<p>Gledić mountains  is a mountain range in central Serbia, between cities of Kragujevac, Jagodina and Trstenik. Its highest peak Samar has an elevation of 922 m above sea level. It is popular with mountain walkers. Of historical, cultural and architectural values are monasteries from the 15th and 16th centuries: Kamenac, Kalenić and Ljubostinja.</p><br>
<p>Products: Black Locust honey, trees, sheep, and wild life. Many village houses in village hamlets like Slatina and Jošovići (Village of Čestin, administrative area of Knić) are over 200 years old. It is easy to travel through the whole range via a recently paved road from Kragujevac (via Grošnica) to Trstenik near Vrnjačka Banja. Mountain roads are good for mountain bikes, cars, and four-wheel drive vehicles. There is a mountain lodge in Čestin (near Adžine Livade, 16km from Kragujevac) and a private accommodation in an inn in the village of Gledić which is over one hundred years old. The mountain range accommodates numerous hunting reserves.</p><br>
<p>A monument built in 1932 to the glory soldiers who gave their lives in the Balkan Wars (1912-13) and World War I stands in Čestin (Adžine Livade).</p><br>
<p>The Gledić mountains are sparsely populated as most of its inhabitants have moved to nearby cities throughout the times, but very many have maintained their lands and houses, and visit them during weekends, while many return there in their retirement. Their small holdings are well maintained; various crops are grown, honey is often produced and trees are abundant for firewood. Mobile phones have good connections throughout.</p><br>
<p>Moncayo is a 15 km long and about 7 km wide mountain massif giving name to the Tarazona y el Moncayo comarca, Aragon, Spain. The Moncayo&#39;s highest summit, San Miguel , is the highest point in the 500 km long Sistema Ibérico.</p><br>
<p>The Moncayo is located between the provinces of Zaragoza in Aragon and Soria in Castile and León. The ridge&#39;s highest summits are usually covered in snow between October and May every year.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Besides the San Miguel, the Moncayo massif includes two other peaks that are almost identical and are located close together, Cerro San Juan (2,283 m) and Peña Lobera (2226 m).</p><br>
<p>This mountain was mentioned as Mons Caius by Marcus Valerius Martialis in Ancient Roman times.</p><br>
<p>The nearest large town to Moncayo is Tarazona, with many old and historical buildings, located on the massif&#39;s northern side 10 km away from it. There are also smaller villages closer to the mountain.</p><br>
<p>The Sierra de Nava Alta and Sierra del Bollón are eastern prolongations of the Moncayo Massif.</p><br>
<h2>Hiking</h2><br>
<p>Moncayo is one of the most popular hiking places in Spain and there is public transport to reach the mountain.</p><br>
<p>There are few buses during the winter season, but almost hourly connections in the summer time.</p><br>
<p>From the village of San Martín de la Virgen de Moncayo starts a road for hikers, ending at the village of Agramonte.</p><br>
<p>The lower ranges of the mountain are covered by forest, including oak trees and spiky shrubs.</p><br>
<p>There is a wide path at the northern side of the mountain zigzagging upwards.</p><br>
<p>In the north east corner of the mountain is a mountain hut made of stone which can be used as shelter in emergency situations.</p><br>
<p>The shelter is located at the car park north of the Lobera peak before the slope.</p><br>
<p>At the north west side of the mountain is a tiny river.</p><br>
<p>One can ascend the highest peak going up from Agramonte or from the eastern side of the mountain range, also via Lobera peak. Going up takes about three hours.</p><br>
<p>There are a few loose stone sections which can be avoided when following the paths. On the top of the highest peak one can see the Pyrenees in clear weather.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>Alcazaba mountain is 3371 m high mountain in Spain.</p><br>
<p>It is the third highest mountain of the Sierra Nevada range and the fifth in the Iberian Peninsula.</p><br>
<p>The impressive north face can be seen from the town</p><br>
<p>of Granada.</p><br>
<p>The name Alcazaba derives from the word fortification.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is located between the Mulhacén and</p><br>
<p>Puntal de Vacares mountains, and is one of the most</p><br>
<p>isolated places in the Sierra Nevada.</p><br>
<p>Ascent requires a minimum of one</p><br>
<p>night stay. Alcazaba can be accessed from any direction,</p><br>
<p>but going through the north face is a technical climb.</p><br>
<p>It can also be walked up from the south.</p><br>
<p>There are footpath nets from the villages of Pampaneira, Bubión, Capileira</p><br>
<p>and Trevélez and also from the village of</p><br>
<p>Güéjar Sierra at the north side of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>All the paths start an unusually long distance</p><br>
<p>from the mountain.</p><br>
<p>The shortest walk is about 20 km.</p><br>
<p>The only sources of water are Rio Genil</p><br>
<p>on the north side of the mountain,</p><br>
<p>Rio Poqueira on the south west side of the Mulhacen</p><br>
<p>and there are also tiny rivers on the north side of</p><br>
<p>Puntal de Vacares mountain, at Prado de la Mina.</p><br>
<h2>Mountain huts</h2><br>
<p>The most used mountain hut is the Poqueira hut</p><br>
<p>at 2500 m altitude, on the western flank</p><br>
<p>of the Mulhacen mountain.</p><br>
<p>Poqueira hut is staffed and places are limited but can be booked in advance.</p><br>
<p>From there, one can continue over the Mulhacen</p><br>
<p>mountain and down to Siete Lagunas,</p><br>
<p>before ascending the Alcazaba.</p><br>
<p>There are also a few routes leading from</p><br>
<p>Laguna Mosca through the west face,</p><br>
<p>but these are physically more demanding than the south face.</p><br>
<p>There is a tiny stone hut</p><br>
<p>on the western side of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>Refugio Campinuela is located roughly in the middle of Trevelez</p><br>
<p>and Alcazaba.</p><br>
<p>There is also a hut at the Cueva Secreta, approached from Güéjar Sierra.</p><br>
<p>Cueva Secreta is actually a long cave</p><br>
<p>providing shelter for more than 20 climbers.</p><br>
<p>Some climbers also prefer the north east route,</p><br>
<p>using a hut near El Real or natural caves</p><br>
<p>at the Prado de la Mina.</p><br>
<p>From here the remains of two volcanoes can be seen.</p><br>
<h2>Around Alcazaba and climbing</h2><br>
<p>Alcazaba has a steep north face going straight down about 1000 m.</p><br>
<p>There are two paths going through the face in the middle from west to east.</p><br>
<p>These paths may have been used to collect water. Small rivers can be found at</p><br>
<p>the Prado de la Mina. To the east side are three lakes</p><br>
<p>under the name Lagunas de la Calderetas.</p><br>
<p>At the wide top terrain are two peaks</p><br>
<p>at the south side of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>Siete Lagunas (the Seven Lakes) are</p><br>
<p>located between Mulhacen and Alcazaba.</p><br>
<p>During the summer months good hiking</p><br>
<p>boots are needed, because of the walking distances involved and the nature of the terrain in this area.</p><br>
<p>Alcazaba gets usually covered by snow</p><br>
<p>at the beginning of December, therefore crampons and other winter climbing gear such as climbing axes are essential.</p><br>
<p>There are plenty of challenges on this mountain</p><br>
<p>as one can walk, scramble and climb</p><br>
<p>on it.</p><br>
<p>One of the features of these mountains are that they have the longest climbing season</p><br>
<p>in Europe due to their southern latitude.</p><br>
<p>Nights can become very cold,</p><br>
<p>because of the freezing sea winds.</p><br>
<p>There are usually some ibex to be seen.</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>The IOOF Opera House in Hampton, Nebraska, United States, is a 40 ft by 65 ft building that was built in 1880 and was leased to the International Order of Odd Fellows  chapter in 1893. In 1988, when it was nominated for the National Register of Historic Places, it was the only two-story building in the retail business area of Hampton.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant at the state level in the areas of the performing arts; entertainment/recreation; and social history, as a well-preserved example of an opera house building in Nebraska.</p><br>
<p>Its decline was partly due to the fact that Aurora, Nebraska, 6 miles away, and Grand Island, Nebraska, 26 miles away, offered more entertainment choices to car-owning residents.</p><br>
<p>It is a "two-part commercial block" building that served historically as a meeting hall, as a theater, as a specialty store, as a music facility, and as a financial institution. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Grotte du Vallonnet is an archaeological site located near Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, between Monaco and Menton, in France, that was first discovered in 1958. Stone tools found at the site have been dated to between 1 and 1,05 million years old, making it one of the earliest sites of human settlement known in Europe.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The cave of Vallonnet is located on the western slope of Cap Martin, about 800 m above the Bay of Menton, at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the Alpes-Maritimes Department in France. It opens onto a ravine with a small creek, the Vallonnet, which drops down to the Bay. The mountain is a massif of calcite-dolomitic rock formed during the Jurassic period, covered with puddingstone and hardened sands of the Miocene. The porch of the cave is narrow and low, and opens to a corridor 5 m in length, followed by a 4 m high room.</p><br>
<h2>Discovery</h2><br>
<p>The cave was discovered in 1958 by 13 year old Marianne Poire, who had regularly visited the cave and collect pieces of calcite and one day showed them to René Pascal, an employee of a Monte Carlo casino and an amateur prehistorian. Marianne then lead her parents, Pascal and others to the entry of the cave. The first systematic excavations were carried out in 1962.</p><br>
<h3>Layers of sediment</h3><br>
<p>The excavations found five distinct layers of sediment in the cave:</p><br>
<p>Layer I was a floor of stalagmites, which could be dated between 1.4 and 1.370 million years BC. Analysis of the pollen found in the layer showed it was located in a forested landscape, where platanes were dominant.</p><br>
<p>Layer II was composed of beach sand, mixed with seashells and fish bones, dated to a little over 1.05 million years. The types of fish bones found showed that at this time the cave was washed by a tropical or subtropical sea. The pollen found indicated that the landscapes were covered with pine forest, and that the climate at that time was relatively warm, with mild winters.</p><br>
<p>Layer III was the thickest layer (1.5 metres) composed of sand mixed with stones and rocks from the pudding which hung over the cave. Mixed into this layer were numerous animal bones, either brought there by man or by predatory animals. The pollen indicated a drier climate at that time, dominated by clusters of white oak trees. This layer was dated by magnetostratigraphy; the studies showed that the layer corresponded with the Jaramillo period of direct geomagnetic polarity, between the periods of inverse geomagnetic polarity of Matuyama. This allowed the archaeologists to date the layer to between 1.050 and 1 million years.</p><br>
<p>About one million years ago the entry to the cave was emptied by erosion, leaving only the sediments in the deepest part of the interior chamber. The fourth layer, A thick stalagmitic floor, formed over these sediments, and was dated by Electron paramagnetic resonance to between 900,000 and 890,000 years. Pollen showed that the climate of this time was cooler and much wetter than the present climate.</p><br>
<p>The fifth and highest layer of sediment is composed of different sands from earlier layers of the cave, which were deposited during the successive wet periods which followed.</p><br>
<h3>Animal species</h3><br>
<p>Layer III contained the most important findings in the cave; a collection of animal bones, and 11 simple tools used by human visitors. It appears that the cave was used as a dining room by large carnivores, notably the bear, the panther, the saber-tooth tiger, and the large hyena. These brought to the cave the carcasses of herbivores; deer, bison, small bovides, rhinoceros, horses, and boars. When the predators were not in the cave, it was used by humans, who left the tools.</p><br>
<p>The bones of 25 different species of mammals were found in the cave, all characteristic of the lower Pleistocene age. Besides those named above, bones were found of Eurasian jaguar (Panthera gombaszoegensis), the leopard, (Acinonyx pardinensis) the meridional elephant (Mammuthus meridionalis), and others. Other species were found from the middle Pleistocene period, including an early species of wolf (Canis mosbachensis), an early fox (Alopex praeglacialis), and a cave lynx (Lynx spelaea).</p><br>
<h3>Tools</h3><br>
<p>About 100 basic tools made by man were found in the cave. Most were made of calcaire (limestone), less often of sandstone, with a small number of tools made of quartz and flint. Percussion, or pounding, tools, were the most frequent. These included chopping tools, of poor quality. None of the tools had been reworked to improve their quality. The middle part of a femur bone of a bison was found which showed sign of being crafted into a pounding tool.</p><br>
<p>While most of the bones in the cave showed that they had been broken by the teeth of predators, a number of bones had marks that showed that they had been broken by these early tools. It appears that the early human visitors to Vallonnet cave used their stone tools to break bones and eat the marrow inside.</p><br>
<p>There were no indications of fire in the cave; fire had apparently not yet been domesticated. It appears that the people who visited the cave were not primarily hunters, but scavengers, who lived on the meat of animals killed by predators. There were also no signs that they lived in the cave.,</p><br>
<h2>Comparison with other archaeological sites</h2><br>
<p>Gona, Afar, Ethiopia. Oldest known man-made stone tools, 2.55 million years BC.</p><br>
<p>Dmanisi, Georgia. Remains of Homo georgicus, oldest fossils of man in Europe, 1.8 million years BC.</p><br>
<p>Basin of Gaudix-Baza, Barranco Leon, Fuenta Nueva Three, Sima del Elefante, Atapuerca, Spain. 1.1 million–1.2 million years BC.</p><br>
<p>Grotte du Vallonnet. 1 million–1.05 million years BC.</p><br>
<p>Gran Dolina, Atapuerca, Spain. 780,000 years BC.</p><br>
<p>Terra Amata, Nice, France. 480,000 BC.</p><br>
<p>Lascaux Caves, Dordogne, France. 17,300 BC.</p><br>
<p>The Hose Station No. 7 is located along a busy thoroughfare in a light industrial area of the west end of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first group of volunteer firefighters in Davenport were organized in 1856 and called the Independent Fire Engine and Hose Company. The city’s first firehouse, Hose Station No. 1, was built on Perry Street in 1877 for the Fire King Engine 2nd Hose Company. Around the turn of the 20th century, the city built other small hose stations throughout the city such as Hose Station No. 7. They were built in response to the East Davenport Fire of 1901. This building housed one of seven hose companies and two ladder companies in Davenport&#39;s fire department. The company had a crew of four that was headed by Capt. Christian R. Thiessen. The building has held several different businesses after it was replaced by larger, more modern fire stations.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The fire station was built in the Renaissance Revival style in 1908. Hose Station No. 7 features a rectangular plan, a hipped roof, bracketed eaves, a short tower in which the hoses dried, and a brick exterior with brick quoining. A single pair of firehouse doors, behind which the firefighting equipment was stored, fronted Fourth Street. The pedestrian entrance is off Fillmore Street. All of the windows are rather large and rectangular in shape. The pair of windows on the main facade&#39;s second floor has stylized Gibbs surrounds that stand out against the buildings lighter brick walls. An addition was built onto the east side of the building in later years.</p><br>
<p>Chisenbury Camp is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Wiltshire, England. The site comprises a small circular 5 acre enclosure that was unfortunately levelled in 1931. A post was part excavated while being demolished. The site was partially excavated in the 19th century and there were finds of ceramics, worked stone, worked animal bone and remains of human burial.</p><br>
<p>The site currently lies within the bounds of a small grass strip airfield, the former RAF Upavon, and is run through by the perimeter access road on the southern side of the field.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The site is located at, to the southeast of the village of Upavon, in the county of Wiltshire. The site lies at a level of approximately 160mAOD.</p><br>
<p>The larger Iron Age hill fort of Casterley Camp lies close by to the west. There are also a number of other Iron Age earthworks in the area, including Lidbury Camp (scheduled monument no.10043) to the southeast, but this is too small to be a hill fort or plateau fort, measuring just 90m across. There are also numerous ditches, barrows, trackways, field systems, and tumuli in the area.</p><br>
<p>The Cork Hill District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The historic district covers 18.7 acre and stretches from the campus of Palmer College of Chiropractic on the west to the Sacred Heart Cathedral Complex on the east. It is the western half of a neighborhood of the same name. When listed, the district included 12 contributing buildings. It includes Greek Revival, Italianate, and Victorian architecture. The property was covered in a 1982 study of Davenport MRA and/or its 1983 follow-on., </p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Cork Hill itself is the western section of a larger area of Davenport known as the LeClaire Reserve, named after the landowner and city founder Antoine LeClaire. It was a large Yankee-Irish neighborhood on the east side of town. The houses of the Cork Hill District reflect the long history of development of the LeClaire Reserve. The area developed in an unsystematic fashion that resulted in a mixture of architectural forms and styles on every block. LeClaire himself built his home in the Reserve in 1855 and St. Margaret’s Church in 1856. Other prominent families, such as the French’s, also moved to the area. The family of industrialists were also patrons of the arts and literature in the city. Alice French, whose pen name was Octave Thanet, was known as the first Iowa author with a national reputation.</p><br>
<p>The Irish started moving to Davenport after the Great Famine in Ireland of the 1840s and 1850s. Because large numbers of Irish immigrants settled around St. Margaret’s Church, the area became known as Cork Hill. Many of the Irish who located here were laborers who worked for the railroads or in the mills along the Mississippi River. Most of the houses belonging to the Irish families were replaced at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century by larger dwellings. However, because of this early association with the Irish the area surrounding Sacred Heart Cathedral, which replaced St. Margaret’s in 1891, continues to be referred to as Cork Hill.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The homes built in the Cork Hill District reflect most of the major architectural styles of the 19th century. They are, however, simpler than the homes found in the Hamburg Historic District, the former German neighborhood which is located on the bluff to the west. The contrast shows how the various styles were adapted to suit different income levels and tastes. For the most part, the houses here are two stories tall and frame construction. They are mostly single-family dwellings or were at the time they were built. Double houses were also built in the district and distinguishable by their double entrances.</p><br>
<p>The earliest houses on Cork Hill were built in the Greek Revival style that was popular in early Davenport architecture and continued as the city matured. The Italianate style started to appear in the 1850s, and its use was popularized by LeClaire&#39;s house. It was followed by the Queen Anne and Gothic Revival styles. As the 19th century came to a close the Colonial Revival style became more popular, as did the American Craftsman and Victorian styles. A couple of houses were also influenced by the Prairie School. While most of the homes were built as single family structures, there is also a significant number of double houses on Cork Hill.</p><br>
<p>Sidbury Hill, or Sidbury Camp, is the site of an Iron Age bivallate hillfort located in Wiltshire. The site is sub-triangular in shape, and approximately 17 acres in area, and is constructed on the site of a neolithic settlement. The hill offers excellent defensive slopes on all sides, which have been supplemented by the double ditch and rampart earthworks. The settlement and hillfort were partially excavated in the 19th century and the 1950s. There were finds of pottery and other artefacts. A straight, well defined ditch extends from the main entrance on the northwest side. This earthwork is one element in an extensive system of boundaries founded on and around Sidbury Hill. The southern section is straight and well preserved. A neolithic settlement site was discovered during the excavation in the 1950s, being of a section of the south-east rampart of the hill fort. A number of flint flakes and tools were recovered.</p><br>
<p>The site is a scheduled national monument no.10064. The site was wooded, but the trees planted in the 1960s are now being removed, (since Sept 2002) and the area is being allowed to revert to the natural chalk downland. Access to the site is difficult as it is on, or near, Ministry of Defence land, and there are many tank tracks and occasional artillery firing in the area. There are also numerous ditches, barrows, trackways, field systems, and tumuli in the area.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The site is located at, to the northwest of the small town of Tidworth, in the county of Wiltshire. The hill has a summit of 223mAOD. There are public footpaths and bridleways in the area, however the surrounding land is managed by the MOD and access to the hill fort may be restricted at times.</p><br>
<p>The USA Courthouse and Post Office in Huntsville, Alabama was built in 1932. It reflects Classical Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The building was one of many built pursuant to the authority of the Public Buildings Act of 1926. It was designed by a collaboration of architects: Edgar Love and Miller, Martin and Lewis. It is generally believed that Louis Simon, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, exerted a great deal of control over the design.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed as a post office, courthouse and federal office building. When the Post Office moved out, many of the spaces, especially on the first floor and lobby area, were significantly altered. The building is one of only two in the central business district in the Neo-Classical Revival style. It was listed on the National Register as part of the Downtown Huntsville Multiple Resource Area.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural description</h2><br>
<p>The structure is a three-story Greek Revival–style building. The building has buff brick walls and is ornamented with a limestone water table and an entablature. The main (south) elevation is visually divided into three bays by a central limestone projecting temple form. The temple form consists of four limestone engaged pilasters with simple Tuscan caps supporting an unenriched entablature. The unenriched entablature continues completely around the building at the 3rd-floor level. The main entry door is in the center of the bay. The west elevation is simpler in detail. Visually it is also divided into three bays, with the center bay being defined by brick engaged pilasters carrying simple Tuscan caps.</p><br>
<p>Both the north and east elevations are buff brick and ornamented with limestone. An unenriched limestone entablature spans the east elevation at the 3rd floor level and wraps around the east and west projecting wings at the north elevation. The north elevation continues to serve as the loading dock area at the 1st floor, though no longer for the postal service. At the 2nd- and 3rd-floor levels the east and west wings project and the recessed area forms a small, light court where the windows of the courtroom are revealed. The original east elevation is somewhat obscured by a buff brick addition at the 1st-floor level. The east elevation repeats the same ornamentation as the west, with the four brick-engaged pilasters with Tuscan caps supporting the unenriched entablature. However, due to the addition, only the tops of the pilasters are visible. It appears that the east elevation was originally identical to the west.</p><br>
<p>The main, original courtroom is located in the center of the 2nd floor. A wood panel wainscot to 4-foot height encircles the room. The wainscot is ornamented with fluted columns at 2-foot intervals, thus the wainscot mirrors the fluted pilasters of the walls and matches the original courtroom furniture. The north and south walls are accented with fluted plaster engaged pilasters. The plaster crown mold is in the form of a band with blue rectangular fields highlighted with gold. Above each pilaster the blue rectangle is larger and contains a scroll design; between the pilasters the rectangles are smaller and have a sheaf design. Perhaps the most striking feature of the courtroom is the mural behind the rostrum. The mural, painted by artist Xavier Gonzales, is Belgian linen on canvas using zinc white, earth and cadmium colors. The setting is characteristic of the environment of Huntsville and includes five figures symbolizing different phases of society. The figures represent youth, scientific agriculture, work, artistic endeavors and motherhood. The mural was commissioned by the Section of Painting and Sculpture and was installed October 27, 1937.</p><br>
<p>Of the 18 restrooms originally in the building, eight are still in nearly original condition. The original restrooms are the public restrooms off the 2nd- and 3rd-floor corridors; the private restroom in the 1st floor, southwest, Judges Chambers (formerly the Post Masters office); the 2nd-floor Judge&#39;s Chambers private restroom; and the restrooms in the Jury and Petit Jury rooms of the 3rd floor.</p><br>
<p>There is a large lobby, the former postal lobby, on the first floor and smaller lobbies on 2nd and 3rd floors. Functional public corridors still exist on the 2nd and 3rd floors; the original first floor corridor has been converted into the court tenant space. The tenant spaces are located on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors. On the 1st floor are the newly finished courtroom and another contemporary courtroom, the visiting Judges Suite and the Clerk of Courts offices. The main courtroom is on the 2nd floor and the tenant space here is given over to a Judges Suite and library on the west side, and the USA Marshall&#39;s office and detention cell on the east. The 3rd-floor tenant space at the outside of a single loaded U-shaped corridor contains jury rooms, and other related court offices. Typically, all the tenant spaces have been altered to some degree. The basement still serves primarily as the service, mechanical and storage area of the building, and there are also a few small offices here.</p><br>
<p>City Market is an historic building located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The idea behind the City Market was to bring the city’s merchants and their goods together in a single location. However, the merchants had to vacate their individual stores in order to occupy a stall in the City Market. To that end the city hired Thomas W. McClelland to build the public market on Fifth Street in 1872. The facility was damaged in a fire in 1873, and some of the walls still show burn marks.</p><br>
<p>The market idea, however, did not last long because there was little interest from merchants. The west end of the building, whose address is 130 West Fifth Street, became the police station in 1877. At any rate, the east section no longer exists. Starting in 1925 the police department and the city’s ambulance service started sharing the building starting in 1925. Bridewell House of Detention and Patrol Station No. 1 remained until about 1940 and the ambulance service left sometime in the 1940s. The city&#39;s Parking Division was also headquartered here.</p><br>
<p>The building was vacant for a number of years. In 2008 Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mississippi Valley moved into the building. They raised $650,000 to renovate the building and teamed with the Tri-City Building Trades Council who used the renovation as an educational project.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The City Market is a single-story, brick building constructed on a stone foundation. The structure is rectangular in shape and is topped by a gable roof, which faces Main Street. It contains a mixture of Romanesque Revival and Greek Revival elements. The Romanesque may be found in the rounded arches and decorative brick work on the façade fronting Main Street. It also features brick pilasters and a stepped frieze that organizes the facade into three bays.</p><br>
<p>The north and south elevations are more functional and less decorative. Both elevations contain windows, garage doors, and a pedestrian entrance. Window openings feature segmentally arched headers, stone sills, and double-hung windows with 6/6 light configurations. The pedestrian entrances are similar in form, while the garage doors have flat span lintels, with glass transoms above the door. As mentioned above the eastern end of the original building has been removed. The corbiestep parapet wall of the roofline and ghost marks indicate the existence of the former space.</p><br>
<p>The Woodmen of the World Building in Nacogdoches, Texas was built in 1923. It is a two-part commercial block building. Its third floor served historically as a meeting hall of the local Woodmen of the World chapter, which was organized in 1908, until 1975 when the chapter moved elsewhere. Its first and second floors were leased to businesses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>It is a three-story building constructed with load-bearing masonry walls. It was built at cost of $15,656.00 to contractor Moore Construction Co. for the structure and $10,000 to R. W. Parrish for woodwork. Its NRHP nomination asserts that it is an "outstanding" example of early 20th-century architecture in Nagodoches and that it "is most noted for its strong vertical expression. This is established by the use of 3-story piers on each comer and in the center bay that rise to a stepped parapet, and the vertical muntins found on all windows."</p><br>
<p>Casparus F. Pruyn House is a historic home located in the hamlet of Newtonville within the town of Colonie in Albany County, New York. It is a two story, rectangular five bay wide, center entrance dwelling in a late Federal and early Greek Revival style. It was built between 1824 and 1836. Pruyn was rent collection agent for Stephen Van Rensselaer and, after Stephens death, William Van Rensselaer who had inherited the "East Manor" in Rensselaer County. From 1839 to 1844 Pruyn resided at the Patroon Agents House and Office at Rensselaer and was a central figure in the Anti-Rent War at Rensselaerswyck. Also on the property are a contributing carriage house, privy, and smoke house. It is open to the public as the historical and cultural arts center for the Town of Colonie. The Verdoy Schoolhouse was moved to the grounds in 1996.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The New Hampton Town House  is a historic meeting house at the junction of Town House Road and Dana Hill Road in New Hampton, New Hampshire. Since 1799, it has served as the community&#39;s town hall, and is one of three surviving 18th-century town halls in Belknap County still used for that purpose. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The New Hampton Town House stands in what is now a relatively rural context, on the north side of Town House Road at its junction with Dana Hill Road. It is a vernacular single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It is covered by a side gable roof, with brick chimneys at either end. The main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a gabled portico supported by square posts. The entry is flanked by paired Greek Revival pilasters, with simpler pilasters found at the building corners. A series of small ells extend to the rear of the main block. The interior of the main block is principally occupied by a large chamber, with the additions providing space for a stage, kitchen, and other facilities. The stage curtain has been painted with a depiction of the building.</p><br>
<p>New Hampton was incorporated in 1777, and its early town meetings were apparently held in local homes or barns. The town voted in 1798 to appropriate funds for the construction of a meeting house, which was also to be funded by the sale of pews. By 1799 the building was sufficiently complete to house town meetings. As built, it was a typical late-18th century meeting house, with a second story gallery space and outside stairs. Because the building&#39;s religious function was dedicated to the Congregationalists, the local Free Will Baptists in the town built their own meeting house nearby, the Dana Meeting House.</p><br>
<p>The building was used for religious services by a declining Congregationalist group that finally disbanded in 1842. There is some evidence that a Baptist congregation also used the building for a time, but there was repeated discussion within the town over the need to update the building beginning in the 1840s. These discussions were finally acted upon in 1872, when the gallery level was removed along with the outside stairs, and the roof was lowered to its present height. The building was electrified in the 1930s, and the stage and kitchen were added in 1940.</p><br>
<p>The Gordon-Nash Library is a private non-profit library at 69 Main Street in New Hampton, New Hampshire. Founded in 1887, the library is "the only private non-profit library in New Hampshire that is open to all residents, students and sojourners," and effectively functions as New Hampton&#39;s public library. It is housed in an 1895 Renaissance Revival building that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The Gordon-Nash Library is located in the village center of New Hampton, on the south side of Main Street opposite the New Hampton School. The building consists of the original 1895 building, to which several additions have been made to the rear. The original building is a single-story masonry structure, built out of gold-colored bricks and covered by a hip roof. It has a three-part front facade, whose defining element is a central projecting hip-roof section. It has a central arched entrance, with a brownstone surround including pilasters and an entablature above the keystoned arch. The outer left section has three sash windows sharing a brownstone lintel, which are separated from transom-like windows by a similar header. The outer right section only has square windows in the transom positions.</p><br>
<p>The library was established on paper in 1887 by Stephen Gordon Nash, whose childhood home had been home for a time to a private subscription library founded in 1818. Nash died in 1894, having purchased land for the library building, but made no further steps toward creating the institution. In his will, he dedicated $10,000 for the construction of a building, and left the residue of his estate as an endowment for its maintenance. The building was erected in 1895 to a design by James E. Fuller of Fuller & Delano, architects based in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was the first purpose-built library building in Belknap County.</p><br>
<p>St Mary & St Lawrence&#39;s Church in Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, England, was built in the 13th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It was declared redundant on 1 October 1984, and was vested in the Trust on 26 March 1986.</p><br>
<p>The stone and flint church is on the banks of the River Ebble and accessed down a narrow lane, then across a stream and up a steep bank on foot. The chancel dates from the 14th, but was built on the site of an earlier church. The tower is from the 15th, while the nave was rebuilt in the 18th century. The three-stage west tower has a pyramidal tiled roof and is supported by diagonal buttresses. Around the church walls are a collection of gargoyles.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the church includes a 14th-century font and box pews with colonnaded tops. The stained glass in the east window was installed by the studio of Charles Eamer Kempe in 1884. The stalls and pews are from the 17th century. Memorials include a marble plaque to George Taunton and a wall tablet to Elizabeth Hill who died in 1715.</p><br>
<p>In 2012 Loyd Grossman, who is the chairman of the Churches Conservation Trust, visited the church and presented certificates yo local school children who had researched the history of the church.</p><br>
<p>There is a large Yew tree in the churchyard with a girth of over 11 ft. Among the graves and tombs in the churchyard is a chest tomb to Anthony Bradbury who dies in 1845.</p><br>
<p>Allen Island or Allens Island is a 450 acre private island which is part of St. George, Knox County, Maine. it is located near the southeastern end of Muscongus Bay, roughly midway between the southernmost parts of the St. Georges mainland, and Monhegan Island.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The island is the largest of a small cluster of islands marking the southeastern extent of Muscongus Bay. To its northwest is Benner Island, from which it is separated by a relatively narrow channel, and to the east, across a wider channel, is Burnt Island (not to be confused with Burnt Island in Boothbay Harbor, where Burnt Island Light is located). The geographic features match those described in James Rosier&#39;s account of the exploratory expedition of George Waymouth, in which landing and exploration of an island is made.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the island was purchased by Betsy Wyeth, wife of painter Andrew Wyeth. The island had lost its full-time residents when it was purchased by Wyeth and had become "a seasonal home for two fishing families living in decaying houses on the fringe of the fast-encroaching spruce forest".</p><br>
<h2>Archaeological site</h2><br>
<p>The island contains archaeologically sensitive prehistoric sites. It was surveyed by the state in the early 1980s, seeking confirming evidence of Waymouth&#39;s expedition landing, and a stratified Contact Period/Middle Woodland site was identified. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 15, 1983.</p><br>
<p>Worlebury Camp  is the site of an Iron Age hillfort on Worlebury Hill, north of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. The fort was designed for defence, as is evidenced by the number of walls and ditches around the site. Several large triangular platforms have been uncovered around the sides of the fort, lower down on the hillside. Nearly one hundred storage pits of various sizes were cut into the bedrock, and many of these had human remains, coins, and other artefacts in them. During the 19th and 20th centuries the fort has suffered damage and been threatened with complete destruction on multiple occasions. The site has been designated a Scheduled monument; it falls within the Weston Woods Local Nature Reserve which was declared to Natural England by North Somerset Council in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In The Ancient Entrenchments and Camps of Gloucestershire, Edward J. Burrow mentions that probably either the Goidel or Brython people initially built Worlebury Camp. The Belgae people subsequently overthrew the initial inhabitants and occupied the camp for a time, but they were finally destroyed at the hands of the Romans.</p><br>
<p>Worlebury Camp has been explored at various times over a period of 150 years. From 1851 to 1852, Charles Dymond, Edwin Martin Atkins, and Francis Warre excavated and surveyed Worlebury Camp. Dymond returned in 1880 to continue the excavation, which lasted until 1881. Another century passed before the Woodspring Museum from Weston-super-Mare excavated more of Worlebury camp in 1987 to 1988. Finally, in 1998, the Avon Extensive Urban Study team performed the latest (as of 2008) assessment of the site.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The fort is located on the summit of Worlebury Hill, 109 m above sea level. It is in the present-day North Somerset, above the seaside resort of Weston-super-Mare and close to the village of Worle.</p><br>
<p>Its occupants would have had a view of the countryside as well as any potential invaders. They would have been able to see out over to Sugar Loaf Mountain, the Black Mountains, the Mendip Hills, Dunkery Beacon, Sand Point, and Wales. This view is no longer as unobstructed as it once was because there are so many trees spread over the hill.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeological findings</h2><br>
<h3>Platforms</h3><br>
<p>There are a number of triangular platforms on the slopes around the fort. The apexes of these triangles are flush with the hillside, with the base projecting in the downhill direction. However, the upper surface is approximately level. The front faces of these platforms are about 1.7 m above the hillside, and they have ditches in front of them to improve their defence. In a letter to Warre, Atkins theorised that the structures were slingers platforms or archers stations. Several sling stones have been found around them, offering some credence to the theory that slingers stood upon these platforms. Dymond mentions the stones in his book:</p><br>
<h3>Walls and ditches</h3><br>
<p>Worlebury Hill is bordered on its north and west sides by steep cliffs dropping down into the Bristol Channel between Weston Bay and Sand Bay. These would have rendered the fort nearly invulnerable to attack from those directions. Nevertheless, the fort still has one wall on its north side and one on its west side, both very near the edge of the cliffs. On the south side, a single rampart and a ditch guarded the fort. The level east side was protected by two stone ramparts and five ditches. Parts of these ramparts were over 35 ft high measuring from the bottom of the ditch as of 1875.</p><br>
<p>The walls themselves are around 1 m thick. However, because they are dry-laid stone, the removal of a few stones would be sufficient to bring the entire wall collapsing down. To prevent access to the walls themselves, the inhabitants of the fort raised large breastworks around the base of the walls by piling up rock rubble against the bases. These rubble barriers are over 1.22 m high, and in places they are over 1.22 m thick. Attackers would have had to clear away the rubble before being able to attack the wall, and all the while they would be under direct fire from defenders on the top of the wall.</p><br>
<h3>Storage pits</h3><br>
<p>The area inside the outer wall has a series of hut circles and 93 storage pits cut directly into the bedrock, which is only around 60 cm beneath the surface of the soil in most places. Eighteen of the Storage pits are in what Dymond calls the "keep", one is in the transverse fosse (a fosse is a ditch usually dug for protection), and seventy-four of the pits are outside the "keep" but still enclosed within the exterior walls. The average size of the pits is around 2 m long by 2 metres wide and 1.5 m deep. The largest pit is roughly triangular, with sides measuring 3 m, 2.7 m, and 2.4 m long. The smallest pit is 1 m long by.7 m wide. The inhabitants used them to store grain, as is evidenced by the kernels of barley and wheat and the shards of pots that were found in the pits. Several of the pits contained the remnants of peas and the remains of burned woven baskets. In addition, researchers also found sling stones and spindle whorls dated to the 1st or 2nd century BC in them.</p><br>
<p>Eighteen of these pits were found to contain the remains of human skeletons, which are now stored in the Weston-super-Mare Museum in Weston-super-Mare. It is possible that the Romans or the Belgic raiders attacked the fort and killed the inhabitants.</p><br>
<h3>Artefacts</h3><br>
<p>A cast copper alloy penannular collar of special interest to archaeologists has been found at the campsite. It may indicate that this hilltop site was used even before the Iron Age, since related artefacts tend to be found with Bronze Age items, and it was the first of its type found in Britain. In 2006, a related copper penannular brooch dating to the 5th or 6th century AD was found in a spring between Brecon Beacons and the Black Mountains in Wales. A gold penannular bracelet was found in the Perry River.</p><br>
<p>Roman coins have been found at Worlebury Camp since the Romans had established a presence by the end of the 1st century AD. Many of the Roman coins bear the image of the Western Roman Emperor Honorius. This was inside the fort proper. Another coin was located by Trinity Path which leads towards the fort.</p><br>
<p>Other findings at the site include animal remains, including the bones of pigs, oxen, horses, deer, goats, and even small birds. Limpet shells have also been found near the bones. Archaeologists found iron objects, adding further credibility to the idea that this fort is from the Iron Age. These objects include a chisel or borer, several spearheads and javelin heads, and an iron cone with charred wood inside and a rivet hole through the cone. Dymond assumes that this cone was once a plowshare. Stone artefacts, mainly slingstones and scrapers, have been discovered at the site. Just less than 36 flint chips have been found, of which some may be arrowheads. One good-quality arrowhead has been found. In addition to these, Dymond recorded finding a lead lump about the size of a walnut that he decided was probably a sling bullet. Glastonbury type bead-rim pottery was also found at this site. A socketed bronze axe from the late Bronze Age, which was found at Worlebury Hill in 1883, is in the Ashmolean Museum.</p><br>
<h2>Damage to the site</h2><br>
<h3>19th century</h3><br>
<p>Development of Weston-super-Mare since the 19th century has resulted in three episodes of potentially irreversible damage to the site. A quarry started operation in the southern side of Worlebury Hill in 1815 to mine for galena, calamine, and stone. The Bristol and Exeter Railway arrived in Weston-super-Mare in 1841, making it profitable to expand the village into a town. In 1842, Weston-super-Mare became a town with the granting of the Improvement and Market Act of May 1842. This act also proposed developing houses right over the brow of the hill. This would have gone straight through Worlebury Camp; however, the actual expansion never reached the site. By 1853, some development had occurred according to the proposed expansion, but it had skirted the hillfort and continued to the east.</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>In the early 20th century, the Worlebury fort itself was damaged by boys rolling stones, including some from the walls of the fort, down the hill on which it stands. The Axbridge District of the Somerset Archaeological Society was taking steps to prevent such damage from happening again.</p><br>
<p>Some of the trees planted in the early 19th century had become very large, and their roots were growing into the archaeological structures. In 2005, the Forestry Commission gave permission for North Somerset Council to fell 300 trees to reduce the subsequent risks. A member of the North Somerset Council, Christopher Richards, said: "If we had a storm up here and these trees came down, then the entire hillfort could be destroyed."</p><br>
<p>The Odd Fellows Hall is one of the oldest non-residential buildings in the city of Hilliard, Ohio, United States. Located in the center of the city, it was constructed long before Hilliard&#39;s rapid growth of the twentieth-century. It has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Hilliard&#39;s Odd Fellows built the present hall in 1883. At the time, Hilliard was just a small farming community, radically different from its present condition as a city within the Columbus metropolitan area. Typical of small commercial structures erected at the time, the hall is a simple Italianate building. It is one of just two nineteenth-century brick commercial buildings in the city that survive in anything close to their original condition.</p><br>
<p>Built of brick on a foundation of limestone, the hall is covered with a metal roof, and it features exterior elements of brick and wood. Two stories tall, it features a cornice with paired brackets at the base of the roof. The design takes advantage of the buildings location at a street corner: although the first-story windows and entrances are concentrated on one side, both street sides are divided into four bays with four tall arched windows on the second story. Inside, the first story is divided into a pair of shop spaces, while the Odd Fellows second-story meeting room has experienced minimal modification. Still remaining are the original hoodmolds over the doors and windows, wainscoting, wooden floor, lights, and ornamental metalwork covering the ceiling.</p><br>
<p>On May 6, 1988, the Odd Fellows Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture. On the same day, the National Park Service gave the same designation to three other Hilliard buildings, the Hilliard United Methodist Church, the Dr. James Merryman House, and the Winterringer Building and House.</p><br>
<p>The Stanwood IOOF Public Hall, in Stanwood, Washington, is a building that was constructed in 1902. It served historically as a meeting hall. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed by the Stanwood Fraternal Association, which took possession of the site in 1902. The Stanwood</p><br>
<p>I.O.O.F. Lodge #249 purchased the building in 1909. It was originally topped with a gable roof, which was replaced with the present flat roof, possibly during a remodelling that took place in 1922.</p><br>
<p>The building served as a performance and meeting hall from the time of its construction until about 1939. The wide ranging public presentations seen at the building included boxing matches, musical concerts, political lectures, farm shows, and high school dances. The building was used for storage from 1939 until 2000.</p><br>
<p>The building was purchased in 2000 by the Stanwood Area Historical Society when it was found to be in a heavily deteriorated state. With its rehabilitation the hall was transformed into the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center, named in honor of Floyd L. Norgaard, who spent his childhood in Stanwood and returned to live there in retirement.</p><br>
<p>In 2014, the building saw further repairs with the replacement of siding on the south wall.</p><br>
<p>The Odd Fellows Hall in Portsmouth, Ohio is an Odd Fellows building.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1871 in Italianate style. It served historically as a meeting hall. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The Orient Lodge No. 337, no longer owns this building and property, it is now owned by Charles Euton Real Estate.</p><br>
<p>It is a three-story building on a corner and has a projecting cornice.</p><br>
<p>It was built c.1880 by the local I.O.O.F. chapter that was formed in 1844. It is notable as a rare surviving example in Portsmouth of an intact Italianate commercial building. Doorways and windows on its first floor are set off by stone columns that appear to be Tuscan order, which support a plain entablature.</p><br>
<p>The Bourne Mansion is a historic house at 8 Bourne Street in Kennebunk, Maine, United States. Built in 1812, it is a fine local example of Federal architecture. It was owned for many years by members of the locally prominent Bourne family. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 24, 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bourne Mansion is set on the west side of Bourne Street, in a small residential area north of United States Route 1 in the town center. It is a three-story wood frame structure, with a low-pitch hip roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. The main facade faces south, and is five bays wide, with a central entrance flanked by sidelight windows and Tuscan pilasters, and is topped by a fan-light window. Above this entrance is a Palladian window. There is a secondary entrance on the street-facing eastern facade, with Ionic pilasters supporting an entablature, with a fanlight just below. A single-story addition, built in the late 19th century, extends to the north. The interior has retained its elegant Federal finish, including a wide central hallway and a fine central spiral staircase. The side hall leading to the eastern entrance has a particularly fine carved arched niche for housing a tall clock.</p><br>
<p>When John Parsons, a successful merchant, built the house in 1812, he copied his wife&#39;s house in Newburyport, Massachusetts. The house was sold to the Sewall family in 1815, and was bequeathed by Mrs. William Sewall to her nephew, Edward Bourne, Jr. in the late 19th century. The Bournes are a historically old family of Kennebunk, with a long line of civic and economically significant actors.</p><br>
<p>The Oklahoma Odd Fellows Home at Checotah is a historical building complex in Checotah, Oklahoma, central United States, now on 6 acre. It includes Romanesque Revival and Bungalow/Craftsman architecture. Also known as Odd Fellows Widows and Orphans Home and as Checotah Odd Fellows Home, it served historically as institutional housing and as educational related housing.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. The listing includes one contributing building and two other contributing structures.</p><br>
<p>The Home, started in 1902 on 160 acre of land donated by William Gentry, was expanded in c. 1905, and again in 1922 and in 1962. It was designed originally by architect Joseph Foucart, who may also have designed the compatible c. 1905 expansion. M.T. Hardin designed the Bungalow/Craftsman addition in 1922.</p><br>
<p>The Carmen IOOF Home, in Carmen, is another NRHP-listed Odd Fellows retirement home in the state.</p><br>
<p>The Cummings Shoe Factory is a historic former factory building at 2 Railroad Avenue in South Berwick, Maine. Built in 1871, it house one of the town&#39;s major businesses until the 1990s, and as since been converted to residential use. The building was listed on National Register of Historic Places on December 31, 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Cummings Shoe Factory is located at the northern corner of Railroad Avenue and Norton Street, just north of the village center of South Berwick. The area it is set in is predominantly residential. It is an imposing five-story brick structure, now roughly U-shaped. Its oldest portion is an L-shaped structure facing the corner, with a square tower rising an additional story from the crook of the L. A large addition to the west made it into a rough U shape, and this was further extended to the north in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>The factory was established in 1871, and became an economic mainstay of the community for more than 120 years, closing its doors in 1993. It was an exception to the typical model for shoe factories in Maine, which were often built by public subscription and leased out to out-of-state firms. This factory was founded by David Cummings of Worcester, Massachusetts, partly in response to increasing labor organization in Massachusetts. In addition to the main factory building, the complex included a large number of ancillary buildings for related operations such as tanning; all of these have since been demolished. The Cummingses, a family operation, ran the factory until 1929, after which it was operated for a time on the more common leasing model. Its last industrial owner was foreclosed in 1993, and the town acquired the property in 1995. It now contains 48 housing units.</p><br>
<p>The Sen. John Holmes House is a historic house on Main Street  in Alfred, Maine. Also known as the Bow and Arrow house for a distinctive balustrade motif it once sported, it was built in 1802 for United States Senator John Holmes, one of western Maine&#39;s leading politicians of the period. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Holmes house is located on the west side of Main Street at the northern end of Alfred Village. It is a two-story wood frame structure with a hip roof and clapboard siding. The roof was originally encircled by a balustrade that included a bow and arrow motif, but that has since been removed. The house has a number of features that are unusual for the location and period, including a two-story wraparound porch, supported by a colonnade of slender columns. The five-bay front facade faces east, and is symmetrically arranged, with the main entrance centered in an enclosed vestibule, above which is a balcony accessed by a doorway on the second floor. The first floor interior features high-quality Federal period woodwork. The house originally had an enclosed court. The kitchen, which held a fireplace with ovens and a copper vat for water, has been removed. An L-shaped addition has been added to the northwest section of the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1802 for Senator John Holmes, one of western Maines leading politicians and a major proponent of statehood for what was then the District of Maine in Massachusetts. The bow-and-arrow balustrade, now removed, is said to have been a nod to Holmes Native American ancestry on his mother&#39;s side. The railing was said to have been made by the Griffins, who had a blacksmithing shop nearby. The house remained in the Holmes family until 1849, when it was purchased by the Sayward family. The Sayward family owned the house until the early 1900s. It now serves as both a home and a dance studio.</p><br>
<p>The Mary R. Hurd House is a historic house at 2 Elm Street in North Berwick, Maine. Built in 1894, the house is architecturally one of the finest Queen Anne/Eastlake houses in southern Maine. It was built by Mary Hurd, who was the proprietor of the North Berwick Woolen Mill for nearly 60 years, and a major benefactor to the town. Now a bed and breakfast inn, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 11, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hurd House is located on the west side of Elm Street (Maine State Route 4), near its junction with Wells Street (Maine State Route 9) in the center of North Berwick. It is a large 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with asymmetrical massing and a busy roofline typical of the Queen Anne style. It has three elaborately decorated chimneys, an iron-crested slate roof with balustraded widow&#39;s walk, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. The main entrance is located near the center of the east-facing front facade, sheltered by a porch that extends to the southern corner on the first floor, and is topped by a smaller porch on the second floor. Both porches are supported by groups of turned columns, with latticework valances and turned balustrades. To the right of the entrance a window bay, squared on the first floor and polygonal on the second, projects slightly.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1894 by Mary R. Hurd, at the time of her second marriage, to David Hurd. Born in 1839 to William Hill, she inherited the North Berwick Woolen Mill upon his death in 1873, and ran the business until her own death in 1933 at age 94. She was a major philanthropic force in the town, funding construction of a fire station and purchase of a fire truck, and funding the construction and endowment of the D. A. Hurd Library. She also notably kept the mills running in the early years of the Great Depression, despite the poor business conditions. The property is now operated as the Angel of the Berwicks Bed & Breakfast.</p><br>
<p>The William Fogg Library is the public library of Eliot, Maine. It is located at the junction of Old and State Roads, in an architecturally distinguished building constructed in 1907 via a bequest from Dr. John S. H. Fogg in memory of his father William. The building was designed by C. Howard Walker, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 21, 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The Fogg Library is set at the northwest corner of Old and State Roads (Old Road being designated Maine State Route 103), near the northern end of Eliots linear village center. It is a 1-1/2 story structure fashioned out of fieldstone, with a flared hip roof, set on a low hill on a triangular lot. Its distinctive exterior and elevated position adjacent to the main road make it a prominent local landmark. Its main facade is three bays wide, with a center entrance portico supported by four Ionic columns, with an entablature and fully pedimented gable above. The roof has three gabled dormers, and there are granite string courses above the foundation and below the windows. The interior has a central hall, with a reading room on one side and childrens room on the other, and stacks located in an ell to the rear. The interior is relatively little altered since its construction.</p><br>
<p>The first library established in the town Eliot was a private lending library established by William Fogg and housed at his home on Old Road. Foggs son, Dr. John H. S. Fogg, a Harvard-educated doctor, continued his fathers interest in education, amassing a collection of books. Upon his death he gave most of his book collection to the town, and bequested $10,000 to the town for construction of a library on land he donated. The new library was built in 1907, to a design by Boston architect C. Howard Walker, and supposedly used stone materials gathered from the walls lining the Fogg property. Fogg also established a trust fund for maintenance of the building.</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office and Courthouse-Prescott Main, in Prescott, Arizona, was built in 1931. It was or is also known as Prescott Main Post Office and Courthouse and Prescott Main Post Office. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is a Beaux Arts architecture building and is NRHP-listed for its architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Post Office steps are made of porphyritic granite from Minnesota, containing large 1-inch phenocrysts of orthoclase feldspar. The original plans called for using local Prescott Granodiorite, as at the nearby Courthouse. The post office lobby is clad in fine veined Indiana marble. The side room in the northwest corner of the lobby has noteworthy wavy-texture marble.</p><br>
<p>United States Post Office and Courthouse–Prescott Main corner view.jpgUnited States Post Office and Courthouse–Prescott Main NE corner view</p><br>
<p>United States Post Office and Courthouse–Prescott Main Goodwin St cornerstone.jpgCornerstone</p><br>
<p>Ackerdijkse Plassen is a nature reserve in Oude Leede, a village in the municipality of Pijnacker-Nootdorp, . It is one of the most important bird areas in the Netherlands. In addition to 115 species of breeding birds, the ponds are visited annually by about eighty species of migratory birds, such as greenish warbler, Greater short-toed lark, short-eared owl, booted eagle, lesser spotted eagle, black crowned night heron and osprey. Konik provide grazing in the area.</p><br>
<p>The area contains a restored farmhouse from 1660.</p><br>
<p>The area is closed to visitors, however there are hiking trails and bike paths around the outside of the area.</p><br>
<p>The Nature Society took over the management of the area from the Birdlife Netherlands.</p><br>
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<p>The Ebenezer Alden House is an historic house on Common Street in Union, Maine, United States. Built in 1797, it is an unusually high quality and high style Federal period in an area that was very much a frontier at the time. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Alden House stands on the south side of Common Road, a short way west of its junction with Maine State Route 131 in the center of the rural community of Union. It is a 2-1/2 story brick and wood frame structure, with a side gable roof, and clapboarded sides with quoined corners. A single-story shed-roof addition and 1-1/2 story ell extend from its east side. It has three principal facades with entrances at their centers. Two of them have surrounds of pilasters topped by half-round transoms and gabled pediments, while the third has an entablature and flat cornice. Windows are sash throughout, and the end gables are pedimented. The interior of the house features high quality carved woodwork, executed by the builder and owner, master carver Ebenezer Alden.</p><br>
<p>The house was built by Alden in 1797, when Union (settled in 1774) was little more than a frontier settlement. Its designs appear to be based in part on plans from plate 40 of William Pains Practical House Carpenter, published in 1794. Other design elements may have been derived from Aldens work on Montpelier, the mansion of General Henry Knox in nearby Thomaston. It is said that General Knox was dining here in 1806 when he swallowed a chicken bone, leading to infection and his eventual death.</p><br>
<p>The house remained in the hands of Alden&#39;s descendants until 1965.</p><br>
<p>The Conway House is an historic house and museum in Rockport and Camden, Maine. Probably built in the 1770s, it is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Knox County. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Conway House stands near the southern border of Camden and the northern border of Rockport, on the northwest side of United States Route 1 between it and Conway Road. Its access road is on US 1. The house is a 1-1/2 story Cape style wood frame structure, four bays wide, with a central chimney. It was apparently built on the foundation of an older house, possibly dating to the early 18th century. The timber framing of the house is rough, with tree bark evident on some of its beams, and axe and adze markings on the beams and some trim elements.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Conway House was built around 1770 by Robert Thorndike, the first White settler in Camden. Thorndike&#39;s son Robert Jr. was born in the house in 1773, who was one of the first White children born in the area. He bought the lot for $65 and lived in the home until 1825, when Frederick Conway bought the home. It stayed in the Conway family until 1916. It was the home US Navy quartermaster William Conway. By 1961, the property was in rundown and was purchased by Ambrose Cramer and donated to the Camden-Rockport Historical Society, who subsequently restored and furnished the building with 18th and early 19th century items. It was opened to the public as a museum in 1962. The Camden Garden Club landscaped the property and restored the plants common to the area prior to 1860.</p><br>
<h2>Conway Homestead & Cramer Museum</h2><br>
<p>Today the Camden-Rockport Historical Society operates the museum as the Conway Homestead & Cramer Museum. The property includes the Conway House, the Cramer Museum with displays from the Society&#39;s collections of local historic artifacts, a barn with a display of carriages, sleighs and tools, a blacksmith shop, a maple sugaring house, and an education center.</p><br>
<p>Valldalen  is a valley in Norddal Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located north of the Norddalsfjorden. The village of Sylte  is located at the end of the valley along the fjord. The river Valldøla flows through the valley, and the Norwegian National Road 63 follows the river through the valley, on its way north to Trollstigen.</p><br>
<p>The valley lies just outside the northwestern border of Reinheimen National Park. The valley is fertile with a high amount of berry production, especially strawberries. In 2002, the annual production of strawberries was about 900 metric tons. Previously there was also cement and wood products industry. There is also the Muritunet centre for rehabilitation.</p><br>
<p>The 2015 film Ex Machina was filmed at Juvet Landscape Hotel in Valldalen.</p><br>
<p>The Antelope Valley of west Lander County is a small, 25 mile  long, mostly arid valley in central Nevada, USA. A fourth valley of the same name Antelope Valley lies in southern Eureka County, east of the Monitor Range. The Lander County valley lies south of the Humboldt River and with Antelope Creek, is a western tributary valley to the north-flowing Reese River.</p><br>
<p>A much larger valley, of the same name in Elko and White Pine Counties, is a north-south valley surrounded by five mountain ranges, and lies on the east perimeter of the Antelope Range. A third valley that shares the name, lies in Douglas County and extends into California.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Antelope Valley is short, about 25 mi long, north-to-south, but curves slightly northeast. Antelope Creek flows through the valley north, its origins in the south where two mountain ranges merge, the New Pass Range southwest, and Ravenswood Mountain (Range), southeast.</p><br>
<p>Antelope Creek disappears in flatlands in the northern third of the valley, where the valley widens somewhat, as the narrow and short, western perimeter Augusta Mountains turn slightly northwestwards. A separate creek originates from the flatland in the valley&#39;s north, Cain Creek and traverses about 12 mi northeast to the Reese River. A separate south-flowing creek flows into the Cain Creek headwaters (flatlands), the Cottonwood Creek from the southern, and central Fish Creek Mountains.</p><br>
<p>The center-east of the valley is adjacent Antelope Butte, on a small separated ridge in the foothills from the northwest of Ravenswood Mountain.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The shortest access to Antelope Valley is made from the south, Nevada Route 305, from Austin, Nevada. The route parallels the Reese River and the valley&#39;s north end lies about 40 mi north of Austin, then 10 mi west on unimproved roads. The south of the valley can be reached only 10 mi north of Austin, but then west of the southern perimeter of the Ravenswood Mountain region foothills, and the origin of the north-flowing Antelope Creek, also on unimproved roads.</p><br>
<p>St Mary&#39;s Church in South Tidworth, Wiltshire, England, was built in 1878. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.</p><br>
<p>The church was built of rock faced brown stone, in a Gothic Revival style, by John Johnson, with work supervised by G.H. Gordon, for Sir John Kelk of the Kelk Baronets, There is a bell turret with a tapering spire, also known as a flèche, at the top of a buttress on the west wall.</p><br>
<p>The interior includes carvings and polished marble shafts in the columns of the arcade piers. The chancel floor is laid with Italian mosaic. There is also a silver chalice and patens of 1837 and 1877 and a silver-gilt flagon of 1869. The stained glass is by Clayton and Bell apart from the east window which was designed by Heaton, Butler and Bayne.</p><br>
<p>Outside the church is an avenue of yew trees the largest of which has a girth of 7 ft.</p><br>
<p>The church was declared redundant on 1 September 1972, and was vested in the Trust on 19 December 1973. Access to the church is restricted after vandalism in 2016.</p><br>
<p>Hughson Mansion was a historic home located at Loudonville in Albany County, New York. It was built between about 1866 and 1883 and was a large -story Second Empire style frame dwelling. It featured a mansard roof with dormers, bracketed cornice, and window surrounds with Baroque details.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>In the summer of 1953, the mansion was gifted by Mrs. Frank Hughson to Loudonville Community Church. Loudonville Community Church used the mansion to conduct services and Sunday school until 1959 when a new sanctuary was built adjacent to the mansion. From 1959 until the early 2000s, the mansion was used for Sunday school. The mansion was demolished to make way for Loudonville Community Church&#39;s new sanctuary, which was completed in June 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Montes de Toledo are one of the main systems of mountain ranges in the Iberian Peninsula. They divide the drainage basin of the Tagus from the basin of the Guadiana. The highest peak is 1,603 m high La Villuerca.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Montes de Toledo are located in the central regions of the Iberian Peninsula, cutting transversally from east to west across the lower portion of the Meseta Central. The length of the Montes de Toledo is 350 km and their maximum width up to 100 km near Sonseca and Puertollano.</p><br>
<p>The eastern Montes de Toledo ranges form one of the natural limits of the historical La Mancha region in Castile-La Mancha and the western end, including the ranges forming the broader Montes de Toledo, reaches into Portalegre District, Portugal.</p><br>
<h3>Geology</h3><br>
<p>Geologically the series of ranges making up the system were formed by Alpine orogeny, but unlike the Central System further north the Montes de Toledo comprise an older terrain of elongated belts of folded and thrust faulted sedimentary rocks that is quite heavily eroded.</p><br>
<p>The geological structure of the Montes de Toledo is similar to the geology of the Appalachians and akin as well to the geology of the Sierra Morena range further south.</p><br>
<h3>Ranges</h3><br>
<p>The Montes de Toledo are divided in the following physiographic longitudinal sectors or zones:</p><br>
<p>The Montes de Toledo in a strict sense are located in the eastern section of the system, in northwestern Ciudad Real Province and southwestern Toledo Province, giving its name to the Montes de Toledo Comarca. Despite its name this comarca only includes a small part of the range. The main summits of this region are Rocigalgo (1,447 m), Corral de Cantos (1,421 m), Peñafiel (1,419 m) and Amor (1,379 m).</p><br>
<p>The main range of this zone is Sierra de la Calderina, with the Sierra de la Virgen (highest point 1,213 m high Pico Alamillo), Sierra Luenga, Sierra Arando, Sierra del Reventón, Sierra Morrones and Sierra de la Cueva subranges.</p><br>
<p>Other ranges of this zone are Sierra de los Yébenes, Sierra de San Pablo, Macizos de Montalbán and Macizos de Rocilargo.</p><br>
<p>The broader Montes de Toledo system includes the following ranges stretching towards the west:</p><br>
<p>Sierra de Altamira, highest point Riscos Altos (1324 m). Other noteworthy peaks are Risco de las Moras (1279 m) and Risco de los Gavilanes (1,246 m). It is located in La Jara Comarca at the border area between Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha. Nearby are minor ranges such as the Sierra de Sevilleja, Sierra de la Hiruela and Sierra del Horno, also known collectively as "Sierras de la Jara".</p><br>
<p>Sierra del Hospital del Obispo, parallel to the Sierra de Altamira further east. Cervales, 1,443 m, is the highest point of the range. The Guadarranque River runs by Navatrasierra in the valley between the two ranges.</p><br>
<p>Sierra de Villuercas, also known as Sierra de Guadalupe, it rises within Extremadura in Las Villuercas comarca, province of Cáceres. This range is where the highest altitudes of the whole system are found. Besides 1,603 m high La Villuerca, the highest peaks are Carbonero (1,428 m), Ballesteros (1,342 m), Sobacorbas (1,320 m) and Risco Redondo (1,287 m).</p><br>
<p>Sierra de Montánchez, located in the central/southern region of Cáceres Province. Its highest point is 995 m high Monte Viejo. Other notable summits are Cancho Blanco (955 m) and Alijares (786 m).</p><br>
<p>Sierra de San Pedro, between Cáceres and Badajoz provinces. Its highest peaks are Torrico de San Pedro (702 m), Atalaya (624 m), Chorlo (624 m), Morrón del Cotarro (615 m) and Manzano (610 m). The Sierra de Carbajo, also known as Sierra de Santiago is a small range located north of the western end of Sierra de San Pedro, above Carbajo and Santiago de Alcántara.</p><br>
<p>Serra de São Mamede, located in the Alto Alentejo Province, Portugal, bordering Extremadura. Higher than the preceding two ranges, this range forms the western end of the greater Montes de Toledo. Its highest point is 1,025 m high Pico de São Mamede. Other important peaks are Fria, Pico de Marvão and Castelo de Vide. The town of Marvão is located on top of a ridge of the range.</p><br>
<h3>Main ranges and features</h3><br>
<h2>Protected areas</h2><br>
<p>Cabañeros National Park</p><br>
<p>Serra de São Mamede Natural Park</p><br>
<p>Cornelius and Agnietje Van Derzee House is a historic home and farm complex located at Coeymans in Albany County, New York. It was built about 1765 and is a rectangular two-story rubblestone dwelling with brick gables. The front facade is five bays with a Greek Revival style central entrance. A craftsman inspired porch was added in 1915. A two-story gable roof wing was added to the south elevation about 1890 and a large, two-story Greek Revival era wing is on the west. It has a moderately pitched gable roof. Also on the property are eleven contributing outbuildings and the agricultural setting. They include a tenant house , large upper barn , hog barn and chicken coop , barn , wagon house , cow barn , wood shop , corn crib , fruit barn , paint house , garage , and brooder house .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>St James&#39;s Church in Draycot Cerne, Sutton Benger, Wiltshire, England was built between 1260 and 1280. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It was declared redundant on 1 June 1994, and was vested in the Trust on 17 May 1995.</p><br>
<p>The name of the church has been changed over the centuries. It was All Saints in the later 12th century and St. Peters in the 18th century. It has been called St James for the 19th and 20th centuries. The church has an Early English chancel which is lower than the floor of the 13th-century nave. The two-stage west tower dates from the 16th or 17th century. It is supported by diagonal buttresses. The church was altered and restored in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>There were wall paintings in the chancel in the 15th and 16th centuries.</p><br>
<p>Glen Dale Farm is a historic farm property at 1455 Cider Mill Road in Cornwall, Vermont. Its 3.5 acre property, which includes five contributing buildings, was listed as Glen Dale on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Farmed since the 1770s, the farm achieved prominence in the second half of the 19th century as one of the nation&#39;s top breeding sites of merino sheep.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>Significant features of the English barn include hand-hewn, post-and-beam, hardwood timber frame, with flared columns and half dovetail tenons on the girts. Sheathing boards visible from the inside appear to be original as they are up to 2 feet wide and fastened with hand-wrought nails. In the 18th century, this structure would have been a general-purpose barn, sheltering grain and hay crops as well as farm animals. The construction materials and remarkable joinery in the English barn speak eloquently of this period in local history.</p><br>
<p>Glen Dale Farm attained its present appearance under the ownership of Milo B. Williamson, a breeder of Merino sheep and "gentlemans driving horses". The present Italianate style farmhouse and additional barns are pictured in Burgetts 1876 Illustrated and Topographical Atlas of the State of Vermont. The barn complex is remarkably intact when compared to the Burgett illustration and constitutes one of the best surviving examples of nineteenth century stock and sheep farms in the state.</p><br>
<p>The English barn is the second from the left as pictured in the Burgett lithograph. The two larger barns in front were built to house horses and carriages. The ventilated cupolas and the raking eaves trim are typical of barns built in Vermont during the 1870s and 1880s. The rearmost structure is the sheep barn, one of the few remaining unaltered such buildings in the state.</p><br>
<h2>Ownership</h2><br>
<p>Glen Dale owner Milo B. Williamson was a prominent figure in the Vermont Merino Sheep Breeders&#39; Association. He was treasurer of the association in 1879-1881, and president in 1882-1883. In partnership with Jerome P. Cherbino of Middlebury, he owned and bred Spanish stock Merino sheep during the period when Addison County dominated the world market.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to Mathews’ History of the Town of Cornwall, Solomon Linsley settled the land that Glen Dale Farm occupies in 1774. The Town of Cornwall received its original charter from the Governor of New Hampshire dated November 3, 1761. The names of sixty-five original grantees are endorsed on the back of the charter, which is still preserved among the archives of the town. The first non-aboriginal settlers within the original bounds of the Town of Cornwall arrived in 1774. There were fourteen of them but Linsley was the only one whose name is on the original charter. It is recorded that Gamaliel Painter of Middlebury surveyed 100 acres for Solomon Linsley on October 23, 1774. Although the original farmhouse does not stand, Linsley probably built the existing English barn around 1775, as it is representative of the first major type of agricultural buildings constructed in Vermont.</p><br>
<p>Glen Dale Farm is a local landmark in the Town of Cornwall and surrounding environs. The 1871 Beers Atlas of Addison County shows the prominent location of the M.B. Williamson property on Cider Mill Road. John Axtell in the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, Historic Sites and Structures Survey commented that Glen Dale Farm "... on its ridgetop site is and ought to be preserved as an accurate and invaluable document of post-Civil War agricultural life in Vermont." Considerable effort has been made to stabilize the barn structures with assistance from the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<p>The Division for Historic Preservation&#39;s book The Historic Architecture of Addison County lists the Glen Dale barns as being on the Vermont State Register of Historic Places. The farm is mentioned specifically in the introduction to the section on Cornwall, describing it as one of several model stock farms operating in Cornwall during the second half of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>It was one subject of a 1991 study of historic agricultural resources in the state.</p><br>
<p>In July 2002, Glen Dale Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Col Ballroom is located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties as the Saengerfest Halle.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Davenport’s strong music tradition is due in large part to the influx of German immigrants into the city starting in the late 1840s. They founded numerous music groups in the city before 1900. The groups with longer staying power included: the Liedertafel (founded in 1848), Maennerchor (1851), Strasser’s German Union Brass Band (1856), Germania Band (1883), and three other groups founded in the 1850s included Gesang Chor Der Turngemeinde, Deutscher Saengerbund and Onretti Verein. There were also short lived music organizations: Germania Saengerchor, Gesang Verein Teutonia, Eintracht Glee Club, Claus Groth Singing Society, Thalia Verein, Harrigaria Maennerchor, and the Davenport Saengerbund.</p><br>
<p>The largest music event in Davenport’s history took place in 1898 when it hosted the 18th annual Saengerfest. It brought together ten local German singing groups as the United Singers of Davenport. Together they organized and hosted the event. The festival included 1200 singers from Davenport, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Elgin, Illinois, Elkader, Iowa, La Crosse, Wisconsin, Manning, Iowa, Moline, Illinois, Peoria, Illinois, Rock Island, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri. The event drew German-Americans from throughout the Midwest, and Western Union added extra German operators so as to get news of the festival out over the wires. An estimated 100,000 people attended the four-day event. The festival ended with an outdoor concert at Schuetzen Park that was attended by 12,000 people.</p><br>
<p>Preparations for the festival included building a 4,000 seat auditorium for the event. A holding company built the wood structure for $4,500. After the festival ended the hall was used as a warehouse. In 1906 a second floor was added by new owners and the building was dedicated as a dance hall called The Coliseum. It was destroyed by fire on October 21, 1913.</p><br>
<p>In November 1914 the new Coliseum was opened by owner Leo Kerker. The Col Ballroom was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 1998 and it was inducted into the Iowa Rock and Roll Music Association hall of fame in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Las Villuercas is a comarca located in the province of Cáceres, western Spain. It belongs to the Autonomous Community of Extremadura.</p><br>
<p>Despite of the traditional strong identity of its inhabitants, this historical region has not been able to achieve the necessary legal recognition for its administrative development. The comarca has a total of about 9,000 inhabitants.</p><br>
<p>Its geography is typical of the Meseta Central. The Sierra de Villuercas, also known as Sierra de Guadalupe is part of this comarca.</p><br>
<p>The comarca is named after La Villuerca, the highest peak in the range and also the highest point of the greater Montes de Toledo system, an ancient name that has been documented since 1353.</p><br>
<h2>Municipalities</h2><br>
<p>Alía</p><br>
<p>Cíjara</p><br>
<p>Puerto Rey</p><br>
<p>La Calera</p><br>
<p>Berzocana</p><br>
<p>Cabañas del Castillo</p><br>
<p>Solana de Cabañas</p><br>
<p>Retamosa de Cabañas</p><br>
<p>Roturas de Cabañas</p><br>
<p>Cañamero</p><br>
<p>Guadalupe</p><br>
<p>Logrosán</p><br>
<p>Navezuelas</p><br>
<p>Robledollano</p><br>
<p>The United States Post Office and Courthouse, also known as Texarkana USA Post Office and Federal Building and as Texarkana USA Post Office and Courthouse, is located on State Line Avenue in Texarkana, straddling the border between Arkansas and Texas. It is a courthouse of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1933 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The first courthouse built on this location was completed in 1892, serving as a courthouse until 1911, when it was succeeded by the erection of a separate courthouse entirely in Texas. The Texas-only courthouse later became the Texarkana Regional Arts Center. The earlier, border-straddling building continued to serve the Arkansas district alone until it was razed in 1930 to make way for the new construction, which was completed in 1933.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>Since its construction in 1931, the United States Post Office and Courthouse has remained the most prominent structure in Texarkana, due in no small measure to its location. The regularity of the downtown street grid is interrupted by the north-south path of State Line Avenue, which separates Texas and Arkansas. Located between Fifth and Sixth Streets, the federal building ensures its pivotal presence by occupying the sole site in the center of State Line Avenue. By straddling the boundary between two states, the building uniquely evinces its federal nature and function; no other federal building in the country is sited in two states.</p><br>
<p>At least twelve buildings, including the original USA Post Office and Courthouse and the Central Christian Church, were demolished or relocated to accommodate this new federal building, which significantly altered the street pattern. Witt, Seibert & Halsey of Texarkana, in association with Perkins, Chatten & Hammond of Chicago, were responsible for the building&#39;s design, with James A. Wetmore the acting supervising architect for the Treasury Department. R.O. Jameson prepared the original structural engineering drawings; R.F. Taylor was the mechanical engineer.</p><br>
<p>No large-scale occupancy relocations have occurred and the building has retained most of its original functions, maintaining the stability of its connection with the community. The first floor post office, third floor courtrooms and judicial spaces, as well as many of the offices, still serve the purposes for which they were intended. Though modifications to the postal screen walls were made twice within eight years of construction, the building did not undergo significant change until new air conditioning, plaster soffits, and suspended fluorescent fixtures were added to judicial rooms in 1957. The following year a conveyor areaway and stair were added leading to the basement on the Arkansas side. The 1970s brought more changes to the postal screen walls, as well as the insensitive addition of air conditioning equipment and ductwork with suspended acoustic tile ceilings to the offices on floors two through five. It is critical to the life of the building that its current functions be maintained.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural description</h2><br>
<p>Though occasional Art Deco features betray its date of construction, the USA Post Office and Courthouse in Texarkana is steadfastly Beaux Arts in form and organization. Symmetrical with respect to the state line, the gray Arkansas Limestone building is a rectangular steel and concrete structure composed of five stories, a full basement, and a service penthouse. The basement and ground floors form a rusticated plinth with a base of Texas Pink granite and recessed joints in the limestone ground floor walls. On the south side, three arched openings penetrate this plinth, expressing depth and serving as the main entry to the building. Limestone walls in running bond pattern clad floors two, three, and four, where windows reveal the presence of each level. The east and west sides of this massive intermediate section of the building are articulated by the projection of the three outer bays at either end and by the presence of Doric pilasters between the seven central bays. Seven Tuscan pilasters likewise march across this portion of the north facade, while on the south elevation four Ionic columns extend upward from the plinth to a limestone entablature that wraps the building at the level of the fifth floor. Above the cornice on the west, north, and east sides, the building steps back considerably from the street facade. On the south, or front, side, this narrower fifth floor remains in plane with the street facade. In addition the fifth floor is capped by a service penthouse at the south end. This means that roughly one third of the height of the main facade exists above the cornice, affording it a much greater prominence than the other facades. The extra mass above the cornice, unusual in a Beaux Arts design, is inscribed with the building&#39;s name and is banded with a repeating Art Deco relief pattern in the stone.</p><br>
<p>With exceptions, the original plan strategies are clearly evident in the building today. The second through fifth floors are for the most part organized as a series of perimeter offices opening into a ring of corridors which in turn surround a core consisting of restrooms, service spaces, and a small but effective light court. Two large double-height courtrooms occupy the north end of the third and fourth floors and remain close to original condition. Many of the perimeter spaces have suffered a loss of volume and character from the installation of suspended acoustical tile ceilings. New gypsum board partitions have intruded into the second and fifth floor offices, while one third of the fifth floor corridors have been overtaken as work space.</p><br>
<p>The elevator lobbies on all floors remain largely intact. Although the postal lobby, located immediately beyond the first floor elevator lobby, has undergone repeated modifications since construction, including the introduction of an inappropriate post office box "hut" and customer corral, it retains much of its original character. Those areas borrowed from the lobby for adjacent postal work rooms continue to exhibit the original plaster ceilings and wood wainscots. Ancillary postal spaces on the building&#39;s west side best exhibit the original wood trim, plaster ceilings, and door and transom treatment, though these features can be found in smaller quantities elsewhere in the building.</p><br>
<p>The Fred B. Sharon House is a historic building located in the Cork Hill neighborhood of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Fred B. Sharon</h2><br>
<p>Originally a high school teacher from New York City, Fred B. Sharon became a prominent businessman, newspaper publisher and postmaster in the city of Davenport. Together with his brother Thomas, Fred Sharon arrived in Davenport in 1882 to publish the Messenger. After his brother’s death six years later, Fred took over sole management of the paper, renamed it the Iowa Catholic Messenger and guided it for nearly fifty years. The paper contained news pertaining to the Catholic Church as well as Irish and German nationalistic writings. In 1931 Pope Pius XI conferred upon him a Papal honor as a Knight of St. Gregory, upon the nomination of Bishop Henry Rohlman. Because of financial problems related to the Great Depression, he was forced to sell the paper in 1936 to the Diocese of Davenport, who then published it in national and diocesan editions as The Catholic Messenger.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the paper, Sharon also was an incorporator of several banks, including the Home Building Loan and Savings Association, Union Savings Bank, and Citizens Trust. He also served as the incorporator of the Hibernian Hall Association. Sharon was a charter member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Davenport and the Loras Council of the Knights of Columbus. President Woodrow Wilson appointed him the Davenport postmaster in 1913 and he served in that capacity for almost nine years. Sharon died on July 10, 1949, and is buried in Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Davenport.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Sharon’s home is a three-story, brick, Second Empire structure. It follows a T-plan with a prominent center tower and a side wing. The elegant mansard roof is topped with decorative wrought iron cresting. The windows on the first and second floors are rectangular in shape while those on the third floor are arched. The tower itself features a large window area. Because of its late date it possess overall symmetry of form. Its strong verticality and its richly ornamented roofscape are clear indications that it was built during the Victorian era. The front porch is a replication of the original.</p><br>
<p>The McManus House is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>James McManus, who built this house, moved to Davenport in the 1840s. He was engaged in farming and retail. McManus was elected to the Iowa General Assembly and served as a Scott County supervisor. His son Parker took over the estate when James died. Parker continued to operate the farm and he was also elected to the state legislature. At one time there were several estates in the West End that lined Telegraph Road at the base of the bluff that were home to prominent families such as the Putnams, Koenigs, Glasspells, and the Fejervarys. The McManus House is the only one that remains.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>This house exemplifies the combination of the Italianate and the Greek Revival styles that was popular in Davenport in the mid-19th century. A porch wraps around the front of the house to the east side. It was built 40 to 50 years after the house and adds the Neoclassical style to the house.</p><br>
<p>The Kimball–Stevenson House is a historic building located just north of downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1873 and it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building is thought to have been constructed by Davenport builder Thomas McClelland, who owned it briefly in 1873. The house was home to railroad, banking and industry executives. They include Abel Kimball, who was the Superintendent of the Iowa Division of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and Dr. John Stevenson. From the early 1900s and into the 1940s the house served as a brothel. It was best known as Geraldine’s Place. It is thought to be the only known brothel on the National Register of Historic Places. In the years following the house fell into disrepair until it was purchased by attorney Michael Liebbe who restored the building for his law office in the 1990s.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The two-story house is built of brick in the Italianate style. The house’s layout is somewhat irregular and features gabled projections and a window bay on the front. Bracketed eaves run along the top of the house. The front entrance into the house projects forward and the wall extends beyond the roofline giving the suggestion of a tower.</p><br>
<p>The Henry H. Smith/J.H. Murphy House is a historic building located east of downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties as the Octagon House in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Henry H. “Variety” Smith was a successful Davenport merchant and a member of the city council. He and his wife Mary moved to Davenport in 1850. His downtown store, Smiths Philadelphia Variety Store, was known for its “splendid stock of fancy goods from numerous buying trips to the East.” Mary served as the stores assistant manager and was the city&#39;s first female clerk. It is believed he hired one of Davenport’s first professional architects, Willett L. Carroll, to design his house in the 1850s.</p><br>
<p>The Smith&#39;s sold the store in 1867 and moved to East Davenport where they were engaged in agriculture. After it sat empty for a short time, the house was purchased by J.H. Murphy who was a partner in the law firm of Martin, Murphy and Suksdorf.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house was designed based on the philosophy of Orson Fowler, a leading phrenologist, who held that the octagon was the closest thing to a circle and it was conducive to good health. While it is one of several octagon houses in the state of Iowa, it is the only one left in Davenport. It is the earliest of the remaining octagon houses in Iowa that was built to the precepts of Fowler who recommended that they employ "plank wall" construction and a plan adapted from the Howland House, which he published in A Home For All in 1853. The house exhibits features found in the Italianate style: hipped roof, bracketed eaves, and a small belvedere on top, which has subsequently been removed. The entrances into the house are on the main floor, which sits atop a raised basement level. They are all covered by columned porches and are located on the four cardinal points of the compass. The grounds of the estate also featured a carriage house, stable, grape vines and a picket fence, all of which are now gone.</p><br>
<p>The Wupperman Block/I.O.O.F. Hall is located just north of downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building dates from 1859 when Hermann A. Wupperman built it to house his grocery store. He was in partnership with William P. Hall and their business was named Wupperman and Hall. It was also built to house the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) hall on the third floor. The Odd Fellows occupied the building for over one hundred years. During the Great Depression the Odd Fellows shared their space with other fraternal organizations. The storefronts on the first floor have been occupied by various businesses over the years.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Wupperman Block is a three-story, brick building that was built on a stone foundation. It is an early attempt at Renaissance Revival architecture in Davenport, which up until this time was dominated by the Greek Revival style. The structure is rectangular in shape and has a side-gable roof. There are two storefronts on the first floor are largely intact. The façade of the building is divided into three sections: the storefront, the upper wall and the cornice. Although the building has been renovated it maintains its cast iron shop fronts and flanking brick piers.</p><br>
<p>The upper floors of the building contain seven windows that are evenly distributed. The windows are all rectangular in shape, but each is topped with a curved cornice. The windows on the third floor are taller than the ones on the second, which gives the building a vertical orientation. At one time the windows on the third floor were stained glass and depicted symbols of the I.O.O.F. These windows have been removed.</p><br>
<p>The building had a projecting cornice when it was built that has been replaced by a cornice of corbelled brick. The side-gabled roofline is unusual for a building in Iowa and suggests a European influence in its design. The building remains a good example of pre-Civil War commercial architecture.</p><br>
<p>Henry M. Sage Estate, also known as "Fernbrook," is a historic estate home located at Menands in Albany County, New York. The main house was built in the 1890s and remodeled in 1920. It is an asymmetrical three-story, Georgian Revival style mansion sheathed in limestone. It has a hipped roof and dormers. It features a large, two-story, pedimented portico supported by four Ionic order columns. Also on the property are a carriage barn and caretaker&#39;s cottage dated to the 1890s. The estate was bequeathed to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute by Cornelia Cogswell Sage, widow of Henry M. Sage. She retained use of the property until her death in 1972. The estate was costly to maintain so the Institute sold the property in 1973 to Albany International Corporation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Sierra de Gata is a comarca at the northern end of province of Cáceres in Extremadura, one of Spain&#39;s seventeen Autonomous Communities. The mountain range of Sierra de Gata is in the area and has given its name to the comarca. The main town is Moraleja</p><br>
<p>This comarca borders with Portugal in the west in the area of the Portuguese Serra da Malcata Natural Reserve.</p><br>
<p>There are linguistic affinities between this comarca and neighboring Las Hurdes.</p><br>
<h2>Municipal terms</h2><br>
<p>The traditional names of the towns and aldeas are in brackets.</p><br>
<p>Acebo (L&#39;Acebu)</p><br>
<p>Cadalso (Cadarsu)</p><br>
<p>Cilleros (Cillerus)</p><br>
<p>Parrera</p><br>
<p>Descargamaría</p><br>
<p>Eljas (As Ellas)</p><br>
<p>El Soto (U Soitu)</p><br>
<p>Gata</p><br>
<p>Moheda de Gata (La Mueda)</p><br>
<p>Hernán Pérez (Jerranperris)</p><br>
<p>Hoyos (Joyus)</p><br>
<p>Moraleja</p><br>
<p>Cañadas</p><br>
<p>Malladas</p><br>
<p>La Mata</p><br>
<p>Pedrizas</p><br>
<p>Porciones</p><br>
<p>La Quinta</p><br>
<p>Rozacorderos</p><br>
<p>Perales del Puerto (Peralis)</p><br>
<p>Robledillo de Gata (Robleillu)</p><br>
<p>San Martín de Trevejo (Sa Martín de Trebellu)</p><br>
<p>Santibáñez el Alto (Santibañis l&#39;Altu)</p><br>
<p>Torre de Don Miguel</p><br>
<p>Torrecilla de los Ángeles (Torrecilla de los Ángilis)</p><br>
<p>Valverde del Fresno (Valverdi du Fresnu)</p><br>
<p>Vegaviana</p><br>
<p>Villamiel</p><br>
<p>Trevejo (Treveju)</p><br>
<p>Villanueva de la Sierra (Villanueva)</p><br>
<p>Villasbuenas de Gata (Villasgüenas)</p><br>
<p>St Petrock&#39;s Church in Parracombe, Devon, England was built in the 13th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It was declared redundant on 25 November 1969, and was vested in the Trust on 23 June 1971.</p><br>
<p>The church is dedicated to St Petrock. Parts of the building, including the chancel and the lower part of the tower remain from the 13th century but much of the current fabric dates from a reconstruction in the early 16th century.</p><br>
<p>In 1879 there were worries about the stability of the building however protests led by John Ruskin who donated £10 lead to the preservation of the church and the construction of a new one further west in the village.</p><br>
<p>The interior includes 18th-century box pews, a Georgian pulpit and a screen with a wooden tympanum above it which dates from the 18th century.</p><br>
