<p>Forman Park, in Syracuse, New York, was first established on June 16, 1839 and was known as Forman Square. The main attraction is a bronze memorial of early civic leaders, Joshua Forman and Lewis H. Redfield.</p><br>
<p>Redfield was a pioneer printer who died in 1882. Before his death he wrote a detailed account of the land ownership over the years and immortalized the history of the park in early print. The park is 1.3 acres and is located at East Genesee and Almond Streets in Downtown Syracuse.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Forman Park was first named Forman Square and was declared a public park in 1839 by the Trustees of the village of Syracuse.</p><br>
<h3>Land donated</h3><br>
<p>Lewis H. Redfield was born in 1736 and died in 1882. Two years before his death, in 1880, he wrote about the history of the park which was designed by Henry Davis, Jr. in 1839. At that time, Redfield and Davis and two other residents owned the land on the north side of Genesee Street and the Syracuse Company owned the property on the south side.</p><br>
<p>Genesee Street ran diagonally northeast to southwest through the center of the property designated for the park. Redfield and others donated the land for the north side triangle and the Syracuse Company donated the property for the south side triangle. The name was chosen to honor Joshua Forman who is considered the founder of Syracuse.</p><br>
<h3>Public square</h3><br>
<p>On January 16, 1839, the Trustees adopted an ordinance declaring Forman Square as a public square. Several years prior to that date, the parties who owned the land adjoining the square had granted the city the title to the easterly and westerly triangles on the north and south side of the turnpike.</p><br>
<p>Redfield proposed the "scheme" to his associates and they consented. He then made application to the Syracuse Company to "unite in the undertaking" and the company agreed to the proposition. The result was the creation of Forman Square which were considered "two of the most attractive parks in the city."</p><br>
<h3>Neighborhood involvement</h3><br>
<p>Early resident, Theodore Clarke wrote in May 1848 that he purchased a building lot on the south side of Forman Park which cost $6.00. The house cost $1,093 and was ready for occupancy on May 1, 1849. The lot was 66 ft wide and situated at 720 East Jefferson Street and was the first house built on Forman Park.</p><br>
<p>Clarke circulated a petition and Jefferson Street was soon opened to Genesee Street. He circulated another petition for grading and improvements to the park.</p><br>
<p>At the order of the city Common Council, Genesee Street was narrowed from a width of 100 ft to 66 ft in order to route it around the park. Residents of Lodi Hill section opposed the street work, but Clarke appeared before the council and the plans went forward.</p><br>
<p>Shortly after, a fence was erected and Clarke circulated a third petition and collected funds. He received a total of $158 from 19 residents and the fence was completed.</p><br>
<p>Theodore Clarke was deputy and acting County Clerk for 13 years as well as Search Clerk and clerk and collector of the village of Syracuse. He was also first assessor of the city and a member of the city Engineering staff and helped draw a complete city map during the years 1895 through 1910. In his private life, Clarke was an officer of the First Congregational Church, which was also known as the abolitionist Jerry Rescue church. He came to the city in 1835 and moved to Eastwood in 1866.</p><br>
<h3>Redfield monument</h3><br>
<p>The western half of Forman Park was set aside for a monument which was erected by Mrs. William H. H. Smith in honor of her father, Lewis H. Redfield.</p><br>
<h3>Recent years</h3><br>
<p>Forman Park is managed by the Syracuse Department of Parks.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Whitaker House 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 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Charles and Josephine Whitaker took up residence in this house around 1892. He was a carpenter at that time and may have built this house and a similar house across Adams Street himself. Whitaker went on to become a general building contractor. He continued to live here until 1932.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The two-story house features a three-bay, front gable plan that is similar to the McClelland style, which was a popular Vernacular house style in Davenport in the late 19th century. Decorative details from the Greek Revival, Italianate or Queen Anne styles were generally added to the basic house form. The Whitaker house utilizes elements of the Queen Anne style. They are found in the full-height polygonal bay with decorative shingling on the south side, the pendant vergeboard and the attenuated brackets below the gable. The house&#39;s location on a corner lot is accentuated by the polygonal porch and its main entrance set in a chamfered corner.</p><br>
<p>The Claus Untiedt House is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It and the neighboring Joachim Plambeck House are replicas of each other, although the Plambeck House has more alterations. The 2-story Late Victorian style residence features a three-bay façade with a side entrance and a front gable. Two-story porches on the front and back of the east wing feature an Eastlake character. Stone hoods that sit flush with the exterior wall with drip lintels decorate the tops of the rectangular windows. The dark red brick structure rests on a stone foundation that has subsequently been covered with cement. The main entryway may have been altered and its porch may have been removed. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. George McLelland Middleton House and Garage is a historic building located in the central part of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The residence has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Dr. George Middleton was one of three sons, who all became doctors, of Dr. William Middleton who was a founding member of the School of Medicine at the University of Iowa. He was a general practice doctor in Davenport who also worked as a physician for local industry, including the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Middleton had this house built in 1903 and lived here until 1918 when he and his wife, who had no children, sold the house when he went into the Army Medical Corps during World War I. The house was built on Dr. William Middletons estate and George did not receive title to the house until 1915. One of his brothers built the house across the alley. Their parents home, which is no longer extant, was behind the brother&#39;s homes. In 1940 the Dr. George Middleton House became a duplex. It was returned to a single-family home by the early 1980s.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Prominent Davenport architect Frederick G. Clausen designed this house in the Neoclassical style. It features a hipped roof and two dormers that have their own hipped roof and gabled rooflines. The dormer unit projects slightly forward and is held in place with brackets. Below the dormers are two round-arch windows that are also bracketed and have an eccentric boarder. A large porch features four columns of the Doric order and clapboard covered piers. A two-story polygonal bay below a bracketed gable is located on the back of the south side of the house. The second front door from when the house was converted into a duplex remains as does a second-floor sun porch on the rear of the house.</p><br>
<p>The Frank J. Von Ach House 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>History</h2><br>
<p>Francis J. Von Ach was a traveling salesman for the August Steffen Company, a wholesale dry goods dealer. Prior to his association with Steffen, he worked as a salesman in smaller retail establishments. Von Ach was also a founder, and held leadership positions in, the Tri-City Travelers Association, which was a professional organization for traveling salesmen. Von Ach was the first occupant of this house.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Von Ach house is a combination of the Queen Anne and the Colonial Revival styles. This combination was popular in turn of the 20th-century in Davenport. The Queen Anne style is found in the pinwheel plan, the variety of surface textures employed, and the irregular window placement. What is essentially a Victorian style structure is modified by the addition of the Neoclassical style porch, the aedicular frame surrounding the main entrance, and the Adamesque decorative details of the Colonial Revival.</p><br>
<p>The Gustov C. Lerch 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>Gustov Lerch was a clerk in the District Court. He later became a bookkeeper for a hardware dealer, the A.J. Lerch Company. Lerch and his wife Mamie built this house between 1904 and 1905.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Gustov C. Lerch House was designed in a combination of the Shingle and Colonial Revival styles. The house is distinguished by its cross gambrels and the variety of surface textures that were employed in its construction. The foundation is composed of quarry-faced stone, the main level is composed of tan brick with segmented widow arches and corners in dark, rock-faced brick. The upper level is composed of gambrels that are covered in narrow clapboard. There is a pentroof across each gable on the attic level. An Adamesque oval window is located at the top of the main gable. There is an identical house in Davenport&#39;s Oak Lane Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The John Littig House is a historic building located on the northwest side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The Gothic Revival style residence was built in 1867 and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984 and the Davenport Register of Historic Properties since 1993.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This stone farmhouse was built by John Littig, a French immigrant who served as the carriage driver for Antoine LeClaire, one of the founders and an early promoter of the city of Davenport. He had previously worked for Harvey Leonard who was a local contractor and brick manufacturer. This was the third farm that Littig owned in Scott County, Iowa. It grew to become the largest farm in the county and was known as a show place. The family was noted for their hospitality and their locally produced wines. The City of Davenport bought and renovated the house in the mid-1970s. It serves as a meeting place for qualified organizations.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Gothic Revival style was used extensively in church architecture in Davenport, but sparingly in domestic architecture. The Littig houses exemplifies how it was commonly used in houses in the city. It utilizes the Gothic roof shape found in the steep front gable and a few decorative porch brackets. They are combined on a house that exhibits elements found in the Georgian Revival/Federal and the Greek Revival styles. These are found in the symmetry of the five-bay main block. Another neoclassical feature is the structure itself is composed of rubble stone that was plastered and then scored to resemble ashlar construction. This was even carried out on the kitchen wing in the back. The house also features a double-door main entrance that is capped by a transom, a modillian cornice and dressed stone quoins. The rectangular windows are nearly flush with the exterior walls and are capped with shallow rectangular hoods. There is a round-arch window in the front gable.</p><br>
<p>Puupehe Platform, also known Puu Pehe and in tourist literature as Sweetheart Rock, is a triangular sea stack 150 feet off the peninsula separating Mānele Bay and Hulopoe Bay on the island of Lānai, Hawaii.</p><br>
<p>Both its Hawaiian and its English name allude to a legend about Pehe, the beautiful daughter of a local chief, whose jealous husband, Makakehau (Misty Eyes clouded by her beauty), confined her to a nearby cave facing the open ocean. When a storm arose while he was away fetching fresh water for her, high seas flooded the cave and drowned her before he could return to rescue her. In his grief, he is said to have hauled her body to the top of the rock, where he entombed her before leaping to his own death. However, when the archaeologist Kenneth Emory investigated the "tomb" in detail in 1921, he found no human bones, only those of sea birds, leading him to conclude that the carefully arranged stones were an altar built by either bird hunters or fishermen.</p><br>
<p>Since 1976, Puu Pehe has marked the boundary between two subzones of the 309-acre Mānele-Hulopoe Marine Life Conservation District designated by the State of Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources. Subzone B includes Mānele Bay boat harbor, while Subzone A includes Hulopoe Bay, where no motorized vessels are permitted. Both zones contain clear waters and extensive coral reefs that provide excellent snorkeling and Scuba-diving opportunities.</p><br>
<p>The land surrounding the two bays contains many remnants of earlier Native Hawaiian village sites, whose inhabitants subsisted on dryland farming and offshore fishing. About 28 acres of former Kapihaā village on the rocky shores of Hulopoe Bay below the Mānele Bay Resort golf clubhouse have been preserved and marked with interpretative signs along a trail. The remnants of the village include house platforms, garden terracing, stone tool work sites, a heiau, and a fishing shrine (koa).</p><br>
<p>The Joseph S. McHarg 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 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house is believed to have been built by Joseph McHarg. A native of Ireland, he immigrated to the Davenport area and joined his brother Thomas in farming. In 1855 the two acquired their own farms. By 1882 the property was owned by Richard Jenkins, who ran a farm that grew fruit, probably apples. Heinrich Rohwer acquired the property sometime between 1882 and 1894. His father was a German immigrant who farmed in Allens Grove Township. The property remained in his family well into the 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>This house is a typical example of an I-house, which is generally found in rural settings. Even though this house is within the Davenport city limits, it is located in a rural area in the city&#39;s southwest corner. The I-house style combines elements found in the Greek Revival and Italianate styles. The Greek Revival elements are found in the center doorways, both upstairs and on the main level, with their sidelights and transoms. The Italianate elements are found primarily in the taller windows on the main floor.</p><br>
<p>The McBride–Hickey House 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 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Patrick and Agatha McBride had this house built in 1890. Beginning in 1865 Patrick, an Irish immigrant, operated a grocery store in the city. After his death, Agatha sold the house in 1902 to Dennis J. Hickey, Sr. His two sons, Dennis Jr. and William owned a wholesale and retail cigar</p><br>
<p>company named Hickey Brothers. They resided in the house as well. William served as president and treasurer of the company and Dennis was the vice-president and secretary. The company was organized in 1901 with a single store. By 1905 they had several local stores and before the start of World War II it had grown into a company that did $2 million in business with 46 stores across the United States. It grew to 55 retail shops that operated in hotels and small shops by 1941. Eight years later they operated 120 stores in the United States and Cuba. The company headquarters remained in Davenport.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The McBride–Hickey House exemplifies the stylistic transition that happened in architecture in Davenport at the turn of the 20th century. The main block of the structure features a symmetrical, five-bay facade. The placement of the center bay, porch and roof dormer contribute to the symmetry and suggest the Georgian Revival style. The asymmetry of Victorian architecture is found in the polygonal bays and a 3-stage corner tower. The Eastlake style porch and shingled dormer also add interest to what is basically a Georgian Colonial Revival facade.</p><br>
<p>The Meadly House is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The Second Empire structure was built in 1881 for the Meadly family. Elizabeth Meadly was listed the longest at this residence. Four other people, possibly boarders or renters, were listed at this address by 1900. This house, and the nearby Albert Kiene House, are unique in that they are single story, brick residences with a high pitched Mansard roof that features prominent gabled dormers. The roughly cross-shaped house also has a small Mansard superimposed on the projecting pavilion, and a porch in the northeast reentrant angle. It originally had Eastlake details. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Patrick F. McCarthy House is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. Patrick McCarthy was the president of McCarthy Improvement Co., a local construction company that specializes in building and paving streets. He and his wife Alice had this house built in 1905 and lived here into the 1950s. The Tudor Revival style residence sits high on a hill above Marquette Street. The first story is covered in dark red facebrick and the second and third floors sport the half-timbering for which the architectural style is known. Another feature is the way the upper floors protrude above the floor below. The semi-circular bay provides further interest in this house. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas C. Wilkinson House is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The residence has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This house was built for Thomas C. Wilkinson, who had been a bricklayer in St. Louis, Missouri. He retired to Davenport in 1854 and moved to Rose Hill Farm. He had this house built in 1860. His wife was Ellen McManus Atkinson whose father was Judge James McManus, and he lived on a farm just to the east. On Christmas Eve in 1876, Wilkinson committed suicide in the house.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Thomas C. Wilkinson House is an Italian Villa style home that sits on a large lot high above street level. The two-story house is frame construction with a front gable, L-plan main block. It features a three-stage, square tower. The third level is not original to the house. The windows on the west wing appear to be from the turn of the 20th-century and suggest this portion of the house was built later than the rest of the structure. The house features a bracketed cornice on the main block, an entrance porch with a spindle frieze and wrought iron railings. The main façade has two round-arched windows on both levels. The lower level windows are taller than the upper-level windows and they all feature muntins. In the basement, there are two circular windows above the ground level.</p><br>
<p>The Westphal–Schmidt House is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The residence has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This house was one of five summer homes that were built in this area in the 1850s, and the only one that retains its historical integrity. The first people to occupy the home were John and Dorathea Westphal. By the early 1860s, the home was owned by Fred T. Schmidt. He raised grapes and made wine with his brother Carl on their farm west of Black Hawk Creek, which was outside the city limits at the time.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Westphal–Schmidt House was designed in the Tuscan Italianate style. The two-story gallery on the man façade, although not the original, is a unique feature for Italianate houses built in Davenport. Another unique feature of historic houses in the city is the slope of the property. Normally the property slopes to the back creating a walk-out basement. This property slopes toward the front making the main level of the house the basement level. The windows on the second floor are tall and narrow, which is typical of main floor windows in the Italianate style.</p><br>
<p>There is also a small brick structure to the southwest of the house that was believed to be used for the Schmidt&#39;s wine-making business. Although it has been altered it remains an interesting example of early brick and stone construction in the city.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Murray House 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>History</h2><br>
<p>Thomas Murray built this house in 1881 shortly after his marriage to Eva Daniels. He had worked as a surveyor for Scott County for more than a decade. Murray was working as Davenport&#39;s City Engineer when this house was built.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Thomas Murray House is typical of the Italianate style houses that were being built in Davenport after the</p><br>
<p>American Civil War. It forsakes the simplicity of Greek Revival decorative elements that were found in earlier Italianate houses for the verticality and millwork embellishment of the Victorian expression. The house features a square form, hipped roof with deck, roof cresting, projecting side pavilions and a prominent, bracketed porch that wraps across the front of the house and around the corner of the east side. The cornice has brackets and a scalloped motif that is applied to the frieze.</p><br>
<p>The Walter–Gimble 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>Bernhart and Agnes Walter lived here beginning in 1890 and lived here for a few years. He worked as a brewer at the Kohler & Lange Brewery. J.J. Gimble, who was a blacksmith, and his wife Mary lived here after the Walters. The city directories do it list who the previous occupants of the house were.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house appears to be an expansion of the three-bay McClellan style, which was popular in Davenport after the American Civil War. The four-bay house follows a rectangular plan. There is an entrance on the second floor, which suggests the house may have been a duplex from its early years.</p><br>
<p>The Damme Canal  is a canal in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The canal links Bruges with the Western Scheldt at Sluis, Netherlands. It was constructed on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte who wished to create a canal network in order to permit the efficient transport of troops without the risk of disruptive interventions from the British navy.</p><br>
<p>Following the defeat of Napoleon, the original strategic imperative for the canal was removed. The plans in the Napoleonic era had called for a link to the Scheldt at Breskens. Half a century later the canal opened to traffic in 1856, and the link with the sea had moved to Sluis.</p><br>
<p>At Damme the canal crosses the Leopold Canal and the Schipdonk Canal, both of which were dug in the middle years of the nineteenth century in order to reduce the vulnerability of the Belgian canal network to Dutch interference, after the achievement in 1830 of Belgian independence. It was necessary to create a system of Siphons because of the differences in water level of the three canals. The canal was used until 1940 when French troops destroyed the siphon system: this put an end to maritime transport on the Damme Canal.</p><br>
<p>After World War II use of the canal resumed, but it was used now by pleasure boats, along with a tourist boat connecting Damme and Bruges.</p><br>
<p>The Patrick Henry Hotel is a Colonial Revival former hotel listed on both the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register in Downtown Roanoke, Virginia, United States. Located at 617 South Jefferson Street at the southern end of Downtown, the Patrick Henry was designed by William Lee Stoddart and opened in 1925. The building now serves as apartments, office space, and a restaurant in the former lobby rebranded simply The Patrick Henry. It is located in the Roanoke Downtown Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the years following World War I, Roanoke continued to develop as a boomtown due to the growth of the Norfolk and Western Railway, and as such, the city needed additional lodging options for persons traveling to the city. In 1923, local business leader William Wise Boxley chartered The Hotel Corporation to serve as the developer of the Patrick Henry. Later in the year, Boxley selected William Lee Stoddart as the project architect with James Stewart & Company of New York selected as the general contractor. With overall construction costs rising, in 1924, Boxley chartered the New Hotel Corporation to raise additional capital needed to complete the hotel. Taking its name from the American Founding Father Patrick Henry, the 300-room hotel celebrated its grand opening the following year on November 10, 1925, with over 2,000 people in attendance.</p><br>
<p>The Patrick Henry name was actually chosen in a naming contest, and the winner was a young Roanoker, John Payne, who went on to become a Hollywood star in the 1940s, appearing in Miracle on 32nd Street, among others.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its opening, the Patrick Henry was operated by the hotel management firm of Meyer Hotels of Birmingham, Alabama; Meyer operated the hotel through 1954. In the interim, the hotel received its first major renovation in 1938 under the design of local architects Edward G. Frye and Frank F. Stone. A local management company operated the hotel for a few years, and in 1961 the American Hotel Corporation took control when the Patrick Henry was auctioned off to pay off ownerships debts; American Hotel ran the hotel until 1968. It was at this time the Monterey Corporation of Parkersburg, West Virginia, renovated the original 300 rooms into 121 hotel and apartment units.</p><br>
<p>The building was operated as both apartments and a hotel though the 1980s. In 1990 Affirmative Equities of New York purchased the hotel and spent $3 million to renovate the structure and rebrand it under the Radisson name. After several attempts to foreclose on the property, by the late 1990s, Affirmative Equities was considering options on converting the hotel into senior living units. With the final resident having moved out by 2005, the hotel closed its doors in 2007 and the structure was subsequently condemned as it was non-compliant with fire code. After being foreclosed on in 2009 for failing to pay back taxes, the property was purchased by Potomac Realty Capital of Boston for $2 million and subsequently resold to Roanoke developer Ed Walker the following October.</p><br>
<p>Its transformation into apartments began in late 2009. In December 2010. the Jefferson College of Health Sciences announced they would reserve 56 of the units for use by their students. The $20 million renovation was completed in June 2011 and includes 134 apartment units, a restaurant, and retail/office space.</p><br>
<p>The Governors Mansion in Shawnee, Oklahoma was built in 1903, on the speculation that Shawnee would be selected as the state capital and that this structure would become the Governors official residence when Oklahoma became a state. However, Oklahoma did not attain statehood until 1907, and the Legislature chose Guthrie as the first capital, before naming Oklahoma City as the permanent state capital in 1910.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in an area known as Shawnee&#39;s first neighborhood, "...where the first generation of merchants, town leaders and early professionals lived."</p><br>
<p>The house was never used as the Governors Mansion. Once it was clear that Shawnee would not become the state capital, the mansion became just another private residence. It is also known as the Giza House, because it was once owned by Zygmund O. Giza. It is still considered a local landmark and local residents still refer to it as the Governors Mansion. It was registered with the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The footprint of the three-story house is about 60 feet by 70 feet. It sits on a city lot about 1 acre in area. Most of the rooms have ceilings that are 12 feet high. The house has a brick foundation, clapboard siding and a gabled wood shingle roof. The architectural style has been called neoclassical.</p><br>
<p>The east and south sides of the house are decorated with Ionic columns. The front has a bay wuindow decorated with an open balcony on the first and second stories, which extends into a gable on the third story. The first two stories are rounded on the south end extend into a turret on the third story. A balcony across the second story on the front of the house extends from the bay window to the rounded portion of the house. Except for the windows in the gables, all other windows are double hung. Those in the gables are four by six fixed type style.</p><br>
<p>The gable on the south side of the third floor is similar to the one on the front of the house. The north side of the house has a bay window on both the first and second stories that extend into a third-story gable. The second-story bay window is decorated with spindles. The north side of the house has an attached porte-cochere that is supported by Doric columns and decorated with two small gables.</p><br>
<p>The Governor&#39;s House in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan is a historic building and has a secret tunnel from the left side mosque to the Bala Hisar Fort it is about 1.25 km long, amidst what is now a park. It is close to the Peshawar Museum. It serves as the official residence of the Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.</p><br>
<p>The Governor House was commissioned in the early 20th century by the British. The famous British era contractor responsible for the Mardan-Chitral Road (Lowari Pass), Attock Landi Kotal Rail track and Drosh Fort Khan Bahadur Nawab Abdul Hameed Khan of Badrashi was contracted to build the building in a traditional Greco-Roman design prevailent in other grand British buildings across India.</p><br>
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<p>The R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home, located at 407 S. Forest Ave. in Carbondale, Illinois, is a geodesic dome house which was the residence of Buckminster Fuller from 1960 to 1971. The house, inhabited by Fuller while he taught at Southern Illinois University, was the only geodesic dome Fuller lived in as well as the only property he ever owned. Fuller, a prolific architect and engineer, popularized the geodesic dome as a building design, and his house was one of the first geodesic dome residences to be constructed. The home was built and designed by Al Miller of the Pease Woodworking Company. While living in the home, Fuller was awarded nine patents, published eleven books, and designed the Montreal Biosphère, one of his most famous works.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 9, 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Non-profit</h2><br>
<p>The Fuller Dome is a project of RBF Dome NFP, a non-profit organization dedicated to honoring Buckminster Fullers legacy. The boards vision is to further Buckys work, principles, and commitment to addressing humanitys most basic needs. This is done by preserving his artifacts and providing programming in the spirit of Fuller&#39;s hope for "omni-successful education and sustenance for all of humanity."</p><br>
<p>The Fuller Dome is led by a board of directors composed of educators, architects, designers, artists, professors emeriti, community organizers and leaders representing a diverse conflucen of individuals who are dedicated to manifesting Bucky&#39;s ideals today.</p><br>
<p>The Beckley Courthouse Square Historic District is a 70 acre historic district in Beckley, West Virginia that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The listing included 100 contributing buildings, including one or more designed by architect Alex B. Mahood.</p><br>
<p>In a 2010 interview, David Sibray, chairman of the Beckley Historic Landmarks Commission, said the commission’s purpose is to protect the city’s historic resources, and it oversees the development of downtown Beckley’s. Sibray noted there are several motivations for preserving Beckley’s history, including maintaining the historic aesthetic.</p><br>
<p>In 2015 the Preservation Alliance of West Virginia (PAWV) declared the district among the most endangered historic resources in West Virginia. The recognition was the result of years of inappropriate alterations to contributing buildings in the district, which the State Historic Preservation Office concluded had threatened the district&#39;s integrity. The alliance declared in its assessment that the threat was the result of the nonfeasance of the city landmarks commission.</p><br>
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<p>The Saskatchewan River Delta (SRD) is a large alluvial delta that straddles the border between the provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba in south-central Canada. Currently terminating at Cedar Lake, Manitoba, the delta is composed mainly of various types of wetlands, shallow lakes, and active and abandoned river channels bordered by forested natural levees. Sixty-five percent of the delta is occupied by vegetated wetlands, over one third of which comprise peat-forming fens and bogs. Geographically, the SRD consists of two parts---western and eastern---separated by a prominent moraine (The Pas Moraine) that was deposited by the Laurentide Ice Sheet during late stages of the Wisconsinan glacial epoch. These two components, commonly termed the "upper delta" and "lower delta", together occupy an area of approximately 10,000 km&sup2; making the SRD one of the largest active inland delta in North America. The broad wetland tracts of the upper delta in Saskatchewan are sometimes referred to as the Cumberland Marshes. Approximately 5% of the delta surface has been drained for agricultural use following feasibility studies by the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>The SRD is fed mainly by the Saskatchewan River, whose drainage basin extends westward to the continental divide and includes the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rocky Mountains and much of the high plains region of southern Alberta and Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan River sensu stricto begins at the confluence of its two main tributaries, the North and South Saskatchewan Rivers, 175 km upstream from the head of the SRD. Approximately 80% of the flow to the delta comes from the Saskatchewan River whereas the other 20% is supplied by smaller streams that enter the SRD at its margins. These include the Torch, Mossy, Grassberry, Sturgeon-Weir, Carrot, and Pasquia Rivers. Most of the SRD is uninhabited, but approximately 15,000 people live in scattered communities around its perimeter, about two-thirds comprising Metis and First Nations peoples and one-third Euro-Canadian. Principal communities, including associated First Nations reserves, are The Pas, Moose Lake, and Cormorant (in Manitoba) and Cumberland House, Red Earth, and Shoal Lake (in Saskatchewan). Well over half of the delta population resides in and near The Pas, situated on The Pas Moraine between the upper and lower deltas.</p><br>
<h2>Geological and human history</h2><br>
<p>Like all deltas, the SRD formed by deposition of river-borne sediment into a standing body of water. Early stages of SRD development began some 10-11,000 years ago where the east-flowing Saskatchewan River entered the western shore of former Glacial Lake Agassiz, an enormous meltwater lake formed at the margins of the Laurentide Ice Sheet as it receded to the northeast. The delta expanded eastward as the lake shallowed by glacial rebound, eventually exposing the earlier-formed The Pas Moraine between 8200 and 8700 years ago. Channel incision of the moraine followed, establishing through-flow of the Saskatchewan River and initiation of the lower delta. Growth of both the upper and lower components of the SRD has continued to the present, but now mostly by expansion of the lower delta into Cedar Lake, a remnant of Glacial Lake Agassiz, and to a lesser extent the delta of the Mossy River at Cumberland Lake north of Cumberland House.</p><br>
<p>As the SRD developed through time, the principal channels of the Saskatchewan River frequently changed courses (avulsed) as part of the normal process of delta evolution. In the upper delta alone, at least nine major avulsions have occurred in the past 5,400 years. Remnants of these avulsions can be observed today as partly or wholly abandoned channels scattered over the delta surface. The most recent avulsion, initiated in the 1870s, has had profound effects on the physiography and ecosystems in the northwestern region of the delta. For example, Cumberland Lake, the largest lake in the SRD, has become shallower --- from pre-avulsion depths of over 6 meters to average depths of less than 1.5 meters today --- through sediment infilling following the avulsion. The 1870s event also contributed to the demise of sternwheeler riverboat traffic on the Saskatchewan River in the late 1800s and early 1900s because of difficulties in navigating through the modified channel networks resulting from the diversion. Developmental and avulsion history of the lower delta is more poorly known although evidence of multiple historical channels is apparent from aerial photographs and satellite imagery.</p><br>
<p>The SRD has a substantial history of pre-European occupation, and it has long served as a travel corridor and location for gathering centres for aboriginal peoples. Because the Saskatchewan River is a major east-west river that connects the Rocky Mountains with the Atlantic Ocean (Hudson Bay, via Lake Winnipeg and the contiguous Nelson River), the SRD saw significant traffic during the 18th and 19th centuries from European exploration, fur trading, and commerce. Cumberland House, initially established in 1774 and now the oldest continuously occupied settlement in Saskatchewan, was a major crossroads of the fur-trading routes developed by the British-based Hudson&#39;s Bay Company and the Montreal-based North West Company.</p><br>
<h2>Habitat and biodiversity</h2><br>
<p>The diversity of wetlands in combination with the network of streams, lake ecosystems and terrestrial vegetation, make the Saskatchewan River Delta one of Canada’s richest regions for abundance and diversity of wildlife, especially large mammals (moose, elk, whitetail deer, black bear), fur-bearing mammals (notably muskrat, beaver, mink, otter, fisher, lynx, wolf), fish, waterfowl and other birds. Many of these species are vital to local aboriginal peoples who depend on fishing, hunting and trapping for means of livelihoods. Hunting and sport fishing also provide an important basis for local tourism.</p><br>
<p>Dirschl and Dabbs documented 231 species of vascular plants and 14 species of bryophytes in the upper SRD. Specific to wetlands, other authors including Scoggan have identified over 50 species of aquatic (emergent and submerged) plant species. Vertebrate biodiversity is significant and includes over 200 species of breeding birds, 43 species of mammals, 48 species of fish, and 6 species of amphibians and reptiles. Two species, Lake Sturgeon and the Yellow Rail, are identified respectively as Endangered Species and a Species of Concern by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC). Lake Sturgeon is currently being considered for listing under the Canadian federal Species at Risk Act (SARA).</p><br>
<p>The delta is a designated Canadian Important Bird Area of global significance, in part because of its large concentrations of waterfowl, and is home for an estimated half million breeding-season waterfowl each year. The SRD also serves as a valuable spring and fall staging area for waterfowl and other waterbirds traveling to and from the northern boreal and arctic regions. These include tundra swan, snow geese, and Canada geese.</p><br>
<p>Because of the importance of the SRD in supporting healthy populations of aquatic fur bearers, marsh management activities (primarily for muskrats) date back to the 1930s when the Hudson&#39;s Bay Company initiated development of the Cumberland Marshes project area near Cumberland House in Saskatchewan. Private (Tom Lamb) and government interests conducted similar activities in Manitoba. Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC), a private nonprofit conservation organization, also developed several wetland management projects dating back to the 1940s. Extensive projects were later undertaken in the 1960s and 70s following the construction of hydroelectric dams upstream and downstream of the delta (see following section). In more recent times, additional management projects have been developed in anticipation of continued habitat degradation. DUC currently manages several wetland areas in the SRD totaling approximately 3,000 km2 under conservation agreements with the two provincial governments, with input and guidance from local advisory committees.</p><br>
<h2>Environmental issues and concerns</h2><br>
<p>The SRD ecosystem is significantly affected by the presence of two large hydroelectric power dams constructed in the 1960s---one downstream of the delta at the outlet of Cedar Lake (Grand Rapids dam, Manitoba) and another on the Saskatchewan River 25 km upstream of the delta (E.B. Campbell dam, Saskatchewan). The Grand Rapids dam raised the surface of Cedar Lake by 3.5 m, modifying water levels in some 2500 km2 of the lower delta and enlarging the open-water area of Cedar Lake to approximately 3500 km2. Lake surface levels typically range between 1.5 and 2 m each year in response to power needs and seasonal discharge variations. Following the development of the Grand Rapids project, the Manitoba government designated portions of the SRD as Wildlife Management Areas in recognition of these environmental impacts and as partial mitigation for habitat loss upstream of the dam.</p><br>
<p>Most of the water supplying the SRD passes through the E.B. Campbell dam, which impounds nearly all river-borne sediment entering the reservoir (Tobin Lake) and modifies natural discharge fluctuations such that normally high spring and summer flows are significantly diminished. Removal of sediment outflow by impoundment has caused enlargement of channels downstream of the dam and reduction of sediment-borne nutrients to the delta ecosystem. In addition, suppression of annual discharge peaks has reduced the frequency of overbank flooding and, consequently, the frequency at which water and nutrients are replenished in the delta wetlands. Reduction of peak flows to the delta is exacerbated by the Gardiner dam on the South Saskatchewan River whose impoundment, Lake Diefenbaker, is nearly five times larger than the Tobin Lake reservoir, with a commensurately larger influence on flow patterns in the SRD. The other principal tributary, the North Saskatchewan River, is relatively little affected by dams.</p><br>
<p>Flow hydrographs for the Saskatchewan River at The Pas indicate that mean annual discharges have declined approximately 25-30% since records were begun in 1913. This reduction is due in large part to upstream consumption, particularly irrigation projects in the South Saskatchewan River basin where consumption rates have grown significantly over the same time period. A long-term problem for the SRD wetland ecosystem is the prospect of continually declining inflows resulting from increased up-basin water consumption as populations and demands for water resources continue to grow in the future. In addition, the influence of climate change within the Saskatchewan River Basin will have an as yet uncertain impact on the SRD.</p><br>
<p>Although agricultural reclamation currently affects only a small portion of the SRD, mostly near the Carrot River west of The Pas, modest expansion continues to take place in areas where wetlands have been drained. In the early 1980s, there was interest in expanding reclamation activities northward from the Carrot River in the east-central portion of the upper delta, but no such project has yet been initiated.</p><br>
<p>Given the multiple jurisdictional (provincial and federal) responsibilities associated with both the Saskatchewan River and the SRD, there is growing concern that resource management and planning decisions affecting the delta will become more difficult to effectively coordinate in the face of increasing environmental stresses, especially declining water supplies. This, in conjunction with increasing interest and expectations by aboriginal communities to become more actively involved in such decisions, has posed the need for more collaborative planning approaches in the future.</p><br>
<p>Kirkjuvatn is a lake in Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. The lake is located just north of the village Fámjin, which is located on the west coast of Suðuroy. Fámjin is the only village on the island which is facing directly towards west. Only one other village, Sumba is also located on the west coast, but Sumba is facing south-west.</p><br>
<p>The name of the lake means Church Lake, kirkja means church and vatn means lake in this case, the most common meaning of the word vatn is water.The lake is 0.2 km, the largest lake in the island Suðuroy. The lake is among the 10 largest lakes in the Faroe Islands.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Kirkjuvatn has become a tourist attraction; tourists often go for a walk from the village to Kirkjuvatn. They can also go fishing to Kirkjuvatn.</p><br>
<p>The Universalist Church is located in Mitchellville, Iowa, United States. The congregation was organized in 1868 with a membership of thirty-five people. The first officers were: Thomas Mitchell, Moderator; Barlard Slate, Clerk; and Tillie Mitchell, Treasurer. The deacons were W.S. Jones, A. Rothrock and Pauline Weeks. Pastors included: W.W. King, T.C. Eaton, J.R. Sage, A. Vedder and F.W. Gillette. The church building was erected at a cost of $2,000. Built in 1868, it is the oldest documented building in Mitchellville. It is considered an "outstanding example of a early church design based on examples found in small New England towns." The building also served the town as its first school building. After the congregation disbanded they sold their property to the state of Iowa to use for weddings, funerals, and appropriate functions. The church building, along with two outhouses on the property, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>First Congregational Church is a congregation of the United Church of Christ located in Eldora, Iowa, United States. The congregation was organized in 1868 and the church building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. In 2010 it was included as a contributing property in the Eldora Downtown Historic District in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church building was designed in the late Victorian, Romanesque Revival style by Charles Durham and was built from 1893-1894. The church is constructed of LeGrand hammer dressed limestone. It measures 47 by 90 feet and the tower rises 57 and a half feet above the cornice line. The door sills and steps are made of blue stone and the interior is finished in antique oak and hard pine. Stained glass windows help to illuminate the interior.</p><br>
<p>Old East Paint Creek Lutheran Church is located north of Waterville, Iowa, United States. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the autumn of 1850 the first meeting was held to organize a Christian School and a place for worship by the first Norwegian immigrant settlers to the Paint Creek area of Allamakee County, Iowa. The school was organized in March the following year with Ole Larson as the first teacher. The first church services were held in July in the home of Thomas Anderson by Pastor Claus Lauritz Clausen from Rock County, Wisconsin. The schoolhouse was completed by November 1851 and was used for church services as well.</p><br>
<p>initially the congregation had only visiting ministers. The congregation sent a Letter of Call to Norway for their own pastor. It was answered by the Rev. Ulrik Velhelm Koren who arrived in late 1853 and stayed until 1862 when he returned to Norway. In July 1855 it was decided to build a church and it was completed in 1857. The congregation grew in size and divided into two separate churches, East Paint Creek Church and West Paint Creek Church.</p><br>
<p>The cornerstone for the present church was laid on May 24, 1869 and the church was dedicated on August 24, 1870. It is constructed of stone in the Gothic Revival style. The Rev. Ove Jacob Hjort (1827-1879) was pastor at the time.</p><br>
<p>In 1880 a controversy over predestination erupted among Norwegian Lutherans which affected the congregations in the Paint Creek area. A small group broke away from the original churches and became known as the East and West Synod Lutheran Churches. To distinguish between the two original churches they were renamed Old East Paint Creek Church and Old West Paint Creek Church.</p><br>
<p>Mutton Brook is a stream which runs between East Finchley and Hendon in the London Borough of Barnet. It is a tributary of the River Brent, which is itself a tributary of the River Thames.</p><br>
<p>The brook rises in Cherry Tree Wood and flows underground to emerge at the back of Belvedere Court, Lyttleton Road. It then passes under Lyttleton Road and flows along the south side of the road and Falloden Way through Lyttleton Playing Fields, Fletchers Gardens and Northway Gardens. Near Brookland Rise, it crosses briefly to the north side of Falloden Way before crossing back to Brookside Walk. It passes under Finchley Road at Henlys Corner and then under the North Circular Road to meet Dollis Brook close to Bridge Lane. The two brooks then become the River Brent.</p><br>
<p>The brook is confined in a concrete or wood channel along the whole of its length, and the water quality is often poor. However, from Lyttleton Playing Fields to the junction with Dollis Brook its route is almost all through local parks. The downstream section is lined by oak, ash and willow trees, providing a good habitat for birds, and grey wagtails often forage at its edge. The brook is a Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation.</p><br>
<p>Until 1965, Mutton Brook was the southern boundary of the Municipal Borough of Finchley.</p><br>
<p>The Capital Ring and Dollis Valley Greenwalk follow Mutton Brook.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican Church of the Holy Trinity in Paulton, Somerset, England was built in 1235 and is a Grade II* listed building. It was built on the site of an earlier church. The Church of the Trinity is located in the parish of Paulton and Diocese of Bath and Wells, having previously been a chapel attached to the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Chewton Mendip until 1841. Paulton is currently serving as part of the 10 lamps ministry group and is part of the benefice with St John&#39;s, Farrington Gurney and Holy Trinity, High Littleton.</p><br>
<p>The church was rebuilt in 1757 and restored in 1839 by John Pinch, to cope with the growing population working on the Somerset coalfield. The chancel and organ chamber were added in 1864. Two stone effiges which are believed to be of members of the Palton family after which the village is named.</p><br>
<p>The three stage square tower was built in the reign of Edward III and stands at the west end of north aisle of church.</p><br>
<p>The churchyard includes a cholera monument, to 23 men, 23 women and 26 children who died in a cholera outbreak in 1832 and 14 men, 14 women and 34 children from a second outbreak between 1844 and 1850. There are several other monuments in the churchyard.</p><br>
<p>Red Oak Grove Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is located outside of Tipton, Iowa, United States. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was organized on March 1, 1841 by Scotch Presbyterian settlers in Cedar County, Iowa. It is the first Presbyterian Church founded in Cedar County and the twelfth in the state of Iowa. The ten charter members of the church include: Robert Dallas, Miss Sarah Dallas, John and Isabella Ferguson, John Safley, John Chappell, Samuel Yule, Robert and Elizabeth Pirie and Elizabeth Dallas. The organizational meeting was conducted by the Rev. Michael Hummer, who was an itinerant Presbyterian missionary. By November 1847 the congregation grew to 22 members. For the first ten years the congregation had no pastor and was severed by traveling missionaries.</p><br>
<p>In 1851 the congregation requested that its location be changed to Tipton. The Presbytery granted its permission and it became known as the First Presbyterian Church of Tipton. In the meantime the people in Red Oak Grove built a church and requested a separate organization. The Presbytery granted its request in October 1859, and the Presbyterian Church of Red Oak Grove was organized. The following year the relationship between the churches was dissolved and Red Oak Grove began a working relationship with the Presbyterian Church in Mechanicsville, Iowa.</p><br>
<p>Henry Britcher donated land north of the church where the present manse was built in 1899. The Rev. J.C. Fawcett was the first pastor to occupy the home in 1901.</p><br>
<h2>Red Oak Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>The North Cemetery was organized in 1848 and the plat was made by A.L. Safley. The South Cemetery was plotted in May 1907.</p><br>
<p>Hillside is a historic house at 310 Litchfield Road in Norfolk, Connecticut. The house was built in 1908 for an heiress of the Remington Arms business fortune, and is one of the most spectacular designs of Alfredo S.G. Taylor, a prominent New York City architect who designed many summer properties in the community. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Hillside is located south of the village center of Norfolk, on the east side of Litchfield Road. It is set on a lot of 45 acre, most of which is wooded. The house occupies a ridge site with expansive views facing northwest, at the end of a winding drive at some remove from the road. It is a large Tudor Revival structure, with its basement and first floor built of fieldstone, and the upper level of half-timber and stucco. A central section is flanked by larger wing sections, each topped by a roof that has a gable section above a Craftsman-style jerkin-headed gable end. Its interior includes a large main hall with timbered ceiling 40 ft in height, and a walkin fireplace and inglenook.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1908 for Helen Hartley Jenkins, who was heir to the Remington Arms fortune.</p><br>
<p>Glenugie Peak, also known as Mount Elaine or as Glen Ugie Peak, a mountain that is part of the ridge surrounding the Clarence Moreton Basin, is situated in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. At an elevation of 316 m above sea level, the mountain is located near the Pacific Highway, south of the town of and approximately 6 km west north-west of the locality of Calamia.</p><br>
<p>Glenugie Peak is known as Gunayjun to the local Gumbaynggirr people</p><br>
<h2>Features and location</h2><br>
<p>It is a dolerite peak from the Cenozoic era extruded from the Grafton Formation. The Grafton Formation is a series of sedimentary rocks, laid down between the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods.</p><br>
<p>Glenugie Peak is noted by Matthew Norman for its dry rainforest in a gully which includes a number of rare species of trees, as well as the Yellow Box, which is more often associated with areas west of the Great Dividing Range. Average annual rainfall is 1,138 mm.</p><br>
<p>Glenugie peak rock was used as ballast for the North Coast railway line and remnants of the tramway used to transport the rock can be seen today.</p><br>
<p>First Congregational Church is located in Burlington, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The church is also a contributing property in the Heritage Hill Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was organized in 1838. The Rev. Horace Hutchinson was the first pastor and the congregation met in the home of James G. Edwards who was the publisher of the Burlington Hawk-Eye. He was succeeded by the Rev. William Salter who served here for 64 years (1846-1910). The congregation was involved in social ministry, civil rights, public education and free libraries. Under Salter&#39;s leadership it was a champion of the abolition of slavery and was a stop on the Underground Railroad.</p><br>
<p>When the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches merged with the Evangelical and Reformed Church and formed the United Church of Christ, First Congregational Church joined with about 200 other Congregational Christian churches in choosing not to join the merger, mainly because of the issue of congregational polity. It became a part of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, which was created in 1955. The church is a member of the National Association, the Iowa-Nebraska Association of Congregational Churches and the Burlington Area Council of Churches.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church building was constructed from 1867 to 1870. It is a Gothic Revival built of dressed dolomite. It is dominated by a tall, square, crenelated corner tower. It rises in three stages, which are separated by belt courses.</p><br>
<p>Bentonsport, a village on the Des Moines River near Keosauqua, in Van Buren County, Iowa, was recognized in 1972 for being very little changed since its historic heyday as a thriving steamboat port in the mid-1800s. A 35 acre historic district covering 16 original blocks in the historic center of the village was then approved for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The district also included waterfront property and the village&#39;s historic wagon bridge across the river to the village of Vernon.</p><br>
<p>The village was platted in March, 1836, and was located at the first dam and locks on the Des Moines River authorized by the state in 1839. Soon it had two grist mills and a saw mill. It was named "Benton&#39;s Port" for Thomas Hart Benton and once had a population of about 1,000. It declined after the Keokuk, Fort Des Moines and Minnesota Railroad reached Des Moines in 1866. The river became non-navigable in 1870 and the dam and locks deteriorated, with the dam "failing" in 1879. The Bentonsport bridge opened in 1883 and is "the oldest wagon bridge of its type remaining on the Des Moines River."</p><br>
<p>Today the village has 40 residents, many of them artists and bed & breakfast keepers.</p><br>
<p>Its historic district includes:</p><br>
<p>Cowles House, 1840s</p><br>
<p>a blacksmith shop, 1840s</p><br>
<p>I.O.O.F. Hall, 1840s, the oldest and perhaps first Odd Fellows Hall in Iowa</p><br>
<p>Mason House Inn, 1846</p><br>
<p>Sanford House, 1852</p><br>
<p>Bentonsport Academy, 1851, perhaps Iowa&#39;s oldest high school</p><br>
<p>Presbyterian Church, 1855</p><br>
<p>Methodist Parsonage, 1855</p><br>
<p>Methodist Church, 1857</p><br>
<p>Herman Greef House, 1863</p><br>
<p>Greef Dry Goods Store, 1865</p><br>
<p>Bentonsport General Store</p><br>
<p>historic bridge, 1882–85</p><br>
<p>The district includes Federal, Gothic Revival, and "Steamboat Gothic" architecture.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, as a promotional term, the area calls itself "Bentonsport National Historic District".</p><br>
<p>The Fairmount–Southside Historic District is a 340 acre historic district  that has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1990.</p><br>
<p>It includes Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements architecture, Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals architecture, and Late Victorian architecture.</p><br>
<p>It includes the South Side Masonic Lodge and the Meredith Benton House which are separately listed on the NRHP.</p><br>
<p>The listing includes 1,013 contributing buildings and one other contributing structure.</p><br>
<p>It is asserted to be the largest historic district designated in the southwestern United States.</p><br>
<p>The webpage title for the entity describes itself as "Fairmount National Historic District", while the webpage itself names it "Fairmount Historic District".</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Bank of California Building is a landmark building located at 815 2nd Avenue in Seattle, Washington. It is located mid-block adjoining the Exchange Building. It was built by the Bank of California  in 1924 and has been continually used as a bank ever since. It housed the offices for the Bank of California until 1973 when a new building, the Union Bank of California Center was built at the corner of 4th and Madison Streets. Ironically, this newer, larger building is no longer used as a bank and instead is occupied by a Bartell Drugs store. The original Bank of California Building was retained as a branch office until being sold to the Puget Sound Mutual Savings Bank in 1982 which was headquartered in the building until 1993 when through a series of mergers and acquisitions the bank became a branch of Key Bank, which it remains to present day.</p><br>
<p>The Building is a rectangular two Story plus basement Reinforced concrete building faced with terra cotta meant to imitate stone. It features a sky-lit banking room that spans all floors and includes a mezzanine. It was designed in a "strict Italian Renaissance" style typical of many banks in the 1920s by John Graham & Company, one of Seattles most prominent architectural firms. Graham would also design the buildings aforementioned replacement in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Bank of California Building was designated a City of Seattle Landmark in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Bank of California, organized in San Francisco in 1864, came to Seattle in 1905 with the acquisition of the London and San Francisco Bank who had branches in Seattle, Tacoma and Portland, Oregon. The Bank of California became a national bank in 1910 and soon was one of the biggest banks west of the Mississippi River. By the early 1920s the bank had outgrown its small office at the Northwest corner of 2nd Avenue and Columbia Street. In May 1923 the bank purchased the Epler Block located two doors north of their own from the Epler Estate for $160,000 with the intention of building a new bank building on the site. The property had been purchased in 1882 by W.F. Epler who, following the Great Seattle fire, built a substantial four story brick and stone building on the lot that was completed in 1890.</p><br>
<p>The bank chose the John Graham firm to design a two story plus mezzanine concrete structure with a terra cotta facade that would cost around $200,000 but would actually cost $50,000 more. A completed architectural sketch of the building was published in the Seattle Times on September 25, 1923. A preliminary and apparently innovative concept hatched during the buildings designing was to incorporate customer parking in the buildings basement. It is unknown whether this idea was actually implemented. Demolition of the Epler Block began in November 1923 and lasted for several months. Construction began in early 1924 and by May of that year, the concrete structure was complete. The building officially opened to the public on August 25, 1924.</p><br>
<p>The bank continued to expand by opening offices in the Exchange Building (Seattle) and building a parking garage to the south. By the late 1960s, they were ready to expand and set out to construct the Union Bank of California Center, which covered an entire city block bound by Madison, Marion, Fourth and Fifth Avenues and would contain over 150,000 ft&sup2; of space for the bank, much more than the old building had. When the new bank opened in early 1974, the original building was retained as a branch office which prompted local banks to file suit claiming unfair competition, which was later overturned. By 1983, Bank of California had left the building and it became the main office of the Savings Bank of Puget Sound, formerly the Puget Sound Mutual Savings Bank. The savings bank was purchased by Puget Sound Bancorp of Tacoma in 1986 which in turn was acquired by KeyCorp in 1993. The building has housed a Key Bank branch ever since.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The 60 ft wide Second Avenue facade of the Bank is clad in gray glazed terra cotta meant to imitate stone. The facade is composed of large windows framed by four free standing Roman ionic columns with two related pilasters, the center space being slightly spread to allow for the entrance doors, capped with a large arched pediment. The entablature is crowned by an attic forming the fourth floor. The design follows the Ionic order and includes an architrave and frieze which once bore the name of the bank but is now bare. Above the fourth floor is a smaller cornice topped with a pediment bearing the building&#39;s date of construction.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The main feature of the bank was the 60 by 70 ft main banking room with a 40 ft high rotunda ceiling. The interior was described by The Seattle Times in an August, 1924 article:</p><br>
<p>The marble used for the counters and floors was variegated Escolette imported from France while woodwork was made of polished black walnut. Large clocks, with dials of escolette were centered in balcony grill work at each end of the main lobby. Offices were located on each balcony. The basement housed the vaults and recreation rooms for employees while the fourth floor contained offices and a large club room for employees.</p><br>
<p>Wormy hillock henge is a small henge in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument It is a low, circular bank 16.5 m in diameter which almost surrounds a 6 m wide platform in the centre. There is one gap in the bank at the southeast end of the henge.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1891, James Macdonald, thinking that this mound was a "round for sheep", excavated the mound. However, this did not bring any archaeological finds.</p><br>
<h2>Legend</h2><br>
<p>According to legend, Wormy hillock henge was the location of a buried dragon or monster. In the legend, the dragon had been attacking villages in the neighbourhood, and the villagers eventually succeeded in killing the dragon. They then half-buried its corpse and mounded dirt over it, making a mound. This legend is the source of the name of the mound: Wormy hillock henge.</p><br>
<h2>The site</h2><br>
<p>The henge is located to the south of the mound known as Wormy Hillock, on a haugh ("a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river", according to the Oxford English Dictionary) in a steep valley enclosing an oval area 13.5 m long by 13 m wide. The bank itself ranges from 3 m broad and 10 cm high up to 4 m thick and 60 cm high. Wormy Hillock falls into the sub-category mini-henge or hengiform as it is less than 20m in diameter (see henge main article). The area enclosed by the bank is around 140 m&sup2, and the average for a stone circle is around 260 m&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>Inside the bank is a small platform 6 m in diameter surrounded by a 1 m deep ditch crossed by several causeways. The southeastern one is apparently related to the 1 m wide hole in the bank at the same angular position. This site is similar to several others in Dorchester, Oxon, England. There are two small pits on the bank, and they may be much more recent than the rest of the mound. A large boulder is lying in the ditch right below one of the pits.</p><br>
<p>Currently, the site is completely overgrown by grass and heather.</p><br>
<p>The Governors Mansion at 621 S. Marshall Ave. in Marshall, Michigan is a historic house built in 1839 with elements of Greek Revival architecture. It is also known as Governors Mansion Museum. It was built with expectation that Marshall would become the State Capitol of Michigan. In 2017, the house is a museum owned and operated by the Mary Marshall Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution.</p><br>
<p>The house was built for James Wright Gordon, who actually became acting governor of Michigan in 1841. Gordon had purchased the land, across from where the Capitol was proposed to be built. It has been referred to as the "Governor&#39;s Mansion" since its erection in 1839.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Athens Historic District is a historic area in the Downtown Athens neighborhood of Athens, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Its boundaries were revised twice, in 1984 and 2006, and additional documentation was filed in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The original listing area includes Early Commercial architecture, Renaissance architecture, and Greek Revival architecture in 82 contributing buildings and two contributing buildings in a 40 acre area roughly bounded by Hancock Ave., Foundry, and Mitchell. It includes work dating back to 1833. It includes the Franklin House, which is separately listed on the National Register, and the Clarke County Courthouse. Historic functions served include rail transportation, dwelling, and commerce/trade.</p><br>
<p>The most prominent resources in the original listing include:</p><br>
<p>Clarke County Courthouse (Athens, Georgia) (c. 1914), E. Washington Street, in yellow brick, designed by A. Ten Eyck Brown</p><br>
<p>Franklin House (c. 1845), 464-474 E. Broad Street, Greek Revival</p><br>
<p>Whitmire Furniture Company, 382 E. Broad, (1896)</p><br>
<p>Athens Refrigeration and Appliance Company (1889), 312 E. Broad Street</p><br>
<p>Old National Bank Building (c. 1866), 295 E. Broad Street, "Gothic-inspired", stuccoed but in pattern resembling masonry</p><br>
<p>Athens Savings Bank (c. 1885), now the Charles Parrott Insurance Agency, 283 E. Broad Street, Richardsonian Romanesque</p><br>
<p>stone obelisks, one to commemorate Elijah Clarke and the Revolutionary War, one to commemorate the Civil War and veterans from Clarke County who died in the War, in the center of Broad Street</p><br>
<p>Kenwin Building (c. 1890), 125 E. Clayton Street</p><br>
<p>Haygood Building (c. 1885), 151 E. Clayton Street</p><br>
<p>Building at 216-220 E. Clayton Street</p><br>
<p>Michael Brothers (now Davison&#39;s) (1921), 320-350 E. Clayton Street, designed by Neel Reid</p><br>
<p>Austin Furniture Company, 361 E. Clayton Street</p><br>
<p>Building at 351 E. Clayton Street</p><br>
<p>Building at 263-288 Lumpkin Street and 104-106 E. Washington</p><br>
<p>The Georgian Hotel (c. 1908), 247 E. Washington Street (photo 20 in 2006 documentation), five-story Classical Revival building designed by A. Ten Eyck Brown</p><br>
<p>Athens Fire Station No. 1 (1912) still functioning as a fire station in 1977</p><br>
<p>Athens City Hall, a two-story yellow brick Renaissance Revival style building with a clock tower (photo 18 in 2006 documentation)</p><br>
<p>United States Post Office and Courthouse (1941), in Stripped Classical style (photo 22 in 2006 documentation)</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church (1856), Greek Revival-style (photo 22 in 2006 documentation</p><br>
<p>and more on College Avenue and elsewhere, including a double-barreled cannon.</p><br>
<p>The boundary increase of 1984 added buildings on the west side of Lumpkin Street. Its seven contributing buildings are two-story commercial buildings with party walls, in a 1 acre area. One was the Georgia Theater, an Art Deco movie theater from the 1920s (photo 15 in 2006 documentation), and the other buildings then held retail stores, offices, a printing shop, and a laundry.</p><br>
<p>The revision in 2006 added new area, removed some area, and added additional documentation. The increased area, roughly bounded by Dougherty St., Thomas St., Hickory St., Broad St. South St. and Pulaski St., was 24 acres, with 25 contributing buildings and 1 other contributing structure. It includes Federal and Greek Revival architecture, and some work of architect A. Ten Eyck Brown and some property controlled by the USA Postal Service. Historic functions included: domestic; commerce/trade; government; religion; recreation and culture; industry/processing/extraction; health care</p><br>
<p>Historic subfunction: single dwelling; business; city hall; religious structure; theater; communications facility; clinic.</p><br>
<p>Snabrough broch is a ruined broch located on the island of Unst in Shetland, Scotland. It overlooks Snabrough Loch.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Snabrough Broch overlooks Snabrough Loch, south of Burragarth on Unst. It is about 0.5 km east of Bluemull Sound. It stands on a short, low promontory on the loch shore, and is surrounded to the north by rolling cultivable land.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Snabrough Broch has an external diameter of around 18 metres. Little of its structure can be seen, but traces of the inner and outer faces of the broch wall are on the southeast side. The entrance is on the northwest side, but is filled with debris. The broch was visited by the antiquarian George Low in the 18th century, who noted "large hollow apartments... following the curve of the wall&quot these are no longer visible.</p><br>
<p>On the landward side of the broch there was an outer wall or rampart with a ditch, which curved across the broad neck of the promontory. Between the outer wall and the broch there may have been some out-buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Boesch, Hummel, and Maltzahn Block, also referred to as the Boesch-Hummel-Maltzahn Block, is a historic building in New Ulm, Minnesota, United States. The private, commercial structure was placed on the National Register of Historic Places  on December 31, 1979. The building is significant for the extensive features of the front facade as compared to the other "Main Street" buildings in New Ulm and surrounding communities.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The Boesch, Hummel, and Maltzahn Block is a two-story structure located on the north side of New Ulm&#39;s main commercial thoroughfare, consisting of 6, 8, 10 and 12 Minnesota Street North. The street level facade has been remodeled several times over the years, but still maintains the cut stone dividing members. The second story facade features relief-laid brick and four, large copper-roofed bay windows. Cut stone is also used as decoration on the second level as well as for a railed balcony over the stairway entrance on the northern section of the facade. Panels carrying the names of the persons first associated with the structure, as well as its completion year, are incorporated into an elaborate metal cornice. The rear of the building, which once had wooden stairways and two levels of covered walkways, now has metal stairways for building access.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>William Hummel was born on October 22, 1832 in Neuffen, Württemberg, then a part of the German Confederation. He was reared by his paternal grandparents; his grandfather was a tanner by trade. From age seven to twelve he attended school, and in 1844 his parents emigrated to the United States, taking him along. The voyage was difficult, with various problems leading to spending 138 days on a ship. Of the more than 300 German immigrants in their group, 28 died on the trip and seven babies were born. They arrived in New Orleans in early March 1845, and soon his family moved to Cincinnati where they began work at an uncles vineyard. After the harvest, the family returned to New Orleans where they began trade in food stuffs. After a year of success, Hummels father died of yellow fever. This caused serious financial hardship for his mother and four siblings. As the oldest, William Hummel began working at a drug store, receiving at the time $8.00 per month and board. After a time he was sent back to Cincinnati to learn a trade; his uncle taught him to be a harness maker. Soon after there was a cholera outbreak, shutting down businesses and causing Hummel to look for new work. Finding employment as an apprentice trunk-maker, he was able to earn a stable living. In 1850 he joined the Cincinnati Turner Society, reemerging himself in German customs and language. The Turner Society appealed to Hummel, particularly the advocacy of intellectual freedom. He began working on the steamers on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, earning more money and seeing more parts of the country. In 1852, he arrived in St. Louis, Missouri, where he found maternal relatives who convinced him to stay and find work. Six months later, he moved to Chicago and continued his involvement in the local Turner Society.</p><br>
<p>Hummel moved to New Ulm in 1856, soon after its founding, and helped form its own Turner Society and taught gymnastics in the new hall. He tried making a living in several areas including farming, operating a drug store and running a saloon, before co-founding the New Ulm Creamery Company in 1880 and finding success. With the profits he opened a general store on Minnesota Street in downtown New Ulm. By 1890 he was one of the most successful businessmen in the city, he joined Werner Boesch and Edward Maltzahn to open a new business block. They hired architect Carl Struck of Minneapolis, who had previously designed the Brown County Courthouse. When the structure was built in 1890, the structure was part of the second generation of masonry blocks built to house retail establishments in New Ulm and the surrounding area; it is considered to be the most visually striking of that generation. Hummel continued running the store until 1903.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The Boesch, Hummel, and Maltzahn Block is noted for being the most elaborately detailed Main Street commercial building in the area. Similar buildings are commonly stripped of features such as cornices and projecting bay windows over time and various renovations. The wide, four-storefront facade, resulting in repetition add to the structure&#39;s impact on the local streetscape. The building was originally designed to house commercial storefronts on the first level with apartments on the second; the building continued to be used in this way at the time it was listed on the NRHP.</p><br>
<p>The Westerman Lumber Office and House is a historic building in Montgomery, Minnesota, United States. The private, commercial structure was placed on the National Register of Historic Places  on March 15, 1982. The structure is considered an outstanding example of the brick buildings built in the area of Montgomery and New Prague during the late 19th century, using bricks manufactured in the Minnesota River Valley.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The Westerman Lumber Office and House is located in Montgomery&#39;s principle business district on the east side of First Street. An L-shaped building, it has an intersecting gable roof which folds at a 45-degree angle over the front facade. The structure was first constructed as a small, wood-frame office building in the 1880s. In 1895, a back section was added and the entire structure was veneered in a buff colored brick. Brick pilaster strips are located at the corners of the building and between the bays of the front ell. The west (front) facade uses rectilinear windows with green wood trim featuring a stylized floral design in the wood lintels, and double-hung windows are used on the second level. The windows on the north facade use arched brick hoods and decoractive panels composed of exposed brick corners beneath the sills.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Henry E. Westerman settled in Le Sueur County in 1873, and moved to Montgomery to start a sawmill when the town was founded in 1877. He established the Westerman Lumber Company in 1889. The building was constructed in the 1880s as a small, wood frame office building. Westerman purchased the structure in 1891 to use as an office. He added to the back of the structure in 1895 so it could house his family, and at the time had the structure veneered in brick. Westerman&#39;s company outgrew the building and it was sold in 1915; at that time the original entrance was bricked up. By 1996 it was being used as a private residence.</p><br>
<p>The building was later restored by former airline pilot John A. Grimm, who also restored Montgomery&#39;s other NRHP building, Hilltop Hall.</p><br>
<p>It currently houses a Pizzeria.</p><br>
<p>The Houston Memorial Library, previously the Governor George Smith Houston House, is a historic residence in Athens, Alabama. It was built in Federal style in 1835. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land on which the house stands was purchased in 1818, and passed between several owners before being purchased by Micajah Thomas. Thomas is believed to have built the house in the 1830s, although the exact date of construction is not known, and it may have been built around an earlier log structure. Then-USA Congressman George Smith Houston moved to Athens from Lauderdale County and purchased the house in 1845. He served in Congress from 1841 until 1849, and again from 1851 until 1861. Following Reconstruction, Houston was elected Governor of Alabama, serving from 1874 until 1878. He was elected to the USA Senate in 1878, serving until his death on December 31, 1879. His widow, Ellen, lived in the house until her death in 1909. The house was later rented by the Kiwanis Club, and in 1938, the Houston family donated the house to the city to be used as a public library.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Houston House is a two story, wooden house built in the Federal style. Four square columns support a two-story portico and second floor balcony. The balcony extended across the entire front of the house by Ellen Houston, but was truncated after her death. Side-by-side front doors open into separate rooms, a layout repeated on the upper balcony. A dining room was added on the north side of the house in the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Sherman Park is a sixty-acre park in the New City neighborhood of South Side, Chicago.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by renowned landscape architects John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and celebrated Chicago architect Daniel Burnham. It opened in 1905.</p><br>
<p>The park&#39;s recreational facilities include two gymnasiums, a fitness center, a swimming pool, as well as outdoor space for basketball, tennis, baseball, soccer and football.</p><br>
<p>The park was named for John B. Sherman, Burnhams father-in-law and a founder of Chicagos Union Stock Yards.</p><br>
<p>The park was designed specifically to enrich the immigrant, working class residents of the surrounding neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>Murals</h2><br>
<p>In 1912, eight students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago painted murals in the Sherman Park fieldhouse that came to be known as the American History Series. These murals commemorate events such as the founding of Jamestown in 1607, the Marquette-Joliet Expedition of 1673, and George Rogers Clark&#39;s Illinois Campaign of 1778.</p><br>
<p>Over the years the murals became severely damaged due to accumulated soot and varnish. In 2004, restoration on the murals commenced with the park&#39;s inclusion in the Mural Preservation Effort, a joint project between the Chicago Park District and the Chicago Conservation Center. The restoration of the Sherman Park murals was completed in mid-2005.</p><br>
<p>The Scord of Brouster is one of the earliest Neolithic farm sites in Shetland, Scotland. It has been dated to 2220 BC with a time window of 80 years on either side. It comprises three houses, several fields surrounded by walls, and a cairn. A sign by the Scord of Brouster states that the climate of Shetland became wetter towards 1500 BC, and that peat forming near the fields eventually forced the farmers to permanently abandon the site.</p><br>
<h2>Site</h2><br>
<p>The Scord of Brouster has three oval-shaped houses. The first house is oriented so that its long axis is parallel to the northwest-southeast axis, and it is around 43 ft long and 34 ft wide. It has an entrance at its southeastern end and six recesses. The second house is around 35 ft long and 27 ft wide. It is more kidney-shaped than the first house, and it has only two recesses rather than six, of which one, 2 m long, may be a sleeping area. Like the second house, the third house is around 35 ft long and 27 ft wide.</p><br>
<h2>Artefacts</h2><br>
<p>In all, nearly ten thousand pieces of quartz were found at the Scord of Brouster. 5688 stone artefacts were found in house one, 3772 stone artefacts were found in house two, and only 227 stone artefacts were found in house three. Of the 227 items found in house three, 225 are merely quartz flakes and chips. These pieces were found in what appears to be three phases: prior to the construction of the buildings, during active use, and during abandonment.</p><br>
<h3>House one</h3><br>
<p>Before this house was built, most of the artefacts were scattered across the southern portion of the building&#39;s area. After the construction of the house, the centre of the building had far fewer quartz artefacts. Instead, the artefacts were concentrated in places inside the house beside the walls. In the final phase, most stone pieces were found by the walls of the house.</p><br>
<h3>House two</h3><br>
<p>Both prior to construction and during its use, the artefacts were mostly concentrated on the western side and near the central fireplace. The eastern side had very few artefacts, and a recess in the northeast corner had even fewer, which led the archaeologists to believe that it may have been a sleeping area. After abandonment, the artefacts were scattered relatively evenly across the entire area.</p><br>
<p>The second house contained only about three-fourths the number of tool artefacts that the first house did. However, they had nearly identical percentages of types of tools found. For example, house one contained 91 scrapers compared to the 69 found in house two, but that corresponds to 75% of the artefacts found in house one and 77% of the artefacts found in house two.</p><br>
<h3>House three</h3><br>
<p>Relatively few artefacts were found in the third house, so there was no real way for the researchers to discover any concentrations of artefacts.</p><br>
<p>Mount Iwate is a stratovolcano complex in the Ōu Mountains of western Iwate Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Honshū, Japan. With an elevation of 2,038 m, it is the highest in Iwate Prefecture. It is included as one of the 100 famous mountains in Japan, a book composed in 1964 by mountaineer and author Kyūya Fukada. The mountain is on the borders of the municipalities of Hachimantai, Takizawa, and Shizukuishi, west of the prefectural capital of Morioka. Much of the mountain is within the borders of the Towada-Hachimantai National Park. The mountain is also referred to as the "Nanbu Fuji" for its resemblance to Mount Fuji.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Mount Iwate consists of a younger eastern symmetrical stratovolcano (Higashi-Iwate, "East Iwate") overlapping an older western stratovolcano (Nishi-Iwate, "West Iwate") which has collapsed to form a caldera. Nishi-Iwate was formed approximately 700,000 years ago, and forms two-thirds of the mountain body. Nishi-Iwate was a later (300,000 years ago) parasitic volcano, which now forms the summit of the mountain. The oval-shaped, 1.8 x 3 km caldera of Nishi-Iwate has a 0.5 km wide crater, partially filled by a crater lake called Lake Onawashiro. Several somma including Yakushidake, the largest, surround the more recent Higashi Iwate crater rim.</p><br>
<p>During the historical period, Mount Iwate erupted in 1686-1687 with a pyroclastic surge; however, the eruption of 1732 was much larger and resulted in a substantial lava flow on the northeast slopes of the mountain. This four-kilometre long lava flow ("Yakebashiri Lava Flow") has been designated a Natural Monument by the Japanese government. Mount Iwate has largely been quiet since 1732, with a small emission of steam and ash in 1919 and a series of volcanic earthquakes from 1998 to 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Jensen Alvarado Ranch is a historic park and museum in Riverside County, California, USA, and is operated by the Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District . It can be accessed from 4350 Riverview Drive, Rubidoux and is the oldest non-adobe structure in the Inland Empire.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Danish sea captain Cornelius Jensen settled in Agua Mansa around 1854 where he ran a store, and he married Californio Mercedes Alvarado soon thereafter. Some years later, Jensen bought a part of the Rubidoux ranch. Jensen and Alvarado bought land in Agua Mansa in 1865.</p><br>
<p>They built their Danish vernacular style home between 1868 and 1870 on a ranch of 300 -. Their home, which served as the areas general store, post office, and stage stop, was built next to the towns chapel. The ranch, valued at one time at approximately $30,000, was the second-most valuable in Riverside County.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The homes architectural style, Danish vernacular, reflected Jensens Sylt birthplace, while also incorporating a front porch, which reflected Mercedes influence as a Californio. The house was the first kiln-fired brick building in the county. It was also one of Californias first clay brick buildings, The house has high ceilings, but only one closet.</p><br>
<p>There are several other brick buildings on the ranch, including a winery, which now serves as a museum.</p><br>
<h2>Agriculture</h2><br>
<p>In addition to apricot and orange orchards, growing wheat, and raising sheep on the Agua Mansa ranch, the Jensens had another 400 acre in Temecula. While Riverside was a temperance city, the Jensen&#39;s Agua Mansa ranch, on the other side of the Santa Ana River, had a vineyard; 2,000 gal of wine were produced and sold each year.</p><br>
<h2>Landmark</h2><br>
<p>The ranch and home are part of the 32 acre Jensen Alvarado Ranch Historic Park and Museum, an 1880s living history interpretive museum administered by. Tourists are led by interpreters, dressed in period clothing, who demonstrate butter churning and cooking tortillas.</p><br>
<p>The property is a registered California Historical Landmark (Cornelius and Mercedes Jensen Ranch, No. 943)</p><br>
<p>Namoluk  is an atoll and municipality in the state of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia.</p><br>
<p>It is the smallest atoll in Micronesia, with a total surface of only 13 km² and a land mass of less than 1 km². Namoluk is part of the Eastern Islands or Upper Mortlock Islands group, located about 185 km to the SE of Chuuk and 50 km NW of Etal Atoll.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Prior to European colonialism in Micronesia, Namoluk was allied with Ettal, Oneop, and Moch in wars against Lukunoch, Satawan, Kuttu, and Ta. Occasionally Namoluk would also ally with Nama to battle against Losap. Such alliances shape modern-day sense of identity and community among the different island communities.</p><br>
<p>The first documented contact of the Namoluk atoll by westerners was in 1827 when Captain Richard Macy sailed by the atoll on the whaleship Henry. The next year, the explorer Fyodor Litke made first foreign contact with the locals aboard the Senyavin. In his account he reported that the locals approached his ship using their canoes and asked if they could explore the ship. Litke and the locals parted on good terms, and whalers and traders started using Micronesian waters more.</p><br>
<h2>Culture</h2><br>
<h3>Food and diet</h3><br>
<p>Prior to the introduction of imported trading goods in the early twentieth century, the people of Namoluk relied on the Pacific Island diet of seafood, fruits such as coconuts and breadfruit, and taro. Occasionally islanders would supplement this with pork, chicken, or sweet potato. The Japanese introduced polished rice and canned fish during their colonial reign, and US exporters introduced other canned meats and turkey tail during the 1960s.</p><br>
<h2>Islands</h2><br>
<p>*Namoluk, located in the NW corner of the atoll, is the main island with 31 ha. Currently it is the only inhabited island and has three villages:</p><br>
<p>**Saponwell in the NW</p><br>
<p>**Lukolap in the center</p><br>
<p>**Pukos in the SE</p><br>
<p>Other islands:</p><br>
<p>*Luken 1.5 ha</p><br>
<p>*Toinom 21 ha</p><br>
<p>*Umap 1.5 ha</p><br>
<p>*Ameas located in the SE corner, 28 ha, inhabited until the 1930s, when an epidemic decimated the population. It was never resettled except for a single family. The largest islands have taro fields.</p><br>
<p>Babbs Beach is a municipal public recreation area located at 435 Babbs Rd. in Suffield, Connecticut. It is the former site of what was known as Babbs Beach Amusement Park, a small amusement park that was active in the first half of the 20th century. At its height in the 1930s, the surviving dance hall hosted dances for up to 3,000 weekend patrons. The property, owned by the town since 1977, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Babb&#39;s Beach is located in northwestern Suffield, on the eastern shore of the Middle Pond of the Congamond Lakes, which separate Suffield from Southwick, Massachusetts. The property is about 7 acre in size, and has 375 ft of shoreline that is mostly beaches. The beach is separated from the balance of the property by a low bluff. The remainder of the property is an open grassy area, with the surviving buildings of the amusement park era on the northern edge. A split-rail fence separates the property from the road, with an opening and a short gravel drive leading to an informal parking area.</p><br>
<p>The most significant building is a large dance hall; other surviving buildings are an arcade, a shooting gallery, and a small generator shed. The dance hall is a single-story wood frame structure, with a central hip-roofed element ringed on three sides by extensions for services, and with a smaller projection on the north side for the stage area.</p><br>
<p>The Congamond Lakes began to develop as a leisure and recreational destination beginning in the 1850s, following the construction of the New Haven and Northampton Railroad along the former route of the Farmington Canal, which had used the lakes as part of its route. Curtis Babb capitalized on the increasing popularity of the lakes as a destination by building a series of small cabins on the lakefront, and offering steamship service to the train on the far shore. Babb&#39;s son Nelson took over the property in the 1910s, and expanded its facilities. He converted a horse barn into a dance hall, and also built a bathhouse and boathouse on the waterfront. Facing competition from other lakefront amusement operators, he also offered a variety of rides, including a merry-go-round that was built on a platform in the lake. The dance hall proved a major draw, and was eventually replaced by a larger structure. Performers at the venue included Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, and Kay Kaiser.</p><br>
<p>Business declined during the Great Depression, which Nelson Babb sought to counter by offering more amusements. He built an arcade, and adapted the dance hall to permit roller skating. The hall became known as one of the regions finest for that activity. Business declined after World War II, and was dealt a significant blow by Hurricane Diane, which destroyed the parks waterfront facilities in 1955. Babb turned the property over to the town in 1977, but continued to operate the dance hall as a roller skating facility until 1997.</p><br>
<p>Gabarnmung, or Nawarla Gabarnmung, is an Aboriginal archaeological and rock art site in south-western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory. The meaning of the name is "hole in the rock", "passageway", or "valley open from the centre".</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Gabarnmung lies at a remote location on the traditional lands of the Jawoyn people, east of Kakadu National Park. The only way to access the site is by helicopter. The rock shelter was constructed by tunneling into a naturally eroded cliff face that created a 19 x sub-horizontal ceiling ranging in height from 1.75 to 2.45 m above floor level, the roof is supported by 36 pillars created by the natural erosion of fissure lines in the bedrock. Investigation has shown that some pre-existing pillars were removed, some were reshaped and some moved to new positions. In some areas ceiling slabs were removed and repainted by the people who used the cave. Tool marks on the ceiling and pillars clearly illustrate that the modifications served dual purposes, to providing a living space and to facilitate the removal of rock which was discarded down a talus slope.</p><br>
<p>The floor is covered with soil, a mix of ash from fires, fine sand, silt, and locally fragmented rock to a depth of approximately 70 cm which lies in seven distinct horizontal stratigraphic layers. A slab of painted rock which fell to the floor had ash adhering which was radiocarbon dated at 27,631 ±717 years Cal BP which indicates that the ceiling must have been painted before 28,000 years ago. Radiocarbon dating of charcoal excavated from the lowest stratigraphic layer returned a mean age of 35,400 ±410 years BP while the six upper layers had been deposited over the last 20,000 years. However, radiocarbon dating of charcoal excavated from the base of the lowest stratigraphic layer of the floor returned a mean age of 45,189 ±1089 years Cal BP suggesting the oldest date for the earliest human habitation. Faceted and use-striated hematite crayons have been recovered from nearby locations (Malakunanja II and Nauwalabila 1) in strata dated from 45,000 to 60,000 years old which suggests that the Gabarnmung shelter may have been decorated from its inception.</p><br>
<p>Completely open to the north and south, construction has left the shelter entirely protected from rainfall. The rock shelter features prehistoric paintings of fish, including the Barramundi, wallabies, crocodiles, people and spiritual figures. Most of the paintings are located on the shelter&#39;s ceiling, but many are found on the walls and pillars of the site.</p><br>
<h2>Rediscovery</h2><br>
<p>The rock shelter was first seen by people not of the tribe in 2006 during a helicopter survey of the land by the Jawoyn Associations Ray Whear and pilot Chris Morgan. Regional senior elders later revealed that their name for the site was Nawarla Gabarnmang. The first archaeological dig to take place on Jawoyn country was held at Gabarnmung in May 2010. Led by Monash University archaeologist Dr Bruno David, the team includes Frances foremost rock art specialists archaeologist Professor Jean-Michel Geneste and geomorphologist Professor Jean-Jacques Delanoy. Prior to the dig, rock art specialist Robert Gunn conducted extensive research on the gallery&#39;s paintings. A fragment of a ground-edge stone axe found by the international archaeological team has been dated at 35,500 years old, which makes it the oldest of its type known in the world. During the excavation, a portion of a charcoal drawing on a rock fragment was found which was radiocarbon dated at 28,000 years. The art is the oldest firmly dated rock art painting in Australia and one of the oldest known pieces of rock art on Earth with a confirmed date.</p><br>
<p>The shelter is the subject of an independent documentary being produced by Australian journalist and filmmaker Emma Masters and Canadian artist and filmmaker Adrian Buitenhuis.</p><br>
