by the Giant&#39;s Grave, upon North Hill.</p><br>
<p>The Sweet Grass Hills  are a small group of low mountains rising more than 3,000 feet above the surrounding plains southwest of Whitlash, Montana in Liberty and Toole County, Montana. The tallest point in the hills is West Butte at 6,983 ft. Quite prominent in the local area, they are clearly visible from US Highway 2 to the south and can sometimes be seen as far north as the Crowsnest Highway  near Medicine Hat in Alberta. Other named peaks in the small group are Gold Butte , East Butte , and Mount Lebanon .</p><br>
<p>The Sweet Grass Hills are an example of the island ranges that dot the central third portion of the state of Montana. These island ranges, completely surrounded by the sea of plains and not geographically (or often geologically) part of the Rocky Mountains to the west, are "biological hotspots", containing more species than the prairie below.</p><br>
<h2>Formation and natural features</h2><br>
<p>The hills were formed in the early Paleogene period, and geologically are known as stocks - intrusive igneous rock forced up from below and solidified. Because of uplift and erosion, the overlying rock formations have disappeared. The upper slopes of the hills have not been glaciated and would have stood above the ice sheet that covered the area during the last ice age. Since the Sweet Grass Hills are at a higher elevation than the surrounding prairie, temperatures are cooler and precipitation is higher. Forested areas, consisting mainly of Douglas fir, are therefore able to grow on the hills&#39; slopes.</p><br>
<h2>Cultural significance</h2><br>
<p>The Sweet Grass Hills are a sacred site of the Blackfoot aboriginal people who live on both sides of the 49th parallel north which forms the Canada–United States border. The Hills were the site of a battle between Native people and wolfers in 1872. The Sweetgrass Hills Treaty of 1887 was signed between the Blackfeet and the United States, ceding 17,500,000 acres of land to the US Government, and dividing the remaining 6,000,000 into three separate reservations – The Blackfeet, Fort Belknap and Fort Peck. This is often referred to as the Sweetgrass Hills Treaty/Agreement and was ratified by congress in 1888. In 1993, the Hills were listed as one of America&#39;s Most Endangered Places. Mineral claims were staked here by Manhattan Minerals in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Twelve Apostles is a large stone circle located between the villages of Holywood and Newbridge, near Dumfries, Scotland. It is the seventh largest stone circle in Britain and the largest on the mainland of Scotland. It is similar in design to the stone circles of Cumbria, and is considered to be an outlier of this group. Its south-westerly arrangement aligns it with the midwinder sunset.</p><br>
<p>It is a scheduled ancient monument.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The circle is composed of eleven stones, of which five are earthfast; however, there were originally twelve. A plan taken by Francis Grose in 1789 shows twelve stones and the First Statistical Account, published two years later, records the same number. One of the stones was removed before 1837, when the New Statistical Account entry for Holywood was compiled. The 25 inch Ordnance Survey map of 1850 shows twelve stones in the circle, but this is due to an accidental spot of blue ink on the original plan which was carried on to published work.</p><br>
<p>Local traditions recorded in the nineteenth century associate the stones with the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ, and link the removed twelfth stone with Judas Iscariot. W. C. Lukis notes that in one tradition the stones were said to be set up by the apostles.</p><br>
<p>The tallest upright stone is around 1.9 meters tall. The longest, lying in the south-western sector, is 3.2 meters long.</p><br>
<p>All but one of the stones are Silurian rock; the other being Porphyry. Four, including the Porphyry rock, are natural boulders; the rest have been quarried. The nearest occurrence of Silurian rock is two miles away, near Irongray Church.</p><br>
<p>The Easthill stone circle is 3¾ miles SSW west of the Twelve Apostles. There was another stone circle a mile east near the River Nith but this was destroyed and used for building material before the New Statistical Account was compiled. Nearby are two cursuses, one of which, if extended, would run towards the circle.</p><br>
<p>In 1882 it was reported that a four inch bronze figure was uncovered at the circle some years before. This has since been identified as Saint Norbert, and dated to the twelfth century. It is now housed in the Dumfries Museum.</p><br>
<p>Lake Ming is a man-made recreational lake located in Bakersfield, California. It is primarily a motorboat and water-skiing lake, although sailboats are allowed the second full weekend each month, and every Tuesday and Thursday after 1:30 pm. Lake Ming also has fishing and the Department of Fish and Game stocks the lake with 10 to 12 inch rainbow trout during the winter months. The primary fishes are Large-mouth Bass, Catfish, Crappie, Bluegill, Carp and stocked Rainbow Trout. Lake Ming is a part of the Kern River County Park. The National Jet Boat Association holds races at the lake throughout the year.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lake Ming is formed by the Kern River County Park Dam on a tributary of the Kern River, in Kern County, California. The reservoir was created in 1959, and named after Kern County Supervisor Floyd Ming.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Lake Ming is a reservoir used for recreation purposes and owned by the Kern County Parks and Recreation Department. Its height is 18 feet with a length of 4,700 feet. Normal storage is 790 acre-feet. It drains an area of 0.6 square miles. It has a surface area of 104 acre. Other facilities located at the lake include picnic areas, restrooms, drinking fountains, and parking around the southern end. There is also playground equipment at the southeast end of the lake. There is also an additional large picnic area located on top of a small hill east of the lake. Further east is a 28 acre campground. It has 50 camp sites, each containing a picnic table and fire ring. A dump site and restroom are also available.</p><br>
<p>Black Virgin Mountain  is a mountain in the Tây Ninh Province of Vietnam. To the Vietnamese the mountain is the center of a myth about Bà Đen, a local deity of Khmer origin. During the Vietnam War the area around the mountain was very active as the Ho Chi Minh Trail ended a few kilometers west across the Cambodian border. As such there were many battles and American and Vietnamese soldiers based in the region remember the prominent landmark. After the war the mountain turned from a battleground to being famous for its beautiful temples and theme park.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and fauna</h2><br>
<p>A species of gecko, Gekko badenii, is named for the mountain and is endemic to the mountain.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Pre-Vietnam War</h3><br>
<p>Variations of the legend of Núi Bà Đen exist. The oldest Khmer myth involves a female deity, "Neang Khmau" who left her footprints on the mountain rocks. The Vietnamese myth centers around a woman, Bà Đen, falling in love with a soldier and then through betrayal or suicide Bà Đen dies on the mountain. Also, to the Cao Dai sect the mountain has special religious significance and its temple, the Tay Ninh Holy See, is close to the mountain.</p><br>
<p>During World War II the mountain was occupied by the Japanese and it was occupied by the Viet Minh, the French and the Vietcong.</p><br>
<h3>Vietnam War</h3><br>
<p>The Mekong Delta is generally a flat region with the exception of the Black Virgin Mountain. The mountain commands everything in its sight and was therefore a strategic location for both sides during the war. In May 1964 the mountain top was assaulted by the Special Forces 3rd MIKE Force and the peak was held by American forces as a radio relay station. Supplied by helicopter for much of the war the Americans controlled the top and the Vietcong controlled the bottom and surrounding foothills.</p><br>
<p>The base was occupied by over 140 Americans when on the night of 13 May 1968 the base was attacked and overrun by the Vietcong. By 02:30 on 14 May the Vietcong had been driven off by gunship and artillery fire. The results of the attack were 24 USA killed, 2 USA MIA and 25 Vietcong killed.</p><br>
<p>In January 1969 the mountain was extensively searched by 1st Brigade elements of the 3rd Battalion, 22nd Infantry, Ranger team 1-3 from the 75th Ranger Division, 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry, and tanks from the 2nd Battalion, 34th Armor. In the tunnels that honeycombed the mountain they found arms caches, and engaged Vietcong units stationed on the mountain. Throughout the war the Vietcong returned to the mountain and its cave bases.</p><br>
<p>Colonel Donald Cook was the first Marine captured in the Vietnam war. For a time he was held near Black Virgin mountain. In 1973 the mountain was closed as an American base. During the closing days of the war when the mountain was abandoned by Army of the Republic of Vietnam troops, the local population left the region afraid of the approaching communist soldiers.</p><br>
<h2>Tourist attraction</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is famed for its beautiful views. Visitors may hike up trails but many people take the Núi Bà Đen gondola lift to the top of the temple complex. Many of the trails up the mountain are dangerous when wet.</p><br>
<p>Common fruit orchards on the mountain and in the neighborhood grow the custard apple, which is called the mountain custard apple by the local citizens, bananas, or cashews.</p><br>
<p>The Ball and Roller Bearing Company, also known as American Family Crafts and the Joseph Nutt House and Machine Shop, is a historic industrial complex at 20-22 Maple Avenue in Danbury, Connecticut. The complex includes three buildings, two of which are wood frame and one which is brick. The two wood frame buildings include the Queen Anne-style former home of Joseph Nutt, who established a machine shop providing services to Danburys hat making industry in 1886. Nutts home also served as his company&#39;s office, and is attached to a single-story monitor-roofed brick structure. The factory is most notable as the location where Lewis Heim, owner of the Ball and Roller Bearing Company, invented the modern centerless grinding machine in 1917.</p><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Branchville Railroad Tenement is a historic commercial and residential building at the junction of Portland Avenue and West Branchville Road in Ridgefield, Connecticut. It is a vernacular three-story wood frame structure, built in stages between about 1853 and 1905, extending parallel to the nearby tracks of the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad line. Its most prominent feature is its two-story shed-roof porch, extending the full width of the main facade. It is the only known Victorian-era commercial structure in Ridgefield, and has seen a wide variety of commercial and residential uses.</p><br>
<p>The building which is visible from the south end of the Branchville Metro-North station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 12, 1982.</p><br>
<p>136-138 Collins Street is an architecturally distinguished Second Empire house in Hartford. Built about 1870, it is a rare and well-preserved example of this style in the city. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 29, 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>136-138 Collins Street is located in Hartford&#39;s Asylum Hill neighborhood, on the north side of Collins Street east of Summer Street. It is a 2-1/2 story brick structure, with a slate mansard roof. It is set on an elevated basement, giving it a taller than typical appearance. It is three bays wide, with its entrance in the center bay, and a two-story projecting pavilion to its right. The roof line is pierced by dormers in the mansard section that have elaborately carved surrounds and round-arch windows, that in the projecting section larger than the others. The latter dormer has a bellcast shape with a peaked hood. The roof the eaves have paired brackets. Windows are set in rectangular openings, with peaked lintels and bracketed sills.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1870. It probably had a more ornate front porch; the present one is a 20th-century replacement. The house was once owned by Isaac Frisbie, the superintendent of Hartford&#39;s poor house, which was located behind the house.</p><br>
<p>The Katharine Seymour Day House is a historic house at 77 Forest Street in the historic Nook Farm district of Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1884 for a local businessman seeking to compete stylistically with the adjacent Mark Twain House, it is a good local example of Queen Anne architecture. It now serves as the administrative center and library for the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Katharine Seymour Day House is located in the Nook Farm area Hartford&#39;s Asylum Hill neighborhood, at the southwest corner of Farmington Avenue and Forest Street. It is just east of the Mark Twain House, and north of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House. The house is a 2-1/2 story stone structure, built out of a multicolored combination of brownstone and limestone. It is a fine local example of Queen Anne Victorian architecture, with a busy exterior in terms of color and organization, with projecting gables, dormers and porches. The interior features high quality woodwork, plasterwork and tile.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Francis H. Kimball, and was built for Franklin Chamberlin and completed the project in 1884. He is believed to have built the house as a rival to the adjacent Mark Twain House. Chamberlin had previously sold the adjacent land to Mark Twain on which his house was built. The house was later owned by Willie Olcott Burr, publisher of The Hartford Times newspaper. It was purchased by Harriet Beecher Stowes grandniece Katharine Seymour Day in 1940, as part of a plan to preserve the surroundings of the Stowe House (which was also originally built for Chamberlin). Day established the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in 1941 as a nonprofit vehicle to preserve Stowes legacy.</p><br>
<p>The house now houses the centers administrative offices, and a research library containing many of Stowes materials.</p><br>
<p>The William L. Linke House is a historic house at 174 Sigourney Street in Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1880, it is one of a small number of surviving Queen Anne Victorians on the street, which was once lined with similar houses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The William L. Linke House stands in Hartford&#39;s Asylum Hill neighborhood, on the east side of Sigourney Street north of Asylum Avenue. The street is now lined primarily by multiunit apartment buildings. The house is a 2-1/2 story masonry structure, built out of brick with stone trim. It has asymmetrical massing, with numerous gables and dormers projecting from its hip roof, which is. Its front porch features turned posts and carved valances, with a projecting gable above the stairs. To its left is a two-story projecting bay section with decorative brickwork and terra cotta paneling between the floors, and it is topped by a smaller wooden bay and carved wooden detail at the gable peak.</p><br>
<p>This house was built about 1880, and was typical of houses built on Sigourney Street in the late 19th century. By 1896, a local map shows the street lined with houses similar to this one. Urban redevelopment of the neighborhood, and the street&#39;s transformation into a significant north-south artery have led to the demolition of most of those houses, replaced by two-to-four story apartment blocks.</p><br>
<p>142 Collins Street is an architecturally distinguished Queen Anne Victorian house in Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1890, it is typical of houses that were once much more common the city&#39;s Asylum Hill neighborhood. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>142 Collins Street is located in Hartford&#39;s Asylum Hill area, on the north side of Collins Street east of its junction with Summer Street, opposite the main complex of The Hartford Insurance Group. It is a 2-1/2 story brick structure, with a truncated hip roof and numerous projecting gables and dormers. The front facade has porches on the first and second levels, the upper one occupying only the central bay; both have decorative spindled woodwork friezes and turned supports. A projecting gable section to the right is finished with scalloped shingles, and has a two-window angled bay.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1890, and is, with the neighboring house (built about 1870 in the Second Empire style, a study in architectural trends that took place during the development of Asylum Hill in the second half of the 19th century. This house is a particularly fine example of a Queen Anne Victorian executed in brick.</p><br>
