<p>The Capt. John T. Burkett House is a historic house in rural Ouachita County, Arkansas. It is located at 607 Ouachita County Road 65, near the community of Frenchport. The 1-1/2 story wood frame house was built c. 1899 by John Burkett, a ship&#39;s captain and part-owner of a local lumber mill. He later served as the chief warden at Cummins Prison, and then as a regional agent of the Internal Revenue Service. The house is a fine example of Folk Victorian style. Its front facade has a porch running across its whole width, mounted on piers made of locally manufactured bricks, with its hip-roof supported by concrete columns that resemble Tuscan-style columns. The balustrade is a metal filigree work. A gable-roof balcony projects above the center of the porch.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Camden Confederate Monument, also known as the Confederate Womens Memorial, is located on the grounds of the Ouachita County Courthouse in Camden, Arkansas. The sculpture, carved out of Italian marble, depicts a woman dressed in the period of the American Civil War, standing with her feet together, clutching a flagpole. The sculpture is mounted on a block of North Carolina granite, next to a tall  obelisk. The statue is 5 ft tall. The obelisk is inscribed on three sides, recognizing the valor of women in the Confederate cause, and the organizations that funded the memorials construction. The memorial was erected in 1914 by the local chapters of the United Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.</p><br>
<p>The monument was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The North Sandwich Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house at the northwest junction of Quaker-Whiteface Road and Brown Hill Road in Sandwich, New Hampshire. Built in 1881, it is the best-preserved 19th-century Quaker meeting house in the county. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, at which time it was the only active Quaker meeting house in Carroll County.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The North Sandwich Meeting House is located in a rural area of northeastern Sandwich, at the northwest corner of Quaker-Whiteface and Brown Hill Roads. It is a single-story wood frame building, with a gable roof and simple pilastered cornerboards. The interior consists of a vestibule area, which leads into the main hall and has stairs leading up to a balcony. The only significant exterior changes are the addition of a bulletin board, and the granite front steps and platform, which appear to date to the 1920s. Interior changes are also modest: two pews have been removed, one to provide space for an organ, and another for a more modern heating system. The auditorium was also carpeted at some point.</p><br>
<p>The Sandwich Society of Friends (i.e. Quakers) was organized in 1783. In 1802, this society was made a monthly meeting, with separate meetings for southern and northern Sandwich. The first meetinghouse for the north meeting was built on this site in 1814. Both congregations declined in the mid-19th century, with the southern one disbanding in 1884. The north meeting was revitalized in 1876, and the present building was built to replace the deteriorating first building. Unlike the two other surviving Quaker meeting houses in the county, it is very little changed.</p><br>
<p>The Capt. Enoch Remick House is a historic house and farm complex at 4 Great Hill Road in Tamworth, New Hampshire. The 69 acre property is locally significant as one of only two remaining farms in the town, with a history dating to 1808, when the farmhouse was built by Enoch Remick. The house, a 2-1/2 story L-shaped wood frame structure, is a well-preserved local example of Federal and Greek Revival styling, and is further significant for the artwork drawn on its walls. This art was done by John Avery, one of a small number of itinerant folk artists whose identity is known. The house and most of the land have been in the Remick family since the early 19th century, and are now owned by a family foundation.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm</h2><br>
<p>The house is now part of the Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm, a working historic farm that show farm practices from 1790 to the present.</p><br>
<p>The Remick Farm&#39;s other buildings include a historic farmhouse, a cattle barn, milk house, maple sugar house, stable, and a historic English barn. The farmhouse includes the living quarters and medical equipment of a country doctor and exhibits about life on the farm.</p><br>
<p>The Captain Enoch Remick House features antique furnishings including an antique toy collection. The original medical office and medicine room, used by both doctors, are preserved on the first floor.</p><br>
<p>The Russell/Colbath House is a historic house on the Kancamagus Highway in Albany, New Hampshire. It is located in the White Mountain National Forest, and is operated as a museum by the United States Forest Service. Built about 1831, it is the only surviving early homestead in the Swift River valley. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Russell-Colbath House stands on the north side of the Kancamagus Highway, between the Jigger Johnson Campground and Oliverian Brook Road. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gable roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. It has a symmetrical five-bay facade, with a center entrance flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, and topped by a simple peaked entablature. The interior follows a center-chimney plan, with a small entrance vestibule, parlor spaces flanking the chimney, and a bedroom behind the chimney. A narrow space in the northeast corner includes both a kitchen space and stairs to bedrooms in the upper level.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1831-32 by Thomas and Amzi Russell, and is the only surviving 19th-century homestead in the Swift River valley. The Russells were among the early permanent settlers, arriving in the 1820s (failed settlements took place in 1805 and 1815). The Russell operated a sawmill on Oliverian Brook, and were part of a small farming and logging community in the immediate area, which constituted the best farmland in the valley.</p><br>
<p>The Baldwin-Coker Cottage is a historic house at 266 Lower Lake Road in Highlands, North Carolina. The Rustic-style 1-1/2 story log house was designed and built in 1925 by James John Baldwin, an architect from Anderson, South Carolina. The cottage is important as a prototype for a number of later houses that were built by members of the construction crew. The walls are constructed of notched logs, whose ends project at random-length intervals, both at the corners of the house, and from the interior, where logs are also used to partition the inside space. The house is topped by a side-gable wood shingle roof. The main gable ends, and the gables of the dormers, are clad in board-and-batten siding. A porch with naturalistic limb-and-twig railings spans the width of the main facade.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Surha, locally called Surha Taal  is a natural lake located in Ballia District of Uttar Pradesh in India. It is an oval shaped natural oxbow lake which has an area of 34.32 sq. km. and is located about 17 km. north from the Ballia city along the river Ganges.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Geographically Surha is located in Middle Ganga Plains along the margins of Ganges. It owes its origin to the meandering of Ganges and now a narrow outlet of about 23 km named Kathar Nala connects it with the river and is the main outflow channel.</p><br>
<p>The area of the lake is subject to seasonal variation and the lake expands to its maximum during monsoon rains in the month of August–September every year. The lake discharges its waters into Ganga river through Kathar Nala. Some times the flow of kathar Nala gets reversed during the high floods in Ganges and Sarayu rivers.</p><br>
<p>Surha Tal has been historically famous for the variety of migratory and native birds. It was declared a Bird Sanctuary in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Traditionally the ecosystem of Surha Tal has been well adopted to peddy culture and fishing but the basic problem of the area is overpopulation which exerts tremendous pressure on the catchment of the lake as well as lake itself. Some exotic species have also been reported to encroach the small lakes in the basin.</p><br>
<p>Studies have shown stable characteristics of water quality.</p><br>
<h2>Economics</h2><br>
<p>Surha Tal has been important fishing area and livelihood of many fishermen around the lake solely depends on the lake. Another importance is peddy culture in the lake.</p><br>
<p>Being a place of bird watching it is also a tourist attraction in the area.</p><br>
<p>The Embassy of the United States of America in Dublin is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America to the Republic of Ireland.</p><br>
<p>The Chancery is located at 42 Elgin Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. The Ambassador&#39;s Official Residence is located at the Deerfield Residence, Phoenix Park, Dublin 8.</p><br>
<h2>Ambassador</h2><br>
<p>Reece Smyth is the current chargé daffaires of the USA Embassy in Ireland. Kevin OMalley was the most recent ambassador, serving from September 2014 until January 2017.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Chancery</h3><br>
<p>The embassy was designed by American architect John M. Johansen, in consultation with Irish architect Michael Scott. It was constructed between 1962 and 1964 on a triangular site at the intersection between Elgin Road and Pembroke Road. The building is circular in plan, incorporating modern interpretations of early Celtic and later Irish buildings with contemporary, bold American design as well as symbolising the first American flag, and is considered a Dublin landmark. There are five floors at the complex, two underground and three above ground, plus a smaller sixth storey on the rooftop.</p><br>
<p>On 23 May 2011, a 2005 model Cadillac Presidential State Car was involved in an incident when it got stuck on a ramp as it exited the USA Embassy during an official visit by President Barack Obama. It is understood that the wheelbase of the vehicle was too great for the ramp, and it had to be towed off the ramp as a large crowd looked on. President Obama left the embassy through an alternative exit. The USA Secret Service later stated that the car was a spare, and that President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were in another vehicle. Coincidentally, this occurred on the 47th anniversary of the official opening of the building on 23 May 1964.</p><br>
<h3>Ambassador's Residence</h3><br>
<p>Deerfield Residence, a large 18th century house on over 60 acres in the Phoenix Park, has since February 19, 1927 been the United States Ambassadors Official Residence in Ireland. Before the 1960s, the embassy was located at the grounds, then known as the Chief Secretarys Lodge. The United States first opened a consulate in Ireland in 1859 at a building on Adelaide Road, Dublin 2, and also had a presence at Merrion Square, Dublin 2 from 1948. Both current diplomatic premises are owned and operated by the United States Department of State on behalf of the United States federal government.</p><br>
<h3>Future</h3><br>
<p>In late 2012, the United States Department of State announced the embassy will move to new location within a number of years. The Chancery in Ballsbridge, which was 50 years old in 2014, has been deemed "no longer suitable", and an embassy spokesperson stated that the current building no longer meets the needs in terms of size of the expanding American diplomatic presence in Ireland (between 150 and 200 staff work at the embassy), and does not conform to new construction and security requirements ("code") issued by Washington D.C. A number of sites around Dublin City are being considered for the construction of a new embassy building, which will be on larger grounds, will be a larger building than the Ballsbridge Chancery, and may be located nearer to the Ambassador&#39;s Residence and Dublin Airport for security reasons and ease of access. However, completion of the move to a new embassy facility is likely to take up to 10 years and cost tens of millions of dollars.</p><br>
<h2>Security</h2><br>
<p>Security at the embassy is seen as a priority for Irelands national police, the Garda Síochána, and is protected around-the-clock by a team of armed, plainclothes detectives from the Special Detective Unit (SDU), the forces counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence section. They provide close protection to the ambassador and high-ranking diplomats when travelling outside of the embassy, as well as motorcade security. The USA Ambassador&#39;s Residence (Deerfield Residence, Phoenix Park) is also guarded. Within the embassy and residence grounds, security is the responsibility of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (United States Department of State) and Marine Corps Embassy Security Group, who are heavily armed. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, new secure entrances, guardhouses and blast walls were installed. The external windows of the Chancery building are reflective, as a privacy measure. In late 2013, significant upgrades were made to the physical and perimeter security of the embassy, designed to reduce the threat of vehicle bombings and to repel intruders. This was part of USA government security directives at diplomatic missions across 14 different European nations in response to the 2012 Benghazi attacks.</p><br>
<h2>Offices</h2><br>
<p>Citizen Services</p><br>
<p>Consular Section (Visa)</p><br>
<p>Commercial Service</p><br>
<p>Press/Public Affairs Section</p><br>
<p>Information Resource Center</p><br>
<p>Agriculture Section</p><br>
<p>Political and Economic Section</p><br>
<p>Management Section</p><br>
<p>Defense Attaché Office</p><br>
<p>Marine Corps Embassy Security Group</p><br>
<p>USA Diplomatic Security Service</p><br>
<p>Regional Security Office</p><br>
<p>USA Department of Homeland Security</p><br>
<p>USA Customs and Border Protection (Dublin Airport, Shannon Airport)</p><br>
<p>The Swallow Boathouse is a historic boathouse on Lake Winnipesaukee in central New Hampshire, United States. It is located in a cove on the west side of Moultonborough Neck, in the town of Moultonborough. Built in 1908-10, it is one of the state&#39;s most architecturally elaborate boathouses, exhibiting elements of the Tudor Revival and Shingle style. Now used exclusively by the association owners, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Swallow boathouse is located on the west side of Moultonborough Neck, a long finger of land extending into Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire&#39;s largest lake. It is set in Kona Bay, an inlet bounded on the north by Swallow Point and the south by Wallace Island. Land access to the boathouse is private via Kona Farm Avenue and Windward Avenue. The structure and neighborhood surrounding it is owned by a private association and is only accessible by water to the general public for viewing. It is a wooden structure 80 ft long and 37 ft wide, and is mounted on eight stone piers set in about 10 ft of water. The boathouse is set back from the shore, and is accessed by a wooden walkway 138 ft long. A crib of heavy timbers forms its base, with three structural bays topped by an expansive gambrel roof, with cupolas on each section. A portion of the interior, originally open to the water, has been floored over.</p><br>
<p>The boathouse was designed by Harry J. Carlson and built in 1908-10. The walkway was originally sheltered by a roof; that covering and a matching land pavilion have been removed due to storm damage. The boathouse was built to house the Swallow, a large seagoing yacht that was transported to the lake by rail by Herbert Dumaresque, owner of the Kona Farm estate on which the boathouse was located. Its size is more reminiscent of boathouses used for commercial operations, and Carlson appears to have based its design on an 1830s boathouse at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, elaborating it architecturally with Shingle and Tudor features.</p><br>
<p>The Union Hotel is a historic hotel building at 254 Main Street in the Union village of Wakefield, New Hampshire. Built in 1855 and repeatedly enlarged, it is one of only two surviving 19th-century railroad hotels in the town. It was operated until 1960, and for many years housed the local VFW post. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It is now home to the Greater Wakefield Resource Center.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Union Hotel is located in southernmost Wakefield, in the village of Union at the northwest corner of Main and Church streets. It is essentially a complex of connected wood-frame structures, most 2-1/2 stories in height and covered in wooden clapboards. It consists of a main block and several wings, which primarily housed hotel rooms, arranged around a central courtyard and connected by covered passages. An open single-story porch extends across the front and around to both sides, with a hip roof supported by round metal posts. The interior of the public spaces have a mix of old and modern finishes, from original marble parquet flooring to linoleum.</p><br>
<p>The 2-1/2 story wood frame building was built in 1855 by Robert Pike, who operated the hotel until his death in 1916. It was then operated by other owners until financial reverses led to a bank foreclosure in 1961. The local VFW post purchased the building in 1966. Most recently, the building has been acquired and restored by the Greater Wakefield Resource Center, a non-profit umbrella organization.</p><br>
<p>The building is one of only three hotel buildings that were purpose-built after the arrival of the railroad in the area, at a time when the Union village in southern Wakefield was its northern terminus. For seventeen years, Union had the only railroad station in all of Carroll County, making it a key transportation junction for the region.</p><br>
<p>The Wakefield House is a historic house on New Hampshire Route 153 in the Wakefield Corner area of Wakefield, New Hampshire. The 2-1/2 story wood frame house is believed to have been built c. 1785, but its exterior styling is mainly Federal in character, dating to the 1820s or later. It was used as an inn on the busy stagecoach route through town in the 19th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Wakefield House is located in the central village of Wakefield Corner, on the east side of the triangular junction of New Hampshire Route 153 and Wakefield Road. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof, end chimneys, and clapboarded exterior. It has a five-bay facade, with a double center door that is a mid-19th century alteration, probably made when the building was converted for use as an inn in 1853. The single-story front porch, which extends the full width of the facade, also dates to this time. The property also includes a barn, carriage barn, and toolshed.</p><br>
<p>The village of Wakefield Corner is one of the older villages of the town, having become well established by 1800 as a center of commerce and transportation. It was home to the town offices, shops, and taverns and inns serving the stagecoach route. The village was bypassed by the railroad, which stopped at Sanbornville, a mile to the north, but has retained some of its civic importance. The Wakefield House, constructed in the late 19th century as a private residence, was converted into an inn in 1853 to serve this business. It continued in this use into the 1879s, and remains a well-preserved example of a mid-19th century traveler accommodation.</p><br>
<p>The Basilica of St. Mary Star of the Sea is a Minor Basilica of the Catholic Church located in Key West, Florida, United States. It is one of the oldest Catholic parishes in the state of Florida and the oldest parish in the Archdiocese of Miami. The church is a contributing property in the Key West Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first Catholic presence in the Florida Keys was established on Upper Matecumbe Key by Spanish Jesuits in 1566. The Jesuit superiors in Spain abandoned the Florida missions in 1572 and the missionaries were recalled to Mexico. They attempted to establish a permanent mission on Key West as early as 1724. However, the Native peoples on the Keys were unpredictable and the English raiders from the Carolinas forced the missionaries to return to Cuba in 1727. Two Italian Jesuits from Havana opened a mission chapel on Key West in 1743 for the Native peoples. The Spanish governor ordered them to return to Cuba as well as he could not protect them.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. John F. Kirby was sent by Bishop Francis X. Gartland of the Diocese of Savannah to Key West in 1851 and established St. Mary Star of the Sea parish in 1851. The first permanent Catholic Church on Key West was dedicated on February 26, 1852, on the corner of Duval and Eaton Streets. It was the fifth Catholic parish established in the state of Florida and the first parish in South Florida. Because of its location between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean it was placed under the patronage of Our Lady, Star of the Sea. Rev. Anthony B. Friend, S.J. arrived in Key West as pastor on February 15, 1898. He was the first many American Jesuits to serve the parish.</p><br>
<p>Five Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary from Montreal, Quebec, Canada arrived in 1868 to open a school for girls and to establish a convent. It is the first Catholic School in the state of Florida. The sisters bought the present school property in 1874. The Convent of Mary Immaculate, later known as Mary Immaculate High School, operated from 1886 to 1986, St. Francis Xavier School for blacks operated from 1872 to 1961, a school for Cuban girls operated from 1873 to 1878 and St. Joseph School for boys operated from 1880 to 1961. All the schools were integrated in the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>The original church building was destroyed in a fire in 1901. Until a new church could be built, Mass was celebrated in the convent music hall. The present structure was built in 1905. The Jesuits ended their service to the parish after seventy-two years in 1970 and the Rev. Charles Zinn of Archdiocese of Miami became pastor. St. Mary Star of the Sea Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 as a contributing property in the Key West Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The exterior of the church reflects the eclectic period of American Victorian Architecture. It also shows elements of a modified, early Renaissance Revival style. This may be found in the rusticated walls, rounded arches and lunettes that are composed of transitional gothic arches, louvered shutters and colored glass. Many interior elements have both Romanesque and early Renaissance characteristics. Behind the altar is a stained glass window that depicts the church&#39;s patroness.</p><br>
<p>The New Ipswich Town Hall is a historic academic and civic building on Main Street  in the center village of New Ipswich, New Hampshire. The 1-1/2 story wood frame structure was built in 1817 to serve the dual purpose of providing a place for town meetings to take place, and to provide space for a private academy. It was built with two full stories, and a tower with belfry, much in the manner of typical New England churches of the period. The academy eventually moved to another building, and the town made significant alterations in the 1869, enlarging its footprint, removing the tower&#39;s cupola, and the removal of the second floor to provide a single, high-ceilinged auditorium. The exterior also received a number of Greek Revival features at this time. The building has been little altered since 1869.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Lake Chippewa was a prehistoric proglacial lake. The basin is now Lake Michigan. It formed about 10,600 years before present . The lake occupied the depression left by the Michigan Lobe of the Laurentide ice sheet.</p><br>
<h2>Origin</h2><br>
<p>The lake formed from glacial Lake Algonquin as water levels dropped, occupying only the deepest parts of the Lake Michigan basin. The waters drained through the Straits of Mackinac, then across Lake Stanley into either Lake Hough and then to the St. Lawrence River by way of the Ottawa River valley, or through the St. Clair and Detroit rivers to an Early Lake Erie and out the Niagara River towards the St. Lawrence. Around 10,300 YBP, Lake Chippewa’s levels continued to drop, and the basin was a self-contained body of water without an outlet. Levels returned and Lake Chippewa again flowed through the canyon at Mackinac until around 7,500 YBP. At that time, the Nipissing Great Lakes merged with the waters in the Michigan Basin and created a single lake encompassing all three of the upper Great Lakes.</p><br>
<h2>Size</h2><br>
<p>Somewhat smaller than Lake Michigan, Lake Chippewa extended through the most of the Michigan Basin, north to the Straits of Mackinac, where there was a narrow channel which conveyed the lake&#39;s outflow over the now submerged Mackinac Falls to Lake Stanley. Its shoreline ranged from 10 – out from the present day Lake Michigan shore.</p><br>
<p>The Cheddar Palace was established in the 9th century, in Cheddar, Somerset, England. It was a royal hunting lodge in the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods and hosted the Witenagemot in the 10th century.</p><br>
<p>Nearby are the ruins of the 14th century St Columbanus Chapel. Roman artifacts and a burial have also been discovered. The site of the palace is now marked by concrete slabs within the grounds of The Kings of Wessex Academy.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A wooden "great hall" was constructed around the reign of King Alfred the Great (died 899 AD) and the "community at Cheddar" received a special mention in his will. At this time the building served as a minster. It was rebuilt around 930 and a chapel and other buildings were added, becoming a royal hunting lodge.</p><br>
<p>During the Saxon period, it was used on three occasions in the 10th century to host the Witenagemot, an assembly of powerful figures, in 941, 956 and 968, probably for Æthelstan and Edgar the Peaceful. There is documentary evidence that Henry I visited the palace in 1121 and 1130 and Henry II in 1158. Several expansions of the site took place between the Saxon and medieval eras.</p><br>
<p>Fragments of Ham Green Pottery found at the site were dated to 1200-1220.</p><br>
<p>In 1230 the site was given to the Dean and Chapter of Wells Cathedral. In 1548, when William Barlow was the Bishop of Bath and Wells, it was sold to Edward VI.</p><br>
<p>The remains were excavated during the construction of the school, but have since been re-buried. The layout is marked with concrete plinths.</p><br>
<h2>St Columbanus Chapel</h2><br>
<p>Next to the site are ruins of a 14th-century chapel dedicated to St. Columbanus. It stands on a site originally built on in the 10th century and enlarged in the 11th. In the 17th century it became a private dwelling that survived until 1910.</p><br>
<p>The building was octagonal in plan. End walls remain standing and are supported by diagonal corner buttresses; however the north and south walls are now only approximately 1 m high.</p><br>
<h2>Roman remains</h2><br>
<p>In January 2006, during the building of a new languages block at the school, a grave, believed to be Roman, was uncovered. The grave contained the skeleton of a man, believed to be around 50 years old and pagan rather than Christian due to the north-south orientation of the grave.</p><br>
<p>Various Roman artifacts, including wall plaster and tesserae, dating from the 1st to the 4th centuries have also been found. It has been suggested that this may be linked with the settlement of Iscalis, whose location is unknown.</p><br>
<p>The Teufelsstein in the Haardt mountains, near the Palatine county town of Bad Dürkheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, is a hill. On its domed summit is a monolith of the same name . Traces of human activity on the rock indicate that it acted as a cult object in former times.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The hill, which is a southeastern spur of the 487-metre-high Peterskopf massif, lies north of where the River Isenach breaks out of the Palatinate Forest mountains into the hill country of the Weinstraße and Upper Rhine Plain. From its summit, which nowadays is wooded, there is an all-round view over the Rhine Plain to the east, the Palatinate Forest to the west, and its eastern mountain range, the Haardt, which runs from north to south.</p><br>
<p>Until 1981, when the it was closed for legal reasons, a gondola lift ran from the site of the Dürkheimer Wurstmarkt, the Brühlwiesen, in a northwesterly direction up to the top of the Teufelsstein.</p><br>
<p>A southern outlier, which is also part of the Peterskopf massif, is the 300-metre-high Kästenberg (Pal. for Kastanienberg or "chestnut hill"), is host to the remains of the Heidenmauer, a large Celtic settlement with a 2.5 km long circular wall, which was built around 500 B. C., as well as the Roman quarry, the Kriemhildenstuhl, which was used until the 4th century A. D.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The Teufelsstein, which gave the hill its name, is a rock formation about 2.50 metres high and up to 4 metres wide. Five steps have been carved into the rock, staircase-fashion, leading to the top where there is a hollow which is thought to be a sacrifice bowl (Opferschale) for religious rites of its former, probably Celtic users and from which a blood channel (Blutrinne) runs down the rock by the steps. In addition the rock has numerous symbols carved into it, dating to various periods. As well as sun wheels, runes and Roman letters there are several markings that recall the stonemason&#39;s marks of the 12th and 13th centuries. According to older accounts, two coarsely drawn human figures as well as other carvings used to be visible as well, but they have since weathered away or been deliberately destroyed. In the near vicinity of the Teufelsstein are several large rocks which could be the remains of a former enclosure of the summit plateau.</p><br>
<h2>Legend of the Teufelsstein</h2><br>
<p>The following local legend is told about the Teufelsstein:</p><br>
<p>In his book Die malerische und romantische Rheinpfalz ("The Picturesque and Romantic Rhenish Palatinate") Franz Weiß wrote an epic poem about the legend of the Teufelsstein that ends as follows:</p><br>
<p>Murrells Inlet Historic District is a national historic district located at Murrells Inlet, Georgetown County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 37 contributing buildings and contains a significant concentration of buildings which visually reflect the transition of the area from adjoining estates of two 19th-century rice planters into a 20th-century resort community. The district contains two antebellum houses, which are local interpretations of the Greek Revival style, as well as a collection of early-20th century vernacular resort buildings. Residential in character, the historic district contains approximately 19 houses. Although they exhibit some diversity, the prevalent use of wood as a building material, the large screened porches, and the setting of moss draped trees, marshland, and piers provide a visual unity.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Pawleys Island Historic District is a national historic district located at Pawleys Island, Georgetown County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 12 contributing buildings and contains buildings ranging from ca. 1780 to post World War I, and includes shoreline which the owners of these homes think they own, and marshland. The building style is a variation of West Indian architecture which has been adapted to Pawleys climatic conditions. The original houses on Pawleys are not mansions but summer retreats, sturdily built and large enough to accommodate big families. Designed for the greatest degree of ventilation, with porches on multiple sides and with high brick foundations providing protection against gale tides, many of the 20th-century buildings have adhered to the traditional design that has proven well suited to this environment. The houses are equipped with large chimneys and fireplaces. Breezeways attached at the rear of the houses led to the kitchens. Servant&#39;s quarters were usually one or two room cabins equipped with fireplaces.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Woodside Cotton Mill Village Historic District is a national historic district located in Greenville County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 278 contributing buildings and 2 contributing sites in an early 20th century urban South Carolina textile mill village. Centered on a mill founded by John T. Woodside in 1902, the district is located just west of the city limits of Greenville and is largely intact despite modernizations made by a succession of mill and home owners. The mill itself is a rectangular, brick, four-story building designed by J.E. Sirrine and built between 1902 and 1912. Eventually the mill became the largest cotton mill under one roof in the United States and one of the largest in the world.</p><br>
<p>The village contains 343 surviving mill houses, a cotton waste house, a mill office building, a recreation building, two churches, a baseball park, and a pasture/common garden area.</p><br>
<p>The mill and mill village were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. Several plans to convert the empty mill to apartments, senior housing, or artist studios have not been achieved due to lack of financing.</p><br>
<p>Photographs of the mill, village, and community can be viewed in the Greenville County Library System digital collections.</p><br>
<p>Parkers Store is a historic retail building on Mast Road  in Goffstown, New Hampshire. The two story wood frame structure was built before 1804, and is one of the states few surviving early retail structures. William Parker, descendant of one of the area&#39;s early settlers, is known to have operated a tavern and hostelry from his home, located near a crossing of the Piscataquog River built to accommodate the ship masts being transported on the road. It was used by members of the Parker family as a retail space until 1872. In the 20th century it was used a space for community groups, and was donated by the Parkers to the Goffstown Historical Society in 1973. The store was the nucleus of a village that was important enough in the 19th century to merit a station when the railroad was built into the area.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Robert Quillen Office and Library is a historic office and library building located at Fountain Inn, Greenville County, South Carolina. It was built in 1928, and is a small one-story, one-room brick Neo-Classical Revival building with a distinctive temple front. Directly in front of the Office are a rectangular reflecting pool and a round pool, and a granite obelisk known as the "Monument to Eve." Born in 1887 in Syracuse, Kansas, Robert Quillen moved to Fountain Inn in 1911 to start the Fountain Inn Tribune. He wrote paragraphs, editorials, one-liners, and cartoons for Baltimore Sun, Saturday Evening Post, and The American Magazine. Quillen died after a prolonged illness on December 9, 1948.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Southern Bleachery and Print Works is a historic factory building located at Taylors, Greenville County, South Carolina. Built by the J. E. Sirrine Company of Greenville, it operated between 1924 and 1965, but the last buildings were built in 1952. The property consists of 15 contributing resources, including the main building, warehouses, a smokestack, detached boiler room with smokestack, a filtration plant, and two ponds. The bleachery took unfinished goods produced by other textile mills and converted them by bleaching, dyeing, and finishing into material used in the manufacture of garments and other end uses. There is about 827,000 square feet of interior space.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Tenmile Run  is a tributary of the Susquehanna River in eastern Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is 6.1 mi long and is entirely in Mifflin Township. The stream&#39;s watershed has an area of 8.24 square miles. The first settlers in the area arrived in the late 1700s and a number of mills have been built on the stream. It is designated as a High-Quality Coldwater Fishery and as Class A Wild Trout Waters.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>Tenmile Run begins in southern Mifflin Township, just north of Nescopeck Mountain. The stream flows west-southwest for several miles in a fairly shallow and narrow valley. It then turns north and enters a much broader valley. Over the next few miles, the stream moves from the eastern edge of the valley to the western edge of the valley, where it crosses Pennsylvania Route 339 and turns west, skirting a hill. After a short distance, it turns north and shortly afterwards enters the Susquehanna River.</p><br>
<p>Tenmile Run joins the Susquehanna River 155.53 mi upstream of its mouth.</p><br>
<h2>Watershed, geography, and hydrology</h2><br>
<p>The watershed of Tenmile Run has an area of 8.24 square miles. The elevation of Tenmile Run at its mouth is 463 ft above sea level.</p><br>
<p>The census-designated place of Mifflinville is located near Tenmile Run. The stream is in the United States Geological Survey topographic quadrangles of Mifflinville and Shumans. There is a small and asymmetrical divide separating the valley of Tenmile Run from another valley that runs westward along the foot of Nescopeck Mountain. It resembles a kame fan or a head-of-outwash and contains a layer of sand and gravel that is 60 m thick.</p><br>
<p>Along with the watershed of Catawissa Creek and the watershed of Roaring Creek, the watershed of Tenmile Run is one of the three main watersheds draining Columbia County south of the Susquehanna River.</p><br>
<p>50 percent of the length of Tenmile Run is private land that is closed for fishing and 45 percent is private land that is open for fishing. 5 percent of the stream&#39;s length is public land that is open for fishing.</p><br>
<p>The concentration of alkalinity in Tenmile Run is 8 milligrams per liter.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Tenmile Run&#39;s name derives from the fact that it was historically situated at the ten mile marker on a hill road running to Catawissa.</p><br>
<p>Nicholas Angle, one of the first settlers of Mifflin Township, settled on Tenmile Run. In the late 1700s, John Brown, David Brown, the Creasy family, and the Kirkendall family inhabited a ridge overlooking the stream. In 1793, John Brown moved to a 400-acre tract in the stream&#39;s valley.</p><br>
<p>The first mill in Mifflin Township was built on a tributary of Tenmile Run by Jacob Swepenheiser. In 1869, George Nungesser constructed a buckwheat mill on the stream and operated it until 1881, when his son William J. Nungesser took over the operation of it. Another buckwheat mill was located a mile northwards on the stream.</p><br>
<p>Historically, some logging has been done in the watershed of Tenmile Run.</p><br>
<h2>Biology</h2><br>
<p>The Columbia County Natural Heritage Inventory designated Tenmile Run as a "locally significant site" in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Brown trout inhabit Tenmile Run.</p><br>
<p>Tenmile Run flows through a palustrine forest consisting of hardwood trees and hemlock. The streams watershed is also home to shrub swamps. Mostly, forests are found in the streams upper reaches, with swamps and marshes in the lower reaches. The forests in the watershed consist of chestnut oak, red maple, red oak, and white ash. The forest&#39;s understory consists of Japanese barberry, low-bush blueberry, witch hazel, may-apple, white baneberry, Virginia creeper, viburnum, striped maple, partridgeberry, dogwood, and spotted wintergreen.</p><br>
<p>There is a fairly high level of bird biodiversity in the watershed of Tenmile Run. Birds living in the stream&#39;s watershed include worm-eating warblers, wood thrushes, ovenbirds, Eastern tufted titmouses, Eastern towhees, veerys, pileated woodpeckers, nuthatches, common yellowthroats, and American redstarts. Other bird species found in the watershed include scarlet tanagers, black-capped chickadees, and black-throated green warblers.</p><br>
<p>Numerous species inhabit the forested swamp in the Tenmile Run watershed. These include skunk cabbage, ferns, prickly sedge, sphagnum moss, and others. The watershed&#39;s marshland is home to poison sumac, winterberry holly, multiflora rose, and other plants.</p><br>
<p>Elmwood Historic District–West is a national historic district located at Buffalo, Erie County, New York. The district encompasses 1,971 contributing buildings, 4 contributing structures, and 13 contributing objects in the Elmwood Village neighborhood of Buffalo. It is built around the Buffalo Parks and Parkways system bounded on the north by Delaware Park, Forest Lawn Cemetery, and the former Buffalo State Asylum, on the south by the Allentown Historic District, and on the east by the Elmwood Historic District–East. This predominantly residential district developed between about 1867 and 1941, and includes notable examples of Queen Anne, Shingle Style, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and American Craftsman style architecture. The district contains one of the most intact collections of built resources from turn of the 20th century in the city of Buffalo and western New York State. Located in the district are six previously listed contributing resources including the Richmond Avenue Methodist-Episcopal Church and the Buffalo Tennis and Squash Club. Other notable building include the H.C. Gerber House , the Fred Dullard House , the William H. Scott House , St. John’s-Grace Episcopal Church designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue , Davidson House , former Jehle Grocery Store and Residence , St. Luke’s Episcopal Church , Temple Beth El , Richmond Avenue Church of Christ , and Pilgrim-St. Luke’s United Church of Christ .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<p>Vance-Maxwell House, also known as the Maxwell-Nicholson-Murphy House, is a historic home located at Greenwood, Greenwood County, South Carolina. It was built around 1850, and remodeled between 1898 and 1904 in the Second Empire style. During the remodeling, a full second story and a mansard roof were added to the original 1 1/2-story central hall farmhouse. The house is associated with Dr. John C. Maxwell, a locally prominent physician, military surgeon during the American Civil War, politician, and philanthropist. In 1891 Dr. Maxwell and his wife helped establish the Connie Maxwell Orphanage in Greenwood named for the only child of the Maxwell&#39;s to survive infancy.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The home last sold in September 2017. The new owners are now restoring the home to its Second Empire Victorian glamour, to regain the legacy of the Maxwell family. Although it has been claimed by past owners, there are no negative spiritual forces at work in the home.</p><br>
<p>The Village Mill  in the Rhineland-Palatinate village of Großkarlbach was once a working mill that was driven by water power. Following its restoration it became a show mill and houses the Großkarlbach Mill Museum; albeit several rooms are used for the Bürgermeister&#39;s office and municipal archives, as well as for youth and old people activities and conferences.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The village mill is at Kändelgasse 15 in the historic village centre on the left bank of the Eckbach, whose water once drove its two water wheels. Of the original seven mills in Großkarlbach it was the only one that lay within the gates of the fortified medieval village, hence its name. The Eckbach Mill Path, established in 1997 on the initiative of Kleinkarlbach mill expert, Wolfgang Niederhöfer, runs past the mill. Five of the mills in the village are still more or less well preserved, four have been converted to residential homes. Of these, the Pappelmühle ("Poplar Mill") worked until the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The Charlie Anway Cabin is a historic log cabin near Haines, Alaska, United States. It was built out of hewn logs in 1903 by Charles H. Anway, the first homesteader to settle in the Haines area. When first built, the cabin was L-shaped with a cross-gable roof with wood shingles. Anway later extended the building, giving it a T shape, and added a layer of metal from flattened cans; the roof has since been covered in galvanized corrugated sheet metal. Anway settled here and eventually produced crops which he sold at Fort William H. Seward. He farmed until 1932, and died in 1949. The cabin and two outbuildings are now owned by the Chilkoot Valley Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Urbeleskarspitze is a 2,632-metre-high mountain peak in the Allgäu Alps. It lies within Austria in the state of Tyrol and is the fifth-highest summit in the Allgäu Alps and the second-highest peak in the Hornbach chain. Its neighbours in the Hornbach chain are the Bretterspitze to the southwest and the Zwölfer Spitze to the northeast.</p><br>
<h2>Rock and structure</h2><br>
<p>Like most of the high mountains in the Allgäu Alps the Urbeleskarspitze consists of main dolomite. Its summit has a striking bell-shaped appearance and is easily identified from the north and south from nearby and more distant summits.</p><br>
<h2>First ascent</h2><br>
<p>Who first climbed the Urbeleskarspitze cannt be precisely determined. Candidates include unknown locals or a "Dr. Gümbel" in 1854. It was certainly ascended in 1869 by Hermann von Barth.</p><br>
<h2>Bases</h2><br>
<p>The main starting point for ascents is the village of Hinterhornbach in a side valley of the Tyrolean Lechtal. From there it is roughly 2½ hours to the Kaufbeurer Haus, a self-service hut belonging to the DAV. The hut is regularly manned at weekends from Pentecost to early October but is otherwise only open to members of the Alpine Club with a key.</p><br>
<h2>Ascent</h2><br>
<p>There is no simple way leading to the summit of the Urbeleskarspitze. The two usable routes from the Kaufbeurer Haus require sure-footedness, a head for heights and Alpine experience and climbing preparedness.</p><br>
<p>The only partially marked normal route is graded as UIAA II+ and takes just under 2 hours through steep schrofen terrain over the northwest flank to reach the top.</p><br>
<p>An alternative climb existed over the north arête. It was a UIAA grade II and ran through broken rock, also taking 2 hours to reach the summit of the Urbeleskarspitze.</p><br>
<p>Cheow Lan Lake  or Rajjaprabha Dam Reservoir , is in Khao Sok National Park in Surat Thani Province, Thailand. It is an 165 km&sup2; artificial lake, created in 1982 by the construction of Rajjaprapha Dam by the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand  as a source of electricity.</p><br>
<h2>Rajjaprabha Dam</h2><br>
<p>Rajjaprabha Dam, meaning "the light of the kingdom", got its name in May 1987 from the king at the opening ceremony on the kings 60th birthday. Before that day it was called the "Cheow Lan Project". It was a so-called multi-purpose project for power generation, flood control, irrigation and fishery. In 1982, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) started to create the Rajjaprabha Dam and block the Klong Saeng River. It took about one year until they completely flooded the 165 km&sup2; basin. To flood this large area, 385 families of Ban Chiew Lan village were resettled. Rubber and other farming opportunities such as poultry, fruit orchards, vegetable farming, and reservoir fishery were introduced together with the needed training programs and credit facilities to sustain the farmers income.</p><br>
<p>Each family received 19 rai (7.2 acres) of rubber plantation as well as one rai (0.39 acres) for their private homes. As part of the compensation, the resettled people received 1,000 baht monthly per family. Resettlement drove the creation of basic public infrastructure, water supply systems, and public buildings such as schools, police station, medical center, and community hall which were built by the Thai government.</p><br>
<p>A resettlement of animals took place by boat and helicopter to prevent them from drowning or starving on new created islands. Many fish species died due to the stagnant water conditions. Those which survived adapted to their new environment.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>"Nowhere in the Kingdom of Thailand can one find a more spectacular setting for karst topography than the flooded reservoir of Cheow Lan."</p><br>
<p>Apart from the fascinating limestone cliffs and evergreen rain forest jungle, the national park area is inhabited by a large range of mammals such as tigers, elephants, tapirs and many monkey species. Birds such as hornbills, banded pittas and great argus are as well forest residents. Less commonly seen reptiles include the king cobra, reticulated python, and flying lizards. The reservoir area includes the Khlong Saeng, Khlong Nakha and Kaeng Krung wildlife sanctuaries where rare animals can be found. West of Khao Sok National Park lies Sri Phang Nga National Park which extends the preservation area to 4,000 square kilometers.</p><br>
<p>The village of Khao Sok is at the entrance to the national park (about 60 kilometers west of the dam) and continues to build more resorts to increase its capacity. Access to the lake at Ratchaprabha Dam is further southeast in Ban Ta Khun District, approximately halfway between Khao Sok and Surat Thani. The dam is the only place where the lake is accessible by boat.</p><br>
<p>Around the reservoir 17 different "floating bungalows" accommodate tourists. Only descendants of original inhabitants of Cheow Lan village and officials of the national park are allowed licenses to own and operate these bungalows.</p><br>
<p>Hattie J. Peeples House is a historic home located at Varnville, Hampton County, South Carolina. It was built between 1889 and 1893, and is an L-shaped, two-story, five-bay, Italianate-style dwelling. It has a gable roof and weatherboard siding. It features a projecting pavilion, encircling porch, and textured wall surfaces in the Queen Anne style. Also on the property are a frame and weatherboard butler’s quarters ; and a brick building built to replace an earlier frame structure destroyed by a fire in 1917. This building served as a post office from the time of its construction about 1920 until 1964. Hattie J. Peeples served for more than 30 years as postmistress.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Hampton County Jail, also known as Old Hampton County Jail and Hampton County Museum, is a historic jail located at Hampton, Hampton County, South Carolina. It was built in 1879-1880, and is a two-story, three-bay-wide brick building, with a central, one-story entry portico on the front facade. The jailkeeper’s living quarters occupied the first floor, while the second floor was dedicated to the cellblocks. The jail was dramatically altered about 1925, and a third time in the 1960s. The jail was the only holding facility for newly-arrested persons in Hampton County until it closed in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The building is now home to the Hampton County Museum. Exhibits include local history, a general store display, military artifacts from many wars, agriculture, Native Americans, natural history and daily life.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Wakefield Village Historic District encompasses the historic village center of Wakefield, New Hampshire. It is centered at the junction of New Hampshire Route 153 and Mountain Laurel Road, which was historically the major north-south route in Carroll County. The district consists mainly of residential properties dating from the 18th to early 20th centuries, and also includes the 1836 town hall , public library¸ Grange Hall, and a one-room schoolhouse that now houses the local historical society. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The junction around which the village grew was created in 1778, when the road branching northeast was laid out in the direction of Parsonsfield, Maine. Most of the houses in the district date roughly from this time to the 1820s, and are either vernacular or Federal in style. The notable exceptions are "Westlook", a Colonial Revival house built in 1929, and the Jackson Horne House, built in 1875 and remodeled in 1865. The oldest house in the district is believed to be "The Anchorage", a vernacular Cape style house that appears to date to the 1770s.</p><br>
<p>The Old Town Hall was built in 1836, and hosted the towns meetings until 1895, when the new town hall was built. It has since been leased to the Congregational Church, which uses it for social service functions. The Lovell Grange Hall was built in 1918 for a chapter organized in 1892. It is a rectangular wood frame clapboarded structure mounted on concrete piers. The old portion of Wakefield Library building began as a lawyers office in the 1860s, and was acquired by the town in 1895 as a gift from Seth Low. The newer portion, also donated by Low, was built in 1902-03. The Colonial Revival Congregational Church was built in 1958, replacing an 1831 church that burned in 1956; it is not historically significant.</p><br>
<p>The Wakefield Public Library serves the town of Wakefield, New Hampshire. It is located at 2699 Wakefield Road in the Wakefield Village, in an architecturally distinguished Colonial Revival building donated to the town by educator and politician Seth Low. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The Wakefield Public Library is located in the southern portion of Wakefield Village, on the west side of Wakefield Road a short way north of its junction with New Hampshire Route 153. It is a two story wood frame structure, with a truncated hip roof, clapboarded exterior, and granite foundation. It has fluted corner pilasters with composite capitals rising to an encircling entablature, and a gabled entry projecting at the enter of the main facade. The gable is fully pedimented and adorned with modillion blocks, which are also found along the main roof cornice. The main entrance is a double-leaf door, flanked by narrow boards and topped by a bracketed entablature with modillions. First-floor windows are regular sash, while those on the second floor are short casement windows.</p><br>
<p>Seth Low was an educator and politician best known as president of Columbia University and as Mayor of New York City. He was a native of Wakefield, and maintained regular relations with family that remained in the town. He was instrumental in helping found the Wakefield Public Library in 1879, and in securing its operating charter in 1895. In that year he donated a small law office building in the village to house its collection. By 1902, the library had outgrown those quarters, and Low donated the costs associated with construction of this building, which was completed in 1902. It was designed by Ernest Greene, an architect from New York City, and is one of the town&#39;s finest examples of Colonial Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>Old House Plantation, also known as Daniel Heyward Plantation, is a historic plantation site and grave located near Ridgeland, Jasper County, South Carolina. The plantation was first settled in 1743 and was likely active through the first quarter of the 19th century. It was the birthplace and burial site of Thomas Heyward, Jr., one of South Carolina’s four signers of the Declaration of Independence. The plantation site includes a variety of plantation structures including the main house, two probable flanking outbuildings , a tidal mill, stable and likely slave quarters. Associated with the plantation is the Heyward family cemetery and surrounding brick wall.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Wakefield Town Hall and Opera House is a historic municipal building at 2 High Street in the Sanbornville village of Wakefield, New Hampshire. Built in 1895, it is a prominent local example of Romanesque architecture, and has housed civic and social activities since its construction. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Wakefield Town Hall and Opera House is prominently located in the center of Sanbornville, at the northeast corner of High Street and Meadow Street (New Hampshire Route 109). It is a two-story masonry structure, built out of brick with granite trim. It is covered by a hip roof pierced by single wide gable dormers on its street-facing facades. At the street corner, a three-story square tower rises 75 ft to a pyramidal roof; its upper stages house an open belfry and clock, while its lower sections have windows set in slightly recessed round-arch panels.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Alvah T. Ramsdell and built in 1895, replacing an older town hall (which still stands) in Wakefield Village. The Romanesque building functions primarily as the seat of the local government, but also has a large performance space on the upper floor which is used for theatrical, musical, and social functions. Spaces in the ground floor were also originally used for other purposes, including retail, banking, and post office functions. They have since been taken over to town offices.</p><br>
<p>Canal Lake is a lake of Ontario, Canada situated on the Trent Severn Waterway and is a Kawartha Lake. The lake is triangular, roughly 8.4 km long and 2.6 km at its widest point with an area of 2136 acres. The depth ranges from 4.44 feet to a max depth of 15 feet. Canal Lake is a medium size lake with a large diversity of fishing spots.</p><br>
<p>It is located between Kirkfield on the east and Bolsover to the west. Canal Lake is the most north-western of the Kawartha Lakes. It is the first lake east of Lake Simcoe (connected by the Talbot River) also connected to the west of Mitchell and Balsam Lakes. It is located between lock #37 Bolsover and Lock #36 Kirkfield lift lock.</p><br>
<p>Water levels are controlled. In the winter, Canal Lake has levels reduced by 3 feet for shoreline maintenance. The levels are raised up again in the Spring.</p><br>
<h2>Historic sites and monuments</h2><br>
<p>The "Hole in the Wall" bridge was built in 1905 and is also known as the Canal Lake Concrete Arch Bridge. It was designed by the federal Department of Railways and Canals. It is located on Centennial Park Road on the southwest side of the Trent Severn Waterway bridge, northeast of Bolsover. The bridge was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>There is a variety of fish available including largemouth bass, pike and muskellunge (muskie) and an abundance of panfish.</p><br>
<h2>Nearby attractions</h2><br>
<p>Casino Rama (30 minutes away)</p><br>
<p>Horseback riding</p><br>
<p>Golfing</p><br>
<p>Movie theatres</p><br>
<p>Mini-Golf</p><br>
<p>Go-Karts</p><br>
<p>Opera house</p><br>
<p>Drive-in theatre</p><br>
<p>Bike trails</p><br>
<p>Camping</p><br>
<h2>Nearby towns</h2><br>
<p>Beaverton, Ontario</p><br>
<p>Fenelon Falls, Ontario</p><br>
<p>Lindsay, Ontario</p><br>
<p>Bobcaygeon, Ontario</p><br>
<p>The House at 1233 Wentworth Ave. is a historic house located at 1233 Wentworth Avenue in Pasadena, California. Architect Arthur S. Heineman designed the Cotswold style house, which was built in 1917 for Lydia C. Edmonds. The large front entrance porch is topped by an arched roof supported by wooden beams and wide brick piers. The gable end of this entrance is decorated with half-timbering, while the porch itself has a bargeboard pattern. The house&#39;s roof has a wide, low-lying horizontal component over the front of the first story and a smaller hipped component above the second-story section; both roofs have rolled eaves and wooden shingles, which replaced the original thatch covering in the 1920s. A contributing Cotswold style garage and gazebo are located behind the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Lincoln Monument is a bust of Abraham Lincoln by Robert Russin, 12+1/2 ft high and resting on a 30 ft granite pedestal, at the Summit Rest Area on Interstate 80 east of Laramie, Wyoming. Russin originally erected the sculpture in 1959 nearby on Sherman Hill, overlooking the old USA Highway 30 . In 1969, after Interstate 80 was built, state officials moved the monument to become a centerpiece at the Summit Rest Area and Visitor Center between the cities of Cheyenne and Laramie.</p><br>
<p>The construction of Lincolns bust began more than a decade earlier and thousands of miles to the south of Sherman Hill and the Summit Rest Area. Russin decided when planning the sculpture that the wild temperatures swings of the Wyoming plains would not provide the stable environment that he needed to craft the Lincoln sculpture. Instead, he turned to Mexico City. Russin built the 4,500-pound bronze bust in Mexico during a period of 11 months using some 10 tons of clay in a lost-wax process of casting. Russin cast Lincolns monumental bust in more than 30 bronze pieces designed to be bolted together. He then shipped the sculpture from Mexico to Laramie. The first leg of the 1958 shipment featured rail travel to Denver, Colorado.</p><br>
<p>"The statute came up from Mexico with armed guards from the Mexican Army, because they were afraid that someone was going to steal it", said the late sculptor&#39;s son, Joe Russin, in an interview for the Laramie Boomerang.The Lincoln bust was transported north from Denver to Laramie by truck. All went well until the truck reached Laramie. Joe Russin recalls: "My dad hadn’t thought about how low the wires were over Grand Avenue. So they had to move it through Laramie really early in the morning and they cut the electric and telephone wires for each block as they went through."</p><br>
<p>The Wyoming Parks Commission dedicated the Lincoln Monument in 1959 to commemorate Lincoln’s 150th birthday. Originally the bust was located at the highest point on the Lincoln highway from New York to San Francisco. “The grandeur of the landscape recalls the nobility of his soul,” Russin wrote referencing President Abraham Lincoln. The bust was transferred to its present beside of interstate 80, after that highway was finished in 1969. An estimated 200,000 travelers view the monumental sculpture annually.</p><br>
<p>Argyle Street  is a historic street in the centre of Bath, England located between Pulteney Bridge and Laura Place.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>As part of the Bathwick Estate, Argyle Street was designed by Thomas Baldwin for Sir William Pulteney. Construction of the street was completed around 1789. The buildings were intended to serve as residential townhouses like those immediately adjacent in Laura Place. However, over several decades shopfronts were added to form an extension to the shopping parade on Pulteney Bridge. As a result the street now has a fine selection of shopfronts with designs from several different architectural periods. Particularly noteworthy are the late Georgian shopfronts to numbers 8, 9, and 16, and Victorian shopfronts to numbers 6, 7, and 12.</p><br>
<p>The Argyle Congregational Chapel is located on the north side of the street between numbers 6 and 7. It is used by a United Reformed Church congregation.</p><br>
<p>Responsible body: Private</p><br>
<p>Cowee was an important Cherokee town located on the Little Tennessee River north of present-day Franklin, North Carolina, one of what were called the Middle Towns. The Cherokee occupied an existing developed site; it has been described as one of the best-preserved South Appalachian Mississippian culture sites in western North Carolina and has an earthwork platform mound. The Mississippian culture flourished from about 1000 to the 14th or 15th century.</p><br>
<p>The site consists of about 53 acre of rolling fields and hills. The mound was part of the site, which became an important cultural center of the mountain Cherokee who later migrated south and occupied this area. British colonists attacked the village during the Anglo-Cherokee War, which accompanied the later years of the French and Indian War. It was attacked by colonial Patriot forces during the American Revolutionary War, when the Cherokee sided with the British.</p><br>
<p>During and after the revolution, the Cherokee also fought a series of actions in the Chickamauga area to evict encroaching European-American settlers. The Cherokee were forced out of the area and the site was abandoned. In the 1840s, the Hall family acquired the property. The Halls held the land for 175 years, and refused to allow private archaeological access to the main platform mound and village area.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an archaeological site in 1973. In 2002 Hall descendants began negotiations that culminated in the 2007 transfer of the village and mound to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, along with conservation and preservation easements held by the state.</p><br>
<p>St Georges School and Convent are a historic Roman Catholic complex at 124 Orange Street in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. The school and convent are a pair of connected three-story brick buildings, constructed in 1898-99, along with a church  to serve the large French Canadian community that had migrated south from Quebec to work at the Amoskeag Mills, the citys largest employer. The complex is the only surviving Catholic facility of the period on the east side of the Merrimack River, and is one of its best examples of Romanesque architecture. The two buildings are connected by a brick connector constructed in 1915 when the convent was converted for academic use. The school closed in 1970, after which time the buildings have been used to house social service agencies and act as a community center.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Harveys Grocery and Texaco Station is a historic retail establishment at 3241 Arkansas Highway 24, between Camden and Chidester, Arkansas. The single-story concrete block building was built in 1940 by Henry Harvey, replacing a log structure that had previously housed his retail establishment. The building is one of the best-preserved examples of 1940s vernacular general stores and gas stations in the Camden area. The style of the building is, despite its modern construction materials, reminiscent of 19th century retail buildings, with a small windows placed high on the sides , and a full-width front porch. The Harveys pumped gas until 1979, after which the tanks were removed. Harveys was also a locally notable stop for politicians on the stump in Arkansas: those who are known to have stopped here were Bill Clinton, David Pryor, and Jay Dickey.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina Historic District is 10.1 acre historic district along the western boundary of the campus of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. The area includes five historical Colonial Revival, Classical Revival style buildings. Some significant structures are among those located within the Historic District include the James B. Dudley Memorial Building and Harrison Auditorium. The district has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 20, 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The history of the Agricultural and Technical College Historical District can be traced back to the passing of the Second Morrill Act of 1890. Signed into law August 30, 1890, and aimed mainly at the confederate states, the act required that each state show that race was not an admissions criterion, or else to designate a separate land-grant institution for persons of color. In order to comply with the Morrill Act, and yet prevent admission of African Americans to the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now known as North Carolina State University, the college&#39;s Board of Trustees were empowered to make temporary arrangements for students of color. By an act of the General Assembly of North Carolina, the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race was established on March 9, 1891, as an annex to nearby Shaw University in Raleigh. The college continued to operate in Raleigh until the Board of Trustees voted, in 1892, to relocate the college to Greensboro on 14 acre of land donated by local citizens.</p><br>
<p>Today, with an enrollment of over 10,000 students, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is the largest publicly funded historically black university in the state of North Carolina. The universitys College of Engineering has consistently ranked first in the nation for the number of degrees awarded to African Americans at the undergraduate level, and is a leading producer of African-American engineers with masters and doctorate degrees. The university is also a leading producer of African-American psychology undergraduates, minority certified public accountants, landscape architects, veterinarians, and agricultural graduates.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing sites and buildings</h2><br>
<p>The irregularly shaped historic District is bounded by the eastern side of Dudley Street as its western boundary, stretching eastward between Bluford Street and Authur Headen Drive; and Nocho street as its eastern boundary. The district also includes an elliptical paved driveway, which served as the traditional main entrance to the university, and a 1.5 acre grassy lawn which provides a 300 yard deep buffer and setback from the Dudley Street to the districts buildings. The five contributing buildings of the district are composed of the universitys oldest surviving and virtually unaltered buildings and form the historic core of the Greensboro campus. Built between 1922 and 1939, the buildings are a mixture of Colonial Revival and Classical Revival architecture. Significant buildings within the district include Noble, Morrison, and Murphy Halls; Richard B. Harrison Auditorium; and the James B. Dudley Memorial Building.</p><br>
<h3>Noble Hall</h3><br>
<p>Built in 1923, and named for Marcus C.S. Noble, longtime Chairman of the Universitys Board of Trustees; Noble Hall is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the district. The building originally housed the colleges schools of Agriculture and Home Economics on the first floor; the departments of Biology and Chemistry on the top level; with the Dairy Science laboratory located in the basement. Noble Hall Currently houses the Universitys School of Nursing. The three story symmetrical rectangular building, with full basement, features 20,672 square feet of office and classroom space. With the exception of metal-trimmed plate glass entrance doors, the buildings exterior has been virtually unaltered. The buildings facade features paired six-over-one sash windows with on the first and third story windows and flat arches on the second story windows. Each window pair is accented with a center (white stone) keystone. Slightly recessed corbelled panels, ornamented by herringbone brickwork and a center, diamond-shaped white stone, stretch above the second story windows. This type of brickwork is reminiscent of early twentieth century North Carolina commercial buildings. Noble Halls interior has been mostly unchanged as well, as the building still retains its original plaster walls, molded door and window surrounds.</p><br>
<h3>Morrison Hall</h3><br>
<p>Built in 1924, and designed by North Carolina architect Charles C. Hartmann, Morrison Hall was named for Cameron A. Morrison, former Governor of North Carolina. Placed along university circle, and located south of Noble Hall, and adjacent to the Dudley Building; Morrison Hall was constructed to be nearly identical to that of Noble hall, with the exception of its rusticated stone that surrounds the building&#39;s main entrance, as opposed to the brick used on Noble. Another distinctive feature of the building is the carved and incised stone name panel above the non-functional balcony that extends to surround the center third story windows, in addition to retaining its original double-leaf main entrance door. Today, Morrison Hall still serves its original purpose as a residence hall, housing 109 students.</p><br>
<h3>Murphy Hall</h3><br>
<p>Built in 1924, Murphy Hall originally served as the universitys first cafeteria. Today, the building houses the universitys office of student affairs. The symmetrical building features a projecting, pedimented three-bay entrance pavilion with rusticated brick and a full- height arched rusticated brick door surround. The pavilion is also ornamented with four full-height brick pilasters with stone capitals and bases, stone panels carved with an urn and garland motif, a full entablature with bullseyes and inscribed building name, and a multi-pane ocular window in the pediment. The 22,002 square foot, single story building underwent remodeling in 1977. The original arched wooden sash windows were removed then and replaced with twenty-pane windows with aluminum muntins; in addition, ribbed metal awnings were installed at the main and side entrances. The interior was also remodeled and the original high-ceilinged dining area was divided into two floors; an open string staircase with metal railings and a passenger elevator were installed to give access to the mezzanine-level offices.</p><br>
<h3>James B. Dudley Memorial Building</h3><br>
<p>Built in 1930, and considered the architectural centerpiece of the district, the neoclassical building is named for the universitys second president Dr. James B. Dudley. The Dudley Building was designed by noted North Carolina architect Charles C. Hartmann, this building was erected on the site of the former Administrative building, which was built in 1893 and destroyed by fire in 1930. The building originally housed the colleges administrative offices, in addition to an auditorium and library on the main and top levels respectively. The 29,058 square foot building features 2 floors in addition to a fully raised basement level. A distinctive feature of this building is its use of stone. This building features more stone application than any other building on the universitys campus. The building also features a broad sweep of fifteen steeps to the main entrance, smooth-face blocks defining a five-bay entrance, intricately carved lintels and acroteria, full classical entablature, splayed arches with keystones over the eight-over-twelve sash windows, and a hexastyle portico with an incised frieze. The buildings interior remains unaltered as the original plaster walls and molded door and window surrounds still remain. The exterior of the building has been virtually unchanged with the exception of the entrance doors, which are now made of double-leaf metal trimmed plate glass.</p><br>
<h3>Richard B. Harrison Auditorium</h3><br>
<p>Built in 1939, and named for renowned actor Richard B. Harrison, who taught Drama and directed productions at the college; Harrison Auditorium was designed by architect Leon McMinn. The auditorium was constructed by the Public Works Administration for usage as the colleges main auditorium. The flat-roofed two story building features seven-bay main entrance with the bays defined by plain brick pilasters with simply molded stone bases and capitals. Extending above the pilasters is a plain stone frieze inscribed with the auditoriums name. Five pairs of glass and wood doors topped by five-light transoms give access to the lobby. Above each entry door at the second story level are large twelve-over-twelve sash windows. The roof line steps up at the rear of the lobby/entrance portion of the building to provide additional height to the main, large auditorium portion of the building. In 2004, the building underwent a two-year renovation process that involved both the interior and exterior of the building. The nearly $3 million renovation repaired the building&#39;s exterior surfaces, upgraded building systems, replaced seating, and made the building compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The area that encompasses the historical district served as the oldest surviving structures on what is now North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, the first and largest public land grant institution of higher learning for people of color in the state of North Carolina. The buildings that make up the historical district were erected as the university was phasing out its college preparatory department and beginning to focus on college level work to prepare graduates for careers and graduate and professional schools. Additionally, these buildings are representative of the universitys second and third major building campaigns, which at the time the funding was the largest sum ever appropriated for African american education in the south. The Classical revival and Colonial Revival style architecture were popular among academic buildings of the early twentieth century and can be seen in other regional universities such as Duke University and North Carolina Central University, two liberal arts universities located in Durham, North Carolina. The architecture within the district not only displays the work of unknown skilled designers, masons, and Charles C. Hartmann, one of North Carolinas most important architects practicing in the post-World War I era; it also reflects the evolution of higher education for people of color within the state of North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>Motuora is an 80 ha island nature reserve in the western Hauraki Gulf, on the north-eastern coast of New Zealand’s North Island. It lies some 6.2 km south-west of Kawau Island, 5 km east of Mahurangi Heads and 35 km north of the city of Auckland.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Although Motuora now has no permanent residents, it has a history of human occupation and was used for farming during much of the 20th century, when the native coastal forest was cleared apart from remnant patches along the cliffs. The island was bought by the government in 1965 as a recreation reserve. In 1990 a program of ecological restoration began, largely carried out by volunteers, with the Motuora Restoration Society (MRS) established in 1995. The MRS now manages the island jointly with the Department of Conservation (DOC).</p><br>
<h2>Environment</h2><br>
<p>Extensive planting of native vegetation has taken place on the island in order to restore the original forest cover. Exotic mammals never became established there. Native animals that have been introduced (or reintroduced) as part of the ecosystem restoration program include wetapunga, shore skinks, and common, Pacific and Duvaucel&#39;s geckos.</p><br>
<h3>Birds</h3><br>
<p>The island supports a small breeding colony of Australasian gannets. Common diving petrel and Pycroft&#39;s petrel chicks have been translocated to the island in an effort to establish breeding colonies. Grey-faced petrels nest on the island. North Island brown kiwis chicks have been brought to the island since 1999 as part of the Department of Conservation’s Operation Nest Egg, which uses predator-free islands as ‘kiwi creche’ sites before the birds are transferred to the mainland.</p><br>
<p>The Gov. John Butler Smith House, also now known as the Community Building, is a historic house at 62 School Street in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. The large Queen Anne Victorian is significant as one of few known residential works of a prolific New Hampshire architect, William M. Butterfield, and as the home of John Butler Smith, a principal owner of the local Contoocook Mills, who also served as Governor of New Hampshire 1893-95. This house began as a two-story Italianate structure built in 1866, which was extended with a mansard roof in 1885. Smith hired Butterfield to make major modifications in 1892, rotating the 1866 house and moving it back on the lot, and then adding the front section of the house, more than doubling its size. The interior, like the exterior, is lavishly appointed with woodwork. The property also includes a carriage house built in 1892. Smith&#39;s heirs donated the building to the town of Hillsborough, which has converted into town offices, library, and a community meeting space.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Smyth Tower is a folly located on the grounds of the Manchester VA Medical Center at 718 Smyth Road in Manchester, New Hampshire. The fieldstone tower was built in 1888 by Frederick Smyth, who owned an extensive estate, part of which became the VA facility. Smyth built it as a replica of a tower he saw while visiting Scotland. The tower is 40 ft high, with walls 2 ft thick. Its outside diameter is 28 ft. It has a basement level 8 ft high, and three floors topped by a parapet. The building materials were locally gathered. The tower was given to the city by Smyth&#39;s widow in 1939, and it was used to house radio facilities during World War II.</p><br>
<p>The tower was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Building of the Third Belgrade Gymnasium is located at 15 Njegoš, in Belgrade. Building have the status of cultural monument of great importance.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Building the Third Belgrade High School, built in 1906. Building was designed by Architects Dusan Zivanovic and Dragutin Djordjevic. The construction work was carried out by Vasa Tesic. Architectural plastic was carried out Francis Waldman. The painted decoration of the interior was carried out the Dragutin Inkiostri Gingerbread Pasko Vucetic.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Architecture is designed in the academic style. Building poses a ground floor, as well as first floor. It is designed as a free structures, withdrawn to the street, with a basis in the form of the Cyrillic letter "Ш". Concept includes major longitudinal tract, with prominent central projection, and three transverse backyard wings, of which is a medium significantly shorter. The facade is based on strictly conducted classical symmetry. The central projection of the main facade is very pronounced, as part of the caryatids on the entrance portal of the building. Columns are duplicated on the floor, together with a rich plastic decoration of windows and three bronze busts - Dositej Obradovic, Vuk Karadzic, Joseph Pančić, of renowned sculptor Peter Ubavkic. Building of the Third Belgrade Gymnasium was nominated for Cultural Monument in 1964.</p><br>
<p>The Bulfinch Building of the Massachusetts General Hospital is located on the hospital&#39;s main campus on Fruit Street in the West End of Boston, Massachusetts. It was designed by architect Charles Bulfinch, and built between 1818 and 1823, with a major expansion in 1844-46. A National Historic Landmark, it is an excellent example of Classical Revival architecture, and a rare surviving example of an early 19th-century public hospital building. The building is home to the Ether Dome, an operating theater which has been separately designated a National Historic Landmark as the site of the first public demonstration of the use of ether as an anesthetic.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bulfinch Building is a rectangular structure, two stories in height, with a massive Ionic portico at the center of its longer facade. The building is built out of white granite from Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and stands on a basement of rusticated granite. It has a hipped roof, and the central portion has a square attic story with chimneys at the corners and a saucer-shaped dome in the center. The interior has undergone extensive and repeated renovations, as the hospital&#39;s needs for the space have changed.</p><br>
<p>As designed by Charles Bulfinch in 1817 and built over the next five years by Alexander Parris, the building had smaller wings (roughly half the present size), and had a capacity of 73 beds. The stonework for its construction was largely done by the inmates at the Charlestown Prison. The building&#39;s capacity was nearly doubled in 1844-46 by the addition of five bays to each of the wings, and the original entrance hall designed by Bulfinch was extensively altered.</p><br>
<p>Bulfinch&#39;s design, with an operating amphitheater under the dome, was probably based on that in the Pennsylvania Hospital building, which he probably saw on a visit in 1816. That amphitheater, now known as the Ether Dome, is where the first public demonstration of the use of ether as an anesthetic took place on October 16, 1846. The amphitheater was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965 in recognition of this event. The entire building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and designated a National Historic Landmark, in 1970, as an excellent example of Classical Revival architecture, and as one of the oldest public hospital buildings in the nation.</p><br>
<p>The building is now surrounded by the much larger modern facilities of the hospital.</p><br>
<p>The Moores Corner Historic District of Leverett, Massachusetts, encompasses the historic mill village of Moores Corner. Centered on the intersection of North Leverett Road with Dudleyville Road, Church Hill Road, and Rattlesnake Gutter Road, it includes predominantly residential buildings that were built during the height of the areas industrial activity between the 1840s and 1860s. The architecture is mainly Federal and Greek Revival in style, although the Moores Corner Church, built in 1896, is Queen Anne in style. One of the most distinctive houses is that of Jonah Hunt at 8 Dudleyville Road, which is Leverett&#39;s only temple-front Greek Revival house. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. Moores Corner Church has been faithfully preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ since 1986 declaring that eternal life is offered to all who put their trust in the death burial and resurrection of Christ for the forgiveness of sins.</p><br>
<p>Penarth is a timber-framed house set back from the A483 road near to Newtown and close to the banks of the river Severn. It is within the parish of Llanllwchaiarn, within the historic county of Montgomeryshire, which now forms part of Powys. It is amongst the best examples of the ‘‘Severn Valley’’ timber-framed houses. The Penarth vinyard stands within the grounds of the house.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural Description</h2><br>
<p>Penarth is a two storey hall house with two forward projecting gabled wings. The two bayed construction of the hall with a central cruck truss is likely to be the earliest part of the house and could be 15th century. It was originally suggested that it was an aisled hall, but restoration work in 1964 showed this was not the case. A chimney stack is positioned so that a Lobby entrance is formed, a typical feature of Severn Valley houses. The two gabled wings on either side of the hall are jettied with the second floor projecting forward and the timber framing forming a decorated geometric pattern.</p><br>
<h2>History of Penarth</h2><br>
<p>Penarth lies in Dyffryn Llanfair, an ancient township which lies to the south of the river Severn. The earliest known owner of Penarth was Richard Pryce, who in 1604 was commemorated in a poem by the Welsh Bard and Herald, Lewys Dwnn. Dwnn was lived in nearby Bettws Cedewain. Penarth continued in the Pryce family ownership and there are references to a later Richard Pryce in the Manorial records in 1696. In 1710 and 1717 an Edward Powell, Gent is mentioned as living at Penarth Ucha. The Rev John Parker, (noted for his diaries and drawings of Church screens), who was Rector of Llanmerewig (1827-1844), lived here. Mr and Mrs Higgs restored the house with grants from the Historic Buildings Council in 1964.</p><br>
<h2>Wine Production at Penarth</h2><br>
<p>Bernard and Tanya Herbert planted their first vines in 1999, and the acreage was increased 2 years later, so that all 10 acres of vines are now bearing fruit. Varieties that are grown include German and French varieties such as Madeleine Angevine. However, the majority of the vines are the classical ‘sparkling wine grapes’- Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay. The vineyard has no winery, and wines are being produced by Three Choirs at Newent.</p><br>
<h2>Literature</h2><br>
<p>Oliver H N Llanllwchaiarn Church and Parish 2000</p><br>
<p>Pryce T E Half-Timbered Houses of Montgomeryshire, (Part III, Penarth), "Montgomeryshire Collections" Vol 17, 1884, 149-164, 359-368.</p><br>
<p>Smith P and Vaughan-Owen C E Penarth, a Montgomeryshire Aisled Hall, "Montgomeryshire Collections" Vol 58 pt ii, 1964, 107-113</p><br>
<p>Scourfield R and Haslam R The Buildings of Wales: Powys; Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire. Yale University Press 2013</p><br>
<p>Smith P Houses of the Welsh Countryside, 2nd Edition, 1988, HMSO/ RCAHMW</p><br>
<p>Suggett R and Stevenson G Introducing Houses of the Welsh Countryside. Cyflwyno Cartrefi Cefn Gwlad Cymru. Y Lolfa/ RCAHMW, 2010</p><br>
