<p>Clarksburg Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 119 contributing buildings in 16 blocks of the central business district of Clarksburg. It includes an extraordinary variety of architectural types and styles including Renaissance Revival and Italianate. Notable buildings include the Goff Building , Municipal Building , the Waldo Hotel , Robinson Grand , Harrison County Courthouse , USA Post Office , Masonic Temple , Merchant&#39;s National Bank , First United Presbyterian Church , and First Methodist Church . Located in the district and separately listed are Waldomore and the Stealey-Goff-Vance House. The Nathan Goff, Jr. House was delisted in 1994.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Mount Tambo is a mountain located to the north-east of Omeo in Victoria, Australia. Its peak is 1,430 metres above sea level.</p><br>
<p>The 2,740 hectare Mount Tambo Reserve was listed on the Register of the National Estate in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Rare plant species found in Marble Gully – Mount Tambo Nature Conservation Reserve include Marble Daisy Bush, Delicate New Holland-daisy, and Limestone Pomaderris.</p><br>
<p>To the near north-east is Little Mount Tambo (1,227 metres). The headwaters from Deep Creek, which feeds in to the Tambo River, are on the south-east slopes.</p><br>
<p>It marks the intersection of the boundaries of the counties of Benambra, Dargo and Tambo.</p><br>
<p>While travelling with Georg Neumayer&#39;s expedition to Mount Kosciuszko in 1862, the painter Eugene von Guerard produced a sketch Mt Tambo & Omeo Swamps 10 Nov 62 and later an oil painting Mount Tambo from the Omeo Station 1862.</p><br>
<p>Hazar Merd is a group of Paleolithic cave sites excavated by Dorothy Garrod in 1928. The caves are located south-southwest of Sulaymaniyah in Sulaymaniyah Governorate in Iraq. Garrod&#39;s soundings in two caves in the Hazar Merd group provided evidence of Middle and Epi-Paleolithic occupation.The Dark cave or Ashkawty Tarik in Kurdish has a commanding view of the local valley and is close to a small spring and a village with the same name.</p><br>
<p>Dark Cave has a single lofty chamber 11 by 12 m wide. The Mousterian layer, level C, is over 3 m thick, containing many hearths and burnt flints and bones. The stone tool assemblage, of flint and chert, is dominated by side scrapers and Mousterian points, with no evidence of the Levallois technique. In the lowest reaches of level C, but still within Mousterian layers, two hand-axes were found. Side-scrapers slightly decrease in popularity towards the top of level C.</p><br>
<p>The faunal assemblage, although fragmentary, again shows a completely modem aspect, with bones from wild goat, red deer, gazelle, field mouse, mole rat, hare, bat and several birds of woodland and scrub habitat. This evidence, and that from the presence of snails of the species Helix salomonica, indicates a mixed environment of woodland, grassland and scrub, much as exists today. A smaIl sounding in the adjacent Water Cave also revealed evidence of Mousterian occupation.</p><br>
<p>Garrod did not keep all the excavated material and she only kept those pieces that were topologically informative. Remaining pieces were thrown away at the site.</p><br>
<p>Hazar Merd and Shanidar Cave are the only excavated Middle Palaeolithic sites in Iraqi Kurdistan.</p><br>
<p>Shinnston Historic District is a national historic district located at Shinnston, Harrison County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 143 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Shinnston. The major influence on the town&#39;s development was the arrival of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1890. Notable buildings include the Frank Abruzzino House , Aaron Shinn House , I.O.O.F. Lodge building , Dr. Emory Strickler or Wilma Watkins House , Guarascio or Ashby Apartments , and the The First National Bank of Shinnston. The district includes notable examples of popular 19th- and early 20th-century architectural styles including Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Shingle Style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>SHINNSTON HIST. DIST., HARRISON COUNTY, WV.jpgOdd Fellows Hall</p><br>
<p>Shinnston West Virginia.jpgPike Street</p><br>
<p>The Low Rocks and Sterna Island Important Bird Area comprises two islets lying about 14 km apart and with a collective area of 14 ha, in the Montesquieu group of islands, in the mouth of Admiralty Gulf in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Low Rocks is a 4 ha islet with a covering of grass and low scrub. Sterna’s vegetation is dominated by pindan wattle and Triodia microstachya, but there are also bare sandstone ledges used by nesting seabirds. Low Rocks is a nature reserve, while Sterna is unallocated crown land. Average annual rainfall in the area is about 900 mm.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>The islands have been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because they support over 1% of the world population of roseate terns, with up to 4000 breeding pairs using the site. Other seabirds recorded as breeding in the IBA include crested and lesser crested terns, and pied cormorants.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church, currently known as the Richmond Center for the Performing Arts, is a church building located at 69619 Parker in Richmond, Michigan, and is the oldest public building in the city. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1871, a group of Richmond settlers formed the First Congregational Church. The congregations first church was built in 1872, In 1973, the congregation of the First Congregational Church merged with nearby St. Pauls Evangelical and Reformed Church, and the building was sold to the Richmond Community Theatre. The theatre group restored the exterior of the church, and adapted the interior for use as a theatre. As of 2011, the building houses the Richmond Center for the Performing Arts and is administered by the Richmond Board of Education.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Richmond&#39;s First Congregational Church is a Gothic Revival structure constructed of red brick on a fieldstone foundation. The front facade is asymmetrical, with a square tower with wooden belfry standing to one side of the entrance. Stepped buttresses and lancet windows containing tracery decorate the exterior, making the building a significant and well-reserved example of 19th-century Gothic Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Trunk Western Railroad, Mount Clemens Station is a railroad depot located at 198 Grand Street in Mt. Clemens, Michigan. Young Thomas Edison learned telegraphy at this station. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973. It is now operated as the Michigan Transit Museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mount Clemens was first settled in 1781, and in 1818 became the county seat of Macomb County. In the fall of 1859, Grand Trunk Western Railroad opened their Port Huron to Detroit line, travelling through Mount Clemens. The Mount Clemens station was identical to other stations built in New Haven, Fraser, and Richmond around the same time; the four are very similar to stations constructed earlier by Grand Trunk in Ontario which were likely based on an 1841 English design.</p><br>
<p>Soon after opening, the railroad hired twelve-year-old Thomas Edison, whose family had moved to Port Huron five years earlier, as a newsboy and candy salesman on the Port Huron - Detroit run. In August 1862, while the train was laying over at the Mount Clemens station, Edison pulled a three-year-old boy from the path of an oncoming train. As a reward, the boy&#39;s father, station agent J. U. Mackenzie, taught the young Edison train telegraphy and operation, spurring his interest in technology. In later years, Mackenzie joined Edison at his Menlo Park laboratory as a research associate.</p><br>
<p>Additional structures were constructed at the site over time, including a station master&#39;s house, water tower, water closet, and a second depot for freight located farther to the north.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Grand Trunk Western Rail Station in Mount Clemens is a one-story Italianate building, rectangular in plan and constructed of bricks on a stone foundation. The walls are mostly red brick, with yellow brick quoins and window hoods, and wooden trim. A wooden walkway runs the length of the street side of the building. The shingled gabled roof is supported with wooden brackets, and eaves extend eight feet from the walls. The long sides of the building are divided into five bays of arches. Of the five street side bay arches, three contain large windows, one contains a double entrance door, and the fifth arch is bricked with a small double-hung window inset. Of the five track side bay arches, two contain large windows, two contain double entrance doors, and the fifth arch is covered by a small projecting addition, which is a 1980s reconstruction of an 1880s telegraph operator&#39;s booth. The shorter, gabled ends are divided into two bays of arched windows, with a recessed ocular window above.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the structure is divided into two main parts: The southern section is the waiting room, and has wooden floors, wooden ceiling, and plaster walls with wainscoting. Entrances to a restroom and storage room are to one side. The northern section of the building is the staff work area, and has concrete floors, painted wooden ceiling, and plaster walls with wainscoting. An office and mechanical room are on one side, and the re-created telegraph bay is on the other. The dividing wall between the southern and northern section holds an access door and a re-created ticket office window, with a brass grill is from the demolished Grand Trunk Brush Street depot in Detroit.</p><br>
<p>North of the depot is a c. 1893 wooden clapboard water closet. It has a single entrance on one side and boarded windows on the other three.</p><br>
<p>Booker T. Washington High School, also known as Grant Junior High School and Grant Elementary, is a historic high school building located near London, Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was built in 1925, and is a two-story, "L"-shaped wire brick building with a rear section in tile block and brick. It is in the Streamline Moderne style. It was built as a high school for African American children during the period of segregated educational facilities. After desegregation in 1956, it was used as a junior high school, then an elementary school. The school closed in June 1986, and is now used as a community center. It was one of two early high schools for African Americans in Kanawha County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>William E. Mohler House, also known as "Hill Grove," is a historic home located at St. Albans, Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was built about 1900, and is a 2 1/2-story, frame rectangular dwelling with a corner tower in the Queen Anne style. It sits on a stone foundation. It has a complex roof of multiple gables, with four colossal paneled brick chimneys. The upper most floor houses a ballroom. It was built by William E. Mohler, president of the area&#39;s largest lumber company. The property was sold for use as a church in 1965, and occupied by Covenant Presbyterian Church when listed in 1983. In 1992, Covenant Presbyterian Church moved to Nitro, West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Pratt Historic District is a national historic district located at Pratt, Kanawha County, West Virginia. The district includes 67 contributing buildings and one contributing site. The primarily residential district includes some notable commercial, ecclesiastical, civic, and industrial buildings dated as early as the 1820s. Notable buildings include the Charles Pratt Mining Company office , I.O.O.F. Building , Samuel Hanna House , Jim Shields Corner , James Trimble House, Weaver-Grose House , Burke-Mooney House, Boyer House , The Blue House, Perry-Holt House , Old Town Hall , The Cooperage, and Pratt Cemetery. The delisted Mother Jones Prison was once located in the district.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Baxter County Courthouse is a courthouse in Mountain Home, Arkansas, United States, the county seat of Baxter County, built in 1941. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The building replaced another courthouse on the same site which was deemed unsafe in 1939.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Baxter County was established on March 24, 1873 by the Arkansas General Assembly from parts of four neighboring counties. The county seat was established at Mountain Home, which was a community atop a plateau between the North Fork River and White River. County government initially inhabited the Jacob Wolf House in Norfork. Today, the structure is the oldest standing county courthouse in Arkansas, built in 1811.</p><br>
<h3>Building the courthouse</h3><br>
<p>County Judge R. M. Ruthven declared the county courthouse to be unsafe and too small for county needs in 1939. Ruthven was instrumental in the construction of the Cotter Bridge in Baxter County which opened the area to commerce in 1928. The courthouse was expanded from two to three stories as a method to keep the county seat in Mountain Home in response to a 1912 state law which kept county seats from moving out of three story buildings. Ruthven acquired the services of T. Ewing Shelton, an architect from Fayetteville, Arkansas to draft plans for a new courthouse. The plans were received and approved by voters, despite protests by Gassville and Cotter residents who wanted the county seat relocated to their cities with greater populations.</p><br>
<p>During the 1940s, Baxter County was very depressed economically and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was active in the county. Mountain Home was a shrinking community with little industry and few paved roads. As a county, Baxter County saw many farmers abandon their farms and move away during the 1940s. Construction began on the Norfork Dam in 1941 and the Bull Shoals Dam in 1947. The courthouse project received state approval as a WPA project the following year and construction began after razing the old courthouse in August 1941.</p><br>
<h2>Opening</h2><br>
<p>The new building was unveiled for county courthouse functions in August 1943. It contained all county offices, a courtroom, office space to be rented to lawyers, and the county library. Today many offices have left the courthouse.</p><br>
<p>Weston Colored School, also known as the Central West Virginia Genealogical & Historical Library and Museum and Frontier School, is a historic one-room school building located at Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia. It was built in 1882, and is a single-story rubbed red brick building on a fieldstone foundation. It originally measured 22 feet by 28 feet, then enlarged in 1928 by 12 feet, 6 inches. It was used as an educational facility for the community&#39;s African-American youth until desegregation in 1954. It was subsequently used for storage, then an agricultural classroom for the Lewis County High School, and as a shop for mentally retarded students. It afterwards was used by the Central West Virginia Genealogical & Historical Library and Museum.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It is located in the Weston Downtown Residential Historic District, listed in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Jacksons Mill State 4-H Camp Historic District, also known as West Virginia University Jacksons Mill, is a historic 4-H camp and national historic district near Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia. The district includes 23 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, 4 contributing structures, and 2 contributing objects. The camp was established in 1921 as the first statewide 4-H camp in the United States. The district includes buildings related to the site’s inception as a homestead and agricultural area as well as its current manifestation as a youth camp facility and conference center.</p><br>
<p>Notable contributing resources include the Mount Vernon Dining Hall (1926), Assembly Hall (1923), West Virginia Building (1934), Council Circle (1922), Amphitheatre (1940), Vesper Rock (1925), Teepi Shrine (1949), Dominion Trail (1942), 15 residential cottages, the Southeastern Learning Center (c. 1940), Electric Energy Center (1940), Dorsey Resource Center (1978), Registration Office/Old Health Center (1950), Old Administration Building (1952), McWhorter Cabin (1793, 1927), Informal Garden (c. 1934), Jackson Homestead Marker (1915), Jackson Spring (1922), Camp Gates (1942), Camp Green (1922), and Maintenance Garage (1935). It is co-located with the separately listed Jackson&#39;s Mill. The property was the boyhood home of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson from 1831 to 1842.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Weston Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia. The district includes 58 contributing buildings in the central business district of Weston. Most of the buildings were built between 1875 and 1920, with the earliest dating to about 1845. Notable buildings include the USA Post Office , the Art Deco style Citizens Bank of Weston , B&O Railroad Depot / Weston Municipal Building, Camden Building-Weston National Bank , Old Citizen&#39;s Bank Building , Bennett House , Fuccy-Koblegard Building , and the East and West Second Street Truss Bridge . The district includes the separately listed Jonathan M. Bennett House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Heskin Hall is a manor house in Heskin, Lancashire, England. Construction began on the present hall in 1545 making it a Tudor building which has been designated a Grade I listed building by Historic England.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1506 the lands were sold to Edmund Dudley who was Minister for king Henry VII. Dudley was executed by the king for treason and the land passed to his widow Elizabeth who later married Arthur Plantagenet. The land passed to John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland in 1511, who was later executed by Queen Mary and his son Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester was a favourite of Elizabeth I. In 1556 the estate was bought by Richard Molyneux who also bought lands from Mary Seymour, the widow of Thomas Seymour who was the father of Jane Seymour (wife of Henry the VIII). In 1885, it was purchased by Henry Rawcliffe of Gillibrand Hall.</p><br>
<p>Lord Lilford was the last person to occupy the house with Lady Lilford (his fourth wife) who was an ex-dancer and actress. They divorced in 1969 and Lady Lilford gained the Heskin Estate as part of the divorce settlement. It was later occupied by Blackburn College as a training centre, followed by Moben Kitchens as offices and sales training purposes, before its present use as an antique centre which opened in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The present house although has a date of 1670 on the front wall, was first constructed in 1545 of red brick with blue diapering and sandstone dressings. The roofs are blue slate. It has an L-shaped plan and is on three storeys. The south-facing front façade has gables, and is asymmetrical. There is a spout head on this front wall bearing the date 1679 and the initials of Alexander Mawdesley.</p><br>
<p>The house has been designated a Grade I listed building on the National Heritage List for England database since 1952. The Grade I designation—the highest of the three grades—is for buildings "of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important". Hartwell and Pevsner (2009) describe it as "a very interesting house".</p><br>
<h2>Ghosts</h2><br>
<p>There are said to be numerous ghosts that inhabit the hall. Two are believed to date from the English Civil War, which took place in the local area, with several battles taking place near to the hall. It is also believed that Oliver Cromwell rested at the Hall overnight as a guest of the then owner John Molyneux who had declared for Parliament after the siege at Lathom House. The ghosts are of a young Roman Catholic girl who was hanged by a priest as evidence of his conversion to Protestantism. Cromwell&#39;s soldiers were not convinced and hung him on the same spot as the girl at Heskin Hall.</p><br>
<p>Lady Lilford reported that on one occasion her guests departed due to their experience of the ghosts.</p><br>
<p>The Chi Omega Chapter House is a building built in 1927 on the campus of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The University of Arkansas became Arkansas&#39; land-grant university in 1871 when Old Main was constructed atop McIlroy Hill. Kappa Sigma was founded as the first fraternity at the university in 1890, and in 1895 the Chi Omega fraternity for women (today called sorority) was created. The group bought Lot 12, Block 3 in the Oakland Place Addition in 1928, becoming the first Greek house to own campus property.</p><br>
<p>University building superintendent Charles L. Ellis was contacted to draw up plans for the house, and construction began in 1928. The contract was awarded to the Wages Brothers who worked with architect/Fayetteville building inspector James Dinwiddie.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building has distinct Colonial Revival architecture details such as the large front porch, dentil course along the cornice line, and a pediment over the front entrance. The chapter house also includes a suspended roof supported by four Roman doric columns.</p><br>
<h3>Additions</h3><br>
<p>Chi Omega has expanded onto the chapter house twice, first in 1941 and again in 1958. The first addition made it possible to house 75 members and a housemother. The 1958 construction consisted of an expanded kitchen and dining room, more bathrooms, more closets, and more bedrooms. Amenities added in 1958 were a sun porch, porte-cochère, study room, office, recreation room, and a men&#39;s room.</p><br>
<p>The Dixie Schoolhouse is a historic one-room schoolhouse located in San Rafael, Marin County, Northern California. It was built in 1864, in the Victorian Italianate style.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school was the project of Irish immigrant and Marin pioneer James Miller. The school was named "Dixie" as a dare to Miller by some builders from the American South. The school was in use for classes from 1864 until 1958. The Dixie School District gets its name from this first school.</p><br>
<p>In June 1971, the schoolhouse was moved to its current location, at 2255 Las Gallinas Avenue near Miller Creek Middle School, also in San Rafael. It was restored and renovated prior to being listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The school is currently preserved by the Old Dixie School Foundation, and is open to the public for visits on the first Sunday of every month from 2-4 P.M.</p><br>
<p>Barelas is an inner-city neighborhood of Albuquerque, New Mexico, located immediately south of Downtown. It consists of the triangular area bounded by Coal Avenue, the BNSF railroad tracks, and the Rio Grande. Originally a separate village, it was absorbed into Albuquerque during the railroad-fueled growth of the 1880s but still retains a distinct identity. The settlement was formally established in 1662, predating even Old Town as the oldest neighborhood in the city. Although it was long one of Albuquerque&#39;s most economically distressed areas, Barelas has seen significant development since the opening of the National Hispanic Cultural Center in 2000 and may be starting to experience gentrification.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood&#39;s main commercial area is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early history</h3><br>
<p>The area now known as Barelas was originally the site of an important river crossing on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the main Spanish trade route through New Mexico. The crossing was described by Zebulon Pike in 1807 as being "400 yards wide, but not more than three feet deep and excellent fording". A settlement was formally established there (on paper at least) by colonial governor Diego de Peñalosa in 1662, though it remained largely unpopulated until the 19th century. The name Barelas is thought to come from a local landowner named Pedro Varela (or Barela), who had a ranch in the area.</p><br>
<p>Barelas in the late 1800s was a quiet agricultural community, with 309 residents listed in the 1870 Census and 350 in 1880. The village did see minor action during the American Civil War, most notably during the Battle of Albuquerque in April 1862. On that occasion, Union troops in Barelas exchanged long-range artillery fire with a Confederate position east of Albuquerque for several hours, with no casualties.</p><br>
<h3>Boom years</h3><br>
<p>The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reached Albuquerque in 1880. In order to keep the route as straight as possible, however, the railroad planners chose to build the Albuquerque depot and some 1.5 mi east of the actual town. This led to the immediate creation of a separate "New Town" adjacent to the depot and directly north of Barelas. Fueled by the presence of the massive Santa Fe Railway Shops, Albuquerque&#39;s largest employer at the time, Barelas underwent a rapid transformation from quiet farming village to busy blue-collar neighborhood. By 1900 there were over 1,200 residents, many of whom worked for the railroad. Most of Barelas was incorporated into the City of Albuquerque in 1891, marking its end as a separate community.</p><br>
<p>Barelas saw increased prosperity after 4th Street, one of the main arteries through the neighborhood, was designated as part of USA Route 66 in 1926. The road was soon lined with filling stations, garages, and cafes catering to the steady stream of travelers passing through Barelas.</p><br>
<h3>Decline</h3><br>
<p>Barelas suffered a series of economic setbacks in the mid-20th century, the first of which was the realignment of Route 66 in 1937. The new east-west route was 90 mi shorter, but the rerouting of the highway from 4th Street to Central Avenue bypassed Barelas entirely. Traffic on 4th eroded further still when Interstate 25 supplanted USA 85 as Albuquerque&#39;s main north-south highway.</p><br>
<p>To make matters worse, the railroad shops closed in 1970,</p><br>
<h3>Renewal</h3><br>
<p>Barelas has experienced a gradual resurgence since the late 1980s as demand for housing near Downtown has increased. A major turning point came in 2000 with the opening of the National Hispanic Cultural Center, a $50 million project that brought visitors and capital back into the neighborhood. The opening of the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce and Barelas Job Opportunity Center in 2001 has also furthered economic development in Barelas.</p><br>
<p>In 1997, the commercial area along 4th Street was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Barelas-South Fourth Street Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The neighborhood occupies a roughly triangular region between the Rio Grande and the BNSF railroad tracks south of Coal Avenue, which forms the boundary with Downtown. The area claimed by the Barelas Neighborhood Association extends all the way south to Woodward Road, though south of Bridge Boulevard the neighborhood becomes primarily industrial rather than residential. Geographically speaking Barelas is somewhat isolated, with the railyard and river separating it from adjacent areas to the east and west.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>Barelas has around 3,700 inhabitants, roughly two thirds of whom are Hispanic. It has historically been one of the poorest neighborhoods in Albuquerque. In 2000, per capita income was $5,871, with 46.4% of the population below the poverty line and 20.5% of households receiving public assistance. The unemployment rate was 21.9%.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Barelas was formerly served by two major highways, USA Route 85 and USA Route 66. Both took the same route through the neighborhood, following 4th Street south before turning west across the Barelas Bridge. Although both highways were later rerouted, 4th Street and Bridge Boulevard are still the primary thoroughfares in Barelas and the bridge remains an important link for local traffic.</p><br>
<p>Public transit in Barelas is provided by ABQ RIDE&#39;s 53 Isleta and 54 Bridge/Westgate city bus routes, which follow 8th Street and 4th Street respectively. Additional rail and bus connections are available a few blocks north of Barelas at the Alvarado Transportation Center.</p><br>
<h2>Notable residents</h2><br>
<p>Rudolfo Anaya, author</p><br>
<p>Dennis Chavez, USA senator</p><br>
<p>Alphonse Gallegos, Auxiliary Bishop of Sacramento</p><br>
<h2>Places of interest</h2><br>
<p>National Hispanic Cultural Center</p><br>
<p>Rio Grande Zoo</p><br>
<p>Tingley Field (demolished)</p><br>
<h3>National Register of Historic Places</h3><br>
<p>In addition to the Barelas-South Fourth Street Historic District, there are a number of individual NRHP properties in Barelas:</p><br>
<p>Coronado School</p><br>
<p>Charles W. Lewis Building</p><br>
<p>Newlander Apartments</p><br>
<p>Santa Fe Railway Shops</p><br>
<p>Shoup Boardinghouse</p><br>
<p>Superintendent&#39;s House, Atlantic & Pacific Railroad</p><br>
<p>West San Jose School</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>Barelas was the setting for Time and Again Barelas, a three-act opera by Miguel del Aguila. Commissioned for Albuquerque&#39;s Tricentennial celebration, the opera premiered on April 20, 2006 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.</p><br>
<p>The vacant railyard complex in Barelas has become a frequently-used filming location. Movies filmed there include Beerfest (2006), The Spirit (2008), Gamer (2009), Terminator Salvation (2009), and The Avengers (2012). The pilot episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles also used the railyard as a location. Many scenes from Breaking Bad were filmed at the railyard.</p><br>
<p>Chřiby  is a geographic region of the Czech Republic, part of the Central Moravian Carpathians of the Outer Western Carpathians.</p><br>
<p>The area is a 335 square kilometer nature park and tourist park, offering a variety of natural features, rock formations, and historical monuments. Chřiby is the highest portion of the Central Moravian Carpathiants, composed of clay and sandstone cliffs, covered by dense deciduous forest, crossed by the Morava River, and dotted with Czech national parks and nature reserves. The highest point is Brdo, at 586 meters.</p><br>
<p>The name Chřiby is of ancient origin. The region was populated by humans as early as the Paleolithic era, and on the medieval trade route from the Adriatic to the Baltic; among the many historical resources of the area is Buchlov Castle, dating from the 13th century.</p><br>
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<p>The Lowbidgee Floodplain extends from Balranald to near Waradgery Station, about 20 km west of Hay, in south-western New South Wales. The Lowbidgee Floodplain is part of the Traditional lands of the Nari Nari and Muthi Muthi Aboriginal peoples.</p><br>
<p>It comprises an extensive (c. 2,000 km&sup2;) floodplain of the lower Murrumbidgee River and its tributaries, including the confluence of the Murrumbidgee with the Lachlan River, with numerous swamps and lakes. The extent of the floodplain has been reduced in size from over 3,000 km&sup2; at the beginning of the 20th century by the construction of dams, irrigation systems and other hydraulic engineering works, with the water inflow declining by at least 60% between 1888 and 1998. Apart from Yanga National Park (established in 2005 on the former Yanga Station) most of the floodplain consists of commercial irrigated farmland.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>A 1,908 km&sup2; area of the floodplain, defined as the maximum area of contemporary flooding, has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it has supported up to 650,000 waterbirds during times of major flooding, and regularly supports over 1% of the world populations of black swans, freckled ducks, pink-eared ducks, grey teals, Australasian shovelers, straw-necked ibises, yellow-billed spoonbills and white-headed stilts. Other birds that have been recorded in large numbers include whiskered terns and Eurasian coots. Reduced inundation of the floodplain, through the construction of water management works, has resulted in waterbird numbers dropping by 90%, from an average of 140,000 in 1983-86 to 14,000 in 1998-2001.</p><br>
<p>The Seven Ladders Canyon  is a mountainous canyon carved by the Șapte Scări Brook in Romania in the county of Brașov, south of Timișu de Jos village. It is considered to be one of the main tourist attractions from the Piatra Mare massif.</p><br>
<p>The canyon has been carved in Jurassic limestone and is composed by seven waterfalls, the tallest being 35 m high. The trail within the canyon is arranged with metal stairs and platforms.</p><br>
<p>7 stairs Canyon, or the "subdivision" of Piatra Mare Mountain miracles, is composed of exactly 7 slope bits illustrating the 7 waterfalls that give the name of the canyon. The 7 steps pass with heights between 2.5 meters and 15 meters turn into cascades when the water volume of the river Seven Stairs increases.</p><br>
<p>The Lowendal Islands comprise an archipelago, with a total area of about 160 ha of land lying off the coast of Western Australia. It is important for breeding seabirds.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The archipelago lies 10 km north-east of the much larger Barrow Island, and 15 km south of the Montebello Islands, about 120 km west of the port of Dampier. Of the 34 islands, the largest is 83 ha Varanus Island, 2.5 km long by 600 m wide. Other large islands are Bridled (27 ha), Abutilon (27 ha), Parkinsonia (10 ha) and Beacon (1.5 ha). Geologically, the islands are formed of uplifted and sparsely vegetated limestone. The inshore waters of the archipelago support coral reefs as well as beds of seagrass and seaweed. Varanus Island houses a gas separation plant, oil storage tanks and a pipeline for loading offshore tankers.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>The archipelago has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it regularly supports over 1% of the world populations of crested and bridled terns. Other seabirds recorded as having bred on the islands include wedge-tailed shearwaters, pied cormorants, roseate, lesser crested and Caspian terns, and silver gulls.</p><br>
<p>The Bowles–Cooley House is located at the corner of West Francis and North First streets in Aspen, Colorado, United States. It is a brick structure in the Queen Anne architectural style built during the 1880s. In 1987 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with many other historic properties in the city.</p><br>
<p>It is one of the few large brick houses built in Aspen during its early boomtown era, and one of the largest houses built in the city&#39;s West End. The name comes from its first two residents, a local lumber merchant who built it and a mining lawyer. Many years later it would be the home of Red Rowland, vice president of the Aspen Skiing Company and manager of the Aspen Mountain ski area. It is considered an excellent local example of the Queen Anne style, and has been preserved relatively intact. It continues to be a private residence.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on the southwest corner of the intersection, in Aspens residential West End near the north end of the citys grid plan streets. Neighboring properties are all houses of generally more modern vintage; an exception is the Davis Waite House, also listed on the National Register, across the street at the other end of the block. Mature trees on all lots provide shade complementary to that already provided by Aspen Mountain to the south. The land remains level, sloping minimally towards the Roaring Fork River 600 ft to the northeast.</p><br>
<p>A small iron fence sets off the property from the street. The building itself is a three-story brick structure on a rusticated sandstone foundation.</p><br>
<p>Windows are tall, narrow one-over-one double-hung sash with sandstone sills and wooden surrounds. Next to the entrance is an arched stained glass window. The east face has a shed-roofed bay window with stone brackets below. On the second story the lintels are topped with a wooden course which separates the brick siding from fish-scale wooden shingles above. At the roofline the gables have decorated wooden vergeboards. Brackets support either end of the projecting section, and all gable ends have a small ball finial. The projecting and cross-gable are further topped with a wooden decoration.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the house retains much of its original woodwork. Much of it is golden oak and hand-grained mahogany. The main staircase has oak paneling, turned balusters on the railings and newel posts with carved wood insets. In the living room, the fireplace mantel is oak with a plate glass mirror behind it. Its floor has an unusual pattern of quarter-sawn limed oak with boards running parallel to the angled walls and decreasing in length near the center of the room. The dining room has its original brass light fixtures.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>From a small collection of tents and log cabins in the late 1870s, Aspen grew into a city of thousands during the 1880s. The Colorado Silver Boom drew miners and others into the upper Roaring Fork Valley, all hoping to share in the prosperity. One of the latter was Ryland R. Bowles, who sold lumber and built houses. By 1889 he had made enough money to build the house in the city&#39;s West End, where many of its other early rich settled. Its asymmetrical massing and cross-gables were hallmarks of the Queen Anne Style then newly popular.</p><br>
<p>Two years later the house became the property of William Cooley, a lawyer who represented local mining interests. In 1893 Aspens prosperity ended when, responding to that years economic crisis, Congress repealed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. With the USA government no longer required to buy silver, the market contracted and many of Aspen&#39;s mines closed.</p><br>
<p>The next half-century was a period known in the citys history as "the quiet years". Its population steadily declined along with its economic opportunities. Many of the buildings from its boom years fell vacant, and eventually succumbed to fire or neglect abetted by the effects of severe winters at almost 8,000 ft above sea level in a remote mountain valley. The Bowles–Cooley House did not, and when the citys fortunes reversed as it developed into a popular ski resort, it was in good enough shape to be the home of Red Rowland, a vice president of the Aspen Skiing Company and manager of the ski area.</p><br>
<p>Troitse-Scanov Convent  is a Convent in the Penza Oblast of Russia. It is located 4 km from the district center Narovchat. Its architecture demonstrates the transition from baroque to classicism.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Troitse-Scanov Convent was founded in the middle of the 17th century as a monastery. The word Troitse is the Russian word Троица (Holy Trinity). The word Scanov came from a river Skanova that allegedly flowed near the monastery.</p><br>
<p>In April 26, 1676 а strong fire destroyed all the wooden buildings of the monastery. After the fire two churches were built on the site: a new wooden church of the Holy Trinity which endured until the fire in 1785, and the church of St. Nicholas, which was demolished in 1802 due to dilapidation of the bell tower. In 1795, a new brick two-story five-domed cathedral with outdoor painting was built at this place. The first builder of the new church was abbot monk Arseniy I, and after his death - Abbot Cornelius. The church was painted by a cathedral priest named Parfentiev. He also painted the icons for the cathedral. On the ground floor of the church, the throne of the Dormition of the Mother of God was placed. It was consecrated by Abbot-builder Cornelius in October 8, 1801. On the upper floor a throne of the Trinity was located. It was consecrated by Abbot Archimandrite Israel in May 29, 1808. numerous residences, offices and outbuildings were built around the church. After 1917 the monastery was closed.</p><br>
<h2>Cave monastery</h2><br>
<p>A cave monastery, dug by the monks in the mountain is located 1.5 km from Troitse-Scanov Convent. It has three-level underground paths with the little rooms around. The founder of the cave monastery was Arseny II, who retired to the cave in 1826. In 1866-1880 a five-domed stone church was built on the mountain. After closing the cave monastery in 1917 the buildings were destroyed. The remaining underground paths are about 600 m, out of the original total of 2.5 km. A staircase of 144 steps leads to the cave complex.</p><br>
<h2>Revival</h2><br>
<p>In 1985 the buildings were transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church and the monastery has resumed its activities as a convent. At one time it housed 70 nuns and 10 children. In April 12, 1990 the first service after the break took place, and in October 1999 the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Alexy I, visited the convent. The most highly revered shrine of the convent is the icon of the Mother of God, called "Trubchevsk" which was painted by the monk Euthymius in Chelnsky Monastery in 1765. (Chelnsky Monastery is in the town of Trubchevsk in the Bryansk region)</p><br>
<p>The Soldiers and Sailors Arch at the Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York City, is a triumphal arch dedicated "To the Defenders of the Union, 1861–1865". The eastern end with a stairway to the observation deck and crowning sculpture was open to the public until the early 2000s, when deterioration of the interior made it unsafe for the public.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On August 6, 1889, William R. Ware and Charles B. Atwood, who had been appointed by the Soldiers and Sailors Monument Commission, selected John H. Duncan&#39;s design for the arch from 36 designs submitted the previous year.</p><br>
<p>Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, in collaboration with architect Stanford White, built the arch after two-and-a-half months of site preparation; William Tecumseh Sherman was the speaker at the 1889 cornerstone, and President Grover Cleveland led the 1892 unveiling.</p><br>
<p>The McKim, Mead and White firm recommended the bronze statues for the City Beautiful movement, and Park Commissioner Frank Squire engaged Frederick MacMonnies in 1894 to design the three bronze sculptural groupings. The interior arch faces have equestrian bas-reliefs of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant sculpted by William Rudolf O&#39;Donovan (men) and Thomas Eakins (horses), that were added in 1895. are the Army and Navy sculptures and the allegorical crowning sculpture. This sculpture depicts the winged goddess of victory, following victorious combat (the Civil War) with instruments of war: sword, colors, flagstaff, and quadriga (the Union Army). Winged attendants are seen removing two of the four quadriga horses for peacetime use (postbellum recovery) while trumpeting the victory and freedom (Emancipation).</p><br>
<p>The arch was designated a landmark in 1973, and the crowning sculpture was restored after the chariot&#39;s figure fell out in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The George Taylor Jr. House is a historic house located at 187 North 400 West in Provo, Utah. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>This house was built in the 1880s. This house was designated to the Provo City Landmarks register on August 22, 1995.</p><br>
<h2>George Taylor Jr.</h2><br>
<p>George Taylor Jr. was born on August 31, 1864 in Provo, Utah. His father, George Taylor Sr., had founded the Taylor furniture store in 1866, which was the first furniture store in Provo. The business became incorporated in 1890 as the Taylor Brothers Company. George Jr. served as vice president and Eliza Taylor served as president. As the corporation grew, Taylor Brothers Company became the first big department store in Provo. In December 1814, George Taylor Jr., married Sarah Elizabeth Thomas in Manti. He built this home with the help of his father-in-law, a mason. The home was sold to Joseph F. Andrew in 1891, who in turn sold it in 1894 to Joseph D. Jones, a probate judge and entrepreneur. Jones sold the house to John D. Dixon in 1899, where the ownership remained until 1906 when James E. Hosmer attained the home. Hosmer sold the house to Eliza N. Taylor, and she sold it to her son George who returned in 1909 to live there until he died in December 1941. The house presently remains in the Taylor family and is rented as offices.</p><br>
<p>In 2012, restoration work was begun on the home in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity and on November 20, 2014, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held for the finished home.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Thomas N. Taylor House * 342 North 500 West * Provo, Utah</h2><br>
<p>The Thomas N. Taylor House is a historic house located at 342 North 500 West in Provo, Utah. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>"Built in 1904, the Thomas N. Taylor house exemplifies the "dream home" of many in Utah&#39;s second generation. This house is significant as the most outstanding and well-preserved example of the Classical Box style in Provo. The box style was used extensively in Salt Lake City but was not common in Provo. Its classical detailing, irregular massing and unaltered condition make it particularly distinctive among the limited number of Provo examples of this type. Thomas N. Taylor was a popular man in the area. He served as manager of the Taylor Brothers Store, Provo mayor, and President of the Utah Stake of the LDS Church (Historic Provo p. 9)." The Thomas Taylor House was designated to the Provo City Landmarks register as of July 28, 1995.</p><br>
<h3>The Victorian Mansions of Provo</h3><br>
<p>Built between the years 1893 and 1908 in Provo, Utah, this group of Victorian mansions are historically significant and represent not only fine architecture but some of the most successful men of the city and state at the time. These mansions include the Charles E. Loose House, the William H. Ray House, the Knight-Allen House, the John R. Twelves House, the Jesse Knight House, the Knight-Mangum House, and the Thomas N. Taylor House. All of these homes derive from the high style: Eastlake, Shingle, Craftsman, Italianate, Classical, Moorish, Colonial, and Romanesque Revivals. Made primarily of brick, these homes exhibit the finest architecture and most ornate detailing to be found in the city of Provo.</p><br>
<h3>Thomas N. Taylor</h3><br>
<p>Thomas N. Taylor was born in 1868 in Provo, Utah, the son of George Taylor Sr. and Eliza Nicholls Taylor. His father, George Taylor Sr., had founded the Taylor furniture store in 1866, which was the first furniture store in Provo. "In 1890 the business was incorporated as the Taylor Brothers Company with George, Jr., as vice-president and his mother, Eliza Nicholls Taylor as president. The business expanded, and with new lines of products and new departments, the Taylor Brothers Company became the first big "department store" in Provo (National Park Service p. 2)." Thomas&#39; education consisted of attending Provo schools and eventually Brigham Young Academy (now university). He married Maud Rogers in the L.D.S. Manti temple in the year 1889. Thomas was a political man. He was mayor of Provo from 1900 to 1903, and a candidate for governor of Utah as a democrat in 1920, although he did not win the election.</p><br>
<p>Thomas was also active in his religion. A prominent member of the L.D.S. faith, Taylor served as bishop of the Provo Third Ward for nineteen years and subsequently served as president of the Utah Stake for twenty years. Taylor also served as a stake patriarch within the LDS Church. Also active within the community, Thomas was a member of the board of trustees of Brigham Young University and served as chairman of that group and of the University of Utah Board of Regents. Taylor also helped to establish the Utah Valley Hospital. Thomas Taylor died in 1950. As for his home, "The house was deeded to Taylor Brothers after Taylor&#39;s death. In 1957 David S. Nelson bought the house. He owned it for sixteen years, then sold the house to Verl G. Dixon, a former mayor of Provo."</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as part of a multiple property submission that nominated seven and listed six Provo houses. The listed houses are the Knight-Mangum House, the John R. Twelves House, the Jesse Knight House, the Knight-Allen House, the William H. Ray House, and this house, the Thomas N. Taylor House. The seventh, the Charles E. Loose House, was determined to be NRHP-eligible but was not NRHP-listed due to owner objection.</p><br>
<p>Davis Lake straddles the border between Deschutes County and Klamath County in the USA state of Oregon. A relatively large and shallow lake in the Deschutes National Forest, it is located toward the south end of the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway, near Oregon Route 58 and USA 97. The lake is known as one of Oregon&#39;s best bass lakes.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Davis Lake was formed by a lava flow within the nearby volcanic field blocking Odell Creek. The blockage results in the lake, which can cover over 3,000 acre acres in the winter months. In the summer, however, the inflow from Odell and Ranger creeks cannot fill up the lake as fast as the water escapes through the lava blockage, resulting in the lake covering a much smaller area. It is unknown where the water goes that escapes through the lava dam.</p><br>
<p>Davis Lake is known for its fishing. Only fly fishing with artificial flies is permitted. Rainbow trout are planted to assist natural reproduction. The piscivorous trout, native to the lake, feeds on the invasive Tui chub.</p><br>
<p>In the 1980s and 1990s, years of drought lowered the levels and warmed the waters of the lake, affecting the trout, which thrive during high-water years. In 1995, largemouth bass were illegally put into the lake, feeding off of the smaller trout. Now, the bass population is greater than the trout population.</p><br>
<h2>Amenities</h2><br>
<p>Davis Lake is a fly-fishing lake only. Motors are allowed, and per the 2013 Oregon Sport Fishing Regulations trolling is allowed. Speed is limited to 10 mph. There is boat ramp located on the west side of Odell Creek and at South Davis Campground higher up Odell Creek. Boat launching at Lava Flow campground is also an option.</p><br>
<p>There are three campgrounds on the shores of the lake—one each on the west and east sides, and one near the lava flow—which comprise 70 individual campsites. All three campgrounds provide firepits, picnic tables, and toilets, and the east and west side campgrounds provide water.</p><br>
<p>Cumbooquepa is a heritage-listed house at Somerville House, 253 Vulture Street, South Brisbane, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by George Henry Male Addison and built in 1890. It is also known as Brisbane High School for Girls. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Cumbooquepa is a large single-storeyed house built in 1890 on a ridge overlooking the South Brisbane Reach of the Brisbane River.</p><br>
<p>The land was acquired in 1856 by Thomas Blacket Stephens, a politician, newspaper proprietor and businessman, who became Brisbane&#39;s second mayor. Stevens built a timber dwelling called Cumbooquepa on the property. He died in 1877 and management of his estate passed to his eldest son, William Stephens, a politician, businessman and first mayor of South Brisbane.</p><br>
<p>In 1890 the Stephens family moved into a new house designed by GHM Addison where they lived until the early 1900s. This second Cumbooquepa was built on a higher part of the site, a short distance from the original which was demolished in 1890 to make way for the south coast and southern suburbs railway line.</p><br>
<p>The house remained in the family until 1919 when the property was acquired by the Presbyterian and Methodist Schools Association as the new premises for the Brisbane High School for Girls. In 1920 Somerville House was added to the title of the school honouring Mary Somerville, a Scottish scientist whose name was also associated with Somerville College at the University of Oxford. Constance Elizabeth Harker and Marjorie Kate Jarrett, important for their contributions to female education in Queensland, were the co-principals of the school from 1909 until the retirement of Miss Harker in 1931.</p><br>
<p>An L-shaped two-storeyed educational block was built in 1920 to a design by architects Chambers and Powell with an extension containing a gymnasium and chemistry and biology laboratories completed in 1926.</p><br>
<p>A two-roomed library building designed by Thomas Brenan Femister Gargett as a memorial to CE Harker was opened in 1935 and extended to include an art studio in 1939–40. The former library includes memorial stained glass windows by William Bustard. It was probably the first purpose-designed library building at a girls&#39; school in Queensland. Recently altered, the building is now used as a chapel.</p><br>
<p>Early in 1942 Somerville House became General Headquarters, United Army Forces Far East, United States Army Services of Supply and Base Section 3. TBF Gargett, architect to the US Army, was responsible for adapting the school buildings for the army. During this period the school relocated, reopening at South Brisbane in January 1945.</p><br>
<p>Since the Second World War various classrooms, a five-storeyed science wing and sporting facilities have been erected. The Constance Harker Hall was built during the 1970s. It houses an 1888 pipe organ by Alfred Hunter & Sons of London.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Somerville House comprises structures and landscaping elements, including paths, walls and cuttings on the large triangular block bounded on the north side by Vulture Street and on the west by the railway line. The buildings situated on the main Vulture Street frontage are Cumbooquepa in the north eastern part of the site and, in the northwest corner, the former library/studio building.</p><br>
<p>Cumbooquepa, a single-storeyed masonry and timber house with terracotta tiled and corrugated iron hip roofs, is located on the highest part of the site overlooking the Brisbane River to the north. It is deliberately sited to present a grand hilltop facade addressing the city. Much of the ornament is lavished on this northern facade, the other sides of the building being relatively modest in materials and detail. The house is constructed of red brick on a patterned brick and stone base with timber verandahs to the side and rear elevations. Originally E-shaped in plan, the long northern facade connects central, eastern and western wings arranged around two verandahed courtyards. The central wing contains the entrance hall, reception rooms, dining room and kitchen while the eastern and western wings are used to provide accommodation for boarders and staff.</p><br>
<p>The north elevation is a symmetrical composition consisting of bow-fronted pavilions on the eastern and western corners connected by colonnades to a central entry pavilion surmounted by a tower. This front facade is embellished with arches, pediments, quoins, cornices, parapets, balustrades and pilasters with Ionic capitals that are rendered to contrast with the brickwork.</p><br>
<p>The central entrance pavilion includes two bow-fronted rooms, a meeting room to the east and study to the west, and a central entrance hall and porch. These rooms have rendered masonry walls, plaster ceilings and feature high quality timber joinery. The entrance hall, has a marbled tiled floor and is timber panelled to dado height. Stained glass in two fanlights and tall arched niches in its four corners depict Shakespearian characters: Touchstone (As You Like It), Jaques (As You Like It), Portia (The Merchant of Venice), Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing), Viola (Twelfth Night) and Rosalind (As You Like It). The niche in the southwest corner of the hall opens onto a timber staircase which leads to the tower room. In the study are elaborate built-in timber bookshelves and cabinets and a fireplace with an ornate timber surround.</p><br>
<p>The dining room, accessed from a breezeway at the rear of the entrance hall, has rendered walls with timber wainscoting and an ornate coved and panelled ceiling that is lined with diagonal tongue and groove boards. The room, which overlooks both courtyards, is embellished with stained glass windows in arched openings, elaborate timber lintels over the entry doors, built-in timber furniture, two fireplaces and bay windows in arched recesses.</p><br>
<p>Circulation throughout the building is via the extensive verandahs and colonnades, all of which are now enclosed. The southern ends of the courtyards, once open, are now blocked off by two brick bathroom wings with storage areas underneath. The house has six brick chimney stacks, some of which are highly ornate.</p><br>
<p>While the former house is elevated high above the street, the former library/studio building, now the chapel, steps down the site. Built on a finger of land between the entry driveway, Vulture Street and the railway line, the building which is integrated with the adjacent pathway, steps and walls, forms an entry onto the site. The former library is a one-storeyed buttressed brick structure with contrasting rendered details including castellated parapets, window frames, arches and base and has steeply pitched terracotta tiled roofs. It was designed in the English Perpendicular "gothic revival" style.</p><br>
<p>The octagonal north end has four stained glass memorial windows which are the work of Brisbane artist William Bustard. The interiors have been altered and a new entry constructed at the southern end.</p><br>
<p>These buildings of Somerville House are all red brick with cement render details and form a cohesive and intact group prominently located above the historic precinct surrounding South Brisbane Memorial Park and adjoining the former South Brisbane Town Hall.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>Cumbooquepa was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland&apos;s history.</p><br>
<p>Cumbooquepa is important in demonstrating the evolution of Queensland&#39;s history as evidence of education for girls in Queensland.</p><br>
<p>The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland&apos;s cultural heritage.</p><br>
<p>Cumbooquepa is an uncommon example of a large late 19th century residence, which is exceptional for its architectural quality, lavish interiors, and prominence as a landmark.</p><br>
<p>The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.</p><br>
<p>The school buildings are important in exhibiting a range of aesthetic qualities valued by the community, in particular the architectural distinction of the former library/studio building, the high quality of the stained glass and timber joinery in Cumbooquepa and the former library/studio building, the cohesive and picturesque grouping of landscape elements and buildings, the contribution of the wall and garden to the streetscape and the contribution to the townscape as a landmark.</p><br>
<p>The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.</p><br>
<p>Cumbooquepa has a special association with the Brisbane High School for Girls.</p><br>
<p>The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland&apos;s history.</p><br>
<p>Cumbooquepa has a special association with the Stephens Family, CE Harker, MK Jarrett and the US Army and Brisbane architects, GHM Addison, and TBF Gargett and artisan William Bustard, and are important examples of their work.</p><br>
<p>South Brisbane Dry Dock is a heritage-listed dry dock at 412 Stanley Street, South Brisbane, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by William David Nisbet and built from 1876 to 1887. It is also known as the Government Graving Dock. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.</p><br>
<p>The South Brisbane Dry Dock is the third oldest in Australia, the others being the Fitzroy Dry Dock, Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney (1847-57) and the Alfred Graving Dock, Williamstown, Victoria (1864-73).</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The South Brisbane Dry Dock was designed by William David Nisbet, chief engineer for Harbours & Rivers, in 1875. It was constructed between 1876 and 1881 by J & A Overend, who had moved from Melbourne to oversee the work.</p><br>
<p>The busy Brisbane River port required a substantial facility for the maintenance, repair and refitting of commercial ships and Harbours & Rivers dredges, barges and other vessels.</p><br>
<p>In the first eighteen months the site was excavated and the excess material was used to build up streets in South Brisbane. The barque Doon was the first to utilise the dock, on 10 September 1881.</p><br>
<p>A store, carpenters shed, blacksmith shop and wharf were constructed. By 1887 it had been lengthened to 420 feet (131 metres), as provided for in the original plans.</p><br>
<p>In the first twenty years an average of 60 vessels a year used the dry dock, the peak year being 1909 with 90 vessels. It was a profitable venture for the government until 1925 when patronage declined due to the increase in vessel size. A more substantial facility was provided during the Second World War when the Cairncross Dock was established downstream. Nevertheless the South Brisbane Dry Dock was extremely busy during the war, necessitating additional wharfage and facilities.</p><br>
<p>Though primarily a repair shop for Queensland government vessels, the South Brisbane Dry Dock remained viable for small government and commercial vessels.</p><br>
<p>Changes in shipyard practices, large bulk carriers, Captain Cook Bridge and the need for a major rehabilitation of the dock compelled the government to close the South Brisbane Dry Dock and transfer activities to an expanded Cairncross Dock.</p><br>
<p>Personnel, plant and equipment were removed and ownership of the site and buildings was transferred to the Land Administration Commission in 1973. Subsequently the Brisbane City Council have become trustees and the site is used as the Queensland Maritime Museum.</p><br>
<p>On 29 February 1980 HMAS Diamantina, the last World War II-era frigate to serve Australia, was decommissioned from the Royal Australian Navy. Diamantina was handed over to the Queensland Maritime Museum to be permanently berthed in the South Brisbane Dry Dock. In March 2006, Diamantina left her berth for the first time in 25 years when she was towed out into the river to allow repairs to the dock, which had been flooded since the seals failed in 1998. On 10 May 2006, she returned to the South Brisbane Dry Dock adjacent to the Queensland Maritime Museum, where she was used as a self-touring museum ship. During the 2010–2011 Queensland floods, the dry dock flooded but the ship had been maintained in good repair and floated up from the dry dock with the flood, while volunteers adjusted the ropes to prevent the ship bashing against the dry dock. The ship was undamaged.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The South Brisbane Dry Dock is opposite the former South Brisbane Municipal Chambers and adjacent to the former South Brisbane Railway Easement and the former South Brisbane Library. Other historically significant places in the immediate vicinity are Cumbooquepa at Somerville House, Ship Inn, and South Brisbane Memorial Park.The original section of the South Brisbane Dry Dock is U-shaped with stepped sides while the 1887 extension has sloping sides.</p><br>
<p>The dock was originally 320 feet (97.54 metres) long, but was extended to 420 feet (12.81 metres). The width at the top is 24.08 metres and 16.15 metres at the bottom. The overall depth is 9.75 metres with 5.79 metres at the entrance sill.</p><br>
<p>The rocky bottom is lined with 3 feet (0.914 metres) of Portland cement overlaid by bricks and covered by Melbourne granite which is crossed by hardwood keel blocks. One Enoggera granite block was used in the coping to the west of the caisson (dock gate), next to a cast-iron plate bearing the contractor&#39;s name.</p><br>
<p>The excavated sides were almost perpendicular. To form the inverted arch or U-shape and prevent water permeating, the sides were constructed of puddled clay lined with concrete mixed with rubble then altars (steps in the dry dock wall) of Lockyer Creek freestone. The 1887 excavation to extend the dock required only limited lining and the base was not concreted until 1901.</p><br>
<p>The caisson was manufactured by the notable firm of RR Smellie & Co. of Brisbane. It is probably the largest locally made wrought iron composition in Queensland.</p><br>
<p>To the east of the dock is the brick pump house which has an arched roof, supported by timber beams, and a large brick chimney. The two centrifugal pumps for emptying the dock and steam boilers were imported from London. Three new Cornish boilers replaced the originals in 1907 and in 1924 the steam engines were replaced by electric motors constructed by Evans Deakin. During the busy war years the boiler house was enclosed by a concrete blockhouse. The Cornish boilers and their coal chutes, the pump, the electric engine with its sub-station and rope drives are extant but inoperative.</p><br>
<p>Attached to the blockhouse were the coal store and blacksmith shed, which was a low set timber building with arched corrugated iron roof. The Q Maritime Museum Association has built a copy of the original structure.</p><br>
<p>On the western side of the dry dock are additional timber and corrugated iron buildings, one of which was the two-storeyed dock master&#39;s office. Over the years timber and tin workshops and wharf facilities were built and demolished as the need arose.</p><br>
<p>The 15 ton (13.5 tonne) crane built by Ransomes & Rapier of Ipswich remains at the head of the dock. The rail siding, necessary for the delivery of coal, and other facilities and equipment have been removed. The site is shaded by eucalypts.</p><br>
<p>The dry dock site is incorporated in the Queensland Maritime Museum which includes many moveable heritage items, such as HMAS Diamantina which resides in the dock.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>South Brisbane Dry Dock was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland&apos;s history.</p><br>
<p>The South Brisbane Dry Dock is significant historically as rare surviving evidence of 19th century shipping activity along the South Brisbane Reach, and indicative of the massive scale of former riverside industry in Brisbane.</p><br>
<p>The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland&apos;s cultural heritage.</p><br>
<p>It is a rare Australian example of an intact dry dock dating from the 19th century, illustrating contemporary engineering and technology.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.</p><br>
<p>It an important example of the work of engineer William D Nesbit in Queensland.</p><br>
<p>The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.</p><br>
<p>The place makes a strong landmark and aesthetic contribution to the South Brisbane townscape, and is an integral element in the historic precinct centred around South Brisbane Memorial Park, which also includes the former South Brisbane Railway Easement, the former South Brisbane Library, Cumbooquepa (Somerville House), the former South Brisbane Municipal Chambers and Ship Inn.</p><br>
<p>The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland&apos;s history.</p><br>
<p>It is significant for its association with the work of contractors J & A Overend and manufacturers RR Smellie & Co., both of which firms made significant contributions to the development of Queensland in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Thornburg Historic District is a historic district in Thornburg, Pennsylvania. It was planned as a suburban development in the early 20th century and has 75 contributing buildings, all but one residential. Though only 4 miles from downtown Pittsburgh, the district remains intact as an example of early suburban development. The majority of houses were built in the Bungalow or Shingle styles, with others in the Queen Anne, Craftsman, Colonial, Mission or Tudor styles.</p><br>
<p>The Thornburg School was built in 1910 to the design of Press C. Dowler in the Mission style. It was used as a school until 1971 and continues to be used as a community center.</p><br>
<p>Cousins Frank and David Thornburg developed the approximately 250 acres, starting about 1900. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 8, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Kolping Park and Chapel is a religious facility previously located at 47440 Sugarbush Road in Chesterfield Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1849, Adolph Kolping founded a Catholic journeymens association, the forerunner of what today is known as the Kolping Society. The society promotes members development through education and activities. In 1926, Father Joseph Wuest, a former bricklayer, established a chapter of the society in Detroit. The local chapter acquired the land that is now Kolping Park in 1929. The society cleared the land, planted trees, and constructed some buildings. In 1932, Wuest designed and constructed the chapel on this site. The property is still owned by the Detroit branch of the Kolping Society of America.</p><br>
<p>The Kolping Society decided in 2015 to sell the park land and donated the Kolping Chapel to the Chesterfield Township Historical Society. On September 28, 2016, the chapel was moved from Kolping Park, down Sugarbush Road, to the Chesterfield Township Historical Village, where it presently sits.</p><br>
<h2>Rev. Father Joseph Wuest</h2><br>
<p>Rev. Father Joseph Wuest was born in Nassau, Germany on July 7, 1869. He attended school in Thalheim, and studied further at Mesnières-en-Bray and at Langonnet, where he graduated in 1896. He was appointed a professor at Knechtsteden, where he served until 1899, when he emigrated to the United States to serve as an assistant pastor in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania. Wuest served from 1902 to 1907 as a hospital chaplain, and in 1907, he was made pastor of St. Mary&#39;s church in Detroit. He immediately began working with immigrant German families, and in 1911 reached out to African American families, one of the first white church leaders to do so.</p><br>
<p>Wuest founded the local chapter of the Kolping Society in 1926, but ill-health forced him to retire as St. Mary&#39;s pastor in 1929, although he still heard confessions. Wuest died in July, 1958.</p><br>
<h2>Park and Chapel Description</h2><br>
<p>Kolping Park is a 19-acre parcel, rectangular in shape, running from Sugarbush Road to the Vase River. The park contains Kolping&#39;s historic wayside chapel, as well as a shrine to Blessed Father Adolph Kolping, and a pavilion, dance hall, rifle range, picnic shelter, parade grounds, playground, soccer field and parking lot on landscaped grounds.</p><br>
<p>The chapel is a Gothic Revival structure, designed and constructed by Joseph Wuest himself. It is intended to be reminiscent of European wayside chapels. It is constructed from stones and shells sent to Wuest by Kolping societies from all over the world. Wuest inscribed a plaque with "Honor by means of untiring work" in the chapel.</p><br>
<p>The landscaping of the grounds as well as several of the structures were designed by Kolping Society members, including Vincent Schultes, Joseph Schultes, Wendel Schultes and Frank Foster.</p><br>
<p>Bartram&#39;s Covered Bridge, a historic covered bridge built in 1860, uses a Burr Truss design and carried Goshen Road over Crum Creek on the border between Delaware County and Chester County, Pennsylvania. It is 30 ft long and 13 ft wide and is the only covered bridge remaining of the 30 which once stood in Delaware County. The bridge has slanted planks at each entrance and is the only covered bridge in Pennsylvania with this feature. According to an on-site marker from the Newtown Square Historical Preservation Society, the bridge was built to be "hi and wide as a load of hay" It was built by Ferdinand Wood and named for Mordecai Bartram.</p><br>
<p>It was closed to traffic in 1941 and stands next to a new bridge on Goshen Road. The east end of the bridge is located in Newtown Township, Delaware County and the west end in Willistown Township, Chester County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Economic impact</h2><br>
<p>This bridge was extremely economical to build because the cost was shared between two townships, the material was cheap, and construction was quick. The choice of wood was wise given the time and the cost of the material. The region still has abundant trees, including many hardwoods such as beech trees which further lowered costs, since the materials were local. The bridge was constructed in 1860 when most structures were made from either wood or stone. Wood is by far the cheaper of the materials, and when joined correctly, it can hold tensile forces. Since wood can support tension and bending loads, the bridge could be built at the level of the banks, instead of building a stone arch beneath the deck of the bridge. Additionally, it is much faster to construct a wooden structure than a stone one. Overall, the bridge cost just $1,133 and to date, has only been repaired a few times. The economic impact was not just immediate; currently, the bridge is a historic landmark and helps fund the Historical Society of Newtown Square.</p><br>
<h2>Efficiency</h2><br>
<p>Bartram’s bridge is an efficient solution to the many streams that cross the region. It was created “Hi and Wide as a Load of Hay” to serve the needs at the time which were mainly agricultural. Its size allowed it to continue to be used until 1941, when it was closed to the public. The choice of the extremely efficient Burr Truss allowed the bridge to have outstanding stiffness and stability with both live and dead loads. The bridge had to hold its own gravity load, the live loads of the horses and the carriages, and any wind loads. The gravity load is easily supported by the arch alone, and the combination of the arch and truss give exceptional stiffness for the live loads. Combination of the truss and arch also allows more of the members to remain in compression which uses the joints to their full effectiveness.</p><br>
<h2>Elegance</h2><br>
<p>The bridge is also an elegant solution. By combining the two forms of arch and truss, the resulting structure is much stronger than either form alone. An arch is relatively weak with live loads, and the truss holds most of the live loads the bridge faced. The structure is mostly indicative of the load path when on the inside, and the interior is clear and flat. A unique feature of the bridge is its windows. They are an opening of the covering in the middle of the bridge, each with its own small roof. The windows only appear to exist in order to promote air flow, not to give a view of the beautiful creek that flows beneath it. Additionally, on the entrances of the bridge, the slats are slanted to line up with the roof instead of with the ground. This is both aesthetically pleasing and helps direct the water from the interior of the bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall  is a public library and music hall located at 300 Beechwood Avenue in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. Like hundreds of other Carnegie libraries, the construction of the ACFL&MH, which opened in 1901, was funded by industrialist Andrew Carnegie. The ACFL&MH has been recognized as a historic landmark and appears on the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks and the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Andrew Carnegie’s decision to build a library in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, was originally inspired by the town’s adoption of his name. In 1894, the neighboring boroughs of Chartiers and Mansfield voted to merge their communities into one larger borough and chose to name their new town in honor of Carnegie. Carnegie was so moved by the gesture that he offered to build a public library in the middle of the town.</p><br>
<p>On April 26, 1898, Carnegie gifted the town with an initial grant of US$200,000 for the building of the library and an attached music hall, lecture hall, and gymnasium; he also provided an additional $10,000 for the library to purchase books and used any remaining grant funds to start an endowment fund for the new library.</p><br>
<p>The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall holds a unique position as one of the four Carnegie libraries that received endowments from Andrew Carnegie. Whereas most of the towns gifted with Carnegie libraries were required to adhere to the “Carnegie Formula”—an arrangement where the town agreed to subsidize their new library with public taxes—towns with endowed libraries were not required to publicly fund them.</p><br>
<p>The Davis Island Lock and Dam Site in Avalon, Pennsylvania, is the site of the former Davis Island lock that was completed in 1885.</p><br>
<p>The lock and dam existed from 1878 to 1922, designed by William Emery Merrill and the USA Army Corps of Engineers. The Davis Island Lock and Dam was the first dam that was constructed on the Ohio River. It officially opened on October 7, 1885, with a large dedication ceremony. The Davis Island Dam was the largest Chanoine dam built in the 19th century, and one of the first concrete structures built by the Army Corps of Engineers. It was the first of 51 Chanoine type dams that were built by the Corps of Engineers between 1878 and 1929.</p><br>
<p>The dam was dismantled in 1922, when it was replaced by the Emsworth Locks and Dam less than a mile downstream of the original site. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 29, 1980.</p><br>
<p>It is now owned by the West View Water Authority and is used primarily to pump water from the Ohio River, which then goes on to be purified and is used by the surrounding communities for drinking.</p><br>
<p>The Fulton Log House in Upper St. Clair Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, was built circa 1830. The log house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 6, 1975.</p><br>
<p>Alexander Gilfillan settled in Upper St. Clair Township in the late 1760s and eventually owned 413 acres. About 1830, he or his son, John, built houses for his workers including four or five log houses, with only one surviving to the present. This house remained in the Gilfillan Family until 1899. James E. and Emily Fulton bought the house in 1923 as a summer home. Their son James Grove Fulton was a lifelong bachelor and served in the USA Congress from 1945-1971. His estate sold the house to Upper St. Clair Township in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The 1830 Log House Association restored the house and now uses it for educational purposes.</p><br>
<p>Col dOrnon  is a mountain pass through the Dauphiné Alps in the department of Isère in France which connects the communities of Le Bourg-dOisans and La Mure. The climb is used occasionally in the Tour de France cycle race, including on the "Queen stage" on 18 July 2013 which finishes with two ascents to Alpe d&#39;Huez.</p><br>
<h2>Details of the climb</h2><br>
<p>From the south, the climb starts at Entraigues, from where the ascent is 14.4 km long gaining 563 m in height at an average gradient of 3.9%. For the 2013 Tour de France, the climb officially starts at the village of Chantelouve (1,030 m) from where the climb to the summit, ranked Category 2, is a further 5.1 km at a gradient of 6.7%.</p><br>
<p>From the north, the climb commences 3 km from Le Bourg-d&#39;Oisans at La Paute in the Romanche valley. The ascent is 11.1 km long, climbing 643 m at an average gradient of 5.8%.</p><br>
<h2>Tour de France</h2><br>
<p>The Col d&#39;Ornon was first used in the Tour de France in 1966 when the leader over the summit was Luis Otaño. Since then, the Tour has passed the summit on seven occasions, usually as a Second Category climb, including on Stage 18 of the 2013 Tour.</p><br>
<h3>Appearances in Tour de France</h3><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Catholic Church, known as the "Prairie Cathedral" or the "Cathedral of the Cornfields", is a Roman Catholic church in Beaverville, Illinois. The Romanesque Revival church was built in 1909&ndash;1911. The church features two towers and a tiled dome roof; it is both the tallest and most prominent landmark in Beaverville. In 1996, the church was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Prominent Chicago church architect Joseph Molitor designed the church in the Romanesque Revival style. The church was built using limestone blocks with a rough cut exterior. The church has an "L"-shaped plan with a small wing in the back forming the leg. The building is both the tallest structure in Beaverville and the most visible landmark in the village.</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s main entrance is located on its west side; the three sets of double doors are each topped by a stained glass transom. A pair of four-story towers are located on either side of the entrance. The third and fourth floors of each tower are open with pilasters framing the arched openings; balustrades run along the third-floor apertures, while the fourth-floor openings feature keystones and classical cornices. Triangular pediments are situated atop both towers.</p><br>
<p>The center of the church includes an octagonal section topped by a dome roof. The roof is composed of red French clay tiles. Each side of the octagon is 52 ft long with a 32 ft base. A small flat octagonal section at the top of the dome is fenced off by an iron railing. Seven secondary gable roofs cover the other parts of the church, while a smaller octagon tops the wing; these other roofs are also shingled with red tiles. Roughly 22,000 tiles were used to construct the church&#39;s roofs.</p><br>
<p>Each side of the church features seven arched stained glass windows on its first floor. Six windows on each side have the same dimensions, while a larger window is located in the base of the octagon. Each side of the octagons second story includes three smaller windows. The wing includes five additional stained glass windows; two are located on each floor of the west side, while the fifth is on the east sides second story.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The St. Marys parish was established in 1857, when the village of Beaverville was known as St. Marie. The parish opened its own school in 1895 and established a convent the following year. Due to the parishs increasing congregation, construction began on the current church building in 1909. The new church was dedicated in 1911; however, the buildings construction debts were not fully paid until 1945. After its debt was cleared, the congregation decorated the interior of the church; however, many of these decorations were lost to renovations in the 1970s. The parishs elementary and high schools closed in 1965 and 1969 respectively; services are still held in the church, however.</p><br>
<p>Wilpen Hall is an estate in Sewickley Heights, Pennsylvania, located at 889–895 Blackburn Road and 201 Scaife Road. It was added to the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 2001, and the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 2011.</p><br>
<p>The estate was built from 1897 to 1900 for William Penn Snyder and his wife as a summer home; "Wilpen" is a contraction of the name William Penn. The home was designed by George Orth and Brothers in the style of an English Manor house. Snyder was the founder of the Shenango Furnace Company and other subsidiaries. The estate was left to their two sons, William Penn Snyder, Jr. and G. Whitney Snyder, in 1930. As of 2006, the Snyder family still resided in the home.</p><br>
<p>The mansion served for interior shots of John du Pont’s Foxcatcher Farm estate in the film Foxcatcher (2013), starring Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, and Channing Tatum.</p><br>
<p>Easaval  is one of the smallest hills on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, with a height of 243 m. It is a small rounded hill located south of Lochboisdale near Pollachar in the southernmost part of South Uist, overlooking the Sound of Barra.</p><br>
<p>There are good views from the top, including distant views of St Kilda on the northwestern horizon, almost 60 miles away. On a clear day one can also see Beinn Mhòr, the highest hill in South Uist, Skye, Rùm, Canna, Eigg and Muck. To the south there are views of Barra, Coll and Tiree, the Isle of Mull, and landmarks on the mainland such as the lighthouse on Ardnamurchan, all the great mainland hills between Glenelg and Ardnamurchan, and the peaks of Beinn Talaidh, Beinn Bhearnach and Dun da Ghaoith.</p><br>
<p>Linden Grove was once a nationally designated historic place located at 1100 Grove Road in Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania, but the original building  was torn down and it was delisted on January 20, 2000. The current building there is a more recent construction called "The Linden Grove Nightclub". The original "Linden Grove was built as an attraction to German picnickers, as were several other groves patronized by various ethnic groups. Wagons with benches met picnickers at the train station and took them to whichever grove catered to their nationality."</p><br>
<p>The Linden Grove is currently a popular nightclub with live music and DJs depending on the night. A listing of current entertainment, the current menu, photos and an article outlining the history of the Linden Grove in more detail, can be found on their website at www.lindengrovenightclub.com.</p><br>
<p>The John E. Booth House is a historic house located in Provo, Utah. John E. Booth was a significant Provoan, and was extensively involved in Provo&#39;s community and religious affairs. Located at 59 West and 500 North and less than one acre in size, the John E. Booth House was built in 1900, and happens to be the only -story Victorian Mansion in Provo, Utah. This house is significant not only as a Victorian mansion, but because its "Bricks were individually painted to create a variegrated design effect" . The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The house was designated to the Provo City Historic Landmark Register on May 26, 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The plan of this -story brick house derives from the vernacular L-plan and has a T extension in the rear. A hip roof and a gable roof section intersect to form the L. The extension has a hip roof. From each end of the hip roof are gable projections with pent roofs like the pent roof of the gable on the facade. Two tall chimneys with elaborate corbelling project from the hip roof section. Divisions between stories are subtly emphasized. Pairs of stringcourses divide the basement, first, second and third stories from one another. The division between the basement and first floor is further emphasized by color differentiation in the brick. The red brick of the basement was left unpainted, whereas the brick and mortar joints of the rest of the house except that on the T extension, have been painted various shades of brown and tan to create a varigated effect. The division between the second and third floors has a line of obliquely set bricks that runs beneath the stringcourses at the height of the second story lintels.</p><br>
<p>The fenestration of the facade is simple and carefully balanced. On the east half, the gable end, a simple Palladian window is centered on the top half story and a broad single sash window with a stained glass transom and stone lintel and lugsill is centered on each of the two lower stories. A single story square hip roof brick entrance chamber fills the angle of intersection of the hip and gable roof sections. Above it is a simple double hung sash window. On each story of the west half of the hip roof section is centered a single window similar to those on the gable end. Windows on the east, west and south sides of the building are long, narrow, have jigsaw cut detailing in the decorative arch above them, and are topped with a segmented reliving arch. Classical detailing includes: a boxed cornice on the main roofline and on that of the brick entry which is completely supported by brackets except on the T addition; the pediment over the entrance supported by a classical pier and pilaster which has a fan type of decoration on the tympanum; and dentils which line the lower edge of the transom of each single sash window. Major alterations include a change in the size of the opening of a window on the east wall and the addition of two frame extensions to the east and west sides of the T extension." The changes to the building do not affect the historical meaning of the house.</p><br>
<h2>John E. Booth</h2><br>
<p>Born in England in 1847, John E. Booth traveled to Utah with his parents in 1857 as a result of his family converting to the L.D.S. faith. Attaining his early education in England and his latter in the United States, studying at the University of Deseret and teaching in various towns throughout Utah, Booth eventually began to study law under the direction of John B. Milner. Booth began practicing law in 1875, the same year that he became the city attorney for the city of Provo. While serving in Provo, Booth was also a district judge. Active in politics as well as law, Booth served in the Utah Territorial Senate from 1890 to 1891, Mayor of Provo, and president of the local schoolboard. Booth was also a businessman, serving as director of several businesses and banks in the city of Provo, and heading the Utah Valley Iron Mining and Manufacturing Company.</p><br>
<p>Stalwart in his faith, John E. Booth served in many capacities in the Mormon religion throughout his life. He served in the position of a bishop (the man who presides over the local congregation), for the Provo Fourth Ward for over twenty years. Although he was a polygamist, having taken two wives in the early 1870s, both died approximately ten years later. He married again, but only one wife. John E. Booth died in 1920, and left the house to his widow. Selling it to her daughter and spouse, Elsie and Isaac E. Brockbank in 1923, the house still remains in the Brockbank family today.</p><br>
<p>The Matthew Callahan Log Cabin is located on South Third Street in Aspen, Colorado, United States. It was built in the early 1880s. In 1987 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with a group of other historic properties in the city.</p><br>
<p>It was one of many log cabins built during Aspen&#39;s earliest years of settlement. Today it is one of the few buildings left in the city from that era, and the only one from prior to 1885 with hand-hewn logs. It has been expanded, but the original structure remains intact.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The cabin is located on the west side of South Third, just south of the intersection with West Hopkins Avenue, in Aspen&#39;s residential West End. There are a few single-family houses among the surrounding properties. The land is flat, with the foot of one of the ridges of Aspen Mountain just beyond West Hyman Avenue to the south. Many mature trees shade the houses in the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a one-story structure built of rectangular hand-hewn logs The north side is faced in board-and-batten.</p><br>
<p>Next to the screen door the southern addition, longer than the main block but not as tall, protrudes. Other than being sided in vertical flushboard similar to that in the cabin&#39;s gable fields, it has identical treatment. A complementary screen door, the main entrance, opens onto a stone-tiled patio. Its east (front) facade has two large rectangular windows with wide plain wooden surrounds. Similar windows are on the other facades, including those of another addition on the west.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the late 1870s, shortly after Colorado became a state, prospectors began crossing the Continental Divide at Independence Pass in search of silver deposits in the Roaring Fork Valley. Many set up their tents about 10 mi below the pass at the confluence of the Roaring Fork and its tributary Castle Creek first area they found suitable for large-scale settlement. It was called Ute City at first for the dominant local Native American tribe, but the prevalence of aspen trees in the forests soon gave it the name it has had ever since.</p><br>
<p>Those same forests provided ample timber for the construction of the log cabins that would replace the early tents as Aspen grew. There were indeed many silver lodes in the mountains surrounding Aspen, and the possible fortunes drew the attention of Eastern investors. The growing city was designated the temporary seat of newly created Pitkin County in 1881, and this attracted not only more miners but tradesmen, merchants and builders, all hoping to profit from the boom. Matthew Callahan was one of them. It is likely that he built not only the current cabin for his family, but other buildings in the growing city.</p><br>
<p>When it was built, the Callahan cabin probably had its entrance on the north. Aspens 1889 city directory gives the familys address as 401 West Hopkins. At some point after 1890 that side was refaced in board-and-batten and the entrance moved to its current location on the addition. The original painted cedar shingles on the roof were replaced as well.</p><br>
<p>Eventually most of the original cabins were demolished to clear the way for more finished miner&#39;s cottages, and then larger wood frame or brick houses as the city prospered. Some were incorporated into other houses, as was the case with the Davis Waite House in the late 1880s. Those that remained after this period succumbed to fire or neglect in the years after the silver market collapsed following the 1893 repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. The Callahan cabin, which remained in the family for 65 years, is one of the few that have survived and remained intact, even with several additions.</p><br>
<p>The Church of San Antonio  is a church located in Aranjuez, in the Community of Madrid, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural and a World Heritage Site by UNESCO within Aranjuez Cultural Landscape in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>General Description</h2><br>
<p>Ferdinand VI of Spain built a chapel dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua as an Oratorio to replace an earlier private chapel constructed during the reign of Philip IV of Spain. It stands on the south side of a large parade square known as Mariblanca which leads into the courtyard of Royal Palace known as Plaza de Parejas. This new building, designed by Santiago Bonavía around 1752 would serve the people as well as the Monarchy. Charles III of Spain enlarged the chapel, incorporating a large square cupola with a gable roof.</p><br>
<p>The church consists of a central circular structure with a grand north-facing portico entrance facade of five white limestone arches decorated with Tuscan pilasters. A gallery of a further five arches on either side of this join the central church portico with the complimentary style of the smaller red-brick arched walkways of the Casa de Infantes to the east and Casa de los Cabeleros (knights) to the west enclosing the renamed Plaza de San Antonio on three sides.</p><br>
<p>The body of the church is circular divided vertically into two levels, each with stone balustrades, one to cap the first-floor level forming a terrace, highlighting the main central circular domed roof which is crowned with a glazed pinnacle.</p><br>
<p>This information is in the public domain thanks to a declaration of cultural significance published in the official bulletin of Spain on 18 January 2003</p><br>
<p>Mount Alfaf , also known as Mount Maqlub , is a mountain in the Nineveh plains region in Northern Iraq. The mountain lies 30 km to the northeast of Mosul and some 15 km from Bartella. The largest town on the mountain is Marge which is inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Assyrians.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is famous for the Mar Mattai monastery which lies close to its southern summit. There exist a number of hermitages that date back to the 4th and 5th century AD, the most important of which are:</p><br>
<p>Mar Mattai hermitage, where according to Syriac tradition, Sara, sister of Mar Behnam, was miraculously cured of leprosy by Mar Mattai.</p><br>
<p>Bar Hebraeus hermitage which was occupied by Bar Hebraeus during his lifetime.</p><br>
<p>The spy&#39;s hermitage which lies at the top of the mountain and was used as a sentry to warn the occupants of the monastery of bandits.</p><br>
<p>The Museo del Traje  is a museum located in Madrid, Spain, with collections devoted to fashion and costumes. The museum has over 160,000 pieces and documents. The current building was completed in 1973. Collections date from the Middle Ages up to clothes by Spain&#39;s contemporary fashion designers. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1962.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The current Museo del Traje dates from 2004. The museum, despite being a newly created institution, has a long and curious history. Its origin lies in the Historic Costume Exhibition, held in 1925. In the keynote address at this event, the Count of Romanones raised the idea of making the temporary exhibition permanent. Two years later he created a Board of Trustees of the Museum who would take charge of the funds of the exhibition, receiving them from the state, and form them into the new Regional Costume Museum and History (1927–1934).</p><br>
<p>In 1934, the Count creates the idea of creating another institution to pick up these treasured collections and also the traditions of the Spanish People. This new museum, the Museum of the Spanish Village, acquired the collections of Ethnography and Folk Art at the School of Education, and contained an extensive series of objects that the Regional Trustees acquired between 1934 and 1936. After several changes of venue the collections were moved in 1983 into the building then occupied by the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo. In 1993 the Museum of the Spanish Village and the National Museum of Ethnology are united in a single institution, the National Museum of Anthropology (1993–2004). However, both continued to operate independently.</p><br>
<p>Finally, in 2002, after a general discussion on the future of the museum, it was decided to enhance the public presence of the collection of costumes, from a modern perspective.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The architect, Jaime López de Asiaín, was awarded the National Prize for Architecture in 1969 for this project, construction beginning in 1971. The building was completed in 1973 and inaugurated in 1975. The building was built as the home of the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art (MEAC), later to become the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. After the MEAC left the building in 1992 the building lay unused. A restoration of the building was carried out at a cost of 21 million euro in 2005, allowing the building to become the home of the Museo del Traje. The building takes to form of a tower set upon a large horizontal element containing the museum section. All are elevated above the surrounding landscape allowing visitors to walk beneath the building into a shaded courtyard containing a large monumental staircase. Several glass pavilions are set between the ground and the building above.</p><br>
<p>The Palace of Fomento , also known as the Ministry of Agriculture Building, is a nineteenth-century office building in Madrid, Spain. Designed by Ricardo Velázquez Bosco, it is on a prominent site opposite Atocha railway station.</p><br>
<h2>Use and name</h2><br>
<p>The building&#39;s name has changed over the years reflecting the official name of the Ministry which occupies it. It was originally occupied by the Ministerio de Fomento (Ministry of Public Works and Transport). For most of its life the building has been the seat of the Agriculture Ministry, and the words "Ministerio de Agricultura" are prominently displayed in a cartouche on the facade.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, the Agriculture Ministry merged with the Environment Ministry. The building houses civil servants belonging to the current Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente).</p><br>
<h2>Sculptures</h2><br>
<p>In 1905, a group of marble sculptures by Agustí Querol Subirats entitled La Gloria y los Pegasos was placed on top of the building. The sculptures have been replaced by bronze replicas.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage status and access</h2><br>
<p>It was put on Spain&#39;s national heritage register in 1989 under the name Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food).</p><br>
<p>It is classed as a Bien de Interés Cultural or Property of Cultural Interest.</p><br>
<p>As at 2016 guided tours are available to the public outside normal office hours.</p><br>
<p>The Westin Palace Madrid  is a luxury hotel located at Centro in Madrid, Spain, on the Carrera de San Jerónimo, with exteriors to Plaza de Cánovas del Castillo, Calle del Duque de Medinaceli, and Plaza de las Cortes.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Palace Hotel was developed by Belgian entrepreneur Georges Marquet by personal suggestion of King Alfonso XIII. Designed by the Monnoyer Studio and architect Leon Eduard Ferrés i Puig, the 800-room Palace was the largest hotel in Europe, and was constructed with a new material: reinforced concrete. The cornerstone was laid on 9 March 1911 and the hotel was built over a period of eighteen months, welcoming its first guests on 21 September 1912. The grand opening was celebrated on 12 October 1912. The land had cost 1.5 million Pesetas, while the hotel itself cost 15 million Pesetas.</p><br>
<p>The Palace was the first hotel in Spain (and only the second in the world) to have a bathroom in each guest room. It was also the first hotel in Spain to have a telephone in each room. In its first few decades, the hotel hosted such luminaries as Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Marie Curie, Mata Hari, Josephine Baker, Buster Keaton, Richard Strauss, Federico Garcia Lorca, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. During the Spanish Civil War from 1936-9, the Palace became a military hospital. The famous glass-domed lounge was used as an operating theatre, due to the abundant natural light. After the war, the hotel was restored in 1939 at a cost of four million Pesetas.</p><br>
<p>The basement of the building was famous in Madrid for providing diverse services, such as dance halls known as "The del Palace", a jazz lounge known as "Rector&#39;s Club", and a brewery known as "La Brasserie". In the 40s, Cine Palace was opened here.</p><br>
<p>After World War II, the Palace welcomed such guests as Ernest Hemingway, Orson Welles, Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. In 1972, one entire floor of the hotel temporarily became the embassy of the People&#39;s Republic of China, as they re-established diplomatic relations with Spain. Henry Kissinger met with the Chinese at the hotel during this time, paving the way for the re-establishment of relations between China and the US.</p><br>
<p>Georges Marquets heirs sold the Palace to Spanish businessman Enrique Maso in 1977. During the February 23, 1981 coup, the hotels general managers office was taken over by members of the interim government, while over 200 international journalists filled the hotel. The Spanish Socialist Workers Party celebrated their landslide victory in the 1982 elections in the hotel. Maso sold the hotel in 1989 to CIGA hotels, an Italian luxury chain owned by the Aga Khan. The hotel hosted participants in the Madrid Conference of 1991 between Israel and the Palestinians. CIGA was purchased by ITT Sheraton in 1995, and they placed the hotel in their ITT Sheraton Luxury Collection. Starwood Hotels purchased Sheraton in 1997, and the hotel became part of their Luxury Collection division. The hotel was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1999. Starwood moved the hotel to their Westin Hotels division in 2001, renaming the property The Westin Palace Madrid. The hotel was home to the first meeting of the Club of Madrid in 2001, and was closed for three days to host international heads of state including Mikhail Gorbachev and Bill Clinton. In 2005, Starwood sold the hotel to Host Marriott as part of a package of 38 international hotel properties, for $4.1 billion. Starwood continues to operate the hotel under a long-term contract.</p><br>
<p>The Geological and Mining Institute of Spain  is a research institute located in Madrid, Spain. It is run under the auspices of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.</p><br>
<p>In collaboration with the Spanish Geological Society (Sociedad Geológica de España or SGE), the Institute has drawn up a list of internationally important geosites in Spain. This work, which began in 1999, is part of the Global Geosites project promoted by IUGS in the 1990s and subsequently supported by UNESCO.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The origins of the institute go back to the nineteenth century when a commission was established to work on the geological map of Spain.</p><br>
<p>The building which houses the institute is on Ríos Rosas street in the Chamberí district of Madrid. Next door is the School of Mining Engineering of Madrid, which was built in 1893, whereas the institute building, designed by Francisco Javier de Luque, was formally opened in 1926. The opening took place during the International Geological Congress which Spain hosted that year.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>Inside the building is a geological museum. It is housed in a large hall which was initially used for the International Geological Congress of 1926. The museum opened the following year.</p><br>
<p>It is currently known as the Museo Geominero.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>The building was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>William H. Ray House * 415 South University Avenue * Provo, Utah</h2><br>
<p>The William H. Ray House is a historic house located at 415 South University Avenue in Provo, Utah. A prominent non-Mormon in Provo, Utah, William H. Ray was one of the founders of the State Bank of Provo. A financier, banker, and broker, Ray organized the Ray Investment Company as an insurance and real estate brokerage firm. The William Ray House, which was built around 1898, "Combines Romanesque Revival elements with classical detailing in a personalized manner (Historic Provo 2002)." The William H. Ray House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and was designated to the Provo City Historic Landmark Register on April 28, 1995.</p><br>
<h3>The Victorian Mansions of Provo</h3><br>
<p>Built between the years 1893 and 1908 in Provo, Utah, this group of Victorian mansions are historically significant and represent not only fine architecture but some of the most successful men of the city and state at the time. These mansions include the Charles E. Loose House, the William H. Ray House, the Knight-Allen House, the John R. Twelves House, the Jesse Knight House, the Knight-Mangum House, and the Thomas N. Taylor House. All of these homes derive from the high style: Eastlake, Shingle, Craftsman, Italianate, Classical, Moorish, Colonial, and Romanesque Revivals. Made primarily of brick, these homes exhibit the finest architecture and most ornate detailing to be found in the city of Provo.</p><br>
<h3>William H. Ray</h3><br>
<p>Born on December 30, 1864 to William and Martha E. Ray, in Gentry County, Missouri, WIlliam H. Ray grew up on a farm. After becoming certified as a teacher, Ray worked in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, before settling in Salt Lake in 1890. Once in Salt Lake, Ray worked as a car inspector for the Union Pacific Railroad and then the Oregon Short Line Railway Company, and in addition to this invested in real estate. "In spite of limited salary from the railway company and therefore limited investment funds, in a period of five years he had advanced to become the senior partner in W. H. Ray Company, the largest real estate business in the area (Provo City Library p. 1)." In 1894 William H. Ray married Lottie L. Chappell, and had six children. Ray was a member of the Provo Community Congregational Church. Ray died on October 31, 1936 and was buried in Provo.</p><br>
<h3>Preservation</h3><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as part of a multiple property submission that nominated seven and listed six Provo houses. The listed houses are the Knight-Mangum House, the John R. Twelves House, the Jesse Knight House, the Knight-Allen House, this, the William H. Ray House, and the Thomas N. Taylor House. The seventh, the Charles E. Loose House, was determined to be NRHP-eligible but was not NRHP-listed due to owner objection.</p><br>
