<p>St. Thomas Catholic High School for Boys is a former Catholic high school building at 921 W. State Street in Rockford, Illinois. The Diocese of Rockford opened the school along with a corresponding girls school in 1929 to address rising enrollment. Rockford architect Wybe Jelles Van der Meer designed the school in the Gothic Revival style, which was commonly used for Catholic churches and schools. The schools design borrows elements from several subtypes of Gothic Revival, including Tudor Gothic and Collegiate Gothic. It includes a gable roof with a side gable at its eastern end, multicolored brick striping on the first floor, dormers on the north and south sides of the roof, a stone entrance bay with a turret, and trefoil arches and windows. The school closed in 1963 and has since been used as an office building by several Catholic organizations.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 4, 2018.</p><br>
<p>Glen Carbon Village Hall and Firehouse is a historic building at 180 Summit Avenue in Glen Carbon, Illinois. It was built in 1910 to serve as Glen Carbons first village hall. The village was founded in 1892, and its government met in various businesses and public buildings until the villages growth necessitated a permanent building. The Oswald Brothers of nearby Alhambra built the Neoclassical building. The village government occupied the upper level of the building, while its fire department used the lower level. The village hall was the site of several contentious events in the 1910s; one village trustee won a tied election by pulling a number from a hat, and village president Hiram Slinger, Jr., had his nominees for village treasurer unanimously rejected by the trustees seventeen times. The village government moved to the former Glen Carbon Grade School in 1954, and the fire department moved to a new firehouse in 1981; the building is now used as meeting space by a model railroad club and a local Boy Scout troop.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 19, 2018.</p><br>
<p>The Alton Gas & Electric Power House is a former hydroelectric power plant at 700 W. Broadway in Alton, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1913–14, the plant was a substation for the hydroelectric power system which had recently been built in Keokuk, Iowa. Alton had gotten its electricity from coal power until this point, and the hydroelectric plant helped lower energy costs in the city. The plant went online in 1915 and served as the citys primary power plant until 1928, when a series of mergers and reorganizations resulted in the Union Electric Company, which had also bought the Keokuk hydroelectric plant, purchasing the plant from Alton Gas & Electric. After 1928, the station only served as an emergency backup for Union Electrics other substations, and it closed for good in 1937.</p><br>
<p>The building has since been used for machining operations and briefly served as an automobile dealership; it has been owned by the Abbott Machine Company since 1950.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 28, 2019.</p><br>
<p>Corron Farm is a historic farm at 7N761 Corron Road in rural Campton Township, Kane County, Illinois. Robert Corron, who was one of Kane Countys first settlers, claimed the farm in 1835 and gradually purchased its land from the government over the 1840s. Corron and his family originally lived in a log cabin on the site, but in the early 1850s they built a brick farmhouse; the houses design blends elements of the Italianate and Early Classical Revival styles. The farm also has a workers&#39; house from the 1880s with an I-house plan, a common vernacular type in the Midwest at the time. Other buildings on the farm include a dairy barn with a silo, a horse barn, a hog house, a chicken coop and feed house, a milk house, and two corn cribs.</p><br>
<p>The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 21, 2018.</p><br>
<p>The Larkin Home for Children is a former orphanage at 1212 Larkin Avenue in Elgin, Illinois. The Larkin Home originated from the Elgin Childrens Home Society, which was founded in 1898; it operated from a donated building until 1912, when it built its own orphanage due to space concerns. The home was funded by private donors and sought to provide a stable domestic environment for the children it housed, making it a typical example of a Progressive Era orphanage and contrasting it with earlier government-run programs. Architect George Morris designed the 1912 building in the Georgian Revival style. A hospital was built on the homes property in 1926 to address the homes difficulties caring for ill children. The home continued to house children until 1966, when it was converted to an administrative building due to changes in the Larkin Homes mission; it closed entirely in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The orphanage was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 31, 2018.</p><br>
<p>Copley Hospital is a former hospital at 301 Weston Avenue in Aurora, Illinois. Opened in 1888, the hospital was the first in Aurora, and it remained the only hospital in Aurora until 1900. The building underwent several additions and expansions over time, both to add more space and to help modernize the hospitals practices. The first of these additions came in 1916, when a new wing opened; this section brought wider hallways, elevators, patient call systems, and better-lit patient rooms to the hospital. A 1932 addition was designed by architects Schmidt, Garden & Erikson in the Neoclassical style; it included an expansion for the hospitals maternity ward and radiology and training facilities. The same architects designed another addition in 1947, which coincided with the hospitals renaming in honor of Ira C. Copley; Copleys donations had funded both the 1932 and 1947 additions. Two more additions were placed on the building in 1970 and 1980, and the hospital was closed and replaced by the new Rush–Copley Medical Center in 1995. when the building was vacant it became popular with urban exploring and paranormal investigators as it is supposed to be haunted despite the building being unsafe.</p><br>
<p>The hospital was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 18, 2019. The hospital is now being renovated by Fox Valley Developers LLC and Kluber Architects + Engineers and will become a nursing home and an apartment for people who are disabled.</p><br>
<p>The Robert O. Wilder Building, previously known as the John W. Boddie House and then the Tougaloo Mansion House, is a historic plantation mansion on the campus of Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was completed in 1860 for wealthy cotton planter and slave owner John Williams Boddie who died at the end of the American Civil War. In 1869 the 500-acre former plantation, including the house, was bought for $10,500 (~$ in ) by the Freedmen&#39;s Bureau and the American Missionary Association to become the campus of a school for Black students who were recently freed from slavery.</p><br>
<p>Initially the building was used for a day school and then for housing female students in the upstairs bedrooms. Later it was used as a faculty dorm and for the college presidents office. The building was renamed after college trustee Robert O. Wilder to better reflect the schools mission as a historically black college by distancing itself from a slave owner. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and later became a contributing property to the Tougaloo College Historic District in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The building underwent structural renovations in 2003 and the exterior was refinished in 2012. The interior was renovated in 2020. The rebuilding project funds came from a combination of state and federal grants.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>A large majority of the Antebellum plantation houses are of a Greek Revival style and the house is an unusual example Italianate architecture. It was designed by local architect and builder Jacob Lamour of Canton. The building is a two-story Italianate plantation house with a gabled roof, bracketed cornices, and a belvedere. There is a grand entrance frontispiece with a six-panel front door.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Peoria Historic District is a commercial historic district encompassing seventeen city blocks in downtown Peoria, Illinois. The districts buildings reflect Peorias development as an industrial center and major Illinois city. While Peoria was platted in the 1820s, the oldest buildings in the district date from 1867, shortly before Peorias economic boom of the 1870s. In the late nineteenth century, Peorias whiskey industry was among the largest in the world, and many downtown civic improvements and public buildings were funded by whiskey profits. By the turn of the twentieth century, another economic boom brought a large retail district to downtown Peoria; many of the department stores from this period still stand in the district. An urban renewal project in the mid-twentieth century brought several Modernist skyscrapers to downtown Peoria as well, including the Caterpillar administration building, the DeKroff Metz and Company Building, and the First Federal Savings Tower.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 2018.</p><br>
<p>Equitable Building of Hollywood, also known as the Bank of Hollywood Building and The Lofts at Hollywood and Vine, is a historic twelve-story former office building, now condominium located at 6253 W. Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California, at the intersection of Hollywood and Vine.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Equitable Building was envisioned as part an infrastructure plan to "metropolitanize" Hollywood as an urban core. It was designed by Alex Curlett in a late Gothic Revival and Art Deco style, and developed by G.R. Dexter, president of the nearby Guaranty Building, and Samuel Kress. The building was built in two phases; the first was completed in 1929 and created 27,800 sq. ft of office space above ground floor retail, while the second, completed in 1931, more than doulbed the size of the building, making it the largest office building in Hollywood.</p><br>
<p>The building reached full occupancy soon after each construction phase was completed, and almost immediately, it anchored Hollywood and Vine as the epicenter for Hollywoods finance and entertainment industries. Bank of Hollywood moved into the building as soon as phase one construction was completed, and the building was thus named the Bank of Hollywood Building. Myron Selznicks talent agency, the first talent agency in Hollywood, occupied the entire seventh floor, and Kenneth P. Butler&#39;s Butler Health Institute occupied the twelfth floor, with an additional solarium and squash court on the roof.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s street level was remodeled in the 1950s and in 1969, the building underwent a $1 million renovation, after which nearby Capitol Records occupied 44,500 sq. ft of office space on the third through eighth floors. Despite this, the building, as with the rest of the area, experienced high vagrancy and decline from the 1960s to 1990s.</p><br>
<p>In 1984, the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, with Equitable Building listed as a contributing property in the district.</p><br>
<p>The building was rehabilitated between 1999 and 2001, one of the first in Hollywood to do so. During the rehabilitation, many of the 1969 modernizations were remediated and the original features reconstructed.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, the building underwent a $50 million condominium conversion, after which the owners renamed it The Lofts at Hollywood and Vine. The building now consists of 60 units.</p><br>
<p>In 2015, the building was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #1088.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Equitable Building is a reinforced concrete construction, with an exterior finished in painted cast stone with select elements articulated in terra cotta. The first and second stories are rectangular in shape, creating a plinth for the U- shaped upper stories. The roof is flat and made of asphalt, and a sign is attached to the side of the building, facing north.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s lobby is its most ornate interior. Art deco in character, it features marble and stone floor, walls, and elevator surroundings, as well as decorative mouldings, vault ceiling, and an entrance vestibule distinguished by pilasters. Four elevator bays are located in the lobby, each with bronze paneled doors.</p><br>
<p>According to the Los Angeles Department of City Planning, the Equitable Building "exhibits many character-defining features of the Late Gothic Revival and Art Deco styles, including:</p><br>
<p>Rectangular massings with emphasis on verticality created by slightly projecting piers</p><br>
<p>Wrought iron flourishes, including tall finials and cresting</p><br>
<p>Emphasis on verticality</p><br>
<p>Steeply pitched roof with finials, pinnacles, towers and spires</p><br>
<p>Decorative spandrel panels</p><br>
<p>Terra cotta ornamentation in the shape of flowers, shields, and grotesques"</p><br>
<p>The Preston&#39;s Station Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Belle Plaine, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.</p><br>
<p>The gas station was built by Frank Fiene in 1912 at the corner of 7th Avenue and 19th Street. It was moved to its present 4th Avenue location in 1921 to take advantage of the traffic off of the Lincoln Highway when it was rerouted through Belle Plaine. George W. Preston bought the station two years later for $100.</p><br>
<p>The gas station is a single-story wood-frame structure. It had a canopy that extended over the gas pumps, but it was removed prior to 1965. A single-story concrete block garage was built next to the station in 1943. It features a sliding barn door on its main facade. Automobile repairs were performed in the garage before it housed Preston&#39;s memorabilia collection, which is now located in the former gas station as well. Antique advertising and highway signs cover the station and the garage. A three-unit motel was added next to the garage sometime before 1949. The gas station remained in operation until 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Urbana Historic District is a commercial historic district encompassing seven city blocks in downtown Urbana, Illinois. The buildings in the district reflects downtown Urbanas development as the county seat of Champaign County and a regional commercial center. While Urbana was founded in the 1830s and began its development in the ensuing decades, the oldest buildings in the district are from the 1870s. The city expanded considerably in the late nineteenth and early to mid twentieth centuries, and most of the districts buildings were constructed during this period. Local architect Joseph Royer designed many of the district&#39;s most prominent buildings, including the 1901 Romanesque Revival Champaign County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 27, 2019.</p><br>
<p>The Champaign Downtown Commercial District is a commercial historic district encompassing 19.4 acre in downtown Champaign, Illinois. The district includes some of the oldest parts of the citys downtown, and its buildings represent the citys development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Champaign was founded in the 1850s when the Illinois Central Railroad added a station in a rural area west of neighboring Urbana and the town formed around it; the oldest buildings in the district date from the following decade. Several buildings connected to the Illinois Central are included in the district. The opening of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1867 furthered Champaigns growth, and development in the downtown commercial district continued steadily through 1940. The districts commercial buildings exhibit a variety of building types and architectural styles, including Italianate, Art Deco, and various revival styles. Champaign&#39;s City Building and other local government buildings are also part of the district.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 24, 2020.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Rock Island Historic District is a national historic district encompassing 82.3 acre in downtown Rock Island, Illinois. The oldest buildings in the district are from the 1860s, two decades after Rock Islands founding, and buildings from then until 1969 can be found in the district, making it reflective of the citys development over time. The majority of the buildings in the district are commercial buildings, as downtown Rock Island has historically been the citys commercial center; these include several building types, mainly one-part and two-part commercial blocks, designed in a wide variety of the architectural styles popular in the late nineteenth and early to mid twentieth centuries. The district was also historically the center of Rock Islands social life, and many theaters and clubhouses for social organizations can be found in the district. Several of Rock Island&#39;s major government buildings, including the city hall and old county courthouse, are also part of the district.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 13, 2020.</p><br>
<p>Glenwood School is a historic one-room schoolhouse at 1398 East 800 North Road in rural Ash Grove Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, near the village of Cissna Park. The school opened in 1887, shortly after compulsory public schooling laws in Illinois spurred a wave of rural school construction. The school&#39;s appearance is typical of vernacular one-room schoolhouses, with a rectangular plan, a symmetrical front facade with a gable, and an entrance vestibule leading into the classroom. Later changes to the school building, such as a heating system and concrete sidewalks, were likely the result of statewide school modernization efforts in the 1910s. Like most rural areas, Iroquois County consolidated its schools in the 1930s and 1940s, and the Glenwood School was a victim of this trend; a sign above its entrance suggests it closed in 1936. It is the only remaining one-room schoolhouse in Ash Grove Township, which once had nine public schools.</p><br>
<p>The schoolhouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 29, 2020.</p><br>
<p>The Tiedemann House is a historic house at 212 W. Washington St. in OFallon, Illinois. The house was built in 1884 for Ernst Tiedemann, a local merchant and a member of the citys board of trustees. Architect Henry E. Peipers of St. Louis designed the house using elements of the Italianate and Queen Anne styles. The house&#39;s Italianate features include its front porch, the three-sided bay window on its front facade, and its segmental arch windows. Its Queen Anne influence can be seen in the wooden balustrade on its porch and the gabled dormers with half-moon windows on each side of its hip roof.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 29, 2020.</p><br>
<p>The Alvarado Hotel was a historic railroad hotel which was one of the most famous landmarks of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was built in 1901–02 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and was operated by the Fred Harvey Company until 1970. With 120 guest rooms, it was the largest of all the Harvey hotels. Its demolition by the railroad in 1970 was described by preservationist Susan Dewitt as "the most serious loss of a landmark the city has sustained" and helped mobilize stronger support for historic preservation efforts in the city.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was designed by Charles Frederick Whittlesey in the Mission Revival style and was part of a larger complex of railroad buildings including the Santa Fe Depot, which burned down in 1993, and the still-extant Freight Office. The former hotel site is now occupied by the Alvarado Transportation Center, which opened in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Alvarado was one of several Harvey House hotels built by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway along its route in the early 1900s, along with the Castañeda in Las Vegas, New Mexico, El Tovar at the Grand Canyon, El Garces in Needles, California, and Casa del Desierto in Barstow, California, among others. The hotel was designed by Charles Frederick Whittlesey, who also designed El Tovar, and officially opened on May 10, 1902. It was named after Hernando de Alvarado, a lieutenant under Francisco Vázquez de Coronado on his 1540 expedition into New Mexico. The original hotel had 100 guest rooms, 20 bathrooms, a 70 by dining room, lunch counter, barber shop, mens and womens parlors, club room, reading rooms, and an "Indian Building" where tourists could buy southwestern curios.</p><br>
<p>In 1922, the hotel was remodeled and expanded, bringing the total number of rooms to 120, and adding bathrooms to existing rooms that lacked them. Landscaping and fountains were also added to the exterior courtyards, and the interior public spaces were redesigned and redecorated by architect Mary Colter. When the project was completed, the Alvarado was the largest of all the Harvey hotels. For many travelers, the hotel was their introduction to the American Southwest, and writer Lawrence Clark Powell described it as the region&#39;s "heart of hearts". It was also an important social center for Albuquerque, hosting a variety of events including the annual Montezuma Ball.</p><br>
<p>By the 1960s, the Alvarado was one of the last Harvey hotels still operating and was in disrepair. Despite rumors that it would soon be demolished, little action was taken by the city to preserve the property, though it was listed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1969 In September, 1969, ATSF announced its plan to close the hotel on January 2, 1970, and then demolish it. The railroad offered instead to sell the property to the city, but only at a price of $1.5 million which was far above the appraised value of $600,000. In the end there was not sufficient interest or willpower from the city government or residents to save the hotel, and it was demolished as planned starting on February 2, 1970. New Mexico Architecture magazine marked its passing with an article which concluded, simply, "¡El Alvarado Está Muerto!"</p><br>
<p>The demolition of the hotel has subsequently been recognized as one of Albuquerque&#39;s greatest architectural losses, with one architect saying it "has truly haunted New Mexico." Although the hotel was not saved, its demolition spurred significantly greater community support for subsequent preservation efforts in Albuquerque, and led to the establishment of the Albuquerque Conservation Association and the city Historic Landmarks Survey. The site of the Alvarado was used as a parking lot until 2002, when a multi-modal transit hub, the Alvarado Transportation Center, was completed. The transportation center was designed to resemble the former hotel, borrowing many of its Mission Revival design elements.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Alvarado was a sprawling, three-story building designed in the Mission Revival style. It was situated at the corner of First Street and Central Avenue, at the northern end of a four-block complex of railroad buildings that also included the Santa Fe Depot, the still-extant Freight House (1946), Curio Store (1912), and Telegraph Office (1914), and several others. It was of wood-framed construction with tiled roofs and a rough, gray stucco exterior applied to a layer of steel lath. The main hotel block was E-shaped with three protruding wings, each with a curved Mission-style gable, fronting on the adjoining railroad tracks. Two interior courtyards between the wings of the hotel were enclosed by arcades which also connected to the Indian Building, depot, and other outbuildings. A pediment with a curved gable flanked by two stepped towers marked the main entrance of the hotel.</p><br>
<p>The Richloam General Store and Post Office, is a general store as well as a former post office and railroad station located within the Withlacoochee State Forest in the former community of Richloam, Florida. It is located on Richloam-Clay Sink Road near the corner of Riverland Road next door to the former right-of-way of the Orange Belt Railway. Though the store is addressed as being in Webster, Florida, it is actually approximately midway between Ridge Manor, Florida and Tarrytown, Florida.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the late-19th Century, the Orange Belt Railway ran through eastern Hernando County, and was acquired by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1902. As with many rural communities in Florida, lumber mills were established along the line, prior to acquisition.</p><br>
<p>In 1921, the regional head of the ACL, moved the station southwest of Riverland to the community of Richloam. Postmaster Sidney Brinson moved the Riverland Post Office to Richloam in 1922, and a general store would soon follow. From that point on, the community resembled that of the Wild West. Chief among these instances was a gunfight over a dog that lead to the shooting of a Pasco County Deputy Sheriff. The store was rebuilt after a 1928 robbery and fire, but devastated by the Great Depression.</p><br>
<p>Richloam, Richland, and other nearby communities were acquired by the United States Land Resettlement Administration in 1936, and was placed under control of the United States Forest Service. The store was used as a rental house until the 1950s. The United States Forest Service turned the land over to the Florida Board of Forestry who in turn converted it into a tract of the Withlacoochee State Forest in 1958. The former Orange Belt Railway Line was merged into the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad along with the rest of ACL in 1967. An ancestor of Sid named John Brinson reacquired the property in 1973 after the store sat vacant since the 1950s. Despite the fact that Seaboard Coast Line began to dismantle the line in the late 1970s, the store and some of the surrounding residences remained intact through the latter half of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Renovations began at the store in 2016, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 12, 2017. Though often compared to the St. James General Store on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, that store has been operating continuously since it was established in the 1850s.</p><br>
<p>The Argonne Building is a historic building located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1919 and it was used as a showroom for the Ford automobile plant that was located across the street and for employee housing. In later years it served as a long-term hotel and as an apartment building for low-income renters. There are plans to convert most of the building into market-rate apartments and to maintain the commercial space on the main level. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.</p><br>
<p>The New Indianola Historic District is a historic district in the Weinland Park and Indianola Terrace neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio&#39;s University District. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and the Columbus Register of Historic Properties in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The district was platted in 1916, and all but two of its structures were built by 1921 (as of 1987). Most are two-story houses with brick exteriors, many with porches.</p><br>
<p>The Chester House Inn, also known as the Chester Inn and the Brick Tavern, is a historic building at the corner of Main Street and Hillside Road in Chester Borough, Morris County, New Jersey. It was built from 1810 to 1812 by Zephaniah Drake. Known as the Chester House Hotel, it was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey  in 1937. The inn was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its significance in architecture, commerce, and education on July 18, 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The building is a three and one-half story brick building featuring Federal architecture and Flemish bond brickwork. It was built from 1810 to 1812 by Zephaniah Drake to accommodate stagecoach travelers. He sold it to Isaiah Fairclo in 1821, who soon resold it to another Drake. In 1854, William Rankin, a teacher, purchased the Chester Inn and transformed it into a classical college preparatory school, the Chester Institute. In 1862, he sold the building to the Budds.</p><br>
<p>The Kensington Boulevard Historic District is a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in Fort Wayne, Indiana, added in 2019. The district contains more than 170 homes built between 1917 and 1955, with one home dating to approximately 1870.</p><br>
<p>The boundaries of the district stretch from Niagara Drive along Maumee River in the south to East State Boulevard, its present northern boundary. To the west, it is bounded by the North Anthony Boulevard Historic District, and to the east, by Pemberton Drive. The entire length of this portion of Kengsington features esplanades planted with trees. The district was platted in two separate phases, the north phase in 1917 and the south phase in 1921, on a grid plan.</p><br>
<p>Kensington Boulevard extends a further five blocks north from East State, where it merges into Lawndale Drive; these block are not encompassed by the historic district at present. This portion of the boulevard was developed separately from the portions south of State Street, and lacks the distinctive esplanades found further south.</p><br>
<p>The original development at the heart of the district was called Kensington Park, and included homes along nearby North Anthony Boulevard that are now part of the separate North Anthony Boulevard Historic District. Kensington Park&#39;s developer, W.E. Doud, consciously emulated the nearby Forest Park development that includes the present day Forest Park Boulevard Historic District. The plan specified uniform setbacks and placement of allées along the portion of the development bordering on North Anthony Boulevard.</p><br>
<p>The district contains examples of a number of home styles popular during the period, including Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival,</p><br>
<p>American Craftsman, and American Foursquare, Prairie, and Neoclassical. Later in-fill development added examples of the ranch and American Small House styles. An Italianate farmhouse from the 19th century was present when the development was platted, and the developer built around it; it is distinguished by facing away from Kensington Boulevard, even though it is not on a corner, where the homes often face a cross street. Lots in the northern, 1917 phase of the development are on larger lots and homes tend to be grander styles such as Tudor Revival. In the southern, 1921 phase, the lots are smaller and the homes tend to be in less elaborate styles, such as American Craftsman, American Foursquare, and Colonial Revival. Most of the later in-fill development occurred in this phase.</p><br>
<p>The district features three stylized entrances that were part of the original Kensington Park plan. At East State street, the entrance to Kensington boulevard is flanked by square brick columns with stone tops connected to brick walls that rise to the midpoint of the columns. The columns are corbelled at the midpoint, from whence they are battered upwards. The stone walls are capped with brick corbels to present a contrast to the stone-capped brick columns. A further column is placed on the opposite side of each sidewalk to make a matching pair. Entrance structures matching this set are placed at the south end of the first phase, on the north side of the intersection of Kensington and Lake Avenue, with the addition of globe light fixtures. On the south side of this intersection, a similar structure forms the entrance to the south phase, except it is made entirely of stone the top. Like its counterpart across Lake Avenue, it also features globe lighting.</p><br>
<p>The Kensington Boulevard Historic District, along with the neighboring North Anthony Boulevard Historic District, is within the boundaries of the North Anthony Area Association, a voluntary neighborhood association which was formed in the 1970s to lobby against widening North Anthony Boulevard to four lanes of traffic.</p><br>
<p>The Castañeda Hotel is a historic railroad hotel located in Las Vegas, New Mexico. It was built in 1898 and 1899 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, and was operated by the Fred Harvey Company until 1948. After being mostly vacant for many years, the hotel was restored and reopened in 2019. The Castañeda was listed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1974 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as a contributing property in the Railroad Avenue Historic District. It is located adjacent to the Las Vegas railroad station.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1890s, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway operated a small frame boarding house called the Depot Hotel where passengers could eat during lunch stops in Las Vegas. In 1898 and 1899, the railroad built a new and much larger hotel, the Castañeda, which was operated by the Fred Harvey Company. The Castañeda was the first of what would eventually be dozens of Harvey hotels along the Santa Fe lines, including the Alvarado in Albuquerque, New Mexico, El Tovar at the Grand Canyon, El Garces in Needles, California, and Casa del Desierto in Barstow, California, among others. The hotel was designed by Frederick Roehrig and officially opened on January 1, 1899. It was named after Pedro de Castañeda de Nájera, who chronicled the 1540 expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado into New Mexico. The cost of construction was $110,000, plus another $30,000 for furnishings.</p><br>
<p>In June, 1899, the hotel hosted then-governor of New York Theodore Roosevelt at the first reunion of the Rough Riders. By the 1940s, apart from a brief boom in train travel during World War II, the hotel was losing money. It was closed by the railroad in June, 1948. The Las Vegas Optic wrote,</p><br>
<p>The hotel remained mostly vacant for the next 70 years, but it was saved from demolition by a preservation-minded owner, unlike the Alvarado in Albuquerque. Some of the rooms were sporadically used as apartments, and the hotel bar remained in operation, but most of the building was empty and deteriorating. In 2014, it was purchased by Allan Affeldt, who had previously restored the La Posada Hotel in Winslow, Arizona. Affeldt spent three years and $6 million restoring the Castañeda and the nearby Plaza Hotel. The Castañeda reopened in 2019.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Castañeda was designed by Pasadena architect Frederick Roehrig and was the first example of Mission Revival architecture in New Mexico, as well as the first Mission-style Harvey house. As such, it served as a prototype for later buildings constructed by the Santa Fe Railway, like the Alvarado Hotel. The Castañeda is a two-story, U-shaped brick building surrounding a central courtyard that opens onto the railroad tracks. A 500 ft long arcade wraps around the front and sides of the hotel. The two side wings terminate in curved, Mission-style gables, and there is a tall bell tower above the main entrance.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the hotel contains about 30,000 ft2 of space plus a large, uninsulated attic space and partial basements under the north and south wings. The south basement contains mechanical equipment, while the north basement was used for storage. In its original configuration, the hotel&#39;s ground floor contained a 108-seat dining room, 50-seat lunch counter, and a newsstand. The second floor housed 37 guest rooms.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The Castañeda appeared in the 1984 film Red Dawn, in which Las Vegas stood in for the fictional town of Calumet, Colorado, which is invaded by Soviet troops. The hotel was used as the Soviet army headquarters in the film. It also appeared in the 1994 film Speechless as the location where the main characters, played by Geena Davis and Michael Keaton, first meet.</p><br>
<p>The Castañeda is featured in an episode of "Ghost Adventures" on the Travel Channel, March 23.</p><br>
<p>Edwards Hall, located on a knoll overlooking Goebel Ave in Elkton, Kentucky, was built around 1821 by Benjamin Edwards. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Edwards Hall is a large and stately two-story brick residence that was built in 1821 by former USA Representative from Maryland Benjamin Edwards. He was a member of a prominent family, including his brother, John Edwards, who represented Kentucky in the Virginia House of Delegates before Kentucky became a state and helped Kentucky attain statehood, was elected to both houses of the State Legislature, and was one of the first two USA Senators to represent Kentucky. Benjamin&#39;s eldest son, Ninian Beall Edward, was the Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals before serving as Governor and USA Senator for Illinois.</p><br>
<p>Ninian Wirt Edwards, Benjamins grandson and Ninians son, was the first superintendent of public instruction in Illinois and was elected to the Illinois State Legislature several times. He married Elizabeth Todd, the sister of Mary Todd, who met, courted and married Abraham Lincoln in the younger Edwards&#39; home.</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Helm Bristow, a great-grandson of Benjamin Edwards&#39; (through his daughter Mary (née Edwards) Helm and granddaughter Emily (née Helm) Bristow), was born at Edwards Hall. A son of USA Representative from Kentucky and businessman Francis Bristow, Benjamin Helm Bristow served as the first Solicitor General and the Secretary of the Treasury under President Ulysses S. Grant.</p><br>
<h3>Architectural details</h3><br>
<p>The front façade is three bays in width and each of the two end bays has four shuttered windows. The central bay is gabled and has two identical double doors, one above the other, with a narrow window above the second story door. Each of the double doors has glass sidelights and a glass transom. The first floor doorway is flanked by period lighting and opens into a low porch that has a wrought iron railing; while the second floor doorway opens onto a balcony with identical wrought iron trim.</p><br>
<h3>National Register of Historic Places</h3><br>
<p>The building was meticulously restored approximately around 1940 and upon its nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, it was in excellent condition.</p><br>
<p>The Ijem Avenue Commercial Historic District is a historic district in Nichols, Iowa. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. It also includes one modern infill building. Nichols is a small town in western Muscatine County and was an important railroad shipping point and market town from about 1885 to about 1920. It was located along the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway, which came to town in 1871, and the Muscatine and Western Railroad, which arrived two years later. The two railroads intersected on the west side of the central business district, and both were incorporated into the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad in the 1880s. The brick commercial buildings in the historic district were built during this period of time. They are attached one and two-story brick structures. The oldest buildings reflect the Italianate style with their arched windows, while the later buildings reflect the Neolassical and Commercial styles.</p><br>
<p>After the demise of the railroads in Nichols, the downtown area continued its farm-service function by focusing on highway traffic. Ijem Avenue was paved and widened in 1960 when it became part of Iowa Highway 22.</p><br>
<p>Site 32 SL-O  Intermediate Field Historic District, also known as the Medicine Bow Airport, is an early lighted airway on the Transcontinental Airway System, located just south of the town of Medicine Bow, Wyoming. The airport was built one mile west, then moved to this location in 1929, as an emergency landing field on Route T, the New York to San Francisco airway, between larger airfields at Salt Lake and Omaha. It included a constantly-lit beacon and a cement arrow which pointed the way to the next beacon along the airway route.</p><br>
<p>The Reedsburg Woolen Mill was a historic woolen mill along the Baraboo River in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. The woolen mill was the largest employer in Reedsburg for much of its life, employing over 200 people. The woolen mill was built in 1891 and lasted until 1968, when most of it burned down, leaving the office building intact. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Today, the Reedsburg Woolen Mill Office building is used by DJ Dietz Designs and the Wormfarm Institute. A mural of the woolen mill building was painted in 2000, and it is placed on the side of the Reedsburg Woolen Mill Office building, facing the Baraboo River. The land where the mill once stood was redeveloped, and is currently home to a grocery store.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early history</h3><br>
<p>James Babb built a sawmill and dam on this location in 1842. This site was chosen, as the river was shallow in this spot, making it a good place for a dam. 5 years later, David Reed purchased and rebuilt the dam and sawmill. In 1853, Joseph Mackey purchased the dam, bringing new businesses along with it. Over the years, interest in a woolen mill for the area grew. Local businessmen founded Reedsburg Woolen Mills in 1879, with $50,000.</p><br>
<p>By 1882, the Reedsburg Woolen Mill had been built. The building was expanded in the years following. By 1899, the Reedsburg Woolen Mill consisted of a 4-storey building, complete with wool storage and 32 broad looms. The looms produced mainly "fancy cassimeres" for Chicago markets during this time. In 1902 the facility was bought by Appleton Woolen Mills. With this purchase, a new dam was built, and the facility was converted to electricity by 1910. In 1954, the woolen mill reorganized to emphasize novelty fabrics. After this change by Appleton Woolen Mills, the residents feared that the facility may be shut down.</p><br>
<h3>Late 1900s - present</h3><br>
<p>The employees then bought back the building with the help of local businessmen. The woolen mill continued to be the city&#39;s largest employer, until it closed down in 1967, after the company declared bankruptcy. The building burned down in 1968. In 1973, the dam that once powered the woolen mill, was removed by the DNR, significantly changing the height of the Baraboo River in Reedsburg.</p><br>
<p>Today only the woolen mill office building remains, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. A "picker" was discovered in the remains of the old woolen mill. It is currently on display at the site of the old Reedsburg Woolen Mill building.</p><br>
<p>The Reedsburg Brewery is a historic brewery located in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. The company was founded in the 1860s, during the hops boom. The building was rebuilt in 1904, after a large fire destroyed the original structure. The Reedsburg Brewery served as the primary manufacturer of beer for the city, up until Prohibition, in the 1920s. It reopened again in 1933, but eventually had to close in 1950 due to decreasing sales. In 1984, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The building sat unused for over 30 years, occasionally being used as a warehouse. In 1987, after pressure from the city, a developer remodeled the interior of the structure into apartments. The building still serves as apartments, with most of the exterior kept intact.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early history</h3><br>
<p>The hop boom of the 1860s brought the first Reedsburg Brewery to town. Frank and Florin Meckler built a brewery on North Walnut Street. The business would burn down several times and be sold to several owners. In 1880 the business was sold yet again and become the Reedsburg Brewing Company. The brewery was only producing 350 barrels of beer per year as compared to the 1,000 barrels in previous years. A large fire burned down this building in 1904.</p><br>
<h3>1900s - present</h3><br>
<p>On the same site in 1904, the new Reedsburg Brewery building was built, out of brick. This new building was able to produce 5,000 barrels of beer every year. The business closed in 1950, after sales declined heavily. For the next 30 years, the building was left unused. In 1984, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and was remodeled into apartments in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Reedsburg Post Office is a historic post office located in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. In 2000 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The building still serves as the post office for the 53959 ZIP Code.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1872, mail service came to Reedsburg, with the opening of the Chicago and North Western Depot. The post office was held in various locations on Main Street, until 1936. With the help of local senators, a new building was going to be built solely for the Post Office. The location on North Walnut Street was picked, and construction started in 1938. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Church of San Mateo de Cangrejos of Santurce  was built in 1832 as a chapel. In 1896, state architect Pedro Cobreros, who designed other churches in Puerto Rico, reconstructed its facade and enlarged the interior.</p><br>
<p>The church differs from others in Puerto Rico because it is not related to a municipality&#39;s urban center. When first built it was the parish church of Villa de Cangrejos but, as the metropolitan area expanded, Santurce was absorbed into San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico. The building is located at the highest elevation of Santurce, which allows for a view of Santurce, now a barrio of San Juan.</p><br>
<p>Its large facade has two towers with three stories in between. This feature is known as westwork; (a west-facing entrance with towers, a vestibule, and a chapel). However, in the case of this church, its main entrance faces south. Curved steps lead up to the main entrance. The church, oriented from north to south, deviates from the traditional east to west orientation. On the west side of the church is a small parish house built in the same style as the church. The buildings are separated by a fence and a garden.</p><br>
<p>The interior main floor follows the basilica form with two lateral naves which are divided by means of an arcade of six bays resting on pillars. Each bay has a small rectangular window.</p><br>
<p>Originally, the nave had a flat wooden roof which has been replaced by one of exposed beams of concrete. The square apse is roofed with a dome that rests on pendentives.</p><br>
<p>The floors are made of marble and have been placed diagonally from the main axis. The church had a choir floor which no longer exists and had four portholes, now closed, to illuminate the altar.</p><br>
<p>The building has retained its original character. The two main changes since its original construction have been the expansion of the sacristy and the installation of an air conditioning system.</p><br>
<p>The Railroad Avenue Historic District is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Las Vegas, New Mexico. It encompasses three blocks of Railroad Avenue between Jackson Street and University Avenue, as well as the first block of Lincoln Avenue. The buildings in the district were directly related to the presence of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in Las Vegas and date from between 1879 and 1920.</p><br>
<h2>Notable buildings</h2><br>
<p>The Vickers Petroleum Service Station is a historic building constructed in 1954 in Haysville, Kansas. It was the first service station to feature a hyperbolic paraboloid form, also known as a "batwing", developed by John M. Hickman and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places September 30, 2019</p><br>
<p>Haysville&#39;s Chamber of Commerce has used the building as an office since the interior was remodeled in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Combs Hollow Historic District is a historic district in Randolph, Morris County, New Jersey and extending into Mendham Township. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 16, 1996, for its significance in industry from to 1927. It includes 11 contributing buildings, 4 contributing structures, and 14 contributing sites.</p><br>
<h2>Gallery of contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>The Amsterdam Free Library, located at 28 Church Street in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York was built from 1902 to 1903 and was designed by Albert W. Fuller in the Beaux-Arts style. It is a Carnegie library, the building of which was funded by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, who contributed $25,000.</p><br>
<p>The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.</p><br>
<p>Pāia Elementary School is a public elementary school in Paia, Hawaii, operated by the Hawaii Department of Education . Its original building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places along with five other Maui elementary schools.</p><br>
<p>The school first opened in 1881 and its current campus opened in 1909. In 2019 the HIDOE had a proposal to build a two-story classroom building for programs to immerse students in the Hawaiian language. There would be eight classrooms inside.</p><br>
<p>Kaupō School was a historic school building in Kaupo, Hawaii, recognized by the National Register of Historic Places . It was under the Hawaii Department of Education .</p><br>
<h2>History and overview</h2><br>
<p>In 1923 the school was built. The property had a school building with two rooms and a cottage that served as the residence for a teacher. By 1964 the number of students was five, so the HIDOE closed the school with Hana High and Elementary School in Hana taking the students. The school reopened in circa 1982 as some landslides that happened that year obstructed the road to Hana. Kaupo School later closed when the road reopened.</p><br>
<p>In 2016 the Governor of Hawaii and the Legislature of Hawaii gifted the Kaupo Community Association funds to restore the building and work was to begin in 2019. The Maui News wrote that the school building had "deteriorated" and that the initial goal was to restore the building to its pre-existing state. However in 2020 Kaupo Community Association announced that the building had to be deconstructed due to the pre-existing damage; some members of the area community disliked how what would effectively be a rebuild could cause the NRHP to delist the building.</p><br>
<p>Keanae School, later Keanae Elementary School, is a historic school building in Keanae, Hawaii, recognized by the National Register of Historic Places . It formerly operated under the Hawaii Department of Education .</p><br>
<p>The building is a one-room schoolhouse and as of 2005 had been used as a community center.</p><br>
<p>Circa the early 2000s the school, with grades Kindergarten through three, had one teacher and an average of five students, with the latter figure making Keanae School the smallest public school by enrollment in Hawaii. In 2005 three children were officially registered as students, and Keanae Schools principal, Rick Paul, was also that of Hana High and Elementary School in Hana. That year Ron Okamura, the superintendent of the Maui Region of HIDOE, and Paul jointly decided to have those students attend Hana School to conserve resources, though Keanae School was not formally closed at that time. Some area residents opposed the closure of the Keanae building, partly due to the distance between Keanae and Hana, 18 mi. According to Paul, if the Ke&#39;anae building had not closed, the Hana school would have had one fewer teacher as that grade level would have had insufficient students. Classes would resume if the prospective enrollment became 12. Classes were not held at Keanae School since and in 2010 HIDOE formally closed the school.</p><br>
<p>The Kirch–Ford House, also known as the Kirch–Ford–Terrill House, is a historic farmhouse located at the corner Reinman Road and Mount Bethel Road in Warren Township in Somerset County, New Jersey. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 20, 1988, for its significance in architecture and exploration/settlement. It is now a historic house museum owned by the township.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The oldest part of the house was likely built by Thomas Terrill Sr. between 1766 and 1774. Several additions were later made to the house, including a two and one-half story section built. After Terrill&#39;s death, his widow Tryphena married William Ford. In 1830, the house was owned by Thomas Terrill Jr., who was the first Clerk of Warren Township. In 1857, the house was owned by John Kirch and it remained in the Kirch Family until 1978. In 1980, it was purchased by the township.</p><br>
<p>James Johnston House was built between 1853 and 1855, and is a historical building in Half Moon Bay, California. Sometimes referred to as the "White House of Half Moon Bay". It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 9, 1973. The building currently serves as a museum and community event space.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>The Johnston family</h3><br>
<p>James P. Johnston (1813–1879) was from Scotland and came to the United States as a child, raised in Gallipolis, Ohio.</p><br>
<p>After the purchase of land, Johnston began building the first wood-framed house along the San Mateo County coast, using a New England–style “saltbox” design. The Johnston House is two stories tall, with hand hewn redwood timbers. The home was built with mortise and tenon construction and wooden pegs. There was a fenced garden around the house and quarters for travelers to stay in. The house had clear Spanish influence and featured a Roman Catholic chapel (something commonly seen in Californios homes) and an open gallery facing a patio. Food was prepared in a free-standing kitchen outside of the house, possibly to reduce odors or because of social factors with feeding many farm hands and/or having a Chinese cook.</p><br>
<p>James Johnston and his three brothers, John, William, and Thomas introduced dairy farming along the coast. By 1859, the Johnston Ranch comprised about half of the original Rancho Miramontes. They imported 800 eastern dairy cattle from Ohio to Half Moon Bay. Petra Johnston died at age 27, together they had five children. Petras mother, Ursula Melita Valenzuela de Jara and Jamess sister Isabel Johnston moved into the house to raise three of the children. Johnston sold off most of his San Mateo County land after struggling with his finances. He died at the Commercial Hotel in San Francisco in October 1879, after losing much of his fortune. James&#39; son, John F. Johnston inherited the house and did some repairs.</p><br>
<p>By 1900s, the house was in disrepair. In 1916, Angelo Cassinelli bought the property and grew brussels sprouts on the land, and the house was mostly uninhabited since it had no plumbing or electricity.</p><br>
<h3>Restoration and present day</h3><br>
<p>The house was abandoned by 1938. Preservationists in the area discovered Watkins’ monograph and formed the Johnston House Foundation, Inc.</p><br>
<p>Spanishtown Historical Society helped with the project. The city of Half Moon Bay acquired the estate title in 1975. Renovations on the house started in 1976. On November 26, 1976, a large wind storm happened and it blew down the original house into a pile of old wood. The home was put back together, and in the process, a new chimney was added (which was not original to the home) and a concrete foundation (the original home did not have a foundation).</p><br>
<p>The Johnston House is now a museum and is decorated with era-appropriate furnishings and Johnston family memorabilia, which had been donated by the heirs.</p><br>
<p>In January 2001, the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) purchased the 862-acre Johnston Ranch in order to protect the land from development.</p><br>
<p>The Androy Hotel is a former hotel building in Hibbing, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1921 by the Oliver Iron Mining Company to anchor the city&#39;s new business district, which was being relocated so the Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine could expand. The Androy Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 for its local significance in the themes of architecture and industry. It was nominated for being a good example of a large, Renaissance Revival hotel built to serve a growing mining community. When the East Howard Street Commercial Historic District was designated in 1993, the Androy Hotel was listed as a contributing property.</p><br>
<p>The hotel closed in 1977. In 1994 it underwent adaptive reuse to become a mixed-use commercial and residential property.</p><br>
<h2>Origin</h2><br>
<p>Hibbing was established as a company town in the 1890s next to a rich vein of iron ore. From early on it was known that the ore continued under the town, and in 1919 the Oliver Iron Mining Company began the process of moving the city a mile to the south. The company relocated 185 houses and 20 commercial buildings, and funded the construction of new buildings along East Howard Street to resell or lease.</p><br>
<p>The Androys design is credited to Spencer S. Rumsey, the Oliver Iron Mining Companys chief engineer from 1917 to 1927. It was built to be an anchor of the new business district, with refined Renaissance Revival style and an imposing mass rising twice as high as most of the other nearby buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Androy Hotel is a four-story brick building with Indiana Limestone trim. It has a flat façade facing East Howard Street to the north, but the east and west sides have three projecting masses giving it the footprint of two back-to-back capital "E"s. The hotel featured 142 guest rooms, a public dining room, three private dining rooms, reception rooms, sample rooms for traveling salesmen to display their products, and commercial and office space for lease. The Hibbing Chamber of Commerce and local Red Cross were early tenants.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Quigley–Doran Hotel Company assumed management of the Androy, the title coming from a portmanteau of the first names of officers Andrew Doran and Roy Quigley. The grand opening was held on June 30, 1921. The Androy was a key amenity in Hibbing, not only housing out-of-town visitors but hosting much of the city&#39;s commercial, political, and social activity for half a century. Declines in the iron ore industry depressed the local economy later in the 20th century, and the Androy Hotel went bankrupt and closed on November 30, 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Androy stood vacant for 14 years, prompting the city to issue a permit for its demolition. Residents of Hibbing lobbied to save the historic building. Their efforts secured a restoration project beginning in 1994 in which Brighton Development Corporation updated the 73-year-old building into a mixed-use facility of commercial space and senior apartments.</p><br>
<p>The Andrew G. Anderson House is a historic house in Hibbing, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1920 for Andrew "Bus Andy" Anderson, a pioneer in the intercity bus service industry. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 for its local significance in the themes of architecture and transportation. It was nominated for its association with Anderson and its status as one of the most lavish residences in the Hibbing area.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Andrew G. Anderson House is a two-story building of cream-colored brick. It stands on a substantial, well-landscaped lot on East Howard Street, Hibbing&#39;s central business thoroughfare. The house displays an eclectic mix of Colonial Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, as does its detached garage. The house has a hip roof clad in Spanish tile, with two small dormers and copper downspouts. The main entrance is on the left end of the south façade. A one-story sun porch projects from the west façade. The property is bordered by a wrought iron fence supported by brick piers.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Andrew Anderson and two partners launched a regular bus service between Hibbing and nearby Alice, Minnesota, in the 1910s. Their success was by no means assured, as rail transport was far more familiar and enjoyed a greater reputation for comfort and safety. With a booming local economy underpinned by iron mining, however, Anderson and a growing number of partners prospered, adding routes and vehicles to link the Iron Range communities into one of the nations first intercity bus networks. Though Andersons financial interests remained local, the business he helped launch grew into Greyhound Lines.</p><br>
<p>Hotel Lankershim was a landmark hotel located at 7th Street and Broadway in the Broadway Theater District in downtown Los Angeles&#39;s historic core.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Hotel Lankershim was designed by Robert Brown Young for James Boon Lankershim, whom the building was named after. Construction started in 1902 and was completed in 1905. Prior to construction, the land was the site of a vineyard owned by Judge Wilson Hugh Gray.</p><br>
<p>The hotel had 200 servants, 250 rooms, and 160 baths at its opening, and was considered far superior to the other hotels in Los Angeles at the time. Lankershim lived and worked in the building during its early years, and the hotel also ran a shuttle to and from nearby train stations during this time. Circa 1915, the hotel marketed itself as within a "stones throw" of Bullocks and Hamburger&#39;s Department Store, as well as the Orpheum, Morosco, and Majestic theaters.</p><br>
<p>In 1919, Lankershim sold the lease to Wallace W. Whitecotton, operator of Berkeley&#39;s Shattuck Hotel. In 1926, Whitecotton sold the lease to E.P. Severcool and E.B. Edmonds.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the Broadway Theater and Commercial District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, with Hotel Lankershim listed as a contributing property in the district. Despite this, the building was largely demolished in the early 1980s following structural damage caused by the 1971 Sylmar earthquake. Post demolition, a six-story parking structure was built on the building&#39;s remaining first floor, which was converted to retail, and the building was removed from the register in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and design</h2><br>
<p>Hotel Lankershim featured three eight-story towers atop a one story base. Each tower featured a stone and brick facade, and two light courts separated these towers, providing light, air, and a fire escape directly to each room. Overall, the building was an imitation of San Francisco&#39;s St. Francis Hotel.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the hotel featured a granite tile floor, polished stone columns with gilded capital, a polished wood recessed ceiling, and numerous chandeliers.</p><br>
<p>Walter P. Story Building, also known as the New Story Building, is a historic eleven story high-rise located at 610 S. Broadway and 236 W. 6th Street in the Broadway Theater District in the historic core of downtown Los Angeles.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Walter P. Story Building was designed by Morgan & Walls A pied-à-terre for Story and his wife was included on the top story, complete with gardens and servants’ quarters.</p><br>
<p>Walter P. Story Building opened in February 1910 and was entirely occupied within two months, making it "one of the most successful buildings in the city" at the time.</p><br>
<p>Upon Story&#39;s death in 1957, the building was sold at auction. It was purchased by Fisher-Cooper Realty for $1.5 million, after which they renovated and renamed it New Story Building. Mullen and Bluett moved out in the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the Broadway Theater and Commercial District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, with Walter P. Story Building listed as a contributing property in the district.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and design</h2><br>
<p>Walter P. Story Building is 150 feet tall and rectangular in plan, with a 120-foot frontage on Broadway and 160 feet on 6th Street. It was built using reinforced concrete with a terra cotta facade, and features Beaux Arts architecture with heavy cornice, decorative bands, and arched windows, while the parking garage features Zigzag Moderne gates.</p><br>
<p>All interior corridors feature marble floors and wainscoting to the height of the doors. The lobby also features a compact marble staircase, wide banisters, two-story newel posts, and a Tiffany-style stained glass skylight. Upon opening, the building&#39;s ground floor contained the largest plate glass windows west of Chicago. The building contained twelve of these windows in total, at a total cost of $12,000.</p><br>
<p>Alango School is a former school building in Alango Township, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1927 in a sparsely populated area of northern Minnesota that was still in the early stages of being homesteaded and settled by Euro-Americans. Owing to its remoteness, the school was provided with living quarters for the principal and faculty. Alango School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 for its local significance in the theme of education. It was nominated for being a large and well-preserved example of northern Minnesota&#39;s rural schools.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Alango Township&#39;s earlier two-room school burned down in 1926, forcing high school classes to move into a local private home until this facility was completed the following year. At the time the area still lacked good roads and public utilities, so the school was designed with its own state-of-the-art electric generating plant, wood-fired furnace, and indoor plumbing. The second floor served as a teacherage, with school-year living quarters for up to six faculty members and a shared cooking and dining area. A one-room schoolhouse was moved nearby from Bear River, Minnesota, to house the principal and his family.</p><br>
<p>A gymnasium/auditorium with additional classroom space and locker rooms was built onto the north side of the school from 1937 to 1938 with federal funding from the Public Works Administration and Works Progress Administration. At the same time the principal&#39;s house—which had been a half mile away—was moved onto the rear of the school property and renovated.</p><br>
<p>Alango School had to close for "Mud Week" in the 1930s and 1940s when the spring thaw made area roads impassable. The building graduated its final high school class in 1963. Alango School continued to host elementary grades and early childhood education until closing for good on February 9, 1988.</p><br>
<p>The non-profit Alango School Project formed in 2004 to preserve and interpret the building.</p><br>
<p>The South Branch Schoolhouse, also known as the Little Red Schoolhouse, is a historic building located at 2120 South Branch Road in the township of Branchburg in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. It was built in 1873 with Late Victorian / Italianate style. The schoolhouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 2005 for its significance in architecture and education.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The Late Victorian style building is a rural one-room schoolhouse built in 1873 near the community of South Branch and the South Branch Raritan River. It is a one-story gable-fronted frame structure featuring a belfry with Italianate style. It was used for education until 1950. It was purchased by the township in 1963 and is now used as a community center.</p><br>
<p>The Mary E. Bell House is a historic house at 66 Railroad Avenue approximately 1/10th mile south of the Long Island rail road in Center Moriches, Long Island, New York. Built in 1872 by Selah Smith of Huntington who purchased the land, it is significant in the area of ethnic history for the Smith and Bell families and the African-American AME Zion community of Center Moriches during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. It is under the Stewardship of the Ketcham Inn Foundation.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Selah W. Smith was a farm hand and his wife Mary Ann was a laundress. They had five daughters, Alice, Ada, Ida, Mary E., and Hannah whom lived with their parents in 1880. The expansion (Ca.1880) on the home was likely done to accommodate Mary&#39;s laundry business. The family had maintained a garden on the land north of the house. The Smiths walked the short block south to attend the AME church, which had become the center of African-American worship in Center Moriches and drew congregants from surrounding hamlets. When pastor Abraham Perdue passed away in 1888 followed shortly thereafter by his wife, Mary E. Smith and Annie Arch of Manorville kept the small congregation going in the next decade.</p><br>
<p>In 1895, Mary E. married a day laborer, Ernest Bell of North Carolina, and by 1900 the family with children Ethel, Alice and Lillian were the sole occupants of the house.</p><br>
<p>During the latter 1890s, Mary E. Bell became an adherent of the AME Zion&#39;s Varick Christian Endeavor Society, founded by James Varick in 1896. His liberation of female roles in the Zion sect (Founded 1821) would play a pivotal role in the Center Moriches AME congregation. In 1897, the congregation would break from the AME to officially become African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ). The AME Zion was the first to ordain female elders and deacons, allowing female delegates to its conference in 1897 to vote for trustees.</p><br>
<p>Christian Endeavor societies, like the Y.M.C.A., were very popular during the late 1890s among Protestant denominations. Their progressive focus was on attracting and keeping young adults, mainly men, active in the life of the congregations and the community. Most of these Societies, (over 800 by 1902 comprising 20,000 youths.) were run by women. Mary E. Bell would become the local leader of the Varick Christian Endeavor Society in Center Moriches from its beginnings as a co-ed social group with activities such as dinners, picnics and other service projects like food banks and providing educational assistance such as tutors and weekly bible classes.</p><br>
<p>From the turn of the century until it closed in 1914, the small church was dependent on Mary Bell and Annie Arch for its survival, Ministers came and visited from the AME Zion and members were lost from various causes, relocations and deaths also contributed to its demise. Annie would in summer and winter come over from her farm in Manorville to worship with her friends and the remaining congregants. After it closed its doors, Mary bell continued to hold church gatherings in her house informally, by 1915 her husband Earnest would become institutionalized and would remain so until his death in 1950. Mary and the girls, Alice (b.1898) and Lillian, with son Eugene (b.1902) were in the house in 1920 when the church&#39;s fortunes began to turn due to the great migration. African-Americans from the south had come to work on the farms of L.I. and the AME Zion sent a minister, Rev. William E. Wright, to take the reins of the congregation. When Mary Bell died, her beloved church took on a new name, the Bell AME Zion Church, so named in her honor.</p><br>
<h2>Alice Bell</h2><br>
<p>Alice Bell, who was born at #66 Railroad Ave, would inherit the house from her mother. Between the 1920s and the 1950s she would figure prominently in the AMEZ church of Center Moriches as it grew and prospered. A trustee, she served on the Ladies Aid society and was prominent in the fundraising activities of the organization. When the church outgrew the elder building musical events were held to fund a new church, events that drew attendance from outside the congregation with dinners and other programs held at her house. The 1847 church building was moved to 123 Railroad Ave. By 1954 she was also famous for her sweet potato pies, they would be her most prominent featured dish at gatherings and fundraisers for the rest of her life. Alice never wed, or drove an automobile, she lived a quiet life, active in her church and kept working as a housekeeper. She was honored by the church in her later years, ordained a Deaconess and elevated to membership in the Women&#39;s Home and Overseas Missionary Society, a major outreach of the AME Zion church in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>Alice Bell died in 1996, the house was taken from the family for tax liabilities and legal wrangling caused it to become a deteriorating rental property for the next decade, for which demolition loomed in 2009. The Bell AME Zion church advocated for it to be preserved and in 2011 the Town of Brookhaven passed a resolution designating the ‘’’Mary E. Bell house’’’ a historic landmark and took ownership of the property, working in partnership with the Ketcham Inn Foundation to formally reopen the house as a contributing property in the Center Moriches Historic District. It opened as a historic site on June 22, 2019 and made available to the public as an event space.</p><br>
<h2>Landmark status</h2><br>
<p>During its life, the house served the African-American community during a time when the local church closed its doors for a brief space and the house became the second home to the congregation in the integrated community. With the help of Bert Seides, a preservationist, the house was proposed for historic preservation in 2011 by the Ketcham Inn Foundation, which partnered with Brookhaven on its restoration, and now operates it as a special event space and museum.</p><br>
<p>The Mary E. Bell House was declared a Brookhaven town landmark in 2011. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>Mary E. Bell House has hosted annual Juneteenth celebrations since 2020.</p><br>
<p>Richard J. Riordan Central Library, primarily known as the Los Angeles Central Library, is the main branch of the Los Angeles Public Library , in Downtown Los Angeles. It is named after Mayor of Los Angeles Richard Riordan, although locals refer to the library as Central Library and not by this name.</p><br>
<p>It consists of two buildings: the Goodhue Building and the Tom Bradley addition, from 1925 and 1993, respectively. The former was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on December 18, 1970.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The historic Central Library Goodhue building was constructed in 1925 and is a Downtown Los Angeles landmark. The Central Library was designed by the architect Bertram Goodhue. The Richard J. Riordan Central Library complex is the third largest public library in the United States in terms of book and periodical holdings. Originally named the Central Library, the building was first renamed in honor of the longtime president of the Board of Library Commissioners and President of the University of Southern California, Rufus B. von KleinSmid. The new wing of the Central Library, completed in 1993, was named in honor of former mayor Tom Bradley.</p><br>
<p>An expansion/renovation was proposed from circa 1966, but the library system did not enact them until 1986. From 1988 through 1993, the Central Library was extensively renovated and expanded in a Modernist/Beaux-Arts style, according to Norman Pfeiffer of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, the principal architect of the renovation.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s limited access had caused a number of problems. Generally, the accessible public stacks in the reading rooms only displayed about 10 to 20 percent of the actual collections of the Central Library. For anything else, a patron had to submit a request slip and a clerk would retrieve the desired material from the internal stacks. The internal stacks, contained in two concrete structures joined by a catwalk, were packed very tightly and had very little headroom. For example, while the normal reading rooms had ceilings of anywhere from 10 to 15 ft, the internal stack areas were many shelves of about 6 ft height, stacked internally, so that while the public access area was about two floors plus the Science and Technology alcove, the internal stacks were approximately five or six floors. To fix this would have required substantial renovation, a cost the city was not willing to cover, especially after hours of operation were cut in response to the 1978 property tax reduction measure Proposition 13.</p><br>
<h3>Arson</h3><br>
<p>The library experienced two fires in 1986, one on April 29 and one on September 3, both due to arson. The April 29 arson fire “destroyed 20 percent of the central library collection and suspended service on the 5th Street building…The catastrophes came amid prolonged public debate concerning the future of the Goodhue building, which for years had been cited for major fire and safety hazards.” This fire was the catalyst for the renovation. Although the building was safely evacuated, its vintage construction precluded the ventilation of heat and smoke, and limited firefighter access. It took firefighters over seven hours to extinguish the fire and little fires continued to sprout for several days. Some 400,000 volumes—20 percent of the library&#39;s holdings—were destroyed, with significant water and smoke damage to 700,000 more. The estimated cost for replacing the 400,000 works lost was over $14 million.</p><br>
<p>A second fire, on September 3 of the same year, destroyed the contents of the music department reading room. After the second it remained closed until 1993, when its renovation opened.</p><br>
<h3>Renovation</h3><br>
<p>As part of the rehabilitation plan, LAPL sold its air rights to developers, enabling the construction of the eponymous Library Tower across the street. The skyscraper was subsequently renamed the First Interstate World Center and later the USA Bank Tower. Additional funds were raised through corporate and personal contributions which flowed from the effort of the "Save the Books" campaign formed by Mayor Tom Bradley. Among the findings during the re-cataloguing of the library&#39;s collections was a Shakespeare Fourth Folio.</p><br>
<p>The campaign, co-chaired by Lodwrick Cook, then CEO of Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) had targeted a goal to raise $10 million through corporate and individual contributions ranging from schoolchildren&#39;s nickels and dimes to $50,000 contributions by Los Angeles businessman Marvin Davis and MCA Chairman Lew Wasserman. William Eugene "Gene" Scott, an LAPL neighbor and member of the 43 strong blue ribbon committee, donated the use of his University Network television studios and himself to what became a 48-hour telethon to raise $2 million towards the total objective.</p><br>
<p>The Library&#39;s renovation was completed in 1993. It included a large new underground parking facility, with a park designed by Lawrence Halprin over it. The Central Library reopened on October 3, 1993. The original Goodhue building and the Bradley wing was subsequently renamed in 2001 for former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, as the Richard Riordan Central Library. Michael Finnegan of the Los Angeles Times wrote that initially there was some "political uproar" but as the renaming came it "was all but forgotten".</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Goodhue designed the original Los Angeles Central Library with influences of ancient Egyptian and Mediterranean Revival architecture. The central tower is topped with a tiled mosaic pyramid with suns on the sides with a hand holding a torch representing the "Light of Learning" at the apex. Other elements include sphinxes, snakes, and celestial mosaics. It has sculptural elements by the preeminent American architectural sculptor Lee Lawrie, similar to the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln, Nebraska, also designed by Goodhue. The interior of the library is decorated with various figures, statues, chandeliers, and grilles, notably a four-part mural by illustrator Dean Cornwell depicting stages of the History of California which was completed around 1933. The building is a designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, and is on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The 360,000 ft&sup2; addition, eight stories tall, had a cost of $213.9 million. The addition has about the same size as the original building. The project included a garage with 940 spaces, an atrium with a glass roof, an auditorium with capacity for 235 people, and a puppet theater. Amy Wallace of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Where the old edifice was cramped, the new is expansive and imaginative". Christopher Knight of the Los Angeles Times described the wing as "a major architectural disappointment" but that some of the pieces of art that were commissioned to be installed in the building "partially mitigates the fiasco."</p><br>
<p>The expansion included an enormous, eight-story atrium wing dedicated to former mayor Tom Bradley. Now, the library contains an area of 538,000 ft&sup2, and has nearly 89 mi of shelves and seating for over 1,400 people.</p><br>
<h2>Collections and departments</h2><br>
<h3>Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection</h3><br>
<p>The Central Library houses and archives the extensive Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection of over 3 million historic photographs from varied sources and collection acquisitions. Many images can be viewed by the public via the online photo collection. The physical Photo Collection is an important resource for researchers, writers, curators, and educators.</p><br>
<h4>Sources</h4><br>
<p>The Photo Collections sources have included: the former Los Angeles Herald-Examiner newspaper photo morgue (2.2 million images); the Security Pacific Bank Collection (250,000); the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce image archives (60,000), Hollywood Citizen News/Valley Times Newspaper Collection (30,000), and the Turn of the century Los Angeles&#39; collection (150,000).</p><br>
<p>Collection sources also include the portfolios by noted local and regional photographers, such as: the Ralph Morris Archives (25,000) of the Los Angeles area from 1939 to the late 1970s; a collection of 1940s L.A. images taken and donated by Ansel Adams, and the William Reagh Collection (40,000—800 online) of post-war Los Angeles to 1991.</p><br>
<h4>Shades of L.A.</h4><br>
<p>The "Shades of L.A. Collection" is an archive of more than 10,000 images donated/duplicated from family photo albums (collected by former Photo Collection director Carolyn Kozo Cole) that expanded the archives to include the many diverse ethnic histories of people in the city, beyond the already well represented Anglo population.</p><br>
<p>The projects success expanded to the California State Library creating the "Shades of California" collection to represent the states diverse communities, using the LAPL methods and model. The book "Shades of California: The Hidden Beauty of Ordinary Life" resulted from the successful statewide project. Over a dozen California city and county library districts also created local Shades of California collections, such as Monterey, Riverside, and Humboldt County.</p><br>
<h3>Science, Technology & Patents Department</h3><br>
<p>Located on Lower Level 2 of Central Librarys Tom Bradley Wing, the Science, Technology & Patents Departments diverse collection covers agriculture, automobile repair, computers & computer science, cooking, construction (including building codes), consumer information, cosmetology, engineering, mathematics, medicine, nutrition, pets, psychiatry, UFOs, zoology, and more.</p><br>
<p>In partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the Science, Technology & Patents Department is a United States Patent & Trademark Resource Center, offering resources to assist with patent and trademark research. The department holds a complete collection of all Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) publications including the complete Patent Gazette and Trademark Gazette issues from the opening of the PTO, and a complete set of registration books published by the United States Copyright Office starting from Volume 1. The patent collection also includes United Kingdom Old Law Patents 1617–1981 and United Kingdom New Law Applications 1979–1994.</p><br>
<h3>Feathers map collection</h3><br>
<p>In 2012 Glen Creason, the map librarian for the central library, was invited to the Mount Washington home of John Feathers, who had died at age 56 with no known relatives. According to Creason, the cottage contained approximately 100,000 maps and the library was delighted to accept their donation. "This dwarfs our collection," he said, "and we&#39;ve been collecting for 100 years."</p><br>
<p>The maps were stored on shelves, in boxes, in file cabinets, and even in the cabinet of an old stereo system with its electronics removed.</p><br>
<p>Creason said it could take a year to catalog and organize the maps and sigfig=2 abbr=out of shelving would be needed, but the library would then have the fifth-largest map collection in the country. The collection has been sorted and organized by volunteers C.J. Moon and Audrey Dalton.</p><br>
<p>United States Post Office  is an architecturally significant working post office in Downtown Burbank, California, operated by the United States Postal Service . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places  on January 11, 1985.</p><br>
<p>Gilbert Stanley Underwood designed the building, which was built under the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Design and construction began in 1937, the cornerstone was laid January 21, 1938, and the building was dedicated on April 30, 1938. In December of that year a $1900 federal art commission was announced. The opportunity to decorate the Burbank post office building was open to residents of California and Nevada. The building lobby is decorated with two murals painted by Barse Miller depicting the economy of Burbank.</p><br>
<p>The first Burbank post office opened in 1898, located 95 rods north of the Southern Pacific station. In 1921 the second Burbank post office was on block six of Burbank.</p><br>
<p>The Glenoaks Post Office in Burbank closed in 2014, with Downtown Burbank absorbing its functions.</p><br>
<h2>Additional images</h2><br>
<p>Neshanic Mills is a 5 acre historic district on the South Branch Raritan River along River Road and Mill Lane at Neshanic Station in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 9, 1978, for its significance in engineering, industry, transportation, and settlement. It includes 4 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The three-story Lane Grist Mill was constructed in 1876 by Andrew Lane. The Neshanic Station Lenticular Truss Bridge was constructed by the Berlin Iron Bridge Co. in 1896. The Central Railroad of New Jersey bridge was built around 1900.</p><br>
<h2>Gallery of contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>The Charlotte Central Historic District is a mixed commercial, residential, and historic district located in the downtown section of Charlotte, Michigan. The district stretches along Cochran Avenue from West McClure Street to south of Henry Street, containing portions of the streets adjacent to Cochran. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Charlotte Central Historic District contains 328 buildings, of which 288 contribute to the historic character of the district. The district contains the commercial center of Charlotte, as well as adjacent residential neighborhoods containing both large, architect-designed homes and more modest middle-class houses. It also contains early industrial buildings, and other structures surrounding the railroad junction on the north portion of the district. Most of these buildings are two stories in height, and primarily date from the late nineteenth century. The district contains a range of Italianate and Late Victorian commercial blocks. Residential architectural styles include Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Italianate, and later International style and Mid-Century Modern structures.</p><br>
<p>The most significant buildings in the district include:</p><br>
<p>Eaton County Courthouse, constructed in 1885 and individually listed in the National Register.</p><br>
<p>First Congregational Church, constructed in 1881 and individually listed in the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Michigan Central Railroad depot, constructed in 1902 and individually listed in the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Grand Trunk Western Railroad depot, constructed in 1885.</p><br>
<p>Lawrence Avenue Methodist Church, constructed in 1902–03.</p><br>
<p>Carnegie Library, constructed in 1903.</p><br>
<p>Masonic Temple, constructed in 1904.</p><br>
<p>High school, constructed in 1914 with 1936 and 1955 additions.</p><br>
<p>U. S. Post Office, constructed in 1917</p><br>
<p>Michigan Bell Telephone Building, constructed in 1929.</p><br>
<p>Eaton Theatre, constructed in 1931.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Charlotte was first platted in 1838. The population steadily grew, and it was incorporated as a village in 1863. A few of the earliest structures in the district date to this time, notably the county building at 115 W. Lawrence, constructed. A handful of Greek Revival houses also date from the middle of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The arrival of railroad lines - the Grand River Valley Railroad in 1868 and the Peninsular Railroad in 1870 - spurred the growth and development of Charlotte. By 1871, it was incorporated as a city. This timeframe marks the construction of some of the oldest commercial buildings in the district, clustered around the courthouse. During the 1880s, Charlotte experienced tremendous growth. Nearly 1/3 of the buildings in the district were constructed during the last two decades of the 19th century, including the largest public buildings and residences.</p><br>
<p>Another 1/3 of the buildings in the district were constructed during the first decades of the 20th century. However, as the city filled and the Great Depression hit, construction slowed, tapering off noticeably after 1950.</p><br>
<p>The Sault Ste. Marie Historic Commercial District is a primarily commercial historic district located in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. The district includes the Old Federal Building, Chippewa County Courthouse, Central Methodist Episcopal Church, the Adams Building, and the Gowan Block, all of which are listed separately on the National Register.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Sault Ste. Marie was first settled by European immigrants in 1668. It was controlled by Britain or France until after the War of 1812, when the border between Canada and the United States was fixed at the St. Marys River. As settlement of Michigan&#39;s Upper Peninsula increased, Sault Ste. Marie grew, due to its strategic location on the portage route around the rapids. This was accelerated by the 1840s copper boom, and more so by the construction of the first American lock in 1855. By this time, the early commercial center of the city along Water Street was expanded along nearby Ashmun Street. The twelve commercial enterprises in the city in 1856 grew to 70 by 1879.</p><br>
<p>The city boomed in the 1880 and 1890s, with a number of buildings constructed. The move of the commercial center from Water Street to Ashmun was accelerated by two things: the 1892 relocation of Fort Brady, which opened up real estate, and two disastrous fires in 1886 and 1896, which destroyed many of the commercial buildings on Water Street. A hydroelectric power canal was constructed in the early 20th century, and the commercial district expanded even more rapidly in response. Construction slowed down in the 1910s and 20s, and even more in the 1930s due to the Great Depression. Construction picked up after World War II, but the downtown declined in the 1950s and 1960s as urban sprawl drew people away from the commercial core of the city. However, more recently, the Downtown Development Authority has reinvigorated the downtown area.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Sault Ste. Marie Commercial Historic District includes the historic business district in the center of the city, and the nearby houses of early residents and business leaders. This district contains 146 buildings, of which 104 contribute to the historical character of the neighborhood. The buildings are mostly two stories in height, and were constructed between and 1968, although most date from the late nineteenth century. Architectural styles include Italianate, Late Victorian, Richardsonian Romanesque, and Commercial Brick commercial buildings, Neoclassical public buildings, and vernacular and Colonial Revival houses.</p><br>
<p>The commercial blocks of the district are located along the five blocks of Ashmun Street south to the Power Canal, and the adjacent blocks east and west along Portage Avenue. Although the district is predominantly commercial, it also includes with several government buildings and religious properties, as well as historic residences along Water and Bingham streets, most of which have been converted to commercial use.</p><br>
