<p>The Pacific Coast Railway Company Grain Warehouse is a warehouse building located at 65 Higuera St. in San Luis Obispo, California. The warehouse is the only surviving building from the Pacific Coast Railways headquarters as well as the only extant grain storage building in San Luis Obispo. The date of the buildings construction is uncertain; city records state that it was built in 1885, but it may have been rebuilt in 1892&ndash;93 after a fire. The wood frame building has corrugated iron paneling on its walls and roof, a typical design for contemporary storage buildings. The Pacific Coast Railway used the warehouse from its construction until the railway folded in 1942; the warehouse held grain grown in the region, which was at the time a major producer of grain and beans.</p><br>
<p>The warehouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 23, 1988.</p><br>
<p>Horseshoe Lake is a lake situated in the east side of the Midway High Lakes Area below Mount Adams&#39; northwest flank. The lake is popular for camping, quiet boating , and hiking and biking on a trail halfway around the lake. Other activities include scenic viewing and fishing. The lake offers an eleven-site campground, administered by the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in the State of Washington.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>The lake is popular for fishing, camping and boating, and often clearly reflects Mount Adams. Adjacent Horseshoe Lake Campground is administered by the Cowlitz Ranger District of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The popular eleven-site campground features the Green Mountain Trail, which halfway circles the lake, offering more views of the mountain, and up to the top of Green Mountain, offering outstanding views of Mount Adams and its sheer, glaciated northwest face as well as Adams Glacier, the second largest glacier in the contiguous United States. The lake is a popular summer destination, and can be accessed via Primary Road 23, to Road 5601, and Road 2329 from Trout Lake at the southern side of Mount Adams. From Randle or Packwood in the north, it can be accessed via Primary Road 23, to Road 5601, and 2329, or alternately from Packwood on Primary Road 21 to Road 2329. The loop from Packwood to Takhlakh Lake, Horseshoe Lake, and the surrounding Midway High Lakes, along the scenic Cispus River to Randle, and back to Packwood along US Route 12 makes up the High Lakes Loop (Scenic Driving) from the White Pass Scenic Byway.</p><br>
<p>The Hilliard United Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church in central Hilliard, Ohio, United States. The oldest religious structure in the community, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Hilliards Methodist Episcopal congregation built the present structure in 1883. At the time, Hilliard was a small village, consisting of just the center of the present community; as the community has grown into a suburb within the Columbus metropolitan area, all other nineteenth-century church buildings have perished, but the Methodist church has endured and become a significant component of residents sense of community identity.</p><br>
<p>Built of brick, the church rests on a foundation of limestone and is covered with an asphalt roof, and some exterior elements are made of wood and sandstone.</p><br>
<p>In 1988, the Hilliard United Methodist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture, as the original Gothic Revival elements are still present. It remains in use as a house of worship for the congregation that built it.</p><br>
<p>Groveport United Methodist Church is a historic church in the village of Groveport, Ohio, United States. Established in the 1830s, this congregation of the United Methodist Church worships in an early twentieth-century building that has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Hopewell Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in present-day Madison Township, Franklin County in 1805, as perhaps the first church in the township, and Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church was formed in the same township in the following year. Some members of these two congregations living in the vicinity of present-day Groveport founded the Groveport Methodist Church in 1836, and the first church building was completed by the end of the year, using bricks made on site. The name "Groveport" was not yet in existence, it having been picked as a compromise between two competing names in early 1847. In 1839, it became the center of a new circuit, and Methodists became numerous enough in Groveport that their house of worship was incapable of accommodating the worshippers by 1851. As a result, a second church building was constructed; the members subscribed more than $4,200, although some subscribers&#39; failure to pay forced delays in the construction process.</p><br>
<p>The second church building remained the home of the congregation until 1908, in which year the third and present building was completed. Construction was overseen by Charles Rarey, who ultimately resigned his position as a Franklin County court clerk in order to participate full-time in the construction process. The structure cost $25,000 to build, and like its predecessor, its bricks were made within Groveport.</p><br>
<p>Groveport Methodist Church is a brick building with a foundation of limestone, a slate roof, and substantial areas of glass. A tower sits on the corner, topped with a steep peaked roof, while the rooflines of the rest of the building are generally gabled. Rounded-arch windows and doorways are placed in numerous locations on the exterior, including two on separate stories of the tower. These windows, composed of stained glass, are among the building&#39;s most distinctive elements.</p><br>
<p>Groveport remains an active part of the United Methodist Church, within the Capitol Area South District of the denomination&#39;s West Ohio Conference. In 1995, the building itself gained recognition as it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its historically significant architecture. It is one of four Groveport locations on the National Register, along with the Groveport Log Houses, the Groveport School, and a cluster of buildings known as the Groveport Town Hall Historic Group.</p><br>
<p>The San Luis Obispo Carnegie Library is a Carnegie library located at 696 Monterey St. in San Luis Obispo, California. The library building was funded by the Carnegie foundation in 1903 and built in 1905; it housed the citys subscription library program, which had operated since 1894. William H. Weeks, who designed 21 Carnegie libraries in California, designed the San Luis Obispo library in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The librarys design includes a tall hipped roof with two gabled wings, decorations including gargoyles in the gable ends, and an entrance portico with multiple round arches. The building is mainly faced in red brick with yellow sandstone trim, but the basement is faced in dark gray granite.</p><br>
<p>The library operated until 1955 and became a county historical museum the following year.</p><br>
<p>The library building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History Center of San Luis Obispo County</h2><br>
<p>The library is now home to the History Center of San Luis Obispo County, formerly known as the San Luis Obispo County Historical Museum. The museum features changing exhibits on local history and culture and a research room.</p><br>
<p>The Kirby Jail and Town Hall is a historic building located at 120 E. 4th St. in Kirby, Wyoming. Built in 1915, the building was the first and only town building constructed in Kirby, which incorporated the same year. Pete Enders, who also built the local school, constructed and plastered the building, while I. Hainsworth completed the carpentry work. The small jail was designed similarly to other nearby jails from the same era; its design also resembled other buildings in Kirby, such as its schoolhouse. In addition to serving as a jail and town hall, the building was also Kirby&#39;s polling place. In 1975, Kirby eliminated its town marshal, and the jail was vacated. The town hall moved to the old schoolhouse, and prisoners were sent to nearby Thermopolis.</p><br>
<p>The Kirby Jail and Town Hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 6, 2011.</p><br>
<p>The ECR Kooi Bridge is a bridge in Sheridan County, Wyoming, located 2.7 mi west of the community of Monarch. The bridge carries Sheridan County Road CN3-93 across the Tongue River. Contractor Jack Gregg built the bridge in 1913. The single-span pin-connected Pratt pony truss bridge is 81.6 ft long with an 80 ft span; it is the longest bridge of its type still in use in the Wyoming state and county highway system. The bridge&#39;s roadway was constructed with wooden stringers and decking; its guardrails are also wooden. The pin-connected Pratt pony truss was a common type of truss bridge in Wyoming, and the Kooi Bridge was one of the earlier bridges to use the design.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It was one of 31 Wyoming bridges added for their significance in the history of Wyoming bridge construction.</p><br>
<p>Lake Sentani is a tropical, shallow, and at low-altitude open lake located at the northeast extremity of the Jayapura Regency in the Indonesian province of Papua, about 20 km from the provincial capital, Jayapura City.</p><br>
<p>The lake, which is considered by the local population as the home of the rainbows, is part of the Cyclops Strict Nature Reserve and contains several species of fish that cannot be found anywhere else in the world.</p><br>
<h2>Hydrology</h2><br>
<p>Lake Sentani lies at the foot of the Mesozoic mafic and ultramafic rocks of the Cyclops ophiolite mountains in a fault-controlled depression at an elevation of 73 m above the level of the sea. Sentani is an irregularly shaped body with approximate maximum length extending from east to west of 28 km and, from north to south, 19 km of breadth. With a surface area of 104 km&sup2, Lake Sentani is the largest lake of the Intan Jaya region.</p><br>
<p>Lake Sentani receives its water primarily from direct precipitation with an average annual rainfall around the lake of about 2 m, and by mountain streams. The average evaporation on the lake is about 0.4 m with seasonal variation in inflow. The lake outflows into the Jafuri and Tami rivers to the Pacific Ocean near the Papua New Guinea border.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Lake Sentani, the best studied of Irian Jaya lakes, is relatively stable and intact. It is widely believed to have evolved by the tectonic damming and uplift of an arm of the sea, but such a connection has not been demonstrated yet.</p><br>
<h2>Natural history</h2><br>
<p>Lake Sentani is thermally stable, with temperatures ranging from 29 to 32 °C in the top 10 m; the surface pH is 6.2–6.8, and plankton levels are low at 1–2 mg/L except in the westernmost basin, where water circulation is limited, turbidity is doubled, and seasonal algal blooms, with resultant fish mortality. Preliminary bottom sediment samples from the eastern part of the lake have yielded sparse populations of arcellacean microfauna, dominated by Centropyxid types. In other parts of the world these species are found associated with brackish or polluted water conditions, raising the possibility that there is residual salinity in the deeper parts of the lake.</p><br>
<p>It may be small, but it harbors 34 species of fish, of which 13 are resident natives, 8 anadromous and 13 introduced. Besides having its own species of rainbowfish (Sentani rainbowfish and red rainbowfish), Lake Sentani is also home to two other fish species that cannot be found anywhere else, the Sentani gudgeon and Sentani goby. Sawfish up to 3 m were well known in the lake until the 1970s and are a common motif in traditional Sentani art, but appear to have been extirpated. Fish are extensively raised in ponds and cages around the perimeter of the lake and the introduction of species (particularly carp and tilapia) has been both accidental and intentional.</p><br>
<p>In this part of the world and at this latitude rainbows are visible only after a hard rain, but in Lake Sentani they are visible all the time, at least, by seeing the Sentani rainbowfish that, along with many others, are unique to this lake.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h2>Economy</h2><br>
<p>Many of the Sentani people, who inhabit the islands, perimeter and environs of the lake, still have a traditional subsistence economy based on fishing and sago harvesting. This has been sustainable for centuries but local reports suggest that catch yields have diminished in recent years. Whether this is a result of overfishing (as a result of population growth and/or market pressure), pollution or introduction of foreign species is not established. Many of the residents occupy dwellings built on posts over the lake, which thus serves as a depository for sewage, leading to locally high coliform bacteria counts, but also to nutrient enrichment. Water hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes), introduced since the early 1970s, has become a major plant pest and may contribute to the decline of some species.</p><br>
<p>Much of the mountainous terrain between the north shore of the lake and the ocean falls within the Cyclops Strict Nature Reserve. The future management of the reserve and buffer zone, and the environmental quality of the lake, are strongly interdependent. Recently a major reforestation project of grassland on the slopes surrounding the lake has been initiated, with the support of forest companies operating in Papua. This ecoregion is located within one of the most populated areas of New Guinea, but it is threatened by overfishing, the introduction of new species, which could be harmful to the endemic species in this lake. and aquaculture. A major sustainable development issues for the inhabitants of the lake and surroundings is the existing proposal to build a hydroelectric power plant through a dam placed on the Jafuri river. Several feasibility and environmental impact studies have been published, but the cost/benefit consequences of this project have not been released yet.</p><br>
<p>Warsaw Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Warsaw in Wyoming County, New York. The district encompasses 36 contributing buildings in the village of Warsaw. They are a variety of commercial, institutional, and religious buildings with most built between the 1870s and 1915. A number of commercial buildings were constructed after the fires of 1867 and 1887. They include the Andrew Jackson Warner designed United Church of Warsaw , First Baptist Church , Bartlett Block , Hostetters Pharmacy , New Watkins Hotel  Sullivan Building , Wyoming County Bank , Glovers Department Store , Gardners Grocery , Pratt Grocery , Farman-Humphrey Block , Lincoln Block , and Schwab&#39;s Motor Sales . Located in the district and separately listed are the Warsaw Academy and United States Post Office.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Castroville Japanese Language School, also known as the Castroville Nihon Gakko, is a historic building located at 11199 Geil St. in Castroville, California that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . It was built in 1936 and served Japanese-American sharecropping farmer families of the area as a school, as a Buddhist temple, and as a community meeting hall. It was closed just six years later, in 1942, when the Japanese-Americans of the area were interned for the duration of World War II. According to Kunio A. Sumida, who nominated it for NRHP listing, the building "represents and symbolizes</p><br>
<p>the denial of the constitutional rights guaranteed under the United States Constitution."</p><br>
<p>The building is extremely simple and unremarkable, except perhaps for its hipped roof that may reflect Japanese temple architecture, so its importance is for its association with the Japanese-American community and what it represents to some. At the time of its NRHP nomination in 1995, it was somewhat weathered, but otherwise unchanged from its state in 1942. In a 2012 photo, it is apparent that the exterior of the building has been restored, and there is an interpretative display in front of the building.</p><br>
<p>The Paso Robles Carnegie Library is a Carnegie library located in Paso Robles City Park in Paso Robles, California. The library was built from 1907 to 1908 through a $10,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation. Architect William H. Weeks, who designed several other buildings in the city, designed the library in the Classical Revival style. The projecting front entrance of the building has an ornamented pediment supported by two columns and two wide brick pilasters. The building has a decorative cornice, and an ornamental frieze is located beneath the pediment and cornice at the entrance. The Works Progress Administration expanded the back of the library in 1939. The library operated until 1995, when it was replaced by a new building and purchased by the city&#39;s historical society.</p><br>
<p>The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 26, 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Bank of Italy is a historic bank building located at 1245 Park St. in Paso Robles, California. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 19, 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Origin and design</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1921, the three-story building is the tallest in Paso Robles. August Nyberg, the owner and architect of the bank, designed it in the Renaissance Revival style. The brick building&#39;s design features quoin-like corners, semicircular windows on the second floor with latticed glass and radiating brick borders, and recessed transoms.</p><br>
<h2>Historic uses</h2><br>
<p>The Bank of Italy and Midland Light and Power moved into the building in 1922, and the bank purchased the building the following year. Bank of America acquired the Bank of Italy in 1930; from 1937 to 1958, the Bank of America branch in the building was the only bank in Paso Robles. The second floor of the building was used by various businesses, including several doctors, while the third floor held meetings for local fraternal organizations. Bank of America left the building in 1969.</p><br>
<h2>Modern usage</h2><br>
<p>In 1992, art dealer Ali Salmanzadeh purchased the building and opened a gallery on the first floor; the California Department of Corrections uses the upper floors for office space.</p><br>
<p>Ashford Lake is a small, shallow, privately owned pond located in the eastern part of the town of Ashford in northeastern Connecticut, along the town&#39;s border with Eastford. The pond has an area of 52.6 acres and a maximum depth of approximately 12 feet. Its normal surface elevation is 659 feet above sea level.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Ashford Lake was created in 1949 when an earthen dam was constructed on Goss Brook.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Ashford Lakes inflows consist of intermittent small streams and runoff, along with springs at the bottom of the pond. The ponds waters are held back by an earthen embankment dam on its south shore. Ashford Lakes outlet is Goss Brook, which flows over the dams spillway and eventually into the Mount Hope River.</p><br>
<h2>Development</h2><br>
<p>Today, Ashford Lake is surrounded by a high-density area of elegant, European-style villas which overlook the water. Some of these properties have left trees and natural vegetation along the pond&#39;s shore, while others have installed lawns, beaches, and retaining walls. All of these villas use their own wells and septic systems.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Ashford Lake is only accessible to homeowners and their guests. The pond is home to private beaches which can be used by residents. Ashford Lake has no boat launch, but residents may use their own boats as long as their motors are no greater than 5 horsepower.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>Ashford Lake is home to abundant aquatic vegetation, but most of it cannot be seen from the surface, and thus it poses little negative impacts on recreation. The pond has no invasive plant species. Patches of Sparganium sp. are common along the shore, while Eleocharis acicularis, Isoetes sp., Nuphar variegata and Brasenia schreberi are sparse. A progression of plant species occur with increasing depth. Najas flexilis dominates areas from one to six feet deep, Utricularia radiata occurs in six to nine feet of water and Potamogeton foliosus is present in water from nine to twelve feet.</p><br>
<p>Fish are occasionally spotted in Ashford Lake&#39;s waters, such as largemouth bass.</p><br>
<p>The Mary C. W. Black Studio House, located at 556 Abrego St. in Monterey, California, is a historic house and artist&#39;s studio that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was purchased in 1925 by Monterey artist Mary Corning Winslow Black , who completed her redesign of the old adobe in 1930, including the addition of "sumptuous gardens." It is an example of eclectic architecture including Mission/Spanish Revival architecture and its substyle of Monterey architecture.</p><br>
<p>The house is significant as one of surprisingly "few good residential examples of the Monterey substyle of the Spanish Colonial Revival on the Monterey peninsula, where the form was originated", and in particular one of only three examples known in 1993 to have a "full width cantilevered second-story balcony, covered by the principal roof."</p><br>
<p>According to its NRHP nomination, "Mrs. Blacks old-new studio house was praised in the September 27, 1930 Monterey Peninsula Herald for its impression of permanancy... and appearance of age. The article noted that the modern structures with the appearance of antiquity blend with the ancient adobe (Casa Abrego) that retains still its original charm... and that the work had resulted in one of the peninsulas outstanding beauty spots." And that the house had been very well preserved since then.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register in 1994. The listing included two contributing buildings and two contributing objects, plus a non-contributing building (a gardener&#39;s shed used as an office that had lost its historic integrity).</p><br>
<p>The Assa  is a right tributary of the Sunzha River in Georgia and Russia. It is located in Dusheti Municipality of Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Georgia; and in Dzheyrakhsky and Sunzhensky Districts of Ingushetia and in Sunzhensky and Achkhoy-Martanovsky Districts of Chechnya, Russia.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>It measures 133 km long, and incorporates a drainage basin which is 2,060 km&sup2;. The basin includes the major part of Ingushetia, areas in the west of Chechnya, as well as minor areas in the north of Georgia. Within the river basin, more than 70% of the territory is subjected to avalanches.</p><br>
<p>The river&#39;s source is on the northern slopes of the Greater Caucasus in Khevsureti from where it flows north and crosses into Russia. The Assa accepts the Gulaykhi River from the right and flows through the Erzi Nature Reserve. North of the stanitsa of Nesterovskaya, the Assa turns east, crosses into Chechnya, flows through the stanitsa of Assinovskaya, and accepts the Fortanga from the right. The mouth of the Assa is at the locality of Zakan-Yurt. The principal tributary of the Assa is the Fortanga River (right).</p><br>
<p>The Assa and Terek Rivers also flow through the Republic of Ingushetia in a south to north direction. The Assa, Terek and Gulaykhi river valleys are known for their large complex of stone battle towers and dwellings, burial crypts, pagan sanctuaries, and Christian churches". The Ingushes culture of the North Caucasus, one of the ancient cultures, is well preserved here by the Dzhairakha-Assa state historical and architectural museum. The village of Alkhaste is situated on the river&#39;s left bank, while the rural locality of Samashki is located on the river&#39;s outskirts. The village of Alkun is split in two by the river; Lower Alkun is inhabited by Ingush, while Upper Alkun is inhabited by Orstkhoy.</p><br>
<p>The climate in the river valley is characterized as having a frequent drying effect which supports special microzones.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the Middle Ages, a mine was located on the right bank, measuring 1 km in length and 200 to 250 m in width. Finds included an iron bar and working of native gold.</p><br>
<p>Though construction of a railway tunnel was envisaged from Georgia to Russia in the 1980s, including passage through the Assa River valley, construction was suspended a decade later.</p><br>
<h2>Reservation</h2><br>
<p>The upper reaches of the Assa River and the Armhi River have been combined into a natural reservation called the Jeyrakh-Assa Reservation, which has canyon valleys. Its historical importance is due to the medieval Christian Temple of 12th century and several other structures of bronze age (9th through 6th centuries BC), 300 towers of the 16th and 17th centuries which are habitable and where battles were fought, and 18 human habitats including 200 vaults dated to the same era. For these historical reasons, the Jeyrakh-Assa Reservation has been proposed to be inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.</p><br>
<p>Fish Creek Dam in Blaine County, Idaho is an aging multiple-arch concrete dam that has achieved historic status and now represents some threat to public safety, due to danger of it failing. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It is a 92 foot high concrete dam that is 1,700 feet long, blocking Fish Creek in the lower ranges of the Pioneer Mountains. Located 11 miles northeast of Carey, Idaho, the dam was completed in 1923. It was a work of John S. Eastwood.</p><br>
<p>The dam was listed on the National Register in 1978; the listing included just the one contributing structure on a 5 acre area.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, it was identified as one of the four highest-hazard dams in Idaho, having significant threat to human lives if it were to fail.</p><br>
<p>The Homer Pound House, at 314 2nd Ave., S., in Hailey, Idaho, is a historic house that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is significant as the birthplace of the poet Ezra Pound , who was born there on October 30, 1885, when Hailey was part of the Idaho Territory. Ezra was the only child of Homer Loomis Pound  and Isabel Weston . Homer&#39;s father was Thaddeus Coleman Pound , who was a Republican congressman for northwest Wisconsin and who had made and lost a fortune in the lumber business. Homer worked for Thaddeus until Thaddeus secured him an appointment as registrar of the government land office in Hailey, a post in which he served from 1883 to 1887.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1883</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Powerhouse is a historic building located on the campus of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. Built from 1908 to 1910, the building was designed by William H. Weeks in the Mission Revival style. The Powerhouse was the last of the original buildings at Cal Poly to be constructed; however, it is now the only remaining original building on its campus. The building originally served as a power plant run by students and two full-time supervisors; it also held Mechanics and Electrical Engineering classes. The Powerhouse stopped generating power in the 1940s and was replaced entirely and abandoned in 1955. In 1967, the building found a new use when the schools College of Architecture and Environmental Design decided to hold classes there. The college continued to hold classes in the building even after the construction of a new architecture building, and only stopped in 1990 when the schools administration ordered the building to be abandoned.</p><br>
<p>The Powerhouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 30, 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Sierra de Cogollos is a mountain range of the Baetic System in Granada Province, Andalusia, Spain.</p><br>
<p>The range is located to the northeast of Granada city. Its highest point is the 1,889 m high Peñón del Majalijar peak.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Sierra de Cogollos extends between the Vega de Granada valley to the west and the Axarquía in the east. To the north the narrow Blanco River valley separates it from the Sierra Arana and to the south, another narrow valley, carved by the Bermejo River marks the limit with the lower Sierra de la Yedra range. The northeastern sector of the Sierra de Cogollos merges with Sierra Arana.</p><br>
<p>This mountain range includes the Peñón de la Mata, a limestone mountain topped by a massive rocky outcrop that is 1,669 m in height and that towers above Cogollos Vega town. Peñón del Majalijar, the ranges&#39;s highest summit is located at the other end of the range.</p><br>
<p>The Sierra de Cogollos is mostly included within the municipal term of Cogollos Vega, with a little part within Huétor Santillán at its eastern end.</p><br>
<h3>Protected areas</h3><br>
<p>The Sierra de Cogollos, along with the neighboring ranges of Sierra de la Alfaguara, Sierra de Huétor, Sierra de Diezma, Sierra de Beas, as well as the southern part of the Sierra de Arana, is a protected area under the name Sierra de Huétor and la Alfaguara Natural Park (Parque Natural de la Sierra de Huétor y la Alfaguara).</p><br>
<h3>Geology</h3><br>
<p>Geologically the Sierra de Cogollos belongs to the Baetic System and is made up mainly of sedimentary rocks from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous.</p><br>
<p>Sierra Blanca is a mountain range of the Penibaetic System in Málaga Province, Andalusia, Spain. Its highest point is the 1,275 m high Pico del Lastonar.</p><br>
<p>The Sierra Blanca, meaning White Range, is named after the lack of vegetation on its slopes which leaves the pale grey limestone rock exposed.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>This karstic mountain range is part of the ranges fringing the Mediterranean coastline in the Costa del Sol area. It is located between the coast and the Sierra de las Nieves in the municipal terms of Istán, Ojén, Marbella and Monda. The easiest route to reach it is from Marbella town.</p><br>
<p>The Pico de la Concha (1,270 m), meaning Seashell Peak, resembles a seashell seen from the west and is the second highest summit of the range. Other notable peaks are the Salto del Lobo (1,225 m), Cerro de la Zarina (1,141 m) and the Cruz de Juanar (1,178 m).</p><br>
<p>Ecologist organizations in the area have proposed that the Sierra Blanca be declared a protected area, in a similar manner as the Sierra de las Nieves Natural Park located in the neighboring range.</p><br>
<p>The Locate Creek Bridge, located on N. Locate Rd. near Miles City, Montana, is a historic bridge that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is significant as the oldest steel stringer bridge in the state of Montana.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1901 by Custer County. The bridge was part of a Custer County program to build bridges to bring farmers and ranchers into convenient reach of railroads.</p><br>
<p>The significance of the bridge was recognized by local, state, and national officials of historic registers, culminating in it being listed on the National Register on March 26, 2012. It was listed, along with three others on that day, as part of a Multiple Property Submission, Montana&#39;s Steel Stringer and Steel Girder Bridges MPS.</p><br>
<p>From information available, it seems the bridge is located three miles north along N. Locate Road, which seems to be the road also known as Mizpah Road, north from USA 12, east of Miles City.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Miller House near Bellevue, Idaho is a historic house built from silver mining wealth that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Lead and silver mining within quartz deposits in the area was initiated in 1879, and on September 22, 1880 claim was filed for what became the Minnie Moore lead and silver mine near Broadford, to the west of Bellevue. Henry E. Miller purchased half ownership of the Minnie Moore mine for $10,000 in 1881; even without accounting for the proceeds of mining for three years, he did well with the investment as the mine was sold to an English company in 1884 for $450,000.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1914, and is an example of Stick/Eastlake architecture.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Frank LaVerne Buck House, located at 581 Pine Ave. in Pacific Grove, California, is a historic house that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Also known as the Pacific Grove Inn, it was built in 1904.</p><br>
<p>It was the home of Frank LaVerne Buck (1849-1931) who was a businessman and city civic leader. The home is historically important as the only known surviving example of work of local architect Robert C. Gass, and it is one of only a few well-preserved Victorian houses in Pacific Grove. The front staircase and other woodwork in the house was completed by carpenter C.E. Hovey who is known for craftsmanship in the area. Among its prominent exterior components is the fenestration, which features leaded glass and Palladian windows.</p><br>
<p>Built at the junction of Pine and Forest Avenues for a native Midwestern businessman who was involved in the dairy and egg businesses, the house is a prominent component of its neighborhood&#39;s built environment. As a large building constructed in a combination of the Colonial Revival and the late Queen Anne styles, it dominates both Pine and Forest.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>El Toro is a prominent hill located along the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains in southwest Santa Clara County, California. The iconic landmark is partially owned by the city of Morgan Hill, and its silhouette is incorporated in the city logo.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In Spanish, "El Toro" means "The Bull".</p><br>
<p>According to local legend, 19th century American poet Bret Harte named the hill when he climbed it and discovered two bulls fighting near the summit (they subsequently chased him back down).</p><br>
<h2>Hiking</h2><br>
<p>Although a portion of the hill is on public land, access to the summit is through privately owned surrounding lands.</p><br>
<p>Since 2008, the Morgan Hill Historical Society had sponsored annual spring hikes up to the summit. However, due to increased contention over property rights, no public hikes to the summit have been permitted since 2011.</p><br>
<p>In 2012, the Morgan Hill Parks and Recreation Commission re-initiated a study started a decade earlier to create a public trail to the summit. The results of the study and proposal for the trail are available on the Commission&#39;s website.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, the Commission held the first of a series of public meetings on the proposal to create the trail and associated facilities nearby.</p><br>
<p>In 2015, an "Access Strategy" to determine the proposed trail access points was developed by the Commission and approved by the City Council.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, the Commission will hold a public meeting on the proposal to create a non-paved public trail on the eastern side of El Toro, and to address concerns on safety, parking, litter, and impacts on wildlife.</p><br>
<p>The Ketchum Ranger District Administrative Site is a historic site at 131/171 River St. in Ketchum, Idaho. Significance of the site dates to 1929. It has also been known as Ketchum Ranger Station and as the Heritage and Ski Museum.</p><br>
<p>It is a compound that served as District Office for the ranger serving the Sawtooth National Forest during 1929 to 1965. After 1965 it served as a work station and residence for Forest Service staff, including fire fighters. According to a Historic American Buildings Survey profile, "The compound is typical of Forest Service compounds constructed during the Depression Era, and retains much of its original character.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by George L. Nichols and built by Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) labor. Its architecture is "Forest Service Standard Plan". It was listed on the National Register in 2007; the listing included seven contributing buildings on 1.5 acre.</p><br>
<p>Sierra de Alhama is a mountain range of the Penibaetic System in Málaga and Granada provinces, Andalusia, Spain. Its highest point is the 1,500 m high Pico de la Torca. Other notable summits are Hoyo del Toro, 1,353 m, Cerro de Marchamonas, 1,272 m and Morrón de la Cuna 1,222 m.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>This karstic mountain range is part of the ranges in the interior area of Axarquia. It stretches between the Sierra del Jobo and the 1,040 m high Puerto de los Alazores mountain pass in the west and the Sierra de Tejeda in the east with the corridor of Periana between them. The Guadalhorce river has its sources in this range. The Sierra de Alhama also includes the Boquete de Zafarraya an important pass at 992 m in the mountainous region of Axarquía.</p><br>
<p>The area of the Sierra de Alhama is a protected area as the Sierra de Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama Natural Park.</p><br>
<p>The Whalers Cabin near Carmel, California, is a historic building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located in what is now Point Lobos State Natural Reserve, four miles south of Carmel.</p><br>
<p>The cabin was built in the 1850s to house Japanese and Chinese fishermen. Shore whaling was conducted here by the Carmel Whaling Company from 1862 to 1884 and by the Japanese Whaling Company from 1898 to 1900. The building now houses a museum dedicated to cultural history of the area. The museum also highlights the history of Point Lobos, including its cinematic appearances and plans at the turn of the 20th century to develop the area for densely packed suburban housing.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register in 2007; the listing included one contributing building and one contributing site.</p><br>
<p>St. Charles Borromeo Church is a Catholic parish in Hailey, Idaho, in the Diocese of Boise. Its historic parish church and rectory complex, located at Pine and S. 1st Streets, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Fr. E.M. Nattini began ministering in the Wood River Valley in the 1880s. The population was growing rapidly, and he was soon able to raise funds for the construction of the first church of St. Charles, which began June 17, 1883. It was the first Catholic church ineast of Boise, and may be considered the mother church of southeastern Idaho.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The current church was designed by architects Tourtellotte & Hummel in the Gothic Revival style, and built by Nicholas F. Wirtzberger in 1913 at cost of $7,200. Among its distinctive elements is a stamped-metal belfry constructed in an ornate symmetrical plan. The complex also includes what has been known as Father Keys House.</p><br>
<p>A surviving window from the first church building can be viewed at the Reinheimer Barn on Highway 75 south of Ketchum. The complex was listed on the National Register in 1982. The listing included two contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>Serra del Turmell, also known as Serra del Mont Turmell,  is an over 12 km long mountain range in the Baix Maestrat comarca, Valencian Community, Spain.</p><br>
<p>These mountains and their neighboring ranges are a desolate place with little human habitation. Their summits are frequently covered in snow in the winter. The Cervol River has its sources in this range.</p><br>
<p>There was much activity of the Spanish Maquis in this range and the neighboring areas after the Spanish Civil War and well into the 1960s.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The highest point in the Serra del Turmell range is 1,276 m high Tossal Gros, also known as El Turmell, meaning the ankle. Another important peak is the Mola de Penyablanca.</p><br>
<p>There is a cellular repeater and other antennas atop the highest peak. There is also a shrine or small chapel dedicated to Saint Agatha in the high slopes of the range.</p><br>
<p>This mountain chain rises east of Rossell town and its western end merges with the Serra de Vallivana range in the area of the Port de Querol mountain pass in the N-232 road.</p><br>
<p>The easiest route to reach the range is from Xert, Vallibona or Morella.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>The northern slopes of the Serra del Turmell are covered with Mediterranean forest of holm oak and pine, while the southern slopes are almost denuded of vegetation with the grey limestone rocks exposed among scattered clumps of shrub. There are large prey birds such as the griffon vulture, as well as wild animals such as the Spanish ibex, roe deer and wild boar.</p><br>
<p>The ranges of this sparsely populated mountain area have the most important forested zone of the region. Thus the area of this range together with the neighboring Tinença de Benifassà and Serra de Vallivana was declared a Site of Community Importance by the European Union under the name Tinença de Benifassà, Turmell i Vallivana.</p><br>
<p>The Centrella Inn, at 612 Central Ave. and other addresses in Pacific Grove, California, United States, is a complex of four historic buildings that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The first two buildings of the complex were built during 1888-89. It grew serving the Methodist Chautauqua and other trade that grew rapidly in Pacific Grove following the Southern Pacific Railroad connection to the city, and following 1887 fire at the historic Del Monte Hotel.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register in 1982; the listing included four contributing buildings, three being one-story and one being two and a half stories.</p><br>
<p>The Centrella Inn was completely renovated from ground up in 1982 to bring it back to its original design with Victorian-era fixtures and furniture. It was awarded many architectural awards.</p><br>
<p>Cintra Bay or the Gulf of Cintra is a large, half-moon shaped bay on the coast of Río de Oro province, Western Sahara. It is located about 120 km south of Dakhla region and its coastline is scarcely populated and thus keeping wild environment on today.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The area was originally called "St. Cyprian’s Bay" but was renamed after the incident of Gonçalo de Sintra, hence the bay&#39;s center point was named the same as his name.</p><br>
<p>Treaty of Angra de Cintra in 1958 was named after Cintra Bay and this agreement led to ending the War of Ifni.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The bay is open, and is very shallow in general (the average depth of central part is 10 meters), and lining 29 nautical miles between Punta del Pescador and the Lagouira bay. About 24 km or more in diameter, lining from the northern cape Puntilla de las Raimas near Via Candelaria and Hassi Amatai south to the Puntila Negra or Punta Negra near Las Talaitas. Its width is about 12 km or more from the deepest point of the bay is at Hasi el Beied, locating on near middle of Cintra Bay. Gulf waters are consisted of inner Angra de Citra and outer areas of Bajo El Tortugo, Bajo Ahogado, and Bajo del Medio Golfo. Waters on pelagic out of Cintra Bay is called Bajo Arcila. Cliffs, dunes, beaches, and lagoons are the majorities of coastal landscapes. A large lagoon, Bajo Tortugo ("Bay of the Little Tortoise") is in northern side and there is an area named Las Matorrales in southern part. Several hills that some of which are with flattened top or peaks can be seen along the region.</p><br>
<p>Cintra bay has two peninsulas at the each end; Punta de las Raimas in north is 2 mi in length and is sandy in major and has sandy rocks and a reef at the tip, while a sandy hill can be found on the Punta Negra and which reefs extending about 2 mi surround it.</p><br>
<p>The shoal off southwest of Cintra Bay is called Banco de Sylvia. Itmlily lies between Dakhla and Cintra Bay, while Amseisat Saccum and Imlili are further east within the inner desert.</p><br>
<p>Across the opposite side of Las Taraitas and Morro de Gorrei, there lies the Bay of Gorrei or the Bahia de Gorrei, a very similar-shaped but smaller than Cintra Bay. Interestingly, there are several other bays or inlets of shapes almost identical to Cintra or Gorrei Bays along Rio de Oro region.</p><br>
<h2>Bathymetry</h2><br>
<p>Geographical and bathymetric factors of the Cintra bay make it a suitable ground for fishing and aquaculture. Shallowness and closedness result in the highest water temperatures among the region.</p><br>
<p>The south-north current goes only within the bay which is affected by tides notably in areas nearby open water. This current also causes a vortex flows or marine circulation in levorotation at the northern area.</p><br>
<h2>Natural history</h2><br>
<p>Its coastline and surrounding areas are parts of western Sahara Desert, being covered mostly by dunes and making Cintra bay&#39;s vegetations very poor.</p><br>
<p>Contrasts to land, waters in this area are parts of the Canary Current System, a highly productive ocean current and the Nouadhibou Upwelling, one of major upwelling zones locates just off the continent shelf. This makes the area one of the richest grounds for fishery in the world, and Cintra Bay itself serves as a spawning ground for sardines. Cephalaspidea can also be found within the bay.</p><br>
<p>Both the environment and bio diversities of Cintra Bay are under threat of ongoing plan to strengthen Morocco&#39;s aquacultures with supports from EU, and needs of researches notably on right whales and protections along with securing local fishing communities have been suggested.</p><br>
<h3>Marine mammals</h3><br>
<h4>Cetaceans</h4><br>
<p>Based on 19th-century whaling records, the coastline from 10 miles north of Puntilla de las Raimas, northern end of Cintra Bay (also called in various names including "Center", "Centra", "Senter", "Gora", "Gore", "Goree" Bay by whalers), Cintra Bay and Bahia de Gorrei as the center for both locational and catch quantities, and to 20 miles north of Cabo Barbas (and possibly broader range) was the only known locations where the eastern North Atlantic population of North Atlantic right whales ever used as a wintering or calving ground historically, and was the most busy winter whaling area in the 19th century. These whales are now thought to be either extinct or in the low-tens of animals left at best. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Cintra Bay Ground was one of three or four major grounds for right whale hunting in the North Atlantic along with the south-eastern coastal United States, Cape Farewell in Greenland, and probably the Icelandic region and also being one of two winter-spring fields along with the US coasts. A total of approximately 92 whales and some more were killed during 44 visits by whalers from November to April, giving this region the highest catch density in the 19th century, though whaling was not carried out during all seasons where 82 of those animals were actually taken in the first two years of 1855-56, probably with some other species such as the humpbacks. A scientific survey throughout the coasts extending to Dakhla peninsula/bay was conducted in 1998 and no evidence of any right whales still using the area was found. It was also found that these coastal waters were surprisingly poor in cetacean biodiversity, only two species were found regularly but within very small numbers and both were found only in the Dakhla Bay region: larger type of bottlenose dolphins and Atlantic humpback dolphins. Killer whales are known to occur along coasts of Western Sahara today and occasionally in large numbers in the past days according to whaling logs.</p><br>
<p>Recent studies allowed hopes that Cinta Bay may possibly be recolonized by right whales from the western population in the future, as the two populations have been revealed to be much closer to each other than in theories thought in the past.</p><br>
<p>Regardless of habitat densities, for baleen whales, at least fins, Brydes, seis, and minke whales are known to still occur along the coasts of Western Sahara. Of these, fin whales and Brydes whales had been confirmed in Dakhla and Cintra - Gorrei areas. Other species such as Risso&#39;s dolphins, common dolphins, rough-toothed dolphins, and harbor porpoises that have been confirmed in Bay of Arguin area may possibly occur here as well.</p><br>
<h4>Pinnipeds</h4><br>
<p>Along with cetaceans, Cintra Bay may provide an important habitat for critically endangered Mediterranean monk seals. They were severely hunted to the brink of extinction especially in the 15th century by European sealers and local tribes, and are now almost extinct in the Mediterranean Sea. Though not in Cintra Bay, Cabo Blanco on Dakhla Peninsula still hosts the largest of remaining colonies in the world.</p><br>
<h3>Sea reptiles</h3><br>
<p>Sea turtles are known to nest on the beach along the bay. There have been studies focusing on Dakhla region.</p><br>
<h3>Birds</h3><br>
<p>Many species of migratory birds and oceanic birds, such as Western Palearctic waders, winter on West Sahara´s coastline, in the Cintra Bay region and the Banc d&#39;Arguin National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mauritania where nearly 110 species of seabirds are confirmed. Based on bio-tracking studies, osprey is also a species to migrate here.</p><br>
<h3>Terrestrial species</h3><br>
<p>A large fraction of the biodiversity of terrestrial animals along the bay is unclear or has not been studied. Friendly camels (dromedary) live around the coast.</p><br>
<h2>Settlements</h2><br>
<p>The area is very remoted and almost unpopulated as only several small fishing settlements of shacks are scattered along the coast. Of these, Puntillas de las Raimas which is at Bajo Tortugo, the northern end of the bay is the largest. However, the village drastically shrunk in population size for the past decade, and the fishing village of Las Raimas was almost abandoned as of 2012.</p><br>
<p>Porto Rico, another fishing settlement in north of the bay also lost significant township.</p><br>
<p>The closest urban city is at Dakhla, approximately 120 km away from Cintra Bay.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Although Cintra Bay has been considered as one of local attractions, sandstorms especially in spring and mines collected from Cabo Barbas make the area not suitable for tourist destination.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel M. Black House, located at 418 Pajaro St. in Salinas, California, is a historic Queen Anne style house that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by noted architect William Henry Weeks and was built in 1900. The house is significant for its association with Samuel M. Black, a civic leader in the development of Monterey County, and architecturally for its serving as an early prototype of the "Modified Colonial" architecture style in development by Weeks. At the time of its NRHP nomination, the house was unique in being intact architecturally plus having the only known set of architect Weeks&#39; plans and</p><br>
<p>elevations for a house of this period; it was expected to yield further architectural history development. The house is termed a conservative one of Week&#39;s residential designs.</p><br>
<p>The property includes an eight bedroom one-story farm workers quarters, too, that was designed and built by a local contractor in 1936 for $6,000.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The listing included two contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Adamson Bridge near Valentine in Cherry County, Nebraska, is or was a historic bridge. It is listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1916 by the Canton Bridge Co. It was a timber stringer trestle bridge. It has also been known as the Niobrara River Bridge and has been denoted as NEHBS No. CE00-227.</p><br>
<p>When it was listed on the National Register, the bridge was notable as one of few surviving examples in Nebraska of early timber bridge designs. The Adamson Bridge appeared to have survived with few alterations due to relatively light traffic at its location.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The river crossing was apparently replaced by a concrete beam bridge crossing, at a different crossing point, ca. 1994. Aerial photo view of the coordinates given in the NRHP nomination suggest the highway alignment has changed, showing roads leading to a former crossing point but with no bridge remaining.</p><br>
<p>The James W. Finch House, known also as the Finch-Fleischer House, is a historic house in Monterey, California that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .</p><br>
<p>Located at 410 Monroe Street in Monterey, it was built in 1870. The house is significant as one of few surviving examples of early American architecture in Monterey, as opposed to the Spanish/Mexican adobe style of other Monterey buildings of the same era. The house includes Classical Revival stylings with other, eclectic stylistic features.</p><br>
<p>The house was built by rancher and stovemaker James William Finch and by Charles Finch for their mother, who lived in the house until 1881, after which James and his wife lived there and extended the house. James&#39; daughter Alma and her husband Charles Fleischer lived there later. A notable later renter was artist Charles Rollo Peters.</p><br>
<p>The house was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1964. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Crosby and Hill Building is a historic commercial building located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1859, with the present facade added in 1920. It is a four-story, three-bay rectangular plan building of bearing wall brick construction. It has a flat roof with parapet wall. The building is an example of a late-19th century commercial building that was "modernized" in the first quarter of the 20th century. The building has housed a number of businesses including a pharmacy, the Household of Faith Church, the Crosby and</p><br>
<p>Hill dry goods wholesaler and retailer, the Diamond Silk Shirt and Waist Company, the Wilmington Board of Trade Builders Exchange, and John&#39;s Bargain Basement Department Store Company.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Govatos&#39;/McVey Building is a historic commercial building located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1895, and is a three-story, rectangular plan building of bearing wall brick construction. During the first half of the 20th century, it was converted into a restaurant, candy factory/shop by removing original storefronts</p><br>
<p>along East Eighth Street. The building features large half-hexagonal pedimented copper bays on the second and third stories in the Queen Anne style. The building has housed Govatos Chocolates since 1910–1918. Govatos is the last candy making firm in Wilmington and still makes hand-dipped candy by the same method as in 1894.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Asa Johnston Farmhouse is a historic farmhouse in Johnstonville, Conecuh County, Alabama.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The farmhouse is one of only small number of surviving works by Ezra Plumb, a local carpenter, designer, and builder who became one of Conecuh County&#39;s eminent builders prior to the American Civil War. Plumb, born in Connecticut, migrated to the area around 1835. The residence was built for Asa Johnston, born in Bibb County, Georgia on August 24, 1798. He had arrived in Conecuh by 1818, the year the county was founded, making him one of the original pioneers. He owned forty slaves by 1840. He held 960 acre of land and forty-seven slaves by 1850. His real estate holdings had increased to 3,450 acre, valued at $10,000 by 1860. His personal property was valued at $63,500 during that year. This figure included his farm implements, livestock, and sixty-seven slaves.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house features wood-frame construction throughout. The front facade is seven bays wide, with a central open breezeway and doors on either side, framed by two windows each. The interior displays simple vernacular Greek Revival details, such as mantles, molded window surrounds, four-panel doors and molded door surrounds. Decorative faux painted finishes are present on trim, wainscoting and doors. The central breezeway features a barrel vaulted ceiling, the only example documented in Alabama. A full-width Carolina porch stretches across the front. A semi-detached dining room, built around the same time as the main house, is connected to the rear of the house by a covered elevated walkway. It is a gable-fronted building, one bay wide with a central entrance doorway and two bays deep.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designations</h2><br>
<p>It was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on October 4, 1993 and to the National Register of Historic Places on May 21, 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Commercial Hotel, later known as the Hart Hotel and Flomaton Hotel, was a historic hotel building in Flomaton, Escambia County, Alabama. The two-story wood-frame structure was built from 1904-05 in the Queen Anne style. It had a brick pier foundation. Fish scale shingle patterns decorated the front of each gable end. The front facade featured a full-width porch with neoclassical columns. The hotel contained 18 guest rooms, all with a fireplace. The interior retained its original woodwork throughout. The Flomaton Hotel was significant for its associations with the early growth and development of Flomaton, Alabama. Initially a railroad junction</p><br>
<p>(Pensacola Junction) serving as the intersection of two major lines, Flomaton, AL was one of several small towns that sprang up along the L & N Railroad lines during its rapid expansion beginning in 1879. The Flomaton Hotel was one of five hotels that pre-dated the 1908 incorporation of the town, and survives as the only hotel building of that era in the county.</p><br>
<p>The Flomaton Hotel was also significant for its associations with commercial growth and development in Flomaton, Alabama. The 1904-05 construction of the hotel</p><br>
<p>(then known as The Commercial Hotel) was a venture to relocate business near the depot in hope of directly tapping the railway passenger traffic and crews. One of the first and most successful hotels in the town, the Flomaton Hotel depended on the railway passenger traffic until the 1930s. In the early and mid-teens the hotel was noted as a favorite hideaway for honeymooners and quiet family vacations. In the 1920s under new management and a new name (The Hart Hotel), the hotel gained a good reputation for its fine "tablespreads," attracting the Pensacola affluent to Flomaton for Sunday dinner and a fifty-mile train outing. The 1930s depression and the advent of the automobile retarded the passenger train patronage, as well as the business of the hotel; however, during WII, the hotel was greatly patronized by servicemen awaiting train connections to overseas ports. Once again under new management, and gaining yet another name (The Flomaton Hotel), the hotel&#39;s character and patronage changed to that typical of "residential hotels," accommodating primarily the employees of the local oil companies. The owner planned to restore the hotel as a Guest House, targeting the patronage of antique buffs attracted to the local auctions.</p><br>
<p>Unfotunately the hotel was destroyed by fire in late 1986. It has been replaced by a local church.</p><br>
<p>The Bell Bridge, crossing the Niobrara River near Valentine, Nebraska, is a historic bridge that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It is a Pratt through truss bridge that was designed by the Canton Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio, fabricated by the Cambria Steel Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and built by the Canton Bridge Co. It was built in 1903 and brings a Cherry County road across the Niobrara, 11.9 miles northeast of Valentine. It has also been known as the Allen Bridge and the Niobrara River Bridge and is registered as NEHBS No. CE00-22.</p><br>
<p>It is one of just four bridges in Cherry County that survived a flood in February, 1916. According to its NRHP nomination it is notable as "one of the oldest, longest and best-preserved of Cherry County&#39;s remarkable group of through trusses" and is "distinguished as one of the handful of pre-1916 trusses remaining" in the county and in the state.</p><br>
<p>National Register designation was given in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Cockayne Farm Preservation Project is an undertaking by the Glen Dale, West Virginia city government and the Marshall County Historical Society. The centerpiece of the project, The Bennett Cockayne House, a property on the National Register of Historic Places, was given to the city in the will of Samuel Cockayne in 2001. A committee was formed by the city for preservation of the property, which led to the property being listed on the National Register and in finalizing a lease agreement with the Marshall County Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1798, Samuel Cockayne came from the Annapolis, Maryland area and became one of the first European settlers in the Glen Dale area. At the time of his death in 1854, Samuel had acquired over 500 acres, which he split between his sons Bennett and Vincent. Bennett had acquired land north of his fathers property previous to Samuels death and built the current farmhouse around 1850, which was named "Glendale Farm" by Bennetts daughter-in-law Sarah. Bennett was the local postmaster for several years and had a school in his house in addition to farming. Vincent received the southern part of the holdings, which included Samuels home, and called his farm "Valley Farm".</p><br>
<p>It would be Bennett&#39;s son, Samuel A.J., who would bring worldwide attention to "Glendale Farm". Samuel A.J. started a Merino sheep flock in the 1860s and began a breeding program to achieve the finest quality wool. His efforts paid off in 1876 when he won a medal and certificate "for fine Merino ram wool" at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia and in 1878 when he won recognition for his wool at the Exposition Universelle in Paris.</p><br>
<p>Samuel A. Cockayne "Zan" inherited the farm next. Samuel A. also supplemented his income as the postmaster of Glen Dale and as a member of the Washington district school board. Upon his death in 1953, the farm passed to Samuel A.J. Cockayne. Samuel A.J. served in the Pacific Theater in World War II. Upon his return, he devoted his life to the farm. After selling most of the farm land to the school district for a new high school in 1967, Samuel A.J. lived a reclusive lifestyle until his death in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>Upon taking possession of the house in early 2002, it became evident to city and county leaders that the Cockayne House could become a unique historical resource in the area. Samuel A.J. had lived in only the back two rooms of the house and Sam had only added very rudimentary electric and running water. Heating in the house remained the wood-burning stove. With the house essentially being a time capsule, city and county leaders decided to lease the house to the Marshall County Historical Society, with that organization creating the Cockayne Farm Preservation Project. This project would restore not only the exterior and structure of the house, but would preserve the interior and the material culture found within. While a restoration analysis was being completed, an archaeological survey was undertaken and all of the objects in the house were reviewed by a curator and cataloged.</p><br>
<p>In order to adequately preserve and restore the house, the exterior was determined to be the first priority. Through grants, contributions, and volunteer hours, money and support for the project grew. Fortunately, upon completion of a study on the needs of the house, the structural integrity of the house was considered to be good. However, major projects would need to be undertaken to return the house to its appearance in the later 1800s/early 1900s as well as to keep the house in good shape for the future. A new slate roof was determined to be the most pressing need, with this being completed in 2004. During the work on the roof, the slate was shown to be so deteriorated that it crumbled and turned to dust under the workers feet. Once the roof was replaced, the front porch was restored and rebuilt. By 2009 enough funding had been secured to allow for the restoration and painting of the exterior. In 2010, the contributing outbuilding behind the farmhouse was restored.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>Finding a large number of objects and material culture items, the first priority for preservation work inside the house was weatherproofing the house through the renovation process. As this work progressed, items were found that proved to be important for the story of the Cockaynes and for Marshall County history. One such find was a school roster and other papers that showed that the farmhouse was the site of the first schoolhouse in Glen Dale. Wallpaper throughout the house, while deteriorated, yielded a vast amount of information about how each of the rooms looked in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Part of this information was finding the different layers of wallpaper and trying to establish when redecorating took place. In keeping with the Projects goals, the wallpapers will be professionally cleaned and stabilized in order for visitors to get the sense of what the actual papers looked like. While this process is in the early phases, the scope can be seen by looking at not only the layers of dust, but the accumulation of coal and wood smoke residue built up through the daily usage of the house. While not accumulated upon each other like the wallpaper, the carpeting yielded not only evidence as to a rooms look but also yielded several paper records, pictures, newspapers that were kept underneath. If not touched by water damage, these artifacts were in good condition since they were stored flat and were not in direct sunlight or airflow. All of the objects, including the carpeting were needed to be removed in 2012 as a geothermal climate control system will be installed in 2013. The system will be hidden from the visitors experience and will be as minimally invasive as possible, using the chimneys as well as the attic and cellar to house critical units.</p><br>
<h3>Mound</h3><br>
<p>Behind and to the west of the farmhouse is an Indian Burial Mound. It appears that the Cockayne family protected the mound over the years; however at some point the land it occupies was sold. In 2005 the mound was acquired by the Cockayne Farm Preservation Project to preserve this Native American mound for future educational programs. Archaeological studies have shown that the mound is similar to other mounds in the area. There are no plans to perform any archeological work that would disturb any objects that are buried within.</p><br>
<h2>Education</h2><br>
<p>Since the start of the Cockayne Farm Preservation Project, education has been vitally important. The leadership of the preservation project has been able to form strategic alliances with West Virginia University, Wheeling Jesuit University, Belmont Technical College, and John Marshall High School. These partnerships have allowed the Project to gain materials and expertise at little cost while providing students with hands-on experience. John Marshall High School, which is situated across from the farmstead, has had multiple projects that has furthered the mission of the Preservation Project. Initially the advanced art class donated art work to be sold to benefit the Cockayne Farm Project while an AP English class project designed a brochure. For the past few years the FFA club has designed, planted, and maintained a series of raised beds on the farm. Produce grown on site is then used at the high school. Long term plans for the Cockayne Farm Preservation Project include a large educational component that will foster learning projects between schools and the farm as well as educational opportunities for people of all ages.</p><br>
<p>West Virginia University has had several interns assist with material culture projects in the Public History/Cultural Resource Management programs. The farm has also been a site used by the Interior Design department, as they were able to scan and create 3D models of the interior and objects for future study. Technology was also the focus for the Landscape Architecture Department when a 3D computerized model was created for a future landscape plan. (See external link below to view 3D LiDAR animation of the site) A curriculum and instructional design class from Wheeling Jesuit University used the farmstead as a basis to construct a series of four lessons that could be used with different age groups and meet the WV Department of Education standards. Lastly, a class from the Building Preservation and Restoration Program at Belmont Technical College were able to have a hands-on learning experience through the restoration of the outbuilding behind the house. The experience allowed students to practice what they have learned in real conditions. Among these real conditions was the reality that some of the structure was significantly more damaged that first thought.</p><br>
<p>The Reamer Barn is a historic barn near the village of Oberlin in the northeastern part of the USA state of Ohio. Constructed at the end of the nineteenth century, it was built to house a gentleman farmer&#39;s cattle herd, and it has been named a historic site because of its distinctive architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Property history</h2><br>
<p>Born in nineteenth-century Pennsylvania, Daniel P. Reamer moved to northeastern Ohio and established general stores in Oberlin and the nearby village of Wellington. He left the region in 1872 and settled in Leavenworth, Kansas, where he became a successful door-to-door seller of furniture to businesses and government offices, working for the A.H. Andrews Furniture Company. His standing within the company was high enough that he was seemingly able to get his nephew Robert a job with the firm, but within a few years he decided to return to Ohio. He accomplished this goal in the late 1870s, and twenty years after settling back into Oberlin, he chose to purchase a small herd of Jersey cattle and arranged for the construction of a new barn to house them. Rather than building a simple vernacular structure for his cattle, he obtained the services of an architect: his nephew Daniel A. Reamer, who produced a Swiss-influenced Gothic Revival design. Constructed on the foundation of an earlier structure completed in 1837, the new barn served Reamer for three years until his 1900 death. Reamers former neighbors across the road, the Dudley family, purchased his property in 1907, which they proceeded to operate as a dairy farm into the 1950s. Later owners have not continued the barns original use; by the 1970s, it was used only for storage.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>An Art Nouveau structure built with weatherboarded walls, the Reamer Barn is topped with three distinctive ventilators on the gabled roofline. Other significant elements of the design include the rounded panels partway up the sides, and an ornamental bargeboard that extends 3 ft out from the northern end of the building. These elements won the barn attention soon after its construction, both because of their practical benefits and because of their rarity as architectural styling on a farm building.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>Although it had been converted into storage, a historic preservation survey of New Russia Township conducted in the late 20th century deemed the Reamer Barn one of the township&#39;s most significant buildings. As such, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in early 1979 because of its architecture. It is one of twelve National Register-listed locations in and around Oberlin.</p><br>
<p>Biddeford Main Street Historic District is an historic district in downtown Biddeford, Maine. It encompasses the heart of the city&#39;s civic and commercial business district, extending along Main and Water Streets between Pike and Elm Streets, extending for short distances along several side streets. It is noted for its collection of late 19th and early 20th century commercial brick and masonry architecture. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The city of Biddeford is located on the south bank of the Saco River on the coast of southern Maine. Its central business district is located inland, opposite that of the city of Saco, which lies to the north. The two cities developed around this area due to its ideal location for textile mills, which, on the Biddeford side, are located just between what is now Main Street and the river. This development began in a significant way in the 1840s, and the Main Street area was developed over the next century, mirroring the rise and fall of the mill industry.</p><br>
<p>Buildings in the district were built to serve the residential and economic needs of the mills and their workers. Early buildings combined these functions, providing living spaces above retail storefronts. The oldest surviving building in the district, the Thatcher Hotel, was built in 1846 as a hotel; it is a three-story Greek Revival brick building. Most of the districts buildings are between 2 and 4 floors in height, and are in a diversity of architectural styles. Stylistically notable buildings include the 1924 Egyptian Revival Paquin Building (5 Washington Street), and the 1926 Palace Diner (15 Franklin Street). The districts civic focus is on City Hall, a combination civic and performing arts space housing the City Theater; the building was designed by Portland architect John Calvin Stevens and completed in 1896. It is individually listed on the National Register, as are the Dudley Block on Water Street, and the post office building at 35 Washington.</p><br>
<p>The Alfred Historic District is an historic district encompassing the historic village center of Alfred, Maine. The roughly Y-shaped district radiates from the junction of Oak Street with Kennebunk, Waterboro, and Saco Roads, and is characterized by high-quality 19th-century wood frame buildings. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Alfred was settled in the 1760s and incorporated in 1794. The oldest surviving buildings in the village date to this time, although most of them have alterations giving them a 19th-century appearance. One example of this is the c. 1770 "Barn Knight&#39;s Barn" house, which dates to this period but has later Italianate styling applied. Alfred was named the county seat of York County in the early 19th century, stimulating a period of growth. The village was where a number of prominent lawyers made their homes, due to its proximity to the county courthouse. The most famous of these was John Holmes, who arrived in 1794 and was influential in the seclection of Alfred as the county seat. His house was built in 1802 as a Cape, and raised to a full two stories in 1812; it is known as the "bow and arrow" house for some of its decorative elements, and is separately listed on the National Register for its association with Holmes.</p><br>
<p>Much of the building stock of Alfred Village was built in the early to mid-19th century, and is reflective of the styles popular then. There are a significant number of Federal style houses, although some, like the 1826 Daniel Goodenow House, have later stylistic alterations. The Alfred Parish Church built in 1834, is a fine example of Greek Revival styling. Most of the civic buildings in the district date from the mid-19th century or later, including the Italianate Town Hall (1862), fire station (c. 1911, but Late Victorian in style), and the Old County Jail (1871, designed by Gridley James Fox Bryant). The York County Courthouse has elements dating all the way back to its original construction in 1807, with Italianate wings added in 1856. It was damaged by fire in 1933 and rebuilt, and has a generally Colonial Revival appearance. The village&#39;s most prominent commercial establishment, the Alfred Country Store, is in a c. 1841 building that was Greek Revival when built, but has also seen subsequent stylistic alterations.</p><br>
<p>Alfred Shaker Historic District is a historic district in Alfred, Maine, with properties on both sides of Shaker Hill Road. The area had its first Shaker "believers" in 1783 following visiting with Mother Ann Lee and became an official community starting in 1793 when a meetinghouse was built. It was home to Maine&#39;s oldest and largest Shaker community. Two notable events were the songwriting of Joseph Brackett, including Simple Gifts, and the spiritual healing of the sick by the Shakers. When the Alfred Shakers products and goods were no longer competitive with mass-produced products and the membership had dwindled significantly, the village was closed in 1931 and members moved to Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, also in Maine.</p><br>
<p>In memory of the influence that the Shaker village had on the community, the Shaker Village Museum was founded by the Friends of the Alfred Shaker Museum and in 2001 the village, or historic district, was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In 1931 the farmland, village and buildings were acquired by the Brothers of Christian Instruction, now called the Notre Dame Spiritual Center.</p><br>
<h2>Shaker village</h2><br>
<h3>History</h3><br>
<p>John Cotton, having been inspired by Mother Ann Lee on May 26, 1783, became Maine&#39;s first Shaker member. That year members of the Shaker Church settled on the hill near Massabesic (now Shaker) Pond. Others dubbed them the "Merry Dancers," because of their ecstatic worship. "They were," as historian George J. Varney writes, "at this time fanatical in religion and intemperate in their indulgences."</p><br>
<p>The Shaker village was formally organized in 1793 when a meetinghouse was built. The community practiced the religions celibate communal living, with equality among the sexes and races. They built plain architecture and furniture, honest expressions of their faith. At the movements height in the 1840s, Shakers operated 19 utopian communities scattered from Maine to Kentucky, and as far west as Indiana.</p><br>
<p>Hundreds of people lived at the 300-acre Shaker village on both sides of Shaker Hill Road, which included a school, gardens, orchards, a grist and saw mill, farm land, barns, a dairy and shops. They made brooms, brushes, woven cloth, woodenware, spinning wheels, horsehair sieves, oval carriers and fancy goods. They reaped seeds and herbs and made herbal medicines. Key intentions among the Shakers were to live a simple life in harmony, respect nature, and produce well-made or cared for agricultural or material products.</p><br>
<p>The community consisted mainly of devoted women and the membership dwindled as members died. In 1920, a revival was led by Harriet Coolbroth and Mary Ann Walker to bolster the number of members, which resulted in a fervant community for several years.</p><br>
<p>In March 1931 The Alfred Shaker Historic District is preserved and listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2001. Only Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester survives under the control of the last few Shakers. Some former communities operate today as museums because, like Alfred Shaker Village, they closed when the congregation dwindled.</p><br>
<h3>Alfred Shaker Museum</h3><br>
<p>The Alfred Shaker Museum, located in a gatehouse of the previous Shaker village, was founded by local residents who had organized the Friends of Alfred Shaker Museum to preserve the Shaker heritage within the community. Within the renovated Carriage House is a library, shop and the museum that conducts periodic craft workshops, events and exhibits.</p><br>
<h2>Brothers of Christian Instruction</h2><br>
<p>In 1931, the Alfred property was sold to the Brothers of Christian Instruction, and is called the Notre Dame Spiritual Center. They have managed the farm and occupied the village buildings. Although the Shakers are gone, some of their apple orchards and blueberry fields are still yielding fruit, the sale of which helps support the York County Shelter.</p><br>
<p>The District No. 5 School, also known as the Alfred Gore School, is an historic one room school at 781 Gore Road in Alfred, Maine. Built in 1872, it was used as a school until 1921, and was restored to its appearance of that time in the 2000s. It is the best-preserved of Alfred&#39;s surviving district school buildings, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 4, 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The District No. 5 School is located on the east side of Gore Road, a short way north of the rural village of North Alfred, and south of the road&#39;s junction with Avery Road. Set near the back of a grassy area surrounded by woods, it is a small wood-frame structure with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. An open belfry, with four posts, a low balustrade, and decorative brackets, rises above the ridge of the roof, and is capped by a flared pyramidal roof. The front (west-facing) facade is three bays wide, with a pair of entrances on either side of a sash window. There is a small brick chimney at the rear, where a shed-roof addition extends to the east. The entrances lead into small vestibules, which provide access to the classroom. The walls and ceiling are finished in bead board, and the floor is random-width pine.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1872, on a site that has had a school since at least 1856. The belfry was added in 1900 after school students raised $12 to purchase a bell from Sears, Roebuck. The school was closed in 1921 due to declining enrollments and a failure to meet new state standards for heating and sanitation. In the 1920s and 1930s the building was leased for use as a residence, and it was afterward used as a community center. IN 1965 the rear addition, housing kitchen facilities, was added. In 2003 the building was formally turned over to the town by the district, and it has since been restored to its c. 1921 appearance.</p><br>
<p>The Lord-Dane House is an historic house at Federal and Gore Streets in Alfred, York County, Maine. Built in about 1903 as a country retreat for a ship&#39;s captain, it is a high-quality example of Federal architecture in a rural context. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Lord-Dane House is set at the northwest corner of Federal and Gore Streets, a few miles north of Alfreds village center. Federal Street was, at the time of the houses construction, the primary road from the village to the northern reaches of the geographically large municipality. The house is a rambling two story L-shaped wood frame structure, with a main block connected via ells to a former storehouse and carriage barn, which are now fully integrated into the structure. The main block has a hip roof, central chimney, and clapboard siding. There are major entrances on both the south and east-facing facades of the main block. Extending west from the main block is a gable-roof ell, which joins a similar ell at right angles. That ell extends south to connect to the carriage barn, whose door bays have been replaced by false fronts resembling doors. Portions of the house&#39;s exterior exhibit 19th-century stylistic alterations, including Greek Revival and Italianate elements.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1803 by Tobias Lord, a wealthy ship&#39;s captain and merchant operating out of Kennebunk. His second wife, Hepzibah Conant, whom he married in 1781, was an Alfred native, and the couple moved to Alfred after building this house. He died in 1808, she in 1816, and it was sold out of the family in 1821 by their heirs. Its most notable 19th-century resident was Nathan Dane, a lumber merchant and banker who also served in the state senate and as state treasurer in the 1860s. Dane lived here from 1830 to 1868.</p><br>
<p>The James Montgomery Flagg House is an historic house on St. Martins Lane in the Biddeford Pool area of Biddeford, York County, Maine. It was built in 1910 as the summer home of James Montgomery Flagg, a New York-based artist and illustrator known for political cartoons and the iconic World War I recruiting poster depicting Uncle Sam. The house is decorated with murals painted by Flagg, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2013, its owner, citing the buildings deteriorated condition, received approval to demolish and rebuild the house, preserving Flagg&#39;s murals.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Flagg House is located on the north side of Biddeford Pool, a peninsula jutting into the Gulf of Maine south of the mouth of the Saco River. It is one of a cluster of houses located at the northern end of St. Martin&#39;s Lane, a private lane bisecting a golf course. It is a 1-1/2 wood frame bungalow, with a side-facing gable roof, twin chimneys, and a stuccoed exterior. The main facade is oriented to the south, away from the sea, and is seven bays wide with center entry. The roof above has two shed-roof dormers. The north (seaward) facade is similar, although it has a single wide dormer in the roof. Single-story wings extend the building to either side.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1910 for James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960), and it was his summer retreat until 1940. He painted wall murals of Maine landscapes and coastal seascapes throughout its first floor. In 2013, the Biddeford Historic Preservation Commission approved the demolition of the house. The owner has promised to preserve the murals.</p><br>
<p>The John Tarr House is an historic house at 29 Ferry Lane in Biddeford, Maine. Built about 1730, it is one of the oldest houses in the state of Maine, with a well-preserved interior that has unusual features. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The John Tarr House stands facing east toward the Saco River at the end of Ferry Lane, roughly midway between downtown Biddeford and the Biddeford Pool area at the river mouth. It is a 1-1/2 story Cape style timber frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, large central chimney, and clapboard siding. The original front entrance is in the center of the east facade, with a secondary entrance (probably a 19th or 20th-century addition) on the south side. The rear facade, facing the street, has five windows. A 1-1/2 story ell extends to the north.</p><br>
<p>The house is estimated to have been built about 1730, making it one of Maine&#39;s oldest surviving structures. In addition to its great age, its significance lies in the original condition of its interior. This includes complete original wall paneling in the parlor spaces, and an unusually finished kitchen space in the rear. The kitchen features completely wainscoted walls and ceiling, something that is only known from two other chambers from New England (one is now in a museum in Concord, Massachusetts, and the other is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City). The wainscoting panels are hand-planed.</p><br>
<p>Lake Parker is an oval-shaped natural freshwater lake 2 mi west of Lake Wales, Florida. It has a 134 acre surface area and it in a rural area. On its north and northeast is pastureland, on its northwest is a citrus grove and on its west are small farms. On its southwest are a row of residences along Albritton Way. Old Bartow Road passes to Lake Parker&#39;s immediate south and on its southeast is a large cleared area with a gated road where a gated community was planned, but never built.</p><br>
<p>There is public access along Old Bartow Road. Most of this area is heavily wooded. In a break in the woods on the southwest is an unpaved and apparently unofficial boat ramp. The lake has no public swimming areas. The Hook and Bullet website says River Lake contains largemouth bass.</p><br>
<p>The Isabella Breckinridge House also known as River House, and formerly the Breckinridge Public Affairs Center of Bowdoin College, is an historic house at 201 US Route 1 in York, Maine, United States. The main house, designed by architect Guy Lowell, is a 23-room mansion which was built in 1905 for Mary Goodrich, widow of tire magnate B. F. Goodrich. It is located on a 26 acre estate facing the York River. The property was given to Bowdoin College by Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson in 1974, and the college operated it as a conference center until it was sold into private hands in 2004. It is one of Maine&#39;s most architecturally distinctive and unusual early 20th-century summer estate houses.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Breckinridge House is located on the south side of US Route 1, just north of its crossing of the York River. It is set overlooking the river, and is screened from the road by woods. The house is a large 2-1/2 story painted brick structure that is roughly H-shaped, with a central block flanked by projecting wings. The main block has a hip roof with Dutch gables at the sides, while the wings, two stories in height, have flat roofs. The main facade is five bays wide, with a central entrance sheltered by a concave-roofed portico with wrought iron supports. Three gable-roofed dormers pierce the roof. The rear of the house, facing the river, is essentially identical. The river-facing elements of the wings have tall Colonial Revival round-arch windows. The interior of the house has Mediterranean styling, including stuccoed walls and wrought iron railings for the main staircase.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by the noted Boston architect Guy Lowell, and was built in 1905. The original construction had a mansard roof on the central block. After the house was gutted by fire in the mid-1920s, the house was reconstructed to its present configuration; it is not known if Lowell did the design work for the repairs, which were completed in 1927, the year of his death. The house was built for Isabella Goodrich Breckinridge, the daughter of tire magnate B. F. Goodrich, and the wife of John Cabell Breckinridge III, the son of Kentucky politician John C. Breckinridge. Her descendant, philanthropist Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, gave the property to Bowdoin College in 1974. Bowdoin operated it as a conference center until 2004, when it was sold into private hands.</p><br>
<p>The pool house, one of several outbuildings on the estate, suffered $50,000 in fire damage in 2011.</p><br>
