<p>The East Andover Village Center Historic District encompasses the historic village center of East Andover, New Hampshire, United States. The 2.2 acre district includes a cemetery and three buildings: the Andover Congregational Church, the Highland Lake Grange Hall, and the East Andover Schoolhouse. It is located at the corner of New Hampshire Route 11 and Chase Hill Road. The district is unified by the appearance of the three buildings , and their styling, which is predominantly vernacular 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The Andover Congregational Church is the oldest of the three buildings, built in 1796 to provide space for civic and religious functions in the town. It is a two story wood frame building, with a pair of entrances on the main facade, which provide access to a vestibule area, from which access to the main hall is gained, with stairs leading up to galleries on either side. The building was used by the town for meetings and by several religious organizations for services, but had by 1822 fallen into some disrepair. It was extensively rebuilt in 1840, including turning the building so that its main facade faced south. This work including the addition of the tower and the Greek Revival styling the building now shows. It has received only minor modifications since then.</p><br>
<p>The Old North Church Cemetery was deeded to the town in 1805, although it seems to have been used before then, since at least two burials predate this transfer. Burial plots are laid out in north-south rows in the half-acre cemetery, which was filled up by the late 19th century. The cemetery stretches out along Route 11, behind (north of) the church.</p><br>
<p>The Highland Lake Grange Hall was built in 1850 by the Mountain Club, an East Andover literary club that sought a meeting place for itself, and wanted to promote secondary education in the town. The building was inaugurated that year as the Highland Lake Institute, an academy that lasted just five years. It then saw a succession of academic and civic uses, and was enlarged in 1893 and renamed Union Hall. In 1938 the Union Hall Associates sold the building to the local grange chapter, which had been meeting on the premises since 1894. Little modification has been made to the building since 1893.</p><br>
<p>The East Andover Schoolhouse was built in 1903 to replace the old District 10 schoolhouse, which had been located just south of the grange hall. Located just east of the grange hall, the building served as a public school until 1962; its most significant alteration in this period was the addition of a wood and coal shed to the rear. The building was sold to the church, which has since used it for Sunday School and as a nursery.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Farrington House is a historic house at 30 South Main Street in Concord, New Hampshire. Despite its outward appearance as a single family residence, this 2.5 story wood frame house was built as a duplex for brothers Samuel and Philip Farrington. Its single door serves both units, and the central hall has parallel staircases. The exterior is a conservative Greek Revival design, with side-gable roof flanked by paired chimneys on the sides. A gabled pavilion extending the full two stories shelters the recessed main entry, which has sidelight windows. The first level of the pavilion is styled in wood to appear as ashlar stone. The upper level has paneled pilasters supporting the pedimented gable. The property also includes a later Victorian brick carriage house.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Reuben Foster House and Perley Cleaves House are a pair of nearly identical Greek Revival houses at 64 and 62 North State Street in Concord, New Hampshire. The basic plans of these two houses, which were built as investments in the 1840s, are mirror images of each other. Each is a 2.5 story wood frame building, with a rectangular main block and a projecting side ell. The front facade of each house has a projecting gable supported by two-story fluted columns, with a porch accessible from the second floor. The main entrance is flanked by full-length sidelight windows and pilasters. The Foster house has had an addition built in the corner between the main block and the ell, which includes a projecting bay window on the front facade. The Cleaves house has somewhat more decorated facade: the cornice is deeper than that of the Foster house, and it is studded with brackets. The gable end has a full round-arch window, while that of the Foster house has a rectangular window with a round fanlight decoration.</p><br>
<p>The houses were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Orange Grove Plantation is a historic plantation house and national historic district located on Saint Helena Island near Frogmore, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The district encompasses one contributing building and two contributing sites, and reflects the early-20th century influx of Northerners onto St. Helena Island. The plantation was first recorded in 1753 when Peter Perry purchased 473 acres. Perry owned 46 chattel slaves. The plantation house, built about 1800, was in poor condition when Henry L. Bowles , a USA Representative from Massachusetts, bought the property in 1928. He demolished it and built the present house in the same year. The property also includes the tabby ruin of the kitchen, built about 1800, and a tabby-walled cemetery containing three early-19th century graves of the Fripp and Perry families.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>McLeod Farmstead, also known as Rest Park Tract and Seabrook Farms, is a historic farmstead and national historic district located at Seabrook, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 12 contributing building and 2 contributing structures, and is representative of the truck farming economy that spread through the region between 1884 and 1946. The contributing farm buildings include the Keyserling gin  and McLeod Barn . Two of the buildings served commercial purposes: The McLeod general store  and the Keyserling general store . There are also three residential structures: the McLeod House , a two-room shack which likely housed farm workers , and the residence and the office of the farm supervisor .</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Trafalgar Monument is an ornamental tower  in Carrignamuck townland, 2.8 km north of Coachford village, County Cork, Ireland. It was built by Nicholas Colthurst, who served during the Napoleonic Wars, and was a midshipman aboard the HMS Prince  during the Battle of Trafalgar. Colthurst continued to serve in the Royal Navy until 1841, retiring with the rank of Commander. Parliamentary returns give his date of entry into the Royal Navy as 14 April 1797, promotion to Lieutenant followed on 19 September 1806, and his actual date of commission as a retired Commander is given as 29 January 1841.</p><br>
<p>This tower is depicted as a rectangular structure in the 1841 and 1901 surveyed OS maps. The Irish Tourist Association survey of 1944 describes it as a plain, ivy-covered, rectangular structure, which once appeared to have a stone roof. It goes on to state that it was erected by Capt. Colthurst of the British Navy to commemorate the victory at the Battle of Trafalgar.</p><br>
<p>The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork describes it as a mid/late nineteenth century roofless square tower, one storey in height, with a high parapet wall, located on a man-made mound, and overlooking both the Dripsey River and Clonmoyle House. The tower is said to contain tall stone-arched windows and a fireplace. Local information erroneously asserts that it was built to commemorate the death of a Colthurst at the Battle of Trafalgar.</p><br>
<p>The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage describes it as a ruinous square-plan folly tower, built c.1820, with rubble stone walls and an ogee-headed opening to each elevation. An entry also erroneously states that it was built by the Colthurst family to commemorate the death of a family member at the Battle of Trafalgar.</p><br>
<p>The tower is not accessible to the public and is located on private property.</p><br>
<p>The Lubbock Post Office and Federal Building, located at 800 Broadway in downtown Lubbock, Texas, was a post office and federal courthouse from 1932-1968.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Federal funds were obtained through the Public Buildings Act of 1926 to construct a new federal courthouse in Lubbock, Texas. Construction began in 1931 and the building was completed in 1932 at a cost of $4.7 million. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas met here until 1968, after which time it was used by Lubbock County for offices and storage.</p><br>
<p>The building was nominated and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. In 2011, Preservation Texas, a nonprofit preservation group, listed it as one of the most endangered historic sites in Texas.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, Lubbock’s Commissioners Court put the building up for sale and Appaloosa Development of Lubbock offered $500,000 but then backed out of the deal. More recently John Thompson (Austin) and Jeff Sagansky (New York) of Elm Tree Partners and John Snyder (Oklahoma) have offered $425,000 for the 28,000 ft&sup2; building. The offer was accepted by Lubbock County Commissioners and plans are to convert the building to apartment or hotel rooms, dining, or office space.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural description</h2><br>
<p>The 3-story building was designed in the late Classical Revival style, which can be seen in its symmetrical plan and its ornamentation. While the first floor has a limestone exterior, the second and third floors have a buff brick exterior designed to resemble an Italian Renaissance palazzo.</p><br>
<p>The Middletown Historic District is a historic district in Alton, Illinois. The primarily residential district includes portions of Altons Middletown and Hunterstown neighborhoods and comprises 653 buildings, 613 of which are contributing buildings. Settlement in the district dates to the original plat of Alton in 1817, which included the southern half of Middletown. Development in the district continued through the 19th century and into the 20th, spanning all of Altons early history. The district also represents multiple eras of Alton&#39;s architectural history. Most early houses in the district were designed in the Federal style, while the Italianate and Queen Anne styles were predominant in the latter half of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 11, 1978. in 1982, the boundaries of the district were expanded to include Alton&#39;s Pagan Hill neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>The Upper Alton Historic District is a historic district located in northeast Alton, Illinois, in what was once the separate town of Upper Alton. The district includes the campuses of Shurtleff College and the Western Military Academy as well as the surrounding residential areas. Upper Alton was platted in 1817, but it did not grow significantly until the 1830s, when Shurtleff College opened; the college dominated the town for decades, and most of the houses around it were built for the school or its professors. The colleges buildings were mainly designed in the Classical Revival and Greek Revival style, while the houses were designed in the Classical Revival and Queen Anne styles. In 1879, the Western Military Academy opened in the John Bostwick House; while the house burned in 1903, the Academy rebuilt immediately and continued operations. The Academys campus is mainly designed in the Tudor Revival style. Shurtleff College closed in 1957 and is now the Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine; the Western Military Academy also closed in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Nelson Wheeler Whipple House is an adobe house in Salt Lake City, Utah, built in 1854. Whipple was born in Sanford, New York in 1818, converting to Mormonism in 1844 and moving to Nauvoo, Illinois. After fleeing Nauvoo in 1846, Whipple lived in Garden Grove, Iowa until 1850, when he and his family moved to Salt Lake City. There he acquired two more wives and 17 children, providing wood shingles for the Mormon Tabernacle and keeping a diary that has become an important historical resource.</p><br>
<p>The Whipple House measures about 28 ft by 35 ft and two stories high, containing twelve rooms. The adobe is covered by stucco, with a Federal-style entrance and a gabled roof. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 26, 1979.</p><br>
<p>Parris Island Drydock and Commanding Generals House is a historic home and drydock and national historic district located at Parris Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The district encompasses one contributing building and two contributing structures at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island. The drydock was constructed in the early 1890s and was one of the few wooden graving-type drydocks in the United States. It was also the largest naval drydock at the time of its construction. It fell into disrepair in the 1920s as ships began to outgrow the drydock. Quarters One, or the Commanding General’s home, was constructed between 1891 and 1895, and has been the traditional home of the depot Commanding General. The two-story house has 27 rooms and features a full-width porch that also partially down both sides of the house. Associated with the home is a contributing octagonal gazebo .</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Cherry Hill School is a historic school for African-American students located at Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina. It was built about 1937, and is a simple, gable-front rectangular one-room frame and weatherboard-sided schoolhouse on an open brick-pier foundation. The school operated until all African-American children attended the new consolidated elementary school in 1954. The community built and helped maintain the school consisted of the descendants of the former-slave town of Mitchelville, the first community to mandate education in the South. The St. James Baptist Church purchased the school in 1956. The church extended and renovated the building in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Sams Plantation Complex Tabby Ruins is a historic plantation complex and archaeological site located at Frogmore, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The site, possibly built upon and occupied well before 1783. It includes the ruins and/or archaeological remains of at least 12 tabby structures. They include the main plantation house, a rectangular enclosure consisting of tabby walls, a large tabby kitchen, and five tabby slave quarters. Also on the property were a variety of tabby dependencies including a barn/stable, a smoke house or blade house, a well/dairy house, and a well. The property also includes the Sams family cemetery and Episcopal chapel enclosed by high tabby walls. Other structures include possibly an overseer’s house, a granary/mill, and a tabby cotton house. During and subsequent to the American Civil War the Sams Tabby Complex was occupied by freedman. Following the Civil War the plantation house was destroyed by hurricanes.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Originally built in 1852 for the Northern Indiana and Chicago Railroad a predecessor road of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, the wooden structure burned down in 1913. It was replace in 1914 with a brick structure. By 1914, Cornelius Vanderbilt of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad held a majority interest in the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway. The Southern Railways trackage provided an ideal extension of the New York Central from Buffalo to Chicago. On December 22, 1914, the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad merged with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway to form a new New York Central Railroad.</p><br>
<p>The New York Central Railroad, built the new Chesterton Depot out of brick and to the west, across Fourth Street, they built a freight house that same year.</p><br>
<p>In 1968, the New York Central merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1976, the Penn Centrals freight service was consolidated into Conrail and it ended passenger service altogether. Passenger service to Chesterton ended in 1964. The rail lines are currently operated by CSX</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Passenger Depot is identified in the National Register materials ad Bungalow/craftman, whereas the Indiana State Historic Office (SHP) and Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana identify the structure as Spanish Eclectic The Porter County Interim report also identifies the contraction date as 1924.</p><br>
<p>According to the Indiana Office of Historic Preservation, difference in attributes between these two styles are</p><br>
<p>Passenger Station 11.jpgNew York Central Passenger Depot, Chesterton, Indiana (trackside)</p><br>
<p>Passenger Station 22.jpgNew York Central Passenger Depot, Chesterton, Indiana (trackside)</p><br>
<p>Freight Station 15.jpgNew York Central Freight Depot, Chesterton, Indiana (trackside)</p><br>
<p>Freight Station 010.jpgNew York Central Freight Depot, Chesterton, Indiana</p><br>
<h2>National Register of Historic Sites</h2><br>
<p>Chesterton Commercial Historic District</p><br>
<p>Chesterton Residential Historic District</p><br>
<p>George Brown Mansion</p><br>
<p>Norris and Harriet Coambs Lustron House</p><br>
<p>New York Central Railroad Passenger Depot, Chesterton, Indiana</p><br>
<p>Martin Young House</p><br>
<p>The Back River Farm, also known as the Samuel Emerson Farm, is a historic farmstead on Bay View Road in Dover, New Hampshire. The land along the Bellamy River  has been farmed since Samuel Emerson acquired 30 acre in the area in 1696, and is the only surviving period farmstead in the area. The farm, including a mid-18th century farmhouse, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Back River Farm consists of about 44 acre of land, roughly bounded by Bay View Road to the north, Bellamy Preserve to the east, and an inlet of the Bellamy River to the south. Most of this land is relatively flat, and in pasture. The farmstead stands on the south side of Bay View Road, screened from the road by trees, but with open views to the south. The house is a two story timber frame construction, five bays wide, with a central chimney and a rear leanto section, giving the house a saltbox appearance. The house has interior woodworking features that embody both First Period work and early Georgian styling. This woodwork was probably done by the second Samuel Emerson, who described his profession as that of joiner.</p><br>
<p>In 1696 the first Samuel Emerson acquired 30 acre of land, and began farming. The area was in the 18th century mainly composed of this type of salt water farm, of which this is now the last surviving example. Emerson was brother to Hannah Duston, who became well known for her captivity narrative after being held captive by (and escaping from) Native Americans in 1697. The farm was owned by five generations of Emersons, growing to a size of 130 acre. It was sold out of the family in 1876.</p><br>
<p>The Farmington Town Pound is an historic animal pound in Farmington, New Hampshire. It is located on the north side of Pound Road near its intersection with Ten Rod Road. Built in 1823, it is one of the best-preserved 19th-century pounds in southeastern New Hampshire, and is now maintained by the Farmington Historical Society. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Farmington Town Pound is located near the geographic center of the roughly square town, on the northwest side of Pound Road north of its junction with Ten Rod Road. The pound is a stone structure 40 ft square, consisting of four walls made of dry-laid fieldstone about 7 ft high and 3 ft wide at the base. The walls are topped with long granite capstones. There is an opening about 5.5 ft wide on the south side, facing Pound Road, which once had a granite lintel stone over the top, but this has fallen.</p><br>
<p>From the early 18th century, towns in New Hampshire were required to fund the construction and maintenance of a structure in which to pen stray livestock until it could be claimed by its owner. The early structures were typically of wood, and none of those are known to survive. This pound was built in 1823 by the town, replacing an earlier wooden structure built in 1802, and is one of a few well-preserved pounds in southeastern New Hampshire. It was built by Nicholas Colbath for $59, and was located on land purchased by the town from Hunkin Colbath for $5. It remained in use until late in the 19th century, and was sold into private hands in 1918. It was given back to the town, and is now maintained by the Farmington Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>Farmington_Town_Pound_National_Register_of_Historic_Places_Marker.JPGHistoric marker at the Farmington Town Pound site.</p><br>
<p>Farmington_Town_Pound_Inside.JPGA look inside of the Farmington Town Pound</p><br>
<p>Farmington_Town_Pound_Lintel_Stone.JPGThe fallen lintel stone lies just in front of the entrance to the Farmington Town Pound.</p><br>
<p>Farmington_Town_Pound_Wall_Detail.JPGFarmington Town Pound stone wall detail.</p><br>
<p>The Norton-Polk-Mathis House, also known Villa Finale, is a historic house in San Antonio, Texas, United States.</p><br>
<p>Local merchant Russel C. Norton began construction on the house in 1876. The house was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1971.</p><br>
<p>It is a contributing property to the King William Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is also a National Trust Historic Site, the only one in Texas.</p><br>
<p>The house was remodeled with additions of a second story, rear gallery, and Italian Renaissance Revival Tower. Other owners included rancher Edwin Polk and cattleman Ike T. Pryor. The house was then turned into a boarding house until 1967, when it was purchased by local civic leader Walter Nold Mathis.</p><br>
<p>Mathis spent two years restoring the house and named it Villa Finale as he planned on it being his last home. He then purchased fourteen other homes in the King William neighborhood, restored them and sold them to others whom he hoped would continue to preserve them. The home was donated to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2004 which operates it as a museum.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Wyatt House is a historic house at 7 Church Street in Dover, New Hampshire. Built in 1835, it is one of the city&#39;s best-preserved examples of Greek Revival architecture, and was home to a prominent businessman and educator. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Samuel Wyatt House is located in an area just south of Dovers downtown area, known historically as Tuttle Square and the citys commercial center during the first half of the 19th century. It is located on the north side of Church Street at its junction with Academy Street. The house is 2-1/2 stories in height, with a front-gable roof and clapboarded exterior. It is three bays wide, with a side hall entry flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a fanlight. A portico supported by Doric columns shelters the entrance. A two-story ell was added onto the north (rear) of the house, and modified in 1938 to accommodate a garage in its basement area. The interior retains original features, including wide flooring, Greek Revival fireplace surrounds, and door and window hardware.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1835 for Samuel and Sophia Cushing (Hayes) Wyatt. Samuel Wyatt was owner of several hotels, including one nearby in Dover, and Sophia was a prominent local teacher and author. The Wyatts were both active social reformers, active in efforts to promote temperance in the region. Sophia Wyatt was also active in early efforts to provide increased educational opportunities for girls and women.</p><br>
<p>The Fife Lake–Union District No. 1 Schoolhouse, also known as the Cedar Creek School of the Union Township Hall, is a school building located at 5020 Fife Lake Road near Fife Lake, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1983 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It is unique because of the distinctive design of its Late Victorian porch and belfry.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Fife Lake Schoolhouse was built in 1882 by local carpenter John Dewey. It was used as a school until the early 1950s. In 1955, Union Township purchased the schoolhouse and converted it into a township hall.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Fife Lake Schoolhouse is a one-story Late Victorian balloon-frame rectangular structure with a gable roof and clapboard siding. The exterior is generally plain, but the appearance is enhanced by a distinctive triple-bay entry porch with a barrel-vault-top center, and by an open well-house-like belfry. Both the porch and the belfry have stickwork brackets, and the belfry has a gable roof and a central finial. Two entrances lead from the porch into coat rooms, which open onto the main schoolroom. The schoolroom has vertical-board interior paneling and a pressed metal ceiling. A clapboard woodshed with a gable roof is located behind the schoolhouse.</p><br>
<p>Panorama is a historic estate in Montross, Virginia. The 2.5 story brick Colonial Revival house, located on an estate of over 130 acre, was built in 1932 to a design by Joseph Evans Sperry for local politician and attorney Charles E. Stuart, and has been virtually unaltered since its construction. The building is sited between the two branches of Chandlers Mill Pond, and has two main facades, one facing the long drive from the road, and the other facing south toward the lake. The house is prominently visible from the Kings Highway , which crosses the Chandlers Mill Pond Dam.</p><br>
<p>Panorama is strikingly similar to historic Bushfield, home of John Augustine Washington, brother of George Washington. The exterior design mimics the Colonial Revival renovations at Bushfield, which features the same dual facades, one a 3-bay entrance with projecting central block and the other a mounmental 2-story portico. The interior staircase in Panorama is a mirror image of Bushfield Manor&#39;s.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The estate in Montross, Westmoreland Couty, Virginia was given the name “Panorama” for a former Stuart home in King George County.</p><br>
<p>The following is information about the property named Panorama in King George County, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>The original mansion occupied a high ridge overlooking the Chotank Creek and Potomac Valley and perhaps was rightly named. It was situated on the same range of hills as the “Salisbury,” "Hilton,” and “Litchfield” estates and was named for its beautiful landscape. The Greek revival styled mansion was two-story and set in a wide lawn adorned by beautiful trees.</p><br>
<p>The original Panorama estate was purchased by Richard Stuart of “Cedar Grove” in the early 1830s, for his only daughter Margaret Robinson Stuart, who married Thomas Lunsford Lomax. The later, in the mid 1830s, built the original Panorama mansion where they raised three sons and two daughters. In the early 1850s, the Lomax family scattered upon the early death of Thomas Lunsford Lomax. The estate then reverted to Margaret Robinson (Stuart) Lomax’s brother, Doctor Richard Henry Stuart of “Cleydael.” The Stuart family enjoyed the Panorama mansion primarily as a summer home as they feared malaria on the Chotank Creek and Potomac River which bordered their Cedar Grove estate. In 1889 Dr. Richard Henry Stuart willed Panorama to his daughter, Margaret Stuart, who was married to Major Robert Waterman Hunter, CSA. Around 1910, the home was deserted as a dwelling. Sometime later, the 1700 acre Panorama estate was purchased by Harry T. Berry who farmed and raised livestock on the property. In doing so, Harry Berry used the deserted mansion for grain storage. The original Panorama mansion stood unoccupied through at least 1958; sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s, it caught fire and was ruined. In 1997, Bluegreen Properties of Virginia purchased the property and developed the Meadows at Dahlgren subdivision. All that remains of the original estate is a 1/3 mile portion of the road that leads north from the Old County Road to where the original estate once proudly stood.</p><br>
<p>The Fighting Creek Plantation is a historic plantation house at 1811 Mill Quarter Road in Powhatan, Virginia. It is one of a few surviving mid-19th century plantation houses in the state. The two story stucco manor house was built c. 1841, supposedly to a design by New York architect Andrew Jackson Davis. It was built for John Brockenbrough Harvie and his wife as the main house of their nearly 1,700 acre plantation. The property now associated with the house has been reduced to just 4.3 acre. Its main facade features a two story portico with square Doric columns, topped by a pedimented gable. On each level under the portico there is a door, with round-arch windows flanking it on either side.</p><br>
<p>The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Oates-Reynolds Memorial Building  is a historic building in Newton, Alabama. The Baptist Collegiate Institute was founded in 1898, providing elementary, high school, and early college education. One of the oldest educational institutions in the Wiregrass Region, the school had over 250 students by 1918. The entire campus burned in the early 1920s, and a classroom building and girls dormitory were built to replace it. The Institute closed in 1929; the classroom building was taken over by the public school system, and the dormitory was rented out. The dormitory currently serves as the town library and museum.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed in Classical Revival style. The structure is built of brick and masonry, and consists of a front portion with gables on three sides and a rear wing which contained the dormitory rooms. The building contains 36 rooms, 18 on each floor, including the first floor lobby and a bath and storage area on the second floor. The front of the building is anchored by four large columns supporting a two-story portico.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The High Rocky Point is a coastal landmark, located on the south western coast of Tasmania, Australia. The point, contained within the Southwest National Park, part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Site, lies to the south of Point Hibbs and north of Low Rocky Point that is located approximately 20 km away. The Wanderer River is located to the north of the point.</p><br>
<p>It is in an isolated and generally inaccessible area, however at different times mineral finds have occurred nearby. The point is a location on the west coast walking track between Cape Sorell and Port Davey, with High Rocky Point being in an area of thick almost impassable scrub.</p><br>
<p>The area surrounding the point has recorded former aboriginal sites of historical significance.</p><br>
<p>The name is closely related to Rocky Point and Low Rocky Point, creating some historical confusion.</p><br>
<p>Lake Amvrakia or Ambracia  is a freshwater lake in Aetolia-Acarnania, in western Greece. It lies between the towns of Agrinio and Amphilochia, and is 13.8 km long, 3.8 km wide and has a maximum depth of 40 m. It is a Natura 2000 protected habitat.</p><br>
<h2>Origin</h2><br>
<p>Lake Amvrakia was a result of tectonic movement. It is karstic and semipolje type. The lake formed from deposits of Mesozoic limestone.</p><br>
<h2>Location and Geology</h2><br>
<p>Lake Amvrakia lies along a depression northwest of Lake Ozeros and west of Mount Thyamos or Petalas. Its total surface area used to be 13.6 km., but that area has shrunk drastically in recent years. One of the reasons for this reduction in size was a long drought and the other was the draining of the shallow northern section of the basin. This drainage had a severe impact on the lake&#39;s size, owing to the small size of the basin (112 km.).</p><br>
<h2>Threats</h2><br>
<p>Hydraulic activity with the karstic aquifers, evaporation during summer, and use of water for irrigation result in fluctuating water levels with each passing year. The lake is unique from other nearby lakes in its high sulphuric anions concentration. The lakes waters are polluted, although not alarmingly, by the runoff from the tobacco plantations lying to eastern and southern regions of the drainage basin. The lakes east coast is cultivated heavily, the fields reaching almost to the shore. The uncultivated areas on the lake&#39;s shore are used as pastures for cattle.</p><br>
<p>The Charles S. Hall House is a historic house at 1740 Dover Road  in Epsom, New Hampshire. Built c. 1890, it is the only Second Empire building in the town. The house consists of a two story mansard-roofed main block, which is connected to a large carriage barn by a kitchen ell. The steep portion of the main block&#39;s roof is covered in decoratively cut wood shingling, while the lower-pitched top section is clad in asphalt. There are dormers with projecting lintels on each of the main elevations. The front  and east elevations of the house each have projecting polygonal bay windows topped by a cornice with paired brackets, a feature that is repeated in the main roof line. A gazebo with Stick style decoration is attached to a porch that extends across the east elevation.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Oak Grove Farm is a historic First Period farmstead at 410 Exchange Street in Millis, Massachusetts. The 2.5 story wood frame farmhouse was probably built in three phases, the first of which was in the early 18th century. Around this time, the left five bays of the house were built, as was a central chimney. In the second quarter of the 19th century, three bays were added to the right, giving the building its current asymmetrical eight-bay facade. Finally, in 1884 a series of modifications and additions were made. The central chimney was removed, a leanto section was added to the rear of the house, and the front porch was added. A second porch was also built onto the rear ell around this time.</p><br>
<p>The land on which the farmhouse stands has been farmed by English settlers since at least 1677, when Josiah Rockwood (also sometimes referred to as "Rockett") owned the property. Although maps show a house at the site in 1713, there is no other documentary evidence of the house until 1783, when a deed transferring the farm, with house, was recorded. For much of the 19th century the farm was owned by the Lovell family; it was purchased by Lansing Millis (the namesake of the town) in 1879. Millis, a railroad executive, established a dairy farm on the property, and gave it the name "Oak Grove Farm". His family used the property as a summer residence until 1883, after which he converted the house into a boarding house for the farm workers. By 1893 (after Millis&#39; death) the farm was reported to be the largest dairy farm in New England.</p><br>
<p>In the 20th century the property changed hands a few times, but remained in use as a dairy farm. In 1984, with a sale planned to a developer, the town purchased the property as one of the last open spaces near the town center. The farmland has been converted for use as recreational facilities, and the house has been restored and is managed by the town as a rental property.</p><br>
<p>The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Townsend House is a historic late First Period house in Needham, Massachusetts. The 2.5 story wood frame house was built in 1720 by Gregory Sugars, a sea captain, for his son-in-law, Rev. Jonathan Townsend. The building has retained little external appearance as an early 18th century house, showing the adaptive reuse and restyling of older houses. It was given a Federal appearance in the 1780s by its second owner, Rev. Samuel West, and was, under his ownership, used as a muster site for the local militia prior to the 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord. The building has been much modified over the years , but many of its older interior rooms have retained features from the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Ephraim United Order Cooperative Building was built in 1871-72 to house a Mormon cooperative store in Ephraim, Utah. The store was established to avoid trading with "gentile"  merchants, and sold merchandise from the ZCMI co-op in Salt Lake City. The two-story stone building housed to co-op stone on the ground floor and a meeting hall on the upper level. In 1888 the Sanpete Stake Academy was established, using the meeting hall for classes; it became Snow College in 1917.</p><br>
<p>The front of the building is clad in white oolitic Sanpete limestone on the front with coarser building stone on the other elevations. A steeply-pitched roof runs from front to back with bracketed eaves and eave returns over the three-bay front elevation. The side elevations are four bays wide, with a two-story extension to the rear. The building features the inscription "Ephraim U.O. Mercantile Institution" and a beehive surrounded by "Holiness to the Lord" in an arched panel on the building&#39;s front gable. A similarly-constructed stone granary stands nearby on the site.</p><br>
<p>The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 20, 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Salem Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church located at 2001 Seiler Road in Foster Township, Madison County, Illinois. Built in 1912, the church was the third built for the Salem congregation, which formed in 1919. African-American stonemason Madison Banks and white contractor Samuel Marshall, both from Alton, built the church; they were assisted by two members of the congregation, John Walker and William Emery. The church served as a civic and social center for the local black community during the early 20th century, as African-Americans faced rampant segregation and discrimination in public spaces. The church hosted events such as picnics and dinners, hay rides, and fashion shows for its congregation. In addition, the congregation organized a Ladies Aid Society for its female members, which sponsored a college scholarship program, and a Progressive Club for its youth. The church&#39;s membership declined after the 1960s, a consequence of both integration and rural flight.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 31, 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph F. and Anna B. Schrot Farm is a 17 acre subsistence farm located at 880 Carbon Mine Road in Lawrence Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. The farm was established in 1889 by Joseph F. and Anna B. Schrot, a stonemason and his wife who immigrated to Clearfield County from Austria in 1883. Stone quarries at nearby Curwensville had created a local demand for masons, and Joseph Schrot was one of many Europeans who came to Clearfield County to take construction work. The Schrots&#39; farm provided food for the couple and their family of fourteen children; the couple sold their excess food for additional income.</p><br>
<p>The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 2011.</p><br>
<h2>Farm</h2><br>
<p>Five contributing buildings still stand on the farm. The oldest remaining building, the 1889 woodshed, is a 15 by wood and stone structure. The farmhouse is a wood frame building constructed from 1891 to 1915 and features a gabled front and a side wing. The farm also includes a barn built in 1900, a chicken coop built in 1908, and a pigpen built in 1909. The farm&#39;s landscape also contributes to the historic value of the site and includes an orchard, vegetable gardens, a blueberry patch, a wood lot, and hay fields.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel P. Hoyt House was built starting in 1863 in Hoytsville, Utah. Never fully completed, work stopped in 1870. The house is significant as the home of a prominent early settler, of unusually large and elaborate construction for the time and place.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Samuel Pierce Hoyt was born in Chester, New Hampshire on November 21, 1807. In 1834 he married Emily Smith. An acquaintance of Joseph Smith, he converted to the Church of the Latter Day Saints in 1834. After a spell in Massachusetts the Hoyts moved to Utah in 1851, joining with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In Utah, Hoyt was involved in the building of the proposed territorial capitol in Fillmore. He married his second wife, Emma Bumbridge, in 1856. In 1861 Hoyt moved to Summit County, building a gristmill in 1862. In 1863 he started work on the house. In the late 1860s he established a ranch near Kamas, where his second wife resided and where Hoyt spent the last years of his life, his first wife remaining in the house in Hoytsville. Hoyt died on August 12, 1889.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Hoyt House is a 2-1/2 story house in the Georgian style, built in dressed and coursed ashlar sandstone. It has a center-passage double-pile plan, two rooms deep, five bays across the front. The hall ends at a formal dining room, and is flanked by sitting and service rooms. The house has 14 rooms, nine of them with fireplaces. The main living level features murals by a local artist named Olson. A full basement includes a well, near the basement kitchen, which in turn was connected to the upstairs by a dumbwaiter.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel P. Hoyt House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 19, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Dumas Commercial Historic District encompasses the historic commercial heart of the rural community of Dumas, Arkansas, in the Mississippi River delta region of southeastern Arkansas. The town of Dumas was established in 1904, after the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway was built through the farm of William Dumas. The town&#39;s oldest surviving commercial building, the Porter Grocery, was one of several built by David Porter between 1905 and 1938. The historic district includes eight noteworthy buildings, including the Merchants & Farmers Bank building, a Colonial Revival National Register-listed building designed by Charles L. Thompson. All of the buildings occupy a single city block of South Main Street, between Choctaw and Waterman Streets. Most of the buildings of interest were built in the 1920s, and are vernacular brick commercial buildings.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Horseshoe Lake Mound and Village Site is a pre-Columbian archaeological site located on the northeast shore of Horseshoe Lake in Madison County, Illinois. The site includes a platform temple mound and a village site with the remains of multiple houses. The site was inhabited by Mississippian peoples during the Late Woodland period from roughly 600-1050 A.D. The village at the site was part of the settlement system connected to Cahokia; it was a third line community, a class of community distinguished by a single temple mound, in the system. Of the five known third line communities in the Cahokia system, the Horseshoe Lake Site is the only one which is relatively intact. The site also includes substantial plant and animal remains, which indicate that its settlers produced maize.</p><br>
<p>The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 26, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Parnell-Sharpe House is a historic house at 302 North 2nd Street in McGehee, Arkansas. The 1.5 story brick house was built in 1936, and is probably unique in Desha County as an example of French Eclectic architecture constructed using local materials. The house is built out of red tapestry brick, and has a roughly T-shaped plan, with a projecting element in the front  facade that includes a tower topped by a conical roof. To the north is a single story section that was originally a garage, but has been converted to interior space.</p><br>
<p>The house was built and occupied by Duren Sharpe and his wife, Mildred Parnell Sharpe. Sharpe was self-taught in a number of building trades, including bricklaying and carpentry, and built a number of residential and commercial buildings in McGehee.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Mitchell Archaeological Site is a pre-Columbian archaeological site located at the western end of University Drive in Mitchell, Illinois. The site includes a platform mound and the remains of a village; while it once included several other mounds, they have been destroyed by modern activity. Mississippian peoples inhabited the site c. 1150-1200. The site is affiliated with the Cahokia settlement system and was the largest site in the system except for Cahokia itself. However, the majority of the site was destroyed by the construction of Interstate 270; known information about the site mainly comes from salvage excavations conducted before the highway was built.</p><br>
<p>The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 7, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Footers Dye Works is a historic industrial building in Cumberland, Maryland. The four story brick building occupies most of a city block on Howard Street near its junction with South Mechanic Street. Built in 1906, it is the last surviving building of a large cleaning and dyeing business that was once one of Cumberlands major employers.Throughout the 1920s, Footer&#39;s Dye Works continued as one of the dominant cleaning and</p><br>
<p>dyeing establishments in the region.</p><br>
<p>At its peak the Footer&#39;s Dye Works boasted of a weekly payroll exceeding several</p><br>
<p>thousand dollars. With nearly 500 employees, the company had branch offices</p><br>
<p>located in twenty cities in nearby states for the receiving and forwarding of goods.</p><br>
<p>One source of business originated from Washington; lace curtains from the White</p><br>
<p>House were shipped to Footer&#39;s for cleaning.15</p><br>
<p>Major branch offices were located in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, according to the</p><br>
<p>company&#39;s advertising flier.</p><br>
<p>The 1930s, however, brought hard times to Footer&#39;s Dye Works. It was in the 1930s that the</p><br>
<p>new "dry" cleaning process was beginning to take hold, replacing the steam cleaning process used in</p><br>
<p>Footer&#39;s factory. With the Great Depression in full swing throughout the United States, pressure</p><br>
<p>from dry cleaning competition, and then a devastating Potomac River flood in March 1936,</p><br>
<p>Footer&#39;s Dye Works filed for bankruptcy on June 12, 1936. On December 30, the plant was sold</p><br>
<p>by a court trustee to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, which held the mortgage, for</p><br>
<p>$200,000.16 With the sale of the Footer&#39;s Dye Works property, the cleaning and dyeing operation</p><br>
<p>closed.</p><br>
<p>By 1939, Harry Footer opened a cleaning business in the old Footer&#39;s building on N. Liberty</p><br>
<p>St. called Harry Footer & Co. His was among</p><br>
<p>twenty "Clothes Pressers and Cleaners" listed in Cumberland in 1939. In June 1939, part of the</p><br>
<p>Footer&#39;s S. Mechanic St. complex was sold to Liberty Cleaners & Dyers, Inc.18 This company was</p><br>
<p>likely a secondary operation of Harry Footer&#39;s Liberty St. cleaners.</p><br>
<p>Between 1939 and 1949, the former Footer&#39;s Dye Works complex was subdivided and sold.</p><br>
<p>The 1939 deed to Liberty Cleaners noted that another part of the complex was deeded earlier to "Red</p><br>
<p>Head Oil Co. The 1949 map shows not only the dry cleaners and oil company sections,</p><br>
<p>but a "Trade School" in the eastern-most buildings and a "Montgomery Ward warehouse" in the first</p><br>
<p>floor of the four-story brick building along Howard St. and its one-story saw tooth south section (the</p><br>
<p>building still standing in 2005). By 1956, when the last Sanborn Insurance Co. map was drawn of</p><br>
<p>the complex, most of the eastern section was demolished and replaced with a parking lot. The</p><br>
<p>cleaners, oil company, and Montgomery Ward still occupied their buildings. But the large four-story</p><br>
<p>brick building that housed the Wards warehouse also had the state employment offices in the second</p><br>
<p>floor and the Army Reserve in the third floor</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Old Stone Arch is a stone arch bridge along the former route of the National Road in Marshall, Illinois. The limestone bridge is 13.5 ft high and 15 ft across. The USA Army Corps of Engineers built the bridge between 1828 and 1837, the period in which the Corps rebuilt much of the National Road. The National Road, the most-traveled USA road in the early 1800s and the first built by the USA government, connected Illinois to the Eastern United States and helped bring settlers and goods to the state during its early years. The bridge has served road traffic continuously since its construction and was part of USA Route 40 from the route&#39;s creation to 1953.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 20, 1975.</p><br>
<p>Allendale County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in Allendale, Allendale County, South Carolina. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1921-1922, and is a two-story yellow brick and limestone-accented building with a central block with pedestaled pediment dominated by a monumental, unengaged, flat-roofed Neoclassical Revival portico. The portico features four massive limestone columns and responding pilasters of the Tuscan order, a classical entablature, and a brick-and-limestone parapet.</p><br>
<p>Immediately to the rear and connected to the historic courthouse by a narrow two-story hyphen is a large office and courtroom building that was completed and occupied in 2004. The interior was restored after a devastating arson fire on the morning of May 18, 1998.</p><br>
<p>Erwin House, also known as Erwinton Plantation and Hunting Club, is a historic home located near Allendale, Allendale County, South Carolina. It was built about 1828, and is a 1-1/2-story, white clapboard dwelling on a raised brick basement. The front façade features three dormers and a full-with piazza with 14 square wooden columns, that also extends halfway down each of the side facades. Dr. William Erwin, the original owner of Erwinton, his wife and sister-in-law were all excommunicated from Kirkland Church in 1833 for their affiliation with other denominations. They then formed the second Christian congregation, the Disciples of Christ, in South Carolina. They held weekly meetings at Erwinton until 1835 when the present meeting house was completed and dedicated as Antioch Christian Church.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Matthew Harvey House is a historic house on Harvey Street in Sutton, New Hampshire. This elegant Federal style wood frame house was built in 1784, at a time when Harvey Street was a major north-south thoroughfare. Matthew Harvey, who had settled the land in 1772, built this house, from which he operated a tavern that may have been the first in Sutton. At his death in 1799 he was the largest landowner in town. The heavy frame of the house suggests it may have been built by someone more experienced in building larger wood frame buildings such as meeting houses; Harvey&#39;s cousin John is known to have engaged in this business, and may have been the builder of this house.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Henniker Town Hall is the town hall of Henniker, New Hampshire. The wood frame building, built in 1786-87, is one of a small number of surviving 18th century meetinghouses in New Hampshire. At that time, its main entrance was on the long south wall, facing the raised pulpit on the north wall, and the floor was taken up by pews. The interior was decorated with high quality woodwork, which still survives. The roughly rectangular building had 1.5 story enclosed porch extensions on both sides.</p><br>
<p>By the 1880s the building had been dedicated exclusively for municipal use, and in 1887 it underwent major alterations. Its upper galleries were built over to provide a full second floor, and the western porch was converted for use by the board of selectmen above, and a kitchen facility below. The eastern porch was converted into a vestibule area with ticket booth and cloakroom, and became the new main entrance. Some alterations were also made to the exterior, giving it is present appearance.</p><br>
<p>The building served as the town hall until 1946, after which it was used by New England College as a classroom facility. Inadequacies in its heating system precluded it from more than incidental uses, however. In the 1970s the town voted to restore the building for use as its town hall. The first floor meeting space was converted to office areas for municipal and court functions, but with movable partitions so as not to harm the historic fabric of the building.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>Sullivans Corner Historic District is a historic district encompassing a historical rural crossroads in northeastern Norfolk, Massachusetts. The 18 acre district includes Norfolks oldest cemetery, established c. 1736, and five 18th- to early 20th-century buildings currently used as residences. The core of the old cemetery is on the northeast corner of Seekonk and Main Streets, and the cemetery was enlarged north and east from that point in the 19th century. Four of the five houses in the district face the cemetery across Seekonk Street; the fifth, 1 Needham Street, lies across Main Street at the corner, and is one of Norfolks best-preserved Greek Revival buildings. The building on the corners northwest corner, Sullivans Store, was built c. 1913, and is still somewhat recognizable as a corner store of the period, despite its conversion to residential use. It is Norfolks only commercial building from that period.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Stetson Hall is the former town hall of Randolph, Massachusetts, located at 6 South Main Street. The 2.5 story Greek Revival building, which was constructed in 1842, is the most monumental Greek Revival structure in the town, and occupies an elevated site in a prominent position at its center. Its temple front consists of six large fluted Ionic columns, two stories in height, supporting a triangular pedimental gable. Construction of the building was funded by Amasa Stetson, and has served as a center of civic activity in the town since it was built. Its early uses included an academy endowed by Stetson, and as home to the offices of Randolph National Bank. Its meeting space saw a variety of uses, including town meetings and religious services. The building also house town offices for most of its history; the town moved most of its offices out of the building in 1995 to allow for its restoration, which was not completed until 2009.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Charles R. Wilber School  is a historic school building at 75-85 South Main Street in Sharon, Massachusetts. Located on a block facing Sharon Town Hall, the large two story brick Colonial and Classical Revival building was built in 1921-22 and enlarged in 1928-29. The older portion of the building, now the south building, was constructed to serve as an elementary school, and was named the Charles R. Wilber School. The 1928 enlargement, including the north wing and the shaft of the T-shaped structure, were done to convert the building to a high school. The building served as Sharon&#39;s high school until 1957, after which it became an intermediate school. In 2009 a new wing was added to the building, and it was converted to residential use.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Saint Mary of the Assumption Church and School in Park City, Utah is the oldest extant Roman Catholic church in Utah. The present church was built in 1884 after a fire destroyed an earlier church during July 4 celebrations. The first church was built in 1881 to serve Park City&#39;s largely non-Mormon mining community, an anomaly in the Mormon-dominated state. The mining boom in the area around Park City brought miners, many of them Catholic, from all parts of the country.</p><br>
<p>The church and school are located next to each other with a connection to the rear. Both buildings are rectangular buff limestone structures, the school two stories in height, the church taller, but one story in height. The church features a large Gothic arch at the center entrance, flanked by large sash windows, with two smaller sashes close together in the loft over the main arch. A small wooden belfry tops the church. The school, to the left of the church, has a similar but smaller facade, the Gothic arch replaced by a plain rectangular doorway, with a flue in place of the church&#39;s belfry. Since both buildings are on a hillside above the street, the lot is fronted by a tall stone retaining wall.</p><br>
<p>The church and school were placed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 25, 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican Church of St Peter in Williton in the English county of Somerset is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>The earliest church on the site may have been the private chapel of a Saxon royal manor. In the 12th century Reginald Fitzurse was the Lord of the manor when he was one of the four knights who murdered Thomas Becket. It was then passed to his brother and the Knights Templar. The church was largely rebuilt in the 16th century and again in the 1850s as part of an extensive Victorian restoration.</p><br>
<p>For many years St Peter&#39;s was a chapel of ease of Church of St Decuman, Watchet until 1889 when it became a separate parish. The parish is now part of the benefice of Watchet and Williton within the archdeaconry of Taunton.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The date of the origin of St Peters Church in Bridge Street is uncertain but it may have started as the private chapel of a Saxon royal manor site. The status of the Church changed dramatically in 1170 when The Lord of the manor, Sir Reginald Fitzurse, became one of the murderers of St Thomas a Becket. Following the murder the ownership of part the manor passed to Reginalds brother Robert and the other part to the Knights Templar. The historian John Collinson records that Robert rebuilt the chapel of Williton implying that the Saxon chapel was in ruins. The Liber Albus manuscripts in Wells Cathedral library show Robert gave to the Church of St Decuman, Watchet some important property and certain rights in the chapel making St Peter&#39;s a daughter church of Watchet and became known as a chapel of ease.</p><br>
<h2>Current building</h2><br>
<p>Some of the fabric of the current building is from the 16th century. Further work was undertaken in the 17th century when the church was known as All Saints. In 1810 a south extension was built, although the Elizabethan windows were relocated and reused in the south wall. The church fell into a state if disrepair and in 1856 suffered a Victorian restoration under the architect C.E. Giles. The priest responsible for the rebuilding and restoration of 1856 to 1859, Samuel Heathcote (at the Church 1854 to 1906), was appointed Perpetual curate but was signing the registers as Vicar from 21 November 1889 showing that Williton had become a parish separate from Watchet. The church had a small spire until it was damaged during a storm after which the bells were housed until a wooden bellcote until a new stone one was built in 1896.</p><br>
<p>The church is built of red sandstone with Bath stone dressings. It now has a four- bay nave with north and south aisles and a chancel with a barrel vault roof.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The interior of the church includes a wooden board listing the names of 23 people from the parish who died in World War I and 13 in World War II.</p><br>
<p>There is a piscina from the 15th century. The alabaster font dates from 1666 and the poor box from 1680.</p><br>
<h2>Churchyard</h2><br>
<p>Within the churchyard is a red sandstone base of a cross dating from the late 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building and ancient monument.</p><br>
<p>The Old Stone Arch Bridge was a stone arch bridge located along the former route of the National Road in Clark Center, Illinois. The limestone bridge was 8.9 ft high and 81.5 ft long with a 17.8 ft span. The USA Army Corps of Engineers built the bridge between 1828 and 1837, the period in which the Corps improved much of the National Road. The National Road was the first major highway built by the USA government and brought settlers and goods from the Eastern United States to Illinois. The bridge became part the Illinois state highway system in 1918, and later became part of USA Route 40; it served road traffic until 1933, when US 40 was realigned through the area.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Kimball Stage Stop was a station on the Overland Trail near Park City, Utah. Located in the Parleys Park valley near USA Route 40 at the head of Parleys Canyon, the station was built by William H. Kimball in 1862. Kimball also built a bridge across nearby Kimball Creek. The stations hotel was notable for its dinners, and was visited by Mark Twain, Walt Whitman and Horace Greeley, served at first by Kimballs wife Melissa Burton Coray Kimball, and later by another of Kimball&#39;s wives, Martha Vance Kimball. The station also served the Holladay Stage and the Wells Fargo Express Company.</p><br>
<p>The chief building in the complex is the hotel. It is a T-shaped two-story sandstone building, housing dining rooms, guest rooms, a store, and for a time, a post office. Two log barns are part of the complex.</p><br>
<p>The Kimball Stage Stop was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Cable Building is located at 611 Broadway at the northwest corner with Houston Street in NoHo and Greenwich Village, in Manhattan, New York City. Since it spans a block, the Cable Building also has addresses of 2-18 West Houston Street and 178-188 Mercer Street.</p><br>
<h2>Construction and design</h2><br>
<p>The Cable Building was built in 1892-1894. It is a steel and iron frame structure with brick, stone, and terra-cotta facing. It has a limestone base with a two-story arcade featuring show windows graced by iron spandrels and elegant keystones. It also has a prominent copper cornice with lions faces, egg and dart moldings, and surmounting acanthus. It is believed to be the architectural firm McKim, Mead & Whites first use of a complete steel frame in a commercial building.</p><br>
<p>In an article published on May 7, 1892 under the heading of "The Beginning of the Transformation of Broadway", the publication of record for New York real estate, the Real Estate Record and Builders Guide, reported, "At the northwest corner of Houston Street the Broadway Cable Railroad Company (Broadway & Seventh Avenue Railroad Company) is constructing its big power station and business building from the plans of McKim, Mead & White. The contracts for this work above the foundations are still to be set."</p><br>
<p>When it was completed, the Real Estate Record and Builders Guide enthused that the new Cable Building is "conspicuous among the modern buildings that are fast imparting a new and grander appearance to Broadway....its architecture expresses distinctly the highest achievement of the art in this country at this time...The exterior of this magnificent structure is a product of American genius adapted to the needs of American commercial interests and is influenced by the Italian Renaissance in its style and proportions." The publication further remarked that, with this example, "no excuse remains for building cheaply or meanly on any New York City property." The article noted that the Metropolitan Traction Company occupied the top two floors of the building and had the other six 20,000 square foot floors for lease, which it thought would be especially appealing to those businesses who had their natural centre in the wholesale dry goods district.</p><br>
<p>The Real Estate Record and Builders Guide gave special notice to the western entrance, saying: "Surmounting the charming and inviting entranceway is a round ornamental opening, making the centre to a group of two strongly modeled figures, which from their appearance and position are strongly suggestive in many ways of the Great Seal of the Empire State. These figures are 11 feet in height and are worthy of especial notice." Above this entrance are two flanking draped female figures, which were created by the distinguished Scottish-American sculptor J. Massey Rhind the oval window had a large clock in it as shown in photos from ca 1920. Like the architect Stanford White, Rhind was a leader in the "American Renaissance" movement. However, such a prominent sculptural piece on a commercial structure like the Cable Building eas considered very unusual. The figure on the right holds a sword her in hand, the handle of which was broken off ca 1920s, it remained missing for decades until it was replaced incorrectly with a flame torch to match the figure on the left.</p><br>
<h2>Architects</h2><br>
<p>The Cable Building was designed by Stanford White, a partner in McKim, Mead & White, the preeminent American architectural firm at the turn of the twentieth century. It is a nine story Beaux-Arts structure, which impressively captures Whites design principles of the "American Renaissance". This is the only McKim, Mead & White building in the NoHo Historic District. The buildings detailing is similar to two of the firm&#39;s earlier designs: the 1887 Goelet Building, still standing at 900 Broadway, which Christopher Gray, writing in the New York Times called a "sleek, sophisticated amalgam of industrial-style brickwork&quot and the long-gone 1890 Hotel Imperial, also built for the Goelet family, at Broadway and 32nd Street. Stanford White was the partner in charge for both of these projects for the family and was a close friend.</p><br>
<p>The Cable Buildings dual use as both a major powerhouse and an approximately 140,000 square-foot modern office building appears unique in the McKim, Mead & White portfolio. The firm, however, designed two other significant power house structures, both in New York State: the Adams Power Plant Transformer House, part of the historic Edward Dean Adams Power Plant, the first large-scale, alternating current electric generating plant in the world, built in 1895 to tap the power of Niagara Falls; and the IRT Powerhouse, the power station of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, located further uptown in Hells Kitchen. However, both of these structures were single use, and most of McKim, Mead & White&#39;s prolific output was for public buildings or grand houses. Besides the Goelet Building among its few other office buildings is the Gorham Building, an Italian Renaissance Revival palazzo-style building at 390 Fifth Avenue at 36th Street in Murray Hill, for which Stanford White as also the partner-in-charge; and the New York Life Building in Kansas City, Missouri, which was fully replicated in Omaha, Nebraska as the Omaha National Bank Building. The latter two buildings are believed to be the only example in the McKim, Mead & White portfolio where one set of plans spawned two identical buildings.</p><br>
<p>Of the twenty-nine American cities that built cable traction systems between 1870 and 1900 along with their accompanying cable powerhouses, this is the only powerhouse that was built by an architect of such stature, creating a building of enduring artistic refinement. A cable car powerhouse is usually a very utilitarian building, constructed for one clear purpose, as can be seen clearly in the LaSalle Street Cable Car Powerhouse in Chicago, or the Baltimore City Passenger Railway Power House and Car Barn. It was simply the mechanical back office of the cable railroad. In this instance, being situated on such a prominent street, Broadway, probably propelled the investors, with deep ties to New York business and real estate, to make a grand statement.</p><br>
<h2>Tenant</h2><br>
<p>The Cable Building was originally the headquarters and power station for the Metropolitan Traction Company, one of the city&#39;s cable car companies. MTC had been assembled in 1892 as a holding company for street railways, including the Broadway & Seventh Avenue Railroad. It was composed of a very powerful quartet, including the patriarch of the Whitney family, William Collins Whitney; an extremely wealthy financier, Thomas Fortune Ryan; Philadelphia industrialist Peter Arrell Brown Widener; and a major New York builder, John D. Crimmins. Their original investment in the building was $750,000. In all MTC spent $12 million on a cable car railway system to move cars on Broadway from Bowling Green to 36th Street. It was the most expensive system on a per-mile basis of any in the nation. When it became operational in the summer of 1893, its fleet comprised 125 cable cars and served 100,000 daily passengers. This was the central power station; other stations were at 51st Street and Front Street.</p><br>
<p>The buildings basement, which had been excavated 46 under the street surface, housed four 32-foot winding wheels that carried the cables that pulled the cable streetcars. They were powered by four Corliss steam engines 38" x 60", 1200 HP each, developed by the Dickson Manufacturing Company of Scranton, Pennsylvania. The upper seven floors contained offices arranged around a large internal court with two rectangular light wells.</p><br>
<p>Less than ten years after it was finished and occupied, cable traction became obsolete in 1901 and the company switched to electricity, but the building retained its original name. The last Broadway cable car left the Battery Station at 8:27 PM on May 21, 1901. Its final journey marked the end of cable street transportation in New York City. Subsequently, the Metropolitan Traction Company went into receivership, and was reorganized the following year as the New York Railways Company.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>The New York Railways Company sold the building in 1925, and it was soon occupied by small businesses and manufacturers. From the 1940s to 1970s, the Cable Building housed mainly garment makers, which was the prevailing use in that area at the time. It was converted back to offices in 1983, with new ground-floor storefronts. M. D. Carlisle Real Estate has owned The Cable Building since 1985.</p><br>
<p>The basement space that originally contained the cable powerhouse became the Angelika Film Center. They operate a multi-screen theater, which specializes in art house films. It was designed by architect Igor Josza and built by contractor Don Schimenti in 1989. Part of the ground floor and all of the second floor has been occupied since 2002 by a 40,217 square-foot Crate & Barrel store. Offices tenant the other seven floors.</p><br>
<h3>Historic preservation</h3><br>
<p>The building was designated as part of the NoHo Historic District in 1999 by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The report stated:</p><br>
<p>However, the Cable Building is not currently listed in its own right on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Beiger Mansion, pronounced By-gur, though known more colloquially as Bee-gur, was the palatial home of Martin Valentine and Susie Higgins Beiger at 317 Lincoln Way E. in Mishawaka, Indiana. In 1973 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1903 the home was burned to the ground in 1975 and has since been restored, though not to its former grandeur. The restoration process is still ongoing. It is now operated as a bed and breakfast and event facility.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>Martin V. Beiger, born February 3, 1847, was Mishawakas first millionaire. Martin made his fortune with the Mishawaka Woolen and Rubber Manufacturing Company, which would later become Ball Band then Uniroyal. He, along with his father Jacob Beiger, bought the small textiles mill in 1867. The mill originally had just 3 workers and mostly made flannels. He married Susie Higgins, the daughter of a local jeweler, in December 1875. In 1886 Martin Beiger, along with Adolphus Eberhart, patented the first all knit wool boot that did not lose shape or size. Demand for this product quickly grew the company. The boots were topped with a black band and, later, a red ball which became the companies trade mark. Ball Band went on to employ 5000 workers by 1923 and as many as 10000 in the 1940s. By 1903 the company had around 2000 employees and Martin had become very wealthy. Soon he and Susie were considering a more lavish home in the style of some of New Port Rhode Islands mansions, particularly that of The Breakers.</p><br>
<h2>Mansion</h2><br>
<p>Planning for a new home was begun in 1900, and construction on the -story neoclassical mansion began in 1903. Architectural plans were designed by Durham and Snyder, a company in South Bend, Indiana, and landscaping plans were designed by prominent landscape architect Jens Jensen.</p><br>
<p>In the first year of construction, on September 26, 1903, Martin Beiger died at the age of 56 after an infection from an operation for appendicitus. Construction on the mansion was halted for a time, however Susie later decided to continue with construction and the mansion was completed in 1908 at a total cost of 100,000 dollars.</p><br>
<p>The home is 21,790 square feet and originally had some 40 rooms. It has 11 unique fireplaces. Among the original rooms there were 11 bedrooms, 2 dining rooms, 2 kitchens, 2 sitting rooms, a billiards room, a library, a breakfast room, a solarium, a reception room, a ball room, a one-lane bowling alley, a museum, and a music room. The music room featured a three-manual Aeolian organ costing $25,000 at the time (about $700,000 in 2012). The 5th floor is a 2,000-square-foot area that originally housed the gardeners quarters. The mansion originally sat on nearly an entire block, and featured landscaped gardens and a full tennis court, built for her nephew.</p><br>
<p>The home was very modern for its time. It had electric lighting throughout, an internal bell system for calling the staff, a central vacuum system, and radiator and forced air heating. Originally the home was designed with an elevator in it; however, during construction it was decided to instead use the elevator shaft to increase the size of the safes. With time this would prove to be an important choice. The main safe on the second floor encompasses several hundred square feet of storage. All the safes were provided by the Mosler Safe Company of Cincinnati Ohio. The mansion featured several prized woods including, African mahogany, birds eye maple, and teak. Several of the rooms had large murals hand painted on silk. The first floor dining room had an Italianate scene, the library had a depiction of the birth of Christ from Ben Hur, and the breakfast room had a sunrise motif.</p><br>
<p>Susie, along with a niece and nephew of hers, moved into the mansion in 1908. She lived well, with 6 servants, and entertained lavishly. Susie is reported to have had the first car in Mishawaka. SHe lived in the home until her death in 1927, when Ms. Beiger fell while walking down the main staircase in the home, breaking her hip. Susie died of complications due to this fall at the age of 68.</p><br>
<h3>After the death of Ms. Beiger</h3><br>
<p>Since she did not have any children Ms. Beiger left the mansion in trust as a home for the care of elderly women. Ms. Beiger willed 210 thousand dollars of her 1.55 million dollar estate to care for and maintain the home and its furnishings. The home for the care of the elderly was opened February 1, 1930.</p><br>
<p>The home remained a care facility until its operation was no longer financially viable ceasing operation in 1967. During this time the surrounding grounds, which were originally an entire block, were sold off. To the south of the mansion, and on the original site of the tennis courts, lies the Dodge House for the Elderly which was built in 1933. By the late 1960s the future of the home was uncertain, and in 1972 it was slated for demolition to make way for used car lot. However, the local community along with the Mishawaka Historical Society banded together in order to save and restore the mansion. On September 7, 1973, the home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In the early morning on 20 January 1975, the mansion was burned to the ground in an unsolved arson. The terracotta roof collapsed through into the basement and nearly the entire home was destroyed. All that remained standing were the limestone walls, chimneys, and safes. The bulk of the valuable furniture and artifacts within were lost as well. Disastrously there was only a $75,000 insurance policy on the mansion, leaving its future again unclear. However, again the community moved to save the mansion. The recovery was slow. It took 4 years before a roof was again over the structure. By the mid- to late 1980s, the Historical Society had lost support and finances for preserving and restoring the mansion.</p><br>
<p>On August 1, 1989, Ron Montandon purchased the mansion from the Historical Society. He has since worked to restore the mansion to its original grandeur. The current floor plan matches the original, and most of the landscaping is based on the original plans. Much of the current interior has been reproduced from pictures and accounts of the original home. In order to finance the restoration process, the mansion is currently operated as a 6-bedroom bed and breakfast and as an event facility known as the Beiger Mansion Inn. In February 2014 The Beiger Mansion Inn won the Mishawaka Business Association award for business of the year for 2013.</p><br>
