<p>The Hohe Salve is a well-known mountain located between Kufstein, Wörgl and Kitzbühel in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is part of the Kitzbühel Alps and is also nicknamed the Rigi of the Tyrol. Its summit is high, and in fine weather has a good view of the High Tauern and Zillertal Alps, as well as the Wilder Kaiser, which lies immediately to the north of the Hohe Salve. From the top the Großglockner and Großvenediger can also be made out.</p><br>
<h2>Characteristics</h2><br>
<p>The mountain has a very striking conical appearance. On the summit is an old pilgrimage chapel, a restaurant and a transmission mast. In addition the peak is served by two gondola lifts from Söll and Hopfgarten.</p><br>
<p>The summit restaurant and church belong to the parish of Westendorf; the transmission mast to Hopfgarten.</p><br>
<p>In winter the Hohe Salve is part of the Skiwelt Wilder Kaiser/Brixental ski region and there are several runs from the top into the surrounding villages of Söll, Itter, Hopfgarten and Brixen im Thale.</p><br>
<p>Because of its shape and location the Hohe Salve is also a popular start point for paragliders.</p><br>
<p>The name is probably a Rhaeto-Romance term.</p><br>
<h2>Hohe Salve transmission mast</h2><br>
<p>The Hohe Salve transmitter stands on the territory of Hopfgarten and is operated by ORS. It broadcasts to northeast Tyrol, parts of the district of Miesbach and the district of Rosenheim in Bavaria as well as a small part of western Salzburg state.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin in Stanton Drew, Somerset, England, was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>In the north aisle is the Norman bowl of the font and further east the small turret steps behind a glass door that in earlier times led up into a rood loft. Although parts date from the 13th and 14th centuries the interior, as it is seen today, shows the work that was carried out in 1847 when the south, west and north walls were rebuilt except a portion east from the Lady Chapel. The nave and tower arches were reconstructed in the 15th century.</p><br>
<p>The Hazle, Wight Preston and several other unidentified monuments in the churchyard are also listed, along with the piers, gates and overthrow at the north-east entrance to churchyard.</p><br>
<p>Site of Old Croton Dam is a historic dam site located at Yorktown, Westchester County, New York. The dam was built between 1837 and 1842 and was the first substantial masonry dam in the United States. Construction of the dam was delayed by a January 1841 storm that washed away most of the dam.</p><br>
<p>A gravity dam constructed with a rubble core and granite ashlar foundation, it was 57 ft high and 670 ft long. The dam formed a reservoir several miles long, extending northeast along the path of the Croton River. Water flowed to New York City through the Old Croton Aqueduct, which starts just upstream of the dam and carries water down the Croton River valley toward the Hudson, and roughly follows the Hudson south. The dam and aqueduct constitute a major part of the original New York City water supply system. When the New Croton Dam was completed in 1906, the old dam was submerged, but the aqueduct continued to operate until 1955. When the reservoir created by the New Croton Dam is full, the old dam is submerged to 34 ft.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Ethan Flagg House-Blessed Sacrament Monastery is a historic home and monastery located at Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. It was built in 1855, with additions made in 1922 and in 1954. The house is a two-story, five-bay wide brick building on a rock faced, random ashlar base in the Italianate style. It has a prominent square cupola and a one-story, wooden porch set on brick piers across the front facade. The four story, brick monastery building was built in 1922. It has a two-story rear wing with conservatory and includes a former chapel. It features an octagonal cupola and has some cast stone and stucco trim. The 1954 addition connects the house and monastery building. The original house was built by industrialist Ernest Flagg , a leading citizen of Yonkers. The property was a residence until its purchase in 1915 by the Sacramentine order of nuns. The academy closed in 1975 and the nuns relocated to Warwick, New York in 1991. In 1996, the property was sold for use as a medical and social service center for people with HIV run by the Greyston Foundation.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The W. B. Thompson Mansion, also known as Alder Manor, is a historic home located on North Broadway  in Yonkers, New York, United States. It is an early 20th-century mansion designed by Carrère and Hastings in the Renaissance Revival architectural style. In 1982, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It was built by William Boyce Thompson, a mining tycoon and financier, as his weekend home. At the turn of the century, large riverside estates characterized much of Yonkers; today the Thompson Mansion is one of the few to have survived the city&#39;s 20th-century urbanization. The Thompson family lived there until the mid-20th century; afterwards it was willed to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and became Mary Elizabeth Seton High School, the first Catholic school in Yonkers.</p><br>
<p>After ten years as a high school, it was upgraded to a junior college. A few years after merging with Iona College, the campus was closed. While the other buildings on the property were repurposed, the mansion fell into neglect and was looted until Tara Circle, an Irish American cultural organization, bought it from the city. To raise money for its restoration, Tara Circle holds occasional events there and rents it out for weddings and filming for movies such as Mona Lisa Smile and A Beautiful Mind.</p><br>
<h2>Building and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The mansion is located in the northwestern corner of Yonkers, on bluffs 300 ft above the Hudson River a thousand feet (1,000 ft) to the west. It is on the west side of North Broadway, set back 600 ft from the road atop a slight rise, at the end of a curving driveway flanked by shrubs and small trees that ends in a paved forecourt with a stone balustrade. On the opposite side of North Broadway is the South Westchester Executive Park with taller modern buildings. To the north is the 39 acre Lenoir Nature Preserve, a Westchester County park. St. Johns Riverside Hospital is on the south. The trailway along the Old Croton Aqueduct, a National Historic Landmark, passes through the woods next to the preserve on the steep slopes leading westward down to the river. At the river itself are some modern high-rise apartment buildings around the Greystone station on Metro-North Railroads Hudson Line.</p><br>
<p>Around the house is extensive landscaping. There are terraces and sculpture gardens to the south. It is complemented on the north by a walled classically inspired garden with many authentic Roman artifacts. At its west end is a replica of the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The main building is a 2½-story seven-bay limestone structure on a full basement. Its main block is topped by a tiled hipped roof pierced by chimneys and alternating hipped and gabled dormer windows set with one-over-one double-hung sash. A small two-bay wing projects from the south. On the north end is a two-story service wing, itself with two small wings.</p><br>
<p>A brick terrace continuing the stone balustrade from the forecourt surrounds the building; there are loggias at the north and south ends. The north facade incorporates the facade of an actual 16th-century Italian church. All bays below the roof on the main block are set with multi-pane casement windows; the service wing&#39;s windows are six-over-six double-hung sash.</p><br>
<p>In the center of the west (rear) face is an elaborate garden entrance. At the first story three French doors are recessed in a Palladian arcade. Above them is an entablature and central arch flanked by oval windows and supported by a combination of pilasters and freestanding columns.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>On the opposite side, a broken pediment above the segmental arched main entrance is supported by engaged columns. It has other classical detailing. Doors of glass and wrought iron open into a vestibule with marble floors and terra cotta bas-reliefs. The marble floors continue into the entrance hall, with a plaster ceiling designed by Thomas Hastings. All other floors are wooden parquet, with the exception of tile in the kitchen. Some of the doors retain their original Gorham knobs. Many of the original artwork and finishes also remain.</p><br>
<p>The drawing room has walnut panelling and bolection molding with carved birds, flowers and swags around the fireplace. Above it is a rare English-style trompe-l&#39;œil ceiling. An Italian-style coffered ceiling is in the music room, complementing its imported 15th-century Italian stone fireplace. The dining room has French-style coffering; both it and the library have oak paneling and classically inspired carved white marble mantelpieces.</p><br>
<p>The stairwell is three stories high. The main stair has a carved iron and wood rail, and the walls feature pilasters, entablatures and railings, all forming low colonnades at each level. At the top organ pipes of a Welte Philharmonic Organ are arranged in the shape of a window frame.</p><br>
<p>What appears to be paneling along the walls of the upper stories is actually a line of closets. The master bedroom has another imported European fireplace; in the other bedrooms are more classically inspired carved ones. At the northern end of the second floor is a tiled indoor pool with a stained glass window looking out on the garden. The basement den has been extensively remodeled, but it still has an Asian design and a Chinese decorative wood carving along the stair leading to it.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>After success in the mining industry in his native Montana, William Boyce Thompson came to New York in 1895. He continued to be involved in mining as an investor on Wall Street, and made more money. A decade later, he began acquiring the 22 acre on which he built his mansion. Originally called Alder Manor after Alder Gulch, his hometown, it was intended to be a weekend residence.</p><br>
<p>He commissioned Carrère and Hastings to design the house. As a lover of plants and gardens, Thompson had supervised the planning and planting of the landscapes around the house, and retained considerable influence over it. While the house has many similarities with the Frick Mansion in New York City, which the firm was designing and building at the same time, the Thompson Mansion has some touches that reflect his personal preferences, such as the colored marble in some columns, imported fireplaces, and classical detailing in the gardens.</p><br>
<p>Thompson lived in the house until his death in 1930. He left $20 million ($ in modern dollars) in trust to his wife and daughter on condition that they continue to live at Alder Manor. Gertrude Thompson lived there for another 20 years. After her 1950 death, she willed it to the Archdiocese of New York, which decided to use it as a Catholic high school. The Sisters of Charity ran it as Mary Elizabeth Seton High School, Yonkers&#39; first Catholic secondary school. In 1960 they upgraded it to a junior college.</p><br>
<p>At that time some modifications were made. The addition of a chapel and a fire escape were done discreetly, with great sensitivity to the architecture. On the inside, however, some rooms were modified extensively to serve as bedrooms and offices. Among these were the basement den, where Thompson had displayed his gem collection. Its Chinese-themed decor was greatly minimized, and only the woodwork remains today. The college also built a dorm to the west, blocking the view of the Hudson the mansion had once enjoyed.</p><br>
<p>In 1989, Elizabeth Seton College merged with Iona College. For a while Iona used both campuses, due to space limitations across the county at its New Rochelle campus. Six years after the merger, in 1995, Iona closed the campus and consolidated operations in New Rochelle. The property began to be subdivided and sold. It was attractive to developers since it was one of the few large mostly unbuilt parcels in Yonkers with river views. The city bought 14 acre including the mansion and other buildings, the latter of which it used as an elementary school. A developer bought the remaining land to the south and built an assisted living center.</p><br>
<p>The mansion remained unused and vacant. Signs of neglect became apparent, and it became a target for vandals and thieves. Among the items stolen were the brass nameplate at the main entrance, a chandelier and a Tiffany glass window. The city put out a request for proposals from interested parties.</p><br>
<p>Two years later, in 1997, it accepted a proposal from Tara Circle, an Irish American cultural organization, which had been looking for a permanent home for ten years. On June 16 of that year, it held its first event, a Bloomsday celebration. The mansion cost the group $1.2 million to acquire, and it was estimated that fully restoring it would take another $2 million.</p><br>
<p>Throughout the 2000s Tara Circle made limited use of the building due to its condition. It offers classes in Irish music and culture, and has hosted a concert by Ronan Tynan. and film shoots. It was first used in that latter capacity as the mansion where Russell Crowe as mathematician John Nash drops mail off there in the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind. It was also used for scenes in The Royal Tenenbaums and Mona Lisa Smile.</p><br>
<p>Glenview Mansion, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the John Bond Trevor House, is located on Warburton Avenue in Yonkers, New York, United States. It is a stone house erected during the 1870s in an eclectic Late Victorian architectural style from a design by Charles W. Clinton. It was listed on the Register in 1972.</p><br>
<p>It is one of the few remaining buildings in Yonkers made of locally quarried greystone.</p><br>
<p>Financier John Bond Trevor built the house as a small country estate that was nevertheless close enough to New York City to allow him to commute to his job in the city by rail. At the time he and his family moved in, it was surrounded by similar houses. By the time Trevor&#39;s second wife died in the early 1920s, Glenview had become the center of a suburban neighborhood. The design of the house and the way the Trevors lived there epitomizes the transition between country living and the modern suburb.</p><br>
<p>In 1929, after the Trevor family had moved out, the house became home to the Hudson River Museum for the next 45 years. The museum has since expanded but the house remains part of the complex. Its rooms have been refurbished in the style of the period, and are open to visitors. Renovations in the early 21st century have better integrated the house with the rest of the museum.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house itself is a 2½-story building, four bays on the south and east elevation, five on the west and three on the north. Its load-bearing walls are built of locally quarried greystone, laid in rough-hewn blocks, with Ohio sandstone ornamentation. Four projections supplement its rectangular form, the most prominent being a 84 ft rectangular tower on the south (front) facade topped by a steep pyramidal roof. It is echoed by a smaller conical-roofed tower on the west face. There is a small front porch on the south and a rear stoop. Bay windows are on the south and west.</p><br>
<p>Atop is a hipped roof surfaced in composition shingles. At various locations it is pierced by ten dormer windows, some of them nested within gables. Several small brick chimneys, no longer functional, pierce the flat top of the roof near the northwest corner.</p><br>
<p>On the facades, sandstone courses run along the lintel and sill lines. The first story windows are topped with ornate lintels; small rosettes are in the stonework above the second story&#39;s sandstone course. At the roofline is a broad overhanging cornice with dentils and voluted brackets. Above the cornice on the south facade bay window is a balcony with wooden balustrade, echoed on the tower. The front porch has a hipped roof supported by two turned wooden columns with balustrades between themselves and the front wall.</p><br>
<p>The main hall features carved ebony columns in the Eastlake style with a floor of alternating majolica and encaustic tiles. They are complemented by stenciled ceilings, elaborate wooden door enframements and paintings and sculptures. In the sitting room the woodwork includes inlaid sunflower detailing and birdseye maple cabinetry. The parlors have Meissen china figure groups and an Italian marble statue of Faust and Marguerite.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There are three eras in Glenviews history: the time leading up to its construction, the Trevors residence, and the years since then that it has been used as a museum.</p><br>
<h3>1861–1876: The Trevors come to Yonkers</h3><br>
<p>Philadelphia native John Bond Trevor, son of former Pennsylvania State Treasurer John B. Trevor, came to work on Wall Street in the 1850s. His career as a banker and stockbroker went well enough for him to move to Yonkers when he married in 1861. At the time the community was becoming attractive as a residence for wealthy financiers who wanted to live on Hudson Valley estates yet remain within commuting distance of their jobs in Manhattan via rail—the beginnings of suburbanization.</p><br>
<p>Upon first moving to Northwest Yonkers, the Trevors lived at a house on the northwest corner of Glenwood and Ravine avenues, near where the Glenwood train station is today. James B. Colgate, Trevor&#39;s business partner, owned the land. There were few other neighbors, as most of the land between Warburton and North Broadway was open and undeveloped, making it attractive to Trevor and businessmen like him.</p><br>
<p>In 1867 his wife died. After remarrying, he bought the 23 acres to the north for $150,000 ($ in modern dollars) and commissioned Charles W. Clinton, an architect with offices near his in what is today Lower Manhattan, to design a house. handled the framing, plumbing and painting. The carpet came from the nearby Alexander Smith Carpet Mills. The house was finished in 1877.</p><br>
<p>Before building the house, Trevor, who had acquired an interest in horticulture upon his move to Yonkers, developed greenhouses and stables. His choice of land differs from that of most estates in Yonkers at the time, such as his friends the Shonnards to the north, which were built higher up the hill with all the land straight down to the river, rather than at its edge, where the railroad cut off direct river access and passing trains occasionally spoiled the view and created a fire hazard. Trevors theoretical second parcel just offshore could have been developed, but again the railroads presence made that unlikely. He may have preferred to remain near his partner, the station and the facilities he had already built. Indeed, he put the property&#39;s gates on Ravine to the south, rather than Warburton, which was closest to the house but unpaved, since Ravine was a short distance from the station.</p><br>
<p>Trevor had been active in the community, serving as a presidential elector Therefore, the house attracted much notice in the local newspapers, as one of the first large houses built in the area since the Panic of 1873 had depressed the economy. It was called a "showplace" for Yonkers,</p><br>
<h3>1876–1922: The Trevors' years of residence</h3><br>
<p>Throughout those years, Trevor lived the life of a gentleman farmer, commuting to Wall Street daily. He was close friends with neighbors like Samuel J. Tilden, formerly governor of New York and Democratic candidate for president in the controversial 1876 election, lawyer William Allen Butler and rail magnate Colgate Hoyt. Guests at Glenview included Civil War generals Nelson Miles and William Tecumseh Sherman, who suggested the eventual renaming of the Trevors&#39; former residence, Edgewater, to Seven Pines after the battle.</p><br>
<p>John B. Trevor, Sr., Trevors youngest son, recalls the times of his childhood at Glenview as a "paradise." He and Colgate Hoyts son Sherman, his only neighbor around his age, often played together with the Wiffler sons and his older half-brother. The nearby river played a prominent role in their play. Henry Trevor joined the Yonkers Yacht Club, where he and other members raced as far upriver as Rondout Creek, at Kingston. In the 1890s John and his sisters began to take up golf, another new pastime of the Gilded Age rich. They all took up bicycling as well, and one of the sisters, Emily, became an avid bicyclist as well, once riding as far away as Hastings-on-Hudson and Riverdale.</p><br>
<p>John Bond Trevor died in 1890, with John Wiffler, the gardener he had collaborated with on the property, retiring two years later to open a feed store in downtown Yonkers. The family continued to live in Glenview. Mary Trevors wedding reception there in 1892 was widely covered by both the local and New York newspapers. A special train brought guests from the city to the ceremony at St. Johns Episcopal Church downtown and back from the mansion. The flowers came from the estate&#39;s greenhouses.</p><br>
<p>Trevors widow continued to live at Glenview with her children as they grew up. Her daughter Emily kept a diary which provides most of what is known about Glenview as the 19th century became the 20th. She attended boarding school in the city but returned for holidays and vacations. Her reminiscences are often of visiting friends or family, and trips to New York City or, as she referred to it, the village of Yonkers, then a mile (1.6 km) away. During the first decade of the new century these trips started to be taken by car instead of the train or carriage. This reflected not only the increasing use of the automobile but the New York Central Railroads electrification project for the line, which not only disrupted service but required the building of the large power plant that, now unused, still sits on the river shoreline near the current Glenwood station, which still uses the 1911 station building.</p><br>
<p>After his wedding in 1909, John moved out while his mother and sister remained at the house. He visited frequently enough with his own children, particularly in the summertime, to be described as a resident in his mothers obituary in 1922. His son John B. Trevor, Jr., recalled in the last years of his own life that by that point, the billiards room was used primarily as the childrens dining room, with the billiards table covered with a tablecloth. The parlor and library were rarely used. Emily said later that she and her aging mother "lived a very quiet life" at Glenview during the 1910s.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood around them had changed considerably since the house was built. Back in 1875, the year before Glenviews construction began, the Shonnards had subdivided their property to the north and east of the estate. In the years since, those lots had been sold and slowly developed with houses similar to, but smaller than, Glenview. Often their proximity to the Trevors home was used as a selling point. By the time of Emily Trevor&#39;s death, this evolution from country town to modern suburb was almost complete, and so the family decided to sell the house as none of them wanted to live there anymore due to those changes.</p><br>
<h3>1922–present: Museum use</h3><br>
<p>The city of Yonkers bought the house and grounds from the family with the intent of using the land as a public park. Trevor Park was established soon afterwards. The house stood vacant for six years until it was opened as the Museum of Science and Art, renting the house and the land from the city for $1 a year.</p><br>
<p>During these years, the exterior was altered somewhat by the removal of the porte-cochère and verandas. Inside, the mantelpieces were removed. The front door&#39;s transom was taken out so that a stuffed elephant from the Barnum & Bailey Circus could be brought in. The rooms were used as exhibit halls and their finishings neglected.</p><br>
<p>In 1967 the museum decided it needed more space and commissioned a $1.5 million ($ in modern dollars), 25,000 ft&sup2; addition with a planetarium in the brutalist style popular at the time. It was completed two years later. In addition to being a stark contrast to the house, it enclosed it within a courtyard, restricting the view of its first story. The front entrance, with barred doors, was later compared to a prison. An elevator was installed in the mansion and its rooms were restored to focus on the house&#39;s history and how the Trevors lived.</p><br>
<p>Three decades later, in the first years of the 21st century, the museum began raising money to upgrade both of its facilities as part of a $14 million expansion. The first phases called for better integrating and connecting Glenview and the 1969 structure. A breezeway between the two was enclosed, and a 115 ft corridor was built between the facilities to connect to a planned new elevator on the outside. The changes, the museums director explained, were necessary to comply with federal accessibility laws yet preserve the buildings historic character.</p><br>
<h2>Aesthetics</h2><br>
<p>Trevor and Clinton had worked together closely and put considerable thought into the design of the house, since Trevor designed the surrounding landscaping and wanted it to be compatible. Windows were carefully situated for how they framed the view of the river and landscape. Clintons stylistic choices were truly eclectic. One of Yonkerss newspapers described the house as old English in style while the other said it "par rather of the French château character." The rough-hewn stone facing echoes the nearby Greystone and Rosemont mansions, which Trevor may have commended to the architect as examples since Clinton had up to then primarily designed urban houses. Greystone&#39;s tower may have inspired the one Clinton built on the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue in Manhattan a year after Glenview was finished.</p><br>
<p>The inside reflected changes in house design that would later become common in suburban residences. In an urban house, rooms would have been stretched out to the back along the floor due to spatial limitations on the sides. As a result, the dining room and kitchen were in the rear since they could be on the same floor. A pantry connected them so service need not go through the public areas of the house.</p><br>
<p>In Glenview, the parlor and billiards room were on the east of the great entrance hall, while the library and other rooms more used by the family than visitors were on the west to allow them to enjoy the river view. Between the dining room and library was the sitting room, opening onto the large veranda, called a "piazza" at the time, that was originally attached to that side of the house. Another wide veranda, with a porte-cochère, was originally attached to the south as well.</p><br>
<p>In addition to allowing views of the river on warm evenings, the verandas also helped cool the house. They insulated the adjacent sections of the house, and allowed for an intermediate area between the less-ventilated house and the unshaded outdoors on hot days. They and the other areas of the first floor were amply furnished with reclining chairs and rockers, reflecting the construction of the house with leisure in mind. On the second story, the master bedroom occupied the southwest corner, not only to take in the river but to take advantage of the southern exposure, difficult to get in many Manhattan houses.</p><br>
<p>Since his move to Yonkers, Trevor had worked with gardener John Wiffler on the property. Once Glenview had been built, Wiffler moved in with his family to the superintendent&#39;s cottage.</p><br>
<h2>Neighborhood</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on the grounds of the Hudson River Museum, just north of its poured concrete brutalist main building. It forms the north wall of the buildings central courtyard. The entire complex is on the west side of Warburton just north of Trevor Park and south of John F. Kennedy Memorial Drive, which curves to the west of the museum as well. The ground slopes steadily westward to the tracks of the Metro-North Hudson Line 300 feet (100 m) to the west, along the shore of the Hudson River. Metro-Norths Glenwood station is a thousand feet (300 m) to the south along the line. Across the river there is a view of the stone cliffs of the Palisades in New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>Across Warburton to the east are two-story 20th-century houses. Behind them runs the Old Croton Aqueduct, a National Historic Landmark, and its trailway. A modern high-rise building is to the west across Memorial Drive. A small parking lot, for museum employees, is to the immediate north. On the south, Trevor Park is a mostly open area, with the museum&#39;s entrance road on the east, two baseball diamonds and tennis courts. To its south are more modern high-rise apartment buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<p>Great Houses of the Hudson River, Michael Middleton Dwyer, editor, with preface by Mark Rockefeller, Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, published in association with Historic Hudson Valley, 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Salzachgeier is a rugged peak on the edge of the Kitzbühel Alps on the border of the Austrian states of Salzburg and Tyrol. In the cirques and high alpine meadows  of its eastern slopes and the two neighbouring peaks of Fünfmandling and Schwebenkopf are the headstreams of the Salzach, the largest river north of the Salzburg Central Alps.</p><br>
<p>The Salzachgeier has a double summit where five sharp ridges run together. The eastern summit is only three metres lower and towers immediately above the two aforementioned source regions (the Salzachboden and Schwebenalm).</p><br>
<p>Whilst the southern slopes of the three peaks descend towards the Gerlos Pass, the watershed to the north (the Salzachjoch 1,983 m) is only a kilometre from the eastern cirques. Here on the state border, high over the Roßwildalm, is a mountain chapel, the Markkirchl (St. Mark&#39;s Chapel) and somewhat lower down is the New Bamberg Hut run by the German Alpine Club (DAV). To the west the slopes are just as steep, but less rocky, and drain into the Frommbach stream in the direction of Kitzbühel.</p><br>
<p>The Salzachgeier is part of the touring area for the Bamberg Hut and is a popular ski tour in winter.</p><br>
<p>Drove Cottage Henge  is a Scheduled Ancient Monument in the Priddy parish of Somerset, England. It is located 370 m north of Drove Cottage. Since this henge is one of only around 80 henges throughout England, it is considered to be nationally important.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Drove Cottage Henge is situated in a valley. The bank circumscribing the henge is about 11.5 m thick and.4 m high, with a diameter of around 54 m when measuring from the outsides of the banks. Just inside this bank is a ditch 6 m wide and.3 m deep, enclosing a circular central area about 19 m in diameter. In the northern portion of this central area is a low-lying mound</p><br>
<p>Jodie Lewis noted in 2005 that "Examples of southerly and north-north-westerly orientations, apropos Stockwood and Hunter&#39;s Lodge, are documented at other Class I henge sites, but are not common". Harding and Lee in 1987 said of it "HUNTERS LODGE, Priddy ST 559 498: Sub-oval enclosure, surviving as an earthwork, situated at the head of a shallow valley."</p><br>
<p>This whole site has become hard to see because repeated ploughing has heavily damaged the archaeological site, including the turf cover.</p><br>
<h2>Nearby archaeological sites</h2><br>
<p>Four barrows are relatively close to Drove Cottage Henge. Another is a bowl barrow and a Scheduled Ancient Monument (designation #13871). Another, also a bowl barrow, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument (designation #13872). The final barrow is probably a bowl barrow, but it may be a spoil dump. It too is a Scheduled Ancient Monument (designation #13873).</p><br>
<p>The Lee House facing front street was built as a hotel by Peter Lee in 1844. It was considered one of the finest inns of the day and hosted a number of prominent guests including Henry Clay and Governor John Chambers. The inn became a popular stop on the way for summer tourists destined for the Blue Licks Spring. A number of parties and masked balls were held in its generous rooms.</p><br>
<p>The complex consists of an original structure facing Sutton Street (circa 1790), the building facing Front Street (1844) and a three story addition of 16 hotel rooms (circa 1850). Most of the design elements are Greek Revival and the brickwork is Flemish bond. Construction of the floodwall in the early 1950s protected the structure from flooding, but blocked the river view from the lower two stories.</p><br>
<p>The structure was bought in 1863 by Charles B. Hill and was known for some time as the Hill House. In 1977, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Kröndlhorn is a high mountain in the Kitzbühel Alps in Austria. It is one of the highest mountains on the main crest of the Kitzbühel Alps. The state border between Tyrol and Salzburger Land runs over its summit.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Kröndlhorn rises north of the Salzach valley, southeast of the Kelchsau valley and southwest of the Windau valley. A secondary ridge to the main crest of the Kitzbühel Alps runs from the summit of the Kröndelhorn northwards in a curve. This ridge surrounds the cirque in which the mountain lake of the Reinkarsee has formed, at a height of. This cirque is the main source region of the Windauer Ache stream.</p><br>
<p>In front of the summit of the Kröndlhorn to the north is another peak, the Kröndlberg, only four metres lower, which looks like the actual summit when approaching from the north.</p><br>
<h2>Summit</h2><br>
<p>On the summit of the Kröndlhorn is a small chapel that only accommodates two people. It contains a stamp and a summit register. On the interior walls of the chapel obituary notices have been posted for many years.</p><br>
<p>In fine weather the summit offers a long view to the south into the Pinzgau region and the Reichenspitz Group and the High Tauern and the Krimml Waterfalls.</p><br>
<h2>Use of the mountain</h2><br>
<p>Above the tree line the open slopes are used as grazing for sheep, goats, cows and horses. Herds of sheep, in particular, may be seen in summer around the Reinkarsee. A material ropeway runs from Holzlagerplatz to the Rotwand Grundalm. The trails are all signed with tree and ground markers.</p><br>
<h2>Reinkarsee</h2><br>
<p>A scenic high point of an ascent of the Kröndlhorn is the Reinkarsee, which lies at a height of. The area around the lake is a good place to observe sunrises.</p><br>
<h2>Ascents</h2><br>
<p>The most frequently used ascent route is from the Windautal, which may be reached via Hopfgarten im Brixental and Westendorf in the north. Cars can also get to the foot of the mountain on a partly unmetalled toll road. There are parking areas by the Gamskogel Hut, a little way above the valley, and at the Holzlagerplatz in the valley below the Rotwand Grundalm.</p><br>
<p>An ascent may be made over two main routes. The technically easier, but longer, way runs from the Baumgartenalm through the Oberkaralm along the southeast face of the Schneegrubenspitze to the Reinkarsee. The shorter way goes from the car park at Holzlagerplatz and runs steeply through a short section of wood up to the Rotwand Grundalm. From there it continues to the Rotwand Hinttalalm. Next the way crosses the slope 200 to 400 m north of the crest to reach the Reinkarsee. Here the two routes meet and run in a southwesterly direction up to the zum Kröndlberg. From here the route is steep in places and requires sure-footedness to reach the summit some 300 metres further south.</p><br>
<p>Another ascent approaches from the east through the Trattenbachalm running alongside the Trattenbach stream to the summit.</p><br>
<p>The peak may also be scaled from the south (Pinzgau) and west (Kelchsau, kurzer Grund). For example, from the New Bamberg Hut in the Kelchsau valley, from which other trails run to the Salzachgeier or the Schafsiedel mountains.</p><br>
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<p>The Großer Rettenstein is a mountain with multiple peaks in the Kitzbühel Alps in Austria. The main summit reaches a height of</p><br>
<p>Although not the highest mountain in the Kitzbühel Alps (that honour goes to the Kreuzjoch at ), the Großer Rettenstein is the most striking in this range of otherwise gentle grass-covered mountains. It also has a mighty, craggy, summit block made of limestone, four hundred metres high, that stands atop base of grauwacke and primary rock (Urgestein - quartz phyllite). The Rettenstein is the dominating peak of the Spertental valley. Its isolated location also makes the summit an outstanding viewing point and it is therefore a popular destination. To the north the Rettenstein sends a long ridge out to the Spiessnägel, that separates the oberer Grund and unterer Grund.</p><br>
<h2>Nature</h2><br>
<p>The Rettenstein lies in the Spertental-Rettenstein protected landscape and so Pine, Spruce, Gentian, Willow Gentian, Platenigl, Edelweiss, Monkshood, Rock Ptarmigan, Black Grouse and Capercaillie, Red Deer, Chamois, Ibex and Marmot all occur here.</p><br>
<h2>Tour options</h2><br>
<p>The simplest ascent starts from Aschau in the Sperten valley and crosses the unterer Grund and the Schöntalalm in 3 to 4 hours. Sure-footedness is required for this route. As a variation on the descent, fit hikers can take the long ridgeway over the Spiessnägel.</p><br>
<p>Another approach option is possible from the Mühlbach valley (Bramberg municipality) in the upper Pinzgau to the south. Here the way runs initially along a drivable forest track (close to the public) through the Baumgartenalm almost as far as the Stangenjoch.</p><br>
<h2>Photographs</h2><br>
<p>Untermyer Park  is a historic park of 43 acres, situated in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, just north of New York City. Untermyer Park is on a hillside above the Hudson River and features a "Grecian garden" , a small Grecian-style amphitheater, a classical pavilion, pergola, statuary, a rock and water feature called the "Temple of Love" and a "Vista" staircase. To the West, the park has views of the Hudson River and the Palisades.</p><br>
<p>The gardens were developed during the first 40 years of the 20th century, when the area now enclosed by the park was less than a third of an 150-acre site that was the estate of the lawyer and civic leader Samuel Untermyer. The 150-acre estate was known as "Greystone".</p><br>
<p>"Greystone" was previously owned by the defeated Presidential candidate Samuel Tilden, winner of the popular vote in 1876. Untermyer purchased "Greystone" when Tilden died in 1899. When Untermyer himself died in 1940, he had hoped to donate the whole estate to the Nation, or the State of New York or at least to the City of Yonkers. Eventually the city of Yonkers agreed to accept part of the estate; this parcel of land, which was the core of the gardens, was renamed Untermyer Park in his honor. The Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land that is now known as Untermyer Park was originally part of a large (150 acre) estate known as "Greystone", which had first been set up in 1864 by John T. Waring, a hat manufacturer. In 1879 Waring sold the estate to Samuel J. Tilden (1814-1886). Tilden died at "Greystone" on August 4, 1886.</p><br>
<p>The 150-acre piece of land then was then purchased by, and became the estate of, lawyer and civic leader Samuel Untermyer (1858-1940). Untermyer developed elaborate gardens in the Beaux Arts style during the years 1899 to 1940. He died in 1940. Untermyer had wished to give the gardens to the Nation, to New York State or failing that, to the City of Yonkers, but because of the great cost of the upkeep of the gardens, which were not accompanied by an endowment, the bequest was initially refused by all three bodies. Finally, in 1946, part of the land, the core of the gardens, was accepted as a gift by the City of Yonkers, and became a public park. However a large part of the 48 acre site was not maintained as gardens, and a number of structures in these areas gradually fell into disrepair, and much of the site became overgrown, and reverted to woodland.</p><br>
<p>The Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Since 2011, the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy, a non-profit, has been working on restoring the gardens.</p><br>
<p>The park has an sinister reputation as the location of an alleged Satanic cult that was tied to the Son of Sam murders of the 1970s. However, the only thing that can proven is the satanic graffiti that has been scrawled on the parks statutes and structures by unknown persons.</p><br>
<p>The former Yonkers Trolley Barn is located on Main Street in Yonkers, New York, United States. It is a massive steel frame brick building in the Renaissance Revival style built at the beginning of the 20th century. In 2002 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the last remaining trolley barn in Westchester County and the only remnant of Yonkers&#39; trolley system.</p><br>
<p>After a half-century of use in the city&#39;s trolley network with its hub in Getty Square (downtown Yonkers), it was taken out of service. For another two decades it served as a city government office building. It was then vacant for almost 30 years, until a developer converted it into loft apartments, gutting the interior in the process.</p><br>
<p>After the partners in that effort were unable to complete the building due to the lawsuits they filed against each other, another developer bought it and finished the project. Today it is home to many tenants. A chase scene in the film Catch Me If You Can was filmed on the sidewalks around it. In 2014, a local brewery announced that it would be moving into the Trolley Barn.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The trolley barn building is located in downtown Yonkers on the 1.6 acre lot between Buena Vista Avenue on the east, Main Street to the north and the railroad tracks used primarily by Metro-North&#39;s Hudson Line commuter rail service on the west. The surrounding Getty Square neighborhood of downtown Yonkers is densely developed and urban. Terrain is generally level, reflecting the nearby Hudson River, rising slightly toward the east, away from the river, and more steeply to the south, along Buena Vista.</p><br>
<p>On its north is a small concrete plaza with trees, a pickup and dropoff area for the train station and Bee-Line Bus to its own north. Northeast, across the intersection of Main and Buena Vista, is the Yonkers post office, also listed on the National Register. On the east is a parking garage; to the south along the west side of Buena Vista are smaller commercial and industrial buildings of a similar era as the barn. Southeast, across the Hudson Street intersection, is a block with parking lots, some undeveloped open space and a few residential properties.</p><br>
<p>The trolley barn building covers almost the entire lot. There is a sidewalk and parking area on the north side, along Main Street. A statue of singer Ella Fitzgerald, who grew up in Yonkers, is mounted on the sidewalk. Another sidewalk, much narrower, is located along Buena Vista.</p><br>
<p>There are two sections to the trolley barn. The main building, a three-story 11-by-5-bay brick steel frame structure, reflects the unusual shape of the lot, with its north facade joining its east one at an oblique angle. Attached to the south is a two-story brick building that served as an electrical substation.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>Along all its street elevations the building shows an exposed foundation faced in rusticated brick topped by a terra cotta water table. Above that it is faced in extruded brown brick with iron spots, laid in common bond. The slope along Buena Vista allows for an entrance at the southeast of the building on the second floor, complementing the original main entrance along Main.</p><br>
<p>The north (front) facade, along Main Street, is the most detailed. There are two storefronts on its east, and a larger set of openings, separated by three cast iron piers, on the west. Atop the first story is a granite sill course with a terra cotta corbel.</p><br>
<p>The second story has 15 segmental-arched windows in groups of three, set with nine-over-nine double-hung sash. It is set off from the third story by a granite sill course without the terra cotta found on its counterpart below. Rising from it are round-arched nine-over-nine double-hung sash. A secondary entrance is located on the southeast, near the substation section.</p><br>
<p>Above them is another terra cotta belt course. The roof of the main building is flat, while the substation comes to a gable. Both buildings have parapets at their rooflines. The main building&#39;s is stepped along the north face and topped with granite coping. In the center is a large terra cotta-trimmed recessed panel. A similar, smaller stepped parapet along its gable sets off the roofline of the substation.</p><br>
<p>Windows on the east profile have a similar treatment. Those on the south and west, not visible from the street, are more restrained. They have bluestone sills; the roof has bluestone coping supported by unglazed terra cotta corbels.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>Inside, the building has been converted from its original purpose of storing and repairing the city&#39;s trolleys to residential use. Tracks that remained in the building at the time it was listed on the Register have been removed.</p><br>
<p>Its original structural system for the upper stories is retained. They were supported by segmented terra cotta tiled arches spanning the spaces between the steel beams, connected by tie rods. Where they were exposed, they were parged. The roof has flat terra cotta slabs set in T-shaped steel purlins, supported by built-up trusses. The terra cotta arches are supplemented by built-up steel latticework columns.</p><br>
<h3>Substation</h3><br>
<p>The substation&#39;s east (front) facade has similar extruded brown brick as the main building over its steel frame, but laid in a stretcher bond pattern. Its base is rusticated granite laid in an ashlar pattern topped with a granite sill course.</p><br>
<p>On the first story it has a round-arched main entry flanked by two round-arched 9-over-15 double-hung sash windows. Above them another granite course, denticulated and projecting, separates the first and second stories. The windows on that story are also round-arched, with nine-over-nine double-hung sash. A terra cotta belt course separates that story and the parapet. More terra cotta forms the corbels below the parapet&#39;s granite coping. Atop the roof is a monitor with metal cornice covered by galvanized siding.</p><br>
<p>The interior has also been converted into loft apartments. Like the main building, its structural system includes terra cotta tiled roofs supported by steel trusses. An original mezzanine level was removed when the building was redeveloped.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Until the 1840s, Yonkers was a quiet farming community that relied on the Hudson River to ship its produce the short distance south to New York City, its major market. Later in that decade, the construction of the Hudson River Railroad brought the city closer and allowed Yonkers to industrialize. By 1855 its population reached 5,000.</p><br>
<p>The growth continued after the Civil War, and Yonkers incorporated as a city in 1872. To allow the workers who had moved to the city to more easily get to their jobs at plants like the Alexander Smith Carpet Mills, some distance from downtown, the city commissioned the Yonkers Railroad Company to develop a trolley system. It opened in 1886.</p><br>
<p>Initially it ran just along Main Street through Getty Square, but it soon needed to be expanded to the rest of the city. In the 1890s it was electrified. The Third Avenue Railway Company, operators of streetcars along that street in Manhattan and elsewhere in the region, bought the Yonkers Railroad Company in 1898.</p><br>
<p>Five years later, in 1903, the trolley barn was built to serve as a storage and maintenance facility as well as the company&#39;s office. City newspapers of the time hailed its construction as a sign that Yonkers, whose population had increased almost tenfold from the middle of the century as it became as much as suburb as an industrial community, had arrived as a city.</p><br>
<p>Little is known about the buildings credited architect, Albert V. Porter, although it is believed he was a native of the city. His work combines standard Renaissance Revival decorative features such as the coping and the unusual iron-spotted brick with the trolley companys considerable functional requirements, taking advantage of the unusual lot shape and its southward slope.</p><br>
<p>Trolleys entered and exited through the garage doors at the northwest corner. Tracks throughout the building branched out to allow them to be stored and repaired. An elevator in the rear could bring them up to additional space on the second floor, part of which was devoted to the companys offices as well as reading and recreation rooms. The third floor was devoted entirely to trolley storage and maintenance. At the trolley systems peak the barn serviced 85 cars.</p><br>
<p>The barn helped the trolley network grow with the city to nine lines total. It made connections with other Third Avenue Railway System lines such as across the county in Mount Vernon. The Broadway lines connected to the New York City Subways Broadway–Seventh Avenue line at the Van Cortlandt Park—242nd Street station in the Bronx, their southern terminus and the subways northern end.</p><br>
<p>By 1911 it was carrying over 14 million passengers a year. It spread over the city, helping Yonkers suburbanize as residents who could afford to began moving from the industrial downtown to former farm properties that were being subdivided into residential building lots. In 1922 the trolleys were carrying 70,000 passengers a day over 53 mi of track.</p><br>
<p>Some changes were made to the original building. The entrance along Buena Vista near the southeast corner was added. The openings at the northwest corner were rebuilt and expanded, and the cast iron piers added.</p><br>
<p>Private automobiles became more affordable and more common in the years after that, and trolley systems began closing down in favor of buses during the 1930s. The Yonkers Railroad Company continued to operate until 1953. Its tracks were torn up and the cars sold, but the barn remained. The city&#39;s Street Lighting Bureau moved into the offices and remained there until 1975.</p><br>
<p>The effects of spreading out the citys population became more apparent in the last quarter of the 20th century. With most of the citys more prosperous citizens not living there anymore, they had less interest in maintaining a healthy downtown. When the industries that were still located there moved elsewhere or closed, urban decay became apparent. At the time it was listed on the Register, in 2001, most of the long-vacant trolley barn&#39;s windows were boarded up.</p><br>
<p>The city made restoring the trolley barn its top priority for revitalizing its downtown. Early in the 21st century, the building got some visibility when its exteriors were used as the background for a chase scene in the film Catch Me If You Can.</p><br>
<p>The project soon fell victim to lawsuits between the four partners who had redeveloped it. Tenants waited as amenities they had been promised such as a gym and laundry room remained unbuilt. "We were in a warehouse," complained the firefighter who had pioneered the space. Rents climbed, but the tenants, mostly artists, were grateful that long-promised improvements were materializing.</p><br>
<p>In 2014, the Yonkers Brewing Company announced that it would be moving into the Trolley Barn. One reason cited was access to the intermodal transit hub in the Getty Square neighborhood, especially the access to the Metro-North commuter rail station. It hoped to attract an increasing amount of beer tourists from the city who use trains to travel between breweries.</p><br>
<p>Yonkers Water Works is a historic public water works located at Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. Three buildings remain extant; two were built in 1876 and one in 1898. They are reflective of the High Victorian style. The Tuckahoe Road Pumping Station was built in 1876 and expanded before 1900. The original section is three bays wide and three bays deep with a central projecting pavilion and pedimented gable roof. The gatehouse at Grassy Sprain Reservoir was also constructed in 1876. It is a small, one story masonry building on a high granite foundation. The Tubewell Station was built in 1898 and expanded in 1922. It is a red brick building, one and one half stories high and five bays wide and 13 bays deep.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Delavan Terrace Historic District is located along the street of that name in Yonkers, New York, United States. It consists of 10 buildings , all houses. In 1983 it was recognized as a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The houses were home to a number of prominent industrialists in Yonkers at the time, since they enjoyed an excellent view over the Hudson River. They are built in Late Victorian and other turn of the 20th century revival architectural styles. One has one of the few remaining Eastlake interiors in the city. The earliest house in the district, the Smith-Collins House, dated to 1854 with an 1875 renovation, has since been demolished, spurring historic preservation efforts throughout Yonkers. Most of the district was built after 1900. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>Originally it was home to affluent residents, such as local business executives at the Otis Elevator Company and the Alexander Smith Carpet Mills. Actress Billie Burke, an early silent film star who later played Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz, lived on Delavan Terrace in the 1920s after her marriage to Florenz Ziegfeld, when she was concentrating on her stage career on Broadway. The district has become more middle-class over time as Yonkers has grown and suburbanized around it. All the remaining houses are privately owned. Many remain intact.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The district is essentially rectangular in shape, covering both sides of Delavan Terrace and the lots at the corners on Palisade and Park Avenues. An extension at the southwest includes the now-vacant lot where the Smith–Collins House stood on the west side of Palisade. The total area is 4.2 acre.</p><br>
<p>On the east and south are large modern apartment complexes. To the southwest is a sharp drop down into a parking lot for a Ukrainian American cultural center. Northwest of the district is another apartment complex. On the northeast and east are other houses, generally more modern than those in the district. The neighborhood in general is residential, with downtown Yonkers a mile (1.6 km) to the south-southwest.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>All 10 buildings in the district are houses. There are no non-contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>147 Park Avenue. The only property in the district not known by the name of an owner, this five-bay two-and-a-half-story Mission Revival stucco-faced house dates to 1908. Its entrance porch has a hipped roof supported by stucco piers; the main entrance has a denticulated paneled surround with one-over-one double-hung sash window sidelights. Most of the sash windows elsewhere on the house are set in molded architraves. At the northeast corner is a six-sided pavilion. The main house&#39;s hipped pantile roof is pierced by dormer windows with six-over-six three-part windows. A hipped-roof, below-grade garage is on the east.</p><br>
<p>Reuben Borland House, 10 Delavan Terrace. This is a timber frame two-bay two-and-a-half-story house faced in stone at ground level and shingles on the upper stories topped by a cross-gabled gambrel roof. Built in 1904, it is a late application of the Queen Anne Style. Its distinctive features include a recessed porch around the entrance and its architrave flanked by Ionic pilasters, as well as a variety of fenestration typical of the style, including bay windows, oriel windows and oval windows. Upstairs is a recessed attic porch with curved shingled cheek walls and semi-elliptical balcony supported by brackets. The roofline has flaring eaves and denticulated raking boards. Dormers have been added and a side balcony removed. The garage has a hipped roof and half-timbering.</p><br>
<p>Alexander Denniston House, 6 Delavan Terrace. This three-bay two-and-a-half-story cross-gabled Tudor Revival house dates to 1911. It too has a recessed pent-roofed entrance porch with four-pointed arch on the architrave, flanked by sidelights. Above it is a projecting gabled pavilion supported by consoles with pendants and diamond-paned casement windows. Elsewhere on the facades are bay windows and half-timbering in the gable ends, per the style. The side porch is supported by Tuscan columns; the rear porch has an open deck.</p><br>
<p>A. Doty House, 4 Delavan Terrace. Built in 1926, this is the newest house in the district. It is a two-and-a-half-story five-bay brick neo-Colonial building topped by a slate-shingled hipped roof with a balustrade at its apex. At the center of the ground floor on the north is a fluted, paneled main entrance surround with sidelights and an elliptical fanlight. The two six-over-six sash windows on either side have paneled lintels. At the roofline is a denticualted cornice. Segmental-arched dormers and end chimneys pierce the roof. On the east side a three-bay breezeway leads to the garage.</p><br>
<p>William Howard House, 9 Delavan Terrace. Another two-and-a-half-story cross-gambreled frame Queen Anne, this was built in 1904. It features a front porch with wrought iron work and Ionic columns running the full three bays, topped by an open deck. Ionic pilasters also frame the double doors at the main entrance. Dormers pierce the roof; the original shingle siding has been covered over by vinyl.</p><br>
<p>Griffith John House, 23 Delavan Terrace. This two-and-a-half-story three-bay 1906 Queen Anne combines stone facing on the ground level with vinyl upstairs. The continuous porch has a bracketed cornice and is upheld by stone piers. A bay window projects at the southwest corner. The hipped roof is pierced by large projecting gabled dormers and a stone chimney.</p><br>
<p>E.D. Knap House, 14 Delavan Terrace. This 1907 house is the only one in the district in the Western Stick style, demonstrating its evolution into the Bungalow style. Its shingled two and a half stories are four bays wide, with that facade looking east. It has a glazed entrance porch, oriel window on carved brackets, mix of casement and sash windows and a recessed first-story porch supported by wooden piers. The hipped roof has hipped dormers and exposed rafters at the roofline.</p><br>
<p>Law–Baldwin House, 354 Palisade Avenue. With a construction date of 1886, this three-bat, three-and-a-half-story Shingle Style house is now the oldest property in the district. A one-story south wing was added in 1894. It features a continuous balustraded porch with Ionic columns and an open deck on top. In the gable ends of its intersecting gambrel roofs is a recessed window with curving cheeks. The roofline features denticulated raking boards.</p><br>
<p>Littel House, 149 Park Avenue. This is a Tudor Revival-style house that has the stucco facing but not the half-timbering, built in 1915. Five bays in width and two and a half stories tall, its cross-gabled roof is complemented by a pent roof on the first story entrance porch, supported by Tuscan columns with intervening trellis work. Wood string courses set off the stories. Oriels with diamond-paned casement windows are complemented by sash in various sizes on the main facades.</p><br>
<p>Charles E. Otis House, 5 Delavan Terrace. This two-and-a-half-story three-bay Tudor Revival house was built in 1904. It features a recessed four-centered pointed-arch balustraded entrance porch. Applied pilasters and sidelights frame the main entrance, and a projecting gabled entrance pavilion with half-timbering and wooden consoles. On the stucco and half-timbered facade themselves are a mixture of sash windows, diamond-paned casement and bracketed oriel windows. The hipped roof has a centrally placed gabled dormer; the garage is below grade.</p><br>
<h3>Smith–Collins House</h3><br>
<p>The Smith–Collins House was located at 323 Palisade Avenue. Built in 1854, it was the oldest building in the district at the time it was listed. It was a two-and-a-half-story High Victorian Gothic house with many bays, sided at first in clapboard and later stucco.</p><br>
<p>Its most striking feature was a three-story crenelated entrance tower on the northeast corner with a round-arched entrance and windows. It was complemented by bay windows elsewhere on the facade; the sash windows had wooden architraves and shutters. On the rear was a two-story glazed veranda with four center-arched windows and a balustraded terrace. The many gables on the roof were themselves pierced by gabled dormers with vergeboards.</p><br>
<p>In the rear was a carriage house, the only one in the district. It had its original clapboard siding and a hipped roof with a cupola. The main house&#39;s interior had Eastlake-style wooden paneling, molding and mantels. It was one of the few intact examples of that kind of interior in the city.</p><br>
<p>In 1875 it was renovated substantially. The clapboard was refaced with stucco. The porte-cochère, tower belvedere, gable trim and most of the front porch were removed. In 2007 it and the carriage house were demolished. Only the front wall and gate remain.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Due to being part of large landholdings, Delavan Terrace, and the land that eventually became it, was developed later than some other comparable areas of the city. When it was, however, that development occurred in bursts which caught it up with them.</p><br>
<h3>1693–1853: Pastureland</h3><br>
<p>The future Delavan Terrace was part of the original land grant to Frederick Philipse from the British crown during the colonial era. It was used as pasture, and remained so even after the Philipse family&#39;s lands were confiscated for their Loyalist stance during the American Revolution. Lemuel Wells, who eventually obtained that parcel as part of his 320 acre estate, was averse to selling or subdividing any of his real property, so it remained undeveloped when he died in 1842.</p><br>
<p>His heirs had less compunction about doing so, and by 1843 it had been sold and partitioned. Streets were soon surveyed and laid out, with houses coming not long afterwards. This process accelerated in 1849, when the Hudson River Railroad was built, spurring the industrialization of Yonkers.</p><br>
<h3>1853–1903: The first two houses</h3><br>
<p>The first house in the future district was built during this period, although not by either of its later eponyms. In 1854, I.F. Wheeler built the house on the west side of Palisade Avenue, overlooking the river. It is likely that he was inspired by the work of Andrew Jackson Downing, an architect based upriver in Newburgh who had, until his death two years earlier, advocated for houses more harmonious with their natural surroundings than those built in the classically-inspired Federal or Greek Revival modes, the architectural styles that had up to then been prevalent in 19th-century America. Two designs in The Architecture of Country Houses, Downing&#39;s 1850 pattern book, strongly suggest the house Wheeler built.</p><br>
<p>In 1873, after the population of Yonkers had more than quadrupled, Wheelers land and house were sold and became part of the estate of Alexander Smith, founder of the carpet mills that bear his name, also today listed on the Register. Property tax records show that the assessed valuation of Smiths new purchase almost tripled, suggesting either that a new structure was built there or, as seems more likely, the existing house was substantially renovated. The effect was to transform it from the Italianate style promoted by Downing into the High Victorian Gothic then becoming popular. In this it shares many similarities with Glenview, financier John Bond Trevor&#39;s home on the banks of the river, now part of the Hudson River Museum. Both homes have their main entrances located in belvedered towers, similar consoles, balustraded porches and Eastlake interiors.</p><br>
<p>It is believed today that the house was, at that time, the residence of Alexander Smiths oldest son, Warren Baldwin Smith. He lived there until succeeding his father after his death in 1878 and moved to Hillbright, the estates main house. That year, the house was sold to Charles Collins, a merchant from Hartford who had retired to Yonkers. These two owners lent it their names.</p><br>
<p>The Smith–Collins House was joined in 1886 by a house just up Palisade and across the street built by Walter W. Law, an executive at another Yonkers carpet company. Its use of the then-popular Shingle Style, exemplified by not only that face on its exterior but its overhanging roof and generally large form, made it markedly different from its neighbor. Law lived there only for three years, after which he took a job at a competing carpet company and moved to New York. He is known for later having developed the village of Briarcliff Manor.</p><br>
<p>In 1894 the house was purchased by the Bradley–Currier Co. and enlarged. The following year it was in turn sold to William Delavan Baldwin, an executive with the Otis Elevator Company, another one of Yonkers&#39; industrial concerns. At that time all of the land in the current district was part of his estate, known as Hillcrest. Baldwin became president of Otis in 1900, and then subdivided the property four years later, opening Delavan Terrace.</p><br>
<h3>1904–1926: Suburbanization</h3><br>
<p>By the end of the new centurys first decade, most of the new street had been developed. Like their predecessors, the houses reflected the latest architectural trends, largely built in the Tudor Revival or Queen Anne styles. With the exception of the house at 5 Delavan, built by Charles Otis, grandson of company founder Elisha Otis, they embraced the latters asymmetrical massing. But their ornamentation was more restrained than the early Queen Annes of the 1880s, reflecting the new century&#39;s slow embrace of minimalism and functionalism. The house at 10 Delavan, built by Reuben Borland, who had worked his way to the presidency of the Smith Mills from his start as a bobbin boy, is an excellent example of a typical middle-class home from this period.</p><br>
<p>In 1910, the Smith-Collins House, which had been owned by Collins&#39; son, changed hands again. Isidore Beaudrias, a prominent local lawyer, bought it and renovated it, giving it the appearance it would have for the remainder of its days. He refaced it in stucco and removed much of its porches and decorative trim. These changes brought it into line with the same trends in architecture that were evident in the newer houses. Its basic form, however, remained unchanged from its original construction.</p><br>
<p>Two more of those early houses introduced new styles associated with the West Coast into the district. The Knap House used the Western Stick Style, developed in response to California&#39;s sunny climate and rarely used in Yonkers. Similarly, 147 Park Avenue used the Mission Revival style, also known at the time for its popularity in California. The next house to be built in the district, the Littel House of 1915 at 149 Park Avenue, marked a return to its architectural roots in its spare application of the Tudor Revival style, keeping its forms and massing but dropping the half-timber from its stucco exterior.</p><br>
<p>In the years after World War I, due to the growth in automobile ownership, suburban neighborhoods like Delavan Terrace multiplied.</p><br>
<p>She reportedly liked the neighborhood, and the Borland House in particular, because it reminded her of the cottage in the London neighborhood of St John&#39;s Wood where she had lived while growing up. "She seems... to have warmed to its very ordinariness," observed one biographer. A reporter who visited the house to interview her described it as "a homey one and a half story red granite and wood structure built upon a still green terrace... About it hangs an air of quaintness and quiet." She preferred simple interior decoration, eschewing pictures of herself in favor of modest furniture, paintings and Native American handicraft.</p><br>
<p>The districts last house was built in 1926. Like its predecessors, the A. Doty House at 4 Delavan Terrace used a contemporary style, in its case the neo-Georgian mode, a substyle of the Colonial Revival style that evolved from the Queen Anne Style at the end of the 19th century and has remained popular in the USA ever since. The Doty Houses signature features of that style are its symmetrical facade, Adamesque interior detailing, and balustraded deck atop its hipped roof. Like the other revival-styled houses on the street, it testifies to its owners&#39; quest for stability and legitimacy regardless of the geographical or historical appropriateness of the style.</p><br>
<h3>1927–present: Preservation issues</h3><br>
<p>Delavan Terrace spent the rest of the 20th century as just another Yonkers residential street. Owners came and went but kept the houses largely as they had found them. Vinyl siding was installed on two, but it was not a significant enough change to prevent the district&#39;s listing on the Register in 1983.</p><br>
<p>That changed slightly with the 21st century. In 2007 the city allowed the owner of the Smith–Collins House to demolish it. Former City Council President Chuck Lesnick, who had been trying to prevent the demolition, was moved to offer legislation that would make any demolition of a building over 75 years old subject to the city&#39;s landmark review process.</p><br>
<p>The Hamblen Block or Hamblen&#39;s Row is a historic series of four row houses at 188-194 Danforth Street in Portland, Maine. Built in 1835, it is one of the oldest such buildings in the state, and also a rare example, as comparatively few row houses were built anywhere in the state. The row houses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and are a contributing property to the larger Hamblen Development Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hamblen Block is located on the east side of Portland&#39;s West End neighborhood, on the southeast side of Danforth Street, between Brackett and Clark Streets.It consists of four virtually identical row houses, each three bays wide and three stories high. They are built of brick, and have gabled roofs separated by party walls with rectangular brick chimneys projecting from the left side. Entrances are located in the rightmost bay, recessed in an opening flanked by pilasters and topped by an entablature and cornice. One of the units has a later 19th-century two-leaf door, while the others have single doors flanked by sidelight windows.</p><br>
<p>The row houses were built in 1835 by Nathaniel and Eli Hamblen, developers who were active in push the citys development westward from the port area. The only known block of similar age in the state is located in Bangor, and has been significantly altered. The Hamblens development of the area continued with the buildings to the west of this one, which together form the Hamblen Development Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Großer Beil, is a high mountain at the head of the Wildschönau valley in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It belongs to the Kitzbühel Alps and is the highest summit on the ridge that separates the Wildschönau from the neighbouring valley of the Alpbach to the west. Around 500 metres north is the high Seekopf and a further 500 metres beyond that is the Kleine Beil at. The next mountain to the south is the high Gressenstein. On the other side of the valley is the Wildkarspitze .</p><br>
<p>The Großer Beil is a popular hiking mountain and may be reached on marked trails from the north or south. The usual start point is the Schönangeralm at the head of the Wildschönau valley behind Auffach. In winter the Großer Beil is a popular ski tour.</p><br>
<p>The name of the mountain is not derived from the German word Beil (="hatchet") but from a dialect word for a place near which animals are held during a hunt.</p><br>
<p>The Alexander Smith Carpet Mills Historic District is a national historic district located at Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. It includes 85 contributing buildings. It encompasses 19 stylistically varied mill buildings and six rows of workers housing. They were developed between 1871 and 1930 along the banks of the Saw Mill River. The main mill building was originally built in 1871 and expanded between 1876 and 1883. It is a three-story, rectangular building, 52 bays wide and five bays deep in the Second Empire style. It features a four-story tower and a five-story tower. The workers housing, known as Moquette Row, North and South, was built between 1881 and 1886. The carpet works were developed by Alexander Smith  The company closed the Yonkers mills and relocated to Greenville, Mississippi, in 1954. It was later absorbed into Mohawk Carpet, later Mohasco Corporation. The carpet weaving industry was revolutionized by looms invented in this plant by Alexander Smith and Halcyon Skinner.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Today, members of the YoHo Artist Community work out of two of buildings, located at 540 and 578 Nepperhan Avenue.</p><br>
<p>Vardøya is an island in Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The 3.7 km&sup2; island is the location of the town of Vardø. The island sits about 1.5 km east of the mainland Varanger Peninsula. The island is connected to the mainland by the Vardø Tunnel, the first subsea tunnel that was built in Norway. The tunnel is part of the European route E75 highway, which has its terminus at the town of Vardø. The small island of Hornøya  is located just 1.5 km to the northeast of Vardøya.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The island was probably originally two separate islands with a small strait between them; sometime during the Middle Ages a man-made isthmus was built connecting the two islands. Today there is a 100 m wide isthmus called Valen that connects both sides of Vardøya. Between the two parts of Vardøya is a long harbor. The town of Vardø was built up on this island primarily because it was the site of the Vardøhus Fortress (the island was often historically referred to as Vardöhuus, after the fortress). The fortress was originally built in 1306 and it is still in operation today.</p><br>
<p>The island (and fortress) were made famous by the historic 1553 voyage in search of the fabled Northeast passage. As the vessels rounded the rocky shores of Northern Norway they came in conflict with a whirlwind. Two of the three ships (The Bona Esperanza and the Confidentia) were blown off course. The Bona Esperanza was captained by Sir Hugh Willoughby, a man of goodly personage but one who had absolutely no knowledge of navigation. The expedition leader, Richard Chancellor had planned for such an eventuality, suggesting that the ships regroup at Vardöhuus. After waiting seven days and hearing nothing of either ship, he pushed eastward towards the White Sea.</p><br>
<p>The Pölven is a mountain in the Kitzbühel Alps in the Lower Inn valley in the Austrian state of Tyrol.</p><br>
<p>The mountain actually consists of a ridge with two peaks: the Großer ("Great") and Kleiner ("Small") Pölven, the Großer Pölven (also called the Mittagskogel) reaches a height of. The summit can be scaled over a small and simple Klettersteig. From the summit area there are views of Hohe Salve, Bad Häring, the Lower Inn valley, the Wilder Kaiser, the Loferer Steinberge and Söll. The ridge is one of the less well-known mountains and hence less frequented by tourists. Occasional aircraft noise interrupts the quiet atmosphere because this region is well suited to gliders due to the good thermals.</p><br>
<p>The mountain has quarries that extract marl and limestone and are used by the cement industry in Kirchbichl.</p><br>
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<p>The Mason House is a historic residence in the unincorporated community of Coal Run in Washington County, Ohio, United States. A saltbox built in 1802,</p><br>
<p>The Mason House is a wooden clapboard structure built on a foundation of sandstone; it is covered with a slate roof, and its architecture includes elements made of brick and of other kinds of stone. Its first owners (and likely its builders) were Daniel Davis and Joseph Thompson; a veteran of local Indian wars, Davis was a member of the garrison for Fort Frye in nearby Waterford. The Mason House&#39;s first residents, like many other pioneers in southeastern Ohio, were natives of New England who had moved to what was then the western part of the United States. Among the cultural elements that they brought with them was their architecture; the saltbox style of construction is more common in New England than in Ohio.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the Mason House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places; it qualified for inclusion because of its well-preserved and historically significant architecture. Seventeen years later, much of Coal Run was designated a historic district and added to the Register; the Mason House was named one of its eighty-nine contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>The Beecher-McFadden Estate is a historic estate located on East Main Street in Peekskill, Westchester County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The estate includes an imposing brick mansion and a large support building set among scenic landscaping. The mansion was originally built in about 1875 in a Victorian Gothic style, and was extensively remodeled in the 1920s in the Tudor Revival style. It is a large, -story, asymmetrical brick building with stone trim, Tudor arches, and plain balustrades. The north elevation retains the original -story, red brick walls with polychrome brick trim. The large support structure has a two-story center section, flanked by -story wings, and is in the Jacobean Revival style. The property was originally developed by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), then purchased by the locally prominent McFadden family in 1902.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 2, 1987.</p><br>
<p>Van Cortlandt Upper Manor House is a historic home located in Cortlandt Manor, Westchester County, New York. The original house was built about 1773 and subsequently enlarged and altered a number of times.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original structure is a -story, five-bay brick house, altered by the Van Cortlandt family in the 1830s. It has a gable roof covered in slate. A large -story frame wing covered in stucco was built in the 1920s. It was built or remodeled in 1773 by Pierre Van Cortlandt. After 1783, the house was occupied by his son Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr. (1762–1848) until his death. In 1889, the house was converted for use as a convalescent home and was later used as a nursing home.</p><br>
<h2>Revolutionary War</h2><br>
<p>During the American Revolutionary War, the house served as headquarters for General George Washington from November 10 to 12, 1776; November 28 to 30, 1779; and June 25 to July 2, 1781.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>Hickory Hill is a historic estate in Rockbridge County, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>The main house at Hickory Hill was built from 1823 to 1824 for Reuben Grigsby who was born June 6, 1780.</p><br>
<p>He was one of many children, cousin to educator Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806–1881).</p><br>
<p>Daughter Mary Ann Grigsby (1828–1878) married William Sanderson McCormick (1815–1865) on July 11, 1848. McCormick was son of Robert McCormick (1780–1846) of the plantation called Walnut Grove which was located on the northern end of the same county. After giving birth to Robert Sanderson McCormick (1849–1919), the family moved to Chicago to go into business with brothers Cyrus McCormick and Leander J. McCormick.</p><br>
<p>Reuben Grigsby died on the estate on February 6, 1863. Son Lucien Porter Grigsby (1820–1893), was the last Grigsby to own the farm. The estate was broken up in 1874 with some going to various daughters. In 1878 the house was sold to settle Lucien&#39;s debts, and passed through a number of owners. On June 10, 1929, it was purchased by Robert Rutherford "Colonel" McCormick (1880–1955), and Chauncey McCormick (1884–1954), cousins who were great grandsons of Reuben Grigsby.</p><br>
<p>The main house is constructed in the Federal architecture style from Flemish bond brick with three integrated chimneys. The south side has a two-story portico with Doric columns.</p><br>
<p>Hickory Hill was owned by the McCormick family until 1944.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the Virginia state list of historic places as site 081-0022 on June 8, 2006 and the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 2006. At the time its owners were Donald J. Hasfurther and his wife Cameron F. Bushnell, and about 123 acre remained preserved.</p><br>
<p>It is located at 197 Hickory Hill Lane between State Route 608 (Forge Road) and Interstate 81, north of the current town of Glasgow, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>Thunderbird Lodge is a building of historical and architectural significance in the utopian community of Rose Valley, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>Architect</h2><br>
<p>In 1904, architect Will Price converted an existing circa-1790 stone barn into studios for the artists Charles H. and Alice Barber Stephens. Appended to this, he designed a rambling fieldstone-and-stucco house, including a 3-story octagonal stair tower that joined the wings and served all five levels.</p><br>
<p>Price, a founder of Rose Valley, attempted to create a community of artists and artisans working side by side under the principles of the Arts and Crafts Movement. These included truth in the use of materials, traditional craftsmanship using simple forms, and often medieval, romantic or folk styles of decoration.</p><br>
<p>Price described the house:</p><br>
<p>"The old barn standing near the road was converted into first and second floor studios, the old timber roof being rebuilt for the upper studio, and large windows and fireplaces being built into the old walls. The house rambles off from the fireplace and off the studios and is connected to them by an octagonal stair hall. It is built in part of fieldstone so like that in the old barn that it is almost impossible to tell old work from new. The upper part is of warm gray plaster, and the roof of red tile. All of the detail is as simple and direct as possible, and the interior is finished in cypress stained to soft browns and grays and guilty of no finish other than wax or oil."</p><br>
<h2>Artists and activists</h2><br>
<p>Charles H. Stephens (1855?–1931) was an instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a painter of Native American subjects. He had lived among the Blackfeet, and amassed an extensive collection of artifacts. The fireplace that Price designed for his studio is in the silhouette of a Thunderbird, a symbol that also appears on the buildings exterior in Henry Mercer’s Moravian tiles. Alice Barber Stephens (1858–1932) was a highly successful illustrator for magazines and childrens books. They raised their son, D. Owen Stephens (1894–1937) in Rose Valley, and painted there until their deaths.</p><br>
<p>Thunderbird Lodge then became the home of a leading social activist couple, Allen Seymour Olmsted and Mildred Scott Olmsted. He was a lawyer, a member of the Mens Commission for Womens Suffrage, and helped in the founding of the American Civil Liberties Union. She worked with the American Birth Control League and was the longtime director of the USA section of the Women&#39;s International League for Peace and Freedom. Together they worked with the American Friends Service Committee, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and many other liberal organizations. The house was used as a safe meeting place for other activists, including Jane Addams, James Farmer, George Washington Carver, and Martin Luther King, Jr.</p><br>
<p>In September 2015 a Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission marker was dedicated to Mildred Scott Olmsted just north of the house.</p><br>
<p>Thunderbird Lodge was donated to the Rose Valley Centennial Foundation by the Olmsted family in 2015.</p><br>
<h2>Great Minquas Path</h2><br>
<p>At the edge of the property, along Rose Valley Road, is a 1926 Pennsylvania State historic marker, commemorating an important Native American trading route, the Great Minquas Path, that ran nearby. Charles Stephens designed the bas-relief on the marker, and Albert Laessle created the beaver sculpture below the plaque.</p><br>
<p>Thunderbird Lodge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, and is a contributing property in the Rose Valley Historic District, which was listed on the NRHP in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Rocky Hill Castle, also known simply as Rocky Hill, was a historic plantation and plantation house between Town Creek and Courtland, Alabama, United States. Once famed in Alabama for its architecture, it was an unusual mixing of neoclassical and picturesque aesthetics in one plantation complex. The house and tower suffered from neglect during much of the 20th century and were subsequently demolished in the 1960s. Much folklore surrounds the site, with Rocky Hill Castle being the subject of numerous ghost stories. The most notable story, "The Ghost of the Angry Architect", was published in Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh&#39;s 1969 work 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The plantation at Rocky Hill Castle was founded by James Edmonds Saunders in the mid-1820s, shortly after he and his wife came to Alabama from their native Georgia. Saunders, born on May 7, 1806, was a planters and attorney.</p><br>
<p>He established his plantation 4 mi from that of his father, Turner Saunders, and his Saunders Hall plantation. In the years after coming to Lawrence County Saunders practiced law in nearby Courtland. He eventually amassed 640 acre, centered on the hill that his house sat upon.</p><br>
<p>Desiring a grander dwelling, Saunders demolished this earlier house and began building Rocky Hill Castle in 1858. The American Civil War put an end to construction in 1861, although the estate was largely complete by that time. The house served as Confederate hospital during the war, with several soldiers buried nearby in the Saunders&#39; family cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The plantation passed through many owners following the death of James Saunders in 1896. The last Saunders to own it was James Saunder&#39;s grandson, Dr. Dudley Saunders. Dr. Saunders and his family are alleged to have abruptly abandoned Rocky Hill Castle in the 1920s, purportedly after ghostly activity.</p><br>
<p>Regardless of the accuracy of those events, the plantation was purchased from Dr. Saunders in the 1920s by H.D. Bynum and R.E. Tweedy, who used the farmland but did not reside in the house. This started a long period of decline for the house, which eventually became ruinous. It was finally demolished by a new owner, Gordon McBride, in 1961, after he and his wife had salvaged what they could for their new house in Decatur.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Rocky Hill Castle was built from 1858 to 1861, utilizing a combination of the Greek Revival and Italianate architectural styles. The architect of the main house is unknown, although at least one of the ghost stories alleges that it was a gentleman of French extraction.</p><br>
<p>Connected to the house complex on the western side by a high brick wall was a five-story brick Gothic Revival tower crowned with crenelation. The connecting wall was pierced by a Tudor arch. The wall and octagonal tower have been traditionally linked to an itinerant craftsman from Wales, Hugh Jones. The tower, as well as the adjoining brick kitchen building, contained rooms used to house the Saunders&#39; slaves.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the house featured some of the most elaborate woodwork and plasterwork in the state. Other features of the house were an impressive walnut staircase, double parlors and Italian marble mantles.</p><br>
<h2>Folklore</h2><br>
<p>Purported paranormal activity at Rocky Hill Castle included knocking and banging of unknown origin, a ghostly "lady in blue", ghosts of Civil War soldiers and the ghosts of tortured slaves.</p><br>
<p>The Cox-Hord House is a three story brick structure in Maysville, Kentucky designed by Cincinnati architect, Edwin Anderson, and built in 1880 at a cost of $49,000. The architectural style is eclectic with elements of Victorian Gothic, Italianate and Victorian Romanesque. It is considered an excellent example of the "Mauve Decade"  due to the "use of the finest materials and superb workmanship". Ceiling heights are 14 for the first floor, 12 for the second and 10&#39; on the third. A variety of wood was used for interior trim including light and dark walnut, cherry, fruit wood and ebony.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1880 for Andrew Cox and his wife, Mary Thomas Cox, daughter of a local distiller. In 1897, it was sold to wholesaler Milton Russell, and sold again in 1926 to Ferdinand Hechinger for his daughter, Rebekah H. Hord,</p><br>
<p>Rebekah Hord was active in Maysville civic affairs and is noted as the first elected female mayor in Kentucky, serving from 1951 to 1962. Hord&#39;s daughter and grandson were also elected Mayor of Maysville in 1986 and 1999 respectively.</p><br>
<p>The Geißstein, sometimes also called the Gaisstein, is a mountain in the Kitzbühel Alps with a height of that straddles the border between the federal Austrian states of Tyrol and Salzburg</p><br>
<p>The Geißstein lies about seven kilometres southeast of Jochberg. To the east of it is the Vogelalmgraben, a right-hand side valley of the Glemmtal. To the southeast is the Mühltal, a left-hand valley of the Upper Pinzgau (Oberpinzgau). This is the site of the high Bürgl Hut, one of the most important bases for climbing the mountain. A signposted trail runs from the hut along the southern arête to the summit. Alternatively the Geißstein can be approached from the high Sintersbach wind-gap (Sintersbachscharte) to the southwest over the relatively gently sloping, grassy southwest side of the mountain. Another signed trail runs through the much steeper southeastern flank which is accessible from the Vogelalmgraben or from the high Schlaberstatt crossing to the north.</p><br>
<p>The Geißstein may also be climbed in winter as part of a ski tour using the southwestern route from the Bürgl Hut.</p><br>
<p>According to legend, gold was supposed to have once been mined on the Geißstein and Venetians or Venediger - a German term for foreign mineral prospectors - were supposed to have been here. In addition, festivals were supposed to have been celebrated On the Schlaberstatt at which even the Devil was to be found amongst the musicians.</p><br>
<p>Crimplesham Hall is a Grade II Listed manor house in Crimplesham, Norfolk, England. Although records indicate a house existed at the site as far back as 1040, the current house was completed in 1881 and designed by Alfred Waterhouse.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There are records of a manor here since 1040.</p><br>
<p>In June 1781 the previous house was advertised for rent in the Norfolk Chronicle and described thus:-</p><br>
<p>“To be Lett, and entered upon at Old Michaelmas next, all that modern built Capital Messuage situate in Crimplesham, in the County of Norfolk; consisting of a Hall, two Parlours, four very good Lodging Rooms, and compleat Garrets, Kitchen, Dairy, Pantry, Cellars, and other convenient Offices, Coach-house and Stabling for eight Horses, with a Granary over the same, Dove-cote well stocked with pigeons, Yards and Garden, well planted with Fruit Trees, with an Orchard and Paddock adjoining, containing together, by Estimation, five Acres, and with or without eighteen Acres of excellent Pasture Ground, now in the Occupation of Mr James Drew. The said Premisses exceedingly well adapted for the Residence of a Gentleman fond of Country Diversions, and are pleasantly situate within half a Mile of the Turnpike Road from Lynn to London, three of Downham-market, nine of Swaffham, and ten of Lynn, all considerable Market Towns”.</p><br>
<p>In 1881 John Grant Morris paid for a new hall to be built and gave it to his daughter as a wedding present. She married a local landowner Sir Alfred Bagge RN, second son of Sir W Bagge MP for West Norfolk, between 1837–1859 and 1865 - 1881. The new hall, a 10-bedroom mansion of white brick structure set in a wooded park, was designed in 1880 by Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) and it was erected in 1881. The first payment was on 30 July 1880, and the last payment on 17 November 1881. The payments totalled £6,994 and 15 Shillings. £5,994 and 15 Shillings being the construction costs and £1000 for the finishings. The finishings were from Maples in London and were of very high quality, particularly the fine doors and other woodwork of matched Canadian Pine. The house design was very modern for the time, with warm air ducted central heating to all the rooms, its own electricity generator in the stable block, and its own sewerage system and water supply.</p><br>
<p>In the garden are an artificial lake and a fine Victorian folly in the form of a Gothic Chapel, the materials of which are thought to have come from the ruins of West Dereham Abbey or a building reclaim yard. It may predate the new house.</p><br>
<p>Waterhouse had previously built for Morris Allerton Priory, near Liverpool; he later built also a villa near Cannes.</p><br>
<h2>Notable residents</h2><br>
<p>In 1845, the former building was occupied by Mrs Elizabeth Doyle, an eminent Quaker and close friend of Elizabeth Fry. Bible Society meetings were held in the house from time to time.</p><br>
<p>Saint Ignatius Loyola Church is a church located at 703 East Houghton Avenue in Houghton, Michigan. The church was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1977 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Early Roman Catholics living in Houghton met for worship first in a boarding house and later in a school. Bishop Frederic Baraga, then located in L&#39;Anse, Michigan, spearheaded efforts to build a new church. Ground was broken for the new church in early 1859, and on July 31, 1859, Bishop Frederic Baraga dedicated the original St. Ignatius Loyola Church.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in 1859, a long list of priests were assigned to the church, all of whom served for only a short time. However, in 1895, Father (later Monsignor) Antoine Ivan Rezek was appointed pastor to the parish. In the late nineteenth century, the Keweenaw Peninsula had seen an explosive growth due to the local copper mining industry, and a substantial, ethnically diverse population of Catholics had taken up residence in the Houghton area. One of Rezik&#39;s first priorites was the erection of a new church. Rezek hired the Milwaukee architectural firm of E. Brielmaier & Sons to design the church; Brielmaier designed a number of Catholic churches in the western Upper Peninsula in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Construction on this building began in 1898, and the church was finished in 1902. Anton Ivan Rezek remained as pastor of the church for a total of 51 years, until 1946.</p><br>
<p>Three significant additions to the building were made in later years: a boxy, glassed-in portico, added in 1928, a rear addition, added between 1959 and 1964, and a connected building added in 1991-1992. Further interior renovations were made in 1959 and in the late 1980s.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>St. Ignatius Loyola Church is an imposing Neo-Gothic structure located on the hillside above downtown Houghton. It is constructed of red, Jacobsville sandstone with a symmetrical gabled facade centering on a square tower topped with a spire. The tower belfry contains a single brass bell, cast in 1860 by the Jones and Hitchcock Company of Troy, New York.</p><br>
<p>Stained glass windows, created by Gavin Art Glass Works of Milwaukee, were installed in the church in 1907. An elaborate Gothic altar adorns the nave.</p><br>
<p>The Dawley House is an historic property located in Le Claire, Iowa, United States, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Daniel V. Dawley</h2><br>
<p>Born in Vermont in 1811, Daniel V. Dawley worked in Troy, New York and New York City before moving to Iowa in 1834. He started his first river job as a clerk on the steamer Hero two years later. Dawley spent the next 38 years working on the river as either a clerk or captain, often for the Minnesota Packet Company. He worked on boats such as the Galena, the Henry Clay, and he was a part owner of the Golden Era. In 1881 Dawley was appointed the Le Claire postmaster. He died in 1893. His single-family house was converted into the Crane & Pelican Cafe.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Dawley House is a two-story brick structure built on a stone foundation. It is a variation on the vernacular Italianate style. The bricks used in the construction were manufactured locally. The main facade of the house is three bays wide and four along the side elevations. The bays are separated by Flat brick pilasters that have narrow caps just below the cornice level. The house is capped by a shallow hipped roof with narrow eaves with paired brackets. The main entrance is located off-center to the left. The porch, which extends across the front of the facade, and is probably of a later construction. It is influenced by the Gothic Revival style and features thick chamfered posts. The windows are six over six sash with flat lintels and sills. Built onto the rear of the house is a single-story kitchen wing. Like the main house block, it is capped with a bracketed hip roof and wooden cornice. The small porch on the south side of the kitchen wing is supported by attenuated columns. The lot on which the house is built slopes steeply to the east. It features a stone retaining wall extends across its south side.</p><br>
<p>The James Brown House is an historic property located in Riverdale, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>James Brown and his family are the first residents known to have lived in this house. He wrote to his wife from Davenport in 1844 that he had leased the house. He bought the property in 1854. The previous owners of the property were Amasa Doolittle and Aaron Moss, and one of them probably built the structure. The Brown family continued to live in the house until around 1865. It became known as River View Farm and for thirty-five years it had a succession of owners. Davenport businessman James R. Nutting bought the property in 1900 and it remained in his family until 1920. Universal Atlas Portland Cement Company bought it from the Nuttings in the 1920s and then sold it to John Crissey in 1937. He restored and maintained the property for 30 years. Alcoa, which operates a plant across the highway, bought the house and grounds in 1967.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The stone house is situated on 5.8 acre at the base of a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River. The two-story structure is a</p><br>
<p>vernacular interpretation of the Greek Revival style. At the same time it reflects</p><br>
<p>Roman or Jeffersonian Classicism found in the four columned front porch and carved balustrades, the raised basement, and tall chimney stacks. The exterior walls and foundation are composed of coursed rubble stone that was quarried locally. For the most part the windows are the six-over-six variety with wood sashes set in rectangular surrounds. They also feature stone lintels and lug sills. The main entrance is topped with a rectangular transom that is broken by two engaged piers and flanked by side lights. The house is capped with a hipped roof that is sheathed in seamed tin. There are single gabled dormers on the north and south sides of the roof. At the roof line is a plain frieze and overhanging boxed cornice. Sometime before the turn of the 20th century a 1½-story clapboard addition was built onto the rear of the house. It was used as a blacksmith shop and as a summer kitchen.</p><br>
<p>The East Hill House and Carriage House, also known as the Decker French Mansion, is an historic property located in Riverdale, Iowa, United States. The Georgian Revival style residence and its carriage house have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1999. The historic listing includes two contributing buildings, one structure and one site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The estate was built for the George W. "Decker" French family, who were part of the Iowana dairy farms that raised prize Holstein cattle. The family named the house "East Hill House" to differentiate it from the larger home built for them on a hill to the west of this property in 1909 that became known as "West Hill House". The family also used these names on their stationery. East Hill House was designed by noted Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw. About the same time the family donated French Hall for nurses at St. Lukes Hospital in Davenport, no longer extant, and hired Shaw to design that building as well. Davenport architect Arthur Ebeling was the supervising architect during the construction phase of the project. He is noted locally as the architect for the Joseph Bettendorf House (1915), Regina Coeli Monastery (1916) and the Henry Kahl House (1920).</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>East Hill House is a three-story, brick Georgian Revival mansion. It was built just beyond Riverdale, which is essentially a middle class subdivision. The house features a vertically symmetrical main block with a small wing on the east side and a large porch on the west side. It is capped with a steep hipped roof that has four dormers on the south side and three dormers on the north. On its front facade the main block is five bays wide and the east wing is two bays wide.</p><br>
<p>The house is surrounded by approximately 20 acre of woodlands. Immediately surrounding the house is 3 acre of lawn that is planted with large oaks, maples and pines. A formal garden, which is considered the contributing site, is located behind the house and it includes a fishpond and stone walkways that are enclosed by a stone wall. All of the landscaping were a part of the original design for the estate.</p><br>
<p>The carriage house, built at the same time as the main house, is the second contributing building. It reflects the main house in both design and material. The two-story structure has three garage bays. The center bay has large barn-style sliding doors and is flanked by two bays with hinged doors. The second level of the carriage house is a two-bedroom apartment with a bathroom, kitchen, hall and living room. The French family&#39;s chauffeur and his family lived in the apartment. An enclosed porch is located on the south side of the carriage house. The structure has two separate basements, one under the house and the other is located under the porch and housed the old boiler.</p><br>
<p>A concrete tennis court is located north of the carriage house, and is a contributing structure. It is surrounded by a fence and trees. The French family would flood the court in the winter and use it as an ice skating rink.</p><br>
<p>The Roswell Spencer House was an historic property located in Pleasant Valley, Iowa, United States. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It has subsequently been torn down.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Roswell Spencer was a native of Vermont who headed west in 1830 when he was 29 years old. He initially settled in Greene County, Illinois before settling in Rock Island, Illinois. After he served in the Black Hawk War he relocated to the newly opened lands of eastern Iowa. He became the first white settler in what would become Pleasant Valley Township when he built a log cabin near the mouth of Spencer Creek in 1833. The following year he built another cabin above the mouth of Crow Creek. Spencer was a farmer and an industrialist. He operated saw mills with his partner Stephen Henley on both Spencer and Crow creeks. He established another sawmill on Spencer Creek with John Work in 1837. The following year he and Henley brought down the Mississippi River one of the first rafts of white pine logs from Wisconsin. Spencer entered politics and became Scott County&#39;s first treasurer.</p><br>
<p>Spencer built this house in the early 1850s and a steam-powered flouring mill across from the house in 1856. In the Financial Panic of 1857 he lost all of his property, except for his house. He served as the local postmaster and continued to live in Pleasant Valley until 1862 when he moved to Cedar County, Iowa where he was once again engaged in farming. Spencer returned to Rock Island in 1866 where he worked in the grocery business. He died there in 1876.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Roswell Spencer House was a two-and-one-half story, Greek Revival structure that overlooked the Mississippi River. The exterior was covered in Wisconsin white pine. It was three by four bays wide with a rectangular-shaped main block. There was a single-story wing on its east side. The house had double hung windows with rectangular surrounds and pediment shaped window heads. The first floor featured one-over-one windows and the second floor featured six-over-six windows. Medium pitched gable roofs capped both the main structure and the wing. The exterior also featured pilastered corner boards, projecting boxed cornices and a plain frieze on the gable ends where double hung windows were located. The front porch had a hipped roof that was supported by Doric columns. There was also a small triangular pediment over the entranceway. There were five rooms on the first floor, four rooms on the second, and a large attic.</p><br>
<p>The James Gamble House is an historic property located in Le Claire, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>James Gamble was a native of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and was born on Ireland in 1821. He immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1823. They first settled in Delaware and then moved to Pittsburgh in 1836. Gamble&#39;s entered the printing and publishing business and co-published the Warsaw Signal in Warsaw, Illinois from 1840 to about 1842. He studied medicine in New Orleans and St. Louis before he received his medical degree from the University of Missouri in 1847. Gamble moved to Le Claire that same year, and practiced medicine there for close to 50 years. He was active in local medical associations and served on the Le Claire school board for over 20 years.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Gamble House is a two-story brick structure built on a limestone foundation. It reflects the Italianate palazzo style. The bricks are laid in a 6-course common bond. The central block of the house is three bays wide and it is flanked by single-story wings that are two bays wide. The house is capped by a low hipped roof with broad eaves. The wings also feature low hips with plain, narrow cornices. The main entrance is located off-center to the left and it is framed with sidelights and a transom. The porch is possibly a later construction. Its flat roof is supported by two wooden columns on high pedestals. To the right of the entrance is a narrow, flat roof that is supported on large brackets that overhangs two tall windows. The porches on the side wings are simple structures with square, freestanding and engaged posts. The balustrades are very slender, turned spindles that are similar to those of the entrance porch. Behind the rear of the house is a single-story wing that was probably used as a summer kitchen. It is attached to the main house block by a long roof that is supported by slender posts with fringed edges that are similar to those on the front porch.</p><br>
<p>The Horton–Suiter House is an historic property located in Le Claire, Iowa, United States. The residence has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was possibly built in 1860 for Henry Horton, who was an engineer on raft steamers. James Suiter lived here after Horton. He was one of the</p><br>
<p>last river pilots who worked the Le Claire Rapids. He worked as a mortician to supplement his income during the winter months when the river was frozen.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Horton–Suiter House is a 1½-story frame "cottage". It is five bays across the front, with the main entrance in the center. The house is capped by a low-pitched gable roof with a ridge that parallels the front facade. The entrance is covered by a small porch, which is supported by slender turned posts. A large, triangular, roof dormer is centered above the entrance. A single-story section with a slanted roof was added to the northeast corner of the structure. The house is set on a raised lot that is surrounded by a stone retaining wall.</p><br>
<p>The Kattenbracker House is an historic property located in Le Claire, Iowa, United States. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Kattenbracher family were German immigrants who established the C. Kattenbracher & Son foundry located in the original town of Parkhurst along the river. The town was later incorporated into Le Claire. The foundry supplied metalwork and made repairs for the Le Claire Marine Railway boatyards that were run by J.W. Van Sant. The family built this house in 1860.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Kattenbracher House is a two-story, rectangular, brick house built on a stone foundation. At one time the house was covered with stucco, but it has subsequently peeled off. The main facade is three bays wide, and the main entrance is located in the center. The windows feature flat enframements and shallow, triangular pediments. The house is capped by a low hipped roof with wide bracketed eaves and modillions. There is a protruding, rectangular bay window on the southeast corner of the house. A single-story frame addition was built on the north side. It features a gable roof and now contains the main entrance into the house.</p><br>
<p>The McCaffrey House is an historic property located in Le Claire, Iowa, United States, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979. It is also a contributing property in the Cody Road Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John McCaffrey was Irish and born in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1842. He immigrated with his family to St. Louis when he was a child. McCaffrey began working on the river when he was 13 as a hand on a floating raft. He went on to work in a variety of jobs during his long career on the river. He was a boat clerk, pilot, captain, and a raft boat owner. By 1864 he was working as river pilot on a regular basis on the Upper Rapids. His first boat was the Alvira and he bought interests in the James Means and the Le Claire Belle. He also had interests in lumber and mining ventures. McCaffrey left Le Claire toward the end of his life and became a planter in Louisiana. He built this house in Le Claire in 1870.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The McCaffrey House is a two-story, frame, vernacular Italianate house built on a stone foundation. The frame construction of this house is somewhat unusual in Iowa as most Italianate houses are executed in brick. The exterior is covered in narrow clapboards with cornerboard that extend to the cornice. The main facade is three bays wide with the main entrance located to the right of center. The windows and the doors feature curved wooden lintels and flat enframements. The house is capped by a low hipped roof with a plain, unbracketted, wooden cornice. The south side of the house features a two-story polygonal bay that has a bracketed cornice above the main floor bay. The single-story screened porch on the south side and the chimney of rock on the rear are later additions. The house is located on a corner lot that are raised above the street, and it has a stone retaining wall on east and south sides.</p><br>
<p>The Old Mill House is an historic property located in Le Claire, Iowa. The Greek Revival style residence has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979. It is also a contributing property in the Cody Road Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Alfred Jansen built this house in 1851. It, and the adjoining boatyards, were acquired by J.W. Van Sant about 1865. Van Sant began his river career as a ship carpenter and boat builder in Rock Island, Illinois in the 1840s. He moved to Le Claire in 1862 to take over the boatyards established by the Davenport and Rogers Co. The yards took up about two blocks along the river and employed about 100 men who built and repaired boats. Van Sants son Sam found success with his raftboat, the J.W. Van Sant, so the yards produced a number of them, including the D.A. McDonald, the Le Claire Belle and the Silver Wave. Several of the boats were owned and operated by the Van Sants through the Van Sant-Musser Navigation Co.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Old Mill House is a two-story, five-bay clapboard structure built on a stone foundation. It is a fine example of the Greek Revival style. It features a symmetrical facade, a handsome door frame on the main entrance, and a gable roof with a pair of chimneys near the ridge of the roof. The main entrance is located in the center bay. It has a wide door enframement flanked by sidelights and a transom. Because the house is built on a sloping lot the basement on the river side of the house is exposed.</p><br>
<p>The Rambo House is an historic property located in Le Claire, Iowa, United States. The residence has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979. It is also a contributing property in the Cody Road Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>When William Rambo came to Le Claire in 1844 he established the Scott and Rambo saw mill south of the town. From 1853 to 1871 he worked as a river pilot on the Upper Rapids. He built this house in 1855. While he worked on the river he also invested in real estate in Nebraska. His son James began his river career as a raft hand in 1862 and the following year he received his pilot&#39;s license.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Rambo House is a two-story, three bay, transitional Greek Revival/Italianate frame house. It is also two bays deep and has cornerboards that terminate in molding under the broad eaves and large brackets of the hipped roof. The main entrance is located in the center bay and it features a triangular pedimented lintel. The windows on both floors are tall with straight, molded lintels and flat enframements. The front porch extends across the facade and has a pent roof that is supported by slender turned posts. A polygonal bay on the first floor protrudes from the south side. The house is located on a lot that sits above street level and is surrounded by a stone retaining wall.</p><br>
<p>The Jacob Suiter House is an historic property located in Le Claire, Iowa, United States, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979. The property is part of the Houses of Mississippi River Men Thematic Resource, which covers the homes of men from LeClaire who worked on the Mississippi River as riverboat captains, pilots, builders and owners. Jacob Suiter was one of three generations of his family to make his living on the river.</p><br>
<h2>Jacob Suiter</h2><br>
<p>Jacob Suiter (1828-1904) was of the second generation of Suiters to work the Upper Rapids as a river pilot. During the 1870s he would have charged $10 a trip.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Jacob Suiter House is a two-story, three bay structure built on a limestone foundation. It is constructed of bricks that were manufactured locally, and the structure features clean proportions and simple lines. The residence is a variation on the vernacular Italianate style. The main entrance is located in the central bay and it is covered by a small wooden porch that is supported by slender turned posts. It features a bracketed cornice and corner pilasters. The house is capped with a low hipped roof. Built onto the back of the house is a single story addition with a gable roof that served as a kitchen. Beyond that is a smaller frame addition. It is essentially a smaller and simpler version of the Dawley House in Le Claire.</p><br>
<p>The John H. Suiter House is an historic property located in Le Claire, Iowa, United States. The house was built in 1855 and it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979.</p><br>
<h2>John H. Suiter</h2><br>
<p>John H. Suiter was part of the second of three generations of his family to make his living on the river.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The John H. Suiter House is a two-story, three bay, frame structure built on a stone foundation. The house sits high on its foundation because the lot slopes downward from the back of the house on the west to the front of the house on the east. The main entrance is located in the center bay and the original wooden porch structure has been replaced with wrought iron. The windows are set in flat surrounds that feature narrow cornices. The house is capped with a shallow gable roof.</p><br>
<p>The William Suiter House is an historic property located in Le Claire, Iowa, United States. The house was built in 1855 and it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979.</p><br>
<h2>William Suiter</h2><br>
<p>William Suiter was one of three generations of his family to make his living on the river. William began his river career as a raft hand. He became a river pilot by the time he was 21, and worked in the profession for close to 40 years. His three sons, Mordecai, William and Charles, all went to work for the railroad, which replaced the steamboat as a primary form of transportation in the region.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The William Suiter House is a simple two-story, three bay, frame structure with a shallow gable roof. It follows a traditional center-hall plan and single pile arrangement. The main entrance is located in the center bay and is flanked by sidelights and sheltered by a small gable roof. The windows are 6 over 6 sash in flat, plain surrounds. The frame and concrete-block additions built onto the rear of the house are more recent.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Van Sant House is an historic property located in Le Claire, Iowa, United States. The house was built in 1860 and it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979. It is also a contributing property in the Cody Road Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Samuel Van Sant</h2><br>
<p>Samuel was the son of J.W. Van Sant who was the head of the Le Claire Marine Railway boatyards. Along with John Smith, also of Le Claire, he developed the raftboat named the J.W. Van Sant after his father. It pushed the lumber rafts down the river from the forests in the north to the mills further south. Their invention revolutionized the transportation of logs and lumber down the Mississippi River. They also developed the bowboat, which was a small sternwheeler set crosswise at the front of the raft to provide additional control over direction of movement. Van Sant moved to Minnesota in the 1880"s where he was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives and served as Speaker of the House. He later became the state&#39;s governor.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Samuel Van Sant House is a 1½-story frame house whose exterior is composed of narrow clapboards. It follows a L-shape plan. The house features a wide front gable and a main roofline that parallel the street. There is also a large triangular wall dormer that is centered on the front of the long arm of the "L". The house&#39;s windows have flat enframements with shallow triangular pediments. A plain, wooden porch is located in the angle of the "L", and is a later addition.</p><br>
<p>The Knoxville Iron Company was an iron production and coal mining company that operated primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, and its vicinity, in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The company was Knoxville&#39;s first major post-Civil War manufacturing firm, and played a key role in bringing heavy industry and railroad facilities to the city. The company was also the first to conduct major coal mining operations in the lucrative coalfields of western Anderson County, and helped establish one of Knoxville&#39;s first residential neighborhoods, Mechanicsville, in the late 1860s.</p><br>
<p>During the 1890s and early 1900s, the Knoxville Iron Company was involved in two key events in the history of Tennessees labor movement. The first came in 1891, when the companys Anderson County coal mines were among the targets of striking miners during the Coal Creek War.</p><br>
<p>The Knoxville Iron Company continued operating in some capacity or another until 1987. The company&#39;s mill is still used by Gerdau Ameristeel to recycle and manufacture steel rebar.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early history</h3><br>
<p>During the Civil War, Confederate forces moved a small iron foundry from Loudon to Knoxville, but were unable to produce any iron, due in part to their lack of understanding of iron working processes. When Union forces occupied Knoxville in late 1863, Hiram Chamberlain (1835&ndash;1916), a Union officer from Ohio, and S.T. Atkins, a local manufacturer, managed to get the foundry in working order. Chamberlain remained in Knoxville after the war, and he and Atkins continued operating the foundry.</p><br>
<p>Noting the largely untouched ore deposits in the hills around Knoxville, Chamberlain decided to develop a large-scale iron works in the city. He recruited Welsh-born ironmasters Joseph, David, and William Richards, who in turn brought in other Welsh immigrants skilled in iron production. much of it supplied by wealthy Anderson County farmer J. S. Ross. The Knoxville Iron Company was formally organized on February 1, 1868.</p><br>
<h3>Expansion, 1870-1900</h3><br>
<p>To provide fuel for its foundry, Knoxville Iron began mining coal in the Coal Creek Valley of eastern Anderson County, shortly after the area acquired railroad access in 1866. The company expanded its Knoxville mill in the 1870s, most notably with the addition of a nail factory in 1875. By 1895, Knoxville Irons mill was producing over 15,000 tons of iron per year, and employed over 200 workers. The companys products included bar iron, railroad spikes, channel iron, and track rails for use in mines. The company was also a major producer of coal, which it mined at its Coal Creek mines.</p><br>
<p>Along with Welsh immigrants, the company employed a large number of African American laborers. To house its workforce, the company expanded McGhees Addition, a neighborhood just west of its mill. McGhees Addition subsequently became known as "Mechanicsville," the word "mechanic" during this period referring to skilled factory workers. The company also opened a subsidiary, Harriman Rolling Mills, in Harriman, Tennessee, which by 1900 had become that city&#39;s largest employer.</p><br>
<h3>Coal Creek War</h3><br>
<p>Knoxville Iron initially used free labor at its Anderson County coal mine, but as production was continuously interrupted by strikes and other labor disputes, the company started using convict labor in 1878. In spite of the dispute, Knoxville Iron continued using convict labor until Tennessee ended convict leasing in 1896.</p><br>
<h3>Knoxville Iron Company v. Harbison</h3><br>
<p>In 1899, Tennessee passed a law barring companies from paying employees in scrip. While Knoxville Iron paid its employees in cash, it allowed employees to accept payday advances in store or coal credits. Shortly after the law was passed, a securities dealer named Samuel Harbison purchased several hundred coal credits from Knoxville Iron employees for 85 cents on the dollar. When he attempted to redeem these for cash, the company refused to pay them. Harbison sued, arguing their refusal violated the state&#39;s anti-scrip law. After a Knox County chancery court ruled in favor of Harbison, Knoxville Iron filed an appeal challenging the state law, arguing the law violated the right to contract.</p><br>
<p>The Tennessee Supreme Court upheld the chancery courts ruling, and Knoxville Iron appealed to the USA Supreme Court. In 1901, the Supreme Court upheld (7-2) the lower courts ruling. The majority opinion, authored by Justice George Shiras, acknowledged the abridgement of contract rights, but nevertheless agreed the law was a legitimate exercise of state policing powers to promote order. Edward Terry Sanford, a future Supreme Court justice, argued the case on behalf of Knoxville Iron.</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>In 1903, Knoxville Iron constructed a newer, larger mill in Lonsdale, a millworkers town on what was then Knoxvilles periphery. Gerdau Ameristeel, the mill&#39;s current owner, still uses the mill to manufacture rebar. As of 2005, the mill employed 250 workers, and produced 509,000 tons of steel products annually.</p><br>
<h2>Legacy</h2><br>
<p>The success of the Knoxville Iron Company helped attract heavy industry and railroad maintenance facilities to Knoxville. By 1886, several major manufacturing companies, including two large foundries, two textile mills, a rail car works, and rail car wheel company, were operating in the city. The iron industry declined in importance in Knoxville in the 1890s and 1900s, as steel and railroad companies demanded a higher-quality ore than the kind typically found in East Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>During the 1920s, Knoxville Iron general manager Willis P. Davis and his wife, Ann, first proposed the establishment of what would eventually become the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In 1982, Knoxville Irons 1870s-era nail factory, the last surviving building from its original Second Creek Valley complex, was renovated for use as an event center in the 1982 Worlds Fair. This building, now known as The Foundry, has since been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Lonsdale home of Knoxville Iron president Ivan Racheff was listed on the Register in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Zeli  is a mountain village in the municipality of Amfikleia-Elateia, part of the regional unit of Phthiotis, Greece. It has a population of 673 residents , while the altitude is 450 to 550 meters. At a distance of four kilometers, is the village Kalapodi.</p><br>
<h2>Physical and Economic Review</h2><br>
<p>The village lies on the eastern slope of Mount Varvas. According to previous measurements, Zeli has an area of 51,000 acres, from some of the 24,000 are arable and the remainder is woodland. Zeli is all green mountainous vegetation, including oaks, lavender, chamomile, etc. The village has a rich production in tobacco, wheat and figs. In each house can be seen winter gardens (cabbage, lettuce, onions, radishes, broccoli, carrots, etc.) or summer gardens (tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants, zucchini, etc.).</p><br>
<p>Moreover, in addition to agricultural occupations, the villagers are engaged in livestock, particularly sheep and poultry.</p><br>
<p>The climate of the village is very good, because of its proximity to both the Parnassus and the beaches of the Evian Gulf.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Its name, according to some sources, comes from the Slavic word "Zeliinaakov", which means green valley and indicates that in the age of Byzantium was probably a Slavony. Testimonies indicate that it was first inhabited by the ancient times, when even the flourishing Opountion Lokrida.</p><br>
<p>According to other sources, the name comes from the ancient Ozoles Locri. The area was named Ozelai=Ozeli=Zeli from where the Ozoles Locrians moved to the west. The area was all bushes and shrubs, life was difficult and the people suffered, so the residents with their flocks moved to Etoloakarnania and Phocis. Later, the Opountion Locrians lived in the settlements that were abandoned by Ozoles and the region continued to be called Ozeli and Zeli in their memory.</p><br>
<p>Between 1861 and 1912, when it became an independent community, Zeli belonged to the Municipality of Atalanti. The 1997 Kapodistrias reform placed it in the municipality of Elateia. With the new law "Kallikrates" established by the end of the municipal elections of 2010, Zeli was placed in the enlarged municipality of Amfikleia-Elateia, which is based in Kato Tithorea.</p><br>
<h2>Culture and Sports</h2><br>
<p>Zeli is one and a half hours away from Athens. It has bars, cafes and restaurants. The Cultural Association of Zeli, called "Osios Seraphim", is active in various cultural events in the region, such as conducting local dances in the village square and the organization of the carnival. It has a dance department with women and youth of the village, which has made appearances in Istanbul,Saint Petersburg and Italy.</p><br>
<p>The village also has local football team, Panzeliakos, which plays in amateur local groups.</p><br>
<p>The Captain Jonathan Stone House is a historic residence in the city of Belpre, Ohio, United States. Built just ten years after Belpre&#39;s 1789 establishment, it is the oldest existing building in the city.</p><br>
<p>Born in 1751, Jonathan Stone joined the Continental Army early in the American Revolutionary War. After the Treaty of Paris, he moved to the Belpre vicinity. He and his family built a fortification on their land during a war with local Native Americans in the early 1790s; it was known as "Stones Fort." As the Belpre region developed, Stone became a leading member of the areas society; he was elected treasurer of Washington County, and he was one of the three commissioners chosen to survey lands for the future Ohio University in Athens to the west.</p><br>
<p>Stones house in Belpre is a two-story structure; except for a small wing on the rear northwestern corner, it is a rectangular building. The entire structure rests on a foundation of sandstone, and it is covered by a metal roof. Among its owners since Stone have been Dr. Thomas and Janet Barrett. At some point after Stones life, the house was moved to its present location at 612 Blennerhassett Avenue. In 1978, the Stone House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its historically significant architecture; it was seen as historic because of its place as a rare surviving example of Ohios earliest residential architecture. It is one of four Belpre locations on the Register, along with the Charles Rice Ames House, the Sixth Street Railroad Bridge, and Spencers Landing.</p><br>
<p>The Blue Sulphur Springs Pavilion is a historic Greek Revival structure in Blue Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, United States. The Pavilion is the only surviving structure from the Blue Sulphur Springs Resort, a 19th-century mineral spa, and was built to shelter the sulphur spring at the resort. The Pavilion consists of twelve columns holding up a square roof, and is primarily built with brick. It was built in 1834 along with the resort and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Pavilion is built on a square foundation, with sides measuring 32 feet and 10 inches. The foundation is brick with stone facing. Twelve columns rest on the foundation, giving the Pavilion an open structure; the columns are of a modified Doric order and are built of brick covered in plaster. The frieze of the Pavilion is undecorated and made of clapboard, and the cornices are plain; the simplicity of the structure here reflects its shelter-like nature. The Pavilion is topped with a four-sided hipped roof with clapboard pediments. A marble basin sits inside the Pavilion. The sulphur spring flows into the basin at a rate of 6 gallons per minute and a temperature of 58 degrees Fahrenheit. The Pavilion is the only resort pavilion in West Virginia and one of few rural structures built in the Greek Revival style. In his 1846 book on mineral springs, William Burke described the Pavilion as "well-designed but badly executed" and referred to the fountain inside as "one of the most beautiful objects imaginable."</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Pavilion was constructed in 1834, the year the Blue Sulphur Springs Resort opened. George Washington Buster constructed the resort; it was named Blue Sulphur Springs for the iridescent color of the springs. The original resort included, along with the Pavilion, a three-story hotel with 200 rooms and a bathhouse. The resort was visited by several noteworthy guests in the 1840s, including Robert E. Lee, Henry Clay, and Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. The resort was a prime spot for the promotion of relaxation and health, as the sulphur spring at the resort was considered to be a remedy for numerous diseases. Blue Sulphur Springs Resort began to decline in the 1850s due to competition from other resorts such as The Greenbrier and an economic downturn. The resort closed in 1859 and became Allegheny College, a school for Baptist ministers; the college closed in 1861. The resort buildings were used by both sides in the Civil War as a camp and hospital. In 1864, the Union Army burned the resort to prevent the Confederate Army from utilizing them; only the Pavilion survived the fire.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Blue Sulphur Springs Pavilion is located in a valley at the junction of the Kitchen Creek and Sawmill Hollow valleys. It is located in the region of thermal mineral springs in the Appalachian Mountains, and is one of several mineral springs in the area. The Pavilion is located in a rural landscape, and offers views of the surrounding valley. William Burke described the landscape surrounding the Blue Sulphur Springs Resort as "a beautiful valley", though he complained that the designer of the resort had blocked the view with buildings.</p><br>
<p>Great Palm Island, also known as Palm Island, or by the Aboriginal name Bwgcolman; is a tropical island with a resident community of about 2,000 people. The island has an area of 55 km&sup2;. The official area figure of 70.9 km² refers to Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island and includes nine smaller islands. It is in Queensland, Australia, off the east coast of northern Queensland, situated 65 km northwest of Townsville, and 800 km north of the Tropic of Capricorn. The Australia Post lists the local post office as Palm Island, QLD. It is the main island of the Greater Palm group, and consists of small bays, sandy beaches and steep forested mountains rising to a peak of 548 m. The ocean surrounding the island is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park where extraction and fishing are regulated.</p><br>
<h2>Human habitation</h2><br>
<p>Great Palm Island is often termed a classic "tropical paradise" given its natural endowments, but it has had a troubled history since the European settlement of Australia.</p><br>
<p>The local government is the Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council, which has jurisdiction over ten of the islands in the Greater Palm group.</p><br>
<p>While the Australia Post lists the local post office as Palm Island, QLD, there is no formal name for the settled areas of the island.</p><br>
<p>Other names include or have included the Mission, Palm Island settlement, Palm Island Aborigines settlement, and Palm Island Community.</p><br>
<p>There are three settled areas. One settled area is at the southeast end of the airport. To the north on the west coast is a settled area with a pier and the government center—some locals call this the Mission. Beyond a mountain to the north is a third settled area by Coolgaree Bay.</p><br>
<p>The islands in the area were named the "Palm Isles" by explorer James Cook in 1770 as he sailed up the eastern coast of Australia on his first voyage.</p><br>
<p>It is estimated that the population of the island at the time of Cook&#39;s visit was about 200 Manbarra people.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>At 55 km&sup2, Great Palm Island is nearly twice the size of Norfolk Island and of a similar size to Magnetic Island.</p><br>
<p>The surrounding bays have a diverse marine fauna including coral trout, crayfish and coral reefs.</p><br>
<p>There has been significant dumping of car bodies and other environmental pollution on the island.</p><br>
<p>There are hundreds of brumbies on the island, they are considered to be community-owned.</p><br>
<p>Many of them have been tortured, starved to death, and beaten by local teenagers. A local Aboriginal, Wayne Coolwell, has been quoted as saying "I dont like to accuse my own people of things like this, but its self-evident...and cruelty is cruelty, and when you see the photographs and you hear the stories, there&#39;s obviously a real problem on that island."</p><br>
<p>As an island in northern Queensland, Great Palm Island is vulnerable to cyclones. In March 1997 Cyclone Justin passed over the Cairns coastline and remained near Great Palm Island causing a great deal of flash flooding. Peaking at Category 4, at landfall it was a Category 2 cyclone; it caused significant damage in the Cairns region during its relatively long, 3½ week life.</p><br>
<p>In April 2000 category 2 Cyclone Tessi passed directly over Great Palm Island, but caused little damage.</p><br>
<h2>The surrounding ocean</h2><br>
<p>Great Palm Island is inside the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea in the vicinity of Halifax Bay. The ocean surrounding the island is in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.</p><br>
<p>Under the zoning authority of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA), the ocean on the western side of the island is in a Habitat Protection zone. The rest of the island is surrounded by a Conservation zone. These zones exist to protect the park from excess extraction and fishing.</p><br>
<p>There are seven named reefs adjacent to the island, known as nearshore fringing reefs. The designation of the seven varies; for example, the seventh of the seven is called Great Palm Reef (No 7), 18-054G, Great Palm Reef G, and Reef 18054G.</p><br>
<p>As designated by the GBRMPA, Great Palm Island has the number 18-054, and the seven reefs are a, b, c, d, e, f, and g.</p><br>
<h2>Greater Palm group</h2><br>
<p>Great Palm Island is the largest of the islands in the Greater Palm group. While originally named the "Palm Isles", many names are currently used for the group. Great Palm Island group and Palm Islands are two such names. The nearest island to the group is Pandora Reef.</p><br>
<p>In Table 2 are the ten islands of the Greater Palm group in the jurisdiction of the Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council. Two islands and one rock are in the Hinchinbrook jurisdiction. These are Orpheus (Goolboddi), Pelorus (Yanooa) or North Palm Island, and Albino Rock. Albino Rock is part of Orpheus Island National Park.</p><br>
<p>The remaining rocks owned by the Commonwealth are in the jurisdiction of the GBRMPA. Table 3 lists additional micro-islands.</p><br>
<h2>Aerial photos and maps</h2><br>
<h2>Footnotes</h2><br>
<p>The Alex Seitaniemi Housebarn is a housebarn in Waasa Township, St. Louis County, near Tower, Minnesota. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Earliest history</h2><br>
<p>The builder, Alex Seitaniemi, was an emigrant from Sodankylä, a small village in northern Finland. He worked in Ely, Minnesota and later bought a parcel of land of 80 acre. He built the housebarn in two stages from 1907 through 1913, with a two-story living quarters and the horse barn. The farm produced hay, oats, and potatoes, and they also kept dairy cows until some time after World War II, when the USA Department of Agriculture mandated the use of concrete floors in dairy barns for sanitary reasons.</p><br>
<h2>Seitaniemi Family</h2><br>
<p>Seitaniemi and his wife had a daughter and two sons, Bill and Knute. Bill and Knute never married. Knute lived in the house until he died in his 50s or 60s, while Bill lived in the house until the late 1990s.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Seitaniemi built the housebarn in two stages from 1907 through 1913, with a two-story living quarters and the horse barn. Combining the house and barn in one building provided advantages. The heat from livestock kept the house warm, and constructing one building instead of several separate buildings conserved timber and the need to move it. The compact design also leaves more room available for farming and grazing.</p><br>
<h2>New Owners</h2><br>
<p>The property was bought by Carol and Larry Schaefer of Ely, who were interested in the land for hunting. As they got to know the history of the housebarn, they became interested in seeing its restoration. They donated the housebarn to Sisu Heritage, a local organization that provides tours of buildings and homesteads in the area. Sisu Heritage received a $60,500 grant from the Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grants program to stabilize the structure. One of the unusual aspects of the project involved stabilizing the foundation. Unlike many typical foundations, which go 6 foot below ground level to avoid frost damage, the Seitaniemi building had footings of dry-stacked stone. This method allows the building to ride out frost heaves while still being locked together.</p><br>
