<p>The Alberche is a river in the provinces of Ávila, Madrid and Toledo, central Spain. It begins its course at 1,800 m in Fuente Alberche, San Martín de la Vega del Alberche municipal term, Ávila Province. It forms the natural division between the Sierra de Gredos and the Sierra de Guadarrama, in the Sistema Central.</p><br>
<p>The Alberche flows roughly from NW to SE and bends sharply midway in its course to flow from NE to SW. It meets the Tagus at Talavera de la Reina. This river has the following dams along its course: Burguillo, Charco del Cura, San Juan y Picadas and Cazalegas. Alberche Beach is a sandy beach stretch on the banks of the Alberche River, a favorite spot for vacationers from Madrid.</p><br>
<h2>Tributaries</h2><br>
<p>Cofio River</p><br>
<p>Perales River</p><br>
<p>The Schmidt Block is a historic building located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was built by Fritz T. Schmidt in 1896 to house his wine and liquor business, which was known as Fritz T. Schmidt and Sons. They produced their own wine at a west end location known as "Blackhawk Vineyards." It was located along Blackhawk Creek. Some of the buildings, including the Schmidt&#39;s house, are extent. In the late 1970s and 1980s the building housed an upscale restaurant called J.K. Frizbee’s. Duck City, another upscale restaurant, occupies the building now.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Schmidt Block is a three-plus story building constructed of red stone that was built on a brick foundation. The main façade was designed in the Romanesque revival style made popular by Henry Hobson Richardson. It features large round-arched windows with tuned-stone surrounds on the third floor, roughly dressed stone and stunted columns on the attic level arcade that are topped by a cornice. The Schmidt Block is the only commercial building in Davenport to adopt the Richardsonian Romanesque style in stone. The swag embellishments on the frieze are also unique in that they are Adamesque rather than Romanesque. While the storefront has been modernized, the building retains its recessed entrance into the first-floor commercial space and transom signage. The building immediately to the east has since been torn down and a sheltered outdoor seating area for the restaurant has been added that looks over the urban style park that sits between the Schmidt Block and the RiverCenter, the city’s convention center.</p><br>
<p>Potato Lake is a lake located in the northwestern part of Wisconsin. It is in the far southwestern corner of Rusk County, approximately 12 miles east of Chetek, Wisconsin. Potato Lake is one of Rusk County&#39;s 88 named lakes, and can be accessed by a ramped public boat landing. It is a drainage lake</p><br>
<p>that is connected to McDermott Creek and Potato Creek. Potato Creek eventually flows into the Chippewa River.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>Anglers enjoy Potato Lake&#39;s offerings, especially those wanting to catch the Wisconsin muskellunge, also known as the musky. The musky is highly prized, so much so, that in 1955 it was officially named the state fish of Wisconsin.</p><br>
<p>The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has named Potato Lake as one of the state&#39;s class A1 musky waters,</p><br>
<p>which means that the lake may harbor trophy-sized muskellunge. The minimum length requirement for a legally caught musky on Potato Lake is 40 inches, compared to 34 inches on other Wisconsin lakes.</p><br>
<p>Other fish in Potato Lake include panfish such as bluegill, crappies, pumpkinseed sunfish, and perch; and game fish such as largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, northern pike, and walleye. If anglers are fishing for walleye on Potato Lake, they must abide by the Ceded Territory bag limit of 3 walleye per licensed fisherman</p><br>
<p>rather than the 5 walleye bag limit on non-Ceded Territory lakes.</p><br>
<p>Prospect Farm was built by steamboat captain J. C. Jenkins on a hill overlooking Petersburg, Kentucky. Jenkins was born in Orange County, Virginia and moved to Boone County in 1832. He invested in the Boone County Distilling Company and also raised cattle on the 1,200 acres then comprising Prospect Farm.</p><br>
<p>The house includes a three-stage tower in three different styles; a two-story, semi-octagonal facade bay; and two-tier side porches. It was built in 1857 and an addition was completed in 1860. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Statement of Significance</p><br>
<p>"The house is significant under criterion C as an excellent example of the Italianate style, significant to Boone County in the period 1855-1910, and as an excellent (and only) example of the Italian Villa style, which used Italianate elements but featured a tower. The house is also an excellent local example of the broad trend in 19th century architecture of eclectic mixing of picturesque styles and forms. The property is also significant under criterion A as a good example of a large farm in Boone County in the period 1855-1938."</p><br>
<p>The Levi Sargent House is an historic house at 747 Otisfield Gore Road in Otisfield, Maine. Built c. 1812, It is one of a small number of log structures to survive in Maine from the 19th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Sargent house consists of a 1-1/2 story main block, three bays wide, with a long ell. The main block is oriented to the southwest, with its centered entry framed by sidelight windows and pilasters, and topped by a simple entablature. The flanking windows are replacement sash windows, as are those on the other elevations. The house is finished in clapboards, completely obscuring the log structure. The logs are roughly hewn, with limestone mortar filling the gaps. In places where the log beams are too short, two logs were simply butted together. The corners are formed by the use of square corner notches. The logs show evidence of having been covered in sheathing from an early period.</p><br>
<p>The house&#39;s ell has more traditional frame construction, and was probably built during the Greek Revival period, around the same time the front door surround was added. Its interior consists of three rooms. The interior of the main block has a central hall with large chambers on either side. The western chamber has a narrow staircase leading upstairs, where there are four small chambers accessed off a narrow hallway.</p><br>
<p>The house is thought to have been built by Levi Sargent (1786-1861), a Methodist minister who moved to the area in the 1790s and married in 1811. That same year he purchased the land on which this house sits (then 109 acre).</p><br>
<p>The Deacon Hutchins House is an historic house on Maine State Route 5 in Rumford, Maine. Built c. 1802, it is an excellent example of vernacular Federal style architecture, and is further notable for murals drawn in one room by the itinerant painter Rufus Porter. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hutchins House is 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a gable roof and two substantial brick chimneys placed symmetrical on the roof gable. The main facade, facing southwest, is symmetrical, with a center entry flanked by pilasters and topped by a transom window and lintel entablature. A 1-1/2 story ell extends from the northeast corner of the house. A secondary entry, capped by a gable pediment, is located on the southeast facade.</p><br>
<p>The house, built c. 1802 for Deacon Hezekiah Hutchins, a New Hampshire native and veteran of the French and Indian and American Revolutionary Wars, who moved to the area in 1801 and was one of the founders of the Congregational church at Rumford Center. He also served as town moderator and as a justice of the peace, indicating his prominence in the community. His house is a well-preserved example of a vernacular Federal style house. The most significant element of the house, however, is the addition c. 1840 of a series of murals in its southeast parlor, drawn by Rufus Porter, who was then at the height of his time as an itinerant painter. In addition to painting on the plastered walls, Porter also applied graining effects to some of the room&#39;s woodwork.</p><br>
<p>Dunkirk Schooner Site is a historic shipwreck archaeological site located in Lake Erie off Dunkirk in Chautauqua County, New York. It lies about 20 mi off Dunkirk resting in 170 ft of cold freshwater, embedded on submerged lands of New York in the eastern basin of Lake Erie. It is a Great Lakes schooner, a two-masted wooden sailing ship, approximately 80 ft in length on deck, 19 ft in beam. It may have been the Caledonia, built on the River Rouge near Detroit in 1799 and originally used in the fur trade in the early 19th century. It was commandeered by the British military at the outbreak of the War of 1812 and then captured by the Americans a year later. It was later sold to Pennsylvania merchants who renamed it the General Wayne and used it as part of the Underground Railroad to ferry runaway slaves to Canada until sinking sometime before 1850. Alternatively, it may be a nameless 1830s schooner that sank carrying grain.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Florence Hotel is a seven-story Moderne-style building in Downtown Missoula, Montana, which was completed in 1941. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Standing at 7 floors it is the 5th tallest building in Missoula. It is located at 111 North Higgins Avenue.</p><br>
<p>Since its original construction in 1888, The Florence Hotel offered weary railway travelers and settlers a comfortable night’s lodging. When it burned in 1913, The Florence was rebuilt as a major 106-room hostelry and was a longtime regional gathering place until it, too, was destroyed by fire in 1936. Missoula’s lack of a major hotel had serious implications, and even though the nation was then in the midst of the Great Depression, Walter H. McLeod and other influential businessmen secured community support to rebuild.</p><br>
<p>Constructed in 1941 on the same site as the two earlier buildings, today’s Florence was brought to life by Spokane, Washington architect G.A. Pehrson who masterfully designed the $600,000 “jewel of a hotel” in its current Art Moderne style. For the next three decades the Florence continued to welcome visitors to downtown Missoula and Big Sky Country. In fact, “Howdy” met Hollywood when John Wayne famously slumbered at The Florence—adding to the romantic notion of the Wild West mingling with the opulent splendor of the hotel’s signature style. The Florence was ahead of its time with the Northwest’s first central air conditioning system, novel glass shower doors, underground parking for the growing number of Americans traveling by automobile, and first-class interior appointments in a “harmony of color.” The Florence remained a hotel until the 1970s when the building was transformed once again—this time into an office complex with retail businesses occupying the main floor.</p><br>
<p>The Tuma River is a river located in Nicaragua. The length of the Tuma is 180 km.</p><br>
<p>The river, a left tributary of the Río Grande de Matagalpa, is located in the Jinotega and Matagalpa Departments, North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, and South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region. The source of the Tuma River is located in Jinotega Department, about 250 kilometers northeast of the capital, Managua. The river flows in the eastern direction, crosses into Matagalpa Department, in the lower course forms the border between Matagalpa Department and the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, and between the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region and the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region where it joins Río Grande de Matagalpa.</p><br>
<p>The biggest towns on the banks of the Tuma are El Tuma in Matagalpa Department and Mulukuku in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region.</p><br>
<p>In 1964, President Luis Somoza Debayle decided to dam the river with the Mancotal Dam to form Nicaragua&#39;s first man-made lake, Apanás Lake, which provides power for the 50-megawatt Centroamérica hydroelectric plant in the country&#39;s Central Highlands. It is also an important recreational area, as the river and lake provide a good deal of tourism for Jinotega department.</p><br>
<p>The Guébriant Islands  are two small islands west of the Antarctic Peninsula, in the northern part of Marguerite Bay, lying 5 nmi southeast of Cape Alexandra, the southeast cape of Adelaide Island. They were discovered by the fourth French Antarctic Expedition 1908–1910 under Jean-Baptiste Charcot and named by him as "Îlots de Guébriant" after the Reverend Jean-Baptiste Marie Budes de Guébriant, a French Catholic missionary to China.</p><br>
<p>The islands were surveyed by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS, the predecessor of the British Antarctic Survey) in 1948. They were recharted by a Royal Navy Hydrographic Survey Unit in 1963.</p><br>
<p>Both islands have an elongated shape, stretching in a north east to south west direction. The smaller (northernmost) island is about 500 m long, 200 m wide and has a highest point of 92 meters. The southern island has a similar width and is about 1100 m long. It is much lower. The islands are separated by a channel about 200 m wide. In summer they become virtually ice free.</p><br>
<p>About 1 km to the south sest of the islands lies Mission Rock, also named after missionary de Guébriant. Mission Rock is not considered part of the Guébriant Islands proper.</p><br>
<p>Argentina, Chile and the United Kingdom all consider the Guébriant Islands to be part of their national territory, as they fall within the overlapping Antarctic territorial claims of all three nations. There is however no (known) physical presence of any of these nations on the islands.</p><br>
<p>On a clear day, the Guébriant Islands can be seen from Rothera Research Station, a distance of about 28 km (see picture).</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>The flora and fauna of the islands seem to be poorly investigated. An exhaustive publication from 1995 tempting to list all the breeding sites of the snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) in Antarctica mentions the Guébriant Islands as a possible breeding site, based on a single observation from 1962. This may indicate not only that the observation from 1962 was sketchy, but also that there are no known written records of the islands&#39; bird life in the 33 years thereafter.</p><br>
<p>The vegetation of the Guébriant Islands consists of moss patches of the genera Brachythecium, Bryum and Drepanocladus, among other things. In these moss communities the most abundant nematodes (tiny roundworms) are from the genera Plectus and Aphenchoides. In moss patches of Drepanocladus these worms may number 428,000 per square meter in just the uppermost 2.5 cm.</p><br>
<p>Alectoria minuscula f. biformis, a species of lichen, was found on the islands by B. Stonehouse and V.E. Fuchs on 13 October 1948 and was abundant at altitudes above 100 ft. Another lichen species, of the genus Lecanora, was found on the leeward slope of the southern Guébriant island at an altitude of 61 metres in 1961.</p><br>
<p>The Bridge Avenue Historic District is located in a residential neighborhood on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983. The historic district stretches from River Drive along the Mississippi River up a bluff to East Ninth Street, which is near the top of the hill.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The historic district is made up of fourteen houses on the southern end of Bridge Avenue. The street itself rises steeply to the north from River Drive. It is located along the east side of a ravine that separates it from the St. Katherine&#39;s Historic District on the west. To the north and west is the LeClaire Reserve, a largely residential area built on property that had belonged to city founder Antoine LeClaire. A residential neighborhood to the east that dates from the early 20th Century includes the Prospect Park Historic District. The houses along this section of Bridge Avenue were largely built from the 1870s to 1910. The oldest house, however, was built in 1860. Ten of the houses are on the west side of the street and four are on the east side, which also includes the larger property of the Ambrose Fulton House. All but two of the houses are of frame construction. The two noncontributing elements in the district are a modern apartment building (730 Bridge) and a parking lot located at the foot of Bridge Avenue and Oneida Street.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The most prominent of the residences was built by Ambrose Fulton, who was significant to Davenport’s early settlement and its industrial history. He was an early and aggressive promoter of the new town. Fulton was involved in multiple industries including flour mills, railroads, river commerce, land speculation, and retail commerce. Besides Fulton three other prominent members of the Davenport community built houses on Bridge Avenue. John B. Carmichael dealt in books, stationary and wallpaper; Josiah Dow owned a grain mill; and John Forrest was a local politician and commercial developer. Forrest is also responsible for the Forrest Block downtown. Josiahs wife Maggie built a duplex on Bridge Avenue after her husbands death.</p><br>
<p>Nine of the more significant houses include:</p><br>
<p>Herman Andresen House (1885) 732 Bridge Avenue. The two-story frame residence features a bellcast mansard roof, and a molded cornice on the gable end.</p><br>
<p>John B. Carmichael House (1885) 820 Bridge Avenue. The two-story, three bay, front gable frame house possesses Italianate characteristics that are found in the curved window heads and false wood quoining that is designed to look like masonry.</p><br>
<p>Josiah Dow House (1874) 908 Bridge Avenue. The Second Empire frame house is a 2½-story structure with a mansard roof, rectangular plan and an addition that was added to the back of the house.</p><br>
<p>Maggie Dow House (1901) 815-815½ Bridge Avenue. A two-story double house with a high hipped roof in the Georgian Revival style.</p><br>
<p>John Forrest House (1875) 718 Bridge Avenue. A two-story, front gable house with a cross gable and side porch in a combination Greek Revival and Italianate styles.</p><br>
<p>A.C. Fulton House (1871) 1206 East River Drive. The house is a noteworthy example of vernacular domestic architecture that is based on the Italianate style. What makes the house unique in Davenport is that its side-gable form and symmetrical, five-bay main facade are derived from a vernacular Greek Revival style while the cornice, quoined corners and window treatments follow the Italianate style. While the combination of these two styles in a single house is not unusual in the city, the form and mass are generally rendered in the Italianate while the decorative elements are Greek Revival. The columned porch adds to the house&#39;e eclecticism.</p><br>
<p>Cassius D. Hayward House (1902) 812 Bridge Avenue. The Georgian Revival residence is a 2½-story structure that follows an irregular plan and is capped by a hipped roof with dormers and projecting gables.</p><br>
<p>W.J. Hayward House (1880) 802 Bridge Avenue. The two-story house follows an L-plan and features a three-bay symmetrical facade and a full-width porch. The Italianate house is capped with a hipped roof.</p><br>
<p>Nathan Rambo House (1860) 1203 E. 9th Street. The two-story brick residence is a fine example of the "Cube-Form" Italianate house found in Davenport. It features an Eastlake-style entrance porch.</p><br>
<p>The Arthur Ebeling House is a historic building located on the west side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The Colonial Revival house was designed by its original owner, Arthur Ebeling. It was built from 1912-1913 and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Arthur Ebeling</h2><br>
<p>Arthur H. Ebeling (1882-1965) was a prominent Davenport architect in the first half of the 20th century. He was born in neighboring Rock Island, Illinois. The family moved to Davenport when he was a boy and he was educated in the local public schools where he graduated with honors. He learned the architectural craft from his seven-year apprenticeship with Gustav Hanssen and Dietrich Harfst in Davenport. He then left for Chicago where he studied architecture and engineering. Ebeling returned to Davenport in 1908 and began his own architectural practice. He married Bridget "Belle" McCarthy (1878-1968) and together they had four children Arthur, Paul, Mary Alice and Patricia.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Arthur Ebeling House is a two-story residence utilizing a rectilinear plan. It features a hipped roof covered in red clay tiles, a full-length front porch, and an entrance vestibule in the back of the house. The exterior is covered in pink-tan face-brick laid in a stretcher bond pattern. The window sills, water table and quoins are concrete slabs. The façade is symmetrical with three bays. The porch roof is supported by brick piers with concrete caps. The balustrade is solid brick and features panels with a lions&#39; head reliefs on both sides. The main entrance is framed by sidelights.</p><br>
<h2>Projects</h2><br>
<p>Besides his own home Arthur Ebeling designed, or was involved with, the following notable buildings:</p><br>
<p>Walsh Flats/Langworth Building in Davenport (1910)</p><br>
<p>August F. Martzahn House in Davenport (1911)</p><br>
<p>Northwest Davenport Savings Bank in Davenport (1912)</p><br>
<p>St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in Davenport (1913; Supervising architect)</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s High School, in Riverside, Iowa</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s School, in Davenport</p><br>
<p>Sickles, Preston and Nutting Company Building in the Crescent Warehouse Historic District in Davenport (1911)</p><br>
<p>Sieg Iron Company Building in the Crescent Warehouse Historic District in Davenport (1915)</p><br>
<p>Blackhawk Hotel in Davenport (1915; Supervising architect)</p><br>
<p>Sacred Heart School in Davenport (1915)</p><br>
<p>Joseph F. Bettendorf House in Bettendorf (1915)</p><br>
<p>Regina Coeli Monastery in Bettendorf (1916)</p><br>
<p>Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Keswick, Iowa (1916)</p><br>
<p>Kahl Building in downtown Davenport (1920)</p><br>
<p>Henry Kahl House in Davenport (1920)</p><br>
<p>Buildings at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds in Davenport (1920)</p><br>
<p>Washington School in Bettendorf, Iowa (1923; addition to original structure)</p><br>
<p>East Hill House and Carriage House in Riverdale, Iowa (1926; Supervising architect)</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s School in Fort Madison, Iowa (1926)</p><br>
<p>Davis Hall, St. Ambrose University in Davenport (1927)</p><br>
<p>Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Davenport (1927)</p><br>
<p>Buffalo High School in Buffalo, Iowa (1928; addition to original structure)</p><br>
<p>Lewis Hall, St. Ambrose University in Davenport (1929)</p><br>
<p>Madison Elementary School in Davenport (1940)</p><br>
<p>Scott County Courthouse in Davenport (1956)</p><br>
<p>Pyrites Island is the largest of three small islands lying northeast of Gam Point and forming the east side of Esther Harbor, off the north coast of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands. In 1913–14, the rocky extremity of Gam Point and the adjoining islands to the northwest and southeast were named Esther, Pyritis  or Pyritic Islands by Scottish geologist David Ferguson, who reported they were composed of pyrites and vein quartz. From Ferguson&#39;s description it appears that the ice cliff behind the Gam Point has advanced since 1914 so that this "island" is now joined to the mainland. The highest and most conspicuous of the remaining islands is the one here described. The name Pyrites Island was recommended by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee  in 1960 to avoid confusion with the other existing "Esther" names in the vicinity.</p><br>
<p>High Breeze Farm, also known as Barrett Farm, is located in the Highland Lakes section of Vernon Township, in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The 160-acre farm, now known as High Breeze Farm, was owned by the Demarest family from approximately 1818 to 1860, when it was purchased by the Barrett family. The main farmhouse was built in 1828 and the barns and outbuildings were built between 1860 and 1935. The Barretts operated it continuously from 1860 to 1986 with very few changes to the original farming methods. The farm was used mainly for subsistence farming. Four generations of Barretts operated it. They raised horses, cows, and chickens and produced hay, corn, turnips, rutabagas, apples, peaches, pears, plums, honey, and maple syrup. Luther J. Barrett was the last family member to work the farm, operating it “almost as a time capsule of 19th century farming,” using a draft horse for most farm work. At the time of Luther J. Barrett’s death in 1986, the farm had not installed plumbing, central heating, or telephones. The Barretts did, however, install minimal electricity in 1948. The State of New Jersey purchased the property in 1981 and made it part of Wawayanda State Park. In 1989, the State of New Jersey planned the demolition of the farm, but the Vernon Historical Society, specifically through the work of Ron Dupont Jr. struggled to preserve it. Dupont rallied school children and compiled numerous slideshows to show the historic significance of the farm. His efforts were successful, and High Breeze Farm was listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. High Breeze Farm is now the only remaining farm on Wawayanda Mountain. The main house, barn, and outbuildings remain, and are displayed as part of the “living history museum,” as it was restored in 1992. The farm also displays historic farm equipment including mowers, sickle bars, and wrought iron wheels that were used by the Barretts.</p><br>
<h2>Present-day</h2><br>
<p>Bill Becker now operates High Breeze Farm as a working farm devoted to preserving traditional farming methods. The farm offers Certified Naturally Grown produce, maple syrup, eggs, pork, and beef. By practicing “Naturally Grown” techniques, which are based on the USDA National Organic Program standards, High Breeze maintains many traditional historical practices, rather than choosing to utilize “modern” pesticides and fertilizers or more mechanized agricultural techniques.</p><br>
<h3>Events</h3><br>
<p>High Breeze Farm served as the grounds for the Black Powder Association’s annual encampment in 2009 and 2010. At this encampment, members of the Black Powder Association reenact pre-1840s American culture through dress, props, crafts, and activities. Different groups choose different time periods between American colonization and the 1840s. Members representing different periods camps separately, in an attempt to preserve the historical integrity of the reenactment. Some camp out in teepees or tents, while others construct lean-tos. The encampment also features a competition known as the “Seneca Run,” where competitors must start a fire with a tinderbox, flint, and steel, use bows and arrows, and fire black powder muskets.</p><br>
<p>With fifty sugar maple trees on the property, people also use the boiling of sap into maple syrup as an opportunity to celebrate the historic background of High Breeze Farm. People, including members of the Black Powder Association, dress for the syrup-boiling event in period clothing from anywhere between 1720 to 1840. They discuss the historic methods of syrup boiling, and use the weekend for festivities such as crafts, cooking, and shooting in the style of the historic period they choose to represent.</p><br>
<p>As part of Wawayanda State Park, High Breeze Farm is also a destination for hikers. Wawayanda has 40 miles of bicycle and hiking trails, including an 11 mile section of the Appalachian Trail.</p><br>
<h3>High Breeze Farm in Media</h3><br>
<p>Local artist Robert A. Fletcher plans to release a book in October 2013 featuring stories related to him by farmer Luther Barrett, accompanied by Fletcher&#39;s illustrations.</p><br>
<p>Garretson Forge and Farm is a farm owned by the Garretson Family since 1719. Located in Fair Lawn, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, it is one of the oldest historic sites in the county. The Peter Garretson House  was built in 1720 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 19, 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The history of Garretson Forge and Farm began during the 17th century, with the immigration of three Dutch emigres: Gerrit Gerritse, his wife Annetje Hermansse, and their son Gerrit. In 1719, Gerrit purchased a huge plot of land known as the Slooterdam Patent from a businessman named David Daniellse. This plot of land was very large, encompassing many towns that are now in Bergen and Passaic, one of these towns being Fair Lawn. Gerrit&#39;s son Peter started construction shortly after the land purchase, and the history of Garretson Forge and Farm began. Originally called "The Garretson-Brocker home", Garretson Forge and Farm housed six generations of Garretsons for over 100 years.</p><br>
<p>During its early existence, Garreston Forge and Farm was a large plantation that grew various types of crops and also housed multiple slaves. Over the years, however, pieces of Garretson Forge and Farm were sold off. Currently, the property is just under 2 acres. Many additions were made to Garretson Forge and Farm throughout the years including the construction and renovation of the main estate, which is part of the living museum. In 1902, major changes were made to the manor house, adding a second floor, outside porch, and a new roof. These 1902 renovations made Garretson Forge and Farm look like what it does today.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Garretson Forge and Farm is located in Fair Lawn, New Jersey on 4-02 River Road. It is also in very close proximity to the Passaic River. Water from the river was used to make bricks in the early stages of construction of Garreston Forge and Farm. Numerous Lenape artifacts have also been found on the property. The region around the Passaic River was the territory of the Acquackanonk and Hackensack.</p><br>
<h2>Living museum and garden</h2><br>
<p>Today, patrons can visit Garretson Forge and Farm to explore the outdoor living museum as well as the extensive garden. The living museum contains numerous historic buildings and artifacts which patrons can explore and interact with. The main estate contains a rustic kitchen that was used by the Garretson Family. Outside the main estate, is an authentic water pump, where patrons can actually pump underground water to be used for the garden. There are numerous buildings around the property that are used to store farm equipment for the garden as well.</p><br>
<p>Originally, Garretson Forge and Farm was used to grow a variety of herbs and vegetables. Commercial crops were grown as late as 1970 by the Garretson Family. Currently, the garden is mainly used to grow a wide a variety of herbs. The garden consists of over 50 herbs and spices, and also contains a butterfly garden and fruit orchard. Patrons who come to visit can participate in the cultivation and upkeep of the Garretson Forge and Farm garden.</p><br>
<h2>Community</h2><br>
<p>Garretson Forge and Farm provides a role in the local community as well as being a living museum and garden. The local community uses the outdoor picnic and recreation area to hold town meetings and to have guest speakers. There are also various activities that go on throughout the year, such as the Dutch Christmas celebration, that the community can participate in. Furthermore, Garretson Forge and Farm is run by the community who volunteers as tour guides, gardeners, and other useful jobs pertaining to the upkeep of the garden and living museum. There is a local elementary school in the area that hosts annual field trips to the Garretson Forge and Farm. Students from the school get a specialized tour of the grounds, and participate in various activities around the farm.</p><br>
<p>The Florida Mountains are a small 12-mi  long, mountain range in New Mexico. The mountains lie in southern Luna County about 15 mi southeast of Deming, and 20 mi north of Chihuahua state, Mexico; the range lies in the north of the Chihuahuan Desert region, and extreme southwestern New Mexico.</p><br>
<p>The Florida Mountains are east and adjacent to New Mexico State Road 11, the north-south route to Chihuahua; it becomes Highway 23 in Chihuahua and connects to Mexican Federal Highway 2, the major east-west route of the north Chihuahuan Desert adjacent the USA-Mexico border.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Florida Mountains are a small, compact range about 12-mi long, with various peaks from 5000 to 7000 ft. The range highpoint is Florida Peak, 7,295 ft, which lies near the north. Other high peaks in the center-south, are Gym, Baldy, and South Peak. Four other peaks are in the extreme northwest; besides Florida Peak, the tallest of the other four is Capitol Dome, at 5,962 ft.</p><br>
<p>Most of the land surrounding the prominent rise of the mountain range are flatlands. Deming, and its suburbs directly south, form the northwest and west border of the range&#39;s minor foothills. Populated flatlands are northeast, with open flatlands to the east and southeast.</p><br>
<p>New Mexico 193 lies at the range&#39;s north and northeast, the location of Rockhound State Park. The park is nestled between the Florida Mountains, and a 3-mi (4.8 km) long mountain range called the Little Florida Mountains.</p><br>
<h3>Environment and ecology</h3><br>
<p>Persian (Bezoar) Ibex (Capra aegagrus aegagrus) have been introduced into the region, and have an established population.</p><br>
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<p>The Catalan Central Depression  is a natural depression between the Pre-Pyrenees and the Catalan Pre-Coastal Range in Spain. It widens towards the west, linking with the Ebro Depression, Depressió de l&#39;Ebre, of which it could be considered an eastern extension. The Catalan Central Depression is about 180 km long with an average width of 50 km.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Catalan Central Depression consists of a succession of high plateaus between 800 and 1,000 metres in altitude that gradually lose height westwards until the Ebro Depression. There are eroded river basins limiting these heights wherever the ground is made up of clay or marlstone. The Pla de Bages and the Conca de Barberà are examples of these higher regions.</p><br>
<p>The limits of the Central Depression are different whether considered from the point of view of their origin or their actual relief. Some mountain ranges outside of the depression, like Montserrat and Sant Llorenç del Munt, are formed by the same geologic materials that make up the Central Depression, even though geographically they are situated in the Pre-Coastal Range. These materials were piled up over the more ancient rocks of the Catalan Mediterranean System.</p><br>
<p>The Central Depression formed in the Tertiary, when a great gulf, that later became a sea, had its boundaries in the Pyrenees and the Catalan-Balearic Massif.</p><br>
<p>Marine sedimentation formed clay, and other limestone materials, like bluish marl where the sedimentation had been part of a quiet and slow process, as well as conglomerate in the areas of the mouths of ancient rivers coming down from the Pyrenees and the former Catalan-Balearic Massif. Evaporation produced sodium and potassium salts, as well as gypsum in certain areas.</p><br>
<h2>Mountain ranges</h2><br>
<p>Some minor mountain ranges are scattered within the Central Depression without a regular pattern. The main ones are:</p><br>
<p>Serrat Gran de Postius</p><br>
<p>Serrat de la Minyona</p><br>
<p>Serrat de la Rodoreda</p><br>
<p>Serra de Castelltallat</p><br>
<p>Serra de Pinós</p><br>
<p>Serra de Brufaganya</p><br>
<p>Serra de Palomes</p><br>
<p>Serra de Rubió</p><br>
<p>Serra d&#39;Almenara</p><br>
<p>Serra de Sant Miquel</p><br>
<p>Punta d&#39;Ossós</p><br>
<p>Muntanya de Sant Mamet</p><br>
<p>Mont-Roig</p><br>
<p>Serra Carbonera</p><br>
<p>Serra d&#39;Oliana</p><br>
<p>Serra del Tallat</p><br>
<p>Serra de Vilobí</p><br>
<p>Montmeneu</p><br>
<p>Serra de Matalescabres</p><br>
<p>Serra de la Fatarella</p><br>
<p>Serra dels Pesells</p><br>
<p>The Nebergall "Knoll Crest" Round Barn is located between Davenport and Blue Grass in rural Scott County, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1914, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Charles W. Nebergall owned Knoll Crest Farm when they contracted with Benton Steele to design and construct a round barn in 1914. The building is a true round barn that measures 56 ft around. The bottom half of the barn is constructed of clay tile and features square windows. Red vertical board-and-batten siding covers the upper half of the barn that features rectangular windows. A driveway divides the interior circular arrangement between the horse stalls and the cattle stanchions, which ringed the outer perimeter of the main level. Grain bins and feedways are located between the animals and the center drive. Separate hay chutes serviced the horse and cattle sides of the barn. In that way, the horse hay and the cattle hay could be efficiently stored and the animals fed. There is no silo built into this barn. A cupola rests on top of a 2-pitch conical roof. The Nebergall family sold the farm in 1992 to John Penne. He re-roofed the barn in 1998 with wood shingles. The hayforks and manure track system remain in working condition.</p><br>
<h2>Benton Steele</h2><br>
<p>The barn was built by Benton Steele, who was a specialized builder/architect. He built his first barns in the dairy districts of Indiana and Wisconsin before moving to Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. He wrote articles in publications such as the Kimballs Dairy Farmer of Waterloo, the Breeders Gazette of Chicago and the Hoard&#39;s Dairyman of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin as a way to advertise his work. Nebergall Round Barn is the only known example of a round barn from his work left in Iowa.</p><br>
<p>The East 14th Street Historic District is located on the east side 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>The historic district is located in a part of the city known as the LeClaire Reserve and was developed later than other parts of the Reserve. It covers the 300 to the 800 blocks of East 14th Street and includes 67 houses. The earliest homes were built in the 1870s and the newest around 1910, however, most of the houses were built between 1880 and 1900. The district is located in the heart of the non-German residential area. The Germans largely resided to the west of Harrison Street. Several prominent entrepreneurs, industrialists, and professionals lived along East 14th Street. Their families, however, lived here for several decades unlike the German&#39;s who would spend a lifetime in their neighborhoods.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The homes on East 14th Street are described as “solid, reasonably prosperous, and unostentatious.” For the most part, they are large (2 to 2½ stories) and of frame construction. The houses are located on long, narrow lots and are set back 20–30 feet from the street. Many of the lots are slightly elevated and terraced. Most of the houses are single-family dwellings, or they were when they were built. There are also several double houses where the two sides of the main facade are a mirror image of each other.</p><br>
<p>The houses follow changing tastes and architectural styles. The earliest style found in the district is the Italianate with its emphasis on symmetry and the horizontal. It was followed by the Queen Anne with its irregular plan, towers, variegated roofs, projecting bays and dormers and a variety of surface textures. Closer to the turn of the 20th century the symmetry of the Colonial Revival style became more predominant, especially the Georgian Revival form. Some of the houses show the influence of the Prairie Style. There is also evidence that older homes were remodeled with the features and textures of the later styles, so some of the houses are a combination of styles. East 14th Street also has several houses built in a vernacular style that was popular in 19th century Davenport. They are two-story, three-bay, front gable houses with a main entrance that is off center and a window located in the gable end.</p><br>
<p>The Severin Miller House and barn are historic buildings located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. They were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Severin Miller</h2><br>
<p>Severin Miller was born in Prussia on October 17, 1824, the son of Bartholomew and Anna Marie Miller. He was raised and educated there, and learned the machinist trade from his father. In 1846 at the age of 22, he immigrated to the United States. He landed in New York City and initially settled in Philadelphia. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri and in 1850 he moved again to Davenport. He found work as a machinist in all these places. In 1852 he purchased property on the corner of Second and Gaines Streets. He returned to St. Louis but returned to Davenport in 1857 when he built a shop and home on the property he bought in 1852. He mainly did repair work on farm equipment. His business expanded to the manufacture of pumps and a foundry. He sold the business in 1875.</p><br>
<p>In 1862 he married Christiania Baussmann and they raised four children. He built his home on Telegraph Road in 1868 in what was then a rural area outside of the city. The house remained with the Miller&#39;s daughters until they died in the mid-1940s.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>This house and the barn behind it are two of a very few vernacular stone structures that remain from Davenports early decades. The house has a symmetrical five bay front reminiscent of the Greek Revival style. The four round-arch windows all feature a keystone and above them are slabs that suggest sills of small attic windows that were never installed. The possible inspiration for the house was the architecture of Millers native Prussia. There are plans for another wing, but they were abandoned when Christiania Miller died in 1871. The Miller Foundry produced the metal work throughout the house. An addition was built on the back of the house sometime after 1982, which replaced a previous addition.</p><br>
<p>Behind the house sits a rubble stone barn. The structure is typical of barns found in the German communities in Pennsylvania and other eastern states. It features triangular, wood relieving arches and the gable ends covered with vertical wood planks.</p><br>
<p>The Diedrich Busch House is a historic building located on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and as a contributing property in the McClellan Heights Historic District in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Diedrich Busch</h2><br>
<p>Diedrich Busch (1827–1893) was born in the town of Hamminkeln in Prussia He was apprenticed to a shoemaker, which became his trade for most of his life. He immigrated to the United State in 1853, landing in New York on July 3, and then made his way to Davenport. Over the years he had made a sizeable investment in real estate on the east side of Davenport where he developed many houses and commercial structures.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>While this house sits geographically in the McClellan Heights neighborhood, architecturally it fits more properly in the neighboring Village of East Davenport. East Davenport was an industrial town that began in the 1850s and was annexed into the city of Davenport by the time the decade ended. The house follows a popular Vernacular style of architecture from the mid to late 19th-century Davenport known as the McClelland style. It shows influences from other architectural styles as well, such as the bracketed eaves and the polygonal window bay on the east side that suggests the Italianate style. The round arch windows in the attic is another popular feature in Davenport homes built in this era. The veranda that wraps around from the front of the house to the west side was probably added in the early 20th-century. The same is true for the sunroom in the re-entrant angle between the houses main block and the pavilion on the west side.</p><br>
<p>The Bonaventura Heinz 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. Another house was also attributed to him, Bonaventura Heinz House , which was also listed on the NRHP in 1983. It was delisted in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Bonaventura Heinz</h2><br>
<p>Bonaventura Heinz was born in Baden, present day Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1845. He settled in St. Louis, Missouri before enlisting in the United States Army to fight in the war with Mexico. He returned to St. Louis where he married Margueretta Trenkenshuh. They eventually moved to Davenport, where they raised four children. He became wharf manager and was connected with river transportation. He also took an active role in public affairs in Davenport. He died in 1899 at the age of 72.</p><br>
<p>The August F. Martzahn 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>August F. Martzahn</h2><br>
<p>August F. Martzahn was born in Davenport on January 26, 1861, the son of Fred Martzhan, an immigrant from Mecklenburg and Elizabeth (Beyer) Martzhan. He was educated in the city’s public schools and learned the butchers trade. He opened his first shop at 1701 West Third Street when he was still 18 years old. He organized the Davenport Slaughter & Rendering Company, which was the only such business in the city and became one of the largest in Eastern Iowa. The company’s specialty was rendering and dealing in hides. Martzahn married Minnie Schmidt in 1884 and they raised a son. He built this house along West Third Street in 1911.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Martzahn House continued the popular 19th century tradition of combining several architectural styles into one house. This house combines Georgian Revival mass with decorative elements of the American Craftsman and the Prairie School. Those elements include the two-tone stucco façade, the geometrically-patterned leaded glass, the large rectilinear brackets at the main entrance, and the wide eaves with projecting rafter ends. The short posts that support the deep cornice returns on the dormers are also of interest. The house was designed by Davenport architect Arthur Ebeling.</p><br>
<p>The Karshner Mound is a Native American mound in the southeastern portion of the USA state of Ohio. Located near the village of Laurelville in Hocking County, it is one of Ohio&#39;s largest remaining burial mounds that has not been significantly damaged since white settlement. Measuring 100 ft in diameter and 28 ft high, it lies in the middle of a farm field, but it has never been cultivated, and vegetation on the mound has prevented erosion.</p><br>
<p>Although no archaeological investigation has ever been carried out at the Karshner Mound, it is believed to have been constructed by people of the Adena culture, who inhabited the region between 1000 BC and AD 400. This identification is based on its shape and location; the Karshner Mound lies on the second terrace above Salt Creek, and large numbers of mounds on terraces above small streams have been found to be constructed by the Adena. Because of this identification, the mound is seen as a valuable archaeological site and believed to be likely to yield many informative artifacts if excavated. In recognition of its archaeological value, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Moss Eccles Tarn is a tarn on Claife Heights, near Near Sawrey in the Lake District, Cumbria. It is currently owned by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty and known as an attractive tarn for fishing and walking. It is known for its association with Beatrix Potter – she owned the tarn and donated it to the National Trust after her death, and it served as inspiration for some of her stories.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The tarn is on Claife Heights. Alfred Wainwright calls it the "most attractive" tarn on Claife Heights; it is stocked with water lilies and fish, and surrounded by rhododendrons. The outflow is bridged by a small dam. The tarn is best reached by following a track from Near Sawrey, a small village between Hawkshead and Windermere.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Wainwright contends the "tarn" to be a reservoir, noting that none of the tarns on Claife Heights appear on 19th-century maps. He notes, however, that they are "not obtrusively artificial". After Beatrix Potter and her husband William Heelis married in 1913, they lived in Castle Cottage in Far Sawrey and rowed on the tarn in summer evenings. Potter sketched near the tarn and her husband fished in it. In 1926, Potter bought part of the tarn, planting the water lilies and stocking it with fish. Along with much other land, it was left to the National Trust by Potter upon her death in 1943. It was probably a combination of Moss Eccles Tarn and Esthwaite Water that served as inspiration for the home of Jeremy Fisher in The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher; the road to the tarn from Near Sawrey was also drawn by Potter for The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding. The "strange, flat bottomed boat" in which Potter and Heelis rowed is now housed in the Windermere Steamboat Museum; it was salvaged from the tarn in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>The tarn is stocked with brown trout, and the fishing rights are controlled by the Windermere, Ambleside and District Anglish Association on behalf of the National Trust. The membership of the association is open, and tickets to fish in the tarn can be bought from local pubs, service stations and fishing shops. There is a limit to two fish per day per person.</p><br>
<p>Biddeford City Theater is a restored Victorian opera house at 205 Main Street in Biddeford, Maine, United States. City Theater produces and hosts theater, dance and music performances year-round and aims to, “foster an appreciation for the performing arts by using creative avenues to increase community involvement.”</p><br>
<p>City Theater is part of the Biddeford City Hall complex, designed by Maine architect John Calvin Stevens in 1895. The building is included on the National Register of Historic Places, and is a contributing element to the Biddeford Main Street Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Theater history</h2><br>
<p>Biddeford&#39;s City Theater originally opened as an opera house in October 1860 at its present Main Street location as a part of the Biddeford City Hall complex. The opera house enjoyed a high level of popularity in the Biddeford and Southern Maine region until burning down December 30, 1894. Whether to rebuild the opera house was debated, the city eventually settled on rebuilding a more structurally sound opera house.</p><br>
<p>Architect John Calvin Stevens was chosen to design the new city hall and opera house, which opened January 20, 1896. The opera house again became a favorite site for cultural and entertainment attractions. Through to the 1920s it brought vaudeville, minstrel shows, illustrated songs, dramatic performances and even community pageants and plays to the Southern Maine community.</p><br>
<p>The introduction of talkies in 1928 began the transition from opera house to movie theater. In 1955, “improvements” to its interior were made, including panelling of the lobby and its staircase and addition poster displays and a cinemascope screen. The name of the opera house was at this time officially changed to Biddeford’s City Theater.</p><br>
<p>However, with the increased popularity of drive-ins and television, City Theater had closed its doors by 1963 and remained closed until 1978. In the interim, Biddeford’s City Theater was used as a storage facility for the city and, at one point, a horse-shoe pit, complete with a pile of sand dumped in the orchestra pit. Ironically, also during this period, in 1973 Biddeford’s City Theater was added to the National Register of Historical Places.</p><br>
<p>In 1977, the newly incorporated City Theater Associates launched a campaign to renovate and re-open the opera house. Thus, a year later, the internationally popular Norman Luboff Choir opened for Biddeford’s City Theater’s first performance season in nearly 50 years.</p><br>
<p>Though great improvements were made to its interior during the re-opening, City Theater was still in great need of restoration. It was not until the 1990s, when City Theater celebrated its centennial, that the theater received a full restoration. Funding was provided by local, state and federal governments along with private donations from local businesses and individuals. A new marquee, re-stenciling of the lobby and house walls and ceilings and new sound and lighting were among the improvements made.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>Current renovations to Biddeford’s City Theater include re-pointing the exterior brickwork and improving the stage floor and restrooms.</p><br>
<p>City Theater currently runs a year-round season of theater, music and dance performances. Additionally, the theater has recently added community theater and youth opera and developed an ongoing relationship with the University of New England.</p><br>
<p>Bolsøya is an island in Molde Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The 5.2 km&sup2; island lies in the Romsdalsfjorden at the entrance to the Fannefjorden. The island is connected to the mainland by the Bolsøy Bridge and to the town of Molde by the Fannefjord Tunnel, both on County Road 64. The island is unique due to its 6 km long finger-shaped peninsula that is only 400 m wide at its widest. The Molde archipelago lies just to the west of the island and the islands of Sekken and Veøya lie about 4 km to the south. The island was in the former municipality of Bolsøy prior to its merger into Molde Municipality. The historic site of Bolsøy Church was on this island, but the church was moved to Røbekk on the mainland and the old church was torn down in 1906.</p><br>
<p>The USA Customhouse and Post Office is a historic commercial building at 1 Front Street in downtown Bath, Maine. Built by the federal government in 1858, it is a fine example of Italianate architecture designed by Ammi B. Young, housing the local post office and customs facilities until 1970. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It now houses businesses.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former United States Customhouse and Post Office stands at the southern end of Front Street, on a lot also bounded by Lambard and Commercial Streets, and by United States Route 1 on the south. It is a two story masonry structure, built out of ashlar granite and covered by a truncated metal hip roof. Its front facade (facing west) has a center projecting section topped by a fully pedimented low-pitch gable. The gable and the main roof line eaves are studded with modillions, and the building corners are quoined. Windows on the ground floor are set in rectangular openings with low gabled hoods, while those on the second floor have hoods with drip moulding. The entrance is an elaborate three-section arrangement topped by a bracketed cornice. The interior construction includes iron beams supported either by stone or iron posts, an advance in fire-resistant building materials of the period.</p><br>
<p>The customhouse was built in 1858 to serve the needs of Baths burgeoning port, which was a major shipping and shipbuilding center on Maines Mid Coast. It was designed by Ammi B. Young, who had become head of the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury Department in 1852. Young was responsible for the design of many government buildings, including notable works such as the Vermont State Capitol and the Boston Custom House. It served as the local post office and customhouse until 1970, when it was declared surplus by the General Services Administration. The building now houses a variety of businesses.</p><br>
<p>The Cookes Range  is a small, 17-mi  long mountain range in northern Luna County, New Mexico, which extends slightly north into southeastern Grant County. The range is a southern continuation of the Mimbres Mountains, itself the southeast portion of the extensive north-south running Black Range. The Cooks Range is surrounded by lower elevation areas of the northwest Chihuahuan Desert.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Cookes Range is about 17 mi long, and about 8 mi at its widest. The range is a basin and range north-south trending uplift with a center-north section intruded by granodiorite which forms Cookes Peak, 8,408 ft. Cookes Peak is at the head of OK Canyon, which exits the range eastwards. South of OK Canyon is a transverse ridgeline, across the range west to east, named Rattlesnake Ridge. One other larger peak occurs in the mountains and hills in the southern part of the range, Massacre Peak, at 5,667 ft. Other outlying lower elevation hills occur, east and west, in the north section, as the Cookes Range merges into the lower elevations of the Mimbres Mountains section of the Black Range.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The range was named after its prominent peak, which in turn was named after Captain Philip St. George Cooke of the Mormon Battalion. Cookes Spring was a station on the Butterfield Trail.</p><br>
<p>Fort Cummings (1863&ndash;1873, 1880&ndash;1886), located in the southeastern foothills of the range near Cookes Spring was established to restrict Apache raiding.</p><br>
<p>Silver was discovered in the range north of Cooks Peak in 1876, and the Cooks Peak Mining District was established in 1880. Silver, lead, and zinc were mined there until 1967.</p><br>
<h2>Environment and ecology</h2><br>
<p>The higher elevations of the range are pinon-juniper shrublands habitat which gives way to Chihuahuan desert in the foothills. The Cookes Range Wilderness Study Area is located in the range.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Franklin Gates House is an historic home and farm complex located on Lee Road  in Barre, New York, United States. It is centered on a Greek Revival house built in the 1830s using the unusual stacked-plank structural system. The accompanying barn and privy are also included in the listing.</p><br>
<p>Gates, the original owner, was a pioneer in the settlement of Barre who established the first tannery in the town and later became one of its most prominent early citizens. The property has remained virtually unchanged since his ownership. After new owners restored it, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. It is the second property listed in Barre after the Skinner-Tinkham House in the hamlet of Barre Center, and the second stacked-plank house listed in Orleans County after the Servoss House.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The farm is located on the north side of the road, just east of where Mix Road intersects from the south. The house and other structures are located near the front of the 29 acre property; seven acres (7 acre) in the rear are currently under cultivation. Trees planted in the last two decades, including 15 disease-resistant American elms, mark the property lines, along with some mature black walnuts and sugar maples.</p><br>
<p>Terrain is mostly level. The surrounding area is rural, with farmland predominating. Some woodlots and cellular phone towers are visible in the distance. Nearby buildings along the road are other farmsteads, most of their buildings also dating to the 19th century. The nearest large settlements are the villages of Albion to the east-northeast and Medina to the west-northwest, both about 4 mi distant.</p><br>
<h3>House</h3><br>
<p>The house itself has a main section with wings to the north and east. A fieldstone foundation has cobblestone facing, protruding mortar V-joints and sandstone quoinss. Atop it rest stacks of one-inch–thick (2.5-cm) vertical wooden planks nailed together creating load-bearing walls. Plaster was applied to the interior surface; the exterior is faced in clapboard. The two-story, three-bay main block is topped with a gabled roof, shingled in cedar, from which a brick chimney protrudes at the south (front) end.</p><br>
<p>On the east is a side-gabled one-story wing with full-width porch. The north wing projects from the rear of the east wing and the houses east rear. It, too, is side-gabled with a full-width porch facing east. It has the houses other chimney as well.</p><br>
<p>The south facade of the main block has two original six-over-six double-hung sash windows in the two western bays. The main entrance is located in the east bay. Greek Revival elements present include the wide corner pilasters and plain frieze topped by cornice at the roofline, creating a pediment with heavy entablature at the gable field. The porches are supported by square wooden columns, echoed by pilasters along the facades. All entrances can be reached by two wooden steps.</p><br>
<p>A simple wooden surround frames the main entrance, topped by a transom. It opens into a side hall that leads to parlors on the west and (in the wing) on the east. Behind the parlor is the library. Both parlors have Greek Revival interior decorations—atticurge architraves on the east and corner blocks on the west, where the baseboard forms a plinth block at the floor. A set of stairs near the back leads to the bedrooms upstairs.</p><br>
<p>In the north wing are the kitchen and dining room. Below it is crawl space with a dirt floor. The rest of the house has a full basement. Some interior walls are stacked-plank as well. The non–load-bearing walls are of vertical plank surfaced with split lath and plaster.</p><br>
<h3>Outbuildings</h3><br>
<p>Just to the northeast are the outbuildings. The largest is a gabled barn of hand-hewn post-and-beam on a fieldstone foundation with lime mortar. It is sided in board with ogee-shaped battens. Sliding doors at either end lead to an interior with an earthen ramp to the second level and a loft at the west end on the third level.</p><br>
<p>The smaller carriage barn on the east is similar to the barn. It is a sawn post-and-beam building on a fieldstone foundation with tongue-and-groove vertical siding and sliding doors at each gabled end. Inside a stairway leads to the second floor. The smaller privy between the house and barns is more like the former, clapboard-sided with a beaded plank door on an original hand-wrought Suffolk latch. Its walls are sided with plaster on accordion lath.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Gates, the descendant of English colonists who had moved from Massachusetts to Ontario County, in turn moved to Barre around 1830. His initial purchase of 10 acre was enlarged with 19 acre the following year, creating the present lot. The house was built around that time. Its stacked-plank structural system may have been employed due to the surplus of wood from land being cleared at the time and the dearth of skilled carpenters in the area.</p><br>
<p>In addition to farming the small parcel, he went into the tanning business. From a single vat hollowed out of a log, by 1852 he had several employees and had built a facility for the work. He sold the house for $3,200 ($ in contemporary dollars) to William Harrison Gates in 1853. After another sale in 1865, the tannery burned down sometime before 1874; an account from 1879 says that only a fragment of a foundation wall remained at that time.</p><br>
<p>Alterations to the house have been generally minimal and incremental. The kitchen floor was raised 7 in in the 1840s to bring it level with the dining room. A century later, the original chimney was removed.</p><br>
<p>After the kitchen was remodeled in 1986, the current owners made some major renovations in the early 2000s. Two bathrooms were added, and on the exterior the north wings porch was added. The original chimney and louvered shutters were replicated. All were done with care to not disrupt the houses overall appearance.</p><br>
<p>The former Machias Post Office and Customhouse is a historic government building at Maine and Center Streets in Machias, Maine. Built in 1872, it is a prominent local example of Italianate architecture executed in brick. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It now houses offices of the Machias Savings Bank.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Machias Post Office and Customhouse is located at the western corner of Center Street and Main Street (United States Route 1) in the heart of Machias&#39; downtown area. It is a two-story red brick building, topped by a hip roof and set on a granite foundation. Its main facade faces Main Street, and is a symmetrical three bays wide, with the center bay projecting slightly and capped by a fully pedimented gable. One principal entrance is on the first floor of that section, set in a round-arch opening with keystone and pilastered columns. Windows are set in round-arch openings on the first floor and segmented-arch openings on the second, with stone sills and keystones. The Center Street facade is five bays wide, with a similar arrangement and styling of doors and windows.</p><br>
<p>Early federal government facilities in Machias were located in leased spaces secured by the postmasters and customs collectors, a condition eventually found inadequate due to frequently changing addresses, and spaces that were not properly configured for the purpose. In 1867 the United States Congress authorized construction of this building, for which the land was acquired in 1870, and the construction completed in 1872. The building was designed by Alfred B. Mullett, the supervising architect of the United States Treasury Department, and the construction was supervised by Horatio L. Hill, a local builder and architect. In order to save costs, materials were sourced locally.</p><br>
<p>The USA Courthouse, Post Office and Customs House, also just known as the Federal Building, is a historic federal government building at Main and 2nd Streets in downtown Newport, Vermont. Completed in 1904, it served historically as a courthouse, as a customhouse, and as a post office, and is the city&#39;s tallest building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The US Federal Building is prominently located in downtown Newport, at the southwest corner of Main and Second Streets. It is just east of the Orleans County Courthouse and Jail Complex, and across Main Street from Newport City Hall. It is four stories in height, built out load-bearing brick and stone. The ground floor is finished in gray marble divided by deep bands, and appears as a raised basement. The upper floors are finished in red brick laid in Flemish bond. The second and third-floor windows are set in rectangular openings with marble keystones and sills, while the short fourth level appears to be a raised element of the third floor. A projecting cornice with dentillated entablature extends around the building.</p><br>
<p>When completed in 1904, the building housed all of the federal facilities in Newport, including courts, post office, and customs offices.</p><br>
<p>It served the United States District Court for the District of Vermont from 1904 to 1948. Its interior ground floor was extensively remodeled in 1930 to improve the post office facilities, and was again redone after the post office moved out in 1967. The building now houses the Orleans County District Court.</p><br>
<p>The Grafton Post Office is a historic former post office building at 205 Main Street in Grafton, Vermont. Built in 1855 in the Greek Revival style, it was the town&#39;s post office for over 100 years, and served for a time thereafter as the local historical society museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. It is still owned by the historical society, but leased for commercial retail purposes.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Grafton Post Office is located on the east side of Grafton village, on the north side of Main Street (Vermont Route 121), just west of its junction with Chester Road (Vermont Route 35). It stands west of the former Grafton District Schoolhouse No. 2, and across the street from the public library, both individually listed on the National Register. The post office is a small single-story wood frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and a fieldstone foundation. The main facade is three bays wide, with the entrance in the leftmost bay. Trim consists of simple corner boards and short gable returns. The interior, consisting of a single large room, with two smaller rooms in ells to the rear, has retained only some of its original features.</p><br>
<p>The post office was built in 1855 for the town&#39;s third postmaster, and served in that capacity until 1958. It was lifted off its foundation by flooding occasioned by the Great New England Hurricane of 1938, at which time it was set on its present foundation, a short distance removed from its original location. In 1962 the building was sold to the Grafton Historical Society, which housed its museum there until 1978. The society continues to own the building, leasing it out.</p><br>
<p>The Federal Building, formerly the USA Post Office, Courthouse and Federal Building, is located in Downtown Sacramento, California. It currently serves as a courthouse for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Federal Building was designed by the local firm Starks and Flanders, who also designed the Elks Tower, the Alhambra Theatre, and the C. K. McClatchy High School. It reflects several early 20th Century Revival architectural styles, including Neoclassical, and especially a simplified Renaissance Revival style from the original French Renaissance architecture era. Construction was completed in 1933. The legacy firm of Starks and Flanders is Nacht & Lewis Architects which is still operating in Sacramento.</p><br>
<h2>Uses</h2><br>
<p>The building has served historically as a courthouse, a post office, and a government office building.</p><br>
<p>It has served the United States District Court for the Northern District of California during 1933-1966 — and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California from 1966–present.</p><br>
<p>The post office moved to 560 J Street on July 31, 2012.</p><br>
<h2>Landmark</h2><br>
<p>The Federal Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The House of the New York City Bar Association, located at 42 West 44th Street in Manhattan, New York, is a New York City Landmark building that has housed the New York City Bar Association since its construction in 1896.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>After the New York City Bar Association was founded in 1870, it housed itself in a series of buildings in lower Manhattan. By the 1890s, membership of the Association had grown to the point where its leadership began looking for a new House farther uptown. On December 11, 1894 the membership approved the acquisition of a large site between West 43rd and West 44th Streets for the construction of a new, larger building. The street, already home to the Harvard Club of New York and the Century Association, was considered by the members “specially adapted to our purposes” because of the other prominent clubs and societies in its vicinity.</p><br>
<h2>Current building</h2><br>
<p>The prominent architect Cyrus L.W. Eidlitz, son of the influential New York architect Leopold Eidlitz, was commissioned to design the building. Eidlitz had designed a number of landmark buildings throughout the country, including Dearborn Station in Chicago, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, St. Peter’s Church in the Bronx, and Bell Laboratories Building in Manhattan.</p><br>
<p>Construction was begun in early 1895 and completed 18 months later at a total cost of $584,700. The House was built in the neoclassical style, from Indiana limestone. The façade included elements of the Doric order on the bottom three floors, Ionic columns framing the fourth floor windows, and Corinthian pilasters on the fifth floor, creating a historicist “composite” of classical architecture.</p><br>
<p>The new House was considerably larger and grander than its precursors: it stood six stories tall; included a meeting hall with a seating capacity of 1,500; a reception hall with a standing capacity of 1,500; a library of over 50,000 volumes, and three additional floors of offices. The entrance hall and first floor stairways were constructed of marble, and the second floor hallway, reception hall, and meeting hall of granite, marble, and mahogany.</p><br>
<p>The Association opened the doors of its new House on October 8, 1896, with a gala of several thousand guests. The New York Times described it as “one of the most interesting and successful works of recent architecture…a work having the classical qualities of simplicity, purity, and serenity in a high degree.”</p><br>
<p>The House was named a New York City Landmark in 1966, and named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Hay Bluff  is a prominent hill at the northern tip of the Black Mountains, an extensive upland massif which straddles the border between south-east Wales and England. The mountain sits on an escarpment which faces north and runs roughly east-west, the next peak in the west being the Twmpa. The flat summit of Hay bluff overlooks the middle Wye Valley and the book town of Hay-on-Wye is marked by a triangulation pillar at a height of 677 m.</p><br>
<p>The hill is largely within the Welsh county of Powys though parts of its eastern flanks lie within the English county of Herefordshire.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The base and indeed greater part of the hill is formed from mudstones of the St Maughans Formation whilst the upper part is formed from the sandstones and mudstones of the Senni Formation (formerly known as the Senni Beds), both of which are assigned to the Old Red Sandstone laid down during the Devonian period. A number of small quarries have been worked on its slopes in the past, not least for the Ffynnon Limestone, a calcrete which crops out along the northeastern and northwestern flanks of the hill at the base of the Senni Formation.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The Offas Dyke national trail makes a steep ascent of the hills northern slopes and then heads south eastwards along the broad ridge of the Black Mountain and the Hatterall Ridge. A more gentle path to the summit follows the crest of the north-facing scarp, known as Ffynnon y Parc, from the road summit about 1 mile / 1.7 km to the southwest at Gospel Pass. There is also a clear, but unpaved path which passes along the edge of the escarpment to the east with superb views over the countryside towards Hay-on-Wye. It leads to the trig point at the Black Hill (Herefordshire), and continues on to the south-east dropping down the stony knife-edge ridge towards Longtown. There is a small car park where the ridge drops into the Olchon valley, about 2 miles north of Longtown itself.</p><br>
<p>The entire hill is designated as open country thus providing walkers with the freedom to roam at will.</p><br>
<p>The Burtis–Kimball House Hotel and the Burtis Opera House were located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It has since been torn down and it was delisted from the National Register in 2008. The theatre building has been significantly altered since a fire in the 1920s. Both, however, remain important to the history of the city of Davenport.</p><br>
<h2>Burtis–Kimball House Hotel</h2><br>
<p>The first phase of hotel construction in Davenport lasted from 1836, when the city was founded, until just before the Civil War. Most of these hotels were small and were located near the Mississippi River to take advantage of the passengers disembarking from the riverboats. The second phase marked the arrival of the railroad when the first bridge to cross the Mississippi was opened between Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport in 1856. Two years later J.J. Burtis, who had operated the LeClaire House in Davenport, opened his own hotel. It had an entrance on the mainline of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. The hotel rose to prominence in 1861 when Iowa Governor Samuel Kirkwood made the hotel his Civil War headquarters as the telegraph lines did not extend any further west.</p><br>
<p>A new railroad bridge replaced the original one in 1872, and Burtis built a new hotel along the new mainline of the railroad at Fourth and Perry Streets in 1874. The block was already the site of the Burtis Opera House. The new hotel featured its own train platform as well as telephone, telegraph and an elevator. In 1880 the name of the hotel was changed to the Kimball House and it was advertised as the "largest and best hotel in Iowa." After 1900 the Kimball House was eclipsed by the third phase of hotel building in the city that included the Hotel Davenport, the Blackhawk Hotel and the Hotel Mississippi.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was transformed into an apartment building and renamed the Perry Apartments. Future US President Ronald Reagan lived in the building when he worked for radio station WOC in 1932–1933. In 1939 the building was heavily damaged by fire. Bill Vale was paid $5,000 to tear it down, and then bought the property for $25,000. He put in bout $12,000 in repairs, and renamed the building the Vale Apartments. As time went on the building started to decline. While attempts were made to save it, the building had become structurally unsafe and was torn down in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Burtis Opera House</h2><br>
<p>The Burtis Opera House was opened in Davenport in 1867 at 415 Perry Street. The theater could hold an audience of 1,600 and it was a widely used facility. Mark Twain spoke to a sold-out house on his "The American Vandal Abroad" tour in 1869. In March 1874 Susan B. Anthony lectured on the woman&#39;s right to vote. The Quad City Symphony Orchestra played its first concert as the Tri-City Symphony in the Burtis on March 29, 1916.</p><br>
<p>The Burtis was an elegant building constructed in the Second Empire style. It featured a mansard roof with heavily hooded dormer windows. A bracketed cornice defined the transition from the roofline to wall elevation. A projecting pavilion with its own mansard roof contained the building&#39;s main entrance in the center of the façade.</p><br>
<p>On April 26, 1921, an arsonist set fire to the building and it was largely destroyed. By 1925 the building had been rebuilt and it functioned as an office building that housed the General Outdoor Advertising Company. The buildings appearance was altered in the rebuilding process. The third story with its mansard roof, as well as the second floor, were not retained. The pilasters on the corners were shortened and a simple cornice was added across the top. The roof is flat and a raised parapet defines the main entrance. The arched windows that flanked the center pavilion were retained in an altered form. The buildings style now resembles the Neoclassical style. The building stands on its own next to the raised railroad tracks since the Kimball House/Vale Apartments and the rail station have been torn down. The most recent business to occupy the structure was Tri-City Electric.</p><br>
<p>The Lend-A-Hand Club was located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States along the riverfront. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Lend-A-Hand Club was established in Davenport in 1886 as a chapter of the King’s Daughters Organization. It became an affiliate of the national network of Lend-A-Hand Clubs. The club was a place for young women who lived and worked away from home to associate in a safe environment.</p><br>
<p>Initially it occupied various downtown locations that it rented. When it was housed in a department store it offered rest and reading rooms. When it moved to larger facilities it expanded to a cafeteria, reading rooms, parlor, shower and bath, laundry, arts and crafts and a gymnasium. It also provided a lecture series on various women’s topics. The Lend-A-Hand Club was the city’s main woman’s service facility and usurped any potential for the YWCA to establish itself in Davenport.</p><br>
<p>Money was raised and in 1922 a permanent location was secured and a building was constructed along South Main Street opposite the Dillon Memorial. The facility contained dormitory rooms, a lounge, cafeteria, and a swimming pool. Its construction was a part of major riverfront</p><br>
<p>improvements there were completed in Davenport between 1912 and 1931. Programs offered by the club covered womens issues as bicycling for women, the pros and cons of women working outside the home, womans suffrage, and other topics.</p><br>
<p>The building closed as a woman’s facility in the 1960s. It was rented to the city of Davenport who converted it to elderly housing in 1973. A new building was constructed for the elderly at Third and Ripley Streets in the late 1980s and the Lend-A-Hand Club building was torn down in 1990. It was removed from the National Register in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Lend-A-Hand Club was a three-story, brick, U-shaped building that was built over a raised basement. It was designed by Davenport architect Frederick G. Clausen in the Renaissance Revival style. It featured terracotta pilasters and cornice. Four decorative urns were located on the parapet. The shape of the building allowed the residential spaces to receive full natural light and air circulation. The main floor was a rectangular box that housed the social service elements of the facility.</p><br>
<p>Valley Creek Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church in Valley Grande, Alabama, United States. The two-story red brick church building was built in the Greek Revival-style from 1857–1859. The sanctuary and a mezzanine level, formerly a slave gallery, are located on the upper floor. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 28, 1976, due to its architectural significance.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Valley Creek Presbyterian congregation was established in 1816 by eight families from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, making it the oldest Presbyterian congregation in Dallas County and one of the first established in what would become Alabama in 1819. The Valley Creek Presbyterian congregation originally met in a wooden building, which was replaced by this brick structure.</p><br>
<p>Colonial Hall and Masonic Lodge No. 30 consists of two historic buildings located at 1900 3rd Avenue, South in Anoka, Minnesota. Both were owned by Anoka Lodge No 30 AF & AM, which was chartered on October 25, 1859. Colonial Hall, also known as the Aldrich House for its association with local medical and civil leaders Alanson and Flora Aldrich, is a two-story wooden building built in 1904 in a combination of Colonial Revival and Greek Revival styles. Its architect is unknown. It was purchased by Anoka Lodge in 1921. In 1922, construction began on the present two-story redbrick Masonic temple, which is located behind but to the north of the Colonial Hall. Designed by Frederick Marsh in the Georgian Revival style, it was completed and occupied in 1923.</p><br>
<p>On December 31, 1979, Colonial Hall and Masonic Lodge No. 30 was added to the National Register of Historic Places. As of 2017, Anoka Lodge No. 30 was still meeting in the lodge hall twice per month, along with Anoka-Shekinah Royal Arch Chapter #104, Zabud Cryptic Council #10, Order of the Eastern Star Marthas Chapter, Job’s Daughters Bethel 48, and Anoka DeMolay Chapter.</p><br>
<p>In December 2012 the decision was made to sell Colonial Hall to a private party for restoration.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, Colonial Hall is occupied by a tenant, The Big White House, an antiques store.</p><br>
<p>The Twentieth Century Club is a women&#39;s social club founded in the late 19th century in Buffalo, New York. It is located at 595 Delaware Avenue, in the Delaware District neighborhood. It was the first club run by women, for women, in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The club developed out of the Graduates Association of the Buffalo Seminary, spearheaded by Charlotte Mulligan, a teacher, writer, and musician from a well-to-do family. She envisioned a club rich in tradition, education, and culture. The Twentieth Century Club became noted for the many lavish social events held there, but education was, and still is, the primary focus of activity. Starting with an 1894 lecture on Abraham Lincoln, and continuing through the present, the Club has a long tradition of presenting prominent speakers and programs by recognized experts on a wide variety of subjects. From the 19th century, when women couldn&#39;t vote and had limited opportunity, to today in the 21st century when possibilities seem limitless, the Twentieth Century Club has truly spanned its namesake century and connected those prior and succeeding. Its history parallels and chronicles not only the history of events in Buffalo, but also that of the enormous societal changes which have occurred in its lifespan.</p><br>
<p>In 1894, the club purchased the present property and hired the firm of Green & Wicks to design a clubhouse to add to the front of an existing Baptist church. The clubhouse is a three story building in the Italian renaissance style. The building is 78 feet wide and 96 feet deep. The first story is of Indiana limestone and the rest of the structure of pressed brick, of a warm red tone, with a cornice of terra cotta. The Ionic order pillars across the front of the second story are of blue marble. The original church structure at the rear of the lot was demolished in 1904 and a gymnasium, pool, showers, and a hot room were added. Additional land and a formal garden were added to the rear of the property in 1933.</p><br>
<p>In 2011 the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Paradise Harbor, also known as Paradise Bay, is a wide embayment behind Lemaire and Bryde Islands in Antarctica, indenting the west coast of Graham Land between Duthiers and Leniz Points. The name was first applied by whalers operating in the vicinity and was in use by 1920. It is one of only two harbors used for cruise ships to stop on the continent; the other is Neko Harbour. Argentinas Almirante Brown Antarctic Base stands on the coast of the bay, as does Chiles González Videla Antarctic Base.</p><br>
<h2>Historic site</h2><br>
<p>In 1950 a shelter was erected near the Chilean Base to honour Gabriel Gonzalez Videla, the first head of state to visit the Antarctic. The shelter constitutes a representative example of pre-IGY activity in Antarctica. It has been designated a Historic Site or Monument (HSM 30), following a proposal by Chile to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting.</p><br>
<p>Hoddom Castle is a large tower house in Dumfries and Galloway, south Scotland. It is located by the River Annan, 4 km south-west of Ecclefechan and the same distance north-west of Brydekirk in the parish of Cummertrees. The castle is protected as a category A listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The lands of Hoddom or Hoddam belonged to the Herries family, allies of the Bruce family who were Lords of Annandale from 1124. It passed to the Carruthers family, and then to the Maxwells. At the core of the castle is an L-plan tower house, built in the 16th century. It was probably built for Sir John Maxwell, who acquired Hoddom in the mid 16th-century when he married the heiress Agnes, Lady Herries. Maxwell also built Repentance Tower, on the hill to the south, as a watchtower for the castle.</p><br>
<p>In the aftermath of the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots, the Regent Moray besieged Hoddom, which capitulated after only one day. It was briefly the base of the Warden of the Scottish West March, but was recaptured in 1569 by supporters of Queen Mary. The following year it was attacked by the English under Lord Scroop, who blew up the tower.</p><br>
<p>This tower was repaired and expanded in the 17th century to form a courtyard castle. It was acquired by Sir Richard Murray from the 6th Lord Herries, and then became the property of the Earl of Southesk in 1653. In 1690 it passed to the Sharpe family. In around 1826, General Matthew Sharpe of Hoddom commissioned William Burn to design modern extensions to the south and west of the castle. Hoddom was purchased in 1877 by the Brook family of Meltham, Huddersfield, who later bought nearby Kinmount House. Further extensions were built in a neo-Jacobean style to the north and west, some at least to designs by architects Wardrop and Anderson.</p><br>
<p>The house was requisitioned by the military during the Second World War, and was not reoccupied afterwards. In the 1970s William Burns extensions were largely demolished. The castle now stands in the grounds of a caravan park, and the remaining 19th-century additions are used as offices. The tower house is derelict, and has been included on the Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland. It is also included on Historic Scotlands Castle Conservation Register, which aims to identify buildings which could be successfully restored. In March 2009 planning permission was granted for a redevelopment of the castle, together with the building of a hotel, chalets and a golf course.</p><br>
<p>The Beaman Memorial Public Library is the public library of West Boylston, Massachusetts. It is located near the town common, at 8 Newton Street, in an architecturally distinguished Colonial Revival building constructed in 1912 to a design by Worcester architect Lucius Briggs. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The Beaman Memorial Public Library stands on the northern end of the West Boylston village center, on a triangular parcel of land bounded on two sides by Newton and Central Streets. It is a two-story masonry building, built of brick with marble trim, a raised granite foundation, and a green slate hip roof. The main facade is symmetrical, with three bays. The outer bays have tripled windows set in segmented-arch openings with paneling below, flanking the entrance, which is set in a marble hooded surround. A marble stringcourse separates the first and second floors, and there is a modillioned wooden cornice at the roof line. To the rear of this original building stands a large addition, built in 1999. Although it is built using concrete blocks, they are stained to match the brick of the original building, and other exterior features were designed in sympathy to the original.</p><br>
<p>The public library of West Boylston was established in 1874 by the bequest of David Lee Rice, and originally was housed in a room of the high school. It later expanded to other quarters, but the entire town center was forced to relocate in the early 20th century, when the Wachusett Reservoir was created. The present library building was built as part of a municipal construction program occasioned by that event, and was a gift to the town of George Calvin Rice. The building was designed by Worcester architect Lucius Briggs, and is the towns only institutional example of Colonial Revival architecture. It is also an important early collaboration between Briggs and the builder, E.F. Cross of Worcester, who went on to collaborate on a number of other significant projects. The library is named for Ezra Beaman, George Calvin Rices grandfather.</p><br>
<p>St Brigid&#39;s Church is a heritage-listed Roman Catholic church located at 78 Musgrave Road, Red Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Robin Dods and built from 1912 to 1914 by Thomas Keenan. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original St Brigid&#39;s Red Hill church was blessed and opened on 30 December 1882. It replaced an earlier stone structure built in 1877.</p><br>
<p>As the parish grew to be one of the largest in Brisbane, a larger church was needed to accommodate 1000 people. The current Church&#39;s foundation stone was laid on 5 May 1912 and it was built from 1912 to 1914.</p><br>
<p>The parish was largely composed of poor Irish immigrants so that the church became a focal point of the Irish Catholic cause in Queensland.</p><br>
<h3>Opening ceremony</h3><br>
<p>The church was dedicated and opened on 9 August 1914. The opening ceremony was a significant occasion in the life of the Catholic community in Brisbane, attended by Archbishop of Melbourne Daniel Mannix and presided over by Archbishop of Brisbane James Duhig. The construction of St Brigid’s was regarded as the coming of age of Catholicism in Brisbane. For Duhig, who was to become renowned as a prolific builder of churches and schools, St Brigid’s was an auspicious beginning.</p><br>
<h3>School</h3><br>
<p>The St Brigid&#39;s School no longer operates. The nearest school is the Petrie Terrace State School down the hill to the south in Paddington.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>St Brigid’s Church is part of the Jubilee Catholic Parish including seven churches and three schools in the inner western suburbs of Brisbane.</p><br>
<h3>Parish newsletter</h3><br>
<p>Newsletters for the Jubilee Parish provide contact details and further information on the Parish.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<h3>Position</h3><br>
<p>St Brigid’s Church is significant as it is an icon on the inner Brisbane skyline, visible from all directions. The church is prominently situated high on Red Hill, unconventionally oriented north-south, to terminate the vista along George Street (now lost since the construction of the Brisbane Transit Centre). Its hilltop position, close to the city centre, makes it a Brisbane landmark.</p><br>
<p>St Brigid’s Church is significant as an example of Archbishop Duhig&#39;s efforts to place churches in prominent positions throughout Brisbane, and as a symbol of the emerging confidence of Catholicism in Queensland which was dominated by Irish immigrants at the time.</p><br>
<h3>Architecture</h3><br>
<p>It is a brick fortress-like building, rectangular, with the chancel, entrance porch and its flanking buttresses semi-octagonal in shape. A single-storeyed vestry protrudes off the west side of the chancel. A single-storeyed vestry protrudes off the west side of the chancel.</p><br>
<p>Its design by Robert Smith Dods (commonly known as Robin S. Dods) was inspired by St Ceciles Cathedral at Albi, France, which the parish building committee had chosen as the model for St Brigid’s. It is an outstanding example, both internally and externally, of the architecture of Robin Dods, It reflects the influence of some of the design theories current in Europe during Dods&#39;s early career in Edinburgh, in particular the Arts and Crafts use of materials and the picturesque approach to landscape and siting. Many features of the building, including the high proportions, opening windows with balconies, arches, French doors, and the open chancel area, contribute to a cool environment.</p><br>
<p>The original plan included a tower above the chancel but this was not built for lack of funds. LJ Harvey&#39;s life size statue of St Brigid above the entrance porch, holds a model of the completed church.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The interior of St Brigid’s is austere and simple in decoration yet grand in dimensions. The detailing and workmanship in brick, stone, wood, glass and metal are austere but refined. Notable features include the timber ceiling, light fittings, gallery, organ, altars and stained glass. However, the original silky oak and leadlight doors running the length of the nave on the east and west walls, and some other fixed glazing, have been replaced with fully glazed areas which allow excessive light into the interior at floor level.</p><br>
<h3>Pipe organ</h3><br>
<p>St Brigid&#39;s contains a recently renovated pipe organ in the choir loft that fills the church.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>St Brigids Church was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>St Brigids Church is significant as an example of Duhig&#39;s efforts to place churches in prominent positions throughout Brisbane and as a symbol of the emerging confidence of Catholicism in Queensland which was dominated by Irish immigrants at the time.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.</p><br>
<p>St Brigids Church is significant as a characteristic part of the inner Brisbane skyline, visible from all directions. It is an outstanding example, both internally and externally, of the architecture of Robin Dods, a recognised member of the contemporary Arts and Crafts movement in Europe and the United States of America.</p><br>
<p>The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.</p><br>
<p>St Brigids Church is significant as a self-conscious townscape composition designed to place an acropolis-like skyline on the axis of George Street and for the impressive quality of the interior which is derived from the carefully considered combination of materials, light and scale.</p><br>
<p>Mount Elizabeth is a massive ice-free mountain, 4,480 m high, standing 6 nmi south of Mount Anne in the Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, and named for Elizabeth Dawson-Lambton, a supporter of the expedition.</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>On 23 January 2013, C-GKBC (c/n:650), a Kenn Borek Air DHC-6 Twin Otter skiplane, with three Canadians on board, crashed onto Mount Elizabeth. The Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) was detected on the same day. The plane had been en route from the South Poles Amundsen-Scott US station to Terra Nova Bays Zucchelli Italian station, operating under the auspices of the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA). The aircraft was found on 25 January 2013. It had impacted at the 13,000 foot level. The New Zealand helicopter rescue team which spotted the wreckage reported that the accident was not survivable. Canada has jurisdiction in investigating the crash. Recovery efforts were ended on 27 January, after having recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR), due to unsafe conditions.</p><br>
<p>Kinmount House is a 19th-century country house in the parish of Cummertrees within Dumfries and Galloway, south Scotland. It is located 6 km west of Annan. The house was designed by Sir Robert Smirke for the Marquess of Queensberry, and completed in 1820. It is protected as a category A listed building, and the grounds are included on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The lands of Kinmount were granted to the Carlyle family in the 13th century, and acquired by William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry, in 1633. The 4th Duke of Queensberry carried out extensive planting on the estate in the late 18th century. On his death in 1810 Kinmount passed to Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry, who commissioned a new house from the English architect Sir Robert Smirke. The Greek Revival house was built between 1813 and 1820, with Smirke&#39;s assistant William Burn acting as executant architect. The stonemason was John Park, and stone was brought from Cove quarry near Kirkpatrick-Fleming.</p><br>
<p>In 1896 John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, sold Kinmount to Edward Brook, a wealthy English industrialist who had bought the adjacent Hoddom Castle estate in the 1870s. Brook commissioned alterations and extensions to the house from Dumfries architects James Barbour and J. M. Bowie. These included the roof balustrades and urns, and the service court to the north-west. The house was used as a hospital during both the First and Second World Wars. The house is now owned by Kinmount Leisure Ltd, which rents out holiday accommodation with access to outdoor sports. The Kinmount and Hoddom estates are owned by the Brook family trust.</p><br>
<p>Mount Parry is a mountain in Stribog Mountains, Antarctica with an elevation of 2,520 m. Mount Parry rises eastward of Minot Point and dominates the central portion of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. It has steep and partly ice-free north and west slopes, and surmounts Djerassi Glacier to the north-northwest, Mackenzie Glacier to the east, Balanstra Glacier to the south-southeast and Pirogov Glacier to the southwest.</p><br>
<p>Mount Parry was first ascended by the British Joint Services Expedition led by John Furse on 30 October 1984.</p><br>
<p>The peak appears to have been named by Captain Henry Foster, Royal Navy, of the Chanticleer expedition in 1829 and since has gained international usage.</p><br>
<h2>Maps</h2><br>
<p>Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.</p><br>
<p>Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Serranía de Chiribiquete or Chiribiquete Mountains are a group of isolated table mountains in the Amazon Region of Colombia. The mountains are part of the western edge of the Guiana Shield. The area is protected as a national park. This area is habitat for the Chiribiquete emerald , an endemic hummingbird. The waterfall Caño Paujil originates from the Serranía de Chiribiquete.</p><br>
<h2>Protected area</h2><br>
<p>The Chiribiquete National Park is the largest national park of Colombia with 27,000 km&sup2; and hosts important archaeological evidences in the form of rock art. More than 600,000 traces of around 20,000 petroglyphs and pictographs have been discovered in the remote mountain chain, the oldest of which may date to 20,000 years BP. The rock art has been produced until the 16th century. The first researcher who noted the cave paintings, was the American botanist Richard Evans Schultes in the 1940s. Later investigations were carried out by Thomas van der Hammen. The Serranía de Chiribiquete is featured in the 2015 documentary.</p><br>
<p>In 2014, a Colombian photographer and explorer, Francisco Forero Bonell, located and filmed previously reported ancient paintings on rock faces within the park.</p><br>
<p>Saroornagar Lake is a lake in Hyderabad, India. From the year of its creation in 1626, the lake remained largely clean until 1956 when Hyderabad expanded. Spread over 99 acre, the lake was restored by the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority in 2003–04 at a cost of. After the restoration of the lake, migratory birds returned to the lake in big numbers a few years later.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1626, the lake was created for agricultural and drinking purposes. Spread over 99 acre, the lake has a maximum depth of 6.1 m. It is one of five major water bodies in Hyderabad. After 1956 when Hyderabad became the state capital of the Andhra Pradesh, the city witnessed unprecedented population growth, industrialisation and agriculture using synthetic fertilizers and insecticides. Inevitably, untreated domestic sewage, solid waste and industrial effluents entered into the catchment area of this lake.</p><br>
<p>In 2003, the Minister of Tourism for Andhra Pradesh announced that the lake and its surroundings would be developed at a cost of. As a part of this initiative, two sewage treatment plants with the capacity to treat 250 million litres of sewage a day were to be installed. In addition to this, tourism-centric facilities such as a boating facility in the lake, a children&#39;s park and a restaurant were to be taken up. The minister also announced that all construction activity on the lake bed were to be stopped.</p><br>
<p>Four years after the installation of the sewage treatment plant, the officials reported 95% of sewage being treated. With the groundwater conditions improved, migratory birds returned to the lake in big numbers. In 2007, 5 acre park was developed alongside the lake at a cost of. The park featured sculptures, ornamental landscape, boating facility and an environment education centre. Citizens of nearby localities such as L. B. Nagar and Vanasthalipuram welcomed this development.It has last its charm now</p><br>
<p>After the restoration, the civic agencies have taken necessary steps that the lake does not get polluted because of the annual immersion of Ganesh idols. In addition, steps were taken to curb unauthorised construction near the lake bed. However, by 2009, the filtration unit of the sewage treatment plant stopped functioning properly. As a result of this, the lake was getting polluted with domestic waste.</p><br>
