<p>The Historic Crail Ranch Buildings listed in the National Register of Historic Places are two rustic cabins, the remnants of a homestead dating to the late 1890s in Gallatin County, Montana in the area now known as Big Sky. The historic cabins are part of the Crail Ranch Homestead Museum, which depicts the homestead era in Big Sky from about 1896 to 1970 through displays of objects, photographs and documents on loan from a descendant of the original homesteaders.</p><br>
<h2>Early Days</h2><br>
<p>The Crail Ranch was established as a homestead beginning in 1902 by Augustus Franklin "Frank" Crail (1842 - 1924) and his family.</p><br>
<p>Frank Crail was born in November 1842, the second son of a farming family in Tipton County, Indiana. In 1865, at the age of twenty-two, Crail traveled alone to the Missouri frontier and joined a wagon train heading to the Montana Territory. By 1868, he was working in a quartz mine near Helena, Montana.</p><br>
<p>Finding mining not to his liking, and finding freight hauling through Indian country too dangerous, Crail turned to homesteading based on the Homestead Act of 1862. In 1871, Crail partnered with two other ranchers and developed a homestead parcel in the Bridger Mountains, just north of the town of Bozeman in Gallatin County, Montana. Some of the original cabins and out buildings that Crail built on that land are still in existence.</p><br>
<p>In 1886, at age 44, Frank Crail met and married Sallie Lorrie Creek, age 22, who had come to Montana with her family from Platte County, Missouri in about 1884. Frank and Sallie had three children - Eugene (1887-1985), Emmett (1888-1975) and Lilian (1896-1981). By 1896, Crail had left off farming and was serving as clerk of the Montana District Court for the Ninth District in Bozeman.</p><br>
<p>In December 1901, following an election in which he lost his clerkship, Crail purchased for $150 rights to a 160-acre homestead parcel in the meadow area in the Gallatin Basin above Gallatin Canyon, and now the location of the Big Sky, Montana resort. In the spring of 1902, when nearly 60 years of age, Crail brought his family up the rough logging road along the Gallatin River and moved into a small cabin left by the previous developer of the parcel.</p><br>
<h2>Homestead and Ranch 1902 - 1968</h2><br>
<p>Beginning in 1902, Frank Crail and his family proved up their original 160 acre homestead and acquired five additional parcels, expanding their holdings to 960 contiguous acres. By 1910, they had completed a two-story, four-room cabin and added numerous barns and outbuildings on the property. The family raised horses, cattle and sheep and had a large hay-cutting operation for animal feed. Crail also experimented with a strain of winter wheat designed to grow in the high country of the American West. He called his wheat "Crail Fife," perhaps in reference to his familys origins in Crail in the East Neuk of Fife in Scotland. Crail marketed his wheat to growers in Montana and Colorado. Samples of Crails wheat were entered by the State of Montana in the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis, and won prizes.</p><br>
<p>In September 1914, Sallie Creek Crail died at age 50. In 1918, Franks oldest son, Eugene went off to World War I. About this same time, Crails daughter Lillian left Montana for nursing school in Chicago. She did not live on the ranch after that point. Augustus Franklin Crail died on his ranch in 1924. His son Emmett continued to operate the homestead as a working ranch through the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. Finally, in 1950, after nearly 50 years on the ranch, Emmett Crail sold the property to a couple from California, Jack and Elaine Hume, who expanded the ranch to 1440 acres before selling the property to a cattleman named Sam Smeding in 1962.</p><br>
<h2>Coming of Big Sky Resort 1968 - 1980</h2><br>
<p>After the Crail Ranch property was sold by the Humes to Sam Smeding in 1962, the Crail Ranch lands were used as range for grazing cattle and the buildings were used only for storage. Then in 1968, retired newsman and Montana native Chet Huntley, along with a consortium of investors, began the process of creating the Big Sky Ski Resort. One of the first parcels purchased by Huntley&#39;s consortium were the Smeding properties, including the old Crail Ranch. From 1970 to 1980, the resort consortium removed many of the ranch buildings, converted meadows and hay fields to the Big Sky golf course, and used the original small cabin and the larger four-room main cabin as bunkhouses for workers.</p><br>
<h2>Crail Ranch Becomes Historic 1980 - Present</h2><br>
<p>In about 1980, after the Big Sky Resort finished using the Crail cabins, interested local groups persuaded the resort to cede a one-acre parcel containing the two Crail cabins to the Big Sky Owners Association. In 1982, through the efforts of the Gallatin Canyon Historical Society, the Crail Ranch buildings were listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Later in the 1980s and through the 1990s, the took an active role in cleaning the cabins and preparing the property for visitors, and the grounds and the main cabin were opened to the public in July 2001. Shortly thereafter, the Big Sky Community Organization, a 501(c) non-profit group, took control of the buildings from the Big Sky Owners Association and, in 2006, established a formal conservators group, the Historic Crail Ranch Conservators. In October 2012, in response to community interest in a museum, the Conservators registered the name Crail Ranch Homestead Museum. The museum is located off Spotted Elk Road in Big Sky. The grounds are open year round; the buildings are open on weekends from late June until mid-September. The Museum also offers displaying and explaining many of the museums holdings.</p><br>
<p>The Arcade is a historic two-story building in Cookeville, Tennessee. It was built in 1913 on land that belonged to Gillian Maxwell and Robert Farley, the co-founders of Dixie College, later known as Tennessee Technological University. The building was designed by Maxwell, and built by Joe Scott and Bill Smoot. It was later acquired by Charlie Gibson, who sold it to Robert Lee Maddux in 1927. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 17, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Town Lake Gazebo  is a historic gazebo on the south shore of Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas, beside Auditorium Shores. Built in 1969 to beautify the south shore of Lady Bird Lake, the gazebo was paid for by the National Association of Women in Construction and features eclectic architecture. The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1960 the completion of Longhorn Dam on the Colorado River created Lady Bird Lake (then known as Town Lake) on the south edge of downtown Austin, Texas. The next year the Austin City Council formed a Town Lake Study Committee to recommend plans for the development of public land on the shores of the new lake. In 1965 the Austin chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction approached the City with a proposal to contribute a civic structure to beautify the Town Lake shoreline. On November 9, 1965, City Council approved NAWIC&#39;s plan to build a public gazebo that would provide a scenic view of downtown Austin and of the lake from Auditorium Shores to the south.</p><br>
<p>In January 1966 the Austin chapter of NAWIC began raising funds for the project and revealed an early design with a mushroom-like dome meant to echo and complement the roof of the (now demolished) Palmer Auditorium. City leaders held a groundbreaking ceremony on July 1, 1968. The project cost an estimated $6,000 in cash, and NAWIC persuaded local construction businesses and workers to make in-kind contributions valued around $30,000. Construction was repeatedly delayed because the work was provided by local builders and contractors on a pro bono basis. The gazebo was completed in August 1969, and the site was dedicated on June 8 of the following year at a ceremony including national NAWIC leaders and Austin Mayor Travis LaRue.</p><br>
<p>In 1984 the gazebo received repairs and renovations, funded again by NAWIC, and the city officially renamed the structure the Fannie Davis Town Lake Gazebo in honor of one of the founders of NAWICs Austin chapter. In 1992 the roofs oculus was covered with a transparent acrylic dome to keep out rain, and a wheelchair ramp was added in 1995. The most recent repairs and renovations were made in 2012. On February 7, 2020, the gazebo was added to the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its eclectic architectural design and its significance as a piece of community-built civic infrastructure meant to beautify a public space. It also set a precedent followed in 1978 when the Austin chapter of NAWIC helped to fund the restoration of the Austin Fire Drill Tower on the opposite shore of Town Lake.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Town Lake Gazebo is an open-sided structure with a curving hyperbolic paraboloid roof supported by eight piers rising from a slightly elevated foundation. The reinforced concrete piers stand at the corners of an octagonal footprint and are faced with a stone veneer of rusticated limestone masonry. The columns angle slightly inward and taper toward the top, where they support curved rafters of glued laminated timber. The roof resembles an inverted funnel or morning glory flower, curving upward from a zig-zag lower edge to a central oculus at the top. The roof is made of folded plate plywood with a white roof coating on the exterior and light blue paint beneath. The interior has a pebble-finished concrete floor of around 900 ft2, with inward-facing precast concrete benches around the rim.</p><br>
<p>Early designs for the gazebo had it on a small island near the south shore of the lake, accessed by a footbridge, but it was ultimately built by the waters edge at Auditorium Shores. The gazebo was designed by architect J. Sterry Nill, the husband of NAWIC Austin chapter President Lori Nill. The structures varied materials and contrasting stylistic elements make it difficult to assign a particular architectural style; its composition is modernist but eclectic, mixing elements of geometric Googie design with the rustic park architecture characteristic of outdoor public structures in Central Texas.</p><br>
<p>The King Tower Historic District, also known as The King Tower One-Stop, is a historic district located in Tama, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. The King Tower One-Stop is a gas station, tourist court, and cafe built by Wes Mansfield on the Lincoln Highway. The Spanish Colonial Revival gas station and cafe was completed in 1937, and 18 tourist cabins were completed the following year. The historic district is an example of a "one stop-food, gas, auto repair and tourist cabins" that were built during "the transition from mom-and-pop roadside businesses to the national chain gas, food and lodging businesses that would soon dominate the trade." At one time it was open 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week. In addition to over-the-road truckers, travelers, law enforcement officers, and local families, it was a place the town&#39;s bar patrons would go after the bars closed at 2:00 am. Local clubs and organizations held their meetings here. It was also a stopping point for presidential hopefuls before the Iowa caucuses.</p><br>
<p>The cafe and gas station building and one of the tourist cabins are still in existence. The cafe is still in operation. Wall murals painted in the 1950s are still in place on the cafes walls. A house that housed the business manager is located to the north of the main building.</p><br>
<p>The Karcher Hotel is a historic hotel building at 405 Washington Street in Waukegan, Illinois. Opened in 1928, the hotel was built during an economic boom in Waukegan; its location near Waukegan&#39;s train station and downtown businesses was chosen to attract traveling businesspeople. In addition to renting rooms, the hotel housed commercial and office spaces on its first two floors. Architect B.K. Gibson of Chicago designed the hotel in the Classical Revival style; his design used the tripartite form common to Classical Revival skyscrapers, which included a two-story terra cotta base, a brick shaft, and an upper floor demarcated by terra cotta panels. Other classically inspired elements in the building include its terra cotta frieze, cornice, and parapet along with egg-and-dart and dentil detailing. While the hotel prospered during the Great Depression, it began to suffer economically in the 1960s and would ultimately close in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 9, 2002.</p><br>
<p>The John Griffith Store Building is an American historic commercial building at 103–113 E. Scranton Avenue in Lake Bluff, Illinois. Built in 1925–26 by businessman John Griffith, the building originally housed four storefronts and several second-floor apartments. Architect Stanley Anderson of the firm Anderson, Ticknor & Fox, who designed several of neighboring Lake Forests major institutional buildings and many of its homes, designed the store in the Colonial Revival style. The stores size and brick construction allowed it to stand out from Lake Bluffs other commercial buildings, most of which were smaller wooden structures; the use of the then-popular Colonial Revival style further distinguished it from its older and more modest neighbors. The buildings design includes wooden decorations and trim around the first-floor doors and windows, two oriel windows on the second floor, stone lintels atop the second floor&#39;s remaining windows, a stone cornice, and a brick parapet.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 5, 2003.</p><br>
<p>Holy Family Church is a historic church at 1840 Lincoln Street in North Chicago, Illinois. The church was built in 1914-15 for North Chicagos Roman Catholic congregation, which was formed in 1901. Architect William F. Gubbins designed the Late Gothic Revival church. The churchs design includes a front-facing gable with a large stained glass window, pointed arch windows, and a square bell tower with large louvered windows, all typical features of Gothic Revival architecture. The Catholic congregation used the church until 1991; it is now occupied by the Emmanuel Faith Bible Christian Center.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 21, 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Jewel Tea Company, Inc. building was a historic building at 511 Lake Zurich Road in Barrington, Illinois. The building was built in 1920-30 as a new headquarters for the Jewel Tea Company, which operated the Jewel supermarket chain. The building was used as the companys main offices as well as a manufacturing plant for several of Jewels products, including coffee and tea. At the time, it was unusual for companies to relocate from the city to the suburbs, and Jewel&#39;s relocation to Barrington had a considerable economic impact on the village. Architecture firm Holabird & Root designed the building using a combination of the Art Deco and Moderne styles.</p><br>
<p>The company was bought by American Stores, inc in 1984 and was later added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 3, 2004. It was demolished later in the same year. and was removed from the National Register in 2020.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church of South Hadley  is a historic church building at 1 Church Street in the center of South Hadley, Massachusetts. Completed in 1895, it is a prominent local example of Romanesque Revival architecture, designed by Henry J. Preston. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. The congregation, founded in 1733, is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>South Hadley&#39;s First Congregational Church is located in the town center, on a triangular parcel bounded by Church, Park, and College Streets. It is located near the northern end of the town common, and adjacent to the campus of Mount Holyoke College. It is a large masonry structure, built out of red brick with sandstone trim. It is roughly cruciform in shape, with a gable roof on its main axis and wings, and a four-story hip-roofed tower at its northwest corner. Its large gable ends are characterized by large rose windows.</p><br>
<p>The church was completed in 1895 for the town&#39;s first church congregation, founded in 1733. The congregation first met in a wood-frame meetinghouse built that year, which still stands just north of the town green and now houses a commercial establishment. It moved to a second structure built on this site in 1761; this is its fourth building to stand here. It was designed by Henry J. Preston, an architect based on Boston who was once a parishioner, and was completed in 1895 by the Thorpe Brothers of Holyoke. The building includes bricks recovered from the previous church, which was destroyed by fire. A fellowship hall was added to the building in 1956, designed by Alderman & MacNeish of West Springfield.</p><br>
<p>The Howard and Lucy Linn House is a historic house at 555 Shoreacres Drive in Lake Bluff, Illinois. The house was built in 1927 for Lucy Linn, the founder or president of multiple Chicago social organizations and a member of the prominent McCormick family, and her husband Howard, a businessman and aviator. The couple was typical of the wealthy, socially prominent people who built estates in Lake Bluff and neighboring Lake Forest. Architect Walter S. Frazier of the firm Frazier & Raftery designed the house in the French Renaissance Revival style, a choice inspired by Howard&#39;s service in France in World War I. The house has an asymmetrical plan with a stucco exterior, a loggia at the front entrance, a central courtyard, and several porches.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Glenn Building is a historic building on Marietta Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Built in 1923 as an office building, the building was converted to a boutique hotel in 2006 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Glenn Building was built in 1923. That same year, construction of the Spring Street viaduct led to a boom in development on the west side of downtown Atlanta which included the nearby Bona Allen Office Building. The ten-story building was designed by Wadley B. Wood of Washington, D.C., and originally served as an office building. It was named after former mayor of Atlanta John Thomas Glenn. An Art Deco parking garage was constructed adjacent to the building in 1928, but was demolished in the 1990s and replaced by a larger parking garage. In the late 1980s, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta purchased the building as a possible expansion site, but sold the building after deciding to instead relocate to midtown Atlanta.</p><br>
<p>In 2003, Central Atlanta Progress placed the building on a top 10 "development opportunities" in downtown Atlanta, alongside other derelict or abandoned buildings such as the Medical Arts Building and the Winecoff Hotel. In 2006, the building underwent a $6 million renovation that converted the building into a boutique hotel as part of the Autograph Collection under Marriott International. Several sources cite the Glenn Hotel as the first boutique hotel in downtown Atlanta. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. In 2015, Alexi Torres was commissioned by the building owners to paint a mural on a side of the building.</p><br>
<p>The Louis F. Swift House is a historic house at 255 E. Foster Place in Lake Forest, Illinois. The house was built in 1916 for Louis F. Swift, the president of meat packing firm Swift & Company; it was originally an addition to a home built for Swift in 1898, which was demolished in 1940. As a wealthy man who headed a major company, Swift was typical of the early twentieth century residents of Lake Forest, who were some of the richest and most prominent residents of the Chicago area. Architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, who designed several other homes for Lake Forest residents, designed the Swift House in the Renaissance Revival style. The house features a brick exterior, an asymmetrical front divided into three sections, a portico above the entrance, and bracketed eaves.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 18, 2005.</p><br>
<p>The William McCormick Blair Estate is a historic estate at 982 Sheridan Road in Lake Bluff, Illinois. The estate was built in 1926-28 for financier William McCormick Blair, who was one of the many wealthy and prominent Chicagoans to build an estate in Lake Bluff in the early twentieth century. Architect David Adler, a well-regarded designer of country houses, designed the estate&#39;s main house in the Colonial Revival style. The house has a complex, sprawling shape unified by the consistent use of double-hung windows and wood roofing shingles. The estate also includes a garage, a tennis house, two cottages, two sheds, a folly shaped like a Greek temple, a greenhouse, and a garden.</p><br>
<p>The estate was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 31, 2008.</p><br>
<p>The West Park Neighborhood Historic District is a residential historic district surrounding West Park in Lake Forest, Illinois. The district includes 149 contributing buildings, most of which were built between 1907 and 1930, and West Park. Originally known as the Green Bay Addition, the neighborhood was planned in 1907 as the equivalent of a company town for the service workers at Lake Forests many estates. Lake Forest was a popular home for the Chicago areas most wealthy residents in the early twentieth century, who typically built large estates that required teams of support workers to maintain. Architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, who also designed many of the estates, planned the neighborhood. While Shaw intended for the development to mainly use Tudor Revival architecture, few houses were designed in the style; the Colonial Revival, Folk Victorian, Craftsman, and American Foursquare styles were more common.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 2012.</p><br>
<p>The David Hall House is a historic house at 25420 W. Cedar Crest Lane in Lake Villa, Illinois. The house was built in 1931 for David and May Cave Hall, a wealthy couple who settled in Lake Villa after taking summer vacations there for many years. Architect Ralph Wesley Varney designed the building in the Art Deco with elements of popular revival styles of the period. An unusual choice for a residential building, the use of Art Deco was likely inspired by Mays travels to Hollywood in the 1920s. The houses design includes a rusticated limestone exterior, large Gothic arch windows, a triangular canopy above the entrance, a metal oriel window, and a stepped roof. Its grounds include a swimming pool and terrace garden.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 2014.</p><br>
<p>The George E. Van Hagen House is a historic house at 12 W. County Line Road in Barrington Hills, Illinois. The house was built circa 1912 for George Ely Van Hagen, the president of the Standard Forgings Company, and his wife Mary Wakefield Lewis Van Hagen, the granddaughter of President William Henry Harrison. Large country estates in rural suburbs such as Barrington Hills were popular with the wealthy in the early twentieth century; Van Hagen used his houses grounds for a gentlemans farm and fox hunting, typical pastimes of estate owners. Architect John Nyden gave the house an Arts and Crafts style design with Federal Revival elements. The house&#39;s design uses the simple geometric forms typical of Arts and Crafts designs throughout, with plain cylindrical columns, diamond and rectangular patterned panels, and semicircular arches atop the entrance and several windows. The Federal Revival elements are largely confined to the interior and include a plasterwork dining room ceiling, a mosaic fireplace surround, and cabinets inspired by Palladian windows.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 12, 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Pleasants Parsons House is a historic dwelling located at 601 Spring Street in Richmond, Virginia. It is best known for being the home of quaker, abolitionist, and prison superintendent Samuel Pleasants Parsons. It is likely that this house was once a stop on the Underground Railroad. It is the oldest remaining building within the Oregon Hill neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Samuel Parsons had his residence built in 1818 around his time as the superintendent at the Virginia State Penitentiary which too stood on spring street across Belvedere Street. The dwelling is the only surviving building of "Harvie&#39;s Plan" of 1817. Beginning in the 1870s, the dwelling was used to house unwed mothers and later served the Virginia Department of Corrections as a refuge for young female offenders in their work release program.</p><br>
<p>By the turn of the 21st century, the house had fallen into despair, graffiti covered the walls, and a decade had passed since the dwelling had been inhabited. In 2000, local developer Robin Miller renovated the dwelling and now it serves as apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Federalist-Style house was originally built in 1818 with additions being added in later years. It has a gabled roof and a Greek Revival portico on each of its front entrances. Important interior details survive, such as fireplace mantels and some woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The Robert Parker Coffin Bridge  is a Pratt pony truss bridge that spans Buffalo Creek in Long Grove, Illinois, United States. Standing 41 ft long, it was built in 1906 by the Joliet Bridge and Iron Company. It is one of the few remaining bridges of its kind in the Chicago area and the state of Illinois, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.</p><br>
<p>In 1972, the town added a low-hanging decorative wooden covering in an effort to deter large commercial vehicles; with a clearance height of 8 ft, the covering has been frequently struck by trucks, buses, and other vehicles, particularly in recent years. After a collision in 2018, the bridge was shut down for several months while the decorative covering underwent reconstruction and reinforcement with steel. Currently, despite enduring numerous hits since then, the structure only suffers minor damages.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The one-lane bridge carries Robert Parker Coffin Road over Buffalo Creek in Long Grove, a village located 30 mi northwest of Chicago, Illinois. It connects the Long Grove Community Church to the southwest with downtown Long Grove, formed at the road&#39;s intersection with Old McHenry Road, to the northeast. Downtown Long Grove is a mixed-use development consisting of homes and businesses, governed by an ordinance dating back to 1962 that ensures that the intersection maintains its quaint, historic style.</p><br>
<p>According to the National Bridge Inventory, the bridge is 41 ft long, and the roadway is 17.4 ft wide.</p><br>
<p>The structure is composed of short vertical and horizontal steel beams arranged in a triangular formation, making it a Pratt truss design. The elements are fastened together using pins, rather than the more common rivets. It is also considered a pony truss, which is characterized by structural supports that extend above the deck of the bridge but do not cross over the roadway.</p><br>
<p>The 1972 covering was modeled after the Ashuelot Covered Bridge, a historic covered bridge in Ashuelot, New Hampshire. The roof is covered in wooden shakes and has an asymmetrical gable shape, with the longer end extending over the pedestrian sidewalk. The current clearance height stands at 8 ft.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A Protestant church and cemetery, was founded in 1846. A wooden bridge was built over Buffalo Creek in the late 1800s to connect a commerce district with the Protestant church.</p><br>
<p>Robert Parker Coffin (1917–2019) was an architect who served as president of Long Grove for over 20 years. He led the small village through the post–World War II economic expansion that threatened to bring major real estate developments and an expressway, and locals credit the present character of the town to his vision of retaining Long Grove&#39;s small-town, rural feel. In the 1980s, Long Grove Road, the road that crosses the bridge, was renamed Robert Parker Coffin Road in his honor.</p><br>
<p>The structure was deteriorating by the 1970s, with officials from the state government recommending turning it into a two-lane road on top of a culvert. Coffin and the rest of the town disagreed; instead, they opted to construct a decorative wooden covering (which Coffin designed) in 1972 to decrease its maximum height to deter heavier vehicles. During that decade, locals applied for the bridge to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), but the request was denied because bridges of that kind were too common. Throughout the years after installing the covering, cars would hit it occasionally and cause minor damage, but local business owners would just repair it.</p><br>
<h3>Decline and restoration</h3><br>
<p>The 2008 recession was detrimental to downtown Long Grove, forcing two-thirds of its businesses to close, and the bridge also fell into disrepair.</p><br>
<p>This decline sparked intense debate by town leaders and residents over what to do with the bridge. Some advocated for demolishing the bridge and replacing it with a modern two-lane crossing or a smaller one just for pedestrians, or keeping the bridge but significantly raising the cover&#39;s height. Others wanted to keep the existing character and obtain funding to restore and preserve it. In 2017, the Long Grove Historical Society and the Historic Downtown Long Grove Business Association re-nominated it for the NRHP as a rare surviving bridge of its kind. This time the nomination was successful—the Buffalo Creek Bridge was formally added to the register on June 11, 2018. In 2019, the Long Grove Village Board voted 4-2 to restore the bridge.</p><br>
<p>Sixteen days later, the driver of a box truck struck the top of the bridge cover and damaged two posts and its lateral bracing, forcing it to close due to stability concerns. The cover was removed and replaced with a temporary overhead barrier, which allowed it to reopen to traffic in September 2018. Between March and June 2020, the entire bridge was moved offsite as crews replaced the abutments and repainted the bridge. A new cover—clad in wood and reinforced by steel—was added during the summer, and the $1 million renovation project concluded with a reopening ceremony on August 14. The next day, it was hit again, this time by a school bus; according to the county sheriff&#39;s office, since the reopening, there have been at least 53 bridge strikes This high volume has caused the town to consider additional measures to prevent collisions: electronic height sensors, clearance bars further away from the bridge, more visible warning signage, and working with online mapping services to discourage the route when providing directions.</p><br>
<p>In 2022, the bridge was renamed as the Robert Parker Coffin Bridge in honor of Coffin, who had been a strong advocate of maintaining the charm and character of the town and bridge.</p><br>
<h2>Legacy</h2><br>
<p>The Robert Parker Coffin Bridge is one of a small number of remaining bridges of its kind in the area. It is classified by the Illinois Department of Transportation as a "steel Pratt pony truss eyebar" bridge, of which there is only one other remaining in the Chicago area and 32 others in the state. According to an analysis of 2016 National Bridge Inventory data, it is the only extant single-lane thru truss bridge built in the Chicago metropolitan area before 1917. Of the 80 that meet those criteria in Illinois, only one other incorporates a pedestrian lane.</p><br>
<p>The bridge, described as iconic, Its tendency to be struck is a source of embarrassment or alarm to some residents, but others have embraced it as a defining feature, such as a local business named Broken Bridge Treats and a local brewing company that produces beers named "Bad Move" and "Bus Wedgie".</p><br>
<p>The Louis Fredrick House is a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright at 19 W. County Line Road in Barrington, Illinois. The house was built in 1957 for Louis Fredrick, an affluent interior designer. The houses design is typical of Wrights later work, in which he adapted his Usonian design principles to larger homes for wealthier clients. Fredrick played a role in the design process as well, rejecting Wrights original plan on account of its concrete block walls and providing input on decisions such as coloring. The houses design includes a brick exterior, long horizontal window bands, a low roof covered with cedar shakes, and a large chimney.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 12, 2016.</p><br>
<p>Also in 2016 the house was sold through auction to David and Joyce McArdle. The McArdles had previously owned and restored another Frank Lloyd Wright building, the F.B. Henderson House in Elmhurst, Illinois. After acquiring the home, the couple approached John Eifler, of Eifler & Associates, to restore the home, which included adding geothermal heating and cooling, and the construction of furniture that had originally been intended for the home. This restoration was complete by 2018.</p><br>
<p>The Dwight and Clara Watson House is a Victorian home designed by Cass Gilbert in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is one of the few surviving early-career works of Gilbert that showcases the detailed and eclectic style of an emerging master architect.</p><br>
<p>The original owner of the home was Dwight Watson who bought the land and had the house built in 1886. Watson&#39;s father, George Watson was a Minnesota state senator.</p><br>
<p>The original plans for the house were discovered at the New York Historical Society and they bear the name of Cass Gilbert and confirm that he was the original architect.</p><br>
<p>In 2019 the home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2023 it was listed as a St. Paul Heritage Preservation Site. The current owner, Mark Thomas, notes its unique design, room layout and exterior. The home is of late Victorian style with a Colonial inspired interior.</p><br>
<p>The Evanston Lakeshore Historic District is a residential historic district in Evanston, Illinois. The district encompasses a section of southeast Evanston that was developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As Chicago expanded in the late nineteenth century, its residential development surged past its northern border and into Evanston, causing the suburb to grow considerably. Early laws, including the first municipal zoning law in 1921, restricted development in southeast Evanston to single-family houses. The expense of such houses and the popularity of the location led to the neighborhood becoming dominated by the relatively wealthy. Prominent architectural styles within the district include Italianate, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, and Georgian Revival.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 29, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Evanston Ridge Historic District is a residential historic district in Evanston, Illinois. The district is situated along a glacial ridge that was the site of the first white settlement in Evanston in the 1830s. As the development of Evanston accelerated in the mid-nineteenth century, the ridge became a desirable location for new residents, and the growth of Northwestern University and new rail links to Chicago continued to spur development into the twentieth century. As a result, the houses in the district were built over the course of several decades, with most built between 1860 and 1930. Wealthy Chicagoans were particularly drawn to the area, and its homes frequently had formal architectural designs. The Italianate, Queen Anne, and Prairie School styles are all particularly common in the district.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 3, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Northeast Evanston Historic District is a residential historic district in northeastern Evanston, Illinois. The district includes 474 contributing buildings in an area bounded by Sheridan Place to the north, Lake Michigan to the east, Emerson Street to the south, and Ridge Avenue and the CTAs Purple Line to the west. The area was developed later than central and southeast Evanston; while its oldest building dates from the 1860s, most of the homes in the district were built between 1890 and 1930. The districts houses are representative of the popular architectural styles of the period; the American Craftsman, Tudor Revival, and Colonial Revival styles are especially prevalent. Works by many prominent Chicago architects, including Holabird & Roche, Tallmadge & Watson, Howard Van Doren Shaw, George W. Maher, William Carbys Zimmerman, Solon Spencer Beman, and Schmidt, Garden and Martin, can be found in the district. Vernacular works with bungalow, American Foursquare, and gable front designs are also common in the district.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 12, 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Oakton Historic District is a residential historic district in south central Evanston, Illinois. The district includes 203 contributing buildings, most of which were developed between 1913 and 1940. Development on Evanstons lakeshore began in the mid-nineteenth century, but the land that became the district was part of a large farm owned by the Mulford family at the time; once the family had sold most of its land, the area was platted in 1890. Most of the residences in the district are single-family houses, a product of Evanstons early zoning laws. The houses reflect the popular architectural trends of the early twentieth century; the Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival, and American Craftsman styles are most common.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 23, 2005.</p><br>
<p>Great Lakes Manor, also known as Kirby Manor Apartments, is an apartment building located at 457 East Kirby Street in Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1925, a permit was issued to Pelavin Brothers to construct what was then known as the Kirby Manor Apartments. The area of the city where the apartment building stood was at the time a primarily Jewish neighborhood. The Pelavin Brothers themselves were part of the local Jewish community, as were many of the original tenants in the building. These tenants were primarily middle class workers, such as salespeople, small business owners, bookkeepers, and teachers.</p><br>
<p>At about the same time, the surrounding neighborhood was transitioning from a Jewish community to one that was majority African-American. Although the majority of building residents in 1930 were Jewish, by 1940 the majority were African-American. In 1936, the building was purchased by the Great Lakes Land and Investment Company, a subsidiary of the Great Lakes Mutual Insurance Company. Great Lakes Mutual was one of the largest African-American businesses in the state of Michigan. In 1937, the company renamed the building the Great Lakes Manor. The apartment building, and its ownership, was part of an important step toward civil rights in the city of Detroit, as it provided accessible housing to the growing African American middle class.</p><br>
<p>In about 1942, Charles H. Mahoney, the president of Great Lakes Mutual, moved into Great Lakes Manor. He lived there into the early 1960s. In 1969, Great Lakes Mutual Insurance merged with the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, and in 1970 sold the Great Lakes Manor. However, the building gradually deteriorated and by 1989 was vacant. In that year, the city sponsored a rehabilitation project, which completely redid the interior and reduced the number of units from 42 to 30. In 2019–2020, the building was completely renovated. As of 2020, the building is being managed by Huron Real Estate Management</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Great Lakes Manor is a four-and-a-half-story Classical Revival style apartment building clad with multi-color brownish-red brick. It has a flat roof and a raised basement. The front facade has a recessed center section flanked by projecting rectangular bays. The recessed center section contains a stone entry portico with Doric columns, approached by three steps.</p><br>
<p>At the level of the basement window lintels, a soldier course of bricks topped with a limestone band runs across the entire facade. Another limestone band runs across the wall at the level of the fourth-floor windowsill. Above the fourth-floor window lintels is a projecting header course. Above the basement, all of the window openings have limestone sills and soldier course lintels. At the very top of the building is a parapet, just below which runs a brick soldier course and a masonry band. A carved stone panel in the parapet wall tops the center of the facade.</p><br>
<p>On the interior, the entry opens into a small vestibule with a stairway. The stairway leads to corridors on each floor, which run the length of the building with apartments on both sides and stairs at each end of the corridor. The apartments contain are all one or two bedroom units.</p><br>
<p>The Elijah Thomas Webb Residence is a historic home in Webb City, Missouri. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2020 as an "outstanding example of a high-style Queen Anne residence." The three-story building was built and has retained many of its original details. It is a rare surviving example of Queen Anne single-family architecture in Webb City. The residence was designed with an eclectic mixture of architectural features that include the Queen Anne, Italianate, Romanesque, and Eastlake movement details. The building has an irregular shape with a slate-clad hip roof with some lower gable sections and a polygonal tower on the front elevation. Red brick walls include contrasting bullnose corner bricks to create faux quoining on top a batter  limestone foundation that extends five feet above grade. The most significant modification to the main building was the addition of a second-floor sleeping porch.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>Elijah Thomas Webb was born August 24, 1851, and was the oldest of the four children of John C. Webb and Ruth Davis Webb. The family moved from his birthplace in Overton County, Tennessee, to southwest Missouri in 1856 to start a new life farming. They first made their home approximately southeast of present-day Webb City, at the head of Turkey Creek. In February 1857, the father obtained 200 acre of land from the government and began farming. During the Civil War, John Webb left his family and farm and served under General Sterling Price for the Confederacy. During this time, Elijah Webb assumed the duties of head of the household. After the war, John returned and increased his land holdings to 320 acre.</p><br>
<p>In June 1873, John Webb discovered lead while he was plowing a corn field. John first attempted to mine the lead himself but after approximately a year, he leased the land for mining and used the proceeds to develop real estate interests and build Webb City. John recorded the plat of Webb City in September 1875, and by December 8, 1876, the town of Webb City was incorporated as a fourth class city. Its prosperity attracted the Missouri Pacific, Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis, and St. Louis & San Francisco railroads to town.</p><br>
<p>In 1877, Elijah Webb enrolled at the University of Missouri in Columbia. He then attended the Gem City Commercial College in Quincy, Illinois, and returned to Missouri and worked for two years as the deputy county collector for Jasper County in Carthage before joining his fathers business. On June 2, 1882, they organized the Webb City Bank. The father died April 13, 1883, and Elijah inherited the bank and a portion of the familys lead and zinc-rich land.</p><br>
<p>In 1883, Elijah Webb was treasurer of Webb City, school board member, and a director of the Joplin College of Physicians and Surgeons. By 1891, he was married with a son and President of Webb City Bank, part owner of Webb City Lumber Company and of the Webb City Water Works Company. Webb&#39;s business interests and mineral-rich land holding contributed to an estimated net worth of $300,000, allowing him to construct the high-style Queen Anne residence as a symbol of his success.</p><br>
<p>The exact construction date and the architect is unknown but the lot was purchased by Webb in 1891 and it is likely the house was built shortly thereafter. The house is shown on a 1906 Sanborn fire insurance map.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed after being nominated by the owners, Don and Becky Freeman, who purchased the home around 2010. The couple performed research and prepared the nomination form without the help of professionals.</p><br>
<p>The Warren Motor Car Company Building, also known as Lincoln Motor Car Company Building, is a factory located at 1331 Holden Street in Detroit, Michigan, now part of the Lincoln Street Art Park. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Warren Motor Car Company</h3><br>
<p>In the first decade of the 20th century, Detroit was booming with new industry, in particular new automotive companies. One of these was the Warren Motor Car Company, founded in 1909 by real estate magnate Homer Warren. The company occupied a building along Michigan Avenue on the west side of Detroit, and produced 1000 vehicles in its first year. In 1910, Warren purchased this plot of land on Holden from the Detroit Column & Manufacturing Company. Detroit Column had already constructed a partially completed (but never utilized) structure on the site. Warren hired the Detroit architectural firm of Rogers and MacFarlane to design a series of building to fill the site. These buildings were constructed and occupied in 1910.</p><br>
<h3>The 1910s</h3><br>
<p>The Warren Motor Car Company had some early success, but never capitalized on it. They changed vehicle lineups every year, and their relatively expensive vehicles saw declining sales. Warren was reorganized in 1912, and by 1913 the company was bankrupt. The Holden factory was sold at auction to William C. Rands of Rands Manufacturing Company, an automotive supplier. In 1916 Rands merged with four other companies to form the Motor Products company. Needing more space, Motor Products cut a deal with the financially troubled Lozier Motor Company to swap factory space, and Motor Products moved into the former Lozier factory on Mack, while Lozier took over the Holden factory.</p><br>
<p>Lozier lasted less than a year in their new space, and in 1917 Henry M. Leland purchased the property to house his newly formed Lincoln Motor Company. Leland immediately tooled up to build Liberty engines for WWI fighter planes at the plant and constructed an additional building at the site. However, The Holden property quickly proved too small, and by early 1918 most of the production was moved to the completely new Lincoln Motor Company Plant, leaving a small machining operation at the Holden plant.</p><br>
<h3>Later history</h3><br>
<p>After the end of WWI, Lincoln struggled, and eventually went into receivership in late 1921. Henry Ford purchased the company in 1922. By 1923, the Holden plant had been retrofitted to produce Model Ts. Manufacturing of Model Ts at the Holden plant likely continued through 1927, although the exact date is uncertain. The building was next occupied by Dietrich Inc., and then a series of companies all owned by Dallas E. Winslow, including another automotive company and two refrigerator companies.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in 1946, the grocery firm of Grosse Pointe Quality Foods was operating out of the Holden plant. This firm remained at the site until at least 1977. Another grocery firm, Metro Groceries, Inc., used the facility in the 1980s. In 1997, Matt Naimi purchased the building from his family. In 2007, Naimi started Recycle Here, a recycling center and events space. The building grounds also host the Lincoln Street Art Park. In 2020, work in the building started on Dreamtroit, a $20-million development. The plan is to turn the building into a mixed-use housing development.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Warren Motor Car Company Building occupies a triangular site encompassing 4.67 acres, and bounded by Holden Street, Lincoln Street, and the Grand Trunk Western Railroad tracks. The building developed as a series of additions in an array of contrasting building materials and architectural styles. Five of the sections making up the building are historically significant: the office building, the original factory, and three of the factory additions. These buildings were all constructed in the 1910 - 1917 time frame. Six additional smaller additions are also on the site, all constructed in the 1950s - 1970s for the grocery warehouse firms that used the building.</p><br>
<p>The earlier buildings are typically of heavy timber and load bearing masonry construction, save a 1917 building which is constructed of cast-in-place reinforced concrete. The later additions are steel-framed, sitting on reinforced concrete slabs with non-load-bearing masonry exterior walls.</p><br>
<h3>Office Building</h3><br>
<p>The office building, designed by Rogers and MacFarlane, was constructed in 1910. It is a two-story Commercial style building constructed with a timber frame and load-bearing wall of dark red brick and cast stone accents. The front façade is five bays wide, with a main entry in the center in the middle bay. The entry is flanked by two windows on each side, with red brick piers separating the bays. Within the piers, raised brick rectangles designed to resemble quoins are laid between the windows. The window openings have a cast stone sill. A stepped brick cornice is between the first and second floors, and the second floor is divided into five bays of windows corresponding to the bays below.</p><br>
<p>Each window bay contains three double-hung windows with a horizontal transom above. On the second floor, recessed cast stone panels are set in the piers between the windows, as well as above. A brick parapet wall capped with brown terra cotta coping is above the second floor. A cornice and a brick frieze containing a diamond-shaped raised brick decorative designs are above.</p><br>
<h3>Building 2 (Factory)</h3><br>
<p>Building 2 is the first manufacturing plant, and was also designed by Rogers and MacFarlane and constructed in about 1910. The building is a two-story structure, rectangular in shape, measuring about 159 feet by 60 feet. It has a flat roof. It has a timber-frame construction and brick load-bearing walls. It adjoins the office building on one end, and Building 3 on the other.</p><br>
<p>The window arrangement is different on each story. The window openings on the first story are intended to single double-hung windows. The openings on the second story are larger, and are intended to house multi-paned steel factory windows. The second-sory opening have cast stone sills.</p><br>
<h3>Building 3 (Factory)</h3><br>
<p>Building 3 is directly connected to Building 2, and is of similar construction and age. It also is a two-story, flat-roofed structure with a timber frame and brick load-bearing walls. It measures about 118 feet by 60 feet. The building has varying sizes of window openings on the first and second floor. The building connects directly to one end of Building 2, with the other end connecting to Building 4.</p><br>
<h3>Building 4 (Factory)</h3><br>
<p>Building 4 is connected to the end of Building 3, such that The office and Buildings 2, 3, and 4 form a line running north and south. Building 4 was also designed by Rogers and MacFarlane, and was constructed slightly later that the previous buildings, likely in 1911. It is also a two-story flat-roofed structure with a timber frame and brick load-bearing walls, measuring about 215 feet by 67 feet. The side is 12 window bays long, with all window openings being identical. A small windowless single-story trapezoidal addition is placed on the end.</p><br>
<h3>Building 5 (Factory)</h3><br>
<p>Building 5 is a two-story reinforced concrete structure faced with brick, built in 1917. It is attached to Building 3, and was originally C-shaped, covering an area 153 feet by 87 feet. As of 2020, the building is completely surrounded by later additions, and the center of the "C" has been infilled.</p><br>
<h2>2020 Gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Homestead is a historic apartment hotel at 1625 Hinman Avenue in Evanston, Illinois. Opened in 1928, it was one of several apartment hotels built in Evanston in the 1920s. Popular in the early twentieth century, apartment hotels housed a mixture of short-term and long-term guests; they were frequently used by workers who did not wish or could not afford to live near their workplace full-time. Architect Philip Arthur Danielson designed the building in the Colonial Revival style, which was used on many other apartments from the era in Evanston. The design includes a verandah supported by Doric columns along the front facade, two projecting three-bay windows, brick quoins, and a dentillated cornice with a pediment.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 1, 2006.</p><br>
<p>Raymond Park Apartments is a historic apartment building at the northeast corner of Hinman Avenue and Grove Street in Evanston, Illinois. The seven-story building was built in 1928; at the time, it was one of Evanstons largest residential apartments. Architects Hall, Laurence & Ratcliffe designed the building in the Tudor Revival style. The building has a brick exterior with sections of rough stone; the exterior is decorated with half-timbering and leadlight windows. The Tudor style is continued in the buildings lobbies, which include strapwork, oak panels, and slate flooring.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 12, 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Jacob Thompson House is a historic house museum at 7 Main Street in Monson, Massachusetts. Built c. 1811-13 for a farmer and lawyer, it is a rare local example of Federal style housing with brick ends. It is now owned by the local historical society, which operates it as a museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Jacob Thompson House is located a short way north of Monson&#39;s town center, at the southwest corner of Main and Thompson Streets. It stands near the corner, in front of land formerly associated with it that now forms Hillside Cemetery. The main block of the house is a -story wood-frame construction, with a side-gable roof and end chimneys incorporated into brick end walls. The front facade is five bays wide, with a symmetrical arrangement of sash windows around the center entrance. The entrance has a fine Federal style surround, with sidelight windows and an original period half-oval transom window. The interior is arranged in a traditional center hall manner, with single rooms on either side of the center hall, where the stairs to the second floor are located. A -story ell extends to the rear, housing additional rooms.</p><br>
<p>The house was probably built sometime between 1811 and 1813, when Jacob Thompson, a native of nearby Holland, Massachusetts, moved to the town. Thompson, who had owned a gunpowder mill in Holland, was primarily active as a farmer and lawyer in Monson, acquiring a substantial amount of land. Much of the land directly associated with the house was sold by his son Addison for use as a cemetery, and it is believed that the house itself came into the hands of the cemetery after his death in 1884. The town sold the house to the local historical society in 1998, which has restored it for use as a house museum.</p><br>
<p>The Buildings at 1104–1110 Seward are two identical apartment buildings in Evanston, Illinois. Both buildings are four-unit apartments built in 1927. Architects Van Gunten & Van Gunten designed the buildings in the Tudor Revival style. The buildings designs are meant to resemble large homes, an unusual form not seen in any of Evanstons other residential apartments. Each design features a brick exterior, a Tudor arched stone entrance, a two-story bay window, and a gable roof.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 2, 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Buildings at 1301–03 and 1305–07 Judson Avenue are two identical apartment buildings in Evanston, Illinois. Built in 1894, the buildings were among Evanston&#39;s first multi-unit apartments. Each building has four units which form a "U" shape. Architect Sidney Smith designed the buildings in the Queen Anne style, which was popular in the late nineteenth century and used in many houses in the vicinity of the apartments. The buildings each feature a brick first floor and shingled second floor, a single porch with two entrances, bay windows, and a bracketed cornice.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 27, 1984. Despite being identical, the buildings are listed separately.</p><br>
<p>The Somerset Village Historic District is a historic district encompassing the historic town center of Somerset, Massachusetts. Settled in the 17th century, the village developed around a shipyard and pottery works, and became the town center when it was incorporated out of Swansea in 1790. Architecturally it is reflective mainly of its 19th-century growth, with stylistically diverse buildings. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Somerset Village lies on the west bank of the Taunton River in northern Somerset, bounded roughly on the west by Somerset Reservoir and its outlet stream. Its principal roadways are Main Street, which parallels the riverfront, and High Street, which parallels Main Street on ridge further west. Between these roads are a series of short cross streets. Most of the village is residential, with architectural styles ranging from the Georgian (early 18th century) to mid-19th century Italianate, with the oldest dating to about 1723. Prominent public buildings include the Baptist Church (1804) and St. Patricks Catholic Church (1873), the former a fine example of Greek Revival architecture and the latter of the Romanesque Revival. Buildings surviving from the villages 19th-century shipyards survive at either end of the village.</p><br>
<p>Somerset was first settled by English colonists in the 1670s, after the area was purchased from Native Americans and became part of Swansea. This village was known from its early days as Bowers Shore, after Jonathan Bowers who established the first shipyard here in 1705. It became a port dealing in foreign goods, and was a whaling center until the mid-18th century. Shipbuilding remained an important industry, and the village was home to shipbuilders and ship captains. A fire did extensive damage to the northern end of the village in 1875. The shipyards closed in the early 20th century, and the village has since become more of a suburban residential hub.</p><br>
<p>Castle Tower Apartments is a historic apartment building at 2212-2226 Sherman Avenue in Evanston, Illinois. The three-story building was built in 1928. The building has a "U" shape, a common form for apartment buildings in Evanston, with a large courtyard in the middle. Architects Cable & Spitz designed the building in the Tudor Revival style. Their design includes several rounded and square towers along the sides of the building, crenellation on the towers and roofline, sections of half-timbering, and patches of limestone on the otherwise brick exterior.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 15, 1984.</p><br>
<p>Colonnade Court is a historic apartment building at the northwest corner of Main Street and Hinman Avenue in Evanston, Illinois. The four-story building was built in 1928–29. The buildings first floor is used as commercial space, while the other three floors house apartments. Like many of Evanstons apartment buildings, the building has a "U" shape with a central courtyard; however, the courtyard is on the second floor to separate it from the commercial space. Architects Thielbar & Fugard designed the building to imitate an Italian Renaissance villa. The building&#39;s design includes a colonnade concealing its courtyard from the street, arched entrances, and a bracketed cornice.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 15, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Forest and Annex is a historic apartment building at 901-905 Forest Avenue in Evanston, Illinois. Owner Alfred B. Andrews built The Forest in 1909 and added the annex to the original building in 1912. Andrews would later author Evanston&#39;s early zoning ordinances, and he planned his building accordingly, with a spacious lawn providing plenty of room between it and the street. The building has a Prairie School design with a horizontal emphasis, patterned brick, and wide eaves. The 11 apartments in the building all included features such as wood paneling and flooring, fireplaces, and rooms for housekeepers.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 15, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Fowler-Clark-Epstein Farmstead is a historic house and farm complex at 487 Norfolk Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Possibly built sometime between 1786 and 1806, the house on the property is one of the city&#39;s oldest surviving farmhouses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. It is now home to the Urban Farm Institute, a local nonprofit organization.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Fowler-Clark-Epstein Farmstead stands on about one-half acre in what is now a predominantly residential area of northern Mattapan, at the southwest corner of Norfolk and Hosmer Streets. The farmstead includes the main house and a carriage house/barn, set further back from the street than the surrounding later construction. The main house is a -story frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide, with projecting gabled entry vestibule sheltering its center entrance. Single-story additions extend to one side and the rear. The interior follows a typical center-chimney plan, with a narrow staircase winding around the chimney stack, and rooms on either side of the chimney.</p><br>
<p>The house&#39;s construction date is uncertain. The land on which it stands was inherited by Samuel Fowler in 1786, at which time it only had a barn standing. By 1806, when he died, the property included a "mantion house", which was either built or moved there. Boston has only four documented surviving farmhouses built before 1806. An 11-acre parcel including the house was purchased in 1837 by Mary Clark, whose family probably built the extant carriage house/barn in the 1850s. The Clarke family retained ownership until 1940, and in 1941 the property was purchased by Jorge and Ida Epstein. The Epstein family retained ownership until 2015, when it was acquired by Historic Boston, a preservation nonprofit. Most of the land of the farm was subdivided and sold of by the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Fountain Plaza Apartments is a historic apartment building at 830-856 Hinman Avenue in Evanston, Illinois. The three-story brick building was built in 1922. Swedish-born architect John A. Nyden, who also designed multiple other apartment buildings in Evanston, designed the building in the Classical Revival style. The buildings design includes Palladian doors with fanlights, limestone quoins, and a hip roof with parapets and a cornice. The central courtyard is both raised and nearly surrounded by the building, providing privacy despite the buildings proximity to a commercial district.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 15, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Greenwood is a historic apartment building at 425 Greenwood Street in Evanston, Illinois. Built in 1912, the three-story building is set in a neighborhood of single-family houses. Architect Thomas McCall designed the building in the Prairie School style. The building features an overall horizontal emphasis, casement and bay windows, stained glass, and overhanging eaves. Its six apartments have a railroad plan, in which rooms are organized along a narrow central hallway.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 15, 1984.</p><br>
<p>Hillcrest Apartment is a historic apartment building at 1509-1515 Hinman Avenue in Evanston, Illinois. Built in 1922, the three-story brick building has a U-shaped plan with a central courtyard, a common layout for suburban apartment buildings. The courtyard is fenced and gated on its open side, providing privacy despite the buildings downtown location. Architect Roy F. France designed the building in the Georgian Revival style. The buildings design includes limestone trim meant to approximate quoins, a balustrade with ornamental urns, and pediments atop the entrance blocks.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 15, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Strater Hotel, in Durango, Colorado, is a historical hotel that opened in 1887 at the height of the American Gilded Age. Among its notable guests throughout its history are President Gerald Ford, Will Rogers, writer Louis L’Amour, the Grateful Dead, and astronauts from the Apollo missions.</p><br>
<p>It has been a charter member of the National Registry of the Historic Hotels of America since 1989. The Strater is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing building in Durangos Main Avenue Historic District. It was named a national literary historical landmark in 2012 by the Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations. The hotels Diamond Belle bar saloon features bartenders and waitresses who are dressed in historic costume.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The hotel was originally built by the Strater family, who moved to Durango from Cleveland between 1880 and 1881. Specifically, the hotel was the brainchild of Henry Strater, a pharmacist who rallied his brothers and father to help construct the hotel at the cost of $70,000. Strater kept his pharmacy in the corner of the hotel, while delegating the management to H. L. Rice, who elevated the social scene at the hotel. Strater eventually opened up a rival Columbian Hotel after he became furious at the high rents that Rice was charging him for the pharmacy located in the corner of the Strater hotel.</p><br>
<p>The hotel went bankrupt in 1895 with the financial Panic of 1893 and was repossessed by the Bank of Cleveland. The property was then sold it to Hattie Mashburn and Charles E. Stilwell.</p><br>
<p>During the Roaring Twenties, a group of Durango businessmen led by Earl A. Barker Sr. formed a consortium to buy the then aging hotel in 1926.</p><br>
<p>Western author Louis L’Amour, who stayed in Durango with his family, always asked for room 222, located directly above the Diamond Belle Saloon; he said that the honky-tonk music helped set the mood for his novels of the Old West. A number of L’Amour&#39;s Sackett series novels were written at the Strater. As a result, room 222 is known today as the Louis L’Amour room.</p><br>
<h3>Design</h3><br>
<p>The architecture style is an eclectic mixture of Italian Romanesque, Renaissance Revival, and other architecture forms. Each room boasted its own wood-burning stove, with some rooms equipped with pianos and washstands.</p><br>
<p>In an era before indoor plumbing, the rooms’ washstands also housed the chamber pots which were emptied each morning by the maids. The hotel also boasted a strategically designed three-story privy.</p><br>
<p>In modern times, the historic rooms feature Victorian walnut furnishings and vintage Bradbury & Bradbury wallpaper.</p><br>
<p>The Kings Courtyard Inn, at 198 King Street in Charleston, South Carolina, is a boutique hotel with about 41 rooms.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The hotel was built in 1853 for Colonel J. Charles Blum, as a three-story antebellum building. It was known as the Blum Building. In the 1800s its first floor was commercial shop spaces, and second and third floors were hotel rooms.</p><br>
<p>It opened as Kings Courtyard Inn in 1983. A review then noted that it was:A 130-year-old building which formerly housed retail shops and a roller skating rink has been converted into one of Charlestons newest inns. Kings Courtyard Inn at 198 King St. opened this month in the heart of the port citys antique district, and in conjunction with the opening is sponsoring antique symposiums each Saturday through Dec. 10.... Erected in 1853 in the Greek revival style with Egyptian detail, the three-story building is one of the oldest and largest in the block. The two upper floors were originally used as an inn, catering to visiting plantation owners and shipping magnates. High-quality shops occupied the ground floor. In later years, millinery, grocery, and antique stores were among the building&#39;s tenants, and in the 1930s the third floor became an indoor skating rink.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect Francis D. Lee in Greek Revival style with elements of Egyptian Revival. It includes two inner courtyards and a rear garden. The hotel is a contributing property of the Charleston Historic District, a National Historic Landmark District on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In 1989 it was one of the 35 founding members of Historic Hotels of America, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and it has remained in the program since.</p><br>
<p>The Crockett Hotel is a hotel in San Antonio, Texas, which overlooks The Alamo, and is a San Antonio historic landmark itself. It was built by the local Oddfellows&#39; Lodge who occupied a portion of the hotel until they sold it in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1909, one of three hotels built in downtown San Antonio that year.</p><br>
<p>It is located on the Battle of the Alamo grounds, on part of the original Alamo grounds, on the location of Honore Grenet&#39;s store.</p><br>
<p>Designed by Padgett, it was built with six stories in its main wing, topped by "a cornice with wide modillioned eaves", but a seventh story was added in a 1927 renovation designed by Henry P. Pheltz. There is a rounded corner entrance to the building at Bonham and Crockett streets, and the west facade of the building "is broken into two planes following the configuration of the block."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 as a contributing building in the Alamo Plaza Historic District. At the time (1977) it was owned by the local Oddfellows Lodge, which occupied the entire fifth floor, which also housed the Oddfellows Grand Lodge Museum of Texas since 1961.</p><br>
<p>It has been a member of Historic Hotels of America since 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Davy Crockett Hotel in Crockett, Houston County</h2><br>
<p>There was a Davy Crockett Hotel located in Crockett, seat of Houston County, Texas, which operated from 1927 until it was destroyed by a fire in 1972. It was owned by the Crockett Hotel Co. A Texas historic plaque, titled "Site of the Crockett Hotel", marks the site.</p><br>
<p>Hinman Apartments is a historic apartment building at 1629-1631 Hinman Avenue in Evanston, Illinois. Built in 1904, the three-story brick building has six apartments. Architects Atchison & Edbrooke, who also designed Evanstons Ridgewood Apartments, designed the building in the Classical Revival style. The buildings design includes a two-story portico supported by Ionic columns, bow windows on either side of the portico, and a dentillated cornice and parapet. The apartments are arranged in a railroad plan, with rooms arranged along a long central hallway; while this layout was often associated with cheap apartments, the Hinman still targeted upper-class residents with its design and amenities.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 15, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Judson is a historic apartment building at 1243-1249 Judson Avenue in Evanston, Illinois, US. Built in 1911, the three-story brick building has eighteen units. Architect Francis M. Barton designed the building in a style inspired by the Prairie School. The building&#39;s design features segmental arched entrances, egg-and-dart decoration, patterned brickwork with horizontal themes, and overhanging bracketed eaves. The design was initially controversial for leaving no space between the building and the sidewalk, breaking from the Prairie School principle of including green space in front of a recessed building to blend in with nearby single-family homes. Prominent architect and Evanston resident Thomas Tallmadge described the building as "equally oblivious to the rights of neighbors and to the principles of good design" in a 1919 issue of the journal The American Architecture.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 15, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel La Rose, at 5th and Wilson Sts. in Santa Rosa, California, was built in 1907, as a replacement for a predecessor building destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It is a large three-story stone building, about 62x80 ft in plan, with walls 20 in to 24 in thick. Its styling includes aspect of Georgian Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>It was built by stonemasons Peter Maroni, Natale Forni, Massimo Galeazzi, and Angelo Sodini of northern Italy, who "had acquired their skill of cutting hard stone in the Italian Marble Quarries." These stonemasons also built wineries, churches, libraries, railroad buildings, and other buildings in Santa Rosa and elsewhere in Sonoma County.</p><br>
<p>The stone it is built with is "&#39;andesite, an indigenous rock of the volcanic group, which is difficult to work and used on buildings of</p><br>
<p>monumental character, slabs for floors, wall lining and paving.&#39; (History of Building Materials, Norman Davey, 1961) In 1907, the La Rose Hotel</p><br>
<p>was conceived as a massive stone building of a substantial nature in contrast to the more vulnerable pre-earthquake construction. The only</p><br>
<p>remaining hotel building after the 1906 disaster in Santa Rosa was the stone Western Hotel in Railroad Square adjacent to the La Rose Hotel and</p><br>
<p>also built by Peter Maroni and Angelo Sodini."</p><br>
<p>It is an anchor of what is now known as Railroad Square, the portion of Santa Rosas downtown that is on the west side of USA Route 101 and has the highest concentration of historic commercial buildings. Of particular note are the four rough-hewn stone buildings at its core, two of which are rare in that they predate the 1906 earthquake. They include the old Northwestern Pacific Railroad depot, prominently seen in the beginning and the end of the Alfred Hitchcock film Shadow of a Doubt, and the still-functioning Hotel La Rose, built in 1907 and registered as one of the National Trust for Historic Preservations Historic Hotels of America.</p><br>
<p>"After the 1906 earthquake destroyed his renowned St. Rose Hotel, Bautista Bettini set out to build an even better property. Using stone from a quarry on the east side of Santa Rosa, Italian stonemasons built the four-story Hotel La Rose in 1907 in Railroad Square, an area of town that bustled with activity. The USA Department of the Interior listed Hotel La Rose on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977."</p><br>
<p>The hotel was run by Claus Neumann, "a renowned hotelier", who also operated the Los Robles Lodge on Cleveland Avenue in Santa Rosa.</p><br>
<p>Its lobby includes a staircase from the San Francisco Cable Car Barn.</p><br>
<p>It became a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation&#39;s Historic Hotels of America program in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Penn Wells Hotel in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania is listed on the National Registry of the Historic Hotels of America, is a contributing building that is part of the Wellsboro Historic District, and is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic structure was built in 1829 and was expanded and renovated in the 1920s. It was damaged by fire in 1906.</p><br>
<p>Once known as Coles House, "The Penn Wells Hotel sits as the centerpiece of Wellsboro, Pennsylvania&#39;s gaslit Main Street historic district."</p><br>
<p>It is located on Pennsylvania Route 6, which at one time was the Roosevelt Highway, the main route between New York City and Chicago, bringing much business to the hotel.</p><br>
<p>It is located adjacent to the Art Deco Arcadia Theatre (1921), which is owned by the same company that owns the hotel; the hotel and the theater co-sponsor film festivals.</p><br>
<p>Dunham&#39;s Department Store is located across the street from the hotel. The Dunham family owned the Arcadia Theatre and were instrumental in protecting the Penn Wells Hotel from "extinction."</p><br>
<p>A contributing building in the Wellsboro Historic District, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Located on the shore of Lake Mendota near the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin State Capitol, the Edgewater Hotel was originally built as the Edgewater Apartment and Hotel in 1946–48. Greatly expanded by additions in 1973 and 2014, the original building is a contributing structure in the Mansion Hill Historic District, which has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1997. It was listed as a Historic Hotels of America by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2015.</p><br>
<p>Designed by the Danish-born architect Lawrence Monberg, the original building has been described as a fine example of Streamline or Art Moderne architecture. Its NRHP nomination states:</p><br>
<p>There are five Art Moderne buildings in the Mansion Hill district.... In Wisconsin, Art Moderne was built between 1930 and 1950. Inspired by advances in technology and industrialization, Art Moderne has a horizonal, streamlined appearance. This look is achieved through the use of smooth wall finishes, flat roofs, curving walls and horizontal bands of windows. Three of the Art Moderne buildings in Mansion Hill are superb examples of the style. All three were designed by Lawrence Monberg, then living in Kenosha. The Quisling Towers Apartments at 1 East Gilman Street (1937, NRHP) is veneered with buff brick and displays horizontal bands of windows at the corners, surmounted by long, narrow canopies. The upper floors have curving walls with a sculptural quality. The at 2 West Gorham Street (1945) features curving walls with parapets, horizontal bands of windows with long, narrow canopies, round windows and a canopy over the east corner entrance that curves downward, sweeping to the ground. The horizontal lines of the Edgewater Apartments and Hotel at 642 Wisconsin Avenue (1946) are emphasized with bands of windows with continuous sills and lintels at each floor, corner windows, and parapets at the tops of the walls.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, it was slated for a $98 million redevelopment. The City of Madison was to contribute $16 million to the renovation.</p><br>
<p>The Edgewater reopened in September 2014 to generally positive reviews.</p><br>
<p>The Hassayampa Inn, long known as the Hassayampa Hotel, in Prescott, Arizona, is a landmark on Gurley Street which was built in 1927. It was designed by architects Trost & Trost.</p><br>
<p>Its architecture is Mission/Spanish Revival and/or Italian Renaissance Revival.</p><br>
<p>It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It is a member of the National Registry of the Historic Hotels of America.</p><br>
<p>It was built by the Ramey Bros., construction contractors of El Paso, Texas.</p><br>
<p>The Wentworth Mansion is a hotel in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1886 as a home for cotton merchant Francis Silas Rodgers and his family. The mansion is Second Empire in style.</p><br>
<p>The Rodgers Mansion was purchased in 1920 for US$100,000 by the Scottish Rite Cathedral Association of Charleston, a Masonic organization. In 1922 it constructed an auditorium which could accommodate the organization&#39;s 600 members on the property, connected by a corridor to the mansion; the auditorium was removed some time later.</p><br>
<p>It is a contributing property in the Charleston Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It was listed as a member of Historic Hotels of America by the National Trust for Historic Preservation since 2003.</p><br>
