<p>The Burk Burnett Building is a building in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, located in Sundance Square. It has twelve floors and is 156 ft high. The ground floor of the building is occupied by Worthington National Bank. The Burk Burnett Building has been listed on National Register of Historic Places since November 12, 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Burk Burnett Building was designed by Sanguinet & Staats and built in 1914. At the time of construction, it was the tallest building of the city and became the first skyscraper in Fort Worth. It was originally occupied by the State National Bank. The bank was declared bankrupt in 1915, and the building was bought by Samuel Burk Burnett and renamed. The building underwent renovations in 1980 and 1984. In particular, in 1984 the old bank lobby was restored. In 2005, the Worthington National Bank restored the lobby, hiring for this an artist, Xiang Xian.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Burk Burnett Building was the last of three buildings constructed by Sanguinet & Staats and similar in design. The first two were the ALICO Building in Waco (1911) and the Rand Building in San Antonio (1913). It is built in a neoclassical style. The lower part of the building (two floors) is made of white terracotta and of granite columns, the middle part (eight floors) is of red brick with terracotta layers separating floors, and the top part (two floors) is decorated white terracotta.</p><br>
<p>In 1919, the building in Fort Worth currently known as Hilton Fort Worth Hotel was specifically constructed by Sanguinet & Staats to resemble the Burk Burnett Building.</p><br>
<p>Rosenberg&#39;s Department Store is located at Fourth and D Streets in downtown Santa Rosa, California. The structure is the most significant example of the Streamline Moderne style in Santa Rosa, and was the tallest building in the city for many years.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The store was planned to replace a 1907 store owned by Max and Fred Rosenberg that burned in 1936. The design for the new store was carried out by Hertzka and Knowles of San Francisco in 1936, and construction by contractors Moore and Roberts started on January 19, 1937. The store opened on October 27, 1937, along with the Purity grocery store in a one-story section.</p><br>
<p>A model of the building was shown as "an exemplar of future architectural technology" at the 1939 San Francisco World&#39;s Fair.</p><br>
<p>In 1951 Joseph Edward McNeany purchased Rosenbergs for $1.5 million. The store was substantially renovated and expanded in 1964. After modernizing the three-story store it was merged in 1966 with Aldens Inc., a Chicago-based mail order and retail sales subsidiary of Gambel-Skogmo. Under terms of the agreement, McNeany stayed on as a consultant and his son, William, became vice president and general manager of Rosenbergs. It closed in 1988 and was vacant until 1994. That year, the Art Deco Society of California recognized the structure with its Preservation Award in 1988 to encourage the building&#39;s owners to save the structure.</p><br>
<p>The city government approved demolition of the store in 1994, but it was subsequently saved when bookstore chain Barnes & Noble leased the space. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 29, 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Rosenberg&#39;s is a two-story structure measuring about 140 ft by 120 ft, with an attached 126 ft by 108 ft one-story section. The front is dominated by an Art Moderne marquee and sign that extends beyond the roof, with the main entrance under the marquee. The steel-framed structure is clad with stucco-covered cast in place concrete. The lower level features continuous plate glass display windows, with a curved corner above set apart by string courses or "speed lines", inset with glass block clerestory windows. Large punched openings with keystone-like vertical stripes define the second floor bays. The marquee section is defined by flanking pylons embracing a tall, glass block window whose surface undulates. A fin or "blade sign" rises from the top of the window to about 10 ft above the roof, where it originally carried neon lettering advertising the store. A taller fin is set back and rises much higher, to 50 ft above the roof. It is translucent, and was internally lighted with green neon. The one-story section is much plainer, with a continuous canopy across the front. The entrance to this section is marked by two arches in the canopy.</p><br>
<p>The interior has a high-ceilinged section overlooked by a mezzanine. Interior columns have capitals resembling Egyptian prototypes. The mezzanine and stair railings are slender horizontal bars with birch handrails.</p><br>
<p>Malgas Island is a small, 8.3 hectare, uninhabited island lying in the northern part of the entrance to Saldanha Bay, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It lies about 800 m from the mainland in the Benguela upwelling system. It is circular in shape and flat, with the highest point about 9 m above sea level. It is known for its large breeding colony of Cape gannets.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Malgas was subject to guano removal in 1845, an activity which also resulted in the presence of low retaining walls, paths and, on the eastern side, several buildings and a jetty. Since 1986 it has been part of the West Coast National Park.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>Most of the central part of the island is occupied by the Cape gannet colony, one of only six in the world, and which, with some 20,000 breeding pairs, holds 25% of the world population. Therefore, only select researchers will be allowed to go ashore. The Cape gannets have been studied intensely, and their breeding success is watched over by Honorary Rangers.</p><br>
<p>The Rock Café in Stroud, Oklahoma, a historic restaurant on USA Route 66, takes its name from the local sandstone used in its construction.</p><br>
<p>Originally built in 1936 and opened in 1939, the Rock Café reopened on May 29, 2009 after extensive repairs by historic preservationist David Burke due to damage from a 2008 fire. The restaurant&#39;s cookbook, written during the rebuilding effort, was published in November 2009.</p><br>
<p>Rock Café proprietor Dawn Welch, a long-time promoter of USA Route 66 in Oklahoma selected by The Oklahoman as Oklahoma&#39;s 2009 Woman of the Year, is the basis for animated character Sally Carrera in the Pixar film Cars.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Roy Rieves started building the Rock Café in 1936 during the Dust Bowl era of the Great Depression and relied on local materials to build the café&#39;s distinctive stone exterior, doing much of the construction work himself or hiring students. The original costs included $100 for the land and $5 for local Kellyville sandstone left over from construction on the USA Route 66 roadway which had come to Stroud, Oklahoma in 1926.</p><br>
<p>The café opened in August 1939, initially operating under manager Miss Thelma Holloway, and was a busy local Greyhound bus stop during World War II. Its neon signage was installed in the late 1940s. Mamie Mayfield operated the Rock Café twenty-four hours a day in 1959 and retired at age 70 on July 14, 1983.</p><br>
<p>Business from cross-country truckers declined with the construction of Interstate 44 in Oklahoma, a toll road, although Highway 66 remains as a free alternative to the Turner Turnpike. After USA Route 66 was decommissioned in 1985, highway 66 became Oklahoma State Highway 66. Dawn Welch, the current proprietor, acquired the café from Ed Smalley in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Mamie J. Mayfields (December 22, 1912 - September 25, 1994) name was kept alive in the form of a souvenir shop, Mamies General Store.</p><br>
<p>In 1999, an F3 tornado heavily damaged Stroud, destroying the town&#39;s 53-store Tanger Outlet mall and wiping out a handful of key local employers including a Sygma food service distribution facility. The Rock Café survived, though its neon sign was damaged, but business was down by half due to the state of the fragile local economy. In 2001, the Rock Café was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying it for matching grants and loans to finance its historic restoration.</p><br>
<p>When the first Pixar crews researching Route 66 stopped at the Rock Café in 2001, restoration and repair of the 1999 tornado damage was not yet complete; the neon flickered briefly but failed to come to life. With a federal grant and a loan of $30,000 in matching funds, the Rock Café was restored with new heating and air conditioning systems, replacement of the original wiring, restoration of neon signage and a return of the building to its original layout.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, travelling artist Bob Waldmire depicted the café in one of his works; the Food Network&#39;s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives also devoted part of an episode to the Rock. On January 21, 2010 Dawn Welch appeared on NBC-TV´s Today show, cooking and promoting her book. The January 2010 edition of "Oklahoma Living" magazine named the Rock Café "Best Oklahoma Diner", featuring its proprietor in a cover photo.</p><br>
<p>Stroud, Oklahoma also slowly began to recover economically through increased activity in the oil and gas sectors and in tourism. While the destroyed outlet shopping mall was not rebuilt, the community successfully marketed its industrial park, and is now a leading small city in oilfield manufacturing and transportation, particularly in the rail and pipeline sectors.</p><br>
<p>The Meeker Hotel dates from 1896 is one of the oldest operating hotels in Colorado. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The hotel was built in 1896, at a time when Meeker was a prominent stagecoach stop and visitors were drawn to the beauty of the White River Valley. At this time there were many hotels in Meeker, but none compared with the brick structure built by Rueben Sanford Ball. An east and west wing were added to the hotel in 1904, greatly expanding its square footage and boosting the number of rooms to forty. A series of pictures by H.A. Wildhack depict the building of the hotel. Between June 9, 1896 and July 15, 1896, a large pile of bricks is transformed into the shell of the building that still stands 115 years later. Materials were being shipped by freight wagon from Rifle. The story is that Ball, after losing an establishment in Creede, Colorado to a fire, went to great lengths to build a hotel that would pass the test of time. The hotel’s walls range from three to six bricks thick.</p><br>
<p>The Meeker Hotel is the only historic hotel still standing in the northwest corner of Colorado. Its unique brick façade adds a picturesque quality as does its rounded glass bays on each side of the main building. The front of the building has a wide balcony overlooking Main Street, the native flagstone courthouse built in 1935, and one of the original barracks used during the time of the Meeker Massacre (now the White River Museum).</p><br>
<p>“Even if you are just passing though, stop off at this old hotel and take a look around the restored lobby. Once inside, your every move is watched by the beady glass eyes of elk, buffalo, long-horned sheep, deer, mounted on the walls.”. Within the hotel, guests are greeted with original rustic pine floors and a multitude of fine world-class deer and elk mounts. Most of the Meeker Hotel’s elk have joined the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation&#39;s national World Record Elk Tour and many guests make the pilgrimage just to see them. “I found a picture of the Meeker Hotel Lobby taken back in 1906…The large bull elk is a big typical 427 3/8. In the hotel there is another great elk that had fallen off the wall over the years and has two large bolts through the antlers holding them onto the old mount. Unfortunately this is another great record elk that cannot officially go into record book because of its cracked skull. It is a 9x8 typical with a gross score of B&C 460 netting about 450. Just think about that the little town of Meeker with two world record Elk greater than records of today, dating from the turn of the century. I will be displaying them both in the 1999 World Record Elk Tour.”. Alongside these giants are a collection of different animals from the area slowly collected by a succession of owners. A mountain lion, coyotes, regional foxes, antelope, a bear skin and even porcupines are stuffed and on display. The first owner and current owner have also contributed two moose and a caribou from Alaska. Sitting beside the stairway is an enormous elk that has been observing the lobby since 1904. It is the set of antlers that is now displayed proudly on the hotel’s stationery, bumper stickers and T-shirts. All animals depicted in their merchandise come from their collection.</p><br>
<p>The stairway is over six feet wide with a handmade railing that resembles a tree trunk and limbs. At the top of the stairs are twelve rooms and a guest lounge. Over the years, the original rooms have combined to create six two room suites and six single rooms, each with their own bath. Many of the baths still contain the original claw foot bathtubs. The rooms are named for something that has been a part of the hotel’s western history or a guest who has stayed there: Susan C. Wright, Gary Cooper, Billy the Kid, Nathan Meeker, Tom Horn, Big Bull Elk, Eleanor Roosevelt, Chief Ouray, Painted Lady, R.S. Ball, Theodore Roosevelt, Augusta Wallihan, and Charlie Dunbar.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>As more settlers arrived in the White River Valley during the year 1883, the military encampment slowly transformed into a permanent town. One such settler was a plucky, good-natured, strong-willed woman who had made the trip from South Carolina on her own. Her name was Susan C. Wright. She immediately saw the opportunity available in the sale of the old army barracks and made the decision to acquire one. While she worked to open a hotel, she accepted a position on the newly formed Town Company Association. Susan was the only woman who joined the Town Company and with her common sense approach she organized community harvests and grain saving programs that insured that everyone in town had enough food to get through the winter. One year, when there was a little extra, she was famous for making cornmeal and johnny cakes for each family. She would soon be known affectionately as the “Mother of Meeker”. The large rock in front of the present-day Rio Blanco Courthouse has a plaque commemorating the first members of the Town Company. Both of the Meeker Hotel’s founders, Susan Wright and Charlie Dunbar, are engraved on it. Other names include John C. Davis, William H. Clark, Newton Major and J.W. Hugus (the banking future millionaire who still has a building named after him in Meeker- the one sitting beside the Meeker Hotel). The town was incorporated in 1885 and became the county seat of Rio Blanco County. For the next twenty years, Meeker remained the only incorporated town in Northwestern Colorado.</p><br>
<p>Susan Wright opened the Meeker Hotel to the public in the fall of 1883. Initially it was the first hotel within a hundred-mile radius, but quickly more hotels began to spring up, including the Antler Hotel and the Ranch Hotel. The Meeker Hotel became famous for its western hospitality as Susan Wright was known to never turn down a traveler. Her hotel, the café and saloon she ran inside were a welcome respite for many weary travelers. Stories still remain of Sarah Wright’s fun-loving side and the long conversations she would indulge in, oftentimes while enjoying a nice cigar!</p><br>
<p>The hotel was opened as partnership between Susan C. Wright and Charlie Dunbar. It seemed a good fit as Susan could focus on the accommodations and food while Charlie could run the saloon. Unfortunately, this didn’t last long. Susan lost her partner, shortly after the hotel opened. Charlie, a keen gambler, became embroiled in a card game argument, leading to gunshots and his death. The next year, Susan had replaced him with a new partner, Simp Harp, the owner of the successful stagecoach line traveling throughout western Colorado. With the amount of stagecoach travel and expansion west, the Meeker Hotel prospered. The July 3, 1886 issue of the Meeker Herald reports “The French glass recently arrived from Denver, and has been placed behind the bar and adds greatly to the appearance of the saloon.”</p><br>
<p>Sadly, in 1892, Susan Wright became ill and after a year died. She willed her personal property and real estate to her brother, Rueben S. Ball, who had moved from Creede, Colorado to help his sister run her beloved hotel while she was ill. In 1896, R.S. Ball set out on an ambitious plan to expand the hotel. The humble barrack was replaced with an impressive, two-story structure with a double-brick fire wall that Ball requested. Ball had lost a successful saloon in Creede to a devastating fire and wasn’t going to make the same mistake twice.</p><br>
<p>He hired local builder I.G. Mitchell to help make his dream come true. He designed five large arched windows and instructed the masonry crew in a distinctive design still unique in the 21st century. Above all of it was an engraved flagstone with the name Meeker Hotel and below it in smaller print, R.S. Ball. Throughout the next thirty years, Ball carefully labeled most pieces of Meeker Hotel furniture with these same initials. There are many people in the area who still have antique furniture with R.S. Ball carved neatly into them. In 1904, only eight years his last improvements, Ball felt compelled to expand again. I.G. Mitchell was once again used to add an east and west wing and attention was paid to continuing the same style. Arched windows and corbeled cornices added nice flair to what had become a large brick structure, constituting 200,000 bricks, all shipped by freight wagon from Rifle, Colorado.</p><br>
<p>Among many other things, R.S. Ball left the hotel with a legacy that would carry throughout the next 125 years. His love of hunting and adventure (he traveled to Cuba and Alaska once he had his hotel on solid ground) can still be seen today. Ball created an extraordinary hunting trophy collection that unbeknownst to him has inspired later owners. The names hanging below many of the mounts are Ball, Dunbar, Dunn and Ritchie (all past or current owners). Others are of friends and relatives who over the years have contributed to the Meeker Hotel’s rich heritage. A legacy and tribute to the hotel’s White River history, the collection is exhibited in the hotel lobby and throughout the hotel.</p><br>
<p>In the spring of 1923, the Ball family sold the Meeker Hotel to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence P. Mathis. In 1935, the hotel was purchased by Paul and Goldie Dunn. The Dunn’s were responsible for making extensive improvements, the most important of which was adding bathrooms as well as steam heat. The Dunn’s operated the hotel for nearly thirty years. During the late sixties and seventies, the hotel’s ownership shifted a number of times. It was owned by a Louisiana oil man as well as a hopeful miner, but in 1979 it was purchased by Dave Stewart. In the next seventeen years, Stewart continued the long process of slowly upgrading and renovating the building. Often it was a labor of love for an old building that had survived a couple of decades of rough treatment. In 1996, he sold the Meeker Hotel to James Ritchie. Since that time, James and Kimberly Ritchie have continued to slowly renovate the building. In 1996, the lobby was entirely renovated. The quarter-sawn oak was stripped of dark brown paint, the lobby was made into one room instead of two, the staircase was redone, the tin ceiling was exposed, and the floors refinished. The large wood stove and the etched glass wildlife scene were added. In 2002, the Café underwent an extensive four-month renovation, uncovering the hardwood floor, the brick walls and the tin ceiling. James Ritchie crafted the lodge pole pine booths and live oak and maple tables. In 2011, upgrades were made to the rooms, including period porcelain tile and pedestal sinks in the baths as well as upgrades to the hundred foot long-eight foot wide main hallway.</p><br>
<h2>Meeker Café history</h2><br>
<p>The stone building, which currently houses the Meeker Café, was originally called the Vorges Bldg. It opened for business on May 9, 1891 as Meeker’s new Post Office building. In 1904, it became the 1st National Bank Building and in 1918, Rueben S. Ball moved the café out of the hotel to its present location. Phil Jensen, longtime resident of Meeker, related a story of how back in the early 1930s he sat in the café’s antique booths when they were located in the Midwest Café in Craig. Sometime in the mid 30’s the art deco style booths, counter top and bar back were moved to the Meeker Café.</p><br>
<h2>Famous guests</h2><br>
<p>“The illustrious guest list includes Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt, Gary Cooper, Billy the Kid and more recently Vice President Dick Cheney.”</p><br>
<h3>Billy the Kid</h3><br>
<p>July 6, 1889</p><br>
<p>Here is some background and how the Meeker Hotel came to be a part of the mystery.</p><br>
<p>Billy the Kid was one of the most famous outlaws in the history of the Old West. However, most of his years remain mysterious. He has been described as both a cold-blooded killer and as a romantic Robin Hood. He was extremely loyal to his many friends, and extremely dangerous to anyone he considered an enemy. He will forever be remembered as an immortal figure of a lawless era.</p><br>
<p>Billy the Kid was born William Henry McCarty around the year 1860. His birthplace is uncertain, but during his childhood he lived in Indiana, Kansas and Colorado before his family settled in Silver City, New Mexico. After the death of his mother, Catherine, Billy the Kid was left parentless and turned to a life of crime as early as age thirteen.</p><br>
<p>He became involved in New Mexico’s infamous Lincoln County War where he was accused of killing Sheriff Brady. He was arrested in 1880 for that murder, but escaped jail. Billy the Kid was than hunted down by Pat Garrett and is believed by many to have been shot on July 14, 1881. To confuse matters, numerous Billy the Kid sightings were made in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado after this date- leading many to question the validity of The Kid’s death. Claims were made that he lived under his many aliases (Billy McCarty, William H. Bonney) and mischievously flaunted his identity. Always a few steps ahead of the law!.</p><br>
<p>The plot thickens in 1950, when ninety-year-old Brushy Bill Roberts (pictured on right side) claims to be Billy the Kid and seeks a pardon from the Governor of New Mexico. Brushy Bill’s attorney had requested a private meeting due to his client’s poor health, but the governor ignored the request and invited dozens of guests including photographers and reporters. Brushy Bill suffered a stroke during the interview and answered many questions incorrectly. Unfortunately, before the matter could be further explored Brushy Bill Roberts died of a second Heart Attack only a few weeks later. Leaving the matter unresolved.</p><br>
<p>Billy the Kid historians are split down the middle on whether Brushy Bill Roberts was the real thing, but nonetheless The Meeker Hotel is left with the faded signature of William H. Bonney lingering in the dusty hotel registry from the summer of 1889.</p><br>
<h3>Theodore Roosevelt</h3><br>
<p>Theodore Roosevelt stayed at the Meeker Hotel in the winter of 1901. He was inspired to write a book about the area.</p><br>
<p>The Meeker Herald of January 12, 1901 reported:</p><br>
<p>"Gates Keenesburg left Tuesday afternoon for Rifle with a swell tallyho and</p><br>
<p>fours handled by the prince of jehus Ed Wolcott, for the purpose of meeting</p><br>
<p>a select party of gentlemen who had previously made arrangements to enjoy a</p><br>
<p>few weeks’ vacation in this out-of-the-way place. It was nearly eight</p><br>
<p>o’clock last evening when the rig returned to Meeker, and among its occupants</p><br>
<p>were none less than Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, of Oyster Bay, N.Y. They were at</p><br>
<p>once taken to St. James rectory, where the Rev. H.A. Handel had an elegant</p><br>
<p>spread awaiting them. In deference to the vice-president-elect’s wishes it</p><br>
<p>was pre-arranged that there would be no public demonstration, but there was a</p><br>
<p>general desire to meet and shake hands with the distinguished gentleman.</p><br>
<p>However, it was near midnight before the party proceeded to the Meeker Hotel,</p><br>
<p>where rooms were reserved for them, and but few had the pleasure of an</p><br>
<p>introduction. That the famous “rough rider” will find plenty of sport in the</p><br>
<p>next three weeks goes without saying.”</p><br>
<p>“ killed his cougar near Meeker, Co in 1901. It measured 15 12/16 inches (skull measurement). President Roosevelt was given outright claim to the record for about 53 years.”.</p><br>
<p>With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, 42, became the youngest President in the Nation&#39;s history. He brought new excitement and power to the Presidency, as he vigorously led Congress and the American public toward progressive reforms and a strong foreign policy.</p><br>
<p>He crusaded endlessly on matters big and small, exciting audiences with his high-pitched voice, jutting jaw, and pounding fist. "The life of strenuous endeavor" was a must for those around him,</p><br>
<p>Leaving the Presidency in 1909, Roosevelt went on an African safari, then jumped back into politics. In 1912, while campaigning he was shot in the chest by a fanatic. Roosevelt soon recovered, but his words at that time would have been applicable at the time of his death in 1919: "No man has had a happier life than I have led; a happier life in every way."</p><br>
<p>Eleanor Roosevelt and Gary Cooper have also stayed at the hotel.</p><br>
<h2>Ghosts</h2><br>
<p>The Meeker Hotel claims a couple, seldom seen ghosts. One is called Charlie Dunbar (an original owner in 1883) who was shot in a gunfight reportedly on the premises of the hotel when it was still an old barrack. They say the fire, in the big wood-burning stove, is sometimes stoked in the morning, and female guests report feeling a gentleman taking their elbow to help them down the long stairs. Another is referred to as the Painted Lady because guests are sometimes awakened by a strong smell of perfume in the middle of the night and the door of a certain room oftentimes ‘sticks’ and cannot be opened.</p><br>
<h2>Historic site</h2><br>
<p>The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The East Liverpool Downtown Historic District is located in East Liverpool, Ohio. The district, which covers approximately 22 acre, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in May 2001.The district is bordered by West Sixth Street, Dresden Avenue, Welch Avenue, Broadway, Walnut and East Fourth Streets, and East Alley.</p><br>
<p>East Liverpool, Ohio, was a thriving center of the pottery making business in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. From the 1880s until 1910 the population of the city increased from around 5,000 to over 22,000 people. The historic downtown district is notable for its Italianate and Second Empire artchitecture as well as its prominence as a commercial center in East Liverpool&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>The McMahan Mound Site , also known as McMahan Indian Mound, is an archaeological site located in Sevierville, Tennessee just above the confluence of the West Fork and the Little Pigeon Rivers in Sevier County.</p><br>
<h2>Site description</h2><br>
<p>The site consisted of a 16 ft high and 240 ft wide platform mound, with a large associated village surrounded by a palisade. It was occupied by Dallas Phase peoples of the South Appalachian Mississippian culture between 1200 and 1500 CE. At the time it was first investigated scientifically in 1881 the mound was located on a farm owned by the McMahan family for whom it is now named.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations</h2><br>
<p>Excavations by William H. Holmes in 1881 unearthed burials, arrow-points, a marble pipe, Mississippian culture pottery, and numerous engraved shell gorgets and columnella pendants. Several items of European manufacture were found in the excavations, including brass pins and cylindrical glass beads, implying that the mound site had been inhabited during the time of European contact in the American Southeast. One fragmentary engraved shell gorget found during the excavations was particularly noteworthy. It depicts two S.E.C.C. "Birdmen" with wings and talons for feet grasping each other by the neck with one hand and wielding ceremonial flint blades with the other. This type of gorget is carved in what is now known as the Hightower style. Holmes also uncovered several "rattlesnake" and mask style gorgets as well as a curious gorget with looping lines that Holmes described as "very interesting object.....The figure is so obscure that considerable study is necessary in making it out."</p><br>
<p>The Punta Ramiere  or Bric Froid  is a mountain in the Cottian Alps belonging to the department of Hautes-Alpes  and the province of Turin . It&#39;s the highest peak of the long stretch of the Po/Rhone water divide starting from the Aiguille de Scolette  and ending with the Monviso group .</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Ramiere is the tripoint at which the borders of the Italian comunes of Sauze di Cesana and Cesana and the French commune of Abries meet.</p><br>
<p>The geodetic point of the Italian Military Geographic Institute named Punta Ramiere (code 066104) is defined on the top of the mountain.</p><br>
<h3>SOIUSA classification</h3><br>
<p>According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Western Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=North Western Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Cottian Alps</p><br>
<p>subsection=Central Cottian Alps</p><br>
<p>supergroup=(It:Catena Bric Froid-Rochebrune-Beal Traversier/Fr:Chaîne Bric Froid-Rochebrune-Beal Traversier )</p><br>
<p>group=(It:Gruppo Ramiere-Merciantaira/Fr:Groupe Bric Froid-Grand Glaiza)</p><br>
<p>subgroup=(It:Gruppo della Ramiere/Fr:Crête du Bric Froid)</p><br>
<p>code=I/A-4.II-B.4.a</p><br>
<h2>Access to the summit</h2><br>
<p>The easiest route for the summit starts from Colle Ramiere (Ramiere pass, 3,007 m) and reaches the mountain top by its northwestern ridge. The pass can be attained by foothpat from the Thuras valley (Cesana Torinese) or the Argentiera valley (Sauze di Cesana).</p><br>
<h2>Nature conservation</h2><br>
<p>The Punta Ramiere is located on the northern border of the French regional nature park of Queyras (Parc naturel régional du Queyras ), established in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Provine Service Station  is a historic filling station on USA Route 66 in Oklahoma. Located a half-mile south of Hydro, Oklahoma and operated by Lucille Hamons from 1941 until her death on August 18, 2000, the site was added to the US National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>&#39;Lucille Hamons generous assistance to motorists on USA Route 66 during hard economic times at the end of the Great Depression would make her a US Route 66 legend, earning the nickname "Mother of the Mother Road."</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Opened by Carl Ditmore in 1929, this is one of the few remaining examples of a two-story fuel station with the owner&#39;s residence situated above the pumps on an upper floor. W.O. and Ida Waldroup changed the name to Provine Service Station after buying the station in 1934 and would later add tourist cabins to provide five motel rooms on-site.</p><br>
<p>Lucille and Carl Hamons acquired the Provine Station in 1941, a few months before the US entry into World War II. Mobilisation for war brought wartime rationing of fuel and tires, causing civilian traffic on the highway to decline. Carl Hamons worked as an independent trucker, leaving Lucille to operate the station and the motel. Traffic on US 66 would then increase substantially during the 1950s and 1960s, only to vanish with the completion of Interstate 40 in the area in 1971.</p><br>
<p>After the highway was bypassed, the motel closed and Carl and Lucille would divorce but Lucille&#39;s would continue to serve a largely local clientele. The station became known for vending very cold beer from its old cooler at a time when nearby Weatherford, Oklahoma (home of Southwestern Oklahoma State University) was officially a dry town. The last fuel was dispensed in 1986 and the station ultimately became a souvenir shop, with demand in the 1990s driven largely by nostalgia surrounding a road which by then had become not merely a decommissioned highway but a powerful symbol of a bygone era.</p><br>
<p>The original "Hamons Court" motel sign was donated by the Hamons family in 2003 to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, where it is now displayed as part of an exhibition on "America on the Move".</p><br>
<p>The Spieth and Krug Brewery, also known as "Union Hall" and "Maxey Block", is a brewery established in 1867 in Bozeman, Montana, by two German immigrants, Jacob Spieth and Charles Krug. The current building was built in 1882. In 1895 the brewery was bought by Julius Lehrkind, whose descendants still operate beverage businesses in Bozeman.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The current building was constructed from 1882 to 1883 with brick in a Victorian Italianate architecture style for Jacob Spieth and Charles Krug, brewers who had immigrated to America from Germany. The 1867 structure burned down and was rebuilt in 1882. It had a similar architectural style at its corners but was frame instead of brick. The building is built over Bozeman Creek, which runs through downtown Bozeman. The waterway, particularly its rural portion, is also known as Sourdough Creek. The creek water was used for brewing and refrigeration. The upper floor has served as a dance hall. Daniel Maxey was the brewery manager in the early 1890s. In 1945 the Bozeman Trades and Labor Council remodeled the second floor, which became known as Union Hall. In 1983 the ground floor of the brewery building became the site of "John Bozeman&#39;s Bistro" for many years until the restaurant moved to a different building on West Main Street.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Jacob Friedrich Spieth was born on April 10, 1833, in Hegensberg near Esslingen, Württemberg, and died in Montana. He arrived in America on October 6, 1854, aboard the Eliza Challory. He spent some time on farms in Ohio and Illinois and moved to Alder Gulch, Montana, in 1863, where he began mining gold. Spieth also farmed and raised livestock. He moved to several Montana gold mining camps, where he met Charles Krug. The brewery business grew steadily for at least 20 years. Barbara A. Shock/Schok (1844–1931) married Spieth on July 10, 1871, in Hudson City, New York. They had four sons and one daughter. Spieth committed suicide using strychnine on April 10, 1892. Hellinger & Hansen bought the business and then sold it to Julius Lehrkind. Charles Krug was born in Germany in 1844 and came to America in 1856, originally settling in Missouri. He moved to Virginia City, Montana, in 1864 and began mining gold.</p><br>
<p>Charles Krug died May 7, 1888. Upon Krugs death, Spieth inherited Krugs share of the brewery and saloon business. Spieth died almost exactly four years later in 1892. Both of them died intestate, leaving no will, and both mens estates were considered insolvent. In 1888, Anne Ryan had obtained a $9,000 judgement against the partnership, and when the judgement had not been paid by the time Spieth died, filed suit against the administrator of Krugs estate and Barbara Spieth, the administrator of Spieths estate, claiming that the Spieths had conspired to give Barbara all of the business assets in order to defraud its creditors—but also claiming this alleged conspiracy began two years before Krugs death. The estate administrators objected to the lawsuit, seeking dismissal. The suit was dismissed by the local court, essentially because it was so poorly drafted, but also because Ryan had not exhausted her legal remedies. On appeal in 1896, the Montana Supreme Court agreed that the complaint was "uncertain, ambiguous, and unintelligible", also noted that the attorney who had drafted it had since been disbarred for "dishonorable and unprofessional conduct". The Court also found that although Ryan had not attempted to execute judgement on the Krug and Spieth estates, it was because she knew there were no assets, so an action to execute judgement would be useless. Noting the legal maxim that the law does not require a meaningless act, and finding that there were issues of equity involved, the state Supreme Court found that Ryan did have adequate grounds for the suit to be filed, no matter how poorly the initial documents had been drafted. Sympathetic to Ryan and her new attorney, the Court issued an unusual decision: the justices upheld most of the reasons for the trial courts dismissal, but also created a remedy for Ryans alleged wrong: they remanded the case back to the lower court and did not fully affirm the dismissal; the law contained a possibility to allow the complaint to be amended to remove the objectionable sections, and so the District Court was instructed to give Ryans new attorney 30 days to amend the complaint and re-file it so that the case could go forward, but if the new attorney did not properly amend the complaint, then the dismissal would be affirmed.</p><br>
<h2>Lehrkind purchase</h2><br>
<p>While the brewery was having legal woes, Julius Lehrkind, a German immigrant who spent the previous 26 years running a brewery in Davenport, Iowa, moved to Bozeman in 1895, bought the Spieth and Krug Brewery, moved it to the north end of town, and renamed it the Bozeman Brewery. He brought his extended family and a crew of experienced brewers with him. Bozeman Brewery opened in 1895 and was the largest building in Bozeman until 1957, when the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse opened at Montana State University. Lehrkind also ran the Red Lodge Brewery in Red Lodge, Montana. Soon after opening his own brewery in 1895, Lehrkind also entered the soft drink business, making sarsaparilla and lemon soda. In 1914 he was awarded the local Coca-Cola franchise. The brewery went out of business when prohibition came in 1919, but the Coca-Cola business is still in operation as Lehrkind&#39;s Coca-Cola Bottling. The Lehrkind Mansion, built in 1897, is now a bed and breakfast and part of the Bozeman Brewery Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Union Arcade is an apartment building located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places by its original name Union Savings Bank and Trust. Originally, the building was built to house a bank and other professional offices. Although it was not the citys largest bank, and it was not in existence all that long, the building is still associated with Davenports financial prosperity between 1900 and 1930. From 2014 to 2015 the building was renovated into apartments and it is now known as Union Arcade Apartments.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Union Savings Bank was established in Davenport in 1891. The bank moved to its Brady Street location around the turn of the 20th century. It had previously been the location of Davenport National Bank until Union Savings Bank took it over. The lower level of the present building was completed around 1915 and the upper floors of the building were completed in 1924 according to the designs by Davenport architectural firm Temple & Burrows.</p><br>
<p>As the bank grew it started to acquire other banks in the city. In the 1920s it merged with Davenport Savings Bank and Scott County Savings Bank and was renamed Union Savings Bank and Trust Company. After the start of the Great Depression many banks failed or were severely weakened. One of those banks was First National Bank, which Union Savings Bank and Trust took over before the Bank Holiday in 1933. The other Davenport banks who survived up to this time included: American Commercial and Savings Bank, Bechtel Trust Company, Northwest Davenport Savings Bank, and Home Savings Bank. The bank, however, was not one of the banks to emerge after the Bank Holiday. By the 1960s the banking room on the main floor of the building was converted into retail space. Professional offices occupied the upper floors.</p><br>
<p>Rodney Blackwell of Financial District Properties bought the Union Arcade in late 2013 for $1.65 million. In March 2014 a renovation project began to turn the building into 68 market-rate apartments with commercial space on the main level. The $16.65 million project was completed in May 2015. Three of the apartments are lofts and the rest are studios and one- and two-bedroom units. The mezzanine was converted into a resident lounge and a laundry room. The building&#39;s original marble floors were retained in the common areas, and the mail chute and historic doors were left in place for appearances.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building is a seven-story, L-shaped structure designed in the Classical Revival and the emerging Chicago Commercial Style. The main façade of the building fronted Brady Street, with its secondary façade on East Third Street. It is built of limestone and it has a limestone foundation. The Classical Revival details are found primarily on the street level façade, which was the part of the building constructed around 1915. When it was built it had columns in the Ionic order at the street level side on Brady Street. On the north side, the columns become pilasters featuring the Corinthian order.</p><br>
<p>The upper floors were constructed nine years after the lower level of the building. It is here that the Chicago Commercial Style is in evidence. The windows are stacked in pairs between the vertical piers and are themselves separated by decorative metal spandrel panels. The top of the building features a heavy cornice.</p><br>
<p>Kruse & Parish was the architectural firm that remodeled the building’s storefront to function as the Union Arcade. It is probably at that time that the Ionic columns were removed from the building. The mezzanine level, which provides a transition to the upper levels, was also added at that time.</p><br>
<p>The King City High School Auditorium, also known as the Robert Stanton Theater, is an Art Moderne style auditorium in King City, California. Built in 1939 with Works Progress Administration funding, the auditorium is one of several buildings in the area in a similar style, known as WPA Moderne. It was designed by architect Robert Stanton of Carmel, in partnership with Joseph Jacinto Mora, who designed and executed the building&#39;s extensive sculptural elements.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The King City High School Auditorium is executed in cast-in -place concrete. The design makes full use of concretes potential for plastic form, with compound curves, rounded corners and cast-in sculptural forms. The structure is somewhat elliptical in plan, with rounded corners. A projecting rounded bay at the front comprises the main entrance, with three pairs of doors separated by tall fluted pilasters surmounted by cast busts of Comedy and Tragedy, dividing a triptych relief sculpture that is itself divided into three levels. The ends of the facade curve around to the side elevations, which have inset fluted panels whose pilasters are crowned with more cast sculpture derived from characters from A Midsummer Nights Dream. The rear elevation is comparatively plain and utilitarian.</p><br>
<p>The lobby is detailed with bright blue wainscoting and ceilings. Curved stairs give access to the balcony on either side of the lobby, with six doors into the main house. Floors throughout are covered in cork, as well as in the aisles of the auditorium. The auditorium seats 596 in the orchestra section and 387 in the balcony. The proscenium surrounding the stage features Mora reliefs and concave fluted pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The King City Joint Union High School Auditorium was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 23, 1991.</p><br>
<p>The M-28–Tahquamenon River Bridge is a bridge located on M-28 over the Tahquamenon River in Chippewa Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1926, the Michigan State Highway Department (MSHD) improved M-28, by adding several miles of gravel roads and replacing some bridges, including this one over the Tahquamenon River. The department designed the bridge and solicited bids for its constructions. Walter Toebe and Company of Shingleton was awarded the contract to construct the bridge, and built it in 1926 for a cost of $24,286.08. It was listed on the NRHP on November 30, 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Historic context</h2><br>
<p>The MSHD standardized the designs of steel stringer bridges in 1905–06 and plate girder bridges in 1907–08. However, it was not until 1926, the year this bridge was built, that the department began encasing the steel girder webs in concrete. Why they did so is not entirely clear, and indeed the department abandoned the practice of encasing interior girders soon after. The Tahquamenon River Bridge is one of only two remaining bridges of this type in Michigan.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The M-28–Tahquamenon River Bridge is plate girder bridge built of nine steel girders encased in concrete. The girders are braced by concrete diaphragms and sit on large concrete abutments. The bridge spans 55 ft, and is 35 ft wide with a 30 ft roadway. A concrete deck covered with asphalt sits atop the bridge, and the roadway is lined with concrete guardrails made from fluted balusters and paneled bulkheads.</p><br>
<p>The Parker Road–Charlotte River Bridge, also known as the 10 Mile Road–Charlotte River Bridge, is a bridge building located on Parker Road  over the Charlotte River in Bruce Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Parker Road–Charlotte River Bridge is a three-panel, rigid-connected Warren Pony Truss bridge; the structural members of the bridge are made pairs of steel angles connected back-to-back, rather than the more traditional box beams. I-beams supporting the wooden deck and sits on concrete abutments with angled wingwalls. The span has been recently braced with timber pilings in the center, but otherwise is relatively unchanged. The bridge is closed to traffic and is no longer maintained.</p><br>
<h2>Historic context</h2><br>
<p>In the era before standard bridge designs were drafted by the Michigan State Highway Department, local road commissions were tempted to reduce costs by using lighter two-angle superstructure elements, as in this bridge. This bridge was built in 1914 by the Minneapolis Bridge Company, likely at the behest of the Bruce Township Board. It is the only example of this type of two-angle superstructure truss bridge in Michigan that has been definitively dated.</p><br>
<p>The Monterey County Court House in Salinas, California was designed by local architect Robert Stanton in the Art Moderne or WPA Moderne style, and was built in 1937 using funds provided by the Works Progress Administration . The courthouse features extensive sculpture by Joseph Jacinto Mora. It is currently used by the Monterey County Superior Court.</p><br>
<p>Stanton designed the courthouse to be built around a previous courthouse, which was demolished, leaving a landscaped courtyard space surrounded by an arcade. The two and three story concrete structure cost $450,000, with two stories in concrete and a glass-and-steel third floor the rear of the complex. It is extensively embellished by Mora&#39;s sculpture and reliefs, with comparatively sober detailing around the perimeter and more extensive decoration on the courtyard elevations, with customized relief friezes at the tops of the fluted rectangular arcade columns. Small bronze castings decorate the doors and a large freestanding Mora sculpture in travertine forms the centerpiece of the courtyard. Subjects were drawn from the history of California. There are a total of 62 busts of individuals from California history in the window spandrels, and five travertine reliefs of scenes from Monterey County history.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 8, 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Anderson Canyon region of Big Sur, California, also known as Anderson Creek, is a historically notable part of the Big Sur coast. It is located directly south of the Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park and was home to a Highway One work camp as well as the Anderson Creek Gang which consisted of bohemians including Henry Miller and Jean Varda.</p><br>
<p>The region is located within the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Sea Otter Refuge, and California condor reintroduction area. The region is privately owned and completely surrounded by Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park. It is the next creek south from McWay Creek&#39;s famed waterfall cove and contains numerous falls on private property.</p><br>
<p>Anderson Peak, at the top of Anderson Canyon, rises to 4099 feet. The ocean-facing bluff at the mouth of Anderson Canyon sits 120 feet above sea level.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The Anderson Canyon area has played an important part of the history of the Big Sur region. In the late 19th century there was a trail connecting the coast ridge at Marble Peak with the coast at Burns Creek, just south of the Anderson Landing site, known as the Anderson Canyon trail. Anderson Creek was first called Pino Pelado Creek, and Anderson Peak known as Pino Pelado Peak. The name Anderson Canyon and Anderson Creek emerged after the early settlers James and Peter Andersen who settled the area as early as 1874.</p><br>
<p>Prior to the construction of Highway One, this area was the center of economic activity for the region with families harvesting redwood, tanbark, limestone, and gold. These resources were shipped out of dog-hole ports located in the region including Anderson Landing.</p><br>
<p>The port located at the mouth of Anderson Creek was known as Saddle Rock Landing. It was named for its proximity (.4 miles) to Saddle Rock which is a prominent feature at the Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park.</p><br>
<p>The Anderson Canyon region was homestead by Aaron Harlan, located about a mile up the canyon from the mouth of the creek. "Pop" Ernest Doelter, a Monterey, CA restaurateur who created the abalone steak, owned the Saddle Rock Landing for abalone harvesting. Pop&#39;s restaurant was a favorite of George Sterling, Jack London, and Andrew Molera.</p><br>
<h2>Highway construction</h2><br>
<p>During the construction of Highway One, Anderson canyon hosted one of the largest labor camps on the coast. This camp was established in 1932. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, the construction of the Highway was temporarily suspended and Anderson Canyon was the South end of the road.</p><br>
<p>The 10 mile section of Highway One between Anderson Canyon and Big Sur was completed in October, 1924. From the Anderson Canyon camp, the Highway was built south to Big Creek.</p><br>
<p>Anderson Canyon was the last of such labor camps.</p><br>
<h2>Bohemians</h2><br>
<p>After the Highway was complete, many buildings were left standing on the site from its use as a convict camp. During the 1940 and early 1950s, these cabins were rented out to early Bohemians. Other avant-garde artists who lived here include Harry Partch, Emil White, and Jean Varda. Author Elizabeth Smart also lived at Anderson Canyon. Her novella, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (1945) may be the first fiction regarding Big Sur&#39;s bohemia.</p><br>
<p>Henry Miller lived here from 1944 to 1947. This is where he wrote "Into the Nightlife", and he discusses his time here and the Anderson Creek Gang in Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch. Miller reportedly paid $5 per month rent for his shack on the property.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>In 1967 ground broke for a new house on the property designed by noted architect George-Brook Kothlow. The new owners of the property were Tony and Marguerite Staude, famed designer and financiers of the Chapel of the Holy Cross in Sedona, Arizona.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology and biology</h2><br>
<p>Anderson Peak is home to a California condor release site, owned by the Ventana Wildlife Society at 2770 feet. In 2006, Anderson Canyon became the location of the first natural condor nesting site in California since 1905. Two condors were discovered in a hollowed out, partially burned redwood tree.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, PG&E began a $4.2 million project to bury power lines running from Highway One up Anderson Canyon to Anderson Peak in order to protect condors from potential electrocution. The project involved around 3 miles of overhead power lines, built in the 1950s, to be removed and installation of an underground replacement line traveling 4,000 feet high.</p><br>
<p>Anderson Canyon is an upland redwood forest. Characteristic species include coastal redwood, California bay, tanbark oak, big-leaf maple, and western sword fern. Wildlife species that may occur in this community include ensatina, Pacific slender salamander, Pacific giant salamander, western-screech owl, Allen’s hummingbird, purple martin, acorn woodpecker, Steller’s jay, Townsend’s western big-eared bat, and pallid bat.</p><br>
<h2>Film credits</h2><br>
<p>Anderson Canyon appears in many films and photoshoots including National Geographics Big Sur: Wild California, the Richard Burton and Liz Taylor classic The Sandpiper, and more recently in a feature film based on Jack Kerouacs Big Sur. Anderson Canyon also stands in for the Esalen Institute setting in the series finale of the television show Mad Men.</p><br>
<p>The Bernese Alps in the wide meaning  are a mountain range in the northwestern part of the Alps. They are located in Switzerland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The range concerns several Swiss cantons: Bern, Vaud, Valais, Lucerne, Uri, Nidwalden and Obwalden.</p><br>
<h3>SOIUSA classification</h3><br>
<p>According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the range is an Alpine section, classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Western Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=North Western Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Bernese Alps i.t.w.m.</p><br>
<p>code=I/B-12</p><br>
<h3>Subdivision</h3><br>
<p>The range is divided into three subsections:</p><br>
<p>Urner Alps (in German Urner Alpen) - SOIUSA code:I/B-12.I</p><br>
<p>Bernese Alps s.s. (in German Berner Alpen i.e.S.) - SOIUSA code:I/B-12.II</p><br>
<p>Vaud Alps - SOIUSA code:I/B-12.III.</p><br>
<h2>Notable summits</h2><br>
<p>Some notable summits of the range are:</p><br>
<h2>Notable passes</h2><br>
<p>Some notable mountain passes of the range are:</p><br>
<p>The District 7 School is a historic one-room schoolhouse at 565 Main Street in Hanson, Massachusetts. The single-story wood frame structure was built in 1845, and is the town&#39;s oldest surviving schoolhouse. It has two entry doors to anterooms which lead to the main schoolroom. The building was enlarged, apparently in 1882, when it was also moved across the street from its original location. It was moved in 1939, to a position adjacent to the Thomas Elementary School, where it was used as a "portable" classroom. In 1963 it was moved to its present location, and has served since then as a museum and meeting space operated by the local historical society.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Indian Hill House is a private residence named for the Indian Hills of Groton, Massachusetts. Designed in 1962-63 by Maurice K. Smith, the house was built by. Osmond, who counts Boston shipwrights among his ancestors, is the son of Hedley F. Osmond, engineering manager for such notable Boston landmarks as the Hatch Memorial Shell, Fenway Park, and restoration of the inner roof of the Boston Public Library, McKim Building. Concept and construction of Indian Hill House were commissioned in 1962 by Arthur Floyd Blackman and his wife Camilla Cunningham Blackman. The influence of Mid-Century modern architecture is readily discernible here although Smith moves beyond this with an elaboration of his own "Form Language" - an approach to design that he developed throughout his teaching at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. As such, it is very hard to align Smith&#39;s work with any stylistic movement per se, a fact that makes his designs all the more interesting. Other aspects that makes this house unique are that the light fixtures were fabricated on site from 4" copper pipe, the windows were site built, and given the modular nature of the house in its original layout not one concrete block nor floor tile was cut. The house appears in several architectural works, including the Harvard Educational Review , Spazio e Societa  as Casa/House 1, and Progressive Architecture ,.</p><br>
<p>An extensive photographic study of the house, then only a few years old, was taken for the Winter 1967 issue of. In it, architect Smith put forth his position that the nature of a building&#39;s form follows from its use. Since that use will change over time, buildings can also evolve. In his 1989 work, Architecture and Urbanism, Henry Plummer concluded of this house that it contained "innumerable locales, of fragmentary rooms loosely interlocked, of zones both intimate and grand, created for an almost endless array of eyes, and heads and bodies and voices, an abundance which no longer bears upon the needs of a single person. Not only does the building form evolve but it is never perceived by two persons in quite the same way." In his 1967 work, World Architecture 4, John Donat described this house as "a place that prescribes nothing, an architecture that is intense without imposing itself on you." He goes on to write that this family house is "a place of real options and opportunities can be richly interpreted by whoever is living in it."</p><br>
<p>MIT School of Architecture Chair Mark Jarzombek wrote in 2013, "Indian Hill House – in a more restrained clean modernist aesthetic — is different from own house in many respects. A series of low, concrete walls staggered across the crest of the hill rise up to meet wooden, glazed walls of slightly different heights. The whole is protected by shed-and-gable roofs designed to appear as thin and lightweight as possible." Since 2008 the house has been under the care of historian Gus G. Widmayer who has overseen two renovation programs: The first in October 2013 for repairs to the copper roof, and in February 2016 for the reconfiguration of bedrooms on the second floor. The original firm of Ralph S. Osmond & Sons was chosen to perform these renovations, under supervision of David W. Osmond.</p><br>
<p>During its planning and construction from 1962-65, Indian Hill House was referred to by architect Smith as "Blackman House 1" to be followed in the 1990s by Blackman House 2 (Manchester-By-The-Sea). Blackman House 3 (Groton) was designed by others. Fifty-three drawings and photographs of the house are kept by the. The house was also and formerly known in print as House, Groton, Mass., or A House by Maurice Smith&#39;.</p><br>
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<p>Vollevannet is a freshwater is a lake in the municipality of Kristiansand in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The 0.15 km&sup2; lies in the district of Gimlekollen in the borough of Lund, and the surrounding residential area is also called Vollevannet. The lake lies along the European route E18 highway at the exit for the Vest-Agder Museum Kristiansand and Ålefjær . Historically, the lake was used as a reservoir for the city&#39;s drinking water. The lake is held back by two dams, and there is a small, sandy beach at the northeast end of the lake. The lake has perch in it.</p><br>
<h2>Historical events</h2><br>
<p>In February 1943, during the German occupation of Norway, two Russian prisoners of war accused of burglary as well as attempting to escape were executed at the end of the lake Vollevannet. The two Russians were buried in the same grave. Two months later another Russian who had refused to work and had encouraged others to refuse was taken to Vollevannet and shot about 50 m from the first grave. At the end of the war, the bodies of all three were dug up and taken to the Kristiansand crematorium. A memorial cross marks their former graves.</p><br>
<p>The Albion Mountains are a mountain range in the USA states of Idaho  and Utah , spanning Cassia County, Idaho and barely reaching into Box Elder County, Utah. The highest point in the range is Cache Peak at 10,339 ft, and the range is a part of the Great Basin Divide and the Basin and Range Province. Most of the mountains are part of the Albion Division of the Minidoka Ranger District of Sawtooth National Forest.</p><br>
<p>The Raft River Mountains are southeast of the range, while the Black Pine Mountains are to the east and the Snake River Plain to the north. The streams in the mountains are in the Snake River watershed, which is a tributary of the Columbia River. The towns of Almo, Elba, and Malta are east of the range, Albion, Burley, and Heyburn are to the north, and Oakley is to the west. There are six alpine lakes in the Albion Mountains. Lake Cleveland is north of Mount Harrison, a small unnamed lake is southeast of Mount Harrison, and the four Independence Lakes are north of Cache Peak.</p><br>
<p>Several road and trails are located in the mountains, which provide for a variety of activities including hiking, off road vehicle riding, fishing, and hunting. A paved road ascends to the summit of Mount Harrison. Most of the peaks can be accessed relatively easily via class one or two routes. City of Rocks National Reserve and Castle Rocks State Park are located in the southern portion of the range and is a popular destination for rock climbing. The Pomerelle ski area is located in the range and has two chairlifts.</p><br>
<p>Idahos rarest plant, Christs Indian Paintbrush is a plant endemic to the upper slopes of Mount Harrison, being found nowhere else in the world. Davis&#39; springparsley is a plant that is also endemic to the Albion Mountains. The South Hills crossbill is a bird believed to be a separate species than the Common crossbill, and it is endemic to the Albion Mountains and the South Hills due to ecological speciation.</p><br>
<p>In February 1945 nine people died on Mount Harrison when a B-24 Liberator Army Bomber crashed during a training mission in dense fog.</p><br>
<h2>Peaks</h2><br>
<p>Cache Peak, at 10,339 ft above sea level, is the highest peak in the Albion Mountains of Cassia County in Southern Idaho. Cache Peak is located in the central part of the range southeast of Oakley and north of Almo in the Albion Division of the Minidoka Ranger District of Sawtooth National Forest.</p><br>
<p>Cache Peak is in the watershed of tributaries of the Snake River, which itself is a tributary of the Columbia River. The peak is a part of the Great Basin Divide and the Basin and Range Province. It is the highest peak in Idaho south of the Snake River Plain, the highest in Cassia County, and north of City of Rocks National Reserve. The Independence Lakes are located in the basin north of the peak, and Mount Independence is about 1 mi northwest of the peak.</p><br>
<p>Cache Peak supports one of the three populations of Cymopterus davisii, a plant that is endemic to the Albion Mountains. The Cache Peak population is considered a single population with Mount Independence.</p><br>
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<p>The Black Pine Mountains are a mountain range in the USA states of Idaho  and Utah , spanning Cassia County, Idaho and reaching into Box Elder County, Utah. The highest point in the range is known as Black Pine Mountains High Point, sometimes referred to as Black Peak, at 9,395 ft, and the range is a part of the Great Basin Divide and the Basin and Range Province. In Idaho, the mountains are part of the Black Pine Division of the Minidoka Ranger District of Sawtooth National Forest.</p><br>
<p>The Raft River Mountains are southwest of the range, while the Albion Mountains are to the west, and the Sublett Mountains are to the northeast. The northern slopes of the mountains are in the Snake River watershed, which is a tributary of the Columbia River, while the southern slopes drain to the Great Salt Lake. The town of Snowville, Utah is southeast of the mountains, and Malta, Idaho is to the northwest. Interstate 84 passes just to the east of the mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Peaks</h2><br>
<p>Black Pine Mountains High Point, at 9,289 ft above sea level is the highest peak in the Black Pine Mountains of Cassia County in southern Idaho. The high point is sometimes referred to as "Black Peak" because of a benchmark on the peak that reads "Black".</p><br>
<p>Black Pine Mountains High Point is located in the north-central part of the range northwest of Snowville, Utah and southeast of Malta in the Black Pine Division of the Minidoka Ranger District of Sawtooth National Forest.</p><br>
<p>Black Pine Mountains High Point is in the watershed of tributaries of the Snake River, which itself is a tributary of the Columbia River. View from the peak encompass the Raft River, Albion, Sublett, and Wasatch mountain ranges. The peak is a part of the Great Basin Divide and the Basin and Range Province. Interstate 84 passes to the east of the peak.</p><br>
<p>The Sublett Range is a mountain range in the USA states of Idaho  and Utah , spanning Cassia, Oneida, and Power counties, Idaho and reaching into Box Elder County, Utah. The Phosphoria Formation reaches its greatest thickness beneath the mountains.</p><br>
<p>The highest point in the range is known as the Sublett Range High Point at 7,492 ft, and the range is a part of the Basin and Range Province. The northern part of the mountains are part of the Sublett Division of the Minidoka Ranger District of Sawtooth National Forest. The range was named after the trapper William Sublette, who lived in the area in the 1830s.</p><br>
<p>The Raft River and Black Pine mountains are southwest of the range, while the Albion Mountains are to the west. The northern part of the mountains are in the Snake River watershed, which is a tributary of the Columbia River, while the southern section drains to the Great Salt Lake. The town of Snowville, Utah is south of the mountains, Malta, Idaho is to the west, and American Falls, Idaho is to the north. Interstate 84 passes just to the south and west of the mountains. Most of the mountains are covered in sagebrush steppe and meadows, but there can be pockets of Douglas fir on northern slopes.</p><br>
<p>Sublett Range High Point, at 7,492 ft above sea level is the highest peak in the Sublett Range of Power County in southern Idaho. Sublett Range High Point is located in the east-central part of the range north of Snowville, Utah, and east of Malta, Idaho, and south of American Falls, Idaho in the Sublett Division of the Minidoka Ranger District of Sawtooth National Forest.</p><br>
<p>Sublett Range High Point is in the watershed of tributaries of the Snake River, which itself is a tributary to the Columbia River. View from the peak encompass the Raft River, Albion, and Black Pine mountain ranges, among others. The peak is a part of the Great Basin Divide and the Basin and Range Province. Interstate 84 passes to the west of the peak.</p><br>
<p>The Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, also known as Building 3, on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, California, was an aircraft hangar constructed in 1938 for Pan American World Airways trans-Pacific Clipper services, and then modified for the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition. Building 3 was one of a pair of identical hangars built to house Pan Americans flying boats at the south end of the island. Building 1 was to be the airline&#39;s terminal building, and Buildings 2 and 3 would house the aircraft. For the exposition, these buildings were converted to exhibition halls, surrounded by a complex of temporary structures. At the end of the exposition all structures but Buildings 1, 2 and 3 were to be torn down to make way for the development of the reclaimed land as an airport for San Francisco.</p><br>
<h2>Original structure</h2><br>
<p>Buildings 1, 2 and 3 were designed by San Francisco architects George W. Kelham and William Peyton Day. They were designed in the Art Moderne style considered appropriate for an aviation terminal. Initial construction of the buildings as airplane hangars was complete by July 1938. Building 3 was a reinforced concrete structure about 335 ft long and 225 ft wide, and 80 ft tall on a concrete pile foundation. The roof is a three-hinge riveted steel arch. A one-story section, intended to be retained for the hangar, is 40 ft wide the length of the southeast side.</p><br>
<h2>Exhibition hall</h2><br>
<p>For use as the Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts a 48,600 ft&sup2; one-story addition wraps around the other three sides of Building 3. The addition is constructed of reinforced concrete sprayed with stucco. Four concrete towers each almost 68 ft tall are on the corners. A formal entrance faces northwest in a concave indentation with scallops or broad flutes in the surface of the marquee over the door. From the other elevations the structure&#39;s heritage as a hangar is visible, with the taller hangar section looming over the additions.</p><br>
<p>The interior was fitted out for the exposition with curving temporary plaster walls to house a $20 million collection of artwork, designed by Dorothy Wright Liebes and Shepard Vogelsang. The space was extensively subdivided into small galleries.</p><br>
<p>The 1939 season of the exposition was a failure, with half the visitation expected at only 10 million patrons. The exposition closed two months early, four million dollars in debt. It reopened in 1940. For the 1940 season Diego Rivera painted the Pan Am Unity fresco. The fair closed on September 29, 1940, still in debt.</p><br>
<h2>Navy use</h2><br>
<p>Following the fairs closure the USA Navy, which already had a station on adjacent Yerba Buena Island, took over Treasure Island as the Naval Training and Distribution Center, Treasure Island. The station trained security forces for merchant ships after the United States entry into World War II. The Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts became an equipment repair center. The Hall of Transportation (Building 2) reverted to use as a hangar. The Administration Building (Building 1) continued to serve as an administration center. At the end of the war the station became a major separation facility for returning servicemen being mustered out of the armed services. The station was finally closed in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Building 3 has since been used as a film production location. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 26, 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Hahnenmoos Pass  is a mountain pass of the Bernese Alps. The pass crosses the col between the peaks of Regenboldshorn and Albristhorn, at an elevation of 1,950 m. The Hahnenmoos Pass is the lowest pass between the Engstligental, to the east, and the upper Simmental, to the west.</p><br>
<p>The pass is traversed by a hiking track, which connects Adelboden, at an elevation of 1,350 m in the Engstligental, with Lenk, at an elevation of 1,068 m in the Simmental. The track forms part of the Alpine Pass Route, a long-distance hiking trail across Switzerland between Sargans and Montreux. Although a road leads to the pass from Adelboden, the pass can not be traversed by car.</p><br>
<p>In winter the pass is part of a ski area. The Berghotel Hahnenmoospass is a hotel and restaurant that is located at the summit of the pass and is open in both summer and winter.</p><br>
<p>The Eureka Theater is an Art Moderne–style cinema built in 1939 in Eureka, California. The movie theater was initially proposed in 1937 as part of a larger development that would include a five-story, 162-room hotel, which was soon scaled back to the theater with flanking commercial spaces. Built by theater magnate George M. Mann, the theater was designed by noted San Francisco designer William B. David, who had once worked in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Art Department in the mid-1930s. The Eureka Theater was considered an ultra-modern movie theater when constructed in 1939 and was an expression of optimism and confidence in Eureka and Humboldt County, California as they pulled out of the Depression. The Eureka Theater ceased showing regularly scheduled movies on August 1, 1996. The theater is currently undergoing restoration, and is available for rent as a performance or event venue.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Eureka Theater features a symmetrical stucco facade built of cubic forms rising to a 50 ft tall vertical pylon sign bearing the letters EUREKA over the theaters marquee. At ground level the lobby entrance is centered between storefronts. The lobby is overhung by a projecting canopy with a rolled edge. A V-shaped attraction board rests on the marquee and appears to support the pylon. The complex pylon mounts in receding block forms as it rises. Although it appears to be a monolith, it is actually supported by a frame structure with a stucco appliqué. The second floor features subsidiary blocks with smaller windows and accent lines, housing the owners apartment.</p><br>
<p>The outer lobby is a shallow semicircle with a mosaic tile floor extending to the sidewalk. The walls have a maroon subway tile wainscot, with chrome tile accent stripes. A large light fixture with chrome accents is centered over the octagonal ticket booth. The booth has tile that matches the outer lobby wainscot. A blue glass pane above the ticket window is designed to be illuminated when the box office is open for business. The lobby is flanked by storefront spaces, whose transom windows are accented by a horizontal grillage. The other elevations are comparatively plain, with large concrete surfaces.</p><br>
<p>The inner foyer is narrow, less than 6 ft wide, with a number of Art Moderne details. The entrance doors retain their original custom hardware of brass and Bakelite. The ceiling is extensively detailed. The foyer leads to the grand lobby, which is approximately oval, accented by a stepped curving ceiling detail and a central light fixture with multicolored glass. Columns flanking the entrance feature glazed panels that match the light fixture, and which can themselves be illuminated.</p><br>
<p>The Eureka Theater was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 2010.</p><br>
<p>Newton Butte, in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, United States is a prominence below the South Rim, northwest of Grandview Point, and north on a ridgeline from Shoshone Point which is one mile east of Yaki Point, East Rim Drive. Shoshone Point and Yaki are both on access roads from East Rim Drive, with Yaki being the more advantageous to different viewing directions.</p><br>
<p>Newton Butte is 5,940 ft, which at the end of the Newton Butte point ridgeline, also forms the west perimeter of the Lonetree Canyon drainage, into Granite Gorge.</p><br>
<p>Just north of Newton Butte, 3/4 mi on the end of the point, is Pattie Butte, a lower elevation prominence, 5,306 ft.</p><br>
<p>Two hiking trails are closest to Newton Butte. Across Granite Gorge, views south can be made from the Clear Creek Trail, at lower elevations or as it climbs past Zoroaster Canyon to ridgelines at the west of Clear Creek. The Tonto Trail on the Tonto Platform, south side of Granite Gorge, has the closest hiking points near the bottom elevations of Newton Butte.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Newton Butte can be viewed from the South Rim viewpoints from Yavapai Point, Yaki Point, Shoshone Point, or Grandview Point. Access to East Rim Drive. South Rim, is from the east, on Arizona State Route 64, from US 89. A west access to East Rim Drive is from Williams, Arizona, or Flagstaff, by way of USA Route 180 in Arizona.</p><br>
<p>Makepeace Island is a small heart shaped island resort located in the Noosa River on Australias Sunshine Coast. The island is currently owned by Virgin Australia  founding partners, Brett Godfrey and Sir Richard Branson. The island is Sir Richard Bransons Australian home and can hold up to 22 guests accommodated in three 2-bedroom villas and a 4 bedroom Bali House wing. The property has a tennis court, theatre, two-storey Balinese wantilan, 500,000-litre pool and indoor bar and dining area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The island (previously known as Pig Island) was named after former owner, Hannah Makepeace who was bequeathed it by her employer for her faithful years of service on the island.</p><br>
<p>Hannah was on the island as housekeeper and then owner until she died at aged 89, 1973.</p><br>
<p>The island was originally gazetted as owned by Charles Nicholas and his wife in 1911. Hannah Makepeace was hired in 1924, and as he had no children, Charles left the island to Hannah.</p><br>
<p>Hannah was known by the community as a colourful character.</p><br>
<p>After Hannah died the island was owned by the state until 1986 when artist Brian Spencer bought the property and renamed it to Makepeace Island in honour of Hannah.</p><br>
<p>The island was bought in 2003 by Brett Godfrey and Rob Sherrard before Sir Richard Branson bought Rob&#39;s half in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Later that year, construction began on the island to turn it into a luxury resort. The designing of the property was done by Christopher Thomas and Mark Alexander, in collaboration with Brett&#39;s wife, Zahra Godfrey.</p><br>
<p>Gardens and indoor decor include giant sculptures, teak, granite and stone finishes, volcanic boulder bathtubs, ornamental lighting and antiquities and furniture commissioned and acquired in Bali, Java and elsewhere throughout Indonesia.</p><br>
<p>In July, 2011, Makepeace Island was officially opened as Sir Richards Australian Home&#39; and was made available to the public for exclusive use hire.</p><br>
<h3>As A Private Island</h3><br>
<p>After construction was completed in 2009, Makepeace Island was used as a family holiday location for the owners and a function venue for Virgin Blue. Hip hop group the Black Eyed Peas and photographer Russell James attended the island launch.</p><br>
<p>In 2013 the property featured on channel 7&#39;s XFactor with Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Guy Sebastian staying on the property.</p><br>
<p>The island can hold up to 22 guests.</p><br>
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<p>The Arrocampo Reservoir, (embalse de Arrocampo or embalse de Arrocampo-Almaraz in Spanish), is located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.</p><br>
<p>It was created at 1976 to refrigerate the turbines of the Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant.</p><br>
<p>The nearest municipalities are Almaraz, Romangordo, Saucedilla and Serrejón.</p><br>
<p>The dam is on the Arrocampo River (arroyo Arrocampo), very close to where this little river joins the Tagus.</p><br>
<h2>The Arrocampo reservoir as system to refrigerate the Almaraz Nuclear Plant</h2><br>
<p>The refrigeration of the Almaraz nuclear power plant was the first reason for the construction of the reservoir.</p><br>
<p>The water is taken from the Tagus and cover a U-shaped circuit of 25 km which allows the cooling of the heat generated by the two nuclear reactors of the plant. (See the illustration of the water circulation in Arrocampo) (...)</p><br>
<p>The walls of thermic separation (pantallas de separación térmica in Spanish) (PST) are 11 km long and 8 m high (...). The tops of these walls are used by great cormorants and great egret as standing, resting and sleeping areas.</p><br>
<h2>The Arrocampo reservoir as a wetland</h2><br>
<p>Biomass (ecology): biomass of reservoir waters is very important on all trophic levels.</p><br>
<p>-Phytoplankton and zooplankton (...)</p><br>
<p>Fish</p><br>
<p>Angling is often practiced on weekend and feast days. There are sometimes a lot of recreational fishermen at the principal access to the reservoir, near the local route Almaraz-Saucedilla.</p><br>
<p>-Carps</p><br>
<p>-Common barbel</p><br>
<p>-Tench (Tinca tinca)</p><br>
<p>-Gambusia</p><br>
<p>-Largemouth bass or black bass: this species is very common and the size is often spectacular.</p><br>
<p>-European eel...</p><br>
<p>Birds</p><br>
<p>Before the creation of Arrocampo reservoir (1976), there were a lot of wild birds in lands of Almaraz, Saucedilla. White storks, cattle egrets, lesser kestrels... are traditional birds of this area. Now there are two special protection areas: one is the parish church of Saucedilla (17 couples of lesser kestrels on its walls and roofs) and the other one is all the Arrocampo reservoir.</p><br>
<h2>The Arrocampo reservoir as a Special Protection Area (SPA) for wild birds</h2><br>
<p>White stork: nest & reproduction (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Cattle egret:</p><br>
<p>Great cormorant</p><br>
<p>Lesser kestrel: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Purple heron: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Squacco heron: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Little grebe: (r & r)</p><br>
<p>Great crested grebe: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Great bittern: (rare)</p><br>
<p>Little bittern: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Night heron: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Little egret: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Great white egret</p><br>
<p>Grey heron: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Eurasian spoonbill: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Greylag goose</p><br>
<p>Egyptian goose: rare</p><br>
<p>Ruddy shelduck: rare</p><br>
<p>Eurasian wigeon</p><br>
<p>Gadwall: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Common teal</p><br>
<p>Mallard: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Northern shoveler</p><br>
<p>Common pochard</p><br>
<p>Tufted duck</p><br>
<p>Black-shouldered kite: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Black kite</p><br>
<p>Red kite</p><br>
<p>Marsh harrier</p><br>
<p>Hen harrier</p><br>
<p>Montagus harrier</p><br>
<p>Common buzzard</p><br>
<p>Booted eagle</p><br>
<p>Water rail</p><br>
<p>Spotted crake</p><br>
<p>Little crake</p><br>
<p>Purple swamphen</p><br>
<p>Northern lapwing</p><br>
<p>Sanderling</p><br>
<p>Dunlin</p><br>
<p>Ruff</p><br>
<p>Common snipe</p><br>
<p>Black-tailed godwit</p><br>
<p>Eurasian curlew</p><br>
<p>Common redshank</p><br>
<p>Moorhen</p><br>
<p>Avocet</p><br>
<p>Greenshank</p><br>
<p>Wood sandpiper</p><br>
<p>Common sandpiper</p><br>
<p>Black-headed gull</p><br>
<p>Lesser black-backed gull</p><br>
<p>Gull-billed tern</p><br>
<p>Whiskered tern</p><br>
<p>Common kingfisher: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>European bee-eater: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Sand martin: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Red-rumped swallow: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Yellow wagtail</p><br>
<p>Grey wagtail</p><br>
<p>Pied wagtail</p><br>
<p>Bluethroat</p><br>
<p>Cetti&#39;s warbler: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Zitting cisticola: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Savi&#39;s warbler: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Moustached warbler</p><br>
<p>Sedge warbler</p><br>
<p>Reed warbler</p><br>
<p>Great reed warbler</p><br>
<p>Bearded tit: rare</p><br>
<p>Spanish sparrow: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Avadavat: (n & r)</p><br>
<p>Collared pratincole</p><br>
<p>Little ringed plover</p><br>
<p>European golden plover</p><br>
<h2>The Arrocampo ornithologic park (Saucedilla)</h2><br>
<p>The Arrocampo ornithologic park is located in the municipality of Saucedilla, near the reservoir. It was designed by the ornithologist Javier Briz.</p><br>
<p>Monfragüe National Park: the proximity of this national park (...)</p><br>
<p>Route 1: Arrocampo: (...)</p><br>
<p>Route 2: Cerro Alto: (...)</p><br>
<p>George K. Heller School, also known as Cheltenham Center for the Arts, is a historic school building located in Ashmead Village, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was originally built in 1883 to house the first Cheltenham High School, and expanded in 1893 and 1906. Later additions took place between 1963 and 1969, after it was converted to the Cheltenham Center for the Arts. The stone school building ranges from 1 1/2- to 2 1/2-stories and has intersecting gable roofs. The roof is topped by a square cupola. A school was located on this site as early as 1795 and it was considered the oldest public school site in continuous use at the time of its closing in 1953.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Carson College for Orphan Girls, also known as Carson Valley School, is a historic school complex and national historic district located in Flourtown, Springfield Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The buildings remain in active use by the same institution, now coeducational and named Carson Valley Children&#39;s Aid.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The district encompasses nine contributing buildings. They are an assemblage of low-scale, Tudor Revival style structures built between 1917 and 1932. It includes the Mother Goose Cottage (1917-1920), Red Gables Cottage (1917-1920), Stork Hill (1918), Thistle Cottage (1917-1920), Upper Beech Cottage (c. 1930), Lower Beech Cottage (c. 1930), Beech Branch Cottage (c. 1930), a garage (1917-1920), and a shop / storehouse (1932). The campus was designed by noted architect Albert Kelsey (1870-1950) to be reminiscent of a 16th-century English village.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>The school</h2><br>
<p>Founded in 1917 by Philadelphia philanthropists Robert and Isabel Carson, the school was renamed Carson Valley Childrens Aid (CVCA) after a 2008 merger with the Norristown-based Childrens Aid Society. CVCA provides regular and special education, behavioral therapy and psychotherapy for 6th–12th grade boys and girls who have behavioral disorders or mental illnesses, in residential as well as day school programs.</p><br>
<p>Hovenden House, Barn and Abolition Hall is a group of historic buildings in Plymouth Meeting, Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The property was an important station on the Underground Railroad. Abolition Hall was built as a meeting place for abolitionists, and later served as the studio of artist Thomas Hovenden.</p><br>
<p>The house is located at the northeast corner of Germantown and Butler Pikes, opposite the Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse. Northeast of the house is the stone barn, and attached to the barn&#39;s northeast corner is the 2-story carriage house known as Abolition Hall. The three buildings are part of a 10.45-acre farm, and are contributing properties in the Plymouth Meeting Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The property is threaten by a 2016 proposal to reroute Butler Pike between the Hovenden House and its barn. Preservation Pennsylvania added the property to its 2017 Pennsylvania At Risk list.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The settlement at Plymouth Meeting was founded by a group of Devonshire Quakers who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1686. The Maulsby family, who later attained prominence, arrived in Pennsylvania in 1698, and came to Whitemarsh Township in 1705.</p><br>
<h3>Maulsby</h3><br>
<p>Merchant Maulsby Jr. (1737&ndash;1772) was a millwright, who married Hannah Davis (1743&ndash;1807) in 1766. The seller was Hester Potts, widow of Nathan Potts, who had purchased the farm from Joshua Lawrence on July 24, 1739. Merchant Jr.s purchase did not include the 8.25-acre plot at the northeast corner of Germantown and Butler Pikes, which the 1767 deed described as "Elizabeth and Catherine Elliss Land." He and his wife built a 2-story stone house on the property. They had two children &ndash; Samuel (1768&ndash;1838) and Elizabeth (married John Freese). In 1769, Merchant Jr. was taxed £10 on 100 acres, one horse and one cow. He died in February 1772 at age 34.</p><br>
<p>In the early morning of May 20, 1778, 10-year-old Samuel Maulsby watched as British troops marched down Butler Pike to the meetinghouse, part of their unsuccessful attempt to surround the Marquis de Lafayette and 2,100 Continental troops at the Battle of Barren Hill. Maulsbys recollections were recorded by John Fanning Watson in his Annals of Philadelphia (1830), including his description of Redcoats looting his mothers house.</p><br>
<p>Hannah Davis Maulsby married David Marple in 1781, and was soon widowed again. She married Richard Corson in 1784, with whom she had two children, Richard and Hannah. The Corsons occupied her 2-story stone house for a time, but settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Samuel Dean was farming the Maulsby property in 1781; Enoch Marple was farming it in 1783; and seventeen-year-old Samuel Maulsby and his former schoolmate Joseph Corson, a nephew of Richard Corson, were farming it in 1785. Joseph Corson married Hannah Dickinson in 1786, and the young couple rented the 2-story stone house until 1789. Like Samuel Maulsby, they became abolitionists, and one of their sons later married one of his daughters.</p><br>
<p>On 3 February 1794, Samuel Maulsby purchased the 8.25-acre plot at the northeast corner of Germantown and Butler Pikes, for £137. The sellers were John Fontiles and his wife Elizabeth, who had bought the corner plot from Joseph and Mary Potts on February 2, 1789. The 1794 deed mentioned "a messuage" (house) on the property, but did not describe it. Maulsby later purchased adjacent plots at the north end of the farm, which expanded it to 128 acres (51.8 hectares) and extended it to Flourtown Road.</p><br>
<p>"Samuel Maulsby was the owner of a large and fertile farm at Plymouth Meeting... It included the whole north east corner of the two roads, the Germantown turnpike, its south boundary, and the Plymouth and Broad Axe turnpike, along which it extended for half a mile, its western boundary. n addition to the farming operations the burning of lime was extensively carried on by him."</p><br>
<p>Maulsby built the Cater Corner House (1802), at the southeast corner of Butler Pike and Flourtown Road, possibly as housing for Thomas Davis, a free-black limeburner recorded as living on his property. Maulsby also built the General Store and Post Office (1826-27) beside his house, at 3-5 Germantown Pike. His son Jonathan (1801&ndash;1845) ran the store and served as Plymouth Meeting&#39;s first postmaster.</p><br>
<p>In 1832, Maulsbys daughter Martha (1807&ndash;1870) married George Corson (1803-1860), a son of Joseph and Hannah Corson (and a former clerk in the general store). Samuel Maulsby died on July 12, 1838, and was interred beside his wife in the meetinghouses burial ground. George and Martha Maulsby Corson purchased the farm from his estate on April 6, 1839. George and his brothers purchased the Maulsby limestone quarries, and founded what became G. & W. H. Corson Company - Lime Merchants.</p><br>
<h3>Abolitionism</h3><br>
<p>The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 made it a federal crime to give assistance to an escaped slave.</p><br>
<p>The earliest and only abolitionists in Plymouth and Whitemarsh townships were Samuel Maulsby, Joseph Corson and Alan W. Corson. Away back before 1820 they had been stirred by the scathing denunciations of slavery, and the horrors of the slave trade, made by Granville Sharp, William Wilberforce and Thomas Fouell Buxton, before the Parliament of Great Britain, to an intense hatred of slavery and the slave trade, and the abominations of slavery in our own country.</p><br>
<p>Both George Corsons and Martha Maulsbys parents had sheltered escaped slaves. &mdash; north to the house of William Foulke at Penllyn, Pennsylvania; or northeast to abolitionists living around the Quaker meetinghouses in Upper Dublin and Horsham, Pennsylvania. The Underground Railroad route continued through Bucks County, New Jersey and New York, and to eventual freedom in Canada. In at least one instance, Corson hid people under a wagonload of hay and drove them to the next station.</p><br>
<p>The greater burden of the work was borne by George and his wife, Martha Maulsby Corson. Their residence in the old Maulsby home, right in front of the Friends Plymouth Meeting-House, was so prominent a place, known by everybody for miles around, made it easy for slaves to find the place, when sent by those from a distance to "George Corsons at Plymouth Meeting." He it was who forwarded fugitives to Mahlon Linton, at Newtown, or to William H. Johnson, at Buckingham, or to Richard Moore, at Quakertown, Bucks county, time after time, during the whole period of the great struggle from 1830 to 1850.</p><br>
<p>The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 increased the penalties for giving assistance to an escaped slave to six months in prison and a $1,000 fine. It allowed slavecatchers to pursue a fugitive across state lines into every USA state and territory. Corson was involved in hiding Jane Johnson, whose escape exposed a loophole in the federal law.</p><br>
<h4>Jane Johnson</h4><br>
<p>On the morning of July 18, 1855, Jane Johnson (1822&ndash;1872) and her two young sons arrived in Philadelphia by train with her master, North Carolina slaveholder John H. Wheeler, and his family. They were en route from Washington, D.C. to New York City, and had to switch to a ferry to cross the Delaware River. Wheeler locked Johnson and her sons in a hotel room while he and his family took the afternoon to tour the city. Pennsylvania did not recognize the property rights of slaveholders, and Johnson sought help from a hotel porter in escaping from slavery. The porter contacted abolitionist William Still, and Still and lawyer Passmore Williamson rushed to the docks as the Wheeler party was about to depart on a 5:00 pm ferry to Camden, New Jersey. Williamson explained to Johnson that Pennsylvania law guaranteed freedom to her, if she chose it. As Still led Johnson and her sons away, five black dockhands prevented Wheeler from stopping them.</p><br>
<p>Williamson, the only white man involved, was arrested and charged with violating the Fugitive Slave Act. Federal Judge John Kintzing Kane presided over his trial, and refused to believe that Williamson did not know where Johnson was being hidden. Kane found him in contempt of court, and jailed him for more than three months, which attracted national attention. Williamsons successful defense was that Johnsons master had brought her into Pennsylvania, a free state, therefore she was not a fugitive across state lines, and state law rather than federal law applied. Still and the five other men were charged with forcible abduction, rioting, disorderly conduct, and assault. On August 29, 1855, Johnson appeared as a surprise witness at their trial, and testified that she had voluntarily walked away from Wheeler. The most serious charges against the men were dismissed, although the two who had restrained Wheeler were convicted of assault and spent a week in jail. Johnson was escorted out of the courthouse by Lucretia Mott, Rev. James Miller McKim and George Corson. She was hidden at Corsons house in Plymouth Meeting to prevent pro-slavery activists from abducting her and returning her to slavery. At the end of her stay, Corsons 13-year-old son, Ellwood, drove Johnson in a carriage by night to Mahlon Linton&#39;s house in Newtown, Pennsylvania. From there she was smuggled to Boston, Massachusetts and reunited with her sons.</p><br>
<h4>Abolition Hall</h4><br>
<p>The Jane Johnson affair caused a national controversy &ndash; largely cheered in the North, viciously condemned in the South. The Plymouth Friends Meeting had permitted abolitionist speakers to use their meetinghouse for decades, but following the 1856 burning of another Quaker meetinghouse that had hosted abolitionist speakers, permission was denied. George Corson&#39;s reaction was to built a lecture hall above his carriage shed to provide a space for abolitionist meetings.</p><br>
<p>He determined to build a hall, over which he could have control. He made quite a large one and furnished it well with seats, warmed and lighted at his own expense. And now we can see how convenient it was for the lecturers to make his house their temporary home. As time wore on more and more neighbors and friends were attracted to the meetings to hear the eloquent and earnest men and women who pictured the atrocities of slavery.</p><br>
<p>Abolition Hall could hold up to 200 people, and was used for meetings of the Montgomery County Anti-Slavery Society &ndash; of which Corson had been a founder in 1837 &ndash; and for lectures by prominent abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison and Lucretia Mott.</p><br>
<p>Corson died in November 1860. William Still eulogized Corson in his 1872 history of the Underground Railroad:</p><br>
<p>There were perhaps few more devoted men than George Corson to the interests of the oppressed everywhere. The slave, fleeing from his master, ever found a home with him, and felt while there that no slave-hunter would get him away until every means of protection should fail. His home was always open to entertain the anti-slavery advocates, and being warmly supported in the cause by his excellent wife, everything which they could do to make their guests comfortable was done. It is to be regretted that he died before the emancipation of the slaves, which he had so long labored for, arrived.</p><br>
<h3>Artist's studio</h3><br>
<p>The Corsons daughter Helen (1846-1935), trained as an artist at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She further studied in Paris, and exhibited at the Paris Salon, 1876, 1879 and 1880. She met Irish-born painter Thomas Hovenden (1840-1895) in France, and they were married at the Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse on June 9, 1881. They moved into her late parents house, and raised two children, Thomas Jr. and Martha.</p><br>
<p>Hovenden succeeded Thomas Eakins as Professor of Painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1886. He specialized in genre scenes of rural life, using his neighbors, often African Americans, as models. He converted Abolition Hall into a studio, and the moral causes that had been championed there inspired some of his works. His most famous painting &ndash; The Last Moments of John Brown (1882–84), Metropolitan Museum of Art &ndash; depicts the radical abolitionist John Brown kissing a baby as he is led to the gallows. Hovenden was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in 1881, and an academician in 1882.</p><br>
<p>"Thomas Hovenden lost his life on an unguarded grade crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad near his home, August 14, 1895, in an attempt to save the life of a little girl who was crossing in front of an approaching engine. Both were killed." The accident occurred about three miles from his house, near the south end of what is now Chemical Road. Helen Corson Hovendens advocacy pressured the Pennsylvania Railroad into elevating the tracks of its high-speed Trenton Cutoff, separating them from the grade level tracks of trolleys. Rev. William Henry Furness gave the eulogy at Thomas Hovendens funeral, and Eakins and Samuel Murray were among the pall bearers.</p><br>
<p>Helen Corson Hovenden was noted for her portraits of children and pets. The couple&#39;s daughter, Martha Maulsby Hovenden (1884-1941), a sculptor who trained at PAFA under Charles Grafly and at the Art Students League of New York under Hermon Atkins MacNeil, later used Abolition Hall as her studio. Examples of her work can be seen at the Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge. In 1939, she designed a bookplate, which is still in use by the Friends of the William Jeanes Memorial Library. The copper printing plate and original print of that bookplate are stored in the Friends archives.</p><br>
<p>Nancy Corson (1920-2012), a great-granddaughter of George Corson and granddaughter of Dr. Ellwood M. Corson (who as a teenager had assisted Jane Johnson), made the Maulsby stone barn her residence from 1946 until her death in 2012.</p><br>
<h2>Plymouth Meeting Historic District</h2><br>
<p>The village of Plymouth Meeting was designated a Pennsylvania historic district in 1961, by a joint resolution of Plymouth and Whitemarsh Townships. The district encompassed 66 historic structures.</p><br>
<p>In 1971, the village of Plymouth Meeting became Pennsylvania&#39;s first National Register District. At the time, the Maulsby/Corson/Hovenden homestead was threatened by a plan to split Butler Pike into two one-way highways that would straddle the buildings on the property. The northbound bypass would have run alongside the east wall of the barn, and required the demolition of Abolition Hall. Nancy Corson authored a separate NRHP nomination specifically for the Hovenden House, Barn and Abolition Hall as a unit, which was also approved in 1971. Plans for the bypass were abandoned.</p><br>
<h3>Historical marker</h3><br>
<p>Nancy Corson and Charles Blockson, an authority on the history of the Underground Railroad, co-wrote the nomination for a Pennsylvania state historical marker to commemorate Abolition Hall. The marker was approved, and dedicated at 4006 Butler Pike (in front of the barn) on November 18, 2000:</p><br>
<p>ABOLITION HALL</p><br>
<p>The Antislavery meeting hall here, opened</p><br>
<p>in 1856, brought many leading abolitionist</p><br>
<p>speakers as guests of George Corson and</p><br>
<p>his wife, Martha Maulsby Corson. Built</p><br>
<p>over a carriage shed, the hall could ac-</p><br>
<p>comodate up to 200 visitors. The family&#39;s</p><br>
<p>1767 homestead here had already long been</p><br>
<p>a station on the Underground Railroad.</p><br>
<p>Later, 1881-1895, Abolition Hall was the</p><br>
<p>studio of son-in-law Thomas Hovenden, who</p><br>
<p>painted "Last Moments of John Brown."</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>An offer by Whitemarsh Township to purchase the property for open space was declined by its owners in 2014.</p><br>
<h3>Proposed development</h3><br>
<p>In late 2015, K. Hovnanian Builders submitted a sketch plan to the township&#39;s planning/zoning office that proposed the construction of 48 townhouses on the eight acres of open space behind the buildings. The plan included the re-routing of Butler Pike between the Hovenden House and the Barn/Abolition Hall. This re-routing would require the demolition or relocation of the Plymouth Meeting General Store and Post Office (also listed on the National Register).</p><br>
<p>Following vocal opposition, the Whitemarsh Township Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to deny the request for a zoning variance. In response, the developer requested a continuance of a scheduled April 25, 2016 zoning hearing. In late August 2016, K. Hovnanian Builders submitted a revised Zoning Plan to Whitemarsh Township, asserting that this plan met the requirements for shared parking and access (with an adjacent property). In early November 2016, the Zoning Officer issued his Preliminary Opinion, concurring with the developers assertion that the current Zoning Plan met the requirements of the code. With the second publication of this opinion, a 30-day period begins during which any "aggrieved" party can file an appeal. Absent such appeal, the Zoning Officers opinion becomes binding. (See Section 916.2--Preliminary Opinion of the Zoning Officer). On December 21, 2016, seven concerned Whitemarsh Township residents, represented by counsel, filed an appeal, challenging the Zoning Officer&#39;s Preliminary Opinion. On January 31, that appeal was heard before the Whitemarsh Township Zoning Hearing Board, but after three hours of testimony and questions, the hearing was continued to March 16, 2017. On February 15, the attorney for the appellants submitted a legal brief, further supporting the challenge to the Preliminary Opinion.</p><br>
<h3>Advocacy</h3><br>
<p>In Spring 2016, the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia placed Abolition Hall/Barn and Hovenden House on its list of "Places to Save," a public registry that "focuses attention and energy towards special places at risk of being lost."</p><br>
<p>In a May 2016 television news story, the current owner of the Plymouth Meeting Country Store and Post Office took the news crew into the building&#39;s cellar and showed them the tunnels that he says were used as part of the Underground Railroad. These tunnels lead to Abolition Hall, directly behind his building.</p><br>
<p>In September 2016, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission issued a letter to Plymouth and Whitemarsh Townships clarifying and reiterating the significance of the Maulsby/Corson/Hovenden homestead. Noting the "inter-related complex of buildings," the letter goes on to state that their 1971 nomination to the National Register of Historic Places "reinforces the important role that these buildings played within the context of the village, as well as their individual historical and architectural significance."</p><br>
<p>In February 2017, Preservation Pennsylvania (PPA) added the property to its 2017 Pennsylvania At Risk List. The organization also agreed to serve as the fiscal agent for Friends of Abolition Hall, which is raising funds to support the zoning challenge and protect the legacy of the homestead. Online donations are being accepted at.</p><br>
<p>Dewart Lake, , is a natural lake southwest of Syracuse in Kosciusko County, Indiana, United States. It was formed during the most recent glacial retreat of the Pleistocene era.</p><br>
<p>Dewart Lake is a 551-acre (223 ha) natural lake, located three miles (4.8 km) south of Syracuse and three miles (4.8 km) east of Indiana State Road 15. 41 degrees 22 03.31" North Latitude x 85 degrees 46 18.22" West Longitude, 867.70 ft above Sea Level. 82 ft is the maximum depth with an average depth of 16.3 ft. It lies within the Elkhart River watershed and drains 5,152 acre. Two small inlets enter on the east side and the outlet, Hammond Ditch, leaves the west side and flows to Waubee Lake. Large areas on the north and south sides of the lake are less than 5 ft deep. Hydraulic retention time is 601 days. Farming is the main watershed use, although woodlots and wetlands are present. Nearly all of the shoreline is residentially developed. Areas of natural shoreline and wetlands are present along the south shore and in the northeast corner adjacent to a private camp. A state-owned boat ramp is available in the northwest corner on CR 300E.</p><br>
<p>Dewart Lake is moderately fertile. Its trophic index is 36. Enough oxygen is present for fish 20 deep but levels drop too low below 20 feet (less than 4 ppm.). Water clarity varies from 6 through 13 1/2 feet. The bottom is mostly sand and muck, but boulders and gravel are also present. Eurasian Water Millfol is the dominant submerged aquatic plant. (The lake was treated for this non-indeginoous plant in 2006.) Cattails, spatterdock and water lilies are the major emergent plants. In recent years, an extensive cattail stand along the south shore has been replaced with lilies. Some past management at Dewart Lake has been directed at maintaining the native fishery and creating walleye fishing opportunities.</p><br>
<h2>A Short History of the Name of Dewart Lake</h2><br>
<h3>Originally Wa-We-As-See</h3><br>
<p>Surveyor’s field notes dated February 21, 1835 describe our beautiful lake as “two square miles located in the southeast corner of Van Buren township known by the Indian name of Wa-we-as-see (pronounced Wawasee)”.</p><br>
<h3>Then Lingle Lake</h3><br>
<p>The land in northern Indiana was opened for settlement on March 20, 1837. Shortly thereafter, President Martin Van Buren granted a land patent of 77.53 acres that contained our lake to Thomas Lingle and his wife Matelene. Soon after this the lake was renamed Lingle Lake.</p><br>
<p>Lingle’s land was located in the northwest corner of the lake in the vicinity of what is now road 300 E. Five years later the Lingles left Van Buren township and the state of Indiana to move further west to Iowa. Thomas Lingle and his wife signed a deed granting the land to Mr. Henry S. Goben in the presence of an Abner Andsmith, Justice of the Peace of Johnson County, Iowa for a sales price of $500.</p><br>
<p>Seven months later Henry Goben sold the land to Edward and Susan Goben of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania for $750 thereby making a tidy profit of $250.</p><br>
<h3>Finally Dewart Lake</h3><br>
<p>Less than two years later Edward and Susan sold the acreage including our lake to another Northumberland County, Pennsylvania couple named Samuel and Margaret Dewart. The Dewarts purchased the land for $1200 on May 8, 1844.</p><br>
<p>The Dewarts were 41 years old when they moved from Pennsylvania to Lingle Lake. The 1850 census lists eight children living in the Dewart household and all were born in Pennsylvania. The children listed were: Lewis, age 23; Amos, age 22; Simon, age 19; Samuel, age 15;William, age 13; John, age 11; Rueben, age 9; and Jessimen, age 8.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Dewart only lived to enjoy his lake for nine years. He died September 8, 1853 at the young age of 50. His wife Margaret lived until September 22, 1877 and died at the age of 74. The gravestones of Samuel and Margaret Muir Dewart are located in Salem Cemetery at the northeast corner of 200 E and 900 N.</p><br>
<p>The name Lingle Lake continued on some legal documents well into the early 1900s. Finally the Dewart name won out by an overwhelming majority and our lake became officially known as Dewart Lake.</p><br>
<p>Extracted from an article by Jack Elam published in the May 1993 DLPA newsletter then called “…dabbles of data from DEWART”</p><br>
<p>Raffles Bay is a bay on the northern coast of the Cobourg Peninsula of the Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia. It was named in 1818 by explorer Phillip Parker King after Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. It is about 10 km long north to south, 5 km wide at its mouth and 3 km wide at its inland end. It lies about 210 km north-east of Darwin and opens on to the northern end of Bowen Strait, between the Cobourg Peninsula and Croker Island, and the Arafura Sea. It was the site of an abortive attempt to establish the British military outpost and settlement of Fort Wellington, which lasted only two years - 1827 to 1829.https://dtc.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/241900/occpaper44.pdf The surrounds of the bay are largely uninhabited; it now lies within the Garig Gunak Barlu National Park.</p><br>
<p>Engilchek Glacier  is a glacier in the Central Tian Shan Mountains of Issyk-Kul Region, northeastern Kyrgyzstan. Its snout is 50 km east of the village of Engilchek. The South Inylchek Glacier ranks as the sixth longest non-polar glacier in the world and is the largest and fastest moving glacier in Kyrgyzstan. The main glacier has two arms, the North and South Engilchek Glaciers. The latter is longer and provides an overall length of 60.5 km. with an area of 17.2 km&sup2; and an ice thickness of roughly 150–200 m in the bottom parts. The glacier stems from the Chinese-Kazakh-Kyrgyz massif of Khan Tengri and Pik Pobedy and the upper part of the glacier falls in all three countries. Meltwater from the glacier feeds a tributary of the Aksu River, which crosses the Chinese border into the Tarim Basin. Water from this glacier also feeds the seasonal glacial Lake Merzbacher which ultimately flows into the Engilchek River.</p><br>
<p>Aubrey Valley is a 35-mile  long valley located in southwest Coconino County, Arizona with the northwest border of Yavapai County. The valley is located at the southwest border of the Aubrey Cliffs; to the west and southwest, the Yampai Divide and the Seventyfour Plains form flatlands between four bordering mountain ranges at the northwest terminus of the Arizona transition zone.</p><br>
<p>The Aubrey Cliffs form the east and northeast valley border, and are part of the escarpment at the southwest perimeter of the Coconino Plateau, southwest Colorado Plateau. The Aubrey Cliffs re-appear northwest of the valley&#39;s north end, at the southeast of Prospect Valley. The Toroweap Fault is buried near the center of Aubrey Valley, west of the cliffs, and continues northwest into Prospect Valley, and to the Colorado River, west Grand Canyon. The Hurricane Fault-(of the Hurricane Cliffs) begins there, and both faults continue, the Hurricane going northwest, the Toroweap northeast, into southern Utah.</p><br>
<p>The south Aubrey Valley is the route of historic USA Route 66, now superseded by Interstate 40.</p><br>
<p>The Aubrey Valley supports a population of endangered black-footed ferrets, reintroduced in 1996 due to Valley&#39;s prairie dog colonies and favorable grassland habitat.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The south valley region, near its south perimeter is traversed by Arizona State Route 66, (former USA 66), from Seligman, Arizona at the valley&#39;s southeast, and at the south terminus of the Aubrey Cliffs; (Seligman is at Interstate 40). Route 66 traverses north-east across the south valley terminus region to Grand Canyon Caverns, then mostly west across the Yampai Divide to Peach Springs, Arizona at the beginning of hills, and mountains.</p><br>
<p>The central valley has two routes that spur northwards from Arizona 66, west of Grand Canyon Caverns. The routes traverse west, and east of the central wash that drains from the north. Both routes are unimproved roads, and connect to Reservation Route 20, (Hualapai Reservation). Paved road, Res Route 18 traverses the northwest at the hillside foothills of the valley and passes Blue Mountain, 6,038 ft, continues northeast through Robbers Roost, Arizona in a section of hills, then meets Res Route 18 at Fraziers Well, Arizona, the north terminus of Aubrey Valley; the valley narrows here between Aubrey Cliffs, east, and hills and mountains to the west. The Aubrey Cliffs reappear northwest, west-northwest of this point, in the southeast of Prospect Valley.</p><br>
<p>The Hochgolling  is a mountain of the Eastern Alps, located on the border of Steiermark and Salzburg, Austria, near the ski resort of Schladming. It is the highest peak of the Lower Tauern range.</p><br>
<p>A hiking rather than a climbing peak, the mountain is relatively low by alpine standards, but still towers over all of its neighbours. Its northern face is a 1,200 m high wall, while its other slopes are more gentle. A long ridge slopes south from the summit, dividing the Göriach Valley from the Lessach Valley.</p><br>
<p>Due to Hochgolling&#39;s topographic isolation the views from its summit are panoramic, stretching from the glaciated peaks of the vast High Tauern in the west to the lower Gurktal Alps to the east, and including the Julian Alps, Kamnik Alps and Karawanks to the south.</p><br>
<p>The Col Nudo is a mountain in the Alps located in Italy. It is the highest peak of the Venetian Prealps and the 30th most prominent summit of the Alps.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Administratively the mountain is divided between the Italian regions of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (province of Pordenone) and Veneto (province of Belluno).</p><br>
<h3>SOIUSA classification</h3><br>
<p>According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Eastern Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=Central Eastern Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Venetian Prealps</p><br>
<p>subsection=Prealpi Bellunesi</p><br>
<p>supergroup=Catena Cavallo-Visentin</p><br>
<p>group=Gruppo Col Nudo-Cavallo</p><br>
<p>subgroup=Sottogruppo del Col Nudo</p><br>
<p>code=II/C-32.II-B.2.a</p><br>
<p>The Patrick F. McManus House  was built sometime between 1853 and 1855 by sutler and prospector Patrick F. McManus. McManus was one of the first of a group of white men in 1853 to reach what is now called Crater Lake as part of the Hillman group of prospectors. It sits on the Corner of 1st and Church Streets in Phoenix, Oregon and was built on the corner of one of the first donation land claims in the area belonging to Samuel Colver. McManus sold the home back to the Colver family in about 1857 for the use of the widow and children of Samuels deceased brother Hiram. Patrick F. McManus then went on the gold strike in Yreka, California, served as a sutler during the Modoc War and was killed in the Yreka area while driving a team and hauling mail.</p><br>
<p>The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, through the research of Barbara Bateman. It was included in the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1934, done during the Works Progress Administration. Photos and detailed drawings are stored in the Library of Congress</p><br>
<p>Henry Melchior Muhlenberg House, also known as the John J. Schrack House, is a historic home located at Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The house was built about 1755, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, stone dwelling with a gable roof. It measures approximately 39 feet by 31 feet. Between 1994 and 1998, the house was restored to its 1776-1787 appearance. This was the period of residency by Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg , patriarch of the Lutheran Church in the United States, and father of Peter Muhlenberg  and Frederick Muhlenberg . Also on the property are the remains of a pottery kiln dated to about 1720. It is the oldest intact pottery kiln known in Pennsylvania. The house is owned by the Trappe Historical Society and open as a historic house museum.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Diamond Ranch was established near Chugwater, Wyoming in 1878 by George Rainsford, a New York native who came west to breed horses. Rainsford, an architect, designed many of the structures at the ranch. Horses bred at the ranch, mainly Morgans and Clydesdales, were widely known and sought after. The ranch was named after Rainsford&#39;s Diamond brand, one of the two oldest registered brands in Wyoming. Unlike most brands, which remain with the owner, the Diamond brand has remained with the property. The ranch features extensive barns for breeding and raising horses, as well as a more modest ranch house. In its prime there were formal gardens.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Although Rainsford established the ranch in 1878, it was not until 1880-1882 that temporary structures were built, with permanent buildings in 1885. Rainsford did not receive a patent for his lands until 1891, and then for only 160 acre. The remainder was public land amounting to about 27,000 acre, which Rainsford fenced. He was fined and forced to tear the fences down from 1905-1907, as an 1885 law prohibited the fencing of public lands. Although there were 3000 horses on the land in 1900, by 1920 they had declined to 200, and Rainsford sold his remaining stock to the USA Army and retired. His manager, Paul Raborg, bought the ranch in 1922, breeding polo ponies and raising dairy cattle. A scheme to feed the cattle on sunflower seeds led to the construction of large silos for storage. The plan failed and Raborg left when his marriage dissolved. His former wifes parents took over the ranch, with Maud Raborgs mother Dora Mae Oberman becoming sole owner on the death of her husband in 1937. Dora Mae Oberman expanded the ranch to 64,000 acre before she died in 1956.</p><br>
<p>In 1956 the ranch was sold to neighboring landowners Hugh and Rissa McDonald, who also owned the nearby Ned Foss Ranch. Their holdings amounted to 75,000 acre by 1962. The McDonalds rented the Diamond Ranch buildings for use as a Methodist youth camp from the mid-1950s through 1965. The ranch passed from the McDonalds on their deaths in 1966 to their daughter and her husband, Ruth and John Braunschweig. In 1968 the ranch became a dude ranch and camping center associated with Kampgrounds of America. The barns were converted for guest use, with sleeping accommodations in the stud stalls and a dance floor in the main barn.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Rainsford avoided traditional frontier architecture, using materials and forms more typical of eastern USA practices. The ranch buildings are substantial stone structures. The main barn, later the dance and dining hall, is an irregular stone structure varying from 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 stories with a mixture of hipped and gabled roofs. The complex encloses a sheltered courtyard with the main part of the barn set back into a hillside. The roofs are steeply pitched, lending the structures a lowered appearance that is characteristic of Rainsford&#39;s architecture. The ranch house is an irregularly shaped two-story structure with a variety of design elements. A stone bunkhouse and a stone bath building, formerly a storage building, complete the ensemble.</p><br>
<p>The Diamond Ranch was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 28, 1984. It continues to function as a guest ranch.</p><br>
<p>Viewfield House is a large square stone built three storey Palladian villa in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. It is a category B listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Provost's villa</h3><br>
<p>Viewfield House was built in about 1808 for James Blackwood, Provost of Dunfermline, but has been altered repeatedly since then. It consists of three storeys with a pitched roof of grey slate, flat in the centre, containing an attic. The house has three bays: the central bay has a shallowly projecting pediment. There are Palladian windows on the first floor. The house is built of sandstone in ashlar blocks, the ground floor has a rusticated exterior and the basement is rockfaced.</p><br>
<p>The front of the house faces north. There are steps up to the front door which is flanked by a pair of white columns. The architectural academic, John Gifford, writing of the house in the Fife volume of The Buildings of Scotland, describes the doorcase as being modelled on The Tower of the Winds in Athens. Above the door is a semicircular fanlight; the columns support a heavy entablature.</p><br>
<p>Inside the house, the entrance lobby has decorative plasterwork in Adam style including roundels, fan vaulting and an oval ceiling. At the back there is a dogleg staircase which has a cast iron balustrade; above this is an octagonal lantern.</p><br>
<p>Viewfield House had substantial grounds surrounded by trees in the nineteenth century, as shown on J. Wood&#39;s 1823 town plan, and (illustrated) the 1854 Ordnance Survey 1:1056 map, which also shows the staircase extension on the south side of the house.</p><br>
<h3>Later owners</h3><br>
<p>James Blackwood died in 1829. By 1828, Viewfield House already belonged to a Mrs Anderson; Mercer recorded that "This pleasant villa... stands in a fine park, adorned with plantations and shrubberies, and is the principal ornament of the eastern approaches to the town." By 1841, Viewfield House was occupied by the family of John Finlay, a merchant of Dunfermline who had become wealthy in Calcutta, leaving his mother Henrietta Mackay and sister Agnes in Viewfield. A Benjamin Hobson Carroll lived in Viewfield in 1884.</p><br>
<h3>Carnegie Trust Craft School</h3><br>
<p>The house was bought by the Carnegie Trust in 1915, and served as home to the Carnegie Trusts Craft School from 1920. The School had previously been housed in the Carnegie Womens Institute (from 1912) and before that in Abbot House.</p><br>
<p>In Viewfield, the Craft School offered classes in furniture making, metalwork, house painting and decorating, illustrating, writing with traditional quill pens, plaster and clay modelling, leatherworking, and embroidery. These were taught by five full-time day staff and three part-time evening class instructors. Each year, students&#39; work was shown at an annual exhibition in the Old Carnegie Baths building, Pilmuir Hall.</p><br>
<p>The house was used by the WRNS from 1940 to 1945. It was returned to the Trust after the war, but closed in 1963. Some of its students set up the Dunfermline Arts and Crafts Guild to continue running the house; it carried on teaching craft classes until 1980. The house was split into flats in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Footnotes</h2><br>
<p>Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, also known as Church of the Evangelists and St. Martin&#39;s College for Indigent Boys, is a set of four buildings with a history that unites idealism or religious beliefs, service to the poor, and art. Formerly an Episcopal church in the working-class Bella Vista neighborhood of South Philadelphia, it is best known as the home of the Graphic Sketch Club founded by Samuel S. Fleisher, which offers free art lessons to children and adults.</p><br>
<p>The four buildings include a campanile built in 1857, a basilica built 1884-1886, St. Martin&#39;s College built in 1906, and two rowhouses built in the 1850s.</p><br>
<p>Since Fleisher&#39;s death in 1944, his trust, which owns the buildings, has been administered by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Art Memorial was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and is located at 711-721 Catharine St. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Church</h3><br>
<p>The Church of the Evangelists was established as a mission church for the poor of Catherine Street in 1837, by Episcopalians named William Welsh and Horace Binney, among others. A church building was constructed in 1857 which includes the campanile which still stands. The church&#39;s viability became a concern by 1880, possibly because of the influx of non-Episcopal immigrants to the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Henry Robert Percival, a well-known high church Episcopal priest, revived the fortunes of the Church of the Evangelists when he was appointed rector about 1880.</p><br>
<p>The well-connected Percival had traveled in Italy and had "a sensibility which combined Italian and Anglo-Catholic romanticisms." He wished to rebuild the church based on the Romanesque models of St. Mark&#39;s Basilica in Venice, the Cathedral of Pisa and the Orvieto Cathedral. The 1884 design by the firm Furness and Evans was in actuality based on San Zeno Maggiore in Verona.</p><br>
<p>Frescos in the church were painted by Robert Henri, Nicola DAscenzo, and by local parishioners. Much of the interior decorative work was left unfinished. The influences on the architecture include "Italy, Ruskin, the ecclesiological movement, and the pageantry of medieval Christianity." James van Trump is more critical, stating that "a rather self-conscious coterie of late nineteenth century Philadelphia haute bourgeoisie, engaged, one might say in being Catholic&#39;, cultivated, and artistic."</p><br>
<p>After Percival retired on account of illness in the 1890s, the churchs fortunes declined. St. Martins College for Indigent Boys was built in 1906, perhaps in an effort to fight the decline and better connect with the non-Episcopalian neighborhood.</p><br>
<h3>Art school</h3><br>
<p>Samuel Stewart Fleisher, the son of German Jewish immigrants, became vice-president of the family business after graduating from the Wharton School of Business. By that time the family business, the Fleisher Yarn Company, was a major manufacturer of hand-knitting yarns and worsted fabric. Fleisher was extraordinarily concerned for the welfare of the company&#39;s workers, their children, and others who lived in the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Fleisher started offering free art classes to children in 1898 in the Jewish Union building at 422 Bainbridge Street. Later known as the Graphic Sketch Club, the institution gave free, non-competitive, collaborative classes to both children and adults without discrimination by race or nationality. In 1906 it moved to a larger building at 740 Catharine Street, then in 1916 it moved across the street to Saint Martin’s College for Indigent Boys. The church was purchased and converted into an art gallery in 1922.</p><br>
<p>In 1944, Fleisher died and left his estate in trust to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to continue the Graphic Sketch Club, which was renamed the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial. In 1983 it became a formally independent non-profit corporation with a separate board of trustees, but it is still managed by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.</p><br>
<p>The Fleisher Memorial continues to offer free and low-cost classes and workshops to both children and adults, in subjects such as drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and dance. Since 1997 they have also offered the "Community Partnership in the Arts" program which places artists in public school classrooms in South Philadelphia. Artists teach students for 90-minute classes twice a week for 6–10 weeks. Ceramist Winnie Owens-Hart is among the artists who have worked at the Memorial.</p><br>
<p>The gallery contains art by Violet Oakley, tiles by Henry Chapman Mercer, 18th-century Portuguese art, and primitive European art, as well as the religious art from the original church. There are six early stained glass windows made by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake, and one later window, designed by John LaFarge. Entrance to the gallery is free, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with reduced hours on Saturdays.</p><br>
<p>Lake Ruby is a natural freshwater lake in the suburbs southeast of Winter Haven, Florida. Lake Ruby has a 259 acre surface area. It is one block south of Cypress Gardens Boulevard. Lake Ruby Drive borders most of the lake&#39;s north side. All of the west shore, the southwest shore and the northeast shore is bordered by gated residential communities. The south side of the lake is bordered by private land and just to the east-southeast is Lake Bess. A narrow strip of land, at its narrowest point 40 ft, separates the two lakes.</p><br>
<p>Although Lake Ruby is large, the public has access to it only along a section about three blocks wide on the north shore, along part of Lake Ruby Drive. There are no public swimming areas or public boat ramps. The lake shore can be accessed on the north by those wishing to fish. The Hook and Bullet website says the lake contains bullhead, gar and bowfin.</p><br>
<p>The Windsor Village Historic District is a historical district in the center of Windsor, Vermont. It includes several dozen properties which were built in the 18th, the 19th, and in the beginning of the 20th centuries, built in different architectural styles. The district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 23, 1975.</p><br>
<p>Originally, the district was designated along Main Street, Depot Avenue, and State Street through and including Court Square. Later, Phelps Ct. was added.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1777, in the Old Constitution House, which is a part of the district, the constitution of the Vermont Republic was drafted. Initially, Windsor was a part-time capital of the Republic, and it remains the seat of Windsor County. This guaranteed an influx of population to the town. Many of newcomers were highly educated professionals. The location of Windsor on the banks of the Connecticut River provided an easy access to transportation routes, and this access was further reinforced by the construction of a railway in 1847.In the 19th century, Windsor was a prosperous industrial and administrative center. This resulted in intensive construction, with industrial-related buildings concentrated on the Main Street and Depot Avenue, including the railway station, and residential buildings located on State Street and in the northern end of Main Street. By the end of the 19th century, the major industrial enterprises in Windsor were producing water pumps, firearms, machine tools, and cotton.</p><br>
<h2>Properties</h2><br>
<p>As of 1975, the list of properties included the properties listed below. It was again enlarged in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Osgood Gamekeeper&#39;s Lodge is located along State Highway 133 near Redstone, Colorado, United States. It is a timber frame structure built at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1989 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Architect Theodore Boal designed the house in the Swiss chalet style, one of many in Redstone at that time. He had been commissioned by John C. Osgood, then owner of the Colorado Fuel and Iron (CFI) company, who designed the small community as a company town for the coal miners and other workers CFI employed in the area. Osgood&#39;s estate included two large private game preserves for himself and his guests, who included Theodore Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller and King Leopold II.</p><br>
<p>Less than a decade after it was built, Redstone was almost completely abandoned. Many of its original houses and cottages were torn down or moved in later decades, even as Redstone itself revived slightly as an arts colony. The gamekeeper&#39;s cottage is one of the few outside the village that remain relatively unaltered. It continues to be used as a private residence.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The lodge is on a 6 acre complex</p><br>
<p>Much of the neighboring land is undeveloped. To the south is a small subdivision along Chair Mountain Road. A quarter-mile (500 m) to the north is another subdivision. The land along the road is open, giving way to forest further back. There is no development between the highway and the river.</p><br>
<p>An unpaved driveway leads into the property from the road. There are three buildings around its end. The original gamekeeper&#39;s lodge is to the north, its carriage house to the west and a modern building to the south. All are sheltered by mature trees, predominantly a mixture of aspen and pine.</p><br>
<p>The lodge building is a one-and-a-half-story timber frame house sided with wooden shingles stained dark brown. It is topped by a clipped-gable roof with broad overhanging eaves pierced by two chimneys near the center. The lower story has a full-length porch on the south (front) facade, complemented by a balcony above it.</p><br>
<p>Both the porch and the balcony have full-length saw-cut wooden balustrades. Two large white brackets support the balcony on either side of the main entrance. Next to them on either side are triple six-over-three double-hung sash windows. The main entrance itself has a white paneled wooden door with six-pane window.</p><br>
<p>Above the brackets two turned spindles rise to the roof. The plainer door to the balcony is flanked by four-over-two double-hung sash. On the east and west elevations, plain brackets support the roof.</p><br>
<p>The carriage house is similar but more restrained. Its eaves are lower, supported by smaller brackets, with the roof pierced by a large shed dormer on the south side. Entrances are located on the sides, with three modern bay windows between them. The east facade has a similar but shorter balustrade along its balcony.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John C. Osgood came to Colorado in 1882 to survey the new state&#39;s coal resources for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. He soon established the Colorado Fuel Company to supply it and other railroads with coal mined, initially, by others. His goal was to open mines in the remote Crystal Valley, where he had found high-quality coal suitable for coking during his surveys.</p><br>
<p>He began buying land in the valley, primarily for the company but also with an eye toward creating an estate for himself. Central to that latter concept was a hunting lodge and game preserves. In 1892 he merged his company with the rival Colorado Coal and Iron Company to form Colorado Fuel and Iron (CF&I), which soon became one of the largest mining concerns in the state and indeed the entire West.</p><br>
<p>Despite this economic prowess, CF&I was unable to develop the Crystal Valley at first. In the wake of the Panic of 1893, which hit Colorado&#39;s mining sector very hard, banks were unwilling to lend the money to build the necessary railroad connection until the closing years of the century. After that was finished, Osgood began implementing his plans.</p><br>
<p>Like many mine owners of the time, Osgood had a strong dislike for labor unions. He embraced paternal capitalism as an alternative, and planned a company town to be called Redstone, as the center of CF&I&#39;s operations in the Crystal Valley. After setting up a large coke oven complex, he hired architect Theodore Boal to design both his estate and the town.</p><br>
<p>Influenced by the writings of Andrew Jackson Downing earlier in the century, which had led to the Carpenter Gothic movement and other early Victorian styles that tried to harmonize country houses with their natural setting, Boal built primarily in the Tudor Revival and Swiss Chalet styles, the latter of which finds one of its fullest expressions in Redstone in the gamekeeper&#39;s cottage.</p><br>
<p>Both were well-suited to the mountainous surroundings, and Boal adapted them even further to that end. The buildings design elements serve both aesthetic and functional purposes. For example, the shingles are as durable as they are rustic and picturesque, per Downings recommendations. The balcony is not only an element of many actual Swiss chalets, but allowed the gamekeeper to survey the animals in the winter enclosure that would have been before him.</p><br>
<p>In addition to Osgood&#39;s hunting lodge, which eventually became his Cleveholm mansion, Boal designed small cottages for the workers and a dormitory for unmarried miners that is today the Redstone Inn, in the same styles. In addition to being high-quality workmanship, in contrast to the makeshift shacks and cabins that dominated most mining camps of the era, the cottages and dormitory had amenities such as electricity and running water that were considered luxuries at the time by any standard.</p><br>
<p>For several years Osgood enjoyed the life he had envisioned for himself two decades before. He made daily rounds in the streets of Redstone to hear from his employees how things were going and resolve their complaints. Both he and his Swedish-born wife Alma, an avid outdoorswoman, took advantage of the ample game on the preserves. Their guests, who frequently accompanied them on their hunting expeditions, included John D. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt and King Leopold II of Belgium.</p><br>
<p>In 1903, interests connected to the Rockefeller family took control of CF&I. Osgood became less involved in the company and a less frequent presence in the valley he had developed. Six years later, CF&Is completion of a new coke plant and economic shifts made Redstones mines unprofitable, and the town was nearly abandoned within days.</p><br>
<p>Osgood shut down the estate and game preserves in 1913, leaving the few remaining residents to take care of them. The next year the bitter strike that culminated in the Ludlow massacre demonstrated the unsustainability of the paternalist philosophy that had motivated him to build Redstone. In the mid-1920s he returned to the Crystal Valley, terminally ill. After his death in 1926, his ashes were scattered over the valley per his wish. His widow Lucille tried to redevelop the estate into a resort, but its remoteness and the onset of the Great Depression frustrated those hopes.</p><br>
<p>Lucille was forced to sell the property in increments to survive. Some of the original buildings, such as the greenhouses, were moved; others were demolished. The gamekeeper&#39;s cottage remained, even after she sold the main estate house itself in the early 1940s. By 1949 the barn had been converted for resort use and cottages were built on the neighboring property.</p><br>
<p>In the 1950s a small log wing was added at the northwest corner. It was joined by a gallery on the lower front in the 1960s. That work also put in new side joists and a concrete foundation. The resort failed, and the house was vacant until 1965, when it reverted to use as a home.</p><br>
<p>Since then Redstone has experienced a slight revival. The gamekeeper&#39;s cottage remains largely unaltered other than the work done in the middle of the 20th century. Its current occupants have remodeled the carriage house and rent it out as overnight lodgings.</p><br>
<p>The Glaisnock Water or the River Glaisnock is a tributary of the Lugar Water in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It passes under the Glaisnock Viaduct. The source is located south of the town of Cumnock, which it flows through.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The source of the Glaisnock is to be found in the foothills and boggy knolls of the Glaisnock Moss near Carsgailoch Hill. The stream flows north towards the town of Cumnock, collecting an outflow from the Black Loch, passing http://www.ayrshirescotland.com/mansions/glaisnock.html Glaisnock House then crossing under the A76, entering Cumnock&#39;s Caponacre industrial estate and skirting Murray Park where it is joined by the Holm Burn which rises on the north-west flank of Avisyard Hill. The river then makes its way under the Glaisnock Viaduct towards the town centre before finally merging with the Lugar Water.</p><br>
