<p>Langøy is an island in the municipality of Kragerø in Telemark county, Norway. An area of 6,6 km² makes it the second largest island of Kragerø after Skåtøy. Its name, which means "Long island", reflects its shape only to some extent.</p><br>
<p>The island is populated, and there is a ferry, operated by Kragerø Fjordbåtselskap, connecting the island to the town of Kragerø. On the island is found several old mines, that used to provide iron to the ironworks of Fritzøe and Bærum. Mining of iron began on Langøy at some point in the 17th century, and continued until the midst of the 19th century. With the decline of ironworks in Norway in the 1860s, there was soon no market for iron, and the last of the mines at Langøy had to shut down in 1869.</p><br>
<p>The highest point on the island is Langøybratten, at 117 meters, followed by Fløyfjell at 103 meters.</p><br>
<p>Liberty Hall is a historic building located at Quakertown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1772 as the first permanent residence in Quakertown. It is a two-story, 15 feet  by 15 feet building with one room per floor. It is constructed of native fieldstone and has a half gambrel roof. It represents simple colonial Quaker construction.</p><br>
<p>The Liberty Bell is purported to have been hidden on the property overnight on its way to Allentown, PA. In 1777, the Continental Congress had decreed the bell be moved before the British Army melted it down for ammunition. On the night of 18 September 1777, six days after the Liberty Bell left Philadelphia, it was stored overnight behind Evan Foulke&#39;s house near The Red Lion Inn at the corner of Broad and Main Streets in Quakertown. The next day it continued on its journey to Allentown to be hidden for the remainder of the Revolutionary War. It remained in use as a residence until 1805, when a new dwelling was constructed. It was used for farm storage and later for commercial purposes. It was purchased by the borough of Quakertown in 1977.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Arkansas Power and Light Building is a building in the city of Little Rock, Arkansas. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Now also known as the Entergy Building, it was the first office building in downtown Little Rock built in the International style. Designed by the architect Fred Arnold of the Little Rock architectural firm of Wittenberg, Deloney and Davidson in 1953, it was not completed until 1959 due to uncertainty over the utilitys requested rate increases and the expiration of laborers union contracts.</p><br>
<p>Acclaimed at the time for its "modern" look, the building features marble panels and glass curtain wall, above a single-story, curvilinear brick masonry section at the western end. It was one of Little Rock&#39;s first buildings built after the city formally adopted its "Little Rock 1969" master plan. The plan controlled new commercial design and encouraged private-public partnership for downtown beautification over the next decade.</p><br>
<p>The building at 900 S. Louisiana St. houses Entergy Arkansas, the successor to Arkansas Power and Light Co. It has continually been the utility&#39;s headquarters.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>Over time the original Georgia Pearl Gray marble panels began to fail due to weather and bowing. In 2010, the panels were removed and replaced with new panels. The historic structure was unable to bear the weight of the stone, so 1/4-inch thick Georgia Pearl Gray marble, from the original quarry was bonded to an aluminum honeycomb backing and used to replace the original panels.</p><br>
<p>The panels are consistent with the USA secretary of the Interior&#39;s standards for rehabilitation of historic properties and the building retains its National Register listing. The work received the Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas award.</p><br>
<p>Thomas and Lydia Gilbert Farm, also known as the Datestone Farm, is a historic home and farm located at Holicong, Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The original section of the farmhouse was built in 1711, with additions made in 1735 and 1812. Each section is marked with a datestone. The house consists of two 2 1/2-story, stone sections with a unifying cornice, roofline, and slate-covered gable roof. It is in a vernacular Georgian style. The house was restored in 1970-1972. and a frame addition completed on the west side of the house. Also on the property are a contributing stone and frame bank barn, stone and frame wagon house , and a stone spring house with a datestone of 1808.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>St Pauls Anglican Cathedral is a heritage-listed cathedral at 89 William Street, Rockhampton, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed principally by Annersley Voysey and built from 1883 to 1953. It is also known as St Pauls Church of England and St Paul&#39;s Church of England Cathedral. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. The associated hall and offices were listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 23 June 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St Paul&#39;s Anglican Cathedral was constructed as the Rockhampton Church of England, and completed by 1883 when it was dedicated. The building was designed principally by Brisbane architect Annersley Voysey. The building became the Church of England Cathedral in 1892.</p><br>
<p>Anglican services were held in Rockhampton from the late 1850s by lay ministers. In 1859 a small timber church and school building was constructed, however this was destroyed in a storm in 1860. The pioneer rector, Reverend Thomas Jones, arrived in Rockhampton in about 1860 and held services at Grant&#39;s Timber Yard Hall and at the local Court House. By 1862 he had raised sufficient funds to build a timber church on the site later occupied by the Parish Hall. This building, designed by Thomas Dixon Chater, was built on a dedicated church reserve adjoining the National School. By 1872 about £3000 had been collected for the construction of a third Rockhampton church.</p><br>
<p>Plans and specifications were prepared for the new church, later the Cathedral, in Brisbane by architect, Annersley Voysey. The stonemason employed on the first part of the project was Paul Sanderson who completed external walls to the height of one metre. By 1877 the walls were no higher and the money was spent, fresh tenders were called. Amid a flurry of concerns about the strength of the foundations as well the introduction of a new plan by Queensland Colonial Architect, FDG Stanley, the construction at the church was recommenced in September 1879 to revised plans by AW Voysey and Frank Scarr. The masonry was continued by George Sanderson, carpentry was completed by David Wiley, plumbing by J Wakefield and painting by W Aspinall. Funding shortages again caused a work stoppage, this time in April 1881 just as the roof was to be started. Committee members pledged to raise £200 each and the work was recommenced. The building was completed and furnished by 18 October 1883 when it was dedicated by Bishop Matthew Hale assisted by Bishop George Stanton. The building was not consecrated until 20 June 1911 when the building fund was repaid.</p><br>
<p>In 1892 the Rockhampton Church of England Diocese was formed and the church was upgraded to a cathedral. The foundation bishop was the Right Reverend Nathaniel Dawes who was enthroned on 30 November 1892. Entrance gates, designed by Louis Spier Robertson, were constructed at the cathedral in 1899.</p><br>
<p>Other changes to the building include the removal in 1968 of the High Altar from the eastern wall of the chancel to a more central position on the sanctuary. This work involved the removal of a rood screen, which was installed in the 1920s. The crucifix which was part of this screen is now affixed to a wall near the lectern. A Warriors Chapel was added to the eastern end of the one of the aisles in 1916. A Lady&#39;s Chapel was created in the other aisle in about 1953. A temporary bell tower with a peal of eight bells was erected in 1946 as a thanksgiving offering for victory in World War II.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>St Pauls Anglican Cathedral is a simple substantial masonry building with steeply pitched gabled roof. The building is constructed from rock faced evenly coursed sandstone and has smooth faced sandstone detailing including windows surrounds, base course, string coursing and buttress caps. The building has a rectangular plan, with apsidal chancel and rectangular gabled porched entrance. Flanking the chancel is a vestry to the south and a warriors chapel to the north. The building is divided internally into nave and side aisles by a pointed arched arcade of smooth faced Stanwell sandstone.</p><br>
<p>The High Altar is constructed with a Tasmanian black bean base and bronze and resin lining. The central figure on the altar is the Lamb from the Book of Revelation surrounded by four evangelists. The sedilia or stalls surrounding the altar are of timber. The Bishops Cathedra or Throne is made from red cedar and canopied in Gothic style. Four mosaics set into the floor in front of the throne are thought to date from the eighteenth century and depict mythical beasts from Ezekial and the Book of Revelation. The pulpit is carved from Stanwell sandstone and features a cross carved in relief. The font, also of Stanwell sandstone, is situated in the south western corner of the building. The sanctuary of the church houses a Deans stall, Precentors stall and Canons stalls. A brass lectern with eagle head is housed near the altar. The Lady Chapel houses a small coloured statue of the Madonna and Child known as the Lady of Walsingham. The piece dates from 1963 and depicts the patron saint of the church. Also housed in the Lady Chapel is an Icon of St Paul. The Warrior Chapel houses a 1919 honour board bearing the names of the fallen from the Diocese. A ceramic bas relief of the Madonna and Child (after Della Robbia) is attached to the wall of the southern side aisle. On the sills of some of the windows in the side aisles are small brass medallions which are modern interpretations of the fourteen Stations of the Cross.</p><br>
<p>The stained and coloured glass windows throughout the building are of high quality. The first window in the eastern end of the north aisle, of unknown origin, was placed in 1903 depicting Christ in Glory and dedicated to John Peddle. Windows in the southern aisle, with the exception of the one depicting St Paul on the Road to Damascus, were designed by William Bustard of Brisbane. The three central sanctuary lights (Messrs Lawndes and Dowry, London, after the design of Miss Caroline Townshead) were placed in the memory of the first Bishop Nathaniel Dawes in 1914, depicting Agony and Crucifixion, the Risen Christ and the Day of the Pentecost. The two windows flanking these were placed in 1921 and also made by Messrs Lawndes and Dowry in memory of Marion Dawson, depicting the Annunciation and Visitation and Eucharist worship of the church.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>St Paul&#39;s Anglican Cathedral was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>The cathedral demonstrates the growth of Rockhampton during the late nineteenth century. The substantial sandstone building constructed by 1883 became a cathedral in 1892 when the Diocese of Rockhampton was formed.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.</p><br>
<p>The building is characteristic of substantial Gothic revival cathedrals, with sandstone construction, cruciform plan, Gothic detailing and steeply pitched roof.</p><br>
<p>The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.</p><br>
<p>The building has aesthetic merit as a well composed building and a Rockhampton landmark. Features of the building have individual significance as well crafted items, including internal furnishings and stained glass panels.</p><br>
<p>The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.</p><br>
<p>The building has special associations for the Anglican Community of central and north Queensland as their cathedral.</p><br>
<p>The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>The building is associated with the architect, Annersley Voysey and with many influential archbishops of the Rockhampton Diocese.</p><br>
<p>The Alden B. Dow Office and Lake Jackson City Hall is a historic, single-story, wood-frame commercial building in Lake Jackson, Texas, located near Freeport. Built in 1943, it was designed by noted Michigan architect Alden B. Dow in Modern Movement architectural style. The structure was designed as part of a company town of Dow Chemical Company and served as Alden Dows local office during the development of Lake Jackson. Alden Dow, sometimes called the "Father of Lake Jackson" laid out the plan for the citys streets and designed all of the citys initial buildings, plus six models for varied styles of residences. Dow was the son of the Dow Chemical Companys founder, Herbert Henry Dow. In a May 1944 publication issued by Dow Chemical Company, the Alden B. Dow Office and Lake Jackson City Hall were described as follows:</p><br>
<p>"If anything were ever modern it is that office. Picture windows, blue-gray walls, a brilliant green ceiling, magenta doors and trim—and the rest, yellow. Dow&#39;s city-builder in the functional vest tells you that the color scheme of his office is typical of Lake Jackson."</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Harrison House is historic slave plantation home property in Franklin, Tennessee that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1975. It was built perhaps in 1810 and was extended and remodelled in 1848 by William Harrison. The remodelling added a "two-story entrance portico and second-story gallery porch typical of many antebellum homes."</p><br>
<p>It was the site of the last staff meeting of Confederate General John Bell Hood with his staff before the 1864 Battle of Franklin, on battlefield 3 mi north.</p><br>
<p>Confederate Brig. Gen. John H. Kelly died and was buried here, after a smaller, earlier battle.</p><br>
<p>After the Battle of Franklin, Confederate Brig. Gen. John C. Carter was brought here and died on Dec. 10, 1864.</p><br>
<p>The NRHP listing includes an area of 9 acre.</p><br>
<p>The Green Mercantile Store, located in Buffalo Creek, Colorado, is a two-story building constructed of native granite in 1898 by John W. Green, Sr. The building is also home for the Buffalo Creek post office.</p><br>
<p>The original Green Mercantile was a wooden hotel building built in 1883 and purchased by John Wesley Green. The mercantile became the post office as well in 1886 when Green was appointed postmaster by Grover Cleveland. After the original building burnt down in a fire that destroyed many buildings in Buffalo Creek in 1897, Green contracted Seerie Investment Company to replace the building with fireproof native granite block. The blocks were hoisted into place with the combined effort of six men, a team of mules and a gin pole. The building has been in continuous operation as a general store and post office ever since, operated by descendants of the Green family.</p><br>
<p>The Lakeview Historic District is a historic district on the north side of the city of Chicago, Illinois.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places on September 15, 1977. The district, which is in southeastern Lakeview Township about 3.5 mi north of the Chicago Loop, is primarily in the Lake View community but also includes a small part of the Lincoln Park neighborhood to the south. A boundary expansion on May 16, 1986 added a one-block section on the south side of Belmont Avenue, between Orchard and Halsted Streets.</p><br>
<p>Land use in the historic district is primarily multi-family residential. Streets are laid out on a rectangular grid that is broken by the short jogs in some of the streets and crossed on the diagonal by Clark Street.</p><br>
<p>David Leedom Farm, also known as "Pleasant Retreat," is a historic home and farm located at Newtown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The house was built in four stages, with the oldest dated to the late 18th century and consisting of a one-story, one roof stone structure. A large, 2 1/2-story stone addition was built in the late-18th century. In 1802, a three-story, stone "mansion" section was added. A two-story, frame addition was built in the early 1800s. The house features a series of piazzas and the interior of the mansion section has a three-story staircase. Also on the property are a variety of contributing farm-related buildings. The house was featured in one of four Newtown farmscape paintings by noted artist Edward Hicks .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Saint Barbara Catholic Church also known as Santa Barbara Catholic Church and Akosombo Catholic Church is a small church situated at one of the highest points in Akosombo, Ghana, overlooking the dam. It was constructed in September 1962 by Impregilo SPA in 21 days. It was built as a place of worship by the staff of Impregilo during the building of the Akosombo Dam.The Ghanaian Times</p><br>
<h2>Origin and Inspiration</h2><br>
<p>The church was named after and dedicated to Saint Barbara the patron saint of the contractors who built the dam and the church.The Church was built to provide a worshipping place and also host the then Archbishop of Milan Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini who later became Pope Paul VI. He was visiting Ghana that year.</p><br>
<p>The church which was completed in 21 days was designed to resemble praying hands.</p><br>
<h2>A Memorial for the Heroes of the Akosombo Dam</h2><br>
<p>A memorial plaque sits in the church in memory of 28 staff of Impregilo SPA that died building the Akosombo Dam, 12 of whom died in an explosion.</p><br>
<p>Victims of February 15, 1966 explosion</p><br>
<p>On the February 15th 1966 at 7:15am, there was an explosion at the Akosombo Dam&#39;s site.</p><br>
<p>It was suspected that a heavy and unexpected build- up of methane gas or natural gas within one of the tunnels in the dam caused the explosion. The gas was possibly ignited by the lighting of a welding torch. 18 people were in the tunnel at the time of the explosion. 12 died from shock from burns.</p><br>
<p>Heroes of Akosombo</p><br>
<p>Willow Mill Complex is a complex of historic buildings located at Richboro, Northampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The complex consists of the Shaw-Leedom House and spring house / smoke house and the Howard Sager House, wagon house, and grist mill. The Shaw-Leedom House was built about 1800, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, stone dwelling with a gable roof in the Federal style. It has a 1 1/2-story, two-bay stone wing believed to be the kitchen wing from an earlier house. The adjacent stone spring / smoke house was also built about 1800. The Willow Mill was built in the 1840s, and is a four-story stone building converted to residential use in 1938. The Sager House was built in 1847, and is a 2 1/2-story, three bay, ashlar stone building. It has a gable roof with dormers and shed roof "Dutch Stoop" kitchen wing. Associated with it is a two-story, frame wagon house dated to the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Riegel House is significant as an excellent example of a vernacular Georgian style house. Riegel, a miller by trade, owned several area mills and was instrumental in the development of both Riegelsville, New Jersey and Riegelsville, Pennsylvania. Riegel resided in the house until his death in 1860 as did his widow until 1880. The Benjamin Riegel House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The property has been privately owned by Dr. and Mrs. Neal Azrolan since 2010.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1832, the house bears resemblance to the "I" houses so common to Upper Bucks and the Musconetcong Valley in New Jersey. Deeper and containing a more formal interior than the typical "I" house, it also differs in the use of decorative trim and the use of building materials. In choosing brick, Riegel opted for a building material common at the time to urban areas outside of Bucks County but uncommon to Upper Bucks and the Musconetcong area due to the proliferation of native stone and wood. The result was a graceful building befitting the owner&#39;s successful miller/merchant status. The Riegel house does resemble several Riegel family stone farmhouses in Lower Saucon Township, Northampton County, PA in size and form but appears to have been influenced more by the styles popular in such urban areas as Philadelphia, PA and Burlington, NJ, where the use of brick proliferated. In keeping with the urban orientation of the house is the diminutive barn. Its size indicates its purpose was for personal, rather than agricultural, use, i.e., the storage of one to two horses or cows and a pleasure carriage which tax records show the original occupant to have owned.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Riegel House is a two and one half story, five bay, brick structure located at 29 Delaware Road in the Borough of Riegelsville, PA. The house and its outbuildings stand on a strip of land bordered to the east the Delaware River and to the west by the Delaware Division Canal. It is one of the earliest and most substantial dwellings to be erected in the settlement which became Riegelsville.</p><br>
<p>The residence exhibits several vernacular Georgian building characteristics and decorative features, including balanced front and side facades, a centered front door with an entablature supported by pilasters, horizontally and vertically aligned windows, a gabled roof, and interior end chimneys. The original section, erected in 1832, has a rectangular plan of 40 by 24. A two story ell was added to the rear of the house prior to 1860. There is a shed roofed porch, replaced in 1985, on the rear at the junction of the original section and the ell addition. To the rear of the house are situated a barn circa 1832 and shed which appears to date from the time of the ell addition.</p><br>
<p>The exterior facade of the house is brick. The front facade is Flemish bond while the side and rear facades are common bond. The exterior bears a few restrained decorative details including a box cornice with dentil molding, the latter on the front facade only, windows set off with a simple architrave, and a belt or drip course on the west facade. The surrounds of the front door of the original section facing the main road and the side door of the ell addition facing the canal are of equal restraint, featuring entablatures with dentils, fluted pilasters, and paneled reveals and headers. The rear doors are surrounded by simple architrave trim. The front and rear doors of the original section are centered. The latter is diminutive, paneled, and glazed with one large pane. All 32 windows in the house have 1/1 sash. The bays of the front and side facades of the original section are equally spaced with upper level bays set directly above those below. This treatment is duplicated on the west wall of the ell addition with two bays on each story. The fenestration of the main section&#39;s rear facade was originally balanced, with three bays. It is partially obscured by the addition and displays a window on the first story with a second story window set directly above. Above the rear door is a diminutive window set at the staircase and to the left of the rear door is a circa 1920 small single pane window. The fenestration of the north and east walls of the addition is irregular. The north wall contains a single window which is set at the second story while the east wall contains one door on the first story with no bay above and one window on the first story with a window, not set directly above, on the second story. The doors on the west and east facades of the addition are both paneled and glazed with single panes. The original section features four fireplaces, two on each floor at gable ends, and has a full basement with a native stone foundation. Joists in the attic and basement are hand-cut. Roof rafters at the peak are held together with pegs. Contained in the full length center hall of this section is an open well, two flight staircase which features a simple newel post, mahogany handrail, plain balusters, and side panelling with applied molding. The hall is flanked by two parlors on the first floor and two bedrooms on the second. A powder room was erected on the first floor off the center hall circa 1920. The ell addition was erected over a crawl space, with notched and nailed roof rafters supporting a gable roof. The addition is composed of a bathroom and dressing room on the second floor and a kitchen on the first floor. The interior walls of both sections are of smoothly finished plaster and decorated with quirk beaded chair rails and baseboards. Ceilings on both the first and second floors are ten feet high. The trim of the fireplace in the east bedroom features colonettes, a convex frieze, bed-molding, and mantle shelf. Decorative painting has been uncovered on the frieze and trim of the fireplace in the west bedroom as well as on the window and door trim and baseboards of the room. The floors are of random width boards of long leaf yellow pine, some up to 18" in width.</p><br>
<p>Complementing the house are two outbuildings, a bank barn and a shed. The barn is 30 by 30, two and one half stories, and is of frame construction on a stone foundation. It features post and beam construction with pegged mortise and tenon joints. Structural joists are hand-hewn oak and black walnut timbers with adze marks and original bark plainly visible. The 12 by 14 one story frame shed is erected on a stone foundation and features post and beam construction, nailed joints, and open eave exposed rafters.</p><br>
<p>Exterior alterations to the house and its outbuildings for the most part have been associated with the numerous floods of the Delaware River and as such are part of the houses history. There are no visible effects of the various floods on the interior. Damage caused by the flood of 1903 necessitated the replacement of windows and several doors. At the same time, the brick exterior was painted and one story, hipped roof porches were added to the front and west facades. The flood of 1936 damaged the northeast wall of the barns stone foundation and resulted in the wall&#39;s partial replacement with poured concrete.</p><br>
<p>A one story shed roof enclosed porch was added to the rear of the house in the late nineteenth century, encompassing the cistern. Damage caused by the flood of 1955 necessitated the removal of all three porches. As part of the cleanup from the flood, the exterior paint was removed with an unknown cleaning material. The methodology was changed after workers damaged the surface of the brick on a portion of the east facade of the rear addition. The shed, swept off its foundation and moved several blocks by the 1955 flood, was subsequently returned to its original location. The current one-story porch, glass-enclosed with a metal shed roof, at the rear of the house, is situated on the site of the nineteenth-century porch and a c. 1960 replacement. None of these alterations has greatly affected the integrity of the structure itself or its vernacular Georgian features.</p><br>
<p>In 1985, restoration work was undertaken on both the exterior and interior. Louvered shutters which were not original were removed due to their poor condition and have not yet been replaced. The exterior door surrounds on the front and west facades were duplicated to replace rotted woodwork. The circa 1903 front door was replaced. Following the outlines on the paneled reveals of the front entranceway, a transom and solid wood door of original scale were installed. A redundant door on the rear facade of the original section, which had replaced a window at an unknown date, was replaced with a round-headed window without altering the opening. The brick of the upper third of each fireplace chimney was re-pointed. In the interior, layers of paint and varnish were removed from the floor boards. The trim in the center and upper hall, the west parlor and both bedrooms was repainted to match original paint colors. Following outlines on the walls and portions remaining under window sills, missing chair rails in the rooms of the original section were replaced. A partition erected at an unknown date in the west bedroom dividing it into two small rooms was removed as was a similar partition in the first floor east parlor. While replacing rotted floor joists in the kitchen wing, a sagging wall which divided the space into two small kitchen and dining areas was removed and not replaced. None of these alterations has greatly affected the integrity of the structure itself or its vernacular Georgian features.</p><br>
<p>A Brief History of Benjamin Riegel, Riegelsville, and The Benjamin Riegel House</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Riegels association with the property began in 1822 when he purchased a sixty-nine acre parcel of land, formerly part of the Durham Tract. The southeast corner bordered a small settlement called Riegels Ferry and was across the Delaware River from a settlement called Musconetcong where Riegel was living at the time. Riegel was born on his fathers farm in Northampton County, PA in 1792, a third generation Pennsylvania German. He joined the large movement of Germans from Bucks and Northampton Counties to New Jersey, purchasing a farm, and in 1823, purchasing a grist, saw, and oil mill complex in Musconetcong. Benjamin Riegel built several homes in Musconetcong and "was so prominent a figure in the advancement of the interests of the place that its name was changed to Riegelsville in his honor. Riegel moved back to Pennsylvania upon completion of his house in 1832. In that year, the settlement to become known as Riegelsville, PA consisted of a ferry landing and stone tavern house both operated by Riegels uncle, Benjamin Riegel (designated "Farmer" in his lifetime to differentiate him from his nephew, the "Miller") and a small store house erected by Riegel to house products from his mills and to serve the growing river and canal trade.</p><br>
<p>Upon returning to Pennsylvania, Riegel continued to operate his New Jersey mill complex until its sale to his son in 1843. This mill supplied the wood for Riegel&#39;s house and subsequent construction in Riegelsville, PA. Riegel also owned grist mills in Shimersville, Northampton County, PA (from 1836 to 1842) and in Durham, PA (from 1845 to 1855). The Durham Mill and Furnace is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Through Riegels direct and often singular involvement, the settlement evolved into a busy community offering stores, churches, postal service, and bridge transportation. In 1834, he commissioned a surveyor to lay out twenty-four building lots on the southwestern portion of his tract which were soon after conveyed and developed by people who became the towns earliest settlers. It was not until 1877 that land owned by others to the south and west was subdivided and made available to the public. He invested in and served as one of four directors of the Riegelsville Delaware River Bridge Co. from its inception in 1836 until his death in 1860. This company built one of the first river bridges in 1838, significantly improving transportation and communication throughout the area and providing an impetus for Riegelsvilles development. Riegel was one of the founders of the German Reformed congregation in Riegelsville and was instrumental in the building of the original church structure in 1850. He donated the land for the first churches of both the Presbyterian and Reformed congregations as well as the land for what would become the town cemetery. Both buildings continue to serve the community, the former having been converted to the Borough fire house and the latter still in use as a church. Riegel also held the title of Postmaster from 1848 until 1859. Thus Riegel played a central role in the settlement and early development of the Borough of Riegelsville.</p><br>
<p>Riegel resided in the house until his death in 1860 as did his widow until 1880. The house was inherited by Riegels son, John L. Riegel who had lived there during his teenage years while apprenticing at his fathers mills. In 1866, John L. Riegel installed paper machinery in his late fathers New Jersey saw mill and began the manufacture of jute paper. By his death in 1893, his operation, which became known as the Riegel Paper Corporation, consisted of three paper mills, and was one of the largest employers in the region. The employment opportunities at the mills resulted in the continued growth of Riegelsville in the late nineteenth century. John L. Riegel followed in his fathers footsteps as the towns leading citizen, founding a preparatory academy which operated from 1883 until 1916 and establishing the Riegelsville Library which remains in existence at this date. He was a liberal supporter of the local Reformed congregation and instrumental in the erection of its new church and parsonage in the 1870s. He replaced his father on the board of the bridge company and was also one of the original stockholders and directors of the Bethlehem Steel Company as well as other local manufacturing concerns. Riegel lived elsewhere in Riegelsville but maintained the house which he had inherited. Various Riegel family retainers and tenants resided in the house from 1880 until 1985. Benjamin Riegels great-great-grandson lived in the house as late as the 1990s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Gallery</p><br>
<p>Waldenmark, also known as the Edward Fischer House, is a historic house, studio, garage, and guesthouse located in Wrightstown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The house, studio, and garage were designed by noted architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer and built in 1939. The guesthouse was completed in 1948 and designed by Breuer. The main house is a two-level, flat roofed dwelling in the International Style. It is a frame structure with redwood and stone sections. It features curved walls, ribbon windows, and a freeform stone patio. The studio is a frame structure with redwood siding with a saltbox and shed roof profile. The guesthouse is a long two-story building with a cantilevered second floor and uneven gable roof. The complex was built for artist Edward L. Fischer and his wife Margrit, who were friends of Gropius and Breuer through Bauhaus.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Levi Sheard Mill, also known as Sheards Mill and John S. Clymer Mill, is a historic grist mill located in East Rockhill Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The first section was built about 1825, with three additions built into the early 20th century. The mill was purchased by Levi Sheard in 1844. In 1916 ownership was transferred to brothers Rubin and John Clymer. The mill continued to operate until the 1970s. A sign placed in front of the mill indicates the importance of the grist mill to the surrounding area. The Sheards Mill Covered Bridge, also on the National Register of Historic Places list is next to the mill. Currently the property is used as a campground.</p><br>
<p>It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 2006.</p><br>
<p>Mount Arif  is a mountain at an elevation of 1,012 m located in the Negev desert in southern Israel.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is located in the central part of the Negev desert, about 85 km southwest of the city of Beersheba, 112 km northwest of the city of Eilat, at the border with Egypt. The mountain is the second highest peak in the Negev desert, after the peak of Mount Ramon. An IDF military base is situated on the mountain due to its strategic location on the border with Egypt.</p><br>
<p>Remains of a prehistoric settlement have been discovered in the past in the site. A cluster of 17 water cisterns exist approximately 5 km east of the mountain which were estimated to have been built during the reign of king Solomon, and were active apparently until the Babylonian exile. Some of the water cisterns still fill up with water during the winter seasons.</p><br>
<p>On 21 September 2012 IDF forces, whom were safeguarding civilian workers constructing the Israel–Egypt barrier, were ambushed by three heavily armed militants who opened fire at them and managed to kill one soldier and lightly injured another.</p><br>
<p>Walt Disney Elementary School is a historic elementary school building located at Levittown, Tullytown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1953 and 1955, with additions built in 1964 and 1967-1969. The original section is a one-story, steel frame building faced in orange brick with a flat roof and reflective of the Modern Movement. It features large, multi-framed rectangular windows with aluminum sashes. The first addition was for a library and the second for a two-story classroom and larger library. It was renovated in 2005-2006. The school was built to accommodate the growing population with the development of Levittown and dedicated on September 24, 1955. The dedication was attended by its namesake Walt Disney .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Teller Cigar Factory, also known as Sprecht Clothing Company, is a historic factory building located at Sellersville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The original section was built about 1866, and expanded in 1895. The original section is a -story, stone structure and the addition a -story, brick structure. Both structures are plastered and have gable roofs. The building is 10 bays wide and 4 bays deep. It represents the transition of the cigar industry from home manufacture to being housed in large manufacturing facilities. It was occupied by a cigar manufacturer at least into the 1920s, and later used as a warehouse for a plumbing and heating supply company.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Jacob Funk House and Barn is a historic home located at Springfield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The house consists of three sections; the oldest built about 1792. It is a 2 1/2-story, stone dwelling measuring 40 feet wide and 28 feet deep and originally reflective of the Georgian style. The oldest section is a two-story, two bay, stone structure two rooms deep. About 1855, a two-story, three-bay extension was added to the east gable. A kitchen and bath addition was built about 1930. The house was remodeled in the Colonial Revival style between about 1945 and 1955, at which time a one-story addition and deck were added to the rear of the house. Also on the property are a contributing stone bank barn  and stone spring house .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Springhouse Farm, also known as the Eric Knight Farm, is a historic home and farm located at Springfield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The house is a Georgian style stone farm house built about 1808, with an addition built about 1941. Other contributing buildings and structures are a stone and frame bank barn  with carriage house addition , stone spring house , stone root cellar , corn crib , man made pond , outdoor oven , and privy . The property also includes the burial site for Toots, the dog that inspired the story "Lassie Come-Home." Toots died in 1945, and the burial site marker was added about 1970. Its author Eric Knight  resided at Springhouse Farm from 1939 to 1943.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>John Burroughs Homestead, also known as Shady Hill and the Lieutenant Colonel James Hendricks Headquarters, is a historic home located at Taylorsville, Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It is a house dated to the 18th century and built in four sections. The oldest section is a -story, uncoursed fieldstone structure. The second section is a -story, coursed fieldstone structure. The third section is a two-story, random-coursed fieldstone structure, and the fourth section is a small, one-story frame vestibule. Also on the property are a contributing -story, fieldstone carriage house, tool shed, and stone-and-frame caretaker&#39;s cottage.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Byecroft Farm Complex, also known as "Old Congress," is a historic home and farm complex located in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The oldest section of the main house was built in 1702, with three later additions. It consists of a central block with three wings. The central block was built in 1732, and is a 2 1/2-story, three bay coursed fieldstone structure. The northeast wing consists of the original one-story structure built in 1702, with a second story added in 1775. A wing to the southwest was added in 1775, and expanded to 2 1/2-stories about 1830. In 1934-1935, a 1 1/2-story, two bay, addition was built onto the southwest wing. The house is reflective of the Georgian style. Also on the property are the contributing Old Bye Barn , carriage house / studio , two-story frame barn, small carriage house / cottage, and pumphouse and well house.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Riverside Farm, also known as Evermay-on-the-Delaware, is a historic hotel located near Erwinna, Tinicum Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The house is a 3 1/2-story, six bay, frame vernacular dwelling with Greek Revival and Italianate style influences. The oldest section of the main house was built in the late 18th century as a two-story, three bay frame structure. Additions to the house occurred between about 1870 and 1883, when it took its present form. A stairwell addition was built in 1982. The front facade features a one-story, flat roofed porch. Also on the property are a contributing tenant house, carriage house, shed, and ice house. The house was built as a private dwelling, then converted for use as a hotel and resort starting about 1870. It operated as an inn until 1930. It reopened in 1982 as a bed-and-breakfast known as EverMay On-The-Delaware. But was closed in 2005 and now operates as a private residence.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Penns Park General Store Complex, also known as the Gaines Property, is a historic commercial complex located at Penns Park, Wrightstown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It is south of the Penns Park Historic District. The complex consists of three primary buildings: a farmhouse, store building, and frame bank barn, along with six outbuildings. The farmhouse was built in 1810, and is a 2 1/2-story, six bay, fieldstone rectangular building in the Georgian style. The store building was built in 1836, and is a three-story, three bay by three bay, fieldstone building. The outbuildings consist of a storage shed, wagon building, chicken house, livestock barn, wood shed, and outhouse. The store housed a post office until 1971.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Antiguo Casino de Puerto Rico, located at Avenida Ponce de Leon 1 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a Beaux Arts architecture style building dating from 1917. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Antiguo Casino de Puerto Rico was the brainchild of a group of citizens, known as the Asociación del Casino de Puerto Rico, who requested then San Juan mayor Francisco del Valle Atiles a place to establish a new social club. The building was designed by Montilla & Ferrer and construction began under the supervision of the Del Valle Zeno brothers&#39; firm. Construction for the new building started in 1913, with a budget of $80,000. Lack of funds caused the construction to shut down. Construction restarted in 1914, with the Jiménez y Benítez engineering handling the building work. In 1915, construction was halted once again, It was restarted a year later with sculptor José Albrizzio designing the interior. The Antiguo Casino de Puerto Rico was finally inaugurated on July 24, 1917.</p><br>
<p>During World War II, the building was used as an officers&#39; club by the United States Army. Shortly after the end of the war, in 1946 the building was transferred to the government of Puerto Rico, who turned it into the Escuela Libre de Música Ernesto Ramos Antonini.</p><br>
<p>By 1955, the school was relocated and the building became the first headquarters of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, serving in that function until 1970. In the early 80s, the Puerto Rico Department of State converted the building into the Official Reception Center of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. In 2010, management of the facility was turned to the Puerto Rico Convention District Authority, a government agency of Puerto Rico. The Convention District Authority manages a number of facilities in the Convention Center District, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, including the Puerto Rico Convention Center.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>Designed in a Beaux Arts style, the Antiguo Casino features gardens, balconies, moldings, white marble floors, and a grand central staircase. One of its distinguished features is the ballroom&#39;s twelve feet. chandelier. The building is also known for its use of mirrors in the interior decoration.</p><br>
<p>The building has become a popular venue for weddings, particularly destination weddings, quinceañeras and corporate events.</p><br>
<p>Grafenort Castle ; Pol., Pałac Gorzanów) is a  stately residence in the Kłodzko Land of the Lower Silesia. A sixteenth-century German foundation, it has been in the hands of the von Herberstein family of Grafs or Counts  since the second half of the seventeenth century until 1930 hence its name, and one of the former names of the village in which it is situated.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>The village of the Castles location was called Arnoldsdorf between at least 1341 (the earliest extant record) and 1670. For the next 275 years between 1670 and 1945 the villages name was Grafenort ("the Seat of the Counts", with reference to the von Herberstein family). In 1945, after the accession of Lower Silesia to Poland, the locality was renamed Gorzanów by the Polish authorities.</p><br>
<p>The Castle, situated at an elevation of c.329 m (1,080 ft) above sea level and comprising over 100 interior chambers within its structure, is surrounded by 6.6 hectares (16.3 acres) of parkland (palace gardens) that once were one its greatest glories (see historical lithographs below), the views extending from some vantage points being described as having a mesmeric effect on the viewer.</p><br>
<p>The Castle has historical associations with Cardinal Ernst Adalbert von Harrach (15981667), the bishop of Trent, who in his Italian diaries for 16631664 refers to Grafenort alternately as Arnsdorff, Arnßdorff, or Arnßdorf, and the composer Ignaz Reimann (18201885; buried at the nearby Krosnowice). The poet and actor Karl von Holtei (17981880) who began his career as an actor at Grafenort Castle mentions it repeatedly in his pleasantly amusing, light-hearted biography, Vierzig Jahre ("Forty Years"). He says he spent thirty years of his life in the Castle; on a return visit he muses about the roomsin which I dwelt, made love, watched people die, cohabited with the survivors, poetized, quarrelled with the Count, written plays, learned roles, managed the theatre, made plans for the future, and God knows what else? The foreword in his 1840 play Shakspear in der Heimath is dated July 1839 at "Schloß Grafenort". In another of his works Holtei speaks of Schloß Grafenort as the ancient edifice that is the oasis of hospitality whose "brightly coloured gabled halls look up towards the Silesian Schneeberg" (the mountain is about 22 km away). His 333-page edition of twelve letters written "from and to Grafenort" between July 1839 and May 1840 (Briefe aus und nach Grafenort, published in 1841) are a treasure trove of information on the Castle.</p><br>
<p>The Polish scholar Filip Sulimierski (18431885), editor of the monumental Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1881), describes the property as "the beautiful castle of the Herberstein counts" in which theatrical performances were given three times a week for eight months of the year (see Bibliography). Apart from pieces of mainstream dramatic literature, the Castle&#39;s theatre staged ("with great pomp", according to contemporary accounts) a special genre of "Jesuit dramas" under the patronage of the Grafen von Herberstein.</p><br>
<p>A large number of photographs of the Castles exterior and interior, and its outlying structures, including details of the Castles unique architectural features (such as its sgraffiti-clad windows), are published in Richard Konwiarzs book Alt-Schlesien (1913). The book speaks of the Castles front staircase leading to the garden as the historically significant architectural element, and the gardens themselves with their intricate layout as ranking on the same level of importance. A photograph of the theatre&#39;s interior, including the stage and the seating area, was published in the monthly periodical Schlesische Monatshefte: Blätter für Kultur und Schrifttum der Heimat of March 1933.</p><br>
<p>The numerous pictorial representations of Grafenort Palace include works of Friedrich Bernhard Werner (16901776) and Josef Schall (17851867).</p><br>
<h2>Nazi period</h2><br>
<p>From 1930 the palace complex was the property of the town of Habelschwerdt (renamed Bystrzyca Kłodzka after 1945), and as public property it lent itself easily to Nazi use. During the Second World War, while the region of Lower Silesia was German territory, Grafenort Castle was the site of the notorious Grafenort concentration camp, a place of oppression of Jewish women deported here from Poland, a war crime under the Geneva Convention.</p><br>
<h2>Post-war period</h2><br>
<p>In 1945 the region of Lower Silesia became part of Poland. The years that followed marked the period of continuing degradation of Grafenort Castle began already during the Nazi rule. Polish press reports and notices in tourist guidebooks spoke of a shocking state of disrepair of a property that was considered unfit to be visited by sightseers, its decline from lack of maintenance hastened by depredations of masonry robbers and other types of active vandalism. Anything that could be carried was stolen.</p><br>
<p>After 57 years of neglect and such continuous pillage and plunder as the property was subjected to since the beginning of the Second World War, the ownership of the Castle was acquired in 1996 by an Austrian national who despite promises of restoration of the Castle to its former glory did nothing during the ensuing 14 years to rehabilitate the property or even just to stem the ongoing decay. In this way the period of decline was extended from 57 years to 71 years. Then, in October 2010, the Castle was purchased by yet another investor, said to belong to old Polish nobility, a development which again raised the hopes of the local population (including the mayor of the neighbouring Bystrzyca Kłodzka, the administrative seat of the gmina) that the Castle might be rescued from irreversible collapse. Instead of fulfilment of these hopes, however, there are signs of plans to turn the property into a commercial enterprise servicing the hospitality industry as a wedding hall. The latest reports (including those of the conservation group Zabytki Śląska) suggest the continuing neglect of the property while the new owner searches for a "business partner". Grafenort Castle is included in the 2009 book Silesia: The Land of Dying Country Houses published by the conservation group SAVE Europe&#39;s Heritage in London (see Bibliography).</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>Ed. Ludw. Wedekind (Eduard Ludwig Wedekind), Geschichte der Grafschaft Glatz: Chronik der Städte, Flecken, Dörfer, Kolonien, Schlösser &c. dieser souverainen Grafschaft von der frühesten Vergangenheit bis auf die Gegenwart, Neurode, Verlag von Frdr. Wilh. Fischer, 1857, pages 687688, and passim.</p><br>
<p>Filip Sulimierski, s.v. "Grafenort&quot in: Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, ed. F. Sulimierski, et al., vol. 2, Warsaw, Nakładem F. Sulimierskiego i W. Walewskiego, 1881, page 791, col. 1.</p><br>
<p>Richard Konwiarz, comp. & ed., Alt-Schlesien: Architektur, Raumkunst, Kunstgewerbe, Stuttgart, Verlag von Julius Hoffmann, 1913, pages 68, 78, 159, 181184, 222.</p><br>
<p>Maximilian Tschitschke, "Der Bauernaufstand in der Herrschaft Grafenort 1679/90", Glatzer Heimatblätter, No. 17, 1931, pp. 5769.</p><br>
<p>Gerard Ciołek, Ogrody polskie: przemiany treści i formy, Warsaw, Budownictwo i Architektura, 1954.</p><br>
<p>Helmut Sieber, Burgen und Schlösser in Schlesien: Nach alten Stichen (vol. 2 of Schlösser und Herrensitze in Schlesien), Frankfurt a.M., Verlag Wolfgang Weidlich, 1962.</p><br>
<p>Albert A. Scholz, Silesia Yesterday and Today, The Hague, M. Nijhoff, 1964, pages 1112, 18.</p><br>
<p>Helmut Sieber, Schlösser in Schlesien: Ein Handbuch, Frankfurt a.M., Verlag Wolfgang Weidlich, 1971, pages 11, 6467, 80.</p><br>
<p>Konstanty Kalinowski, Architektura barokowa na Śląsku w drugiej połowie XVII wieku, Wrocław, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich (Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Sztuki), 1974.</p><br>
<p>Günther Grundmann, Burgen, Schlösser und Gutshäuser in Schlesien, vol. 2 (Schlösser und feste Häuser der Renaissance, ed. D. Grossmann), Würzburg, Verlag Weidlich, 1987.</p><br>
<p>Dieter Pohl, Die Grafschaft Glatz (Schlesien) in Darstellungen und Quellen: eine erweiterte Bibliographie, Modautal, Pohl, 1995.</p><br>
<p>Hanna Faryna-Paszkiewicz, et al., Atlas zabytków architektury w Polsce, Warsaw, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2001, pages 17 F, 371372.</p><br>
<p>Marzanna Jagiełło-Kołaczyk, Sgraffita na Śląsku, 15401650, Wrocław, Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wrocławskiej, 2003.</p><br>
<p>Józef Pilch, Leksykon zabytków architektury Dolnego Śląska, Warsaw, Wydawnictwo Arkady, 2005.</p><br>
<p>Marcus Binney, Kit Martin & Wojciech Wagner, Silesia: The Land of Dying Country Houses, London, SAVE Europe&#39;s Heritage, 2009.</p><br>
<p>Romuald M. Łuczyński, Losy rezydencji dolnośląskich w latach 19451991, Wrocław, Oficyna Wydawnicza Atut & Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe, 2010.</p><br>
<p>"Nowy Pałac / Schloss Grafenort" a historical outline with an extensive gallery of historical photographs</p><br>
<p>The Whilldin Building is the former office of Alabama architect David Oliver Whilldin. Located on 21st Street North, now Richard Arrington Junior Boulevard North, in Birmingham, Alabama, the building was designed and built by Whilldin during 1923 and 1924 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The site is now the office of the Wininger Law Firm.</p><br>
<p>Whilldin designed the structure to appear as two separate buildings. The larger, white half of the building is covered with a smooth limestone and features four Tuscan pilasters that carry an entablature and the cornice.</p><br>
<p>The smaller, left half of the building, held Whilldin&#39;s personal office. It is set slightly back from the street and faced in dark brick with terra cotta and stone detailing. The most remarkable aspect of the left facade is the entrance. Full-sized drawings detail the ring of acanthus leaves, the beribboned wreath panel, and the consoles that support the arched hood over the entry vestibule. A band of yellow terra cotta continues across the facade from the lintel of the door to the space above the windows. Within this band appears the inscription "D.O. WHILLDIN, ARCHITECT".</p><br>
<p>In 2012, David Wininger, the current owner of the building, commissioned a New York Yankees themed mural on the side of the structure. Depicted are: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Derek Jeter, and Yogi Berra.</p><br>
<p>The Colleton County Courthouse was built in 1820. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. The building is located corner of Jeffries and Hampton Streets in Walterboro, South Carolina. The building was put on the register as an example of Greek Revival architecture and also due to its historical significance, since the first meeting on nullification was held in the building in 1828.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1817, Walterboro became the seat of Colleton County. The design of the courthouse is attributed to the architect Robert Mills. The building was completed in 1820 by Charleston contractors, J. & B. Lucas.</p><br>
<p>In June 1828, Robert Rhett, participating in the first meeting on nullification, which was held in the courthouse building, delivered a speech which urged John Taylor, the governor of South Carolina, to immediately convene a session of the state legislature. Another nullification meeting was held in October of the same year.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse building has two storeys and is made of brick. The entrance is built as a portico with four Tuscan columns and two staircases with ironwork railings. The courtroom is located in the second floor. The basement is raised.</p><br>
<p>The original building from 1820 was considerably altered in 1939, when two wings were built.</p><br>
<p>Youngerman Block is a three-story commercial building in downtown building in Des Moines, Iowa, incorporating Italianate architecture, with later alterations that introduced Art Deco detailing. Built in 1876, the Youngerman Block was designed by architect William Foster  for Conrad Youngerman.</p><br>
<h2>Conrad Youngerman</h2><br>
<p>Youngerman was a local builder, born in Wichdorf, Germany in 1833 who had apprenticed as a stonecutter in Germany. Following military service in Germany he emigrated to the United States in 1854 and moving to Iowa with his new wife Meine in 1856. He became a prominent local stonemason, participating in the construction of the original Polk County Courthouse in 1861, and establishing a brickmaking business. Youngerman&#39;s materials business expanded into the production of "asbestine," an artificial building stone that could be used in lieu of natural stone, which was expensive and scarce in central Iowa.</p><br>
<p>Youngerman served three terms as a city alderman and was a trustee of two banks. Two blocks from the present Youngerman Block, Youngerman built another building with the same name, an eight-story building completed in 1891, now demolished. An 1896 account stated that Youngerman "has erected many of the large public business and manufacturing buildings, also many of the fine residences, churches and school-houses of Des Moines...." About the 1891 building it states "In 1890 he erected and still owns the Youngerman Block, a handsome brick block, eight stories in height, 132 feet front on Fifth street and 66 feet on Mulberry street. It contains about 140 business offices." Youngerman died in 1901.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Youngerman Block is a three-story masonry structure abutting the NRHP-listed Randolph Hotel, which lies to its south on 4th Street. The ground floor is arranged as two retail tenant spaces fronting on the street. The southern unit, 206 4th Street, is 67 ft deep, while the northern unit, 208, is 78 ft deep. Upper levels vary in size, with three stories over 208, but the rearmost 20 ft of 206 only one story. The upper levels are faced with "asbestine" made by Youngermans manufacturing operation, all presently painted gray. The upper levels are dominated by arched windows with prominent, intricately detailed surrounds, more elaborate on the third floor. The top of the facade is ornamented by a pressed metal cornice. Larger brackets at each end and in the middle help to define the buildings two primary bays. The upper two floors on the street side feature eight tall, narrow arched windows with flattened tops on each level.</p><br>
<p>The ground-floor storefront was remodeled in 1935, using new masonry and red ceramic tile block. The new facade, which corporates Art Deco motifs, is notable contrast with the upper levels, but is itself a notable example of the style in Des Moines. The transoms at the leftmost door at 206 and at 208&#39;s storefront are inclined inward in an apparent Egyptian reference. Decorative green tiles line the sills under the store windows. The rear and side elevations are of common brick with irregular placement of sash windows.</p><br>
<p>The interiors have been extensively altered. In the early 20th century the upper levels were joined to the adjoining Randolph Hotel. The Randolph at one time was planned to be expanded over the lot occupied by the Youngerman Block. The connection apparently removed this requirement, but the differences in floor elevations between the buildings required stairs to transition. Some of the transoms and trim remain from the original building on the upper floors, particularly at exterior windows. Presently a wide main hallway runs from the Randolph across the upper floors, bending and narrowing over 208 to run to the rear of the building, with a stairway over 206.</p><br>
<h2>Present</h2><br>
<p>The Youngerman Block was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 10, 2009.</p><br>
<p>The William Thomas Turner Barn was built in 1898 near Gardner, Kansas, United States. The Turner barn is regarded as an outstanding example of barn construction, built by Arthur J. Clinton, a highly regarded barn builder. The barn has been extensively photographed and has been featured in magazines, greeting cards, calendars and other publications.</p><br>
<p>The barn was built to a high standard of craftsmanship, using red cypress, a durable wood not often used in Kansas. The barn has a limestone foundation. The barn two levels expressed on the west side and three levels on the north and south sides. The barn measures 62 ft wide, 40 ft deep and 45 ft high overall. It is capped by two large wood ventilators. The interior has two main levels, with a large hayloft on the upper level. The lower level has intersecting corridors running down the center between the facades, with accommodations for animals and machinery in the resulting quadrants.</p><br>
<p>The Turner barn&#39;s exterior materials and detailing are in a remarkable state of preservation. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 1, 1999.</p><br>
<p>Qalaat Tannour  is a Shepherd Neolithic archaeological site located halfway between Britel and Haour Taala, 12 km southwest of Baalbek in the Baalbek District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon.</p><br>
<p>The surface site was discovered by M. Besançon in 1966 on a hill of exposed limestone rocks. It was the furthest south of all of the Shepherd Neolithic sites catalogued at the time. Flint tools found at the location were generally in a brown or grey, some showing a white patina. Blade types were typically short but also included thin and backed varieties, steep-scrapers and cores. The material was stored with the Saint Joseph University, Museum of Lebanese Prehistory.</p><br>
<p>Several Roman tombs were also noted at the site.</p><br>
<p>Malangen or Malangsfjorden  is a fjord in the municipalities of Balsfjord, Lenvik, Målselv, and Tromsø in Troms county, Norway. The fjord runs southeast between the islands of Senja and Kvaløya and further into the mainland on the border between Balsfjord and Lenvik municipalities.</p><br>
<p>The 60 km long fjord stretches from Hekkingen Lighthouse off the coast of Senja to the village of Nordfjordbotn. In the inner part of the fjord, it branches out into four smaller fjords: Nordfjorden, Aursfjorden, Målselvfjorden, and Rossfjorden. The Målselva river feeds into the Målselvfjorden. There are several larger villages along the coast of the fjord, including Mortenhals, Mestervik, and Rossfjordstraumen.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The name Malangen is from the Old Norse word mál which means "bag" and it refers to the baggy shape of the fjord. The same word mál is also the origin of the name of the Målselva, the big river that enters the fjord from the Målselvdalen and Bardu valleys. The second element of the name angr which means "inlet" or "fjord".</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Historically, the fjord along with the area around it has had a historical importance as the northern boundary for Norwegian settlement during the Middle ages. In the 13th century, King Haakon IV of Norway gave some people from Bjarmaland some land around the Malangen fjord on which to live. From 1871 until 1964, the area surrounding much of the fjord was part of the municipality of Malangen.</p><br>
<p>The Blair House of Washington, Iowa, formerly used as the towns City Hall, was built in 1881. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It was built as a private residence by a local financier and realtor Winfield Smouse. The Blair family lived here from 1882 to 1891, followed by C.J. Wilson. It then housed the Commercial Club from 1903 to 1926 and they added a gymnasium and club rooms on the south side. The building housed the Washington City Hall from 1926 to 1972. They added a larger front porch, a fire station to the east side of the house and hung the fire bell in the tower. It is one of the few Victorian houses that remains in this area. The 2½ story structure follows an irregular plan. Its exterior is composed of brick and both the main block and the tower are capped with a mansard roof. Des Moines architect William Wagner said the Blair House is a "little gem-a Terrace Hill," a reference to the present Iowa Governors Mansion.</p><br>
<p>The Lorenzo Hubbell Trading Post and Warehouse is located in the western part of the historic center of the city of Winslow, in Navajo County, Arizona.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1917. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, in the Winslow Historic District. It currently serves as the Winslow visitor center.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed by Hubert and Richardson in 1917. It was bought by Don Lorenzo Hubbell in 1921 and turned into a trading post for goods exchange with Navajo. It was one of about thirty trading posts owned by Hubbell and his family, and one of the two wholesale stores (another one was located in Gallup, New Mexico).</p><br>
<p>In 2002, it was restored and became a western gateway to the Winslow Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Raymond Gary Lake is a reservoir in southeastern Oklahoma, one mile east of Fort Towson, Oklahoma in Choctaw County. It was constructed on Gates Creek in 1956 by Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. Its primary uses are for fishing and general recreation. The lake and the adjacent Raymond Gary State Park were named for Raymond Dancel Gary, who served as governor of Oklahoma from 1955 until 1959. The town limits of Fort Towson were extended in 1979, so that residents at the lake would be enumerated in Fort Towson.</p><br>
<h2>Description of lake and dam</h2><br>
<p>The lake has 9.9 mi of shoreline and its surface normally covers 263 acre. The water storage The average depth is 6.4 ft, with a maximum depth of 22 ft The earthen dam is 900 ft long and 30 ft high. Maximum discharge is 20,460 ft&sup3; per second. It drains an area of 65 square miles</p><br>
<p>Fishing is permitted. Species include bass, catfish and sunfish.</p><br>
<h2>Raymond Gary State Park</h2><br>
<p>Raymond Gary State Park is on the opposite side of Raymond Gary Lake from Fort Towson and contains most of the public access to the lake. Recreational facilities include multiple fishing jetties, two boat ramps, a handicap-accessible fishing dock, restrooms and sanitary facilities. Hunting is prohibited in the park.</p><br>
<p>Acequia Madre de Valero is an 18th-century agricultural irrigation canal built by the Spanish and located in the Bexar County city of San Antonio in the USA state of Texas. When Martín de Alarcón founded San Antonio for Spain by establishing San Antonio de Valero Mission in 1718, Franciscan priest Antonio de Olivares and the Payaya Indians dug Acequia Madre de Valero by hand. It was vital to the missions to be able to divert and control water from the San Antonio River, in order to grow crops and to supply water to the people in the area. This particular acequia was the beginning of a much wider acequia system. Acequia Madre de Valero ran from the area currently known as Brackenridge Park and southward to what is now Hemisfair Plaza and South Alamo Street. Part of it that is not viewable by the public runs beneath the Menger Hotel. The acequia was restored in 1968 and that year was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>Acequia Madre de Valero was the initial phase of what became a 45-mile acequia network put in place by the Franciscan priests to provide water for the missions and their agricultural endeavors. The location of part of this acequia is adjacent to the Johann and Anna Heidgen House at 121 Star Street, and was a contributing factor in placing the house on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bexar County, Texas in 2004. The acequia is lined with native limestone, a facet of Spanish engineering techniques. Some of the later stonework in the overall network was added by German immigrants. The full system involved placement of dams, canals and sluice gates. The complete network served residents of San Antonio until late in the 19th century. The Texas Historical Commission placed the historic landmark plaque on a limestone block at the Hemisfair Plaza section of Acequia Madre de Valero.</p><br>
<p>Palmyra Methodist Episcopal Church is an historic structure located in rural Warren County, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1868 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The frame church building was built by William Wilson Myrick and Eli Myrick. The church hosted Chatauqua revivals through the early 1940s as well as traveling evangelists who would come to the area by train. After it lost its congregation the church sat empty and was nearly torn down in 1978 when Friends of Palmyra Church was formed to save the building. Its contents were sold in 1979. The building was renovated in 1984 and period light fixtures, a pot-bellied stove, leaded windows and pews were installed in the building. Artist P. Buckley Moss has used the church in some of her paintings.</p><br>
<p>United Presbyterian Church, Summerset, also known as Scotch Ridge United Presbyterian Church, is an historic structure located in rural Warren County, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1885 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The founders of the church were Scotch-Irish immigrants who could trace their ancestry to Scotland and were proud of their Scottish heritage.</p><br>
<p>Scotch Ridge United Presbyterian Church was begun on August 13, 1853. On that day Robert McElroy went to Chariton, Iowa to get the charter. The first church building was built in 1857 for $1,000. Pete Schooler and his wife sold two acres of the land for $30 on January 3, 1865 for a new Presbyterian Churchyard. On April 28 of the same year William Hastie and his wife sold one acre of adjacent land for $25 for a cemetery. The present frame church building was built in 1885 for $4,000 in the Gothic Revival style. Additional land for the cemetery was added in 1898 and 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Lower Windy Creek Ranger Cabin No. 15, also known as Lower Windy Creek Patrol Cabin and Lower Windy Shelter Cabin, is a historic backcountry shelter in the Denali National Park & Preserve, in Alaska. It is built out of peeled logs, sealed with oakum and concrete chinking. It has a medium-pitch gable roof of corrugated metal and shiplap. The site includes seven log shelters for dogs, located about 70 ft north of the cabin. The cabin is located about 500 feet east of Mile 324 on the Alaska Railroad.</p><br>
<p>It is a standard design by the National Park Service and was built in 1932. Shortly after its construction, a complex of separate log dog kennels, a log cache and an outhouse were added, also to a standard Park Service design.</p><br>
<p>The cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Isleton Chinese and Japanese Commercial Districts is located in Isleton, California in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, a large agricultural area in Sacramento County, California. Also known as the Isleton Asian American District, it served as the commercial and social center for both the town&#39;s Chinese and Japanese residents and the laborers working in nearby canneries, farms, and ranches. Isleton Asian American District is the only Asian community built in the Delta during the 1920s, and the architectural style of the buildings in the districts, particularly the use of pressed tin siding, is unique to other Delta Asian communities and to the town of Isleton.</p><br>
<p>Isleton&#39;s Chinese and Japanese Commercial Districts, while sharing a main street, were considered two distinct areas. They were listed as one historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The listing includes 41 contributing buildings on 6 acre.</p><br>
<p>Having over 50 original buildings that were built after a fire on May 30, 1926, the two block segment of Main Street was primarily divided; the Japanese-Americans owned homes and businesses on one side while the Chinese-Americans used the other.</p><br>
<p>After the internment of Japanese-Americans, the area never reclaimed its former multi-ethnic population.</p><br>
<p>The Frederick H. Cossitt Library is a historic library building at 388 N. Granby Rd. in Granby, Connecticut. It is a Queen Anne style building, designed by Jasper Daniel Sibley and built in 1890. Construction of the library was championed by George S. Godard, later librarian of the Connecticut State Library, and was funded by a bequest from Granby native Frederick H. Cossitt, a wealthy New York businessman. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It continues to serve as a branch of the town&#39;s public library system.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Frederick H. Cossitt Library stands in the crossroads village of North Granby, at the southeast corner of East Street (Connecticut Route 539) and North Granby Road (Connecticut Route 189). It is a two-story wood frame structure, roughly square in plan, with a brick-faced first floor and a clapboarded second level. It is topped by a hip roof with a tall central clerestory window band. The main entrance is on the second level, sheltered by a gabled porch supported by square columns. The brickwork and trim are detailed in the Queen Anne Victorian style.</p><br>
<p>The library, the towns first, was built in 1890 to a design by Jasper Daniel Sibley of Middletown, and is one of the towns finest examples of Queen Anne architecture. Its construction was spearheaded by George S. Godard, who had taken a position as trustee of the town library while still studying library science at Wesleyan University, and Godard became its first librarian. He went on to have a long and successful career as the state librarian. Funding for the library was given by Frederick H Cossitt, a wealthy New York businessman whose family ancestry extends back to Granby in the mid-18th century.</p><br>
<p>The John S. Russwurm House is a house with Federal architecture, dating from 1819, in Triune, Tennessee that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The listing was for one contributing building on a 1.4 acre that also included are two non-contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>It was built by John Russwurm, an early settler of the Williamson County. As of a 1988 study, the house was deemed to be the best surviving example of either a single or double cell brick residence from its era. It was built first as a one-story brick residence, and "was later enlarged with a two-story double, cell addition. This double cell arrangement is the only remaining exampple of this type of construction in Williamson County."</p><br>
<p>The Constantine Sneed House, also NRHP-listed, seems to have had a double cell plan but has since been altered.</p><br>
<p>The Russwurm house was delisted from the National Register on November 18, 2011. Delistings usually occur after a building has been demolished or otherwise lost historic integrity.</p><br>
<p>The Royal Palace of Ugarit was the royal residence of the rulers of the ancient kingdom of Ugarit on the Mediterranean coast of Syria. The palace was excavated with the rest of the city from the 1930s by French archaeologist Claude F. A. Schaeffer and is considered one of the most important finds made at Ugarit.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<h3>Layout</h3><br>
<p>The palace, located in the north-west corner of the city, spanned an area of 6,500 m&sup2;. The palace area was surrounded by a fortified wall that dates back to the 15th-century BC. The palace&#39;s main gate was protected by an array of towers, dubbed the Fortress, with 5 m thick walls.</p><br>
<p>The palace consisted of ninety rooms divided between two floors. The rooms were built around four large courtyards and four smaller ones. The western end of the palace had a large garden. In the north side of the palace, three underground burial chambers were constructed. The ground floor was used for administrative purposes and included offices, archives, storage and staff dwellings. The second floor housed the family quarters, and was accessed through twelve staircases. The palace had three entrances: the main gate on the northwest near the Fortress, and two smaller entrances in the northeast and the southwest.</p><br>
<h3>Architecture</h3><br>
<p>The palace was built in four major stages between the 15th and 13th-century BC. The fortified wall, which dates back to the 15th-century BC, was built with packed stones at the bottom and had an outward slope of 45 degrees.</p><br>
<p>The layout is typical of palaces of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East. The irregular outline of the palace and the asymmetrical layout are evidence of constant additions and alterations. The burial chambers had corbelled vaults which show a connection with Hittite and Mycenaean architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Excavation</h2><br>
<p>After the chance discovery of Ugarit by local peasants in 1929, French archaeologist, Claude F. A. Schaeffer led ten excavation campaigns at the site which only covered the northwest corner. Excavations stopped with the advent of World War II and only resumed in 1948. Between 1950–1955 Schaeffer led concentrated excavations at the palace which unearthed a vast corpus of tablets and artefacts.</p><br>
<h3>Artifacts</h3><br>
<p>Objects found at the site included ivory carvings, furniture, stone stelae, and figurines. An Egyptian-made alabaster vase was found partially damaged. The ornamentation on the vase depicts the wedding of Ugarit King Niqmaddu II to an upper-class Egyptian woman. Other vases of Egyptian origin found at the site include ones carrying the cartouches of Egyptian Kings Ramesses II and Horemheb.</p><br>
<h3>Tablets</h3><br>
<p>Eight archives of cuneiform tablets were excavated in the palace complex. The corpus included more than a 1,000 tablets written mostly in Akkadian and Ugaritic. A small corpus of Hurrian and Hittite tablets were discovered as well. The tablets were organized by subject in different wings. They included administrative reports about Ugarit&#39;s dependencies, judicial records, official correspondence with other rulers and even practice tablets that new scribes used to learn writing. The tablets included about 36 hymns, known as the Hurrian songs.</p><br>
<p>Rock Hill Downtown Historic District consists of twelve contiguous buildings built between 1870 and 1931 in downtown Rock Hill in York County, South Carolina.</p><br>
<p>The twelve buildings are:</p><br>
<p>Episcopal Church of Our Saviour, 144 Caldwell St.</p><br>
<p>First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, 201 E. White St.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church, 215 E. Main St.</p><br>
<p>St. Johns United Methodist Church, St. Johns Court</p><br>
<p>Old Post Office Building, 325 Oakland Ave.</p><br>
<p>Post Office and Federal Building, 102 E. Main St.</p><br>
<p>Andrew Jackson Hotel, 223 E. Main St.</p><br>
<p>Citizens Bank Building, 157 E. Main St.</p><br>
<p>McFadden Building, 212 E. Main St.</p><br>
<p>Bass Furniture Company, 208-210 E. Main St.</p><br>
<p>Fink&#39;s Department Store 206 E. Main St.</p><br>
<p>Rock Hill Supply Company, 202 E. Main St.</p><br>
<p>In 1931 the Old Post Office Building was moved about a block from its original site where the new Post Office now stands. The Old Post Office then served as a library, until 1974, and now serves as a private office building. It was built in 1906 and designed by James Knox Taylor, the Supervising Architect of the Treasury.</p><br>
<p>For the mill of the same name see Anderson&#39;s Mill, Smeaton</p><br>
<p>Anderson&#39;s Mill is a historic water-powered gristmill on the North Tyger River near Fairmont in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. The mill was listed in the National Register in November, 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Origins</h2><br>
<p>Most of the mill structure and machinery were constructed in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, but the mill&#39;s foundation may go back to the eighteenth century. The building has a basement, main floor, and attic, with a low gable roof and irregularly placed windows. The mill sits on the west bank of the river, with the 14 foot metal water wheel driven by water from a lock and canal. Milling operations ceased in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Floris Historic District is a historic district that is listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places .</p><br>
<p>It&#39;s located in the vicinity of the city of Herndon, Virginia, and just about one mile east of Dulles International Airport.</p><br>
<p>It includes the last remaining working farm in Fairfax County, Virginia, the Frying Pan Farm, which is now also a park. Within that park contributing resources are the Ellmore Farm, Kidwell Farm, the Floris Vocational Technical High School Shop, the Floris School, Lee Farm Site, Frying Pan Meetinghouse. Contributing resources outside the park, nearby, are: Higgins House, Fox House, Cherok House/Cockerill-McFarland House Site, Floris Methodist Church and Stover House.</p><br>
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<p>Ko Taen  is an island, approximately 15 kilometers off the mainland and five kilometers south of Ko Samui in the Gulf of Thailand. It is part of the Samui archipelago , which includes about 60 other islands. Just northwest of Ko Taen is the Mu Ko Ang Thong National Park.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<p>Ko Taen is inhabited by about 20-30 people. Because of comings and goings of tourists, the population fluctuates constantly. In the 1960s there were about 500 persons living on the island. Because of higher wages on the neighbouring island of Ko Samui, most inhabitants emigrated there. This has led to the closure of the school and the health center on the island. Most houses and huts now remain empty. The longstanding and current (2014) deputy mayor of Samui, Suraphong Viriyanon (สุรพงษ์ วิริยานนท์), is a descendant of a Chinese Ko Taen family. He was a driving, but unsuccessful, force in the 1990s, to turn Ko Taen into an island only for eco-tourists.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Ko Taen is little frequented by tourists. The island is accessible only by boat. The usual way to Ko Taen is from the fishing village Thong Krut on the south coast of Samui, which faces Ko Taen. It is possible to arrange individual day-trips to Ko Taen there. There are also companies offering trips to the island from other places which include a much longer trip on larger and more comfortable boats. The island has several beaches suitable for snorkeling. The island is surrounded by coral reefs, which survived and partly recovered from the widespread dynamite fishing in the region until the 1980s. Many small bungalows have been built on To Taen, especially since in the late-1990s, of which some can still be rented by small groups, but many of these businesses have given up. There are paths that are interesting for mountain bikers. Ko Taen features a large mangrove forest on the southwest coast with abundant wildlife. Monitor lizards can be seen during a walk through Ko Taen quite often. There is still a small temple in Ko Taen with a freshwater spring on the beach.</p><br>
<p>The William Steele House is a property in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It dates from c.1850. It includes Central passage plan and other architecture.</p><br>
<h2>William Alexander Steele</h2><br>
<p>William Alexander Steele was born in 1827 and was the son of William Steele who had settled in the Bethesda area in the early 1800s. Steele married his cousin Mary Elizabeth Steele in 1850 and constructed the main section of this house circa 1855. During the Civil War Steele</p><br>
<p>served in the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry and was nearly caught by Union soldiers while visiting his home. Upon Steele&#39;s death in 1874 the house remained in the possession of his widow who lived until 1911.</p><br>
<p>Búng Bình Thiên, or God lake, is one of the largest fresh water lake in Mekong Delta in Vietnam. Located in An Phu District, province of An Giang, linking three communes, namely Khánh Bình, Nhơn Hội and Quốc Thái, and adjoining Bình Di River and Hậu River, the natural lake is becoming known as an eco-tourist area.</p><br>
<h2>Area covered</h2><br>
<p>The lake covers about 200-300 hectares in width and four meters in depth in dry season. However, the zone is directly influenced by the hydrographic system of the Mekong River and thus the width triples in the rainy season, with the depth increasing up to seven meters.</p><br>
<h2>Landscape quality</h2><br>
<p>The lake is tranquil year round. When the area floods most rivers in the Mekong Delta are muddy with alluvium, but the water of Búng Bình Thiên remains clear and blue; a landscape endowed with the highest biological diversity in An Giang.</p><br>
<h2>Chams</h2><br>
<p>Búng Bình Thiên is home to many ethnic Chams people. They live around the lake and in the villages of Khánh Bình, Nhơn Hội and Quốc Thái. Until recently the Cham ladies lived very sheltered lives but nowadays they are engaged in the modern world, developing businesses and participating in cultural and artistic activities in society.</p><br>
<h2>Visitors</h2><br>
<p>Búng Bình Thiên is a place of tranquility where visitors can discover water-lilies and lotus swaying in the wind on the lake, and the bustle of creatures such as fish, shrimp, snakes and turtles under water.</p><br>
<p>Stoneywell is a National Trust property in Ulverscroft, a dispersed settlement in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire. Stoneywell is the largest of a small group of cottages designed in the Arts and Crafts style by Ernest Gimson. It was built in collaboration with Detmar Blow in 1899 for Ernest&#39;s brother Sydney Gimson as a summer residence, and along with much original furniture, it remained in the Gimson family for over a century. As part of a highly influential vernacular movement, it has become well known within Arts and Crafts circles. In spring 2013 the National Trust announced that following a year-long appeal, it had been able to acquire the house with its Arts and Crafts contents, gardens and woodland. It was opened to the public in February 2015.</p><br>
<h2>House</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1897 and 1899 out of the stones found in the immediate locality, and constructed directly onto outcrops of exposed Charnwood bedrock, Stoneywell creates the impression it is an organic part of the landscape. Set away from the road, it is close to Stoneywell Wood and its surrounding gardens are by design and necessity more wild than cultivated. The house is built on a slope and approached from above so that a visitor is required to walk round the house to get to the front door, which faces south-west over the rugged landscape. At one end the roof almost reaches the ground, and the massive chimney stack buttresses the south wall. The roof, like many of Gimsons houses, was originally thatch, but following a fire in 1938 was re-roofed in second-hand Swithland slates. The rooms, windows and roofline step downwards, along the open z-shape of the groundplan, to follow the contours of the hill, such that the ground floor is on three levels, and both groundfloor and dormer windows are all at different heights. The fireplace and doorway have huge Swithland slate lintels, that were found nearby at abandoned slate quarries. The stone walls were built from undressed stones, their surfaces being kept even by the careful selection of each stone by the masons, to fit needs of the wall. Many of the stones were re-used from dry stone walls already on the site, or recovered from the boulder clay and outcrops around about. Externally the stone has been left in a natural state, whereas internally both the walls and the exposed timbers are white. These constructional timbers, matching the intricate irregularities of the ground plan, had been cut and prepared by Richard Harrison at Sapperton, Gloucestershire to Ernest Gimsons design, and transported the 150 miles for assembly on site, showing how much pre-planning and design had gone into Gimson&#39;s plan. In 1966 it was listed as a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>Furniture</h2><br>
<p>Ernest Gimson was born in Leicester in 1864, the son of Josiah Gimson, engineer, founder of Gimson and Company, owner of the Vulcan Works. Having worked as an architect in London during the 1880s, he had moved to the Cotswolds to found an Arts and Crafts community. In 1894 he settled in Pinbury near Sapperton, with Sidney and Ernest Barnsley, principally designing and making wooden furniture, following traditional craft principles, applied to new designs using clean lines and unadorned surfaces. It was from this background that Ernest Gimson applied himself not just to the architectural plans for Stoneywell, but to designing and making the furniture too. Because the house has remained with the Gimson family throughout the 20th century, much of the furniture remains at the house, including Gimson&#39;s ladder-back chairs, a large table and dresser by the Barnsleys, and an oak bed made by Gimson.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Stoneywell is one of five cottages designed by Ernest Gimson in Ulverscroft. The earliest were a pair of workmens cottages, built for James Billson in 1897. Rather than employ contractors, Gimson collaborated with a fellow Arts and Crafts architect, Detmar Blow. Following the principle that an architect should be able build what he designs, Blow had begun practical building alongside stonemasons in North Yorkshire. He came to Leicestershire to work on the cottages, and brought several Yorkshire stonemasons, as well as employing three Leicestershire men. The Gimson family were Leicester industrialists, familiar with this corner of Charnwood. They bought three plots of land from James Billson, to build cottages for summer use by Ernests brothers Sydney and Mentor, and their sister Margaret. Detmar Blow collaborated in the building of two of these, Stoneywell and Lea Cottage. Stoneywell was the most architecturally extreme of these, and remains the most unchanged of any of them. Ernest Gimson had suggested that it could be built for £500, whereas the final bill came in at £920. The cost over-run was not the only frustration experienced by Sydney. At the same time as building the Charnwood houses, Detmar Blow also had commitments to carry out painstaking repairs to Lake House in Wiltshire, followed by Clare Church, Suffolk. These used new techniques to preserve the stonework of ancient decayed walls, under the guidance of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), and during 1898 both Sydney Gimson and the SPAB secretary wrote to Blow complaining about the absences from their project, highlighting the problem of such a hands-on approach to architecture. Stoneywell was completed in 1899, the date and a Gimson G being carved in the slate lintel above the front door.</p><br>
<h2>National Trust property</h2><br>
<p>Following an appeal, and donations from The Monument Trust and the J Paul Getty Jr Trust, the National Trust was able to raise enough money to buy Stoneywell from the Gimson family. The house, gardens and woodland opened to the public in February 2015. There are strict limitations on how many people and cars can visit, so as to minimise impact on the locality; all visits must therefore be booked in advance. A parking area has been created away from the site and visitors are carried on a shuttle bus to a reception centre in the converted stables. The coach house and stable of 1902, also by Ernest Gimson, are separately listed as Grade II as is a small pump house of 1899.</p><br>
<p>This is the first house in Leicestershire to be in the care of the National Trust. (Their other properties in the county are Staunton Harold Church and Ulverscroft Nature Reserve.)</p><br>
<h2>Ulverscroft cottages</h2><br>
<p>James Bilsons pair of workmens cottages are now a single dwelling, Chitterman House, and altered beyond recognition.</p><br>
<p>Lea Cottage, a little further down the Lea Lane from Stoneywell and built in tandem with it, sits hard against the road. It was enlarged in 1972 by the addition of a south-west wing. Unlike Stoneywell it is still a thatched building, and remains whitewashed externally, as in Gimson&#39;s original design.</p><br>
<p>Rockyfield Cottage, the last of Gimson&#39;s Ulverscroft houses, was built for his sister Margaret nearly ten years later, close by on Priory Lane. The building work for Rockyfield was supervised by Norman Jewson, who was younger than many of the Arts and Crafts circle, and this was one of his first projects away from their Cotswolds base. It was completed in 1908.</p><br>
<p>Sketches of Stoneywell and Lea Cottage were published by R. A. Briggs in his 1904 book, Homes for the Country. The building of the Ulverscroft cottages was described in considerable detail by Lawrence Weaver, architectural editor of Country Life, in his volumes, Small Country Houses of To-day, published in 1911.</p><br>
<h2>Stoneywell Wood</h2><br>
<p>Stoneywell Wood is an area of ancient woodland adjoining the house and gardens. 4 hectare of the wood belong to Stoneywell, which, along with 2 hectare of garden are open to the public. Stoneywell Wood as a whole occupies some 17 hectare of deciduous semi-natural woodland, and is part of the 105 hectare Ulverscroft Valley SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest).</p><br>
