<p>The Carson Valley Hospital is a historic hospital located at 1466 USA Route 395 in Gardnerville, Nevada. The hospital was built in 1914 by Dr. E. H. Hawkins, the county physician and health officer of Douglas County. The hospital was regarded as one of Nevadas best, and it included modern tools such as an X-ray machine, a rarity in small town hospitals at the time. While Hawkins anticipated that Douglas County would need a modern hospital for its growing population, the countys population actually fell at the 1920 census, and the community struggled to keep its hospital open. Hawkins sold the hospital in 1918, and it closed in 1924. The building was used for housing until 1958, when it was vacated.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 29, 1979.</p><br>
<p>Wattle Grove Lake is an artificial lake in suburb of Wattle Grove, Sydney, Australia. It was constructed by Delfin in 1990 along with the surrounding Wattle Grove residential development.</p><br>
<p>Wattle Grove Lake lies within the Georges River catchment and the Liverpool District subcatchment.</p><br>
<h2>Parkland</h2><br>
<p>The lake is completely surrounded by Lakeside Park. The parkland includes two play areas and several fitness areas. There is a 15-minute walking trail that circles the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<p>Wattle Grove Lake includes a wildlife reserve, providing home for a variety of water birds. There is an wildlife island (innaccessable to humans) that houses ducks, swans and many other types of birds</p><br>
<p>A variety of fish live in the lake, including eels, etc.</p><br>
<p>Fishing, boating, and several other activities are strictly prohibited in the lake to protect wildlife.</p><br>
<p>Mansion House is a historic home located at McDowell, Highland County, Virginia. It was built in 1851, and is a two-story, three bay, "L"-shaped brick dwelling in the Greek Revival style. It has a central-passage/single-pile-plan. Also on the property are a contributing frame shed, and the sites of a log kitchen structure and outbuilding. The house served as an American Civil War hospital in the time around the Battle of McDowell on May 8, 1862. In 1886, the building was sold to James and Mary Bradshaw, who operated it as a hotel until 1930.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The house is now owned by the Highland County Historical Society and operated as the Highland County Museum.</p><br>
<p>McClung Farm Historic District is a historic home and national historic district located at McDowell, Highland County, Virginia. The district encompasses seven contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and three contributing structures. The main house was built in 1844, and is a two-story, five bay, brick dwelling with a single-pile, central-passage plan and an original two-story rear addition in a vernacular Federal style. It has a three bay wide front porch. The contributing buildings and structures besides the house include: a large barn, a small barn, a cattle ramp, an outhouse, a corncrib, a smokehouse, a shed, and the Clover Creek Presbyterian Church and its outhouse. The contributing sites are a wood shed foundation, the ruins of the McClung Mill, and the Clover Creek Presbyterian Church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h3>Historical Background</h3><br>
<p>The home was built in 1844 by William McClung. The land on which William McClung&#39;s house was built originally belonged to Wallace Estill. He first obtained the property in 1743 as part of a 344-acre patent. The proprety is on Clover Creek, a branch of the Bullpasture River, in an area that was then part of Augusta County.</p><br>
<p>The field to the east of the McClung House, between Route 678 and the Bullpasture River, is the traditional stie of both the Estill house and Fort George, one of a chain of stockaded outposts constructed during the French and Indian War to guard the frontier. Captain William Preston, of the Augusta County militia, constructed Fort George in 1757 near the house of William Estill. This location was ideal for a fort, because it was glose to a gap in the Blue Ridge and near the road that passed through the gap and forded the Bullpasture River beside Estill&#39;s house. (Because of its historical significance, the field has been kept in pasture and never plowed.) A 4 April 1747 letter from Captain Preston to Major Andrew Lewis, as well as other contemporary records, describes the fort in some detail.</p><br>
<p>On 18 August 1761, Wallace and Ann Estill conveyed 133 acres to their oldest son, Bowdy Estill. The ramining 211 acres were conveyed to John Peebles on 10 November 1774. During the following twenty-five years, James Wood, the governor of Virginia, granted four additional tracts of neighboring land to John Peebles. The fourt tracts included an 88-acre tract granted in 1781, a 193-acre tract and a 200-acre tract in 1783, and a 50-acre tract in 1797. These four parcels, along witht he original tract of land acquired from Wallace Estill, resulted in John Peebles&#39;s acquisition of an estate totaling 742 acres.</p><br>
<p>In John Peebless will dated 19 May 1800, he requested that his land be sold and the proceeds divided. Two of his sons, John and Thomas, as Johns executors, sold the original 211-acre tract along with four other tracts of land to Captain David Gwin, a Revolutionary War veteran, on 8 July 1806. Captain Gwin, devised the land to his son, David S. Gwin on 18 April 1820.</p><br>
<p>In 1821 Rachel Gwin, the daughter of Captain David Gwin, married William McClung. McClung was born on a Cowpasture River farm in Bath County in 1793, the son of John and Sara (McCutcheon) McClung. William and his new bride first settled in the house that was originally built by Wallace Estille where twelve of their children were born. On 29 December 1838, David S. Gwin sold 654 acres of his Bullpasture River land to his brother-in-law, William McClung.</p><br>
<p>By 1844 McClung had completed his new brick dwelling on land near the intersection of Clover Creek and the Bullpasture River. Of William and Rachel Gwin McClung&#39;s thirteen children, Louis (1846-1927), the youngest, was the only child born in the McClung house. Rachel McClung died in 1847, shortly after she moved into her new home.</p><br>
<p>William McClung spent most of his life in the area. He was a highly successful farmer, raising cattle and growing corn, wheat, buckwheat, and hay. By 1865, when he died, William McClung had acquired approximately eleven thousand acres of land in the region. He was the local postmaster at Clover Creek until his death when the post office closed.</p><br>
<p>Storehouse No. 4, also known as the Eagle Point Storehouse, is an historic storehouse located on International Street in Hyder, Alaska. It was built in 1896 under supervision of engineer David du Bose Gaillard. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Its interior dimensions are 10 x and its walls are 12 to 18 inches thick; along with three similar other storehouses it served the Portland Canal (a 71 mi fjord, not truly a canal). It is one of the first masonry structures to be built in Alaska. The reason for its construction is uncertain from period documents, but it appears to have been related to the Alaska boundary dispute with Canada. This dispute was resolved by arbitration in 1903, resulting the transfer in 1906 of the territories containing two of the other three storehouses to Canada.</p><br>
<p>The Sternwheeler Jean is a historic steamboat that operated on the Willamette River, in the USA state of Oregon. It is a 168 ft-long tugboat , built in 1938 for the Western Transportation Company  and in service until 1957. In August 1989, it was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in Nez Perce County, Idaho. At that time, it was located in Lewiston, Idaho, having been there since 1976. In Lewiston, its location changed from time to time, and Hells Gate State Park was among the locations where Jean was moored. As of 1997, it was still in Lewiston, afloat on the Snake River, but its operating equipment had been removed. Its private owner at that time, the James River Corporation, sold the tug in 1998. In July 2004, Jean was moved from Lewiston to Portland, Oregon. Subsequently, its twin paddle wheels have been removed.</p><br>
<p>William Rand Tavern, also known as Rectory of the Christ Episcopal Church, Sykes Inn, and Smithfield Inn, is a historic inn and tavern located at Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. It was built about 1752, and is a two-story, five bay, Georgian style brick and frame building. It has a standing-seam metal hipped roof with parged brick chimneys at the building ends. A rear addition was built in 1922-1923. It opened as a tavern in 1759, and operated as such until 1854, when the Vestry of Christ Church purchased it. The church sold the property in 1892, and it resumed use as an inn in 1922. It is now operated as a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. It is located in the Smithfield Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Fort Huger is a historic archaeological site located near Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. The site is the location of an abandoned American Civil War fort on the south side of the James River across from Fort Eustis / Mulberry Point. Fort Huger was an integral part of the Confederate States Army James River defenses in late summer 1861 through spring 1862.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<p>Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, Prepared by Edward K. Rawson, Comdr George P. Colvocoresses and Charles W. Stewart, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1901.</p><br>
<p>King, Helen Haverty. Historical Notes on Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Donning and Company, Virginia Beach, Virginia. 1993.</p><br>
<p>River of Lost Opportunities: The Civil War on the James River, 1861-1862. Ed Bearss, 1995.</p><br>
<p>Smithfield Historic District is a national historic district located at Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. It encompasses 289 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures in the historic downtown and surrounding residential areas of Smithfield. There are 211 houses, 37 commercial buildings, 1 warehouse, 4 churches, 10 barns, 1 smokehouse, 23 garages, 1 farm office, 1 colonial kitchen, and 2 corncrib structures. Notable buildings include the original county clerk&#39;s office , county jail, Wentworth-Barrett House , Wentworth–Grinnan House , King-Atkinson House , Smith-Morrison House , Hayden Hall , Boykin House , Goodrich House , Thomas House , Smithfield Academy , Christ Episcopal Church , and Hill Street Baptist Church . Located in the district and separately listed are the Old Isle of Wight Courthouse, Smithfield Inn, Windsor Castle Farm, and P. D. Gwaltney Jr. House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Upper Nihotupu Reservoir  is one of five reservoirs in the Waitakere Ranges that supply water to Auckland, New Zealand. Completed in 1923, the concrete gravity dam and its reservoir are managed by Water Care Services Limited, a council-owned company.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Construction was difficult due to the amount of rainfall and flooding in the area and spanned a total of 8 years. One person was killed during the construction of the bush tram line.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>The Nihotupu area and the picturesque Nihotupu Falls were a tourist attraction in the late 19th century before the dam for the reservoir was built.</p><br>
<p>A bush tram that was built during the construction of the dam and its water pipeline was used for the Water Care-run "Rainforest Express" tourist excursions. As at November 2014, the RFE is closed by Watercare until further notice along with the closure of the Waitakere Tramline simultaneously, by Watercare. Please enquire with Watercare for further information or look up Waitakere Tramline and NZ Regional Trains on facebook.The dam was the end point of the trips from Jacobson&#39;s Depot and can also be reached by walking track access from Piha Road. Steep steps lead up the face of the dam.</p><br>
<p>The Gene Stratton-Porter Cabin, also known as the Cabin at Wildflower Woods, is a historic cabin that was built in 1914 and is located in Rome City, Indiana. Currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the cabin was owned by author Gene Stratton-Porter. She lived continuously in the cabin through 1919, at which time she began splitting her time between Wildflower Woods in Rome City and her homes in California where she founded a movie studio.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The exterior of the cabin is built from Wisconsin white cedar. Part of the interior is paneled in cherry. The two-story structure includes a library and a darkroom. There are three fireplaces on the first floor, and one on the second, constructed from a variety of different stones. Stratton-Porter received inspiration from the woods around the premises, using that inspiration for studying nature, writing, and taking photographs. Some of her furniture and other belongings are still in the cabin, reflecting how she preferred to live her life.</p><br>
<p>The cabins design was based on a fictional cabin from Stratton-Porters writing, and closely resembles her first cabin named Limberlost Cabin. All of the electricity was sent through the cabin in electrical conduits, with the closest wires being a couple hundred feet away.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The first floor of the home now serves as a museum. There are 14 rooms, which have many of Stratton-Porter&#39;s pictures that she colored by hand, her reference books, and the pottery that she collected over the years. Built-in cabinetry houses Stratton-Porter’s collections.</p><br>
<p>There is a small admission charge for tours of the cabin, available April through December. The property, operated by the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites, also hosts many events throughout the year. The grounds are open daily from dawn until dusk.</p><br>
<p>The graves of Stratton-Porter and her only daughter, Jeannette, are near the cabin per the author&#39;s wish to be buried under her favorite tree.</p><br>
<p>Baddow House is a heritage-listed detached house at 366 Queen Street, Maryborough, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Willoughby Powell and built in 1883 by F Kinne. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Baddow House is a large brick residence constructed in 1883 for Edgar Thomas Aldridge and his family. It was designed by (at the time) Maryborough architect Willoughby Powell and constructed by local builder Fritz Kinne on high riverside land adjacent to the original site of Maryborough.</p><br>
<p>The original town of Maryborough, originally and unofficially called Wide Bay Village, was established on the Mary River approximately eight kilometres upstream from the current town centre. In August or September 1847 George Furber built a wharf and store on the southern bank of what was then generally called Wide Bay River. It operated as a reception centre for squatters running sheep in the area and primarily provided transport for wool. The river was officially named Mary River on 7 September 1847 by Governor Sir Charles Fitz Roy and the first shipment of wool was dispatched from the wharf in December 1847.</p><br>
<p>Edgar Aldridge was born in either Great Baddow or Little Baddow in Essex, England. It is believed that Aldridge named the house after his birthplace. He immigrated to Australia. Well born and educated, he became a hotel keeper on the Macleay River near Kempsey, New South Wales from about 1843 and began a variety of business pursuits. In June 1849 he married widow Maria Sarah Slater (nee Steele), a former convict. She had a child, Frederick Slater, from her previous marriage and Edgar and Maria had two children, Maria Rachael and Harry Edgar. In late 1849 the family moved to Maryborough. Edgar had visited the previous year to establish his businesses.</p><br>
<p>The Aldridges settled on the northern bank almost opposite Furbers wharf, establishing a store, wharves for timber and wool trading, and the settlements first hotel, the Bush Inn. Other settlers arrived and chose to settle near Aldridge. Furber then relocated his operations to the more popular northern bank.</p><br>
<p>The first years of settlement were extraordinarily troubled with deadly conflict between Europeans and Aborigines. This situation discouraged settlement. Aldridge petitioned the New South Wales government to send extra troopers in order to encourage settlement. The struggling settlement was officially named Maryborough on 23 January 1849.</p><br>
<p>In 1850 Surveyor Hugh Roland Labatt arrived in Maryborough with instructions to "examine the River Mary... to suggest... the best site or sites for the laying out of the town, having regard to the convenience of shipping on one hand and internal communication on the other... also... point out the spots desirable as reserves for public building, church, quay and for places for public recreation". The site recommended by Labatt was not where settlement was already established but further east, a decision not well received by the existing settlers who had invested time and money into the original township. Immediately, a government wharf was established at the new location able to service larger ships than was previously possible, effectively ending further development of the old town. Over the following decade the town relocated to its current location where it quickly thrived. The old town was abandoned and most of the buildings removed by 1856.</p><br>
<p>The Aldridges lived in their Bush Inn upon settling in Maryborough. Another child, Joey Edgar Aldridge was born in 1850 but died in 1851. At 1852 land sales of the new township, Edgar purchased many allotments in the new town and re-established his businesses there. In 1854 he purchased land at the old town including five allotments covering over 18,200 sqm. This land included part of a creek and the end of a spur of high land to the south. Aldridge built a timber slab house here. The land overlooked the nearby wharves and Aldridge&#39;s store and inn which soon ceased operation. The Aldridges cultivated extensive and productive gardens including experimental exotic species such as sugar cane, the first grown in the area. This established the viability of what would become an important and profitable crop for Maryborough. By 1863 the area was being called Baddow, presumably after the Aldridge house, but Aldridge letters and diaries call the area West Maryborough or The Old Town. The Aldridge finances improved rapidly with speculative land purchases and successful business ventures and in 1860 Edgar retired from business with management passing to his son Harry. Edgar held the position of Alderman of Maryborough from 1861 to 1864 and 1865 to 1866.</p><br>
<p>The 1880s were prosperous for the colony of Queensland as migration and capital investment created unprecedented growth. Maryboroughs growth was based on its role as the main port and centre for an extensive pastoral industry in the Wide Bay district, a sugar industry in the immediate vicinity of Maryborough, the Gympie goldfields, a timber industry in and around the main waterways, coal mining at Burrum and manufacturing industries such as Walkers foundry. Maryboroughs dominance as a regional centre was also strengthened by its role as the terminus for the railway line south to Gympie which was completed in 1881. Many significant buildings were constructed in the late 1870s and 1880s in Maryborough including: Maryborough Court House (1877), Bank of New South Wales (1877), St Pauls Church of England (1879), Maryborough Railway Station (1880), Maryborough Boys Grammar School (1881), Criterion Hotel (1883), Maryborough Mortuary Chapel (1884), Maryborough Base Hospital (1888), and the Maryborough School of Arts (1888).</p><br>
<p>During Maryboroughs prosperous period of the late 1870s and 1880s wealthy residents constructed fine, architect-designed suburban villas. During this period, the middle-class home was a stage for social ritual and was an outward manifestation of the occupants status in the community. The middle-class desired to emulate the lifestyle of the English gentry. Suburban villas were often built on the fringes of established urban areas throughout the colony, remote from the town centres. They are characterised by a semi-rural grandeur brought about by an elaborate and substantial detached house of a Classical style surrounded by a large restful garden. In Maryborough these included: villa for John Vivian Williams, Churchill Street (1879), Doon Villa (c.1882), Riversleigh, corner North and Elizabeth Streets (1882), villa for JE Brown, Woodstock Street (1882), villa for Robert Hart (1883), and Philadelphia Villa, corner Lennox and North Streets (1884).</p><br>
<p>Construction of Baddow House was begun in 1883. It cost approximately £6600 and replaced the previous Aldridge house except for the detached kitchen which was retained for use in the new house. It was designed by architect Willoughby Powell (c.1848-1920) who came to Maryborough in 1882 to capitalise on the building boom in the growing town. Powell was born in Cheltenham, England where he trained as an architect before immigrating to Queensland in 1872. He worked for Brisbane architect Richard Gailey before joining the Queensland Public Works Department in 1874. Powell won a competition for the design of the Toowoomba Grammar School (1875) and left the Department of Public Works to supervise its construction. Other examples of Powells work include Warwick Town Hall (1888) and Toowoomba City Hall (1900). Baddow House for Maryboroughs wealthiest resident was one of his first works completed during his three-year stay in Maryborough. He completed at least 14 projects including two other villas in the town as well as shops, hotels, a mortuary chapel, and a parsonage. Baddow House was built by local builder Carl Friedrich "Fritz" Kinne (1844-1929), a German immigrant who arrived in Maryborough in 1871. Kinne was responsible for constructing many Maryborough buildings, including the extensions for St Mary&#39;s Roman Catholic Church for architect FDG Stanley in 1884, and was later elected Alderman (1890–98) and the Mayor of Maryborough (1895).</p><br>
<p>Maria Aldridges health began to decline in the early 1880s and Aldridge diaries suggest she spent the majority of her last years at another Aldridge property at Booral, by the sea. She died at Booral 17 March 1886. Edgar paid for the construction of memorials to her within Maryborough - St Thomass Church of England and a large free-standing bell tower for St Paul&#39;s Church of England - that were completed in 1887.</p><br>
<p>Edgar died 18 May 1888 in Baddow House. He was not a wealthy man by this time and when the house passed to his son Harry, who lived there with his wife Lappy and their children until his death 4 February 1910, in 1912 the Bank of New South Wales foreclosed on the property and disposed of it by auction. Lappy Aldridge and her children moved to the Booral property.</p><br>
<p>After the Aldridges, the house passed through many hands. First, it was transferred to Hugh Biddles in 1913. After his death in 1939, it was transferred to Ethel Stiler in 1942. Under her ownership the verandahs were removed and the grounds were cleared of gardens. During the clearing of the gardens, a Canary Island Date Palm that survived from the Aldridge years was damaged in a rubbish fire. A photo taken during the latter years of the Stilers ownership clearly shows the burnt stump has a regrowth shoot. Around this time the house is thought to have been used briefly as a girls boarding house for St Mary&#39;s Catholic School, Maryborough. Baddow House was transferred to the Crown in 1950 with the intention of use as a migrant hostel. This never occurred and the house remained empty and unused and was greatly vandalised. In 1954 the Boy Scouts Association of Queensland used Baddow House as their meeting hall. By this time the kitchen that had been retained from the previous house had been demolished, although the cellar under it survived. During the occupation by the Scouts some repair of the vandalism was undertaken by caretakers. Allotments 1 and 2, upon which the house stands, were purchased in 1967 by Donald and Daphne Scott. The remainder of the estate land continues to be in Crown ownership and is part of the parkland reserved for the Old Maryborough Town Site. It was then purchased by John and Lois Hastings in 1973, John Stevens in 1981, Tony Nioa in April 1986, and then by Barrie and Janice Christison in November 1986. The Christisons used the upper floor as their residence and opened the lower floor as a museum, displaying historical paraphernalia. In 1988 buried bricks were uncovered while building a car park. These were considered to be from the cellar now buried and filled with earth. The opening of the house as a museum was well-published, popular, and successful. In this period when Maryborough was generally promoting itself as a "Heritage City" the house gained a high profile within the local community which continues today.</p><br>
<p>In 2003 the house was purchased by Ian Russell and Anne De Lisle. The house underwent a substantial renovation during the following three years. Local architect, Marion Graham, managed the project which included concrete underpinning, repair of rendering internally and externally, rebuilding of verandahs, and the construction of a one- storey wing to the south corner containing kitchen, garage, study, and bathroom. With reconstruction, the interior is a combination of new and original fabric. This work included recovery, repair, and rehanging of the large folding cedar doors in the ground floor reception rooms; rebuilding fireplace surrounds; repair or replacement of cedar joinery, doors and windows rehung or replaced; floors and ceilings repaired with some replacements of boards; and the whole interior plastered and painted. The reconstruction of the verandah was done to the dimensions and character of the original. The gardens were extensively redeveloped and planted. Much of the renovation was done by local tradespeople. The book "A Grand Passion: A memoir" by owner Anne De Lisle published in 2007 documents this period and the work undertaken and has raised the public profile of the house significantly.</p><br>
<p>Baddow House remains a private residence in 2011. Highly regarded by the local community, it is occasionally used as a venue for fundraising events.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Baddow House is a large, two-storey Neo-Georgian residence with an extensive garden on the northern end of a ridge beside the Mary River, Maryborough. It is one of the largest residences in Maryborough. On two equal lots totalling 7284 m2, the land is bound on the north- western and south-western sides by treed parkland, on the north- eastern side by an unformed road reserve for Queen Street, and on the south-eastern side by Russell Street. The front of the house faces north-east to the road reserve and views to the Mary River are to the west.</p><br>
<p>The building is of brick construction rendered and scored to resemble ashlar coursing. It has a hipped roof clad with corrugated metal sheets and a timber verandah with twin steel posts and decorative cast iron balustrade that wraps around the north-east, north-west, and south-west sides on both levels. The building, sitting within an established garden of lawns, trees, and garden beds, is in a Neo- Georgian style and the principal elevations are symmetrically composed. The house roof has three large, cement-rendered chimneys with mouldings and conical metal roof ventilators.</p><br>
<p>The north-eastern (front) elevation is viewed from the reserve of Queen Street below. A wide, central, cement-rendered stair leads from the garden onto the verandah. Flanking the entrance doorway and projecting onto the verandah are two octagonal bay windows rising across both levels with separate hipped roofs. Entrance is through a large round arched opening fitted with a panelled door surrounded by sidelight and a fanlight. The windows are large square headed openings fitted with double-hung, timber framed sashes.</p><br>
<p>The verandah is a reconstruction; has a timber floor, decorative cast-metal balustrade, frieze, and brackets; timber handrail; and panels of timber lattice screening the corners of the upper level. Under its own roof, the verandah wraps around to the symmetrical north-western elevation composed of three large windows and continues around onto the south-western elevation composed of one octagonal bay window and a secondary entrance via a central square-headed opening fitted with a panelled and glazed door surrounded by sidelights and a fanlight. The rear, south-eastern elevation, visible from Russell Street, has a central back door and a projecting service block at the eastern end containing laundry (ground floor) and bathroom (first floor). The laundry has large timber fixed louvred windows and the bathroom has small square-headed windows. The service block has a parapet roof that conceals a roof level water tank that supplied the rooms below. This tank was filled by a hand pump mounted externally on the wall at ground level which is connected to the underground beehive tanks nearby. The verandah on the upper level returns along the rear facade at the western end but it is narrower. Abutting the southern corner of the rear is a one-storey extension with hipped roofs and a large awning. This extension is designed to imitate traditional detail but is not of cultural heritage significance.</p><br>
<p>The plan of the two-storey part of the house is repeated on the two levels. A central, T-shaped hall provides access to the five main rooms and a decorative timber switch back stair with decorative turned balustrade and carved newel post finial provides vertical circulation. Generally, the interior walls are plaster with timber skirtings, timber architraves, and plaster cornices, all moulded. The floors and ceilings are timber boards. Internal doors are timber with four panels with bolection moulding and glazed horizontal-pivoting fanlights. The six fireplaces have moulded timber mantelpieces and metal fire surrounds and either a metal grate or stove. A timber partition of horizontal beaded boards divides the northern rooms on the upper level and this wall in the lower level contains large folding door with six panels with bolection moulding and matching timber panelling above the opening. The ceilings on the ground floor rooms are 4.2 m high with those of the first floor being 3.7 m high. The house contains cedar joinery throughout. The house contains much furniture and paintings brought into the house by the current owners. An octagonal side table and two framed paintings are in the dining room and may have been owned by the Aldridges. The Aldridge Collection is held by the Maryborough Military and Colonial Museum and contains domestic items donated to the museum by a member of the Aldridge family. It may give providence for the side table and paintings and also evidence of the domestic history of Baddow House.</p><br>
<p>During World War II, the iron lacework was removed from the verandahs to contribute to the war effort.</p><br>
<p>The garden shows evidence of past landscaping including terracing for a past driveway and decorative cast-iron fence posts with chain link fence. There are two large brick underground "beehive" water tanks in the grounds near the house. One is near the south-east side of the house and is 5.2 m in width and of a similar depth. The other is further down the bank in front of the house and is of a similar construction. A Canary Island Date Palm (Phoenix canariensis) is planted near the front (northern) steps. Nothing of the other vegetation on the site is of cultural heritage significance.</p><br>
<p>Archaeological evidence may survive in the grounds or under the house that may provide information pertaining to the 1850s to 1880s occupation of the site by the first settlers in Maryborough or of earlier landscaping elements of the house.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>Baddow House was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland&apos;s history.</p><br>
<p>Baddow House, Maryborough (1883) provides evidence of the development of regional Queensland during the economic boom of the 1870s and 1880s when Maryborough, already a busy port, became a major regional town and agricultural, pastoral, industrial, and commercial centre for Queensland.</p><br>
<p>The place, combined with surviving documentary and photographic evidence, contributes to our understanding of the way of life of wealthy families in the establishment and development of major regional towns.</p><br>
<p>The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Queensland&apos;s history.</p><br>
<p>Baddow House has the potential to reveal further information about domestic life of wealthy regional Queenslanders in the 1880s through an examination of the existing fabric in combination with documentary evidence. In particular, the examination of the water reticulation system, including beehive water tanks, hand pump, and rooftop tank, which is a rare and early hydraulic system, may provide further information regarding the technical accomplishments in providing domestic services that were sophisticated for the time.</p><br>
<p>Baddow House has the potential to contribute to our understanding of the effects of the 1870s-1880s economic boom on an important early regional Queensland community. Baddow House has potential to contain important subsurface archaeological features and deposits from the 1850s to the early 20th century. This may include evidence associated with the second Baddow House (-), the construction and design of the extant house and early gardens, and its ownership by two generations of the Aldridge family. Archaeological investigations of Baddow House may inform on consumption choices and patterns of the Aldridge family before, during and after the 1870s-1880s boom period. These investigations may provide an important insight into the perceptions of class and taste over an extended time and in a period of important social and economic change in Maryborough.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.</p><br>
<p>Baddow House is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a substantial, architect-designed Queensland suburban villa of the late 19th century. These characteristics include: the form (detached, two-storeyed); structural materials (brick); planning of both the house (public rooms downstairs, attached rear service rooms, bedrooms on the upper floor, and verandahs) and the grounds (siting of the house overlooking the river amongst landscaped gardens); and decorative detailing and finishes (including external render, internal plaster, ornate cedar joinery, panelled doors, stained glass). The place evokes a strong sense of grace, genteel languor, tranquillity and seclusion through its setting - a characteristic of the original design which rarely survives at other suburban villas in Queensland.</p><br>
<p>It is a fine example of the work of Queensland architect, Willoughby Powell and of Maryborough builder Fritz Kinne, both skilled professionals, prominent and successful within their fields.</p><br>
<p>The Civic Center Financial District is a historic district composed of five buildings near the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Marengo Avenue in Pasadena, California. The Security Pacific Building and the Citizens Bank Building are located at the intersection itself and considered the centerpieces of the district, while the MacArthur, Mutual, and Crown Buildings are located on North Marengo. The buildings, which were built between 1905 and 1928, are all architecturally significant buildings used by financial institutions in the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Security Pacific Building, built in 1924, is an eight-story Second Renaissance Revival building. The building features an arcade loggia at its entrance and a terra cotta first-floor facade imitating pink granite.</p><br>
<p>The Citizens Bank Building, built in 1914, is a seven-story Neoclassical building. The building&#39;s design includes a terra cotta facade on its first floor, Doric pilasters at the entrance and between the first-floor windows, a bracketed cornice, and a metal clock facing the intersection of Colorado and Marengo.</p><br>
<p>The MacArthur Building, built in 1926, is a two-story brick building with a terra cotta front facade. The building&#39;s doorway has a two-story Ionic column on each side, and the front corners feature Doric pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The Mutual Building, built from 1905 to 1909, is a two-story brick building. The first floor was faced in wood and stucco after the buildings construction. The buildings wooden double doors feature oval panes of glass. The Mutual Building and the Crown Building are connected by a wooden deck.</p><br>
<p>The Crown Building, built in 1907, is a two-story brick building. The building&#39;s terra cotta facade was added in 1928. The second story of the building has a Beaux-Arts design with pilasters separating the windows, a cornice above the first floor and below the roof, and a parapet roof.</p><br>
<p>The five buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Lake Pinaroo lies in Sturt National Park in the Far West region of New South Wales, Australia. On 17 March 1996 the lake was recognised as a wetland of international importance by designation  under the Ramsar Convention.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Pinaroo is an ephemeral lake in the arid north-western corner of New South Wales (NSW) near Cameron Corner. It forms the largest terminal basin within the NSW part of the Simpson–Strzelecki Dunefields bioregion. It is subject to erratic flood events interspersed with extended dry periods; once full, it may take up to six years to dry out.</p><br>
<h3>Flora and fauna</h3><br>
<p>Because it holds water for much longer periods than other wetlands in the desert region, it is regionally important as a breeding site and drought refuge for many kinds of animals, especially waterbirds that have bred on, for example, interdune swamps that only retain water for a few months. Waterbirds for which the site is important when inundated include freckled and blue-billed ducks. It is also used as a staging site by migratory waders such as black-tailed godwits, common greenshanks, marsh sandpipers and red-necked stints. It provides opportunities to see large flocks of desert birds such as budgerigars. Other animals recorded at the site are the eastern long-eared bat and interior blind snake.</p><br>
<p>The New South Wales Central Murray Forests lie on the floodplain of the Murray River in the Riverina region of south-central New South Wales, Australia. On 20 May 2003 the forests were recognised as a wetland site of international importance  by designation under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The 840 km site comprises three geographically separate, though interrelated, areas: the Murray Valley National and Regional Parks, the Werai Forests, and the Koondrook–Perricoota Forests. They contain a wide variety of wetlands including rivers, lakes, drainage channels, marshes and swamps. The site has a long history of water regulation for agriculture, as well as pastoralism and timber harvesting.</p><br>
<h3>Flora and fauna</h3><br>
<p>320 native plant species have been recorded in the New South Wales Murray Forests. The site is dominated by river red gum forest, with box woodland and sandhill communities, and is subject to regular flooding. Importantly, there are trees of over 200 years of age present. Moira grass plains dominated by moira grass (Pseudoraphis spinescens) are found on rises and river banks.</p><br>
<p>Threatened species include the fish Murray cod, trout cod and Murray hardyhead, the birds Australian painted snipe, Australasian bittern and superb parrot, as well as swamp wallaby grass.</p><br>
<p>The forests provide shaded water as shelter and are important spawning grounds for native fish species. Native fish such as the golden perch (Macquaria ambigua), Murray cod and silver perch (Bidyanus bidyanus) migrate as far as 300 km upstream and 900 km downstream.</p><br>
<p>St Mary&#39;s Roman Catholic Church is a heritage-listed church at 271-275 Adelaide Street, Maryborough, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia, on land donated to the Church by Maryborough pioneer James Cleary. It was designed by Francis Drummond Greville Stanley and built from 1869 to 1872 by G Smith and J Thomas. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St Mary&#39;s Roman Catholic Church was constructed in several stages and incorporates the first permanent Roman Catholic church in Maryborough started in 1869 to a design of Charles Tiffin. The building was enlarged in two major stages of construction, the first in 1884-5 to the design of FDG Stanley and then in 1936 to the design of local architect, POE Hawkes.</p><br>
<p>The original township of Maryborough was situated, not in its current place, but on the north of the Mary River, after wharves were established in 1847-8 providing transport for wool from sheep stations on the Burnett River. In 1850 Surveyor, Hugh Roland Labatt arrived in Maryborough with instructions to "examine the River Mary...to suggest...the best site or sites for the laying out of the town, having regard to the convenience of shipping on one hand and internal communication on the other...also...point out the spots desirable as reserves for public building, church, quay and for places for public recreation." The site recommended by Labatt was not where settlement was established but further east and from the early 1850s this is where the growing town developed. As part of the survey two acres of land, through which a creek ran, in Section 85 was set aside for the Roman Catholic Church.</p><br>
<p>To service the early Roman Catholic community in Maryborough, Father James Hanley from Brisbane, visited Maryborough and held baptismal services. The first service was held in August 1852 in the house of the local chief constable. Towards the end of the 1850s the town of Maryborough developed with the erection of several public buildings including churches, and in 1856 a decision was made by the Roman Catholic community to erect a timber building to house 300 people. The tender of Linklater and Thompson was accepted and the church was ready for use in 1858, though not on the reserved site which was subject to flooding. A new site had been donated to the church by James Cleary and this has remained the principal Roman Catholic church site in Maryborough. The timber building was erected principally as a school house, but used as a service centre when Hanley&#39;s replacement, Dean Rigby visited Maryborough.</p><br>
<p>After the separation of the State of Queensland in 1859, the Roman Catholic Church formed the Brisbane Diocese encompassing the entire state. Bishop James Quinn was appointed and he arrived in his diocese in 1861 and immediately made plans to visit the populated areas, including Maryborough. He arrived in the town on 25 July 1861 with two fellow priests, one of whom, Father Tissot, remained in Maryborough as the first parish priest.</p><br>
<p>By 1867 Father Tissot and his congregation considered the timber building inadequate as their church and steps were made to construct a new permanent church. It was in this year that gold was found in Gympie and the development of Maryborough, as the port of the gold fields, was rapid. The services of Brisbane architect, Charles Tiffin were procured to design the new brick church and the foundation stone was laid on 29 July 1869. Tiffin was a well known public architect who was appointed to the position of Clerk of Works of Moreton Bay in 1857 and in 1859 he became the first Queensland Colonial Architect and was responsible for the design of many well known Brisbane landmarks, including Old Government House, Parliament House and the (now demolished) Public Lands Office. He also designed several buildings in Maryborough including the Government Bond Store in Wharf Street and the Post Office.</p><br>
<p>St Mary&#39;s Roman Catholic Church, as it became known, was completed and opened at a service conducted by Father Tissot on 4 February 1872. The building was constructed by local contractors G Smith and J Thomas under the supervision of WN Davidson. When completed, the church was described as Early English and of brick with stone quoining and detailing. The building had a steeply pitched gabled roof clad with shingles. Side aisles extended the length of the four-bay nave and these were lined with double lancets. The plan incorporated a small porch, chancel and two sacristies. Father Tissot landscaped the grounds surrounding the church and provided the a chancel screen and other timber panelling carved by himself. He is thought to have been involved with the design of the high altar and the carved timber canopy, or baldacchino above the altar. Provision was made in the design for extension of the church at a later date.</p><br>
<p>On 21 November 1882, at a meeting presided over by the new Bishop, Robert Dunne, a decision was made to extend St Marys. The services of Colonial Architect, FDG Stanley were sought and plans for alterations were prepared and the church was re-opened in May 1884. The contractor for the work was Fritz Kinne at a cost of £1871. The additions included the extension of the nave by three bays and the erection of a large chancel. The roof was reclad with slate and several ventilation gablets were added near the ridge. Internally the church was painted by Messrs OMalley and Mill. A new set of Stations of the Cross from Lyons, described as oleographs or coloured lithographs printed with oil paints, were framed in gold.</p><br>
<p>During the nineteenth century the Roman Catholic Church in Maryborough continued to grow with several outbranches of the parish established in surrounding areas. A large presbytery, convent and school were constructed. In 1912 a new organ and blower, costing £900, were installed in the gallery of St Mary&#39;s.</p><br>
<p>Substantial alterations were made at St Mary&#39;s in 1936 to the design of innovative local architect, POE Hawkes and carried out by contractor, Herbert Neilson for £7000. Again, the length of the building was extended, north and south chancels were added, as were sacristies, confessionals and a baptistry. The organ was moved from the gallery and placed in the Sacred Heart transept. Externally, the building was rendered and an entrance was formed from Adelaide Street, where previously access was provided only from Bazaar Street. A marble high altar was made by local craftsman, Mr Prout. A cock was added to the western gable of the church reflecting the French ties of Monsignor MacCarthy, the then parish priest. Cocks were traditionally added to the roofs of French churches to symbolise resentment over Italian dominance of the papacy.</p><br>
<p>Minor alterations have been made to the church since 1936, including the recladding of the roof with tiles and rib and pan roofing in two stages in 1959 and 1967. A section of the timber floor of the body of the church was replaced with concrete in 1979, followed by work in 1980 to stabilise foundations in the north western corner. A porch was constructed on the northern transept in 1987 and the timber canopy over the high altar was removed in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>St Mary&#39;s Church is centrally located in metropolitan Maryborough. The complex comprises the stuccoed masonry church, stone and concrete grotto, and two modern steel and canvas shelters.</p><br>
<p>The nave of St Mary&#39;s runs north west/south east on the block between Adelaide and Bazaar Streets with pedestrian access provided from both of these streets. The principal entrance to the complex is via Adelaide Street, at which end is the entrance of the church, with the chancel end of the building, and transepts at the Bazaar Street end. The building has a steeply pitched gabled roof, and with gothic accoutrements and essentially cruciform plan formed by the long nave and intersecting transepts, the building conforms with many of the ideals of gothic ecclesiastical architecture.</p><br>
<p>The principal facade of the building comprises the centrally located gable end of the building, abutted to the north east by a smaller gabled section surmounted by a small plaster statue of a rooster. On the face of the main gabled bay is a centrally located entrance formed by a gabled porch, surmounted by a statue of Our Lady and flanked by plaster moulded pinnacles. Above this is a large traceried stained glass window of five lancets with foils above. The roof is concealed by a moulded string coursed parapet which encircles the building. Surmounting this parapet on the central gable of the front of the building is a Latin Cross.</p><br>
<p>St Mary&#39;s Church has a seven bay nave, defined by internal columns supporting a nave arcade of pointed arched openings above which are small quatrefoil opening within triangular recesses forming the clerestory of the building. Around the altar the order of architecture changes to classical and, as a continuation of the nave arcade, Corinthian columns support an entablature to create the chancel space. On the entablature are painted, in relief lettering, several religions phrases in Latin, and this writing continues around the cornice line of the transepts at this end of the building. In one of the transepts is a large organ.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>St Marys Roman Catholic Church was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland&apos;s history.</p><br>
<p>St Mary&#39;s Church the principal Roman Catholic Church in Maryborough illustrates the growth of the town from a small port to a large regional city. The church demonstrates the development of the catholic church in regional Queensland, from the establishment of centres in major regional towns in the mid nineteenth century to upgrading facilities during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.</p><br>
<p>The building is a characteristic example of a large regional Roman Catholic Church, with substantial sections dating from the nineteenth century and sympathetic early twentieth century additions.</p><br>
<p>The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.</p><br>
<p>St Mary&#39;s has aesthetic and architectural merit as the work of a group of talented architects, forming a well composed building on a prominent Maryborough site. The building features fine craftsmanship, particularly the marble high altar, stained glass windows, Stations of the Cross and joinery.</p><br>
<p>The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.</p><br>
<p>The building has important spiritual associations with the Roman Catholic community in Maryborough as their place of public worship for 125 years and has association with many of the parish priests who were responsible for adding to or altering the building.</p><br>
<p>The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland&apos;s history.</p><br>
<p>The building has associations with architects, Charles Tiffin and FDG Stanley and with POE Hawkes, an innovative Maryborough architect.</p><br>
<h2>Historic events</h2><br>
<p>Bishop James Quinn arrived in the diocese in 1861. Bishop Quinn began his first visit of the diocese accompanied by Father Renehan and Father Tissot, who also had recently arrived. They left Brisbane on the steamer Clarence on 23 July 1861, and two days later arrived in Maryborough. Fr. Tissot remained in Maryborough and became its first resident priest.</p><br>
<p>1852: First Mass in Maryborough.</p><br>
<p>1852: Home of Sergeant (constable) William McAdam, at Baddow.</p><br>
<p>1858: Wooden church/school. A school house was built on the present presbytery site in early 1858. Mass was celebrated here when priests visited.</p><br>
<p>On 15 July 18, it transferred from James Cleary to Arch Quinn.</p><br>
<p>On 29 July 1869, the foundation stone for the new church was laid.</p><br>
<p>Between 1869 and 1872 the church was built.</p><br>
<p>From 6 July 1870 to April 1880, the parish school was in the care of the Sisters of St. Joseph.</p><br>
<p>On 4 February 1872, St. Mary&#39;s church was completed and blessed by Bishop Quinn. The architect was Charles Tiffin.</p><br>
<p>On 26 April 1872, the churchs benefactor James Cleary died at age 78. Cleary was buried in St Marys church. The land was donated by himself.</p><br>
<p>On Saturday 10 July 1875, Fr. Tissot departed for Brisbane en route to France. He died in the Paris on 16 February 1895.</p><br>
<p>On 24 February 1878 the Sacred Heart church Tiaro opened.</p><br>
<p>Suddenly Thomas O&#39;Brien died, while going to Bundaberg on Wednesday 12 June 1878.</p><br>
<p>From 1878 to 1879, Fr. Hanley administered the parish until was suddenly transferred to Bundaberg parish causing the parishioners to become upset.</p><br>
<h3>1880s</h3><br>
<p>In April 1880, the Sisters of St Joseph departed. The school was closed for a short time in between the two orders leaving and arriving.</p><br>
<p>Thursday 1 April 1880 – Sisters of Mercy arrive.</p><br>
<p>Between 1884 and 1885, St Mary&#39;s was extended. The architect was F. D. G. Stanley.</p><br>
<p>The extensions were blessed 10 May 1885 by Bishop Dunne.</p><br>
<p>In May 1887, plans were drawn for the first presbytery.</p><br>
<p>On Sunday, 2 September 1888, Archbishop Duhig blessed and opened the Christian Brothers school. This school was amalgamated in 1979 with the Mercy Sisters girls secondary school to form the new "St Mary&#39;s College".</p><br>
<p>In 1888, the parish established a secondary boys school, inviting the Christian brothers to staff the college on its present site in 1888. (In 1979 the college became co-educational by the amalgamation with the Sisters of Mercys St. Marys high school for girls established on the site now occupied by St. Mary&#39;s primary.</p><br>
<h3>1890s</h3><br>
<p>In 1892, a new convent was built and blessed Sunday 27 August 1893.</p><br>
<p>In 1898, Fr. Reilly transferred to Brisbane. He died on 4 February 1904 at the age of 63.</p><br>
<h3>1910s</h3><br>
<p>In 1912, the organ was installed at a cost of £900.</p><br>
<h3>1920s</h3><br>
<p>Fr. Brady died on 21 June 1922 at the age of 62.</p><br>
<h3>1930s to present</h3><br>
<p>On 22 March 1936, a second extension was added to the parish. The work included relocating the entrance to Adelaide St and adding a chancel. The architect was P. O. E. Hawkes and construction was carried out by H. G. Neilsen. After its completion on Sunday 29 November 1936, it was blessed by Bishop James Duhig.</p><br>
<p>In 1936 a large stained glass window designed by William Bustard (1894–1973) and created by RS Exton and Co of Brisbane, was donated by the Corser brothers.</p><br>
<p>The stained glass window above the high altar was donated by Mr. Stellmach.</p><br>
<p>In 1958 Aramara became part of the parish. The church in Aramara was built, blessed and opened in 1950. It was the only church in the parish with a spire.</p><br>
<p>In 1972 it was decided that a new presbytery and hall were to be built. The work was carried out the following year and was blessed on 21 October 1973 by Arch Rush. Lyons who retired in May 1978.</p><br>
<p>In 1977 the wooden flooring was replaced with concrete.</p><br>
<p>Between 1989 and 1991, the organ underwent a full restoration.</p><br>
<p>On 4 August 1991 it was rededicated.</p><br>
<p>On 9 February 1993 the church was restored by Bellero Constructions with architectural designs by Hurst and Harris Pty Ltd.</p><br>
<p>In 1994 the church was declared a heritage building.</p><br>
<p>On 24 May 2000 a jubilee wall hanging was unveiled with a cabinet crafted by Brian White and his sons, Chris and Lucas. The cabinet was funded by the Gambling Community Benefit Fund.</p><br>
<h3>Parish priests</h3><br>
<p>1861–1875: Fr. Paul Tissot. He was born in Lyon, France, 1801.</p><br>
<p>1875–1878: Fr. Thomas O&#39;Brien.</p><br>
<p>1879–1898: Fr. John O&#39;Reilly.</p><br>
<p>1898–1922: Fr. Phillip Brady. Previously Fr. Brady had been assistant priest.</p><br>
<p>1922–1925: Fr. Patrick Brady. He was Fr. Phillip Brady&#39;s brother. He moved to Brisbane in 1925 and died in 1951.</p><br>
<p>1926–1941: Dean John Francis McCarthy (later Monsignor McCarthy).</p><br>
<p>1941–1957: Fr. Martin Jordan. He died on 17 April 1957. The grotto erected in 1951 was in memory of his nephew, who was killed in active service of the USA in Korea.</p><br>
<p>1957–1978: Fr. Robert Lyons (later Monsignor).</p><br>
<p>1978–1989: Fr. Guilford Lyons.</p><br>
<p>1989–2002: Fr. Harry Bliss.</p><br>
<p>2002–2005: Fr. Anthony Mellor.</p><br>
<p>2005–present: Fr. Paul Kelly.</p><br>
<p>The Farmers and Merchants Bank, now the Nampa Public Library, at 101 11th Ave., S., in Nampa, Idaho is an Idaho bank building whose construction began in 1919. It was designed by Idahos most notable architects Tourtellotte & Hummel in Classical Revival style that suggests solidity. It is a 60 ft by 90 ft two-story building with a portico consisting of a pediment supported by two pairs of Ionic columns. The pediments tympanum contains an eagle sculpture. Within the portico, above the front door of the bank, is "Nampa Public Library" in block letters and a smaller pediment is sculpted and includes insignia of the First National Bank.</p><br>
<p>A banking downturn hit, however, before it was completed, and the Farmers and Mechanics Bank company was absorbed by the First National Bank. The building was occupied by the Stockmen&#39;s National Bank company, which was absorbed by the First Security Bank in 1927. The building was donated to the city of Nampa for use as its library by the First Security Bank in 1965.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant in part for its architecture, in particular for "its sculpted pediments on the portico and above the door, and for its fine stained glass skylight, which is still in place."</p><br>
<p>As of 2007 it was still serving as Nampa&#39;s public library.</p><br>
<p>Henry Aldous Dixon was managing vice president of the bank from 1924 to 1932, between two terms as superintendent of a university.</p><br>
<p>The Nampa Historic District is a 3 acre historic district in Nampa, Idaho that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing included 10 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>Its National Register nomination described:The district is historically significant for its association with Nampas commercial development during the period 1905 through 1920, a major period of growth during which Nampas main street, First Street South, gained a full complement of two-story brick business blocks.</p><br>
<p>It includes part or all of the 1200 and 1300 blocks of S. 1st St. in Nampa, and it includes work by architects Tourtellotte & Hummel. Tourtellotte & Hummel designed the one-story Nampa Department Store (1919) in the 1300 block, also the two-story Nampa Department Store at 1307 First Street South (1910).</p><br>
<p>The Phyle Cave is a small cave on Mount Parnes near Fyli , a suburb of Athens in Attica, Greece. In ancient Greece it was the site of a sanctuary to Pan and the nymphs. It is also known as Lychnospilia for the large number of oil lamps found in the cave. It has been identified as the cave which occurs in the Dyskolos of Menander. The cave was excavated in 1901. Three votive reliefs found in the cave are now on display in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.</p><br>
<p>Because of its use for the veneration of Pan the cave is also called the Cave of Pan. It was one of the five caves of Pan in the vicinity of ancient Athens.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>In Attica most cave shrines dedicated to Pan and the nymphs featured a common type of votive relief. These show three females led by Hermes, often accompanied by Pan and Achelous (for his association with water), within a rocky framework simulating a cave entrance. The female figures are often identified as nymphs or sometimes more specifically the Charites. These reliefs were also found in the Phyle Cave and are now exhibited in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens as inventory numbers 1448, 1859 and 1879.</p><br>
<p>Number 1879 is particularly complex and interesting. The relief shows a mountain god, Pan, a satyr playing the syrinx and Achelous with a cornucopia. They surround the familiar group of three females near a basin fed by a lion-head waterspout. The waterspout is pierced so that it could supply the water for the actual basin in the cave itself. Various dates have been proposed for the relief ranging from the middle of the fourth century BC to the first century BC, with the later Hellenistic date being more likely.</p><br>
<p>The Chautauqua Pavilion is an octagonal pavilion located in Chautauqua Park in Hastings, Nebraska. The pavilion was constructed in 1907 for summer Chautauqua assemblies in Hastings. According to the Historic American Engineering Record, the pavilions design is unique; in fact, the HAER does not have a name for certain design elements used in the pavilion. The buildings pyramidal roof is supported by columns along the pavilions perimeter; a triangular truss atop the columns acts as the pavilions superstructure. A vent at the top of the roof is supported by a Howe truss. A stage and orchestra pit are located inside the pavilion, though the majority of the space inside the pavilion is open, allowing a variety of activities to be held there. The Hastings chapter of the Chautauqua movement held independent assemblies at the pavilion until 1913, when it merged with the national movement. Hastings continued to host Chautauqua events until the 1920s, when the movement declined due to the rise of film and radio.</p><br>
<p>The pavilion was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 19, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Newcomb House is a historic bungalow located at 675-677 N. El Molino Ave. in Pasadena, California. The house was built in 1914 for Dr. R. H. Newcomb. The house is an example of an airplane bungalow, an uncommon style of bungalow named for its resemblance to a biplane. The broad first-floor roof is designed to resemble a wing when viewed from the small second floor, and the strut and fretwork on the porch gable is similar to that of an airplane. The American Craftsman style was also used in the house&#39;s detailed woodwork. The house is one of the later houses built in its neighborhood, an area containing many bungalow designs, and is therefore part of a historic local progression of bungalow designs.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 2, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Lake Barco is a lake in Putnam County, Fl, United States.</p><br>
<p>It is roughly circular, about 200 m in diameter.</p><br>
<p>The nearest settlement is Melrose, Florida, about 5 km to the northwest.</p><br>
<p>Lake Barco is a sinkhole lake, typical of the region, where unconsolidated deposits on the surface have slumped into the highly soluble limestone of the upper Floridan aquifer.The organic-rich sediments of the lake bottom lie on an unconfined aquifer made up mostly of sands. Below this are the unconsolidated clays and sands of the Hawthorn Group, through which water can penetrate, and below this the Ocala Limestone of the upper Floridan aquifer.</p><br>
<p>The lake has a mean annual temperature of 20 &deg;C and median rainfall of 1,280 mm. It is recharged throughout the year. The lake is fed from the north and northeast by shallow groundwater, which seeps out towards the west and south. Deeper groundwater also flows below the lake.</p><br>
<p>From deuterium and oxygen-18 isotope dating it is evident that some water evaporates from the lake, while other water flows downward towards the Ocala limestone. The lake seems to have started to become more acidic around 1950 due to absorption of sulfate (SO4) created by industrial processes from the atmosphere. The lake modifies the chemistry of the water that flows through it. As the water moves through the sediments in the lake bottom, which are rich in organics, the water is depleted in oxygen.</p><br>
<p>The Catlin Court Historic District, established in 1914, is significant for its historic association with an important period in the development of the city of Glendale, Arizona.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Glendale was founded by William John Murphy in 1892 and was incorporated as a town in 1910. Glendale’s economy depended mainly on the agricultural products produced in its farmlands. It wasn’t until 1902, when the Beet Sugar Factory was built and established in the town, that the town began to grow. The demand of new housing made the real estate around the Glendale Town site a profitable venture.</p><br>
<h3>Subdivision</h3><br>
<p>Various businessmen invested in the lands around the town site. Among the investors were Lafayette Myers, president of the Glendale State Bank and Otto R. Hansen, a businessman from Wisconsin. By 1914, Hansen subdivided the land in the area into residential lots which he named "Catlin Court" (Catlin was the maiden name of his wife). Myers together with A.A. Carrick, a local businessman, formed a real estate agency to promote the sale of the lots. Catlin Court became the first organized building expansion and development program in the city.</p><br>
<h3>Architecture</h3><br>
<p>The most common architectural style of the homes are that of the Bungalow. Among the examples of the Bungalow style homes in the court which can still be found are the "Otto R. Hansen House", the "C.M. Wood House" and the "Green McBee/J.B. Ingram House".</p><br>
<p>The Catlin Court Historic District is located in the area bounded by Gardenia Ave., 59th Ave., Palmarie Ave. and 58th Ave. The district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on June 9, 1992. It is the first of ten districts in Glendale to be designated as historical by the National Register of Historic Places. The other nine historic neighborhood districts are the 59th Avenue Residential Historic District, Floralcroft Historic District, Glendale Gardens Historic District, Glendale Tract Historic District, Northfield Historic District, Myrtle Avenue Residential Historic District, Sage Acres Historic District, Sands Estate Historic District and the Thunderbird Estates and The McDonald Addition Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Historic houses</h2><br>
<p>The following are images with a brief description of some of the houses found in the Catlin Court Historic District. These historic houses are listed as part of the Glendale Townsite Catlin Court Historic District and therefore listed in the National Register of Historic Places on June 9, 1992. The houses are also considered as significantly historical by the Glendale Historic Building Survey of 1980</p><br>
<p>Yorojima is one of the Satsunan Islands, classed with the Amami archipelago between Kyūshū and Okinawa.</p><br>
<p>The island, 9.35 km² in area, has a population of approximately 140 persons, and is administered as the town of Setouchi, Kagoshima, on neighboring Amami-Oshima. Much of the island is within the borders of the Amami Guntō Quasi-National Park.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Yorojima is the smallest inhabited island in the Amami archipelago, and is located offshore to the south of Amami-Ōshima, from which it can be reached by ferry in 80 minutes. The island is an elevated coralline island with its highest point, Okachiyama, at 297 m above sea level. The island is noted for a high population density of habu poisonous vipers.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>Yorojima has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) with very warm summers and mild winters. Precipitation is significant throughout the year, but is somewhat lower in winter. The island is subject to frequent typhoons.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>After the Meiji Restoration the island was incorporated into Ōsumi Province and later became part of Kagoshima Prefecture. Following World War II, although with the other Amami Islands, it was occupied by the United States until 1953, at which time it reverted to the control of Japan.</p><br>
<p>Royal Hotel is a heritage-listed hotel on the corner of Kent Street and Bazaar Street, Maryborough, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Eaton & Bates and built from 1892 to 1930s. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Royal Hotel in Maryborough is a substantial rendered brick building, constructed in 1902 to designs of Messrs Eaton and Bates, architects of Rockhampton. The present hotel was built for Richard Hyne, a local pioneer who developed many local manufacturing and community initiatives.</p><br>
<p>The original township of Maryborough was situated, not in its current place, but on the north of the Mary River, after wharves were established in 1847-1848, to provide transport for wool from sheep stations on the Burnett River. In 1852 the growing town was gradually transferred further north where ships were able to better navigate the river. Development followed and by March 1861, Maryborough was declared a municipality, the Borough of Maryborough.</p><br>
<p>One of the early settlers in the area, Mr ET Aldridge established a hotel, apparently first known as the Victoria but later named the Bush Inn, in the old town in 1848. In 1856, Aldridge moved the hotel to the south of the River in Kent Street, where the present Royal Hotel is situated, with the shifting of the focus of development. This was a large two storeyed timber building.</p><br>
<p>During the 1860s Maryborough flourished as a result of the gold discoveries in Gympie, for which it became the primary port. In 1870 a first floor timber balcony with cross-braced balustrade was added to the Bush Inn, which was to become known as the Royal Hotel in the next few years, by the owner, Mr Cooper. In 1873, Richard Hyne took over the licence.</p><br>
<p>Prior to establishing himself in Maryborough, Hyne engaged in various businesses in Gympie, including the running of the Mining Exchange Hotel. Astutely, he realised that Maryborough would become a permanent centre and port for the Wide Bay-Burnett district and moved to the town, where he immediately became involved with the running of the Bush Inn/Royal Hotel. Hyne was interested in establishing Maryborough as a major respected centre, and worked towards improving health, education, welfare and recreation facilities. He was mayor for a term in 1878.</p><br>
<p>Upon arriving in Maryborough, Hyne acquired the lease of the Royal Hotel in mid 1873 and purchased the hotel soon after. Hyne busied himself with improving the hotel, he added bathrooms and replaced the timber balustrading on the balconies with a cast iron balustrade and established a driveway where he planted several Bunya Pines in 1878. This former Royal Hotel did not occupy the site immediately adjacent to the corner, and a two storeyed masonry building was constructed by Hyne on this corner site in 1892-1893. This two storeyed building, which was to be incorporated into the current Royal Hotel, was designed by William Devon, a local architect as a shop for Hanleys, drapers in the town. Hanleys remained in the shop for about five years, when Finlaysons took over the lease until the shop became the public bar of the new Royal Hotel in 1902.</p><br>
<p>As the town continued to prosper, the Royal Hotel soon became the leading hotel establishment, and many important civic functions were held there. By 1900 the question of modernising the hotel arose. In a letter to Hyne from a relative in Glasgow, the latter suggests that plans be acquired for the best use of the site, with a corner bar, sitting rooms and an imposing front entrance, preferably further away from the public bar, as "this area is always objectionable to Ladies". Other suggestions included the filling in of the front with shops and the provision of accommodation for 40 on the first floor.</p><br>
<p>A decision was duly taken to rebuild the Royal Hotel, and a competition of Queensland architects was held, from which eight entries were received and Messrs Eaton and Bates were chosen. The design competition specified that the new hotel was to incorporate "the best features of the Oriental Hotel in Colombo and Shepheards Hotel in Cairo". Though the final design was obviously not as elaborate as either of the hotels cited, it does have many features which could be loosely described as having eastern origin, in particular the open entrance, first floor loggias and the stair hall with their openness, arcades and tiling. The drawings which survive from this competition, now in the hands of the Hyne family, are signed by Messrs Eaton, Bates and Garlick.</p><br>
<p>When constructed the Royal Hotel was described as one of the finest hotels north of Sydney and the most complete in Australia. It incorporated the building on the corner of Kent and Bazaar Streets and extended along Kent Street with the principal entrance on this facade. Through this was a large entrance vestibule, open to the street through wide archways, beyond which was the extravagant stair hall. A large dining room, to the right of the stair hall, extended through two stories, with a gallery encircling the room at the first floor level and a large clerestoried ceiling section. Elsewhere on the ground floor was a large billiard room, the bar area, on the corner of the streets, and sample rooms for the requirements of commercial travellers. The bar area incorporated a public bar, two parlours and two private bars, all of which could be served from the same counter. On the first floor accommodation facilities were provided, those facing Kent Street opening onto a long arched loggia. Shops were found on the ground floor of the Kent Street elevation.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was not fully completed when Richard Hyne died on July 5, 1902, but action had been taken by this stage to move to the new hotel.</p><br>
<p>Many parts of the hotel was refurbished during the 1930s. The lounge was renovated in 1932, under the supervision of local architect POE Hawkes, when a timber floor and wall panelling was introduced, and fibrous cement was used to clad the ceiling. A variety of locally grown hardwood timbers, including mountain ash, red gum, spotted gum and iron bark supplied by Hyne and Son timber merchants, were used to create the striking parquetry floor. Tenders were called, again by architect Philip Oliver Ellard Hawkes, on September 21, 1934 for the erection of a cantilevered awning clad with Wunderlich pressed metal panels to the front of the hotel, though this was not erected until 1939, when the shop fronts were modernised. This work was completed by local contractor, SV Stevens, and a stipulation of the contract was the employment of only local labour.</p><br>
<p>The hotel remained in the ownership of the Hyne family until 1960, when it was sold to another established Maryborough family, the Williams. The shops to the Kent Street elevation remain, and a family restaurant is situated in the entrance and dining room.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Royal Hotel is a substantial two-storeyed rendered masonry building on a prominent intersection on the corner of Kent and Bazaar Streets, Maryborough. The hipped corrugated iron roof, featuring a prominent glazed roof lantern, is concealed by a rendered masonry parapet of Italianate balusters, punctuated by a series of moulded panels.</p><br>
<p>The principal facade, from Kent Street, is symmetrically composed around a central bay surmounted by a curved pediment above a moulded panel projecting above the parapet, emphasising the entrance. The symmetrical quality of the facade is offset by the addition of a cantilevered awning which features an arched detail, not over the principal entrance designated by the central bay, but over on an arched opening to the right of this. The central bay is flanked by a series of arcaded bays, divided by pilasters rendered to imitate vermiculated stonework. The ground floor features a series of large arched openings, some of which are balustraded, and flanking these are bipartite round headed arched windows to the public bar toward Bazaar Street, and modernised shop fronts in the other direction. The central bay is flanked on the first floor by five bay arched loggias terminated by the end wings of the building which feature three arched window openings, over an italianate baluster panel. The first floor loggia provides an indication of the original open character of the central section of the ground floor.</p><br>
<p>The cantilevered awning which is attached to the building with a series of iron tie-backs, has an elaborate soffit of coffered pressed metal panels and a reeded pressed metal fascia. The awning extends the whole distance of the Kent Street facade, is curved around the corner and extends only a short distance on the Bazaar Street facade. Surmounted on the Kent and Bazaar Street corner of the hotel is an illuminated sign supported on metal framework with lettering, "ROYAL".</p><br>
<p>Windows to the first floor nearest the corner of Kent and Bazaar Streets retain double hung sashes, though most other openings in the building have been glazed with aluminium-framed windows. Leadlight glazing survives on the upper sashes of several arched windows of the public bar. Window joinery to the Bazaar Street elevation is generally more intact. The building has a rear first floor verandah, access from which is gained by a straight timber stair.</p><br>
<p>The building is accessed via the centrally located principal entrance, originally an open loggia entrance vestibule, but now closed with glazing. This space features a fine tessellated and encaustic tiled floor, which continues in less decorative form into the entrance hall and dining room. The entrance hall is punctuated by an arcade supported on heavy masonry columns with stylised ionic capitals, initiating the stair and forming a walkway through the space, indicating the entrances to other rooms. The bifurcating dog leg stair features very fine cedar joinery of carved timber balusters joined by a carved panel below the handrail. Heavy columns flanking the stair are met by the expanding lower treads and the wreathed handrail.</p><br>
<p>The dining room, originally extending through two storeys with gallery above, is now ceiled at the first floor. The coved ceiling of the gallery space features a large central clerestory, now boarded below the windows. Reeded pilasters line the plaster walls, and access to the loggia is given through a number of half glazed french doors.</p><br>
<p>The upper floor has a number of accommodation rooms, all with access to the loggia or rear verandah. The timber framed and boarded rooms retain original detailing including four panel doors, with timber fretwork transoms above and timber skirting and architraves. A large clerestory in the corridor provides natural lighting.</p><br>
<p>The public bar and subsidiary ground floor rooms have been substantially altered. A one storeyed concrete block extension has been added to the south of the Bazaar Street elevation. To the rear of the early building is an area of partially surfaced carparking.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>Royal Hotel was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland&apos;s history.</p><br>
<p>The Royal Hotel is important in demonstrating the pattern of development in Maryborough. A hotel has been on the site since the initial stages of the development of the new town of Maryborough, and the subsequent rebuildings indicate various phases of the town&#39;s prosperity.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.</p><br>
<p>The hotel demonstrates the principal characteristics of a large hotel in a Queensland country town, designed to provide superior accommodation to attract travellers and local clientele. The hotel is influenced by eastern design traditions, appropriate in the sub-tropical climate of Maryborough.</p><br>
<p>The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.</p><br>
<p>The well composed exterior employing classically derived features and the finely detailed interior, of high quality planning, joinery, tiling and plaster work, contribute to an impressive building, of value for its aesthetic characteristics.</p><br>
<p>The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.</p><br>
<p>The building is important to the local community and recognised as the premier hotel in Maryborough, and a centre of the town&#39;s social life since its construction in 1902.</p><br>
<p>The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland&apos;s history.</p><br>
<p>The building is associated with the Hyne family, important pioneers of Maryborough and in particular with Mr RM Hyne, and also the Queensland architects, Eaton and Bates.</p><br>
<p>The Paris Public School, at Main and 1st Sts., North, in Paris, Idaho, is a historic school that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is a brick building. It was designed by architect Richard C. Watkins in Prairie School style and was built in 1918.</p><br>
<p>It is significant partly for reflecting a local fad: the school, the Hotel Paris, the Les and Hazel Shepherd Bungalow, and the LDS Stake Office Building (all also NRHP-listed in Paris), reflect the Prairie style, which is otherwise relatively rare in Idaho. According to a 1980 study, the style&#39;s unusual popularity in Paris gives the city a sense of architectural unity. The same study called the Public School the best and most representative example of the Prairie School in the city.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Laguna del Barco is a glacial lake in the Sierra de Gredos near the town of El Barco de Ávila, in the province of Ávila, Spain.</p><br>
<p>The lake is at an altitude of 1,790 m.</p><br>
<p>It lies in a long glacial valley on the north side of Covacha, one of three such valleys.</p><br>
<p>Covacha, with a height of 2,399 m is the highest point on the main ridge of the western Sierra de Gredos.</p><br>
<p>The exit from the natural lake has been dammed to increase its storage capacity.</p><br>
<p>The lake can be reached on foot from the hamlet of La Erilla in a round trip hike of 24 km, that should take about five hours.</p><br>
<p>Shepherds huts along the route provide shelter.</p><br>
<p>The lake is used as a reservoir, and no camping is allowed in the valley.</p><br>
<p>The route, which is not difficult, passes through country of great natural beauty.</p><br>
<p>El Barco Lake  is a lake in the Bío Bío Region of Chile, near the Callaqui stratovolcano.</p><br>
<p>The terrain is volcanic in origin.</p><br>
<p>Ignimbrites and lavas about 2.65 million years old can be seen in region around the lake.</p><br>
<p>The lake can be reached by a road that runs up the east side of the Callaqui volcano and the Ralco National Reserve.</p><br>
<p>It has a campsite with hot showers run by the local Pehuenche community, with craft sales, horse riding and MTB rentals.</p><br>
<p>The site is open in summer only, from December to March. In winter there may be as much as 5 m of snow.</p><br>
<p>In 1997 Endesa proposed to increase exploitation of the tourist potential of the lake and the Río Quillaileo.</p><br>
<p>The first step was to obtain additional financing.</p><br>
<p>The James Wild Horse Trap in Nye County, Nevada, near Fish Springs, is a historic site that is listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places. It was the location of a corral and fences used to capture wild horses, built out of dead Juniper trees. It is as described in a book by Will James, Sand, or Lone Cowboy, published by Charles Scribners Son&#39;s in 1930.</p><br>
<p>It is significant, according to its 1973 NRHP nomination, "because of its obvious visual</p><br>
<p>education ability. The current interest in wild horse protection and management increases the interest to the public to see what was used when running, killing and harassing wild horses was a common accepted practice. This is a visual evidence of a change in human/social values."</p><br>
<p>A 40 acre area including the wing fences and corral was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Waushara County Courthouse, Waushara County Sheriff&#39;s Residence and Jail is a pair of buildings in Wautoma, Wisconsin that are together listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Waushara County Sheriff&#39;s Residence and Jail is a brick Georgian Revival building (pictured at right) at 221 S Ste. Marie Street designed by C. H. Williams and built in 1908 The sheriff and his family lived in the front and the jail cells were in back. This building is now a museum of the Waushara County Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The Waushara County Courthouse is a Classical Revival-style building at 209 Ste. Marie Street designed by E. A. Stubenrauch and built in 1928. The courthouse building is monumental in scale. A 1981 review of historic courthouses in the state described this courthouse, along with several others in other counties, as "Simple in both overall concept and decoration the essential Neoclassical portico and symmetrical disposition of elements at a scale befitting landmarks in their communities; that simplicity is enhanced by the evident care with which the buildings and sites are maintained."</p><br>
<p>The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Northrup Theater was built in Syracuse, Kansas in 1930 by local businessman Frank F. Northrup. At the time of its construction it was billed as the largest movie theater in western Kansas. The theater continues to show movies, and is owned by the Syracuse/Hamilton Chamber of Commerce.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Northrup Theater is a 2-1/2 story masonry building. The original structure is styled as an adaptation of the Mission Revival style, with Moderne elements added in a 1948 renovation. The main facade facing Main Street uses textured blond brick, capped by a stepped parapet and embellished with terra cotta detailing. The parapet conceals the theaters bowstring truss roof system. The theaters main entrance is flanked by two storefronts. A curved glass block ticket booth stands in the recessed theater entrance, under a metal marquee. A large vertical sign is placed directly above the marquee, with NORTHRUP on either side.</p><br>
<p>The structure is brick and hollow clay tile with a steel truss roof, on a concrete foundation. The side walls are party walls with the adjoining buildings. The rear elevation is a plain brick wall with a large opening for the theater&#39;s original evaporative cooling system.</p><br>
<p>The Northrup Theater was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 9, 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Austin City Hall, at 90 South St. in Austin, Nevada, was built in 1866, when Austin was prosperous as a new silvermining city, and served as a city hall and jail. It has also been known as Austin Station House, as Austin American Legion Hall, and as Austin VFW Hall. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. It was deemed significant for serving Austin during most of the 1864-1881 period during which Austin was legally a city. The building was transferred to the local Knights of Pythias chapter and extended in c.1904; it was bought by the local American Legion chapter in 1947, and, as of 2003, continued to serve as a location for American Legion and for VFW meetings.</p><br>
<p>It is also a contributing building in the National Register-listed Austin Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Richard Thornton House is a historic physician&#39;s residence and farm located in Halifax County, Virginia, United States. The residence was constructed in 1818 by Dr. Richard Thornton, a physician and grandson of William Thornton of Brunswick, a Colonial politician and wealthy land owner.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Dr. Richard Thornton House was constructed circa 1818 by a wealthy local physician, Richard Thornton. Thornton born in 1786 to Lt. Francis Thornton of Rolling Hill in Charlotte County, Virginia. By 1810 Thornton had established a medical practice and farm in Halifax County, Virginia. Thornton began construction of the current residence in 1818 with no known significant alterations made to the main house during his lifetime. The house is noted for a peculiar internal division believed to have been created to provide lodging for medical students. By Thornton&#39;s death in 1860 the property held nearly 40 slaves and produced the largest quantity of tobacco in the local area. The property was taken over by his nephew Dr. John Lemuel Thornton, and the Thornton heirs sold the property to the Marshall family in 1889. The house remained in the Marshall family until 1983. In 1984 the house and land was sold to the Smith family who hold the land today in a private corporation. The house has been abandoned since the Marshall sale and has recently been secured for protection from vandals.</p><br>
<p>The Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity House, at 205 University Terrace in Reno, Nevada, is a Colonial Revival building that was built in 1929. Also known as ATO House, the building is on a hill overlooking University Terrace Avenue in Reno&#39;s West University neighborhood, amongst other fraternities and sororities. It was a work of ATO member and Reno architect Lehman "Monk" Ferris. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP nomination asserted it was significant "as the first fraternity-built house in Nevada", as an "outstanding" example of Colonial Revival architecture, and for its association with the social history of University of Nevada-associated fraternities and with prominent men throughout the state who once resided there.</p><br>
<p>The Walter Cliff Ranch District, at 7635 Old HW 395 in Washoe Valley, Nevada is a historic site that was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It has significance dating from c.1870, when the house was built. The listing included two contributing buildings: the house and a root cellar/residence building.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant as the only surviving agricultural complex in Washoe Valley that had supplied foodstuffs (fruit, vegetables, dairy products, and hay) to the Comstock Mining District. As of 1985, only eight of many 19th century ranches had any surviving remnants from that era. The listed district is 26.2 acre in size; the historic parcel was 130 acre, purchased by Walter and Elizabeth Cliff in 1874.</p><br>
<p>Four additional structures on the property, including a garage and two sheds, dating from the early 20th century, are deemed non-contributing but are compatible with the historic usage and feel of the property.</p><br>
<p>Norge Train Depot is a historic home located at Norge, near Williamsburg, James City County, Virginia. It was built about 1907 by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway from standardized plans. The train station is the last surviving example of a wood frame “informal standard” depot in the six states that were served by Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Originals were built according to an informal plan and no standard drawings were prepared or entered in the railway’s set of design standards.</p><br>
<p>It is a simple one-story wood balloon frame building, twelve bays wide on the south side, seven bays wide on the north end, and one bay deep. The building is sheathed in panels of German weatherboard and features a low hipped roof with overhanging and slightly flared eaves and boxed cornice covered with beaded board siding. In February 2006, the station was relocated about 1 mile to a site adjacent to the James City County Branch of the Williamsburg Regional Library (opened in 1996) on Croaker Road. It was renovated as a museum and a community center in 2012.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>In December 2015 the Norge Depot Association brought in a red Georgia Railroad caboose donated by the Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents in New Kent County. A restoration of the caboose is planned.</p><br>
<p>Carlingwark Loch is a small freshwater loch in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland lying just south of Castle Douglas and is roughly rectangular in shape, trending nearly north and south. The name of the loch comes from the Scots Gaelic word Caer meaning fort and wark the old Scots language word for work.</p><br>
<p>There are four artificial islets in the loch showing evidence of fortification and settlement, Ash Island is thought to be a crannog. Several archaeological finds have been retrieved from the loch including a bronze cauldron, sword and pan and two dugout canoes.</p><br>
<p>There is a 5.25 km footpath around the loch and it is popular for bird watching and fishing. As of 5 March 2012 the loch and the land around it has been designated as a Scottish Site of Special Scientific Interest on account of its varied birdlife and grassland.</p><br>
<p>In 1903 the loch was surveyed by E.R. Watson and later charted as part of The Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897–1909.</p><br>
<p>In 2009 an aerating fountain was installed at a cost of £10,000 to try to prevent the build-up of blue-green algae. The funding was provided by South West Scotland Environmental Action Trust. The installation of the fountain was part of a wider development of Carlingwark Outdoor Activity Centre by Dumfries and Galloway Council.</p><br>
<p>Mattaponi Church is a historic Baptist Church  located near Cumnor, King and Queen County, Virginia. As English settlement advanced through present-day King and Queen County, the original Anglican parish, Stratton Major, was divided in 1674, forming St. Stephens Parish to the northwest. In 1730, construction commenced on a new "Lower Church" for St. Stephens Parish which was completed around 1734. The structure is designed in a cruciform plan executed in Georgian style. Of particular note are the churchs three entrances, which have rubbed brick pilasters and pediments, two achieved in triangular form  and one in semicircular form . The entire church is built of bricks laid in flemish bond. St. Stephens Church was used for Anglican worship until the American Revolution when it was abandoned. In 1803, the church was occupied by a Baptist congregation which continues to worship in the historic church today. When the Baptists assumed ownership of the church, it was renamed Mattaponi. Fire gutted the interior of the church in 1922, but it was restored and remains well preserved. Today, historic Mattaponi Baptist Church houses the original wall tablets displaying the Decalogue, Creed, and Lords Prayer, as well as a Bible dated 1753.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Hardman IOOF Lodge Hall  is a meeting hall in the ghost town of Hardman in the USA state of Oregon. Completed in 1900, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The two-story structure has a stone foundation, a wooden frame, a false front extending above the roof line, and Italianate details. A major alteration in 1946 added a one-story dining room and kitchen to the south side of the original building.</p><br>
<p>Interior areas amount to 3,300 ft2 on the first floor and 1,980 ft2 on the second. In addition to the add-on dining room and kitchen, the property includes a woodshed and an outhouse, neither of which remains functional.</p><br>
<p>The building housed the Lone Balm Lodge #82 of the International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) and its associated organization, the Mistletoe Rebekah Lodge #25, starting in 1900. Settler David N. Hardman, for whom the community is named, was named leader of the Lone Balm Lodge in 1886, before construction of the existing building.</p><br>
<p>The Hardman IOOF Lodge Hall over the years served as a social center, concert hall, and dance hall, as well as the Lone Balm meeting place. Merchants rented space on the first floor for a general store and other businesses, the last of which closed in 1968. Like other fraternal and sororal secret societies of the time, the Hardman Odd Fellows and Rebekahs formed committees to help needy neighbors in an era before widespread social services were available from the government. In 1964, the Lone Balm Lodge merged with the Willow Lodge of Heppner and stopped meeting in Hardman.</p><br>
<p>The Washoe County Courthouse, at 117 S. Virginia St. in Reno, Nevada, was built in 1910. It is significant for playing a role in the divorce industry in Nevada during the first half of the 20th century, when divorce was legal in Nevada and liberal residency requirements were enacted, while divorce was much more difficult elsewhere. In 1931, more than 4,800 divorces were processed in northern Nevada, most processed through this courthouse; it was economically important, with $5,000,000 being spent per year in Reno by divorcing parties.</p><br>
<p>The building is a replacement of a previous courthouse on the site, and was built for $250,000 during 1910–11. It is a Classical Revival work that was the first "solo" commission of Nevada architect Frederic J. DeLongchamps. The building is significant also for its long role in government in Reno. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Lake May, a wedge-shaped lake, is a natural freshwater lake in southwest Winter Haven, Florida. This lake has a 49.07 acre surface area. It is bounded on the east and northeast by vacant land, on the northwest by commercial property, on the west and most of the south by vacant land and on the east and southeast by more commercial property. Much of the shore around the lake is lined by swampy areas.</p><br>
<p>Public access is provided to Lake May on the south side at Lions Park. This public park is located on Avenue L Southwest. The park has a wooden elevated nature walk, a fishing dock and a playground. The Lake has no public swimming areas or boat ramps. However, Lake May is on the south Winter Haven Chain of Lakes canal system, which connects it to a number of area lakes. A canal on the north connects Lake May directly to Lake Howard and another canal on the south connects it directly to Lake Shipp. The Take Me Fishing website says Lake May contains largemouth bass, bluegill, bream, bluefish and black crappie. The Hook and Bullet website mirrors the types of fish in Lake May.</p><br>
<p>Varvara is a village in Chalkidiki, in Greece. It is located in the north of Chalkidiki, built at 550 m height, between the hills Derveniko and Sougkliani. It is part of Aristotelis municipality. Its population is 538 residents according to 2011 census. It is 20 kilometers northwest of Arnaia. In the east of the village there are the Aegean coasts and the ancient city Stagira, the birthplace of Aristotelis.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site has been inhabited at least since the 14th century. The village’s name derives from the local church of Saint Barbara (Agia Varvara). In the Ottoman period the village belonged to the Mademochoria. During the Greek War of Independence it was burned down by the Turks along with other villages of Chalkidiki. During the Macedonian Struggle, it was the base of the Greek guerrilla leader Athanasios Minopoulos.</p><br>
<h2>The forest of Varvara</h2><br>
<p>Varvara is situated in the middle of a big forest. The forest is covered by thick vegetation. It includes many genres of trees, among them beeches, oaks, alders, wild hazels and lindens. Main occupation of the residents is the lumber. The visitors in vicinity comes across frequently many trunks of trees at the sides of the roads. Inside the forest there are two waterfalls that are a sight of the place.</p><br>
<h2>Varvara's music festival</h2><br>
<p>The music festival of Varvara is organised every summer, in the forest near the village. It’s about music concerts from Greek bands mainly and singers. The program lasts four days. This year (2013) it organised for 15th time.</p><br>
<p>Pine Cobble Mountain, located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is a sub-summit of East Mountain in the Clarksburg State Forest. This outcropping is best known as a popular hiking destination, where an outlook encompasses panoramic views of Williamstown, the Mount Greylock Range, and North Adams.</p><br>
<p>The USGS benchmark at the summit is 577 meters or 1,894 feet above sea level.</p><br>
<p>The 1.6-mile hiking trail to the Pine Cobble summit is located on land owned by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Williams College and Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation, Inc. The latter organization, in conjunction with the Williams College Outing Club, maintains this trail.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>The Pine Cobble Trail is also an approach to the Appalachian Trail, which is intercepted 0.5 miles beyond the Pine Cobble outcropping. It also serves as an access to Vermont’s Long Trail, which begins at the Massachusetts/Vermont border where these two converged trails enter the Green Mountain National Forest.</p><br>
<p>State Highway 29 Bridge at the Colorado River is located in both Burnet and Llano counties in the USA state of Texas, between Buchanan Dam and Inks Lake. It is also known as Inks Lake Bridge, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in both counties on October 10, 1996. The 1,379.0 ft truss bridge was planned by the Texas Highway Department in 1929. Construction was completed by the Austin Bridge Company in 1937 at a cost of $188,000. United States Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and Texas Highway Commissioner Robert Lee Bobbitt were featured speakers during the dedication ceremony. A new four-lane vehicular bridge was built in 2005, and the old SH 29 Bridge is currently open only to pedestrians.</p><br>
<p>The Apollo 11 Cave is an archeological site in the ǁKaras Region of south-western Namibia, approximately 250 km southwest of Keetmanshoop. The name given to the surrounding area and presumably the cave by the Nama people was “Goachanas”. However, the cave was given its name by German archaeologist Wolfgang Erich Wendt who was working in the cave when he heard of the Apollo 11 crew&#39;s successful return to Earth on July 24, 1969.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>The cave contained some of the oldest pieces of mobile art ever discovered in southern Africa, associated with charcoal radiocarbon dated from 27,500 to 25,500 BP. The slabs found in the cave are referred to as the Apollo 11 Stones. In total, seven grey-brown quartzite slabs were excavated from the cave. Besides the slabs, the cave contained several white and red paintings. The subject of paintings ranged from simple geometric patterns to bees, which are still a nuisance to the unwary traveler.</p><br>
<p>Art was also found near the cave in the form of engravings, on the banks of a riverbed, and on a large limestone boulder located 150 m from the cave. The engravings consisted of depictions of animals as well as simple geometric patterns. It is hard to pin point dates of the engravings and paintings, but the paintings may belong to period as far back as 10,400 BP and the engravings may come from early settlers in the first millennium AD. These dates come from Wendt’s stratigraphic record of the site as well as evidence from other sites in the surrounding area.</p><br>
<p>More recent finds include two rib pieces (one with 26 notches; the</p><br>
<p>other with 12 notches) dated to 80,000 BP.</p><br>
<p>The Chamber of Commerce Building in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, at 1201 Lincoln Ave., is a Modern Movement-style building that was designed by noted architect Eugene D. Sternberg and was built in 1960. Its 2009 application for NRHP listing describes it as "an unusual application of the Usonian housing style to a commercial building. It has an inverted gable roof which gives rise to it being known locally as the butterfly building. The roof accommodates cottonwood tree trunks growing through a hole in its overhang.</p><br>
<p>It served the Steamboat Springs Chamber of Commerce through at least 1973. In 2009 it housed the Yampa Valley Land Trust.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the Colorado Register of Historic Places in 2009 and the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Dixon, also known as Dixons Plantation, is a privately-owned historic plantation house in King and Queen County, Virginia on the Mattaponi River—a tributary of the York River in one of Virginias historic slavery-dependent tobacco-growing regions. The property lies between the two unincorporated communities of Shacklefords and King and Queen Court House, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>Dated (by tree-rings) to 1793, the plantation&#39;s surviving central residence is a two-story, five bay, symmetrical frame house with a gambrel roof, brick foundation and brick end-walls—the latter featuring flemish bond and internal (rather than expressed) chimneys.</p><br>
<p>Located between two adjacent plantations, the earliest owners of the property were William Meredith and subsequently Richard Dixon, of whom little is known. The plantation and home are named after Richard Dixon, and he is credited with constructing the surviving residence.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its successful nomination to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2005, Dixon was one of eight surviving gambrel-roof residences from the eighteenth and early nineteenth century in King and Queen County, Virginia.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>According to its NRHP nomination, the home features its original interior wood paneling, and noteworthy interior stairway detailing—the latter with sculptural railings, column and urn balusters (two per tread) and newel posts with molded caps and mortise and tenon construction.</p><br>
<p>Landside and waterside elevations are identical with double doors centered on each exterior elevation, flanked by two "nine-over-nine" sash windows and four horizontal basement windows. The second floor features five flat-headed dormers.</p><br>
<p>In the 1950s, flanking buildings were added, connected to the main house by segmented hyphens. Later additions which expanded the original five-bay home to a nine-bay home, were subsequently removed.</p><br>
<p>In 1934, a pen and ink drawing of Dixon (see infobox, this article) was made by Elsie, J. Mistie for the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project (1932–1937). The drawing documented Dixon before the later additions of hyphen-connected outbuildings.</p><br>
<h2>Site</h2><br>
<p>Records indicate the original site featured out-buildings including a kitchen, smokehouse, barn, wharf, dairy and cemetery. Research indicates a nearby house and kitchen that predate the existing house. Originally nearly 440 acres and now roughly 20 acres, the property at the time of its NRHP nomination featured four non-original outbuildings. The number has since changed with Dixon&#39;s subsequent restoration and renovation.</p><br>
<h2>2000–2010 restoration</h2><br>
<p>Beginning in 2000, the owner of Dixon removed the flanking 1950s Colonial Revival wings, replacing them with more modern additions, including a master wing, screened porch and guest wing. A completely modern workshop/garage dependency (outbuilding) was constructed nearby, in a compatible 18th century architectural style.</p><br>
<p>During the restoration of the primary wing, period incorrect slate roofing was replaced with the correct wood shingles (fish scale pattern), nails were forged where necessary and replacement siding was replicated after original attic planking.</p><br>
<p>Interior furnishings now include a portrait of George Washington by Thomas Sully, mid-eighteenth century Norfolk chair, period correct knee-hole bureau and 18th century Fry Jefferson Map of Virginia.</p><br>
<p>King and Queen Courthouse Green Historic District is a national historic district located at King and Queen Court House, near Shacklefords, King and Queen County, Virginia. It encompasses eight contributing buildings, seven contributing structures, and two contributing objects in the county seat of King and Queen County. The district includes a small courthouse compound with a courthouse, clerk&#39;s office, and county jail , a granite monument and brick wall, a hotel / tavern building, a school, a specialty store building , and a residence on the site of another hotel and tavern.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Confederate Monument</h2><br>
<p>The granite obelisk (pictured) was erected in 1913 and is located on the old court house grounds. The monument displays various symbols of the war and the below inscription:</p><br>
<p>To The Confederate Soldiers</p><br>
<p>And Sailors of King and Queen</p><br>
<p>County Virginia 1861-1865</p><br>
<p>Fate Denied Them Victory But Gave</p><br>
<p>Them The Love And Veneration Of</p><br>
<p>Their Native Land, The Wonder</p><br>
<p>And Admiration Of The World</p><br>
<p>Rokeby is a historic home located at King George, King George County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1828, and is a two-story, three bay Federal style brick dwelling. It has a low hipped roof, tripartite windows, lintel-type</p><br>
<p>window heads, and elliptical, leaded-glass fanlight with flanking sidelights. The original block was</p><br>
<p>enlarged about 1912 by a pair of flanking two-story, frame pavilions, and in 1917, the west wing was substantially enlarged. Also on the property are the contributing antebellum smokehouse and a complex of buildings built in 1917-1920: (1) schoolhouse; (2) summer / tenant house; (3) playhouse; (4) garage; (5) Sears, Roebuck catalog-ordered horse barn; (6) sheep barn; and (7) cattle run-in shed.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Powhatan Rural Historic District, formerly "Powhatan Plantation" and before that "Hopyard Plantation", is a national historic district located near King George, King George County, Virginia. It encompasses 15 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 3 contributing structures in a rural area near King George. The district represents a significant reassemblage of the land holdings of Edward Thornton Tayloe, a member of the USA diplomatic service under Joel Roberts Poinsett, in the mid-19th century and one of Virginias most affluent planters of that era; who inherited it from his father John Tayloe III, who built The Octagon House in Washington DC, and it was known then as Hopyard, he inherited it from his father John Tayloe II who built the grand colonial estate Mount Airy. It contains three distinct historic residential farm clusters as well as two post-1950 stable complexes and several other auxiliary residential and agricultural buildings. The main house, known as Powhatan, is sited prominently on a ridge overlooking the Rappahannock River valley. former plantation Hopyard&#39; left</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
