<p>is a historic building located in the heart of New Market, Alabama. For 130 years, the church has been a pillar to the community. The Late Gothic Revival-style church was built in 1888, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>A member of penned this acrostic poem to describe the congregation:S – Sound foundationM – Mature congregationA – Approachable and appreciativeR – ReceptiveT – Traditional</p><br>
<h2>Church History</h2><br>
<p>The plaque in front of the Sanctuary reads: “Mary Miller deeded land in 1849 to serve both Methodist and Cumberland Presbyterian congregations. The original building burned and the Methodists in 1882 sold their interest in a second building. This second church destroyed by a tornado in 1884. Present building erected in 1888. In 1906 the Cumberland Presbyterians left to form a new church, and the remaining members affiliated with the First Presbyterian Church, USA.”</p><br>
<p>The physical building is located at 1723 New Market Road in New Market, Alabama.</p><br>
<h3>Historical Architecture</h3><br>
<p>According to New Market Presbyterians National Register of Historic Places Registration form, the building is in "near-original condition, including the clear cylinder-glass of the lancet windows." The Gothic style pews were originally in the Marysville Presbyterian Church (Marysville, Alabama). The "seven-plane barrel-vaulted wooden ceiling" is rumored to be a gift from the churchs building contractor. The ceilings design consists of "narrow boards in large half-bond rectangles divided by wide borders of the same material in herringbone and soldier patterns." The interior wood is naturally finished and varnished. The Sanctuarys suspended stove fluke was removed around 1980 and replaced with central heating and cooling.</p><br>
<p>New Market United Methodist Church is a historic church at 310 Hurricane Road in New Market, Madison County, Alabama. It was built in 1921 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>In 1920, a white frame church was demolished and the current circular brick church was constructed. The architect was Frank Estes, although the work was completed by another contractor. The churchs architecture reflects two key influences: Andre Palladios 16th-century Villa Capra, and the "Akron Plan," which was created in the late 1800s by the Methodist Church of Ohio. The Palladium Italian Renaissance influence is evident in the central dome and in the main north and east facades. The influence of the "Akron Plan," by contrast, can be seen in the quarter-circular auditorium surrounded by four Sunday school alcoves.</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s current pastor is Christy Noren-Hentz. She pursued a degree in Youth Ministry and Education at Greenville College, Illinois, and later completed a degree at Princeton Theological Seminary. She was also ordained as a deacon of the Free Methodist Church.</p><br>
<p>Craig Phadrig is a forested hill on the western edge of Inverness, Scotland. A hill fort on the summit is generally supposed to have been the base of the Pictish king Bridei mac Maelchon . The hill rises to 172 m above sea level, and overlooks the Beauly Firth to the north and the mouth of the River Ness to the north-east. The hill is currently owned and managed by the Forestry Commission Scotland.</p><br>
<h2>Craig Phadrig fort</h2><br>
<p>The summit of the hill is occupied by a vitrified fort; a stone structure affected by fire to produce a glass-like material. The inner wall of the fort defines an area around 75 by, and survives to a height of around 1.2 m. Beyond this is an outer wall and part of a third wall or hornwork to the east. Radiocarbon dates obtained in the 1970s suggest that the inner wall was constructed in the 4th century. Excavations at this time revealed evidence of Pictish occupation, including metal-working implements and French pottery, dating from the 7th century. The fort is a scheduled monument.</p><br>
<h2>Bridei and Columba</h2><br>
<p>Craig Phadrig is commonly assumed to have been the site where St Columba visited the Pictish king Bridei around 565. The event is recorded in Adomnán&#39;s Life of Columba, in which he describes several encounters between the two. The identification of Craig Phadrig is not universally accepted, and other sites including Urquhart Castle and Inverness Castle have been suggested.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel N. Patterson House is a historic residence in the city of Xenia, Ohio, United States. Built in the 1870s, it was named a historic site in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Samuel Patterson</h2><br>
<p>Born in 1818, Samuel Patterson moved with his family from Washington, D.C. to Winchester, Ohio when he was four years old. At the age of twenty-eight, he migrated to Xenia, where he became an important local businessman. Although he entered into partnership with another man, Tobias Drees, in the ownership of a local mill, he sought to make himself known as a carpenter. Eventually, Patterson developed a strong reputation for his multiple artistic abilities, including wood carving.</p><br>
<h2>House</h2><br>
<p>Patterson arranged for the construction of his house on the upscale North King Street around 1875. Built of brick with a brick foundation, the two-story house includes elements of stone and metal. The interior is particularly significant because of elements such as a unique music alcove with decorative panelling, as well as ornate original wood finishing with decorative molding.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>On 3 April 1974, much of Xenia&#39;s near north side was destroyed by one of the worst tornadoes on record. The Patterson House fared better than most; it was severely damaged, but the owner chose to restore it rather than completing the demolition. Two years later, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture. Another house on North King that survived the tornado, known as the Millen-Schmidt House, is located two blocks to the south; it too was listed on the National Register in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Plattenville in Assumption Parish, Louisiana is a historic Roman Catholic church which was built in 1856. It was added to the National Register in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The area was settled by Canary Islanders and Acadians from 1779 on and the parish was formed in 1793 with its first church being "little more than a shack". It was replaced by a more permanent one in 1819, which in turn was replaced by this one in 1856, quite close to the site of the 1793 church. The parishs governing "Fabrique", or council of wardens, reportedly appointed a committee to measure the Catholic church in Thibodaux, Louisiana, andthen contracted with one Wilson Grisamore "to build a Church of Assumption for the amount of $13,500 after the plan of the Catholic church of Thibodaux (sic) using the same dimensions, with the bell tower being fifteen feet higher than the one at Thibodaux." This mid-century example of one-upmanship produced a competent English Gothic church which was rendered even more unique in its area by the burning of its model, St. Josephs Church in Thibodaux, in 1916. The contracted cost of the new church was paid to Mr. Grisamore across a four year period, with an additional sum of $1129.48 being paid him for "extra work" in 1855, and the church seems to have been essentially complete by 1856.</p><br>
<p>The NRHP nomination describes the church as havinga pitched roof-basilican plan with a central square tower at the narthex. Adjacent to the tower is a stair leading to a small second-floor gallery. The five bay nave terminates in an apsidal chancel with one-story ancillary spaces. The exterior bearing walls are of brick with a timber roof and interior wood columns which were inspired by gothic compound colonettes. The exterior buttresses do not appear to be structural."</p><br>
<p>As of 1979 the church was approached by a gravel road, and it is located off Louisiana Highway 308.</p><br>
<p>The St. Anne Catholic Church in Napoleonville, Louisiana is a historic Roman Catholic church which was built in 1909. It is located about four blocks inland from Bayou Lafourche at 417 St. Joseph Street, as part of a two-block parcel which includes a contributing rectory  and a contributing cemetery , as well as three non-contributing buildings. It was added to the National Register in 2001.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-story basilica plan church reflecting Romanesque influence with a gable front flanked by two towers, one dating to c.1920 and reflecting Colonial Revival architecture. The church has a number of large round arch windows, with those on the nave and chancel topped by brick archivolts "laid in corbelled concentric semicircles to suggest texture". As there are many other elements of styling in the design of the church which achieve a pleasing appearance, it was deemed "an outstanding candidate for National Register listing" in its nomination.</p><br>
<p>Brooklyn Church and Cemetery is a historic church in Chatham, Louisiana. It was added to the National Register in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The church building is a plain wood frame structure built in 1902. It was deemed significant "as an almost perfectly preserved example of an austere turn-of-the-century country frame church. It represents a local North Louisiana unpretentious building tradition. Architecturally speaking, churches of this ilk should be regarded as remote descendants of provincial Greek Revival temple form churches. They are generally associated with the Methodist and Baptist sects and represent a building type which is a vital part of the material culture of the Upland South. But it is an archetype which is rapidly disappearing."</p><br>
<p>The Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace, also known as the Vance Birthplace is a historic home in Buncombe County, North Carolina, and a historic site managed by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources Historic Sites division. The property was the location of the birth of Governor Zebulon Baird Vance in 1830, and exhibits at the historic site serve to tell the story of the Governors political and military careers. The site also highlights the lives of Gov. Vance&#39;s famous family members—including his grandfather, Col. David Vance, Sr., who helped establish Buncombe County and his uncle, Dr. Robert Brank Vance. The reconstructed family home and six outbuildings tell the story of pioneer life in the North Carolina mountains.</p><br>
<p>Alabama Methodist Church is a historic church on Louisiana Highway Alt. 2 a few miles northwest of the small town of Bernice in Union Parish, Louisiana. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The church was founded in 1849 by settlers from Shelby County, Alabama who built a log building. The present church was built in 1895 and features a central office tower with an open belfry. As of 1995, the tower leaned a bit to the right as one faces the church. It has five windows on each side, with four-over-four glass, and a small two-over-two window on each side of the first level of the tower.</p><br>
<p>The church had not been in use since the 1960s when it was preserved by the Bernice Bicentennial Committee in 1976, which led to the creation of the Alabama Methodist Church Corporation, which eventually gave ownership of the church to the Bernice Historical Society in 1994.</p><br>
<p>In 1995 it was deemed notable as a well-preserved and rare example of a simple frame country church in North Louisiana, which was settled by Anglo-Saxon Baptists and Methodists in the 1840s and 1850s.</p><br>
<p>Union Bethel A.M.E. Church is a historic African Methodist church at 2321 Thalia in New Orleans, Louisiana.</p><br>
<p>The Gothic Revival building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Like the Connectional African Methodist Episcopal Church Union Bethel was born out of sociological differences. In 1862 a small band of sixty (60) dissatisfied Christians led by a local preacher, Rev. William Foster, withdrew from St. James AME Church under a "sort of social and religious struggle between free mulattos and free blacks. The first place was located at Camp and Clio Streets and they called it "Bethel," meaning "God is in this house."</p><br>
<p>Between 1866 and 1883, eleven pastors served and the membership fluctuated as they worshipped in several places. In 1883, the congregation purchased the lot at Thalia and South Liberty Streets, the present location. They built a wooden structure which served as both a church and a school. In 1903 the church was officially incorporated under the name of Union Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of New Orleans. In 1906 this building burned to the ground.</p><br>
<p>The foundation for the present church was laid in 1910 and the cornerstone is dated June 18, 1911. The upper level of the building was completed in 1921. The Rev. William A. McClendon BD. was the Pastor in 1926. He was responsible for raising significant funds for the church. In 1929 a building located at 1323 South Liberty Street was purchased and served as the first parsonage. During this period of growth, building and expansion Reverends Green B. Billops, W. A. Easton and J. B. Bell served as pastors.</p><br>
<p>It was in 1941 that Bishop Sherman Lawrence Greene appointed Reverend Howard Thomas Primm pastor of Union Bethel. He served as pastor from 1941–1952. This was a period of great growth and expansion. Union Bethel became known as the seven day a week church During his pastorate at Union Bethel Reverend Primm established the Sarah Allen Child Development Center, This program set the pattern for Child Care across the City of New Orleans and later throughout the AME Church Connection. The Center was self-sustaining and received no funding from outside sources. In addition, he established the Edythe M. Primm Well Baby Clinic which employed a physician, two registered nurses, one student nurse and one clerk and the Primrose New-Life Building.</p><br>
<p>At the General Conference of 1952 Reverend Primm was elevated to the Episcopacy of the AME Church.</p><br>
<p>The Reverend George Napoleon Collins was assigned to Union Bethel following Bishop Primm. He worked with the congregation to organize and build St. Matthew A.M.E. Church in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. He organized the Foreign Aid Board which gave support to the overseas districts. Rev. Collins was elevated to position of Presiding Elder and then to the Episcopacy of the AME Church.</p><br>
<p>It was the Rev. T. W. Gaines, a son of the church, who led the congregation in the installation the beautiful stained windows. His faithful attention to the sick and shut-in was one of the greatest strengths of his pastorate.</p><br>
<p>During the administration of The Reverend Lutrelle Grice Long, renowned preacher, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made his second proclamation against segregation and the use of public facilities when he was denied use of the Municipal Auditorium of New Orleans. Rev. Long opened the doors of Union Bethel to Dr. King. It was during this period during the height of civil rights movement numerous activities took place at Union Bethel. It was under his leadership the church was restored after having endured a horrific fire that gutted the building in 1962 and was restored in the fall of 1963.</p><br>
<p>The Reverend Nelson Pryor Patterson brought with him an emphasis on following the Discipline of the AME Church. He displayed a concern for others and inspired a new spirit of cooperation within the "family". As a result Bro. Sidney Collier initiated the Celestial Drive which to the liquidation of the indebtedness of the church and parsonage.</p><br>
<p>During the administration of the Reverend Lorenzo G. Clarke the fellowship hall and the main sanctuary were renovated. He emphasized the development of the Youth Department, organized the Cathedral Choir and initiated the 8 am worship service.</p><br>
<p>November 1982 Bishop Frank Curtis Cummings assigned the Reverend Thomas Benjamin Brown, Jr. as pastor of Union Bethel. This esteemed proclaimer of the Word served Union Bethel as pastor over thirty years. The Union Bethel Community Development Corporation was established by Rev. Brown in an effort to better serve the surrounding community in a larger capacity. Among the programs established: Homeless Prevention (Rental and Utilities Assistance), Feeding the Homeless, After School Tutoring, Youth Enhancement (YES), First Time Home Buyers Program, Adult Education (GED), Senior Citizens Program, Families in Transition from Welfare to Work and Mentoring Children of Prisoners. On January 15, 2004 President George W. Bush visited Union Bethel and commended Union Bethel for its service to the community. Shortly following the presidential visit Union Bethel was awarded a grant to fund the Mentoring of Children of Prisoners Program. September 9, 2007 Union Bethel was named to the National Register of Historic Places. On April 24, 2014 Senator Mary Landrieu announced Union Bethel received a grant from USA Government FEMA of $3.4 million to rebuild the Four Freedoms Building.</p><br>
<p>Kings Highway Christian Church is a historic Disciples of Christ church at 806 Kings Highway on the corner of Kings Highway and Line Avenue in Shreveport, Louisiana. Kings Highway Christian Church was established on May 20, 1923. Kings Highway Christian Church is also across from C.E. Byrd High School.</p><br>
<p>The Renaissance/Romanesque/Byzantine style building was constructed in 1925 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Kings Highway Christian Church (also known as KHCC) was formed in 1923 by members of Shreveports Central Christian Church, who had purchased land at the corner of Kings Highway & Line Avenue. Shortly thereafter Jewish Architect Mr. Samuel Wiener, taking inspiration from many Romanesque/Byzantine style churches in and around the City of Rome, designed the beautiful cruciform sanctuary that stands today. The sanctuary was completed in 1925. The Education Building & Wedding Chapel were added in the 1940s, followed by The Elizabeth Stewart Strange Children’s Education Building in the late 60s. The most recent addition being The Family Life Center was built in late 1990&#39;s.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The architecture of the sanctuary as noted above of Romanesque/Byzantine style cruciform church, that is when you look at the church from above or at the churchs floor plan you will notice the sanctuary forms the shape of the cross. Mr. Wiener and the construction crew masonry to signs of the Holy Trinity & mans relationship with God in the marble artwork. Every arch in the eve-line is different, no two are alike (one even has a glass coke bottle in it), just as no two people are the same. The top of the roof just above the main entrance is adorned with the tree of life instead of a cross. The rafters in the ceiling are placed in a way to remind us of Noah&#39;s Ark.</p><br>
<h2>Fun Fact</h2><br>
<p>The architect, Sam Wiener, also designed the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium</p><br>
<p>Spring Ridge Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church in rural Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, between the small hamlets of Enterprise and Aimwell. It is located on Sherwood Road, near the intersection of Louisiana Highway 559 and Louisiana Highway 124. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The church was organized in 1873. The present church building is believed to have been built in 1892. It had not been used regularly as a church for about 40 years when it was added to the National Register, but it was used occasionally for homecoming services.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant as "a rare surviving example of an important North Louisiana building type....a well-preserved example of an austere country frame church. As such, it represents a local North Louisiana unpretentious building tradition associated with the Upland South settlement patterns of the region. From an architectural standpoint, churches of this type should be regarded as remote descendants of provincial Greek Revival temple form churches. Generally associated with the Methodist and Baptist sects, they represent an archetype which is a vital part of the Upland South building tradition."</p><br>
<p>The Soldotna Post Office is a former post office in Soldotna, Alaska, United States. The log cabin, which served as the first post office for the town of Soldotna, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places since September 17, 2008.</p><br>
<p>In 1947, Howard and Maxine Lee read about homesteading opportunities in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska in The Saturday Evening Post that granted land to those willing to improve and inhabit it. Howard Lee was in the United States Navy and stationed in Florida, but headed north in March 1948. Maxine and their daughter, Karen, remained in Seattle, while Howard continued on to the Anchorage Land Office. Howard found that all the land along the Sterling Highway had been claimed, but learned of a couple who had moved the year before and would sell their land and a 60-foot by 30-foot Quonset hut to the Lees for $1,000. Maxine and Karen Lee joined Howard in June 1949.</p><br>
<p>The Whitelaw Reid House is a historic residence near the village of Cedarville in Greene County, Ohio, United States. Built in the early nineteenth century, it was home to a prominent American journalist, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>The Reid House is a weatherboarded structure with a tiled roof. The present form of the house makes it an example of the Queen Anne style, southwest of Cedarville, the house and surrounding farm appear to be little changed from their appearance in the nineteenth century.</p><br>
<p>The house was the birthplace and longtime home of Whitelaw Reid, a nationally known journalist, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, and Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States under Benjamin Harrison in the 1892 presidential election. During his years of living in the house, Reid greatly modified the house, and as a result it has been deemed a fine example of changing tastes in architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>In 1973, the Reid House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. While it qualified for the Register simply because of its architecture, its importance was largely derived from its close association with Whitelaw Reid.</p><br>
<p>Currently, the Reid House is the home of Mike DeWine, the Ohio Attorney General and a former US Senator from Ohio.</p><br>
<p>St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church is a historic church at 133 S. Main Street in St. Martinville, Louisiana. The church was added to the National Register in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The church was founded in 1765 by Acadian refugees settling in Atakapa country; the first church was probably designed by French military engineer Lieutenant Louis Andry. The church was incorporated in 1814 by an act of the Louisiana legislature, and another act in 1820 authorized the congregation to run a lottery to raise funds to build a new church. The current building was consecrated in 1844.</p><br>
<p>It was built originally as a simple rectangular plan church of the Roman basilica type, with the nave separated by a row of Doric columns from side aisles. It was expanded in the 1870s by addition of transepts and a semi-circular apse as well as by extension of the nave.</p><br>
<p>Moulsecoomb Place is a large 18th-century house in the Moulsecoomb area of the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove. Originally a farmhouse based in an agricultural area in the parish of Patcham, north of Brighton, it was bought and extensively remodelled in 1790 for a long-established local family. It was their seat for over 100 years, but the Neoclassical-style mansion and its grounds were bought by the local council in the interwar period when Moulsecoomb was transformed into a major council estate. Subsequent uses have varied, and Moulsecoomb Place later became part of the University of Brighton&#39;s range of buildings. Student housing has been built to the rear; but much of the grounds, the house itself and a much older cottage and barn attached to the rear have been preserved. The house is a Grade II Listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>At the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, Moulsecoomb was an outlying part of the large parish of Patcham, which was centred on Patcham village north of Brighton. Spelt Mulescumba at that time, the name varied considerably over the centuries and was not standardised to its current spelling until the 1960s. The manor and estate of Moulsecoomb later belonged to Lewes Priory, and Mouscombe Farm was first named in the early 17th century when it was owned by Sir Edward Culpepper. On his death in 1730, it was left to Sir William Culpeper, 1st Baronet of Preston Hall, the first of the Culpeper baronets.</p><br>
<p>In the early 16th century, a timber-framed hall house was built on the estate near the farm (although some sources claim a late-14th-century date). A wooden tithe barn was erected next to it later in the 16th century, and was subsequently extended in flint. The hall house is the oldest secular building in Brighton, and is presumed to be a remnant of a larger medieval manor house—perhaps the forerunner of the present Moulsecoomb Place, which has its origins in the early 18th century. At that time, when the farm was still in agricultural use, a farmhouse was built adjoining the hall house. In 1790, Benjamin Tillstone bought the farm and converted it into a rural retreat with the farmhouse as its centrepiece. He commissioned a major overhaul of Moulsecoomb Place, extending the façade and refacing it in yellow brick.</p><br>
<p>The building was thereafter the seat of the locally important Tillstone family for more than a century, and was the centrepiece of an estate extending to 1,000 acre. and the hall house was converted into stables. More work was carried out on the building in 1906 when a further two bays were added to the south side of the seven-bay façade.</p><br>
<p>The final Tillstone family owner, Mr. B.T. Rogers-Tillstone, sold Moulsecoomb Place and the familys estate to Brighton Corporation (predecessor of the present city council) in February 1925. Much of the land, which had been transferred from the parish of Patcham into the borough of Brighton in October 1923, was used to develop the Moulsecoomb housing estates Moulsecoomb Place and its grounds were retained, and the building was used by the Corporation to house its Parks and Recreation Department. Later it housed Moulsecoombs first library and was used to provide extra capacity for a local school. By 1971 most of the interior was used for offices, and a social club and bar occupied the hall house.</p><br>
<p>The building is next to the main (Moulsecoomb) campus of the University of Brighton. In 1993, the university submitted a plan to buy Moulsecoomb Place and its grounds, build accommodation for 163 students on the former plant nursery to the rear, The student residences consist of flats accommodating six to eight people, each with their own bedroom but with shared bathroom and laundry facilities. Breakfast and evening meals are provided on site. As of 2012, rent was £142 per week or £5,538 for a 39-week academic year tenancy.</p><br>
<p>Moulsecoomb Place was designated a Grade II Listed building on 20 August 1971. The timber-framed hall house to the rear had been listed on its own on 13 October 1952; in 1971 the listing was expanded to cover the whole building.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Moulsecoomb Place is the only building in the Moulsecoomb area mentioned by Ian Nairn and Nikolaus Pevsner in the Sussex edition of their Buildings of England architectural guides. They describe it as "an early 19th-century seven-bay house of yellow brick", and note that the hall house attached to the rear is "the only worthwhile timber-framed cottage in Brighton". The seven-bay façade, which faces east, is the original part dating from 1790; another two-window range was added on the south side in the early 20th century, making the composition asymmetrical. The original section has yellow brickwork in a Flemish bond pattern to the main elevation and brown and yellow gauged brickwork on the north (side) wall. Yellow bricks are also used on the south extension, but in a stretcher bond layout. The 1790 section has a 2–3–2 bay pattern whose central three-bay section projects slightly and is set beneath a pediment. Its tympanum has a pattern of raised brickwork. Behind the pediment is a parapet and a cornice with mutules below. Some of the ground-floor windows have elements of the Palladian and Neoclassical Adam styles; those at first-floor level are straight-headed. The hipped roof has several chimney-stacks. The early 20th-century extension is in complementary style. On the east elevation, a single-storey two-window section projects forward and is topped with a parapet and cornice. This continues round to the south elevation, which has a full-height bow front with a three-window range. A modern conservatory has been added to one side.</p><br>
<p>The timber-framed hall house, whose interior had been significantly altered by the time it was in use as a bar and social club, is believed to be the surviving section of a larger building dating from the medieval era. It has two storeys, the upper of which is jettied. The areas between the closely studded timber frame are filled in with a mixture of plaster, flint and brickwork, and tiles cover the hipped roof. There are some small sash windows. The tithe barn, which was extended in the 19th century, is linked to the hall house by a bridge-like section of the same date.</p><br>
<p>At the time of the listing by English Heritage, when the building was in use as offices, the interior had elaborate fittings. The main staircase is in a hall with a vaulted ceiling, in which mahogany doors with Greek Revival-style panelling lead to various rooms. Some have original fireplaces in styles including Neoclassical and Jacobean. The staircase itself has mahogany rails and Gothic Revival-style balusters of cast iron. There is some stained glass bearing the date 1913.</p><br>
<p>Gibson Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church on S. Bayou Black Drive in Gibson, Louisiana.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1849 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>History</p><br>
<p>On May 17, 1849 land was donated in Tigerville, Louisiana (now formally known as Gibson) by Cornelius C. Wallis and John Wallis. They donated this land to the Methodists for the construction of a cemetery and a Church. The church took approximately six months to build and was completely built by the end of the year. This church turned out to be the simplest and smallest church of the surrounding areas of Tigerville, Thibodaux, and Houma. At the time, it was known as the Sycamore Church because of the sycamore trees that grew in the yard. The common style during this time and the style of this church is a variation of the Greek Revival Style. Tobias Gibson, William Thompson, and John McIntyre were a few of the original members of the church.</p><br>
<p>Tobias Gibson and his wife moved from Kentucky to Louisiana in the 1850s. Tobias owned Plantations named Holly Wood, Live Oak, and Oak Forest near Tigerville, Louisiana. They had eight children, but one child in particular was more eminent. His name is Randall Lee Gibson and he served in the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. Randall conducted all his business in French including owning a Plantation in Lafourche Parish and practicing law in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Also, it was he who requested Tigerville, Louisiana be changed to Gibson, Louisiana in 1859.</p><br>
<p>Greek revival architecture</p><br>
<p>The South was successful in adapting existing styles rather than developing their own distinctive style. During the colonial times, it was the Georgian style that really took hold until the Greek Revival Style came into favor in the 1830s. Yet, often there are houses who show traces of the Georgian influences. However, the earliest example of Greek Revival Styling was built in Philadelphia in 1798 which was the Latrobe’s Bank of Pennsylvania. The Greek Styling did not reach the Deep South till the very last.</p><br>
<p>However, once it reached the United States, fine stone was no longer used. Instead deTocqueville’s materials, “painted wood” and “white washed bricks” were used. Greek Revival Architecture was associated with the “white columned look” in Greece, but that did was not common in Louisiana. In certain southern states, including Louisiana, the Greek Revival looked different from popular Greek temples found elsewhere in the United States. However, the most common are buildings in “the peripteral mode,” the galleried cottage and the double gallery house.</p><br>
<p>AME Church</p><br>
<p>In 1729, the brothers John and Charles Wesley, and George Whitefield all belonged to a group that would meet for religious exercises at Oxford. They were given the name “Methodists” because of the way they conducted their lives and studied religiously by “rule and method.” However, it was Thomas Coke who proceeded with the Methodist Episcopal Church organization in America an acted on authority from Wesley in 1784. In 1845, the issue of slavery led the Independent Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to begin. There are over 22 branches of Methodism in the United States. This includes the African Methodist Episcopal Church founded by Richard Allen. Along with other Black Methodist denominations like the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (formerly known as the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church) and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.</p><br>
<p>Richard Allen</p><br>
<p>Richard Allen grew up during the American Revolutionary War era and born a slave in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He later worked as a community and business leader as well as a preacher after he purchased his freedom. Essentially, he became a minister, founder, and the first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary Magdalen Church, Rectory, and Cemetery is a historic Roman Catholic church at Pere Megret and Main Street in Abbeville, Louisiana.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was founded c.1844, the present church was built in 1911; the American Foursquare-style rectory was built in 1921. The property added to the National Register in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The church is a red brick Gothic-style cruciform basilica with buff-colored brick accents. It has Romanesque Revival details. It has somewhat projecting buttresses reinforcing its outer walls.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Mary Magdalen Parish was established in 1842 by Pere Antoine Desire Megret. The first church, the remodeled home of Joseph LeBlanc, was built and dedicated in the spring of 1844. From the beginning it was placed under the invocation of Saint Mary Magdalen, a favorite saint among the descendants of the Acadian exiles all through South Louisiana. The name was always retained, except for a short time during Father Laforest’s administration, when after the 1907 fire, the church was temporarily called Saint Ann&#39;s, at least in the reports.</p><br>
<p>In September 1847, Reverend Nicholas Francais was given charge of Saint Mary Magdalen Church, but Pere Megret continued to look after the Catholics of Abbeville and vicinity. Father Francais served there until after September 1850.</p><br>
<p>In 1851, Archbishop Blanc made Vermilion Parish an independent parochial jurisdiction, with Saint Mary Magdalen’s Church as the parish church, and Reverend Hubert Thirion, a young French priest, the first resident pastor. He was joined by Reverend Francis Mittlebronn, a newly ordained priest, who became the first parish assistant. Father Thirion and Father Mittlebronn remained until sometime after October 12, 1852.</p><br>
<p>The church was without a pastor for a time, then in February 1853, Reverend J. Regale was sent to take charge of the parish. Father Regale left Abbeville sometime in 1853, and in either November or December that year Abbeville was given its new pastor, Reverend Stephen (Etienne) Joseph Foltier, a French priest.</p><br>
<p>In February 1854, a fire at the rectory destroyed the church records. The current parish records begin on February 20, 1854. There was an attempt to reconstruct the baptism records by having the parishioners come in to report the baptism of their children. The marriage records were completely lost.</p><br>
<p>Father Foltier left in September 1856 and Reverend Jean Arthur Poyet was his successor. Father Poyet was an energetic priest, and he visited every corner of the parish from Delcambre out to Gueydan and Cossinade, and down to the swamps on the Gulf shore. With genuine regret, the parishioners of Saint Mary Magdalen bade farewell to Father Poyet in January 1866.</p><br>
<p>The new pastor was Reverend Theodore Lamy, another energetic French priest, a man of great spiritual stature. In December 1868, Father Lamy welcomed a young French priest named Alexandre Mehault, who came to serve as assistant, and eventually became one of the outstanding pastors of Saint Mary Magdalen Church.</p><br>
<p>Father Mehault became pastor in May 1870. During his pastorate, a new rectory was built, a new bell was put in the church, and many improvements were made to the church. He made periodic visits to his home in France and, while there, obtained vestments, ornaments, sacred vessels, statues and other religious ornaments for Saint Mary Magdalen’s church. The parish church became a place of beauty, and ceremonies of the church were conducted with brilliance and solemnity in accord with their high purpose of glorifying Almighty God. New stained-glass windows and a beautiful set of hand-painted Stations of the Cross on canvas were obtained. Many of these articles were donated by people of Vermilion Parish. Father Mehault also brought Catholic education to the parish, persuading the Sisters of Mount Carmel at New Orleans to staff a school in Abbeville.</p><br>
<p>It soon became apparent that the frame structure on the site of Joseph LeBlanc’s home was far too small. Everyone agreed that a new and larger church was needed. On May 28, 1884, the new Saint Mary Magdalen Church was solemnly blessed.</p><br>
<p>In May 1896, St. Mary Magdalen’s Parish was legally incorporated as “The Congregation of St. Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church” and all of the parochial property was formally transferred by the archdiocese to the new parish corporation.</p><br>
<p>Father Mehault left Abbeville in July 1899. He was succeeded by Reverend Fabian Laforest, a native of Canada. Father Laforest was a priest of many attainments, artistic, deeply pious, scholarly and a capable administrator. In 1904, Father Laforest installed a new organ in the church and enlarged the rectory. In 1905 he arranged for a new cemetery, and installed new pews in the church.</p><br>
<p>On March 22, 1907, at 7 p.m. the church of Saint Mary Magdalen, Abbeville, was completely destroyed by fire, as was the presbytery attached to the church. The fire destroyed the baptism register covering 1901–1904. During that period, there were 1541 baptisms. Parishioners were asked to come to the church to record the baptisms that occurred during that time. Of the 1541 baptism records lost, 274 were recovered. Father Laforest erected a temporary frame church, which was blessed under the invocation of St. Ann’s. The new Saint Mary Magdalen Church was completed and put into use in 1911.</p><br>
<p>Father Laforest died on August 26, 1915, and was buried in the new cemetery he had developed. Reverend Julien Ravier Bollard was named the new pastor on July 1, 1915. Father Bollard was a man of great piety, self-sacrifice, zeal, charity and whole-hearted devotion to the flock entrusted to his care. Father Bollard served in Abbeville for 15 years. It was during this time that the Diocese of Lafayette was formed, and Saint Mary Magdalen Parish was part of the new diocese.</p><br>
<p>On June 20, 1930, His Excellency, Bishop Jeanmard appointed Reverend Edmund Daull, a native of Strasbourg, France, as pastor. Father Daull made many improvements to the church. During Father Daull’s pastorate, youth work began in earnest due mainly to the zeal and energy of a young assistant who came in 1938 — Reverend J. Verbis Lafleur. Father Lafleur lost his life while a prisoner during World War II. He lost his life while aboard a sinking prisoner of war ship. He was last seen persuading men to leave the hold of the ship, blessing them and helping them up the ladder to possible safety. Father Daull died suddenly on December 5, 1949, and was buried at the foot of the cross in the old cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Right Reverend Monsignor Paul Fusilier became the new pastor on January 16, 1950. During his pastorate, Monsignor Fusilier was instrumental in building the new Catholic school building for Mount Carmel in 1953. He made many necessary repairs and improvements to the parish church and rectory, including installing the new cross atop the spire himself. In 1951, he erected the new Chapel of Saint Therese of Lisieux on the east side of town, and established a convent for the French Dominican Sisters. Monsignor Fusilier left Abbeville in 1959.</p><br>
<p>Most Reverend Bishop Robert E. Tracy became the new pastor of Saint Mary Magdalen Parish. Bishop Tracy remained in Abbeville only six months, but accomplished many notable things. Among them: restoring the existing rectory, construction of a six-room catechetical center, tuck pointing and water proofing the exterior of the church, installation of an air conditioning unit at the convent of the Sisters of Mount Carmel, and the development of a successful adult religious education program.</p><br>
<p>In January 1960, Monsignor Ignatius A. Martin assumed the pastorate and served in Abbeville until October 1973. Monsignor Martin introduced the Legion of Mary, the Charismatic Renewal and the Cursillo to the parish. He was also instrumental in the construction of a music room and an additional classroom at Mount Carmel. Other improvements included the construction of a mausoleum, garden crypt, and Saint Paul Cemetery, a new high school (Vermilion Catholic High), a football stadium, expanded office facilities at the rectory, two parish community retreats, more renovation work on the church which included enlargement of the sacristy. During his pastorate, both extraordinary ministers of the Word and extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion were appointed to serve the Parish community.</p><br>
<p>Monsignor Richard von Phul Mouton, a native of Lafayette, was welcomed as pastor in November 1973. Monsignor Mouton also made enhancements to the beauty of the church. He sought to expand and improve the ministry to the elderly and homebound, being responsible for the appointment of some seventeen extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion. One of his major accomplishments was a significant reduction of the parish debt. In December 1975, the cellar of the church sacristy was renovated and turned into a weekday Mass chapel. The chapel was named Holy Parents Chapel. Monsignor Mouton served on the Abbeville Bicentennial Committee, which was instrumental in erecting the stature of Pere Antoine Desire Megret in Magdalen Square. Monsignor also commissioned the painting of a mural in the east vestibule of the Holy Parents Chapel to commemorate Saint Mary Magdalen’s anniversary. On August 25, 1981, the sacristy and chapel were badly damaged by fire. Repairs and renovations took place in 1981–82. In January 1984, the community center was donated to Mt. Carmel to be used as classrooms and to make room for the new ministries building. The ministries building, which houses the parish offices, a large meeting room, two smaller meeting rooms and a bookstore, was completed in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Holly Grove Methodist Church is a historic church in Vernon Parish, Louisiana which was built in 1894 and enlarged in 1915. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The church was founded in the 1830s and was the beginning of Methodism in the extreme western part of Louisiana. Its building was deemed significant as "the only remaining example in Vernon Parish of the type of simple frame churches which characterized much of rural Louisiana at the turn of the century. It is also the parish&#39;s oldest extant church structure. Holly Grove, therefore, is a landmark in the sparse architectural history of this comparatively recently settled parish."</p><br>
<p>The church is isolated in a forested area. In 1980 the church was accessible only by a 1.3 mi dirt road.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic church on Old Laurel Hill Road in Laurel Hill, Louisiana. It is maintained as a chapel of Grace Church of West Feliciana Parish.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1873 and added to the National Register in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1872, the Reverend J.P. Lytton, of Woodville, Mississippi held Episcopalian services in Laurel Hill. The demand for services was large enough that Bishop Wilmer held services on March 17, 1873 and commissioned J. Burruss McGehee to be a lay reader to hold further services. These were held at first in the local Methodist chapel and then at the home of Colonel V.D. Walsh.</p><br>
<p>The parish was organized as St. John&#39;s Church on September 28, 1873, with the Reverend A.G. Bakewell as rector; McGehee as senior warden and Walsh as junior warden.</p><br>
<p>William Goddard built the church with the first service was held on November 23, 1873. Total cost of the construction including furniture was $2,200. Colonel Walsh contributed $1,000 and the church became a memorial to his only daughter, Susie Jessie Walsh. The church was consecrated on Whitsunday, May 14, 1874. Early rectors included J. Wilmer Turner, Frank E. Evans, and E.W. Hunter,</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic church building in Weyanoke, Louisiana.</p><br>
<p>St. Marys Episcopal Church was built in 1857 to serve approximately 20 plantation families in the remote Tunica area north of St. Francisville, Louisiana. The design is attributed to New York architect Frank Wills, a prominent 19th century proponent of the Gothic Revival. Wills belief in the English Country church as the ideal model for American Episcopal congregations can be clearly seen in the design of St. Marys. Two other churches by Wills are known in the region, Christ Church in Napoleonville, Louisiana and the Chapel of the Cross near Madison, Mississippi. In 1858 the church was consecrated by Bishop (later Confederate General) Leonidas Polk, the "Fighting Bishop" of Civil War fame. The church was built on the Old East Tunica Road on 5 acres donated by Sarah Mulford, The title description is written "per aversionem" so that the boundaries cannot be identified exactly. In 1928 State Highway 66 was built about 1/2 mile west of the church and the old road was abandoned, leaving the church with no vehicular access, except by private farm roads. The church was deconsecrated in 1947, and today stands empty, gradually being overtaken by the surrounding forest, which has completely overgrown the graveyard north of the church and the old roadway. St. Marys Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 29, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Carlston Annis Shell Mound  is a prominent archaeological site in the western part of the USA state of Kentucky. Located along the Green River in Butler County, this shell midden has been declared a historic site because of its archaeological value.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Carlson Annis Shell Mound sits on the eastern side of the Green River, somewhat more than 300 ft east of the shoreline. Because it lies in the river&#39;s floodplain, the mound is the highest point in the area; its top is typically dry even though the surrounding terrain be flooded. It occupies a dark loamy soil, although the edges of the mound are covered by a substantially lighter loam with mixtures of sand and clay. Since the mound was formed, the river has changed its course; it appears to have flowed directly by the base of the mound as it was being created. When the area was first settled in the early nineteenth century, the floodplain was recognized as valuable farmland, and because the mound is an island during floods, settlers saw it as a place of refuge; for most of the time since whites arrived, farmsteads have occupied its summit.</p><br>
<p>Measuring approximately 350 ft from north to south and 300 ft east to west, the mound rises approximately 6 ft above the surrounding terrain. The shells extend down from the surface by 7.5 ft from the center; the difference between the heights is the result of floods since the midden was created, which have deposited multiple layers of earth around the base.</p><br>
<h2>Excavation</h2><br>
<p>In 1939, archaeologists from the University of Kentucky began to excavate the Annis Mound under the leadership of W.D. Funkhouser and W.S. Webb. Initial surveys found minimal damage to the site: a well had been dug into the center, and the surface was slightly affected by the foundations of buildings on the top, and neighbors from miles around were frequently digging from the edge to procure shells for use as chicken feed. Excavations began with the digging of a trench through the southern portion of the mound, after which the mound was divided into blocks of 30 x so that the locations of artifacts could more accurately be plotted on diagrams. The initial excavation produced evidence of 129 different features:</p><br>
<p>Hearths — 71</p><br>
<p>Fire basins — 21</p><br>
<p>Burned clay patches — 4</p><br>
<p>Pits — 12</p><br>
<p>Caches of stone tools — 10</p><br>
<p>Caches of lithic flakes — 8</p><br>
<p>Caches of other objects — 3</p><br>
<p>This concentration of features was comparable to what had previously been found at other Archaic period shell middens in the region, demonstrating the similarity of the builders to other regional peoples: they lived in the vicinity, ate substantial numbers of shellfish, used the site as a trash heap for the shells, and buried their dead in the midden. Overall life expectancy at birth was somewhat more than twenty years; 29.7% of the skeletons were of children under five years of age, of which nearly three-quarters were infants, although examination of these skeletons produced no evidence of violence.</p><br>
<p>Beside bodies and objects associated with them, the excavation found a total of 19,733 artifacts, which were made from the following materials:</p><br>
<p>Flint — 4,228</p><br>
<p>Ground stone — 977</p><br>
<p>Copper — 2</p><br>
<p>Bone — 3,523</p><br>
<p>Antler — 1,324</p><br>
<p>Shell — 9,679</p><br>
<p>Additionally, the top of the mound produced 65 sherds of prehistoric pottery. As the Archaic peoples who inhabited the site have shown no evidence of producing their own pottery, these sherds are believed to have been the work of later peoples. Strengthening this proposal was the presence of Euro-American pottery in addition to the 65 sherds — Euro-Americans are known to have used the site because of its high location above floodwaters, and it is believed that later prehistoric peoples likewise camped at the site and would have left behind occasional broken pieces of pottery. Of the 4,000+ flint pieces found at the site, nearly half (1,997) were projectile points of various sorts, with corner-notched and long-shallow-notched shapes being the most common. Other types of flint stone tools included approximately 500 knives, 23 lithic cores, more than 500 drills, and approximately 1,000 scrapers. Artifacts of ground stone included almost fifty axes, seventy atlatl weights, more than one hundred mauls, more than one hundred sandstone discs, more than two hundred hammerstones, and nearly three hundred pestles. The two copper pieces were one bead and one awl, while the bone artifacts comprised over 1,000 awls, 900 fishhooks, occasional projectile points and flakers, and even occasional human bones that had been converted into tools. Most of the antler pieces were projectile points or pieces of unknown purpose, while nearly all of the shells were discs that were being used as beads. Aside from the numerous bits of pottery produced by whites, most of the potsherds found at Annis were grit- or shell-tempered pieces.</p><br>
<p>Although Carlston Annis and many other Green River shell middens were test excavated in the 1920s, much more extensive work was performed in the 1930s. Between 1937 and 1941, extensive information was revealed by excavations conducted by Works Progress Administration workers between 1937 and 1941.</p><br>
<h2>Conclusions</h2><br>
<p>Radiocarbon dating has suggested that some artifacts at Carlston Annis date back to 5424 BC, although most artifacts dated between 3200 and 1400 BC. Most of its projectile points clearly dated from the Archaic period, although one Adena and occasional Mississippian points were found; they seemingly were left by later peoples, just like the pottery pieces. Two projectile points that were found underneath the mound were fluted points from the Paleoindian period; they are believed to have been sitting on the riverside before the shell mound was started. Like several other shell mound sites in Kentucky, Carlston Annis produced pieces of three stone pipes and of a single stone cup; these objects may have been religious artifacts used by shamans in attempts to heal diseases. Kentucky&#39;s larger riverine Archaic sites vary widely in the amount of shell refuse that they have yielded; the much larger amount of shell refuse at sites such as Carlston-Annis and Indian Knoll is seemingly due to the presence of nearby bivalve beds. The numbers and types of non-human bones at the mound were typical of Archaic shell middens in the region, as was the number of antler pieces, although tools made of human bone were unusually numerous. At least three different processes were used to produce fishhooks from bones: some had been made from deer toes; some from bird bones of all sizes, a technique common at Kentucky shell middens; and a few by drilling large bones. Carlston Annis was the first Kentucky shell midden at which fishhooks made by this technique were found, although evidence of this technique is plentiful at the later Fort Ancient-period Madisonville Site near Cincinnati. Numerous animal bones appear to have been used as ceremonial "medicine bags," which in later centuries were often made by skinning an animal without removing some of the bones.</p><br>
<p>The diets of Archaic peoples at many Green River sites has been determined largely from incomplete excavation data at better-known sites, such as Carlston Annis. It appears that the inhabitants floral diets rested almost completely on nuts, with hickory nuts dominating; both Carlston-Annis and the Bowles Site in Ohio County produced evidence suggesting that 80% of identifiable floral remains were hickory nuts, and 85% of the remnant was acorns. Some evidence exists at these sites for plants such as squash, little barley, and wild rice. Analysis of the burials at Carlston-Annis and other Green River sites demonstrates that the inhabitants demographics were similar to those of comparable sites elsewhere and to those of modern hunter-gatherer societies. Besides methods of producing fishhooks, Archaic technology can be seen from Carlston Annis in the atlatl components. No direct evidence of specific techniques was apparent from this excavation, but substantial circumstantial evidence was present. Because very few burials were accompanied by stone atlatls, it is believed that many individuals were also buried with wooden atlatls (comparable to modern Eskimo technology) that have not survived to the present. Comparison with Indian Knoll suggests that early inhabitants at Annis used all-wooden atlatls more commonly than the Indian Knoll people.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In April 1986, the Carlston Annis Shell Mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its archaeological importance. It was one of twenty-four shell middens along the Green River known together as the "Green River Shell Middens of Kentucky" that were listed on the National Register together. Eight years later, some of the Green River middens were named a historic district, the Green River Shell Middens Archeological District, and designated a National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>St. Thomas Episcopal Parish Historic District is a national historic district located at Croom, Prince Georges County, Maryland. The district encompasses four contributing buildings and three contributing sites associated with St. Thomas Church. The other contributing buildings are the Gothic Revival style St. Thomas Church Rectory , Tenant/Sextons House , and tobacco barn . The contributing sites are the St. Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, St. Simons Mission Chapel Site, and St. Simons Cemetery. The African-American communicants of St. Thomas Church formed St. Simons Mission Chapel in the late-19th century and it operated on the property associated with the Croome Industrial and Agricultural School , which operated from about 1902 to 1952.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Lunn&#39;s Tavern, also known as The Wilkins Property, is a historic inn and tavern located in London Britain Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It has three sections. The original section was built about 1760, and is a two-story, stone structure with a gambrel roof. Part of the original section was altered when the brick addition was made in 1830. The modifications included adding stucco to the stone exterior walls and modifying the roof to the gable style. The 1830 brick addition has a wooden porch structure. It was the site of the writing of a famous letter from Thomas McKean to George Read on September 26, 1777, detailing the situation in Delaware and his actions upon assuming the presidency of the State of Delaware.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>South Brook Farm, also known as the Charles A. Higgins Estate and New Bolton Center for Veterinary Medicine, is a historic estate located in East Marlborough Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The original section of the house was built in 1717, and expanded in the 19th century. In 1940, it was modernized and enlarged by noted architect R. Brognard Okie in the Colonial Revival style. Also on the property are a former stable or carriage house transformed into a cottage and photographic studio; an English bank barn; early 20th century terra cotta silo; and one-story garage .</p><br>
<p>It was originally built as the retirement residence of Caleb Pusey (c. 1650–1727), an associate of William Penn and Quaker leader. The farm remained in the Pusey family until acquired by industrialist Charles A. Higgins (1882-c. 1956) in 1939-1940. He hired noted architect R. Brognard Okie to transform the property into a gentlemans estate. Since 1958, the house has been the centerpiece of the University of Pennsylvanias veterinary and animal research complex known as the New Bolton Center.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Blizky Island  is an island that is part of the Russian Severnaya Zemlya in the Laptev Sea.</p><br>
<p>Administratively it is part of the district of the Krasnoyarsk Krai Taymyr in Siberian Federal District.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island is situated in the eastern part of the archipelago, in the east coast of Bolshevik Island, separated from it by a narrow channel. Blizky lies in the northern part of Neudach Bay (бухта Неудач) close to the mouth of the Neogidannoi River (река Неожиданной). To the northeast, at a distance of 4 km, lies the island named Morskoy.</p><br>
<p>Blizky has a rounded shape with a diameter of just over 2 km, its height does not exceed 6 m. In the north-west, near the coast, there is a small lagoon. At the north is a geodetic point.</p><br>
<p>Waylla  is a mountain in the Andes located on the border of Bolivia and Chile in the Cordillera Occidental.</p><br>
<p>It consists of two peaks, Waylla East (Guailla Oriente, Huaila Oriental, Huailla Oriental) and Waylla West (Guailla Occidente, Huailla Occidente). The distance between the peaks is about 3 km. Waylla East is about 4,923 metres (16,152 ft) high, Waylla West, south west of it, about 4,870 metres (15,978 ft) high.</p><br>
<p>The next mountain, Wila Qullu, lies north east of Waylla and it is also situated on the border of Bolivia and Chile.</p><br>
<p>Waylla lies between the Salar de Huasco in the Tarapacá Region of Chile and the Uyuni salt pan in Bolivia. On the Bolivian side it is situated in the Potosí Department, Daniel Campos Province, Llica Municipality, Canquella Canton, north west of the village Pampa Anta.</p><br>
<p>The Arkansas City Commercial District encompasses the three oldest surviving commercial buildings in Arkansas City, Arkansas. They are located along Sprague  Avenue, between Kate Adams  Street and De Soto Avenue, and are a reminder of a once-thriving commercial district in the city. The Cotham Drug Store, a two-story brick building from c. 1900, stands near the corner of Sprague and De Soto, facing south. The Red Star Grocery, built 1900, stands to its right; it is also a two-story brick building, but its facade has been altered, replacing a recessed doorway with a flush one. Stylistically the two buildings are similar, with brick corbelling and a course of dentil molding, with a parapet above. The third building is the Ramus Brothers Market, which stands on Sprague Street, was built in 1910 out of poured concrete.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Holly Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery, located on the south side of Crooked Bayou Drive, 3 mi south-east of McGehee, Arkansas. The cemetery is the only surviving remnant of the community of Trippe Junction, established in 1857 by the families of William Fletcher Trippe and his brother-in-law Benjamin McGehee. A railroad spur line was constructed to the area in 1877, and a small town grew up. By the 1920s all of its businesses had failed, and by 1930 all but one building at succumbed to fire. The Holly Grove Methodist Church adjoined the cemetery, and was the site of many funeral services. It was serving as a school when it burned in 1913. In 1958, a group of citizens raised money to assist with maintenance and upkeep of the cemetery. A bicentennial marker was erected by the Desha Historical Society in 1974. The southern section of the cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery is composed of two sections, for it is divided by Arkansas Highway 4. The northern section continues to be used for burials, while the southern section is the location of 90 historic graves. It is bounded by a golf course on the west, a pasture to the east, and Crooked Bayou to the south. Its entrance is marked by the bicentennial marker, and there is a narrow dirt road forming a U shape providing vehicular access through the grounds. The oldest grave is that of Benjamin Scott McGehee, an infant who lived one month in 1862. Many graves are of immigrants born in Europe. Claude W. James, who owned several businesses in Trippe Junction and rode with Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, is interred here.</p><br>
<p>The Camp White Sulphur Springs Confederate Cemetery is an American Civil War cemetery in Arkansas. It is located northeast of the village of Sulphur Springs, also known as White Sulphur Springs, in Jefferson County.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The American Civil War started in April 1861 and White Sulphur Springs became a staging and training area for troops who came into Pine Bluff to be organized into units. In late July 1861, the 9th Arkansas Infantry Regiment was organized and trained at White Sulphur Springs and remained there for about a month before being shipped out to Tennessee. A few months later the Fagan’s Guard, which later became the 2nd Arkansas Infantry Battalion, camped and trained near the springs before going on to Virginia.</p><br>
<p>By the spring of 1862, the war had reached Arkansas and the Battle of Pea Ridge, in the north part of the state, was fought. It had become evident that the Union Army had come to stay and would attempt to take the state by marching on Little Rock. However, most of the Confederate Army was ordered to leave the state and go across the Mississippi River to help defend against the Union invasion of Mississippi. This left Arkansas almost totally defenseless. Protests were made to the Confederate government, and the governor of the state started raising another army. He had troops from Texas, who were passing through the state going east to the war, stopped and many of them were sent to White Sulphur Springs for their training and to be used in Arkansas. The Confederate Hospital was moved to White Sulphur Springs from Pine Bluff, and was set up in the Poole Hotel, the Female High School and the Methodist Church.</p><br>
<p>Troops that arrived at White Sulphur Springs from Texas and Oklahoma brought a measles epidemic with them and many of them died from the disease before even seeing a battlefield. Those who died were either buried in the Camp White Sulphur Springs Confederate Cemetery, which was near the Poole Hotel hospital, or where their camps were located throughout the community.</p><br>
<p>Camp White Sulphur Springs became a Confederate military base of operation for the defense of the Lower Arkansas and White Rivers, located nine miles southwest of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, which contained several encampments of instruction and organization of new recruits. These Camps, such as Camp Lee, Camp R. G. Shaver&#39;s, Camp Holmes, and other smaller camps were all located within one mile of the community of present-day Sulphur Springs in Jefferson County, Arkansas, which served as a Headquarters, Commissary, and Hospital facility for these operations.</p><br>
<p>Used as a campground by a number of Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana units between late 1861 and early 1863. Many soldiers died of disease and were buried in this cemetery. Units known to have camped at the site include the 19th, 24th, 28th and 33rd Arkansas Infantry and Harts Arkansas Battery, Nutts and Denson&#39;s Louisiana Cavalry Companies, the 6th and 17th Texas Infantry and the 24th and 25th Texas Cavalry, Dismounted.</p><br>
<p>The First United Methodist Church is a historic church building at 204 S. Main in Hamburg, Arkansas. The brick Gothic Revival building was built in 1910 for Hamburgs first organized congregation, founded in 1850, which had previously met in a wood frame building on the same site. It was designed by the Nolley Brothers, who owned a local brickyard, and was based on Gothic Revival designs that one of them had observed at the St. Louis Worlds Fair.</p><br>
<p>The original building&#39;s main facade consisted of two towers, one higher than the other, flanking a single-story sanctuary section. Although the main roof spine runs between the towers, there is a large gable between the towers perpendicular to that line facing the front of the building. This gable end is decorated by a stained glass window designed for the church by the Jacoby Art Glass Company of St. Louis.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Hamburg Presbyterian Church is a historic church at the junction of Cherry and Lincoln Streets in Hamburg, Arkansas. The building, a single story wood frame structure, has an unusual construction history. It was built in 1871, and was apparently stylistically decorated in Stick Style, although no historic photos of the building have been found. In c. 1920 the building underwent a series of alterations, including relocation or reconstruction of its tower to its present location, when it had originally been at the entrance. It is at this time that the cornice bracketing and half-timbering was added, giving the building a Craftsman style appearance.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It was sold to the Hamburg Garden Club in the 1980s, which maintained its c. 1920 appearance.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church is a historic church on Arkansas Highway 159 South, 1 mi south of Eudora, Arkansas. The wood frame church was built in 1900, and rebuilt in 1946 after sustaining significant storm damage. The building is clad in a combination of weatherboard and novelty siding, and is covered by a shingled cross-gable roof. It is topped by a short gable-roofed belltower. The front facade is symmetrically organized around the main entrance, with the door recessed in a projecting section with its own, lower, end gable. The double doors are flanked by three-over-one windows. The building is associated with the African-American community that developed in the area during the first half of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Stura di Demonte Valley  is a valley in south-west of Piedmont in the Province of Cuneo, Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The valley takes its name from the river Stura di Demonte, a left-hand tributary of the Tanaro which flows through the valley.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The municipalities of the valley are Aisone, Argentera, Borgo San Dalmazzo, Demonte, Gaiola, Moiola, Pietraporzio, Rittana, Roccasparvera, Sambuco, Valloriate and Vinadio.</p><br>
<h2>Notable summits</h2><br>
<p>Among the notable summits which surround the valley there are:</p><br>
<p>Monte Tenibres - 3.031 m</p><br>
<p>Cima di Corborant - 3.007 m</p><br>
<p>Becco Alto d&#39;Ischiator - 2.996 m</p><br>
<p>Testa dell&#39;Ubac - 2.991 m</p><br>
<p>Enciastraia - 2.955 m</p><br>
<p>Rocca dei Tre Vescovi - 2.867 m</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The valley can be reached by car/bus from the Po Plain following the strada statale nr. 21 della Maddalena, which ends with the Colle della Maddalena and connects the Valle Stura di Demonte with the Ubaye Valley (France).</p><br>
<p>The Mount Olivet Methodist Church is a historic church building located on the Cleveland County, Arkansas fairgrounds near Rison, Arkansas. It is a simple rectangular structure built c. 1875, with twin entrances on one of the gable ends. The long sides of the church have four windows, while the rear wall has two, and the exterior has minimal decoration. The interior is a single chamber, again with minimal styling. The church was rescued from demolition in 1975 by the Cleveland County Historical Society, which moved it to the fairgrounds to be part of a display recreating a 19th-century Arkansas village.</p><br>
<p>The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It is believed to be the oldest Methodist church building in the county, and is one of its oldest structures.</p><br>
<p>The Van Buren Womens Literary Club is one of the oldest surviving literary societies of its type in the nation, founded in 1896 to improve the education of its members by providing access to books. The society is located at 421 Webster Street in Van Buren, Arkansas, in a historic Presbyterian church building built in 1903 on the foundations of the 1844 Old School Presbyterian Church. The building is a vernacular brick building with Late Gothic Revival features, supposedly designed by Reverend Finney, the pastor of the local Baptist church. The building was used as a church until 1919, when the Old School Church merged with other Presbyterian congregations. After serving briefly as the meeting house for a chapter of the Loyal Order of Moose, a fraternal organization, it was acquired by the Literary Club in 1921, and served as Van Burens library until the 1970s. Although Van Buren now has a separate public library, the society maintains a small library on the premises.</p><br>
<p>The society&#39;s building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historicchurch at 115 S. Main Street in Monticello, Arkansas. The modest 1.5 story wood frame Gothic Revival structure was built in 1906. When built it had a castellated tower, but this was removed at an unknown date. Because of declining participation, the Episcopal Church sold it in 1938 to Victor Borchardt, who operated a radio and appliance repair business there, making numerous alterations to the building. Changes made included the removal of Gothic-style lancet windows, a gabled front porch, and the introduction of a mezzanine and second floor in portions of the building.</p><br>
<p>The church was extensively restored in 1995. and listed on the National Register of Historic Places the following year.</p><br>
<p>The Selma Methodist Church is a historic church located north of AR 4 in the town of Selma, Arkansas. The wood frame church was built c. 1874, and is a well preserved rural Gothic Revival structure. Its main facade has narrow Gothic windows with pointed arches flanking the center entry, which is topped by a similarly pointed transom. The side walls have five windows each, matching those on the main facade. The apse is located in a half-octagon bay on the north side, whose two windows are also like the others, only shorter. The main entrance is topped by a small octagonal bell chamber mounted on a square base; there is no steeple.</p><br>
<p>The building was originally built for a Baptist congregation, which shared the building with the local Methodists after the latter&#39;s church was destroyed by fire. The Methodists acquired the building in 1885.</p><br>
<p>It was built in a Gothic Revial style and was added to the National Register in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Orange Street Presbyterian Church, today the First Church of Christ Scientist, is a historic church building at 428 Orange Street in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick structure, with a gable roof and concrete foundation. The front facade has a four-column Greek temple portico, with Ionic columns and a fully pedimented gable with an oculus vent at its center. The church was built in 1913 by a Presbyterian congregation founded in 1903. It was the congregations third church, the first two succumbing to fire, and indebting the organization. It occupied the building until 1961, when it moved to new quarters, selling this building to the local Christian Science congregation. The building is one of Hot Springs best examples of Classical Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>St. Luke&#39;s Episcopal Church is a parish of the Episcopal Church located in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in the Diocese of Arkansas. The congregation was established in 1866; its present pastor is C. B. Baker.</p><br>
<p>It is noted for its historic parish church located at Spring and Cottage Streets, completed in 1926 to replace the previous structure, which had been destroyed by a tornado. The church is a stone Gothic Revival building designed by Thompson and Harding. Its gable-roofed nave is dominated by a massive buttressed stone tower at the front, topped by a tall parapet. A stained glass window is set in the tower, just above the projecting gable-roofed entrance vestibule. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Old Bethel Methodist Church, also known as the Old Bethel School, Church, & Cemetery, is a historic Methodist church, school and cemetery in rural Greene County, Arkansas. It is located on Highway 358,& Greene 712 Road in Paragould, Arkansas. It is a modest single-story wood frame structure, built in 1901, and standing next to a cemetery established in 1882. The first person buried here was Moss Widner in 1882. The building served the small community of Finch as not just a church, but also as a school, and was vacated in 1941. It was restored in the 1970s by a group of local concerned citizens, and is occasionally used for services.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Old Bethel school & Church House at HWY 358 & 710 Greene Rd. was built in 1880 and became common school district #57. This building was built to be used as both a school & a Methodist church and became a one-room school and church and was named Old Bethel School & Methodist church. The first person buried in the cemetery next to the school & church house was Mose Widner, buried at Old Bethel Cemetery July 30, 1882. The 1880 school & church building lasted till 1901 when a tornado destroyed it. In the same year 1901 the current building was constructed. George Russell was the carpenter that built the 1880 building & helped build the school & church house standing today. The Old Bethel school lasted until 1928,when it consolidated with Walcott which at this time was common school district #40. The consolidation formed school district #2 Walcott of Greene County, Arkansas. The Methodist Church held its last revival at Old Bethel in 1926, which was conducted by Reverend J. Albert Gatlin. After Church services ceased & the school no longer needed the building, it beganto deteriorate. In 1973 a group of community leaders formed a restoration committee. After the Committee was formed a great deal of work was completed and the 1901 heart pine floor was re-sanded and resealed. The building is now used for occasional revivals, weddings, board meetings and an annual homecoming. &#39;</p><br>
<p>The Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church is a historic church on Hempstead County Route 16, about 3 mi south of the small town of Blevins, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a jerkin-headed roof, and a steeple topped by a hipped roof. It was built in 1942, using in part materials recycled from an 1870 church which was dismantled due to the establishment of the Southwestern Proving Ground in 1940. The church serves an African-American congregation that was, prior to its relocation, in a community that was originally named for, and supported by, Arkansas Senator James Kimbrough Jones. The church property includes a small wood-frame Sunday school building, constructed about the same time as the church, and a cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>St. Mark&#39;s Episcopal Church is a parish of the Episcopal Church in Hope, Arkansas, in the Diocese of Arkansas. The congregation was founded in the late 1870s, and celebrated its first service on April 2, 1879. It was established as a parish on September 7, 1880.</p><br>
<p>It is noted for its historic parish church at 3rd and Elm Streets. The simple wood-frame Gothic Revival church was built in 1904-5, though it was not until March 28, 1909 when it was consecrated, by Bishop William Montgomery Brown. It has a modified T shape, with a gabled vestibule area on the north facade. Its stained glass windows are believed to have been designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany. The pipe organ was installed in 1915. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was a historic church at 519 W. Page St. in Malvern, Arkansas. The African Methodist Episcopal congregation in Malvern was founded in 1894 as St. Lukes African Methodist Episcopal Church. The congregation began plans for a new church building in 1916; the new building was designed by Alfred W. Woods in the Gothic Revival style. The church was completed in 1920. The congregation no longer used the building as a church, but the building was still considered an important landmark in the history of Malverns African-American community.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 26, 2004. It was delisted on June 12, 2013, following its demolition earlier in the year.</p><br>
<p>Crabapple School is located at 14671 Lower Crabapple Road in Gillespie County, in the USA state of Texas. It was consolidated with Fredericksburg Independent School District in 1957. The building is now used as a community center. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Gillespie County, Texas on May 6, 2005.</p><br>
<p>Farmer Mathias Schmidt donated the land for a Crabapple school, earning the privilege by running a footrace with neighbor Crockett Riley who had also offered to donate land. Area families built the native limestone structure with their own labor. The 1878 school had a single classroom, with an adjoining room for the teacher living quarters. An outer staircase led to a second story storage space. An additional room was added later. A second limestone school was built in 1882 that also served as a Lutheran church, until the St. John&#39;s congregation erected its own building in 1887. Twenty-eight teachers taught at Crabapple School before it consolidated with Fredericksburg Independent School District.</p><br>
<p>The original schoolhouse also served as a post office from 1887–1910. The first postmaster was John J. Stein.There were a total of nine postmasters before the mail was routed to Willow City in 1910.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul&#39;s Parish is a congregation of the Episcopal Church in Batesville, Arkansas. The parish was officially founded on March 3, 1866 by Bishop Henry C. Lay and the Rev. Charles H. Albert, who had been working as missionaries in the area since the previous year.</p><br>
<p>Its historic parish church is located at 424 East Main Street. Designed by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson, it was built in 1916 to replace the original 1869 structure. Its main block is a cruciform stone structure with Gothic Revival styling, and a squat square tower located at the inside corner of the nave and eastern transept. The main entrance is set at the northern end of the nave, in a segmented-arch opening set in a low projecting section. The gable end above the entrance has a large Gothic-arched stained glass window. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Jumbo Church of Christ is a historic church in rural Izard County, Arkansas, west of the city of Melbourne. It is located on the Jumbo Road , about 4 mi west of its junction with Arkansas Highway 9. It is a vernacular Plain Traditional wood frame structure, built on sandstone piers and topped with a gabled corrugated metal roof. The church was built c. 1927-28 by the citizens of the then-thriving community of Jumbo, and is one of its few surviving structures. The community&#39;s decline began after 1949, when its municipal services were consolidated with those of Melbourne, and people began moving to the larger community. The church was abandoned in 1984, but restored in 1997 by a group of former residents of the area.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church  is a historic church at 703 West 3rd Avenue  in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Its congregation meets in a handsome brick Gothic Revival structure, with a square buttressed tower and buttressed side walls with lancet-arched stained glass windows. The church was built 1866-70 for a church congregation organized in 1860 by the Rev. Robert Trimble. Initially named St. Johns, it was renamed Trinity after Trimble received guidance from members of the Trinity Church in New York City. It is unique in Arkansas as having a burial chamber under its chancel; it is that of early parishioner Cornelia Bell Roane, who died in 1862. It is an active member of the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Oark School—Methodist Church is a historic church at the junction of Arkansas Highway 215 and County Road 34 in Oark, Arkansas. It is a rectangular single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, novelty siding, and a fieldstone foundation. The gable ends of the roof are adorned with large knee brackets. Originally built c. 1923 as a collaboration between the local Methodist congregation and the school district, it served as both a public school and Methodist academy, the latter for a single season. It was used as a public school until 1938, when the district was consolidated with other area districts. It was briefly used as a school again in the 1950s, after the existing school burned down. It is now used as a community meeting hall.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church is a historic church on Arkansas Highway 81 in Relfs Bluff, Arkansas. The single story wood frame structure was built in 1925, and exhibits Craftsman styling with some Classical Revival detailing. The main facade has a gable end with brackets above a recessed entry with Tuscan columns. The wall is finished in flushboarding incised with a carved arch motif. The side elevations each have a central projecting section, which is topped by a gable dormer with three windows. The roof has wide eaves with exposed rafters. The interior has retained all of its original finishes, although the ceiling has been covered by asbestos tiles. The church was built for a congregation established in 1859.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
