<p>Bloods Range  is a mountain range in central Australia, stretching roughly east to west across the border between the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It consists of several sets of hills, separated by valleys; the two main valleys are formed by the Hull and Docker Rivers. There are numerous ravines and gorges all throughout the hills. Bloods Range connects with the Petermann Ranges at its western end. In the centre are Mounts Harris  and Carruthers , which are the highest peaks. Further east, the range splits into several branches, including the Rowley Range, McNichol&#39;s Range and the Pinyinna Range.</p><br>
<p>Bloods Range was given its name on 14 March 1874 by the explorer Ernest Giles, when he sighted it from the top of Mount Curdie. He named it for his friend John Henry Smyth-Blood (died 1890) of Beltana, owner of an early pastoral station and pioneer on the OT line. On 12 June 1889, Giles&#39; second-in-command, William Tietkens, returned on his own expedition and surveyed the range. He named the two highest peaks Mount Harris (for surveyor C. H. Harris) and Mount Carruthers. From the top of Mount Harris, he recorded that in the distance could be seen Kata Tjuṯa, the Petermann Ranges and the Tomkinson Ranges. It was later found that Mount Harris had been previously named Mount Unapproachable by Giles.</p><br>
<p>The Twin Lakes of Lake Wales, Florida, are two small natural freshwater lakes on the south side of the city. Sometimes they are simply called Twin Lakes, but sometimes they are individually called Twin Lake West and Twin Lake East. All shores of Twin Lake West are swampy, as is the area between the two lakes. The west shore of Twin Lake East is swampy. The west lake, the larger of the two, has a water area of 18.76 acre. The water area of the east lake is 15.19 acre.</p><br>
<p>The eastern shore of Twin Lake East is South 1st Street, which is the western edge of South Gate Shopping Center. As this shore is completely straight, it probably was filled somewhat to allow the construction of the street. On the northeast this lake is bordered by Highway 60, on the northwest by trees, on the west by swampy ground and on the south by single and multiple-family housing.</p><br>
<p>Twin Lake West is bordered on the north by West Polk Avenue, which is on the south side of Highway 60 and the Midflorida Credit Union. All the lake&#39;s shore is swampy, although the north side is the least so. All other sides of this lake are surrounded by wide swamps.</p><br>
<p>There are no swimming areas or public boat ramps on the shores of either lake, although each has one private boat dock. Twin Lake East can be reached by the public along the right-of-way on the sides of Highway 60 and South 1st Street. There is no public access to Twin Lake West. The Hook and Bullet website says these lakes contain largemouth bass, bluegill and crappie.</p><br>
<p>The A.E. Larson Building is a prominent Art Deco office building in Yakima, Washington, built in 1931. When it was built the eleven-story brick structure was by far the tallest building in Yakima, an otherwise low-lying town. It was built by entrepreneur Alfred E. Larson and designed by local architect John W. Maloney.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The A.E. Larson Building is 188 ft tall to the top of its flagpole, and is 130 ft by 65 ft in plan. It is eleven stories tall, with retail shops on the ground floor, together with the main lobby. The building is clad in salmon-colored brick and terra cotta. The ground level is faced with stone with Art Deco bronze accents. The building rises straight from this base to the tenth floor, where it steps back, with deeper setbacks on the eleventh floor. The lobby is richly detailed in stone and bronze.\ with elaborate bronze surrounds at the three elevator entrances. The building&#39;s original windows are a unique vertically-hinged steel casement that allows cleaning from inside.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Alfred E. Larson was born in Minnesota, arriving in Washington in 1884, where he worked in lumber camps. He came to Yakima in 1891 to buy a lumberyard. A successful businessman, he bought real estate, involved himself in politics and promoted local business. Despite the Great Depression, Larson committed $600,000 of his own funds to build the A.E. Larson Building in 1931, benefiting from reduced construction costs. He hired John W. Maloney, a Yakima architect, to design his building, and the Hans Pederson Construction Company to build it. The new tower replaced a bank building on the site. Larson died in 1934, and Maloney moved to Seattle in 1946.</p><br>
<p>The A.E. Larson Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 11, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Somerset Hotel is a historic hotel building located at 1152-1154 S. Wabash Ave. in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1892&ndash;93, the hotel was originally owned by physician Frank Stringfield. Architect Jules De Horvath designed the hotel in the Romanesque Revival style. De Horvath&#39;s design bore similarities to many other Chicago buildings, most notably the 1888 Virginia Hotel at Ohio and Rush Streets. The Somerset Hotel was a significant part of a hotel and commercial district which formed between the 12th Street station on the South Side Elevated Railroad and Central Station. The hotel changed its name to the Mayer Hotel in 1910; in the 1920s, it again changed its name to the Hotel Roosevelt, which it was called until the 1990s.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 3, 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Indian Canyon Ranger Station in the Duchesne Ranger District, Ashley National Forest in Duchesne County, Utah near Duchesne was built in 1914. It was a work of the USA Forest Service and is a wood-framed guard station. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1999; the listing included two contributing buildings and two contributing structures.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant as "an extant reminder of the early days of the Forest Service in Utah", when rangers were needed to monitor the remote lands. The station is the oldest surviving from the original Uinta National Forest (which included its area until 1954), and one of the oldest surviving in the Ashley National Forest that was "built specifically by the Forest Service to house a ranger."</p><br>
<p>It was built before standardized architectural plans were developed for USA Forest Service buildings, and is "unique in its architecture, with no other similar Forest Service buildings existing in Northern Utah."</p><br>
<p>Wheatland is a historic plantation home located near Loretto, Essex County, Virginia. It was built between 1849 and 1851, and is a two-story, five-bay, frame dwelling with a hipped roof in the Greek Revival style. It has a double-pile central hall plan, and features two-story porches on the primcipal facades. A simple one-story gable-roofed frame wing contains a kitchen. The property includes a contributing wharf , smokehouse and kitchen.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was constructed by John Saunders, between 1849 and 1851. Saunders, who was a merchant as well as a planter, built the plantation wharf that is still in use. This wharf is one of the only surviving steamboat wharves left today, and is the only such wharf remaining on the Rappahannock River. During his ownership and that of his son Walton Saunders, the plantation wharf was a locus of river transportation and commerce for Essex County and nearby communities.</p><br>
<p>Although the original wharf was burned down in the year 1900, the structure was rebuilt in 1901 and is still being utilized today. From the middle of the nineteenth century until September 11, 1937—for almost a century—steamboats plied the waters between Fredericksburg, Tidewater Virginia, and Baltimore, and Saunders wharf at Wheatland was a regular stop for passengers and freight. Improvements in highway and railroad transportation finally put an end to this traffic that had enabled the plantation to survive intact during the Reconstruction Era.</p><br>
<p>The plantation itself was spared during the Civil War. Several Union gunboats passed by the house during the course of the war, but not until 1864 was it threatened. A Union gunboat commander "came up to the house and ordered Mr. Saunders to evacuate the premises because they intended to shell the house. Instead Mr. Saunders gathered together all of the family and servants and they sat defiantly on the front steps." According to family tradition, the commander declined to shell civilians but destroyed a granary instead.</p><br>
<p>In 1866 John Saunders sold this property (which was formally known as Haygins) to his son Robert S. Saunders, who lived in Alabama. Robert sold the property to his brother Walton Saunders in 1869. It was Walton Saunders who named the plantation Wheatland in 1871.</p><br>
<p>I&#39;ve been told by family members that Russel Wilson, quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks, spent some time on the property during his high school days in the mid-2000s.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The main portion of Wheatland, constructed between 1849 and 1851, consists of a two-story, five bay frame residence with a raised brick basement and hipped roof. The building is perfectly symmetrical, with two identical front elevations, one facing the river and the other the road, and a double-pile central hall plan.</p><br>
<p>The entire structure is clad with weatherboards and the roof is covered with standing seam metal. A pair of interior brick chimneys pierce the east and west roof slopes. Two-story porches, embellished with typical Greek Revival pediments and Italianate decorative balustrades, are located on the two principal facades. Windows throughout are six-over-six double-hung with louvered shutters.</p><br>
<p>A simple one-story gable-roofed frame wing is connected on the west elevation. The wing functions primarily as the kitchen. Of frame construction with weatherboard siding and a gable roof covered with asphalt, it is three bays wide, one story in height and has a single room. The structure rests upon a raised brick basement that is interrupted by a pair of double-hung windows on the north and south elevations and a door on the west end. A single bay porch resting on brick piers with a shed roof supported by a pair of square columns with simple caps and bases protects the central entrance and is flanked on either side by a double-hung window. Though a very simple structure, it is detailed with a boxed cornice. An interior brick chimney is located at the west end. The interior has been modified during this century for use as a kitchen. A frame hyphen connects the kitchen to the main portion of the house. Originally supported by brick piers, the hyphen has a continuous foundation due to concrete block infill between the piers.</p><br>
<p>The two principal north and south facades of the mid-nineteenth century portion of Wheatland are identical, as are the east and west end elevations, with the exception that the earlier one-story structure is attached to the west. The massing, plan and overall influence is predominately Greek Revival, however, some of the details are more closely associated with the Italianate style. Originally bracketed hood mouldings, not typically found on Greek Revival buildings, adorned the tops of the first floor windows. The porch balustrade of flat jig-sawn balusters is also not typical the otherwise classically-detailed Greek Revival porch embellished with a dentilled pediment and entablature and square columns with moulded caps and bases.</p><br>
<p>The house rests on a raised brick foundation that is punctuated with windows and doors that correspond with the regular fenestration of the upper two floors. The north wall of the foundation has five windows, the south has a door flanked on either side by two windows, the east has two windows and the west has one window and a door that accesses the basement. of the hyphen. The upper floors of the east elevation has two windows per floor, whereas the west elevation has a door in the place of a window that accesses the attached kitchen wing. Two pair of windows flank the central entrances of the upper floors of the north and south facades. The boxed cornice of the house is very simple and unadorned.</p><br>
<p>The central entrances on the first and second floors of the north and south elevations each access a porch. The double-doored entrances of the first floor consist of two-paneled wood doors with two-light transoms and narrow two-light sidelights with wood panels below. The second floor entrances have a single paneled wood door without transoms and slighter wider four-light double-hung operable sidelights.</p><br>
<p>The two-story porches of the north and south elevations are a dominant feature of the exterior and the most elaborately detailed. Supported on brick piers, the porches have two levels, each of which is supported by two pair of square columns the corners of which are slightly chamfered and the faces of which have a single vertical groove. Single pilasters are similarly detailed. The cornice of the first level has a dentilled cornice and the second level is covered by a pedimented gable roof. While the pediment is embellished with dentils, the cornice of the second level is not. The flat curvilinear slats of the railing are the most decorative feature of the porches.</p><br>
<p>Each of the three floors of Wheatland consists of four principal rooms and a wide central hall. With the exception of the basement which is masonry, floors throughout are of heart pine and the walls are of plaster. The interior is ornamented with details likely ordered by catalog and delivered by water to the wharf, such as the mantels and woodwork. The woodwork for the most part is simple, with some of the chair rail and cornice found in some of the rooms having been added by the present owners. The baseboards are embellished with a simple bead, the door and window surrounds consists of architrave mouldings with bulls-eye cornerblocks and the wood doors have four raised panels.</p><br>
<p>A focal point of the first floor hall is the open straight-run stair leading to the second floor and basement. It is detailed with turned balusters, heavy turned newel and curvilinear stair brackets. The entrance doors on the first floor have square bottom panels and elongated upper panels the tops of which are arched on the exterior. The hall has a chair rail and dentilled cornice. A single period light fixture hangs from the center of a round plaster moulding at the north end of the hall. Wood panels placed diagonally in the corners of the north end of the hall were added to disguise pipes. Two hammock hooks are located in the east and west walls at the north end of the hall.</p><br>
<p>The northeast room on the first floor functions as the parlor. This room has a dentilled cornice and chair rail added by the current owners. A Federal wood mantel is not original to the house. A door to the left of the fireplace leads to the library situated at the southeast corner of the first floor. The finishes in this room are similar, with added cornice and chair rail and bookcases on the east and west walls. The mantel is green and black Vermont slate and is original to the house. It is likely that the original parlor mantel was similar. A closet,is located to the left of the fireplace is an original feature of the room.</p><br>
<p>The office is located at the southwest corner. It too has a Vermont slate mantel, added chair rail and cornice and an original door accessing the dining room to the north. The west wall of this room has two doors, one of which leads to a utility area and the other directly into the hyphen that connects this room to the earlier structure now used as a kitchen.</p><br>
<p>The dining room at the northwest has a stone mantel that has been painted. It is similar to the other two stone mantels found on the first floor but has a more ornate center cartouche supporting a curved shelf.</p><br>
<p>The second floor is less elaborately detailed than the first. The wood trim is simple and is not moulded, though the chair rails are original. Mantels are of wood and are simply detailed with pilasters and shelves. The north end of the hall has been enclosed to accommodate two bathrooms. A ladder propped-up to a small door in the ceiling provides access to the attic. The southeast chamber has no chair rail and a simple mantel flanked on the left by a closet and on the right by book shelves. The northeast chamber has a heavy moulded chair rail and closet. The most elaborate mantel on the second floor is found in the southwest room which is connected to the northwest chamber by a closet passage with shelving. The northwest room has a simple beaded chair rail.</p><br>
<p>The basement plan is similar to the upper two floors. The space is more simply finished than the upstairs, though all of the walls are plastered and the spaces finished with simple woodwork. All but the southwest room have twentieth century wood floors. A battened door of beaded boards is located at the foot of the simple stair. A door at the south end of the hall leads to the area beneath the front porch. The opposite end of the hall has been enclosed and contains a modern kitchen. This area originally had iron bars on the window and a dirt floor. The original function of the northwest room is unknown. The northeast room is identically detailed and likely served as a dining room. The southeast room, which possesses an added bath in the corner, was used as a schoolroom. The southwest room still retains its brick floor, a large fireplace with cooking crane and a door leading to the basement of the hyphen. This room now contains the mechanical equipment for the house.</p><br>
<p>Kondana Caves are located in small village, Kondana, 33 km north of Lonavala and 16 km northwest of Karla Caves. This cave group has 16 Buddhist caves. The caves were excavated in first century B.C. The construction on wooden pattern is notabale. One can reach the cave by descending from Rajmachi village.</p><br>
<p>The cave only one inscription on the front of the Chaitya, which gives information about donors.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>About four miles from the Karjat station, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, and at the base of the old hill fort of Rajmachi, is the Kondane group of caves, first brought to notice in the 19th century by Vishnu Sastri, and soon after visited by Mr. Law, then collector of Thana. They are in the face of a steep scarp, and quite hidden from view by the thick forest in front of them. Water trickles down over the face of the rock above them during a considerable part even of the dry season, and has greatly injured them. So much so indeed that it is now difficult to determine whether they or the caves at Bhaja Caves are the earliest. They must be nearly, if not quite contemporary, and as they must have taken some time to excavate, their dates may overlap to some extent. The Vihara at Kondane certainly looks more modern, while the Chaitya, which is very similar in plan and dimensions to that at Bhaja, is so much ruined that it is impossible now to decide which may have been first completed.</p><br>
<h3>Cabe No1: Chaitya</h3><br>
<p>They face north-west, and the first to the south-west is a Chaitya-cave of very considerable dimensions, being 66.5 feet from the line of the front pillars to the extremity of the apse, 26 feet 8 inches wide, and 28 feet 5 inches high to the crown of the arch. The nave in front of the dagoba is 49 feet in length by 14 feet 8 inches, and the dagoba 9.5 feet in diameter, with a capital of more than usual height, the neck representing the relic casket being, as at Bhaja, of double the ordinary height, and representing two coffers, one</p><br>
<p>above the other, carved on the sides with the Buddhist rail pattern. The fillets that covered this are decayed, as is also the whole of the lower part of the dagoba.</p><br>
<p>The bases with the lower parts of all the thirty columns that surrounded the nave, as well as that of one of the two irregular columns that once ornamented the front, have also decayed, and positions only of most of them can now be ascertained. Between these two latter pillars a wooden screen or front originally filled the opening to a height of about 10 or 12 feet, in which were the doorways leading to the interior and it was fixed to them, as seems to have been the case with all the earlier caves. The Chaitya Cave at Bhaja and that at Kondane had similar fronts constructed in wood. The caves at Bedsa and Karle are apparently among the earliest, where these screens were carved in the rock instead of being erected in the more perishable material.</p><br>
<p>There are still, however, remains of seven pillars on the left side of the cave, and six on the south, which rake inwards, as do also those at Bhaja and Bedsa, a proof of the early</p><br>
<p>date of the work; those behind the dagoba and six near the front on the right side have disappeared entirely. On the upper portion of one column on the left is a symbol or device somewhat resembling a dagoba, with a rude canopy over it. The arched roof has had wooden rafters as at Karle and elsewhere, but they are gone, and the only remains of the woodwork is a portion of the latticed screen in the front arch. The façade bears a strong family likeness to that at Bhaja. On the left side is a fragment of sculpture in high-relief part of the head of a single figure about twice life-size. The features are destroyed, but the details of the headdress show the most careful attention to finish of detail. Over the</p><br>
<p>left shoulder is an inscription in one line in Brahmi characters which reads: Kanvasa antevasina Balakena katam ("Made by Balakena, the pupil of Kanha (Krishna)").</p><br>
<p>Over this head, at the level of the spring of the great arch in the facade, is a broad projecting belt of sculpture: the lower portion of it is carved with the rail pattern; the central portion is divided into seven compartments, filled alternately, three with a lattice pattern and five with human figures, one male in the first, a male and female in each of the third and fifth, and a male with a bow and two females in the seventh. Over these is a band with the representations of the ends of tie-beams or bars projecting through it, and then four fillets, each projecting over the one below, and the upper half of the last serrated. The corresponding belt of carving on the right side of the facade is much damaged by the falling away of the rock at the end next the arch.</p><br>
<h3>Cave No.2: Vihara</h3><br>
<p>A little to north-east is No. II., a Vihara, of which the front of the veranda is totally destroyed except the left end. This verandah was 5 feet 8 inches wide and 18 feet long, with the unique number of five octagon pillars and two antae. In the end of this veranda is a raised recess, and under a Chaitya arch is a small dagoba in half relief, apparently the only object of worship when these caves were excavated. Inside, the hall is 23 feet wide by 29 deep, and 8 feet 3 inches high, with 15 pillars arranged about 3 feet apart and from the side and back walls, but none across the front. The upper portions of these pillars are square, but about 1.5 feet from the top they are octagonal: the bases of all are gone, but they also were probably square.</p><br>
<p>The roof is panelled in imitation of a structural hall with beams 19 inches deep by 8 thick, 3.5 feet apart, running across through the heads of the pillars, and the spaces between divided by smaller false rafters, 5 inches broad by 2 deep. There are three wide doors into the hall, though most of the front</p><br>
<p>wall is broken away, and on each side six cells in all, each with the monk&#39;s bed in it, and the first on each side with two. Over the doors of 14 of these cells are carved Chaitya or horse-shoe arches, connected by a string course projecting 6 or 7 inches and carved with the rail pattern.</p><br>
<h3>Cave No.3</h3><br>
<p>Cave No.3 is a plain Vihara with nine cells, much ruined, especially in front, but it had probably three doors.</p><br>
<h3>Cave No.4</h3><br>
<p>No.4 is a row of nine cells at the back of what now looks like a natural hollow under the cliff. Beyond them is a tank, now filled with mud, then two cells under a deep ledge of over-hanging rock, and, lastly, a small cistern.</p><br>
<p>The Yakima Indian Agency Building, also known as the Mary L. Goodrich Library and the Toppenish Historical Museum, is a building in Toppenish, Washington. It was built in 1921, initially as a one-story building, with a second story added in 1931. It was designed by Yakima architect John W. Maloney in an adapted Classical Revival style for the federal Indian Bureau as the agency&#39;s point of liaison with the Yakama Nation. By 1946 the structure was vacated by the Indian Bureau, and it was sold to the local school district in 1949 and was used as a junior high school until 1954. In 1954 it became a library, to which a museum of local history was added in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Yakima Indian Agency is a two-story brick structure measuring 45 ft to the front and rear and 66 ft along the sides. A 5 ft by 15 ft bay protrudes from the rear elevation. The building features a stringcourse where the original roof rested at the top of the first floor. The corners are marked by brick buttresses extending full height, with tiled skirt roof elements in between. The entry is marked by a small Ionic portico at the top of a flight of stairs. Windows are casement units dividing in the middle on the front and sides, with single swinging sashes to the rear. The first floor windows have arched blind lunettes above with stone keystones. The building rests on an elevated concrete basement. The first floor has an entry hall flanked by large rooms, now used for the library. A stairway extends from the entry hall to the second floor, where six rooms house the museum.</p><br>
<p>The Yakima Indian Agency Building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 19, 1988.</p><br>
<p>Palkonda Hills are a range of hills that form a part of the Eastern Ghats in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Meaning "milk hills", they run along a northwest to southeast direction, culminating at the pilgrimage centre of Tirupati.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The name Palkonda translates into "milk hills", a combination of the Telugu words pāl meaning milk and konda meaning hill. The name is attributed to the presence of pasture grounds in them.</p><br>
<h2>Geographical extent</h2><br>
<p>The Palkonda range has a southeast to northwest orientation and traverse the districts of Anantapur and Cudappah. These hills average 2,000 ft in elevation. The highest point of the range is at Buttaid where it reaches a height of 3,060 ft. A westward extension of the range in Anantapur forms the Seshachalam Hills.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Palkonda hills are relict mountains that can be traced back to the Cambrian period. They have over the course of over 500 million years been eroded by the Penner river and its tributaries. The hills are largely composed of quartzite formations interspersed with lava and slate deposits.</p><br>
<h2>Rivers</h2><br>
<p>The Punchu and Cheyyeru are important rivers of this region and, along with the Chitravati and Papagni rivers, form a series of river basins that marks the middle course of the Penner river of which they are tributaries. There are several streams between the Palkonda and its parallel range Velikonda that have been dammed to irrigate the valleys between the ranges. Jowar and groundnut are the principal crops cultivated here.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>There are teak forests in these hills and it is also a habitat of the highly endangered Jerdon&#39;s courser.</p><br>
<h2>Human habitations</h2><br>
<p>The sacred hill of Tirumala and temple town of Tirupati lies at the southeastern end of the Palkonda range. The Mumbai-Chennai railway line is an important transport artery that runs parallel to the hills through Gooty and Renigunta.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Allen was a hotel in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was demolished in 1956.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Origins</h3><br>
<p>The northeast corner of Center Square (Seventh and Hamilton Streets) in Allentown was the site of several inns and hotels since its founding in 1762. Sometime in 1762 a man named George Wolf established at the corner of Hamilton and Allen (as Seventh Street was then called) an inn. By doing that he became the first known operator of what they called then, “a house of entertainment for man and beast” in little Northampton town. The name of the inn, not recorded until 1773, was the King of Prussia. Reportedly, the inn&#39;s sign featured an image that was supposed to represent Frederick the Great, the military monarch who was then occupying the Prussian throne.</p><br>
<p>Wolf left Allentown in 1768 and his inn passed to other hands. Because of its central location it became a focal point of activity.</p><br>
<p>The inn got a face lift and new lease on life under the name of Allen House, which was adopted about 1859. By the late 1870s, with the arrival of stagecoach lines and railroads bringing more guests than ever, the wooden Allen House hotel was falling apart. It was replaced by a six-story brick and steel hotel, the Hotel Allen. Built in the Victorian Style, it was designed to be the grand hotel of the city. Opened in 1882, the six-story, 150 room building’s graceful form defined the northeast corner of Center Square.</p><br>
<h3>Victorian Era</h3><br>
<p>The Allen Hotels first floor included a large lobby with a luxurious sitting room. All rooms also had electric lighting, and some rooms even had private baths. Also several retail stores, including the Koch and Shankweiler mens clothing store were located. An observation tower, located on the seventh floor, offered a panoramic view of the city. During the 1890s, it was connected to both the Lehigh and Consolidated phone systems, the region&#39;s two phone companies.</p><br>
<p>The hotel became a landmark in Allentown, hosting businessmen, wealthy travelers, political figures and other important guests to the city. Located in the heart of the Central Business district, it was a stop on the new electric street railway when it opened in 1892, bringing visitors to the city directly from the Lehigh Valley Railroad Station at Third and Hamilton streets. Among those entertained here before speaking engagements at the Lyric Theater (now Miller Symphony Hall) were presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson. Roosevelt even spoke in 1914 to a cheering crowd from its balcony. The Hotel Allen’s food was considered the best in the city and during the summer an orchestra performed regularly on what was called its “rustic porch garden.”.</p><br>
<h3>Jazz Age</h3><br>
<p>After World War I, the level of accommodations in Allentown was on the mind of city leadership. Allentown was growing rapidly due to industrialization and its leading hotels, such as the Allen, as well as the Lafyette and American were deemed as outdated due to their wooden construction. The Hotel Hamilton, next to the Lehigh County Courthouse had burned down in a massive fire in 1919. In 1921 the Hotel Bethlehem had opened and in 1924 the Hotel Easton, both concrete and brick structures. Allentowns city fathers said, that the regions largest city lacked a modern fireproof building like its rivals. Unfortunately it took a tragic, deadly fire for the city to finally get one with the Lafyette Hotel fire in 1926 The opening of the Americus Hotel in 1927 severely affected the Hotel Allen, with the new, larger and modern Americus attracting many of the visitors to Allentown that previously used the Allen.</p><br>
<h3>Decline</h3><br>
<p>The Great Depression and World War II also fueled the decline of the hotel and its finances. The hotel was used extensively during World War II but in the postwar era, it was clear that it had become outdated, and the property was condemned in 1947. The owners at the time, the Koch Brothers who operated a clothing store on the ground floor, renovated the property, modernized the basement and removed its upper stories, leaving the hotel with the ground floor and two upper stories. However despite the economic boom of the postwar era, the aging hotel closed its doors in 1954.</p><br>
<p>The First National Bank, then located adjacent to the hotel at 13 North Seventh Street purchased the property in 1955. Plans were made to demolish the 70-year-old hotel which began in the spring of 1956. A new First National Bank building in the modified Art Moderne style opened in 1958 and was enlarged in the early 1970s. After a series of bank mergers the First National Bank closed its doors in the early 1990s and the property was vacant for about fifteen years. The First National Bank building was itself demolished in 2012, and is now the site of the new Two City Center office complex, currently under construction with a planned 2014 opening date.</p><br>
<p>St. Marys Church is an historic Catholic church in the eastern United States, at Fairfax Station, Virginia, a suburb southwest of Washington, D.C. Built in 1858, it is a rectangular, one-story, gable-front, frame structure in the Gothic Revival style. It has a steeple at the entrance and a large Gothic arched window over the entrance door. St. Marys was the first Catholic church built within Fairfax County, and its early parishioners were primarily Irish immigrants employed by the Orange and Alexandria Railroad.</p><br>
<p>During the Civil War, wounded were brought here by train to be treated and evacuated to Alexandria and Washington after the Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) in late August 1862. Volunteer Clara Barton, an employee of the USA Patent Office in Washington, tended to the wounded and made this church her headquarters; she later founded the American Red Cross in 1881.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s gained a listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. and is one of the oldest celebrations in the county.</p><br>
<p>Herndon Historic District is a national historic district located at Herndon, Fairfax County, Virginia. It encompasses 173 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Herndon. They include 104 houses, 20 commercial buildings, 6 institutional buildings, 4 industrial buildings, 30 garages, 8 barns, the pumphouse, the gas generating building, the water tower and the town square. Most of the buildings were constructed between 1890 and 1920. Notable buildings include the Town Hall , Nachmans Department Store, National Bank of Herndon , 5 and Dime Cafe , Sanitary Grocery Store, Loudoun Hall or</p><br>
<p>the Paine House, Benjamin Detweiler House (1890), and the Bicksler House. Located in the district is the separately listed Herndon Depot.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Compass High School is the former Grandview High School in Grandview, Washington, built in the moderne style in 1937 using Works Progress Administration funding.The school was designed by Yakima architect John W. Maloney.</p><br>
<p>The school is two stories along the street elevation, with a flat-roofed brick facade accented by horizontal recessed brick courses. The main entry is a recessed by extending to the line of the second floor window heads, ornamented with six small relief sculptures above in the brickwork. Glass block lines the inset bay. An arched gymnasium extends to the rear.</p><br>
<p>Grandview High School has since relocated to a newer facility three blocks away. The former Grandview High School is now Compass High School, an alternative school established in 1994. The old school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 17, 1987.</p><br>
<p>Delaplane Historic District is a national historic district located at Delaplane, Fauquier County, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>The rural village of Delaplane was founded in 1852 around the Piedmont Station of the newly chartered Manassas Gap Railroad (originally to link the Alexandria and Orange Railroad with the line running into the Shenandoah valley at Manassas; still operated by the Norfolk Southern Railroad). The railroad built a station, a warehouse and a store, and a town grew, as with the adjacent stops at Marshall and The Plains. As Delaplane prospered, the previously prosperous town of Paris on the Dumfries-Winchester Road (Virginia Route 17), lagged. The town&#39;s name was changed in 1874 to honor its postmaster and owner of the general store, Washington E. Delapane.</p><br>
<p>The historic district today looks much like in 1861, when troops embarked en route to the First Battle of Bull Run, although that conflict (and troop movements of Union and Confederate Forces, including Mosbys Rangers) devastated the area. The surrounding area is part of the Commonwealth of Virginias Mosby Heritage area, the first such heritage area and designated in order to draw attention to the historic, natural and cultural resources in this section of Northern Virginia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. It is included (in the larger Crooked Run Valley Rural Historic District (at its southern end) also designated that year.</p><br>
<p>It includes 24 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites in Delaplane. Several residential and commercial buildings date from the mid-191h century; other dwellings and business date from the late-19th- and ear1y-20th century dwellings and some commercial structures. Notable buildings include two vernacular Greek Revival style, two-story, brick structures that were used as stores, stations, and warehouses (1852); Rogers Depot; the Delaplane House (c. 1852); the old Shackletts Mill (c. 1910); the old Delaplane Store (Turner Seatons Store and Shackletts store) that now houses the post office; and the McDonald House. The Westminster Presbyterian Church (now converted into a home) lies in this historic district, but the current town&#39;s two historic churches both lie slightly outside the limits of this historic district, although within the Crooked Run Valley historic district: Emmanuel Episcopal Church (Delaplane) (on Route 17; founded 1850 and used as a hospital by both Union and Confederate troops) and Pleasant Vale Baptist Church (at the intersection of route 724 and 826, built 1845).</p><br>
<p>Markham Historic District is a national historic district located at Markham, Fauquier County, Virginia. It encompasses 44 contributing buildings and 4 contributing sites in the rural villages of Farrowsville and Markham. The majority of resources in the district were constructed in the mid- and late 19th century</p><br>
<p>and include multiple dwellings, a hotel, as well as commercial buildings, and a train station. The</p><br>
<p>district also contains early-20th-century dwellings. Notable buildings include Mountain View (c. 1811), Wolfs Crag (c. 1820), Rosebank (c. 1870), Markham School (1918), the 1819 stone Upper Goose Creek Church, and the former Markham Freight Station (c. 1900).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Bent County High School, in Bent County, Colorado at 1214 Ambassador Thompson Blvd in Las Animas, is a historic school that was built in 1913 or 1914. It has been deemed notable for association with former USA Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson , Ken Curtis , and author James Michener’s wife, Mari  Michener, all of whom attended the school, as well as for "its imposing, three-story, massive-columned architecture". It was designed by Swedish architect James Larson. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The NRHP listing includes what has also been known as Las Animas Middle School and as Las Animas Junior High School. The property includes Classical Revival, and Moderne architecture. The listing includes two contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The property was identified by Colorado Preservation, Inc., in 2004 as being one of the most endangered historic places in the state. As of October, 2009, the school building had then been empty for 10 years but was in good condition. Plans were then being discussed by the school board to renovate and re-use part of the property, the Works Progress Administration addition to the building, but in that plan the 1914 Classical Revival portion was slated for demolition. In 2013 the posted status for the site was "Alert".</p><br>
<p>It is shown as an NRHP-listed property by the Colorado Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>Las Animas is currently served by the Las Animas Senior High School, at 300 Grove Ave. in Las Animas, and other schools of the Las Animas School District.</p><br>
<p>Cukang Taneuh, which means Soil bridge in Sundanese, is a canyon located in Pangandaran, West Java, Indonesia. Cukang Taneuh is also well known as Green Canyon. Its famous name Green Canyon may have derived from its green water color and its green surrounding. This place is also one of many travel destinations in Indonesia. Its exact location is in Kertayasa village in Cijulang district, Pangandaran regency, approximately 31 km from Pangandaran beach.</p><br>
<p>This canyon is formed from soil erosion due to million of years Cijulang river flow through caves with stalactites and stalagmites. The river is flanked by two rocky cliffs with exuberant trees above it.To reach the canyon, visitors have to rent a rowboat from the Ciseureuh dock. The boats operate daily from 7.30am to 4.00pm. The journey takes approximately 30-45 minutes along 3 km to get to the Cukang Taneuh entrance. The boat can only go as far as this place. To enter the canyon, visitors must swim and wear life-jacket before explore deeper into the canyon.The shape of the canyon is like the entrance of cave. However, although has a natural shape like the entrance to a cave, it is actually an entrance to an open space inside, where a river flows between two cliff. There is small waterfall at this entrance called Palatar. Several others small waterfalls can be seen falling from the cliffs along the river stream.</p><br>
<p>The operator of this place also offer some other activities for the tourists, which include body rafting, climbing, swimming, boating and fishing. Besides Cukang Taneuh, there are also other tourist destinations near this location, such as Batukaras and Pangandaran beach.</p><br>
<p>The Abasha , also known as the Abashistskali  or Abashatskari  is a river in western Georgia, running for 66 km in the municipalities of Martvili and Abasha, Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region. Its catchment area is 370 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Abasha river begins at the confluence of the mountain streams Rachkhitskali and Toba, near the village of Baldi, at 325 m above sea level, and meets the Tekhuri as its left tributary.</p><br>
<p>The Abasha forms a narrow canyon near the village of Gachedili (Gochkadili), where the Abasha hydroelectric power station was built in 1928. In July 2010, the Ilia State University expedition discovered footprints of the herbivorous dinosaurs as well as ammonites, brachiopods, and sea urchins dating from the Late Cretaceous (100.5–65.5 Ma). In October 2010, the Gachedili canyon was made a protected area by the government of Georgia.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology and history</h2><br>
<p>The legendary etymology of the hydronym "Abasha" is found in the 11th-century History of King Vakhtang Gorgasali, part of the Georgian Chronicles, which, relating the story of the Arab invasion of 735, claims that the flooding river afflicted the "Abash" contingent of the invading army, being subsequently named Abasha after this event. Modern scholars see the hydronym as a compound of the male given name Aba and the adjectival suffix -shi or, alternatively, the Persian-derived word, ab (آب, "water") plus the diminutive -cha.</p><br>
<p>The Abasha traversed one of the principal districts of historical western Georgia. The important medieval church establishment of Chqondidi was located in the Abasha valley. In the 18th and 19th centuries, a southeastern district of the Principality of Mingrelia was sometimes referred to as Abasha after the river.</p><br>
<p>Papagni River is a non-perennial, inter-state river in southern India that flows through the states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. It is a right bank tributary of the Pennar river.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>Pāpāgni is a compound of the words pāpa (meaning sin) and agni (meaning fire). According to legend a king who once killed an innocent tribal chieftain of the Chenchus, who live in this region, was afflicted by leprosy as punishment for his sin. He was supposedly cured of the affliction only after he undertook penance in the Papagni valley and took a dip in the river upon which the river is said to have turned his sins to ashes thus acquiring for itself the name Pāpāgni.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The Papagni originates in the Nandi Hills of Chikkaballapur district in Karnataka. It is a non-perennial river that is rainfed with its basin receiving 60–80 cm of rainfall annually. It traverses through a region of granitic deposits and red soil that is frequently affected by soil erosion. It drains the districts of Kolar in Karnataka and the districts of Chittoor, Anantapur and Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh. The basin covers an area of 8,250 km. and drains 30 mandals of which 21 lie in the Rayalseema region of Andhra Pradesh. It joins the Pennar near Kamalapuram in Andhra Pradesh.</p><br>
<h2>Land use pattern</h2><br>
<p>Although flowing through a largely semi-arid region, wet cultivation including that of paddy and wheat are undertaken along the Papagni&#39;s banks. Black, loamy and red soils are found in the river basin area. 60% of the river basin comprises cultivated, fallow and culturable wastelands while another 15% is under forests. The forests here are mostly dry deciduous forests, thorn forests and scrub. The yellow-throated bulbul, starred tortoise, red sand boa and the Kolar leaf-nosed bat are among the major threatened species of fauna found here.</p><br>
<h2>Environmental issues</h2><br>
<p>The river has faced serious damage in recent years due to various human activities. Unregulated and excessive sand mining in the riverbed has led to falling groundwater levels in the river basin, besides damaging civil structures on and near the river and has led to both a deepening of the riverbed and deterioration in the quality of groundwater. Restoration activities under the Foundation for Ecological Security through community participation towards maintenance of check dams, curbing grazing and felling of trees has however led to a revival of the river leading to rising groundwater levels and an increase in tree cover. The success with the Papagni is now being seen as a possible model for the rejuvenation of the Arkavathy river in Karnataka.</p><br>
<p>The Goodson Memorial School, in Union County, New Mexico near Seneca was built in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration. It has also been known as the Goodson School. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003; the listing included one contributing building, three other contributing structures, and one contributing site.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant as one of few surviving WPA school buildings in northeast New Mexico. The school was a four-room building built at cost of $6,000 which provided construction jobs, and which achieved consolidation of three former rural schools in the Dry Cimarron Valley. It was rural itself and at one point served 50 to 60 students in grades 1-10. It served until the 1960s when busing students to a larger school in Clayton became feasible. It was named for Felix Emmett Goodson, the county commissioner who achieved construction of the school, who was also a rancher; he managed Roberts Ranch, located just to the northeast of the school site; his wife Stella Goodson was a teacher at one of the schools consolidated. The school became a local community center; the community came to be called Goodson; the school was last used for voting in 1962 and has since been empty.</p><br>
<p>Col de Vizzavona  1,163 m is a mountain pass at the centre of the French island of Corsica.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Col de Vizzavona is located between the two major peaks on Corsica: the Monte d&#39;Oro (altitude 2,389 m), 3 km north-northwest, and the Monte Renoso (2,352 m), 6 km south-southeast. The pass, located in the Regional Natural Park of Corsica, is traversed by the RN193 road and connects the Vecchio Valley with the Gravona river and with the Gulf of Ajaccio.</p><br>
<h2>Details of the climb</h2><br>
<p>From the north-east, the climb commences at the village of Vivario from where the ascent is 12.4 km long. Over this distance, the road climbs 503 m at an average gradient of 4.1%, although there are several downhill sections. The final 4.6 km is at an average gradient of 6.5%; this was the route used in the Tour de France 2013.</p><br>
<p>From the south-west, the climb starts at the junction with the D29 road, close to the small village of Ucciani. From here, the ascent is 19.6 km long climbing 868 m. The average gradient is 4.4%. En route, the road passes through the large village of Bocognano.</p><br>
<h2>Tour de France</h2><br>
<p>In June 2013, the Col de Vizzavona was crossed by the Tour de France, which passed through the island for the first time in the event&#39;s 100-year history.</p><br>
<p>Stage 2 of the race, between Bastia and Ajaccio, crossed the Col de Vizzavona. The climb was ranked Category 2 in the "King of the Mountains" competition, with Pierre Rolland being the first across the summit.</p><br>
<p>Marshall Historic District is a national historic district located at Marshall, Fauquier County, Virginia. It encompasses 314 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites in the rural village of Marshall. The district represents a collection of historic buildings with a wide range of building types and architectural styles that date from the end of the 18th century to the mid-20th century. Notable buildings include the Fauquier Heritage and Preservation Foundation building , hosteller’s house for Rector’s Ordinary , a store and Confederate post office , the Elgin House , former Marshall Pharmacy , the Foley Building , the Gothic Revival style Trinity Episcopal Church , Salem Baptist Church , Marshall United Methodist Church , and the Marshall Ford Company , reputed to be the oldest building built as a Ford dealership in the United States that is still functioning as such.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Some of the contributing buildings in the Marshall Historic District:</p><br>
<p>Orlean Historic District is a national historic district located at Orlean, Fauquier County, Virginia. It encompasses 51 contributing buildings and 2 contributing sites in the rural village of Orlean. The district includes commercial buildings, churches, a post office, a former school, and multiple residences and their ancillary outbuildings that date from the late 18th century to the mid-20th century. Notable buildings include the Orlean Farm House , Smith-Hinkley House , the Anderson-Rector House and Store , the Greek Revival style Thorpe-Cornwell House, Jeffries Store , Orlean Methodist Church , Providence Baptist Church , and Orlean post office building .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Paris Historic District is a national historic district located at Paris, Fauquier County, Virginia. It encompasses 53 contributing resources in the rural village of Paris. The district includes primarily residences, although the district also includes some commercial buildings, churches, a former school, and a</p><br>
<p>cemetery. Fifty-two of the 53 contributing resources are already listed as part of the Crooked Run Valley Rural Historic District. Notable buildings include “Wagoner’s Stand” (c. 1820), the Josiah Murray House (c. 1820), the William Peck House, Old Paris Meeting House (c. 1830), the Willis-Carr House (c. 1840), the former Rogers Store (c. 1850), and Trinity United Methodist Church (1892).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Sumerduck Historic District is a national historic district located at Sumerduck, Fauquier County, Virginia. It encompasses 19 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in the rural hamlet of Sumerduck. The Reconstruction-era district includes dwellings that date from the late-19th to the mid-20th centuries, stores, churches, a post office, a school, and a public space for meetings. Notable buildings include the Tulloss House , the Henry Broadus Jones House also known as the Santa Claus House or the House of the Seven Gables , the restored Embrey-Mills House , the Steven Jacobs House , the Union Primitive Baptist Church , Sumerduck Baptist Church , a former school , and Sumerduck Trading Company .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Remington Historic District is a national historic district located at Remington, Fauquier County, Virginia. It encompasses 131 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures in the rural village of Remington. The district consists primarily of late-19th- and early-20th-century</p><br>
<p>dwellings, churches, and commercial buildings that illustrate the town’s growth and development. Notable buildings include the Rouse House (c. 1850), Remington Methodist Church (1872), St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (1881), Remington Baptist Church (1884), the Daniels House (c. 1888), Remington Farmer’s Co-op Building (c. 1903), Groves Hardware Building (1905), and the State Bank of Remington (1913).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Rectortown Historic District is a national historic district located at Rectortown, Fauquier County, Virginia. It encompasses 76 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures in the rural village of Rectortown. The district includes dwellings dating back to the 18th century, churches, a school, an Odd Fellows hall, a post office, multiple commercial buildings, and</p><br>
<p>several cemeteries that illustrate the town’s growth and development. Notable buildings include the Maidstone Ordinary (c. 1763), the Rector-Slack Log House, the Ashby House (c. 1800), the Georg Mann House, The Brick Store House (c. 1840), Rector’s Warehouse and Station (c. 1835), Denham, Maidstone, Rectortown United Methodist Church (1894), the Jackson-Grant House (1924), Slack’s Store (1890), and the Mt. Olive Odd Fellows Lodge (1935).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. It is included in the Cromwell&#39;s Run Rural Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Warrenton Historic District is a national historic district located at Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia. It encompasses 288 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of the county seat of Warrenton. Notable buildings include the old Fauquier County courthouse , Fauquier County Administration Building , the former Fauquier County Public Library , Fauquier National Bank , "Paradise" , the Thomas L. Moore House , the James Caldwell House , the John Quincy Marr House , the Marshall Building , the California Building , old Town Hall , Warrenton Presbyterian Church , Ullman&#39;s Store, and "Mecca" . Also located on the district are the separately listed Brentmoor and Old Fauquier County Jail.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The William Baumgardner Farm is a historic farmstead located near New Carlisle in Miami County, Ohio, United States. Constructed in 1857, the site remains typical of period farmsteads, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>William Baumgardner was one of Miami Countys wealthiest farmers, and his landholdings were among the countys widest. He was able to pay for the construction of the entire complex in 1857, including the house, a separate summer kitchen, one large barn for animal shelter and hay storage, a granary, a spring house, a barn for seed storage, and a carriage house. Comparatively few changes have been made to the complex, which accordingly remains among the region&#39;s best-preserved farmsteads from the middle of the nineteenth century.</p><br>
<p>Baumgardner&#39;s house is a two-story brick building placed on a stone foundation. Chimneys sit on either end of the roofline, which is created by gables on either side. Both the side and the facade comprise three bays, with the middle bay of the facade occupied by a portico-sheltered door on the first story and a secondary door opening onto the portico roof on the second story. A single-story extension sits at the rear, causing the general floor plan to have the shape of the letter "T". Inside, the original features are still present. Buildings throughout the complex possess decorative features such as cupolas and miniature gables, giving the farmstead an appearance of architectural harmony. None of the buildings in the farmstead have been moved since their construction.</p><br>
<p>In early 1978, the Baumgardner Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its place in local history and because of its historically significant architecture. The complex comprises six contributing properties, all of which are buildings. The complex is one of three National Register-listed locations near New Carlisle, along with Olive Branch High School and Ollie&#39;s Tavern in Clark County to the east.</p><br>
<p>Oakley is a historic home and farm located near Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built between 1853 and 1857, and is a 2 1/2-story, three bay, "T"-shaped brick Italianate style dwelling with a cross-gable roof. The house sits on an English basement and features tall decorative paneled chimneys, semi-hexagonal bays in each gable end, a central two-story pavilion, and a glazed cupola. Also on the property are the contributing original smokehouse and an early building, possibly a tenant house.</p><br>
<p>The house was built by Colonel Richard Henry Dulany and the property is located near the site of the Upperville Colt & Horse Show first held in June 1852. It remains the oldest such event in America.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The International Temple, Supreme Assembly, Order of the Rainbow for Girls is a building in McAlester, Oklahoma, United States that serves as the headquarters for the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Order of the Rainbow for Girls was founded in McAlester on April 6, 1922 by Rev. W. Mark Sexson. From the initial installation class of 86 girls, the Order grew to 50,000 members in 1940. In 1941, the Order began plans for a larger office building that would serve as a memorial to those who had made the Order possible, and a shrine for members worldwide. The building was designed by the Tulsa firm Black and West, and the funds for the building were approved at the 1950 Supreme Assembly session. The contract for the construction was granted to the Dewey Loveall Construction Company in August 1950, and the cornerstone was Masonically laid on May 2, 1951.</p><br>
<p>The building was first opened to the public on November 18, 1951.</p><br>
<p>Col de la Croix de Mounis  is a mountain pass in the Parc naturel régional du Haut-Languedoc in southern France. In July 2013, the col was crossed on stage 7 of the Tour de France.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The col is located on the D922 road between Saint-Gervais-sur-Mare and Lacaune on the slopes of the Espinouse mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Details of the climb</h2><br>
<p>The climb starts at the village of Andabre, where the road leaves the valley of the River Mare. From here, the climb is 6.7 km, climbing 435 m at an average gradient of 6.5%.</p><br>
<h2>Tour de France</h2><br>
<p>The Col de la Croix de Mounis has been crossed three times in the Tour de France bicycle race. On the first occasion, in 1953, the pass was descended en route from Albi to Béziers when it was not categorised. In 1972, the col was ranked Category 3, as it was descended en route from Castres to la Grande-Motte.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, the col was climbed from the south-east for the first time, on Stage 7 between Montpellier and Albi, when it was ranked as a Category 2 climb. The first rider over the summit was Blel Kadri.</p><br>
<p>Blue Ridge Farm is a historic home and farm located near Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>The property includes a two-story, rubble stone Federal era farmhouse known as Fountain Hill House (c. 1791) and its associated outbuildings and two contributing sites; a one-story Colonial Revival-style stone house known as Blue Ridge Farmhouse (1935) and its associated outbuildings, and formal landscape features around it; two tenant houses (Crawford House and Byington House, c. 1903); and several buildings associated with the farm’s horse breeding industry, including three large broodmare stables (c. 1903); two stallion stables (stud barns, c. 1913); training stables, and an implement shed.</p><br>
<p>The Blue Ridge Farmhouse was designed in 1933-1934 by Washington, D.C. architect Waddy B. Wood. Californian Henry T. Oxnard (1860-1922) built a horse breeding operation at Blue Ridge Farm in 1903.</p><br>
<p>Purchased by Rear Admiral Cary Travers Grayson in 1928, members of the Grayson family still own the property.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Hopefield, also known as Brick House Place and Chestnut Grove, is a historic home located near Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia. The house was originally constructed about 1855 in the late Federal style. The mansion was altered in 1924 to render it an unusual local example of the asymmetrical Colonial Revival style. Contributing resources include a brick summer kitchen ; a stone walled well , an icehouse with an iron door ; the timber-framed, multi-purpose, drive-in crib barn ; and the beginnings of the designed landscape that evolved with Colonial Revival-style characteristics in the early-20th century. The pump house, built within a stone ha-ha wall, and the swimming pool date to 1924. A brick four-car garage and a tenant house for staff were constructed between 1928 and 1950 in the Colonial Revival-style. A house ruin on Cedar Run  joins the landscape as a contributing site.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Kamiakins Gardens were the first place to be irrigated in the Yakima River valley in central Washington state. Chief Kamiakin  was a leader of the Yakama Nation who sought to avoid conflict with European settlers and missionaries who started arriving in the region in the 1840s. Kamiakin directed that a ditch be excavated to nourish a plot near Ahtanum Creek, hoping to provide a sedentary existence for his people that would keep them out of conflict with the settlers. Crops included squash, corn and potatoes, fed by what became known to settlers as Kamiakins Ditch. In 1851 a Catholic mission was established near the creek.</p><br>
<p>Kamiakin&#39;s initiative to avoid conflict with the settlers proved fruitless, and Kamiakin became a leader during the Yakima War of the 1850s. The irrigated area was about 1,300 ft long, remnants of which remain visible and are still irrigated.</p><br>
<p>Kamiakin&#39;s Gardens were placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Knickerbocker and Arnink Garages were two attached stone buildings located on Hudson Avenue in central Albany, New York, United States. Both were built in the early 20th century; the Knickerbocker garage was added to the Arnink garage 12 years after it was built. In 1980 they were listed on the National Register of Historic Places; nine years later they were both demolished and delisted.</p><br>
<p>At the time, many garages were adapted from stables or carriage houses. The first to be built, the smaller, was instead adapted from an existing commercial building by the owner of a successful Ford dealership in the city for his car-rental and repair service. His superintendent later bought the business from him and had the larger one built in the same style by the same architect.</p><br>
<p>They were among the earliest structures in Albany built specifically in response to the increasing use of the automobile at that time. Their neo-Gothic cast stone facades are an unusual choice of style and material for that time. They may have been inspired by the nearby Delaware and Hudson Railroad office building, a contemporary catalyst for the redevelopment of downtown that is today the system administration building for the State University of New York.</p><br>
<p>One was later converted into a warehouse and used for that purpose until its demolition. That came about as part of a plan for two large office towers proposed for the neighborhood as redevelopment. Nothing has been built on the space since; it is used as part of a parking lot that serves another nearby redevelopment project, the Times Union Center.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The two garages were located on the south side of downtown Albany, in a three-quarter acre (0.75 acre) lot on the south side of Hudson midway between South Pearl (New York State Route 32) and Green streets. Today the land is, along with everything east to Green, a parking lot. The buildings of the Downtown Albany Historic District, including 48 Hudson Avenue, the oldest building in the city, are two blocks to the north and east. An 18-story office tower is located on the west.</p><br>
<p>Across the street is a large parking garage serving the Times Union Center arena, and another old commercial building to the northwest at the corner of Hudson and South Pearl. The arena itself is across South Pearl. To the south, just beyond Division Street, is the elevated South Mall Arterial, which leads from nearby Interstate 787 at the Dunn Memorial Bridge to the parking areas under Empire State Plaza.</p><br>
<p>Both buildings used a structural system of steel framing and reinforced concrete. Brick is on the outside, faced in cast stone. The Knickerbocker, at 72 Hudson, was four stories tall to the Arnink&#39;s three; both were three bays wide and flat-roofed. Due to different materials in the composite for the cast stone, the Knickerbocker had a more distinctly golden color, like sandstone, while the Arnink was granite gray.</p><br>
<p>While the upper fenestration of both garages was similar, the street entrances were not. The Knickerbocker&#39;s was a single wide pointed arch stretching across all three bays, with separate entrances. Its window spandrels had decorative touches meant to mimic Gothic tracery. On the Arnink, every bay had a separate garage, the western one slightly larger each in a pointed-arch entrance with original folding door and metal lantern-style light above. Above it a frieze bore the inscription "Arnink Garage 1915" carved into the cast stone.</p><br>
<p>The garages were set with casement windows, which continued with the large, pointed-arch windows in the upper stories. Between them the tracery continued. At the top of the Arnink were cast-stone finials shaped like bells.</p><br>
<p>At the time they were listed on the Register the Knickerbocker was in use as a Hertz rental-car location. For this purpose a vertical illuminated sign with the company name was affixed to the facade. This was the only significant modification to either building during their lifetime.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1914, a downtown redevelopment plan based on City Beautiful movement principles led to the construction of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad&#39;s (D&H) new headquarters, today the State University of New York (SUNY) System Administration Building. The Flemish Gothic edifice by local architect Marcus T. Reynolds, closely copied from the Cloth Hall in Ypres, Belgium, was meant to be a focal point for traffic coming down from Capitol Hill to the west via State Street. To further this goal, the industrial structures along the riverfront behind it were demolished.</p><br>
<p>The new building drew lots of praise, and local merchants and businessmen were inspired to emulate it in their own. Henry Arnink, a local dealer of Ford Model T&#39;s, had expanded his business to include repair and rental services by that time. He bought the existing three-story structure at 74 Hudson and renovated and expanded it. Local architect J. Walter Montross oversaw the project, designing a cast stone Gothic exterior that may have been intended to echo the nearby D&H Building.</p><br>
<p>Twelve years after Arnink moved into the new building he sold the business to his superintendent, Harry Knickerbocker. Wanting to expand the business, Knickerbocker again commissioned Montross. The second garage was similar to the first in decoration and overall form, save for an extra story at the top. It differed in its wide single garage at the street level with no text and lacked the roofline finials.</p><br>
<p>In 1947 Knickerbocker sold the Arnink garage to another concern, which converted it into a warehouse. Both buildings were still in use for those businesses at the time they were listed on the Register three decades later. Knickerbocker had by then become a franchisee of the Hertz car-rental chain, which necessitated placing a large series of illuminated signs with that company&#39;s name letter by letter down the two stories above the garage, between the eastern bays. That would be the only significant change made to either building following their construction.</p><br>
<p>By the late 1980s the neighborhood had changed. Another Register-listed property nearby, the Abrams Building, had been demolished to clear the way for a new arena, now known as the Times Union Center. In 1988 plans for two large office towers at the corner of South Pearl and Hudson were approved by the city. While the two garages did not overlap the new buildings&#39; footprint, it was necessary to demolish them anyway to provide enough parking. That was accomplished in early 1989; they were delisted a month later.</p><br>
<p>Port-Royal was a settlement on the site of modern-day Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, part of the French colony of Acadia. It was founded in 1632, almost twenty years after Habitation at Port-Royal was destroyed. For most of the period until the Siege of Port Royal by the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1710, the village was the capital of Acadia. Port-Royal was the primary Acadian settlement until Acadians migrated out of the community to Pisiguit, Cobequid, Grand Pre, and Beaubassin  in the 1680s.</p><br>
<h2>Context</h2><br>
<p>The Habitation at Port-Royal was established on the other side of the river by Pierre Du Gua de Monts, with the able assistance of individuals such as Samuel de Champlain, Louis Hébert and Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just, in 1605 and it lasted until 1613.</p><br>
<h3>Scottish colony</h3><br>
<p>During the Anglo-French War (1627–1629), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Lord Ochiltree (Sir James Stewart of Killeith) planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, and William Alexander established the first incarnation of "New Scotland" at Port-Royal (present day Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia). This set of British triumphs which left only Cape Sable (present-day Port La Tour, Nova Scotia) as the only major French holding in North America was not destined to last.</p><br>
<p>In 1633, protecting the boundary of Acadia, Charles de la Tour, the French commander of Acadia, made a descent upon Machias, Maine from his seat at Port-Royal (present day Annapolis Royal), killing two of its six defenders, and carrying the others away with their merchandise. The French then established Fort Ste. Marie de Grace as the capital on the LaHave River before re-establishing Port Royal.</p><br>
<h2>French colony</h2><br>
<p>In 1635, Governor of Acadia Charles de Menou dAulnay de Charnisay moved settlers from present day LaHave, Nova Scotia to Port-Royal (present day Annapolis Royal), and the Acadian people began to establish their roots. Under DAulnay, the Acadians built the first dykes in North America and cultivated the reclaimed salt marshes.</p><br>
<p>During this time, Acadia was plunged into what some historians have described as a civil war; the two main centres were Port-Royal (present day Annapolis Royal), where d&#39;Aulnay was stationed, and present-day Saint John, New Brunswick, where Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour was stationed.</p><br>
<h3>Acadian Civil War</h3><br>
<h4>Battle of Port Royal (1640)</h4><br>
<p>Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour arrived from present day Saint John, New Brunswick and attacked Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal) with two armed ships. DAulnays captain was killed, while La Tour and his men were forced to surrender. In response to the attack, DAulay sailed out of Port-Royal to establish a blockade of La Tours fort at present day Saint John, New Brunswick.</p><br>
<h4>Battle of Port Royal (1643)</h4><br>
<p>In 1643, La Tour tried to capture Port-Royal again. La Tour arrived at Saint John from Boston with a fleet a five armed vessels and 270 men and broke the blockade. La Tour then chased dAulnays vessels back across the Bay of Fundy to Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal). D&#39;Aulnay resisted the attack, and seven of his men were wounded and three killed. La Tour did not attack the fort, which was defended by twenty soldiers. La Tour burned the mill, killed the livestock and seized furs, gunpowder and other supplies.</p><br>
<p>dAulnay ultimately won the war against La Tour with the 1645 siege of present-day Saint John, New Brunswick. After the siege, La Tour went to live in Quebec. After defeating La Tour at Saint John, from the capital Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal), dAulnay administered posts at LaHave, Nova Scotia; Pentagouet (Castine, Maine); Canso, Nova Scotia; Cap Sable (Port La Tour, Nova Scotia); the Saint John River (Bay of Fundy) and Miscou Island.</p><br>
<p>After d&#39;Aulnay died (1650), La Tour re-established himself in Acadia.</p><br>
<h2>English colony</h2><br>
<h3>Battle of Port Royal (1654)</h3><br>
<p>In 1654, Colonel Robert Sedgwick led a force to capture Port-Royal made up of one hundred New England volunteers and two hundred professional soldiers sent to New England by Oliver Cromwell, the first professional English soldiers sent to North America. Prior to the Battle, Sedgwick captured and plundered present day Castine, Maine and La Tours fort at present day Saint John, New Brunswick. Sedgwick also took La Tour prisoner. The defenders of Port-Royal numbered only about 130. After resisting the English landings and defending the fort during a short siege, the outnumbered Acadians surrendered after negotiating terms that allowed French inhabitants who wished to remain to keep their property and religion. Soldiers and officials were given transport to France while the majority of Port-Royal residents remained unharmed. However, in violation of the surrender terms, Sedgwicks men rampaged through the Port-Royal monastery, smashing windows, doors, paneling and even the floor boards before burning the monastery and the newly constructed Port Royal church. The English occupied Acadia for the next 16 years with a small garrison, leaving the Acadian residents mostly undisturbed.</p><br>
<h2>French colony</h2><br>
<p>In 1667, Port-Royal (present day Annapolis Royal) was returned to France with the Treaty of Breda (1667). In a census taken in 1671 there were 361 Acadians in the Port-Royal area. During King Philip&#39;s War, Jacques de Chambly was Governor of Acadia. Another census in the late 1680s shows 450 Acadians in the entire area of Port-Royal.</p><br>
<h3>King William's War</h3><br>
<h4>Battle of Port Royal (1690)</h4><br>
<p>During King William&#39;s War, Port-Royal (present day Annapolis Royal) served as a safe harbor for French cruisers and supply point for Wabanaki Confederacy to attack the New England colonies encroaching on the Acadian border in southern Maine.</p><br>
<p>The Battle of Port Royal (1690) began on May 9. Sir William Phips of New England arrived with 736 men in seven English ships. Governor de Meneval fought for two days and then capitulated. The garrison was imprisoned in the church and Governor de Meneval was confined to his house. The New Englanders levelled what was begun of the new fort. The residents of Port-Royal were imprisoned in the church and administered an oath of allegiance to the King.</p><br>
<p>Phips left, but war ships from New York City arrived in June which resulted in more destruction. The seamen burned and looted the settlement, including the parish church.</p><br>
<h4>Raid on Port Royal (1693)</h4><br>
<p>In response to assisting Pierre Maisonnat dit Baptiste, English frigates attacked Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal). The New Englanders burned almost a dozen houses and three barns full of grain. Port Royal was again made the capital in 1699.</p><br>
<h3>Queen Anne's War</h3><br>
<p>During Queen Anne&#39;s War, there was a New England blockade of Port Royal and then three attempts to lay siege to the capital. The last siege ultimately resulted in the British conquest of Acadia and Nova Scotia.</p><br>
<h4>Blockade of Port Royal (1704)</h4><br>
<p>In 1704, in retaliation for the Raid on Deerfield, Major Benjamin Church created a blockade of Port-Royal. Church was instructed not to attack the capital because the action was not authorized from London. Before daylight, on July 2, two English warships and seven smaller vessels entered the Port Royal basin. They captured the guard station opposite Goat Island as well as four Acadians. Landing at Pointe aux Chesnes on the north shore, they took a family prisoner. A woman from the family was sent to the fort to demand its surrender. The blockade lasted seventeen days; those in the fort awaited an attack. Church had moved on to conduct the real purpose of his expedition: the Raid on Grand Pré, Raid on Pisiguit, and Raid on Chignecto. He returned to Port Royal and then with a brief exchange of gunfire, returned to Boston.</p><br>
<h4>Siege of Port Royal (June 1707)</h4><br>
<p>Two major British efforts to besiege the town in 1707 met with failure. The first siege during the war happened on June 17 and lasted eleven days. Colonel John March, the most senior officer in all of Massachusetts was sent to defeat the capital. Acadian governor Daniel d&#39;Auger de Subercase successfully defended the capital.</p><br>
<h4>Siege of Port Royal (August 1707)</h4><br>
<p>Colonel Francis Wainwright led the second siege on August 20. It lasted eleven days. Subercase and his troops killed sixteen New Englanders and lost three soldiers. Again the British retreated.</p><br>
<h4>Siege of Port Royal (1710)</h4><br>
<p>On September 24, 1710, the British returned with 36 ships and 2000 men, and again laid siege to the capital in what would be the final Conquest of Acadia. Subercase and the French held out until October 2 when the approximately 300 defenders of the fort surrendered, ending French rule in Acadia. The following year, after the Acadian and Indian success at the nearby Battle of Bloody Creek (1711), the Acadians and Indians unsuccessfully attempted to lay siege to the capital.</p><br>
<h2>British colony</h2><br>
<p>After the conquest of Acadia with the Siege of Port Royal in 1710, the British changed the name from Port Royal to Annapolis Royal.</p><br>
<p>The French, Mikmaq and Acadians made four attempts to retake the capital of Acadia during King Georges War. Many of the Acadian inhabitants at Port Royal remained in the town after it became Annapolis Royal. However, during the French and Indian War, the British deported the Acadian residents at Annapolis Royal to British and French territories in the Expulsion of the Acadians, beginning in 1755, because they wanted to remove any military threat the Acadians posed and cut off vital supply lines the Acadians provided to the French Fortress of Louisbourg.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>Belle Grove is a historic home and farm located near Delaplane, Fauquier County, Virginia. The manor house was built about 1812, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, brick and stuccoed stone house in the Federal style. It has a 1 1/2-story, three bay summer kitchen, built about 1850, and connected to the main house by a hyphen. Also on the property are the contributing meat house ; the barn ; a chicken house ; a cattle shed ; a loafing shed ; machine shed ; a four-foot square, stone foundation ; stone spring house ruin ; the Edmonds-Settle-Chappelear Cemetery ; an eight-by-twelve-foot stone foundation ; a tenant house ruin ; a stone well at the manor house ; and a loading chute .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Oaks, also known as Innes Hill, is a historic home and farm located near Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia. The house was built between 1931 and 1933, and consists of a 1 to 2 1/2-story, five bay, Classical Revival style main block with a four-part plan. The attached sections are a one-story pantry and kitchen wing and garage attached by a four bay arcade. The main block features a prominent two-story, four-bay, pedimented portico has four extraordinary fluted Tower of the Winds columns. Also on the property are the contributing Italianate style brick stable ; a brick smokehouse; and an agents cottage, tile barn, corn house, spring house and summerhouse built between 1928 and 1930; garage with servants quarters, greenhouse, log cabin, potato house, pump house, chicken house and field shed built between 1931 and 1945; the mansion landscape and scene of the 1881 duel; and a windmill. It was the site in September 1881, of the one of the last four duels in Virginia, prior to enactment of anti-duel legislation in 1882.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Snow Train Rolling Stock, located in Railroad Heritage Park in Laramie, Wyoming, consists of five pieces of Union Pacific Railroad rolling stock. The five vehicles, which are a snow plow, locomotive, tender, bunk car, and caboose, form a snow train, a type of train used to clear snow from rail lines. The snow plow was built as a tender and converted to a wedge-shaped plow in 1953. The locomotive was built in 1903 and served in Wyoming from 1947 to 1957; it served as part of snow trains in 1949 during a blizzard. The bunk car was originally built as an automobile car in 1929 and became a bunk car in 1955; after its retirement, it served as a ticket office for the Wyoming Colorado Railroad. The tender was built between 1907 and 1920, and the caboose was built in 1955.</p><br>
<p>Wyoming snow trains did not function as pre-assembled units and were generally put together when they were needed to clear snow. While these five pieces of rolling stock probably never operated together as a snow train, they are nonetheless representative of Wyoming snow trains. The pieces were moved to the park in 2011 from various locations around Laramie.</p><br>
<p>The Snow Train Rolling Stock was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 8, 2013.</p><br>
<p>Manitou Cave is a cave in Alabama, near the town of Fort Payne, in the side of Lookout Mountain. The cave was reputedly named for "the great spirit" by the Cherokee in the 18thcentury.</p><br>
<p>During the Civil War, the cave was a source of saltpeter for the Confederate Army. The mineral was mined by laborers to provide the essential ingredient for black powder.</p><br>
<p>The cave was first opened by the Fort Payne Coal and Iron company in 1888 as a tourist destination. The cave remained open as a public park through the early 20th century. After decades of neglect, Manitou Cave was reopened as a tourist attraction in 1963 by the Walter B. Raymond, Sr. family, who operated it through the mid-1970s. The cave is now closed to the general public, although adventure tours are offered by private tour companies.</p><br>
<p>Ponderosa Lodge at La Foret Conference and Retreat Center is a historic lodge in Black Forest, Colorado. It is a National Register of Historic Places listing and is on the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The lodge was built in 1928 as Alice Bemis Taylor&#39;s summer retreat.</p><br>
<p>Designed by Jules Jacques Benoit Benedict, the summer home was similar to other mountain homes that he designed, using "native construction material", including ponderosa pine from Pikes Peaks western slope, and displaying "the finest craftsmanship." One of Benedicts signature elements is the grand staircase in the main hall. He also designed an "elaborate fireplace", with custom iron work. Ponderosa Lodge is one of the properties submitted as multiple submission of Benedict&#39;s work for the Colorado Register of Historic Properties.</p><br>
<h2>La Foret</h2><br>
<p>Ponderosa Lodge is one of two historic properties located in the La Foret Conference and Retreat Center. The Taylor Memorial Chapel is also on the National Register of Historic Places. The center is located on 400 acres of meadows and Ponderosa pines.</p><br>
<p>The center had originally been a 500 acre summer estate of Alice Bemis Taylor, a philanthropist and an important Colorado Springs family. Mrs. Taylor held artist-in-residence programs on the estate she called La Foret. The Taylor Memorial Chapel was built one year after the lodge as a memorial to her husband, Frederick Morgan Pike Taylor. Alice Taylor died in 1942 and the property was deeded to the Colorado Congregational Church by the Bemis Taylor Foundation. The center is now open to United Church of Christ members, other denominations and organizations. La Foret now has a number of cabins, a dining hall, sports fields and courts, and outdoor theater seating.</p><br>
<h2>Black Forest fire</h2><br>
<p>Ponderosa Lodge and other buildings at La Foret Conference and Retreat Center were spared from the Black Forest fire (June, 2013), at least partly due to mitigation efforts.</p><br>
<p>The retreat center created the "Black Forest Strong" organization to serve as a resource to the recuperating Black Forest community. The seven point plan includes grief counseling, serving as a community resource center, providing aid to victims and organizing events. In addition, the plan includes preservation, reseeding efforts, and mitigation training and services.</p><br>
<p>Weston is a historic home and farm located near Casanova, Fauquier County, Virginia. The original section of the house was built about 1810, with additions made in 1860, 1870, and 1893. The original section was a simple, 1 1/2-story, log house. A 1 1/2-story frame and weatherboard addition was built in 1860, and a 1 1/2-story frame and weatherboard rear ell was added in 1870. In 1893, a two-story frame and weatherboard addition was built, making the house "L"-shaped. This section features a steeply-pitched gable roof with gable dormers and decoratively</p><br>
<p>sawn bargeboards and eaves trim—common characteristics of the Carpenter Gothic style. Also on the property are a number of contributing 19th century outbuildings including the kitchen / wash house, smokehouse, spring house, tool house, blacksmith shop, stable, and barn. Weston is open as a house and farm museum.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Kinjockity Ranch, also known as Lanteen Ranch, is a Pueblo Revival style residence in Cochise County, Arizona, originally built in 1939-1940 for Rufus Riddlesbarger, a wealthy Chicago businessman. It is a notable example of Pueblo Revival style, executed in adobe with richly detailed interiors and hand-made hardware. The house was designed by Edward C. Morgan, an architect from Phoenix who specialized in what he called "the Mexican style." The interiors were decorated and embellished by illustrator and sculptor Raymond Phillips Sanderson, who had collaborated with Morgan on previous commissions.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The ranch is about 15 mi southeast of Sierra Vista, Arizona, and originally comprised 618 acre. Its primary structures are the main house, the guest house, and the foremans house. The main and guest houses have a marked "handmade" appearance, while the foremans house is of the same style, but with less attention to detail. Several outbuildings complete the ensemble. Additional structures, not included in the National Register boundaries, included an adobe entrance arch on the driveway, barn, an adobe-walled corral, a four-hole irrigated golf course, and a pump house. An airstrip, located about 2.5 mi to the southeast, featured a hangar and another corral. The land is generally level grassland with occasional trees and a view of the Huachuca Mountains.</p><br>
<p>The main house is a rambling, mostly one-story structure with the main public rooms laid out in line, starting at the south end with service areas, the kitchen and the pantry. The dining room adjoins the kitchen, with a projecting round breakfast room on the east side, then an entry room with a fireplace and a living room with a fireplace. An office is located above the entry room, reached by an exterior stairway. A bedroom wing is appended to the north side of the living room, extending to the east with a guest bedroom and master bedroom and attendant bathrooms and closets, both with rounded projecting bays. The guest house features a "kiva room," circular in shape and resembling a Native American kiva, then an entry, a living room, a small kitchen and a bedroom and bath. The foreman&#39;s house is roughly square in arrangement, with living room, dining room, kitchen and three bedrooms, and porches on three sides. Exterior walls are rounded adobe with irregular parapets and projecting vigas.</p><br>
<p>Sanderson&#39;s artwork features motifs borrowed from Native American themes, with the strongest resemblance to Navajo art. Sanderson executed painted wall decorations, carved doors, tiles, light fixtures and door and cabinet hardware. The adapted style has been described as "pueblo Deco."</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Rufus Riddlesbarger was a former airmail pilot who invented a contraceptive diaphragm device in the 1930s. His company, Lanteen Laboratories, was a success and Riddlesbarger acquired the land for his ranch in 1937 with some of the proceeds. Riddlesbarger had intended to make the Lanteen Ranch his primary home, but sold the property in 1947 to Margaret W. Herschede of Cincinnati, Ohio. Riddlesbarger moved to Tucson, where he ran into trouble in 1948 over a relationship with an underage house servant, eventually leaving the United States. Herschede and her husband used the ranch as a working cattle ranch and lived on the site. The ranch was sold in 1972, following the deaths of the Herschedes, for subdivision and development. Some lots were sold, but the houses were eventually sold without land to another company in 1985. In 1990 Evans and Olga Guidroz bought the buildings and 298 acre of land and resumed ranching. The ranch is presently known as Kinjockity Ranch.</p><br>
<p>Kinjockity Ranch was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 19, 1996.</p><br>
<p>In the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountain range lies the Pamitinan cave. It is located in the San Rafael barangay  in the Philippines. It is also near the Wawa Dam. The cave was formerly known as the "Cave of Bernardo Carpio". Its former name was derived from Bernardo Carpio, a figure in Philippine mythology who was rebuked by the gods because of his insolence. Legend states that he was chained forever in the Montalban gorge, cursed to keep two mountains from colliding with each other.</p><br>
<p>On April 12, 1895, Andres Bonifacio along with eight other katipuneros declared the Philippines independence from the Spanish empire inside of this cave. The walls still bear inscriptions of "Viva la Independencia Filipina" from the time of the Philippine Revolution. On June 21, 1996, Pamitinan cave was declared a historic site by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines.</p><br>
<p>During World War II, Japanese soldiers occupied the cave and used it as a camp.</p><br>
<p>The OK Theatre, at 208 W. Main Street in Enterprise, Oregon, is a historic building that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1918 and featured—new for its area and time—a sloped seating section so that theatre-goers would have unobstructed views.</p><br>
<p>It was renamed to the Vista Theater in about 1933. It was bought in 2001 by new owners who restored its original name, and who operated it until 2008. After 90 years of operation the OK Theatre was closed in 2008, leaving Wallowa County, Oregon without a single open theatre. The building was offered for sale, together with two businesses and apartment rentals, for $240,000 Fortunately, part-time locals Bill and Melisa Bush, along with their son Gabriel bought The OK in 2009. During their four years with this beloved institution, they brought back up to date movies, foreign and art movie nights, Special Needs movie screenings, theatre productions, charity events, high school events and much more. The Ruby Peak 48 Hour Film Festival was established during this time. The building was also placed on the Historic Register.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, the Bushes returned to international teaching and sold the theatre.</p><br>
<p>The theatre was purchased in the fall of 2013 and has returned to its roots as primarily a music and theater hall. The theatre has hosted such acts from blues to bluegrass, indie to experimental with bands such as The Infamous String Dusters, Rick Estrin and the Nightcats, and Mount Eerie as well various children&#39;s theater production and community events.</p><br>
<p>The Hacienda de Cocoyoc, now known as the Hotel Hacienda Cocoyoc, is a private hacienda resort located in the state of Morelos, México. In the 17th and 18th centuries it became one of the most important haciendas in the nation and has been declared a Historical Monument by the INAH.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Pre-Hispanic era</h3><br>
<p>Located in the municipality of Yautepec, in the state of Morelos, San Jose Cocoyoc is now a former estate, which after 1960 was restored and adapted to house an extensive hacienda resort. The known history of San Jose Cocoyoc goes back to the times of the Nahua tribes and xochimilcas tlahuicas, occupied the valleys and Huaxtepec Cuauhnáhuac. According to Peter Gerhard, tlahuicas occupied the western part of the region (which extended to Malinalco) and its most important political center was Cuauhnáhuac. The xochimilcas were located in the center and in the eastern part. Yauhtpec formed states, Yacapixtlan, Tepuztlán, Ocuituco and Huaxtepec, the latter being the head of the other dependent.</p><br>
<p>The tlahuicas and xochimilcas formed an agricultural society. They cultivated the fertile valley lands, raised turkeys and dogs escuintles and were engaged in hunting, fishing and gathering. The main food crops that were planted were corn, beans, various vegetables, fruits and grains, such as chili, pumpkin, squash, tomato, and cocoa. In hot areas the main crop was cotton.</p><br>
<p>His social and political organization was similar to that of other peoples of the Central Highlands. They were grouped in local states (tlatocayotl), which in turn depended on the political and administrative centers and Huaxtepec Cuauhnáhuac.</p><br>
<p>The Mexica domination over the region began in the late 14th century, when Acamapichtli able to submit to the lordship of Cuauhnáhuac. Apparently Mexica lords felt the imperative to achieve mastery of this region to meet their expectations of having the cotton they needed to make their clothing, which was grown in this region.</p><br>
<p>According to some sources, Mr. Mexica Huitzilihuitl, eager to have cotton grown in Morelos, asked for the hand of Miahuaxihuitl, daughter Ozomatzinteuctli (Tezcacohuatzin Itzcoatzin or, according to other sources), lord of Cuernavaca and Miyauaxiuitl, woman Toltec origin. To be denied recourse to war, achieving Cuauhnáhuac subject Mr. and marry his daughter. From this union was born llhuicamina Moctezuma, who years later in his capacity as Mexican emperor, he developed a great appreciation for the fertile lands of their ancestors.</p><br>
<h3>Colonial era</h3><br>
<p>When completing the conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, Cortes immediately showed a decided preference for the territory of the current state of Morelos. He founded the city of Cuernavaca, in the Indian village of Cuauhnáhuac, and established his residence in this city. Some years later, King Charles I of Spain would grant him immense dominion over property, under the name of Marquis del Valle, covering territories in the states of Oaxaca, Guerrero, Morelos and the Federal District itself.</p><br>
<p>Knowing the demand that existed in Spain and in the rest of Europe, for refined sugar, Cortes introduced the cultivation of this plant, establishing a mill in the valley of Cuernavaca, which would be the second of its kind in the New Spain. Soon discover that the land of this valley offered the best conditions for growing sugar cane and to the establishment of mills or mills, which required the existing streams abundant in this area.</p><br>
<p>In the example of the Marques del Valle, and under the land grants given by the king and the perpetual censuses granted by Hernan Cortes and his descendants, in the second half of the 16th century and early 17th centuries, emerged in this area countless mills or mills.</p><br>
<p>With respect to San Jose Cocoyoc, the sources placed the formation of the mill and the farm in the early 17th century. In this sense that mention is made in these years was granted a perpetual census Isabel Ruiz and Francisco Bernal, for middle ground in Guajoyuca cavalry (who later would be attached to Cocoyoc).</p><br>
<p>Also mentioned that "the June 22, 1619 Francisco de Sequera was licensed to transform the mill he had in terms of Cocoyoque, on the way passing by Guastepec"</p><br>
<p>The truth is that, according to research by Gisela Von Woebeser, around the sugar plantations of Morelos, was Admiral Pedro de Izagufrre who established the Finance and San Jose Cocoyoc mill in the second decade of the 17th century, to acquire and Guanacastitlán Tlacomille grounds that belonged to Francisco de Sequera cavalry property that belonged to the clerk of Cuautla Mené Perez Solis, and land belonging to Diego Ferralde, who&#39;s had in turn purchased the Convent Santo Domingo de Oaxtepec.</p><br>
<p>Additionally, Admiral Izaguirre, had made a valuable acquisition, buying the Indian chieftain Maria Cantia, Xalmile property, which included a dam, and an aqueduct apantle that allowed water to bring Tecuaque Canyon.</p><br>
<p>At death Izaguirre, the estate would be inherited by his widow, Mrs. Nicolasa de Izaguirre, while in the year of 1655 we know that belonged to Catherine de Ordaz, who in that year lost a lawsuit against the friars of San Hipolito, owners of neighboring Hacienda del Hospital.</p><br>
<p>It will be in the 18th century that San Jose Cocoyoc achieved a remarkable growth and development, becoming one of the most successful sugar companies in the region. Should be noted that between the years of 1711 and 1714, Cocoyoc will record a major expansion with the annexation of the neighboring ranch Pantitlán.</p><br>
<h3>Sugar crisis</h3><br>
<p>Throughout the colonial period, the activity of the sugar estates was subject to instability affecting its operation. In the late 16th century the Crown banned all exports of sugar from New Spain, which determined that all production was reoriented to the domestic market. Similarly, in 1714, the Crown banned the production of brandy, a product that was an important part of the economy of Wits. Like other branches of production, sugar production in the 18th century suffered the consequences of overproduction coupled with low product demand, causing the price drop and the consequent crisis for estates.</p><br>
<p>Over the next century the estate Cocoyoc came among the twelve plantations major sugar producing country around the early 19th century and its importance grew with the installation of new machinery and a waterwheel in sugar refinery bringing water sources neighbors by an aqueduct that is still under served.</p><br>
<h3>19th century</h3><br>
<p>In 1785, the estate was acquired by the enabler of mine, Antonio Velasco de la Torre, while in 1801 it was inherited by his son, Antonio Velasco de la Torre, with whom he began a period of expansion. Velasco obtained a loan of 30,000 pesos for improvements to the property and in the year of 1823 introduced coffee cultivation. Known as the "coffee Velasco", would be very well accepted in the region and Mexico City itself.</p><br>
<p>On the death of Antonio, the estate was inherited by his three daughters, Margaret, Josefa and Guadalupe, who nevertheless fail to have the success that his father had made and end up losing the property for debt, fronts the landowner of the region John Goribar, who is in turn the owner of the neighboring ranch Casasano.</p><br>
<p>It is at this time that the estate is visited by Frances Inglis Elskine Calderon de la Barca, who makes an interesting description of it.</p><br>
<p>After the death of John Goribar, the estate was inherited by his son Jesus Goribar, who in 1875 sold it to Isidoro de la Torre, who in turn was the owner of the neighboring estates of St. Charles Borromeo and St. Nicholas Pantitlán. Years later, the property would be inherited by his son Tomas de la Torre, who must suffer the dissolution and disappearance of the Treasury, before the land redistribution that takes place as a result of the Mexican Revoludón, which will enable the creation of 13 ejidos.</p><br>
<p>As was common in these cases, following the implementation of agrarian reform, the hull of the property was abandoned, until 1957, when a real estate entrepreneur, Mr. Paulino Rivera Torres, acquired, starting from the time its restoration and empowerment, with a view to creating an original farm was to be resort that opened in 1967 and remains offering this served to date.</p><br>
<h3>Madame Calderon de la Barca in San Jose Cocoyoc</h3><br>
<p>In February 1841, Ms. Frances Erskine Inglis Calderon de la Barca, as part of a long journey through the countryside and villages in the center of the Mexican Republic, visit the Hacienda San José Cocoyoc and write a short story and excited about the impression that causes this visit.</p><br>
<p>Madame Calderon de la Barca was attended by Juan Goribar, owner of the estate, who Ilevo to know the most representative of his estate as the mill, coffee grinder and liquor factory. But what impact this British visitors were the orange, with about three thousand trees, fruit trees, the many streams and flowers. In his account exclaims excitedly that "I had never seen a sight so beautiful".</p><br>
<p>Through his story, Madame Calderon de la Barca confirms that after the critical stages that crossed the property when her owners were the daughters of Don Antonio Velasco de la Torre, San Jose Cocoyoc was in a period of splendor, the industrial facilities qualify as "first-order" and to describe the beauty and perfection of its fruit áboles.</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>La Hacienda Cocoyoc continued to grow and prosper until the outbreak of the 1910 revolution, when the agrarian leader Emiliano Zapata, Morelos native and established his headquarters in neighboring Cuautla, declared war on all the sugar plantations. When the revolution finally ended eleven years later, the Hacienda Cocoyoc was reduced by the distribution of land among the farmers and peasants and the remainder, 68 acres was purchased in 1957 by Mr. Paulino Rivera Torres, who has now realized his dream to convert a portion of this property, about 28 acres in a superb and well provided Hacienda Resort called "Paradise of America."</p><br>
<h2>Infrastructure</h2><br>
<p>Like other neighboring farms as Tlayacapan, Tepoztlan or Tlaquiltenango, San Jose Cocoyoc was built imitating the medieval European forts. This was due to the simple fact that there was at that time the builders enough that could make the architectural design of a hacienda.</p><br>
<h3>El Ingenio</h3><br>
<p>At that time mills were appointed to those establishments that had equipment or machine moved by animal traction or hydraulic. These required a very specialized job and the "understanding" of a specialist to build and to repair. Hence, by extension, in general, words or art mills in these centuries were synonymous with "complex machines".</p><br>
<h3>Finances</h3><br>
<p>Following the pattern of the hacienda in New Spain, consider the hacienda of San Jose Cocoyoc was a property that met the architectural spaces, machinery and workers needed to be a self-sufficient economic unit in which even exercised the judicial authorities and decided who punish and how, which resulted in the existence of a prison within the estate.</p><br>
<h3>Main house</h3><br>
<p>During colonial and 19th century, houses economically powerful people both in the cities and in the countryside consisted of a lower and high arranged around a central courtyard with a garden or front. The bedrooms are located on the top, and the other rooms of the owners or their guests, rooms and pantries, stored, and so on. At the bottom were the kitchen, next to a water fountain in the courtyard, rooms and spaces dedicated or trade, the store or the same output spaces (purge) or artisans offices, stables and corrals, even Hence integrated jail cell where they kept the workers according to the owner or his representative had done something wrong.</p><br>
<p>Of course this, as in so many farms, nowadays we find no trace of the rooms of the Indians and slaves, because these were made of perishable materials.</p><br>
<h3>Chapel</h3><br>
<p>The building of this was closely linked with the social and economic status of the owner, for at that time could not have prospered without wit chapel or church to represent the peak.</p><br>
<h3>El Trapiche</h3><br>
<p>La Hacienda de San José Cocoyoc was basically dedicated to the cultivation and processing of sugar cane, to get the grain of sugar would be sold both domestically and internationally.</p><br>
<p>The processing of sugar cane was achieved through a complex process as beginning at the mill, where freshly cut reeds arrived, they were introducias by an operator at the mill. The canes were crushed by the action of two wheels found, yielding cane juice, which in turn was driven by wooden troughs to the boiler room. Furthermore, the rods or rod fragments that remained after this process were pressed in a press of large dimensions, to obtain the juice that had not been achieved by the action of the mill.</p><br>
<p>In the boiler room, the juice was poured into 5 or 6 boilers, color receiving large ovens - for 3-4 mts. height - called burners, bringing the cane juice is heated and concentrated. In the last of these boilers, called trash, you gave the point to Roan. Boiler, the juice obtained was taken to the house drain and mud poured into forms that had a hole in the bottom, covered with banana leaf. In these earthen vessels, crystallized sugar, giving, by runoff, a honey that was again poured over sugar loaves thereby achieving whitening purging or sugar.</p><br>
<p>Finally, the crystallized sugar pieces were placed in a solarium, which concluded the drying process, being ready for consumption.</p><br>
<p>It is important to note that in the sugar plantations of the New Spain, in the 17th century preferably use water mill water wheel, in combination with the press, while in the 18th century, it was common to use the mill animal traction.</p><br>
<h3>The value of the hacienda</h3><br>
<p>Importantly, according to studies conducted by Dr. Gisela Von Woebeser, specializing in sugar plantations of Morelos, San Jose Cocoyoc was one of the most valuable estates that were in the region and at a time ranked first place. And also notes that "great wits were comparable, in terms of value, the property belonging to the most prominent members of the landed elite of the city of Mexico, ranging from 75,000 to 15.00 pesos."</p><br>
<h2>Work</h2><br>
<p>The processing of sugar cane hacienda such, required a variety of skilled workers to carry out:</p><br>
<h3>Administrators</h3><br>
<p>Administrator: Usually a relative of the owner</p><br>
<p>Steward: Responsible for enforcing the orders of the Administrator</p><br>
<h3>In the fields</h3><br>
<p>Corporals, captains, Irrigators, Planters, Cutters, carretoneros, cane Lifters</p><br>
<h3>The Trapiche</h3><br>
<p>Grinders, Master of sugar, or meleros Boilermakers, wheeler-dealers, Homers, Ashtrays, Drain Master, Officers craftsmen: carpenters, arches, blacksmiths.</p><br>
<p>One of the biggest problems I face the sugar planter in colonial labor was. The first mills or mills employed Indian labor that gave them their own parcel. Indians also used rebels who had been enslaved and forced distribution resorted to Indians. However, the use of Indian labor was hampered by the dramatic decline in the Indigenous population that occurred especially in the 16th century and the restrictions imposed by the colonial authorities that privileged the use of Indian labor for the mining sector.</p><br>
<p>Given the difficulties faced by the indigenous labor employment, farmers resorted to buying African slaves.</p><br>
<p>These slaves performed a variety of jobs, working as wheeler-dealers, prenseros, bakers, tinkers, ashtrays and artisans. Also carried out field work, livestock and shepherds, or were serving as cocheres, carretoneros and carriers. Women slaves, meanwhile, performed jobs like cooking, child care and provide them the catechism. The purchase of slaves used to represent a very strong monetary investment for the landowner and it was common for the highest value of the sugar mills represent what precisely their slaves and machinery and land.</p><br>
<p>Slavery in the estates was not exempt from abuse and cruelty. They lived in miserable huts and could not ever leave the Iímites of the hacienda. To ensure the survival of the slaves, they were often marked as the cattle, with a hot iron on his face. Their living conditions were so deplorable that many victims died of disease, while some chose suicide to end their suffering. And it was common to avoid having children, to spare these penalties to which they would be subjected.</p><br>
<p>Among the slaves of the sugar mills, the situation calls attention guarding who played the position of Master of sugar, since that work experience required. This worker had to recognize when he was just right juice boiling sugar cane and had been in different boilers or copper pots. It motivated her condition was of great consideration from the rest of the workers whether slaves or free, and even in some cases have reached a power and respect so that they were seen as witches.</p><br>
<p>Taylor Memorial Chael at La Foret Conference and Retreat Center is a historic chapel in Black Forest, Colorado. It is a National Register of Historic Places listing.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The chapel was built in 1929 as a memorial to Alice Bemis Taylors husband, Frederick Morgan Pike Taylor. Designed by John Gaw Meem on the property of Taylors summer home, La Foret, it was her private place of worship until 1942 when she died. It was donated to the United Church of Christs Rocky Mountain Conference in 1944. The chapels interior and exterior were restored using a State Historic Fund grant of $120,000.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>It is historically significant because it is a John Gaw Meem "Santa Fe Style" church building, built north of the San Luis Valley. The pueblo chapel is surrounded by a walled courtyard near a ravine in the Ponderosa pine forest. It appears much as it had when originally built with stuccoed walls, log vigas, a bell from "an old mission church in New Mexico". The two-storied building is entered through double carved wooden doors. It has an altar and north and south transepts, each with side porches. Inside the church are a number of wood carvings features. Eugenie Shonnard carved 20-foot reredos of seven saints. Archways to the transepts "rough hewn wood carvings". The altar, pulput, lectern, and other furnishings are made of carved wood, also by Shonnard. Above the log vigas is a herringbone pattern made of Aspen saplings. Flagstone is used for flooring. A spiral staircase is used to access the second story where there is additional seating.</p><br>
<p>Bainbridge Bunting wrote in his book, ‘’John Gaw Meem: Southwestern Architect:’’</p><br>
<p>The Taylor chapel, Meem’s first essay in the traditional church form, was commissioned in 1928 by Mrs. Alice B. Taylor. As in his early Spanish-Pueblo houses, the forms here ten to be more picturesque, the batter of the walls is exaggerated, and the profiles of the parapets self-consciously irregular. The woodwork is also elaborately carved, much more so than any that survives in a mission church. This is especially true of two interior doors leading to the “transepts.” These and the reredos were carved by Meem’s friend Eugenie Shonnard...</p><br>
<p>It reflects Taylor’s values of piety and similicity, "passion for Southwestern art", and with an “unparalleled view” of Pikes Peak.</p><br>
<h2>La Foret</h2><br>
<p>The chapel is one of two historic properties located in the La Foret Conference and Retreat Center. The Ponderosa Lodge is also on the National Register of Historic Places. The center is located on 400 acres of meadows and Ponderosa pines.</p><br>
<p>The center had originally been a 500 acre summer estate of Alice Bemis Taylor, a philanthropist and an important Colorado Springs family. Mrs. Taylor held artist-in-residence programs on the estate she called La Foret. The Taylor Memorial Chapel was built one year after the lodge as a memorial to her husband, Frederick Morgan Pike Taylor. Alice Taylor died in 1942 and the property was deeded to the Colorado Congregational Church by the Bemis Taylor Foundation. The center is now open to United Church of Christ members, other denominations and organizations. La Foret now has a number of cabins, a dining hall, sports fields and courts, and outdoor theater seating.</p><br>
<h2>Black Forest fire</h2><br>
<p>Taylor Memorial Chapel and other buildings at La Foret Conference and Retreat Center were spared from the Black Forest fire (June, 2013), at least partly due to mitigation efforts.</p><br>
<p>The retreat center created the "Black Forest Strong" organization to serve as a resource to the recuperating Black Forest community. The seven point plan includes grief counseling, serving as a community resource center, providing aid to victims and organizing events. In addition, the plan includes preservation, reseeding efforts, and mitigation training and services.</p><br>
<p>The Hollow is an historic property and dwelling located near Markham, Fauquier County, Virginia, USA A part of the John Marshall&#39;s Leeds Manor Rural Historic District, it was the boyhood home of Chief Justice John Marshall, and includes the second-oldest dated home in the county. Both the property and the district are listed in the Virginia Landmarks Register  and National Register of Historic Places .</p><br>
<p>The property measures 322.32 acres, and is situated about 24 miles north of Warrenton, the Fauquier County seat. It lies just north of the village of Markham and I-66. It is bounded on the west by Leeds Manor Road (State Route 688), on the south by Marshall School Lane, southeast by Beulah Road, east by Naked Mountain, and north by about 38.925° latitude and the Naked Mountain Winery.</p><br>
<p>The dwelling is a 1½-story, three bay, Colonial-era frame structure, measuring about 28 x, built in 1763–64 near the southeast corner of the property, on a small ridge facing south towards Markham. It sits on an uncornsed fieldstone foundation. Also on the property are the contributing ruins of a meat house, built about 1763. The house was built by Colonel Thomas Marshall, a multi-term member of the House of Burgesses, county sheriff, clerk of the court, honored soldier and inventor, and father of Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court John Marshall.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. John and Viola Phillips House and Office, at S. 337 Spokane Ave. in Newport, Washington, is a historic house built in 1914. It includes Bungalow/craftsman architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 19.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant for association with "pioneer"-era physician Dr. John Phillips and</p><br>
<p>wife Viola, a registered nurse, who together served Newport from an office portion of this house, and also for its architecture. It is "a representative example" of a Craftsman-style bungalow. It was a work of local architect/engineer Harold A. Sewell and is well preserved. Dr. Phillips served Newport for 25 years, 13 in this house. Earlier he had bought an open-sided Mitchell automobile in 1907, the first car in Newport, which he used to rescue residents and help fire fighters during a major fire, the "Big Smoke", in 1910 (Great Fire of 1910?).</p><br>
