<p>The Lambert Tevoet House is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. Lambert Tevoet was a tailor who worked for Bartemeier and Geerts. He probably did not have the house built, but he was an early owner and lived here for many years. The house is an example of a popular form found in the city of Davenport: two-story, three –bay front gable, with an entrance off center and a small attic window below the roof peak. This house is built of brick and has little in the way of decoration. The house does feature simple window hoods and a transom over the front door. The style was popularized in Davenport by T.W. McClelland. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983.</p><br>
<p>Shields Woolen Mill is located along the edge of the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983. The building has been repurposed as commercial and office space.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Because the Civil War cut off cotton supplies from the southern states, wool increased in popularity in the North. To take advantage of the situation Joseph Shields established Shields Woolen Mills in 1863. By 1870 he employed 52 people and the annual production value of the mill was $36,000, which made it the sixth largest industry in Davenport.</p><br>
<p>Several fires and financial problems caused Shield’s problems and he committed suicide in 1878. By 1881 the business was reorganized as the Davenport Woolen Mills. In the 1890s the mill employed 140 people and its product line included clothing, cashmere, flannels, and blankets. It would be the high point of the company, however. As the sheep herds moved further west the production of woolen goods moved with them. The company’s financial situation rose and fell and it finally closed in 1914.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>This two-story industrial building has both shallow side gable and flat roofs. It is constructed in brick with a stone foundation and basement, which is exposed on the south elevation of the building. Segmental arch windows predominate throughout the structure. The middle section with the pedimented entrance is the original section of the building that was completed in 1863. Additions were made to the structure with the last one added in 1868. It is located in an old milling district along the Mississippi River. This is thought to be the oldest structure still standing in Davenport that was designed for steam-operated industrial use.</p><br>
<p>The Solvay Mountains are a mountain range that rises to 1590 m  and extends in an ENE–WSW direction in the south part of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. They were discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache, and named by him for Ernest Solvay, a supporter of the expedition. The name originally extended along the entire east coast of the island but has been limited to the prominent mountains in the south, while the principal group of mountains farther north was subsequently named Stribog Mountains, separated from Solvay Mountains by Aluzore Gap.</p><br>
<h2>Mountains</h2><br>
<p>Mount Aciar (), variously known also as Monte Ferrer, Mount Ehrlich, Monte E, and Monte Primer Teniente Aciar, rises to 1,300 m between the heads of Rush Glacier and Jenner Glacier in the Solvay Mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Maps</h2><br>
<p>*https://web.archive.org/web/20141209160123/https://www1.data.antarctica.gov.au/aadc/mapcat/display_map.cfm?map_id=3217 British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.</p><br>
<p>*https://web.archive.org/web/20170703122914/https://data.aad.gov.au/database/mapcat/british/brabant_argentine_is_BAS_map13489.jpg Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.</p><br>
<p>The I. Edward Templeton House is a historic building located in the central part 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>This house was probably built for I. Edward Templeton, who was a conductor for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. The 1890 structure is an example of an early mail order plan that was popular in the late 19th century. The plans, or in some cases the whole house, could be ordered from a catalogue or an advertisement found in newspapers or magazines.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is a simplified version of the Queen Anne style known as the Shingle Style. This structure is also an example of a "pinwheel" house. It is a two-story square box, with a pointed hipped roof, and gabled projections that are asymmetrically placed at the front and on the sides of the structure. The house also features an Eastlake porch, a variety of surface textures and stained glass transom lights.</p><br>
<p>The Col. Joseph Young Block was located just to the north of downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building has subsequently been torn down. It occupied the same block as the Wupperman Block/I.O.O.F. Hall, which was next door, the Old City Hall, and the Clarissa C. Cook Library/Blue Ribbon News Building. The library and this building were removed from the National Register in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed by Colonel Joseph Young, a land speculator, in 1857. He probably built this building on speculation. It housed retail and service businesses over the years, which included different saloons and restaurants. The building had been declining over the years and it was slated for demolition when a part of the building collapsed on August 9, 2009. The building was torn down later that year.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Colonel Young Block was a three-story, nine bay, brick building that was built on a stone foundation. Its decorative elements were found in the tall narrow windows and their projecting hoods. When it was built it featured an ornate cornice that was removed in later years. A skim coat application had been applied to the exterior. The building&#39;s original three-bay storefronts were altered with a permastone covering.</p><br>
<p>Linden Flats was located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was individually listed and included in the West Third Street Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1900 in the German section of Davenport just off the West Third Street Historic District. It was one of several large apartment blocks that were built around the turn of the 20th century in Davenport. There were a number of similar apartment buildings that were built in this part of the downtown area and many of them have been torn down. The building continued to serve as an apartment building until October 16, 2005 when its roof collapsed into the third floor during a fire.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Linden Flats was a three-story, brick building that was built on a stone foundation. The façade combined elements of the Victorian and Federal styles. The Federal style was found in the simple box structure, the unadorned windows, the stone columns and lintels over the doorways and the symmetry of the building&#39;s composition. The Victorian elements were found in the building’s decorative embellishments, which included the two window bays that rose and became part of the cornice, the two-toned brick pattern work and the bracketing and garland swags on the cornice.</p><br>
<p>The Louis P. and Clara K. Best Residence and Auto House, also known as Grandview Apartments and The Alamo is a historic building located in the central part of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed as a contributing property in the Hamburg Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and it was individually listed in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Louis P. and Clara K. Best</h2><br>
<p>Louis P. Best was born in 1848 in present-day Osthofen, Germany and was educated in Stuttgart and Berlin. He came to the United States in 1869 and worked as a chemist in New York City. He moved to Davenport in 1874 to work for the Davenport Glucose Manufacturing Company. He eventually bought stock in the company to the point that he became one of their chief stockholders and became involved in the management of the company. He also had other business interests in the city including Davenport Machinery & Foundry Company, of which he was president, the Bettendorf Axle Company, Hawkeye Electric Company and Citizens National Bank. He later founded a glucose factory in Granite City, Illinois. In addition to his business interests he was a member of the local school board.</p><br>
<p>Best was married twice, first to Louise Heck in London in 1871 and they had a son. He later married Clara Krause and they had a son and a daughter.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Best home is one of the few examples of Mission Revival architecture in Davenport. The large home features a red tile roof and stucco walls. It was designed by the local firm Clausen & Clausen.</p><br>
<p>The William Claussen House was a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The Greek Revival style house was built in 1855 and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983. It has subsequently been torn down and replaced by a single-story house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original builder of this house cannot be determined. William Claussen lived here from 1888 until around 1915. He worked as a local dealer in coal, lime, cement, and drain tile.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house was an example of a popular form found in the city of Davenport: two-story, three–bay front gable, with an entrance off center and a small attic window below the roof peak. This house had a simplified classical pediment, which was accomplished by attaching a single molding strip to the wall parallel at the edge of the roof. The molding featured a decorative element from the Italianate style, bracketed eaves. A small columned porch with a flat roof completed the front. Another architectural element to the house was a bay window that was featured in the middle of the east side of the house.</p><br>
<p>The House at 919 Oneida Street is a historic building located on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>This house shows the development of the Italianate form in Davenport from the Joseph Mallet House and the Joseph Motie House, both of which were built earlier. This particular house is a good example of the Vernacular-Italianate style that was popular in Davenport after the American Civil War. It features projections from the box-like form, bracketed eaves, curved window hoods and decorative elements cut by jig and scroll saws. The arched window surrounds, the front porch with the Corinthian order column caps, the bracketed cornice, and the unusual gable with decorative millwork apron and the bargeboards above the central oculus are all original to the house. Some of these elements are also found locally on Second Empire style houses. Its complex plan and roofscape, exemplified here by the full-height projecting window bays and gabled dormers toward the back of the structure, would be a feaure of later Victorian architecture in Davenport.</p><br>
<h2>Local Lore</h2><br>
<p>The house was originally built at the bottom of the hill but was later moved to the top and its current placement per the owners wishes. Such a move required the house to be literally split in two, then the halves were moved using an ice-block&#39; method in which the house was set on giant blocks of ice and pulled by a horse. A perfect setting with a glorious view of the Mississippi River.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Motie House is a historic building located in the Cork Hill neighborhood 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>Joseph G. Motie worked as a bricklayer and he may have done the masonry work on this house when it was built in 1860. He and his wife Mary lived here for over 30 years.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is similar to the neighboring Joseph Mallet House. It is a simplified version of the Italianate style that was built in the city of Davenport from the mid-1850s. The house is a two-story, three–bay structure with an entrance that is off center. Like many early Italianate homes in Davenport, it retained some features of the Greek Revival style. These are found in the glass-framed doorway and the simple window pediments.</p><br>
<p>The John Lippincott House is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Lippincott built this after the conclusion of the American Civil War. He did not list an occupation for himself instead he said he was a capitalist.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is an example of a popular form found in the city of Davenport: two-story, three–bay front gable, with an entrance off center and a small attic window below the roof peak. This house has the suggestion of a classical pediment, which is accomplished by bringing the roof eaves and cornice partway across the front. A small columned porch with a pediment completes the front. Another architectural element to the house is a bay window that is featured toward the back on the east side of the house.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Paustian House is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There are very few examples left of the early houses built in the city of Davenport in the Vernacular style from its formative years, however, the Henry Paustian House is one such example. Henry C.F. Paustian was carpenter and he may have had the assistance of John Paustian, a stone mason, to build this house. There are no city directories available before 1856 so it is impossible to accurately date the house, but it was probably built in the early 1850s.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is constructed of limestone. Typical elements of Davenport’s early homes that are found in this structure are the single story, side-gable roof, and the entrance on the long side of the house. The only style elements of the house are found in its symmetry and the molded cornices above the windows and door.</p><br>
<p>Hose Station No. 6 is located in a residential neighborhood in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983. It is one of two former fire stations in the West End that are still in existence. The other one is Hose Station No. 7.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first group of volunteer firefighters in Davenport were organized in 1856 and called the Independent Fire Engine and Hose Company. The city’s first firehouse, Hose Station No. 1, was built on Perry Street in 1877 for the Fire King Engine 2nd Hose Company. Around the turn of the 20th-century, the city built other small hose stations throughout the city such as Hose Station No. 6. The building is now a private home.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The fire station was built in the Renaissance Revival style in 1910. The two-story structure follows a rectangular plan, a projecting side bay, and a brick exterior. There is also a short tower in the rear of the building in which the hoses dried. The fire engine entrance features a dogear concrete surround and quoining on the side bay. Rectangular windows are used throughout the building with the pair on the main facade&#39;s second floor having modified Gibbs surrounds. The building is capped with a hipped roof with a small curved roof dormer on the front.</p><br>
<p>Davenport Hose Station No. 3 is located in a commercial area on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984. It is one of two historic former fire stations on the east side that are still in existence. The other one is Hose Station No. 4 in the Village of East Davenport.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first group of volunteer firefighters in Davenport were organized in 1856 and called the Independent Fire Engine and Hose Company. The city’s first firehouse, Hose Station No. 1, was built on Perry Street in 1877 for the Fire King Engine 2nd Hose Company. After the turn of the 20th-century, the city built other small hose stations as the city grew. Hose Station No. 3 is one of those stations. It was built in 1921 on property that had previously held a livery and boarding stable. The firehouse was discontinued in 1966 when larger and more modern stations were built by the city.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Like other Davenport firehouses of this era, Hose Station No. 3 was designed using Mediterranean themed architecture (Italianate, Renaissance Revival). While smaller than Davenports main Central Fire Station, it is larger than the single-stall hose stations that were located throughout the citys residential neighborhoods. The two-story structure follows a rectangular plan with a hipped roof and modified Gibbs surrounds on the second-floor windows of the main facade. These were common elements that are found on the smaller stations as well. The extremely wide eaves and shallow roof pitch reflects the American Foursquare house architecture that was popular in Davenport during the first two decades of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Chard Reservoir is a 36.97 hectare reservoir north east of Chard Somerset, England. It is owned and managed by South Somerset District Council and is a recipient of the Green Flag Award.</p><br>
<p>It was built on the river Isle in 1842 to provide water for the Chard Canal.</p><br>
<p>It is a Local Nature Reserve. It is used for dog walking, fishing and birdwatching, with a bird hide having been installed. Birds which are spotted regularly include herons, egrets, kingfishers, cormorants, grebes, gulls, ducks and also a wide range of woodland birds such as nuthatch, treecreeper and woodpeckers. Rarities have included ring-necked duck, great white egret, cattle egret and yellow-browed warbler.</p><br>
<p>The water is stocked with carp.</p><br>
<p>Dog Mountain rises above the north side of the Columbia River Gorge in the USA state of Washington. The base of the mountain is in Skamania County along Washington State Route 14, about 9 mi east of Stevenson and 53 mi east of Vancouver. From its base at 150 ft, it climbs steeply to an elevation of 2,948 ft.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is the site of a popular hiking trail that begins on the north side of Route 14 at milepost 53. The lookout was built in 1931 and reconstructed in 1952 to watch for fires across the river in Oregon&#39;s Mount Hood National Forest. Outmoded by surveillance from roads and airplanes, the fire lookout was dismantled in 1967.</p><br>
<p>Attractions include views of the Columbia Gorge, Mount Hood, and wildflowers, especially in May. while another said that Dog Mountain might better be called "Dogged Mountain or possibly Doggone Mountain", and recommended good boots for descending its steep pitches. A fatality occurred on the mountain in 2003, when a hiker lost her footing and fell 500 ft.</p><br>
<p>The trail is open year round to hikers and to dogs on leashes, although in winter the upper portions may be snow covered at times. It cannot be used by people on horses or mountain bikes, and it is not suitable for wheelchairs. No permits or fees are needed to hike the trail, but parking at the bottom requires a Northwest Forest Pass. Passes are available from a wide variety of vendors in Oregon and Washington.</p><br>
<p>Keir House is a large country house near Stirling in central Scotland. It is located in the parish of Lecropt, 2.5 km north-west of Bridge of Allan, in the former county of Perthshire. The estate was home to the Stirling family from the 15th to the 20th century. Keir House is protected as a category A listed building, and the grounds are included on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Keir estate was acquired by the Stirling family in 1448, and a house was built on it in the 16th century. The Stirlings supported the Jacobites during the 18th-century rebellions, and the estate was forfeited. However, they continued to live at Keir, and built the present house in around 1760. Income from the family&#39;s estates in Jamaica funded agricultural improvements and landscaping of the grounds.</p><br>
<p>Additions were made to the house, including the south-west wing to designs by David Hamilton, completed in 1831. In 1847 Sir William Stirling Maxwell inherited the estate, and began a remodelling of the house and grounds. Architects Alfred Jenoure and William Stirling II worked on the house, while formal gardens were laid out by James Niven. A chapel was added in 1912, designed by Rowand Anderson and Paul, and with interior mosaic decoration by Boris Anrep. Sir William&#39;s grandson David Stirling, founder of the Special Air Service, was born at Keir in 1915.</p><br>
<p>In 1975 the house, together with 15,000 acre, was sold by the Stirling family for £2 million to Mahdi Al Tajir, a businessman from the United Arab Emirates.</p><br>
<h2>The estate</h2><br>
<p>The estate is entered from the north-east via the New Lodge. Built in 1820 to Greek Revival designs by David Hamilton, this was originally the South Lodge, but was moved to its present location in 1969 when the M9 motorway was built through the eastern edge of the grounds. The Home Farm was built in 1832 and designed by David Bryce, but was elaborated by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell around 1858. The large steading includes a clock tower and a dairy with pictorial tiles.</p><br>
<p>Hawkridge Reservoir is a reservoir near Spaxton, Somerset, England.</p><br>
<p>The inflow is from several streams in the Quantock Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty including Peart Water, which continues below the reservoir in a northeast direction to Spaxton, where it enters the Ashford Reservoir. The distance between the two reservoirs is about 2 mi.</p><br>
<p>The Hawkridge Reservoir was built between 1960 and 1962, to provide drinking water for Bridgwater which is 7 mi to the east. It has an area of 32 acre and can hold up to 864 million litres of water.</p><br>
<p>Since opening the reservoir has become home to a range of animals including; invertebrates, wildfowl and amphibians. It is used for angling with catches including Rainbow Trout.</p><br>
<p>Historic Blenheim is a ca. 1859 brick farm house designed in the Greek Revival style and located in City of Fairfax, Virginia. During the American Civil War, Union soldiers were often encamped on the grounds surrounding the house and utilized it as part of a reserve hospital system. As a result, more than 115 of these soldiers inscribed words and pictures on the first and second floor walls, as well as the attic of the house. Blenheim was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The original owner of the land on which the Blenheim estate is currently located was Captain Rezin Samuel Willcoxon, a veteran of the War of 1812 who, in the early nineteenth century, began to accumulate much land in what is present-day Fairfax, Virginia. At one point, Willcoxon owned over one-thousand acres of land in the area. Rezin married his first wife, Elizabeth DeNeale, in 1805. The couple would have ten children. Elizabeth died in 1845, but in 1851 Willcoxon remarried. His new bride was Fanny Halley Bell.</p><br>
<p>During the year 1850, according to the USA Agricultural Census, Rezin Willcoxon was farming approximately four-hundred acres of the land he owned. His livestock was estimated to be worth $899, and his farm produced wheat, Indian corn, and Irish potatoes. In April 1854, Rezin’s son, Albert T. purchased a large tract of land from his father. It is assumed at this point he had taken over operation of the family farm and had established residency at the farmhouse on the property. According to the Alexandria Gazette and Virginia Advertiser, fire destroyed the farmhouse early in 1855, and evidence suggests the house which stands on the property today was built to replace it. Since the brick bonding for each of the exterior walls is not consistent with the foundation, the new house may have been built on the foundation of the previous house.</p><br>
<p>When Rezin died in 1855, his property was split among some of his children, but Albert remained in possession of the Willcoxon house and much of the remaining property. On April 20, 1858, Albert married Mary Hunter Eskridge and the couple continued to run the farm, with the help of at least six slaves. Little information is known about them, however. There is a chance that Albert and Mary inherited some of their slaves or received them as wedding gifts from their parents. The names of only three of the slaves are known for certain. Records show that Albert purchased a young man named Charles in 1856. In 1859 he purchased, from his sister, another man named Hanson, who had been in the Willcoxon family since 1806. There are also records of a woman, Maria, whom Albert sold to his sister-in-law, Isabelle K. Eskridge, in 1859. There were most likely two slave quarters on the property.</p><br>
<h2>The Civil War years</h2><br>
<p>Albert and his wife were supporters of secession and supported the Confederate cause by selling Confederate soldiers large quantities of supplies. Some of the items Albert sold during the early war years were beef, hay, blacksmith supplies, horses and pork. By October 1862, however, Fairfax was controlled mainly by the Union army, which ravaged the area and depleted much of the landscape. The Willcoxon estate suffered from this. At some point in 1862, Albert, his wife, and their two children left the area. Since Mary’s family was from Leesburg, in Loudoun County, VA, it is possible that the couple and their two children stayed there until the end of the war.</p><br>
<h3>Military significance of Fairfax and Blenheim</h3><br>
<p>Due to its proximity to the nation’s capital, Fairfax was important to the defense of Washington, D.C. Since Blenheim is located at the edge of Fairfax, the Willcoxon family’s land was in the middle of wartime activity in the town. Not long after the start of the war, a Confederate force of around three-hundred men guarded the town. On June 1, 1861, a Union cavalry unit advanced on the town and attacked the Confederate force. Despite the fact that the Confederates were poorly equipped and were not warned of the Union advance, they held off the Northern troops and retained possession of the town. During the skirmish, however, the war saw its first Confederate officer killed.</p><br>
<p>On July 17, 1861, a Union officer reported that Fairfax was now occupied by the Northern Army. By the end of that year, the Army of the Potomac was using the courthouse in Fairfax as army headquarters. Some evidence suggests that Blenheim may have once served as headquarters as well. Between 1861 and 1863 control of the city changed hands numerous times, but by March 1863, it was solidified as a Union stronghold.</p><br>
<h3>Union soldiers and Blenheim</h3><br>
<p>Because of Blenheim’s location within Fairfax, and its abandonment by its owners, the house eventually became fully occupied by Union soldiers. At various points, the house was most likely used as a hospital for Union soldiers. Union troops not only found refuge in the house, but left their physical mark there as well. Soldiers who stayed at the house left writings on the walls of the first, second, and attic levels. These walls contain over one hundred names, units, dates, poems, and artistic drawings. At least twenty-three different military regiments are represented on the walls, including the 26th Wisconsin Infantry, 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry, 58th New York Infantry, 136th New York Infantry, and the 1st Michigan Cavalry. The earliest writings in the house date to March 1862.</p><br>
<p>Some of the men who wrote on the walls of Blenheim would later perish at places like 2nd Manassas, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. Some of the other inscriptions may have been from men who were wounded during skirmishes right in Fairfax, or who contracted diseases at local encampments.</p><br>
<p>Research on the Blenheim soldiers began in 1997. Names on the walls were deciphered and checked in basic public resources from the Civil War era and later. Once the name and regiment of a soldier were confirmed, files were pulled from the National Archives and Records Administration. Various historical societies, genealogical groups, state resources, and the internet were also used to reveal the stories of the men of Blenheim.</p><br>
<h2>Postbellum Blenheim</h2><br>
<p>When Albert died in 1889, all his land, which included Willcoxon Place and approximately 367 acres, was split between his children, Harry and Bessie. Harry ran the farm through the start of the twentieth century, and under his leadership the farm prospered. His farm became especially known for its dairy production, and some credited him with providing the best milk in the area. During the year 1903, the earliest use of the name ‘Blenheim’ for Willcoxon Place was recorded in the family obituary for Albert&#39;s wife, Mary Eskridge Willcoxon. However, the property continued to be called ‘Willcoxon Place’ throughout the twentieth century.</p><br>
<p>The 1930s found the farm being run by a tenant farmer. In 1939, Harry willed Blenheim to his niece Marguerite (Daisy), and moved to his other farm in Centreville, VA, where he died in 1942. Farm operations at Blenheim continued through the 1950s. An insurance survey of 1950 listed the farm as having two tenant houses, the main house, a privy, chicken house, pump house, machinery shed and workshop, dairy barn and house, calf house, granary, corn crib, house barn, a second machinery and hay shop, a cow shed, and a hog shed. By 1953, the Willcoxon heirs had begun to sell off large parcels of the farm for development, and soon the original landholdings around Blenheim were reduced to twelve acres. Before her death in 1959 Marguerite (Daisy) had given the estate to her daughter, Barbara Duras, who moved into the house with her husband, William in 1962. Barbara died in 1987, followed by William in 1997. The City of Fairfax purchased the site in January 1999. The family cemetery, located next to the house, includes four generations of the Willcoxon family.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>The Willcoxon family and their descendants never covered the inscriptions in the attic of their home. The attic space was probably used mostly for storage after the war. Many layers of wallpaper were added to the first and second levels of the home through the twentieth century, but the drawings on the walls were never destroyed. Today, the wallpaper on the two main floors has been removed and the inscriptions are visible throughout.</p><br>
<p>In 2001 Historic Blenheim was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Adjacent to the house is the Civil War Interpretive Center, opened in 2008. The Center’s mission is to enhance the educational experience of the site for visitors. A gallery inside the Interpretive Center contains displays which places the Union soldiers who stayed at Blenheim within the larger framework of the American Civil War. Since the second floor and the attic are not accessible by the public, the Center also hosts an exact replica of two-thirds of Blenheim’s attic with life-sized images of the inscriptions. Additional features include an assembly room for school groups, tour groups, lectures and special programs, along with temporary exhibits which are displayed on the walls.</p><br>
<p>The Riepe Drug Store/G. Ott Block was 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>Local brewer W. H. Decker probably built this building as an investment commercial venture in 1871. Peter Schlichting operated a saloon here in the late 1870s, but it was not successful and he lost the property in a Sheriff&#39;s sale. Adelbert Riepe opened a drugstore in 1882, and he remained in business for a number of years. Other commercial ventures occupied the main floor commercial space over the years. Along with the former Mueller Lumber Company building on the 500 block of Second Street, this structure was torn down and is now the location of Community Health Care’s downtown complex today. It was delisted from the National Register in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building was a three-story, brick structure in the Romanesque Revival style. It featured ornamental rows of brick, or corbelling, just below the cornice line. Round-arch windows lined the second and third floors and were capped with a keystone. The storefront had been altered in later years.</p><br>
<p>The Prien Building was a historic building located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Like the Hoffman Building next door, Mueller Lumber Company across the street and the Riepe Drug Store/G. Ott Block on the 400 block of Second Street, it was torn down in the late 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Fred J. Prien operated a grocery and provision store in this building in 1874. He operated a saloon at this location by 1880. Prien lived in an apartment above the shop.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building was completed in 1855 in the Greek Revival style. The iron front was able to support the brick structure above it and it opened large areas of glass on the first floor so the shop could display its wares in the window. The Prien building had a double-wide shop-front with a door in between them that led to the apartments above. There was a cornice molding across the top of the façade.</p><br>
<p>The Hoffman Building was located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. The building was built around 1855. John V. Hoffman operated a grocery store in the shop on the first floor. He lived in the apartment on the second floor. The building was typical of Davenport’s early commercial architecture with a steep-pitched side-gable roof. It featured a well-preserved cast-iron shop front. In its early days a long shed roof extended from the building and was supported by posts along the curb to shelter the sidewalk. It and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Like the Prien Building next door, Mueller Lumber Company across the street and the Riepe Drug Store/G. Ott Block on the 400 block of Second Street, it was torn down in the late 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Building was an historic building located on the hill just north of downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building has subsequently been torn down.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The American Telephone and Telegraph Company built this building in 1902. Ten years later the Iowa Telephone Company joined them in this facility. The two companies moved across Main Street not long after that and AT&T eventually bought out Iowa Telephone. The Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization, used the building as their clubhouse for a number of years. They were replaced by a labor union who used the building for their local headquarters.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building was an example of the Romanesque Revival style made popular by Henry Hobson Richardson. Completed in 1902, it featured smooth brick walls, round-arched windows on the second floor and a decorative cornice in brick above. The lower level had large rectangular windows with sills and lintels of roughly-worked sandstone that contrasted with the smooth brick. The corner of the building at Sixth and Main Streets was angled and contained the main entrance into the building.</p><br>
<p>The Edward Edinger 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 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This late Victorian home was designed by Edward Hammatt who had designed several buildings for the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa. In Davenport these buildings include a classroom-dormitory building at St. Katherine’s Hall, Sheldon Hall, and Kemper Hall, which is still on the property of Davenport Central High School in the College Square Historic District. Edward Edinger, who had this house built, was a stonemason.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Edinger House is a 2½-story structure that follows an irregular plan in a generalized medieval style. It features a corner tower with a conical roof in one the angles in the front of the house. The dominant feature of this structure is its masonry. The walls are composed of ashlar brownstone, laid in a random pattern. A lighter colored stone was used for the belt coursing. The second floor is framed with rubble stone, and it is also found on the gable ends. Edingers stone business may have contributed to the idiosyncratic nature of the houses design.</p><br>
<p>The Ranzow–Sander House is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Charles F. Ranzow built this house in 1881. He established his paint store downtown, Charles F. Ranzow and Sons. The building is a contributing property in the West Third Street Historic District. The store sold oils, glass, doors and the like. In 1884 the house was sold to Julius Sander. He was employed in the hardware trade and opened his own store in 1890.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>This Vernacular Eastlake cottage shows elements of the Queen Anne and Gothic Revival styles. It is a 1½-story house features an irregular plan, a steeply pitched roof, and bits of gable-end decorations. There are also decorative details across the top of the porch. Also noteworthy are the textured wall surfaces and the paneled vergeboards.</p><br>
<p>The Schick&#39;s Express and Transfer Co. was located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building became part of the Petersen, Harned, von Maur department store complex.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Schicks Express and Transfer Company built this warehouse for their new headquarters in 1905. It was located on Front Street (now River Drive) not far from the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Freight House, which made access to transportation routes efficient. Eventually the building was acquired by the Petersen Harned and Von Maur Department Store for use as a warehouse. It and the J.H.C. Petersens Sons Wholesale Building were torn down in the early 21st century to make way for a parking structure and the Davenport Skybridge. It was delisted from the National Register in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building was an example of early Commercial architecture in Davenport. It was one of the few utilitarian buildings in Davenport that opened its walls with large windows, indicating the structure beneath its brick surface. It was also quite plain in appearance. The only decorative elements on the building was a restrained metal cornice, rustication at the corners, and stone jack arches.</p><br>
<p>Gilsey House is a former eight-story 300-room hotel located at 1200 Broadway at East 29th Street in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is a New York City landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Gilsey House was designed by Stephen Decatur Hatch for Peter Gilsey, a Danish immigrant merchant and city alderman who leased It was constructed from 1869 to 1871 at the cost of $350,000, The cast-iron for the facade of the Second Empire style building was fabricated by Daniel D. Badger, a significant and influential advocate for cast-iron architecture at the time; the extent to which Badger contributed to the design of the facade is unknown.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was luxurious &ndash; the rooms featured rosewood and walnut finishing, marble fireplace mantles, bronze chandeliers with numerous theatres, gambling clubs and brothels.</p><br>
<p>Gilsey House closed in 1911 after legal conflict beginning in 1904 between the operator of the hotel, Seaboard Hotel Company, and the Gilsey estate over the terms of the lease. Parts of the facade, such as cast-iron columns, which went over the property line were removed, and the building deteriorated, with rust, water damage and sagging floors. In 1925, plans were filed to rebuild the structure as an ordinary loft building of brick and stone, but were never carried out, although the ground-level storefronts were modernized in 1946. The building&#39;s future was decided when it was purchased in 1980 by Richard Berry and F. Anthony Zunino and converted into co-operative apartments after a cosmetic cleanup of the exterior, which won a commendation from the Friends of Cast Iron Architecture. The facade was finally almost fully restored in 1992 by Building Conservation Associates.</p><br>
<p>The building, with its "extraordinary" three-story mansard roof and its "vigor that only the waning years of the 19th century could muster" was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It was designated a New York City landmark in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Paul Bunyan State Forest is a state forest located in Hubbard and Cass counties in Minnesota. The forest borders the Chippewa National Forest and the Welsh Lake State Forest to the east, and the Mississippi Headwaters State Forest to the northwest. The forest is managed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the land department for Hubbard County.</p><br>
<p>The establishment of a sawmill on the eleventh lake of the Crow Wing Chain of Lakes near Akeley by the Red River Lumber Company in 1898 led to the systematic logging of the old-growth red pine and eastern white pine which covered the land in the early twentieth century. By 1908, there were eight to ten logging camps in the area, which led to the construction of a railroad which extended to Lake Alice Township and further logging, which ceased in 1915 when the Red River Lumber Company moved to California. Many of the present-day recreational trails in the forest are old railroad beds.</p><br>
<p>Aspen species became the dominant forest cover following a series of wildfires between 1913 and 1926, which nearly eliminated the remaining red and eastern white pine. Today, around 82% of the forest is aspen, 10% is red, eastern white, and jack pine, with the remaining 8% a mix of northern hardwoods. Foresters are currently working on harvesting mature aspen in order to reinstate pine in the forest.</p><br>
<p>Popular outdoor recreational activities in the forest include dispersed camping. Trails are designated for such varied uses such as mountain biking, with 18 mi specifically for hiking, 37 mi for Class I and II all-terrain vehicle use, and 87 mi for off-highway motorcycling. In the wintertime, trails are designated for cross-country skiing and 60 mi are set aside for snowmobiling. The Paul Bunyan State Trail, the Heartland State Trail, and the North Country National Scenic Trail all pass through the forest.</p><br>
<p>Otterhead Lakes are a pair of reservoirs in the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty south of Otterford in Somerset, England. They are fed by the River Otter and managed by the Otterhead Estate Trust Company Limited, working with the Somerset Wildlife Trust on behalf of Wessex Water. They are a Local Nature Reserve.</p><br>
<p>The two lakes which remain are all that are left of a series of pools in the landscaped gardens of Otterhead House which was built in 1845 and demolished in 1952, and its surrounding estate developed by William Beadon. The lakes are the centrepiece of the one mile long Otterhead Local Nature Reserve which includes dry woodland which has a ground flora including common bluebell, dogs mercury and twayblade. More moist areas are home to marsh pennywort and royal fern rhododendron and sycamore. There are dormice, badgers and bats in the woods and bird species include kingfisher, dipper and wagtail.</p><br>
<p>The lakes contain wild brown trout and are used for fly fishing.</p><br>
<p>Otterhead Forest School is based at Otterhead Lakes</p><br>
<p>Moshchny  is an island in the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, located some 120 km west of Saint Petersburg. The island is a part of the Leningrad Oblast, Russia. The area of the island is approximately 13.9 km².</p><br>
<p>After the Finnish Civil War and until the Russo-Finnish Winter War the island was a part of Finland and belonged to the province of Viipuri. The island, which had the largest population of the Finnish islands in the gulf was evacuated in 1939 - an operation that lasted merely a few hours.</p><br>
<p>During World War II, when Leningrad was almost entirely surrounded and many other islands had been conquered by the Germans and the Finns, Admiral Tributs decided to keep islands of Seiskari and Lavansaari which proved to be very important bases as the war progressed. The Russians had a minor naval station and a radar on the island. On November 18, 1942 three Finnish motor torpedo boats Syöksy, Vinha and Vihuri, as well as a minelaying KM-boat made an assault on the harbour of Lavansaari. Syöksy managed to hit the gunboat Krasnoye Znamya with one torpedo. The Soviet vessel was sunk in her moorings, but was eventually raised on 13 November 1943.</p><br>
<p>The German naval forces wanted to prevent the Soviet naval forces from operating to the West of Lavansaari by mine-laying two large seamine barrages. The Seehund I, II, III and IV barrages ware laid from 3 August to 26 August 1942 and the larger barrage to the West of Seehund, The Seeigel I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII barrages from 21 May to 25 May 1942 and from 10 June to 23 June 1942. Both the Seeigel and Seehund barrages were recognised by the Finnish Navy as Suursaari - Kiskolan rivi, i.e. Suursaari - Kiskola line. Seeigel I-IV and VI-VIII consisted of 2 526 pieces of sea mines together with Seeigel V in the depth of from two metres to three metres below the water surface. As an exception to the other barrages, Seeigel V had mines in the 25 metres depth from the water surface. In June the supplementary mine-laying consisted of 244 magnetic seamines, about 3000 anchored depth mines and about 1,630 minesweeping obstacles. The smaller barrage, the Seehund consisted of only about 200 mines and about 250 minesweeping obstacles against the surface vessels and minesweeping.</p><br>
<p>On 23 June 1943 German bombers sank the Soviet motor torpedo boat, MO-171 off the waters of Lavansaari. On 14 May 1944, a German motor torpedo boat sank the Soviet motor torpedo boat MO-122 with a torpedo.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Risto Hamari, Martti Korhonen, Timo Miettinen, Ilmar Talve: Suomenlahden ulkosaaret; Lavansaari, Seiskari, Suursaari, Tytärsaari, Jyväskylä 1996</p><br>
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<p>Meall a&#39; Bhuachaille is a mountain in the Cairngorms in Scotland. It is situated 10 km east of Aviemore, to the north of Loch Morlich and Glenmore Forest.</p><br>
<h2>Ascent</h2><br>
<p>The most popular route up Meall a Bhuachaille starts from Loch Morlich. A path goes through the forest, and up onto the moor to the pass between Meall a Bhuachaille and Creagan Gorm, then up to the summit. Another route is through the Ryvoan Pass, past An Lochan Uaine, to the bothy. From there, a path heads west up Meall a Bhuachaille. The ascent of Meall a Bhuachaille can also be combined with the summits of Creagan Gorm and Craiggowrie, which form a ridge to the west.</p><br>
<h2>Hill race</h2><br>
<p>A hill running race has been held on Meall a&#39; Bhuachaille for a number of years. The current route starts and finishes at Badaguish Outdoor Centre; the previous route was from Glenmore Lodge.</p><br>
<p>Averøya is an island in the municipality of Averøy in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located north of the Romsdal peninsula surrounded by the Kornstadfjord on the west and the Kvernesfjord on the south and east. The main villages on the 165 km&sup2; island include Bruhagen, Kvernes, Kornstad, Kårvåg, Langøy, and Bremsnes.</p><br>
<p>The island is connected to the mainland by the Atlanterhavsveien road, and it is connected to Kristiansund via the Atlantic Ocean Tunnel.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis made a music video about the island&#39;s need for an information sign. The video was recorded with a number of other Norwegian celebrities, (satirically) saying they are trying to raise money for a sign.</p><br>
<p>The Balsam Mountain Inn is an historic wooden Neo-Classical and Victorian hotel located at 68 Seven Springs Drive in Balsam, North Carolina, United States. In July, 1982, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the inn began in 1905 and was completed in 1908. The Inn began as a railroad resort hotel, one of many in the area. Now, the Balsam Mountain Inn is the last one standing in Balsam.</p><br>
<p>The inn was bought in 1990 by Merrily Teasley, an experienced innkeeper from Tennessee. She restored the Inn, with the historic preservation certified by the USA Department of Interior. She even built an addition that serves as a dining porch that won the Gertrude S. Carraway Award of Merit from Preservation North Carolina in 1995. In 2011, Merrily returned to manage the inn.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>The building still serves as a hotel and restaurant. It was renovated and restored in 1990. It is one of the few remaining grand Southern Railway Resort Hotels. Balsam Mountain Inn has 50 rooms. The inn&#39;s amenities include: a full-service restaurant, a 2,000-volume library, two meeting rooms, card/puzzle room, sitting parlor, hiking trails, gift shop and two 100-foot porches that are perfect for rocking and relaxing.</p><br>
<p>The Joyner Building was a historic classroom/administration building located on the campus of Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, Jackson County, North Carolina. brick Colonial It was built in 1913-1914, and was a two-story on a raised basement, "T"-shaped red brick building with a cross-gab1e-on-hip roof. The main block was 11 bays wide and six bays deep.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It was destroyed by fire in 1981, and the site is now the location of Joyner Plaza near the Moore Building.</p><br>
<h2>Uses</h2><br>
<p>Joyner Building was destroyed by fire on January 15, 1981. It was about to undergo renovation. Built in 1913-1914, it had over the year housed classrooms, labs, administrative offices, the college post office, college shop, college library, and college book exchange for decades. At the time of the fire, it was the oldest building on campus and was being used as the home of the Western Carolinian (WCU&#39;s college newspaper), and as a meeting place for student organizations. The ruins were deemed a hazard and were knocked down the following week. The site is now Joyner Plaza. The oldest buildings on campus are now Moore (1917–1924) and the Steam Plant (1924)</p><br>
<p>The Webster Rock School is an historic school building located NC 116 / Main St., at Webster, Jackson County, North Carolina. It was built between 1936 and 1938 by the Works Progress Administration, and is one story with hip roof utilitarian building, constructed of native "river rock" in colors of tan and brown. It has an "E"-shape plan and has a 13 bay front facade. The school originally contained an auditorium, cafeteria, kitchen and eight classrooms.</p><br>
<p>In 1990, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It once served as Webster High School and Webster Elementary School. The High School was active from 1936 until consolidation into Sylva-Webster High School (Now Smoky Mountain High School) in 1960. The Elementary School remained until it was consolidated with the old 1940 WPA Rock Savannah School and 1929 Brick Colonial Sylva Elementary School into the futuristic, round buildings of Fairview Elementary School in 1973. Savannah School still stands on US 441 as the Old School Antique Mall, but Sylva Elementary, along with Sylva High School, were demolished in 1975 and 1990 to build Mark Watson Park on US 23.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>The old Webster Rock School is being used as the Southwestern Child Development Center, and by the Family Resources Center for Jackson County. The old Gym/Auditorium is sometimes used for community events. The old windows and doors have been removed, replaced by white plywood and smaller windows, and most of the original ceilings are now obscured by a drop-in ceiling. The school was used as a combination Elementary/High School until 1960 and an Elementary School until 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Arrawanna Bridge in Middletown, Connecticut, USA, was built in 1918. It brought Berlin Street across the Coginchaug River. The bridge was designed by the Connecticut Highway Department as Bridge No. 4536 and is an open-spandrel concrete arch bridge. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The bridge is one of the oldest surviving structures of Connecticuts state highway department, and is the only barrel-arch design of the states six open-spandrel bridges. "Even as a near ruin, it adds to our appreciation of the high level of technical expertise shown by the state&#39;s first bridge engineers, and it recalls the very first years of state-highway bridge construction in Connecticut."</p><br>
<p>At the time it was built, reinforced concrete was a relatively new material for bridge construction. The bridge was featured in the 1918 annual report of the Connecticut Highway Department. The bridge is owned by the city of Middletown.</p><br>
<p>By 2003, the bridge had been closed for use and was deteriorating in place, with shrubs growing in the roadway.</p><br>
<p>The Wasatch Stake Tabernacle in Heber City, Wasatch County, Utah, USA was completed in 1889, and served as a Latter Day Saints meetinghouse reserved for especially large congregations until 1965. The tabernacle, which has a capacity of 1,500 in its pews, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in a joint listing with the adjacent Heber Amusement Hall on December 2, 1970.</p><br>
<p>Construction began in 1887 and the dedication of the completed building occurred on May 5, 1889 where it was reported that the building costs of the tabernacle were $30,000. Then President of the Wasatch Stake, Abram Hatch was superintendent of the building project and Alexander Fortie the architect. The tabernacle is built with red sandstone that was quarried from the Lake Creek area east of Heber. Originally, the tabernacle was heated by four potbelly stoves, one in each corner. Additions were made in 1928 and 1954. In 1980 the tabernacle was sold to Heber City and now functions as a community hall.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>Glen Foerd on the Delaware is a historic mansion and estate located in the Torresdale neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, overlooking the Delaware River.</p><br>
<p>The mansion, then named Glengarry, was built as a summer home about 1850 in the Italianate style by Charles Macalester, Jr., a prosperous businessman and banker. Mr. Macalester became the trusted adviser of the eminent philanthropist George Peabody, and afterwards a trustee of his magnificent bequest to the cause of education in the Southern States. George Peabody was widely regarded as the "father of modern philanthropy." Mr. Macalester held close personal relations with Presidents Jackson, Van Buren, Polk, Pierce, Buchanan, and Lincoln. From President Jackson he received the appointment as one of the government directors of the second Bank of the United States, and was serving in such capacity when the charter of the bank expired (source needed).</p><br>
<p>In 1893, it was purchased by Robert H. Foerderer, a USA Congressman and industrialist, who gave it its present name. He enlarged the house in 1903 in the Edwardian Classical Revival style. In 1971, the estate was given to the Lutheran Church in America. In 1985, Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation and the Fairmount Park Commission assumed ownership of the property.</p><br>
<p>Today the estate is operated as a historic house museum, whose grounds are a public park.</p><br>
<p>Glen Foerd on the Delaware was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Cueva de Achbinico, also called cave of San Blas  is a Roman Catholic church and cave located in Candelaria, Tenerife, Canary Islands .</p><br>
<p>After the conquest of the Canary Islands it was the first Christian sanctuary of religious significance. It was also the first sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the Canary Islands, where the Virgin of Candelaria, the patron saint of the Canary islands, was worshipped.</p><br>
<h2>Situation and presentation</h2><br>
<p>The cave is located on the coast, just behind the basilica of Our Lady of Candelaria.</p><br>
<p>It is elongated and deep, with a ceiling shaped as a dome. It is 14 meters long by 6 meters wide and 5 meters high. A small chapel was built just outside of it, covering and including within its walls the entrance of the cave.</p><br>
<p>Inside the cave is a bronze replica of the Virgin of Candelaria. Her statue is most venerated on the island, and has turned the cave into the most important pilgrimage centre in the Canaries for the past 5 centuries. It is still visited by pilgrims, who commonly take and leave flushed candles and do requests to the Virgin.</p><br>
<p>The Achbinico cave has a great importance, not only religious but also historic and prehistoric.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The cave long served as a Christian worship place. When the statue of the Virgin of Candelaria was found on Güimars beach of Chimisay at the end of the 14th century, the island had not yet been conquered by the Kingdom of Castile and its native inhabitants were the Guanches. The statues finders brought it to Acaymo, the Guanche king (or mencey), at his cave-palace of Chinguaro. The statue was translated to the Achbinico cave in 1446, the ceremony accompanied with popular celebrations.</p><br>
<p>In one of the walls of the cave there is a picture explaining the story of the translation of the Virgin. In the lower part of it is a text that says:</p><br>
<p>Guanches were baptized in the cave. The original baptismal font used to this effect is preserved in the basilica&#39;s camarín.</p><br>
<p>In 1497, Tenerife conqueror Alonso Fernandez de Lugo held in this cave the first celebration of Candlemas, at the same time as the Festivity of the Purification of the Virgin.</p><br>
<p>In 1526, on February 2 (Candlemas), the Virgin was translated from the cave to its new chapel. The basilica of Candelaria, main Marian shrine in the Canary Islands, was built later(1789, over the remains of a small church that had burned down), a few hundred meters away from the cave.</p><br>
<p>King Philip III was declared protector of the Virgin of Candelaria. After ascending the throne, the Spanish monarch gave the title of "Royal" to this sanctuary - the first sanctuary in the Canary Islands to have received that title.</p><br>
<p>In this cave there is also a statue of saint Blas, whose original statue was placed there in 1530 and substituted much later with the present one from sculptor Fernando Estévez. Thus the cave remains honoured by the statue of a saint and maintains its tradition of worship in February: on February 2 there is a religious ceremony in honour of the Virgin of Candelaria and on February 3 the worship is dedicated to saint Blas, with the statue carried out in procession around the plaza de la Patrona de Canarias. This is why the Achbinico cave is also called Saint Blas&#39; cave, with both names in use.</p><br>
<h2>Prehistory</h2><br>
<p>Various archaeological excavations have proved that the cave was a place of worship long before the Guanches placed the statue of the Virgin in it. According to recent excavations, the layers of ashes found there and subjected to carbon-14 dating indicate an age of more than 3000 years. In this cave a permanent fire had been maintained, such as in the vestal temples of Antique Rome. This sacred character held from very ancient times would explain that after the conquest the original inhabitants of the Canary Islands placed the Virgin precisely in this cave and nowhere else.</p><br>
<p>Woolworth Estate is a historic estate located at Glen Cove in Nassau County, New York. It was designed in 1916 by noted architect C. P. H. Gilbert  for Frank Winfield Woolworth . The estate consists of the main residence, known as Winfield Hall; a large garage with remodeled living quarters; a main entrance arch; two greenhouses; and various landscape features including a tea house.</p><br>
<h2>Winfield Hall</h2><br>
<p>When his current home was destroyed by a mysterious fire, Woolworth immediately went to work on building Winfield Hall, the plans for which, serendipitously, were already drawn. With walls and pillars of marble, the house ended up costing nine million dollars, the grand staircase alone costing two million dollars.</p><br>
<p>The house is an Italian Renaissance style, marble covered residence with a five bay wide central mass and flanking four bay wide wings. It features a one bay central entrance portico and flat roof. After the Woolworths moved on, the house sat empty for years, and was purchased in 1929 by the wife of Richard S. Reynolds, of the R.S. Reynolds Metal Company fame. After her tenure, the house became the Grace Downs Academy, a business school for young ladies, then was purchased by Martin Carey, brother to former Governor Hugh Carey of New York.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Part of the home was heavily damaged by fire on January 28, 2015.</p><br>
<h2>Reported paranormal activities</h2><br>
<p>Winfield Hall, like many other Long Island Mansions, has a rather ominous history of being haunted. It is said that on the evening of May 2, 1917, as Edna Woolworth Hutton, Franklin Woolworths middle daughter, took her own life at The Plaza Hotel New York City, while her father, Franklin, was at Winfield Hall hosting a party, a somewhat bizarre and unexplained incident occurred. Located above Winfield Halls main entrance fireplace, the marble Family Crest, containing the painted faces of his three daughters, acquired a crack through the face of Edna, leaving the two remaining faces, as well as the rest of the crest, untouched. A lightning bolt, the product of a severe thunderstorm, has been attributed in causing this crack. Shortly thereafter, stories of hearing strange noises in Winfield Hall, as well as reported observations of seeing a floating "spirit" wandering through the halls, began to circulate. Later on when Winfield Hall was being used as a business school for women, there were numerous reports of hearing a woman crying in the locked "Marie Antoinette" room, rumored to be the room that Edna had committed suicide, though her obituary states her death occurred elsewhere. Other people have reported hearing organ music playing on its own, while detailed descriptions of seeing what appears to be the ghost of a young woman "haunting" the gardens have also been noted.</p><br>
<p>John E. Aldred Estate, also known as St. Josaphats Monastery, is a historic estate located at Lattingtown in Nassau County, New York. It was designed in 1916 by noted architect Bertram Goodhue  for public utility executive John Edward Aldred. The grounds were designed by the Olmsted Brothers. The estate consists of the main residence, known as Ormston; the superintendents quarters; hen house; -story, hip-roofed stable; greenhouse and conservatory; garage; utility shed; garden shed; gazebo; and two gatehouses. The main house is a Tudor Revival–style dwelling built of random-coursed, quarry-faced limestone and roofed in heavy slate. The Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat purchased the property in 1944.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Lillian Sefton Dodge Estate, also known as Sefton Manor and Mill Neck Manor Lutheran School for the Deaf, is a historic estate located at Mill Neck in Nassau County, New York. It was designed in 1923 by the noted architectural firm Clinton and Russell for cosmetics executive Lillian Sefton Dodge. The manor house is a Tudor Revival style dwelling. It is two and one half stories high with a full basement, of steel frame construction and faced withbrown Westchester granite and trimmed in tawny limestone. It has a gray slate roof perforated by granite dormers and chimneys. Also on the property is a Tudor style, half timber farm complex. The property also has a contributing formal garden designed by Charles Wellford Leavitt , garage, and greenhouse. In 1949, Lutheran Friends of the Deaf purchased "Sefton Manor." In 1951, Mill Neck Manor Lutheran School opened to 19 deaf boys and girls. By 1956, Mill Neck Manor was fully accredited by New York State.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Mill Neck Manor is open once a month for docent-led guided tours.</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Moore Estate, also known as Chelsea, is a historic estate located at Muttontown in Nassau County, New York. It was designed in 1923-1924 by noted architect William Adams Delano  for Benjamin Moore and Alexandra Emery. The manor house is an eclectic Chinese and French Renaissance style inspired dwelling. It is "U" shaped, two and one half stories high with hipped and gable roofs, covered with concrete block on a concrete foundation. The front facade features a steeply pitched roof, four large irregularly spaced chimneys, and a large brick tourelle with a conical roof. The property also has a contributing formal garden, gatehouse, picturesque roadways, garage, conservatory, octagonal gazebo, shed and tool house, and large open lawns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Adam-Derby House is a historic house located at 166 Lexington Avenue in Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1878 and designed by noted architects William Appleton Potter (1842-1909) and Robert Henderson Robertson (1849-1919) during their partnership as Potter & Robertson. From 1914 to 1977, it was the home of Ethel Roosevelt Derby (1891-1977), daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt. It is a two and one half to three story dwelling with a wood exterior resting on a brick foundation in the Queen Anne style. It features a variety of exterior detailing and turned post supports supporting the bracketed roofs of the verandahs, porches, and porte cochere.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 17, 1979.</p><br>
<p>Mount Norikura is a potentially active volcano located on the borders of Gifu and Nagano prefectures in Japan. It is part of the Hida Mountains and is listed among the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains and the New 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Outline</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is located on the borders of Gifu and Nagano prefectures in Chūbu-Sangaku National Park. The Norikura Plateau borders the mountain on its northern side in Nagano Prefecture. The mountain, whose name means "riding saddle," received its name because its shape looks like a horse saddle.</p><br>
<p>It is known for being the easiest to climb among the mountains in Japan that are above 3000-meters.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>1680s - It is said that Enkū was the first to reach the peak.</p><br>
<p>1878 - Englishman William Gowland became the first non-Japanese man to reach the peak.</p><br>
<p>1892 - Englishman Walter Weston climbed on the peak.</p><br>
<p>December 4, 1934 - This area was specified to the Chūbu-Sangaku National Park.</p><br>
<p>1973 - Norikura Skyline to the vicinity of the top of a mountain was opened. It is the road that exists in the highest place in Japan.</p><br>
<h2>Nature</h2><br>
<p>After Mount Fuji and Mount Ontake, Mount Norikura is the third tallest volcano in Japan. It is a stratovolcano and hardened lava flows can still be seen near the peak. There are eight plains and 12 crater lakes on the mountain that were formed by volcanic activity. The Norikura Skyline is a road through the mountain, but it has to be closed for much of the year because of heavy snow fall. Even in the summer, some snow remains on the northeastern face of the mountain.</p><br>
<h3>Plant and animal life</h3><br>
<p>Mount Norikura has a variety of plant and animal life on its slopes. In addition to the alpine accentor and martins, the rock ptarmigan (one of Japan&#39;s natural monuments) also makes its home on the mountain.</p><br>
<p>There are various alpine plants and other flowers, including rhododendrons, lilies, and komakusa.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<h3>Geological features</h3><br>
<p>Mount Kengamine (剣ヶ峰 Kengamine), one peak on the mountain, was formed in two eruptions 9,600 and 9,200 years ago. Mount Ebisu (恵比寿岳 Ebisu-dake), another peak, was formed during an eruption 2,000 years ago. Though the volcano has lost some of its eruptive power, volcanic gas is still escaping through the Yū River (湯川 Yū-gawa) and there are many spa areas in the surrounding area.</p><br>
<h3>River of source</h3><br>
<p>The each following River of the source flows to the Sea of Japan or Ise Bay.</p><br>
<p>Tributary of Azusa River that joins to the Shinano River</p><br>
<p>Tributary of Takahara River</p><br>
<p>Tributary of Hida River</p><br>
<p>The James William Beekman House  is a historic house located on West Shore Road in Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was designed by noted English architect Henry G. Harrison in 1863 and built for New York Hospital vice-president James William Beekman (1815-1877). It is a two-story, rectangular wood-framed dwelling with a steeply sloped, cross-gabled roof designed in the Gothic Revival style. It features hipped roof dormers, a relatively simple one story verandah, and is situated on a flat plateau atop a rocky outcropping. Also on the property are a superintendent&#39;s cottage, stable, carriage house, brick greenhouse, potting house, and the Spring Lake archaeological site.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 1973.</p><br>
<p>Elmwood, also known as "The Cliffs," is a historic home located at Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York. It was built in 1836 for New York merchant Thomas F. Youngs  in the Greek Revival style. The original house is a 2-story, gable-roofed, five-by-three-bay wood-frame house. It was expanded about 1915 during its ownership by Charles L. Tiffany II , nephew of Louis Comfort Tiffany . It features a prominent cornice and architrave and an imposing tetrastyle Ionic order portico. Also on the property are an assortment of 19th century dependencies including a gazebo, tool shed, ice house, greenhouse, barns, and a brick coach house built in 1918 by Mr. Tiffany. The property also features a tall, octangonal, board and batten water tower.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Edward H. Swan House is a historic home located at Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York. It was built in 1853 in the Second Empire style. The rectangular house is built of double brick walls spaced nine inches apart. It is a substantial -story residence topped by a mansard roof of hexagonal shaped slate. The main entrance features a double entrance door beneath a cast iron portico. Also on the property are several barns and a board and batten-sided cottage.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The house was owned by John McEnroe Sr., father of the tennis pro, before becoming the home of John McEnroe Jr and his wife Tatum O&#39;Neal. On January 25, 1990, the property was used as a makeshift morgue following the crash of Avianca Flight 52 which crashed into the hills of Cove Neck after running out of fuel.</p><br>
<p>The A. Conger Goodyear House is an NRHP listed historic home located at Old Westbury in Nassau County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1938 in the International style. The house was designed by noted architect Edward Durell Stone, and was owned by businessman and philanthropist Anson Conger Goodyear. The house has 6,000 square feet of space, five bedrooms and five and a half baths and currently sits on a five and a half acre lot.</p><br>
<p>The home has been described as "a remarkable balancing act between the austerity of the then·developing high modernism of Mies van der Rohe and the warm, site-oriented romantic functionalism of earlier American masters like Frank Lloyd Wright."</p><br>
<p>When Goodyear died in 1964, the home was left unoccupied until 1970 when the family donated the house to the New York Institute of Technology for use as the President’s house. In 1997, NYIT sold it to Wheatley Construction Company which had planned to raze it for new development. The World Monuments Fund campaigned to save it, starting in 2001, and eventually bought it in 2005. Later that year the Fund sold to Troy Halterman with constrictive limitations on renovations to the interior and exterior though the lot was reduced from 100 acres. Halterman never moved in, however, and sold it in 2007 to Eric Cohler who spent a purported $2 million USD in renovations. The home was again sold to Aby Rosen in 2011.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>In his 1962 memoir, The Evolution of an Architect, Edward Durell Stone wrote:</p><br>
<p>The site, a barren hilltop, demanded the low horizontal lines of a one-story house. Mr. Goodyear had a fine collection of modern paintings, and I decided to have a gallery serve as a "spinal column" from which all the rooms, with an expansive view to the south, opened, I employed glass walls from floor to ceiling, the ceilings continuing beyond the walls to form wide sheltering eaves. As the house faces south, the eaves were adjusted in depth so that the glass areas were shaded during the summer months, and when the sun was low during the winter months, its welcoming rays penetrated the house through the glass walls.</p><br>
<p>Of the house’s eaves, he wrote:</p><br>
<p>Not only is the overhanging eave an important practical consideration, but I find it aesthetically mandatory on a house with a flat roof, satisfying visually the desire for certain aspects of the pitched roof so long associated with residential architecture.</p><br>
<p>Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture, told The New York Times, “Its one of the few great International Style houses by an American architect of the 1930s. Its a great country house as well and surprisingly luxurious in a Busby Berkeley-meets-Bauhaus kind of way.”</p><br>
<p>The New Yorker architecture critic, Paul Goldberger, called the Goodyear home “one of the most important houses built in the United States between the two world wars.”</p><br>
<p>The second Christiansborg Palace was a new main residence for the Danish Monarch built from 1803 to 1828 in Copenhagen as a replacement for the first Christiansborg Palace which had been destroyed by fire in 1794. The new palace was constructed on Slotsholmen, on the ruins of its predecessor, and designed by royal masterbuilder Christian Frederik Hansen. By the time the palace was completed, King Frederick VI had found himself comfortable at his temporary residence at Amalienborg Palace and decided he did not want to live in the new palace after all. He only used the royal premises for entertainment. The palace also housed the Parliament and administrative services. Frederik VII was the only monarch to live in the palace. This was between 1852 and 1863.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Construction of the new Christiansborg</h3><br>
<p>After the fire in 1794, the royal family initially took up temporary residency at Rosenborg Castle and later moved to Amalienborg Palace. Christian Frederik Hansen, until then master builder in Altona, was called upon to resurrect the palace. Construction started in 1803 but was slow as a result of the difficult times compounded by the Napoleonic Wars and the national bankruptcy in 1813.</p><br>
<h3>Second Christiansborg's short life, 1828&ndash;1884</h3><br>
<p>By the time the palace was completed, King Frederick VI was happy with his temporary residence at Amalienborg and decided he did not want to live in the new palace after all, using it only for entertainment. Frederik VII was the only monarch to live in the palace.</p><br>
<p>Christiansborg became a focal point for many of the events which led up to the transition from absolute monarchy to democracy in 1849. After large crowds had gathered in front of the palace in March 1848, the Constitution of Denmark was adopted on 5 June 1849. The king ceded some of his chambers to the new Parliament, Rigsdagen, which from January 1850 had sessions in the wing where Folketinget meets today.</p><br>
<p>Other parts of the palace continued to be used by the royal family. Frederick VII was the only monarch to live in the palace, between 1852 and 1863.</p><br>
<h3>Fire of 1884</h3><br>
<p>The second Christiansborg burned down in October 1884. Hansen&#39;s chapel and the building linking the palace to the chapel were left undamaged as were the showgrounds, court theatre and pavilions. These had also survived the fire of 1794.</p><br>
<p>The third and current Christiansborg was built between 1907 and 1928 by Thorvald Jørgensen in a neo-baroque style that pays lip service to the first Christiansborg. The building is used by the Danish parliament.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The second Christiansborg was designed in a French Empire style. It was built on the foundations and remaining walls of its predecessor but the wing with the tower and Grand Hall was not rebuilt but replaced by a colonnade.</p><br>
