<p>The National Bank of Tacoma Building, also known as the National Bank of Washington and as the Tacoma Art Museum, is a former bank building in downtown Tacoma, Washington, United States. It was designed by Sutton & Whitney and built in 1921. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The bank changed its name to the National Bank of Washington in 1937. In 1970, the building ceased to be used for banking and was sold to the Tacoma Art Museum, which converted it in 1970–1971 for use as an art museum. It remained in use as the Tacoma Art Museum until 2003, when the museum moved to a new building. Already in 2002, in anticipation of its move, the art museum sold the former bank building to the Asia Pacific Cultural Center.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, a business named Sound Inpatient Physicians moved into the building. Sound Physicians remained there until 2015, when the company moved to another building in downtown Tacoma. As of October 2017, the building was for sale.</p><br>
<p>Bridge No. 4, near La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States, was built in 1902. It is a bowstring truss bridge built by the Clinton Bridge Company. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It is one of seven bridges built during 1891-92 by the Clinton Bridge Company, of Clinton, Iowa, to bring a La Crosse County road through backwaters of the Black River and then cross the Black River itself, connecting the city of La Crosse with rural Trempeleau County. All seven were Bowstring truss bridges, but one was replaced by a kingpost truss bridge nine years after being damaged in 1911. The kingpost one and all but the main bridge spanning the Black River itself survived in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Black River had previously been crossed by a ferry started by Alex McGilvray in 1861.</p><br>
<p>The bridge consists of two spans, and is 17 ft wide and 131 ft long. It has a concrete deck. Its steel was from the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company. The tension members of the bridge "are a combination of round and square eye-bars with the eyes made by looping over and welding the end of the bar."</p><br>
<p>The River Street Bridge at Marble Rock, Iowa, also known as Richard W. "Dick" Weldon River Street Bridge, has the appearance of a being a filled spandrel deck arch bridge, but it is not. When it was built in 1912, concrete girders were relatively new, and this was built with straight ones in three 30 ft sections, by the Miller-Hey Construction Company of Des Moines, in one of its first contracts. The straight girders carried the load, and it is a girder bridge. However this was given a touch of elegance by its arched spandrels, which usually appear above load-bearing arches in deck arch bridges.</p><br>
<p>Thousands of small concrete deck girder bridges subsequently have been built throughout Iowa following the design standard set by the Iowa State Highway Commission (ISHC) in 1913. The River Street Bridge and only a few others preceded that standard, only a few of which remain in use, while the River Street Bridge has carried traffic with no significant change to the bridge up to the 1994 date of its National Register of Historic Places nomination. The nomination in part reads:Of these pre-ISHC bridges - and among all of Iowa&#39;s deck girders, actually - the River Street Bridge is unique for its faux arch design. The arched form was generally held to be the most aesthetically successful configuration for urban bridges for its symmetry and associations with classical architecture. The River Street Bridge acknowledges this sense of aesthetic in its arched spandrels. A simple beam bridge in arch clothing, it is a noteworthy, small-scale exercise in urban bridge design.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Otowi Historic District is a 29 acre historic district in northern Santa Fe County, New Mexico, having four contributing buildings and three contributing structures including Otowi Suspension Bridge and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Otowi (Tewa, p&#39;otsuivi, “gap where water sinks”) is a place on the west bank of the Rio Grande at the head of White Rock Canyon. Established in 1886 with the name White Rock Canon, it was little more than a station and river crossing on the D&RGW’s Santa Fe Branch, the narrow-gauge railroad popularly known as the Chili Line.</p><br>
<p>In 1923, nearby Los Alamos Ranch School requested a post office here using the ranch name. But a place near Las Vegas already had that name, so three other names were submitted and the USA Post Office Department chose Otowi. A single-lane, suspension road bridge was built in 1924. The railroad was removed and the post office closed in 1941. When Los Alamos Ranch School was taken over by the USA Government in 1943 to become the secret Los Alamos nuclear physics laboratory, virtually all of the traffic serving the town and laboratory travelled on New Mexico State Road 4 (now renumbered NM 502), crossing the river at Otowi.</p><br>
<p>This place is the setting for Peggy Pond Church’s historical memoir, The House at Otowi Bridge, (1960) which chronicles the life of Edith Warner from 1921 to 1951. She was postmistress and shopkeeper in the early years, and later the hostess of tea rooms which became popular with scientists from the Manhattan Project.</p><br>
<p>The H. W. Clark Biscuit Company is a former industrial complex at 179-191 Ashland Street in North Adams, Massachusetts. The bakery that Herbert W. Clark built at this site began at a facility on Liberty Street, and expanded into a shoe factory building  that Clark had operated with a partner. When the Liberty Street plant was destroyed by fire in 1913, Clark placed its employees on a second shift in the shoe factory building, and had the building now called the Icing Building constructed. This building was built in a style reminiscent of mills built in North Adams fifty years earlier, and is still sometimes thought to be an older building.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the Icing Building, Clark in 1913 built a Boiler House, which was attached to a warehouse formerly associated with the shoe business (and is the oldest surviving building on the property, dating to 1884). In 1922 Clark embarked on an ambitious modernization of the facility, constructing the Baking Building out of reinforced concrete to a design by New York architect William Higginson. It was the first reinforced concrete building in the city.</p><br>
<p>Clark sold the business in 1928 after his health began to fail. His successors operated the bakery until 1954. The buildings underwent a series of ownership changes, but were used for nearly forty years by the Tartan Machine Company. That business vacated the premises in 1990. After being vacant for two decades, the property was rehabilitated and converted to residential use.</p><br>
<p>The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>South Cinque Island or Ga-o-ta-koi is an uninhabited island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the South Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.</p><br>
<p>the island is lying 41 km south from Port Blair.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island belongs to the Cinque Islands of Rutland Archipelago and is located between North Cinque Island (1.5 km to the north) and Passage Island (6.2 km to the south).</p><br>
<p>The passage between South Cinque and North Cinque is called Cinque Strait.</p><br>
<p>South Cinque Island and North Cinque Island, 1.5 km to the north, are sometimes considered to be a single Cinque Island.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>Politically, South Cinque Island is part of Port Blair Taluk.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>A new species of blenny, Alloblennius frondiculus was found in the surrounding waters.</p><br>
<p>George W. Nebinger Elementary School is a K-8 school located in the Bella Vista neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the School District of Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>Its historic school building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1924–1925. It is a four-story, nine bay, brick building on a raised basement in the Art Deco-style. The entrance portico features Doric order columns, and at the roofline is a brick parapet. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The School District of Philadelphia ended summer school, except for students who need to earn credits to receive high school diplomas, in 2012 due to budget cuts. As a result, Nebinger principal Ralph Burnley and Leslie Patterson-Tyler, the wife of the reverend of the Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church, established their own summer school program serving students from Nebinger and other area schools. It was financed by members of the church and the Queen Village Neighborhood Association.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>In 2012 85% of Nebinger&#39;s student body was considered economically disadvantaged. That year Kristen A. Graham of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that compared to the William M. Meredith School in Queen Village and the George A. McCall School in Society Hill, Nebinger "struggles more".</p><br>
<h2>Feeder patterns</h2><br>
<p>Neighborhoods assigned to Nebinger are also assigned to Furness High School.</p><br>
<p>Southwark School is a public K-8 school located in the Central South Philadelphia neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a part of Philadelphia Public Schools.</p><br>
<p>Students zoned to Francis Scott Key School (K–6) are zoned to Southwark for grades 7–8. Students zoned to Southwark and to Key are also zoned to South Philadelphia High School.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The historic school building was designed by Henry deCoursey Richards and built in 1909–1911. It is a three-story, granite-faced, reinforced concrete building in the Tudor Revival-style. It features a segmented, compound arched opening and parapet with stepped stone panels. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>As of 1989 the Southwark Motivation, a high school program with 265 students, housed its classes on the third floor of Southwark School. Established by West Philadelphia High School teacher Rebecca Segal, it admitted students who perform at average levels and provided extra mathematics and English courses, required attendance of cultural events, used the same teachers all four years, and made parents sign contracts asking them to involve themselves in the education of their children. That year the district decided to move the program to South Philadelphia High School in order to use more space at the underutilized high school campus and to relieve overcrowding at South Philadelphia elementary schools. The third floor of Southwark would be used for grade 6-8 students who were attending Francis Scott Key School, and there would be space freed for a full-day kindergarten program. Several students and parents of Southwark Motivation criticized the plan.</p><br>
<p>Francis Scott Key School is a public elementary school located in the Central South Philadelphia neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the School District of Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>The historic school building was built in 1889, and is a three-story, eight bay, brick building on a limestone base in the Late Victorian-style. It features a decorative brick corbel, small pedimented dormer, and three great flaring capped chimneys. It was named for American lawyer, author, and amateur poet Francis Scott Key (1779-1843).</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Areas assigned to Key are assigned to Southwark School for grades 7-8. Students zoned to Southwark and to Key are also zoned to South Philadelphia High School.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1988 over 75% of Key&#39;s students were under the poverty line.</p><br>
<p>Prior to 1989 Key was a K-8 school. In 1989 the district decided to move grades 6-8 to Southwark School in order to relieve overcrowding at area elementary schools, and in turn the high school program Southwark Motivation, on the third floor of Southwark, was to be moved to South Philadelphia High.</p><br>
<p>On June 10, 2015 an emergency notification was sent regarding asbestos found at Key. District spokesperson Fernando Gallard stated that the district had discovered the asbestos before the notification, sent by Philadelphia city controller Alan Butkovitz to officials, was sent out, and that the problem had been fixed.</p><br>
<p>The Washington Avenue Bridge in Iowa Falls, Iowa is an attractive concrete two-span open spandrel arched bridge that brings Washington Avenue over the Iowa River. Originally it carried US 20. It was built in 1934 by the Weldon Brothers for $51,710.55.</p><br>
<p>In the 1920s and 1930s if a relatively long bridge was required in a rural area, it would have been built using steel trusses, but in this urban setting where there is enough height in the bridge to allow wide arches, a concrete open spandrel arch bridge could be built, and be worthwhile for its attractiveness. In Iowa the Mederville Bridge (1918), the Adair Viaduct (1923) and the Iowa Falls Bridge (1928, also built by the Weldon Brothers) are other examples, but the Washington Avenue bridge is notable as a well-preserved two-span example.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Alden Bridge is a historic bridge in Alden, Iowa, which carries the towns Main Street over the Iowa River. The concrete bridge is 150 ft long and consists of two spans. It was built in 1936 to replace an earlier wooden bridge that had begun to deteriorate. The Weldon Brothers Construction Co. supervised the bridges construction, while the Iowa State Highway Commission designed the structure; it was one of the first bridges designed by the ISHC, which used similar plans for many other bridges in the state. Labor for the construction effort came from the Works Progress Administration, providing jobs for many of Hardin Countys unemployed residents. The bridge was dedicated on July 4, 1936, as part of Aldens Independence Day celebrations.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 15, 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Ayden Historic District is a national historic district located at Ayden, Pitt County, North Carolina. The 146 acre district encompasses 319 contributing buildings and six contributing structures in the town of Ayden. It includes buildings dated from the late-19th to mid-20th century and notable examples of Bungalow / American Craftsman, Colonial Revival, and Queen Anne architecture. Notable buildings include the original Ayden Town Hall , Turnage Brothers Building , Moore House , John Stanley Hart House , Thelbert Worthington House  designed by Leila Ross Wilburn, Ayden Baptist Church , the Lloyd and Lillian Turnage House  and Ayden Methodist Church  designed by Benton & Benton Associates, Zion Chapel Free Will Baptist Church , and Mount Olive Baptist Church .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Midland Continental Overpass near Jamestown, North Dakota is a steel cantilever beam bridge that was built in 1936. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>According to its nomination, the bridge is significant "for its association with efforts to modernize and improve North Dakotas roadway system during the New Deal era, including the states first large-scale program of railroad-highway grade separation construction. The overpass is also eligible... because it exhibits an unusual engineering design. The use of cantilevered spans during the historic</p><br>
<p>period, such as exhibited at this structure, is rare in North Dakota." However, there are no records of the bridge&#39;s construction in county records.</p><br>
<p>The West Park Bridge across the Sheyenne River in Valley City, North Dakota is a concrete false arch structure that was built in 2007. Together with the corresponding East Park Bridge, it brings Valley City&#39;s 4th Street across an oxbow of the Sheyenne River. The bridge is a sympathetic replacement for a historic bridge, built in 1924, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The 1924 bridge was deemed significant as a good example of "early twentieth-century bridge design and construction philosophies in urban North Dakota", including having design emphasis on visual detail, and for its "aesthetic merit", relating to its unusual use of the false arch girder design and to its railings and lamps.</p><br>
<p>Christ Cathedral is the cathedral church for the Episcopal Diocese of Western Kansas. It is located in Salina, Kansas, United States, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2010.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Episcopalians initially met in Salina in the general store as well as in church buildings of other Christian denominations. Christ Church was formed as the first Episcopal parish in the city and a frame church building was constructed in 1872. The Right Rev. Sheldon M. Griswold, the first Bishop of the Missionary District of Salina, was the first to plan for a new cathedral.</p><br>
<p>Sarah E. Batterson of New York, the widow of the Rev. Herman Batterson, was looking for a way to memorialize her husband and donated a large sum of money to build the present cathedral. The gift came with stipulations. Philadelphia architect Charles Marquendent Burns, Jr., a personal friend of her husband, was to design the building. She wanted chairs in the nave instead of pews, and insisted they be free and unsigned to parishioners. Bishop Griswold initially asked for $10,000 to $15,000. Mrs. Batterson initially offered $25,000, and then raised the amount to $35,000. In the end her gifts totaled over $50,000. The cornerstone was laid on May 29, 1906 and the first service in the cathedral was held on January 8, 1908. Also on the cathedral property is a parish hall built in 1948 and a two-story education and office building completed in 1956.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The cathedral is cruciform in shape and faces the east. A bell tower sits at the crossing and contains a carillon of 23 bells. The tower also contains eight screened windows and is topped by eight pinnacles with finials. Entrances are located on the main façade and in the two transepts. The choir and chancel on the west side of the cathedral has nine stained glass windows. There are also windows in the main nave and in the transepts. All but two of the windows are part of series titled “Following the Steps in the Ministry of Christ.” Above the main entrance is the Ascension window made by J. & R. Lamb Studios and installed in 1961. The St. Michael&#39;s Chapel is located off the north transept. The acolyte, choir room, and a restroom are off the south transept. The building covers 6,400 ft&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>The exterior of the cathedral is covered entirely of limestone quarried Chase County, Kansas, about 95 miles to the southeast of Salina. The stone that was used for the entrance steps and the door sills was quarried in Lyon County, Kansas. The dressed stone used on the cathedral was quarried in Silverdale, Kansas.</p><br>
<p>The interior walls are covered in limestone. The seating capacity is 220 and the original chairs, made by the Manitowoc Seating Works of Chicago, are still in use. They are black-stained oak with cane seats and kneelers. The floor tiles in the chancel and choir feature symbols from early Christianity and were made by the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The canopies over the Bishops cathedra, Deans Stall and Canon Stalls are hand carved, quarter-sawn oak that are stained black. The Diocesan Coat of Arms is cut into the back of the Bishop&#39;s Chair. The Choir Stalls are simpler in design. The pulpit and lectern in the crossing are also carved of oak.</p><br>
<p>Also at the crossing at the entrance to the choir is a rood beam, which was put in place in 1918 as a memorial to the cathedral’s primary benefactor, Sarah E. Batterson, The carvings on the beam were done by Alois Lang of the Manitowoc Seating Works. He also carved the St. Paul statue located in one of the niches in the pulpit.</p><br>
<p>The original pipe organ in the choir was built by Henry Pilcher&#39;s Sons, of Louisville, Kentucky. It was replaced in 1977 by the present organ, which was designed by Canon Royce Young and built by the M. P. Moller Pipe Organ Company of Hagerstown, Maryland.</p><br>
<p>The high altar was carved from Carthage marble. The center carving features the symbol of Christ the Savior and is flanked by two quatrefoils. The reredos was carved from Silverdale limestone. Four pinnacles rise from it and are capped with crockets. St. Mary’s Altar is located in the northwest corner of the north transept. It is the oldest altar in the cathedral having been originally used by Christ Church parish in 1887. It is carved from oak in three panels. The center panel features the symbol of Christ the Savior and is flanked by the Alpha on the left and Omega on the right. The words, "IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME", are carved along the upper front part of the altar.</p><br>
<p>Rakina Bara  is a lake in Sremčica, a suburb of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Čukarica.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The lake is located in the central section of Sremčica, 20 km south of downtown Belgrade.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Rakina Bara is situated in the limestone pit, in the karstic micro-region called Belgrade merokras. It is embedded into the mass wasting area and, typically for the karst lakes, has a sinkhole. It is the largest natural lake in the Šumadija section of Belgrade and the only karst lake in the city territory. Rakina bara is one of six (formerly 15) karst lakes in the entire Šumadija region. The lake is oval-shaped, 170 m long, 110 m wide and 1 m deep. It is situated at an altitude of 180 m and covers an area of 3 hectare. Rakina Bara receives water from two springs and atmospheric precipitation. It has no outflows.</p><br>
<p>The name of the lake means "Raka&#39;s Pond" in Serbian (Raka is a male nickname).</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<h3>Plants</h3><br>
<p>As the lake shrinks, it gradually gets buried under the overgrowth, mostly made of the reed-like plants.</p><br>
<h3>Animals</h3><br>
<p>Lake used to be abundant in fish as in the 1950s in was turned into the fish pond. Carps up to 5 kg were fished with nets and until the early 2000s fishing competitions were organized. Today almost all of the fish in the lake died out and an occasional snake, duck or grebe can be spotted.</p><br>
<h2>Human interaction</h2><br>
<p>Rakina Bara was originally deeper and the water was clear all the way to the bottom. At the location where the creek flew into the lake, local farmers watered their cattle. As the shore was sandy and the mud was only present at the deepest, central part of the lakebed, it was used for swimming. It was one of the earliest nudist locations in Serbia, dating back top the beginning of the 20th century. Later, it became a popular lover&#39;s lane for the city couples.</p><br>
<p>In the 1950&#39;s it was populated with several species of fish, turning it into the fish pond. Plans were made to arrange the shores, build the restaurants and turn it into the tourist center and a recreational area, but the local authorities were not interested, so the plans were abandoned.</p><br>
<p>Sremčica experienced a massive population growth since the 1970s and the population grew from 2,445 in 1971 to 13,193 in 1981 and 21,001 in 2011. As the settlement grew, it engulfed the lake and the surrounding area was urbanized. In 21st century lake was reduced in size as the local population, in order to get more land, illegally dug outflow canals to drain the water and even threw mercury into the sinkhole to erode the land and make the sinkhole wider in order to drain water more quickly. Households from the neighboring slopes turned their sewage pipes into Rakina Bara emptying their cesspits in the pond. The pond was also turned into a dump, with garbage of all kinds being dumped in it. As the lake reduced in size, the spring which brings the majority of water into it, for the most part of the year stopped reaching the lake as it is close to the sinkhole so it flows directly into the ground through it, practically turning the pond into a large cesspool. As the water drains through the earth, it widens the holes in it producing the cracks in the ground already prone to the mass wasting. Basically digging the land under the lake, it might set mass wasting in motion which would bury the pond completely. In the 2010s, Rakina Bara is on the brink of completely dying out.</p><br>
<p>Shores of the pond were cleaned to some extent in 2008. At that time, the study on saving the pond was done. Proposed short term interventions included cleaning of the garbage from the lake and the surrounding area, emptying and closing of the cesspits and ban on building on the slopes above the pond. Further, long-term measures should include the chemical and bacteriological analysis of the water, creation of the "wet field" which would naturally filter the water, channeling of the creek to reach the pond again and the restoration of the sinkhole. Another study from 2012 proposed that the pond should be saved with the construction of the sewage system and by placing Rakina bara under protection. However, the pond and the surroundings are too polluted, thus not fulfilling the basic conditions for protection. As for the other proposals, none of them turned into projects, due to either lack of funds (municipality of Čukarica) or the typical bureaucratic "it is not my jurisdiction" attitude (city, communal companies).</p><br>
<p>Charles Y. Audenried Junior High School was a historic school building located in the Grays Ferry neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1930-1931. It was a three-story, 15 bay, brick building on a raised basement in the Colonial Revival-style. It featured two projecting entrances with stone surrounds, a central entrance with four Doric order columns, projecting brick pilasters, and a brick parapet. The listed building has been demolished and replaced with the modern Charles Y. Audenried High School.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>CY Audenreid HS Philly.JPGCharles Y. Audenried High School, in May 2010. The high school replaced the junior high school of the same name on the same site in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Academy at Palumbo, formerly known as Bartlett School and Frank C. Palumbo Junior High School, is a historic school building located in the Hawthorne neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia. The building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1930. It is a brick building with terra cotta ornament in the Art Deco-style.</p><br>
<p>Since September 2006 the school has operated as a college preparatory magnet high school within the School District of Philadelphia. In 2010, 1750 students applied for admission, with 700 accepted and 190 matriculating. About 49% of the students are African-American. 91% of graduates began studying at four-year colleges or universities, 8% went to two-year colleges, and 1% began serving in the military.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Eliza Butler Kirkbride School is a K-8 school located in the Passyunk Square neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the School District of Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>The historic school building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1925–1926. It is a four-story, five bay, yellow reinforced concrete building faced in brick and limestone in the Late Gothic Revival-style. It features a projecting central entrance with floral and heraldic plaques, decorative panels, and a crenellated parapet.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>By 1990 the school had a Head Start Program preschool program.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>In 1999 the school had 660 students, with over 50% of them being Asian.</p><br>
<p>In the 1998–1999 school year the school began a pilot bilingual English-Cambodian (Khmer) program for its immigrant students. By 1999 the school provided basic Cambodian lessons for the non-Cambodian students. In 1999 Cambodians made up almost 33% of the total student body.</p><br>
<p>As of 2015 the school has an English Language Learner (ELL) program with 200 students, with support from Chinese, Khmer, and Vietnamese-speaking counselor assistants, in addition to a bilingual counselor who speaks Chinese and Vietnamese.</p><br>
<h2>Feeder patterns</h2><br>
<p>Neighborhoods assigned to Kirkbride are also assigned to Furness High School.</p><br>
<p>Andrew Jackson School, previously Federal Street School, is a public K-8 school located in the Passyunk Square neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the School District of Philadelphia. The school is named for United States President Andrew Jackson.</p><br>
<p>The historic school building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1924–1925. It is a three-story, brick and limestone in the Late Gothic Revival-style. It features a projecting center two-story bay, projecting building ends with decorative brick panels, compound arched entrance, and a brick parapet. The roof of the school includes a garden that is used by the local community.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original Federal Street School was renamed the Jackson School in 1848. It had two property deeds, February 28, 1838 and January 1, 1842.</p><br>
<p>The current school building, designed by B. Fennimore and Irwin T. Catharine, opened in 1924. It uses a Late Gothic Revival style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, in the register as the "Federal Street School".</p><br>
<p>Kristen Graham of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that circa 2009 the school had a "tough reputation", a previously smaller student body, and constant interaction with the police; it improved after Lisa Ciaranca Kaplan became the principal.</p><br>
<p>In 2013 Albert Stumm of the Passyunk Post stated that by that year the school had "made great progress" due to actions from the principal, who was highly regarded by the parents; in addition, improvement came from the efforts of the Passyunk Square Civic education committee and other neighborhood activists.</p><br>
<p>In 2013 the school district passed a severe budget cut which would eliminate the nurse, security monitors, counselors, aides, and secretaries; as well as eliminating funding for the school&#39;s rock band and school supplies. Stumm stated that there was still the possibility that "an 11th-hour solution" could prohibit the layoffs.</p><br>
<p>Kaplan won the 2015 Escalante-Gradillas Prize for Best in Education. That year, real estate agents promoted residences within the Jackson attendance zone, using the school as a selling point.</p><br>
<h2>Student body</h2><br>
<p>Circa 2009 Jackson had 230 students. As of 2013 the school had 410 students, with almost all of them qualifying for free or reduced lunch, an indicator of poverty. As of that year, the students spoke 14 languages.</p><br>
<p>By 2015 the student body had increased to 530, 30% of whom spoke English as a second language, and 94% of whom lived below the poverty line. As of that year 33% of the students were Hispanic; many Mexicans had immigrated to the area where the school resides. there are 17 languages and 24 countries of origin represented in the student body. That year 85% of the students were other than non-Hispanic white.</p><br>
<h2>Programs</h2><br>
<p>The school&#39;s music program has a rock band, "Home," consisting of pupils. As of 2013, it was known in the local area. The 2013 funding crisis caused the district to eliminate the budget for the band. In 2015 the Wawa Foundation, the charity of Wawa Inc., donated $2,500 to the music program.</p><br>
<p>As of 2011 the school has a summer school program that admits children from the surrounding area. Graham stated that it had "robust" attendance.</p><br>
<h2>Feeder patterns</h2><br>
<p>Neighborhoods assigned to Jackson are also assigned to Furness High School.</p><br>
<p>Vare-Washington School, is a K-8 school in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the School District of Philadelphia. It occupies the former George Washington School building in the Dickinson Narrows neighborhood, in proximity to Southwark.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The historic school building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1935-1937. It is a three-story, brick and limestone building in the Art Deco / Moderne-style. It features ribbon windows, brick piers, and a projecting entrance with skyscraper-like details and rounded corners with decorative figures. The school was originally established to serve children of workers in the Philadelphia Navy Yard and had been in operation since the USA Civil War period.</p><br>
<p>In 1985 Washington and one other school were the first two Philadelphia public schools to sign up for Education for Parenting, a program in which students are taught about parenting by observing real infants.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>In December 2012 Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. presented a proposal that would close Washington and move Abigail Vare School into Washingtons building. At the time Washingtons building was in a better condition compared to Vares, while the Vare school had an academic performance superior to that of Washingtons. In March 2013, the school district voted to close Washington. Vare moved from its previous building to current building, and was renamed Vare-Washington School. Since the move, the former Vare School has remained empty.</p><br>
<p>As a result of the closing of Washington, all Washington staff and teachers were to lose their positions, even though the Washington building was staying open. On May 14, 2013, the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers filed a grievance to try to reverse this decision.</p><br>
<h2>Feeding</h2><br>
<p>Residents of the current Vare-Washington zone, and residents of the former Abigail Vare School zone, are zoned to Furness High School.</p><br>
<p>G.W. Childs Elementary School, formerly the Jeremiah Nichols School and Norris S. Barratt Junior High School, is a historic elementary school located in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>The current school building was built in stages. The first building was designed by Henry deCourcy Richards in 1908. An expansion was built in 1926–1927 and was designed by Irwin T. Catharine. The Richards building is a three-story, three bay, brick building on a raised basement in the Late Gothic Revival-style. The Catharine building is a four-story, seven bay, brick building on a raised basement in the Art Deco-style.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. In 2010, the previous Childs school was closed, and students were moved to the current location.</p><br>
<p>William M. Meredith School is a public K-8 school located in the Queen Village neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the School District of Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>Its historic school building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1930–1931. It is a 16 bay, yellow, white, and brown brick building on a limestone base in the Art Deco-style. It features pronounced molded brick mullions, two Gothic arched entrances, and brick piers.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Kristen M. Graham of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that Meredith had been "small and failing". As a way of desegregating the school, the district opened an arts program. and the following year she stated that Meredith was one of "the district&#39;s stronger neighborhood schools".</p><br>
<p>Circa 1993 Stuart Cooperstein became the principal, and he served in the position until 2008. Cooperstein stated in 2008 that the staff and teachers have a high level of devotion to students, and Graham wrote that the parent organization, which had financed the cafeteria&#39;s air conditioning system through fundraisers, was devoted. Graham added that the school had retained many of its art-related programs, including drama, music, and visual arts, despite budget cuts.</p><br>
<p>In 2011 the district announced that it was cutting $30,370 ($ inflation-adjusted) from the school&#39;s budget. To prevent the elimination of support staff positions parents held a fundraiser: teachers raised about $5,000 ($ inflation-adjusted) and parents raised over $15,000 ($ inflation-adjusted).</p><br>
<h2>Student body</h2><br>
<p>In 2017 the school had 517 students. Most of them originated from the surrounding area while some commuted from elsewhere. Graham described Meredith&#39;s student body as "diverse and stable with high attendance". As of 2012 about 50% of the student body is below the poverty line.</p><br>
<h2>Feeder patterns</h2><br>
<p>Neighborhoods assigned to Meredith are also assigned to Furness High School.</p><br>
<p>The Phoenician port of Beirut, also known as the Phoenician Harbour of Beirut and archaeological site BEY039 is located between Rue Allenby and Rue Foch in Beirut, Lebanon. Studies have shown that the Bronze Age waterfront lay around 300 m behind the modern port due to coastal regularisation and siltation. It was excavated and reported on by Josette Elayi and Hala Sayegh in 2000 and determined to date to the Iron Age III and Persian periods. Two nineteenth century Ottoman docks were also unearthed during construction, just to the north of this area at archaeological sites BEY018 and BEY019.</p><br>
<p>Excavations at BEY039 covered 3,000 m&sup2; and comprised the western bank of a north to south facing harbor about 300 m from the sea. It was made up of Ramleh sandstone blocks measuring about 60 cm by 30 cm, fixed with a grey mortar. This overlaid a layer of larger blocks measuring about 100 cm by 60 cm that were fixed without mortar. This type of construction was similar to that used during Phoenician period D. Although this harbor has now been reliably identified, the existence of other ports or areas used for harboring boats in the nearby coves at different times has not been ruled out.</p><br>
<h2>Controversy over site BEY194</h2><br>
<p>Another alleged port, suggested to consist of two ancient dry docks and the foundations of a massive ancient temple was located at Plot 1398 in Mina al-Hosn, Beirut in Lebanon.</p><br>
<p>The alleged port was discovered during construction on the site in 2011 and investigated by a team of Lebanese archaeologists from the Directorate General of Antiquities under Hisham Sayegh, a B.A. graduate and pottery specialist from the Lebanese University. The site was said to include two canals or watercourses that comprised the supposed dry docks along with two large sandstones, considered to be part of the enormous foundations of an ancient temple. The surrounding area, called Mina al-Hosn is translated as "port of the fort" in Arabic. Precise dating of the structures was never obtained however there were a few finds of pottery at the site that were dated to the fifth century BCE.</p><br>
<p>Controversy arose in June 2012, when authorization was given by Lebanese Minister of Culture, Gaby Layoun for a private company called Venus Towers Real Estate Development Company to destroy the ruins for the $500 million construction project of three skyscrapers and a garden at Mina al-Hosn, behind Hotel Monroe in downtown Beirut. Letters from Francesco Bandarin, Assistant Director-General for Culture at UNESCO and Director of the World Heritage Centre, and the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) dated March and May 2012 respectively, both expressed concern and offered to provide expertise and opinions on the site, both offers appearing to have been turned down by the Minister. The alleged port was classified as "cultural heritage" by the previous minister Salim Wardeh and his scientific committee including Laure Salloum, Anis Chaya, Nadine Panayot and Assaad Seif based on Sayeghs report. Various other experts and archaeologists expressed views suggesting the importance of the find, including Jean Yves Empereur (Director of Research at CNRS and Director of the Alexandria Studies Centre), David Blackman (researcher at the University of Oxford), Marguerite Yon (Research Director Emeritus at the University of Lyon and former director of the French Archaeological Mission of Salamis, Kaliopi Baika, Kition and Ras Shamra-Ugarit), Ana-Maria Busila (PhD University of Iasi, Romania) and Jean-Christophe Sourisseau (responsible for the excavation of Kition in Cyprus). The claim that the site was a port was disputed by a new scientific committee of archaeologists appointed by Layoun including Hassan Salame Sarkis, Albert Naccache and Samir Chami based on reports of Hanz Curver (who initially supported Sageyhs findings, then reversed his opinion) and Ralph Pedersen a research associate of the institute of Nautical Archaeology and now teaching at Marburg in Germany. Pedersons report was commissioned by the construction company and dismissed Sayeghs claims that the trenches could have been used as a port or dry dock on several criteria. Questions were raised regarding the size and elevation of the trenches, their suitability for military ships, similarity to other Phoenician docks in the area and distance from the sea. Dry dock trenches of the period also usually had holes cut into their side to fit wooden supports for the ships and these were absent from the plot at Minet el-Hosn. Suggestions were raised about them being slipways for a quarry, however their exact purpose has no apparent consensus. The problem over the distance from the sea could not be accounted for due to sea level fluctuations in the Phoenician period, however no firm date was given to the construction of the bedrock cut trenches.</p><br>
<p>Hisham Sayegh&#39;s contract with the Ministry was not renewed and on 27 June he claimed to have resigned in a letter that accused Venus Towers of attempted bribery to falsify scientific information. "I refused with previous culture ministers bribes that have been generously offered by the Venus company, the owner of the land so that we would agree to falsify scientific truth and divert the origin and significance of this discovery at the heart of the capital Beirut". Former Minister Wardeh was quoted as saying "“No sane person would imagine that it is possible to give an order over a telephone to a company to demolish the site, and that the company would be ready with bulldozers to carry out the destruction without waiting for the decree to be published in the official Gazette.”</p><br>
<p>Based on the information of Sayegh, in a letter dated April 2011, Assaad Seif, coordinator of archaeological research and excavations in Lebanon at the Directorate General of Antiquities endorsed the discovery and called for the protection of the area, suggesting provision of fair compensation to the construction firm. He called it a significant find for the study of the Phoenician era in Beirut, particularly before 100 BCE, saying "“We need to preserve this site and its surrounding block, which would require the construction firm to carry out the appropriate modifications to its project.” Seif now agrees with the evaluation report from the international committee and expert report that BEY194 was not used as a port and that the data from Sayegh was not at all reliable and had many inconsistencies in the stratigraphy and the dating.</p><br>
<p>Other Lebanese civil societies and organizations have raised criticism and controversy over the issue. Pascale Ingea, president of the Association for the Protection of the Lebanese Heritage has been spearheading the efforts to stop the demolition, stating "There is nothing left. We are appalled by those who burn tires. But the real vandals are wearing ties. If we had known earlier, we could have stopped this massacre". Another lead activist, Giorgio Tarraf, spokesman for Save Beirut Heritage expressed his horror at the speed and extent of the demolition, interviewed by Al Akhbar (Lebanon), he said "They (government) were talking about some sort of mitigation approach where they move the stones and preserve them in a way that would be leave room for development. Not even that happened – today nothing is going to remain." After actions from these Lebanese NGOs and activists such as Raja Noujem, a decision from Judge Nadim Zouein temporarily halted construction activities. Zouein refused to extend the ban past Monday 9 July, saying that it was better to address the Shura council for such decisions. It also came to light on 9 July that Venus Towers, the construction firm, did not have the appropriate license to dig up the site due to an administrative mistake. The firm was fined 500,000 Lebanese pounds and its managing director Mohammed Kassem admitted the expiry of their license along with confirming his opinion that there was no evidence of the presence of ship building or a port on his land.</p><br>
<p>The construction firm Venus has currently blocked access for people to access and photograph or video the site, however activists and protestors have climbed trees to throw paper boats, inscribed with the slogan "Hands off our Phoenician Port" over the walls.</p><br>
<p>The destruction of archaeological site BEY194 took place two days prior to the publication of Minister Layoun&#39;s decision in the official Gazette, leading to claims that he acted in violation of Lebanese law and setting a concerning precedent for similar actions in future. The ministry maintains that the declassification of the site was done through the legal adopted procedures by the governmental institutions.</p><br>
<p>The report by Pederson concluded that the trenches were 3.9 m and 4.2 m wide which is only big enough for small, single banked, Aphracts of around 18 meters in length, that they were not parallel, at different elevations and not part of a military complex. Most importantly, the bottoms of the trenches were not a smooth slope that is required for hauling ships up and down- there were short inclines of about 8 to 9 meters long, steps, level areas, and even a part that exhibited a slight reverse pitch. Whilst authoritatively dismissing the site at BEY194 as a Phoenician port, it offers no suggestion on what the trenches could have been used for and at what date, reserving speculation on their function as "intriguing" and one that perhaps now will forever remain a mystery.</p><br>
<p>George W. Sharswood School is a K-8 school located in the Whitman neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the School District of Philadelphia.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school building was designed by Henry deCourcy Richards and built in 1906–1908. It is a three-story, seven bay, brick building in the Colonial Revival-style. It features projecting end bays with entrances, a large stone cornice, and brick and stone parapet. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>In 2008 Jack Stollsteimer, a former USA attorney, and an area school safety advocate, criticized the school after the principal failed to report an assault of a student in a timely manner. As a result, the school district demanded more thorough reporting from its schools, and the rate of reported incidents sharply increased.</p><br>
<h2>Feeder patterns</h2><br>
<p>Neighborhoods assigned to Sharswood are also assigned to Furness High School.</p><br>
<p>The Jens Myhre Round Barn near New Rockford, North Dakota, United States, is a round barn that was built in 1919. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>According to its NRHP nomination, it "is significant for being an extremely intact surviving example of the round barn theme", and "it is the only round barn surviving in the state which employed a ramp to the mow area". Apparently the ramp mentod for loading the mow was obsolescent due to advent of hay moving slings and tracks as alternatives; this ramp "may have been perceived as out of fashion and behind the times." It has a concrete foundation and wall, which contributes to another paradox in the barn&#39;s "apparently conflicting" history.</p><br>
<p>The Dougan Round Barn in Beloit, Wisconsin, United States, was a round barn that was built in 1911. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The barn served as a dairy barn until 1968. At its peak the farm had 120 cows.</p><br>
<p>The owner of the farm was Wesson J. Dougan, a Methodist pastor who gave up the ministry when he became deaf. He purchased his farm in 1906, established the Dougan Dairy, and finished building the round barn in 1911. A pioneer in scientific farming and dairy management practices, Dougan was recognized in 1926 by the University of Wisconsins College of Agriculture and Life Sciences with an Honorary Recognition Award, for combining "so successfully, skillful husbandry with a high type of rural life that his work has been a thoroughly constructive influence in the dairy industry. In this he has achieved high ideals to an unusual degree." When he retired, his son Ronald A Dougan took over the familys three farms, the dairy, the milk delivery business, and the hybrid seed corn business; RA Dougan retired in 1976, having sold his delivery business to a corporate producer. The story of the farm is told in a three-volume series of books by writer and university professor Jacqueline Dougan Jackson, the founder&#39;s granddaughter.</p><br>
<p>The Corson Emminger Round Barn near Watertown, South Dakota, United States, is a round barn that was built during 1909-1910 by Corson Emminger. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It is "extremely tall", on a 50 ft diameter base. It is built of concrete blocks. It has a double-pitched roof topped by a polygonal cupola with a conical top. It used to have ramps leading to two large entrances on the second level.</p><br>
<p>There are few round barns in South Dakota; Emminger may have brought the idea of building one from Wisconsin, his native state, from which he arrived in the early 1900s. He bought the farm property in 1905 for $6,000, and he built the barn at cost of $1,500 to use as a dairy barn. He moved into Watertown in 1914 and to California in 1920. Jacob Krull bought the farm for $13,600 and owned it, with exception of one year, until 1943.</p><br>
<p>Its National Register nomination asserts it is "truly a landmark in South Dakota", noting that it is located on one of the state&#39;s main</p><br>
<p>highways.</p><br>
<p>It is located on USA Route 81, about 2 mi west of parallel Interstate 29.</p><br>
<p>Tindley Temple United Methodist Church, also known as Tindley Temple Methodist Episcopal Church and Calvary United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located in the Southwest Center City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1923 and 1928, and is a large masonry building influenced by the Beaux-Arts Romanesque and Art Deco styles. The front facade features patterned tan brick and rounded arched grouped windows. A school and office addition was built in 1962-1963. The sanctuary was built to accommodated 3,200 worshipers and features a large, reinforced concrete balcony and organ built by M. P. Moller. The church is named for its founder Rev. Dr. Charles Albert Tindley .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Freight Shed is a historic freight station located in the Southwest Center City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania along Broad Street. It was built by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad in 1878, and is a large 1 1/2-story brick and stone building in the Late Gothic Revival style. It measures 99 feet, 5 inches, wide and 235 feet long. It has a long, sloping roof supported by a Fink truss system, with glazed monitors.</p><br>
<p>Following President Abraham Lincoln&#39;s 1865 assassination, his body was brought to the shed for a public viewing. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, developer Alterra Property Group proposed a $100 million mixed-use development that would restore and make use of the train site in what would be called Lincoln Square.</p><br>
<p>The Strauther Pleak Round Barn, also known as the "Pleak-Morgan Barn", is a round barn near Greensburg, Indiana, United States in Washington Township. Built in 1914, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The barn is part of farmstead with a circa 1940 Indiana limestone ranch house, smoke house, spring house and garage. The main drive is looped enclosing a pen with a chicken coop and smaller barn.</p><br>
<h2>Exterior</h2><br>
<p>The round, two-story barn is unusual with a conical roof, silo and cupola, looking like a three tiered wedding cake. The main roofing system is a conical design that is penetrated by the large silo with square, single-paned windows. The silo is in turn capped by a round cupola with an even steeper pitched conical roof. The attached rectangular barn (built 1915) has a gambrel roof. The balloon frame walls of both barns rest on poured concrete foundations.</p><br>
<p>The roof has been covered with asphalt replacement shingles. Walls are original. The cupola has decorative shingles. Horizontal wood siding covers the silo and the barn. The rectangular barn is also covered in horizontal wood siding. The main entry is centered on east facade, the large doors of vertical wood pieces swing out to offer access. Above the doors is an upper level hay door. Around the structure are eight spaced square, single-paned windows on the lower level. On the northwest is a large sliding-door, then the attached rectangular barn and two more windows before returning to the main door. On the upper level, there is the upper hay doors, followed by a bay without a window, then a window positioned slightly lower than the other upper level units. Following this window is another upper level hay door of smaller, then five windows centered above the lower level windows, along with another upper level window to the north. The silo has four square, windows, located on the four compass points.</p><br>
<p>The rectangular barn is very simple in design with equally spaced square windows along the east, west and north walls. There is a small sliding door on the south located near the connector to the round barn and a large door on the north that opens into the main drive.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The interior of the barn has the exposed balloon framing and the circular laminated beam overhead at the barn&#39;s perimeter. The feed alley runs around the perimeter of the lower level, approximately 4 ft wide. There is a gate that separates the central area from the main entrance. Moving around the lower level in a clockwise manner, the feed alley extends all the way around to the northwest corner where it breaks for the sliding door to the outside. On the north end of the barn, there are three large posts that open to the connector to the rectangular barn and form two openings with gates. Next is a built in concrete water trough used to water the animals and finally, a smaller feed alley returns to the main doors.</p><br>
<p>In the center of the space is the octagonal silo, which becomes a circle above the roofline. Originally constructed of 2 by lumber stacked flat and coated on the inside with tar. The tar failed to seal the silo, so a brick and concrete plaster lining was added in 1917 creating a circular form on the inside, which becomes visible above the roof. The attached rectangular barn is composed of a series of pens on either side of a driveway that connects the "north door" with the round structure. There is also a small walkway that connects the main drive with the sliding door on the south.</p><br>
<p>The upper level is the haymow. The silo was constructed first and supports the roof. The balloon framing for the roof is tied into the silo. These members radiate inwardly from the exterior walls to the barn&#39;s central silo. Lath work supports the wood shingles.</p><br>
<p>The area on the upper level is open with eight windows and two hay doors. As on the lower level, there are three posts that form two large openings to the rectangular barn on the north. The rectangular barn is left open for hay and straw storage.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The barn is unique in overall appearance of a three-tiered wedding cake. The three different roof sections of the lower level, silo and spire add a distinctive quality and the decorative shingles of the upper spire is a creative touch.</p><br>
<h2>Owners</h2><br>
<p>The Pleak family maintained ownership of the farm until 1914 when it was sold to I.E. Morgan. The farm was then passed to I.B. Morgans son, Ati, in 1937, with Ati Morgan (1993) being the current owner. Mr. Morgans changes to the farm have been restricted to the construction of a 1940s era Indiana limestone ranch house, with no intrusive changes to the historic fabric of the round barn.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>Hanou, John. Research compiled on Indiana&#39;s round and polygonal barns from 1986 to present. Archived at Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, 340 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202.</p><br>
<p>Intensive architectural survey of Indiana&#39;s round and polygonal barns, conducted June to August 1991, conducted by Jerry McMahan, areawide survey of round and polygonal architectural and historical resources.</p><br>
<p>Morgan, Ati. Owner of the Pleak (Morgan) Barn, Greensburg, Indiana. Interviewed by Jerry McMahan, October 6, 1991.</p><br>
<p>Soike, Lowell J. Without Right Angles, The Round Barns of Iowa. Des Moines, IA: Iowa State Historical Department, Office of Historic Preservation, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Frank Littleton Round Barn, also known as the "Littleton-Pulliam Round Barn", is a round barn near Mount Comfort, Indiana, United States. Built in 1903, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>At 102 feet in diameter, it is the largest round barn ever built in the state. It was built for attorney and state legislator Frank L. Littleton, who wanted to best the accomplishment of fellow legislator, Congressman Wymond Beckett of Indianapolis, who had a 100-foot diameter barn. The barn was built in 1902 by Isaac McHamee, his son Emery McHamee, Benton Steele, and Horace Duncan.</p><br>
<p>The barn&#39;s design was used as documentation in a USA patent application, "Improvements to the Self-Supported Conical Roof", a patent which was granted in 1905 to Littleton, Isaac McNamee and Horace Duncan. A 1991 study indicates that "many farmers began building multi-sided (6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16-sided) barns to skirt... infringement" upon the patent.</p><br>
<p>The Bert Leedy Round Barn, also known as Paxton Round Barn and as Fulton County Historical Society Round Barn, is a round barn located in Richland Township near Rochester, Indiana, United States. Built in 1924, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. The listing was consistent with terms of a National Park Service "Multiple Property Documentation" study on "Round and Polygonal Barns of Indiana" that was prepared in 1991. The Round Barn was moved to its current site, an open-air museum, in 1989 after it was struck by a tornado.</p><br>
<p>The Fulton County Historical Society Museum, a modern building, is located approximately seventy five feet northwest of the barn. Parking for the museum is located northeast of the barn. A large earthen ramp on the north side of the barn leads to the main level entrance.</p><br>
<h2>Exterior</h2><br>
<p>This circular, two-storied barn, constructed in 1924, is topped by a three-pitch gambrel roof that is in turn capped by a round cupola with conical roof. The cupola is composed of windows, which help provide natural light to the main interior level. The main level s balloon frame structure, original to the barn, rests on the lower levels poured concrete walls. After the barn was moved in 1990 the roof was rebuilt using approximately two-thirds of the original roof materials.</p><br>
<p>The roof surfaces of the barn are covered in wood shingle. Although, some of the materials are new, the original roof was of the same design and construction. The wall surfaces of the main level are sheathed in vertical wood siding painted white while the walls of the lower level are poured concrete.</p><br>
<p>There were two 2-pitch gambrel barns in Rochester Township built in 1914 and 1915, that survived at the time of a 1991 survey of round barns in the state. Also in the township there had been a 3-pitch gambrel barn built in 1916, but the latter has been lost.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The lower level, unlike the main floor, contains windows spaced at regular intervals. These windows, inserted in the new foundation at the time that the barn was moved, were taken from the original foundation. The west facing door, located on this level, also slides on an overhead track. On the south side a fire door was added during the recent rehabilitation to satisfy fire codes.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The barn is significant as an outstanding example of the round barn phenomenon that appeared in American farming at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the early twentieth century. Round barn construction illustrates the application of scientific methods and modern engineering principles to agricultural building construction in order to improve the efficiency and thereby the profitability of the farm.</p><br>
<p>The barn is an excellent example and the last known example of the work of C. V. Kindig and Sons, the leading round barn builders in northwestern Indiana in the early twentieth century. One of the significant construction improvements that typifies round barns is the use of balloon framing. Without the numerous structural supports found in barns that did not use balloon framing, (typically early polygonal barns), interiors like that of the Leedy Barn could more efficiently accommodate the needs of the farmer. The belief that increased efficiency would improve a farm&#39;s profitability was an underlying principle behind the introduction of the centralized barn form.</p><br>
<h2>Owners</h2><br>
<p>The original owner of the barn was Bert Leedy who had lost a barn to fire in September 1924. Leedy consulted with his brother, Ezra, the owner of a round barn, who convinced him that a round barn could be constructed more quickly than a conventional barn and thereby provide shelter for his equipment and livestock before the approaching winter. Bert Leedy contacted C. V. Kindig and Sons. The Kindigs were responsible for most of Fulton County&#39;s round barns. The foundation and lower level walls of concrete were poured in just three days. When completed, the lower level sheltered eight horses, thirty sheep, eight cows, eight calves and eight feeder steers. The upper level hay mow accommodated fifty to sixty loads of hay and ten to twelve loads of straw plus a wheat bin with a capacity of thirty bushels.</p><br>
<p>Bert Leedy retained ownership of the barn and farm until 1972 when he sold out to the Partridge family. They in turn had tornado damaged in 1989. Paxton offered the barn to the Fulton County Historical Society on the condition that it be moved. The relocation began, November 30 and restoration on June 20, 1990. The barn was dedicated by the Society on June 22, 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>Hanou, John. Research compiled on Indiana&#39;s round and polygonal barns from 1986 to present. Archived at Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, 340 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202.</p><br>
<p>Hood, Doris. Fulton County&#39;s Round Barns. Rochester, IN: Fulton County Round Barn Festival, 1971.</p><br>
<p>Intensive architectural survey of Indiana&#39;s round and polygonal barns, conducted June to August 1991, conducted by Jerry McMahan, area wide survey of round and polygonal architectural and historical resources.</p><br>
<p>Soike, Lowell J. Without Right Angles, The Round Barns of Iowa. Des Moines, IA: Iowa State Historical Department, Office of Historic Preservation, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The John Haimbaugh Round Barn in Newcastle Township near Rochester, Indiana, United States, is a round barn that was built in 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>There was another 2-pitch gambrel barn in Rochester Township, built in 1915, that was still extant at the time of a 1991 survey of round barns in the state. Also in the township there had been a 3-pitch gambrel barn built in 1916, but the latter has been lost.</p><br>
<p>Brothers Vernon, Oral, and Hap Kindig built the barn in 1914 for Mr. Haimbaugh. It stands on the west side of Indiana 25. The barn is surrounded by mature trees with cultivated fields on the north and west.</p><br>
<h2>Exterior</h2><br>
<p>The 72 ft diameter circle is two-story structure, surrounded on the northwest by a 20 ft semi-circular one story shed. The roof is a three-pitch gambrel with a dormer on the northeast. In lieu of a cupola, it has a metal aerator. The shed is covered by a gently sloping roof. The balloon framing of the walls rest on tall (about four feet tall) concrete block walls, which in turn rest on poured concrete foundations. Gravel from the farm was used in making the poured concrete. Legend has it that Mr. Haimbaugh insisted on filling the block walls with poured concrete as well, in order to insure stability. The block walls still show no signs of failure.</p><br>
<p>The original wooden shingles have been replaced by asphalt shingles. The roof has modest eaves with exposed rafters. Exterior frame walls are sheathed in vertical wood siding. Simple boards are used to frame door and window openings.</p><br>
<p>The front is to the northeast. It has large sliding doors mounted on overhead tracks. The doors are vertical planks with an applied diamond panel decoration. The northwest side has a small human-sized door, allowing access without opening the large doors. A dormer is above the door. There are ten windows around each side of the barn from the main doors with another smaller door on the southeast side. There are no upper level windows on the front. A shed juts out from the rear of the barn with two windows and a single, upper level windows centered between the lower two. The shed has a series of ten windows, followed by a door and then another set of ten windows.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The interior of the barn is a composition of spaces arranged to facilitated the dairy operation. There is a central drive that runs from the main doors on the northeast and southwest. On either side of the main drive are feed alleys that are created by the central posts and a concrete feed trough, which forms a circle some 40 ft in diameter. On the east side, a concrete trough is followed by a ring of support posts that brace a laminated beam above which helps to carry the weight of the floor joists. Stanchions for the milk herd are fitted between the posts, followed by a manure alley along the outer perimeter. The west side has a similar arrangement but there is a corncrib built into the middle of the feed alley. Finally, along the outer reaches of the west side, there are openings into the attached shed where pens could accommodate the storage of animals.</p><br>
<p>The upper level, reached by a moveable ladder. The roofing system is an elaborate series of laminated beams and support posts that brace the three roof sections and the dormer. There is an upper laminated beam at the base of the metal aerator section that is braced by a series of cross-timbers that form a web of support. A circular hay track is mounted inside of this beam and it curves gracefully into the dormer thus allowing for efficient handling of hay and straw inside of the main doors. The roof trusses are then composed of balloon frame stick lumber pieces that radiate upwards toward the barn&#39;s center. The floor area of the upper level is open, with the exception of the area just inside of the northeast doors which is left open to accommodate loading and unloading of upper level feed.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>It is associated with the development of agriculture in Indiana. The Haimbaugh Barn was built by locally prominent carpenters C.V. Kindig & Sons and features an unusual semi-circular attached shed section. The barn is an important and direct link to the agricultural development that occurred in Indiana from 1850 to 1936 and has changed very little since its construction in 1914. The period of greatest significance of the barn was from 1914 to 1936.</p><br>
<p>The Haimbaugh barn is quite unusual and unique among Indiana examples. Being one of the 77 remaining true circular barns of the 151 that were built (219 round and polygonal barns were built in Indiana). The barn is unique with the 20 ft deep shed that wraps half way around the barn. Only one other Indiana example has this type of shed that was integral to the original design, the Dr. Horace Jones barn of Madison County&#39;s Boone Township. Furthermore, the decorative qualities of the barn and the attention to detail distinguish it from other examples, from its white trim to the diamond trimmed openings to the quarry-faced concrete block base. The Haimbaugh round barn has all of the essential features that were present at the time of its period of significance, from 1911 to the mid 1930s.</p><br>
<h2>Owners</h2><br>
<p>The original owner of the barn was John Haimbaugh who commissioned prominent Fulton County builders C.V. Kindig & Sons to erect the barn. Haimbaugh operated a dairy for which the barn seemed ideal. Timber was harvested from the farm and processed at the nearby Talma sawmill. Gravel for the concrete was mined from a nearby creek. After completion, there were 38 milking stations around the lower level and numerous windows providing ample light to the interior.</p><br>
<p>The Haimbaugh family has always maintained ownership of the barn. The Haimbaugh Family Trust is the current owner. The trust was established for the maintenance of the barn.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>Hanou, John. Research compiled on Indiana&#39;s round and polygonal barns from 1986 to present. Archived at Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, 340 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202.</p><br>
<p>Hood, Doris. Fulton County&#39;s Round Barns. Rochester, IN: Fulton County Round Barn hestival, 1971.</p><br>
<p>Intensive architectural survey of Indiana&#39;s round and polygonal barns. Conducted June to August 1991, conducted by Jerry McMahan, area wide survey of round and polygonal architectural and historical resources.</p><br>
<p>Soike, Lowell J. Without Right Angles, The Round Barns of Iowa. Des Moines, IA: Iowa State Historical Department, Office of Historic Preservation, 1983.</p><br>
<p>Marine Corps Depot of Supplies, Schuylkill Warehouse was a historic warehouse located in the Schuylkill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The structure was demolished in 2015 to make way for the Children&#39;s Hospital of Philadelphia expansion. It was built in two sections in 1941 and in 1943. It was a six-story, orange brick building in the Moderne-style. A one-story, brick addition was built about 1970. It has an off-center tower over the entrance, unornamented parapet and flat roof, long bands of steel windows, and wide loading bays separated by rounded concrete columns. It was built by and occupied by the United States Marine Corps into the 1960s. Afterwards, it was used as a vocational training facility, the John F. Kennedy Vocational Center, by the School District of Philadelphia into the 1980s. It was later used for administrative offices and storage.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Washington Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located in the Hawthorne neighborhood of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It encompasses eight contributing buildings built between 1889 and 1927. They are large industrial buildings that were occupied by the Main Belting Company, John Williams Company and C. J. Milne textile manufacturers, John Wanamaker clothing factory, Curtis Publishing, American Cigar Company, John Wyeth Laboratories, and National Licorice.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Washington Avenue was a district of manufacturing plants and factories that was also known as the "workshop of the world" up until mid 20th century (1950s). The avenue was home to the Curtis Publishing Company printing press, "... which printed Ladies Home Journal and Saturday Evening Post, and the locally renowned merchant John Wanamaker’s."</p><br>
<h2>Public transportation</h2><br>
<p>The Washington Avenue Historic District is served by SEPTA&#39;s Route 64 bus. Several other transit routes cross Washington Avenue, most important being the subsurface Broad Street Line with its station at Ellsworth-Federal.</p><br>
<p>The Hoffman Round Barn, also known as Gentry Round Barn, is a historic round barn and national historic district located near Wolftown, Madison County, Virginia. The district encompasses two contributing buildings, one contributing site and one other contributing structure. The barn was built in 1913. It is a 1 1/2 story, wood frame barn with 12 sides and a 12-sided standing-seam metal, mansard-like roof. A wooden center silo protrudes several feet above the level of the main roof, has a gable-roofed dormer on the east side, and is capped by a metal roof, resembling a cupola. Associated with the barn are the contributing Hoffman farmhouse and family cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Round Barn near Paulding, Ohio, listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places simply as Round Barn, is in the area of Paulding, Ohio. It is a round barn that was built in 1911. It may also have been known as William Sinn Round Barn.</p><br>
<p>It was owned originally or at some later date by Ohio Wesleyan University. It is a 60 ft diameter barn, which rises to a height of 55 ft. It was one of six round barns in the Black Swamp area of northwest Ohio that were nominated for NRHP listing together. The listed area for this one, as for several of the others, was just the area of the barn itself plus 50 feet extended out, so making a 160 ft diameter circular area.</p><br>
<p>The barn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>William Sinn was one of the trustees of the barn property.</p><br>
<p>Eierland is a former island in the Netherlands. It is now the northern part of the island of Texel. The name means "egg land", named for the seagull eggs that were collected on the island and sent to Amsterdam.</p><br>
<p>The island of Eierland was a part of Vlieland until the 13th century, when it became a separate island. During the 16th century, a sand bank grew in the sea arm between Texel and Eierland, which eventually was submerged only at extremely high tide. In 1629 and 1630, a dam was built connecting the two islands, and Eierland ceased to exist as a separate island.</p><br>
<p>The shallow waters between the two islands were sold to a group of developers led by trader Nicolaas de Cock from Antwerp in 1835. Within twenty weeks, a dyke was built around this area, and a polder was created, the Eierlandse Polder. This meant a significant enlargement of the island of Texel.</p><br>
<p>The lighthouse of Texel, the Eierland Lighthouse, is located on the northern tip of the former island. This area was formerly known as het Engels Kerkhof, the English Cemetery. Many sailors from nearby shipwrecks were buried here.</p><br>
<p>The village of De Cocksdorp (named after Nicolaas de Cock) and the hamlets Midden-Eierland and Zuid-Eierland are located in the Eierlandse Polder.</p><br>
<p>Parkway West High School is a public magnet high school located in the Mill Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It shares a site with the Middle Years Alternative School for the Humanities . Both schools are part of the School District of Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>The schools are located in the former Mayer Sulzberger Junior High School building. It was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1923–1924. It is a three-story, 17 bay, brick building on a raised stone basement in the Colonial Revival-style. It is in the shape of a shallow "W". It features a center projecting pavilion, brick pilasters with stone caps, stone cornice, and a brick parapet. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, the school district voted to close the Sulzberger Middle School due to declining enrollment. Additionally, Parkway West and MYA were moved from an older, deteriorating building to the Sulzberger building. Both schools were moved in by 2009.</p><br>
<p>Dimner Beeber Middle School is a historic middle school located in the Wynnefield neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia. The building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1931–1932. It is a three-story, 15 bay, brick building on a stone basement in the Classical Revival-style. It features a projecting center section and projecting end bays, projecting brick pilasters with stone bases and caps, moulded cornice, and balustraded parapet.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Since 2013, the building has been shared with the Science Leadership Academy at Beeber, the second branch of the Science Leadership Academy. The high school focuses on science and technology.</p><br>
<p>Ninai  is a waterfall in Dediapada taluka of Narmada district in the Indian state of Gujarat.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Ninai is located off State Highway 163 (Gujarat). It is approximately 35 km from Dediapada and approximately 143 km from Surat. Nearest railway station is Bharuch which is around 125 km away and nearest airport is Surat</p><br>
<h2>Waterfalls</h2><br>
<p>The height of Ninai falls is more than 30 feet.</p><br>
<h2>Geographical significance</h2><br>
<p>Ninai Falls has tremendous beauty around it. It is situated in Dediapada&#39;s beautiful forest ranges besides Shoolpaneshwar wildlife sanctuary.</p><br>
<h2>Eco Tourism plan</h2><br>
<p>The Narmada district collectorate is promoting the Sardar Sarovar dam and its surrounding tribal region as possible eco-tourism hotspots. The plan includes the Ninaighat waterfalls also.</p><br>
<p>Union Fishermen&#39;s Cooperative Packing Company Alderbrook Station, on the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon, was built in 1903. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1991. The listing included three contributing buildings and another contributing structure on a 4.5 acre area.</p><br>
<p>The Union Fishermen&#39;s Cooperative Packing Company dates from 1896. Founded in 1896 "by a group of gillnetters aiming to gain more control over market and working conditions", the company built a cannery and two stations, this one in Alderbrook and another in Uppertown. These stations served members, mostly Finns and Scandinavians, who lived in Alderbrook and Uppertown neighborhoods. "At these stations, the gillnetters could unload their catches at receiving stations at the pierhead, find secure moorage close to their homes, and have ready access to storage and repair facilities."</p><br>
<p>Only the 1903 Alderbrook station survives intact. The three-story, 60 x fishing boat and net storage shed, standing on pilings in the river, is the largest of the station&#39;s surviving buildings. It has a two-story boat lift at its northwest corner, but the lift was in "poor condition"</p><br>
<p>Among the coop&#39;s other buildings was a "storage warehouse and receiving station" built on pilings in the river at 31st Street (in Uppertown), which survives but was heavily damaged in a 2007 storm.</p><br>
<p>The Peter Myers Pork Packing Plant and Willard Coleman Building, in Janesville, Wisconsin, United States—also known as Koutsky & Berg—is a packing house that was built in 1851 in Italianate style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>It consists of two original properties, now three buildings, on North Main Street:</p><br>
<p>117 North Main Street - Willard Coleman, Painter (The Bear Trap Saloon), which was built c.1858-60, was renovated c. 1870-75, and modified 1900-02. It is a two-story red brick building with a cast iron front.</p><br>
<p>119-123 North Main Street - The Peter Myers Pork Packing Plant, now split between 119 North Main Street - Legal Action of Wisconsin and 121 North Main Street - The Main Waye - Women&#39;s Apparel and 123 North Main Street - Midwest Prosthetic-Orthotic Center. This was built c. 1857 and c. 1868. It is a two-story complex of two buildings, with Italianate architecture</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office-Hettinger in Hettinger, North Dakota, United States, is an example of Starved Classicism architecture. Also known as Hettinger Post Office, it was built during 1937-1938 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The main portion of the building is nearly square, 60 x. There were just five other "Starved Classicism" style post offices built in North Dakota, based on standard plans from the USA Treasury Department. And, it is the only federal building in Hettinger. A post office at Langdon was the only other post office in North Dakota funded under the same funding program.</p><br>
<p>It is located a block west along Highway 12 from the Adams County Courthouse, built during 1928-29, also NRHP-listed.</p><br>
<p>Henry C. Lea Elementary School is a historic elementary school located in the Walnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia. The building was designed by Henry deCourcy Richards and built by Cramp & Co. in 1914. It is a three-story, five bay, reinforced concrete building faced with brick and with terra cotta and granite trim in the Late Gothic Revival-style. It sits on a raised basement. It features a Classical limestone center entrance surround, a central two-story bay window, decorative panels, crenelated parapet, and a projecting entrance bay. It was used as an "observation school" for teacher education and training.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 as the Henry C. Lea School of Practice.</p><br>
<p>United States Post Office-Main Branch is a historic post office building located in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located across from Amtrak&#39;s 30th Street Station. It was built between 1931 and 1935, and is a six-story, steel frame building clad in limestone in the Art Deco-style. It measures 386 ft wide and 455 ft long. The facility closed on September 29, 2008 when main distribution center activities moved to a new facility adjacent to the Philadelphia International Airport. A new retail location was opened nearby at 3000 Chestnut Street.</p><br>
<p>The building has been converted into office space, including the regional headquarters of the IRS.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Former North Dakota Executive Mansion, also or formerly known as Old Governor&#39;s Mansion or Asa Fisher House, at 320 Ave. B., E., in Bismarck, North Dakota, was built in 1893.</p><br>
<p>It served "as the official residence of the Governors of North Dakota for nearly 67 years. The last Governor to occupy it was John E. Davis whose term of office ran through 1960."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The original governors mansion was built in 1884 as a private home for Bismarck businessman Asa Fisher. Fisher homesteaded in Edwinton (Bismarck) in 1872 and made his fortune in banking, real estate and liquor sales. In 1893, the house was sold to the state for $5000. The house was used as the governors residence from 1893–1960 and was the home of twenty North Dakota governors. In 1975, the State Legislature passed House Bill 1315 which transferred ownership to the State Historical Society of North Dakota. The house was renovated to look as it did in 1893 and opened to the public as a North Dakota State Historic Site in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Health Education Building, also known as the McAfee Gym, is a historic building located on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. The building was constructed in 1938 and designed by Peoria architecture firm Hewitt, Emerson and Greg; C. Herrick Hammond served as the states supervising architect on the project. The buildings design incorporates elements of several contemporary architectural styles; it features an Art Deco octagonal clock tower and projecting pilasters, while its flat roof and concrete coursing are representative of the Art Moderne style and its steel ribbon windows are inspired by the International Style. The university used the new building to expand its physical education program into a full course of study, which included the establishment of a womens physical education program. The building was also used to host sporting events, student performances, and school dances. In the 1960s, the construction of Lantz Arena and a new classroom building for health education resulted in the relocation of many of the programs held in the building. The building was officially renamed the Florence McAfee Womens Gymnasium in 1965, after the first head of women&#39;s athletics at the university.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 9, 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Berwyn Municipal Building, also known as Berwyn City Hall, is a historic public building located at 6700 26th Street in Berwyn, Illinois. The building was constructed in 1939 as a Public Works Administration project. The architecture firm of Charles Herrick Hammond and Hubert Burnham designed the building in the PWAs characteristic PWA Moderne style; their design features square massing, a flat brick and limestone exterior, prism-shaped pilasters, and reeding above the entrance. While the pilasters are in keeping with Moderne design, their prism shape is unusual; they may have been influenced by Burnhams earlier work or by Czech Cubism, given Berwyn&#39;s substantial Czech-American population at the time.</p><br>
<p>The building originally housed Berwyn&#39;s city offices, its library, and its police and fire departments. The police department left in the 1960s, and the library closed its branch in the building in the 1980s; the city government and fire department still used the building as of 2001. An addition was placed on the building in 1991 to give it an elevator in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 8, 2001.</p><br>
