<p>The Sixth and Forest Historic District is located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It is a Victorian era suburban commercial district on the northeastern and northwestern corners of the junction of 6th and Forest Avenues, and originally contained six buildings. The buildings on the northeast corner have subsequently been torn down. The historic district has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1996. It is a part of the Towards a Greater Des Moines MPS.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The commercial district at the intersection of Sixth and Forest Avenues is the largest suburban commercial node in the Des Moines area during the Victorian era. It was located in the largest of the city’s late-19th- and early-20th-century suburbs, North Des Moines.</p><br>
<p>Land use in the district is clearly defined in the area. All of the residential units are located on the second floor of the buildings with commercial stores on the first floor. There are no single-family houses in the district. Typical of Victorian districts is the presence of a lodge hall. An Odd Fellows hall was located at 1401 Sixth Avenue and is no longer in existence. The first floor of the building was rented out for commercial use while the second floor was used by the fraternal organization.</p><br>
<p>Sixth Avenue was a major street car line in the city, and Forest Avenue was a major east-west route during the Victorian era. This contributed to the economic success of the area while it was being developed. Transportation corridors also encouraged higher population density. Multi-family dwellings were built along Forest Avenue and several churches were established in the area. North Park Congregational Church, which no longer exists, was on the southwest corner of Sixth and Forest Avenues.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Sixth and Forest Historic District contains both sophisticated and more modest expressions of Victorian commercial architecture in Des Moines. The quality of building materials in this district is generally superior to that of other suburban commercial nodes in the city from the same era. A couple of distinguishing features of the district is the use of polychrome brick and a variety of brick textures used in the construction of several of the buildings. The Orvis Block, which was an example of this, is no longer in existence. The Temple Block on the northwest corner of the intersection is a richly embellished two-story structure. It is composed of five commercial spaces on its first floor and stretches along a half-city block. The extended facade line of the building is unified by symmetrically placed bays, an undulating rhythm of its second floor belt course and a dentils along the cornice. The round arch above the entrance to the residential space in the Temple Block suggests the Romanesque Revival style. The Odd Fellows Hall, although a large two-story structure, was an example of a more modest use of architectural detailing. The small, single-story commercial building next door to it on Sixth Avenue was similar in its architectural details.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Wallace House is an historic building located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It was the home of Henry Wallace who was an advocate for agricultural improvement and reform. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property in the Sherman Hill Historic District in 1979 and it has been individually listed since 1993.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Henry Wallace was a Presbyterian minister who moved to Iowa in 1862 with his wife Nancy and their daughter Josephine when Henry became editor of the Iowa Homestead. He was an advocate for agricultural improvement and reform. With his sons Henry C. and John, he founded Wallaces Farm and Dairy, which became a major national publication named Wallaces Farmer. He was involved with the establishment of Iowa State College, now Iowa State University, as a premier agricultural research institution. Wallace was asked to serve as USA Secretary of Agriculture, but he deferred to his friend James "Tama Jim" Wilson. Nancy died in 1909 and Henry died in 1916. His son Henry became Secretary of Agriculture and his grandson, Henry A. Wallace, was Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce and USA Vice President.</p><br>
<p>The Wallace’s moved into this house on the corner of 16th and Center Streets when they moved to Des Moines in 1892. Josephine continued to live in the house until 1923. The Wallace family continued to own the house until 1940. By the 1950s the house was divided into 11 apartments and continued to serve this purpose until the early 1970s. In the 70&#39;s it was purchased by Guy L. Roberts, Jr. who began to restore and return the home to a single family building. Ultimately he sold the home to The Wallace House Foundation in late 1988. The Wallace House Foundation was established in 1988 to purchase and restore the home. In 2000 a 100-year-old oak tree on the north side of the Wallace House as named Iowa’s Millennium Tree. The garden was redesigned in 2008. The house is now owned by The Wallace Centers of Iowa who maintain it as a house museum and for its own purposes.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1883 in the Victorian-Italianate style. It features a wrap-around porch, stacked bay windows and a second story balcony. The Wallace’s altered the third floor around 1895 adding two bedrooms and a hybrid mansard/hip roof and dormer windows.</p><br>
<p>The restoration of the house in the late 20th century was guided by photographs taken by Josephine Wallace. Architect William Wagner, who specializes in historic preservation, developed restoration plans to bring the house back to its original floor plan. It was altered somewhat to allow for the buildings multiple uses as a museum, office space and meeting facility. The Wallace family donated period furniture and historic mementoes to be displayed in the house. The portraits of Henry and Nancy Wallace are original to the house.</p><br>
<p>Mount Tento is a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty in Abashiri, Hokkaido, Japan. Rising to a height of 207 metres, the mountain commands views over the Sea of Okhotsk, Lake Abashiri, Lake Notoro, Lake Tōfutsu, and, from afar, the Shiretoko Peninsula and Akan Volcanic Complex.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>An observation deck is set up at the summit of the mountain, and you can hope for Shiretoko mountain ranges such as Lake Abashiri, Lake Notoro, Sea of Okhotsk, Shiretoko Peninsula and Mount Shari · Mount Unabetsu. Observatory is free. Adjacent to the observatory, there are Okhotsk Drift icehouse, Tenriyama Sakura Park. Sakura Park has roughly 1,000 Prunus sargentii, pink flowers bloom and gather guests for cherry blossoms. "Tenriyama Sakura Festival" will be held in May sponsored by citizens volunteers in May when the flowers are about to be seen.</p><br>
<h2>Facility</h2><br>
<p>The summit MOUNT TENTO observatory, Okhotsk Sea Ice Museum, Hokkaido Northern Ethnic Museum, Lake View ski area, flower garden Do-tent, in addition to other park facilities are in place, on the hillside, Abashiri Prison Museum is there. The Tianyama area is the main tourist destination of Abashiri city.</p><br>
<p>There are NHK Kitami Broadcasting Station and private TV broadcasting station in the vicinity of the summit.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>In addition to passing Hokkaido Route No. 683 Okuzenyama Park line connecting urban districts from the city center via Tianyu Mountain, there is Abashiri-shi Tenriyama Line from Japan National Route 39 to the summit via the Abashiri Prison Museum. It is approximately 10 minutes by car from city center.</p><br>
<p>From Abashiri Station/ Abashiri Bus Terminal, a bus service bus (Abashiri city tourism facility tour / Tianyu mountain line) is operated by Abashiri bus. Winter of drift ice in the tourist season, Abashiri Drift Ice sightseeing Icebreaker " Aurora " stops(Umeshima Highway is extended to the service of between).</p><br>
<p>The Sheeprock Mountains are a 24-mile  long mountain range located in extreme southeast Tooele County, Utah, and part of northeast Juab County. The range trends southeasterly and forms a section of the northeast perimeter of the large Sevier Desert, which lies southwest of the Sheeprock Mountains.</p><br>
<p>The Sheeprock Mountains also lie adjacent to two other region perimeters. About 15-mi northwest is Dugway and the entrance to the Dugway Proving Ground, on the southeast perimeter of the Great Salt Lake Desert. The northeast flank of the range forms the southwest border of endorheic Rush Valley; Rush Valley, and endorheic Cedar Valley adjacent east, are west of Utah Lake (and Valley), with all three valleys being just south of the Great Salt Lake perimeter region.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The center of the Sheeprock Mountains contains a southeast-trending ridgeline about 10-mi long. Just northwest of center is the range highpoint, Black Crook Peak, at 9,274 ft. Black Peak, 8,906 ft, and Dutch Peak, 8,964 ft anchor the southeast section of the ridgeline.</p><br>
<p>The southeast of the range merges north into mountains/hills that extend into Rush Valley, forming a small valley west, against the Sheeprock northeast flank. The mountainous area is from both the south Sheeprocks and the north of the West Tintic Mountains. Red Skin Knolls, 7,084 ft, of the Sheeprocks lies between, at the south of Rush Valley.</p><br>
<p>At the Sheeprock Mountains northwest terminus, a narrow stretch of hills/ or mountains extend due-north to connect to the south of the Onaqui&#39;s; Lookout Pass separates Little Mountain, (a standalone mountain peak, at 6,696 ft), from Red Pine Mountain in the north terminus region of the Sheeprocks, (at 8,516 ft).</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The major access to the Sheeprock Mountains is to its northeast section at the south of Rush Valley, by way of Utah State Route 36, and Vernon. The route transits due-south to Vernon, but then goes southeast to Lofgreen, (at the north-northeast of the West Tintic Mountains), and the East Tintics. South from Vernon, is farmland routes, but numerous creeks, and canyons descend northeasterly from the Sheeprocks, containing unimproved roads.</p><br>
<p>The northwest of the range has to be accessed from Dugway, (Dugway Proving Ground)-(southeast perimeter region of the Great Salt Lake Desert), by way of unimproved roads. Utah 199 and Utah 196 access Dugway.</p><br>
<p>The south of the range has to be accessed from unimproved roads from the Sevier Desert; the south of the range lies adjacent west, of the West Tintic Mountains, southern terminus. The desert can be accessed from Jericho Junction or Jericho by way of USA Route 6.</p><br>
<p>The Capitol Theater was a 700-seat theater in Burlington, Iowa. Opened in 1937, with the first showing being Mark Twain&#39;s classic "The Prince and the Pauper". The theater was both a movie theater and an auditorium used for performances . The theater closed in March 1977, the final showing was the Stephen King horror classic "Carrie".</p><br>
<h2>Early Theater Plans</h2><br>
<p>On December 29, 1936, plans in creating a modernized theater was finished. It was approved by the firm of Wetherell and Harrison architects and was approved for the Central States Theater Corporation. The theater would be built in between the I.S.U. and Eisfeld building on Third Street. The front of the theater would extend five to six feet above the I.S.U. building.</p><br>
<p>The exterior of the building would have terra cotta and structural glass. It would also have shades of burgundy and brown, with gold trimming. Electric signs were planned to be placed to show present and coming attractions.</p><br>
<p>The lobby would have a rich terrazzo floor. The walls would have wood veneer with stainless steel trimming. The ceiling would be decorated in a deep color with modern colored lights. The foyer will have a two-tone carpet, walls painted and glazed in color, the ceiling richly ornamented with lights of the indirect type and with several color. Both the lobby and the foyer will be spacious, as the entire building will be used for the theater.</p><br>
<p>The auditorium would be decorated in acoustic tile of colors with rich ornamented side wall and ceiling panels, including a cornice at the junction of the side walls and ceiling decorated in deep colors. The lights being used for the auditorium would be an entirely new design. It can be switched to make an combination of colors either turned on or dimmed down.</p><br>
<p>The seating would be upholstered and in colors that matched the interior color scheme.</p><br>
<p>The overall cost in constructing the theater with equipment was $65,000. In 2011 standards, it would cost more than $1,015,349.65.</p><br>
<p>On April 12, 1937, the theater was expected to be opened on June 1. Due to management decision, the date of when the theater would be opened was postponed for another month to finish cleaning up and decorating. It was opened on July 1, 1937.</p><br>
<p>The first movie that was premiered on opening day was Prince and the Pauper, starring Errol Flynn. The show began at 6:30 p.m. Adult admission cost 36 centers and 10 cents for children.</p><br>
<h2>Closing of the theater</h2><br>
<p>On March 29, 1977, the theater was forced to close down. The Central States Theaters Inc. would open West I and II movie theaters at Westland Mall as a replacement to the theater relocated in West Burlington, Iowa (the West I & II would close roughly 15 years after opening, to be replaced by a much larger 8 screen multiplex, which closed recently to be replaced by a theater that has an entrance within the main mall area). The theater had begun falling into disrepair for some time prior to its closing, being left neglected by its owners, it had begun to lose the luster it once had. The last movie screened in the theater before the closing was "Carrie," starring Sissy Spacek and John Travolta. The Capitol would be open as a theater for only 39 years, and sit neglected for 33 more years. The Central States Theater Group would be dissolved in 1992, being bought out by CEC Theaters, outliving the Capitol by only 15 years. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, as one of two surviving art deco theaters designed by Wetherall and Harrison left in the state; the other being the Charles Theater in Charles City.</p><br>
<h2>Renovation and Reopening</h2><br>
<p>Early in 2005, the Capitol Theater Foundation a 501c3 organization, bought the building, and began fund raising to buy the adjacent ISU building and to relight the marquee. After successfully raising funds the Capitol Theater&#39;s marquee was relit in December 2005 after decades of being dark. The Foundation engaged Metzger Johnson Architects of Burlington, Iowa to design a plan that would create a performing arts center by joining the Capitol Theater with the adjacent ISU building.</p><br>
<p>After receiving an IJOBS grant for $1,000,000, historic tax credits and raising over a million dollars locally; planning began in 2010 for extensive renovations, which included all new seats, a new, larger stage, the use of the former ISU building as an annex for dressing rooms, restrooms, and loading of props, and backdrops, as well as an art gallery. The renovations on the building itself retained the original walls in the outer lobby, the exposed the original terrazzo floor, repainting the auditorium, installation of 370 new seats, a fifteen-foot extension of the stage, a new picture screen, state-of-the-art digital projection equipment, as well as a digital surround audio system, new lighting fixtures, and scrubbing of the outer facade of the building, at a cost of over three million dollars(US). New roofs were installed over both buildings The main entrance doors, which had been replaced with all glass doors in the 1970s were replaced with doors that replicated the original doors of 1937. The theater reopened June 1, 2012, and is available for rent. There are Sunday matinees taking place throughout the year. The idea of the remodeling, and renovations is to breathe new life into a fading downtown area. The projected revenue made for the downtown area on a reopened Capitol Theater is projected to be in the 4.25 million dollar range. The Capitol Theater Foundation owns all property associated with the two buildings, as well as all rights for scheduling events.</p><br>
<p>Fleetwing was a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan off Liberty Grove, Wisconsin, United States. In 2001 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Fleetwing was constructed in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, in 1867 by what is now known as the Burger Boat Company. Her finished cost was $30,000. She was rebuilt in 1885.</p><br>
<p>On September 26, 1888, Fleetwing departed Menominee, Michigan, bound for Chicago, Illinois, with a cargo of lumber. Later that night, as the ship approached Porte des Morts, a gale began to form. Reports of what happened later conflict, but what is known is that at 11:00 p.m., the ship struck a rocky beach that apparently sheared off a mast. Initially, efforts were made to save the vessel, but another gale began to form during the process and the tugboat that had been attempting to retrieve Fleetwing was forced to leave the area. By the time the tugboat was able to return, the second gale had caused irreparable damage to Fleetwing.</p><br>
<p>The State of Wisconsin owns the wreck of Fleetwing and the Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources manage the wreck site. The wreck lies in 10 to 30 ft of water in Garrett Bay.</p><br>
<p>The Frank OConnor&#39; was a bulk carrier that sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of North Bay, Door County, Wisconsin, United States. In 1994 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Originally called the City of Naples, the Frank O&#39;Connor was built in West Bay City, Michigan in 1892. The vessel was renamed in 1916.</p><br>
<p>On September 29, 1919, Frank OConnor left Buffalo, New York en route to Milwaukee, Wisconsin carrying 3,000 tons of coal. Three days later, she passed through the Straits of Mackinac and was expected to make port ahead of schedule. On October 3 at 4:00 p.m., a fire broke out in the bow. Roughly an hour later, the ships steering gear was destroyed by the fire, leaving it drifting in the water about two miles off the coast of Cana Island. The keeper of the Cana Island Light had noticed the burning vessel from land and, along with his assistant, was able to tow the OConnors crew on their lifeboats to shore. A portion of the Frank OConnors cargo was later recovered, but the ship itself remained lost.</p><br>
<p>Despite the fire, most of Frank O&#39;Connor′s machinery remained intact and upright, making it a popular archaeological and recreational site. The ship is owned by the State of Wisconsin and the site is managed by the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. She lies in 50 to 67 ft of water about 2 mi off Cana Island.</p><br>
<p>Mathern Palace is a Grade I listed building in the village of Mathern, Monmouthshire, Wales, located some 3 mi south-west of Chepstow close to the Severn estuary. Between about 1408 and 1705 it was the main residence of the Bishops of Llandaff. After falling into ruination, it was restored and its gardens laid out between 1894 and 1899 by the architectural writer Henry Avray Tipping. In recent years it has been in private hands, and used as a residential centre.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to the Liber Landavensis, lands at Mathern and for several miles around, as far east as the River Wye, were given to the Bishops of Llandaff by Meurig, in memory of his father Tewdrig, king of Gwent and Glywysing. Tewdrig had been wounded in a battle with the Saxons near Tintern, perhaps around the year 630, and died at Mathern; the parish church of St. Tewdric was built on the spot. The bishop&#39;s residence was built nearby. It is thought that the location – some 28 mi east of Llandaff – was chosen partly because its proximity to a well-used crossing point of the Severn estuary, and after their construction the castles at Caldicot and Chepstow gave protection against attacks from the Welsh.</p><br>
<p>By 1333, Mathern was one of three medieval palaces belonging to Llandaff, the others being at Bishton and at Llandaff itself. The house was repaired after the death of bishop Rodger Cradock in 1382, The palace may have been rebuilt, at least in part, by John de la Zouch, bishop from 1408 to 1423. In 1882, local historian Octavius Morgan described three carved stones, showing symbols of the Holy Trinity, which once formed part of a grand gateway to the Palace dating from the time of de la Zouch; these had been deposited by Lord Tredegar at the museum at Caerleon. There is a datestone of 1419, and the range appears to date from that period.</p><br>
<p>The property may have been extended by John Marshall, bishop from 1478 to 1496, and further work – perhaps a substantial enlargement – was undertaken by Miles Salley, bishop from 1500 to 1516. The property is believed to have started to fall into disrepair during the tenure of bishop Anthony Kitchin, between 1545 and 1563. The last major renovations of the building, until the late 19th century, were undertaken by Francis Godwin, bishop between 1601 and 1617, who provided new windows in the west wing. and was partly demolished around 1770. In 1794 the buildings and lands were let for farming, firstly by the Bishop and later by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. In 1801, Archdeacon Coxe reported the palace as being "in a sad state of dilapidation" while still preserving "some remains of ancient grandeur".</p><br>
<p>The Ecclesiastical Commissioners sold the property in 1889 to George Carwardine Francis, a local solicitor who in turn sold the largely ruined buildings, in 1894, to the architectural writer and garden designer Henry Avray Tipping. What remained of the old palace, after the lead had been stripped from the greater part of its roofs, and its interior woodwork and fittings had been destroyed or removed, turned into a farmhouse. The gatehouse, banqueting hall, and other now useless buildings provided material for barn and cowshed. The chapel was converted into a dairy, the kitchen into a stable. Tipping decided to restore the buildings as a home for himself and his ageing mother, drawing explicitly on the guidelines on restoring old buildings that had been drawn up by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB). By 1899 Tipping had restored and enlarged the house. He also laid out a new and largely informal garden around the buildings, in the Arts and Crafts style influenced by the writings of William Robinson and Gertrude Jekyll. An article by Tipping in Country Life magazine in 1910 set out his approach in detail, including his protection of architectural features. According to the architectural writer John Newman, "Tipping wove in his own contributions with... tact and restraint&quot Tipping&#39;s biographer states that he "transformed it into an unpretentious, romantic country home set in a delightful garden".</p><br>
<p>In 1912, after the death of his mother and last surviving brother, Tipping let Mathern Palace before selling it in 1914.</p><br>
<p>The palace was sold to private owners in August 2014, and is now marketed as an events venue, with rooms available for rent.</p><br>
<h2>The property</h2><br>
<h3>Existing buildings</h3><br>
<p>The palace is approached through the remains of an early 15th-century gateway, on either side of which is a cottage designed by Tipping. The main building itself has an "undemonstrative irregularity", suggesting that the bishops had relatively poor resources, and modified the building incrementally. The buildings were given Grade I listed building status on 10 June 1953.</p><br>
<p>Work was undertaken in 2011 to record the historic elements of the building as part of a fire safety check. This showed that there are four surviving main historic elements:</p><br>
<p>The northwest wing: This was substantially renovated by Tipping, with the floors being rebuilt to create an exposed timber ceiling. Two stone corbels bearing the crests of the Diocese of Llandaff and the Tipping family were inserted during the renovations.</p><br>
<p>The Chapel wing or east wing: This comprises a first floor chapel, probably built by Salley in the early 16th century, and with an "impressive" medieval window of four lights.</p><br>
<p>The central section, with a series of medieval beams and joists forming an ornately decorated ceiling beneath which is a long 16th-century parlour.</p><br>
<p>The Tower: A three-storey structure above the main entrance to the building, with many unrestored medieval features including stone mullioned windows, and the remains of a garderobe chute. Parts of the tower may date from the 14th century.</p><br>
<p>Extensions to the building, including a third wing to the main building, were added by Tipping. The building&#39;s internal layout was altered by both Tipping and later owners, and is described by Newman as "hard to interpret".</p><br>
<h3>Gardens</h3><br>
<p>The gardens lie to the north-west, south-east and south-west of the house. Tipping laid out terraces on the south-west facing slope, and converted the remains of medieval fishponds into ornamental ponds. To the south-east he laid out formal lawns, a kitchen garden, and a sunken rose garden, with the various elements being linked by limestone and grass walks flanked by walls and hedges. He incorporated ruined walls into the overall design, and built a rock garden on the steeper slope to the north-west of the house. Tipping also planted many trees and bushes, including a large circular arbour of yew on the highest terrace.</p><br>
<h3>Access</h3><br>
<p>The property is not open to the general public, but rooms are available for rent.</p><br>
<p>The All Hallows Guild Carousel or simply the Traveling Carousel is a historic carousel housed at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. since 1963. Previously, it was a "county fair" carousel operated by Clifford Sandretzky as part of a traveling carnival based in the northern Virginia area. The rare all-wood carousel was likely built in the 1890s by the Merry-Go-Round Company of Cincinnati and has a rare caliola with brass pipes that was built by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company of North Tonawanda, New York in 1937.</p><br>
<p>The original operator, Clifford Sandretzky, sold the carousel to the All Hallows Guild of the National Cathedral in 1963 who has owned it since. It was used several times per year at fund raising events and then disassembled and placed in storage. More recently, the carousel has been assembled and used only once a year at the Guild&#39;s Spring Flower Show.</p><br>
<p>There are 24 animal figures on the carousel plus two chariots. The animals are formed into 12 pairs. The animals include a single lion, zebra, and elephant, pairs of goats, camels, and deer, four standing horses, and nine jumping horses, which rise and fall as the carousel rotates. They are brightly painted and hand-carved in the European tradition.</p><br>
<p>A gasoline engine located near the 16 foot center pole drives the carousel. A yellow and white canopy covers the structure and is topped by a small flag.</p><br>
<p>The All Hallows Guild Carousel is one of only two carousels listed on the National Carousel Census in the District of Columbia. The other, the Smithsonian Carousel on the National Mall, is a larger, non-traveling carousel with 60 wood and metal composition figures built fifty years after the All Hallows Guild Carousel.</p><br>
<p>The Cross at Croes Llwyd Farm, Raglan, Monmouthshire is a medieval cross which indicated a boundary of the Lordship of Raglan. As a rare medieval survival, it is both a Grade I listed structure and a Scheduled monument.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The cross stands on Broom Lane, to the east of Broom House, off the Raglan to Usk road. It is 1.9 m high, with an octagonal shaft. The Monmouthshire antiquarian Sir Joseph Bradney described it as a "singularly well-preserved stone, the head and shaft being hewn out of the same piece." The cross was the subject of Article 452 in the series Monmouthshire Sketchbook by the author and artist Fred Hando for the South Wales Argus between 1922 and 1970. Hando wrote that the cross was one of the only two remaining crosses in Monmouthshire, from a total of seventy-nine, which had survived with its head intact following the "Puritan folly of 1643." He described its name, the "White Cross", as deriving from its whitewashed appearance but suggested "the appropriate name should be Grey Cross" and that the cross was "at least five centuries" old. The cross is a Grade I listed structure and a scheduled monument.</p><br>
<p>The cross appears to have had a dual purpose, as a preaching cross and as a boundary marker for the delineation of the medieval Lordship of Raglan. Bradney records the mention of the cross in the grant of lands to William Herbert, "...and from this directly to a cross called Crosse Lloyd". It is thought that the cross was moved, in about 1870, from a possible prior location at map reference SO40390659 (N 51.754813, W 2.8649842).</p><br>
<p>The Mineral Mountains are a 28 mi long mountain range located in eastern Beaver and southeastern Millard counties in southwestern Utah. The Escalante Desert is to its southwest, the Black Rock Desert volcanic field and the Sevier Desert are to the north and northwest. The Pavant Range and Tushar Mountains lie to the east.</p><br>
<p>The west side of the range borders the small Milford Valley with the Star Range beyond. Beaver River flows past the south and west sides of the range. The river is impounded as Minersville Reservoir adjacent to the southeast margin of the range.</p><br>
<p>Milford Flat at the Mineral Mountains was the origin of the Milford Flat Fire which burned eastwards beyond Interstate 15 and Cove Fort into the Tushar and Pavant mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The range has a north-south length of about 28 mi. The northeast has an off-lying triangular mountain section which causes the north of Beaver Valley to bifurcate. East of the mountain section, I-15 transits to Sulphurdale. The section contains many peaks, with the highest being Gillies Hill, 7,888 ft. The southwest side of the section contains south-flowing Cunningham Wash.</p><br>
<p>The south-southeast side of the range is a straight stretch from Cunningham Wash, north and the Minersville Reservoir, south, a collection of numerous watercourses from Beaver Valley, and neighboring mountains. Beaver River (Utah) enters the reservoir and leaves flowing due-west at the southern Mineral Mountains terminus. The terminus of the range comes to a V-shaped point; the river stretch, and mountains, are only 4-mi wide from the outlet of the Beaver River at the reservoir. The range then immediately turns into a stretch of southwest foothills, also a short stretch, only about 9-mi long.</p><br>
<p>The northwest stretch begins at that point, about 7 or 8-mi southeast of Milford; it transits to an east-west stretch at the north, which continues to the outlying mountain section east, and its junction with the west flank of the Pavant-Tushar Mountains massif.</p><br>
<p>A small, narrow 3 mi wide ridgeline feeds north-northwest from the north stretch; it extends about 6-mi toward the Black Rock Desert volcanic field region, and contains Pinnacle Pass, and a highpoint of Antelope Mountain, 7,230 ft.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>One major access route to the Mineral Mountains is Interstate 15 through Beaver Valley and the northeast of the range. Danish Reservoir Road, going due-west from I-15 at Cove Fort, accesses north regions of the range by unimproved roads.</p><br>
<p>The northwest of the range can be accessed from Milford and Milford Valley by way of unimproved roads. Utah State Route 21 (SR-21) also transits through Milford, due-southeast to Minersville which sits at the range&#39;s southwest foothills.</p><br>
<p>SR-21 transits from Minersville, through the Beaver River (Utah) canyon going due-east; it skirts the southeast side of the Minersville Reservoir, entering southeast Beaver Valley. The reservoir is at the southeast foothills of the range. By wany of unimproved roads, the southeast foothills-(south section) can be accessed from Adamsville located at the reservoir&#39;s north. The north section can be accessed by routes from the northwest of Beaver Valley, and the Cunningham Wash region.</p><br>
<p>A minor, improved route, northeast of Adamsville, and west of Beaver, off SR-21, The Pass Road, to Soldier Pass, transits southeast-by-northwest through the center of the Mineral Mountains; it exits the range at the west, center foothills and transits northwest to Milford, from the foothills to Milford, about 7 mi distant. The entire route just through the Mineral Mountains itself, is only about 6 mi, thus it forms a "shortcut route", from Beaver, and Beaver Valley townsites, to Milford.</p><br>
<p>Mount Sinai Temple was a Reform synagogue located in Sioux City, Iowa, United States. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There were Jews living in Sioux City as early as the 1860s, but a synagogue was not built in the city until 1884. Adas Jeshurun was an Orthodox congregation. The Jewish community in Sioux City grew from 200 in 1890 to nearly 2,500 by World War I. Sioux City was home to the second largest Jewish community in the state of Iowa at the time. Mount Sinai Temple was established in 1901. The synagogue, which opened the same year, was expanded in 1922. The building was designed in the Prairie School style. Between World Wars I and II the Jewish Community Center in Sioux City hosted 60 to 70 clubs, classes and organizations that ranged from socialist workers to Zionists. A one-mile section of West Seventh Street was home to 22 Jewish owned businesses in 1944.</p><br>
<p>After World War II the Jewish community in Sioux City began to decline. By the mid 1980s the population was down to 700 people, and by 2001 it was down to 300. The Jewish congregations in Sioux City combined their religious schools in 1990. Four years later the congregations themselves merged at Beth Shalom, the Conservative synagogue.</p><br>
<p>Bnai Israel Synagogue is a Reconstructionist synagogue located in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places by its original name Chevra Bnai Yisroel Synagogue in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first Jewish community in Council Bluffs was an Orthodox congregation in 1881 named Bikur Cholim. It had 25 charter members, but they had neither a rabbi nor a synagogue. They held services in rented facilities. Chevra B’nai Yisroel Congregation was organized in 1903 with 14 adult male members. They acquired the present property and a built a frame synagogue the following year. On March 5, 1930 the building was destroyed in a fire. Members from the congregation saved the Torah, sacred scrolls, and other religious items.</p><br>
<p>A building committee was formed and plans were made for a new synagogue. Architect J. Chris Jensen was chosen to design the new building. The cornerstone from the former synagogue was recovered and was etched with an inscription for the new building. The new synagogue was completed on January 11, 1931. It seats 500 and was built for $26,000. The congregation continued to grow and after World War II the congregation changed from Orthodox to Conservative Judaism. English was now used in services and men and women could now sit together. Previously the women and children sat in the balcony. The congregation officially changed its name to B&#39;nai Israel in November 1953. An addition was designed by I.T. Carrithers in the early 1960s to add more space to the front and back of the older building. Only the back addition was built, however.</p><br>
<p>Soon after the addition was built the congregation began to decline in numbers. By 1980 plans were made to disband the congregation and sell the property. The membership, however, was determined to remain in place and recruited new members. In 1989 Rabbi Sharon Steifel became the first Reconstructionist rabbi at B&#39;nai Israel.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The exterior of the synagogue is covered in polychrome, rough-cast brick. Classical entablature and galvanized iron cornice top the building. The building sits on a raised basement and the three doorways into the sanctuary are reached by a set of concrete steps. Inset panels of the Star of David and the tablets of the Ten Commandments inscribed in Hebrew are located above the doors. The interior is two-stories tall with a balcony, which had been reduced in size during the 1960s renovation. The congregation has seven Torahs, two of which were saved in the 1930 fire. The Ark is composed of dark wood paneling and classical pilasters. Louvered doors lead to the cabinet where its scrolls are kept.</p><br>
<p>Augustana Lutheran Church is an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America congregation located in Sioux City, Iowa, United States. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 as Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Church.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first service for the congregation was held in May 1875. They initially met in a rented schoolhouse located at the corner of Third and Virginia Streets. Pastor P.A. Pihlgren and 17 men and women made up the congregation. They met in the rented building until the end of the year when the first church building for the congregation was completed. The Gothic Revival structure was built of wood at the corner of Fifth and Virginia Streets for $1,400. As the congregation continued to grow plans for the present church were begun in March 1887.</p><br>
<p>The congregation bought two lots on the corner of Sixth and Court Streets for $7,500. The new church was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Sioux City architect Charles P. Brown. Construction was begun in 1889 and was completed early the following year for $35,000. It was dedicated on February 16, 1890. The building was constructed in brick and the three spires were originally covered in decorative wood shingles.</p><br>
<p>Initially a pipe organ filled the apse in the chancel. In 1919 the organ was placed in the back of the church and the “Altar of Peace” was built in the apse. The Gothic styled altar was carved by German Prisoners of War from World War I. A new pulpit and communion rail were installed at the same time. The focal point of the altar was a painting of the Resurrection. The painting was replaced by a statue of Christ in 1970. The congregation has had four pipe organs in its history. The first was the Moline Organ that placed in the first church in 1882 and was used until 1887 when the Schuelke organ was installed. It was used in the present church until the Bennett organ was installed as a part of the 1919 renovation. The present Moeller organ was installed in 1958.</p><br>
<p>The Joys was a steamboat that sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, United States. In 2007 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Joys was built in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1884. She would go on to haul cargo through the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal from Menominee, Michigan to the ports of Milwaukee, Chicago, Illinois, Manistee, Michigan and Michigan City, Indiana.</p><br>
<p>On December 23, 1898, the Joys was at anchor in the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal. At about 1:00 a.m., the captain saw flames from the wheelhouse and sounded the alarm. The crew was able to escape, but in the ensuing chaos the ship was carried in the current toward the canal office and government warehouse. Eventually, efforts from those on land were successful in towing the vessel away from land, where it then burned to the waterline and sank.</p><br>
<p>The Louisiana was a steamboat that sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Washington, Door County, Wisconsin, United States, during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. In 1992 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Louisiana was constructed in Marine City, Michigan in 1887, while her engine was built at the Dry Dock Complex in Detroit, Michigan.</p><br>
<p>On November 2, 1913, the Louisiana departed from Lorain, Ohio to deliver a load of coal to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After completing her stop in Milwaukee, the Louisiana made way for Escanaba, Michigan to pick up a load of iron ore. In the early morning hours of November 8, the ship passed through Porte des Morts. Upon reaching the strait, she was greeted by a severe snowstorm. The captain attempted to take refuge at Washington Island in Door County, Wisconsin, but the heavy seas and howling wind proved too strong for the ship&#39;s anchors to hold her in place, and she was run aground.</p><br>
<p>Despite the situation on board the Louisiana, the crew opted to remain aboard the vessel rather than taking the one small lifeboat they had out to the raging seas. However, a fire broke out in the cargo hold later in the morning and the crew members were left with no choice. A rescue ship had been deployed from Plum Island, but the breaking waves were too powerful for the ship to be able to reach the crew. In the end, the crew was able to make it to shore.</p><br>
<p>The ship&#39;s boiler, engine, propeller, propeller shaft and rudder were later salvaged. Currently, the site is a popular area for divers and archaeologists. It lies in 10 to 25 ft of water on the southeast side of Washington Harbor.</p><br>
<p>Ernest Thralls House was a historic home located at Wayne Township in Greene County, Pennsylvania. The house was built in 1939-1940, and is a 2 1/2-story, concrete block dwelling in the Spanish Revival-style. It measures 64 feet wide and 51 feet deep, and has terraces on the front and rear. Also on the property are a contributing tenant house , three sheds, a horse barn, open sheep shed, pig shed, and chicken coop.</p><br>
<p>The house was demolished several years after it was damaged in 2000 by subsidence caused by Consol Energy&#39;s Blacksville No. 2 longwall mine. A new one story house now sits near the site of the previous house.</p><br>
<p>The Ernest Thralls House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Miller Hall is a historic building located on the campus of Waynesburg University at Waynesburg in Greene County, Pennsylvania. It is located directly to the east of Hanna Hall. It was built between 1879 and 1899, and is a three-story, brick and sandstone building in the Second Empire-style. It has a mansard roof and measures 158 feet long and 54 feet wide, with an 86 feet long and 50 feet wide cross-section. It was named for Alfred Brashear Miller, President of Waynesburg College from 1859 to 1899. The building has housed administrative offices, classrooms, a laboratory, library, and chapel. The building also houses Alumni Hall and the "Martin Room."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is included in the Waynesburg Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Waynesburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 183 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Waynesburg. The buildings include notable examples of High Victorian Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, and Georgian Revival style architecture. Notable non-residential buildings include 10 buildings associated with Waynesburg University, 7 churches, the Greene County Courthouse, Greene County Jail, and Waynesboro Borough Building. Among the buildings at Waynesburg University are the separately listed Hanna Hall and Miller Hall.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Rices Landing Historic District is a national historic district located at Rices Landing, Greene County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 63 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, and 5 contributing structures in the borough of Rices Landing. The district is dominated by one- to two-story examples of vernacular Victorian, Colonial Revival, and American Craftsman style buildings. Notable non-residential buildings include the Methodist Episcopal Church , brick jail , W.A. Young & Sons Foundry & Machine Shop , Excelsior Pottery, Rices Landing National Bank building, Hughes store, and the Nash-Rambler Garage. Contributing structures include the remains of Monongahela River Lock Number 6, concrete bridge , railroad bridge , railroad tunnel , and Dilworth Mine related structures.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Redstone Inn is located on Redstone Boulevard in Redstone, Colorado, United States. It is a structure in the Tudor Revival architectural styles built at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1980 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is also a contributing property to the Redstone Historic District listed on the Register nine years later.</p><br>
<p>When it was built, it served as a dormitory for unmarried male workers, primarily miners, at the Colorado Fuel & Iron (CF&I) company&#39;s coal mines and coking ovens nearby. It was part of the company town, with modest cottages for the miners and their families as well as a school, recreation center, firehouse and other public buildings, that CF&I president John Cleveland Osgood, had spent lavishly to create along with his nearby estate. The mines were closed in 1908, and the village nearly abandoned, the dormitory among them. Most of its original buildings were demolished or moved, but the dormitory survived, and was restored and converted to its current use in mid-century.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The 22 acre inn complex is located at the junction of Redstone and Firehouse Road just opposite the bridge over the Crystal River from State Highway 133, the main entrance to Redstone for visitors and passing traffic, just opposite the old coke ovens. It is at the southern end of the central portion of Redstone. To the north are the small surviving wood frame cottages along the two streets. Redstone Boulevard continues south, unpaved, along the east bank of the Crystal for over a mile, to Osgood Castle. On the east and west mountain slopes rise ultimately to summits above 12,000 ft; the land is mostly part of White River National Forest and additionally in the Maroon Bells–Snowmass Wilderness on the east.</p><br>
<p>A C-shaped driveway provides access to the front of the similarly shaped main inn building from Firehouse. It is a two-and-half–story wood-frame building on a sandstone foundation sided in stucco and wood shingle, with half-timber on the clipped gable ends. The roof is pierced by gabled dormer windows, their fronts sloped backward suggesting a pyramid, on the inside of the C&#39;s arms, and shed dormers in the middle section. A sandstone chimney rises from the east arm, and where it and the middle intersect is a clock tower that rises an additional story. Several small gabled extensions project to the south behind it, and another chimney rises above them.</p><br>
<p>On the front facade, both stories have a similar treatment, with a wooden balustrade running continuously around, allowing access to the rooms. The veranda on the second floor is supported by square full-height wooden pillars. Windows on the exposed gable ends are diamond-paned, complementing the half-timbering. The upper section of the clock tower flares outward slightly, and it is topped by a pyramidal roof with overhanging eaves pierced by small centrally-located gables on each side. Inside there are 35 guest rooms of varying sizes, a restaurant, kitchen and bar, and offices. The older guest rooms have original Arts and Crafts furniture, some from designs by Gustav Stickley.</p><br>
<p>To the rear is a swimming pool surrounded by a large concrete deck. A pool house is to the south, and tennis courts are on the east. At the southeast, on the riverbank, is a small chalet with two rooms.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1880s, John Cleveland Osgood, a Brooklyn native who had worked his way west, did surveys for the state of Colorado and found many areas with quality coal. He went into the business of mining and processing it, becoming head of the merged Colorado Fuel and Iron (CF&I) company in 1892. Through it, Osgood controlled over half the state&#39;s coal, and became one of the wealthiest men in the country.</p><br>
<p>He had for many years had his eye on the coal found in the upper Crystal valley, which he had found would yield high-quality coke, useful in the manufacture of steel. Longstanding plans to develop mines in the area had to wait due to the Panic of 1893 and the economic uncertainty it created. Only just before the turn of the century were banks again willing to finance a large-scale venture.</p><br>
<p>A large part of the venture was the construction of a planned company town at Redstone, where the coke ovens were. Most miners just built crude shacks or log cabins for themselves and, if they had come along, their families, out of whatever was available. It was often unsightly, and its poor quality became an issue in labor disputes. Osgood wanted to change that.</p><br>
<p>By the end of 1899, 249 ovens, the largest coking facility in the state, had been built by contractors from Denver. They were operated by a work force that accounted for 10% of all Colorado&#39;s workers at the time. Coking workers were predominantly immigrants from Eastern Europe whom the company had recruited from the East. The miners, by contrast, were usually longtime Colorado residents who had worked in mines elsewhere.</p><br>
<p>Starting the next year, Osgood built Redstone, a project that ultimately cost $5 million ($ in modern dollars). Architect Theodore Boal designed cottages in styles that worked well with the mountain setting, particularly the Swiss Chalet style as advocated a half-century before by Andrew Jackson Downing in his seminal work The Architecture of Country Houses. Larger cottages with electricity and running water were built for the more senior miners and managers, and Osgood&#39;s estate south of town was the largest.</p><br>
<p>For the unmarried workers there was a 40-room dormitory at the south end of the first section of town built, just across the river from the ovens. It was described as being in the "old English style", what has since been called Tudor Revival, with half-timbering on a stucco face. The clock tower was copied from a similar one at an inn in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Inside, amenities for the residents included a barbershop, telephones and reading room as well as the electricity and water.</p><br>
<p>Such luxuries, unheard of even for management in most mountain mining camps, earned Redstone the nickname of "Ruby of the Rockies". "Could any coal camp ask more?" wrote The New York Times on a 1902 visit, marveling that the miners changed out of their dirty work clothes for dinner. At their club elsewhere in the village, the newspaper reported, compromises minimized the negative effects of drinking and gambling, two longstanding sources of social problems in remote mining communities, without the difficulties created by the attempt to enforce total bans on them. The miners were allowed to purchase alcoholic beverages only for personal consumption, thus preventing the public drunkenness that often ensued when groups of drinkers treated each other to rounds. Penny-ante poker was the only game of chance permitted. That same year, the village won an award at the St. Louis Exposition.</p><br>
<p>Due to financial problems resulting from labor stoppages at its other facilities in Colorado, Osgood lost control of CF&I to representatives of the Rockefeller and Gould families in 1903. He was less able to control the direction of Redstone, and although he started the competing Victor-American Fuel Company he spent more time back East. The mining and coking continued until 1909, when it became unprofitable to ship coal and coke from the mines to the companys new steel mill in Pueblo. Redstones inhabitants left very quickly, with barely a dozen remaining to keep it from becoming a ghost town. The dormitory was abandoned and fell into neglect.</p><br>
<p>Over the next several decades, many of the Redstone buildings were moved or demolished. Osgood returned in his dying years, hoping to re-open his estate as a resort, but the Depression prevented that from happening. In the early 1940s many of the other larger buildings of Redstone, such as its school, firehouse and its two lodges, were dismantled for scrap metal needed to fight World War II.</p><br>
<p>After the war, coal mining and coking returned to Redstone, on a smaller scale, in the early 1950s. The dormitory was restored and reopened as an inn. Some new rooms, referred to as the terrace rooms, were added.</p><br>
<h2>Rates and services</h2><br>
<p>The inn is open year-round. Room rates vary from $99 for a vintage style room to over $200 for a suite, rates that compare favorably with those charged by lodging in the nearby Aspen area. The small single room in the clock tower may be rented for $85. Pets are allowed to stay in the newer terrace rooms for an additional $20 per pet per night, and may be left alone in the room; however the hotel&#39;s housekeeping staff will not enter a room with a dog alone.</p><br>
<p>Some rooms are equipped with flat-screen TVs and DVD players. All rooms have cable TV. The inn has wireless Internet available throughout the hotel, complemented by a business center located on the main floor in the library. Irons and ironing boards are available on request. There is no elevator.</p><br>
<p>A free continental breakfast is offered mornings in the winter and early spring. The inn&#39;s bar and grill serves lunch daily, both inside and at poolside (in the summer months). The Dining Room is available Friday and Saturday nights in the winter months and nightly in the summer months.</p><br>
<p>The inn also offers other tourism services offsite. It coordinates tours of Redstone Castle. In the winter it offers sleigh rides. ref name="Explorer&#39;s Guide" /&gt; The inn also hosts destination weddings.</p><br>
<h2>Reviews</h2><br>
<p>In addition to the location, travel writers staying at the Redstone have complimented its period furniture and interior decoration, calling it "striking." "I love old Arts and Crafts-style lodges in remote locations", says Nicholas Trotter in Colorado & The Rockies For Dummies, "and the Redstone Inn may be my favorite anywhere." "The rooms are by no means opulent, if opulence is what youre looking for," agrees Evelyn Spence in the Explorers Club guide Colorado&#39;s Classic Mountain Towns: A Great Destination, "but the Stickley–Roycroft period furniture, antiques and outdated wallpaper seem to go together swimmingly."</p><br>
<p>The Patsy Cline House at 608 S. Kent St., in a working-class neighborhood of Winchester, Virginia was the home from 1948 to 1953 of Virginia Patterson Hensley, who later became the country music star known as Patsy Cline. She moved out of the house when she got married at the age of 21 to Gerald Cline, but returned intermittently afterwards.</p><br>
<p>The house was placed on both the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 and a Virginia State Historical Marker was placed there about the same time.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Patsys mother, Hilda Hensley, moved into the small house with her three children after separating from her husband and worked as a seamstress. At first she rented the house, but later bought it. In order to help support the family, Patsy left school at age 16 working as a waitress, soda jerk and in similar jobs and later began singing. She first sang on Joltin Jim McCoys Sunday morning show on radio station WINC in Winchester. Her mother sewed her first stage costumes in the house. Gospel singer Wally Fowler, who led the Oak Ridge Quartet, was impressed by her singing, and came to the house in an attempt to start Patsys professional singing career.</p><br>
<p>The house is a simple two-story, three-bay building with a front porch and a tin roof and about 1,000 ft&sup2; of space. The sole bedroom is on the second story and all four members of Patsy&#39;s family slept there. The house is a log cabin built in the early-19th century. Almost all the logs are covered by walls, however, except for a small area covered by Plexiglas by the front door.</p><br>
<p>Charlie Dick, who was Patsy&#39;s second husband and had lived in Winchester, remarked in the early 2000s that the house and the neighborhood had not changed since Patsy lived there. The house is now owned by a non-profit organization, Celebrating Patsy Cline, Inc., which spent about $100,000 to renovate it into a museum. The renovations included adding central heating and air conditioning. The museum opened in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Patsy Cline is buried a few miles south of the house in Shenandoah Memorial Park.</p><br>
<p>The Teton Crest Trail is a 40 mi long hiking trail in the USA state of Wyoming that extends from Phillips Pass, on the border of Bridger Teton and Caribou-Targhee National Forests, to String Lake in Grand Teton National Park. Backpacker Magazine calls the Trail one of the "Best Hikes Ever," with "mesmerizing and constant views of jagged peaks."</p><br>
<p>Beginning in the south, the Teton Crest Trail can be accessed in several ways. From inside the National Park, the Granite Canyon Trail provides a gradual ascent into the Range, where it connects with the TCT. The Trail is most easily accessed by riding the Jackson Hole Aerial Tram, which transports sightseers and hikers from the Teton Village Resort to the top of Rendezvous Mountain. From outside the Park, the Teton Crest Trail can be accessed via the Phillips Pass Trail, one of several routes through adjacent National Forest lands.</p><br>
<p>Continuing from the south, it is a 32 mi multi-day trek to String Lake, passing in and out of Bridger-Teton National Forest twice, traversing the Death Canyon Shelf and several high passes including Mount Meek Pass, Hurricane Pass and Paintbrush Divide. It is a challenge with 9,681 feet total ascent and 10,779 feet total decent. The trail also traverses the high alpine meadows of Alaska Basin in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. From Hurricane Pass, the trail provides easy access to Schoolroom Glacier, and parallels the west side of major peaks of the Cathedral Group as it follows the North and South forks of the Cascade Creek.</p><br>
<p>Thoseghar waterfalls is a scenic spot located near the small village of Thoseghar, 20 km from Satara city, at the edge of the Konkan region, in Western India. There are a series of waterfalls, some of them 15 to 20 metres and one of approx 200 metres in height. People come from all over Maharashtra to visit the area, especially during the rainy or monsoon season, July to November. Heavy rain falls during that season, and because of this the falls have more water and are more spectacular. The immediate area is calm and quiet, with a clean lake and dark woods in a hilly area.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>There is a picnic area and a newly constructed platform which gives a good view of the waterfall. This platform can be entered in the valley, but it is not safe to do so when it is raining heavily. One can spot many birds near the waterfall.</p><br>
<h2>Transport connectivity</h2><br>
<p>Thoseghar waterfalls can be reached using public transport, or by driving. There are regular buses from Swargate (Pune to Satara) and buses or rickshaws from Satara. A full view of the falls can be obtained by going to Chalkewadi where one can park their vehicles at a newly designated parking lot and then walking down the paved road for 0.5 km.</p><br>
<p>The Sylvan Theater Historic District, also known as Greenwood Park Outdoor Theater, is located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Outdoor locations for pageants and festivals grew in popularity on college campuses in the United States during the 1910s and 1920s. An outdoor amphitheater was also built in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri during this same time. The plan for a sylvan theater in Des Moines was derived from plans prepared by city planners from St. Louis: Harland Bartholomew Associates. They created a comprehensive plan for the city’s park system in 1927. The Des Moines Garden Club had C.A Baughman from the same firm draw up detailed plans for Greenwood Park. Included in the new land uses for the park were the plans for a sylvan theater on the eastern edge of the park. It was modeled after the theater in Forest Park.</p><br>
<p>There was a natural bowl where the outdoor theater would be located along 45th Street. The seats for the audience faced west, the stage was located near the foot of a swale and a hill with trees would provide a natural backdrop. Des Moines landscape architect Francis Asbury Robinson finalized the details and the theater was constructed in 1931. The master plan was to be carried out in two phases. The first phase called for seating to be constructed in the “lower portion” near the stage. An “upper portion” for seating would be built in stage two and has never been built. A reflecting pool was built between the seating area and the stage. A dressing room was constructed to the southwest of the stage. Initially, the seating was composed of wood benches with backs. They were replaced in 1934 with benches made of wood slats with a back that were mounted in wrought iron frames. The new benches were bolted to concrete blocks set in the ground. Funds for the new benches were provided by the Works Progress Administration. There was also a small frame structure in the back of the seating area that was used as a projection booth for films. It was not part of the original designs for the theater and it was last known to exists in 1955.</p><br>
<p>The first production in the theater was called Nights of Romance and it was held on June 26, 1931. It ran for three nights. The first community sing took place in July 1931 with an audience of 1,000 people. It was directed by Assistant County Attorney Ray Harrison. Such productions, which were free, were popular during the Great Depression. The Community Drama Association managed the theater for several years. The Des Moines Civic Opera Association presented the operetta The Flower of Venice in 1937. It attracted an audience of 8,000 people. There was a decline in productions during World War II. The years after the war saw the movement from the city to the suburbs and the rise of television as a form of entertainment. In the 1980s drug dealers and other elements became a problem; however a variety of events were still held at the theater. Several productions titled Shakespeare on the Loose were held in the 1980s. The first three rows of seating were removed in 1989 because the reflecting pool silted in and the elevation of the land around it was raised. The Iowa Shakespeare Project was established in 1993 and has used the theater for their productions.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing Elements</h2><br>
<p>The Sylvan Theater Historic District is composed of three contributing elements. The first element is the natural amphitheater area, which is considered a site. The theater is a natural land element formed by the slopes of a hill on either side of a creek. It is surrounded by mature oak trees that predate the theater.</p><br>
<p>The second element is the theater proper, which includes the stage, seating, spectator circulation network, lighting, and entrance steps. It is considered a structure. The stage is made of poured concrete. It measures 30 ft deep and 60 ft across the back. The front of the stage is rounded and measures 101 ft. The seating is in four wedge shaped areas that fan out before the stage. The front of each wedge is 30 ft in the front, 45 ft in the back and 70 ft along the sides. The spectator circulation network is composed of a series of aisles that flank the four seating sections. They facilitate the movement of the patrons. The central aisle leads from the entrance on 45th Street to the front of the theater. There are two side aisles that flank the central aisle. The central aisle is about 10 ft wide and the side aisles are about 5 ft wide. The aisles are composed of earth and grass. The theater is lit by flood lights on two poles. The original outlets on the stage were silted in. The entrance steps are on 45th Street and lead down to the seating area. The eleven steps are 6 ft across and have simple iron pipe handrails. Francis Asbury Robinson’s master plan was also followed to a large extent with shrubbery.</p><br>
<p>The third element is the dressing room, which is a building. It is about 30 ft behind the stage. The one room, frame building was constructed on a slab that measures 16 ft by 20 ft. There is a concrete gutter on the ground that surrounds the building and directs rain water down the hill. A concrete path leads from the dressing room to the stage. It is hidden from the audience by shrubbery.</p><br>
<p>Fort Worth Public Market is located in Fort Worth, Texas. The building was designed by B. Gaylord Noftsger, a native of Oklahoma City. Developer John J. Harden, also from Oklahoma, spent $150,000 on the building. It was opened to the public on June 20, 1930. The building is noted for its terra cotta tile and multi-colored tile roof. The main tower is decorated with terra cotta columns and pilasters. The building housed various businesses such as grocers, bakers and butchers. At its peak, the Public Market had space for 145 farmer and vendor stalls and 30 permanent retail shops. The building was purchased in 1944 by R.C. Bowen of Bowen Properties. In 2010 a fire destroyed a shed behind the main building. In 2012 the building was purchased by oil and gas mogul Bob Simpson. In 2014 Simpson sold the building to MC Estates. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in July 5, 1984.</p><br>
<p>Mount Saint Mary , originally known as Holm, is an inselberg in the north of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. The mountain is part of the city&#39;s Šmarna Gora District. It is the highest hill in the city and a popular hiking destination.</p><br>
<p>The mountain, with the shape of a two-hump camel or a woman&#39;s breasts, has two peaks: Mount Saint Mary (Šmarna gora; 669 m) to the west and Grmada (676 m) to the east. In clear conditions, the mountain offers a wide view. To the north, it is possible to see Mount Triglav and Mount Stol, and in the southern directions Mount Krim, Mount Snežnik, and Trdina Peak (Trdinov vrh). The nearby hills are Bare Hill (Golo brdo), Tošč Face (Toško čelo), Rožnik, and Rašica.</p><br>
<p>The hill is surrounded by the villages of Vikrče and Spodnje Pirniče to the west, Zavrh pod Šmarno Goro to the north, and the former villages (now part of Ljubljana) of Šmartno pod Šmarno Goro and Tacen to the southeast.</p><br>
<p>The southern side of the mountain has trees such as downy oak and hop hornbeam, and the northern side is covered by a beech forest.</p><br>
<p>The bell tower on the top of the mountain rings each day half an hour before midday.</p><br>
<p>Beacon Towers was a Gilded Age mansion on Sands Point in the village of Sands Point on the North Shore of Long Island, New York. It was built from 1917 to 1918 for Alva Belmont, the ex-wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt and the widow, since 1908, of Oliver Belmont.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mansion was designed by Hunt & Hunt, the partnership of Richard Morris Hunt&#39;s sons Richard and Joseph. It was the last Long Island house designed by the firm.</p><br>
<p>Architectural historians have described the mansion as a pure Gothic fantasy, although it did owe some of its design elements to the alcázars of Spain and to depictions of castles in medieval illuminated manuscripts. The interior contained about 60 primary rooms and upwards of 140 in total. The entire structure was coated in smooth, gleaming white stucco.</p><br>
<p>In February 1924, Belmont purchased the adjoining Sands Point Light property at auction for $100,000 ($ million in present value) to add more privacy to her estate.</p><br>
<h3>Acquired by Hearst</h3><br>
<p>Three years later, the estate was sold to William Randolph Hearst. While Hearst owned the estate, renovations were made; the roof was raised and dormers were added, windows were expanded or removed, and the entryway was remodeled, changing the entrance to a recessed doorway.</p><br>
<p>Hearst then sold it in 1942 and it was demolished in 1945. A new development was later built on the site, but scattered structural remains and the original gatehouse survive.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>Literary scholars believe the mansion helped inspire F. Scott Fitzgerald&#39;s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, which describes the house of Jay Gatsby as</p><br>
<p>Beacon Towers reportedly also inspired the design of Gatsbys mansion in Baz Luhrmanns 2013 film adaptation of the novel.</p><br>
<p>The mainly Quaternary Volcanic field of Harra of Arhab is the northernmost historically active volcanic field in Yemen. It has erupted once historically, in Pre-Islamic times.</p><br>
<h2>Morphology</h2><br>
<p>The field is located on a 1500 km volcanic plateau. The plateau contains a few small (older) stratovolcanoes and 60 volcanic cones. The field is arranged on a N-NW line. Younger Basaltic rocks from the Pliocene-Holocene (northern end of the field), overlie Rhyolitic rocks from the Oligocene-Miocene, which covers most of the field. The volcano is located 30 km north of Yemens capital city, Sana&#39;a.</p><br>
<h2>Eruptions</h2><br>
<p>An eruption in 200 AD (a VEI 2) took place on the flank of an older cinder cone (Jabal Zebib).</p><br>
<h3>500 AD ± 100 years Eruption</h3><br>
<p>A historical eruption from the volcano in around 500 AD took place on the south flank of Kaulet Hattab cinder cone. It produced a lava flow that travelled for 9 km, which caused some damage.</p><br>
<p>Trench Wood is a woodland area part managed by the Worcestershire Wildlife Trust and Butterfly Conservation. It is located around 6 miles north-east of Worcester near the small villages of Dunhampstead and Sale Green. The Worcester and Birmingham Canal and the main line railway from Birmingham to the south-west of England both pass just to the west of the wood. The back third of the woodland is in private ownership and is not accessible.</p><br>
<p>In 2009 the Bat Conservation Trust launched a detail study of 10 counties in England to determine the range of the Bechsteins bat and in 2010 a lactating female Bechsteins was discovered in Grafton Wood, suggesting that there was a breeding colony in the wood or close by. Another Bechsteins was discovered in the same year at Trench Wood. The Peoples Trust for Endangered Species are funding further research work.</p><br>
<p>Charleton House is located in the East Neuk of Fife, eastern Scotland. It lies around 1.5 km west of Colinsburgh, and 5 km east of Lower Largo. The house dates from the mid 18th century, with later additions, and is the home of Baron Bonde.</p><br>
<p>Charleton House is protected as a category A listed building, and the grounds are included on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Charleton House was built by John Thomson in 1759, on land bought by his father from Colonel John Hope in 1713. The house may have been built from designs by William Adam, and was designed as part of a large formal garden with radial avenues, and a southward vista to the Bass Rock. Colonel John Anstruther-Thomson (1776–1833) inherited the estate in 1797, and in 1807 he married Clementina Adam of Blair Adam. Anstruther-Thomson commissioned classical extensions to the house in 1815–1817, and a further east wing, designed by William Burn in 1832. The surrounding parkland was informalised around this time, with woodland clumps and trees replacing the avenues. Anstruther-Thomson&#39;s son, also John, commissioned further additions from Burn after 1833.</p><br>
<p>In 1904, the estate passed to Colonel Charles Anstruther-Thomson (1855–1925). He had alterations to the house made by Robert Lorimer, including moving the main entrance to the north side. In the gardens, he reinstated some of the avenues, and created a Japanese garden, following a visit to Japan in the 1890s. In 1925 the estate was inherited by his daughter Grizel Anstruther Thomson, who married the Swedish diplomat Count Knut Corfitz Bonde and subsequently moved to Sweden. Their son Baron John Bonde (1918–2009) returned to live at Charleton in 1955, and it remains in the family. The house is operated as an events venue with accommodation, and a golf course was laid out in the parkland in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Dugway Range is a 13-mile  long mountain range located in central-south Tooele County, Utah, on the Juab County north border.</p><br>
<p>The Dugway Range extends northwesterly into the south of the Great Salt Lake Desert, the region at the west and southwest of the Great Salt Lake, about three times its area, a region of a flat white, salt flat, flat alluvial plains, and some alluvial mountain range pediments. It is the location of the Bonneville Salt Flats.</p><br>
<p>The 8-mi long Granite Mountain lies 4-mi north of the range; the mountain is a traveler&#39;s landmark with landscape sketches made in the 1800s (1859).</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Dugway Range is about 13-mi long, with a spur on the south terminus. The spur extends 2.5 mi southwest into the Great Salt Lake Desert. The spur, Dugway Ridge, is about 5-mi long, south-southwest trending mostly, and ends at Pyramid Peak, 6,120 ft.</p><br>
<p>The highpoint of the range is Castle Mountain (Utah), 6,748 ft), near the range&#39;s center, in the main ridgeline region.</p><br>
<h3>Satellite landforms to the range</h3><br>
<p>With the elevation of the Great Salt Lake about 4200 ft (4196, in 2006), and Bonneville Salt Flats, at 4,219 ft, the surrounding salt flats around the mountain range, are about 4220 ft. Between the Fish Lakes to the southwest, actual foothills above the Great Salt Lake Desert saltflats exist. Washes converge off the southwest flank; they flow southwest, then converge in a shallow valley, with three washes flowing northwest to the GSLD saltflat. Adjacent southwest is a circular, Black Rock Hills, 5,554 ft, (1,334 ft prominence, 5-mi diam.), 4-mi east of the Fish Lakes, and about 8-mi due southwest of the Dugway foothills.</p><br>
<p>Northeast of the Dugway Range, and east of Granite Mountain are the GSLD salt flats. They extend halfway southeast, along the ranges northeast flank, to meet the outflow terminus at the northwest of Dugway Valley, which itself trends mostly southeast, about 17-mi. The valley contains Table Mountain Reservoir (0.15 mi diameter), located 3-mi due-west of Table Mountain, 5,766 ft. Dissected hills and flats border the valleys northeast; also, with the same northwest trendline as the Dugways, the Old River Bed courses along, about 15-mi, a circuitous wash-bed, containing Old River Bed Road.</p><br>
<p>South of the range at Pony Express Road, is Dugway Pass. The Dugway foothills from here merge south and south-southeast into the northern foothills of the Thomas Range.</p><br>
<p>Adjacent at the south terminus of Granite Mountain, is a small rock "island", Sapphire Mountain, 4,791 ft, 1.5 mi long (571 ft prominence). Sapphire Mountain is 2.5 mi from the Dugway foothills, and 0.5 mi from the Granite Mountain perimeter.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>By way of unimproved roads, the Dugway Range can be accessed from the west, the region of the Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge at the north of the Fish Springs Range; the routes are accessed from Callao, 17-mi west, and about 12-mi from the Dugways. The route from Fish Springs is called Pony Express Road, and transits around the southern range terminus and the Pyramid Peak spur.</p><br>
<p>From Pony Express Road, an unimproved road encircles the mountain range, northwest, north, and east; the route is about 27-mi long.</p><br>
<p>The range can also be accessed from the east, northeast, from Dugway, (by Utah State Route 199 and Utah 196), on unimproved roads. Dugway is located about 30-mi northeast of the Dugway Range.</p><br>
<p>Off-road routes can reach Granite Mountain (Tooele County, Utah) from the ranges north terminus; Granite Peak "island" is 4-mi distant across the salt flat desert. Other routes from the east, the Dugway region, also access Granite Mountains east region.</p><br>
<p>The Govăjdia Blast Furnace is a disused blast furnace in Govăjdia village, Ghelari Commune, Hunedoara County, in the Transylvania region of Romania.</p><br>
<p>An earlier blast furnace had been set up at Topliţa in 1781, but the quantity of raw materials it prepared for workshops involved in cast iron refining proved inadequate. Construction began in 1806, and although finished in 1810, production only began in April 1813, A tablet placed on the front of the furnace read: Augusto Imperante Francisco Extructum 1810 ("Built 1810 during the reign of the venerable Francis").</p><br>
<p>The furnaces first period of use was fairly short at seven and a half months, as the crucible had become quite worn and enough cast iron had been generated to last the nearby workshops three years. In all, 1380.3 tons of cast iron were produced. Periods of repair, use and abandonment followed over the ensuing century. In 1837, a fire caused structural damage to the furnace, and an investment of 40,529 forints was approved. Its volume was expanded to 26.45 m, the water wheel was repaired and the bellows compressor was improved. On August 25, 1840, an air preheater began operating. In 1841, a narrow gauge railway for transporting ore to the furnaces upper opening was installed. Little wagons would load the ore downward into the furnace; this mechanism replaced the inclined planes used earlier. The railway was 246.8 m long and made of cast iron from Govăjdia, and was the first such of its kind in Transylvania, extended to Hunedoara in 1900 (see Transylvanian mining railway). The cooling systems, the loading mechanism and the continuous production cycle were quite advanced for contemporary Europe. Its most intense period of production took place between 1871 and 1889, and metal prepared there as well as at the Reşiţa works was used for raw material in the building of the Eiffel Tower. Activity lessened after 1896 due to the new Hunedoara Steel Works. The final repairs were made in 1914&ndash;1916, and the last batch of steel came out in 1918. The furnace closed down permanently in 1924.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, the site was acquired by Ghelari Town Hall because of a failure by Hunedoara Steel Works, the previous owner, to pay taxes on the property. As of 2010, the chimney was intact with the original iron girdles still in place, but the roof was in serious need of repair, and the site was strewn with garbage, although the interior was fairly clean.</p><br>
<p>Colley Hill is part of the North Downs escarpment in the North Downs, Surrey, England. It is about 1 km east of Buckland Hills and 1 km west of Reigate Hill, all of which form part of the same escarpment. It is centred 30 km south of London and forms a single scarp with Reigate Hill, peaking 2 mi away at 235 metres above sea level. The scarp fluctuates in height but is continuous as far as Box Hill 5 mi west. The term "Reigate Hill" also designates a neighbourhood of Reigate, and also a ward of Reigate and Banstead.</p><br>
<h2>Prominence and description of section of range</h2><br>
<p>Colley Hill is contiguous with Reigate Hill, the ninth highest hill in Surrey. Colley Hill is its western continuation &mdash; officially considered a crest or scarp reaching (at grid reference TQ255521) 771 ft, a point usually simply but confusingly known as Reigate Hill. "Reigate Hill" also defines a neighbourhood of the town of Reigate, and is also a ward of Reigate and Banstead. The Reigate Hill summit is the highest point along the Mole Gap to Merstham Gap, the mid-western section of the North Downs, which stretch from at least Farnham in the west to Dover on the coast.</p><br>
<p>This section of the ridge is, as is typical, steep and a little to the west is quarried forming white faces to the south but particularly gentle to the north, where it gave way to hill pasture covering more than 10 square miles which was until deep wells were dug devoid of any access to surface water, known as Banstead and Walton Downs.</p><br>
<h2>Wider context</h2><br>
<p>The lower summit is noted for even greater biodiversity along the same Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) at Box Hill which first came to stark national public attention in the 18th century due to its access to London and greater prominence above the steep valley cut by the Mole below, particularly in novels such as Emma and having views over the country seat of especially wealthy individuals at Polesden Lacey, Deepdene House, Norbury Park and being on the same ridge as Headley Court served to cement its prominence.</p><br>
<p>The Pilgrims&#39; Way travels along the scarp at these points though below it at Box Hill, a café with terrace is at the summit of Reigate Hill (in a car park near Junction 8 of the M25) and nearby villages also provide facilities for walkers, such as Buckland to the immediate south-west.</p><br>
<p>Quail Island is in the Beagle Gulf of the Timor Sea, 40 km from Port Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia.</p><br>
<p>Quail Island belongs to the Quail Island Group. The other two islands in the archipelago are Bare Sand Island (southwest of Quail Island) and Djadjalbit Island (south).</p><br>
<p>The islands are known for being a breeding ground for flatback turtles.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On 9 October 1881 when SS Brisbane, an 85.8 metres long passenger, cargo and mail ship, built by A & J Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow, struck the nearby Fish Reef, while heading there with cargo from Hong Kong.</p><br>
<h3>Quail Island Air Weapons Range</h3><br>
<p>The Quail Island Air Weapons Range was used a training ground for defense forces from 1945 to 1979. Visitors such as tourists and recreational anglers have been banned from the islands during the clean-up process.</p><br>
<p>The Brady Anderson and Waldemar Ager House is a historic house located at 514 West Madison Street in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. Additionally, it has been designated a Literary Landmark by the National Association of Friends of Public Libraries.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built from 1892 to 1894 by craftsman Brady Anderson. It was purchased by Norwegian newspaperman and author Waldemar Ager in 1903. The Ager family owned the house until 1962, when it was bought by the local hospital. In 1993, when the hospital need the land to expand its complex, the house was donated to the Waldemar Ager Foundation. Originally located on Chestnut Street, the house was then moved to its current location. Afterwards, the house was restored to its appearance during the 1900s. The second floor has since been converted into a resource library.</p><br>
<p>The Byron R. Sherman House, also known as The Castle or The Castle of White Sulphur Springs, is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, United States. It was added to the Register on September 15, 1977. The property includes a carriage house.</p><br>
<p>The Castle Museum is operated by the Meagher County Historical Society. It includes period furniture, photos, mineral samples, clothing and artifacts from the region&#39;s past.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story granite mansion upon an elevated basement on a hilltop overlooking the City of White Sulphur Springs. According to its NRHP nomination, "with its</p><br>
<p>heavily rusticated stone (the back, or east facade is layed up in field stone), is a very fine frontier rendition of the late 19th century Romanesque Style." It is squarish, about 40x40 ft in plan, with addition of two full height towers on the south side.</p><br>
<p>The Union League of America Hall is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in White Sulphur Springs, Montana. It was added to the Register on August 20, 1998.</p><br>
<p>In 1998 it was the First Presbyterian Church. It has also been known as Diamond Lodge No. 5 of the Independent Order of Good Templars and as The First Church of White Sulphur Springs.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1867 and is a 24x74 ft building, on a concrete basement made in 1935. It is "simple in form and with minimal adornment&quot it "is a vernacular version of the Greek Revival Style. The front-gabled form, pedimented door and windows, and six-over-six sash provide links to the style. Additionally, the raised elevation of the front</p><br>
<p>imparts a subtle sense of monumentality to the building."</p><br>
<p>The Wellman Block is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in White Sulphur Springs, Montana. It was added to the Register on March 7, 1994.</p><br>
<p>It was built c.1880 and was renovated in 1911, perhaps after fire damage. It is a two part commercial building with red brick laid in common bond.</p><br>
<p>Its 1993 NRHP nomination describes it as "a highly preserved example of popular Western Commercial design, which was common in Montana through the territorial and early statehood years. Embodying several elements of this style, the Wellman Block presents the characteristic brick front to the street while masking a simpler gable roofed mass behind. The symmetrical storefront with recessed entrance, regularly placed double hung windows across the second story and decorative parapet are all common to this treatment."</p><br>
<p>The Roundup Central School is a historic school located at 600 1st Street West in Roundup, Montana. The west wing of the school was completed in 1911, while the east wing was completed in 1913. The school was the third building used as a public school in the city; however, it was the first school of considerable size, as the earlier schools had held two and four rooms respectively. The large sandstone building was one of many civic improvements completed in Roundup in the late 1900s and early 1910s, and it served as both a symbol of the citys growth and a sign of its commitment to becoming an established city and regional center. As the regions economy declined due to drought conditions in the late 1910s and 1920s, Roundup&#39;s population remained stable due to its status as a regional service center, a role which partly stemmed from the school. As a wave of consolidation closed many nearby schools in the following decades, Roundup both stayed open and absorbed many other districts; it became the largest school district in Musselshell County and cemented its status by absorbing the Klein school district, then the second-largest in the county, in 1959.</p><br>
<p>The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 6, 2007. It is still used as a school and is one of only two elementary schools in the county.</p><br>
<p>St. Benedicts Catholic School is a historic school building located at 524 1st Street West in Roundup, Montana. The school was built in 1920-21 to serve the children of Roundups Catholic immigrant community. Coal production, an oil boom, and homesteading all drove economic and population growth in Roundup during the 1910s, and many of the citys new residents were European immigrants. The citys newly established Catholic community built the school toward the end of Roundups building boom. Architect John H. Grant, who served as the citys only resident architect, designed the two-story brick building. Various groups of nuns served as the school&#39;s teachers, with different orders replacing the previous one every few years; when a new order could not be found to replace a departing order in 1950, the school closed for good.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 21, 1988. It is currently being used as the Musselshell Valley Historical Museum.</p><br>
<p>First Methodist Episcopal Church is a Neogothic Revival-styled church built in 1911 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 for its architectural significance.</p><br>
<p>The congregation that became First Methodist Episcopal began meeting in 1857, praying in the home of D.S. Hastings. Between 1863 and 1868, they built a wooden church on S. Barstow, and it served them until it burned in 1909. After the fire they met for two years in the Masonic Temple, until their new church (the subject of this article) was complete in 1911.</p><br>
<p>The 1911 building was designed by William Linley Alban and James E. Fisher of St. Paul and built by Samuel Converse and Company for $30,000, seating 650. The floor-plan is cross-gabled with a 3-story square tower in the corner. A foundation of rock-faced limestone supports walls of smooth-cut limestone blocks. Angle buttresses reinforce the corners, and the walls of the gable ends extend as parapets above the roof. One gable peak is topped with a cross. Features that mark the Neo-Gothic Revival style are the Gothic transoms over the doors, the steeply-pitched roofs, and the irregular massing. Inside, some things have been changed, but the original pneumatic pipe organ built by W.W. Kimball and Company of Chicago still sits at the front of the sanctuary.</p><br>
<p>In 1930, First Methodist Episcopal merged with Lake Street Episcopal Church and moved to the larger building on Lake Street. The building was bought by Immanuel Lutheran, a Swedish Evangelical Lutheran congregation which had been founded in 1883. By 1930 they had outgrown their building on Oxford Ave. and Fulton Street, so bought First Episcopal&#39;s building. Immanuel stayed from 1931 to 1981, then sold it to the Unitarian Fellowship.</p><br>
<p>Phu Chi Fa , also Phu Chee Fah, is a mountain area and national forest park in Thailand.</p><br>
<p>It is located at the northeastern end of the Phi Pan Nam Range, 12 km to the southwest of Doi Pha Tang at the eastern edge of Thoeng District, Chiang Rai Province.</p><br>
<p>The cliff is part of an elevated area, the Doi Pha Mon sub-range, that rises near the border with Laos sloping towards the Mekong River. The highest point of the ridge is 1628 m high Doi Pha Mon.</p><br>
<p>With views over the surrounding mountains, it is one of the famous tourist attractions of the Thai highlands near Chiang Rai. Tourists visit the mountain especially at dawn in order to catch a glimpse of the "sea of mist", the view of the fog-surrounded hills, with heights ranging between 1,200–1,600 m to the east of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>The weather on Phu Chi Fa is cool, averaging around 20° C. It has three seasons: hot, rainy, and cool, influenced by the tropical monsoon.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>Phu Chi Fa is home to a number of mammals, include barking deer, wild boar, palm civets. Birds include canaries, pheasants, and magpies.</p><br>
<p>Columbia Wagon Works, also known as Colonial Wagon Company, is a historic wagon factory complex located at Columbia in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The complex was built between 1889 and 1920, and includes seven contributing buildings. They are rectangular brick factory buildings with heavy timber frame construction. Six of the buildings are arranged in an "H"-shape. The buildings range in height from one to 3 1/2-stories. The wagon company closed in 1926, after which the buildings housed a tobacco warehouse operated by the American Cigarette & Cigar Company and produce warehouses. Between 1994 and 1996, the complex was converted to house 60 apartments.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Duntarvie Castle is a ruined Scots Renaissance house in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located 1.5 km north of Winchburgh and 9 km east of Linlithgow, close to the M9 motorway. Constructed in the late 16th century, the building has been undergoing restoration since the 1990s. The house is protected as a category A listed building, and a scheduled monument.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The lands of Duntarvie were in possession of the Lindsays from 1527. A charter of 1605 transferred the property from the Lindsays to the Hamiltons of Abercorn, and this 1605 charter infers the existence of the castle as early as 1212. The Durham family held Duntarvie as tenants of the Hamiltons, although according to Historic Scotland, Duntarvie was granted to James Durham in 1588, who had the building constructed shortly afterward.</p><br>
<p>Alexander Durham (died 1584) held royal appointments including as a clerk in the Exchequer, and Master of the Princes Wardrobe to King James VI. Alexanders son James took over his father&#39;s offices in 1580, and served as Chamberlain for Linlithgowshire between 1595 and 1600. James witnessed several royal charters made by King James at Holyroodhouse. The Durham family left Duntarvie in the 1770s.</p><br>
<p>By 1826 the house was in the ownership of the Earl of Hopetoun, and in need of urgent repair. It was uninhabited from the 1840s, and by the 20th century it was ruinous and roofless.</p><br>
<p>In the late 20th century the shell was purchased by kiltmaker Geoffrey Nicholsby, with the intention of restoring it as a headquarters of his business Highland Crafts Ltd. Preparatory work began in 1994, but part of the east tower collapsed in January 1995. In 2008 it was reported that Nicholsby had obtained scheduled monument consent for the restoration, but was placing the property on the market. However, no sale took place, and in 2013 Nicholsby sought planning permission for a "tank play park" in the grounds, that would fund the restoration. Though initially positive, West Lothian Council refused permission when no legal agreement could be reached on the restoration funding. In 2015, roof trusses were installed on the building.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house comprises a long, rectangular three-storey main block, with square four-storey towers projecting northwards at the ends. Each of these towers had a flat roof with a stone balustrade, and is flanked by a turnpike stair housed in a turret in the internal angle. The ground floor and first floor are linked by a straight stair, unusual for its date.</p><br>
<p>Kilvalai  or Kizhvalai is a hamlet in Tirukkoyilur  taluk in Villuppuram  district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The major occupation of the people living at this place is agriculture. In 2011 it had a population of 700.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Kilvalai is located 24 km northwest of Villupuram, 38 km southeast of Thiruvannaamalai. Another important rock art site of Tamil Nadu, Settavarai is located 18 km northwest of Kilvalai.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Mofussil buses departing from Villupuram bus stand to Thiruvannaamalai go via Kilvalai. From the bus stop, the rock art site is 1 km distant.</p><br>
<h2>About the village</h2><br>
<p>Kilvalai village has 3000-year-old heritage. The historical importance of the village is the presence of 1000 B.C.E. rock paintings. The kilvalai rock paintings consists mainly of human images with bird headed.</p><br>
<h2>Rock paintings</h2><br>
<p>Globally, the study of rock art and their interpretations gained momentum in the field of archaeology. Archeologists not only denoted the artistic skill of the people who had painted them, also their beliefs and their daily activities. The paintings on the rock shelters are mostly depicting the hunting scenes and human activities.</p><br>
<h2>Kilvalai rock paintings</h2><br>
<p>The rock paintings in kilvalai, are found in three rocky areas and are painted in red ochre. Among them, two are very weak and difficult to resolve. Also, very few paintings are seen here. The third one which contains majority of the paintings is clear. This rock art site is called as "Ratha Kudaikkal"(இரத்த குடைக்கல்) by the local villagers, which means Blood Carvings.</p><br>
<h2>Human images</h2><br>
<p>The first picture depicts three human beings postured side by side; one man seated on a horse, another holding its bridle and the third man standing with outstretched hands in a way of welcoming them. These men&#39;s faces resemble the beak of a bird. The second picture consists of four human beings standing on a boat. The third human image holding a long stick, probably sailing the boat.</p><br>
<h2>Graffiti</h2><br>
<p>Paintings of some graffiti consisting of combined triangles, addition, multiplication markings, drawn inside the circles, stacked lines are seen. These images are similar to the graffiti found in Indus Valley Civilization. A Sun image with 17 rays is also seen here. The first symbol indicates, rainfall with thunder; second one, going as a group along with the head of the group; third one, going towards the north direction; fourth one, the production of musical sound; and the fifth one, festival time.</p><br>
<p>St. Thomas Fort also known as Tangasseri Fort, is a ruined fort located in the beach town of Tangasseri on the shores of the Arabian Sea in the city of Kollam, Kerala, India. It is located around 5 km from the city center of Kollam and 71 km from the state capital Thiruvananthapuram.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Tangasseri was associated with the Chinese trade from the first millennium AD and later colonised by the Portuguese, Dutch and the British to become the "gold village". According to Historians, Captain Rodriguez came to Quilon and was appointed as the captain of the factory and trade, with permission from the queen. St.Thomas Fort (once known as Forte de São Tomé) was built by the Portuguese under Afonso de Albuquerque for the protection of the newly developed trade. In 1505 the Portuguese established a trading port here, and in 1518 established its sovereignty through the construction of Fort St. Thomas. Later in 1661 the town and the fort were handed over to the Dutch who made it the capital of Dutch Malabar. The Dutch occupied the fort for several years. In 1795, the British East India Company took possession of the fort. In 1823 Fort St. Thomas accepted a lease by Travancore from the British Government for a period of twenty years.</p><br>
<p>Fort St. Thomas was originally around 20 ft tall. Today, the remains of the fort, popularly known as "Tangasseri fort" remain facing the beach. The government of India has taken over the fort and it is being considered an historical landmark. Restoration of the fort is ongoing. At present, the fort is managed by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).</p><br>
<p>The Homestead is a nine-bedroom Georgian house in the conservation area of Spondon, Derby, England. It is Grade I listed.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Homestead was originally known as Homeside, and was built for local tanner John Anthill between 1710 although the only certain date is a rainwater head marked 1740. It is similar in style to contemporary houses in the area designed by Francis Smith of Warwick,</p><br>
<p>The house was briefly used as a school by Rev John Cade, whose first wife, Mary, inherited the house from William Anthill in 1788. The house was continuously owned by the Cade family until 1911, when Charles James Cade chose to sell. The house was</p><br>
<p>used from 1917 as the residence of the managing director of the local chemical plant, known as the British Cellulose and Chemical Manufacturing Co or later British Celanese. At the beginning of that period, the interior oak panelling was stripped of its paint by Elizabeth, wife of Garnet Hughes, and the original large fireplace in the drawing room was uncovered. The Homestead was officially purchased by the company in 1920, when the managing director W.A.M. Soller was installed. In 1954, the house became a corporate guest facility for the plant. Courtaulds, the successor to British Celanese and who maintained the house in exemplary fashion, sold The Homestead in 1996 for £250000.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in 1967 on the Register of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, and is currently Grade I, meaning it is of exceptional interest.</p><br>
<p>In the corner of the grounds there is a mostly Edwardian coach house and stable block with a cupola</p><br>
<p>In 2011, it was unsuccessfully put up for sale with a guide price of £1.2m. and it is currently being marketed again at an asking price of £1.23m.</p><br>
<p>An ancient watercourse runs along Hall Dyke and through the grounds.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Georgian-period house in the Queen Anne style is situated on the brow of a hill rising from the Derwent valley, and is constructed out of red brick and dressed with stone, and uses rusticated stone quoining of millstone grit. It is 2½ storeys, and composed of five bays with sash windows, with the central bay projecting. The entrance is said to employ Venetian styling because it is in three parts, with the central doors being flanked by two rectangular sidelights with doric entablatures supported by doric half columns, and above the door is a segmentally headed fanlight. Surmounting this are two further round-headed windows with the top one projecting into the open pediment; the first story window has a large corbelled stone sill, and is framed by ionic pilasters. The house is coped with stone on top of a brick parapet, and the roof is mainly of clay tile.</p><br>
<p>The balustrades up the main flight of stone steps are in the style of Robert Bakewell, or by Robert Bakewell, himself.</p><br>
<p>The rusticated stone gate piers with acorn finials are specifically mentioned in its entry on the English Heritage register.</p><br>
<p>Internal features include a three-flight oak staircase with carved tread ends, a fully panelled dining room, a secret passage to the cellar, and an unusual split staircase leading to the roof.</p><br>
<p>The plasterwork inside is impressive, and similar to other work in Derby by Abraham Denstone the elder.</p><br>
<p>The house also retains much of its original furniture.</p><br>
<h2>Notable occupants</h2><br>
<p>Rev John Cade</p><br>
<p>Dr James Cade</p><br>
<p>Anna Romana Wright, daughter of Joseph Wright of Derby</p><br>
<p>Katharine Burdekin (born Cade), feminist author whose works include Swastika Night</p><br>
<p>Rowena Cade, founder of the Minack Theatre</p><br>
<p>Sir Henry Fowler, Chief Mechanical Engineer for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway</p><br>
<p>Major General Garnet Burk Hughes, Managing Director of the British Cellulose Company</p><br>
<p>Drs Camille Dreyfus and Henri Dreyfus, Swiss industrialists lured to Spondon by the War Office to produce cellulose acetate for aircraft skins</p><br>
<p>The Polomet  is a river in Valdaysky, Krestetsky, and Demyansky Districts of Novgorod Oblast in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Pola River. It is 150 km long, and the area of its basin 2,770 km&sup2;. The principal tributary of the Polomet is the Luzhonka River .</p><br>
<p>The source of the Polomet is in Lake Russkoye in the Valdai Hills. The upper course of the Polomet is located within Valdaysky National Park. The river flows west, then turns north. At the selo of Yazhelbitsy the Polomet makes a turn, crosses into Krestetsky District, returns to Valdaysky District, and crosses into Demyansky District. In Demyansky District, it flows southwest. In the selo of Lychkovo, it crosses the railroad which connects Bologoye and Pskov via Staraya Russa. The mouth of the Polomet is close to the village of Kostkovo (which is located on the left bank of the Pola).</p><br>
<p>The river basin of the Polomet comprises the western part of Valdaysky District, including some of the lakes in Valdaysky National Park, the southern part of Krestetsky District, and the northwestern part of Demyansky District.</p><br>
<p>The Polomet is attractive for kayaking and rafting. In summer, the stretch between Lychkovo and the mouth is used., in the spring, the stretch upstream from Yazhelbitsy is used.</p><br>
<p>Until the 1990s, the Polomet was used for timber rafting.</p><br>
<p>The Veneman&#39;s Bungalow Court Historic District, also known as Droukas Court, is located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It is the only example of a Post World War I “California bungalow court” in the city. The district has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2000. It is part of The Bungalow and Square House Des Moines Residential Growth And Development, 1900-1942 MPS.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The eleven houses in Droukas Court were built between 1924 and 1926. It is one of three "California bungalow court” developments in Des Moines. The other two examples are the Lincoln Court and Goddard Bungalow Court Historic District. They were both built in 1916. Droukas Court was a late example of a bungalow development and the only post-World War I example. It was successful as a rental complex as it was built near a street car line. Unlike the Godard, Droukas Court was built after the automobile became popular and nearby off-site parking garages were built for the tenants.</p><br>
<p>John B. Veneman acquired the property in two parcels in February 1909 from John H. Cash and W. R. Mathews. The odd numbered bungalows on the southern portion of the district were constructed after the building permits were issued on September 23, 1924 to Ringland Veneman. The even-numbered houses on the north side of the district were built after the building permits were issued on March 19, 1926 to V. V. Veneman. The houses on the south have a more varied porch treatment, which suggests that there was interest in visual variety that faded by the time the houses on the northern were built.</p><br>
<p>The development was initially known as Veneman Court until 1954 when it was sold to Dan and Georgia Droukas and renamed Droukas Court. It has been known by that name ever since. They sold it to Gene Andrews and Jess Comley who in turn sold it to George and Bertha Archer. Renters over the years have been either families or elderly tenants. In more recent years tenants have qualified for low rent housing.</p><br>
