<p>Bear Mountain Indian Mission School is a historic Native American missionary school in Amherst, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>The school was used by the Monacan tribe since:</p><br>
<p>n 1868, a parcel of land was donated for a meeting place for the Indian people. At the time, churches and schools were provided for whites and for blacks, but not for Indians. Originally, a wooden arbor served as the meeting place, and itinerant ministers began to hold Baptist and Methodist services there. Shortly thereafter, a log building was built, to be used for the meeting place. The new church served about 350 Indian people. This building later became the Indian mission school, which still stands at the foot of Bear Mountain.</p><br>
<p>The school building was built in 1868, and is a single-story, one-room, horizontal log building. A frame addition was built in 1908. The "New School," dating to the 1930s, is a plain frame building sheathed in weatherboard. Associated with the school is St. Pauls Episcopal Church, a rectangular wood frame building with Gothic style detailing. It was built in 1930, after the original mission church was destroyed by fire. A mission workers house is also extant and is a small "L"-plan wood frame dwelling.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The central Colorado volcanic field  is a volcanic field in Park County, Colorado. It is located in the southern Rocky Mountains and covered a roughly triangular area centered on the Thirtynine Mile volcanic area and extending from the Sawatch Range southeast to the northern Sangre de Christo Range and the Wet Mountains and northeast to the southern Front Range south of Denver. The area covered by the volcanic products of the eruptions included some 22,000 km&sup2; produced by at least ten volcanic centers or calderas. The field overlaps the San Juan volcanic field to the west. The volcanic products date from the late Eocene to the early Oligocene.</p><br>
<h2>Economic significance</h2><br>
<p>Rocks of the CCVF host base- and precious metal deposits, including the volcanic diatreme at Cripple Creek, the site of a notable gold rush beginning in 1890. By 1900, more than 500 mines had been established in the Cripple Creek district, and the population exceeded 35,000. Open-pit gold mining continues today.</p><br>
<p>Outcrops of Wall Mountain Tuff, one of the most widespread extrusive units of the CCVF, may be found near the town of Castle Rock, more than 90 mi from the presumed eruptive source of the tuff. Locally known as Castle Rock Rhyolite, the stone was quarried for dimension stone and construction aggregate beginning in 1872 and used in building projects in cities along the Front Range, including Denver and Colorado Springs. The quarries were once important to the economy of the town of Castle Rock: in 1900, the quarries produced up to 1800 rail cars of stone per year and employed up to 100 laborers.</p><br>
<p>Although major operations ceased in 1906, at least one quarry operated as of 2013.</p><br>
<h2>Notable geological features</h2><br>
<p>Old Providence Stone Church is a historic church in Spottswood, Virginia in Augusta County, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>A log structure was built in the area by 1743 for early settlers known as the South Mountain Meeting House. In 1746 the congregation split, and the stone building was built in 1793 on land donated by Patrick and Susana Hall. In 1844, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of the South. In 1859, a new building was built for services, and a school used the stone building until the American Civil War, and then a store and residence. From 1888 it was used as a high school for the valley until the early 20th century, and then a meeting room until a fire in 1959 destroyed the interior.</p><br>
<p>The building is a simple gable structure with 18 inch thick walls, about 25 ft wide and 70 ft long.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register on December 5, 1972.</p><br>
<p>Robert McCormick (1780–1846), patriarch of the McCormick family which includes Cyrus McCormick, is buried in the cemetery, along with other members of the family. The McCormick Estate just to the south is now a historic museum and experimental farm.</p><br>
<p>The parents of sewing machine inventor James Edward Allen Gibbs are also buried in the small stone walled cemetery near the old church. A new church and larger modern cemetery are across the State Route 919 (known as "Old Providence Road) to the east.</p><br>
<p>Saint Stephen&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Forest, Bedford County, Virginia.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1824 and is the 2nd oldest Episcopal Church in the Lynchburg area. Saint Stephen&#39;s was established by Nicholas Hamner Cobbs (later Bishop of Alabama) in 1824. Cobbs was the Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Boonsboro and would ride his horse from one location to the other to provide Sunday services.</p><br>
<p>The first building was completed in 1825 on land given by Anne Irvine Moseley, the mother of Elizabeth Moseley Radford. Moseley had purchased part of the Poplar Forest tract from Martha Jefferson Randolph, the oldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson, who had given the land to his daughter for her dowry in 1790. The original church was torn down and the present one erected on the same site in 1844.</p><br>
<p>In the same year, William Radford and Elizabeth Moseley Radford deeded additional land to enlarge the church property and provide a cemetery for members. The cemetery is still in use today. A lack of funds to make necessary repairs closed the church temporarily in 1911, although occasional services were held.</p><br>
<p>In 1941, at the instigation of Malcolm Griffin, the church was restored and reopened. Since that date, services have been held continuously. A 2004 renovation project expanded the choir area and enlarged the front area where preaching occurs.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The associated Old Rectory was listed in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Furnishings</h2><br>
<p>The church has retained much of the original furnishings, including the pews, the altar rail and the Bishop’s chair. All the doors and windows are original. In 1897, the gallery at the back of the church was removed, but the side door entrance remains. In the same year, the wooden ceiling and a recessed chancel were added. It is believed that the marble baptismal font was installed during this period, since the pedestal bears the label of Lynchburg Marble Works which was in business from 1879-1883.</p><br>
<p>When the church reopened in the 1940s, the present altar, the Priest’s and Bishop’s chairs (designed by local artisans Julian and George Lindsey), and the altar cross and prayer stand were given as memorials. The Tiffany stained glass window above the altar was given by a subscription raised by Ethel Dirom.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The church building is a one-storey, three-bay, brick building with partial basement and Greek Revival style trim. It measures 36 feet wide and 61 feet long, and has a low-pitched gable roof.</p><br>
<p>Onogur Islands  is the group of nine islands and some islets and rocks adjacent to the northwest coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The group is situated between Carlota Cove to the southwest and Clothier Harbour to the northeast, and 700 m southeast of Cornwall Island. Kovach Island and Grod Island, the largest two in the group, have a surface area of 11 hectare and 10 hectare respectively. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers based in Clothier Harbour.</p><br>
<p>The island group is named after the settlement of Onogur in northeastern Bulgaria in connection with the Onogur Bulgars (5th-7th century).</p><br>
<h2>Islands in the Onogur group</h2><br>
<p>The group comprises the following islands:</p><br>
<p>Churicheni Island</p><br>
<p>Grod Island</p><br>
<p>Kovach Island</p><br>
<p>Leeve Island</p><br>
<p>Oescus Island</p><br>
<p>Osenovlag Island</p><br>
<p>Redina Island</p><br>
<p>Svetulka Island</p><br>
<p>Vilare Island</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Onogur Islands are centred at 62&deg;21&prime;07&Prime;S latitude, 59&deg;41&prime;00&Prime;W longitude. British mapping in 1822 and 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, and Bulgarian in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Maps</h2><br>
<p>L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. )</p><br>
<p>L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.</p><br>
<p>The Paul Robeson House was the home of internationally renowned American bass-baritone concert singer, actor of film and stage, All-American and professional athlete, writer, multi-lingual orator, human rights activist, and lawyer Paul Robeson from 1966 until 1976. Located in West Philadelphia, the Robeson House produces, presents and promotes traveling lectures, concerts and exhibits so that learning about Robeson is accessible to all ages and cultures.</p><br>
<p>In 1998 the West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, under the direction of Ms. Frances Aulston, initiated a major campaign to restore the Paul Robeson House. Since then, the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission and the White House have officially recognized the museum as a national historic preservation site.</p><br>
<p>The Paul Robeson House is an Official Project of Save America’s Treasures public-private partnership between the White House Millennium Council and the National Trust for Historic Preservation of our nation’s irreplaceable historic and cultural treasures for future generations.</p><br>
<p>It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Van Riper-Hopper House, is located in Wayne, Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built in 1786 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 21, 1972. The house is home to the Wayne Township Museum. It is one of the oldest buildings in New Jersey.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1786 by Uriah Van Riper. The house remained in the Van Riper family and was bequeathed to Uriah Van Riper&#39;s great granddaughter, Mary Ann Van Riper, who married Andrew Hopper in 1872. On July 6, 1964, the house was officially dedicated as the Wayne Township Museum.</p><br>
<p>Prior to Uriahs building the house, the property was purchased by Richard (Dirck) Van Riper in 1762, and consisted of 145 acres. The town of Wayne was known Saddle River at the time, which is referenced in Richard Van Ripers will. The "barn house" in the back was removed from its original place near the Wayne Hills Mall, and transported to the Property of the Van Riper House Museum.</p><br>
<p>The name Van Riper-Hopper came from the surname given to Mary Ann and Andrew&#39;s children, Uriah and Mary (Mame) Van Riper-Hopper.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>When the Van Riper-Hopper house land was first purchased, Northern New Jersey was divided into East and West Jersey. Today&#39;s Wayne Township was known as Saddle River, and belonged to Bergen County. Its location is now known as Passaic County.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in the traditional Dutch Colonial style. The second hallway of the second floor was altered by a previous owner in the 1950s. Built in closets and dressers were added, which were not typical of the Dutch Colonial style. The building of the house was based on the wilderness of in the property and the materials available.</p><br>
<p>Lambert Castle, originally called Belle Vista, is located within the Garret Mountain Reservation in Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. The building was built in 1892 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lambert Castle was built in 1892 as the home of Catholina Lambert, the owner of a prominent silk mill in the City of Paterson. Constructed in the Medieval Revival architectural style, Mr. Lambert&#39;s dream was to build a home reminiscent of the castles in Great Britain that he remembered from his boyhood years. President William McKinley and Vice President Garret Hobart visited the castle in 1898.</p><br>
<p>After Lambert&#39;s death in 1923, his family sold the building to the City of Paterson, which in turn sold it to Passaic County a few years later. Passaic County used the building for administrative offices, and in 1936, provided one room to the fledgling Passaic County Historical Society to serve as its historical museum. As time went by the museum grew, room by room, until the entire first floor became the historical museum.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1990s, the Castle underwent a multi-million dollar restoration and all four floors of the building were developed into a museum and library.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Construction began on the castle in 1891. The castle was built on the side of the First Watchung Mountain out of sandstone and granite. The sandstone was quarried from the surrounding hills. The initial construction cost was estimated at a half a million dollars. In 1896, an art gallery was added to the castle and a 70-foot observation tower was constructed on the crest of the cliff.</p><br>
<p>The gallery wing fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1936. The observation tower was open to the public until the late 1960s when it was closed due to disrepair.</p><br>
<p>In 2014 the Garret Rock Observation tower renovations were completed and the observation tower was reopened to the public. Admission to the tower is free with panoramic views available from the top.</p><br>
<p>Ailsa Farms, also known as Haledon Hall and Hobart Manor, is an historic place located in Wayne, Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. Ailsa Farms was purchased by the state of New Jersey in 1948 from the family of Garret Hobart, 24th vice president of the United States. It is now on the campus of William Paterson University. The original manor house, built in 1877, was the weekend retreat and summer residence of the Hobart family. It was greatly expanded in 1915 following a design by Paterson architect Fred Wesley Wentworth. Today the building is known as Hobart Manor and houses the university&#39;s Office of the President and Office of Institutional Advancement. Ailsa Farms was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Unity Ranger Station is a United States Forest Service compound consisting of five buildings and a lookout tower in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest of northeastern Oregon. For many years, it was the administrative headquarters for the Unity Ranger District. It is located in the small unincorporated community of Unity, Oregon. The historic structures were built in the rustic style by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1936 and 1938. Today, the ranger station is only used during the summer months to house Forest Service fire crews. The ranger station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the early 20th century, the forest road networks were not well developed. To facilitate work in National Forests, the Forest Service built district ranger stations at strategic locations within the forest to house full-time employees and provide logistics support to fire patrols and project crews working in remote areas of the forest. After World War II, the Forest Service greatly expanded its road network, allowing employees to get to most forest areas within a few hours. As a result, many of the more isolated ranger stations were closed or converted to summer guard stations.</p><br>
<p>The Whitman National Forest was established in 1908. The Unity Ranger District was an administrative subdivision of the Whitman National Forest, with responsibility for 194,000 acre of forest land in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon. After the Forest Service reorganization in 1954, the Unity Ranger District became part of the much larger Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.</p><br>
<p>The Civilian Conservation Corps began doing construction work at the ranger station in 1936. Between 1936 and 1938, Civilian Conservation Corps crews built a number of ranger station buildings. The construction crews worked under the supervision of Forest Service rangers. All of the buildings constructed during that period were designed by the Forest Service&#39;s Pacific Northwest Regional Architecture Group, and were built in the Cascadian rustic style.</p><br>
<p>In 1953, two buildings were moved to the ranger station from the John Day Experiment Station, a Forest Service research site on the Blue Mountains. This gave the ranger station a second ranger residence and a bunkhouse. Both of the buildings were constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps under the supervision of Forest Service rangers at about the same time as the original ranger station structures. The two experiment station buildings have the same architectural characteristics as the original ranger station structures and were built using the same materials and methods.</p><br>
<p>The Unity Ranger Station served as a district headquarters until 2002, when the Unity district and two other ranger districts were merged and the headquarters was moved to Baker City, Oregon. However, a full time visitor center remained open at the site until 2009. Today, the Unity Ranger Station is only open during the summer months, when the facilities are used to house Forest Service fire fighters.</p><br>
<p>There are six historically important structures that make up the ranger station complex. The historic buildings are all in excellent condition and are still used by Forest Service employees during the summer fire season. Because the Unity Ranger Station is of unique historic value as an early Forest Service ranger station, the compound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 11 April 1986. All of the historic buildings are located in close proximity to one another so the historic district covers just 1 acre.</p><br>
<h2>Structures</h2><br>
<p>With six historic structures, the Unity Ranger Station is a classic Forest Service range station. All of the historic buildings were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1936 and 1938. Their work included two ranger residences, a bunkhouse, an equipment warehouse, a garage, and a fire lookout tower. The buildings were constructed in the Cascadian rustic architectural style using a wood-frame structure on a concrete foundation with clapboard, wood shingles, native lava stone, and concrete as the principal building materials. Many of the gables and shutters have the "open pine tree" logo common to Forest Service structures built during the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>The first ranger residence (building #1051) was built at the ranger station by the Civilian Conservation Corps. It is an L-shaped, one-story wood-frame building on a concrete foundation. It has a gabled roof with a hip extension on the east end. There are decorative pine tree logo cut outs on the north and west gable ends. The building&#39;s exterior is covered with clapboard except the gable ends which have vertical board and batten siding. There is a red lava stone chimney on the west side of the building. The roof extends out past the walls to cover porches on the north and east sides of the building. The porch roofs are supported by square timber posts. The residence has a combination of six-over-six double-hung sash windows and four-over-four double-hung sash windows. There have been no significant alterations to the exterior structure of the building.</p><br>
<p>Near residence #1051, there is a small rectangular residential garage. It is a one-story wood-frame building on a poured concrete foundation. It has a gabled roof covered with wood shingles. The garage has horizontal lapped siding with vertical board and batten at the gable ends. An overhead-lift type vehicle-entry door is located on the west side of the building. There is also a regular entry door on the north. The garage’s exterior siding was replaced in 1983 using the same kind of material as the original.</p><br>
<p>The Unity Ranger Station equipment warehouse is a wood-frame structure, built at the site by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The foundation is concrete with a stone veneer. It has a wood-shingled gabled roof with a large projecting gable that gives the building an L-shape. There is a vehicle entrance below the projecting gable. There is a red lava stone chimney off-center on the south roof slope. The main roof extends out on the north side of the building to cover the porch. The porch roof is supported by square timber posts. The exterior siding is horizontal clapboard with vertical board and batten siding at the gable ends. Windows are the single-sash type. There is a decorative pine tree logo cut out just below the peak on the projecting gable.</p><br>
<p>A second residence (building #1052) was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps at the John Day Experiment Station sometime between 1936 and 1938. It was moved to the ranger station in 1953. It is an L-shaped, -story wood-frame structure on a concrete foundation. It has a high gabled roof with larger gabled dormers on the south side (rear) of the structure. There is a large offset gable on the northeast corner and shed-type roof over the front porch which is located on the north side of the building. The porch roof is supported by round peeled-log posts. There is a brick chimney on the south side of the house and a concrete chimney on the north side. The exterior siding is horizontal clapboard with wooden corner trim and vertical board and batten siding at the gable ends. The residence has six-over-six double-hung sash windows. There are decorative pine tree logo cut outs just below the peak on the north, east, and west gable ends of the building.</p><br>
<p>Like residence #1052, the bunkhouse was originally constructed at the John Day Experiment Station in the mid-1930s, and moved to the ranger station in 1953. The bunkhouse is a -story, rectangular building. It has a wood-frame, concrete foundation, and a high gabled roof with wooden-shingles. It has two large gable dormers on the front roof slope. There are also two cement chimneys that straddle the roof ridge. The exterior siding is horizontal clapboard with vertical board and batten siding at the gable ends. The bunkhouse has six-over-six double-hung sash windows. There are decorative pine tree logo cut outs just below the peak on the east and west gable ends of the building and at the crest of the two dormers.</p><br>
<p>The Unity Ranger Station has a combined fire lookout and water tower located on the compound. The 60 ft high, wooden tower was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1938. The tower has a 7 ft by 7 ft cab mounted on a 12 ft square deck with a catwalk enclosed by simple wooden railing. The windows have top-hinged, wooden shutters that help shade the cab when open. The tower is built with creosote treated Douglas-fir timbers. There is a wooden stairway leading up to the cab. There is a wooden water tank located just below the cab. The tower structure has never been modified so it remains true to its original design.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Unity Ranger Station is located in the small unincorporated community of Unity, Oregon. Unity is in southwestern corner of Baker County, Oregon surrounded by the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. Today, the historic ranger station is part of the Whitman Ranger District. The area of the Whitman Ranger District that used to be administered from the Unity Ranger Station is the southern part of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. The elevation at the ranger station is 4,038 ft above sea level. The forest around the ranger station is dominated by large stands of Ponderosa pine.</p><br>
<p>Unity is 48 mi southwest of Baker City on Oregon Route 245. John Day, Oregon, is 49 mi west of Unity on USA Highway 26. Vale, Oregon, is 65 mi southeast of Unity on USA 26. The historic Unity Ranger Station compound is on the south side of Main Street (USA 26) near the center of the Unity town site.</p><br>
<p>The Jessie Eyman–Wilma Judson House at 3114 Paty Drive in Honolulu, Hawaii, was one of the earliest residences designed by C.W. Dickey in his "Hawaiian style" after he finally returned to the islands for good in 1925. It was built in 1926 for Jessie Eyman and Wilma Judson, two nurses who arrived from Illinois in 1925. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The house sits on a sharply triangular hillside lot overlooking Manoa Valley at the intersection of Alani Drive (below) and Paty Drive (above, formerly Dillingham Drive). Its "Hawaiian style" architecture includes Dickeys trademark double-pitched hip roof with overhanging eaves, ample windows, and an enclosed lanai at the south-facing entrance. The single-story house, one-room deep, with board-and-batten siding, wraps around an open courtyard in the rear. One wing off the living room contains two bedrooms and a bath. The dining room and kitchen occupy the right rear wing, near a maids quarters and a garage on the south side.</p><br>
<p>The original owners lived in the house until 1940, when Judson sold her share to Eyman, who sold the house in 1943. As nurses, they set up the first Physicians Telephone Exchange in the Territory. Judson also worked many years for Dr. Forrest Joy Pinkerton, who founded the Blood Bank of Hawaii and the Pan-Pacific Surgical Association. Eyman managed the Mabel Smyth Memorial Building from the time it was built in 1941 until she retired in 1952.</p><br>
<p>Ocean City City Hall is located in Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. The building was built in 1914 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 13, 1997. To celebrate its 100th anniversary, it was made the subject of the 2014 Ocean City Seasonal Beach Tag.</p><br>
<p>Every fall, students of Ocean City High School turn the building into a Haunted House to celebrate Halloween, although there have been gaps where this didn&#39;t happen.</p><br>
<p>In 2012, floodwaters from Hurricane Sandy damaged the first floor of the building, causing the offices to be relocated. The town&#39;s city council approved a $1.17 million contract to rebuild and improve the first floor, including improved flood gates, water proofing up to 4 ft deep, and a new layout that added a public information area and larger bathrooms.</p><br>
<p>Little Red Schoolhouse, also known as Columbia School District No. 5 Schoolhouse, is located in Florham Park, Morris County, New Jersey, United States. The schoolhouse was built in 1866 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and then re-instated in June 6, 1986.</p><br>
<p>It is open to the public the first Sunday of most months with hours of 2:00-4:00pm. Open each July 4, from 1:00-3:00pm.</p><br>
<p>Entrance donations are accepted and appreciated. As a museum it includes artifacts such as broom making equipment, old maps and old school desks, and more from the 1800s and 1900s. Come ring the school bell!</p><br>
<p>It is a vernacular Italianate one-story narrow red brick masonry building with a steep roof and tall 9/9 windows topped with gently arches. In 1905, it was expanded from four bays to the current six. The open belfry at the front peak with working bell and the gable-end entrance make it instantly identifiable as a typical 19th century one-room schoolhouse.</p><br>
<p>Its location at the historic crossroads of Florham Park has remained a key reminder of the borough’s rural origins. The classic schoolhouse for is the borough’s icon, appearing on the town flag, letter head, website, and public works and first responder vehicles.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, the schoolhouse was moved back several yards to accommodate the expanded Columbia Turnpike.</p><br>
<p>Ground floor museum is ADA accessible (but basement restrooms are not).</p><br>
<p>The schoolhouse museum is operated by the Historical Society of Florham Park.</p><br>
<p>• Part of the museum is set up as a schoolroom from a century ago and mini lectures are offered for small groups of students and Scouts.</p><br>
<p>• Exhibits illustrate the development of Florham Park from a rural farming community, to the home of three major estates, and he community’s growth into a modern suburb.</p><br>
<p>Backwards Tunnel, also known as the Ogdensburg Railroad Arch, is located in Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. The tunnel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 28, 2005.United States Department of the Interior National Park Service</p><br>
<p>National Register of Historic Places Registration November 17, 2005 http://focus.nps.gov/GetAsset?assetID=7cd6997c-e1a6-4f55-af93-42fef95a870a</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The tunnel was built in 1871 by the New Jersey Midland Railway in order to cross the Wallkill Valley. New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway took over control of the tunnel in 1881 when the Midland Railway Line was merged into it. The tunnel was first referenced as the Backwards Tunnel in 1976 because it was thought that the tunnel should have been wider over the road than over the river. Ogdensburg declared the tunnel a borough historic site in 1991. A flood in 2000 which caused two nearby dams to burst damaged the tunnel. A book was published in 2009 about the history of the tunnel.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The tunnel is a double stone arch design and is a 180 feet long. The one arch which Cork Hill Road runs through measures 16 feet wide and 15 feet tall. The other arch which the Wallkill River flows through measures 20 wide and 16 feet tall. The rail line ran on top of the tunnel.</p><br>
<p>Simonsbath House is a historic house in Simonsbath on Exmoor in Somerset, England. The Grade II listed building is now the Simonsbath House Hotel, and outdoor activity centre. It lies in the valley of the River Barle and on the Two Moors Way footpath.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in the mid-17th century by the merchant, lawyer and philosopher James Boevey (1622-1696), the warden of the Royal forest of Exmoor, and for 150 years his was the only house in the forest. During the second half of the 18th century and the early part of the 19th century the wardens of the forest were the Acland baronets who leased the house, and it was licensed as an inn.</p><br>
<p>After the Inclosure Acts the house was bought, with the accompanying farm and about 70,000 acre, the remaining portion of the former Royal Forest belonging to the Crown Estate, by John Knight of Worcestershire in 1818 for the sum of £50,000.</p><br>
<p>Knight set about converting the Royal Forest, now known as Exmoor National Park, into agricultural land. He and especially his son Frederick, who assumed management in 1841, erected most of the large farms in the central section of the moor and built 22 mi of metalled access roads to Simonsbath. He built a 29 mi wall around his estate, much of which still survives.</p><br>
<p>Shortly after 1879 Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue (1854–1932) of nearby Castle Hill, Filleigh in Devon, Master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds 1880/81–87, acquired the reversion of the whole of the former Royal Forest of Exmoor after the death of Frederick Winn Knight. This was largely done to further his passion for staghunting. When Castle Hill was largely destroyed by a fire in 1934, the Fortescue family moved to Simonsbath House whilst rebuilding was in progress. The 4th Earl&#39;s grand-daughter and eventual heiress, Lady Margaret Fortescue (1923-2013), devoted much time to attempting to put the Exmoor estate onto a profitable footing.</p><br>
<p>The house was altered by the Fortescues, including the building of one of the first Squash Courts in England in 1929.</p><br>
<p>A 16th century heraldic chimney piece was brought by the Fortescues from their secondary seat at Weare Giffard Hall in Devon, and survives in today&#39;s hotel. During World War II the house was used as a school, and afterwards was as an hotel under the name "Diana Lodge Hotel" (in reference to the Roman goddess of hunting), which had several owners during the ensuing decades. In 1969 the name reverted to Simonsbath House.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house, which consists of several bays, has white painted walls and slate roofs. Outside are several agricultural buildings which have been adapted to provide accommodation.</p><br>
<p>The interior includes a fireplace with a chamfered lintel which dates from 1654, panelling and a 17th-century overmantel with a painted coat of arms which was brought from Weare Giffard Hall, near Bideford, a secondary seat of the Earls Fortescue.</p><br>
<h2>Heraldic overmantel</h2><br>
<p>Above the fireplace in the lounge of Simonsbath House is a late 16th-century heraldic overmantel relating to the Fortescue family and brought by them from Weare Giffard Hall, Devon. A framed handwritten explanatory note written c. 1900 by a member of the Fortescue family identifies the arms as follows, Shields from left to right:</p><br>
<p>First shield: lower half, quarters from left to right: Bottreaux of Molland; Wise or Wyse of Ford, Devon; Sapcote or possibly Castelline of Dorset; Seamask rather than Punchardon or Bodenham of Bodenham Cottrell (written above this first shield is "Some of the coats in this shield appear also in 30 on the west wall of Wear Giffard Hall")</p><br>
<p>Second shield from left: quarters: 1&4, Pollard of King&#39;s Nympton; 2&3, Pollard of Way or Horwood or Westcote.</p><br>
<p>Third shield from left: the arms of Richard Fortescue(d.1570) of Filleigh, impaling the arms of his wife Joan Moreton: baron, Fortescue; femme, quarters 1&4, Morton of Kent, 2&3, Hagget of Kent.(These arms can be seen on monumental brasses of 1571 in Filleigh Church.)</p><br>
<p>Fourth shield from left: the arms of Sir John Chichester (d.1569) of Raleigh (quarterly 1st: Chichester, 2nd: Raleigh, 3rd: 1st & 4th, Beaumont of Youlston, 2nd & 3rd Willington of Umberleigh, 4th: Wise of Sidenham ?) impaling the arms of his wife Gertrude Courtenay (d.1566) (quarterly 1st & 4th: Redvers, 2nd & 3rd: Courtenay). These arms are visible on Sir John Chichester&#39;s monument in Pilton Church.</p><br>
<p>The 3rd and 4th shields thus represent (3rd): the father of Hugh Fortescue (1545-1600), Sheriff of Devon in 1585, who died at Wear Giffard, and (4th): the father of his wife Elizabeth Chichester. and suggest that the overmantel was made to his order between 1570, when he succeeded his father and his death in 1600.</p><br>
<p>A modern heraldic overmantel also exists in the bar, showing 19th century Fortescue family arms.</p><br>
<p>The Saint Paul Catholic Church Complex is located at 157 Lake Shore Rd. in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. The group includes a French Gothic-style church, a Neo-Tudor rectory, a Colonial Revival parish hall, a Neo-Tudor school building, and an Elizabethan Revival convent. The complex was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1992 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The St. Paul Roman Catholic parish was the first Catholic parish in the Grosse Pointes. and in 1848 the log church was replaced by a frame chapel located on the site of the current church.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The present church building was designed by Harry J. Rill and was completed in 1899 The parish house, originally built around 1900 for former Detroit Mayor Alexander Lewis, was purchased by the parish in 1959.</p><br>
<p>The Saint Paul Catholic Church Complex sits on a long, narrow plot of land between Lake Shore Road and Grosse Pointe Boulevard. The church is constructed of brick and stone, and is designed in the French Gothic Revival style. The stained glass windows were made by Fredericks & Wolfram Art Glass Company of Detroit (installed in 1901) and Franz Mayer & Company of Munich, Germany, (installed in 1924).</p><br>
<p>Moose Mountain is an 8 mi-long ridge located in the eastern part of the town of Hanover in Grafton County, New Hampshire. The mountain is flanked to the north by Holts Ledge, at 2,110 ft, and to the south  by Shaker Mountain, at 1,690 ft. It is traversed by the Appalachian Trail, a 2,170 mi National Scenic Trail from Georgia to Maine. Moose Mountain is outside the White Mountain National Forest, but the trail runs through a narrow corridor along the ridge which is administered by the USA Forest Service. The trail can be accessed from the south along Three Mile Road in Hanover, and from the north along Goose Pond Road in Lyme, New Hampshire.</p><br>
<p>Moose Mountain has two summits, slightly over 1 mile apart. The higher summit, North Peak, has an elevation of 2,303 ft, while a subsidiary summit known as South Peak has an elevation of 2,293 ft. The mountain lies entirely within the Connecticut River watershed, with runoff flowing ultimately to Long Island Sound. The north end of the mountain drains into Hewes Brook, which enters the Connecticut River in Lyme, and most of the western side of the ridge drains into Mink Brook, a tributary of the Connecticut that flows through Hanover. The east side and extreme southwestern side of Moose Mountain drain into tributaries of the Mascoma River, which flows to the Connecticut through Lebanon, New Hampshire. Goose Pond is a large lake that sits to the east of Moose Mountain.</p><br>
<p>Northeast Airlines Flight 946 crashed into the side of Moose Mountain in 1968, resulting in the deaths of 32 passengers and crew.</p><br>
<p>The Lima Cleaning and Pressing Company Building is a historic structure located along South Main Street in Lima, Ohio, United States. Built in 1890, it is an example of an early style of commercial architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>A small two-story brick building, the Lima Cleaning and Pressing Company Building has a facade three bays wide; possible storefronts, changed little from the original construction, are included on each side. Between the entrances to the two portions of the building is an entrance to stairs to the upper floor, and stairs to the basement level can be found on each side; all of these stairways are accompanied by iron railings. A unique wrought iron railing lines the edge of a second-story balcony, which can be accessed from the second floor by an elaborate double door. Each of these aspects of the building, as well as details such as transoms and a heavily detailed cornice, distinguishes it from all other buildings in the city — no other Lima building features such cunningly made ironwork.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>After the discovery of petroleum in the vicinity of Lima in 1885, the citys population grew greatly, and the construction of commercial buildings along South Main Street proceeded at a rapid pace. Accompanying these new buildings in the southern Kibby Corners neighborhood were large numbers of frame houses erected as homes for the workers in the citys burgeoning industrial enterprises. For many years, the Lima Cleaning and Pressing Company Building served as offices for dry cleaners and for plumbers.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>Today, much of South Main Street and Kibby Corners languish in a state of decay. Many abandoned buildings have been demolished by the city government, and community areas such as parks and streetsides are becoming less attractive as a result of a lack of proper maintenance. Two exceptions to this process of decay are the Lima Cleaning and Pressing Company Building and the adjacent Armory-Latisona Building; these two historic buildings have been identified as key to the area&#39;s historic nature.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the Armory-Latisona Building and the Lima Cleaning and Pressing Company Building were two of seventeen buildings in Lima that were added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the "Lima Multiple Resource Area." Key to its inclusion in this group of properties was the integrity of the building&#39;s unique architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Martin and Kibby Blocks are a pair of historic buildings in downtown Lima, Ohio, United States. Erected in 1884, they are brick structures built in the Victorian Gothic style of architecture. Both buildings are rectangular structures, three-stories tall, and topped with sloped roofs of asphalt. Among the decorative elements present on these buildings are brick pilasters next to the main entrances, stone lintels around the windows, and decorative corbelling between the structural brackets.</p><br>
<p>Contemporary to the construction of the two blocks was the discovery of petroleum in the vicinity of Lima and the consequent rapid growth of the city. A large number of significant commercial buildings were erected in the city at this time, including the Martin and Kibby Blocks and several other major commercial buildings along South Main Street near the city&#39;s central square.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the Martin and Kibby Blocks were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of their historically significant architecture. Many other Lima buildings, including six others on South Main, were added to the Register at the same time as part of the "Lima Multiple Resource Area," a collection of downtown buildings important because of their architecture.</p><br>
<p>The James M. Lloyd House is a historic home located at the corner of Old Bardstown Road  and Dooley Drive in Mount Washington, Kentucky. After the original home on the property was lost to fire in 1880, James M. Lloyd, a skilled carpenter, constructed this new home for his family. The original two-story, three-bay structure with a central hall and stairwell rests on a limestone foundation. The frame and weatherboard siding were hewn from yellow poplar by the Collier mill of Mt. Washington. In the early 1900s a rear ell with a large side porch was added. In the 1940s the porch area was enclosed and became the kitchen and bathroom.</p><br>
<p>The home remained in the Lloyd family until 1989 when it was donated to the Mt. Washington Historical Society by Mr. Kenneth Lutes in memory of his wife, Anita Ann Dooley Lutes, a great-granddaughter of James M. Lloyd. The Lloyd House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>Today, the home is the headquarters of the Mt. Washington Historical Society. The Historical Society continues in its quest to rehabilitate the home to serve as a meeting place, research center and museum dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of Mt. Washington. The home is open to the public for special events hosted by the Historical Society or for individual or group tours by appointment only.</p><br>
<p>Jackson School, built in 1936, is located in Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma and listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1989. It is one of three Mission/Spanish Colonial buildings in Enid. The other two are the 1928 Rock Island Depot, also listed on the register, and the Ehly house, constructed in 1929 for local J.C. Penneys manager, Gus Ehly. The building is constructed using buff brick and cast stone decorative molding. It has two arched entry ways with red tile shed roofs, a Greek cross in the upper middle section, and cement staircases. The building encompasses Block 16 of Enids Southern Heights second addition. Its architect Roy Shaw also designed several other Enid school buildings including Enid High School, Adams, Garfield, Roosevelt, and Longfellow. Jackson school served as an all-white school until Enid&#39;s schools integrated in 1959. From 1967 to 1969, Jackson and neighboring George Washington Carver, formerly an all-black school, split grades 1-3 and 4-6, respectively, between the two schools, until both were closed in 1969.</p><br>
<p>The Alamance County Courthouse in Graham, North Carolina, was built in 1923. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Alamance County has had several courthouses throughout its history.</p><br>
<h3>Original Court</h3><br>
<h3>First Courthouse</h3><br>
<p>On July 17, 1849, the Alamance County Commissioners voted to spend $8,000 to construct a courthouse in a 75 acre area located approximately 2 mi south of the Providence Church. The County Commissioners expected to pay for the courthouse through the sale of land in the new county seat of Graham. They also levied an ad valorem tax on property of 35.25 cents per $100 valuation and a poll tax of 73.75 cents.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was constructed with brick for the sum of $6,400 and was opened in 1852. In 1888, 2 new wings were added to the courthouse and the exterior of the courthouse was stuccoed. The courthouse remained open until 1923, when the County Commissioners voted for a new courthouse to replace the over 70-year-old building. The original courthouse was demolished. The only remaining piece of the old courthouse is the 400 lb bell from the cupola, which currently resides at Sesquicentennial Park in Courthouse Square in Graham.</p><br>
<h2>Historic Courthouse</h2><br>
<p>The current Alamance County Courthouse that sits on the National Register of Historic Places, began construction in 1923 and was opened to the public on November 23, 1924, at a cost of $253,925.82. The courthouse was built in the Classical Revival style and features terracotta stonework, dental tooth molding, and metal-masonry floors. The courthouse originally housed the court system, county government offices, the sheriffs office, state government offices, agricultural offices, health department offices, and federal offices. The original sheriffs office is located in the southwestern 1st floor corner of the building, which features metal-framed shatter-resistant windows. The ceiling of the courtroom on the 2nd floor is silk. The Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse has been renovated many times throughout its history. In 1996, a $1.2 million repair was done to the roof of the building to prevent further leakage from outside. Between August 2010 and September 2011, the courthouse underwent a $3 million renovation to repair massive water damage, prevent future water damage, improve access to cramped spaces, improve overall safety, and restore the interior of the courthouse to its 1923 appearance as much as possible. The courthouse was re-opened in a ceremony on September 12, 2011.</p><br>
<p>In order to address naming issues, March 7, 2011, the name of the Alamance County Courthouse was changed to the Alamance County Historic Courthouse.</p><br>
<h2>Other Courthouses</h2><br>
<p>In order to accommodate the growing needs of the court system without significantly affecting the current courthouse, Alamance County has added 2 courthouses over the years. The Courthouse Annex began construction in 1966 and was opened to the public in 1967, and is currently connected to the Alamance County Office Building, which began construction in 1974. The Courthouse Annex was renovated in late 2009 and early 2010 and reopened in April 2010 as the Civil Courts Building.</p><br>
<p>Due to massive problems with noise, building access, asbestos, and dangerous conditions, the county and the court system battled in the late 1980s and early 1990s over the renovation of the Old Courthouse and the construction of a new courthouse. Minor renovations were done to the Old Courthouse, and construction began on a new Criminal Courts Building, referred to locally as the "New Courthouse" in 1992. Construction was completed in 1993 and the building opened to the public on December 22, 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Temporary Courthouses</h2><br>
<p>For the 2009-11 Renovations, the Offices of the Old Courthouse were moved to the Youth Services Building, approximately 1 block west of the Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>The Rock Island Depot is located in Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma and listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Rock Island Railway built rail lines through Oklahoma Territory prior to the Land Run of 1893. Skeleton Station was constructed in 1889. That same year, M.A. Low, upon a visit to the station, renamed the location Enid. When the Department of Interior moved the town site, this area became known as North Enid or Northington. During the run, the Rock Island transported settlers into the Cherokee Outlet, stopping only at this location. Rock Island refused to stop at the new town site, and the Enid-Pond Creek Railroad War continued for a full year. A new depot was built in 1903. The current depot was constructed in 1928.</p><br>
<h2>Building description</h2><br>
<p>The building is 195 feet long and 26 feet wide. The building architecture is electric, showing both Spanish and Italian influences.The lower section of the exterior wall is brick, while there is covered with stucco. The stucco is painted white, decorated with tan painted trim. The center section has a gabled roof, with semicircular walls extending above the roof line on each end. The large window in the center is arched. Other windows have an arch design embedded in the stucco.</p><br>
<p>The building is single story and has 8 large rooms, for baggage handling, ticketing, waiting, and a covered concourse. Seven smaller rooms were for mens and womens restrooms and for storage. Since Oklahoma law required strict segregation of black and white passengers, there had to be two for each function.</p><br>
<p>The station is not now used by the railroad. It was used as a farmer&#39;s market on Saturdays during 2011.</p><br>
<p>Garip Island is a small  island off the coast of Dikili ilçe in İzmir Province, Turkey. It is one of the two small islands, together called the Garip Islands , at the cut point of Dikili&#39;s Bademli Bay. Both islands face the Greek island of Lesbos.</p><br>
<p>The at is to the west of Kalem Island .The distance between the two is about 500 m. The nearest point on the main land (Anatolia) is about 1 km to the north east. In antiquity these islands, along with a third island that has now joined the mainland, were known as the Arginusae; they were the site of the Battle of Arginusae in 406 BC.</p><br>
<p>Offered for sale under a single title deed since 2006, the island was sold to a Turkish development group in 2010 . There is as yet no construction on the island. However, in 2016 the island was expropriated.</p><br>
<p>The Babcock–Macomb House is a historical residence located at 3415 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the house was ordered by Kate Woodman Babcock, widow of former Representative Joseph W. Babcock of Wisconsin. Babcock had had a successful career in the lumber industry while serving two terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Upon taking office in the House of Representatives in 1893, Babcock was appointed to the Committee on the District of Columbia. In 1894 he was appointed as chairman. In this position, Babcock gained local popularity and substantial wealth, due to the Committee&#39;s role in development of the city. Constance McLaughlin Green wrote that Babcock "cleared $400,000 in Washington real estate... simply by using advance knowledge of which sections of the city were to get funds..."</p><br>
<p>In 1911, Babcocks widow Kate purchased two lots in the newly laid out Massachusetts Heights subdivision, established when Massachusetts Avenue was extended beyond Florida Avenue. Mrs. Babcock purchased the two lots for $14,529 on October 18. The home was the first constructed in the neighborhood, which the citys planning committee hoped would attract the wealthy elite.</p><br>
<p>The architect was Arthur B. Heaton. Heaton opened his own office in Washington in 1900 at age 25. Between 1899 and 1906 he designed houses for the new Cleveland Park neighborhood. From 1908 to 1920 he served as supervising architect for the Washington National Cathedral. During this period, Heaton and his family lived in Cleveland Park, and he designed many buildings for the neighborhood. His residential designs used numerous styles, including Georgian, Colonial Revival, Spanish mission, and the Neo-Renaissance of the Babcock–Macomb House.</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Babcock never moved into the new home. In 1917 she sold it to Tucker Sands, a vice president of the National Metropolitan Bank. Sands rented the house to tenants for two years, until he sold it in 1919 to Army Colonel Augustus Canfield Macomb. The Macomb family lived in the home until 1982, when Edna Wilson Macomb, widow of Alexander Macomb, sold the property to the Republic of Cape Verde, which has utilized it as their embassy to the United States.</p><br>
<p>The Banco Crédito y Ahorro Ponceño building , a historic building in Ponce, Puerto Rico, was the first and main office of the historic Banco Crédito y Ahorro Ponceño , and represents one of the last examples of the once popular turn-of-the-century eclectic architecture. The building was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 1987. It was built in 1924. The building was owned by Banco Crédito y Ahorro Ponceño which was one of the largest banking companies in the country of Puerto Rico during most of the twentieth century.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The building is located on Calle Marina (Marina Street) and Calle Amor (Amor Street, now "Paseo Arias" (Arias Promenade), facing west across Plaza Degetau. It is bounded on the east by Calle Mayor (Mayor Street). Amor Street was also called Callejon Amor (Amor Alley), literally, Love Alley. In 1991, Amor Street was converted into a promenade and renamed Paseo Antonio S. Arias Ventura, after the long-time employee of Banco Crédito y Ahorro Ponceño who started as a custodian and rose to become the bank&#39;s general manager.</p><br>
<h2>History and Significance</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1924 as the main office for the expanding Banco Crédito y Ahorro Ponceño bank this building represents one of the last examples of the once popular turn-of-the-century eclectic architecture so common in Ponce after the 1918 earthquake. Banco Crédito was designed and built by Francisco Porrata-Doria, who at the time had recently returned to Puerto Rico after studying engineering at Cornell University and architectural courses at Columbia University. Porrata Doria was one of the island&#39;s finest architects, a pioneer in the development of a local modern architecture, and one of the architects responsible for what can be called "Ponce Monumental Architecture", of which Banco Crédito is a good example. Among the directors and officers of this prominent bank were some of the most recognized names in the city of Ponce and Puerto Rico at large, including former Ponce mayor, Ulpiano Colóm.</p><br>
<p>This building together with the one next door it, Banco de Ponce, exemplify the effort of local financial institutions to compete with US-based banks for the wealth of Puerto Rico&#39;s booming sugar economy.</p><br>
<p>Banco Crédito&#39;s monumental exuberance expresses the pride of the institution, its solidity, and its capacity to hold its own against far more wealthy Stateside institutions competing for the dollars of the local moneyed classes.</p><br>
<p>The Banco Crédito y Ahorro Ponceños setting on the citys main square contributes to the elegance of this part of the city. Several adjacent structures are already listed in the National Register, including the old Firehouse (1883) the City Hall (1845) and the Cathedral (1841). The latters facade is a 1932 Porrata-Doria design.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The buildings architect was Francisco Porrata-Doria. It is a two-story masonry and concrete building located near the southeastern end of Ponces main square. It sits on a corner lot, looking southwestward towards the main street, Plaza Degetau (Calle Atocha).</p><br>
<p>It is a single, compact volume which wraps itself around the corner in a dramatic curve that corresponds to the chamfered corner required since the late 19th century by city ordinances. The main two levels have nearly twenty-feet-high ceilings, thus giving the structure sufficient bulk so as to stand out within its context. Verticality is accented by the use of colossal Corinthian pilasters, square and paired at the facades to each street and round and single at the corner.</p><br>
<p>The exterior is compositionally organized in three levels: the bottom one is a base executed in the pink limestone common to this area; the central and main body is defined by the aforementioned colossal pilasters, which articulate the openings of the two main floors in three-bay modules with additional one-bay modules flanking the longer, Amor Street facade.</p><br>
<p>The upper body is an elaborate entablature with garlands, dentils, and a projecting, bracketed upper cornice. On top there is a balustered railing filling the space between three broken pediments, the one on the corner curved, with medallions on their centers. The medallions on the facades contain stained glass inserts, and the one on the corner a clock. First-floor openings are arched, those on the second are rectangular. The first-floor windows are covered by bulging cages of fine cast iron bars; those on the second floor are balustered. The entire ensemble is topped by a copper roof in a Mansard configuration.</p><br>
<p>Officers and historians with the Puerto Rico Historic Preservation Office have stated that "The Banco Crédito building, overall, is a fine example of the early twentieth century Beaux-Arts style which is extensively represented in the Ponce architecture of this period."</p><br>
<h2>Contemporary use</h2><br>
<p>Today, the bank is used as a branch of the Banco de Santander, a Spanish concern that bought the assets of Banco Credito y Ahorro Ponceño during the late 1970s.</p><br>
<p>The C.W. Dickey House at 3030 Kalakaua Avenue in Honolulu, Hawaii, was one of the earliest residences designed by C.W. Dickey in his "Hawaiian style" after he resettled in the islands in 1925. He built it for himself and lived in it from 1926 until 1933, when he built himself a rather less humble dwelling at Makalei Place on the front slope of Diamond Head. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The house is significant as an early prototype of Dickeys "Hawaiian style" architecture and for its association with one of Hawaiis most famous architects. The double-pitched hip roof with overhanging eaves became such a Dickey trademark that it is often called a "Dickey roof." Other features of the style include many windows and an enclosed lānai. He employed a similar style for the cottages he designed for the Halekulani Hotel during the same era.</p><br>
<p>This single-story house has board-and-batten siding and acid-stained decorative concrete flooring. The front entrance leads into a living room as wide as the face of the house, which opens into a dining room (with connecting kitchen) one step below the living room, and then a rear lanai behind sliding doors. One rear wing contains two bedrooms separated by a bath, and the other a pantry, a maid&#39;s quarters, and a garage (now enclosed to form another bedroom).</p><br>
<p>The Dickinson County Courthouse and Jail is an historic complex of governmental buildings located at 700 South Stephenson Avenue in Iron Mountain, Michigan. On May 15, 1980, the complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Dickinson County was the last of Michigan&#39;s counties to be organized. The clock in the courthouse tower was made by the Seth Thomas Clock Company in 1935; it was the last weight and pulley tower clock in the state. It was converted to electrical operation in the mid-1950s.</p><br>
<p>A new jail was constructed in 1975, and the old structure remained vacant and in disrepair until 1979. After a renovation, county offices moved in in 1982. A small single-story addition was constructed more recently.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Dickinson County Courthouse is a 2-1/2 story Richardsonian Romanesque structure, built of red brick and Portage Entry sandstone. It has a slate hip roof and a square brick clock tower. The front facade contains a rounded arch entryway, supported by two granite columns. Dentiled stone decorates the cornice line. The interior has been extensively remodeled.</p><br>
<p>The medieval-inspired jail was designed to complement the courthouse. The jail is a rectangular, two-story structure built of red brick and sandstone, capped with stone battlemented parapets and a tin roof. It originally contained 36 cells, along with the sheriff&#39;s quarters.</p><br>
<p>The Newcomb–Brown Estate is located at the junction of the US 44 highway and Brown Road in Pleasant Valley, New York, United States. It is a brick structure built in the 18th century just before the Revolution and modified slightly by later owners but generally intact. Its basic Georgian style shows some influences of the early Dutch settlers of the region.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its construction it was the home of Zaccheus Newcomb, a local farmer who owned much of the area of Pleasant Valley now surrounding the neighborhood. Over the 19th century, much of that original landholding was subdivided and sold off as the Brown family sold it to others, including the main house. In the early 20th century, it returned to the family again when one of his descendants bought it and converted it from working farm to country house, restoring and modifying it slightly while keeping its original integrity. In 1988 it and several outbuildings from the farming era were added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The estate is a 33.7 acre parcel on the east side of US 44, divided into northern and southern sections by Brown Road. The area is rural residential, with newer houses built on large lots. Except for those portions of the lots that have been cleared, it remains mostly wooded. The estate lands are mostly level, but rise slightly at the north end, in keeping with the terrain&#39;s general regional slope up from the Hudson River to the Taconic Mountains.</p><br>
<p>Between the main house and the highway, on the house&#39;s west, is a small pond about one acre (4,000 m²) in area said to have been created when the clay was dug to bake the bricks for the house. A two-acre (8,000 m²) lawn is between the house and Brown Road, set off by one of many stone walls on the property. Around the house are many mature trees of species ranging from those common to the area like maple and shagbark hickory to more unusual ones like horse chestnut and ginkgo. Behind the house, on its north, is a large group of lilacs. The otherwise level ground rises slightly to the rear and is covered in second-growth woods. An old apple orchard is to its east. All of the outbuildings save one are to the northeast of the main house.</p><br>
<p>On the south side of the roughly east-west Brown Road, the property is mostly natural, with a hay field, woods, and a shallow pond straddling the property line. It is fed by a small stream that runs through it from northeast to southwest. In the northeast corner is the other outbuilding, a wagon shed.</p><br>
<h3>Main house</h3><br>
<p>The main house is a two-and-a-half-story rectangular brick-faced structure on a stone basement with a gambrel roof shingled in cedar shake pierced by wide brick chimneys at either end. It has a one-and-half-story kitchen wing on its east side and a flat-roofed open porch on the west. The kitchen wing is sided in wooden shingles; its gambrel roof is pierced by a wide shed dormer window.</p><br>
<p>Its six-bay south (front) facade is laid in Flemish bond; the other three sides are done in common bond. A Dutch-style paneled door almost four feet (120 cm) wide with a six-light transom is located in the center of the ground story. It is sheltered by a small wooden portico with three stone steps leading down to a short walk to the driveway.</p><br>
<p>The first-story windows are topped with splayed wooden lintels painted dark red and incised to resemble flat brick arches. At the roofline the gambrel flares outward slightly, opening up space for a block modillioned cornice.</p><br>
<p>On the west side, the iron anchors holding the roof rafters are shaped to look like the letters Z and N, for the original owner. French doors lead on both levels to the porch and its balcony, with balustrade. All doors and windows on this elevation are topped by brick segmental arches.</p><br>
<p>The east wall anchors are the more common "S" shape, and the attic windows have been bricked in. Otherwise the treatment on that side echoes its counterpart. The north elevation (rear) is likewise similar to the front except for having fewer windows. It has a similar portico and door. A rear dormer identical to the one on the front is on the kitchen wing.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the main entrance leads to an 8-foot–wide (2.4 m) central hallway, the axis of a symmetrical floor plan. The rooms on the west are a double parlor; those on the east are the dining room and library. All have most of their original trim, including baseboards, cornices, molded chair rails and diagonally oriented corner fireplaces that share a chimney with the other room on that side. Paneled doors lead between all spaces. Flooring is random-width wide pine boards, and those in the southwest parlor are clear-grained. All first-story rooms share 9 ft ceilings with the hallway. All windows have paneled shutters that recess into the 24-inch–deep (61 cm) walls with window seats below.</p><br>
<p>The front parlor fireplace, in the southwest corner, is surrounded by Bristol tiles; the others have carved wooden mantels. The dining room fireplace has a closed cupboard, and another corner has a cupboard with carved pediment, reeded pilasters and its original glass.</p><br>
<p>An open straight-run staircase rises from south to north on the east side of the central hall. It has square balusters and scroll-shaped consoles on the side of each step. Upstairs there are four bedrooms, with 8½-foot (2.6 m) ceilings and walls of the standard 18 in depth. The windows have seats but no shutters. The two front bedrooms have corner fireplaces as well. A closed staircase leads to the attic, which has a pine floor but is otherwise unfinished. The roof peak is 12 ft above the floor.</p><br>
<p>The kitchen wing has been modernized. Its first floor has a laundry, kitchen and half bathroom. Enclosed stairs at the north wind up to the second story, about 4½ inches (4+1/2 in) lower than the corresponding floor in the main house. It has two small bedrooms and bathrooms.</p><br>
<h3>Outbuildings</h3><br>
<p>Seven support buildings, all considered contributing resources to the National Register listing, remain from the days when the estate was a much larger working farm. All but one are located to the east and northeast of the main house. The largest is a frame carriage shed, now used as a barn. It has a box stall and two straight ones. A smaller barn nearby, also of two stories, is embanked into a hillside, with ground-level entrances on both levels. Between the two are the remains of the foundation of an earlier barn.</p><br>
<p>Other buildings in that area include two chicken coops, a small shed and a frame clapboard-sided toolhouse believed to have originally been a milkhouse. Across Brown Road, on the northeast corner of the southern section of the property, is the other contributing resource, a wooden wagon shed. To its south is the remains of another old building, the foundation stones of a former smokehouse.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Zaccheus Newcomb, born in Lebanon, Connecticut, in the mid-1720s, came west with his father Thomas to what is now Pleasant Valley in 1746 when the older man purchased the 3,000 acre Great Lot 8 of the Great Nine Partners Patent. Five years later, Thomas deeded the 200 acre around the current parcel to Zaccheus. He remained a farmer but was also politically active. During the Revolutionary War he served in the Continental Army, and was later a judge.</p><br>
<p>A later genealogy suggests that Newcomb&#39;s wife Sarah built the house while her husband was away at war. It is more likely that the house was built before the war, around 1770, since a Baptist Society Newcomb allowed to meet in his home was founded that year. The architect is unknown.</p><br>
<p>The basic forms of the house reflect the Newcomb familys New England origins — its Georgian plan, gambrel roof and modillioned cornice were common for large houses in the area of Connecticut the family emigrated from. But some aspects of the design, such as the flared roof, doors and generally buly massing, are more typical of houses built by Dutch settlers in the Hudson Valley. It is not known to what extent those traditions might have influenced the houses design.</p><br>
<p>Zaccheus Newcomb died in 1790, leaving portions of his landholdings, including some "Wild Lands" in the Adirondack town now known as Newcomb, and other assets to his nine children. Three more generations of Newcombs lived on the farm until 1859, when it was sold out of the family to a James Allen. He, in turn, sold it to Homer Briggs.</p><br>
<p>During this period in the late 19th century many of the extant outbuildings were erected. The original front portico, similar to the current one, was replaced by a wider Victorian porch in the 1880s. In 1912 it returned to the Newcomb family when Flora Newcomb-Brown bought it, ending its use as a working farm to make it her country house as many other wealthy residents were doing with old Dutchess County farms they bought.</p><br>
<p>She restored the original front portico, working in the newer Colonial Revival style to have a replacement of the original built. From her it went first to her brother-in-law, John Spraker, and then to his daughter, Dorothy Spraker Francke. In 1960 she subdivided the property, leaving the current parcel around the house, and sold it to James and Jane Neighbors, who modernized the interior of the kitchen wing but made very few other alterations to the house or other buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Alpena County Courthouse is a generic term used to describe various courthouses  in Alpena, Michigan. These included buildings which housed the Circuit Court , the District Court  and the Probate court .</p><br>
<p>Alpena County&#39;s first courthouse was destroyed by a fire on December 12, 1870. Its replacement built in 1881 met a similar fate on December 22, 1932. The current courthouse built in 1934 is an historic Art deco courthouse building located at 720 Chisholm Avenue in Alpena, Michigan. It was designed by architect William H. Kuni of Detroit and built by the Henry C. Webber Construction Co. of locally produced poured Portland cement made from locally quarried limestone. According to Kuni, it was the first monolithic poured building constructed during the winter in a cold climate. Kuni also designed the Tuscola County Court House.</p><br>
<p>It was financed partly by local bonds and WPA grants.</p><br>
<p>The building, dubbed "Fort Alpena" by a local writer, is embellished by architectural sculpture, including an eagle perched atop the clock on the main facade and figures of Justice and Law as well as "fascia designs show(ing) images of the county&#39;s lumbering, shipbuilding, farming, fishing and recreational industries."</p><br>
<p>On December 8, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, item # 83003643. It is a state registered historic site.</p><br>
<p>The Alpena Courthouse Annex which houses the District Court and the Probate Court is located at 719 Chisholm Avenue and was built in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Nottawa Creek  is a 33.9 mi stream in the U.S. state of Michigan that flows into the St. Joseph River at {{coord|42|00|15|N|85|23|40|W|region:US-MI_type:river_source:GNIS}}, approximately three miles east of the village of Mendon.</p><br>
<p>The Nottawa is formed by the outflow of Nottawa Lake in south central Calhoun County. The lake is fed by Nottawa Drain, which along with Goose Pond Drain drains an area to the east of the lake. The Nottawa Creek flows northwest from the lake then arcs to the southwest and flows through the village of Athens before joining the St. Joseph River.</p><br>
<p>The Nottawa Creek system drains all or portions of the following townships:</p><br>
<p>* In Calhoun County</p><br>
<p>** Athens Township</p><br>
<p>** Burlington Township</p><br>
<p>** Clarendon Township</p><br>
<p>** Eckford Township</p><br>
<p>** Fredonia Township</p><br>
<p>** Leroy Township (via Pine Creek)</p><br>
<p>** Newton Township</p><br>
<p>** Tekonsha Township</p><br>
<p>* In Branch County</p><br>
<p>** Sherwood Township</p><br>
<p>* In Kalamazoo County</p><br>
<p>** Climax Township (via Bear Creek)</p><br>
<p>** Wakeshma Township (via Bear Creek)</p><br>
<p>* In St. Joseph County</p><br>
<p>** Leonidas Township</p><br>
<h2>Tributaries</h2><br>
<p>* (left) Bear Creek</p><br>
<p>* (left) Pine Creek</p><br>
<p>** (right) Histand Drain</p><br>
<p>** (left) Waterman Drain</p><br>
<p>*** (left) Miller and Melody Drain</p><br>
<p>** (right) Houghton Drain</p><br>
<p>** Cotton Lake</p><br>
<p>* (right) Rowe and Wallace Drain</p><br>
<p>* (right) French Drain</p><br>
<p>* (right) Alder Creek</p><br>
<p>* (left) Mud Creek</p><br>
<p>** (right) Yost Francisco Drain</p><br>
<p>*** Hyde Lake</p><br>
<p>* (right) Gleason Drain</p><br>
<p>* (left) unnamed drain</p><br>
<p>** Fish Lake</p><br>
<p>** Lyon Lake</p><br>
<p>** Long Lake</p><br>
<p>** Pine Lake</p><br>
<p>* Nottawa Lake</p><br>
<p>** Klingaman Lake</p><br>
<p>** Nottawa Drain</p><br>
<p>*** (left) Goose Pond Drain</p><br>
<p>Lake Lefferts  is a man-made lake in Matawan, New Jersey. The lake is the result of the construction in 1928 of Lake Lefferts Dam, which captured and stores the flow of Matawan Creek.</p><br>
<p>Matawan Creek was the site of a shark attack during the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916. The events inspired author Peter Benchley&#39;s book ‘Jaws’, which was eventually turned into a movie by director Steven Spielberg.</p><br>
<p>The lake offers today a recreational outdoor area on the Ravine Drive side, where Sal Traina used to live, offers a public fishing dock, boat launch and canoe rental. The restaurant MJ&#39;s at Buttonwood Manor, a sports bar, dining room and catering facility, borders the lake and is accessible from Route 34.</p><br>
<p>The lake is home to sunnies, bluegill</p><br>
<p>Byrd&#39;s African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal  church on Smyrna Avenue in Clayton, Kent County, Delaware.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to the USA Department of Interior, National Register of Historic Places, Byrd’s African Methodist Episcopal Church was built on the outskirts of Clayton, Delaware in 1894. The church was named after the Rev. E. Byrd, who served as the pastor of Byrd’s and Mt. Friendship.</p><br>
<p>Prior to building and the establishment of Byrd’s A.M.E. Church during the early 1890s, the Smyrna-Clayton area of Delaware boasted two A.M.E. churches. They were Bethel Church on the eastern outskirts of Smyrna, and Mt. Friendship Church in the countryside west of Clayton.</p><br>
<p>Mt. Friendship was called the “Home Church” by Clayton members because prior Byrd’s inception, all members of the black community, mostly railroad workers, walked several miles from Clayton to Mt. Friendship before the church’s construction. This group of men, women and their families walked out to Kenton Road to Mt. Friendship, rather than through Smyrna to the older and larger Bethel Church. Within a decade after the raising of Mt. Friendship in 1886, the Clayton area residents began building Byrd’s Church.</p><br>
<p>Byrd’s A.M.E. Church is a small Queen Anne style structure located at the eastern edge of Clayton, Delaware on a quiet street, Smyrna Avenue; its environment is the Smyrna-Clayton Road and the railroad tracks to the north, open fields to the south, and open, early residential development on either side. The church faces south on a slightly elevated parcel of land. It retains its earthen yard, trees, and considerable space on the deep lot behind its kitchen wing. The original main block is cornerstone-dated 1894.</p><br>
<p>Christ Church is a historic Episcopal church and cemetery located at S. State and Water Streets at Dover, Kent County, Delaware. It is located on one of two public squares set aside for houses of worship in the Dover town plan of 1717. The church was established as a mission church of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 1704 and the building constructed in 1734. It was remodeled in 1859 and 1887. It is a brick structure composed of the original rectangular nave, surrounded by brick appendages. Adjacent to the church is the cemetery, with a number of notable burials. The cemetery includes a cenotaph to a signer of the Declaration of Independence Caesar Rodney; the actual location of Rodney&#39;s remains is unknown.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is located in the Dover Green Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Star Hill AME Church, also known as Star of the East Church, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal  church building and cemetery located in Dover, Delaware near Camden, Kent County, Delaware. It was constructed about 1866, and is a one-story, three-bay by three-bay, gable roofed, frame building in a vernacular Gothic Revival-style. It features a small bell tower at the roof ridge. Interments in the adjacent cemetery are believed to begin with the founding of the church in the 1860s, but the earliest marked grave dates from the early 1890s.</p><br>
<p>The church is an important focal point of the community of Star Hill, an early community of African American settlement in Kent County.</p><br>
<p>Star Hill AME Church was founded in the 1860s and is a daughter church of nearby Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Today the church is home to the Star Hill Museum, which features exhibits about African American history in Kent County, slavery and the Underground Railroad.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Methodist Episcopal Chapel, also known as Thomas Chapel, is a historic Methodist chapel and cemetery located near Chapeltown in Kent County, Delaware. The site was the location of the freedman Harry Hosiers 1784 sermon, the first to be delivered by an American black directly to a white congregation.</p><br>
<p>The present structure was originally built in 1825 and remodeled in 1877. It is a small one-story, three-bay by three-bay, gable-roofed, brick building in the Greek Revival style. Also on the property are a contributing privy and combination storage shed and refreshment stand, both built about 1900.</p><br>
<p>Adjacent to the church is the cemetery, used since the late-18th century.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal  church and cemetery located at Camden, Kent County, Delaware. It was originally built in 1845 and re-built after a fire in 1889. The one-story, gable roofed frame Classical Revival-style church rests on a brick foundation. It measures 28 feet, 3 inches, wide and 36 feet, 2 inches in length. The ground around the church has been used as a cemetery since the church was established. The church is an important focal point of the community of Star Hill, an early community of African American settlement in Kent County. Zion was the first African Methodist Episcopal church in Camden, and is the mother church of nearby Star Hill AME Church.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Appoquinimink Friends Meetinghouse, also known as the Odessa Friends Meetinghouse, is a very small but historic Quaker meetinghouse on Main Street in Odessa, Delaware. It was built in 1785 by David Wilson and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Members of the meeting, including John Hunn and his cousin John Alston, were active in the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman may have hid in the meetinghouse. p. 48. Measuring about 20 ft by 22 ft, it may be the smallest brick house of worship in the United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Quakers were some of the earliest settlers in the Odessa area, but the first meetinghouse was not established until 1763 when Friends in Georges Creek applied to the Kennett Monthly Meeting to form a preparative (subsidiary) meeting. They later affiliated with the Duck Creek Monthly Meeting in Smyrna, Delaware and in 1781 applied to move the meeting place to Appoquinimink Bridge (also called Cantwell&#39;s Bridge and now called Odessa).</p><br>
<p>A Quaker school, however, was established in Appoquinimink in 1735 and continued until the late 1800s. The school building was later used as a parsonage by the Zoar Methodist Episcopal Church and then demolished. The adjacent Methodist church was built in 1885 on land sold to it by the Quakers.</p><br>
<p>David Wilson built the present meetinghouse about 1785, but the building and grounds were not deeded to the Meeting until 1800. Wilson and his wife, Mary Corbit, were not married at a Quaker meeting, but rather by a minister, so they were temporarily banned or "read out of the meeting."</p><br>
<p>In 1828 the Orthodox-Hicksite schism greatly reduced the membership of the Appoquinimink Meeting. The locally prominent Corbit family and several other members began attending the Orthodox meetinghouse in Wilmington, but the Duck Creek Monthly Meeting became Hicksite and owned the property.</p><br>
<p>The Alston family, including John Hunn, continued to support the Appoquinimink Meeting. The Meeting became a station on the Underground Railroad and Hunn, along with Thomas Garrett was arrested, then severely fined, for helping fugitive slaves. The meetinghouse&#39;s basement and second</p><br>
<p>story, which has a removable panel under the eaves, may have been used to hide escaping slaves.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1870s John Alston was the only active member of the meeting. After he died in 1874, the meetinghouse deteriorated. Some of the rancor from the Orthodox-Hicksite schism may have survived however. The graves of Corbit family members were removed from the Hicksite property in 1900 and reburied in a private plot separated by a brick wall from the burial ground of the meetinghouse. This plot was given to the Wilmington Monthly Meeting in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The building was restored in 1938, opened for worship in 1939, and in 1948 the Wilmington Monthly Meeting was given title to the property, which had devolved to the State of Delaware. The meeting continues to operate on a regular basis, meeting twice a month, as a preparative meeting under the care of the Wilmington Monthly Meeting.</p><br>
<p>Union Creek Historic District near the upper Rogue River in Union Creek, Oregon, is listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places for rustic structures built by the Civilian Conservation Corps  in the 1930s. The site lies along Oregon Route 62 and the upper Rogue River, about 12 mi north of Prospect and about 20 mi west of Crater Lake.</p><br>
<p>Buildings in the district include a CCC picnic shelter and amphitheater, the Union Creek Resort lodge, a grocery store, cabins, restaurant, and an ice cream shop; all retain an early 20th-century appearance. Activities in the area include hiking, fishing, and horseback riding, as well as snow-tubing and sledding in the winter.</p><br>
<p>According to a short essay included on the back of the menu at Beckie&#39;s Cafe, one of the buildings at Union Creek, the site was a popular camping spot in the early 1900s. It lay along the wagon road between the Rogue Valley further downstream and Crater Lake and points east. By the 1920s, the Union Creek Resort, which had a central lodge and guest cabins, had been built on the site. The original lodge burned down in 1937 and was replaced a year later by the one still in use in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The community took its name from a local stream, Union Creek. The creek was named after Union Peak in Crater Lake National Park.</p><br>
<p>The Antiguo Hospital Militar Español de Ponce  is a historic building in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in the city&#39;s historic district. The building dates from 1896 or 1897. It was designed by the Spanish Royal Corps of Engineers. The architecture consists of 19th Neoclassical architecture style. The building is of architectural significance since it is the only one-story building of this style remaining in the city of Ponce and one of the best examples on the Island.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The structure commonly known as the "Asilo de Ciegos" (Home of the Blind) was built between 1896 and 1897 to serve as hospital for the city of Ponces military garrison. The Royal Spanish Engineering Corps constructed this building in the then popular neoclassic style which was common to the old San Juan area, but was not at the time prevalent in Ponce. This building, together with El Castillo (Ponces Spanish military headquarters), Hospital Tricoche (Ponces Municipal Hospital), and the Casa Alcaldía are the only remaining buildings representative of the Spanish Crowns interest in other areas of the Island besides San Juan.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The building is of architectural significance since it is the only one-story building of this style remaining in the city of Ponce and one of the best examples in the Island.</p><br>
<p>The hospital served the military community stationed in Ponce and in the southern region and could be used by the civilian population in case of emergencies and natural disasters, thus solving a social need in the southern part of the Island.</p><br>
<p>In 1905, this property was given to the state government to be used as an asylum for the blind. It gave shelter to the many poor blind in the south. Here they were taught skills that could help them support themselves in the future. In other instances those who could not be rehabilitated were given a home and free meals thus keeping them from the streets where they could be in danger. The social functions carried out in this building continued until the mid-1970s when the structure was closed. The people of Ponce consider this structure to be important to the community&#39;s history for its role as hospital and asylum.</p><br>
<h2>Physical appearance and description</h2><br>
<p>This one story building is a very good example of Neoclassic style in Ponce and the only one single-story building in the area. It preserves its simple lines typical of the 19th century institutional or military construction in the Island. Contributing elements to the style are its massive and sober exterior elements consisting of wide walls and pilasters crowned with tuscan order capitols, planar window surrounds, and a set of steps giving access to the main portico which projects form the main facade. A simple cornice crowns the building in all facades. Series of arched windows originally closed by wood louvers and glass panel transomes, complete the facade (these windows were replaced with metal blinds in the mid-1960s and have been vandalized in recent years).</p><br>
<p>The main entrance is highlighted by a projecting portico of attractive proportions. It has a main central arch flanked by smaller ones to the sides. These arches and the other two lateral ones are ornamented with tuscan order pilasters. Four tuscan order pilasters, a simple frieze, cornice, and parapet complete the portico&#39;s decoration giving it the appearance of being slightly taller than the rest of the building.</p><br>
<p>The structure was erected around a rectangular central patio with arched galleries on all sides that serve as transitional elements to the office and room areas located throughout its periphery, all of which are typical of the period and style. A small fountain in the center of the patio served the dual purposes of ornamentation and water supply. This element no longer exists. The building was constructed of brick and a mixture of rubblework and stone. A series of symmetrically-placed thick walls carrying wooden beams, probably of ausubo or other Puerto Rican hard wood, support the brick roof. This structure has a basement, an uncommon element in this type of construction, on its south side.</p><br>
<p>Many of the windows and parts of the roof as well as many wooden parts have been vandalized in recent years since the structure has not been in use. However, the main structural and ornamental elements of the building are in good shape or could be restored. The structure is not currently in use nor accessible to the public.</p><br>
<p>Marshallton United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist church located at 1105 Stanton Road in Marshallton, New Castle County, Delaware. The original portion was built in 1886 as a one-room, 30-foot by 50-foot center-aisle plan frame structure with a gable roof. It sits on a foundation of "Brandywine Granite", a commonly found local building stone. In 1922, a 30-foot by 45-foot gabled frame addition was added on the east side of the original building. At the same time, Gothic arched commemorative stained glass windows and a bell tower were added. A three-story brick educational building and fellowship hall were added between 1949 and 1957.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>As of 2013, the pastor in the Rev. Joseph Archie III.</p><br>
<p>Otts Chapel  is a historic chapel in New Castle County, Delaware, located roughly halfway between Newark, Delaware and Elkton, Maryland on Ott&#39;s Chapel Road.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1871 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The chapel was built by Stephen Ott, a local farmer who also hosted nondenominational prayer meetings at his house. After the meetings grew too large, Ott built the chapel with the help of his neighbors in 1871. Ott conducted prayer meetings and Sunday school at the chapel until his death in 1875, after which his wife Jane took over until 1881. The chapel was later run by George A. Blake from 1889 to 1910, and has continued to host nondenominational prayer meetings and Sunday school since.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Ott&#39;s Chapel is a small, one-story frame building with clapboard siding and a gable roof, typical of the rural church architecture of 19th-century Delaware. The chapel is one bay wide by three bays deep, with a gable-roofed front porch, and stands on a rubble stone foundation. The interior of the building consists of a single room with a high ceiling and elaborate pressed tin ornamentation.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s on the Brandywine is a historic Roman Catholic church complex and national historic district located at 10 Barley Mill Road in Greenville, New Castle County, Delaware. The district encompasses four contributing buildings and one contributing site. The original church was built in 1841 by the duPont family for Irish and Italian Catholic workers at the duPont works. Additions were made in 1848, 1878, 1941 and 1950, and the present form displays very little of the original church structure. It is a stuccoed stone structure, painted yellow, with the pedimented gable of the facade is pierced by the steeple. The other buildings consist of a rectory, convent, and school.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden, was buried in the church&#39;s cemetery in June 2015.</p><br>
<p>St. Thomas Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 21 South Main Street in Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1843–45 and designed by noted architect Richard Upjohn. It is a one story, three bay wide brick structure built of brick with stucco facing and a gable roof. It features a 35-foot entrance tower, added in 1866, and is in the Gothic Revival style. In 1956 the building was deconsecrated when the parish moved to a larger church. It has since been bought, restored, and renovated by the University of Delaware, installing a 1,234 pipe organ in the process. The building is now used as a music recital and event hall by the university.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Episcopal parish of St. Thomas was established in Newark in 1843, and a lot at the corner of Elkton Road and Delaware Avenue was purchased for the new church at a cost of $70. Construction started in August of that year and the new building was consecrated on February 25, 1845. The construction cost was approximately $3,825. The church is thought to have been designed by Richard Upjohn, although the available documentation does not completely confirm this. The church was enlarged in 1866, adding a chancel and the 35 ft entrance tower. The present stained glass windows were added later in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>By the 1950s, St. Thomas Parish had outgrown the old church, moving to a new site on South College Avenue. The old church was deconsecrated and served as Newarks public library from 1956 to 1974, but eventually this tenant too outgrew the building. It was later used for storage. The vacant church was eventually purchased by the University of Delaware in 1996 and refurbished to fix extensive structural damage due to leaks and neglect. Taking advantage of the churchs acoustics, the university turned it into a recital hall equipped with a custom-built Dobson pipe organ and restored 1920 Steinway piano. It was renamed Bayard Sharp Hall after a university donor.</p><br>
<p>Welsh Tract Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church on Welsh Tract Road in Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built by Welsh settlers in 1746 and is a simple rectangular brick building with a wood-shingled jerkinhead roof.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Baptist movement had gained significant ground in England and Wales during the religious turmoil that embroiled the British Isles through the 17th century. Although the Tolerance Act was passed by the English Parliament in 1689 in an attempt to end the religious strife, by the end of that century, new efforts were being made by the English Crown to reinforce the hegemony of the Anglican church over all "Dissenter" groups in the realm. In the spring of 1701, sixteen Baptists, in the counties of Pembroke and Carmarthen, South Wales, resolved to go to America. They formed themselves into a church, with Thomas Griffith, one of their number, as Pastor. They embarked at Milford Haven in June, 1701, arriving in Philadelphia September, 8th, the same year. Local Baptist leaders advised them to join an established congregation nearby along the Pennepeck Creek.</p><br>
<p>The immigrant group settled there for about a year and a half. During that time they kept together as a distinct church, held meetings at each other’s residences, and observed the ordinances of Christ in a manner they had brought with them from Wales. In the two years, twenty-one persons were added to their number.</p><br>
<p>The ceremony of laying on of hands was the principal, if not sole, means of introducing singing, imposition of hands, church covenants, etc., among Welsh Baptists, and they maintained that practice in Pennsylvania. But not without some difficulty, as appears from the following history translated from the Welsh Tract book:</p><br>
<p>“But we could not be in fellowship (at the Lord’s table) with our brethren in Pennypack and Philadelphia, because they did not hold to the laying on of hands, and some other particulars relating to a church; true, some of them believed in the ordinance, but neither preached it nor practiced it; and when we moved to Welsh Tract, and left twenty-two of our members at Pennypack, and took some of their members down with us, the difficulty increased. We had many meetings to compromise matters, but to no purpose, till June 22d, 1706; then the following deputies (naming twenty-five persons) met at the house of Bro. Richard Miles, in Radnor, Delaware County, Pa., and agreed</p><br>
<p>That a member of either church might transiently Commune with the other.</p><br>
<p>That a member who desired to come under the laying on of hands might have his liberty without offence.</p><br>
<p>That the votaries of the rite might preach or debate upon the subject with all freedom, consistent with charity and brotherly love.</p><br>
<p>But three years after this meeting we had reason to review the transaction, because of some brethren who arrived from Wales, and one among ourselves, who questioned whether the first article was warrantable; but we are satisfied that all was right, by the good effects which followed: for from that time forth our brethren held sweet communion together at the Lord’s table, and our minister, Rev. Thomas Griffiths, was invited to preach and assist at an ordination at Pennypack, after the death of our Bro. Watts. He proceeded from thence to the Jerseys, where he enlightened many in the good ways of the Lord, insomuch that, in three years after, all the ministers and about twenty- five private members had submitted to the ordinance.”</p><br>
<p>Because of the discomfort created with the other Baptists in Pennypack over the Welsh practice, the Welsh Baptists soon decided to seek a new home. In 1703, they purchased 30,000 acres in New Castle County, Delaware, near what is now known as Newark, Delaware, deeded by William Penn in the 1680s to three Baptists: David Evans, William Davis, and William Willis. Known as the Welsh Tract, it included Iron Hill and reached all the way to its northern slopes, now part of Interstate I-95. A small meeting-house was erected on the property, and the community became known as the "Emigrant Church", in part because of the then-unusual practices of laying of hands and singing of psalms.</p><br>
<p>The Church and its practices served as a "mother church" for other Baptist communities established in Delaware and elsewhere, including the London Tract, Duck Creek, Wilmington, Cow Marsh, Mispillion, and Pedee (South Carolina) Baptist churches. Its practices became standard practice for Baptist churches throughout the Middle States. Paul Palmer, founder of the "Palmer" branch of the Free Will Baptists, attended Welsh Tract Baptist Church in the 1700s.</p><br>
<p>The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Blackwater Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church building located near Clarksville, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1767 and rebuilt in 1893. It is a small, frame chapel sheathed in clapboard and measuring 35 feet by 30 feet. It features a portico supported by a Victorian style bracket. It is the oldest Presbyterian church building in Southern Delaware. The congregation was abolished in October 1921.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>According to official state sources:</p><br>
<p>Many of the early settlers of this region, then a part of Maryland, were Presbyterians who had been denied their freedom of worship. For many years local Presbyterians were forced to travel a great distance to the nearest church. In 1763, a congregation was organized in this area by Reverend Charles Tennent, the charismatic son of William Tennent, founder of Princeton University. Services were held in the homes of members until 1767 when the present Blackwater Presbyterian Church was constructed. Over time the travel conditions faced by many members resulted in the formation of separate churches in the growing communities of Ocean View and Frankford. By the late 19th century regular services at Blackwater had been discontinued. Occasional meetings were held until 1921, when the church organization was formally abolished. Since 1949 the property has been managed by a Trust established by the Tunnell family, who have been active supporters of the church since its founding.</p><br>
<p>Cool Spring Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church building located near Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1854, and is on the site of two previous church buildings that served the congregation dating back to its establishment in 1726. It is a one-story, frame structure, three bays deep, in a rural Greek Revival style. It sits on a brick foundation and has a gable roof. It features a simple pedimented portico supported by two Doric order columns. The churchyard was officially granted to the congregation in 1737 by Governor Thomas Penn.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Coolspring Church Sign.jpgChurch sign</p><br>
<p>Coolspring Church Interior.jpgInside of the church</p><br>
<p>Lewes Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church building located at 100 Kings Highway in Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1832, as a frame meeting house measuring 45 feet by 37 feet. In 1869, the church was renovated to add a number of a Gothic Revival style features and the addition of a chancel with Gothic windows. In 1886-1887, the tower and belfry were added and two massive Corinthian order columns were added to the interior. In 1931, the church acquired its Colonial Revival style front door.</p><br>
<p>The Lewes Presbyterian congregation was organized in 1692, and are the second oldest Presbyterian congregation in Delaware. The church is located on the site of the original 1727 brick church, which burned in 1871. Burials in the adjacent churchyard include two Delaware governors David Hall (1752-1817) and Ebe W. Tunnell (1844-1917) and congressman Robert G. Houston (1867-1946) and John W. Houston (1814-1896).</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Prince Georges Chapel is a historic Episcopal chapel of ease located near Dagsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1755 as a chapel-of-ease for St. Martins Church, Worcester Parish, Maryland. Churches built to serve the outlying areas of a parish where it was difficult for people to travel to the main church were given a chapel-of-ease designation. On June 30, 1757 the completed chapel was received by the vestry, dedicated, and named "Prince Georges Chapel" for Englands Prince George, later George III of the United Kingdom. It is a small, shingled structure. A transept and chancel were added about 1763, but these have been removed. The interior features a vaulted ceiling of heart-pine, timbered pine pillars. The State of Delaware purchased the property in 1967 and renovated the building.</p><br>
<p>The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials in church's cemetery</h2><br>
<p>General John Dagworthy, namesake of Dagsboro, Revolutionary War veteran</p><br>
<p>The Chemistry Building at the University of Arkansas is a building on the University&#39;s campus in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Although there was already a chemistry building on campus, by 1925 it had become too small. There were plans to build a new building by the Arkansas General Assembly in 1927, and was scheduled to be built in 1931. However, the Great Depression delayed these plans.</p><br>
<p>In January 1934, $1,165,000 was made available for the construction of both a new chemistry building and Vol Walker Library. These funds came from the Public Works Administration, and not the Arkansas legislature.</p><br>
<p>Opened in December 1935, the building housed the chemistry, zoology, geology, philosophy, and psychology departments. Eventually, the growing University forced all of these departments elsewhere except for chemistry. In 1992, the University added another chemistry building adjacent to this one, connected with a skywalk.</p><br>
