<p>Montgomery Reef is a reef off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia. It is situated at the south western end of Camden Sound and surround the Montgomery Islands.</p><br>
<p>The reef is approximately 20 km off-shore opposite Doubtful Bay (to the east) and Collier Bay (to the south). The nearest populated place is Bardi which is approximately 130 km to the south west. and encompasses a total area of 400 km&sup2; making it Australia&#39;s largest inshore reef.</p><br>
<p>Covering an area of approximately 400 km&sup2; and with a length of about 80 km, the reef is subject to unusual tidal movements to a maximum of 10 m. When the tide is out vast lagoons, sandstone islets and a central mangrove island are revealed. The outward movement of the tide forms a torrent of water, creating a river cutting through the reef and hundreds of cascading waterfalls. At low tide more than 4 m of reef can be exposed.</p><br>
<p>When the tide is out-going a series of cascading waterfalls is revealed that attract migratory wading birds, feeding turtles, manta rays, black tipped reef sharks, and dugongs. The area is a popular tourist site and has several cruise operators visiting daily.</p><br>
<p>The reef and island are both named by Philip Parker King, the first European to sight the island, aboard the Mermaid while exploring the area in 1818. King named the island after the ship&#39;s surgeon, Andrew Montgomery.</p><br>
<p>Kolahoi Glacier is a valley glacier in the northwestern Himalayan Range situated 26 kilometers north from Pahalgam and 16 kilometers south from Sonamarg, in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.</p><br>
<p>Kolahoi glacier lies at an average elevation of 4,700 m. The highest peak named after the glacier is Kolahoi Peak has an elevation of 5425 meters. The origin of the glacier is below the cirques on the north flank of Kolahoi Peak. It is the main source of Lidder River and its waters become the tributaries of the Jhelum River. Its water serves the population of Anantnag district, where it is mainly being used for drinking and agricultural purposes. The water finally discharges itself into Jhelum River near Khanabal Anantnag</p><br>
<p>Kolahoi Glacier is among the victims of global warming, and has shrunk in area from 13.57 km in 1963 to 10.69 km in 2005 or a loss of 2.88 km in three decades. In 1974 the glacier was about 5 km long and is known to have extended for at least 35 km during the Pleistocene. According to another report, Kolahoi is a hanging glacier and hollowed inside. It is a matter of great concern for Kashmir Valley. Many expeditions have failed here. A local club is trying much to summit it in 2</p><br>
<p>014.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Even though the place is yet not very much explored but it has potential to become the best camping destination.</p><br>
<p>The Pine Mill Bridge is an historic structure located in Wildcat Den State Park in rural Muscatine County, Iowa, United States. Built in 1878 near the Pine Creek Gristmill it is the only place in Iowa where a mill and bridge combination remains in place. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 as a part of the Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The citizens of Montpelier Township petitioned the Muscatine County Board of Supervisors in 1877 for a bridge over Pine Creek at the site of the mill where they needed a crossing to transport their crops. For most of the year the creek was easily crossed, but after a heavy rainfall it was turned into a raging stream. Financial considerations delayed the project for a year when the board solicited bids for the construction of the bridge. In September 1878 a contract to manufacture and erect the truss was issued to the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio. The bridge was completed by the end of the year. While it was one of numerous bridge and mill combinations across the state of Iowa it is the only one that remains.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Pine Mill Bridge is a standard pinned Pratt through truss bridge offered by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company. The span is composed of seven panels, and is 96 ft long. The roadway is 16 ft wide.</p><br>
<p>Lead Mountain, at 1,479 ft high is a peak in eastern Maine. Lead Mountain is located north of the town of Beddington on the border of Hancock and Washington counties in Downeast Maine. The isolation of Lead Mountain is 35.73 miles, and it is easily visible from miles away along Maine state routes 9 and 193</p><br>
<p>The southern slopes of Lead Mountain are the location of the Bear Brook Watershed in Maine, a long-term research site dedicated to studying the effects of acid deposition on a landscape. Likewise, the southeast slopes of the mountain are drained by Bear Brook. The bedrock of the area contains small blebs of pyrrhotite, which may be mistaken for lead.</p><br>
<p>Lead Mountain is located on private land, but can be hiked by the public. The primary route to Lead Mountain begins just north of the at the gated end of a dirt road southeast of the peak. The route follows the dirt road beyond the gate before turning up a path that ascends southeast of the summit before continuing up the east side of the mountain to reach the summit.</p><br>
<p>On a clear day views from the summit stretch to the south to Acadia National Park and the Gulf of Maine. There are two communication towers on the summit. South of the mountain is the small Bear Pond, while the much larger Upper Lead Mountain Pond is west of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>The First Avenue Bridge is a historic structure located in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. It carries USA Route 151 for 697 ft over the Cedar River. The original six-span concrete arch structure was completed in 1920 for $420,000. It was designed by Marsh Engineering Company and built by Koss Construction Co., both of Des Moines. Consulting engineer Ned L. Ashton of Iowa City designed the 1960s remodel. He had all of the concrete work above the original arches torn out and the bridge rebuilt as an open-spandrel structure. The rebuild also included a wider deck to accommodate increased traffic and aluminum railings. While the bridge&#39;s original structural integrity has been compromised, this is the first notable concrete spandrel arch reconstruction in Iowa and possibly in the country. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Upper Paris Bridge is an historic structure located near the town of Coggon in rural Linn County, Iowa, United States. The pinned Whipple through truss bridge was built in 1879 as a wagon bridge. It was designed by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 as a part of the Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS.</p><br>
<p>The bridge spans the Wapsipinicon River in the unincorporated community of Paris, Iowa. It has a single 160 ft main span and timber stringer approach spans for a total length of 208 ft. It cost $4,964.72, to build, of which $3,000 was for the superstructure. Its superstructure is an 11-panel, pin-connected Whipple through truss.</p><br>
<p>The bridge is significant as a "rare example of a double-intersection Pratt truss", which is a kind of Whipple truss. Its diagonals extend over two panels, and are made of wrought iron, suited for their being under tension. The Whipple truss design was developed by engineer Squire Whipple in 1847.</p><br>
<p>As of 1994, it was the longest of only eight pin-connected Whipple through truss bridges surviving in Iowa. It then carried "intermittent" traffic in a setting largely unchanged since 1879.</p><br>
<p>Mount Hope is a granite outcrop located to the north of Pyramid Hill in northern Victoria, Australia. The outcrop lies within the 126 hectare Mount Hope Nature Conservation Reserve which is managed by Parks Victoria.</p><br>
<p>The reserve has limited facilities, including picnic tables and an unsealed parking area at the foot of the outcrop which is accessed from the unsealed Old Leitchville Road. Activities include rock climbing and bird observing.</p><br>
<p>Communications facilities for Ambulance Victoria, Goulburn Murray Water and the Department of Sustainability and Environment are located near the mountain summit.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1836 Scottish-born explorer Thomas Livingstone Mitchell became the first European to sight the mountain. He ascended it on June 28 after having sighted it four days earlier from the north-west and commented:</p><br>
<p>On the summit he discovered two new plant species, Philotheca pungens and Hibbertia incana. He observed in the distance what is now known as Pyramid Hill:</p><br>
<p>Mitchell changed his course, having observed promising country from its summit:</p><br>
<p>The mountain was climbed again in 1838 by Joseph Hawdon who was droving cattle between Howlong in New South Wales and Adelaide in South Australia. Hawdon observed:</p><br>
<p>The small kangaroo was an eastern hare-wallaby, a species that became extinct a few years after the arrival of the first European settlers.</p><br>
<p>In 1845 Mount Hope Station was established. The station originally covered 77,000 acres and had 100,000 sheep.</p><br>
<p>In 1857 unsubstantiated rumours led to a gold rush to the area, but no gold was ever found.</p><br>
<p>On 1 September 1860, members of the Burke and Wills expedition ascended the summit, including Ludwig Becker, a naturalist, geologist and artist. In his first report to the Royal Society of Victoria, Becker commented:</p><br>
<p>Becker made a watercolour sketch depicting the view to Pyramid Hill from the summit. The hill shown to the left is now a gravel quarry.</p><br>
<p>In 1898 the body of farm labourer was discovered at the foot of a 100-foot high boulder by children during a school picnic. Although there was no evidence to determine whether the death was accidental or not, the location subsequently became known as Suicide Rock.</p><br>
<h3>Quarry</h3><br>
<p>Stone from a quarry operated by Ole Roald at Mount Hope was used to construct roads in the Cohuna, Boort and Kerang districts after World War II. The quarry was purchased by Mawsons in 1952 and used for gravel and stone. The stone was found to be of inferior quality and the site lacked electricity need to operate power crushers and screens. The quarry was closed in 1958, with equipment moved to another quarry at Lake Boga.</p><br>
<p>The Adams Building, also known as the Central Savings Bank Building, was built as a commercial and office building located at 418 Ashmun Street in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Along with the next-door Gowan Block, it is now part of the Park Place City Center, a mixed commercial and residential development. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Robert N. Adams</h2><br>
<p>Robert Adams was born in Ontario on May 13, 1844, the sixth child of John and Ann Adams. At the age of 23 he began working his own farm in Ontario. In 1877 he married Elizabeth N. Carr. The couple had six children: George, Augusta, John, Gertrude, Clement, and Lillian.</p><br>
<p>In 1879 Adams moved to Michigan and purchased 150 acres of land that was at the time undeveloped, but is now within the boundaries of Sault Ste. Marie. Adams cleared the land and platted it, selling lots which eventually became some of the most substantial residential and commercial sections of the city. Adams also engaged in grocery, merchandising, and banking businesses, and represented the area in the state legislature.</p><br>
<h2>Building history</h2><br>
<p>The Central Savings Bank of Sault Ste. Marie was incorporated in December 1902, with Robert N. Adams as its first president. Adams hired Edward Demar to design a building, and in 1903, built what was called "one of the most modern and architecturally attractive bank and office buildings in the Northern Peninsula." He christened it the Adams Building. A portion of the first floor of the building was reserved for the Central Savings Bank, while the rest of the building was used by other businesses.</p><br>
<p>In 1904, Central Savings Bank merged with Chippewa County Savings Bank; although Adams remained on the board of directors, he was no longer president of the institution. In 1926, the bank took over the assets of the Brimley State Bank.</p><br>
<p>In 1975, the bank moved its offices to their present location at 511 Bingham Avenue in Sault Ste. Marie.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, after a few years of financial wrangling, the Adams Building and the next-door Masonic Block were purchased by a developer. Renovations began, with the plan to provide 4,500 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and 24 apartments. The project is known as "Park Place City Center."</p><br>
<p>The Gowan Block, also known as the Masonic Block, was built as a commercial building and meeting hall located at 416 Ashmun Street in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Along with the next-door Adams Building, it is now part of the Park Place City Center, a mixed commercial and residential development. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John A. Gowan and Albert F. Pickford opened a hardware store, Gowan & Pickford, in 1900. In 1901, Gowan and Pickford decided to construct a new building, and retained the local firm of Charlton, Gilbert & Demar to design the structure. They hired local contractors Lipsett & Sinclair to build the new structure for $31,700, and construction began in mid-1901, finishing around the end of the year. After construction, Gowan and Pickford occupied the south third of the ground floor, with the remainder housing one portion of the Prenzlauer Bros.&#39; general store, which also occupied a nearby building. The local Masonic Lodge began using upper floors in 1902.</p><br>
<p>By 1908 the Prenzlauer Bros. store vacated the building, and around 1920 Woolworths moved into that portion of the ground floor. Gowan & Pickford remained in the southern third, changing its name to Gowan Hardware in 1911 when Albert Pickford left the firm. Gowan Hardware closed in 1949, and Woolworths expanded into the vacated space.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, after a few years of financial wrangling, the Masonic Block and the next-door Adams Building were purchased by a developer. Renovations began, with the plan to provide 4,500 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and 24 apartments. The project is known as "Park Place City Center."</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Gowan Block is a Late Victorian three-story brick commercial building with a broad front facade. The front is substantially finished with yellow-buff brickwork, with reddish-brown sandstone used for piers at the outer edges and surrounding the third-story windows. The ground floor has three storefronts. The second floor has seven bays filled with windows and separated by metal pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The Livorno Hills  is a mountain range in Tuscany, included in the municipalities of Livorno, Collesalvetti and Rosignano Marittimo, and in the Province of Livorno. Due to its vicinity to the sea, the average height is quite low. The highest mountain is Poggio Lecceta , with an elevation of 462 meters on the sea level. Other peaks, such as the Monte Maggiore  or Poggio ai tre mulini  are over 400 meters high.</p><br>
<p>Important villages on the Livorno Hills are the fractions of Valle Benedetta (Livorno), Nibbiaia and Gabbro (Rosignano Marittimo), and Rosignano Marittimo too, which is situated on the homonymous knoll at a height of 142 meters. Many streams, although the weather is quite dry in the summer, run down from the Leghorn Hills. The longest is known as Rio Ugione, on the border between Leghorn and Collesalvetti municipalities.</p><br>
<p>A natural park called Riserva naturale Calafuria is set in the part of the Livorno Hills near the coast.</p><br>
<p>Kolahoi Peak is a mountain with a peak elevation of 5,425 m, in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, in the vicinity of Sonamarg. Kolahoi Peak is part of the Himalaya Range, and is located between 15 km south of Sonamarg and 21 km north from Arin Pahalgam. To its north flows the Sind River and the glacier of its name Kolahoi Glacier is the source of Lidder River. in the vicinity of Kashmir valley.</p><br>
<p>Kolahoi Peak rises from the Kolahoi Glacier is a pyramid-shaped peak with ice falls and ice fields at its bottom. The rock formation of the peak is extraordinary stable with aretes and ridges.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing history and routes</h2><br>
<p>Kolahoi Peak was first climbed by a British medical team headed by Dr Ernest Neve in 1912.</p><br>
<p>The easiest route to climb Kolahoi Peak is south face via Aru Pahalgam from which a 21 kilometers high altitude alpine tract leads to the glacier of the peak. From the rear side of Sonamarg leads a 15 kilometer track via Saribal Nallah to the summit, but one have to encounter the difficulties of ice falls from the glacier.</p><br>
<p>Machoi Peak is a mountain with a peak elevation of 5,458 m, in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir, in the vicinity of Sonamarg. Machoi Peak is part of the Himalaya Range, and is located between Amarnath cave and Zojila. It lies 105 km north east from Srinagar, 25 km from Sonamarg in the east. It rises from the glacier of its name Machoi Glacier is the source of Nallah Sindh. in the vicinity of Kashmir valley.</p><br>
<p>Machoi Peak rises from the Machoi glacier is a pyramid-shaped peak with ice falls and ice fields at its bottom and ridges.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing history and routes</h2><br>
<p>Machoi Peak was first surveyed by a British medical team headed by Dr Ernest Neve in 1912 but not climbed. It was latter climbed by a team of Indian army on 10 September 1984.</p><br>
<p>The easiest route to climb Mechoi Peak is from the right side of Amarnath cave which leads to its west face, starts from Baltal a 20 kilometers high altitude alpine tract leads to the foothills of the peak. From the north side it is steep and one has to cross the whole Machoi glacier with ridges and falling ice. The east face of the peak is more difficult due to the remoteness of the area which starts from Matayan Drass.</p><br>
<p>The Pine Valley Chapel and Tithing Office, the chapel sometimes being referred to as the Pine Valley Ward Chapel, are historic 19th-century buildings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  built in Pine Valley, Utah in 1868. The Pine Valley Chapel is known for being the oldest meetinghouse in continuous use of the LDS Church. Both the chapel and adjacent tithing office were listed together on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Chapel architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Pine Valley Chapel was designed by a Scottish shipbuilder and LDS convert, Ebenezer Bryce (who Bryce Canyon is named after). The construction of the chapel was built using techniques adopted from shipbuilding, and is basically an upside-down ship. the building consists of two levels built on a basement. The architectural style is reminiscent of New England churches, which was done in honor of LDS church leader Erastus Snow. The church was built with nearby Ponderosa pines, from the same area where pines were shipped to Salt Lake City for the famous Salt Lake Tabernacle. A scaled-down replica of the Pine Valley Chapel was built at This Is the Place Heritage Park.</p><br>
<h2>Tithing Office</h2><br>
<p>East of the chapel is the well-preserved red-brick Tithing Office that was built in the 1880s. Tithing to the church in 19th century Utah was often paid in-kind with farmed goods that were then redistributed to those in need, thus the 19th century tithing house is a 16 x 27 warehouse to accommodate tithes. The building has also, at different times, been used as a family residence, the Pine Valley Post Office, and a meeting room for the Pine Valley Chapel.</p><br>
<p>Our Savior’s Kvindherred Lutheran Church is an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America congregation located near the town of Calamus in rural Clinton County, Iowa, United States. The church and former school buildings as well as the church cemetery were listed as an historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was established in 1861 by Norwegian immigrants who settled the area from Hardanger Fjord. The church was named after their home district of Kvinnherad in Norway. Services were held in parishioner&#39;s homes and in the local public schools until their first church was built in 1865. A parochial school was established in 1863 and instruction was held in parishioner’s homes for two years. John Johnson provided the land for the church, which he had purchased in 1853. His brother George provided the land for the cemetery in 1865. That same year Kvindherred joined with a congregation near Marengo, Iowa and another in Norway, Iowa to form a single parish. Kvindherred bought 40 acre a ½ mile west of the church on which to build a parsonage for the pastor who would serve all three locations. The house, no longer extant, was built in 1870. Because of growth in the congregation the present church was built in 1876. Sunday School classes were begun in 1891. The 1870 parsonage was sold in 1928 when the congregation bought a house in Calamus for the parsonage. Two years later Kvindherred called its own pastor, and services were held in the church weekly instead of on alternate Sundays. Services in Norwegian were also ended in 1930 as some members of the congregation did not know the language and because of pressure that resulted from World War I for "foreign-born and users of a foreign language to use more readily the English language." Norwegian had been used exclusively until 1919 for worship and school when English was included.</p><br>
<p>The congregation changed its name to Our Savior&#39;s Lutheran Church in 1946, which distanced it further from its Norwegian roots. The following year discussions began about whether to remodel the church or to build a new one. A joint decision could not be made and 136 parishioners and the pastor formed Faith Lutheran congregation in Calamus in 1950. The current parsonage was built near the church in 1952. Faith and Our Savior entered into a cooperative ministry agreement in 1972 by which they would share a pastor. The two congregations are referred to jointly as the Calamus Lutheran Parish.</p><br>
<p>The congregation initially belonged to the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church until 1898 when they joined the United Norwegian Synod. It merged with the original Norwegian Synod and the Hauge Synod to form the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America in 1917. They changed their name to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1946, and merged into the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>First Kvindherred Church/School</h2><br>
<p>The first Kvindherred Church was moved to its present location about 1940. It was originally built 750 ft to the south at the northwest corner of what is now 190th Avenue and 260th Street. It was built in 1865 to house both the church and parochial school. It continued to serve as the school after the current church was completed in 1877. It is a 24 by frame building in the Greek Revival style. The front gable structure features engaged columns and capitals below a fanlight that frames the main entrance. The metal lettering that identifies the building is not original. The interior features pine flooring and the original pews from the 1877 church.</p><br>
<h2>Second Church</h2><br>
<p>The present church was built from 1876 to 1877 and an addition was added in early 1950s. The original portion of the building is a rectangular frame structure that measures 34 by. It was designed in the Gothic Revival style that was typical of rural Norwegian Lutherans in the Midwest. In 1912 a full basement with rusticated concrete block walls was added to the church. The main façade features a bell tower capped with a spire. The main entrance and vestibule are located on the main floor of the tower. The vestibule was enlarged in early 1950s. The two windows that flanked the tower were added to the vestibule at that time. A 30 by addition was built onto the rear of the church in the 1950s as well. Originally clad in wood, the exterior has been covered with white metal siding.</p><br>
<p>The interior was also remodeled as a part of the same project in early 1950s. The pews and altar appointments were changed at that time. The pressed metal ceiling was added during the 1912 renovation. The gallery and the elaborate compound moldings surrounding the windows are original to the structure.</p><br>
<h2>Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>The cemetery is a rectangular parcel of land that measures 348 by, and contains roughly 3.1 acre. The original section was deeded to the church in 1865 although the first burial was recorded in 1864. The earliest grave marker, however, dates from 1861. Several large cedar trees were located in the cemetery that marked it out from the farm land that surrounds the cemetery. It was originally surrounded by a steel fence with an entrance gateway. Above the gate was a sign that read "Kvindherred Cemetery". It was replaced by a wooden sign along the road in front of the cemetery that reads "Our Saviors Kvindherred". The cemetery is located 1,700 ft north of the church along the same road.</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office in Santa Barbara, California is a combined post office-federal office building in Santa Barbara, California. The post office is a prominent example of Mission Revival-influenced Art Deco design and is a significant building in the historic core of Santa Barbara. It was designed by Pasadena architect Reginald Davis Johnson in the mid-1930s, and was completed in 1937. The building retains a high degree of architectural integrity, with minimal changes to the interior and no changes to the exterior, which retains its original landscaping.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Santa Barbara Post Office has a generally Spanish Colonial character that harmonizes with traditional local architecture, using a terra cotta roof and white stuccoed walls. The building was constructed in reinforced concrete. Although the building is composed with Mission Revival elements and massing, the details are Art Deco, with chevron details typically used by Johnson and complementary sculpture. The bronze doors and building hardware are more characteristic of Art Deco than of Mission. Streamline Moderne interior reliefs are by William Atkinson, using motifs typical of the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>The Santa Barbara Post Office was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 1985.</p><br>
<p>St. Boniface Church is a former parish of the Diocese of Davenport. The church was founded in the town of Lyons, which is now the north side of Clinton, Iowa, United States. The church building is now a museum named The Catholic Historical Center at St. Boniface, with exhibits about the history of the Clinton area Catholic community, and an archive of local Catholic church artifacts and records.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bishop Mathias Loras of the Diocese of Dubuque said the first Mass in Lyons. The Mass was celebrated in a log home in 1848. The area was visited by various priests, including the Rev. J.A.M. Pelamourges from Davenport, and the Rev. Frederic Cyrille Jean, who was assigned as the first resident pastor at the first parish in town, St. Irenaeus Church.</p><br>
<p>In October 1861 the German Catholics in Lyons from St. Irenaeus founded St. Boniface Parish. The parish acquired a former Presbyterian church as their first building. Their first pastor was Father Aloysius Meis. Three years later the parish established the first parochial school in Clinton County. In time they were replaced by the Sisters of St. Francis from Clinton. The rectory, which is next to the present church, was built in 1873. Sacred Heart Church in Clinton was established as a mission of St. Boniface in 1891. The priests from St. Boniface took care of that parish until 1903 when a resident pastor was assigned to Sacred Heart. Father Tritz became pastor at St. Boniface in 1901. He helped to design the present church, which was completed in 1908. Three years later all five Clinton parishes joined the Davenport Diocese when Clinton County was transferred to the Diocese of Davenport.</p><br>
<p>The parish school was merged with the school at St. Irenaeus in the 1970s to form North Catholic School. Eventually, all the Catholic grade schools in Clinton merged to form Holy Trinity School. The parish itself was officially closed in 1990 when the five parishes in Clinton were merged to form Jesus Christ, Prince of Peace Parish. The new parish continued to use the old churches until a new church could be built. St. Boniface was closed in 2007. A new church was built for the parish on the west side of town in 2009. The parish still owns the building, but a non-profit group has turned the church building into a religious heritage museum.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Gothic Revival style structure was meant to reflect the German heritage of the congregation. It was designed by Dubuque architect Martin Heer. The cornerstone was laid on June 5, 1908 and it was dedicated on November 27, 1908. The structure was built by Anton Zwack of Dubuque. Two bell towers topped with spires dominate the main facade of the church. A statue of St. Boniface is in a niche above the main entrances. The exterior is composed of pressed red brick with blue Bedford stone trim. The interior features three naves. The high altar in the apse features another statue of St. Boniface in the main niche. It is decorated with light bulbs, which reflect Father Tritz’s fascination with electricity. The altar was built by B. Ferring of Chicago and installed in September 1910. The stained glass windows were produced by Munic Studio of Chicago.</p><br>
<p>The Birch Lodge, also known as the Birch Lodge Hospital and Summer Resort Sanitarium or the Trout Lake Sanitarium, is a resort facility located on the northern shore of Trout Lake, off County Route H-40.6 mi west of MI-123, in Trout Lake Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Birch Lodge was founded as one of a crop of resorts built in upper Michigan around the beginning of the 20th century. It was started by Dr. Edgar David Ford and his wife Cornelia as a combination of a summer resort as tuberculosis sanitorium. The Fords obtained property on Trout Lake in 1911 and hired H. Emery, also of Cambria, to construct the lodge, designing it as a resort that combined outdoor recreation and medical health. However, before the lodge opened, Edgar Ford died of rabies. Despite this, the resort was opened in 1912 by Cornelia Ford and her sons.</p><br>
<p>However, the Birch Lodge Hospital quickly ran into financial trouble. In 2010 the property was sold to new owners, who reopened it.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Birch Lodge is situated on 20 acres located along the northern shore of Trout Lake. When it opened, the lodge had cottages, a recreation room, boating equipment, and a dancing pavilion; it also boasted hospital facilities such as an operating room and a linen room. There are currently six structures on the property: the main lodge, three frame utility buildings that were once cabins, and two log cabins. The largest of these, the main lodge, is a three-story wood-framed structure on a fieldstone foundation, built in 1911. It is constructed on a T-plan and is clad primarily in clapboard, although the third-floor mansard gables are now covered with vinyl siding. The windows are rectangular lights, and set between green-painted shutters accented with diamond shapes. The roof is clad in asphalt shingling. Much of the interior furnishings of the lodge date to its construction, and it remains a well-preserved example of early 20th century resort architecture.</p><br>
<p>Tower Lake is a natural freshwater lake located on the north edge of Haines City, Florida. All references to it but one have it named as Tower Lake. In the Wikimapia website, it is called Lake Tower. This lake has a 66.41 acre surface area. On the west it is bordered by Highway US 27, on the southwest by vacant land, on the southeast by Osprey Drive , on the northeast by the Calabay Park gated community and on the north by Bates Road. The southeast section of Tower Lake is inside the city limits of Haines City.</p><br>
<p>Tower Lake has two public areas where boats can be launched. One is a concrete boat ramp on the southeast, accessed by Osprey Drive in Blue Heron Bay. The other is not improved, but is a dirt track access on the north side along Bates Road. Calabay Park has a private boat ramp that cannot be accessed by the general public. This lake has no public swimming area. It can be fished by boat or from the shore along a large part of the north side, along the entire west side and along the southeast. The Hook and Bullet website says Tower Lake contains warmouth, crappie and gar.</p><br>
<p>The Ruhstaller Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is a historic building located in the heart of Downtown Sacramento, California, USA.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1898, the 20,000 ft&sup2; building was built by the behest of Frank Ruhstaller and housed The Ruhstaller Brewery offices. Ruhstaller also managed Buffalo Brewery and made the building its headquarters as well. One of the new technologies the building featured was air conditioning that functioned with water pumped in from the Sacramento River.</p><br>
<p>Multiple rehab projects have been completed on the building over the years, the most recent of which was in 2004. The project focused on, among other things, renovating the third and fourth floors that had been vacant for some time.</p><br>
<p>The Duluth Ship Canal is an artificial channel cut through Minnesota Point, providing direct access to Duluth harbor from Lake Superior. Begun privately in 1871, it was put under federal supervision and maintenance several years later. It is still an important component of the harbor facilities.</p><br>
<p>In its current configuration, the channel is defined by a pair of breakwaters 1,720 ft long and 300 ft apart, constructed of concrete set on timber and stone cribbing. HAER No. MN-10 The channel is maintained at 245 ft wide and 28 ft LWD, allowing passage of ocean-going ships. Three lighthouses are placed on the sides of the channel: the Duluth North Pier Light and the Duluth South Breakwater Outer Light mark the lake ends of the channel, while the Duluth South Breakwater Inner Light functions with the south breakwater light as a range light. At the harbor end, the channel is straddled by the Aerial Lift Bridge which connects Minnesota Point to the rest of the city. On the north side, there is a building housing the local Corps of Engineers administration, as well as the Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center. There are no locks; most ships transit the channel under their own power, though tug service is available in case of adverse weather. Around a thousand vessels a year ship from the Duluth–Superior port.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The construction of the first locks on the St. Marys River in 1855 allowed for navigation between the lakes, and Superior Bay presented itself as an attractive harbor. From the point of view of Duluth residents, however, arrangements were less than satisfactory, as ships from that city had to pass Superior, Wisconsin on the way to the lake, as the only natural outlet was between Minnesota Point and Wisconsin Point at the far end of the bay. Also, while sheltered, the bay was not naturally as deep as was desirable, and the channel was convoluted. In 1865 a harbor was constructed outside the bay using a breakwater, and this was gradually improved over the next several years. A storm in 1871 destroyed the structure, and though it was rebuilt the next year, it was abandoned in 1878 due to ongoing ice and storm damage.</p><br>
<p>An 1866 report by Lt. Col. W. F. Raynolds of the Bureau of Topographical Engineers recommended cutting a channel through Minnesota Point, but due to the cost, no action was taken. This began in 1870, and politicians in Wisconsin, seeing traffic through Superior threatened, went to the war department to have construction stopped, eventually obtaining an injunction on July 13, 1871.</p><br>
<p>The injunction was soon lifted, at the cost of building a dike from Rice&#39;s Point to Minnesota Point, thus isolating the canal from the main flow of the Saint Louis River, which fed the bay and which formed the border between the rival cities. The dike did not last long; it suffered ice damage from the start and was gradually removed in the course of dredging. Federal responsibility for the latter, a result of the 1873 River and Harbor Act, gradually expanded into jurisdiction over all facilities in the area, with the Corps of Engineers taking over the canal in 1887.</p><br>
<p>The canal remains under the control of the Corps of Engineers to the present. In 1889, however, an attempt was made by Wilhelm Boeing, a Detroit businessman, to charge tolls for use of the canal. Boeing, the father of aircraft manufacturer William Boeing, owned property on both sides of the canal as well as thousands of acres of timber near Chisholm, and in 1888 his attorney had a string stretched across the entry to the canal to claim the right to charge tolls. This came to nothing, but the following October, flyers were distributed to shipping offices stating that a rope would be stretched across the canal on the fifteenth of the month to deny passage to all vessels. It is unclear what Boeing&#39;s intentions were, or whether he carried out his threat; but in any case his death the next month ended the matter.</p><br>
<p>The canal was, from the beginning, defined by piers along either side. These were initially timber cribs put in place by the city, albeit with some federal funding. They did not stand up to the harsh winter weather and required substantial maintenance every few years, up until an 1896 project to rebuild the canal. It was this project that gave the two piers their present form, with the new south pier completed in 1901, and the north pier completed the following year. In 1906 the present administration building was completed; this was enlarged in the 1940s, and a visitor&#39;s center and museum was added to that in 1973. A maintenance yard was constructed on the south side of the canal. The famous bridge was constructed in 1905 to provide access to Minnesota Point, which was cut off from the mainland by construction of the canal.</p><br>
<p>The Carnic and Gailtal Alps  is a geographic grouping of mountain ranges belonging to the Southern Limestone Alps. They are located in Austria and Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The range is bound by the Drau River in the north, separating it from the Western Tauern section of the Central Eastern Alps. The northern, entirely Austrian range is called the Gailtal Alps or Drauzug, bordered by the Gail River in the south. The Gail Valley is on the Periadriatic Seam, so that from a tectonic perspective the Gailtal Alps belong to the Central Eastern Alps. The Gailtal Alps are divided by the very deep Gailbergsattel (981 m) into a higher western section called the Lienzer Dolomites and a lower eastern section, to which the name Gailtal Alps is sometimes restricted. Passes in the eastern section include the Kreuzbergsattel and Windische Höhe.</p><br>
<p>The main ridge of the Carnic Alps forms the Austrian-Italian border and stretches from prominent Mt. Helm near Sexten at the tripoint of East Tyrol, South Tyrol and Veneto to the Canal Valley at Tarvisio in the east. It includes several peaks reaching nearly 2,800 m as well as the Plöcken and Naßfeld passes.</p><br>
<p>In the south the Carnic Prealps stretch between the Piave and Tagliamento rivers down to the Padan Plain.</p><br>
<p>Administratively the range is divided between the Italian Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and the Austrian states Tyrol and Carinthia.</p><br>
<h3>SOIUSA classification</h3><br>
<p>According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the Carnic and Gailtal Alps are an Alpine section, classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Eastern Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=Southern Limestone Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Carnic and Gailtal Alps</p><br>
<p>code=II/C-33</p><br>
<h3>Subdivision</h3><br>
<p>The Carnic and Gailtal Alps are divided into three subsections:</p><br>
<p>Carnic Alps (IT: Alpi Carniche; DE: Karnischer Hauptkamm) - SOIUSA code:II/C-33.I</p><br>
<p>Gailtal Alps (DE: Gailtaler Alpen or Drauzug) - SOIUSA code:II/C-33.II</p><br>
<p>Carnic Prealps (IT: Prealpi Carniche) - SOIUSA code:II/C-33.III.</p><br>
<h2>Notable summits</h2><br>
<p>Some notable summits of the range are:</p><br>
<p>The Bergamasque Prealps  are a mountain range in the southern part of the Alps. They are located in Lombardy, in the northern part of Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Administratively the range belongs to the Italian province of Bergamo and, marginally, to the provinces of Lecco and Brescia.</p><br>
<p>The western slopes of the mountains are drained by the Adda, the central and western part of the range by Oglio and other minor rivers and streams, all of them tributaries of the Po.</p><br>
<h3>SOIUSA classification</h3><br>
<p>According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain range is an Alpine subsection, classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Eastern Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=Southern Limestone Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Bergamasque Alps and Prealps</p><br>
<p>subsection=Bergamasque Prealps</p><br>
<p>code=II/C-29.II</p><br>
<h2>Borders</h2><br>
<p>The Bergamo Prealps stretch between Lake Como (west) and Lake Iseo (east). They are separated from the Bergamo Alps (north) by some secondary valleys of Val Brembana, Val Seriana and Val Camonica: Valsassina, Valtorta, Val Secca, Valcanale, Val Nembo, Val di Scalve and Val Paisco. Towards south they end with the Po plain.</p><br>
<h3>Subdivision</h3><br>
<p>The Bergamasque Prealps are subdivided into three supergroups:</p><br>
<p>Catena Campelli-Resegone-Grigne (or Prealpi Bergamasche Occidentali) - SOIUSA code: II/C-29.II-A,</p><br>
<p>Catena Arera-Alben (or Prealpi Bergamasche Centrali) - SOIUSA code: II/C-29.II-B,</p><br>
<p>Catena Presolana-Pora-Concarena (or Prealpi Bergamasche Orientali) - SOIUSA code: II/C-29.II-C.</p><br>
<h2>Notable summits</h2><br>
<p>Some notable summits of the range are:</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Virginia was built in 1925. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It is also designated by the city of Santa Barbara as a local historical landmark.</p><br>
<p>The building is located on the southern side of West Haley Street, 17 W. Haley Street, in the southeastern part of the historical center of Santa Barbara, California.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>At the place of the hotel prior to 1925 there were two hotel buildings, one constructed in 1916 (No. 17, belonging to Charles Maas, the first commercial property at Haley Street) and another one in 1922 (No. 23, belonging to Freas Hayman). The buildings were connected on the upper floors. They were badly damaged by the 1925 earthquake which destroyed the city center of Santa Barbara. Generally, the downtown of Santa Barbara was rebuilt in the Colonial Revival style, and the Virginia Hotel is considered to be one of the best representatives of the style in the city. The Virginia Hotel was one of the first buildings approved by the Architectural Advisory Committee, and actually one of the first ones to be constructed. This is one of the few survived buildings which had their facade completely re-designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style right after the earthquake.</p><br>
<p>Maas and Hayman jointly hired the architect Clifford Denman from Los Angeles. Denman was tasked to repair the properties and also to transform the facade to the Colonial Revival style. He also added a third floor to the building. The two buildings behind the joint facade operated as two different hotels, and in 1931 the connections between them were closed. In 1977 the two hotels, which at the time were operated as a long-time dwelling, were joined as Hotel Virginia. In 1997, the hotel stopped operating and was vacated, and in 1998 it was sold. It was eventually rehabilitated and currently operates as the Holiday Inn Express Santa Barbara.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The hotel is a three-floor building with a flat roof. The total area of the building is 29,000 ft2. It has an L-shape and consists of two buildings. These are connected by a segment which includes passages on the second and third floors as well as a section of the main facade. The most distinctive features of the building are found in the facade which is located parallel to West Haley Street.</p><br>
<p>The design used by Denman unified the two buildings composing the hotel by using a number of common features such as the same columns and wrought iron work. At the same time, it used other features underlying the difference between the buildings such as different windows design. Besides the Spanish Colonial Revival Style, it also included a number of elements characteristic for Mediterranean architecture, or specifically inspired by Venetian architecture. The clear elements of the Spanish Colonial Revival style include the first floor arcade and arched windows in the third floor.</p><br>
<p>Rostherne Mere is a natural lake in Cheshire, England. It is the largest of the Cheshire meres with an area of 48 hectares and a maximum depth of 30 metres. It lies to the north of Rostherne village and to the south of the M56 motorway. Because of its importance for wildlife, the lake, together with neighbouring areas of woodland and pasture, has been declared a national nature reserve, a Ramsar site and a Site of Special Scientific Interest covering 152.9 hectares.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The lake lies on thick sedimentary deposits of glacial origin above marl and salt-beds. It was probably formed by a combination of retreating glaciers creating a kettle hole and subsidence caused by the underlying rock salt dissolving away. The lake is fertile and base-rich with high levels of phosphate, nitrate and ammonia. Nutrient levels have risen as a result of inflow from surrounding farmland and streams and because of the droppings from large numbers of roosting birds.</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<p>Large numbers of ducks winter on the lake including tufted duck, pochard, goldeneye, teal and wigeon. Roosting birds include up to 10,000 black-headed gulls, 1000 common gulls and 300 cormorants. Breeding birds include great crested grebe, reed warbler and sedge warbler while lesser spotted woodpecker and little owl occur in the surrounding area.</p><br>
<p>The reserve has a variety of butterfly species including white-letter hairstreak, purple hairstreak and common blue. There are few invertebrates in the deeper parts of the lake but shallower areas are home to various gastropod molluscs and leeches.</p><br>
<p>The lake lacks submerged vegetation but has floating beds of yellow water-lily and white water-lily. Around the edge are areas of birch and willow and reedbeds with common reed, lesser reedmace and sweet flag. The woodland consists mainly of oak and has patches of wood sorrel, yellow archangel and early purple orchid at ground level.</p><br>
<h2>Folklore</h2><br>
<p>According to legend, Rostherne Mere is the home of a mermaid, who can sometimes be heard ringing a sunken bell beneath the water.</p><br>
<p>The Clearing Folk School, usually called just The Clearing, is a 125 acre continuing education institution located near Ellison Bay, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded by Jens Jensen in 1935. A successful landscape architect, Jensen began acquiring a private summer estate in 1919; the estate, re-landscaped by Jensen, became the nucleus of the school. Jensen was inspired by the folk high schools of his native Denmark.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Jensen lived in The Clearing as a widower from 1935 until 1951. After his death, The Clearing was operated by the Wisconsin Farm Bureau for 37 years as a rural retreat, conference center, and continuing-education institution. Following The Clearings independence as a nonprofit corporation in 1988, The Clearing has continued to fulfill these roles, with a concentration on adult education and as a meeting place for senior citizens. The Clearing describes itself as a place for "classes in natural sciences, fine arts, skilled crafts and humanities." The Clearings emphasis on "regional ecology" is seen as providing continuity with founder Jensen&#39;s own aspirations and beliefs.</p><br>
<h2>Current status</h2><br>
<p>The appreciation of "regional ecology" from a landscape perspective, a focus of continuing education at The Clearing, has helped to drive the emerging professions of landscape ecology and spatial ecology.</p><br>
<p>As of 2012, the Clearing offers classwork throughout the year, except for March, April, and December. Day-to-week-length appreciation classes center on collective learning through discussion, conversation, and hands-on work.</p><br>
<p>The Clearing Folk School was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 31, 1974 as site #74000080.</p><br>
<h2>People connected with The Clearing</h2><br>
<p>Norbert Blei, longtime writer in residence</p><br>
<p>Jens Jensen, founder</p><br>
<p>The Chippewa County Courthouse is a government building located on Court Street in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is one of the oldest courthouses still in use in Michigan.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Chippewa County was split off from Michilimackinaw County (formed from the entire Upper Peninsula and part of the lower) in 1826. Sault Ste. Marie was chosen as the county seat. The Chippewa County Courthouse was built in 1877 for $20,000, and his son John. In 1904, a rear addition costing $25,000, designed by R. C. Sweat, was added to the structure. A second addition was constructed in approximately 1930.</p><br>
<p>In the 1980, the courthouse was completely renovated. Paint was stripped off woodwork, new doors and windows were installed, and the face of the tower clock was restored.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Chippewa County Courthouse is a three-story Second Empire built of cut stone. The original courthouse was a rectangular plan; the 1904 addition made the whole structure into a T-plan. The Second Empire architectural style is consistent between the original courthouse and the later additions. The stone walls are 2 ft thick, and the building features a contrasting, red-colored stone in beltcourses, quoins, lintels, and entryways. The center entrance is set in a slightly projecting pavilion topped with a pediment. Windows on the first floor have a segmented arch, while second-story windows are elliptically arched. Both the main structure and the clock tower are topped with a mansard roof; the roof was originally covered with slate but is now covered with asphalt shingles. Round windows were added to the mansard roof in 1904.</p><br>
<p>Inside, original stamped tin ceilings are still installed. Pillars inside the courtroom have ornate cast iron capitals, and the radiators are covered with grillwork.</p><br>
<p>The Julian Alps and Prealps  are a mountain range in the eastern part of the Alps. They are located in Slovenia and in Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<h3>SOIUSA classification</h3><br>
<p>According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the Julian Alps and Prealps are an Alpine section, classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Eastern Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=Southern Limestone Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Julian Alps</p><br>
<p>code=II/C-34</p><br>
<h3>Subdivision</h3><br>
<p>The range are divided in two subsections:</p><br>
<p>Julian Alps (SL: Julijskih Alp; IT: Alpi Giulie) - SOIUSA code:II/C-34.I</p><br>
<p>Julian Prealps (SL: Julijske Predalpe; IT: Prealpi Giulie) - SOIUSA code:II/C-34.II.</p><br>
<h2>Notable summits</h2><br>
<p>Some notable summits of the Julian Alps and Prealps are:</p><br>
<p>The Carnic Prealps  or Southern Carnic Alps  are a mountain range in the Southern Limestone Alps, part of the larger Carnic and Gailtal Alps group. They are located in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, in the northern part of Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>According to the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps, the Carnic Prealps (AVE 57b) stretch from the Piave River in the south and west up to Sappada and Forni Avoltri, forming the border with the Dolomites range. The northern border with the main chain of the Carnic Alps runs along the Degano Valley to Comeglians in the Carnia region, and further eastwards via Paluzza, Ligosullo and Paularo to the Fella Valley at Pontebba. In the east the ravine of the Tagliamento River marks the border with the Julian Alps down to the Padan Plain in the south.</p><br>
<p>Administratively the range belongs to the Italian province of Pordenone and Udine.</p><br>
<h2>Notable summits</h2><br>
<p>Some notable summits of the range are:</p><br>
<p>Tasermiut Fjord is a 70-kilometre-long fjord in southwestern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Kujalleq municipality. Nanortalik Island is located near the mouth of the fjord.</p><br>
<p>Tasermiut Fjord has some of the very few growths of dwarf trees in Greenland, notably in Quinguadalen and Tiningnertoq valley.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The fjord is oriented in a roughly NE/SW direction, to the southwest the fjord opens into the Labrador Sea of the North Atlantic Ocean. It separates two long mountainous peninsulas, the 1,590 m high Napasorsuaq peak rising in the peninsula to the west of the fjord. To the east rise the 1,858 m high Ulamertorsuaq, the 2,045 m high Nalumasortoq and the 2,010 m high Ketil.</p><br>
<p>The glacier at the inland end of this fjord has been undergoing a well documented recession in recent history. A similar retreat of the glacier at the fjord&#39;s head has been documented in the Sermeq Glacier in neighbouring Southern Sermilik Fjord as well.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>This fjord attracts climbers, kayakers, and trekkers, and is famous for its mountains and challenging rock faces. Many mountaineering expeditions have come to Tasermiut Fjord because of the challenge of peaks and the possibility of new climbing routes.</p><br>
<p>As well as climbing, Tasermiut is used as a starting point for challenging treks to Kangikitsoq, Kangerdluk, Herjofsnaes, and Stordalen Havn.</p><br>
<p>Tasermiut Fjord can be accessed by short boat journey from Nanortalik, which is the southernmost major settlement in Greenland, with a population of around 1000 people.</p><br>
<p>The Bennett Building, also known as the Ervin Building is an historic building located in downtown Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States. The previous building to occupy this property was a Woolworth&#39;s that was destroyed in a fire in 1922. The Bennett Building Corporation was formed in 1923 to build an office building that was designed to attract medical professionals. The seven-story, brick, Early Commercial structure was designed by local architectural firm Jensen and Larson, and the Omaha firm of McDonald and McDonald served as the supervising architects. E. A. Wickham and Company of Council Bluffs was the contractor.</p><br>
<p>The building rises 86 ft above the ground, and it has historically been the tallest building in downtown Council Bluffs. It follows a rectangular plan in the basement and first floor, and from the second to the seventh floor it follows an "L" shaped plan. The exterior features a tripartite division. The first floor is a limestone base that houses storefronts and the entrance lobby for the offices above. Floors two through six are composed of brick with large, regularly spaced windows. They contained professional offices, with many of them occupied by physicians and dentists. Many of Council Bluffs&#39; women doctors had their practices here. The top floor is a modest brick and limestone crown that also housed offices. The Bennett Building has been converted into an apartment building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Ottumwa City Hall is the official seat of government for the city of Ottumwa, Iowa, United States. The building originally served as a post office and federal courthouse. It is part of the Central Park area, which includes: Ottumwa Public Library, Wapello County Courthouse and St. Mary of the Visitation Catholic Church. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Renaissance Revival style building was designed by United States Treasury Department architects under the direction of James Knox Taylor. It replaced a smaller building that was used as the post office on the same site since 1890. The three-story structure was built between 1910 and 1912. It rises 44 ft above the ground. The exterior is composed of ashlar limestone. The first floor features a limestone facing tooled in horizontal striations and arched windows. The building housed the United States Post Office and the United States Courthouse until 1964. The following year the first floor of the building was altered for use by the city as its city hall. Much of the original architectural details remain on the second and third floors. The interior features a white marble staircase with brass handrails. The floors in the corridors on the second and third floors are terrazzo with white marble borders.</p><br>
<p>The Kenosha Elks Club is a historic building in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Construction began on the building in 1916 and it was formally dedicated on January 20, 1919.</p><br>
<h2>History as the Elks Club</h2><br>
<p>Plans to construct a club house for the Kenosha chapter of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks began in 1916 when 300 members pledged $65,000 for the purchase of land that formerly housed the Petit Malt House, which burned down in 1914. The land was purchased for $41,000 in June 1916 and by fall of that year, building plans by R. Messmer & Brothers had been improved and the Immel Construction Company had begun work on the site. A cornerstone was laid in June 1917, and on January 20, 1919, the club dedicated the building, which featured a hotel, swimming pool, and numerous dining facilities. Zalmon G. Simmons, founder of the Simmons Bedding Company, was among the men that made up the Building Committee.</p><br>
<p>In April 1929, the club held a gathering which drew Elks officials from all over the country to ceremoniously burn the mortgage on the building.</p><br>
<p>Sometime after 1938, the building was renovated and expanded, with an addition being added to the southwest side to house an expanded kitchen.</p><br>
<p>Throughout the years, the Elks Club played host to numerous special guests, including Mel Tormé and Colonel Sanders.</p><br>
<p>By the 1990s, the club was experiencing financial problems, and in the early 1990s the building was sold.</p><br>
<h2>1990s to present</h2><br>
<p>Through the early 1990s, the building passed through a number of owners and at some point was renamed the Heritage House Inn. Following an attempted (and failed) launch of a restaurant, the owners allowed the building to deteriorate, neglecting to turn off water service in the winter, which lead to burst pipes. In the late 1990s, the building was sold to local philanthropist Andrea Christensen, whose husband owned a local sheet metal factory. Christensen invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into the building, repairing the damage caused by the neglect from previous owners. The building was then leased out to a local restaurant and used as banquet facilities.</p><br>
<p>During its time as a banquet facility, the building still saw many notable guests. In April 2000, then-Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert spoke at a dinner for a Republican group.</p><br>
<p>In the mid-2000s, the restaurant operating the banquet facilities closed. At that point, the building and its property fell into disuse and abandonment.</p><br>
<h3>Fire</h3><br>
<p>During the afternoon of October 28, 2011, a member of the Kenosha Fire Department was passing by the building when they noticed smoke pouring out of windows on the upper floor. Five separate departments from the surrounding communities responded to the fire, which was "confined mainly to space between supporting timbers and multiple layers of flooring on the second floor" in an area that was almost in the center of the second floor ballroom. Local radio station WGTD-AM also reported that the building had recently become a "haven" for the homeless. The fire largely damaged the floor of the second floor ballroom and the spaces occupied by multiple themed dining rooms below.</p><br>
<h3>Preservation and revival attempts</h3><br>
<p>The City of Kenosha issued a Raze order against on December 23, 2011, at which point a group calling themselves "Preserve the Elks" formed to save the building from demolition. On March 22, 2012, Kenosha&#39;s Historic Preservation Committee voted 4-1 to delay the vote on supporting or opposing the demolition by 120 days.</p><br>
<p>The City of Kenosha reports that they have fielded "several calls" from parties interested in seeing the building.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<p>Cowleaze Wood is a 70 acre woodland in the Chiltern Hills, a chalk ridge in South East England. The wood is in the civil parish of Lewknor, about 1+1/4 mi southeast of the village. It is next to the county boundary with Buckinghamshire, and adjoins Lydall&#39;s Wood on the Buckinghamshire side of the boundary.</p><br>
<p>The Forestry Commission owns Coweleaze Wood, and planted it between 1957 and 1966. and walkers are also attracted to the wood by sightings of red kites. There is a large car park adjoining the wood, and a picnic area with sculptured benches designed by furniture designer Fred Baier.</p><br>
<h2>Air crash</h2><br>
<p>On 31 March 1944 a Handley Page Halifax Mk III bomber aircraft, LW579 of No. 51 Squadron RAF, was returning from the Nuremberg Raid when it crashed in the wood, killing all seven of its crew.</p><br>
<p>LW579 was based at RAF Snaith in the East Riding of Yorkshire and seems to have been at least 120 mi off course. It was a clear, moonlit night, and it is not clear why the Halifax lost height and crashed into the hill. It was one of six aircraft that the squadron lost in the same night on the same mission.</p><br>
<p>There is a monument in the wood to the crew of LW579. It is a stone plinth from Lincoln Cathedral, now with the men&#39;s names inscribed upon it. In 2015 BBC Radio Oxford broadcast a documentary about the crash, the crew and some of their surviving relatives.</p><br>
<h2>Sculpture trail</h2><br>
<p>For 17 years the Chiltern Sculpture Trail was in Cowleaze Wood. The trail was created in May 1990, The 2-mile trail featured the work of a range of artists working with different media, with pieces being commissioned and produced specifically for the woodland setting. Many of the pieces were hidden and blended with the landscape. Richard Mabey, writing in the Independent on Sunday, commented: "All along the trail, serendipitously windthrown logs, dens, a polythene bag wrapped round a branch in the shape of a squirrel, make you wonder whether you are looking at a deliberate work or a natural happening." Sculptures that appeared as part of the trail included a giant picnic table by Robert Jakes and a metal "fish tree" by Paul Amey.</p><br>
<p>The sculpture trail was open to the public all year round at no charge. The chairman of the Sculpture Trust estimated in 2007 that the trail had received in the region of 80,000 visitors a year. It was closed in 2007 owing to a lack of funding; the maintenance costs were around £25,000 a year. At the point of closure, there were 20 sculptures in the wood, some of which were sold at auction.</p><br>
<h2>Bald Hill</h2><br>
<p>Within the wood is Bald Hill, the highest point of the historic county of Oxfordshire, 257 m above sea level. It remained the high point of the County until 1974, when boundary changes meant that it was demoted by Whitehorse Hill which is slightly higher at 261 m and the current County top. The historic high point is located at, but is unmarked and hard to find with any certainty. The location is of interest to participants in Hill bagging who visit these high points of the historic counties of England.</p><br>
<p>The Philetus S. Church House is a private house located on North Shore Road, 1 mi southeast of Payment Settlement on Sugar Island, Michigan. The building is the last structure from Church&#39;s Landing, a mid-19th century trading post and steamboat stop. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Philetus Swift Church</h2><br>
<p>Philetus Swift Church was born in 1812 in Riga, New York, the son of Jesse and Margery Munsen Church. He was named for Philetus Swift, whom his father had faought under in the War of 1812. He attended local schools and spent some time in an academy in Palmyra, New York. In 1831, Church hired on as a store clerk in Byron, New York, and in 1835 moved to Oakfield, New York to start his own business. In 1837, he married Elizabeth Duncan Wells, a granddaughter of Samuel Taggart. The couple had three sons, one of whom died in infancy. The other two were Jesse Wells Church and Philetus Church Jr.</p><br>
<p>Church remained in Oakfield and the nearby Caryville until 1841; during this time he over-extended himself in supporting the founding of a local school and went bankrupt.</p><br>
<h2>History of Church's Landing</h2><br>
<p>In 1846, Philetus and Elizabeth Church and their sons Jesse Wells and Philetus Jr. moved to Sugar Island and founded the settlement of Church&#39;s Landing at this site. There they built a trading post and house and began trading with the Indians living there.</p><br>
<p>Churchs Landing was a natural stopping point for ships, so Church began supplying passing steamships with wood for their boilers. He also dealt in furs, maple syrup, vegetables, ice, milk, and soap. Church erected a sawill and shingle-mill, and sold shingles, fence posts, pilings, and telegraph poles in addition to steamboat wood. The family also began a shipbuilding business in about 1853. The businesses at Churchs Landing eventually employed up to 35 people, and by 1861 was doing $17,000 to $27,000 worth of business annually. Additional settlers joined Church to live at the location.</p><br>
<p>In 1850, Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie of Chicago was on a pleasure cruise and stopped at Churchs Landing to take on wood. The Churches provided her with some refreshments, including raspberry jam; Kinzie immediately took a liking to it and purchased some. Back in Chicago, she used it in entertaining friends, leading to a demand for Churchs raspberry jam. The next year, Church began making raspberry jam for market, a business that by 1878 had increased such that he was manufacturing six to twelve tons of jam yearly, up to the level that the Sugar Island crop could support. A contemporaneous account also notes that the Church family was "noted for the making of raspberry jam, which is sold in large quantities, and shipped to Eastern and Southern markets."</p><br>
<p>In 1862, Jesse Wells Church constructed a house for his father, mother, and brother, using materials from the family sawmill. In addition to Juliette Kinzie, many other celebrities stopped by Church&#39;s Landing while their ships were taking on wood, and while there visited the Churches. These include Horace Greeley, Charles Sumner, John McLean, and Mary Todd Lincoln.</p><br>
<p>In 1868, Jesse Wells Church, then a medical doctor, moved to Traverse City, Michigan and then to Harbor Island (near Drummond Island) with his wife and children. There he continued the family shipbuilding business, building craft until at least 1910. Elizabeth Church died in 1876, and Philetus Church Sr. decided to retired in that same year. Philetus Church died on July 22, 1883. With the loss of the trading post, Church&#39;s Landing faded as a settlement. This house is the only structure left marking its location.</p><br>
<h2>Philetus S. Church house description</h2><br>
<p>The Philetus S. Church house is a Greek Revival structure, one of the few in Chippewa County.</p><br>
<p>Codford Circle, also known as Wilsbury Ring, Woldsbury, and possibly Oldbury Camp, is a neolithic hill top enclosure or possible hillfort located on the summit of Codford Hill, a chalk promontory of Salisbury Plain, near to the village and civil parish of Codford, in Wiltshire, England.</p><br>
<p>The site is oval in plan and approximately of 3.6 hectare. It is surrounded by a bank 6.5 m wide and up to 1.6 m high, then a ditch 5 m wide and up to 0.5 m deep, although an area on the south eastern edge has been reduced by ploughing. Aerial photography shows signs of an inner ditch, possibly signs of a former palisade fence, and entrances on the east and west sides. The entrances on the southeast and northwest sides are later in date.</p><br>
<p>There is no archaeological evidence for occupation, and the earthworks have been interpreted as being defensively weak owing to their slight nature, therefore the site is currently interpreted as an enclosure of an unknown but ancient date.</p><br>
<p>The Bitter Spring Valley is a 13-mile  long valley located northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada on the west edge of Lake Mead, on the north-trending Overton Arm, .</p><br>
<p>The valley is a small valley basin located between two bordering mountain ranges. The Bitter Spring Wash exits east-northeastwards into the Overton Arm of Lake Mead, at Echo Bay, Nevada. The Valley of Fire State Park lies adjacent north, on the north side of the Muddy Mountains. An unimproved route, named Bitter Spring Trail traverses the Muddy Mountains and the valley from paved routes from Echo Bay to Valley of Fire Highway, and Interstate 15.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Bitter Spring Valley is about 13 mi in width. The arc shaped 4 mi long Bitter Ridge separates the longer South Section, from a North Section surrounded by the Muddy Mountains, west, northwest, and north. The North Section drains southeastwards into two washes, that meet the South Section. The washes in the Sorth Section, combine to flow east-northeast to Echo Bay, Overton Arm.</p><br>
<p>Muddy Peak, at 5,363 ft, borders the valley directly west and is adjacent to, but not connected to Bitter Ridge, about 1.5 mi east of Muddy Peak.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>North Shore Road, from Nevada State Route 564, Henderson, Nevada is the major southern route to Echo Bay, and the east region of Bitter Spring Valley; North Shore Road traverses the northeast sections of the Black Mountains, which border Lake Mead.</p><br>
<p>Valley of Fire Highway, from Interstate 15 can access a north route, from Overton Beach, Nevada, at the northeast junction of North Shore Road.</p><br>
<p>An unimproved route from Echo Bay traverses Bitter Spring Wash, Bitter Spring Valley, then the North Section of the valley, and traverses through the northwest of the Muddy Mountains to meet Valley of Fire Highway.</p><br>
<p>Le Moucherotte  is the easternmost peak of the Vercors Massif, and also the northern culmination of the long ridge that runs along the eastern edge of the Vercors high plateau, and overlooks the city of Grenoble. The mountain is divided between the communes of Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte, Lans-en-Vercors, Seyssins and Claix.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Similar to the rest of the Vercors range, the Moucherotte is largely composed of limestone. At the foot of Moucherotte, (bottom right in photo) there are three rocks, known as the Three Maidens, which were used in the resistance during the second world war by the maquis of Saint-Nizier-of-Moucherotte.</p><br>
<p>The southern slopes and ridges of the Moucherotte extend to the Col de l&#39;Arc, with three consecutive secondary peaks, called "la Croix des Ramées" (the Cross of Ramées), "du Grand Cheval" (the Great Horse, 1827 metres) and "du Pic Saint-Michel" (the peak of Saint Michael, 1966 metres).</p><br>
<p>The Moucherotte is home to a variety of fauna, including chamois, mountain sheep, and deer. The summit is covered in grass, and loosely wooded.</p><br>
<h2>Commercial use</h2><br>
<p>There was once a cable car, built by the company Applevage, which connected the village of Saint-Nizier Moucherotte to the summit, where there was also a hotel, l&#39;Ermitage (the Hermitage).</p><br>
<p>(PDF) (french) Following first financial difficulties and then vandalism, the hotel closed permanently in the mid-1970s. The uniqueness and outstanding natural beauty of the location attracted the stars of the era, and it served as the setting for the filming of some scenes from the movie "La Bride sur le cou" (The Bride of the neck), with Brigitte Bardot; the lead actress stayed at the hotel longer than expected, as access was cut off due to a snowstorm. The stately hotel, abandoned and left in ruins, was finally demolished at the start of the twenty-first century to return the site to its original beauty. At the same time, the derelict gondola station was also demolished. Today, there is almost no trace of its glorious past.</p><br>
<h2>Sporting history</h2><br>
<p>During the 1968 Winter Olympics, the ski jumping competition was held on a 90-metre springboard, which is still in place on the northern foothills of the Moucherotte. However, it has seen no use since the late 1980s.</p><br>
<h2>Ascent</h2><br>
<p>There are several conventional methods of ascent:</p><br>
<p>From the village of Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte, either by the Grande Randonnee, or up past the old ski slope.</p><br>
<p>From the bottom of the commune of Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte, possible routes are either through the vallon des Forges, or by the east face (the most direct and steepest ascent).</p><br>
<p>From the Lans-en-Vercors winter-sports stadium, the easiest route utilises a wide track and has a relatively gentle gradient.</p><br>
<p>Jayu Quta  is a maar partially filled with water, in the Bolivian Altiplano, north of the Salar de Uyuni and east of the Salar de Coipasa. It is situated in the Oruro Department, Ladislao Cabrera Province, Salinas de Garci Mendoza Municipality, Villa Esperanza Canton. It was originally misidentified as a meteorite impact crater.</p><br>
<p>A smaller maar, named Ñiq&#39;i Quta ("mud lake", Nekhe Khota, Nekhe Kkota), is located southwest of Jayu Quta.</p><br>
<p>Volcanic activity of phreatomagmatic nature formed the maars, probably during the Holocene. During this activity, basalt-trachyandesite rocks were ejected, including xenoliths consisting of granite. These maars belong to a group of volcanic centres in the Altiplano. These centres mostly consist of lava flows of trachyandesitic to dacitic composition.</p><br>
<p>The maars appear to form a lineament with Ch&#39;iyar Qullu. However, in terms of isotope ratios and geochemistry the eruption products of the maars bear no resemblance to these at Chiyar Qullu.</p><br>
<p>First National Bank is an historic structure located in downtown Ottumwa, Iowa, United States. Chicago architect H. H. Stoddard designed the building in the Classical Revival style. It was built by the Blackhawk Construction Company in 1915. The two-story structure features a pediment and two columns flanking the main entrance. The exterior is composed entirely of cream colored terra cotta. Dentil ornamentation is found across the top of the building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 as a part of the Ottumwa MPS.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original bank was built at this location in 1868, but it was destroyed by fire in 1881. In 1915 the Bank officers decided that a new more modern building of outstanding design should be built, and they went to the additional length and expense to hire a Chicago architect H.H. Stoddard to design the building. The published cost was $65,000.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Neo-classical in style, both the primary and secondary elevations are sheathed in off-white terra cotta. A temple front is found on the primary facade, with monumental Composite Order columns on both sides of the entrance. The pediment and cornice feature modillions as well as dentils, with the cornice continuing around the side elevation. A terra cotta parapet caps the entire building. The pediment is not blank as is often found on Neo-classical designs, but features a cartouche with a foliated pattern of acanthus leaves.</p><br>
<p>Directly below the pediment an identification panel in the entablature identifies this as the “Fidelity Savings Bank”, a name acquired following the bank closings of the Great Depression. On each side of this panel is found a wreath of laurel leaves containing a single profile head: to the left is seen Mercury (10 Cent); and to the right is an Indian Head (1 Cent) with the Roman numerals MCMXV. A string course of acanthus leaves with a row of bead-and-reel is located just above the capitals. On the secondary elevation monumental pilasters separate ten sets of windows. Windows at street level are narrow slits with the diagonal star pattern so popular for public buildings and banks during this period, while those on the upper level are large rectangular openings, allowing light to flow into the bank lobby below. Windows throughout are of metal. At street level the original design provided two doors near the rear of the sidewall.</p><br>
<h2>Alterations</h2><br>
<p>Although the building appears to be two stories on the exterior, the interior originally featured a long narrow open bank lobby with a twenty-five foot ceiling. The rear portion of the building was divided into two floors for vaults and office space.</p><br>
<p>In 1956 the Fidelity Savings Bank (locally known as “the Fidelity White Bank on the Corner”) remodeled both the interior and the exterior facade. The original entrance was replaced by the present recessed two-story plate glass wall. The tall single-story interior was divided into two floors to provide additional office space. Although this alteration is not apparent from the exterior, the sense of space on the interior was changed totally. Recent conversion from financial institution to retail space has removed the last remnants of the interior bank design although the vaults remain in place. While the installation of the plate glass in the facade is unfortunate, the overall design of the building is so strong that alteration is not considered significant enough to negate eligibility for the national register.</p><br>
<p>Other alterations include the opening of another narrow doorway on the Market Street side of the facade, and converting a small portion to a walk-up teller window.</p><br>
<p>The Embassy of the United States of America in Beijing is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America in the People&#39;s Republic of China. It serves as the administrative office of the United States Ambassador to China and the seat of China–United States relations. The embassy complex is in Chaoyang District, Beijing.</p><br>
<p>Since the embassy is legally out of reach of the PRC Government, media reported it may have been the hiding place of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng after he escaped from house arrest.</p><br>
<p>The current USA Embassy in Beijing is the third largest American diplomatic mission in the world, after the Embassy of the United States, Baghdad and the Embassy of the United States, Yerevan. The 500,000 ft&sup2, eight story facility incorporates a great deal of free-standing transparent and opaque glass in its design. It is located on a 10 acre plot of land. President of the United States George W. Bush dedicated the facility on August 8, 2008.</p><br>
<p>The embassy warehouse is located in the Beijing Tianzhu Airport Industrial Zone in Shunyi District.</p><br>
<p>Frank Lake is a restored wetland located 6 km east of High River, Alberta, 50 km south of Calgary, and about 2 km south of Blackie. The lake is controlled by Ducks Unlimited Canada for wildlife management purposes, and is an Important Bird Area. It is one of four Alberta lakes with the same name.</p><br>
<h2>Conservation and management</h2><br>
<p>The lake has had a history of years of being completely dry, and years of being flooded. The main goal of managing Frank Lake is to ensure that the lake is a permanent water body, which will improve wildlife habitat.</p><br>
<p>Water control measures have been implemented to help ensure that water levels are maintained. Measures include the building of dikes and water control structures as well as the building of a pipeline from High River to channel treated effluent from the town of High River and a local food processing plant. Water quality is regularly monitored.</p><br>
<p>Nesting boxes, nesting platforms, and rock islands are among the structures placed around the lake to encourage nesting and improve habitat. The Important Bird Areas program considers Frank Lake to be the most important wetland in southwestern Alberta for the production of waterfowl and other water birds.</p><br>
<h2>Nature and ecology</h2><br>
<p>Frank Lake is located in the foothills fescue prairie ecoregion. The lake is a hemi-marsh, which means it roughly has the same area of open water as there is emergent vegetation. Vegetation includes mostly hardstem bulrush, sago pondweed, Richardson&#39;s pondweed, and northern waterfmilfoil.</p><br>
<p>The lake and its surrounding upland areas attracts many species of birds. Waterfowl and shorebirds and other birds use the lake for staging during migration, and nesting. Some birds that can be seen here include: tundra swan, trumpeter swan, Canada goose, northern pintail, Franklin&#39;s gull, ring-billed gull, California gull, common tern, short-eared owl, eared grebe, marbled godwit, long-billed dowitcher, black-crowned night-heron, and black-necked stilt. Birdwatching is a popular activity.</p><br>
<h2>Citations</h2><br>
<p>Touchdown Tavern, formerly Roper Hotel or Roper&#39;s City Hotel, is a restaurant and bar in a historic hotel building in the Second Empire style at 125 East Main Street in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, United States. The two-storey red brick structure with stone trim and a mansard roof was designed by Edward M. Hackett and constructed in 1886 for $10,000. It includes arched window frames, brick detailing on the facade and a small porch with ornamental metal balustrade on the second floor. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for Wisconsin in 1984. The PDF file for this National Register record has not yet been digitized. It was built for the Reedsburg Building & Lumber Co.</p><br>
<p>When it was the Roper Hotel it had 17 guest rooms, a sitting room and parlor on the first floor, a bar, a reading room, and three private rooms with kitchen and dining facilities. It had a livery stable in back.</p><br>
<p>More recently it was the Town Club and the building now houses the Touchdown Tavern restaurant and bar downstairs and a single large apartment upstairs. The Tavern is known for its trademarked "Reedsburger", a hamburger prepared with locally sourced Bison. The tavern also house the "Agnes Moorehead Lounge", an exhibit of memorabilia from Agnes Mooreheads career in radio, stage, television and movies, including as the witch mother-in-law on the television sitcom Bewitched. The Touchdown Tavern is one of the venues for Reedsburgs Fermentation Fest.</p><br>
<p>City Hotel, also known as Seifert&#39;s Tavern and the Wheatland Feed Mill, on 214 South Main Street in Wheatland, Iowa was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for Clinton County, Iowa in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The town of Wheatland was established in 1858 by New York native John L. Bennett to take advantage of the Chicago & North Western Railway (C&NW) that was being built through southern Clinton County at the same time. This was the second hotel built on this site near the C&NW depot. It was designed by Antheona Araah, an Italian-born artist/photographer who also was involved in designing and constructing buildings. He was based out of Oxford Junction, Iowa in southeastern Jones County. The previous hotel was opened in 1889 in an existing building was re-purposed as a hotel. It was destroyed in a fire on February 7, 1893 that also took several other wooden structures nearby. Work on this building began immediately and it opened for business in September of the same year. The Lincoln Highway passed through Wheatland to the north of the railroad tracks in 1915, and the City Hotel was not along its route. As automobiles began to replace train travel the City Hotel&#39;s business began to decline. It closed in the late 1920s or early 1930s. After sitting empty for a few years, the Seifert family opened a tavern on the main floor in 1937, and lived in a part of the upstairs. Emil Koch, who owned the tavern</p><br>
<p>across the street, bought the building two years later. It sat empty from 1939 to 1951. The interior of the building was remodeled in 1951 and used as a feed mill until September 1980. From 1980 to 1995 it was used as a warehouse.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The City Hotel is a two-story, 60 by, rectangular building. The frame structure with an exterior composed of red and yellow brick veneer sits on a yellow, rock-face limestone foundation. The south side of the building faced a small rail yard, no longer extant. However, the main line of what is now the Union Pacific Railroad still passes to the south, but trains no longer stop in Wheatland. To the north are buildings that sit close to this structure. The yellow brickwork is the primary decorative element on the building. Both gables feature geometric shapes in that suggest "wings" and radiate from a circular window encircled in yellow brick. It is also used for corbels and the string course at the roof.</p><br>
<p>The Jefferson Street Viaduct is an historic structure located in Ottumwa, Iowa, United States. The riveted Warren deck truss bridge was completed in 1936. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 as a part of the Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Discussions concerning a new span over the Des Moines River were initiated by the city of Ottumwa in 1921 when Charles Chilton was the mayor. Ottumwa already had two bridges, however, they were better suited to its agricultural past rather than the heavy industry that existed in the city. Meetings were held with officials from the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads whose tracks would be crossed by a viaduct. Blue prints were drawn up, but the plans were shelved until Edwin Manning became mayor in 1929. He worked for seven years to bring the plans for a new bridge to reality. Manning contacted the Iowa State Highway Commission (ISHC) to design and help support the project financially.</p><br>
<p>The ISHC agreed to share the costs of the bridge with the city in January 1934. Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company of Des Moines was paid $10,400 to prepare design plans for a steel viaduct and Marsh Engineering Company, also of Des Moines, was paid $10,500 to prepare plans for a reinforced concrete bridge. In December of the same year bids were submitted and Snyder & Johnson of Humboldt, Iowa won the bid for the concrete structure and Wisconsin Bridge & Iron Company won the bid for the steel design.</p><br>
<p>The city council and the mayor chose the more expensive concrete design, and the city promised to cover the increased costs. The contracts between the city and ISHC were declared illegal in 1935 and the contract with Snyder & Johnson was declared null and void. The ISHC took full control of the project, including its financing, and chose the less expensive steel design. The bridge was built in fifteen months in 1935 and 1936. It was dedicated on May 28, 1936. Iowa Governor Clyde Herring and Mayor Manning presided over the ceremony that was attended by about 15,000 people.</p><br>
<p>The bridge carried traffic for USA Route 34 (US 34) and US 63 until a new bridge was built on the west side of downtown to carry the highway traffic. The bridge underwent a major rehabilitation project in 1983-1984. The original railings were replaced with Jersey barriers at the time.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Jefferson Street Viaduct has a total of nine main spans and eight approach spans. The south side of the main span consists of four riveted Warren deck trusses. The north side consists of five cantilevered Warren deck truss spans over the river. It is a rare use of deck truss technology in Iowa. The main spans are 150 ft long and whole structure is 2,120.5 ft long. The roadway is 33 ft wide.</p><br>
<p>Philipshill Wood is a 77 acre area of woodland in the English county of Buckinghamshire, situated on the border with Hertfordshire about 1 mi from the village of Chorleywood. It is within the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and is owned by the Woodland Trust. The wood is fully open to the public, with some parking available in Old Shire Lane, to the east of the wood.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Philipshill Wood is an ancient woodland, although it has been cleared and replanted several times during its history. Historic human management of the wood is evidenced by archaeological features such as earthworks and the remains of sawpits, chalk pits and a charcoal hearth. Old Shire Lane on the eastern edge of the wood is thought to mark part of the boundary between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia.</p><br>
<p>Timber from the wood was formerly used by furniture makers in High Wycombe and, during the Second World War, to make rifle butts. The wood was cleared towards the end of the 1960s and planted with beech and conifer trees. In 1994, it came under the ownership and management of the Woodland Trust.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, the Woodland Trust awarded local resident Janet Anders their "Volunteer of the Year Award" for her work in organising weekly volunteer work parties in the wood.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>The wood is predominantly beech. There are also a number of conifer species, such as Scots pine, Douglas fir and western hemlock; these were planted during the 1960s but are being removed by the Woodland Trust as part of a long-term management plan. In addition to beech and conifer, the wood is home to some cherry, rowan, hornbeam, field maple and oak trees.</p><br>
<p>The wood is particularly known for its bluebells during April and May.</p><br>
<p>The McHaffey Opera House is an historic structure located in Eldon, Iowa, United States. It was constructed in 1891 and in use by the community through the 1940s. The building was mainly unused for many decades until a volunteer community group bought the opera house in 1995 and began restoration efforts. The McHaffey Opera House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in November, 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Irish immigrant David McHaffey was the proprietor of a brickyard in Eldon when, in 1891, he constructed the opera house using bricks from his business. For a time, in the early 1900s through the 1920s McHaffey Opera House was even used for basketball games.</p><br>
<p>With the advent of motion pictures, a projectionist booth was added to the McHaffey to show silent films. As "talkies" came along to enormous popularity in the late 1920s sound capability was added to the Opera House. The last high school graduation ceremony was held at the McHaffey Opera House in 1941. By the 1940s Eldon had another outlet for movies leaving the McHaffey unused for that purpose. However flooding in 1947 damaged the newer theater, granting the Opera House one last chance to briefly show movies. Following that temporary reprieve the McHaffey Opera House went into a long period of dormancy, seldom used except for storage.</p><br>
<h2>Rebirth</h2><br>
<p>In 1995 a non-profit corporation of community volunteers formed to save and restore the McHaffey to usefulness after it sat vacant for nearly five decades. The restoration has been funded by some grants but largely by community efforts such as a thrift shop and yearly calendar sales. All of the original flooring has been restored and some of the original seating has been retained. Most of the walls have been renovated and repainted as well. A new heating and air conditioning system has been installed and the roof repaired to prevent further water damage that occurred during the McHaffey&#39;s years of disuse. Modern improvements include the installation of a handicap-accessible elevator. A popular annual event in southeast Iowa is the Christmas Tree Wonderland held on the main floor of the McHaffey. Over 75 festive decorated trees are on display through the holiday season. The next phase of the restoration involves painting the walls that flank the main stage. Eventual plans are to bring back live theater performances and also establish a museum in a portion of the building.</p><br>
<p>The stage came to life once again on the evening of May 14, 2013 with the Cardinal Community School Districts "Parade of Bands" featuring the 5th grade, Middle School and High School Bands. A crowd of over two hundred filled the theater for the performances. The even was also financially beneficial to the McHaffey as Cardinal school employees donated $300 for continued restoration efforts.</p><br>
<p>Boardman Peak, at 9,457 ft high is one of the peaks of the Soldier Mountains of Idaho. Boardman Peak is located at the center of the range southeast of Iron Mountain, northwest of Smoky Dome, and northwest of Fairfield in Camas County and Sawtooth National Forest. No trails go to the summit, but several pass near the peak, and the ascent is only class 2.</p><br>
<p>Boardman Peak has over 300 ft prominence and is west of Boardman Pass.</p><br>
<p>The northern slopes of Boardman Peak are drained by Boardman Creek, a tributary of the South Fork Boise River, and the south slopes are drained by Salt Log and Bremner Creeks, tributaries of the South Fork of Lime Creek. Boardman Lake, while not directly below the peak, is northwest of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>The Eldon Public Library is a public library and historic building located in Eldon, Iowa, United States. Established in 1906, the present building, completed in 1913 with a donation from Andrew Carnegie, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first library in the town of Eldon was established in a rented room above a local business in 1906. Two years later it was incorporated according to the laws of the state of Iowa and the town took responsibility for its maintenance. Andrew Carnegie was contacted in 1911 in hopes that he would make a donation so a permanent building could be built. He donated $7,500 once his specifications were realized. The Des Moines architectural firm of Wetherell and Gage designed the Classical Revival style building. The cornerstone was laid on November 23 of the same year, and it was dedicated on May 9, 1913. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Foster/Bell House is an historic residence located in Ottumwa, Iowa, United States. The property was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and it became a contributing property in the Fifth Street Bluff Historic District in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original house on the property was the home of Judge H.B. Hendershott built in 1862. He sold the property to Thomas D. Foster in early 1890s. He hired architect Ernest Koch to design the present residence. It was originally a frame and stone house in the Classical Revival style that was completed in 1893. The house passed to Foster’s daughter Ellen Foster Bell who hired the Des Moines architectural firm of Kraetsch and Kraetsch. They redesigned the exterior to its present Tudor Revival style in 1923. The architectural firm of Tinsley, McBroom & Higgins made significant changes to the interior in 1929. It features Sioux Falls red granite on the main floor.</p><br>
<p>Chief Wapello&#39;s Memorial Park is an historic site located near Agency, Iowa, United States. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The park is on the site of the Indian Agency that became the home of the Sauk and Meskwaki (Fox) tribes. They were relocated by the United States after the Black Hawk War of 1832. General Joseph M. Street was appointed the Indian Agent and settled with his family on the agency. He earned the respect of the Meskwaki chief Wapello. When Street died in 1840 he was buried on the agency and the tribes gave property to his wife so she and her family could make a living. Two years later Wapello was buried next to General Street. Other graves include those of Eliza Street and their children, and Major John Beach who was the Street’s son-in-law and who replaced General Street as Indian Agent.</p><br>
