<p>The Burwell School is an American historic site and former school, located in Hillsborough, North Carolina. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and located in the Hillsborough Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was first built in 1821 by Captain John Berry, a carpenter in the area. In 1835, Reverend Robert Burwell, his wife, Margaret Anna Burwell, and his two oldest children, Mary and John Bott, moved into the home after the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church bought the property to serve as a parsonage. Living with them was their slave Elizabeth Keckly (then Hobbes), who would as a freed woman be known for her association with First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.</p><br>
<p>Two years later, James Webb approached Mrs. Burwell and asked her to educate his daughters. She agreed, and opened a school for young ladies in her home. The school ran from 1837 to 1857, and enrolled more than 200 girls over those twenty years. In 1848, the Burwells hired the homes original builder to expand the home after they purchased it from the church. After Reverend Burwell left his position with the church, he joined the schools teaching staff, which also included several graduates of the program. The Burwell School remained open for 20 years before they shifted their attention to founding a women&#39;s college in Charlotte, North Carolina, that evolved to become Queens University of Charlotte.</p><br>
<p>In the years that followed, two notable families lived on the site: the Collins family from Edenton, North Carolina, and the Spurgeon Family, who were descendants of one of the Burwells&#39; students. In 1964, the Historic Hillsborough Commission bought the property from the Spurgeon family and restored it to appear historically accurate for the antebellum period. The site is open to the public for tours and events.</p><br>
<p>Hargreaves Building is a former bank in Chapel Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It originated as the headquarters of the Brown Shipley Bank, continued as offices when the bank moved to London, was converted for use by the Liverpool Racquet Club after the Toxteth riots, and later became a hotel and restaurant.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building is dated 1859, and was designed by the local architect Sir James Picton. It was designed for the banker Sir William Brown as his headquarters. The name Hargreaves was the surname of Brown&#39;s son-in-law who ran his Liverpool business. The building continued to be the headquarters of the Brown Shipley Bank until 1888, when it moved to London.</p><br>
<p>Following the Toxteth riots of 1981, when their building in Upper Parliament Street was destroyed, the Liverpool Racquet Club were looking for new premises. At this time the lease for Hargreaves Building was available for sale, and the trustees of the Club negotiated a 150 year lease from Liverpool City Council.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building is constructed in ashlar, with a granite basement and a slate roof. It is in three storeys plus a basement. Between the heads of the double-light windows are roundels containing carvings of people involved with the exploration of the Americas. These include Christopher Columbus, Isabella I, Bermejo (a Spanish "adventurer"), Vespucci, Cortez, Queen Anacaona of Cuba, and Francisco Pizarro. In the second floor are smaller two-light windows under round arches, separated by Ionic colonettes. The top floor contains even smaller two-light windows under round arches between panelled pilasters. Along the top of the building is a frieze and a cornice. The building is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II listed building, having been designated on 12 July 1966.</p><br>
<p>Żywiec Lake  is a reservoir on the Soła river in southern Poland, near the town of Żywiec. It was created in 1966, when several villages in the area, such as Zarzecze, Tresna, Zadziel and Old Żywiec were flooded following the construction of a dam. The lake has the area of around 10 square kilometres, and the earth-filled dam is 39 metres high and 310 metres long. The maximum depth of the lake is 26,8 meters, and the average depth - 8,6 metres. Near the dam there is a hydro-electric power plant with the capacity of 21 MW. Żywiec Lake is used mostly for tourist purposes, to regulate the flow of water, and to protect the area from flooding.</p><br>
<p>On November 15, 1978, at 5 a.m., two Autosan PKS buses, in a 15-minute interval, skidded while driving along the lake, and fell into icy water. The buses were carrying coal miners to work at Brzeszcze coal mine. Thirty people died, and nine survived. This tragedy is commemorated by a plaque near the bridge.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Bramwell Historic District is a national historic district located at Bramwell, Mercer County, West Virginia. The district includes 65 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Bramwell. Most of the buildings pre-date the 1920s. Notable buildings include the Bramwell Town Hall , Bryant Building  , Masonic Hall , Cooper House , Cooper Indoor Pool , Cooper Garage Apartment , Bank of Bramwell , Perry House , Hewitt House , Hewitt Garage Apartment , Mann House, Bramwell Presbyterian Church , Goodwill House , Thomas House , Thomas Garage / Apartment , Buck/Bowen House , Mann Playhouse , Freeman House , and Former Holy Trinity Episcopal Church .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Mercer Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Princeton, Mercer County, West Virginia. The district includes 28 contributing buildings in the central business district of Princeton. The buildings are primarily two and three-story, masonry commercial buildings with storefronts on the first floor and housing in the upper stories. Almost all of the buildings date from the opening of the Virginian Railway in 1908 and 1909. Notable buildings include the Old Stag Clothing Store, Mercer County Schools Warehouse , Cleaners and Laundry Building , Sively Company Building , Mullins Brothers Building , and D&D Saddle and Tack Building .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Virginian Railway Yard Historic District is a national historic district located at Princeton, Mercer County, West Virginia. The district includes 14 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure related to the Virginian Railway property at Princeton. Many date to the founding of the railway in 1905-1909, with others related to a physical improvements campaign in the 1920s. A number of the buildings are a vernacular interpretation of the Romanesque Revival style. They include the Locomotive Erecting Shop, transfer table pit , machine shop foundations, three water pump houses , North Repair Shop , Brick Storehouse , and Car Wheel Shop .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Linton Park, formerly Linton Place or Linton Hall, is a large 18th-century country house in Linton, Kent, England. Built by Robert Mann in 1730 to replace an earlier building, the house and estate passed through the ownership of several members of Mann&#39;s family before coming into the Cornwallis family. The house was enlarged to its current size in 1825.</p><br>
<p>The house sits in a prominent location, part way down a south-facing slope which provides excellent views of the grounds and the Weald beyond. Gardens close to the house contain formal walks laid out in 1825 with specimen trees planted then and later.</p><br>
<p>The house is a Grade I listed building and the garden and park is listed Grade II*. Other buildings and structures in the park are also listed.</p><br>
<p>Linton Park is now the corporate headquarters of Camellia plc, an international agricultural company.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>From the late 14th century, a house by the name of Capells Court stood on the site of Linton Park. It took its name from a family of local landowners named de Capell who held the property from the late 14th century to the mid-15th century. It was then sold to the Baysden family who held it until the late 16th century, when it was sold to Sir Anthony Mayney. Mayneys grandson sold the estate to the judge Sir Francis Wythen. Wythen&#39;s daughter, Catherine, inherited the estate and, following her second marriage to Brigadier-General Sir George Jocelyn, the estate was sold to London merchant Sir Robert Mann.</p><br>
<p>Around 1730, Mann demolished Capell&#39;s Court and built the first part of the present house. On his death in 1751, the house passed to his son Edward Mann. Edward Mann died in 1775 without children and the house passed to his brother the diplomat Sir Horace Mann. Sir Horace had taken the name of the estate as his territorial designation when made a baronet in 1755, but was permanently resident in Florence. Sir Horace Mann was a friend and long-time correspondent of Horace Walpole. After a visit to Edward Mann at Linton Park in 1757, Walpole wrote to Sir Horace in Florence that: "the house is fine and stands like the citadel of Kent; the whole county is its garden." On the death of Sir Horace in 1786, the baronetcy and the house passed to his nephew, Sir Horatio Mann MP, of Boughton Place in nearby Boughton Malherbe.</p><br>
<p>Sir Horatio died in 1814 and the house was inherited by James Cornwallis, Bishop of Lichfield, who was the widowed husband of Manns older sister, Catherine. Cornwallis became the fourth Earl Cornwallis on the death of his nephew Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquess Cornwallis in 1823, but died himself in 1824. The estate passed to his son James, the fifth Earl. On the fifth Earls death in 1852, the property was inherited by his daughter Julia. In 1862, she married William Amherst, Viscount Holmesdale (later, after her death in 1883, the third Earl Amherst).</p><br>
<p>By 1888, the estate was in the possession of Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis MP (created 1st Baron Cornwallis in 1927), grandson of the fifth Earl Cornwallis&#39;s other daughter Jemima Isabella Mann. He owned the house until his death in 1935. His first son, Captain Fiennes Wykeham Mann Cornwallis MC, was killed in an IRA ambush near Gort, County Galway in 1921, and so the first baron was succeeded by his second son, Wykeham Stanley Cornwallis. The second baron sold the house in 1937 and it became the property of Olaf Hambro, a member of the Hambro banking family. Following the death of Hambro in 1961, the house was sold to the Daubeny family. The house and its nearest surrounding land were sold to the Freemasons in 1974 and were briefly operated as a school before passing into corporate ownership.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>Robert Manns original 1730s house was a two-storey brick building seven bays wide with a break front. This was extended for the fifth Earl Cornwallis in 1825 by Thomas and William Cubitt. The Cubitts alterations included adding a third storey to the original house and building two-storey wings four bays wide on each side. The house was also refinished with stucco render. Its hipped roof is covered with slates.</p><br>
<p>The entrance to the house is on the north side through a single storey portico. The north façade features tall sash windows on the ground and first floors of 12 panes; the second floor windows to the central section are shorter and of nine panes. moulded stucco cornices run above the ground and first floor windows. The east and west façades are five bays wide with a two-storey projecting bay on the east end and a single-storey projecting bay on the west end.</p><br>
<p>Due to the slope of the site, the south façade, which overlooks the main part of the grounds, stands on a raised and terraced platform with the ground floor raised to first floor level and the basement becoming the ground floor. Above the terrace, the façade has the same general arrangement as the north façade, but the wings project slightly past the central section, which has a two-storey pedimented portico. Each wing previously had a single-storey bay at its centre but these have been removed.</p><br>
<p>Internally, a number of rooms feature period wall and ceiling decorations including the entrance hall, which dates from the original 1730s building and features moulded panelling and cornices, a marble fireplace and ornamental plaster ceiling and an arabesque frieze. The stairwell is lit from above with a roof light and features a cantilevered stair with iron balusters from the 1825 adaptation with a later brass handrail.</p><br>
<p>To the north-east of the house is the estates former stable building. This was built around the time of the fifth Earls extension of the house and is aligned on a north-south axis. The building comprises three three-storey gable-fronted pavilions separated by a pair of two-storey wings. The façades are of brick, with the west façade painted white and the east unpainted. The roof is of slate with a clock tower in the centre of the east side of the central pavilion. Close to the stables is an underground brick-built ice house accessed by a vaulted tunnel. The ice house dates from 1788.</p><br>
<p>The main house is a Grade I listed building and the stables and the ice house are listed Grade II.</p><br>
<h2>Park</h2><br>
<p>Approached across parkland along a tree-lined drive from a lodge to the north, the house sits in a landscape of approximately 132 hectare of parkland, woodland and farmland part way down a south facing greensand slope overlooking the valley of the River Beult. Although now simplified without the intensive planting used in earlier centuries, elements remain of the formal gardens designed by John Claudius Loudon in 1825 that were previously arranged on the north, south-east, south and west sides of the house.</p><br>
<p>Immediately to the south of the house is a wide 100 m long terrace with a stone balustrade. From the centre of this, aligned with the central portico of the house, stone steps descend in three flights over grass covered terraces to an oval lawn around the perimeter of which runs a gravel path and from which paths run to the east and west. In the centre of the lawn is a sundial. A wide lawn to the south-east of the house is ringed by paths and divided by another on a north-south access. This is interrupted by flights of steps and a fountain pond. Two small temples are positioned amongst trees part way down the slope.</p><br>
<p>To the west of the house Loudon laid out a flower garden. Later in the 1860s this was replanted with roses, but it is now lawns. At the south end of a walkway through this section of the garden is a water and rock garden known as "Jacobs Well". From the north end of the walk an avenue of giant sequoias planted in 1864 runs north-west towards the parish church of St Nicholas. Other Giant Sequoia are planted around the gardens. Close to the church, at the end of a paved walk is a small Gothic folly designed by Richard Bentley. South of the avenue is a grass amphitheatre cut into the slope. The southern perimeter of the formal garden is formed by a Ha-Ha. To the south, beyond the formal gardens, the steepness of the slope reduces and the estate continues as open parkland with a tree-fringed lake about 500 m south of the house.</p><br>
<p>The gardens and parkland are listed Grade II*, with a number of features in the garden also individually listed for their group value with the house and park. The north lodge, the steps to the south of the house, the sundial on the oval lawn and the folly are all listed Grade II.</p><br>
<p>The estate is private property and is not open to the public, but the Greensand Way long distance walk crosses the parkland east-west to the north of the house and a public footpath crosses the southern parkland close to the lake on a similar alignment.</p><br>
<p>The Alexander Conner House is a historic rowhouse in Xenia, Ohio, United States. Built in 1836,</p><br>
<p>Born in Ireland circa 1790, Alexander Conner emigrated from Ireland to the United States in young adulthood, and he settled in Xenia in 1816. Engaging in business there, he became prosperous enough to purchase a lot southeast of the county courthouse after twenty years of life in the city. On this lot he erected three buildings facing the street; they are the front portions of the present rowhouse. The rear two buildings were completed between that time and his 1865 death, upon which event the rowhouse was sold.</p><br>
<p>The street-facing portions of the rowhouse are architecturally important to the city of Xenia: although the western and central buildings are Federal and the eastern is Greek Revival, they are together a typical example of housing found in many communities of southwestern Ohio before the Civil War of the 1860s. In Xenia, no other historic rowhouses have survived to the present day, and almost no Federal streetfront houses are still in existence in the city except for the western and central components. In recognition of the importance of the architecture of the rowhouse, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 28, 1987; only the original three buildings qualified as contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>Thomas R. Carskadon House also known as the Carskadon Mansion and "Radical Hill," is a historic home located on Radical Hill overlooking Mineral Street , in Keyser, Mineral County, West Virginia. It is the former residence of Thomas R. Carskadon, an influential Mineral County farmer and political leader. It was built about 1886, and has two sections: a 2 1/2-story rectangular, brick main block and a two-story rear ell. It features a hip-on-mansard roof and two one-story, brick polygonal bays. It combines features of the Italianate and French Second Empire styles. Also on the property are the ruins of a brick dairy, the cement foundations of a silo, and the stone foundations of another outbuilding.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Mineral County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Keyser, Mineral County, West Virginia. It was built in 1868 and expanded or remodeled in 1894 and 1938-1941. The original section of the courthouse is a 2 1/2 story, brick building. The 1894 modifications are in the Romanesque Revival style. It is a three-story section constructed of brick and rusticated stone, with a low-pitched hipped roof. It features a centered tower topped with a pyramidal roof. The side and rear, two-story additions were constructed in 1938 and 1941 to provide additional county office space. USA Senator and Vice Presidential candidate Henry G. Davis donated land for the courthouse square.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The South School is a historic school building in the village of Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States. Over its history of more than 150 years, it has served a wide range of purposes, although it is not used now as a school.</p><br>
<p>Upon its completion in 1856, the South School served one of the school districts of Miami Township. At that time, small schoolhouses covered Greene County; more than a hundred were still in existence into the late twentieth century. This position it held only for a short time; just two years after its completion, it was converted for use as Yellow Springs High School; at that time, only white students were permitted to attend. After fourteen years in the South School, the high school moved to a different property; from 1872 until 1874, no school typically met on the property. It was reopened in the latter year to serve as the black school, which purpose it served until 1887. Since its closure as a school, it has been converted into apartments.</p><br>
<p>Architecturally, the South School is a distinctive example of the Greek Revival style of architecture. Constructed on a limestone foundation, it is built of brick and covered with a metal roof. Among its most distinctive elements is the decorative brickwork that appears at certain points on the exterior; such styling is common on buildings constructed during Yellow Springs golden age in the mid-19th century, but is a stark difference from the countys other historic school buildings. Architectural historians have seen the brickwork as an indication that the school was constructed by local brickmaker and contractor J.W. Hamilton, who established his business in the community in 1848 and was an active part of the community for over thirty years.</p><br>
<p>In 1984, the South School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its important architecture and because of its place in local history. Key to its place in local history is its use as a segregated school by two races.</p><br>
<p>Fort Hill, also known as Fort Hill Farm, is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near Burlington, Mineral County, West Virginia. The district includes 15 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures. The main house was completed in 1853, and is a two-story, "L"-shaped brick dwelling composed of a side gable roofed, five bay building with a rear extension in the Federal style. It features a three-bay, one-story front porch supported by four one foot square Tuscan order columns. Also on the property are a number of contributing buildings including a washhouse and cellar, outhouse, a dairy and ice house, a meat house, a garage, a hog house, poultry houses, a bank barn with silo, and a well. The family cemetery is across the road west of the main house. Located nearby and in the district is "Woodside," a schoolhouse built about 1890, and a tenant house and summer kitchen.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Heddalsvatnet is a lake in the municipalities Notodden and Sauherad in Telemark, Norway. The main influx comes from the rivers Tinnelva and Heddøla. The lake covers an area of 11.9 km or 13.2 km according to NVE. The catchment basin covers a total area of 5380,5 km.</p><br>
<p>The southern part of the lake is called Bråfjorden and is separated from the northern part by Nautsundet strait crossed county road 360 bridge. The railway line to Notodden (the Bratsberg Line) runs along the eastern shore.</p><br>
<p>The lake is part of the Skien watershed and is connected to the ocean by the Telemark Canal. Heddalsvatnet is only 16 meters above sea level and only two locks at Skien were neded to allow ships to sail on the lake. The canal opened in 1861 and made Notodden into Norway&#39;s largest fresh water port. In the late 1800s seafaring vessels were constructed at the shores of Heddalsvatnet.</p><br>
<p>After the ice age the ocean was about 150 meter higher in this area. The ocean stretched like a fjord passed Heddalsvatnet all the way to Hjartdal. The first humans in central Telemark presumably travelled by boat deep inland along the fjords that are now gone. Post-glacial rebound eventually separated Heddalsvatnet from the ocean and turned it into a freshwater lake. In neolithic times Heddalsvatnet was still a saltwater fjord connected to the ocean, and was separated from the ocean around 1500 BC.</p><br>
<p>Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building is an office block in Old Hall Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. The commercial building, which originally had a Neoclassical façade, replaced the 19th-century cotton exchange in Exchange Flags in 1906. Between 1967 and 1969 the building&#39;s exterior was given a contemporary mid 20th century design.</p><br>
<p>The building is used mainly for offices; retail facilities operate at street level.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The business of the cotton exchange was originally conducted outdoors on Exchange Flags, behind Liverpool Town Hall. The first Cotton Exchange Building was built in 1808 adjacent to the flags. The present building in Old Hall Street was erected in 1905–06 to a design by Matear and Simon. The building was officially opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales on 30th November 1906. The building cost around £300,000 build and the opening took place in the company of 3,000 guests. Its façade was in Neoclassical style, with Baroque towers at the angles. Its exterior decoration included statues. Inside the building was the latest technology for communicating with cotton trading elsewhere in the world, including telephones, and cables linking directly with New York, Bremen and Bombay. The Old Hall Street front was replaced with a modern-style façade designed by Newton-Dawson, Forbes and Tate in 1967–69, and the former main exchange hall was replaced by a courtyard. In addition to offices, the building also incorporates retail facilities.</p><br>
<p>The building was home to Liverpools registrars office and coroners courts up until January 2012. Up to 100,000 people a year used to visit the offices to register births, deaths and marriages before the facility was moved to St Georges Hall.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building is in seven storeys, and the modern front on Old Hall Street, facing southwest, has 21 bays. The sides and back of the building are largely unaltered from the original design. There are two levels of basements which originally contained the buildings coal bunkers, restaurant and ballrooms. The façade on Edmund Street, facing northwest, has retained cast iron panels decorated with wreaths, made by Macfarlanes of Glasgow. The back of the building, on Bixteth Street, is faced with Portland stone, and the Ormond Street front is in brick. Inside the building the colonnade formerly surrounding the trading floor is still present. The columns are monoliths of larvikite, quarried in Norway and polished in Aberdeen. The building is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. Some of the statues formerly on the façade are now located nearby; these include personifications of Navigation and Commerce.</p><br>
<p>Rogers House is a historic home located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was originally built about 1857 and is one of the last remaining residences from this time period in downtown Morgantown. The building is a two-story, five bay brick and wood frame dwelling in the Classical Revival style. The original section of the house is in brick, whereas the addition, designed by noted Morgantown architect Elmer F. Jacobs. and built in 1905-1906 is wood frame. Jacobs is also responsible for the interior design. It sits on a rough-faced coursed ashlar stone foundation. It features a front porch with four sets of triple wooden, Tuscan order columns. It was the home of the Rogers family, pioneer settlers of Morgantown. It has been the home of WVU&#39;s Campus Ministry Center since 1984. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is located in the Downtown Morgantown Historic District, listed in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The property on which the Rogers House is located passed through multiple owners before the building was constructed. The house was built sometime between 1855, when Alpheus Wells purchased the property from William E. Staggers, and 1868, when Alpheus sold the property to Thomas Rogers. The National Register nomination form dates the building to circa 1857. In the 1850s, the area around the property was undeveloped. The Rogers House was one of the first large residences built at the outer edge of Morgantown’s contemporary city limits. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Morgantown witnessed an intense period of industrialization and demographic growth that engulfed the Rogers House. It currently sits between downtown Morgantown and West Virginia University’s downtown campus.</p><br>
<p>The Rogers family were pioneer settlers of Morgantown. John Rogers was a prominent local businessman who owned a large amount of property as well as saw, grist, and paper mills. John Rogers’ son, Thomas Rogers, inherited his property. Thomas Rogers was active in the local Episcopalian Church. According to Earl Core’s The Monongalia Story, the Trinity Episcopal Parish was organized at Thomas Roger’s house in 1876. Thomas Rogers’ son, George Rogers, inherited the property when Thomas Rogers died in 1894. George Rogers was also active in the Episcopal Church and a businessman. He is known for developing the Woodburn and East Morgantown neighborhoods. George Rogers, his wife Louise Clemson Brown, and their daughters, Mary Washington and Louise Clemson, moved into the Rogers House in the late 1890s. The Rogers family rented rooms to students, which was a common practice at the time because there were no university dormitories.</p><br>
<p>When George Rogers died in 1920, the Rogers House was conveyed to his wife who was living at the house with her daughter and son-in-law, Louise and Harlan Selby. Her other daughter and son-in-law, Mary and Bradford Laidley, moved back into the Rogers House after George Rogers’ death. Bradford Laidley and Harlan Selby opened an office supply business called Laidley and Selby Office Equipment. The business, which was located at 417 High Street, was in operation from 1923-1974. Louise Rogers, George Roger’s widow, conveyed the Rogers House to Laidley and Selby in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>The Rogers House was a private residence until Bradford Laidley and Hale J. Poston, who had acquired Selby’s half-interest in the house, donated the property to the Loyalty Permanent Endowment Fund of the Alumni Association of West Virginia University. Despite the donors’ intentions, the Loyalty Permanent Endowment Fund did not relocate to the Rogers House. Instead, the Fund leased the Rogers House to the University Christian Council (UCC), an ecumenical campus ministry organization, in 1983. Known as the Campus Ministry Center, the ecumenical campus ministry has occupied the Rogers House since 1984.</p><br>
<p>The University Christian Council emerged from the ecumenical movement within the field of campus ministry, which was active at West Virginia University in the late 1960s. In 1969, the ecumenical campus ministry center was named the Bennett House in honor of Thomas Bennett. Thomas Bennett was a conscientious objector who was killed in Vietnam while serving in the Army Medical Corps. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. When he was a student at West Virginia University, Thomas Bennett served as the president of the Campus Ecumenical Council and was very involved in the campus ecumenical movement and social causes.</p><br>
<p>In late twentieth-century Morgantown, many campus ministers, particularly those of liberal Protestant denominations, worked closely with student activists and were involved in social activism. In the 1970s, campus ministers in the Bennett House were involved in a number of student and community projects, including draft, drug, and abortion counseling. When the campus ministry moved to the Rogers House in the 1980s, traces of this activism remained. The Women’s Information Center, which was founded in 1971, operated within the campus ministry until the early 1990s. The Center offered pregnancy testing and pro-choice counseling as well as programs on women’s issues.</p><br>
<p>In 1991, the Westminster Foundation of West Virginia purchased the property and established an endowment for the Rogers House for use as the Campus Ministry Center at West Virginia University. The Campus Ministry Center at the Rogers House has been home to the Wesley Foundation (campus ministry for the United Methodist Church), Mountaineer Campus Ministry (campus ministry for the Southern Baptist Convention), and Mon County Habitat for Humanity. The Campus Ministry Center is currently home to the Presbyterian Student Fellowship, the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship and International Student Ministry, and Court-appointed Special Advocates for Kids of Monongalia and Preston Counties.</p><br>
<p>Old Stone House is a historic home located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. The original section was built about 1796, and is a two-story stone structure measuring 26 feet, 8 inches, by 20 feet, 8 inches. A one-story, timber frame addition built in the early 1900s and measures 16 feet, 7 inches, by 16 feet, 4 inches. The Old Stone House was the home of John W. Thompson, a potter in early Morgan&#39;s Town. He was able to create red ware and stoneware pots from the clay found in the basement of the house. It is one of the oldest surviving examples of rustic pioneer architecture in Monongalia County. In 1935, it became headquarters of the Morgantown Service League, who operates a gift shop in the house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is located in the Downtown Morgantown Historic District, listed in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Albany Building is a 19th century Grade II* listed building located on Old Hall Street,in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. Built originally as a meeting place for cotton brokers, it has since been converted into apartments.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Albany was erected in 1856 for Richard Naylor, a banker, and designed by J.K. Colling. It was built as a meeting place for cotton brokers, and contained offices and meeting rooms, together with warehousing facilities in the basement. It is one of the earliest examples of Victorian offices in Liverpool. The central courtyard was originally uncovered, to provide good light for the brokers to examine their cotton samples. It was converted into apartments in 2004–05.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building is in three storeys plus a basement, and its front on Old Hall Street has eleven bays. The basement is constructed in rusticated granite, the ground floor in rusticated ashlar, and the upper storeys in brick with stone dressings. The round-arched entrance is in the central bay, and consists of a granite surround with a keystone, carvings in the spandrels. Over this is a frieze and a segmental pediment. The ground floor windows are three-light sashes, with segmental heads and keystones. Above the windows is a cornice. The first floor windows also have segmental heads; these contain carved archivolts and tympana. The windows in the top floor are smaller, with stone architraves and keystones. Along the top of the building is a carved frieze, a cornice supported by brackets, and a balustraded parapet. The side elevations are plainer, and still include cast iron hoists. The main entrance contains cast iron gates made to look like wrought iron. Inside is a coffered and barrel vaulted passage leading to the central courtyard, containing red granite columns and decorated with elaborate plasterwork.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>Today the Albany comprises 140 two and three bedroom luxury apartments and penthouses. with 24 hour concierge services and stacker parking. The lit courtyard can be seen from through the glass doors from the street and boasts the largest outdoor Swarovski crystal chandeliers in Europe. The courtyard draws admiration from many passers by. The Albany was recently used in the filming of the China Melville TV adaptation The City & the City.</p><br>
<p>The Carl Wilhelm August Groos House is located in the Bexar County city of San Antonio in the USA state of Texas. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1977. Designed by Alfred Giles in 1880, the building contractor was John H. Kampmann. Giles used a Victorian Gothic Revival on this limestone home. Groos had immigrated from Germany to Texas in 1848, at which time he and his brothers started a freighting firm. In 1871, he built the Carl W. A. Groos House in New Braunfels. In 1872, he and his family settled in San Antonio. Groos married Hulda Amalie Moureau and became a founding member of the Groos National Bank. In 1880, Groos hired Giles to build his San Antonio home. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bexar County, Texas as a contributing structure of the King William Historic District. Groos died in 1893 and is interred at San Antonio City Cemetery No. 1. In 1957, the house was purchased by the San Antonio Council of the Girl Scouts of the USA. The Girl Scouts sold the home to Charles Butt. It has been restored and is in private ownership.</p><br>
<p>Purinton House is a historic home associated with the West Virginia University and located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was built in 1904, and is a 2 1/2 story masonry dwelling with Classical Revival and Colonial Revival style features. It features a large wraparound porch whose hipped roof is supported by Ionic order columns. The porch roof is topped by a balustrade. The roof is topped by a balustraded deck and widow&#39;s walk. It served as the on-campus residence for university presidents from 1905 to 1967. On November 2, 1911, President William Howard Taft delivered the address "World Wide Speech," from the front porch of Purinton House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Oglebay Hall is a historic classroom building associated with the West Virginia University and located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was built in 1918, and is a three-story, brick and concrete building with Classical Revival detailing. The front facade features four Doric order columns that support a pediment with a false, concrete railing and entabulature with the buildings name. It also has balconies with cast iron balustrades. It originally housed the universitys College of Agriculture  and represents the university&#39;s heritage as a land-grant institution. The building is named for industrialist and philanthropist Earl W. Oglebay, whose house at Wheeling, West Virginia is known as the Oglebay Mansion Museum.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Stewart Hall is a historic library and administration building associated with the West Virginia University and located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was built between 1900 and 1902, and consists of a gabled central block, a 2 1/2 story gabled entrance pavilion, and a monumental octagonal tower. It is built of reinforced concrete and coursed Amherst sandstone blocks and is in the Romanesque Revival style. The interior features a two-story, arcaded rotunda. It housed the university library until 1931, when it became the Administration Building. It was renamed in the 1970s in honor of Irvin Stewart, president of the University from 1946 to 1958.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Woodburn Circle, also known as W.V.U. Quadrangle, is part of the downtown campus of West Virginia University; its located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. The circle, in reality a quadrangle grouped around an oval path, is an historic and distinctive architectural assembly of three collegiate buildings, which evolved in the late nineteenth century. In chronological order these are Martin Hall, Woodburn Hall and Chitwood Hall. However, its the largest of the buildings, Woodburn Hall, that is best known and a symbol of the university.</p><br>
<p>The circles Martin Hall is West Virginia Universitys oldest campus building and was constructed in 1870 as University Hall, and renamed Martin Hall in 1889. The circle&#39;s centerpiece, what is now Woodburn Hall, was finished in 1876, under the name New Hall.</p><br>
<p>The circle finally became complete with the addition of Chitwood hall in 1893.</p><br>
<p>Woodburn Circle was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Woodburn Hall</h2><br>
<p>Woodburn Hall, first known as University Hall, is the central and dominating building of Woodburn Circle. It was built between 1874 and 1876, and like its neighbor, the earlier Martin Hall, is in a predominantly red brick Second Empire style building under a mansard roof. It is considered one of the finest examples of Second Empire architecture in the State of West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>Designed by Morgantown architect Elmer F Jacobs, the building is of four floors; the first being a pale stone rustic, contrasting with the red brick above, and the third: an attic floor contained within the mansard roof. The principal facade is dominated by an Italianate central belvedere tower surmounted by a square based dome, which since 1910 has contained the Seth Thomas clock, originally in the cupola of Martin Hall. Secondary flanking wings, also designed by Jacobs, extending the facade, and two further towers were built between 1900 and 1911.</p><br>
<p>The initial cost of building the hall, $41,500, was funded by a state property tax, levied at a rate of five cents per $100 of property In 2010, the building was subject to a $3.9 million restoration project; this included a new roof, the replacement the long lost iron finials to the towers and the implementation of modern safety features, not considered necessary in the nineteenth century.</p><br>
<p>Since its completion, the building has had many uses. As one of the university&#39;s iconic buildings, it has seen the inaugurations of the University presidents and been the setting for the reception of US presidents. Since the turn of the twentieth century it has houses the College of Arts and Sciences.</p><br>
<p>The hall&#39;s name references Woodburn Female Seminary, a school originally located on the West Virginia University campus.</p><br>
<h2>Martin Hall</h2><br>
<p>Martin Hall was built in 1870 at a cost of $22,855, and is the oldest building in Woodburn Circle. It&#39;s conctructed of brick and has a mansard roof with slate shingles. The architecture is of the Second Empire Eclectic style, with two principal floors, plus an attic floor and a rusticated semi-basement. The facade has nine bays, the central bay being slightly projected with a narrow Venetian window at its centre on the first floor.</p><br>
<p>The roof is surmounted by a wooden octagonal cupola crowned with an onion dome. The cupola was originally adorned with the Seth Thomas clock, which today is housed in the central tower of Woodburn Hall.</p><br>
<p>As late as 1910, photographs show that Martin Hall originally had a central projecting pillared stone porch resembling a closed porte cochere; this has been removed and replaced by more simple arched entrance, which reflects that of the later Chitwood hall opposite.Morgantown</p><br>
<p>By Shannon Colaianni Tinnell, Arcadia Publishing, 2011. p79. This alteration was probably a belated attempt to provide some unity between the buildings flanking the very symmetrical facade of Woodburn Hall</p><br>
<p>Martin Hall commemorates Rev. Alexander Martin, the first president of West Virginia University., and is today home to the university&#39;s Reed College of Media.</p><br>
<h2>Chitwood Hall</h2><br>
<p>Chitwood Hall, the newest of the three building, was originally known as Science Hall. It was built in 1893 and is a three-story brick building designed in a loose Queen Anne style with a Venetian influence, which makes it architecturally at odds with its two neighbors.</p><br>
<p>The principal facade is of six bays, the central four bays are recessed; the projection of the two terminating bays is accentuated by brick quoining. The ground and first floors, separated from the floors above them by pale stone banding, are pierced by a massive segmented entrance in the manner of a portal to a Venetian palazzo. Behind this portal, broad stairs rise immediately to the first floor as if is those entering may need to escape the rising waters of the Grand Canal.</p><br>
<p>The second floor, which has tall segmented windows, has the external appearance of a piano nobile; this is accentuated by a projecting iron central balcony over the entrance below. Originally, the segmented windows of this story were shorter with blind brick recesses beneath them; however, they have since been extended into the recesses and now reach to the floor.</p><br>
<p>The windows of the top floor are far shorter than those of the floors below and the rhythm of the fenestration is faster, being two windows to each of those on the floors below. Originally the central recess on this floor formed an open loggia, this would have continued the Venetian palazzo theme of the balcony above a massive portal below; this loggia has now been closed and glazed to match the flanking windows.</p><br>
<p>The building has a slate shingled hipped roof with dormer. The hall was renamed in 1972, in honor of Dr. Oliver P. Chitwood.</p><br>
<p>Chitwood Hall is now home to the university&#39;s Department of Foreign Languages.</p><br>
<p>Rigby&#39;s Buildings isat 21–25 Dale Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It contains offices and, on its ground floor, a public house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building carries the date 1726, but the present building on the site probably dates from about 1850. It takes its name from Alderman Thomas Rigby, who came from humble beginnings, and made a fortune from public houses and hotels. He acquired the building in about 1852, at which time it was known as Atherton Buildings. Rigby bought the building mainly for its yards and warehouse at the rear for use in his business. At this time it had a plain frontage, and in 1865 Rigby added the stucco façade with its wooden carved grotesques in imitation-medieval style. As of 2003 its ground floor is occupied by a public house named Thomas Rigby&#39;s, and the upper floors are used as offices.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Rigbys Buildings is in five storeys, with a front of seven bays. The ground floor has a 19th-century frontage containing leaded light windows over which is a continuous fascia. In the upper storeys all the windows are four-pane sashes. The windows in the first floor have balustrades, and decorated architraves and lintels. The windows in the second storey are the most elaborate. They have balconies, decorated architraves, and pediments of different types. Along the top of the building runs a cornice with a parapet. At the centre of the parapet is the inscription "Rigbys Buildings", and at the sides of this are balustrades. Standing on the parapet at its corners are urns. Rigby&#39;s Buildings is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.</p><br>
<p>Vance Farmhouse, also known as Meeks Farmhouse, Dean&#39;s House, and Bicentennial House, is a historic home located on a West Virginia University farm at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. The original section was built about 1854, and is a two-story, I house form brick dwelling. The 1 1/2 story rear addition was built before 1900, and the two-story side addition on the northeast elevation was added in the 1930s. It features a wrap-around porch added sometime before 1900. The property was acquired for the West Virginia University Experiment Station in 1899. It housed the dean of the College of Agriculture from 1915 to 1957. During the United States Bicentennial in 1976, it was used as a showcase for exhibits on Monongalia County history. It houses the West Virginia University Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archeology.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Dominican Island or Constance Island  is an island in Lake Constance immediately east of the city of Constance. With an area of 1.8 hectares, it is one of the smaller islands in the lake. The island is separated from the city center by a six metre wide channel, and connected to it by a bridge. The island is dominated by the Steigenberger hotel, which is housed in the former Dominican convent.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Dominican Island, 246 m long from north to south and up to 100 m wide.</p><br>
<p>The channel that separates the island from the mainland is 210 m long, but only 6 m wide. The channel is on the western side of the island; opposite the island is the Niederburg section of the old city center. The channel used to be much wider and was partially filled for the construction of the railway line. The island is barely recognizable as such because the narrow channel is visible only to pedestrians walking on the wharf along the old waterfront. The Constance railway station and the port are about 600 m south of the bridge. The road to the railway station leads past the city park.</p><br>
<p>In the south, the swan pond lies between the island and the city park. The city parks sits on a piece of the lake that was filled in in 1880. Even after this water was filled in, the Swan Pond is not completely surrounded by land. In the northwest, the pond abuts the city canal; is the southeast, the pond is separated from the open lake by a 15 m wide bottleneck. This compound falls dry at low tide. The Swan Pond is almost 90 m long and up to 30 m wide, it covers an area of about 1,800 square feet.</p><br>
<p>The northern tip of the island is located 30 m from the Old Rhine Bridge, at the point where the Seerhein flows out of the Upper Lake towards the Lower Lake. The chapter house is located to the north of the main building. The hotel car park separates the two buildings.</p><br>
<p>To the east of the island is the Constance Hopper part of Lake Constance. Here we find the famous terrace of the hotels restaurant, as well as, further south, the hotels lido and recreation lawn. At the southern end of the lawn, there is a pavilion.</p><br>
<p>In the central building of the hotel, we find the grave of Manuel Chrysoloras, who died here during the Council of Constance.</p><br>
<p>The island belongs to urban district Altstadt ("Old Town"). On 31 December 2008, 21 people reported having their principal residence on Dominican Island.</p><br>
<h2>University of Konstanz</h2><br>
<p>The University of Constance was founded in 1966 and was initially housed in the south wing of the convent building. The south wing was the temporary seat of the university, which was spread out to various buildings in several parts of the city, until the newly commissioned buildings on the Giesberg were ready. Even today, the hotel building is frequently used for lectures and meetings of the University of Constance and for events organized by the Constance European Colloquium.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early history</h3><br>
<p>At the southwest of Lake Constance and in the present city of Constance, the remains of a Neolithic village have been found at some distance from the shore. Such finds have also been made in the swan pond between the southern shore of the Dominican island and the city park created in 1880. Fragments and wood were discovered, and traces of stilt houses. They were dated between the fifth and the third millennium BCE.</p><br>
<p>Other shore settlements in the Constance Hopper, also stilt houses were dated to the Neolithic period around 2200 BC to 1800 BC.</p><br>
<p>At the end of the second Century BCE Celtic people lived in fishing settlements on the territory of Constance and on the Dominican island.</p><br>
<h3>Roman History</h3><br>
<p>1807, with Dominican Island in the bottom right (north is right)</p><br>
<p>The Roman rule in the area around Lake Constance started in the year 15 CE with the conquest of Augustus. The Celtic oppidum was destroyed. The area then belonged to the province Raetia until the end of Roman rule around the year 400.</p><br>
<p>In the year 207, Emperor Severus sent governor Constantine into the area. Constantine set up his headquarters in Pfyn in today&#39;s Thurgau. He also set up a well-fortified hunting lodge on Dominican Island. He granted freedom of trade, which led to settlement forming around his hunting lodge, forming an additional layer of protection against his enemies, who included Alman von Stoffen, a Hungarian ruler, and an early Bavarian Duke. Although one could consider this Roman settlement as the earliest beginning of the City of Constance, the city was not named after this Constantine, but a 4th century emperor. Constantine was killed in an accident with a frightened horse and his enemies destroyed the castle and drove away most of the inhabitants of the island.</p><br>
<p>The castle was probably rebuilt subsequently. However, when the Alemanni expelled the Romans in the late 4th and early 5th centuries, the castle was destroyed again, so people would not be reminded of the hated Roman rule.</p><br>
<h3>Early Middle Ages</h3><br>
<p>Little is known about the history of the island during this period. According to legend, the island is home to a castle of Merovingian have.</p><br>
<p>In 780 Charlemagne was a guest on the island while travelling in the area.</p><br>
<p>In 1100, bishop Gebhard (III) of Constance sought refuge on the island during the Investiture Controversy.</p><br>
<h3>Dominican Monastery</h3><br>
<p>According to various sources, the island was handed over to the Dominicans in 1220, and in 1234 was assigned as a location to build a monastery by an order of the prince bishop Heinrich von Tanne of Constance. The monastery was established in 1236.</p><br>
<p>The Chapter House, 25 m north of the monastery, was built long before the founding of the monastery. The first chapter house in the world was built in Worcester in 1110.</p><br>
<p>Around 1300, the mystic and poet Heinrich Suso was born in Constance. He became a friar at the Dominican convent on the island.</p><br>
<p>At the beginning of the Council of Constance, from 6 December 1414 to 24 March 1415, Jan Hus, considered the first Church reformer as he lived before Martin Luther, Calvin and Zwingli, was held in the dungeon of the monastery. This was in the basement of the round tower on the eastern side, overlooking the lake, next to the Dominicans&#39; dining room. During the Council, the French delegation was housed in the chapter house.</p><br>
<p>In 1507 Maximilian I organized celebrations in the garden on the island during the Diet of Constance. From 1528 to 1549, the convent was used by the city of Constance as a temporary hospital. It was then returned to the friars. In 1633, during the Thirty Years&#39; War, the Swedish fleet attacked the island.</p><br>
<p>In 1785 the friars were finally driven from the island by the Austrian Emperor Joseph II, because a thriving industry was closer to his heart than the mendicant friars. On 26 July 1785 the last Mass was celebrated in the church on the island, and the convent closed the following the day. Other monasteries in the area were also closed.</p><br>
<p>Second Ward Negro Elementary School, also known as the Second Ward Annex, is a historic school building located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was built in 1938-1939, and is a one-story, plus basement, "T"-shaped brick building in the Art Deco style. It sits on a sandstone foundation. Funds for the building&#39;s construction were provided by the Works Progress Administration. It functioned as a school for African American students and a community center until the end of segregation in 1954. The building reopened as a school annex and Instructional Materials Center in the 1960s, but ceased being used as a school in 1993.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It is located in the Greenmont Historic District, listed in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Battleship Island is an island in the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska, United States. Located in the Auke Bay portion of Lynn Canal, it is 1.6 mi south of the village of Auke Bay, Alaska, and 9.9 mi northwest of the city of Juneau. The name was reported in a 1957 publication by R. N. DeArmond. It was collected by the United States Geological Survey between 1976 and 1981, and entered into the Geographic Names Information System on March 31, 1981.</p><br>
<p>The Federal Aviation Administration erected a low level windshear alert system tower on the island in order to assist incoming pilots to Juneau International Airport. Battleship Island is a part of the Channel Islands State Marine Park; it is used for picnicing and camping.</p><br>
<h2>Geographical location</h2><br>
<p>Battleship Island is an island in the Borough of Juneau in Alaska. The name was reported in a 1957 publication by R. N. DeArmond. It was collected by the United States Geological Survey between 1976 and 1981, and entered into the Geographic Names Information System on March 31, 1981. The island has a diameter of 0.1 mi.</p><br>
<h3>Location in relation to other towns</h3><br>
<p>It is located in the Auke Bay portion of Lynn Canal, it is 1.6 mi south of the village of Auke Bay, Alaska, and 9.9 mi northwest of the city of Juneau.</p><br>
<h2>Official status</h2><br>
<p>The Federal Aviation Administration erected a low level windshear alert system tower on the island in order to assist incoming pilots to Juneau International Airport. Battleship Island is a part of the Channel Islands State Marine Park; it is used for picnicing and camping.</p><br>
<p>Monongalia County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located in Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. The courthouse was erected in 1784 with the current structure built in 1891. This Romanesque style building consists of a two-story building with a basement, five-story clock tower and a three-story South tower. The building measures at 99’ by 83’ by 99’ by 76’ with the first story at fifteen feet high and the second story at twenty-two feet high. The distinctive central clock tower has a pyramidal roof, four doomed buttresses, stone molds over the four clocks and tower windows, arcade belfry, and quatrefoil design with the building date. The original northern facade was covered by an addition built in 1925 with another addition built in 1975. Connected to the courthouse is a two-story Italianate style jailhouse built in 1881.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is located in the Downtown Morgantown Historic District, listed in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Monongalia County Courthouse, located at 243 High Street, predates the town of Morgantown, West Virginia by one year. The Romanesque building is the fourth courthouse built on the same site and serves as the headquarters of the county government. The first two buildings were frame structures with the first being built in 1784 costing $250 and the second in 1796 after a fire destroyed the building. The frame structure building was succeeded by a two-story brick building completed in 1802. The courthouse was then replaced by another two-story brick building in 1848 costing $6,500. In 1851 a wooden statue of Patrick Henry was placed on top of the courthouse in honor of his governance of the state of Virginia in 1776 when the county of Monongalia was created. This statue is currently standing in the turret of the present courthouse.</p><br>
<p>In 1884 the courthouse was declared dangerous. The County Court began making plans for a new building and in 1887 James P Bailey, an architect from Pittsburgh, Pa, was hired for $25.00 to design a new courthouse. There was much opposition from the townspeople which resulted in two failed proposed bond issues for a new courthouse. On September 13, 1890, county officials removed the records from the courthouse at midnight and began demolition on the building. The townspeople sought a couth injunction to stop further work but the court officials had all left town and no local lawyer would represent them.</p><br>
<p>On June 20, 1891, West Virginia Day, the cornerstone of the Victorian Romanesque style brick and stone building was laid. The structure was built by George W. L. Mayers building contracting firm for the price of $53,478. The building was later finished that year. In 1976 the courthouse was renovated and an annex was added on at the cost of $1.5 million. This is the current state the courthouse is in today.</p><br>
<p>Up until 1881, the courtyard was the site of the public whipping post, stocks and pillories. Today the courtyard is used for public meetings, street fairs, political rallies, and markets.</p><br>
<p>The Niagara Whirlpool is a natural whirlpool along the Niagara River located along the Canada–US border between New York and Ontario. The whirlpool is located in the Niagara Gorge, downstream from Niagara Falls. The whirlpool&#39;s greatest depth is 125 ft.</p><br>
<h2>Formation of whirlpool</h2><br>
<p>It is estimated that the whirlpool formed approximately 4,200 years ago by the upstream erosion of the Niagara Escarpment by the Niagara River. Niagara Falls is located along the boundary of the Niagara Escarpment and has been "retreating" upstream since its formation. During this normally slow process, the retreating falls intersected with an ancient pre-glacial river bed inside Saint Davids Buried Gorge. During the retreat of ice from the Wisconsinan glaciation of the last glacial period, the gorge was filled with loose sediment and rock. When the falls intersected with this buried gorge, the river quickly washed away the filled-in silt and rocks. The ancient buried gorge was nearly perpendicular to the Niagara River. This sharp and sudden change in direction of water flow, coupled with the rapid flow of water exiting the Niagara Gorge (speeds as high as 30 feet per second ), resulted in turbulent swirling of the river. Further erosion of the harder rock has resulted in a rounded basin that extends just to the side of the actual rivers course.</p><br>
<p>The whirlpool naturally spins in a counterclockwise motion during normal flow. When more water from the river is diverted to the surrounding hydroelectric power plants, however, the flow often reverses.</p><br>
<h2>Nearby attractions</h2><br>
<p>There are two state/provincial parks located alongside the whirlpool. On the USA side is the Whirlpool State Park. On the Canadian side is the Niagara Glen Nature Reserve. The Whirlpool Aero Car, which traverses the river above the whirlpool, is also located on the Canadian side.</p><br>
<p>Easton Roller Mill is a historic sawmill and grist mill located near Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. Construction began in 1864 and was completed in 1867. During the first 10 or so years, the mill changed hands from the original builder, Henry Koontz of Frostburg MD, about four times before mill-modernizer Isaac Morris bought the mill in 1894. Originally it was a 3 1/2-story rectangular, timber frame building with a shed addition; however, the shed was removed In recent years. Most mills of this era were exclusively using Burr stones for milling and grinding, however in 1894, the owner, Isaac Morris, installed roller mills for the production of high-grade white flour coming into popular demand. At that time, the Burr stone mill was relegated to grinding cornmeal, and so began a second business of cornmeal and animal feed products also sold at the Easton mill. It is probable Mr. Morris also installed the current steam engine, an 1875 Lane & Bodley 40 HP single expansion engine. The engine once ran on coal-generated steam; however, for insurance reasons, it now runs on compressed air for demonstration purposes. The mill ran under Mr. Morris ownership until 1910. William C. Ley  bought the mill in 1910 and ran it 24 hours a day until 1930. We are told that Mr. Ley was of German descent, was tall, spoke with a heavy accent, and often wore a thick black mustache under his wide brimmed hat. He was known for running a very expertly tuned operation, and keeping his equipment in perfect working order. We believe Mr. Ley potentially ran the mill seasonally through the 1930s, until his death in 1941. Between 1939 and Leys death in 1941, Leys daughter Estella Ley-Pickenpaugh and her husband Fred Pickenpaugh attempted to restore the mill to full working order, only to discover local wheat and grains unavailable, as most milling had moved to large-scale mills in the Midwest. During this time they may have been assisted by Mr. Leys milling partner Frank A. Walls of Easton. It is unclear whether Walls held ownership interest in the mill at any time; however, his name appears on the cornmeal bags only. The mill was willed by Estella Ley-Pickenpaugh to the Monongalia Historical Society in 1978. In the fall-winter of 2012–2013, restoration work began at the mill. The mill is expected to be operating and touring visitors by spring 2013.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Seneca Glass Company Building is a historic glass factory located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was built in 1896-1897, and is an industrial complex of work areas, all connected by doors, passageways, or bridges. A fire in 1902, destroyed much of the interior of the original brick part of the complex. After the fire, Elmer F. Jacobs designed the new two-story replacement, a new Needle Etching Room in a separate building connected by a bridge, and the reconstruction of the Grinding, Glazing, and Cutting areas. A large addition was built in 1947. The building features a conical brick stack that projects 36 feet above the roofline of the Furnace / Blowing Room. The complex was the home of one of the finest hand-blown, hand-cut and etched, lead glass factories in the world. After the factory closed in 1983, it was adapted for commercial use.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Camp Rhododendron, also known as Camp Rhododendron Recreational Historic District, is a historic Civilian Conservation Corps camp and national historic district located at Coopers Rock State Forest near Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. The district includes seven contributing buildings, one contributing structure, and two contributing objects. It was constructed between 1936 and 1942, and includes a pumphouse, Robert Fechner Monument, information booth, three pavilions, an overlook / walkway, concession stand, fire warning sign, and trail chalet. They are built of hewn logs and sandstone and representative of the Depression-era Rustic style of architecture. Located nearby is the Coopers Rock State Forest Superintendent&#39;s House and Garage, also built by the CCC.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Morgantown Historic District is a federally designated historic district in Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. The district, encompassing approximately 75 acres, has 122 contributing buildings and 2 contributing sites including commercial and public buildings, residences, and churches. The district has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 2, 1996. Ten of the contributing buildings are listed separately on the National Register of Historic Places. Significant structures located within the historic district are the Monongalia County Courthouse, the Metropolitan Theater, and the Old Morgantown Post Office .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The historic district is representative of significant developments in architecture, social history, and industry that occurred in Morgantown and the surrounding region between 1795 and 1945. Morgantown is located along the Monongahela River which flows north to Pittsburgh and on to the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. The town’s proximity to the river made it an important location in westward expansion. In the late 1750s, settlers began building small farms in the area. Zackquill Morgan, the town’s founder, received a grant in 1784 for 50 acres on land at the junction of Deckers Creek and the river. Morgan had built a settlement on the land in 1772 and returned to the area after serving as a colonel in the Revolutionary War. He laid out a grid for the town on this property and received a charter for “Morgan’s Town” in 1785.</p><br>
<p>The town grew slowly throughout the early nineteenth century, with development based largely on the exportation of agricultural and industrial products north along the river. During the Civil War, the town was a strong supporter of the Union. Waitman T. Willey, a local lawyer, lived in the town and was a leader in the movement to create the state of West Virginia. The Confederate Jones- Imboden raiders occupied the town briefly during the war in an attempt to capture Willey, but he had fled before their arrival. After the war, the town grew quickly as transportation improved and the oil, petroleum, coal, and timber industries expanded. Many new immigrants came to the town to work in these growing businesses. During this time, the town also became a center of education with the creation of West Virginia University based on earlier academies and seminary schools. With the expansion of these educational and industrial activities came the building of new offices, homes, churches, and many other buildings to support the growing town. The development that occurred in the town over the past two and a half centuries can be seen throughout the historic district.</p><br>
<h2>Boundaries</h2><br>
<p>The boundaries of the historic district are based on the original town grid laid out by the town&#39;s founder Zackquill Morgan in 1785.</p><br>
<p>The central portion of the district is High Street, running parallel between Chestnut Street and Spruce Street. The district is bounded on the north by Willey Street which separates the downtown area from the campus of West Virginia University. To the south, the district is bounded by Foundry Street which runs along Deckers Creek. To the west, the district is bounded by Chestnut Street which runs parallel to the Monongahela River. To the east, the district is bounded by Spruce Street which also runs along Deckers Creek with bridges crossing over to the adjacent South Park Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The buildings with the historic district are representative of the architectural styles were common in the region between 1795 and 1945. The earliest structures in the district are in the federal style that was popular in the decades following the Revolutionary War. Buildings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are in a variety of styles particularly Classic revival, Victorian, Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Romanesque. Many of the buildings within the historic district were designed by Elmer Jacobs, a local architect. Jacobs employed many of the styles popular during the Gilded Age to create an eclectic landscape in the downtown area.</p><br>
<h2>Properties</h2><br>
<h3>Buildings listed separately on the National Register</h3><br>
<p>Brown Building, also known as the Ream Building, was built in 1898. This commercial building was designed by Elmer Jacobs. It is a four-story eclectic style brick building with a flat roof and projecting cornice.</p><br>
<p>Dering Building, built in 1896, is a commercial building designed by Elmer Jacobs. It is a three-story Romanesque Revival style stone building. It features a pediment above the flat roof with a rising sun motif and the date of construction inscribed in the center.</p><br>
<p>Judge Frank Cox House, built about 1898, is a two and a half story Queen Anne style brick dwelling designed by Elmer Jacobs. The house features a three story tower, five chimneys with decorative brick detailing, stained glass windows, and a wooden porch and portico. This was the home of Judge Frank Cox, a local lawyer and prosecuting attorney who served on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>Metropolitan Theatre opened on July 24, 1924. The brick facade features fluted concrete Ionic order pilasters with egg-and-dart detail in the Classical Revival style. The theater continues to provide a home for the city&#39;s live entertainment with a single floor auditorium, balcony, two storefronts on the ground floor, and a pool hall in the basement.</p><br>
<p>Monongalia County Courthouse, built in 1891, is a two-story Romanesque style building with a five-story clock tower and separate three-story circular tower. Connected to the courthouse is a two-story Italianate style jailhouse built in 1881.</p><br>
<p>Old Morgantown Post Office, also known as the Monongalia Arts Center, was built in 1913. The building was originally a federally owned post office designed by Oscar Wenderoth in Classical Revival style. When the post office was moved to a new facility in the early 1970s, the building was purchased by the Tanner family who established the Monongalia County Arts Association, Inc.</p><br>
<p>Old Stone House, built about 1796, is a two-story stone structure with a one-story, timber frame addition built in the early 1900s. It was the home of John W. Thompson, a potter in early Morgantown. It is one of the oldest surviving examples of rustic pioneer architecture in Monongalia County.</p><br>
<p>Rogers House, built about 1857, is a two-story brick and wood frame dwelling in the Classical Revival style. The original section of the house is brick. An addition, designed by Elmer Jacobs and built in 1905-1906, is wood frame. It was the home of the Rogers family, pioneer settlers of Morgantown.</p><br>
<p>Women&#39;s Christian Temperance Union Community Building built in 1922, is a four-story brick structure in the Classical Revival style. It features a smooth-cut stone cornice topped by a balustrade. The building also houses office space, meeting rooms, private apartments, and recreational facilities.</p><br>
<p>Walters House also known as the Stone, Gallagher and Byrne Law Offices was built about 1900. The house is a Queen Anne style brick dwelling featuring a three-story tower in the southeast corner topped with a wrought-iron balustrade.</p><br>
<h3>Contributing buildings</h3><br>
<p>Other contributing buildings within the historic district include various commercial and public buildings, houses, and churches. Significant commercial buildings with the district are the legal offices on Chancery Row (c. 1855) which includes the former office Waitman T. Willey, lawyer and one of the state’s first senators. Additional commercial buildings in the district are the Knights of Columbus Building (significant in the labor history of the town), the Curtis Electrical and State Electronics (originally the Davis Brothers garage which features an early patented driving ramp system), and the Monongahela Building (which housed the offices of many coal company executives). Notable houses within the district are the Neville House (1823), the Crow-Garlow-Lewin House, and the John Rogers House (now the Dering Funeral Home, built in the 1840s in the federal style). Churches in the district include the Spruce Street United Methodist Church (built in 1908 and designed by Elmer Jacobs) and Wesley United Methodist Church (built in 1942). The historic district is also home to Morgantown City Hall (1924) and the historic Warner Theater (1931).</p><br>
<p>Round Mountain, 780 ft above sea level, was a peak of the Holyoke Range of traprock mountains located in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts, and part of the greater Metacomet Ridge that stretches from Long Island Sound nearly to the Vermont border. Round Mountain was located mostly within Granby but some land was within the towns of Amherst and South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was traversed by the 110 mi Metacomet-Monadnock Trail but not longer since the trail has been moved at that point to the north to avoid the quarry.</p><br>
<p>The mining operation started in 1897 and has all but removed the mountain. Together with Bare Mountain to the west, it formed a feature called the Notch. Within the Notch runs state highway Route 116. Travelers through the road could see mountains on both sides. This is no longer true since the quarry has leveled the earth to the east. Before the road was blasted through this area, a trolley passed through. The notch effect was even greater since the slopes of both mountains came down to the edge of the tracks. The bed of this former trolley way is still visible to the east of the current highway. Before the trolley bed it was a dirt highway, and before that an Indian path.</p><br>
<h2>Geology and ecology</h2><br>
<p>Round Mountain, like much of the Metacomet Ridge, is composed of basalt, a volcanic rock. The rocks forming the mountain were extruded near the end of the Triassic Period when North America was rifting apart from Africa and Eurasia. Lava welled up from the rift and solidified into sheets of strata hundreds of feet thick. Subsequent faulting and earthquake activity tilted the strata, creating the dramatic cliffs and ridges of Bare Mountain. Hot, dry upper slopes, cool, moist ravines, and mineral-rich ledges of basalt talus produce a combination of microclimate ecosystems on the mountain that support plant and animal species uncommon in greater Massachusetts. See Metacomet Ridge for more information on the geology and ecosystem of Bare Mountain.</p><br>
<p>Morgantown Wharf and Warehouse Historic District is a national historic district located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The district includes 36 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures in a formerly industrial area along the Monongahela River and B&O Railroad tracks. The district consists of primarily two and three-story, masonry buildings with warehouse or commercial facilities on the first floor with some residential on the upper stories, and some worker&#39;s housing. Most of the buildings were built between 1885 and 1948. Notable buildings include the B&O Railroad Depot (1885), Kincaid Building (c. 1904-1906), railroad bridge over Deckers Creek (c. 1900-1910), railroad trestle (c. 1900), and wharf site (c. 1847). Also located in the district is the separately listed Kincaid and Arnett Feed and Flour Building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The State Insurance Building is at 14 Dale Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. Half of the building was destroyed by bombing in the Second World War. Both its external architecture and its internal decoration are elaborate.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1906 The building continues to be used as offices, with a restaurant on the ground floor.</p><br>
<p>In the 1920s the downstairs of the building was used as a popular dance hall and venue. After the second World War it was closed and later reopened as a Debenhams department store. In the 1990s it transformed again into a popular night club and rave hot spot, using the open plan hall downstairs to set up a stage for live music, but later closed down again. It is now utilised only four times a year as a special event night club and rave venue which still holds the original marbled walls and gold painted ceiling.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>Constructed in ashlar with columns of polished red granite on the ground floor, the building has three bays. Its architectural style is described as "flamboyant Gothic", and as "wiry, sinuous Gothic". The left hand bay has five storeys. Its ground floor contains a narrow doorway with an ogee arch and tracery in the spandrels. A stair turret rises above the doorway. The first floor contains a balustraded balcony over which is a triple-arched canopy. Above this are three storeys with ogee-headed windows containing tracery. The top storey is octagonal and is surmounted by a pierced parapet. The other two bays have three storeys. The ground floor contains an ogee-headed doorway, wider than that in the left hand bay. The first and second floors have two two-light windows, and the third floor has two three-light windows. Between the second and third floors is a panel inscribed with the word "Insurance". Above the top storey is a gabled attic containing two narrow round-headed windows with tracery above them. Between the bays are fluted colonnettes.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>Inside the building is a central courtyard with a glazed barrel vault. Around this are galleries with wooden balustrades. The ground floor rooms have ceilings decorated with plasterwork and supported by metal columns. Between the columns is blind arcading decorated with multi-coloured marble. The arcades contain panels with circular plaster reliefs by Alfred R. Martin. The reliefs depict themes from traditional stories. In the former entrance hall are more reliefs, these depicting castles. The building is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.</p><br>
<p>McNeer House is a historic home located near Salt Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, West Virginia. It was built in 1919, and is a 2 1/2 story frame dwelling painted white in the Colonial Revival style. It has a rear service area that features a two-story, "U"-shaped wing with a one-story rear portico with Doric order columns between the arms of the U. It features a two-story flat-roofed portico supported by four Doric columns, across the central bay of the front elevation. The house was built by E. Grier Kendall, but may have been designed by Alex B. Mahood from nearby Bluefield, West Virginia. It is the largest residential building in Monroe County. For a short time after World War II, the McNeer House became the "Lotus Club," perhaps Monroe County&#39;s only nightclub.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Wallace Estill Sr. House, also known as the Old Stone House, is a historic home located near Union, Monroe County, West Virginia. It was built in 1773, is of stone and frame construction. The stone part measures 20 feet, 6 inches, by 25 feet, 6 inches. The house has two stone chimneys from which three fireplaces and two flues for woodstoves are provided. It is a good example of pioneer architecture. The house is the ancestral home of United States Senator Chuck Robb as his grandmother, Susan Gay Estill, was the great-granddaughter of its owner Isaac Estill.</p><br>
<p>Isaac Estills son, Captain James Estill, was a Kentucky militia officer during the Revolutionary War, after whom Estill County, Kentucky was named. Captain Estill was killed at the Battle of Little Mountain, also known as Estills Defeat, during the Revolutionary War.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Spring Valley Farm, also known as the Richard Dickson Farm, is a historic home and farm located near Union, Monroe County, West Virginia. The main house began as a two-story log cabin built in 1793. The main, or big, house was added to the original log unit between 1837 and 1841. It is a two-story building with large brick chimneys on either end of its gently sloping gable roof. The front facade features a two-story porch that extends the entire length of the main unit. The porch has plain white wood columns with a Chinese Chippendale style railing on the second floor. Also on the property are a variety of contributing outbuildings including the Shop and Root Cellar , 1834 Well, Smoke House or Meat House , Granary , the Old Stable , Cattle Barn , Second Creek Fort Well , Horse Barn , Old Garage , Machine Shed , and Old Log Building .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, with a boundary increase in 1992.</p><br>
<p>"Walnut Grove", also known as the Andrew Beirne House, is a historic home located near Union, Monroe County, West Virginia. It is a "T" shaped dwelling that integrates four separate structures. The oldest date to the 1780s and incorporates two, two-story log buildings. Attached to them is a formerly detached log kitchen. A two-story, Greek Revival-style brick addition was built after 1825. The entrance is in this section and features a one-story porch supported by square columns. Also on the property are a two-room frame office building, brick smokehouse, and stone springhouse. It was home to USA Congressman Andrew Beirne .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It is located in the Union Historic District, listed in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Hadley Flour and Feed Mill is located at 3633 Hadley Road in rural Hadley Township in southwestern Lapeer County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan State Historic Site and also added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 1986.</p><br>
<p>The site includes several structures, but the main building is a -story wooden gristmill with a full basement. The structure is painted white and red, which was characteristic of such structures at the time. It was a typical site constructed during the course of Lapeer Countys booming agricultural growth, but today, it remains one of fewer than 60 remaining examples in the state. It was built in 1874 by Peter Slimmer along the small Mill Creek and has undergone numerous repairs over its history. It was the third such mill constructed on the site—the first being built in 1845 and the second in the early 1860s. The building once stood on stilts to allow water to pass beneath. These ponds were removed, along with the creeks dam when the structure was converted from a gristmill to produce electric power in 1924 to reflect growing changes in the twentieth century. After the site ceased operation in 1964, it was turned into an office and apartment building but was later converted into a park and museum known as the Hadley Mill Museum. The property was donated to the township in 2002. The covered bridge was added in recent years as part of the park&#39;s ambiance.</p><br>
<p>William Gaston Caperton Jr. House, also known as "Wyndridge," is a historic home and national historic district located near Union, Monroe County, West Virginia. The district includes nine contributing buildings. The main house was built in 1872, and is a large, almost square, two-story hipped roof Georgian plan house. The front facade features a one-story portico that is Greek Revival in form. The 1872 house incorporates two two-story late 18th century log structures and the early pioneer 1773 Blanton House. Also on the property are the contributing log ice house and log smoke house, barn with vertical siding, a cattle scales and a machine shed, carriage shed, and a shed. A descendent of William Gaston Caperton Jr. is Gaston Caperton, who served as Governor of West Virginia from January 16, 1989 – January 13, 1997.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Reed&#39;s Mill is a historic grist mill and national historic district located at Secondcreek, Monroe County, West Virginia. The district includes two contributing buildings and eight contributing structures. It was one of the original mill complexes of Secondcreek. The main mill building was built about 1791, and is a mortise and tenon frame structure held together with wooden pins, and sits atop a raised cut stone basement. A tall three-story section with basement was added in 1949. The district also includes the mill dam, wing-dam, mill race lined with rock and ending in the mill pond, and concrete mill race that carries water to the turbine  which operates the grinding wheels in the mill. It remains an operating mill.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Cook&#39;s Mill, also known as The Old Mill and The Greenville Mill, is a historic grist mill and sawmill and national historic district located near Greenville, Monroe County, West Virginia. The district includes one contributing buildings and two contributing structures. The main mill building was built in 1857 on the original stone foundation and site of an earlier mill built in approximately 1796. It is a 2 1/2 story, plus basement, hand-hewn post-and-beam building, with massive timbers pegged at their mortise and tenon joints. The district also includes the dam, mill pond, tail race and stream.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>This is near the original sight of Cook&#39;s Station (Fort) built by Valentine Cook in early 1770s.</p><br>
<p>This was the sight of the first marriage in that county, of Phillip Hamman and Christina Cook in 1780.</p><br>
<p>He being known as Savior Of The Greenbrier for his run, along with John Pryor, to warn the Greenbrier</p><br>
<p>settlements in 1778 of an impending Indian attack.</p><br>
<p>Lynnside Historic District is a national historic district located near Sweet Springs, Monroe County, West Virginia. The district includes six contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and two contributing structures. It consists of three contiguous properties related to the Lewis family home, known as "Lynnside." The main house was built in 1845 on the site of a previous plantation house, and is a 1 1/2 story, rectangular masonry dwelling in the Greek Revival style. It measures 70 feet by 40 feet. A fire in 1933, destroyed the roof and porticos. Also on the property are four wooden barns dated to about 1900. Located nearby is the Lewis Family Cemetery, that includes the grave of Virginia Governor John Floyd , and the adjacent Catholic Cemetery dated to 1882. The district also includes St. John&#39;s Catholic Chapel , a simple masonry Greek Revival style building, and the adjacent "New Cemetery."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Union Historic District is a national historic district located at Union, Monroe County, West Virginia. The district includes 174 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 7 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in the Union and surrounding areas. Notable properties include the Monroe County Courthouse , Union High School , Monroe County Confederate Monument , Monroe Department Store , Watchman Office , Union Presbyterian Church , Union United Methodist Church , old Baptist Church , All Saints Episcopal Church , old brick Methodist Church , old Union Academy , Old Temperance Hall , Located in the district are the separately listed Elmwood, Walnut Grove and Brig. Gen. John Echols House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Pickaway Rural Historic District is a national historic district located at Pickaway, near Union, West Virginia, Monroe County, West Virginia. The district includes 126 contributing buildings, 1 contributing sites, and 7 contributing structures centered on Pickaway and surrounding rural areas. Notable properties in the core include the Reverend John Simpson House , Pickaway School , Trinity Methodist Episcopal South Church , Pickaway Store and Post Office , and frame mill and blacksmith shop . Surrounding farms included in the district are the Gilchrist-Pritt-Perrine farms; Overholt-Gilcrist-Pritt and McClung farms; Beckett, Kilcollin, and Lemon farms; and Siebold and Weikle farms.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Lenin Komsomol park  is a popular recreation area in Donetsk. It was considered back in 1952, when Central Scherbakov Park of Culture and Leisure could no more fully address the city needs because "Shakhtar" stadium was built on its territory. The park was laid out only in 1956 due to numerous modifications of design; the same year the 20th anniversary of Maxim Gorky death was commemorated, so the park was first named after M.Gorky. In 1958 the 40th Anniversary of Lenin Komsomol alley was established, and the park was subsequently renamed to Lenin Komsomol Park .</p><br>
<h2>Places of interest</h2><br>
<p>1972 сhildren&#39;s railway named after V. Priklonsky, ex-head of Donetsk railway</p><br>
<p>1975 Youth and Sports Palace "Yunost" (eng.- Youth), opened at the entry to the park</p><br>
<p>Monument "To your Liberators, Donbass", open on 8 May 1984, the biggest monument in South-Eastern Ukraine and the citys and regions main war history monument</p><br>
<p>Monument to the Peacekeeping Soldiers (veterans of Soviet war in Afghanistan). The monument was opened on 7 May 1996</p><br>
<p>Fairy Tale Meadow, an amusement place for children in the forest, where sculptures of fairy-tale characters are built</p><br>
<p>Donbass Arena Stadium</p><br>
<p>Friendship House  is a Georgian townhouse, located at 619 D Street, , Southeast, Washington, D.C., in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was designed by William Lovering in 1795.</p><br>
<p>The first owner of the home was William Mayne Duncanson, whose house guests included George Washington.</p><br>
<p>In August 1814, it served as a hospital after the Battle of Bladensburg.</p><br>
<p>In 1815, it was purchased from bankruptcy, by Francis Scott Key.</p><br>
<p>In July 1838, it was purchased by Major Augustus A. Nicholson.</p><br>
<p>On June 2, 1856, it was purchased by John M. Clayton. He added a ballroom with decoration by Constantino Brumidi.</p><br>
<p>On April 20, 1858, it was purchased by Louis François de Pourtalès; there are rumors of his winecellar.</p><br>
<p>In 1871, it was purchased by journalist Mrs. Emily Edson Briggs; she named it "Maple Square."</p><br>
<p>The Friendship House Association, founded in 1904, purchased the house in 1936, and operated a settlement house, and community center there.</p><br>
<p>As the Capitol Hill neighborhood gentrified, most of the people served were in other parts of Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<p>It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 18, 1973.</p><br>
<p>The property was sold in 2010, to a private developer.</p><br>
<p>The Liverpool, London and Globe Building is located in Dale Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It fills a block adjacent to the Town Hall, bounded to the northeast by Exchange Street East and to the southwest by High Street.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed between 1856 and 1858 for the Liverpool and London Insurance Company. The architect was C. R. Cockerell, who was assisted by his son F. P. Cockerell, and by Christopher F. Heyward. An attic storey was added to the building in the 1920s.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>It is constructed in ashlar, with rusticated quoins and a slate roof. The building is in three storeys with a basement and attics. The Dale Street front has seven bays, and there are 15 bays along the sides. The entrance in Dale Street is flanked by red granite Doric columns. The windows in the ground floor have segmental arches. Those in the second floor are recessed behind a Corinthian colonnade with balconies. The building has a Mansard roof with dormers. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.</p><br>
