<p>The St. Charles Historic District is a national historic district located at St. Charles, St. Charles County, Missouri. It is the site of the first permanent European settlement on the Missouri River and of the embarkation of Lewis and Clark&#39;s journey of exploration along the Missouri. The first state capital of Missouri and over one hundred other historic buildings are located in the district.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, including 63 contributing buildings over a 47 acre area. The district was later increased three times.</p><br>
<p>The original listing included the separately NRHP-listed First Missouri State Capitol Buildings and the Newbill-McElhiney House. In 1987 the district was increased to include a Greek Revival specialty store building at 1000 S. Main Street, with a 1.3 acre area.</p><br>
<p>In 1996 the district was further increased by 9 acre to include 41 more contributing buildings on the 100, 200, and 300 blocks of N. Main Street. These include Greek Revival, Italianate, and Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals architecture, including work by architects Albert B. Groves and Frank & Adolph Haverkamp.</p><br>
<p>Wood Island is a conspicuous rocky island in Hero Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica lying southeast of Desolation Island and Miladinovi Islets and forming the south side of Blythe Bay. Surface area 14 hectare.) The area was frequented by early nineteenth century English and American sealers operating from Blythe Bay.</p><br>
<p>The features name derives from the name Wood Harbour or Port Wood&#39; originally applied to Blythe Bay by Captain Robert Fildes in December 1820.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The island is centred at 62&deg;29&prime;02.7&Prime;S latitude, 60&deg;18&prime;15.1&Prime;W longitude which is 1.7 km east-southeast of Miladinovi Islets, 2.38 km southeast of Iratais Point, Desolation Island, 9.33 km southwest of Williams Point, 5.2 km west-northwest of Kotis Point, 4.65 km northwest of Bezmer Point and 9.55 km northeast of Siddins Point, the last four points lying on Livingston Island (British mapping in 1821 and 1935, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).</p><br>
<p>Nordstern , often erroneously referred to as Neu Drontheim , was the Nazi plan for the creation of a new German metropolis in German-occupied Norway during World War II. It was planned to have a population of around 250,000–300,000 inhabitants.</p><br>
<p>The building site of the city was located 15 - southwest of the Norwegian city of Trondheim. Because of the significant strategic importance of Trondheim Fjord to the German military, it was to be constructed in conjunction with a major navy and military base that would give Germany unprecedented maritime control over the North Atlantic area, a move strongly supported by Großadmirals Erich Raeder and Karl Dönitz.</p><br>
<p>Adolf Hitler stated that the city was to become "a German Singapore", and it eventually became one of his favorite architectural projects. During the war itself, the port city was already turned into a major base for German U-Boat submarines, Dora I.</p><br>
<h2>Strategic importance</h2><br>
<p>The conquest of Norway by the Wehrmacht presented the military leadership of the Third Reich with new opportunities for expansion. The city of Trondheim and its accompanying bay were determined to be very favorably located strategically for several reasons. Prior to the outbreak of war, the retired Vizeadmiral and naval strategist Wolfgang Wegener had already long stressed the strategic benefits that acquiring bases along the Norwegian coastline would give Germany.</p><br>
<p>One notable example of these benefits is the case of the battleship, which had to be continually moved back to Germany for any additional repairs that she required. Due to her sheer size, there were simply no other docks in the north large enough to accommodate her. After the failure of the Luftwaffe to subdue Great Britain in the Battle of Britain by airpower alone, it was recognized that the fight for the British Isles would have to be fought and won at sea. Furthermore, it would be of major importance if the Kriegsmarine were to pursue any farther-reaching operations in the Atlantic in the near future, for instance if the United States were to engage in war with it. These and other motivations—such as Swedish iron ore shipments from Narvik—led the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Armed Forces High Command; OKW) to classify the possession of Norway in general and Trondheim in particular as strategically vital to the German war effort.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Preparatory work on the possibility of turning the bay around Trondheim into a new German naval base was already started at the Führer Headquarters before the project was officially commissioned by Hitler in 1941. As a permanent German possession, it was acknowledged that some arrangements would have to be made for its resident seamen and their accompanying families. Hitler concluded that this new harbor would make the construction of an accompanying city inevitable, with living accommodations for 250,000 inhabitants. He dubbed the new settlement Nordstern ("Northern Star").</p><br>
<p>To organize and carry out the necessary planning for the new project, Hitler appointed Albert Speer, at the time his favorite architect and later Minister of Armaments in his Cabinet. On 1 May 1941, Speer received the necessary information on the spatial and structural requirements for a large shipyard from Vizeadmiral of the Oberkommando der Marine (Naval High Command; OKM). He reported to Hitler on the project at the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, accompanied by Großadmiral Erich Raeder on 21 June. During this meeting, Hitler determined the precise building site for the city, while also deciding that a large, underground submarine base was to be blasted into the granite cliffs. He further discussed the future city and its military base during an armaments conference on 13 May 1942.</p><br>
<p>In 1943, the first ground detonations were begun. To provide the construction site with labor, a prisoner-of-war camp was built in Øysand. A reserve landing strip for airplanes was also put in place. Special maps were prepared for Hitler from which he studied the optimum positions for the docks and accompanying structures. A metres-wide, highly detailed miniature model was also built for him, which was destroyed during an Allied bombardment in Berlin in 1945.</p><br>
<h3>Abandonment of the project</h3><br>
<p>After the course of the war turned against Germany, construction was eventually stopped and put on indefinite hold. After the destruction of the Tirpitz in November 1944, most of the naval leadership was sacked and the plan abandoned permanently.</p><br>
<p>The few existing remains of the concrete foundations can still be seen on the shores of Trondheim Fjord.</p><br>
<h2>Location, size and plans</h2><br>
<p>It was decided that the city was to be built in the wetlands of Øysand, 15 - to the southwest of Trondheim. It was supposed to provide living quarters for about 300,000 German inhabitants (more than three times the size of 1940s Trondheim), and for this purpose 55,000 residential houses were to be built on an area of approximately 300 ha. The city was also to house an enormous art museum for the northern part of Germany′s empire, containing "only works of German masters". An Autobahn was to be constructed to Trondheim across the Little and Great Belts of Denmark and further through southwest Sweden and Norway to connect the northern outpost with Germany proper.</p><br>
<p>The naval base itself was planned to contain extensive shipyards, docks and U-Boat bases for the expected post-war German navy that was to consist altogether of several hundred submarines and dozens of super-battleships, as well as several aircraft carriers. It would, in Hitler&#39;s words, render British Singapore "mere child′s play" by comparison as a military stronghold.</p><br>
<h2>Atlantic Wall</h2><br>
<p>As one of Germany′s most important naval bases in the anticipated near future, the city played an important role in German schemes for a massively enlarged version of the Atlantic Wall.</p><br>
<p>During the Nuremberg Trials, it was admitted that Hitler intended to retain not only Trondheim, but also numerous other maritime cities such as Brest and Cherbourg in France as German exclaves (Festungen, i.e. "strongholds") for the Third Reich, similar to the Soviet military base temporarily established in the Finnish town of Hanko after the Winter War. Nordstern would therefore be one among many military quasi-colonies with almost exclusively German inhabitants.</p><br>
<p>Together with other cities and island chains in both Europe and Africa, it was to form part of a string of German military bases that would span the entire Atlantic coastline from Norway all the way to the Belgian Congo. This was to assist Germany with the re-establishment of a large overseas colonial domain in Central Africa known as Mittelafrika, and was also intended for both offensive and defensive operations against the Western Hemisphere, specifically the United States.</p><br>
<p>Craggy Island is a narrow island marked by crags, lying in Hero Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and forming the northeast side of Blythe Bay. Its surface area is 9 hectare.) The area was frequented by early nineteenth century English and American sealers operating from Blythe Bay.</p><br>
<p>The feature was charted and named descriptively by the Discovery Investigations in 1935.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The island is centred at 62&deg;27&prime;43.5&Prime;S latitude, 60&deg;17&prime;37.3&Prime;W longitude which is 900 m east-southeast of Desolation Island, 8.2 km west-southwest of Williams Point, 5.98 km northwest of Kotis Point, 6.5 km north-northwest of Bezmer Point, 2.2 km north by east of Wood Island, Livingston Island and 11.64 km northeast of Siddins Point (British mapping in 1821, 1935, 1948 and 1968, Argentine in 1954, Chilean in 1971, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).</p><br>
<p>The Barnes-Hiscock House  is a historic building located at 930 James Street in Syracuse, New York. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 30, 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1851-1853 by industrialist and abolitionist George Barnes, in an Italian villa style. It was later the home of Frank H. Hiscock, "who served as the chief justice of the New York State Court of Appeals, the states highest court, and who with his wife Mary Elizabeth remodeled it in the Colonial Revival style in the 1890s." Renovations on the home were completed for the Barnes family under the direction of architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee in 1878 and 1882. The home was subsequently enlarged and significantly altered to its current Classical Revival appearance for the Hiscock family by architects Green and Wicks of Buffalo.</p><br>
<p>The house was the primary asset of the Corinthian Club, a private women&#39;s club which had occupied the building since its founding in 1949, but which faced severe financial difficulty in 2009. The club was named for the Corinthian-style pillars gracing the front of the mansion, which were added in the 1890s renovation.</p><br>
<p>Boys High School is a historic and architecturally notable public school building in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, United States. It is regarded as "one of Brooklyn&#39;s finest buildings."</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The "splendid" Romanesque Revival building is richly decorated in terracotta somewhat in the style of Louis Sullivan. The building is admired for its round corner tower, dormers, and soaring campanile.</p><br>
<p>The building was erected in 1891 on the west side of Marcy Avenue between Putnam Avenue and Madison Street. It was designed by James W. Naughton, Superintendent of Buildings for the Board of Education of the City of Brooklyn. The building is regarded as Naughton&#39;s "finest work."</p><br>
<p>When Boys High was landmarked by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1975, the commission called it "one of the finest Romanesque Revival style buildings in the city."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 1982.</p><br>
<h2>School</h2><br>
<p>In 1975, the same year the building was landmarked, Boys High merged with Girls&#39; High School to become Boys and Girls High School. Boys and Girls High School immediately moved to a new building at Fulton Street and Utica Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The school was a college preparatory program with high academic standards. Congressman Emanuel Celler described Boys High in his autobiography, "I went to Boys High School — naturally. I say "naturally" because Boys High School then, as now, was the high school of scholarships. Boys of Brooklyn today will tell you, "It&#39;s a hard school." It was highly competitive..."</p><br>
<p>Another Boys High graduate remembered that "I went to Boys High School in Brooklyn, a great school. It was out of the classic tradition. I guess eighty percent of the student body had to take Latin — we didn&#39;t have to; we elected Latin, because we felt it was expected of us."</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<p>Isaac Asimov (1920–1992), author</p><br>
<p>John Barsha (1898–1976), American football player</p><br>
<p>Jules Bender (1914–1982), collegiate and professional basketball player</p><br>
<p>Himan Brown (1910–2010), producer of radio programs</p><br>
<p>Anatole Broyard (1920–1990), essayist, literary critic</p><br>
<p>Emanuel Celler (1888–1981), USA Representative for almost 50 years</p><br>
<p>Aaron Copland (1900–1990), classical composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor</p><br>
<p>Howard Cosell (born Howard William Cohen, 1918–95), television sports journalist</p><br>
<p>Mel Davis (born 1950), professional basketball player</p><br>
<p>Tommy Davis (born 1939), Major League Baseball player</p><br>
<p>I. A. L. Diamond (1920–1988), screenwriter</p><br>
<p>Martin Dobelle (1906–1986), orthopedic surgeon</p><br>
<p>Hal Draper (born Harold Dubinsky, 1914–90), socialist activist and author</p><br>
<p>Ted Draper (1912–2006), historian and political writer</p><br>
<p>Lee Farr (1927–2017), actor</p><br>
<p>Leon Festinger (1919–1989), social psychologist</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Graham, father of value investing</p><br>
<p>Al Goldstein (1936-2013), pornographer</p><br>
<p>Alfred Gottschalk (1930–2009), rabbi, leader in Reform Judaism movement</p><br>
<p>Sihugohugo "Si" Green (1933–80), professional basketball player</p><br>
<p>Ezra E. H. Griffith, psychiatrist</p><br>
<p>Connie Hawkins, basketball Hall of Famer</p><br>
<p>Will Herberg (1901-1977), political activist, philosopher, and author</p><br>
<p>W. Langdon Kihn (1898–1957), portrait painter and illustrator</p><br>
<p>Morris Kline (1908–1992), professor of mathematics</p><br>
<p>Leo Kornfeld, Deputy Commissioner of Education (Carter and Clinton administrations), president of True Basic Software Company</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Lax (1915–2015), physicist elected to National Academy of Sciences</p><br>
<p>William Levitt (1907–1994), developer of Levittown</p><br>
<p>Charles Lightfoot Jr. (1930-2014), leader in fields of software development and desktop publishing</p><br>
<p>Norman Lloyd (born 1914), actor, director and producer</p><br>
<p>Norman Mailer (1923–2007), novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter, actor and film director</p><br>
<p>Mickey Marcus (1901–1948), US Army colonel who became Israel&#39;s first general</p><br>
<p>Ernest Martin (born 1932), theatre director and manager, actor</p><br>
<p>Abraham Maslow (1908–1970), professor of psychology</p><br>
<p>Will Maslow (1907–2007), lawyer and civil rights leader</p><br>
<p>Irving Mondschein, track and field champion</p><br>
<p>Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky, 1890–1976), artist</p><br>
<p>Max Roach (1924–2007), jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer</p><br>
<p>Aubrey Schenck (1908-1999), motion picture producer</p><br>
<p>Allie Sherman, NFL football player and coach</p><br>
<p>Lance Wenceslao, ABC television broadcasting engineer</p><br>
<p>Alexander S. Wiener (1907–1976), leader in fields of forensic medicine, serology, and immunogenetics</p><br>
<p>Lenny Wilkens (born 1937), NBA player and coach; Hall of Fame player and coach</p><br>
<p>Izzy Yablok (1907–1983), football player</p><br>
<p>Abraham Maslow (1908-1970), psychologist</p><br>
<p>The Worland Ranch is a historic district that includes the farmstead established in 1900 by C.F. "Dad" Worland near his namesake town of Worland, Wyoming. The site was in fact the original townsite, with the Worland post office located on the grounds. The present town developed just to the east on the broad flatlands east of the Bighorn River. The original townsite is commemorated by an inscribed stone marker.</p><br>
<p>"Dad" Worland&#39;s 1900 dugout was the first structure in the vicinity. In 1903 a survey established that the Worland site was a promising location for irrigation, and the ranch became the center of construction activities. Worland built a two-room log house in 1903-04 while assembling an eventual total of 800 acres. By 1918 "dad" Worland and his son Charlie had built the present ranch buildings. They sold the ranch to the Wyoming Sugar Company in 1920. The ranch has been preserved through its time as a working ranch and is still operated as a ranch.</p><br>
<p>The Worland House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Eakin Mill Covered Bridge  is a historic covered bridge in Vinton County, Ohio, United States. Located southeast of the county seat of McArthur, this bridge carries Mound Hill Road near the community of Arbaugh.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1870, Gilman and Ward built their bridge on stone piers and roofed it with metal; like many other covered bridges, its walls are weatherboarded.</p><br>
<p>With the developments of modern truck transportation, the Eakin Mill Covered Bridge became less well suited to daily operation. Many trucks crossed the bridge while carrying loads heavier than they were permitted to carry, and the bridge sustained significant structural damage; accordingly, it was closed and replaced. Nevertheless, the bridge remains in its original location, and it has been designated a historic site. In 1976, the Eakin Mill Covered Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its historically significant engineering and because of its place in Ohio&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>The Mt. Olive Road Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge in Vinton County, Ohio, United States. Located northeast of Allensville,</p><br>
<p>Built on stone piers and covered with a metal roof, the Mt. Olive Road Bridge is supported by a simple queen post truss design. Its builder was local engineer George Washington Pilcher; a leading engineer in southeastern Ohio, Pilcher helped to build many other Vinton County covered bridges and contributed toward the construction of Manasseh Cutler Hall on the campus of Ohio University.</p><br>
<p>When the bridge was built, it lay amid land owned by a family named "Grandstaff&quot because this family owned wide lands surrounding the bridge, it has also frequently been known as the "Grandstaff Bridge." Nevertheless, the name "Mt. Olive Road Bridge" persists; when it was named a historic site in 1973, the designation was made under that name. This designation was that of placement on the National Register of Historic Places, an honor shared by two other Vinton County covered bridges. It qualified for this distinction both because of its well-preserved historic engineering and because of its contribution to statewide history.</p><br>
<p>The Ottawa Waterworks Building is a historic waterworks in eastern Ottawa, Ohio, United States. Built in 1904,</p><br>
<p>A single-story structure, The Waterworks Building served as Ottawa&#39;s primary water pumping facility for approximately seventy years, remaining active until a new waterworks was completed in the mid-1970s. Since that time, it has been used as storage for equipment and spare machinery for the water system.</p><br>
<p>In 1976, the Ottawa Waterworks Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It qualified for inclusion both because of its architecture and because of its place in local history: it was deemed a fine example of a local public works building, and its role as the area&#39;s first water pumping station has made it a leading example of the development of early twentieth-century Putnam County. Today, the Waterworks Building lies in a municipal park.</p><br>
<p>The Beechwood Elementary School is a midsized, urban, public school located in the Beechview neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The building was built in 1908. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The school provides taxpayer funded preschool through 5th grade in 2011. Enrollment was 359 in 2011. Students who qualify for free or reduced lunch: 71.08%. Enrollment was 415 in 2010 with 22 teachers employed. The school is part of the Pittsburgh School District.</p><br>
<h2>Academics</h2><br>
<p>In 2010 and 2011, Beechwood Elementary School achieved AYP status. The school&#39;s attendance rate was 94% in both 2010 and 2011.</p><br>
<h3>Fifth grade</h3><br>
<p>In 2011, Beechwood Elementary School&#39;s 5th grade ranked 242nd out of 281 fifth grades in the seven county western Pennsylvania region.</p><br>
<p>5th Grade Reading:</p><br>
<p>2011 - 62% on grade level (15% below basic). In Pennsylvania, 67.3% of 5th graders are on grade level.</p><br>
<p>2010 - 40% (31% below basic). State – 64%</p><br>
<p>2009 - 52% (25% below basic). State - 64%</p><br>
<p>2008 - 34% (29% below basic). State - 62%</p><br>
<p>2007 - 41% (34% below basic). State - 60%</p><br>
<p>5th Grade Math:</p><br>
<p>2011 - 69% on grade level (14% below basic). State - 74%</p><br>
<p>2010 - 66% (11% below basic). State - 76.3%</p><br>
<p>2009 - 64% (10% below basic). State - 73%</p><br>
<p>2008 - 56% (6% below basic). State - 73%</p><br>
<p>2007 - 57% (23% below basic). State - 71%</p><br>
<h3>Fourth grade</h3><br>
<p>In 2011, Beechwood Elementary School&#39;s 4th grade ranked 216th out of 308th fourth grades in the seven county western Pennsylvania region.</p><br>
<p>2011 - 67% (13% below basic), State – 73.3%</p><br>
<p>2010 - 64% (17% below basic), State - 73%</p><br>
<p>2009 - 71% (16% below basic), State - 72%</p><br>
<p>2008 - 61% (15% below basic), State - 70%</p><br>
<p>2007 - 80% (12% below basic), State - 60%</p><br>
<p>2011 - 79% (8% below basic), State – 85.3%</p><br>
<p>2010 - 85% (7% below basic), State - 84%</p><br>
<p>2009 - 90% (2% below basic), State - 81%</p><br>
<p>2008 - 68% (20% below basic), State - 80%</p><br>
<p>2007 - 85% (14% below basic), State - 78%</p><br>
<p>2011 - 73%, (7% below basic), State – 82.9%</p><br>
<p>2010 - 75%, (7% below basic), State - 81%</p><br>
<p>2009 - 92%, (0% below basic), State - 83%</p><br>
<p>2008 - 86%, (2% below basic), State - 81%</p><br>
<h3>Third grade</h3><br>
<p>In 2011, Beechwood Elementary School&#39;s 3rd grade ranked 232nd out of 232 third grades, located in the seven county western Pennsylvania region.</p><br>
<p>2011 - 75%, (13% below basic). State – 77%</p><br>
<p>2010 - 61%, (20% below basic). State - 75%</p><br>
<p>2009 - 71%, (20% below basic). State - 77%</p><br>
<p>2008 - 89%, (2% below basic). State - 70%</p><br>
<p>2007 - 68%, (15% below basic). State - 72%</p><br>
<p>2011 - 88%, (2% below basic). State – 83%</p><br>
<p>2010 - 80%, (7% below basic). State - 84%</p><br>
<p>2009 - 90%, (2% below basic). State - 81%</p><br>
<p>2008 - 89%, (0% below basic). State - 80%</p><br>
<p>2007 - 68%, (12% below basic). State - 78%</p><br>
<p>The Bindley Hardware Company Building in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was built in 1903 alongside of the Pennsylvania Railroad main line, next to the Shadyside Station. The building was constructed for John Bindley by his brother Albion.</p><br>
<p>John had been the president of the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce and of the National Hardware Association. He tried to organize the industry into a "National Combine" or trust, but this attempt failed due to opposition from the government. Instead, he organized a dominant regional hardware wholesaler in Pittsburgh, a major center of hardware manufacture, with this building serving as its main warehouse.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Crni vrh  is a mountain in eastern Serbia, between towns of Bor and Žagubica. Its eponymous highest peak has an elevation of 1,043 m above sea level. It is a minor winter resort, and it has several ski tracks, although the infrastructure is in bad shape. However, in 2009 the municipality of Bor invested in reconstruction of the ski lift The main ski track is 1100 m long and has height span of 260 m.</p><br>
<p>Hotel complex "Hyatt hotel Jelen" is being built by a consortium of Serbian public companies, however the works were aborted during the NATO bombing and have never been restored. In 2010, talks were held with an unnamed Russian company about overtaking of the site. Currently, there is a mountaineering home near the track, with 30 beds.</p><br>
<p>Crni vrh has good road infrastructure, because it lies near the magistral road Bor-Žagubica.</p><br>
<p>At the foothills a dam was built in 1953, creating an artificial lake (Borsko jezero). Although it was originally planned to supply the nearby mine, its pure waters proved excellent for swimming for small-scale tourism. On the lake, there is hotel "Jezero" and an auto camp.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>Sally Rocks is a small group of rocks trending southwestwards in South Bay just off the west coast of Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.</p><br>
<p>The features name derives from the name Sallys Cove&#39; applied in 1820-23 by James Weddell to a cove in the vicinity.</p><br>
<p>The Bulgarian Sally Rocks Camp (62°4207.6"S, 60°2506.8"W) on the Hurd Peninsula beach facing the rocks supported geological research on southern Hurd Peninsula in 2005/06 and subsequent seasons.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The rocks are centred at 62&deg;42&prime;08.8&Prime;S latitude, 60&deg;25&prime;45.7&Prime;W longitude which is 1.78 km south of Salisbury Bluff, 2.04 km north of Miers Bluff and 10.82 km southeast of Hannah Point (British mapping in 1968, detailed Spanish mapping in 1991, Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).</p><br>
<p>Buntingsdale Hall is a historic country house in the parish of Sutton upon Tern, to the southwest of Market Drayton in Shropshire, England. It became a Grade II* listed building on 14 February 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Buntingsdale Hall was first built for Bulkeley Mackworth and the Mackworth family between 1719 and 1721. The plans for the building were drawn up by the London architect and surveyor John Prince, although it was completed by Francis Smith of Warwick. Documents have revealed that Mackworth may have encountered a dispute with Prince and dismissed him and hired Francis Smith to complete the building. The estate formerly included the remains of Fordhall castle, a monument scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 ("Ringwork and bailey castle 390m west of Buntingsdale Hall, List entry Number 1019659")</p><br>
<p>Herbert Mackworth later sold the hall to his cousin William Tayleur, who subsequently owned the property for many years. He gives his name to Tayleur Drive, the road that leads to the hall.</p><br>
<p>In 1986, during the time that a survey was conducted of the property, it was reported that a number of furnishings had been stolen from the hall. By 2000 the hall was in disrepair and was placed on the Historic Buildings at Risk register. Subsequently it was renovated and was finally removed from this register in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Over the years the hall has been owned by many different families but the current owners are Mackworths, direct descendants of Bulkeley Mackworth.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The house is dated "1721" on the lead downpipe straps. It was extended and altered by Samuel Pountney Smith of Shrewsbury in 1857. It is a three-storey red brick building with red sandstone ashlar dressings, featuring some fluted pilasters and a Corinthian stone doorcase consisting of pilasters, each supporting a section of entablature. The rainwater heads are emblazoned with the Mackworth arms and crest, and an acanthus ornament at the junction of pipes and cornice, and straps have the initials "BM" and the date "1721".</p><br>
<p>The north wing is dated to 1857, with identical east and west fronts, when the staircase was moved and the full-height entrance hall was created. The entrance hallway has black and white stone flooring and bolection-moulded panelling up to first floor level with cornice. The first-floor gallery above with turned balusters is raised to centre, and the central first-floor doorway is made up of fluted pilasters and an open triangular pediment. It features a stone fireplace with cable-fluted Ionic columns. The dining room features a rich cornice with vine trail and egg and dart enrichment that was added in 1857, when the fireplace was removed. The ballroom also features the same style as the dining room, with rich plaster panelling.</p><br>
<p>A garden was initially laid out with the house, covering an area of 16 hectares. The River Tern passes to the north of Buntingsdale Hall, with the main garden retaining wall west of the house, and an apsidal bow overlooking the pond. The grounds were altered several times during the 18th and 19th centuries and walled gardens, a kitchen garden (to the north), grassland (east), large fishpond and boathouse (west), and woodland (to the south) were added. By the end of the 19th century, a new entrance from the north and a lodge had been added.</p><br>
<p>The Uinta County Courthouse in Evanston, Wyoming is the oldest courthouse building in Wyoming, and one of the oldest permanent structures in Wyoming. Built in three stages, the first phase was a two-story jail, built in 1873. It was expanded with court facilities the following year, and in 1910 the main portion of the Georgian Revival structure was built with the present façade. Each phase showed an increasing attention to detail and ornament.</p><br>
<p>The original 1873 jail and 1874 courthouse were built by Evanston contractors Harvey Booth and William McDonald, assisted by mason William Durnford. McDonald was also the chairman of the Uinta County Commission; his contract stipulated that the work cost no more than $25,000. The 1910 addition was carried out by Evanston contractor W.H. Armstrong for $24,000.</p><br>
<p>The present front section of the courthouse is a brick structure, two stories high, with quoined corners and a central portico. The portico is supported by two unfluted Ionic stone columns, backed by two engaged Ionic pilasters of the same material on the building itself. The courthouse has a tiled roof with a dentiled cornice. The masonry walls of the 1873-1874 portion of the complex have been stained red by a mixture reportedly containing slaughterhouse blood and stale beer.</p><br>
<p>In 1887 a new jail was built nearby by the Pauly Jail Building and Manufacturing Company of St. Louis. This building was demolished in 1976 to make way for a new public safety facility. The new jail allowed the courthouse to expand its office and storage space.</p><br>
<p>The Uinta County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Catholic Church is a parish church of the Archdiocese of Dubuque. The church is located in Elkader, Iowa, United States, at 330 1st St., NW. The church and parish hall were both listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Catholicism in Elkader can be traced the missionary activities of a priest from Holy Cross in the 1840s. He also visited mission stations in Guttenberg, Garnavillo and other communities. The first Mass in Elkader was celebrated in a log cabin were the town’s post office now stands. The first baptism was in 1855.</p><br>
<p>The first resident pastor of the parish was the Rev. Peter McGinnis who came to St. Joseph’s in 1856. He purchased land and built the first church in limestone which was quarried from the hill behind the church. The structure took two years before the church was under roof, and even longer before it was furnished. It measured 36 by when completed. The pastor had difficulties raising the $4,000 needed to build the church. Parishioners had to stand or kneel on the floor until the pews were added. The three altars added to the church were constructed of wood. In 1876 three brass bells cast in Cincinnati were bought for $1,800. A bell tower, separate from the church building, was built to hold the bells. The church was extended in 1887 under the leadership of the Rev. J. F. Reilly. The extension created space for a new sanctuary and sacristy. The seating capacity of the church was increased to 100.</p><br>
<h2>Present Church</h2><br>
<p>In 1897 plans were made for a new church because the old church had grown too small for the congregation. Thomas Byrnes, who had previously built the Keystone Arch Bridge and the Bayless Hotel, was awarded the contract to build the church. The cornerstone for the new church was laid on April 24, 1898, and it was dedicated on Thanksgiving Day in 1900. The church, without furnishings, was built for $12,000. Another $7,000 was spent to furnish the church, which brought the total construction bill to $19,000.</p><br>
<p>The dimensions of the new church measure 50 by. The top of the cross on the steeple is 142 ft feet above the ground. The church was built in the Gothic Revival style, and like the old church, is built of limestone. The roof was covered in Pennsylvania slate. The interior has three naves and is separated by columns which were originally marbleized. The central nave rises to 36 ft, while the side naves are 27.5 ft. The ornate wood altars from the old church were moved to the new church and the three bells were placed in the tower. The ceiling of the church was frescoed with circular portraits of various saints. The seating capacity was 500. After the new church was built the old church was converted into a parish hall.</p><br>
<p>Major renovations were made to the church in the 1960s and again in the 1990s. During the renovation in the 1960s many of the original furnishings were removed and the interior was plastered with Kalloite. An altar was constructed so the priest could face the congregation, as well as other changes influenced by the liturgical changes brought about by the Second Vatican Council. The roof was recovered with black slate in the 1980s. In the 1990s many of the original furnishings were brought back into the church and repurposed. The gates to the former communion rail were made into table tops. The old sedalia was remade into a presider’s chair. A new ambo, baptismal font and ambry were made to complement the church’s Gothic design. The seating capacity of the church was reduced to 300.</p><br>
<p>Ashwick House is a Grade II listed Edwardian mansion in Ashwick, four miles northwest of Dulverton, Exmoor, Somerset, England.</p><br>
<p>The house is located on a hillside overlooking the Barle Valley. It was built in 1901 by a Bristolian businessman as a hunting retreat. It sits in six acres of sprawling gardens and looks across the hills to the Bristol Channel. The house has six bedrooms, each named after trees and individually decorated. The "Ash Room" is decorated in shades of pink and green, matching the stained-glass window.</p><br>
<p>In 1928 Frank Green purchased Ashwick House. He moved to Exmoor in 1930 and took as active interest in running the Ashwick Estate, which extended to several hundred acres of farmland. In those days 20 resident staff ran the house and it was regularly used for lavish entertaining. To provide for entertainment of the staff, a miniature theatre (sometimes known as the music room) was constructed in the grounds. Standing on stone pillars. The auditorium is 30 ft long and 15 ft wide with a wooden dance floor. The stage is 8 ft deep with a proscenium arch 10 ft wide. The wings have trompe l&#39;oeil paintings on canvas of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra on one side and politicians including H. H. Asquith, Bonar Law and Austen Chamberlain on the other. The building has been taken over by the Moorland Mousie Trust and is being restored to serve as a heritage information centre.</p><br>
<p>From 1980 the house was run as a hotel but according to its official site it is now closed to the public.</p><br>
<p>Woodmen Hall is an historic Woodmen of the World building located on the corner of Center and Second streets in Saint Onge, Lawrence County, South Dakota. It was used as a meeting hall for the local Woodmen of the World lodge and other local organizations. It also housed a general store.</p><br>
<p>On November 14, 1991, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, at which time it was vacant.</p><br>
<h2>NRHP listing</h2><br>
<p>Woodmen Hall (added 1991 - Building - #91001619)</p><br>
<p>Also known as LA-AE-SO-7</p><br>
<p>Lawrence County - Jct. of Center and Second Sts., St. Onge (less than 1 acre, 1 building)</p><br>
<p>Historic Significance: Event</p><br>
<p>Area of Significance: Social History, Commerce</p><br>
<p>Period of Significance: 1900-1924, 1925–1949</p><br>
<p>Owner: Private</p><br>
<p>Historic Function: Commerce/Trade, Social</p><br>
<p>Historic Sub-function: Department Store, Meeting Hall</p><br>
<p>Current Function: Vacant/Not In Use</p><br>
<p>Woodmen Hall is an historic 2-story wooden Woodmen of the World building located 217 SW Akron Avenue, corner of SW 3rd Street in Stuart, Martin County, Florida. It was built between 1913-1914 by local master carpenter Sam Matthews. Like many fraternal buildings built in the late 19th century and early 20th century, the ground floor was designed for commercial use, while the upper floor was designed for use as a meeting room for Pineapple Camp No. 150, Woodmen of the World as well as community groups. Prominent members of Pineapple Camp include George W. Parks, who had a general store in what is now the Stuart Heritage Museum and in 2000 was added to the states list of Great Floridians. Early users of the first floor include H.A. Carlisles Feed Store. From the 1930s until 1959, Southern Bell used the first floor as a business office, while the Stuart telephone exchange was located on the second floor. Recent uses have included a church  and a coffee house and open mic music venue. One group performing in it even calls itself, Woodmen Hall. The building has been recently renovated through the efforts of Stuart Main Street. An elevator has been added. The double outside staircases on the eastern part of the south side have been reduced to one, while an outside staircase has been added on the north side toward Akron Avenue. The two large front windows differ from those shown in a 1925 photograph.</p><br>
<p>In 1989, Woodmen Hall was listed in A Guide to Florida&#39;s Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press.</p><br>
<p>" Today the building of 3600 square feet (1800 square feet per floor) is being advertised for lease in whole or by floor.</p><br>
<p>Ashwick Court is Grade II* listed house on Heckley Lane northwest of Ashwick, in Mendip district, eastern Somerset, England, adjacent to the Church of St James. It is a country house, dating from the late 17th century and became a listed building on 2 June 1961. Alterations were added to the property in the 18th and mid-19th century.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>Parts of Ashwick Court date from the 17th century, but the building was extensively remodelled during the 18th century, including being given a new frontage. Two wings were added in the 20th century, the west wing in 1928 and the east in 1996. The main building is constructed of rendered rubble stone, with quoins in unrendered Bath stone ashlar.</p><br>
<p>The two-story house has a near square floorplan, with a south entrance. The entrance bay and above is unrendered, with a 19th-century arched stone porch. Above the porch is a plaque made of stone showing the Strachey coat of arms and motto. The rear of the house includes more of the original 17th century building, while the front dates to the 18th century. The house is built into a slope, so the entrances on the northern side are at basement level.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Judge Jeffries is believed to have tried cases at Ashwick Court during the Bloody Assizes following the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, possibly leading to the building being called a court, however the name court only came into use during the 19th century, so the name may be simple gentrification.</p><br>
<p>The building was bought by Richard Strachey in 1823, who&#39;s family, the Strachey Baronets, retain ownership until 1924. The house was let to Dr Newton Wade in 1892 who thought he had discovered oil in the water well.</p><br>
<p>Katsikas  is the largest village of the municipal unit Pamvotida, in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, northern Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Ioannina. Its population is 3,885 .</p><br>
<p>It was recognized in the community after the liberation of Ioannina six years later on August 7, 1919. But the village he became and from older times. The first people came and built the village around 1400, from villages of the Souli because they exile from the village elders of the Souli villages. The population as various state historian is constantly changing and always improving. In 1856 the Katsikas had 70 thatched cottages for families and their livestock to live in, an inn (chani) for the travellers to sleep and rest their animals and the Churches of the Taxiarches.</p><br>
<p>When first founded, the village was certainly not known by the name Katsikas, and opinions differ about the classification have been written yet and traditions. Tradition says that the name comes from someone who was guarding goats say "Katsikas". Other tradition says that the holy man is live in the monastery and his name is Katsikas, and then he died and is buried in the church garden. Residents in the Katsikas are called Katskiots if a man, or Katskiotsa if a woman, and Katskoplu if a child.</p><br>
<p>After the war of the 1940 the village was occupied day and the night by the Italians (9 April 1941) in the beginning but later (1 November 1944) the Germans and then the Communists. These people they put in prison and killed not only criminals and animal thieves, but also good people and family men. But then, after nine years of oppression, the Katiskas became a free village. Today it is a small town and centre of the City Pambvotis.</p><br>
<p>The villagers are farmers, poultry and other urban occupations. Some women work in bars such as Johnny bar and Lialios, which is very famous and popular to the soldiers. Katsikas very old had attained educational level. During the Turkish occupation the teacher pay their own residents and the Cathedral. In committee for paying schools (eforia) were many learned men of old times, like Markos Ypsilantis, Anastasios Tositsas and Manthos Kallergis. From Katsikas came scientist Dimitris Maroulis, born in 1840. He graduated from the Zosimaia school and then attended the University of Athens and then studied in Germany. When he finished his studies, he returned to live in Serres, where he worked in the Didaskaleio of the Serres (a big school). He never returned to Katsikas because of an incident with local priest who called him satan because he wrote that there is no God, it is only a belief. Today his statue is in the main town square (plateia). He is sitting at a big desk, and is holding a book, and next to him is the goat, a symbol of the city where he was born. He wrote many scientific papers and one of them was On the bringing up of Greek teachers on pot printed in Athens in 1888. Fair boasts residents of Katsika for the man who jumped in the era of obscurantism.</p><br>
<p>From then, many residents of Katsikas learned to read, also the women. Today, in Katsikas are two primary schools (dhemotika), one small children high school (gimnasio) and one senior high school (lykeio), but the government plans to close the Lykeio because many students did not write well the Panellinies examinations. Newspaper To Sfirodrepano wrote that this plan is a crime of the bourgeois state, oppressing poor farmers and workers of Katsikas. Is also in Katsikas, there is a milk processing school.</p><br>
<h2>Sights</h2><br>
<p>The Church of the Archangels (1411). This is a beautiful church worthy of attention. This church is the seat of the local bishop, and they sometimes call it for this reason Metropolis. The church celebrates every year on the Day of Archangels Michael and Gabriel, i.e. November 19.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Madonna or the Sleep of the Mother of God that built in 1812 in place of old church that burned the sinners in old times. Next door is and the graveyard of the village. This church celebrates every year on 15 August (the Easter of the Summer).</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Holy Friday of the 1838. This is a temple that was built by the shoemakers and the tailors of Ioannina.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Holy Dimitrios of the 1838. This is beautiful church where was priest the famous Papatsakalos when he begin to be priest (begin of his career). In this church he made famous saying to protect Christians from the thieves, the Turks and the gays. The Church celebrates every year on the day of St. Dhimetrios (26 October)</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Holy Apostoli was built c. 1780 and rebuilt in 1833.</p><br>
<p>The International Mercantile Marine Company Building, also known as One Broadway and the "United States Lines-Panama Pacific Lines Building", is a historic office building located on Broadway in New York, New York. The building was built in 1882 in the Queen Anne style as the Washington Building, on the former site of the Washington Hotel. The building was acquired by International Mercantile Marine Company  in 1919 to serve as its corporate headquarters and extensively altered to its present Neoclassical style. One Broadway served as the headquarters of IMM and its successor company, United States Lines, until 1979 when the firm relocated to Cranford, New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 2, 1991. A restoration was carried out in 1992, and the ground floor now houses a Citibank branch in the former lobby space.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The spot is more famous for its previous use: In the late 18th century it was the Kennedy House, built for Archibald Kennedy, who resided in it until he succeeded as Earl of Cassilis. During the American Revolution it served briefly as headquarters for Generals George Washington and Henry "Lighthorse Harry" Lee. The structure survived as the Washington Hotel. In 1884, Edward H. Kendall designed the "Washington Building", an ornate commercial building.</p><br>
<p>The building was bought by the International Mercantile Marine Company (later known as the United States Lines) in 1920 or 1921, then extensively refaced and remodelled on a maritime theme in 1921 from plans by Walter B. Chambers).</p><br>
<p>Currently, the only tenants are a Citibank branch on the ground floor, and, a prominent intellectual property law firm, the sole tenant on the upper floors.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building has side entrances facing Battery Park which are modeled "First Class" and "Cabin Class&quot The main entrance is surrounded by shells and sea icons; the windows on the second floor alternate with mosaic shields of renowned port cities; inside, a compass rose is prominently depicted in the marble floor, and two enormous murals depict shipping lanes. The former booking room is modelled on an 18th-century ballroom, with columns and elaborate railings at either end, along with four imposing chandeliers. Now a bank branch uses the room as its banking floor. The IMM competed with the Cunard Line, which had remodeled its building in a similar way two years before.</p><br>
<p>The Edward Mooney House located at 18 Bowery at the corner of Pell Street in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City was built between 1785 and 1789 for wealthy butcher Edward Mooney on land he purchased after it was confiscated from British Loyalist James De Lancey.</p><br>
<p>The brick house was built in a mixture of Georgian and Federal styles, and is the earliest remaining townhouse in the Early Federal style in the city. It has three stories plus an attic and full basement. The home was located close to the slaughterhouses, holding pens and tanneries where Mooney made his living; he occupied the house until his death c.1800.</p><br>
<p>In 1807 the size of the house was doubled by an addition to the rear. The house would be used as a private residence until the 1820s after which it has served at various times as a hotel, brothel and saloon.</p><br>
<p>The house was designated a New York City landmark in 1966 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Hotel at 1232–1238 Broadway at the corner of West 31st Street in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1868 and was designed by Henry Engelbert in the Second Empire style. Englebert designed the hotel for Elias S. Higgins, a prosperous carpet manufacturer and merchant, who had also utilized Engelbert&#39;s services to put up a marble-fronted warehouse on White Street near Broadway, and would go on to employ him to design the Grand Central  Hotel as well.</p><br>
<p>At the time the Grand Hotel was built, the area of Broadway between Madison Square and Herald Square was the premier entertainment district in the city, teeming with theatres, restaurants and hotels. The sleazier establishments on the side streets soon gave the district a new name, the "Tenderloin". When the theater district moved uptown again, the area became part of the Garment District, and the Grand Hotel became a cut-rate residential hotel.</p><br>
<p>The building was designated a New York City Landmark in 1979, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin N. Duke House, also called the Duke–Semans Mansion and the Benjamin N. and Sarah Duke House, is a landmarked mansion located at 1009 Fifth Avenue at East 82nd Street in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1899-1901 and was designed by the firm of Welch, Smith & Provot in the Beaux-Arts style.</p><br>
<h4>History</h4><br>
<p>The house was built speculatively by developers William W. Hall and Thomas M. Hall, and not for a specific owner. Shortly after the mansion was completed, it was bought by Benjamin N. Duke, a tobacco, textile and energy industrialist and philanthropist, who was chairman of the American Tobacco Company at that time. Benjamin&#39;s brother, James, another tobacco entrepreneur, bought the house in 1907. He lived there until his own mansion at 1 East 78th Street &ndash; now landmarked as the James B. Duke House &ndash; was completed in 1912.</p><br>
<p>After James Duke relocated, the mansion became the residence of Benjamin Duke&#39;s son, Angier Buchanan Duke, until 1919, when his sister Mary Lillian Duke married A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., and the couple moved in. Later, their daughter, Mary Semans, took over the residence. Members of the Duke family owned the mansion until 2006, when it was sold for US$40 million to Tamir Sapir, an American real estate mogul.</p><br>
<p>The Mexican telecom magnate, Carlos Slim, at the time the richest person in the world, bought the mansion four years later in 2010 for US$44 million. Slim said in an interview with CNBC that he was planning on using the house as a place to stay when he was in New York for business meetings. In May 2015, he put the mansion up for sale at $80 million, nearly twice the amount he paid for it.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin N. Duke House, which is one of the few remnants of the many similarly-luxurious mansions along Fifth Avenue facing Central Park, underwent a restoration in 1985. It was designated a New York City Landmark in 1974, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Designed by the firm of Welch, Smith & Provot, the house was built in the Beaux-Arts style with a French Renaissance interior, decorated mainly with Louis XV style furniture. The house is eight stories high, 20,000 square feet and measures 100 feet wide by 27 feet deep.</p><br>
<p>The basement and first floor have a limestone facade, while the upper floors are brick with heavy limestone trim. The roof has red tiling with cooper, and features two towers. The mansion has a private staircase on the top floor that leads to a rooftop balcony. The builders ingeniously put closets in the same location on every floor to facilitate the possible future installation of an elevator.</p><br>
<p>P.S. 157 is a historic school building located at 327 St. Nicholas Avenue between West 126th and West 127th Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was built from 1896 to 1899 and was designed by C. B. J. Snyder in the Renaissance Revival style. It ceased being a school in 1975, and was converted to rental apartments in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>P.S. 157 &ndash; "P.S." stands for "Public School" &ndash; signified a philosophical change in school design from what the Real Estate Record and Guide described as a tradition of "the school life of a child as a grinding, manufacturing process to which the factory style of building is eminently suitable." In 1891 Snyder took over as chief architect for the city&#39;s schools from George Debevois, whose buildings the Guide called "warehouses" that were a "civic disgrace." Work on the school began in 1896, and it opened in 1899 to 1,974 students in 45 classrooms.</p><br>
<p>Unlike Debevois "factories", P.S. 157s design is derived from French and Flemish civic architecture. The limestone, brick and terra cotta building features dormers and a red tile roof, and could pass for a group of row houses if it was smaller in scale.</p><br>
<p>The building functioned as a school until 1975, when it became vacant, and was subject to vandalism. The drive to rehabilitate the building and covert it into apartments for low- and middle-income families began in the late 1970s, led by New York states Harlem Urban Development Corporation and the citys Department of Housing, Preservation and Development. Work began on the project c.1989 and was completed in 1993. The building now consists of 73 rental apartments, some of them rent stabilized, on five floors.</p><br>
<p>P.S. 157 was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Teutonia Männerchor Hall, in the Deutschtown neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a building constructed in 1888. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Teutonia Männerchor was founded in 1854. It was an offspring of an organization called “Liederkranz” which was founded in 1851 by Rev. Karl R. Weiterhausen. Later, the Liederkranz became the Freier Männerchor and then the Teutonia Männerchor. The name Teutonia stems from the one of the oldest German Tribes. The Teutonia Männerchor, is a part of the Pittsburgh district of the Nord-Amerikanischer Sängerbund.</p><br>
<p>The first meetings were held in the basement of an old Lutheran Church on Canal Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1882, the chorus practiced in Dahlingers Hall at 121 Madison Avenue, also in Pittsburgh. The Chorus then moved to the old Masonic Hall in Old Allegheny City. Under President Henry Bergman, the property of St. Peters Church on Pike Street was purchased on February 28, 1887 (Later renamed Phineas Street). The Charter of Incorporation was approved on April 9, 1887 and the present building was built.</p><br>
<p>The cost of the land was $5,000.00 USD and the building was erected for $8,800. The architect was George Ott and the contractor Stipecke Brothers. “Fachwerk“, an exclusive type of German architecture, was used for the exterior of the building. This traditional theme has been maintained to the present time.</p><br>
<p>The first meeting in the Hall was held on July 15, 1888. The official dedication of the Hall took place on October 15, 1888. The decorations were furnished by the Joseph Horne Company of Pittsburgh. Initiation fees were set at $5.00 and dues at $3.00 per year.</p><br>
<p>The 50th Anniversary of Teutonia was celebrated in grand style on September 26 & 27, 1904, including a parade through the North Side of Pittsburgh.</p><br>
<p>In 1934, first floor or basement was remodeled. Most of the work was done without compensation by members and it became a Ratskeller in true German style. During the year of its 80th Anniversary, it was decided to amend the constitution to honor those members of 25 years of service with an honorary membership “Life Member”: This practice is still continued today. Two adjoining houses were purchased by the club in 1947 for additions to the Hall and $27,000.00 was expended for improvements.</p><br>
<p>The 100 year Centennial was celebrated in 1954 and on May 16, of that same year, a banquet was held in the upstairs saengerhall and a concert at Carnegie Hall on Saturday June 12, 1954. The membership at the time was 897 members, including 65 singers in the Male Chorus and 45 singers in the Ladies Chorus.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, Teutonia celebrated its 125th Anniversary, Seven German Coats of Arms were donated to the club. The crests designate various areas of Germany and are now permanent fixtures on the walls of the upstairs sanger hall.</p><br>
<p>Many improvements were made during the 1980s and 1990s. All the outside walls were restored, air conditioning was added to the upstairs sanger hall and kitchen and bar equipment was replaced.</p><br>
<p>The Ball-Sellers House is the oldest building in Arlington County, Virginia. It is an historic home located at 5620 Third Street, South in the Glencarlyn neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia. Historians and archaeologists estimate that the one room log cabin was built in approximately 1742.</p><br>
<p>In the mid-18th century, yeoman farmer John Ball built a one-room log cabin with a loft in what is now Arlington, Virginia. Later he added a lean-to and covered the structure with clapboard. Amazingly, this cabin survives today. The house is a rare example of the dwelling of the ordinary person during the 1700s. Plus, it is the oldest house in Arlington.</p><br>
<p>John Ball obtained a 166-acre land grant along Four Mile Run from Lord Fairfax in 1742. To construct his cabin, he felled trees and hewed logs. He notched the logs and chinked the cracks with mud daubing. Visitors today can see the original logs with the daubing, as well as the wide plank floors. The rare oak clapboard roof is among only a few board roofs preserved in the nation.</p><br>
<p>John, his wife Elizabeth, and their five daughters lived in this little house. An inventory of Ball’s estate indicates they lived a simple life in the sparsely furnished dwelling. They farmed, raising wheat and corn, and kept sheep, cows, pigs, and bees. Ball also had a mill on Four Mile Run, and part of his mill stones are on display.</p><br>
<p>Following John Ball’s death in 1766, William Carlin, an Alexandria tailor who included George Washington and George Mason among his clients, purchased the house. Three generations of the Carlin family owned the property for more than 100 years. The third generation, brother and sister Andrew and Anne, ran a dairy farm and built the 1885 addition that adjoins the original Ball cabin. They also owned and operated Carlin Springs, a pavilion featuring a restaurant, health springs, and picnic grounds. When the Carlins sold the property in 1887, the land was subdivided into a community known today as Glencarlyn, the oldest subdivision in Arlington. The house survived and was used as a school, a summer cottage, and a home. The last owner, Marian Rhinehart Sellers, gave the house to the Arlington Historical Society in 1975 so that it would be preserved and open to the public.</p><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian Church of Blissfield is an active church building located at 306 Franklin Street in the village of Blissfield in Blissfield Township in eastern Lenawee County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan State Historic Site on June 11, 1965 and was later added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 3, 1971. It was the second property in the county listed on the National Register after the Walker Tavern.</p><br>
<p>The congregation in Blissfield, which was formally organized on February 29, 1829, is one of the oldest Presbyterian congregations in the state. The church originally held services in the home of Hervey Bliss, one of the village founders, and later in a schoolhouse. The current Greek Revival church was constructed in 1849 at a cost of $2,800 under the ministry of Reverend John Monteith, who was a graduate from the Princeton Theological Seminary. Monteith, along with Gabriel Richard, co-founded what would later become the University of Michigan. Monteith served as the university&#39;s unofficial first president from 1817–1821 after having moved to the Michigan Territory in 1816. He would later move to Blissfield and preach from 1845–1855. During that time, he headed the funding for the construction of the church. The building is the fifth oldest operating Presbyterian church in the state of Michigan and the oldest church in Blissfield.</p><br>
<p>In 1883, the building itself was moved slightly to its current position just north of USA Route 223 near the River Raisin. In 1953, a large addition was added to the church, which greatly changed the appearance of the original church structure.</p><br>
<p>The Sellers Farm is a historic farmstead in Maysville, Arkansas. The main house is a two-story I-house, with a rear wing giving it an overall T configuration. The main facade faces west, and is covered by a porch that extends the full width on the first floor, and for three of the five bays on the second. There is a front-facing gable above the three center bays. Built c. 1910, it is a well-kept example of a little-altered I-house. Outbuildings on the property include a feed barn, chicken house, milk shed, and privy. All of the buildings on the property are in Arkansas; the associated land extends into neighboring Oklahoma.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, at which time most of its outbuildings were described as being fair-to-poor condition, with the house in good condition.</p><br>
<p>The Salome Sellers House is a historic house museum at 416 Sunset Road  in Deer Isle, Maine. Its oldest portion dating to the 1770s, the house is locally distinctive as a well-preserved 19th-century Cape, and as the home of Salome Sellers, one of Deer Isle&#39;s longest-lived residents . The house has been a museum property of the Deer Isle-Stonington Historical Society since 1960, and is believed to be the only house of its type in the state that is open as a museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Sellers House stands on the east side of Maine Route 15A (Sunset Road) in southern Deer Isle, a short way north of the Island Country Club. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame Cape style house, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, clapboard siding, granite foundation, and a central chimney. A recessed ell extends to the right. The centered entrance is topped by a four-light transom window. The interior follows a typical center-chimney plan, with a narrow entry vestibule with winding staircase, parlor and dining room to the sides of the chimney, and kitchen behind, with bedrooms in the rear corners and in the upper half story. Woodwork is relatively simple, except in the parlor, where there are some Greek Revival touches, and the kitchen fireplace includes a Dutch oven. Floors are of pine, and the walls are plastered or simply wallpapered. The ell includes a summer kitchen and a toolshed.</p><br>
<p>The ell was the first portion of the house to be built, dating to between 1772 and 1817. The main house frame was erected in 1830 by a man named Judkins for Joseph Sellers, who owned the house and finished it. The house remained in the Sellers family until it was sold to the historical society in 1961. For most of that period it was home to Salome Sellers, a noted local personality who died in 1909 at the age of 108, and was one of the community&#39;s most long-lived residents. The house includes original Sellers furnishings and artifacts, and has retained much of its original construction, including hand-blown glass window panes and woodwork. The house has undergone major rehabilitative work in 1960 and 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Fulton Farm, also known as "River Bend Farm," is a historic farmstead in Shelby County, Ohio, United States. Located on the southern side of the city of Sidney, the farm is composed of five buildings spread out over an area of approximately 2 acre. Built primarily in 1848,</p><br>
<p>Prominent farmer Isaac Fulton built the one-and-one-half story farmhouse and other buildings for his wife, the former Jane Taylor, soon after their 1848 wedding. The construction, which was not finished until 1850, was almost entirely Fultons work; he even made the bricks by himself. Fulton used an unusual floor plan; the houses footprint is asymmetrical, and its windows are a mix of trabeated and traditional Gothic Revival styles. A rectangle large enough to support the entire house would measure approximately 50 ft by 42 ft.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the Fulton Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It qualified for inclusion on the Register because of its impact on two different areas of local history: its well-preserved historic architecture and its place in the development of agriculture in central Shelby County.</p><br>
<p>The Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny is situated in the Allegheny Center neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Donated to the public by entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie, it was built from 1886 to 1890 on a design by John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz.</p><br>
<p>It was commissioned in 1886, the first Carnegie library to be commissioned in the United States. Yet it did not open until 1890 thus making it the second library to open. The first one to open being the Carnegie Free Library of Braddock, built for steel-workers in Braddock, 9 miles up the Monongahela River from Pittsburgh.</p><br>
<p>The building also features the first Carnegie Music Hall in the United States. The Music Hall at the Braddock Library would not open until an 1893 expansion of that structure.</p><br>
<p>The running costs were met from local taxes – unlike the Carnegie Library in Braddock, which received an endowment from Carnegie.</p><br>
<p>After a mid-2000s lightning strike, the library was moved to a new building a few blocks north on Federal Street. The New Hazlett Theater is now the primary tenant. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Plas Uchaf  is a 15th-century cruck-and-aisle-truss hall house, 1.5 mi south-west of Corwen, Denbighshire, Wales and 1 mi north of Cynwyd. Its excellent workmanship indicates a house originally of considerable importance; it has been described as "of palatial significance".</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The house consists of a long rectangle divided by a cross passage. The west end is a large hall some 25 ft high. The east end consists of smaller rooms on two floors.</p><br>
<p>The roof structure is substantial, of paired cruck beams with additional horizontal, vertical and diagonal bracing. One unusual feature is that the truss between the cross-passage and hall is an aisle truss, a form normally only found in much larger buildings such as barns and churches. This suggests the use of English craftsmen and is an indication of the status of the original inhabitants.</p><br>
<p>The walls are of stone rubble but were originally half-timbered.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The early history of the building is not documented. The original construction was thought to date from the late 14th or early 15th century, but part of the structure has been dated to 1435 by tree-ring dating. This is thought to be consistent with its use as the seat of the barons of Cymmer-yn-Edeirnion.</p><br>
<p>In the 16th century the hall was divided horizontally by the addition of an inserted floor supported by moulded cross beams.</p><br>
<h2>Decline and restoration</h2><br>
<p>The house was listed as a house of the gentry as late as 1707 but was later split into two or three labourers&#39; cottages. The house was occupied until at least 1933.</p><br>
<p>Plas Uchaf was listed Grade I in 1952.</p><br>
<p>However, by 1964 the building had been abandoned. The inserted floor and panelling had been removed, and the structure was falling into ruin. Peter Smith and Ffrangcon Lloyd drew attention to the building in 1964, and it was eventually taken on and restored by the Landmark Trust.</p><br>
<p>The building is now maintained using income from its use as holiday accommodation.</p><br>
<p>The Alex Halone House in Thermopolis, Wyoming was built by Finnish immigrant Alex Halone for his personal residence in 1909–1910. Halone, a stonemason, built several stone structures in Thermopolis. Three generations of the Halone family were stonemasons. The grounds include a log Finnish sauna built by Alex and Eugene Halone with assistance from Lauri Suikaonen in 1946-51.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Halone started the house in 1909, digging a 12 ft by 12 ft basement with sandstone walls and a temporary roof, in which he and his family lived that winter. The next year he built the two–story house, 27.5 ft by 27.5 ft in rock-faced ashlar sandstone. Details were executed in travertine, locally found in the terraces of thermal springs. Over time a series of porches and dependent structures were built, sometimes as advertisements of Halone&#39;s skill with stonework. A chimney on the east side of the house uses slate, pink granite and sandstone, and incorporates a balcony and a window.</p><br>
<p>A variety of porches were added by Halone, while the rear was raised from one to two stories. During the 1920s Halone altered the house to accommodate renters. Other contributing structures include a garage from the 1920s, a barn, and the sauna, which is noted on the National Register nomination as "exceptionally significant." Non-contributing structures include a picnic shelter, a well, a fish pond and bridge and an outdoor grill. While considered non-contributing to the historic designation, these elements are sympathetic in design and material to the historic structures.</p><br>
<h2>Alex Halone</h2><br>
<p>Alex Halone was born on 18 June 1877 in Finland, the son of granite cutter Anti Halonen and his wife Anna Liisa Karkkainen. He learned his trade from his father and emigrated to the United States in 1904, leaving behind a wife and child. When he arrived at Ellis Island in 1904 his name was changed to "Halone." He first worked at a stone quarry in Quincy, Massachusetts, then moved to Valparaiso, Indiana, where he enrolled in night classes at Valparaiso University and learned English. He moved to Thermopolis, which impressed him with its hot springs and natural setting. Halone filed a homestead claim for 160 acres of land outside Thermopolis and planted it in crops. He excavated a dugout for his family, for whom he sent instructions to join him in Wyoming. The homestead expanded to 640 acres, encompassing a quarry from which Halone obtained building stone. At the same time he purchased property in Thermopolis for his house in town.</p><br>
<p>Halone built the house in 1909–1910. He became politically active in the local miners union while working as a miner from time to time at Gebo, Wyoming. He eventually became president of the union. During World War II he worked as a stonemason on Army installations in Alaska. Halones work in Thermopolis included the Emery Hotel and Skinner Building (both now demolished) and the stonework on the Hot Springs County Courthouse. He built perhaps seven houses in Gebo, two of which are still standing, and the Mondell Park Fountain in Hot Springs State Park. In 1923 Halone built the base for the statue of Buffalo Bill in Cody, Wyoming. Alex and his son Eugene worked together from 1928 to 1935, doing stonemasonry at Yellowstone, Grand Canyon and Sequoia National Parks. They built the fireplaces at the Old Faithful (upper store) and Fishing Bridge Hamilton&#39;s Stores in Yellowstone.</p><br>
<p>Alex Halone, still in good health at 82, was struck by a car and died in 1959.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Halone House reflects Alex Halone&#39;s artistry in stonework, with a variety of fanciful masonry treatments. At its core, the house is an approximately square two–story house, built in square sandstone, with a hipped roof. To the front, a porch has been added in very rough travertine stone with a rubble jack arch over the front door. A garage flanks the porch to the left. On the east side of the house is a stacked and squared chimney extending the height of the first floor, supporting an enclosed balcony. The flue extends between two windows from the main house looking on top the balcony. From the top of the balcony rises a tapering stucco flue studded with rubble. The rear of the house is capped by a second-story addition, clad in shingles. The west side is rough in appearance and was apparently considered a secondary elevation.</p><br>
<h3>Sauna</h3><br>
<p>The log sauna was built late in Alex Halone&#39;s life over several years with the help of his son Eugene and a fellow Finnish immigrant, Lauri Suikaonen. The 1½ story building houses the sauna room under the flat-roofed section and a dressing room under an upstairs room. The sauna represents a significant aspect of Finnish immigrant life, and is one of only two examples of its kind in Wyoming.</p><br>
<p>The Halone House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Van Wert Bandstand is a historic gazebo in Van Wert, a city in the far western portion of the USA state of Ohio. Built in 1874,</p><br>
<p>Besides its unusual design, the bandstand is significant for its place in local history. In the 1870s, such structures fulfilled the role of the third place in many communities such as Van Wert: they hosted political rallies, served as community bulletin boards, and became the starting points for citywide parades and musical events. Because of its role in the community, the bandstand has been relocated multiple times: After more than seventy years at the fairgrounds, the bandstand was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, both because of its distinctive architecture and because of its place in local history. It has not remained in this location — ten years after its addition to the Register, the bandstand was again moved; this time, it was placed on the grounds of the Van Wert County Historical Society Museum, where it remains today. Although structures that have been moved from their original locations are generally not eligible for inclusion on the National Register, an exception was made for the Van Wert Bandstand: its architecture and craftmanship have been exceptionally well preserved, and it is the only historic bandstand still in existence in rural western Ohio.</p><br>
<p>The Keene Springs Hotel is a rambling wood-frame, two-story Greek Revival-style building built in sections in 1841 by Mason Singleton, Jr. in the hamlet of Keene, near Nicholasville, Kentucky in Jessamine County. He and his wife Nancy owned and operated the hotel and tavern as a resort destination for the white sulphur springs nearby. During the cholera epidemic of 1848–1849 and outbreaks in the early 1850s, residents of Lexington came to the hotel to try to escape the spread of disease in the city. The Singletons operated the hotel until 1857, when they sold it to Alfred McTyre.</p><br>
<p>After the American Civil War, tourist travel decreased because of the poor economy. F.S. Wilson purchased the hotel in 1868 and operated it as a boarding house through the end of the century. In the 20th century until the 1960s, Wilson family descendants used the structure as a general store and residence.</p><br>
<p>The hotel is privately owned. A lessee operates a restaurant three days a week and is gradually restoring the building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The hotel and tavern were associated with two periods, the development of Jessamine County from 1825 to 1849 and 1850 to 1874. Mason Singleton, Jr. and his wife Nancy (Lafon) Singleton had the hotel built to attract travelers. The main part was styled as a Greek Revival wood-frame house. A two-story extension with additional rooms was added to the west.</p><br>
<p>During the 1840s and 1850s, the hotel attracted residents from Lexington, about five miles to the northeast, as a resort destination. The discovery of white sulphur water nearby about 1848 increased its desirability as a destination. Visitors came for what were believed to be the medicinal qualities of the springs. The hotel and tavern were part of the growth of facilities in the region to house tourists as well as commercial travelers along the major county roads. Captain G. L. Postlethwait was noted as its congenial host.</p><br>
<p>The nineteenth century had been marked by periodic outbreaks of epidemics of cholera and other infectious diseases, often carried by travelers on the major river systems. It was transmitted through water contaminated by the poor sanitation of the time. During the cholera epidemic of 1848–1849 and outbreaks in the early 1850s, people fled Lexington to stay at the Keene Springs Hotel and other outlying facilities. They hoped to escape the spread of disease in the city, as the cholera transmission vector was not then understood.</p><br>
<p>In 1857 the Singletons sold their property to A. McTyre and migrated to Texas by wagon. McTyre sold it to F.S. Wilson in 1868 after the American Civil War, when the hotel failed as a resort. It was operated for many years as a boarding house, known as The Maples for the trees in front of its main entrance on SR 1267. In the twentieth century, the Wilson family used the structure as a residence, with a general store, known as Wilson&#39;s, in the ground floor. Men in the community regularly gathered there to do business and exchange stories. The building is still owned by Wilson family descendants.</p><br>
<p>The hotel is listed among Kentucky historic sites; highway marker #1671 is posted in front on KY 1267 (also known as Keene-Troy Pike to the west of 169 and S. Elkhorn Road to the east). The building is at the northwest corner of the junction with Kentucky Route 169 (also called Pinchard Pike to the north of KY 1267). On July 5, 1984, the hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Singletons were each descendants of early pioneers in the county who had migrated from Virginia shortly before 1800. Mason&#39;s father, Mason Singleton Sr., came at age 8 with his parents Manoah and Sarah Craig Singleton as part of "The Travelling Church" of 500-600 Baptist and their slaves led in 1781 by Rev. Lewis Craig and Captain William Ellis from Spotsylvania County, Virginia to Kentucky. Mason Sr. built an L-shaped compact brick house in Jessamine County in 1810, which is still standing. The Lafon family were descended from French Huguenot immigrants, who settled in Virginia in 1700 above the falls of the James River.</p><br>
<p>In 1858 the Singletons migrated from Kentucky to Texas by wagons, taking with them the ten of their fifteen children still living at home, ranging in age from 23 to 6 years old. They first settled in Burnet County where Nancy Lafon Singleton died in 1862. Mason Jr. married three more times in succession, each time after he was widowed. He settled with sons in Travis County, closer to Austin, which became the capital.</p><br>
<p>As of June 2009, the Keene Springs Hotel is privately owned and used as a residence. The owners lease some of the space for a restaurant that provides home-style dinners three days a week.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Aurora, also known as Aurora Hotel, is a hotel built in 1917 on Stolp Island in Aurora, Illinois.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1915, a group of businessmen in Aurora, Illinois determined that the city required a first-class hotel. They formed the Aurora Island Hotel Corporation to oversee the project; it was a branch of the Aurora Island Development Corporation. The site chosen was previously a mill race and swimming hole. Construction on the eight-story building began in 1916. It was the first skyscraper on Stolp Island, Aurora&#39;s downtown. The 135-room hotel was opened for business on July 14, 1917. Edwin C. Faber, the general manager of the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad, was the president of the hotel. The structure was designed by H. Ziegler Dietz and built by George W. Caldwell of Caldwell & Marshall. Harry H. Dunbar took over operations in 1919. In 1928, he sold it to William O. Gosselin, who was in the process of building the Leland Hotel on the island. On June 3, 1982, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service. On September 10, 1986, it was listed as a contributing property to the Stolp Island Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The hotel is rectangular in shape. The exterior is brick and Indiana limestone. There is a light court in the west facade, creating an indentation. The building is roughly 70 x. The first floor is a limestone piano nobile, while the other floor exteriors are mostly brick. A stone course above the second story separates it from the other floors. The east and west facade feature five bays of windows (three are doubled), while the north and south feature seven (five doubled). On the west facade, which faces the Fox River, a two story porch is cantilevered over the river. Entrances on Galena Boulevard and Stolp Avenue feature double cut limestone balconies with stone balustrades. The Stolp Avenue entrance leads to the main lobby. Inside, the lobby features a pink Tennessee marble floor with a Tennessee dark timber base. Fluted columns are made of black walnut. A grand staircase leads to a second floor mezzanine. The building is supported by reinforced concrete columns with flat slab construction.</p><br>
<h2>North Island Apartments</h2><br>
<p>After falling into disrepair, a community effort led to its renovation in 1996 as apartments for senior citizens, and the building&#39;s name was changed to the North Island Apartments.</p><br>
<p>The Graham Building is a 1926 Prairie style building on Stolp Island in Aurora, Illinois. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Also, it is a contributing property in a historic district.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Graham Building was designed by George Grant Elmslie, a leading student of Louis Sullivan. It was one of five buildings Elmslie designed in Aurora, Illinois. The Graham Building is the tallest of the buildings he designed for the city. William Graham was a contractor who commissioned the building. He immigrated from Nova Scotia, Canada in the 1890s. He owned this building until his death in the 1950s. The National Park Service listed it on the National Register of Historic Places on March 19, 1982. On September 10, 1986, it was listed as a contributing property to the Stolp Island Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The eight-story building was designed the Prairie School architectural style. It is trapezoidal in shape, and is built with steel-reinforced concrete. The exterior is brick in a stretcher bond, with a polished granite first floor street facade. Casement windows with transoms are wood-framed. Windows on the side facades are standard double-hung windows. Little effort was put into the side facade because it was thought that other office buildings would soon be built adjacent to it. Entry doors are recessed 4 ft from the edge of the openings. The main facades at Stolp Avenue and the Fox River feature decorative terracotta and brick coursing designs below the second story windows.</p><br>
<p>The Acherkogel is a mountain in the Austrian Alps with a high summit. It is the northernmost three-thousander in the state of Tyrol. It dominates the village of Oetz in the lower valley of the River Ötz, where high rock faces rise to the northwest and southwest. To the west, a sharp ridge leads down to the Achplatte and Habicher Wand, another ridge strikes northeast to the high Maningkogel. Another sharp ridge heads southeast to the high Wechnerkogel. In the main, the Acherkogel has the character of a rocky peak, only to the north and east are there small snowfields.</p><br>
<p>It was first climbed on 24 August 1881 by Ludwig Purtscheller from the southeast and south ridge over a route that has not been used since. His climbing partner, the chamois hunter Franz Schnaiter from Kühtai, stayed behind on the south ridge when the climbing became very exposed.</p><br>
<h2>Routes to the summit</h2><br>
<p>The north face (UIAA II) was first traversed by Otto Melzer in 1893 and is considered the normal route today. The Bielefelder Hütte is the usual base camp.</p><br>
<p>The northeast ridge (UIAA III, K. Holzhammer, 1924) leads from the ridge between the Acherkogel and Maningkogel to the summit and is the most attractive climb. This route is normally tackled by crossing the Maningkogel coming from the Mittertal. The start point for this route is usually the Kühtai or Mittergrathütte.</p><br>
<p>The southern ridge (UIAA II, F. Hörtnagl/H. Schmotzer, 1899) is usually started at the Dortmunder Hütte. The route used by the first climbers to conquer the peak runs nearby, but is no longer passable.</p><br>
<p>The southwest face (UIAA II, F. Gstrein/F. Lantschner/M. Pfaundler 1891) used to be the normal route, but is now rarely used.</p><br>
<p>Less frequented routes are:</p><br>
<p>the southeast face (UIAA V-, P. Schillfahrt/N. Raich, 1975),</p><br>
<p>the western ridge (UIAA III, F. Lantschner, 1893) und</p><br>
<p>the northwest face to the western ridge (F. Lantschner, 1921)</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
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<p>The Garden Theater  is a 1,000-seat theater that was built in 1915 The city of Pittsburgh hopes to revitalize the theater, and it was placed on the List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations by Pittsburgh City Council on March 25, 2008.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1915, and designed by architect Thomas H. Scott and financed by David E. Park, a steel-industry scion and banker, the Garden Theater exhibits an Beaux Arts style. According to a 14-page Historical American Buildings Survey data sheet from 1978, "motion picture theaters became more substantial and dignified than the earlier Nickelodeons. The Garden Theater is a typical little-changed neighborhood movie house of this centurys second decade." Bennett Amdursky managed the theater from the time it opened, purchased it from Parks son in 1924, and ran it until his death in 1970. The theater "became the pride of his life," the historical survey states. "He worked at the theatre daily until his death in the spring of 1970, over a half-century later." After he died, things changed. In 1973, the pornographic film Deep Throat played there, and did quite well, and soon after the Garden became known as an adult movie theater. It was a porno theater for 34 years thereafter, until it closed in 2007. Now the city of Pittsburgh is trying to revitalize this historic area, and there are plans to restore this classic theater. The Garden Theater is on the List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations.</p><br>
<h2>Film depictions</h2><br>
<p>The 1979 sports/cult classic The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh used the Garden Theater and its surrounding neighborhood as the home of the films astrologist heroine Mona (Stockard Channing) to depict a gritty inner city gypsy fortune tellers residence.</p><br>
<p>The 1995 TV adaptation of August Wilson&#39;s The Piano Lesson used the Garden Theater in a scene where Boy Willie and Lymon attend a movie in Pittsburgh.</p><br>
<p>The 2010 film One for the Money starring Katherine Heigl uses the same exact buildings complete with Garden Theater marquee to once again depict a gritty inner city former burlesque district. This time, the theater and area around it are used to recreate a seedy Trenton, New Jersey, inner city neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>Redevelopment</h2><br>
<p>In 2007, the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh purchased the building for $1.1 million. The theater along with several other buildings including the former Masonic Hall located in the same block along North Ave, were later sold to a Philadelphia-based development company and construction on a mixed-use project that will contain restaurants, shops, and housing began in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Supreme Court Building in San Juan, Puerto Rico is an architecturally significant Modern-style building and the seat of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. It was built in 1955 and listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>It is a concrete building designed by Puerto Rican firm Toro-Ferrer with design consultation by Charles H. Warner, Jr. and Harold Eliot Leeds. The building projects over a reflecting pool, helping it to blend with the park surroundings in Luis Munoz Rivera Park.</p><br>
<p>The court building was opened in 1956 with USA Supreme Court chief justice Earl Warren as the main speaker. The building has been described as "extroverted...light and airy". Its circular courtroom was unusual.</p><br>
<p>The Supreme Court in Puerto Rico is the highest court in the commonwealth, and is the successor to court first established by the Spanish in 1832.</p><br>
<p>The Bredeick–Lang House  is a historic house on the western  side of Delphos, Ohio, United States. Built in 1859, A brick building with iron elements, it has seen few changes since the time of its construction, thus retaining its mid-nineteenth century appearance to the present time.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the Bredeick–Lang House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its well preserved historic architecture. Two other Delphos buildings – both of which lie on the Allen County side of the city – are listed on the National Register. Unlike the Bredeick–Lang House, neither of the other buildings features Italianate architecture: St. John&#39;s Catholic Church is a Romanesque Revival structure, while the Marks-Family House is a Queen Anne building.</p><br>
<p>The Crow Wing State Forest is a state forest located near Fairfield Township in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. It is about 20 mi northeast of the tourism-based town of Brainerd. Approximately 14,072 acre  of the forest of 31,307 acre is actively managed. The managed acres are split nearly equally between the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Crow Wing County, and the privately owned Potlatch Corp.</p><br>
<p>Prior to European settlement the area was mainly oak forests and barrens interspersed with pine stands and prairie. Today, Eastern white pine and Norway pine dominate, although stands of oak, aspen, and jack pine occur upland, with wet prairies and conifer bogs in the lowlands.</p><br>
<p>The interactive Bass Lake Nature Trail (either.75 or) introduces users to the forest dynamics present in the forest, including wildfire, snags and its effects on wildlife, and the oak canker, Diplodia quercina. Additional trails located throughout the forest accommodate separate activities, including 1.7 mi designated for hiking, 33 mi for mountain biking, 17.3 mi each for Class I and Class II All-terrain vehicle (ATV) use, and 17.3 mi for off-highway motorcycling. Picnicking, fishing, and hunting are also commonly practiced outdoor recreation activities. Waterways within the forest also allow canoers, kayakers, and boaters access to the Pine and Mississippi Rivers.</p><br>
<p>The Fells, also known as the Hay Estate, was originally the summer home of John Milton Hay, a 19th-century American statesman. It is located in Newbury, New Hampshire, on New Hampshire Route 103A, 2.2 mi  north of its junction with New Hampshire Route 103.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Hay served the United States in various capacities in a career that lasted over 40 years. He was Abraham Lincoln&#39;s private secretary during the Civil War and later a diplomat and a journalist. He became United States Secretary of State in 1898, serving in that position until his death in 1905.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1880s New Hampshire farms were becoming less profitable, due to more Western competition. As a result, the state of New Hampshire stepped in and encouraged Americas wealthy elite to buy up the farms and keep them afloat. In 1888, Hay bought 1,000 acre along the shore of Lake Sunapee, with the hope of establishing a summer colony for his group of friends, known as the "Five of Hearts". After Henry Adams wife, Clover, committed suicide, Hay reconsidered those plans. Instead, he used the land as a retreat to put distance between him and the stresses of Washington. Hay named his property "The Fells", a British term for a rocky upland pasture, due to his Scottish ancestry.</p><br>
<h3>House</h3><br>
<p>The first cottage on the property was constructed in 1891 under the direction of architect George Hammond. In 1897, a second guest cottage was added beside the original. The main entrance of the primary cottage faced the lake, as the Hay family arrived by boat. After Hay&#39;s death in 1905, the property was handed down to his son, Clarence Hay. Clarence and his wife Alice (née: Appleton) began to transform the rustic summer cottages into more of a lakeside mansion. Starting in 1915, under the supervision of local architect Prentice Sanger, Clarence and Alice had the house renovated into the Colonial Revival style. The breezeway connecting the two cottages was transformed into a formal hallway, so that the two cottages became part of one house. A garage was later added to accommodate the growing use of automobiles.</p><br>
<p>In 1960 the Hays donated 675 acre to the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. After Clarence Hay died in 1969, Alice Hay gave the remaining 164 acre to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, reserving 143 acre for use during her lifetime and that of her children. Alice continued returning each summer until her death in 1987. The remaining land then became the John Hay National Wildlife Refuge. Renovation of the house and land began in the 1990s. In 1996, "The Fells", a not-for-profit organization, was created to manage the house and surrounding lands. In 2008, The Fells bought the lands surrounding the main house from the Fish and Wildlife Service, through a land swap at Lake Umbagog in Coös County, New Hampshire.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an important early example of the summer estate movement of the late 19th century in New Hampshire, and for its association with Hay, a leading politician and diplomat, at the height of his career. The Fells is where John Hay wrote the Open Door Policy, which rejected colonizing China. Teddy Roosevelt visited The Fells in the summer of 1902, during a campaign trip. A maple tree was planted in what is now the veranda, during his visit. The tree is now referred to as the Roosevelt Tree.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>Today, The Fells is maintained by a large group of volunteers, as well as a garden staff and administrators. The house and surrounding lands are still open to the public. The Fells hosts many cultural and educational events.</p><br>
<h2>John Hay National Wildlife Refuge</h2><br>
<p>Established in 1987 for migratory bird conservation, the John Hay National Wildlife Refuge was split in 2008. The northern two-thirds of the property (containing the buildings and surrounding grounds) was transferred to The Fells in that year in exchange for lands in northern New Hampshire which were added to the Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge.</p><br>
<p>The remaining one-third of the property continues as the John Hay National Wildlife Refuge, comprising 80 acre of hardwoods and softwoods, a small meadow, Beech Brook, fens, and vernal pools. Management is focused on resource conservation, primarily for migratory birds and native habitats. The refuge also protects approximately 3,100 ft of undeveloped shoreline along Lake Sunapee.</p><br>
<p>The refuge is open to the public year-round during daylight hours. Recommended activities include wildlife observation and photography, and environmental education and interpretation. The 0.9 mi John Hay II Forest Ecology Trail offers a self-guided hike through the forest and along the shore of Lake Sunapee. Parking is at The Fells.</p><br>
<p>The Leipsic Village Hall was a historic village and township hall in the village of Leipsic in the northwestern part of the USA state of Ohio. Built in 1904, For a community as small as Leipsic , it was a very elaborate building: the tower was crowned with battlements, and corbelling was used to support a significant portion of the roofline. At one time, the building served a wide range of municipal purposes: besides meeting rooms for elected village and township leaders, it contained space for a jail, the fire station, a community center, municipal offices, a library, and the mayor&#39;s courtroom.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the "Leipsic City Hall," even though Ohio law provides that communities with fewer than five thousand residents are villages. Designation as a historic site on the federal level does not affect the rights of property owners, including their right to demolish the property; therefore, the village of Leipsic has been able to destroy the building. Although the site of the village hall is now occupied by a parking lot, the building remains listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Solis Glacier is a glacier on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 2.8 km in southeast-northwest direction and 1.8 km in southwest-northeast direction and draining the north slopes of Breznik Heights to flow northwestwards into Yankee Harbour.</p><br>
<p>The feature was named by the 1952-53 Chilean Antarctic Expedition after a member of the party that made a hydrographic survey of Yankee Harbour.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The glacier is centred at (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).</p><br>
<h2>Maps</h2><br>
<p>* L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.</p><br>
<p>* L.L. Ivanov. http://apcbg.org/image023.jpg Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.</p><br>
<p>The George P. MacNichol House, also known as the Ford-MacNichol House, is a house located at 2610 Biddle Avenue in Wyandotte, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The house is currently used as the main historic house museum of Wyandotte Museums. The Marx House is also owned by the Museums and used for art exhibits and community meeting space.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Edward Ford (also the builder of the Ford-Bacon House across the street) was the son of glass pioneer John Baptiste Ford and the founder of the Michigan Alkali Company in Wyandotte and the Ford Plate Glass Company in Toledo, Ohio, (later the Libbey–Owens–Ford Company). In 1896, Ford hired Malcomson & Higginbotham to design this home as wedding gift for his daughter Laura on her marriage to George P. MacNichol. MacNichol was a medical doctor, but was active in research and development work for both the Ford Plate Glass Company and the Michigan Alkali Company. The couple lived in the house for seven years before moving to Toledo to be closer to family.</p><br>
<p>After the MacNichols moved, the house was purchased by Jeremiah Drennen, a local lawyer. The Drennen family owned the house until the 1970s, when it was purchased by Yvonne Latta. Latta restored the house, and in 1977, it was purchased by the city of Wyandotte.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The George P. MacNichol House is a two-and-one-half-story wood-framed rectangular-plan gabled Queen Anne house. It has 32 rooms and 6600 feet of interior space, with 6 fireplaces, 65 windows, and 53 doors. The roof and gables are steeply pitched. The front facade features a one-story wraparound porch with Tuscan columns and under-eave latticework, and a corner turret with conical roof. Most of the house is sheathed in clapboards, with the gable ends and upper portion of the tower covered in shingles.</p><br>
<p>The house is significant as an example of the residential architecture of the firm of Malcomson & Higginbotham, and for the houses association with some of the communitys most prominent people.</p><br>
<p>The Ford–Bacon House is located at 45 Vinewood in Wyandotte, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1987</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Edward Ford (also the builder of the George P. MacNichol House across the street) was the son of plate glass pioneer John Baptiste Ford and the founder of the Michigan Alkali Company in Wyandotte and the Ford Plate Glass Company in Toledo, Ohio, (later the Libbey–Owens–Ford Company). In 1897, Ford hired Malcomson & Higginbotham to design this house for himself and his wife Carrie. When Mark Bacon died in 1942, Mary gave the house to the Wyandotte Public School System. The building now serves as the public library.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Ford–Bacon House is a four-story Queen Anne house built from buff-colored brick with red sandstone trim. The house measures 62 feet by 95 feet, sits on four city lots, and contains 27 rooms and 11 fireplaces. A wide porch extends along the front and side of the house, and the hipped roof was originally covered with black slate. A four-story bell tower is located in the rear, and the house features gabled dormers, a two-story side bay, and square brick chimneys.</p><br>
