<p>Zadock Pratt House, also known as the Zadock Pratt Museum, is a historic home located at Prattsville in Greene County, New York. It was originally built in 1828 as a two-story, five-bay Federal style residence. It was substantially altered about 1856 with the addition of numerous architectural details reminiscent of the romantic, picturesque tastes in mid-19th century America. It is a frame structure constructed of massive hemlock posts and beams over a stone foundation. It features broadly projecting eaves and a two-story portico supported by octagonal columns. Also on the property is the original well. It was the home of Zadock Pratt , founder of Prattsville. It has operated as a house museum since 1959. In 2011 the ground floor was damaged heavily by Hurricane Irene.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. To this day there still stands two Ginkgo trees (one male and one female) planted circa 1825 by Pratt. The trees were brought by Pratt from China.</p><br>
<p>Hathaway, also known as V. Everit Macy and Edith Carpenter Macy Estate, is a historic estate house located at Tannersville in Greene County, New York. The house was built in 1907 and designed by noted architects Delano & Aldrich. It is a large, two story rectangular residence surmounted by a hipped roof with deep overhanging eaves and exposed rafters. It is constructed of concrete block coated in stucco. Also on the property are a carriage house, solarium, garage, and shed. A fishing cabin was once situated on the pond of the property, but is no longer standing. Hathaway was previously run as a Bed and Breakfast lodge, with prominent Broadway actress Maude Adams among its guests.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Hastings Fishermens Museum is a museum dedicated to the fishing industry and maritime history of Hastings, a seaside town in East Sussex, England. It is housed in a former church, officially known as St Nicholas Church and locally as The Fishermens Church, which served the towns fishing community for nearly 100 years from 1854. After wartime damage, occupation by the military and subsequent disuse, the building  was leased from the local council by a preservation society, which modified it and established a museum in it. It opened in 1956 and is now one of the most popular tourist attractions in the town and borough of Hastings. The building, a simple Gothic Revival-style stone chapel, has been listed at Grade II by English Heritage for its architectural and historical importance.</p><br>
<h2>History of the church</h2><br>
<p>From its founding in Saxon times, Hastings has been a fishing town; fishermen have worked on The Stade at Rock-a-Nore, near the Old Town, throughout the towns history, during times of prosperity (particularly the Middle Ages, when the industry was at its height), change (such as the 19th century, when the town was transformed into a holiday resort) and stagnation. Until the Victorian era, when the areas good climate and seaside location were exploited for tourism, Hastings fortunes were dependent on the success or failure of the fishing ports activities and the associated boat-building industry.</p><br>
<p>By 1801, there were only two survivors of the original seven medieval churches in Hastings: All Saints Church and St Clements Church. The rapid growth of the town thereafter encouraged church-building, and by the 1840s the rectors of the two churches were considering providing a church in the heart of the fishing area to encourage fishermen and their families to attend: many worshipped infrequently or not at all, preferring to work on Sundays. Rev. J.G. Foyster, the rector of St Clements Church, arranged for a missionary, Tom Tanner, to base himself at Rock-a-Nore, and he commissioned architect William Gant to build a church. Gant, who had worked with architect Sir William Tite in London, had moved to Hastings in 1852 and was primarily a house and estate designer. His simple stone building cost £529 (£ as of ) and was built in early 1854</p><br>
<p>The church was not parished: it was instead designated as a chapel of ease to All Saints Church. The fishing community was initially hostile to the church, and it closed during the 1870s; the selection of a popular new chaplain, Rev. Charles Dawes, re-energised it, and by the 1880s the 290-capacity building was full at every service.</p><br>
<p>When World War II started, the church&#39;s strategic location on The Stade made it attractive to the military, who requisitioned it and turned it into an ordnance store. It suffered damage, and its future as a church was endangered when Hastings Council (into whose ownership it had passed) only offered a short-term lease. The Diocese of Chichester therefore closed it, and in the early 1950s it was used for general storage by fishermen and traders on the beach.</p><br>
<h2>Opening of the museum</h2><br>
<p>The Old Hastings Preservation Society, a registered charity, sought to save the building in 1955. They wanted to preserve the building and use it to display a traditional Hastings lugger they had acquired. Hastings Borough Council agreed to this, and leased it to the society for use as a museum. In April 1956, one wall was partly demolished to allow the lugger to be brought in, and the towns mayor declared the museum open on 17 May 1956. The museum is one of the towns most popular tourist sites, attracting about 140,000 visitors annually.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed at Grade II by English Heritage on 14 September 1976; this defines it as a "nationally important" building of "special interest". As of February 2001, it was one of 521 Grade II listed buildings, and 535 listed buildings of all grades, in the borough of Hastings.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>St Nicholas&#39; Church was a small, simple mission church with little ornamentation, and the building has seen little change since its secularisation. It is built of pale Kentish ragstone The lack of an arch or other division between the nave and chancel created, in effect, one large interior space.</p><br>
<p>Tripp House and Store Complex is a historic home and general store complex located at Durham in Greene County, New York. The complex includes the Tripp House , the Original Tripp Store  and 1888 Tripp Store, a barn , Outhouse , and two outbuildings / sheds . The house is a 2-story, five by two-bay, central hall, single pile plan brick dwelling. It sits on a stone foundation and is surmounted by a steep gable roof. The 1888 Tripp Store is a four- by eight-bay, -story wood frame commercial / residential structure. It features a 2-story Victorian-era porch. It incorporates the Original Tripp Store, a 2-story timber frame building, as a rear storage section.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Squadron A Armory is a former United States Army armory and the homebase of Squadron A. It took up the whole block between Madison Avenue and Park Avenue, between 94th and 95th Street. It was therefore also known as the Madison Avenue Armory. A surviving part of the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Madison Avenue Facade of the Squadron A Armory and is a New York City landmark.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1895 by a New York City contractor named John F. Johnson. It was constructed with red bricks, featuring massive walls with towers. It was partially demolished in the 1960s, and the eastern and central part of the site are now used by Hunter College High School and Elementary School as their main campus. The outline of some of the former walls are lined with trees. The Madison Avenue facade was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>A stone plaque with the squadron&#39;s cry "Boutez en avant!" is located on the wall at Madison Avenue.</p><br>
<p>Kapchagay Reservoir, also spelled Qapshaghay Bogeni Reservoir and sometimes referred to as Lake Kapchagay, is a major reservoir in Almaty Region in southeastern Kazakhstan, approximately 60 kilometres north of Almaty. The 140 kilometre long lake is formed by a dam on the Ili River which flows from the mountains in the east towards Lake Balkhash to the northwest. It is named after the town of Kapchagay, which is located on its western bank. During the summer months the lake attracts a number of tourists from Almaty, who frequent its beachy shores on the weekends.</p><br>
<h2>Environmental concerns</h2><br>
<p>The Kapchagay dam was completed in late 1969 and began slowly filling the reservoir in 1970, over a period of 20 years. The hydroelectric project was also seen as important in that the lake would provide an abundant water supply and irrigation for arid farming in the region. However, environmentalists have expressed deep concerns about its environmental impact upon Lake Balkash, given that the equilibrium and balance of water has been seriously disturbed. Between 1970 and 1985, the volume of Lake Balkash declined by 39 km to directly feed the Kapchagay Reservoir, and by 1987, Lake Balkash had reached its all-time low point in volume, dropping roughly 7 feet (2.2 metres) in depth. However, in 1988, this situation improved when the volume of Balkash increased once more from river discharge from the east, although the water quality had been dramatically reduced and became increasingly saline.</p><br>
<h3>Fishing and agriculture</h3><br>
<p>The reservoir has had a major impact upon fish populations, especially given that commercial fishing operations have been practiced in the reservoir, fuelling the local economy. In 1975, 24 species of fish were recorded in Kapchagay Reservoir, but in 1980 this had fallen to 18, directly affecting the industry. However, between 1985 and 1991 as the river reached its current capacity, fish stocks in the lake stabilised and since 1980 there has been a marked growth in the fishing industry on the lake after its decline in the 1970s. The reservoir has also been responsible for rising groundwater levels which has made it impossible to grow crops on land adjacent to the lake in many parts. As a result, many agricultural villages in the area such as Akozek, Kerbulak and Chengildi are located several kilometres from the lake, rather than on its bank.</p><br>
<p>The Ardmore Avenue Train Station is one of two former Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad  stations in Villa Park, Illinois. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The station is a stone-faced structure built in 1910 by the Ballard & Pottinger real estate firm. The station was erected to draw passengers to property that the firm was developing. The plan was successful, and enough people moved into the station vicinity to prompt incorporation as Villa Park in 1917. The station catered to passengers until July 3, 1957, when the CA&E abruptly shut down after years of financial losses. The Ardmore Avenue station is one of very few of what was once seventy-three railroad stations that served the CA&E. On November 21, 1980, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today, the station is the headquarters of the Villa Park Chamber of Commerce. The building now lies along the Illinois Prairie Path, a recreational path built along the former CA&E right-of-way.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The one story structure is built in an English motif and served mostly as a waiting shelter. Doors and windows are made of wood with steel lintels. The tile roof has galvanized iron gutters and a brick chimney. The building features a wood cornice. The station could be heated by a wood-burning fireplace and had electric lighting. Windows are found on all sides and two doors are on the north, leading to the platform. The interior was originally furnished with wood benches and flip-top seats.</p><br>
<p>Beechwood is a Hudson River estate in Scarborough-on-Hudson, in Briarcliff Manor, New York. The estate was most notably the home of Frank A. Vanderlip and his family, and is a contributing property to the Scarborough Historic District. The house and property were owned by the Vanderlip family from 1906 to 1979. The property is now a 37-condominium complex as the result of a development project that began in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>Contemporarily, Beechwood is known for being a filming location of the 1970 film House of Dark Shadows,</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first portion of the main residence dates to 1780, and includes the original kitchen&#39;s fireplace. Benjamin and Ann Folger were among the earliest residents, and named their residence "Heartt Place". In the 1830s, Folger deeded the estate to a self-proclaimed prophet, Robert Matthews, who believed himself to be the resurrected Matthias of the New Testament. Matthews convinced his followers to fund an expansion to the house, which he had named "Zion Hill". During this time, Isabella Baumfree (Sojourner Truth) was a housekeeper to him. After he spent the money his followers and Folger had given him, Matthews became violent. Further on, he was tried for murder, and acquitted for lack of evidence. Matthews was later found guilty of assaulting his grown daughter, and he served a short jail term.</p><br>
<p>The property containing the mansion had been in the Remsen family for decades. Anna Remsen Webb was one of the inheritors of the estate. In the 1890s, her husbands half-brother Henry Walter Webb substantially added to the estate from numerous properties, including the Remsen estate and William Creightons estate (Creighton had named his house "Beechwood" after he purchased it in 1836). Henry Webb attached the name Beechwood to the entire estate and house. He renovated and expanded the mansion, hiring R. H. Robertson to double the size of the house. Robertson designed the expansion in the Colonial Revival style, to be compatible with the neoclassical Federal style of the original but more ornate.</p><br>
<p>Frank Vanderlip purchased the 23 acre property from Webbs widow in 1906, and bought more property to make the estate a total 125 acre. He hired William Welles Bosworth soon after to further enlarge the house and to design a wing for his library and the lawns of the estate. In 1907, while Vanderlip was vice president of the First National City Bank (later Citibank), he had two fluted smoked granite columns from the headquarters 55 Wall Street shipped to Beechwood (55 Wall Street was being remodeled and the columns were re-spaced, with two left over). He had the columns placed two-thirds above ground in Beechwoods entranceway off of Albany Post Road (now USA Route 9), an entrance which was later closed due to increasing traffic volume on Route 9 (the current entrance is off Scarborough Station Road). Vanderlip also made a cage for his childrens pet rabbits using a discarded wrought-iron elevator, also discarded from the bank. Among the guests the Vanderlips hosted at the house were Woodrow Wilson, Henry Ford, Sarah Bernhardt, Annie Oakley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller, and Isadora Duncan. The Wright Brothers even landed a plane on the property. In 1910, Vanderlip bought the nearby mansion Woodlea, although his wife Narcissa Vanderlip prevented the family from moving, due to her preference of Beechwood over the grandiose Woodlea. In 1979, Vanderlip descendants sold the property. Three condominiums were built during a transformation of the mansion in the 1980s. A later expansion resulted in a total of 37 condominiums on the propertys 33 acres.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Near the center of the property, at the southwest corner of Route 9 and Scarborough Station Road, sits the eponymous mansion that features two large porticoed entryways, a two-story octagonal library, numerous porches, verandas, and over 100 interior rooms. Other major structures included a hunting lodge, a second mansion built for the Vanderlips daughter Charlotte, a home for the Vanderlips physician, and the Scarborough School, a progressive school which the Vanderlips established just south of the mansion in 1916.</p><br>
<p>The 80 acre private parkland was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted for the Vanderlips and has expansive lawns, a grove of large beech trees, imported trees, and an Italianate garden with an alcove, fountain, and small pool with Wisteria-covered trellises. The lawns, formal gardens, and stone gazebo, erected by the Vanderlips, have been preserved and feature in wedding ceremonies that occasionally occur on the property.</p><br>
<p>The Beechwood estate also contained a carriage house, gatehouse, squash court (no longer extant), and a white-stucco artists studio named Beech Twig, which was home to author John Cheever, whose children attended the school on the property. The family rented the house until they moved to Ossining. Descriptions of the buildings interior closely match descriptions employed by Cheever in some short stories. Novelist Richard Yates also lived in the same house as a child, as well as other artists, writers, and composers. The estate&#39;s garage is located northeast of the mansion, and is a flat-roof, two-story concrete building dating to the early 1900s.</p><br>
<p>The Villa Avenue Train Station is one of two former Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad  stations in Villa Park, Illinois. The building was also used as an office by the Western United Gas and Electric Company. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, it is now the home of the Villa Park Historical Society Museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The station is a Tudor Revival structure built between August and November 1929. The station replaced two smaller waiting rooms on the east side of Villa Park. The western portion of the station served passengers, while the eastern portion functioned as a Western United Gas and Electric Company office. Both the railroad and the utility company were owned by utilities mogul Samuel Insull. Realtors Ballard & Pottinger would offer free railway trips to the station on Sundays to show off properties in the local region. The station was across the street from the American Ovaltine factory, the largest employer in the village. Villa Park eventually became the largest commuter customer for the railroad. Villa Avenue Train Station closed on July 3, 1957, due to the decline of the CA&E. On August 22, 1986, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today the station is the headquarters of the Villa Park Historical Society Museum. It is one of only four CA&E stations still standing. Today it is found along the Illinois Prairie Path, which was constructed along the former CA&E right-of-way.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by Arthur U. Gerber, staff-architect of Samuel Insull who owned the CA&E at the time. The single-story building is rectangular, measuring 28 x. A gable roof covers the waiting room section and the portico. The roof includes a limestone chimney and synthetic shingles. Window and door frames are made of wood. Walls are built with wood, stucco and limestone. The southern elevation features a 4 ft limestone wall topped with two rows of limestone blocks. The western portion includes a stone-arched window with mullioned casements. The eastern half has three high square windows. The three gables are half-timbered and stuccoed.</p><br>
<p>Wells Creek Falls is the generally used name for a waterfall on Wells Creek in the Mount Baker Wilderness in Washington. The falls are located several thousand feet above Wells Creek’s confluence with Bar Creek.</p><br>
<h2>Characteristics</h2><br>
<p>One of the better known falls on the slopes of Mount Baker, the falls are a single plunge of 90 ft within a small gorge which the falls mark the beginning of. Several thousand feet downstream from the falls, the creek passes under Wells Creek Road & immediately is joined by Wells Creek’s only major tributary, Bar Creek. A large culvert, rather than a bridge crosses the creek along Wells Creek Road.</p><br>
<p>The falls are occasionally confused with much larger Mazama Falls, which is two kilometers upstream. Ironically enough, Mazama Falls is officially named while Wells Creek Falls isn’t despite the fact almost nobody has ever seen Mazama Falls up close & Wells Creek Falls is regularly visited by people driving up Wells Creek Road.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Although not quite as convenient & easy to reach as Nooksack Falls, the falls are not difficult to get to. They are located 5 kilometers up Wells Creek Road from Nooksack Falls & the condition of the road is quite good for a logging road, although it deteriorates beyond the falls. Once at the crossing, one can walk up the wide streambed to reach good views of the falls. Depending on how high the creek is, you may or may not have to get fairly wet, since at least one creek crossing is needed to get up close.</p><br>
<p>One can actually view the falls right from the crossing, however the view is partially obscured by trees.</p><br>
<p>The Machias Railroad Station is a historic railroad station near the junction of Court and Main Streets  in Machias, Maine. Built in 1898, it is one of five surviving stations built by the ambitious but unsuccessful Washington County Railroad. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 2, 1992. The station is in 2015 set to be restored for use as a visitor center and community meeting space.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Machias railroad station stands on the north side of United States Route 1, at the eastern fringe of its downtown area. Just to its north runs the multiuse Downeast Sunrise Trail, which occupies the former railroad right-of-way of the Washington County Railroad. The station is a long rectangular single-story wood frame structure, with a gable roof that has broad overhanging eaves supported by chamfered braces. The walls are clad in weatherboard. A three-sided ticket booth projects on the track side, next to an operable switching signal. The track side facade features two large freight entrances, one at ground level, the other raised about 2 ft above the ground to facilitate direct offloading from freight cars. The interior has retained most of its original woodwork, despite conversion of its passenger waiting area into a freight storage area in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>The Washington County Railroad was incorporated in 1894, began construction on its rail lines the following year, and ran its first train in 1899, delayed by funding issues. Despite lofty projections of profitability, the line, which ran between Brewer and Calais, was financially unsuccessful, and its assets were auctioned in 1903 and leased to the Maine Central Railroad. During its brief lifespan, the railroad constructed 24 stations, most according to a standardized design, of which five survive. The Machias station was built in 1898 and enlarged in 1910. In 1957 the building was converted to a freight depot, at which time the freight doors on the track side were added and interior alterations made. The rail line was abandoned in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The building is now owned by the town, which granted a $1 lease to the local chamber of commerce. The chamber in 2015 embarked on a fundraising campaign to complete restoration of the interior for use as a visitors center and meeting space.</p><br>
<p>West Quoddy Lifesaving Station is a historic coastal rescue station on West Quoddy Head in Lubec, Maine. The lifesaving station was built in 1919, and was operated by the United States Coast Guard until 1972. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 1990. It now houses a bed and breakfast inn.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>West Quoddy Head is an easterly-pointing peninsula in southeastern Lubec, overlooking Quoddy Narrows, a strait between Lubec and Campobello Island, Canada, that provides access to Passamaquoddy Bay and harbors located on the St. Croix River and other rivers which the empty into the bay. Most of the peninsula is part of Quoddy Head State Park, and the former lifesaving station is located on 5 acre on the north side of the peninsula.</p><br>
<p>The station consists of four buildings, three of which are located on a rise above the shore. The main building is a dwelling house, 2-1/2 stories in height, with a gabled roof and clapboard siding. Nearby are a garage and a utility building. The largest building of the complex is the boathouse, which is located at the shore. It has three bays providing access to the boat storage inside, with two of the bays now having leveled floors installed over the original sloping floors. The slip for launching the boats extends more than 100 ft (a consequence of the area&#39;s extremely high tides), and includes a (now deteriorating) track system to facilitate launch and retrieval of vessels.</p><br>
<p>The first lifesaving station in the area was established by the United States Life-Saving Service (a predecessor to the Coast Guard) in 1874, and was one of five such stations in Maine. It was located at Carrying Point Cove on the south side of West Quoddy Head, a relatively exposed location. The present facility was built by the Coast Guard in 1919 to replace that one, and was in active service until 1972. Since then, it has been used as a boat-building school, biological research station, and bed and breakfast inn.</p><br>
<p>The Pittsfield Railroad Station is a historic former railroad station at 114 Central Street in Pittsfield, Maine. The station was built in 1888 by the Maine Central Railroad, and now serves as the Depot House Museum, operated by the Pittsfield Historical Society. It is one of the best-preserved railroad stations in Maine from that time period. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 23, 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Pittsfield depot is set on the north side of the railroad tracks that run east–west on the southern outskirts of the town center. The building is a single-story wood frame structure, with clapboard siding. Its main facade faces toward the tracks to the south, and is nine bays wide, with a succession of windows and doorways, and a rectangular projection. The building has a hip roof, with a gable at the center of the main facade, and extended eaves with Stick style brackets and a paneled entablature. The building has retained all of its original windows, which are distinguished by patterned colored glass in the upper sashes.</p><br>
<p>The first railroad to arrive in Pittsfield was the Maine Central Railroad in 1855, providing service to Bangor and Waterville. In 1886 the Sebasticook and Moosehead Railroad built a spur line from Pittsfield to Hartland, significantly increasing the activity level at the station. The Maine Central built this station in 1888. There was originally an exchange house located at the west end of the station, to facilitate the transfer of goods from one line to the other; this has since been demolished.</p><br>
<p>The station is now owned by the town, and operated by the Pittsfield Historical Society as a museum.</p><br>
<p>The Skowhegan Fire Station is located at 16 Island Avenue in the center of Skowhegan, Maine. The fire station, built in 1904 to a design by William R. Miller, is one of the state&#39;s finest Romanesque Revival fire houses. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 20, 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Skowhegan Fire Station is centrally located in the town center of Skowhegan, on an island in the center of the Kennebec River, joined to the rest of the town by Island Avenue, designated United States Route 2 and United States Route 201. Set on the north side of the road, it is a roughly square 2-1/2 story brick structure, with three original vehicle bays, and a fourth added on to the right in a modern single-story addition. The main block bays are highlighted by brickwork arches that rise to including paired round-arch windows at the second level, which have a raised brickwork field with a round brick panel at its center. A tall entablature includes terra cotta signage identifying the building with flanking broadfoot crosses.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by the noted Lewiston architect William R. Miller, whose other public works include the L. C. Bates Museum and the Lawrence Library, both in Fairfileld. The building is a well-executed example of the Romanesque Revival executed in brick.</p><br>
<p>The Monson Historical Society Museum is located on Main Street in the center of Monson, Maine. It is housed in a former municipal building, built in 1889 to house firefighting equipment and a fraternal lodge, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Monson Engine House  on August 5, 2005, as one of a small number of surviving 19th-century fire stations in rural interior Maine. The museum is open on Saturdays in the summer, showing items of local historical interest.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and building history</h2><br>
<p>The museum building is a rectangular two-story wood frame structure, set on the east side of Main Street, just south of Phillips Brook, which is the outlet of nearby Hebron Pond. The building is set on a slate pier foundation, whose northeast corner projects over the stream. This corner is the location of a four-story hose-drying tower, arranged so that drying firehoses can drain directly into the stream. The building has a hip roof, as do the tower and a southern 1-1/2 story addition. The main facade faces west, and is divided into six bays. The three left bays have double-leaf equipment doors with a decorative frieze above, and symmetrically-placed sash windows on the second floor. The next two bays have sash windows on the first floor, the right one with a window above as well. The rightmost bay has the building&#39;s personnel entrance and a smaller sash window above. Below the roofline is a soffit supported by scrolled brackets.</p><br>
<p>The building has seen multiple, sometimes overlapping, uses since its construction in 1889. It was originally built to store firefighting equipment on the lower level, and to provide a meeting space for the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), a Civil War veterans organization, on the upper level. The town used the building for fire equipment storage until 1968. The GAR chapter was moribund by 1910, and surviving members sold the group&#39;s interest in the building to the town in 1918. The GAR facility was also used by a number of other local social organizations, including the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the local Grange chapter.</p><br>
<p>The town held its town meetings and offices in another building (no longer standing) until 1918, when these functions were moved into the GAR facilities of this building, which included the construction of a small jail cell in the basement. In 1936-37 the building was enlarged by the southern addition, and the building was outfitted with heat. It was known as Monson Town Hall until 1968, when the present town hall was built next door. It was sold to the DAR in that year, which established a small local history museum. The DAR sold it back to the town in 2003, which turned maintenance of management of the building over to the local historical society.</p><br>
<p>The building is one of four known 19th-century fire stations still standing in Maine&#39;s smaller communities. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Bangor Fire Engine House No. 6 is a historic former fire station at 284 Center Street in Bangor, Maine. Built in 1902, it is a high quality local example of Beaux Arts architecture, and is one of a series of important public commissions by local architect Wilfred E. Mansur. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 7, 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Bangor Fire Engine House No. 6 is located in a predominantly residential area north of downtown Bangor, at the northwest corner of Center and Montgomery Streets. It is a rectangular two story building, built out of brick and stone, and topped by slightly flared hip roof with the square base of a now-removed cupola at its center. The first floor is brick with brick quoining at the corners. The second floor is finished in stuccoed brick, with brick quoining at the corners and on the sides of the window openings. The first-floor street-facing openings are set in rounded-arch openings, with two former equipment bay entrances facing Center Street, and a central pedestrian entrance bay facing Montgomery. One of the equipment bays has been adapted to house a second pedestrian entrance.</p><br>
<p>The fire house was built in 1902, and was one of a series of public commissions by architect Wilfred E. Mansur that include the listed Bangor Hose House No. 5, and some of the city&#39;s schools. Built in the days when fire equipment was drawn by horses, it served as a fire station until 1987. At the time of its National Register listing in 1988, it had been converted to commercial use.</p><br>
<p>Bangor Hose House No. 5 , is an historic fire station at 247 State Street in Bangor, Maine. Built in 1897, it served as a fire house for about a century. It now houses the Hose 5 Fire Museum, a city-operated museum devoted to its fire history. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former House House No. 5 is a two-story brick building, standing on the south side of State Street (United States Route 2), east of downtown Bangor, between Salem Court and Merrimac Street. It is Romanesque Revival in style, with a dormered hip roof and a three-story hose drying tower topped by an open belfry. It has two round-arch equipment bays, with a pedestrian entrance, also round-arched to their right. Second-floor windows are recessed in corbelled round-arch openings, and the tower features a band of decorative brickwork below the belfry.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1897 from a design by Bangor architect Wilfred E. Mansur, and represents one of his finest works in the Romanesque style. Built in the days when fire equipment was drawn by horses, it served the city as a fire station until 1993, when it was converted into a museum, which is operated by the members of the Bangor Fire Department. It is home to a 1917 Garford Pumper, the first motorized fire engine used by the nearby Old Town Fire Department as well as Gamewell Fire Boxes, a collection of antique breathing apparatus, and other historic fire fighting equipment and engines. Admission is free, open Saturdays 9-12 through the summer.</p><br>
<p>The Old Fire Engine House is a historic fire station on North Main Avenue in Orono, Maine. Built in 1892, it is a well-preserved example of a late-19th century wooden fire station. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 12, 1985. It is now used by Boy Scout Troop 478, which is in the Katahdin Area Council.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Old Fire Engine House is located on the south side of North Main Avenue, opposite the end of Pond Street. It is built into the side of a slope down to the Stillwater River, presenting 1-1/2 stories to the street and a full second story on the south (river-facing) side. It is a wood frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof and clapboard siding. The roof is topped by a belfry with a pyramidal roof, and there is a hose drying tower at the southern end. The front gable is pedimented, and there is a paneled double door in the central equipment bay, with a pedestrian door to the right and a doubled window to the left. The interior retains original woodwork finishes, including tongue-and-groove paneling on the walls and molded architrave trim with corner blocks on the windows.</p><br>
<p>The town of Orono is divided by the Stillwater River, complicating the provision of fire services. Its earliest fire services, established in the 1830s, were volunteer services, but the first engine house was not built until the 1860s. It was built on the south side of the river, where the town center is located, while the engine for the north side was stored in other buildings. In 1892, the town authorized the construction of this building as a permanent structure for the engine (on the main level) and the horses to draw it (on the basement level down the hill). The bell was used to summon the volunteers.</p><br>
<p>Monte Nudo is a mountain of Lombardy, Italy. It has an elevation of 1,237 metres. Administratively it belongs to the province of Varese.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>In Italian Nudo means Naked; this comes from the lack of trees which characterized the mountain until the 1970s.</p><br>
<h2>SOIUSA classification</h2><br>
<p>According to the SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Western Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=North Western Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Lugano Prealps</p><br>
<p>subsection=Prealpi Varesine</p><br>
<p>supergroup=Catena Piambello-Campo dei Fiori-Nudo</p><br>
<p>group=Gruppo del Nudo</p><br>
<p>subgroup=Gruppo del Monte Nudo</p><br>
<p>code=I/B-11.II-B.4.c</p><br>
<p>Indian Rock Schoolhouse, also known as District 3 Schoolhouse or Webutuck Country Schoolhouse, is located on Mygatt Road in the hamlet of Amenia, New York, United States. It is a wooden one-room schoolhouse built in the mid-19th century in accordance with a standard state plan for small rural schools that reflected contemporary educational reform movements.</p><br>
<p>Of 12 such schools built in the Town of Amenia during that era, only this one survives mostly intact. It remained in use until 1927. In 2002 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Since then it has been restored by a nearby private school and has been used for community events and historic education.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The school is situated on a 1 acre lot on the north side of the road, at the north fringe of the developed area of the hamlet. The surrounding terrain is level, mostly open and rural. Amenia&#39;s Rural Cemetery is across the curve in the road. To the west is an altered 18th-century house, with an early 19th-century gambrel-roofed farmhouse on the east. Maplebrook School, a private institution for children with learning disabilities, is to the north, across a meadow.</p><br>
<p>The building is in the southwest corner of the lot, 40 ft from the road at the end of a short gravel driveway. It is a one-story timber-framed structure on a stone foundation 17 by with board-and-batten siding and a steeply pitched gable roof shingled in cedar shake.</p><br>
<p>All elevations except the north have two double-hung six-over-six sash windows. Pointed hoods shelter those on the south. In the gable field is another pointed hood with a sign saying "Indian Rock Schoolhouse", giving the period of its use in smaller type. Another, smaller sign identifying the property is in the ground near the southeast corner. At the northeast and northwest corners are entrances with a glass transom. The north (rear) elevation has two large barn-style doors.</p><br>
<p>Inside the schoolhouse there are remnants of the original heating system, the flue and lower section of the brick chimney. Original low wooden wainscoting, with some initials carved into it, remains along the walls, which also have some of the original plaster and blackboards. Channels on the floor, where desks and seats were affixed to it, also remain, as do some remnants of the original vestibules in the otherwise open interior.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school was built around 1850, possibly slightly earlier. A decade before New York, following a broad education-reform movement of the time, had issued standard plans for a rural one-room schoolhouse with separate entrances for boys and girls to a single open room inside. Many adopted stylistic features of the early Gothic Revival movement such as steeply pitched roofs and board-and-batten siding, as reflected in a popular 1870 pattern book.</p><br>
<p>Amenia built 12 such schools around the town. The one on Mygatt Road acquired the name "Indian Rock" from a nearby lookout supposedly used by the area&#39;s Native American tribes. Notwithstanding what is believed to be its construction date, its existence is first mentioned in an 1884 deed for the sale of the property. It is not known if it had a separate lot then as it does now; however such subdivisions were a common practice for schools in upstate New York at the time.</p><br>
<p>In 1927 the school was closed as districts began to consolidate into larger, more permanent schools. It would later be used for storage in the 1950s, when the rear barn doors were added. The building was neglected throughout the remainder of the 20th century, and at the time of its listing on the National Register the windows had been boarded up.</p><br>
<p>Shortly before then, it had been acquired by the president of the local historical society, who donated it to the Webutuck Schoolhouse Association of Maplebrook School. That organization has been able to raise enough funds to restore it to its current condition by 2004. It is the only one of the 12 schools built in Amenia to remain largely intact from its original construction.</p><br>
<p>The association has published a newsletter and maintains a blog of oral history of the school from former students, now mostly senior citizens. It now has over a hundred members. Maplebrook School has used the building for community service projects for its students. It continues to host events in conjunction with local public schools, such as an Arbor Day picnic and Summer Sundays. Students from local day care centers have even had classes in the building, using slates and other period equipment.</p><br>
<p>Pizzo di Gino is a mountain of Lombardy, Italy. With an elevation of 2,245 m it is the highest peak of the Lugano Prealps.</p><br>
<h2>SOIUSA classification</h2><br>
<p>According to the SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Western Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=North Western Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Lugano Prealps</p><br>
<p>subsection=Prealpi Comasche</p><br>
<p>supergroup=Catena Gino-Camoghè-Fiorina</p><br>
<p>group=Gruppo del Gino</p><br>
<p>code=I/B-11.I-A.1</p><br>
<h2>Access to the summit</h2><br>
<p>The easiest route for the summit starts from San Nazzaro Val Cavargna and passes by a mountain hut called Rifugio Croce di Campo (1,739 m).</p><br>
<p>Sighignola is a mountain of the Lugano Prealps, located on the border between the Italian region of Lombardy and the Swiss canton of Ticino. A panoramic terrace just below the summit, and directly on the Italian side of the border, provides a spectacular view especially to the west, over Lake Lugano and the city of Lugano, to the Alps. For this reason, the site is often known as the Balcone d&#39;Italia.</p><br>
<p>The eastern, Italian, slopes are relatively gentle, and the viewing terrace can be reached by road from the Italian commune of Lanzo d’Intelvi to the east. The slopes to the west down to Lake Lugano are much steeper, and the upper slopes are within the Swiss municipality of Arogno. However, the lakeside below the mountain is occupied by the Italian exclave of Campione d&#39;Italia.</p><br>
<p>In 1969 it was planned to construct a cable car from Sighignola, across the Swiss upper slopes, to Campione d&#39;Italia. Whilst construction was started, the cable car never opened, and in 2009 an agreement was reached between the Italian and Swiss authorities to remove the remains of the cable car structure.</p><br>
<p>Pizzo Tambo or Tambohorn  or Pizzo Tambò  is a mountain located at the eastern extremity of the Lepontine Alps on the Swiss-Italian border. The mountain lies on the German-Italian language border, west of the Splügen Pass which divides the Western Alps from the Eastern Alps.</p><br>
<p>Reaching a height of 3,279 metres, it is the highest peak in the Mesolcina sub-chain which, starting from the Lugano Prealps northwards, ends near the Splügen Pass on the boundary between Lombardy (northern Italy) and the Graubünden canton of Switzerland.</p><br>
<p>The Tambo is composed mostly of metamorphic rock such as gneiss, mica-schist and phyllite, with a small sector of dolostone just under the peak. It includes three small glaciers, the severally shrunk Tambogletscher on the northeast flank and the Ghiacciaio del Tambo on the west flank, both on the Swiss side, and the by now larger Vedretta della Spianata (3,000-2,740 m) on the southeast side in Italy. Southwards the massif continues with a series of smaller peaks (the highest being the Pizzo Zoccone) before joining the Pizzo Ferré.</p><br>
<p>Pizzo Tamborello (2,669 m) is the name of the eastern shoulder overlooking the Splügen Pass.</p><br>
<p>Punta de Chimino is a Maya archaeological site in the Petexbatún region of the department of Petén in Guatemala. Occupation at the site dates to the Preclassic and Classic periods of Mesoamerican chronology. Punta de Chimino experienced a population surge in the Late Preclassic, followed by a reduction in occupation levels in the Early Classic and another increase in the Terminal Classic when the city became one of the few population centres to survive the political disintegration of the Petexbatún region after the collapse of the kingdom based at Dos Pilas. The neighbouring city of Seibal on the Pasión River appears to have intervened at Punta de Chimino at this time and to have politically dominated the smaller site.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The site is located on a peninsula on the western side of Lake Petexbatún. In the Late Classic a series of defensive ditches were excavated across the base of this peninsula in order to fortify the site. The peninsula possessed deep fertile soils overlying limestone bedrock and gave easy access to the rich aquatic resources of the lake. Punta de Chimino is one of the better investigated sites along the Pasión River and its tributaries. The site is located south of the modern town of Sayaxché.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Punta de Chimino was first settled in the Middle Preclassic period. By the Early Preclassic the city had a sizeable population.</p><br>
<p>In the Early Classic population levels at Punta de Chimino decreased from their earlier Preclassic levels, this may represent a shift in population towards nucleated settlements at the nearby Petexbatún cities of Tamarindito and Arroyo de Piedra.</p><br>
<p>Terminal Classic economic activity at Punta de Chimino appears to be a reduced continuation of the earlier Classic Period economic activity and shows no sign of any foreign influence that might have caused the Classic Maya collapse. The site is one of very few locations in the Pasión drainage to have erected major architecture during the Terminal Classic, including a corbel-vaulted temple, large palace platforms and a very large ballcourt. The inhabitants maintained areas of intensive agriculture protected by the defensive moats and the site became the last centre of elite activity to survive in the Petexbatún, at a time when other cities in the region had been reduced to tiny hamlets among the Classic period ruins. The clay used in two styles of Terminal Classic ceramics from Punta de Chimino was from the same source as that used for Seibal ceramics, and had very similar styles of decoration. The stylistic similarities between the two sites indicate that Seibal may well have taken advantage of the political fragmentation of the Petexbatún region in order to take control of Punta de Chimino and exact tribute payment.</p><br>
<p>Punta de Chimino was probably the last of the Petexbatun capitals to fall when the region fragmented after the defeat of Dos Pilas by its former vassal Tamarindito. Evidence was found by archaeologists that the site had been attacked sometime after AD 760, with the innermost and deepest ditch having a large burnt area scattered with flint spearheads, with more spearheads recovered from the wall lining the top of the ditch. The site declined and was finally abandoned in the 10th century AD.</p><br>
<p>In the Postclassic period the site underwent a limited reoccupation by people from the central Petén, whose ceramics showed no continuity with the earlier Petexbatún ceramic styles.</p><br>
<h3>Modern history</h3><br>
<p>Punta de Chimino was badly looted in the second half of the 20th century, extensive damage was caused, including the removal of all exposed sculpture at the site. T. Inomata of the Petexbatún Regional Archaeological Project mapped the site in 1989. The Project carried out further investigations at Punta de Chimino from 1990 to 1991 and in 1994 under the direction of Claudia Wolley and from 1996 to 1997 under the direction of Arthur Demarest.</p><br>
<h2>Site description</h2><br>
<p>The neck of the peninsula was fortified with three moats, one of which was 12 m deep, each moat was topped by a palisaded wall. The creation of the moats involved the excavation of 38,250 m&sup3; of the limestone bedrock, which was then used to build up the ramparts. The innermost and deepest moat was flooded to create an artificial island. The box gardens were probably fertilised with organic material dredged from the swampy area immediately south of the peninsula, with the addition of night soils from the inhabitants. The combination of moats and walls that protected the peninsula made Punta de Chimino the best defended site in the entire Maya lowlands.</p><br>
<p>The artificial island created by the excavation of the moats was densely occupied during the Terminal Classic but only one residence was excavated in the area between the moats. The Terminal Classic palaces at the site consisted of wide platforms measuring approximately 10 by and thickly coated in plaster.</p><br>
<p>The site is divided into three main groups; the North, East and West Groups, with a Main Plaza and an Acropolis.</p><br>
<p>Structure 2 is a small altar platform to the south of the ballcourt and west of Structure 7. The area around it was used for the placing of altars and stelae. The structure measures 6 by and is 1 m tall. Structure 2 was virtually destroyed by a looters&#39; trench sunk into the upper section and measuring 3.2 by and deeper than the structure itself. Rescue excavations discovered a variety of small greenstone artifacts in the spoil including an earspool, two beads and a necklace with a roughly carved face. Three human bones were also recovered although their original context is unknown. Structure 2 had two phases of construction, both tentatively dated to the Late Classic.</p><br>
<p>Structure 7 is a 5 m high pyramid on the south side of the Main Plaza. The south and west sides of the pyramid have been damaged by looters. Two burials (Burials 4 and 8) were found under the pyramid. Structure 7 overlies an earlier substructure known as Structure 7 Sub 1, the floor of which lies 2.3 m under the summit of the later phase of construction.</p><br>
<p>Structure 59 is one of the main structures in the West Group.</p><br>
<p>Structure 70 is one of the principal buildings in the West Group. It is a residential structure located to the northwest of the Main Plaza and stands 4 m tall. It was built upon a natural hill that was levelled to form a supporting platform. A Late Classic ceramic incense burner was excavated from the summit of the structure, it was modelled to form the Maya sun deity G3. Five low status burials were discovered, four of them interred directly under the floor and one in a crude cist, none of them were accompanied by offerings and all are dated to the Late Classic.</p><br>
<p>Structure 72 is a large platform located immediately to the east of Structure 70. It measures 5 by and has a base of finely worked stone. The structure was a mid-status residential building dating to the Late Classic and included a kitchen measuring 4 by where more than 600 ceramic fragments were excavated together with animal bones.</p><br>
<p>Structure 76 is a high platform situated in an open area 90 m west of Structure 7. It has been badly damaged by looters. Rescue excavations by archaeologists uncovered Burial 10 at a depth of 3.3 m under the building.</p><br>
<p>Structure 79 is a large elite platform grouped with Structures 80 and 81 in the North Group. It was associated with Seibal-style artifacts and has been dated to the Terminal Classic.</p><br>
<p>Structure 80 is in the North Group. It is on the north side of the group comprising Structures 79, 80 and 81. It was a large elite platform associated with Seibal-style artifacts. It dates to the Terminal Classic and was completely coated in stucco.</p><br>
<p>Structure 81 is grouped with Structures 79 and 80 in the North Group. It is also a large elite platform dating to the Terminal Classic associated with Seibal-style artifacts. It was a vaulted building built completely from worked stone, although it has now collapsed. Excavations under the floor of the building revealed three ceramic vessels associated with animal remains that included jaguar teeth. A well-preserved decorated vessel was under these and on top of some fragments of human remains, also including teeth.</p><br>
<p>The Ballcourt at Punta de Chimino dates to the Terminal Classic. It is the largest yet found in the Petexbatún region and is similar in both size and style to the Terminal Classic ballcourt C-9 at the city of Seibal, on the bank of the Pasión River. The ballcourt has open end zones and is unusually large for such a small site, perhaps owing its construction to the political intervention of Seibal.</p><br>
<p>The site&#39;s Hieroglyphic Stairway was buried under a midden dating to the Postclassic period.</p><br>
<h3>Burials</h3><br>
<p>Burial 4 was interred in a small cist measuring 0.65 by, located under Structure 7. By the time the cist was excavated it had been practically destroyed by tree roots, scattering the bones. A rough greenstone pendant was associated with the remains, together with a greenstone bead, a tripod plate, a polychrome ceramic bowl and perforated seashells. The burial has been dated to the beginning of the Late Classic period.</p><br>
<p>Burial 8 was deposited 0.54 m under the summit of Structure 7. It was not placed within a tomb but rather scattered within the infill of the pyramid. Some of the bones showed evidence of burning. The burial was accompanied by an offering of four ceramic vessels, a broken fragment of obsidian knife and a piece of greenstone. One of these was painted with a hieroglyphic text that indicated that it was the atole-drinking vessel of a lord from the nearby Petexbatún city of Tamarindito. Based on the offerings, Burial 8 has been identified as a Late Classic elite status burial.</p><br>
<p>Burial 10 consists of a collapsed vaulted tomb found under Structure 76. Various chert and obsidian chippings were associated with the tomb, a feature common to many elite burials across the Petén region. The chamber of the tomb measured 1.2 by by 1 m high. The bones of the deceased were well preserved in spite of being fragmented by the collapse of the ceiling. The remains were probably that of an adult male and the body was laid out on its back with the head towards the east. The burial was accompanied by only two offerings consisting of a ceramic bowl and a plate, the style of which date it to the Late Classic sometime between AD 600 and 830.</p><br>
<p>Pizzo Coca is a mountain that straddles the Val Seriana and the Valtellina in Lombardy, Italy. It is the highest peak in the Bergamo Alps . Its height is 3,050 metres with a prominence height of 1,878 metres and a saddle of 1,172 metres. A post-glacial valley exists near a point called "ometto in sassi"  at 2,400 meters.</p><br>
<h2>Geology and orogeny</h2><br>
<p>The Alps form a part of a tertiary orogenic belt of mountain chains, called the Alpide belt, that stretches through southern Europe and Asia from the Atlantic stretching eastward to the Himalayas. The Bergamo Alps have three prominent peaks named Pizzo Coca, Punta Scaiss and Pizzo Redorta. As with its parent Alpine belt, Pizzo Coca is composed of "dark-coloured" Narrow and vertical chimney clefts stretch towards Pizzo Cocas summit, which has rock debris, before it levels off. The mountain rises to 2,924 meters by "Dente di Coca" (literally Tooth of Coca") before settling out by Pico Cocas summit.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>The Alps are split into five climate zones, each with a different kind of environment. The climate, plant life and animal life vary on different sections or zones of the mountain such as Pizzo Coca. The initial altitude at Val Seriana, one of the recommended southern access points, is 1,100 meters and part of a valley. The valley trail rises to 1,892 meters by Rifugio Coca which is a rest stop.</p><br>
<p>Pizzo Cocas Subalpine regional climate ranges to 1,800 metres with the lower levels available for cultivation. The Alpine regional climate exists between 1,800 and 2,500 meters. The Glacial regional climate extends from 2,500 to Pico Cocas top at 3,050 metres with snow falling at the higher elevations.</p><br>
<h2>Approach</h2><br>
<p>Pizzo Coca can be reached from the south starting from Valbondione. From here the path leads to Rifugio Coca, managed by Club Alpino Italiano based in Bergamo, then continues towards Lago di Coca. From here, before reaching the lake, climbers must crawl up the scree to the east. After this, the trail climbs quickly, then follows a semicircle along the natural amphitheatre at the foot of the Bocchetta dei Camosci. From here begins the steepest part of the path allowing climbers, after 300 to 400 meters uphill, the base of Pizzo Coca is reached.</p><br>
<p>From the peak, there is an unrestricted view to the east and the surrounding area. The Rhaetian Alps that connects to the north are visible, as is Lake Barbellino, Monte Torena, Pizzo Strinato, Monte Costone, Monte Trobio, Monte Gleno and Pizzo Recastello, Pizzo Redorta, the glacier of Marovin, and the Pizzo del Diavolo di Tenda in the west, Presolana and Pizzo Arera to the south as well as several other peaks, and beginning from the valley of the Serio River, the starting point of Valbondione.</p><br>
<p>The initial trail leads to a series of rifugios, which is Italian for refuges, like the first Rifugio Coca mountain hut. in some hard rock climb areas, climbing equipment like rope, climbing harness, boots, crampons, ice axes, snowshoes and skis is recommended.</p><br>
<h2>Nearest services</h2><br>
<p>Pizzo Coca&#39;s nearest airport is Orio al Serio Airport in Bergamo, Italy. The nearest "convenient center" is Valbondione.</p><br>
<p>The Monte Tesoro is a summit of the Bergamasque Prealps. It is 1,432 metres above sea level and is located in the municipality of Carenno on the mountain ridge that goes south from the Resegone towards the plains at the hills of Bergamo. It divides the valley of San Martino from the Valle Imagna between the passes of Pertus and Valcava, dividing, therefore the provinces of Lecco and Bergamo.</p><br>
<p>Its broad summit is easily accessible from several fronts.</p><br>
<p>A road from the Valle Imagna, ends at Forcella Alta, 1,300 m asl, just a 20 minute walk to the top.</p><br>
<p>From the main road at the Valcava pass, by a trail that starts from Combeli at about 1,300 m asl and that reaches the summit along the broad southern ridge.</p><br>
<p>From the San Martino valley the trail starts at Boccio in the town of Carenno, and rises through the vast forests of the western slope.</p><br>
<p>Lastly from Colle di Sogno in the town of Torre de&#39; Busi, the most "alpine" of the trails, however easy, along the sunny south-west slope, almost devoid of tree cover.</p><br>
<p>The summit offers an excellent view, especially over the Adda river valley, on the nearby plains and on the Bergamasque Prealps behind which the Rhaetian Alps can be seen.</p><br>
<p>At the summit, there is a shrine with a 15-metre high metal cross erected in 1985 in memory of Italian soldiers killed in action.</p><br>
<h2>WebCam</h2><br>
<p>The amateur weather station Sopracornola in the village of Calolziocorte has a webcam that shows the Monte Tesoro, and updates the picture every five minutes.</p><br>
<p>Wavertree is a historic iron-hulled sailing ship built in 1885. Now the largest iron sailing vessel afloat, it is located at the South Street Seaport in New York City.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Wavertree was built in Southampton, England in 1885 and was one of the last large sailing ships built of wrought iron. She was built for the Liverpool company, and is named after the Wavertree district of that city.</p><br>
<p>The ship was first used to carry jute between eastern India and Scotland. When less than two years old the ship entered the "tramp trades", taking cargoes anywhere in the world. In 1910, after sailing for a quarter century, the ship was dis-masted off Cape Horn and barely made it to the Falkland Islands. Rather than re-rigging the ship its owners sold it for use as a floating warehouse at Punta Arenas, Chile. Wavertree was converted into a sand barge at Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1947. This ship was discovered in 1967 at the Riachuelo River in Buenos Aires by an American citizen working on a sand barge and acquired by the South Street Seaport Museum in 1968. The ship was sent to the Arsenal Naval Buenos Aires for restoration. In 1969 after restoration was complete, the ship was towed to New York. The vessel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 13, 1978.</p><br>
<h3>Restoration</h3><br>
<p>In 2015, the ship was sent to Staten Island’s Caddell Dry Dock and Repair Co. Inc. for a $13 million restoration, funded by New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs, city council and Manhattan’s borough president. The restoration included the replacement of steel plates below the waterline, a new ballast system, updated electrical systems, and coating work that includes a cathodic protection system.</p><br>
<p>The restoration started in May 2015, and ended in 25 September 2016, when the ship returned to South Street Seaport museum.</p><br>
<p>Malapai Hill is a small mountain in the middle of Joshua Tree National Park in southeastern California, which may have been part of an ancient volcano. It formed during a period of intrusive activity and either rose above the surface or eventually was exposed by erosion. Its name is a derivative of the Spanish word, malpaís.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and geology</h2><br>
<p>The peak rises in Joshua Tree National Park, west of the Hexie Mountains, north of the San Bernardino Mountains and near Queen Valley.</p><br>
<p>There are two summits with the true summit rising on the north.</p><br>
<p>The hill is composed of aphanitic alkaline olivine basalt, with phenocrysts of olivine. Xenoliths of lherzolite are abundant and more rarely of White Tank monzogranite. The lherzolite nodules are interpreted as representing depleted mantle from the area of partial melting that produced the magma.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>Malapai is an Americanization of the Spanish word, malpaís, which can be translated as bad terrain. The term malpaís is widely used to refer to badlands characterized by eroded rocks of volcanic origin. The cactus and xeric scrub plant community surrounding the mountain is characteristic of the stark and dry desert here.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>While there are not maintained trails in the area, the peak, which is in Joshua Tree Wilderness, is listed by the Angles Chapter of the Sierra Club as a recommended outing. Magnetite formations near the summit are known to disrupt magnetic compasses.</p><br>
<p>The Paro Chhu is a river of western Bhutan. It is a tributary of the Wong Chhu, which is known as the Raidak in its lower reaches.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The Paro Chhu rises to the south of Chomo Lhari (mountain of the Goddess). Its glacial waters plunge torrentially through alpine meadows and deep gorges in the Jigme Dorji National Park, and descends into a wide, open, undulating valley. Sub-alpine and temperate forests are found along its middle and lower reaches. A prime trout stream, it nourishes lush green rice fields and apple and peach orchards on its banks.</p><br>
<h2>Paro</h2><br>
<p>The Paro Chhu flows through the Paro Valley, which is the site of one of Bhutans main towns, Paro, and many important monasteries. The two best known of the monasteries are Taktshang ("Tigers nest" in Dzongkha), and Paro Dzong. Taktshang clings to a ledge of a high cliff approximately 15 km north of Paro. Taktshang and Paro Dzong are two of the finest examples of Bhutanese architecture. Below the dzong, a traditional wooden covered bridge called Nyamai Zam spans the Paro Chhu. The original bridge was washed away in a flood in 1969 and the present one is a reconstruction. Earlier versions of this bridge were removed to protect the dzong. The bridge was also shown in the movie Little Buddha by Bernardo Bertolucci Below the town of Paro, the river runs immediately to the west of Bhutan&#39;s only international airport. That airport is renowned for the hair-raising final approach.</p><br>
<h2>Kayaking</h2><br>
<p>The lower Paro Chhu river is a good stretch of about 7 km for beginner/intermediate kayakers. This stretch has many small, boulder rapids and wave trains. There is one class IV–V boulder choke, about 3 km from the put in, which can be run on the left and scouted from the right. It is suitable for kayaks only as the river is too small for a raft to be enjoyable. After this, the river enters a short, scenic canyon with more class II–III rapids. The stretch ends at Chhuzom. More experienced kayakers can continue down the Wong Chhu.</p><br>
<h2>Chhuzom</h2><br>
<p>Chhuzom (Chhu means river and zom means join) is the place where Paro Chhu and Wong Chhu meet. For many traditional Bhutanese this confluence is considered the union of a father and mother river. Paro Chhu represents the father and is sometimes called the Pho Chhu, Wong Chu represents the mother. Because Bhutanese traditions regards such a convergence of rivers as inauspicious, there are three chortens here to ward off evil spells in the area. Each chorten is in a different style&mdash;Bhutanese, Tibetan and Nepali. The upper reaches of Wong Chhu, above Chhuzom, are sometimes referred to as Thimphu Chhu.</p><br>
<p>The Mount Airy Forest, in Cincinnati, Ohio, was established in 1911. It was one of the earliest, if not the first, urban reforestation project in the United States. With nearly 1,500 acre, its the largest park in Cincinnatis park system.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The originally forested land was cleared for agricultural use in the 19th century, but years of poor grazing and agricultural practices led to severe erosion and poor soil composition. As quoted in a 1914 Cincinnati Times-Star editorial, a farmer facetiously remarked that his farm (in Westwood) "was a good one when he first took it up but that since he had cleared off all the trees it had slid down the creek and was to be found somewhere in the neighborhood of New Orleans."</p><br>
<p>According to the National Park Service:</p><br>
<p>Established in 1911, the Mount Airy Forest covers an impressive 1459 acres and includes natural areas, planned landscapes, buildings, structures, and landscape features. The numerous hiking trails, bridle paths, walls, gardens, pedestrian bridges, and various other improvements within Mount Airy Forest reflect the ambitious park planning and development that took place in Cincinnati in the early-to-mid-20th century. Conceived as the nation’s first urban reforestation project, the park has developed over the years—especially during the Depression and post-World War II period- into a park with a variety of areas, spaces and structures designed to accommodate recreational, social, and educational activities. Today it continues to offer a large expanse of protected land within the city limits where the public can enjoy the richness and diversity of nature.</p><br>
<p>In the largest reforestation program undertaken by a city seen until that time, the barren land was restored to a park largely in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The rustic CCC structures are still standing and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The park now includes 700 acres of reforested hardwoods, 200 acres of forested evergreens, 269 acres of wetlands, 170 acres of meadows, and a 120-acre arboretum.</p><br>
<p>The park was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Amenities</h2><br>
<p>The park offers hiking trails, an 18-hole disc golf course, and a 2 acre dog park.</p><br>
<p>Slover Mountain  is a former mountain in Colton, in southwestern San Bernardino County and the Inland Empire region of Southern California. Now a hill, it was surface mined for limestone in the 20th century. The Colton Joint Unified School District&#39;s continuation high school is named after the mountain.</p><br>
<p>The mountain was known as Tahualtapa ("raven hill") by Native Americans and Cerrito Solo ("little solitary hill") by the colonial Spanish.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The hill was named after a local 19th century hunter, Isaac Slover, who lived near it and who died in 1854 in the Cajon Pass from injuries caused by a bear. The Colton Liberty Flag formerly stood atop the mountain.</p><br>
<p>Before the mountain was mined for marble and limestone, it stood as the tallest in the San Bernardino Valley, at 1,184 ft.</p><br>
<p>Caerleon Endowed School,  is a junior school that was built in 1724 from a bequest from Charles Williams. The school became part of the state education system in 1948 under the 1944 Education Act. The school was designated a Grade II* listed building in 1951.</p><br>
<p>The bequest was for "30 boys and 20 girls of the poorer sort", but the trustees reduced this to 20 boys and 10</p><br>
<p>girls. From 1724 to 1948 the school had only nine headmasters. The left and right wings of the buildings included houses for the school master and school mistress respectively.</p><br>
<p>The Pevsner Guide describes the school as "educational bounty on an exceptional scale for the 18th century". The layout (a half H) become a model for later schools in Wales.</p><br>
<p>Lake Kununurra is a freshwater man-made reservoir located in the Ord River valley. The lake was formed in 1963 by the construction of the Ord Diversion Dam in Kununurra, northern Western Australia, which was built to supply water to the Ord River Irrigation Area. Prior to the Diversion Dam construction a natural permanent waterhole  held back by the Bandicoot Bar was known as "Carlton Reach," which was reputed to be the largest waterhole in the Kimberley.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The lake stretches for 55 km upstream from the Diversion Dam at 15&deg;47&prime;30&Prime;S latitude, 128&deg;41&prime;45&Prime;E longitude towards the larger Lake Argyle dam at 16&deg;07&prime;15&Prime;S latitude, 128&deg;44&prime;17&Prime;E longitude. At the town of Kununurra the lake is connected to Lily Creek Lagoon. It contains Freshwater Crocodiles and 21 fish species, and is widely used for recreational fishing and boating by the residents of Kununurra and tourists. Because of the stable water levels in Lake Kununurra and its associated wetlands, it has well-developed fringing vegetation of grassland, rushes and woodland. The wetland system of the two lakes and the lagoon forms the Lakes Argyle and Kununurra Ramsar Site.</p><br>
<p>In 2014 a saltwater crocodile estimated to be 3 m long was spotted in the lake after bypassing dam walls. Local rangers lay baits in hopes of catching the creature.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>The lake forms part of the Ord Irrigation Area Important Bird Area (IBA), so identified by BirdLife International because of its importance for wild birds, especially estrildid finches.</p><br>
<p>The Andover Hook and Ladder Company Building is a historic fire station at 39 Elm Street in Andover, Maine. It is a long and narrow two-story wood frame structure. Its front  elevation has a large opening on the first floor closed by a modern garage door on the ground floor, with a small rectangular window to the right. Above this are two widely-spaced sash windows. The side elevations each have five sash windows on the second floor; the east side also a single sash window on the first floor. The rear elevation has two sash windows flanking a hose tower that rises above the main, gabled roof. The building is clad in brick-patterned metal  siding which appears to be original.</p><br>
<p>The ground floor of the interior is an open space whose walls are finished in fiberboard which is not original to the building&#39;s construction. The upper level is divided into three rooms, with a stairwell at the rear, rising through a portion of the hose tower. A stairway used to be located behind the front room, but only the partition and opening remain. These spaces retain original tongue-and-groove sheathing on the walls and ceiling.</p><br>
<p>The Andover Hook and Ladder Company was founded in 1890 to provide fire protection services for the small town. In 1904 an existing building, only a portion of the present one, was moved to this site, and the larger portion (approximately two-thirds) of this building was constructed. It was actively used as a fire station until 1987, and is now used for storage by the local historical society, and occasionally for community-related meetings. It is one of a relatively small number of rural fire stations to survive from the period in the state.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 2001.</p><br>
<p>At the Nußhardt is the third highest mountain in the Fichtel Mountains in the south German state of Bavaria. It lies in the far northeast of the state and has a rocky summit characteristic of the Fichtelgebirge . The summit area with its felsenmeer and tor is a nature reserve with an area of 5.5 hectare. In addition the Nußhardt is incorporated into the geotope register of the Bavarian State Geological Department under No. 472R013.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Nußhardt lies on the FGV&#39;s main hill trail between the FGV hostel of Seehaus and the Schneeberg, the highest mountain in the range. The climbing area is looked after by the local FGV branch at Vordorf.</p><br>
<h2>Legends</h2><br>
<p>On the rocky viewing point there are eight, small, bowl-shaped hollows in the granite; so-called druid bowls. In former centuries they were believed to be the sacrifice bowls for heathen cults. Today it is known that they are a special form of weathering in the granite. It is also worth mentioning the so-called Nußhardtstube (Nußhardt parlour), a roughly 50 m long covered chamber, whose low entrance is on the southern side of the rocks.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>In the records of the Berneck office in 1536 the Nußhardt appears as Nusser, and again in a margraviate forest inspection report of 1536. Its spelling in the records and literature varies: Nusser, Nosser, Nußhardt – there has been no lack of interpretations for these names, but none has been really convincing.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing area</h2><br>
<p>As early as 1880 the first steps to the highest point of the Nußhardt tor were erected by te Fichtelgebirge Branch of the German-Austrian Alpine Club to give "better views" of the Schneeberg, Ochsenkopf, the Fichtelsee, the Franconian Jura and the Kemnather Land.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Herrmann, Detmar: Lexikon Fichtelgebirge, Ackermann Verlag Hof/Saale</p><br>
<p>Der Siebenstern, Vereinszeitschrift des Fichtelgebirgsvereins e. V., Theresienstraße 2, 95632 Wunsiedel</p><br>
<p>Maps:</p><br>
<p>Fritsch Wanderkarte 1:50.000</p><br>
<p>The Rockland Turntable and Engine House are a historic railroad maintenance facility in Rockland, Maine. The turntable and engine house were built in 1921, and are a significant reminder of the railroad&#39;s historic importance to the development of the city. The facilities were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 24, 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Rockland Turntable and Engine House are located about 0.5 mi west of the city&#39;s downtown, in the former rail yard sandwiched between Park Street (United States Route 1) and New Country Road. The engine house is a wedge-shaped wood frame building, two stories in height, with a flat roof, clapboard siding, and a concrete foundation. on the inner (east-facing) side of the wedge there are five entry bays, four of which retain track-mounted doors. The front portion of the building is only one story, with the rear having an elevated roof with monitor-style windows overlooking the front.</p><br>
<p>The turntable is about 100 ft east of the engine house. It is 50 ft in diameter, consisting of a steel deck mounted on a central pier and topped by wooden decking. The outer portion of the turntable rests on a rail attached to the concrete retaining wall that encircles the structure. A small operator&#39;s shed stands at the western edge of the turntable.</p><br>
<p>These facilities were built in 1921, as a replacement for older structures. Because Rockland was at the end of the line, a turntable was built here in 1871, not long after service began on the line. The present turntable and engine house are the only known structures in the state to survive in this state of preservation.</p><br>
<p>Rockland Turntable and Engine House-16.jpgCloser view of the engine house</p><br>
<p>Rockland Turntable and Engine House-29.jpgCloser view of the turntable</p><br>
<p>Rockland Turntable and Engine House-4.jpgAnother view of the turntable</p><br>
<p>The Gardiner Railroad Station is a historic former railroad station at 51 Maine Street in Gardiner, Maine. It was built in 1911 by the Maine Central Railroad, and was in use as a station until the 1950s. It has since seen a variety of adaptive commercial uses. A distinctive example of Romanesque architecture, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Gardiner Railroad Station stands in downtown Gardiner, between Maine Street and the Kennebec River, just north of the mouth of Cobbosseecontee Stream. It is a single-story masonry structure, built of stone and brick, and set on a full-height granite basement. It is roughly in the shape of an H, with projecting end wings, and a complex hipped roof line. The roof has extended eaves with exposed rafters, and the central roof section has gabled dormers. The building corners and window openings are quoined in smooth granite, while the basement level is of rough-cut granite, which transitions to smooth stone up to the sills of the first-floor windows.</p><br>
<p>The station was built in 1911 to a design by Portland architect George Burnham. It replaced Gardiners first station, which had been built just to the south when service was inaugurated to the city in 1852. It is one of the states most architecturally distinguished surviving railroad stations.</p><br>
<p>The Bucksport Railroad Station is a historic railroad station on Main Street in Bucksport, Maine. The station was built in 1874 by the European and North American Railway, and is one of a small number of surviving rural railroad stations in Maine. It is now home to the Bucksport Historical Society Museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The station is a rectangular wood frame structure, 1-1/2 stories in height, with a gable roof that has extended eaves and gables supported by knee brackets. The exterior is sheathed in clapboards, and the building rests on a granite foundation. The long southern facade originally faced a railroad platform, and is organized into seven bays. The leftmost (western) bay provided a window for the ticket office, the next four bays housed windows and a door for the passenger waiting area, and the last two bays housed a window and a wide door for the freight area. The northern facade, facing Main Street, is similarly arranged, except the ticket office door is in the bay furthest west. The narrow ends of the building both have three windows, two in the first level and one in the half story.</p><br>
<p>The European and North American Railway (E&NR) was founded in 1851 with the objective of providing rail service between Portland, Maine and Canso, Nova Scotia as a means of shortening sea travel times between North America and Europe, and to facilitate the movement of goods between the various colonies of British North America (now Canada). The principal line intended to provide this service ran via Bangor, and the company in the early 1870s built a narrow-gauge spur line to Bucksport in response to a local petition. This station was built in 1874 to serve this line. The E&NR failed a few years later, and the route was locally operated until it was consolidated into the Maine Central Railroad in 1884. The station is now home to the Bucksport Historical Society, which has offices and a museum on the premises.</p><br>
<p>The former Grand Trunk station of Yarmouth, Maine, is located on the east side of the railroad tracks, just south of Maine State Route 115. The railroad station was built in 1906 by the Grand Trunk Railroad, and is a well-preserved example of an early 20th-century passenger rail depot, an increasingly rare sight in the state. The building, which is now in commercial use, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 10, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Yarmouth&#39;s former Grand Trunk station stands just south of SR 115, on the east side of the Maine Central Railroad tracks. (The Amtrak Downeaster service between Portland and Brunswick runs on the Boston and Maine Railroad line, which crosses this track just to the north. It does not stop in Yarmouth.) The station is a single-story wood frame structure, set on a high granite block foundation. It has a hip roof and clapboard siding, and is roughly rectangular in shape, with small projecting sections on the either side, and a semicircular northern end. The roof has extended eaves, in a form typical of many railroad stations, with the eaves supported by large decoratively-cut brackets.</p><br>
<p>The station was built in 1906 by the Grand Trunk Railway as a passenger depot on its line between Portland and Montreal. The station is architecturally unique in Maine, particularly for its high granite base, apsoidal curved end, and departure from more traditional Stick style architecture. The Yarmouth Village Improvement Society purchased the station from the Grand Trunk&#39;s successor Canadian National Railway in 1968 to save it from demolition; it presently houses a flower shop.</p><br>
<p>The Portland Railroad Company Substation, now the Scarborough Historical Museum, is a former power substation of the Portland Railroad Company, a trolley service provider, at 649 United States Route 1 in Scarborough, Maine. The station was built in 1911, and is one of the few trolley-related facilities surviving in the state. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 22, 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Portland Railroad Company Substation is located in southwestern Scarborough (the area known as Dunstan Corner), on the north side of US 1, at the back of a parking lot separating the Scarborough Fire Station and Alger Hall, the local Masonic lodge. The building consists of a single story front section, and a taller, yet also single story, rear section. Both parts are built out of brick, and have shallow-pitch gabled roofs. The front facade is three bays wide, with sash windows in segmented-arch openings flanking a larger central bay. That bay originally housed a large equipment entrance with tall double doors, but has been infilled with a pedestrian entrance flanked by sidelights and paneling, and topped by a broad transom window. Original pedestrian entrances (some now closed off) were located on the southwest and northeast sides of the front block, and also in the larger rear section. The interior of the building has no original equipment related to its use as an electrical power substation, and now houses the museum displays of the Scarborough Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The building was erected in 1911 as a power substation for the Saco Division of the Portland Railway Company, a trolley operator in southern Maine. It is the best preserved building from the state&#39;s period when it had an extensive light rail network, most of the others having been either demolished or substantially altered for other purposes.</p><br>
<p>The Frenchville Railroad Station and Water Tank are a historic railroad museum property in Frenchville, Maine. The station and water tank were built in 1910 by the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad  and were added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 20, 1995. The station was retired in 1971. The water tower became obsolete in 1958 when the diesel locomotive replaced the steam locomotive. The Town of Frenchville purchased the water tank from Bangor & Aroostook Railroad and used it as a water reservoir for the fire department until 1981. The Frenchville Historical Society took over maintenance of the site in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Frenchville Railroad Station is located between United States Route 1 and the railroad tracks of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, west of the junction of US 1 and Maine State Route 162. The station is a small rectangular wood frame building with a broadly-overhanging gable roof and weatherboard siding. The building is divided into three sections: a central agent&#39;s room, a freight area to the east, and a passenger area to the west. The inside walls are finished with pine wainscoting and decorative metal, which is continued onto the ceiling. The station was built c. 1910 by the B&A, and remained in service until 1971.</p><br>
<p>Immediately east of the station is a short isolated section of track, on which stands a caboose. It is 51 ft in length, and was built by the Pullman Company as a troop transport car in December 1943. It was acquired by the B&A in 1949 and refitted as a caboose, remaining in service until 1981. It was donated to the Frenchville Historical Society in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Beyond the caboose stands a green water tower, about 40 ft high and 20 ft in diameter. It has an octagonal wooden base sheathed in weatherboard and set on a concrete pad. The tank is supported by a heavy timber frame, and is structurally reinforced by fifteen steel rods. The structure is topped by a polygonal roof. It was built c. 1910, and served the railroad as a water source for its steam engines until 1958, when the line was converted to diesel power. The town purchased the tank, and used it as a water reservoir for its fire department until 1981. Its maintenance was taken over by local citizens in 1985, and it is now owned by the Frenchville Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>Oakfield Station is a historic former passenger rail station on Station Street in Oakfield, Maine. The station was built in 1911 by the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, and is a major reminder of Oakfield&#39;s onetime importance as a railroad center. The station is home to the Oakfield Railroad Museum which is operated by the Oakfield Historical Society. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Oakfield Station is located adjacent to the railroad tracks formerly of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, at the end of Station Street, south of the town&#39;s rural village center. It is a single-story wood frame structure, nine bays in length and a single room deep, set on a modern concrete foundation. It has a gable-on-hip roof, where there are half-round windows and exposed rafters in the gable ends. The main facade faces southeast toward the track, with an off-center projecting bay topped by a gable with bracketed eave and lunette window. This projection has two sash windows on its main wall, and narrow sash windows on its sides. A pair of doorways are located east of the bay, along with some windows. The main roof has deep eaves with long thin brackets, and breezeway connects the main building to a tool shed. The interior is divided into three rooms, two of which retain original pressed tin paneling on the walls.</p><br>
<p>The station was built in 1911 by the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, and served as a passenger depot until rail service was discontinued on the line in 1961. It was moved about 100 yd from its original location in 1941 to accommodate changes in a local grade crossing. The building was given to the Oakfield Historical Society in 1986, and has undergone restoration and adaptation for use as a museum.</p><br>
<p>Tule is a plant  and a term referring to tule fog, a weather phenomenon of California&#39;s Central Valley, as well as the following United States places:</p><br>
<p>Arizona:</p><br>
<p>*Tule Desert (Arizona), in Coconino County</p><br>
<p>*Tule Mountains, in Yuma County</p><br>
<p>California:</p><br>
<p>*Los Tules, a populated place in San Diego County</p><br>
<p>*Tule Creek, California, a stream that roughly parallels the first few miles of California State Route 371</p><br>
<p>**Tule Valley, California, in Riverside County (originally Round Valley)</p><br>
<p>*Tule Lake Basin, in Modoc County, near the 42nd parallel north</p><br>
<p>**Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge, an open water/croplands preserve of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service</p><br>
<p>**Tule Lake War Relocation Center, a Japanese American internment camp of World War II</p><br>
<p>**Tulelake, California, a city in Siskiyou County and namesake of the Tulelake Basin Joint Unified School District & Tulelake Municipal Airport</p><br>
<p>*Tule River, in Tulare County, which was named for the Spanish tulare, the place of tules (rushes).</p><br>
<p>**Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation</p><br>
<p>*Tule Station, California, a former settlement in Inyo County</p><br>
<p>Colorado:</p><br>
<p>*Tule Lakes, twin reservoirs separated by the Upper Tule Lake Dam in Arapahoe County</p><br>
<p>Montana:</p><br>
<p>*Tule Valley (Montana), the course of Tule Creek in Roosevelt County</p><br>
<p>Nevada:</p><br>
<p>*Tule Desert (Nevada), in Lincoln County</p><br>
<p>*Tule Springs, a series of lakes in the Mojave Desert</p><br>
<p>**Tule Springs Archaeological Site, a National Register of Historic Places listing in Clark County, Nevada</p><br>
<p>**Tule Springs Ice Age Park, fossil beds which the http://www.tulespringslv.com/ Protectors of Tule Springs Wash lobby to be a national monument</p><br>
<p>**Tule Springs Ranch, a National Register of Historic Places listings in Nevada partly in the archaeological site</p><br>
<p>*Tule Springs Hills, a mountain range in Lincoln County</p><br>
<p>*Tule Valley (Nevada), on Pine Creek, Elko County</p><br>
<p>New Mexico:</p><br>
<p>*Little Tule Lake, in Curry County</p><br>
<p>Oregon:</p><br>
<p>*Tule Lake Valley, in Klamath County</p><br>
<p>Texas:</p><br>
<p>*Tule Canyon, a scenic area near Texas State Highway 207.</p><br>
<p>**Tule Formation, the paleontological location of an extinct horse species (Equus francisci)</p><br>
<p>*Tule Creek, a river with the Mckenzie Dam/Reservoir, which is in Briscoe County</p><br>
<p>*Tule Lake Turning Basin, in Nueces County</p><br>
<p>*Tule Pens, a road intersection in Briscoe County</p><br>
<p>Utah:</p><br>
<p>*Tule Valley, Utah, an area of several valleys in the Great Salt Lake subregion</p><br>
<p>*Tule Valley (basin), in Millard County and the area of a desiccated paleolake</p><br>
<p>Washington:</p><br>
<p>*Tule Lake (Washington), in Whitman County ()</p><br>
<p>The Lewis Mumford House is located on Leedsville Road  in the Town of Amenia, New York, United States. It is a white Federal style building dating to the 1830s.</p><br>
<p>Social philosopher, historian and cultural critic Lewis Mumford and his wife bought the house in the late 1920s, originally using it as a summer house. By the mid-1930s, they decided to make it their permanent residence for a few years. That period extended to more than half a century, the rest of Mumfords life. His experience of living in a rural area informed some of Mumfords thinking about cities and how they should be shaped. In 1999, a few years after his death, the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The property listed on the Register consists of two adjoining parcels: a 1.9 acre lot with the house and carriage house and a larger 11.7 acre open field stretching back to Webutuck Creek. Both are located on the west side of Leedsville Road, a street of large semi-wooded residential lots, most formerly part of larger farms, in the eastern section of Amenia. There is a similar 19th-century farmhouse just across the street. The Mumford property is a half-mile (1 km) south of state highway NY 343 and a similar distance west of the Connecticut state line. The house, carriage house and landscaping on the property are all considered contributing resources to the listing.</p><br>
<h3>House</h3><br>
<p>The main house&#39;s east (front) section is a three-bay two-story frame structure on a stone foundation sided in clapboard. It is topped with a side-gabled roof shingled in asphalt, pierced by two brick chimneys at either end. A perpendicular rear wing, similarly sided, is one and a half stories in height, with side entrances and a single-story sunroom added to the rear.</p><br>
<p>A single-bay porch with arched pediment and two round columns shelters the main entrance at the northern end of the front facade. All windows have solid wooden shutters. Semicircular windows at the attic level on either side elevation have been boarded in.</p><br>
<p>Federal-style crown moldings, pilasters and fielded side panels surround the main entrance. It opens to a small main hall that gives onto a living room with exposed ceiling beams. A study, kitchen and pantry, bathroom and the sunroom complete the first floor. The flooring is wide pine boards. The brick kitchen fireplace has a large mantel and bake oven.</p><br>
<p>Two staircases lead up to the second floor. The front one has been opened up to provide more light to the upstairs. The kitchen stair is narrow and steep. The basement has a dirt floor and the original, unfinished stone walls.</p><br>
<h3>Carriage house and landscaping</h3><br>
<p>To the rear of the house, at the end of the driveway, is the former carriage house, modified for use as an automotive garage. It is a single-story post and beam wood pegged structure sided in clapboard with an asphalt-shingled roof. It has a low loft inside, a northern addition to accommodate a car, and three windows on the south side.</p><br>
<p>Stone paths lead from the driveway south to the house. They are complemented in the landscaping by mature plantings including ornamental shrubs around the house and curvilinear flower beds in the rear yard. Intersecting paths lead through the woods to the open field in the rear.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There is some uncertainty about the age of the house. In his 1982 autobiography Sketches of Life, Mumford gives its construction date as 1837. Research done by New York&#39;s State Historic Preservation Office in preparation for the Register nomination found that it might be as much as a decade older.</p><br>
<p>Mumford, a mostly self-taught New York City native, and his wife Sophia had lived in Greenwich Village and Sunnyside Gardens in Queens following their 1921 marriage. After the success of Sticks and Stones, his 1924 history of American architecture, critic Joel Elias Spingarn invited him up to his Amenia estate, Troutbeck. The Mumfords spent the summer of 1926 there, and returned in the following years.</p><br>
<p>By 1929 they had decided to purchase a property of their own for their summers, and found the house just down the road from Troutbeck. For $2,500 ($ in contemporary dollars), they bought the house and what Mumford later called its "weedy acre". After seven more summers, the family decided to settle there year-round in 1936, and began adding additional acreage and upgrading the house with electricity and heating to make it livable in wintertime.</p><br>
<p>It was a considerable adjustment for the Mumfords, both of whom had up to that point been city dwellers. "There," wrote one scholar three decades later, "the rural life that previously he had only glimpsed became real to him." He took up gardening in earnest, and the Mumfords began landscaping the property, eventually adding paths that opened up vistas across the Webutuck valley to Oblong Mountain on the west. They bought a used 1932 Chevrolet, their first car. Mumford left it to his wife to drive after he nearly crashed it into the maple trees in front of the house on one attempt to learn, and swore never to get behind the wheel again.</p><br>
<p>The Mumfords primarily socialized with the Spingarns up the road. They nevertheless appreciated their neighbors help in lending them tools and garden equipment and watching the house when they were away from it; one large family nearby was extremely helpful with the Mumford children. The experience reinforced Mumfords belief that livable city neighborhoods needed to have "something of the village" in them.</p><br>
<p>They told their friends in New York that they initially meant to stay in Amenia for only a few years. But Lewis gradually found the quiet rural environment a good place to write, and it was in the downstairs study that he turned out many of his later major works on the role of cities in civilization and the roots of industrialization.</p><br>
<p>"We gradually fell in love with our shabby house as a young man might fall in love with a homely girl whose voice and smile were irresistible", Mumford later recalled. "In no sense was this the house of dreams. But over our lifetime it has slowly turned into something better, the house of our realities... his dear house has enfolded and remodeled our family character—exposing our limitations as well as our virtues."</p><br>
<p>Over the rest of their lives, the Mumfords sometimes took residence elsewhere for Lewiss teaching or research positions, up to a year at a time. They always returned to what they called the "Great Good Place". Mumfords biographer Donald Miller wrote:</p><br>
<p>They made some changes to it, siding the first story in shingles and removing the south chimney. Inside they put bookcases on almost every wall.</p><br>
<p>In the 1980s, when Lewis could no longer write due to his advanced age, he retreated to the house. He died there in his bed in 1990, at the age of 94. Sophia followed him seven years later.</p><br>
<p>After her death, the house was sold to a local carpenter who decided to restore it to its original appearance and resell it. He removed all the bookcases and the nine layers of linoleum the Mumfords had added to the kitchen floor every time one wore out. Later renovations restored the original siding and chimney.</p><br>
<p>In 1999, after being listed on the National Register, the house was again put up for sale with a list price of $375,000. The restorations made it more difficult to sell despite the historic provenance, since it still lacked many amenities sought by contemporary buyers of country houses. It eventually did, and is now an occupied residence again.</p><br>
<p>The Maon Synagogue is a 6th-century synagogue and archaeological site located in the Negev Desert near Kibbutz Nirim and Kibbutz Nir Oz. It is noted for its "magnificent" mosaic floor.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeological finds</h2><br>
<p>The original date of the synagogue is uncertain but is before the 6th century. In a sixth-century renovation, the northern wall (closest to Jerusalem) was opened and a semi-circular apse to contain a Torah Ark was constructed. The floor level was raised and marble columns and a "breathtakingly beautiful" mosaic floor installed.</p><br>
<p>At the bottom of the mosaic floor is an amphora flanked by a pair of peacocks. A vine flows out of the amphora, forming loops, in each loop is a bird, animal, fruit, or a depiction of steps in the wine making process. The design is so similar to the mosaics in the church floor at nearby Shallal that they are thought to have been designed by the same artist. Both floors depict animals and have similar patterns: the synagogue floor is distinguished by a menorah flanked by two lions and several other Jewish ritual objects. The seven-branched menorah stands on three legs, like the menorah in the Temple in Jerusalem. The legs in Maon are shaped like a lion&#39;s paws. Alongside the menorah are the symbols of Judah, palm trees and lions. Esrogs, a shofar and a lulav are depicted nearby. The Mosaic has an inscription in Aramaic. The upper part of the inscription blesses all members of the community, the lower part honors three donors. An identical floor was found in the ancient synagogue in Gaza.</p><br>
<p>The synagogue is built on the basilica plan. The mosaic is in the central area, the two side aisles were paved with stone. The ceiling was made of wooden beams and clay.</p><br>
<p>A number of small objects were found by the salvage dig on the floor facing the Torah Ark. These include coins and bone and metal artifacts that are thought to have been associated with the Torah Ark and its ornamental curtain. There were also fragments of glass and ceramic lamps. Dozens of amulets were also found, some of them were used by women who were asking for good health.</p><br>
<p>Adjacent to the ruins of the synagogue a cistern, water channels and a mikvah.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The synagogue was built at the site of Hellenistic Menois, a city marked on the Map of Madaba. It is one of three ancient synagogues discovered in the western Negev.</p><br>
<p>The synagogue and its mosaic floor were discovered during the construction of a road in 1957. The mosaic was damaged, but the undamaged segment was preserved by a salvage excavation. After its discovery, the mosaic was neglected, causing deterioration. Restoration work began in 2006, sponsored by the Jewish National Fund, Israel Antiquities Authority and Eshkol Regional Council, and paid for by philanthropist Sandy Galet. The mosaic was lifted off its original foundation and carefully cleaned. A new foundation was installed and the mosaic was securely attached. The mosaic is now protected and was opened to the public in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Monitor House is a historic house in St. Paris, Ohio, United States. Located along West Main Street, it is a square brick structure resting on a foundation of stone and covered with an asphalt roof. Although the house is primarily one story tall, it is built around a -story square clerestory.</p><br>
<p>The house was constructed circa 1860, although its precise date of erection — as well as the names of its first owner and its designer — is unknown. Its five-bay, 30 ft-long exterior is decorated with cornices around the window lintels. Inside, the rooms open onto a central hallway that concludes with a stairway to the second floor of the central part of the house.</p><br>
<p>In 1974, the Monitor House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its unusual architecture. Only two or three monitor houses, featuring an elevated center, are known to exist in Ohio, and the one in St. Paris is architecturally the most well-preserved; consequently, it is considered historically significant statewide. In contrast, a similar monitor house in Chillicothe, known as "Tanglewood," is only considered locally significant. The house in St. Paris was the first of over thirty places in Champaign County to be listed on the National Register; it is one of two in the village with this distinction, along with the Kiser Mansion on East Main Street.</p><br>
<p>Sierra de Quila, officially the Sierra de Quila Flora and Fauna Protection Area, is a Mexican Flora and Fauna Protection Area in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, managed by the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas , and located within six municipalities: San Martín de Hidalgo, Tecolotlán, Cocula, Atengo, Tenamaxtlán, and Ameca. Having an area of 15,193 hectares and established as a wildlife protection zone on August 4, 1982, Sierra de Quila is the most recent and smaller of the two wildlife protection areas in the state, the other being La Primavera .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1950s, the inhabitants of Tecolotlán, with the leadership of Gabriel Agraz García de Alba, founded a grouping that had as its principal objective the prevention of forestal exploitation of the area. From 1970 to 1980, more manifestations regarding the prevention of irrational forestal exploitation took place which pressured the municipality of Tecolotlán to create the Pro-Conservation Committee of the Forests and Springs of the Sierra de Quila which protected the natural resources of the area and prohibited clandestine activities within the area.</p><br>
<p>Sierra de Quila became a "Forested and Faunal Protection Zone" on August 4, 1982. The area was recategorized as a "Flora and Fauna Protection Area" on June 7, 2000, because of its adequate conditions of biodiversity among other aspects.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Sierra de Quila Flora and Fauna Protection Area contains the springs of La Ciénega, Charco de la Máquina, and Presa del Ahogado; the cascades of Salto de la Campana, Cascada Santa Rosa, Cascada La Ciénega, Salto de Tecolotlán, and Cascada El Columpio; and the viewpoints of Cerro El Huehuentón, Mirador Tecolotlán, and Piedras Blancas.</p><br>
<h2>Biology</h2><br>
<h3>Habitats</h3><br>
<p>It has 28 species of mammals, 90 species of birds, 15 species of reptiles, 5 species of amphibians both already recognized and representing 17% of the animals registered in the State of Jalisco.</p><br>
<p>The Barr Hotel is a historic hotel on the eastern side of downtown Lima, Ohio, United States. Built in 1914, the Neoclassical hotel occupies the northeastern corner of the intersection of High and Union Streets.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The primary portion of the hotel is a brick building, seven stories tall; it rests on a concrete foundation and is covered by a flat roof. Next to this portion is a connected building, four stories high and also built of brick. Large sash windows and Ionic-capped pilasters are among the most distinctive elements of the primary portion of the hotel.</p><br>
<h2>Historical context</h2><br>
<p>During the early twentieth century, Lima experienced rapid growth as a result of its place as a hub for Standard Oil and as the home of the Lima Locomotive Works. Many large buildings were erected in the city&#39;s downtown, including the still-standing Hotel Argonne and the Ohio Theatre. The Barr Hotel is a typical building of this period.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>In 1986, the Barr Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its significance in overall American history. As a little-altered example of Lima&#39;s golden years, the hotel was significant partially because of the unusually frequent destruction of historic buildings in Lima since the early twentieth century.</p><br>
<p>John Hendry Park is 27-hectare park in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Trout Lake is located in the center of the park and is operated by the Vancouver Parks Board and the Grandview Community Association. The park is often referred to, by the locals, as Trout Lake.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The park was one of Vancouver&#39;s first lumbering operations in the late 19th century. The Hastings Sawmill was owned by John Hendry and the lake was the water source for the mill.</p><br>
<p>In 1926, Hendry&#39;s daughter, who was married to the governor of the province, Eric Hamber, donated the mill property to the Park Board with the condition that it be named after her father.</p><br>
<p>In 1963 the Grandview Community Center, located near Victoria Drive, was constructed. The community center was later renovated in 1977 and renamed Trout Lake Community Centre.</p><br>
<p>In 2010 the new ice rink and renovations were completed for the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, as the figure skaters training venue, with finances of $13.15 million from Vancouver’s Park Board. $2.5 million from Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympics (VANOC) and $250,000 from the Grandview Community Association. However, the real cost of the ice rink is estimated at 15.9 million.</p><br>
<h2>Facilities</h2><br>
<p>Trout Lake</p><br>
<p>Located at 2100 block East 19th Avenue just off Victoria Drive</p><br>
<p>Lifeguards from May to September</p><br>
<p>No boating allowed</p><br>
<p>Designated swimming area</p><br>
<p>26,000 square metre dog off leash area north end of lake</p><br>
<p>John Hendry Park</p><br>
<p>1 grass & 1 gravel soccer field</p><br>
<p>5 baseball diamonds</p><br>
<p>2 concession stands</p><br>
<p>2 washrooms</p><br>
<p>Picnic area</p><br>
<p>BBQs are permitted</p><br>
<p>Free parking</p><br>
<p>Biking trails</p><br>
<p>Walking & jogging trails</p><br>
<p>2 play grounds</p><br>
<p>Basketball courts</p><br>
<p>Tennis courts</p><br>
<p>Trout Lake Community Centre</p><br>
<p>Located at 3300 Victoria Drive and E 15th Avenue</p><br>
<p>Ice rink</p><br>
<p>Gym facilities</p><br>
<p>Games room</p><br>
<p>Weight room</p><br>
<p>Sauna</p><br>
<p>Class rooms</p><br>
<p>Hall</p><br>
<h2>Activities</h2><br>
<p>First Nations Pow-wow</p><br>
<p>East Vancouver Farmers Market (hosted in the community centres parking lot)</p><br>
<p>Illuminares - Lantern Festival</p><br>
<p>Parade of the Lost Souls (during Halloween season)</p><br>
<p>Out door performances (during summer months at the beach)</p><br>
<p>One of the oldest residential buildings in Washington, the Ferry House was built in 1860 by Winfield Scott Ebey as an Inn to provide financial stability for his brother’s children, who were orphaned when Isacc Neff Ebey was brutally murdered and beheaded by Canadian natives. Once completed and opened for business, the building was named The Ebey Inn. The prime location across Admiralty Inlet from Port Townsend, Washington meant a steady flow of travelers and income for the three Ebey children. With no other nearby accommodations, the Inn — which housed a post office, a tavern, and rooms for overnight guests — quickly became an important place for sailors and other travelers to rest before continuing their journeys to Coupeville, Whidbey Island, La Conner, Washington, and points further north. Travelers and locals could also purchase merchandise and groceries at the Inn, which served ferry traffic to and from Port Townsend until a new ferry dock was constructed near Fort Casey at the turn of the 20th century. The house stayed in the Ebey family for 57 years, until Isaac Ebey’s grandson sold the old Inn in 1917.</p><br>
<p>The old Inn is currently owned by the National Park Service. The Ferry House became part of the 17,500 acre Ebey&#39;s Landing National Historical Reserve created in 1978 to protect the rural working landscape and community on Central Whidbey Island. It is one of more than 400 historic buildings in the NHR.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Winfield Ebey used wood from his brother Isaac&#39;s cabins — abandoned after his murder — to construct the Inn. Though they no longer exist, the cabins originally stood on the opposite side of the ravine that runs behind the Ferry House. The structure is a -story vernacular residence with Greek Revival elements, clapboard siding, a wood-shingled gable roof, and a gable-roofed dormer on the north facade.</p><br>
<p>Like most pioneer homes, the house started out small and additions were made as they were needed. It was constructed with salvaged 1-by-12 fir planks that extend from the bottom of the first floor to the top of the second. The two floors are held up with two-by-fours attached to the exterior walls. Several of the interior walls show weathering, proving they were exterior walls at some point.</p><br>
<p>In 1917, a lightning strike ripped the siding off the west wall, busted out two windows, and destroyed one of the two original interior chimneys. The chimney was replaced with an exterior one, but today that chimney is now gone. The Inn also had an upper veranda which lasted for several decades before either being blown off, rotting away, or dismantled, it’s unsure which. You can still see where the second story door to the veranda was located just above the front door, though today that door is a window.</p><br>
<p>Modern utilities — like indoor plumbing and electricity — have never been added to the Ferry House.</p><br>
<h2>Ferry House today</h2><br>
<p>Today, the house is under the protection of the United States Government. It stands as a time capsule that provides a unique glimpse into Washington’s early Territorial history. While the house remains locked year round, the grounds are open to pedestrians.</p><br>
<p>Wallpaper on several interior walls of the Ferry House, as well as the front door, was added by a film crew in 1998 for the scenes in the 1999 movie Snow Falling On Cedars.</p><br>
<p>A framework of two-by-sixes has been constructed in the living room, parlor, and first floor bedroom to prevent the second floor from collapsing.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, the Ferry House was one of 25 finalists competing for a share of one million dollars in funding for restoration and preservation provided by American Express in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. On Sunday, May 2, 2010, the National Park Service unlocked the doors of the old Inn for an open house as part of the Seattle-Puget Sound Partners in Preservation Initiative. While the public could only tour the first floor, it was the first time in many years the house had visitors inside.</p><br>
