<p>The Dr. Arthur W. Allen Home, also known as Allenhurst, is a historic house at 11266 North Trimble Road in Robinson, Illinois. The house was built in 1936 for Dr. Arthur W. and Anna Allen. Arthur W. Allen was a physician and businessman who ran a local medical practice and sanatorium and was vice president of Robinsons Second National Bank. The couple designed their house in the Tudor Revival style, a choice inspired by their trips to Europe in the 1930s. The houses design includes a gabled entrance with a parapet, a gabled bay with a two-story window and multiple buttresses, and a complex roof with several dormers and three chimneys. The Tudor styling continues in the use of wood paneling and ceiling beams in the house&#39;s interior.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 30, 2020.</p><br>
<p>The Henson House is a historic house at 103 N. Henson Road in Villa Grove, Illinois. The house was built in 1871 for George W. Henson, a local landowner and a major figure in Villa Groves establishment. The Henson House was the first house in the Villa Grove area, and Henson sold the citys original site to the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad when it built a line through the area; even the city&#39;s name came from a nickname for the Henson House, "the villa in the grove". The house originally had an Italianate design, which can still be seen in its projecting bay window and its tall arched windows. Later redesigns of the house introduced elements of the Neoclassical style, such as the columns and pediment on its front porch, and the Arts and Crafts style, such as the wooden front doors.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 31, 2020.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas I. Agnew House is a historic home located at 2 Crest Road in the city of New Brunswick in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 13, 1982, for its significance in architecture. Also known as the Agnew Mansion, it is one of two surviving Greek Revival style houses in the city.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>Thomas I. Agnew, a local farmer, bought a 2 acre lot here in 1835 and mortgaged the house in 1844. He left for the 1849 California gold rush and died there in 1851. His son Andrew Agnew inherited the property. The house is an example of the Greek Revival temple form and features a full portico with pediment and four Doric columns.</p><br>
<p>The Healdsburg Carnegie Library, which was also known as the Healdsburg Public Library and is now the Healdsburg Museum, is a Carnegie library built in 1911 in Healdsburg, California. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Healdsburg applied for a grant from the Carnegie Foundation in 1908 and was awarded a $10,000 grant in 1909. It was one of five Carnegie Library buildings constructed in Sonoma County. Noted Bay Area Architect Brainerd Jones designed the building in Classical Revival style, incorporating the columns, stairs, and pediment typical of Classical and Neoclassical structures. Contractor Frank Sullivan of Santa Rosa was the contractor, and it was built during 1910–11. By the mid-1980s the library outgrew the structure and moved to a new facility. After extensive interior renovations the Healdsburg Museum opened in the building in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Baker House in Sea Ranch, California was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect William Turnbull Jr. and was built in 1968.</p><br>
<p>Per a 2019 article in design magazine Dwell, it is the only "Blinker Barn" that is listed on the National Register, and was listed for sale in 2019 at $1,325,000.</p><br>
<p>Its 1968 redwood interior was crafted by Matthew Silvia. It was expanded to the rear in 2010 by addition of a structure connected by a catwalk.</p><br>
<p>Grey Columns, at 399 Old Montgomery Rd. in Tuskegee, Alabama, was built as a plantation house from 1854 to 1857.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It now serves as the home of the president of Tuskegee University.</p><br>
<p>It was built by William Varner principally in Greek Revival style, but with elements of the Italianate. It has an octagonal cupola. It was built at the center of a 5,000 acre cotton plantation.</p><br>
<p>The listing also includes a contributing structure,</p><br>
<p>It was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1934 and in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Old Nueces County Courthouse is a historic government building in downtown Corpus Christi, Texas, United States. All functions at the courthouse relocated to the current county courthouse just a few streets away. The old courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. There are currently ongoing efforts to restore the old courthouse, which is being worked on by county government.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Following high rates of crime throughout South Texas in 1853, three plots of found were purchased from Henry Lawrence McKinney in Corpus Christi for $300 (1853 USD). The first county courthouse was built on this land, with a second Courthouse being built next to the first in the mid-1870s. The third and current old county courthouse was fully completed by 1914, which costed more than $250,000.</p><br>
<p>In 1919, Robert Simpson, the inventor of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, survived the 1919 Florida Keys Hurricane inside the old courthouse. Outside a 16–foot storm surge ravaged the rest of Corpus Christi. The hurricane caused catastrophic damage in the city with debris scattered across the downtown area, and roughly $20 million (1919 USD) in damage. The dead were laid in front of the courthouse so families could identify them. Being fascinated by the storm, Simpson later teamed up with Herbert Saffir to create the Saffir-Simpson scale in the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1930s, a six-floor addition was added to the western side of the courthouse. Newer additions were added during the 1960s and 1970s, but have since been torn down. At this time, the building began to deteriorate. An old newspaper, pre-1900 liquor bottles, and a taxidermied diamondback rattlesnake were found under large amounts of dirt under the courthouse steps. During September 1966, a five-year-old girl fell through a dropped ceiling on a balcony at the courthouse. She plunged 12 feet and was frightened, but was fortunately unharmed. A similar incident occurred with a 14-year-old boy just a month earlier.</p><br>
<p>A new courthouse was considered in a bond in 1957 even before the buildings decline, however, the bond was not passed. After the structure began to fall apart, a new bond was introduced in 1972 which included the construction of a new courthouse. On September 9 of that year, the bond was approved by voters in the city. The old courthouse was closed once the new and current courthouse was completed in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Since then there have been some attempts to restore the building. In August 2018, plans were made to transform the old courthouse into a 159-room hotel with a restaurant and bar, meeting spaces, and parking. The cost of this renovation was estimated to total $52 million (2018 USD). However, the plan failed as the company attempting the renovations did not want to pay the $1.5 million worth of taxes owed by the courthouse&#39;s previous owner. In September 2019, Nueces County commissioners began to work on restoring the courthouse by beginning structural assessments. In December 2020, officials in the county were informed that the structure could be saved.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse was designed by Harvey L. Page in 1913. The style of the structure was Classical Revival. The building is six stories tall, the reinforced steel structure is covered in soft gray brick and white classical terra cotta trim. A red roof tops the building, which was initially made of tile. In the main facade facing Corpus Christi Bay is accessed by a large flight of steps, making the main entrance on the second floor. The entrance wing is decorated by colonnades in antas, along with brick pilasters. On top of the cornice are three terra cotta figures, each separated by a window. The entrance is topped off with a pediment, decorated by a terra cotta ornament, a circular window, and a pedimented parapet.</p><br>
<p>A similar theme coats the exterior of the north and south wings. On the ground level, the south wing entrance can be found. The central entrance is decorated by a pedimented porch roof which is held up by two caryatids. The north wing entrance is a mostly plain basement level entryway.</p><br>
<p>Nearly each floor served a purpose at the courthouse. The basement was used as storage space for mechanical equipment. The second floor housed the county courtroom and offices of county officials. The third floor was made up of the three district courts. The fourth floor consisted of offices, while the fifth and sixth floors were jails. Air space containing insulation was placed in between fourth and fifth floor to prevent noise entering the courthouse from the jail.</p><br>
<p>The Fourth Ward Historic District is a historic district in Albuquerque, New Mexico which encompasses an area between Downtown and Old Town which is roughly bounded by Central Avenue, 8th Street and Keleher Avenue, Lomas Boulevard, and 15th Street. It is named for its location in the city&#39;s former fourth political ward. The district is almost entirely residential and developed at a "leisurely pace" between the 1880s and 1930s. As a result, it includes houses in a wide variety of sizes and styles including Queen Anne, Italianate, Tudor, Dutch Colonial, Prairie School, Mediterranean, Pueblo, Territorial, Mission, and Bungalow. The district was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1979 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The district includes two properties which are also individually listed on the National Register, the J. H. O&#39;Rielly House and Berthold Spitz House.</p><br>
<p>The Pyle-National Company Plant is a historic industrial plant at 1334 North Kostner Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The Pyle-National Company, which produced lights for steam locomotives and other heavy machinery, built the plant in 1916. The company was founded in 1897 by George C. Pyle, an inventor who patented several designs for locomotive headlights, and businessman Royal C. Vilas. The companys products became the first successful electric locomotive headlights, and the success of their and their competitors lights led Congress to require electric headlights on all locomotives in 1915. Expecting increased business from the Congressional mandate, the company expanded to the Kostner plant, which had three buildings designed by the Chicago industrial architecture firm Davidson & Weiss. The plant served as Pyle-National&#39;s only production site until 1963 and was expanded several times in the intervening decades. While Pyle-National opened a new plant in South Carolina in 1963 and pivoted away from the lighting industry, it continued to use its Chicago factory until 1992.</p><br>
<p>The plant was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 19, 2021.</p><br>
<p>The Royal Poinciana Way Historic District is a historic commerce and residential district in Palm Beach, Florida. The district is bounded by the area from 207-283 Royal Poinciana Way, 95-118 North County Road, and 184-280 Sunset Avenue, with some exceptions. There are 36 buildings within the district, 26 of which are considered contributing properties. The Royal Poinciana Way Historic District became a listing in the National Register of Historic Places  on September 17, 2015. A post office located at 95 North County Road has also been listed in the NRHP since 1983. Further, the town of Palm Beach considers the post office, Bradley House Hotel, and the Biltmore Apartments as town landmarks.</p><br>
<p>Formerly known as Main Street, the Royal Poinciana Way Historic District served as the primary location for commerce and civic activity in the early history of Palm Beach. This was because Royal Poinciana Way is the location of where a pedestrian and rail bridge would be constructed in 1901, providing a direct route (and the only bridge to Palm Beach until 1911) for travelers to Henry Flagler&#39;s hotels in Palm Beach, The Breakers and the Royal Poinciana Hotel. The contributing structures in the Royal Poinciana Way Historic District were constructed between 1915 and 1954, with 12 architects being involved in the designing and planning of the buildings, including noted architects Martin L. Hampton, William Manly King, and Gustav Maass.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Standard Oil magnate Henry Flagler and his workers constructed the Royal Poinciana Hotel in 1894 and The Breakers in 1896, both located just south of where the Royal Poinciana Way Historic District stands today. With this new bridge being the only direct route into Palm Beach until 1911, the area around it became the town&#39;s main street. Initially, much of the commercial and civic activity in Palm Beach occurred in the Royal Poinciana Way Historic District, while many of the earliest estates in the town were built in that vicinity.</p><br>
<p>While housing development slowed in Palm Beach during World War I, tourism to the area increased as travelers opted to visit domestic destinations. With additional commerce needed to accommodate the influx of tourists, several buildings were constructed along the main street between 1915 and 1919, which are now the oldest buildings in the Royal Poinciana Way Historic District. The earliest constructed building, now part Via Testa at 221A Royal Poinciana Way, likely served as a jail. Another structure of note built in the 1910s was Campbell Building, constructed in 1918 and located at 277-283 Royal Poinciana Way (the northeast corner of Royal Poinciana Way and Bradley Place). On the first floor of this building was originally Palm Beach&#39;s post office, a grocery store, and other retails shops, while the second floor included a dance floor, casino, and a restaurant. The Royal Poinciana Way area remained an important section of Palm Beach in the 1920s and many other structures were built in its vicinity as a result of the Florida land boom. An article in The Palm Beach Post in 1924 described Royal Poinciana Way as "the heart of Palm Beach from which all other activities radiate like veins and arteries, with the post office and bank and the purveyor and the stock broker and the tobacco merchant and the bookshop, all adding their bits to the composite street."</p><br>
<p>During the Great Depression, the wealthiest in Palm Beach were not adversely affected by the state of the economy. However, many others canceled their winter vacations, which caused a decrease in business activity on Royal Poinciana Way. Later in the 1930s, the street finally transformed into a "gateway" for Palm Beach. In 1937, Main Street became Royal Poinciana Way. That same year, as part of a Public Works Administration (PWA) project, the street was widened and a median added. The landscape median included a row on royal palm trees on the north and south sides of the medians, while shrubs were planted throughout the center. On July 1, 1938, construction workers completed the Flagler Memorial Bridge, also a PWA project. This bridge replaced the old rail and pedestrian bridge from 1901 and allowed direct vehicular access to Royal Poinciana Way. Prior to then, only the Royal Park Bridge had allowed automobile traffic (since 1911). Palm Beach mayor James M. Owens served as master of ceremonies for opening of the bridge, while USA senator Charles O. Andrews and former USA senator Scott Loftin also gave speeches during the ceremony.</p><br>
<p>After World War II, tourism and development rebounded. Following the death of Colonel Edward R. Bradley in 1946, Bradley&#39;s Beach Club and Casino, a gambling facility and restaurant, was demolished in accordance with his legal will. Land from the former site of the club, located along the Intracoastal Waterway between Royal Poinciana Way and the Biltmore Hotel, was donated to the town of Palm Beach. Bradley Park was then established on the property. In the early 1950s, builders demolished many of the original cottages and instead constructed multi-family apartments and condominiums in their place. The decade also saw the addition of second floors to several structures. The newest contributing structure to the Royal Poinciana Way Historic District is a building at 244 Sunset Avenue, erected in 1952 and completed in 1954.</p><br>
<p>On September 17, 2015, the Royal Poinciana Way Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Structures</h2><br>
<p>Within the Royal Poinciana Way Historic District, there are a total of 36 structures, 26 of which are considered contributing, while 10 others are considered noncontributing as they were either constructed after 1954 or were altered significantly. The following structures are listed as contributing:</p><br>
<p>North County Road</p><br>
<p>United States Post Office at 95 North County Road. A Mediterranean Revival-style structure designed by Louis A. Simon and completed in 1937. The post office building has been listed as an individual entry in the National Register of Historic Places since July 21, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Exchange Building at 100 North County Road. Initially designed by architect Bruce Kitchell in 1924, the Exchange Building was originally a two-story Mediterranean Revival architectural-type structure and had an arcade on the first floor. However, John Volk significantly redesigned the building in 1941, transforming its architectural style to Art Moderne.</p><br>
<p>Building at 101 North County Road. Also an Art Moderne-style structure, this building was designed by Gustav Maass and erected in 1936.</p><br>
<p>Building at 105 North County Road. A Mediterranean Revival building constructed in 1925. In the late 1920s, the tenants of the building included a gift shop and offices for Kitchell, the Chalker & Lund general contractors, a real estate agency, and a stockbroker.</p><br>
<p>Building at 106 North County Road. A one-story Masonry Vernacular-type structure designed by Volk and built in 1941.</p><br>
<p>Building at 108-110 North County Road. A two-story Masonry Vernacular-type commercial building, also designed by Volk and erected in 1941.</p><br>
<p>The buildings are 112, 114, and 118 North County Road are each one-story commercial buildings, designed by Volk and constructed in 1941.</p><br>
<p>Royal Poinciana Way</p><br>
<p>Building at 207 Royal Poinciana Way. A Mediterranean Revival-style building designed by William Manly King. The building has primarily housed restaurants since its construction in 1927.</p><br>
<p>Building at 211 Royal Poinciana Way. A portion of the Neoclassical Revival building located at 209-215 Royal Poinciana Way, constructed in 1921. The building originally housed an 800-seat movie theater, known as the Garden Theater. On its opening day, December 3, 1921, the theater screened The Affairs of Anatol, a silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Wallace Reid and Gloria Swanson.</p><br>
<p>Testas Restaurant, located at 221 Royal Poinciana Way. A two-floor Masonry Vernacular building designed by Lucius Draper Babcock and constructed in 1947. The building housed Testas Restaurant.</p><br>
<p>Via Testa, two buildings at 221-A and 221-B Royal Poinciana Way. The former, a one-story commercial structure of Frame Vernacular architectural type building erected around 1915, originally served as the town jail. The building at 221-B Royal Poinciana Way was a small Masonry Vernacular structure built in 1925. A courtyard existed between 221-A and 221-B. A Mediterranean Revival style archway to the courtyard was erected in 1986. Via Testa, along with Testa&#39;s Restaurant, were demolished in October 2017.</p><br>
<p>Building at 233-235 Royal Poinciana Way. A two-story commercial and residential, Masonry Vernacular structure designed by Maass and constructed in 1945. Originally, the ground floor housed two storefronts, while the upper floor had eight apartment units.</p><br>
<p>Building at 249 Royal Poinciana Way. A single floor Masonry Vernacular commercial building planned by architect John Pearson and erected in 1949.</p><br>
<p>Building at 251 Royal Poinciana Way. This building, constructed around 1923, is a one floor Masonry Vernacular commercial structure.</p><br>
<p>Building at 253 Royal Poinciana Way. A two-story Masonry Vernacular building of commercial use, built in 1921.</p><br>
<p>Campbell Building at 277-283 Royal Poinciana Way. Named after S. Ross Campbell, who commissioned its construction, this Neoclassical Revival style building was completed around 1918. Originally, the first floor of this building housed Palm Beach&#39;s post office, a grocery store, and other retails shops, while the second floor included a dance floor, casino, and a restaurant.</p><br>
<p>Sunset Avenue</p><br>
<p>The Biltmore Apartments, also known as Mizner Court, at 184 Sunset Avenue. Designed by Kitchell in 1924, the three-floor Mediterranean Revival style building is used for both commercial and residential purposes, with stores located on the ground floor and apartment units on the second and third floors.</p><br>
<p>Buildings at 214 and 214A Sunset Avenue, previously under various names including the Clinton Hotel, Orange Blossom Hotel, St. Charles Hotel, and Testa&#39;s Hotel. The structure at 214 Sunset Avenue was a two-story Mission Revival style building constructed in 1920. Architect Julius Jacobs designed 214A Sunset Avenue in 1932, a dining room annex for 214 Sunset Avenue. Jacobs then combined the two buildings. As part of Via Testa, 214 and 214A Sunset Avenue were both demolished in October 2017.</p><br>
<p>Building at 244 Sunset Avenue. This two-floor Mid-Century Modern apartment building was constructed from 1952 to 1954. John Stetson designed the first floor, completed in 1952, while David B. Scoville designed the second floor, which was built in 1953 and 1954. This was the last contributing building to be constructed.</p><br>
<p>Buildings at 262 and 262A Sunset Avenue. The structure at 262 Sunset Avenue is a two-story American Foursquare building, constructed in 1920. Five years later, a garage, now an accessory building, is designed as 262A Sunset Avenue and is considered a contributing structure.</p><br>
<p>Building at 280 Sunset Avenue, previously the Bradley House Hotel and originally the Rosa May Apartments. A four-story Mediterranean Revival building designed by Martin L. Hampton and built in 1924 just east of Bradley&#39;s Beach Club and Casino. The building underwent a restoration and renovation in 2019 and 2020, reopening as the White Elephant Palm Beach hotel in 2020.</p><br>
<p>The Philip Sweed House, in Petaluma, California, is a Queen Anne-style house built in 1892. It has sometimes, mistakenly, been reported as the "Philip Swede House."</p><br>
<p>The house is located at the intersection of Keokuk and Prospect Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Sweed, though of limited formal education himself, was a champion of public education and served on the city&#39;s Board of Education from 1893 to 1925.</p><br>
<p>Green Shutters, on Franklin St. in Tangipahoa, Louisiana, was built around 1850. It includes Greek Revival style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and was delisted in 2024.</p><br>
<p>It is the only known raised Greek Revival cottage in Tangipahoa Parish.</p><br>
<p>It is said that Confederate soldiers from Camp Moore recuperated here; it was bought in 1900 by family physician Dr. John W. Lambert, who lived in the house until his death in 1931.</p><br>
<p>The James H. and Frances E. Laughlin House, in Sonoma County, California, near Windsor, was built around 1876. It has also been known as Shady Farm. The listing includes four contributing buildings and a contributing structure. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It was designed and built by builder J.T. Ludwig, who had his own lumberyard and manufactured his own bricks.</p><br>
<p>It includes Greek Revival and Italianate elements.</p><br>
<p>The Cunningham-Hembree Estate, in Windsor, California, which includes two houses, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.</p><br>
<h2>Cunningham House</h2><br>
<p>The Cunningham House, built, was listed by Windsor&#39;s town council as a Windsor historical landmark. It is the oldest known structure in Windsor. It is located at 9225 Foxwood Dr. (38.552392&deg; latitude, -122.810816&deg; longitude).</p><br>
<h2>Hembree House</h2><br>
<p>The Hembree House was built in 1931. It was listed by the town council, too.</p><br>
<p>It has also been called “Mattapan”, an Indian word meaning “I sit down” according to family members. It is located at 9225 Foxwood Dr. (38.552721&deg; latitude, -122.810604&deg; longitude).</p><br>
<p>The Logia Masónica Hijos de la Luz, on Avenida José C. Barbosa in Yauco, Puerto Rico, is a stuccoed masonry building constructed in 1894. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988,</p><br>
<p>It is Classical Revival in style, designed by French architect André Troublard and built by master builder Jesus Emmanuelli.</p><br>
<p>Also known as Logia Masónica, it served as a meeting hall.</p><br>
<p>It is probably the earliest built and oldest surviving purpose-built Masonic building in Puerto Rico.</p><br>
<p>André Troublard also designed the Casa Franceschi Antongiorgi, also in Yauco and listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The Casa Franceschi Antongiorgi , located at 25 de Julio St. in Yauco, Puerto Rico, is a house listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It has also been known as Casa Fleming.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1907-1910 by the French architect André Troublard for Alejandro Franceschi Antongiorgi, a rich landowner and lover of the arts. Antongiorgi frequently held banquets, concerts and meetings with visiting artists in his house.</p><br>
<p>It is Beaux Arts in style and has Classical Revival details. Architect André Troublard also designed the Logia Masónica Hijos de la Luz, also in Yauco and listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Downey School is a historic building located in the unincorporated community of Downey, Iowa, United States. Built in four months in 1905, it was designed by Waterloo, Iowa architect J.G. Ralston and built by Frank Chapman, also of Waterloo. The two-story brick structure features quoins on the corners and Roman arches as its main decorative elements. The building had a cupola, but that was taken down at some point. It is believed that the building originally housed 1st through 12th grades. After 20 years the high school grades were moved to West Branch, Iowa. The school itself closed in 1955. The Wapsie Valley Grange Society acquired the building and they used it for their meetings into the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>Tim and Madonna Rex bought the building from the Iowa Grange Society in 2017 and since then have been in the process of converting it into a bed and breakfast inn. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.</p><br>
<p>Prairie Grove School is a historic building located northwest of West Burlington in rural Des Moines County, Iowa, United States. This was the third school building for Prairie Grove. The first was a log structure known as Cockayne School and was located in what is now the cemetery. The second school building was a red brick structure located on the same property, acquired in 1849, as the subject building. It was replaced by the present stone structure in 1879. Surplus money from the teacher&#39;s fund and the sale of the old building provided the funds for construction. The stone was quarried locally. A wood-frame addition was built onto the front of the building in 1924 by Arch McCormick. The cupola and bell were added at the same time. In 1874 the school had 58 students and by 1936 that number was reduced to 10. It remained in operation until 1960. The building was deeded to the cemetery association the following year. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.</p><br>
<p>Doctor Alexander R.  and Louisa J. Leith House is a historic building located in Wilton, Iowa, United States. The 2½-story, wood frame, Queen Anne structure is significant because of its architecture. It features a complex, cross-gable roof, an asymmetrical main façade, an engaged two-story circular tower, a variety of surface textures, leaded glass windows, and highly decorative interior woodwork. It is unknown who designed the house, but it is thought it might have been constructed by a local builder based on plans from a pattern book. The 1½-story, wood-frame carriage house at the rear of the property along West Wate Street shares the historical designation with the main house. It has been converted into an entertainment area. The two-car garage built in the 1930s does not share the designation.</p><br>
<p>Dr. A.R. Leith was one of the first physicians in town.</p><br>
<p>The H.A. Baxter Coal Company Historic District, also known as C.E. Phillips Coal and Grain and Freshwaters Coal and Supply, is a nationally recognized historic district located in Washington, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. By 1910 there were five businesses in Washington that sold coal to retail customers. All of them sold coal in conjunction with at least one other commodity. Henry A. Baxter was a dealer in coal, grain, and building materials. Baxter bought a grain elevator, no longer extant, on this site in 1903. He then had new buildings constructed in the 1910s and 1920s. Baxter was the only coal dealer in town that operated a coal elevator. Baxter died in 1929, and his company continued to operate through the 1930s. It became the Palmer Coal Company and Bush Coal Company in the early 1940s. Howard F. Freshwaters bought the property in 1945. Freshwaters Coal and Supply operated here from 1945 to 1959. Coal usage declined through the 1950s as natural gas replaced it for heating buildings. In 1959, Freshwaters Feed and Grain Company moved to this location from downtown. They continued to offer coal for sale into the early 1970s, and they were the last business in Washington to do so.</p><br>
<p>The contributing buildings include the brick office building (1912), the concrete block delivery stables (c. 1912), the concrete block/stucco garage (c. 1922), and the frame/metal feed warehouse (c. 1940). The concrete coal elevator (c. 1920) is the contributing structure. The non-contributing structure is a metal grain bin (1972).</p><br>
<p>The McCleery Calendar Factory, also known as The McCleery Company and McCleery-Cumming Company, is a historic building located in Washington, Iowa, United States. Hugh H. McCleery started the business in the basement of his home on East Main Street in 1905. He expanded into a small building behind his house in 1910 and then into a two-story building at the rear of his lot in 1913. This two-story brick structure was built two blocks to the north in 1923. The original section of the building was L-shaped and the "L" was filled in by an addition constructed in 1931. Another addition on the back of the building was completed in 1935. In 1944, McCleery acquired the calendar division of the Newman-Rudolph Lithographing Company of Chicago, and the company name was changed to the McCleery-Cumming Company. A single-story office addition was completed on the west side of the building the following year. The company produced calendars for distributors across the United States, who then sold them through their network of salesmen. Because of this, the McCleery-Cumming name was never on the calendars. By the late 1950s, they were the second-largest manufacturer of religious calendars in the country, and they became the largest employer in town. The company moved into a larger facility on the south side of town in 1958. They were locally owned through 1993 when the company was sold to Bemrose USA. They continued to operate the factory in Washington until 2004. This building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Old Fort Madison High School, also known as the Fort Madison Junior High School and Fort Madison Middle School, is a historic building located in Fort Madison, Iowa, United States. Between 1910 and 1920, the population of Fort Madison increased 35%. There was also a belief that students from the surrounding rural area would increasingly attend the city&#39;s high school. By early 1922, there was a desire to replace the 1890 Romanesque Revival high school building. A bond referendum passed in the early summer of that year, and the school district engaged the Kansas City, Missouri architectural firm of Owen, Payson and Carswell to design a new building. The building was mostly completed in mid-September 1923, with the auditorium/gymnasium located in the middle of the structure, completed in December. The three-story brick structure features a prominent front entrance at the center of the main facade, and at the roofline, there are crenulations, crockets, quatrefoil panels, and elaborate heraldic panels. Additions were built on the back of the building in 1946 and in 1959. It housed the high school program from 1923 to 1958, when the present high school building was completed. From 1958 to 2012 the building housed the junior high/middle school program. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Richard L. and Verda M. Alleman Farm Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located southeast of Slater in rural Polk County, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The farm at this location has been in the Alleman family since the 1880s making this a true century farm. Its significance is attributed to its being the first stop of a 1955 tour made by Vladimir Matskevich, a representative of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, and 11 leading Soviet agricultural scientists and managers. During a power struggle that followed the death of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union suffered from poor harvests and a shrinking rural population. After Khrushchev publicly complemented American agriculture and criticized Soviet agricultural management, Lauren K. Soth wrote an editorial in The Des Moines Register, "If the Russians Want More Meat...", inviting him to send a delegation to Iowa to see how its farmers worked successfully. Soth assumed Khrushchev would take no such action, however, the Premier took him up on the offer. The Allemans were contacted on July 7, 1955, by Polk County Extension agent Grover Hahn about the possibility of visiting their farm. The visit took place ten days later on July 17. Soth was awarded the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for his editorial. Matskevich returned to visit the Alleman farm again in 1971, this time as the Soviet Unions Minister of Agriculture and Food. The historic district&#39;s contributing resources were in place when the 1955 visit took place.</p><br>
<p>The Fair Oaks Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Muscatine, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. At the time it was studied for the Muscatine Historic Preservation Commission it contained 231 resources, which included 176 contributing buildings and 55 non-contributing buildings. Dr. James Weed was an early settler in Muscatine. He married Mary Swift in 1847, and the couple settled a farm on the northeast side of town where they built a Gothic Revival house from 1852 to 1854 . The couple donated 63 acres of wooded land on the east side of their property along the Mississippi River for a community park. Along the southern and western edges of their property, they plated subdivisions and eight houses had been built by the time of Mary&#39;s death in 1908. The rest of their property was opened up for development at that time and it was given the name Fair Oaks in a city-wide contest. It was divided into 101 lots. There were 57 houses in the subdivision by 1919, and 25 houses and a grocery store were built in the 1920s. Between 1930 and 1944 another 15 houses were built, 11 houses between 1945 and 1954, 13 houses between 1955 and 1965, and four houses since 1965.</p><br>
<p>Fair Oaks consists of 134 houses, some with an attached garage, 94 detached garages and other outbuildings, and three commercial buildings. Six houses do not have a garage of any kind. Most of the houses are either bungalows or modest two-story houses. Twenty-four houses are brick or brick veneer with the remaining houses being wood-frame. The exteriors of 12 houses were finished with stucco. A variety of architectural styles are found in the neighborhood that reflects the time period they were built.</p><br>
<p>The First Avenue East Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Newton, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. At the time it was studied for the City of Newton it contained 30 resources, which included 20 contributing buildings and 10 non-contributing buildings. The district is mainly a residential area made up of single-family houses and their outbuildings. It is immediately adjacent to the Newton Downtown Historic District to the west. Many of the homes in the district were built by locally prominent businessmen, especially those involved with the washing machine industry, as well as bankers, and merchants; many of which contributed to the development of the City of Newton. There are many examples of high-style architecture popular when the houses were built in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. The most visible style in the district, however, is the two-story American Foursquare. There are also bungalows. In addition to houses, there are several commercial buildings in the district, two of which, Jasper County Farm Bureau  and Yes Way Gas Station  are contributing properties. The August H. Bergman House is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places and four others have been deemed to be individually eligible.</p><br>
<p>The First Avenue West Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Newton, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. At the time it was studied for the City of Newton it contained 33 resources, which included 25 contributing buildings and eight non-contributing buildings. The district is mainly a residential area made up of single-family houses and their outbuildings. It is immediately adjacent to the Newton Downtown Historic District to the east. Many of the homes in the district were built by locally prominent businessmen, especially those involved with the washing machine industry, as well as bankers, and merchants; many of which contributed to the development of the City of Newton. There are many examples of high-style architecture popular when the houses were built in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. The most popular style in the district, however, is the two-story American Foursquare. There are also bungalows. In addition to houses, there are two commercial buildings, an apartment building, and New City Hall all of which are non-contributing properties due to their age. Two of the houses have been deemed to be individually eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Henry D. and Juliana  Albright House, also known as the Dr. Francis F. and Jeanette L. Ebersole House, is a historic building located in Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States. This house holds historical significance for several reasons. It is notably associated with the early settlement of Mount Vernon, influenced by the development of the Military Road, and it is recognized as the first brick house constructed in the city. The house exemplifies vernacular architectural techniques and Early Republic stylistic influences.</p><br>
<p>Henry D. Albright, a carpenter, and his brother William, a mason, moved to Mount Vernon from Iowa City to work on building Cornell College. In 1853, William established a brickyard in the town, using locally sourced materials. He assisted Henry in constructing the brick house, which was completed that same year. Henry, his wife Juliana, and their family were the first residents of the house, which remained in the Albright family until 1926.</p><br>
<p>In 1926, Dr. F.F. Ebersole acquired the house and renovated it the following year to accommodate his medical practice. The two-story, side-gabled house is built from brick produced at the Albright brickyard and features locally quarried limestone. Its architectural and historical significance led to its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.</p><br>
<p>The James H. and Mayetta  McCartney House, also known as the Ann E. and DeWitt McLallen House, is a historic building located in Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States. It is significant for being constructed of locally made brick and locally quarried limestone, and mid-19th century architectural techniques. The house was originally built as a single-story, two-room cottage. It was probably built sometime after Saxby&#39;s First Addition to Mount Vernon, in which it is located, was platted in 1855. The second story was added around 1861. This made it a side-gabled Greek Revival house. A two-story wood-frame addition was built onto the rear of the brick structure in 1877. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.</p><br>
<p>The Adams R., Frederick L. and Martha  Knott House, also known as the Col. Frank W. Hart House and the Rev. James and Jessie N. Hughes House, is a historic building located in Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States. It is significant for its association with the settlement of the city that was influenced by the establishment of the Military Road, its use of locally made brick and locally quarried limestone, and its vernacular architectural techniques. Adams and Frederick Knott were brothers who were originally from Ohio and they settled in Mount Vernon in 1854 after living briefly in other locations in eastern Iowa. They bought a building and dry goods store from Oliver Day, an early pioneer merchant. Their brother Abraham joined them in the business by 1859. Frederick and Adams had this house built around 1857 in Saxbys Addition to Mount Vernon. They shared the house, along with Fredericks wife Martha and daughter Ida. The brother&#39;s business partnership dissolved and they sold the house in 1861. The two-story, side-gabled brick house features Early Republic stylistic influences. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.</p><br>
<p>Oheyawahi-Pilot Knob  is a scenic overlook, and a Native American gathering place and burial ground in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, United States. The overlook provides views of the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, Fort Snelling, and the Minneapolis and St. Paul skylines. It was the site of the 1851 Treaty of Mendota between the United States federal government and the Dakota people of Minnesota, who consider the site sacred. In 2017, Oheyawahi-Pilot Knob was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The name Oheyawahi means "a sacred place much visited; the place where people go for burials". It had long been sacred to the Dakota people. Descriptions by early white settlers demonstrate its continued use by the Dakota in the 19th century: Charles La Trobe described a tomb of an Indian chief at the summit of the hill in 1832–1833, and Mary Henderson Eastman described Pilot Knob as "proud to be the burial place of her warrior children...." French settlers called the hill La Butte des Morts (Knoll of the Dead). These observations have been supported by a modern-day analysis of skeletal remains found on the hill which included individuals of both Native American and European origin.</p><br>
<p>In the 19th century, the hill became a reference point for riverboat pilots navigating the Minnesota River Valley, leading to the name.</p><br>
<p>In 1848, Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas suggested that Mendota Heights be the location of Minnesota’s territorial capital with the public buildings on Pilot Knob. He described “The beauty and fitness of Mendota’s situation at the junction of the two rivers, with the Pilot Knob peak as a grand place for the capitol building, with its beautiful and extensive view....” (The capital was located at St. Paul instead, at the urging of Henry Hastings Sibley, Minnesota&#39;s first governor.)</p><br>
<p>The Treaty of Mendota, was signed at Pilot Knob in 1851. The treaty ceded 25 e6acre of land west of the Mississippi (much of southern Minnesota) to the USA government.</p><br>
<p>During the Dakota War of 1862, Dakota people were forced into an internment camp on nearby Pike Island. Some of the many Dakota who died that winter were buried on Pilot Knob.</p><br>
<h2>Modern use</h2><br>
<p>The land remained largely undeveloped until 1925 when were purchased for the formation of Acacia Park Cemetery. During the landscaping for the cemetery, the top 20 feet of the "knob" was removed.</p><br>
<p>In 2002, a private developer announced plans to build high-density housing on of the hill.</p><br>
<p>The (plus 9 already owned by the city) is undergoing restoration to oak savanna, led by Great River Greening, a local non-profit. Conservation grazing (using horses, goats, and sheep), has been used to help restore and maintain native grassland. A trail system was established, including three scenic overlooks, which hooks up with the Big Rivers Regional Tail. The site is situated within the Mississippi Flyway, a bird migratory route that goes from central Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.</p><br>
<p>In 2017, the historic site, including the land owned by Mendota Heights, was added to the NRHP. The historic site includes public and private land, a cemetery and several homes. It overlooks Pike Island where the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers come together, Fort Snelling, Saint Peter&#39;s Church (the oldest church in Minnesota), and the Mendota Bridge on Minnesota State Highway 55. In the distance, the skylines of Minneapolis and Saint Paul are clearly visible.</p><br>
<p>Present-day Pilot Knob Road climbs the south side of the Oheyawahi-Pilot Knob hill, passes Acacia Park Cemetery at the summit, and ends just over the hilltop. In the opposite direction, Pilot Knob Road continues south to Dakota County 50/212th St W, on the border between Lakeville and Farmington.</p><br>
<p>The Rosa L.  and Raymond Parks Flat, or simply the Rosa Parks Flat, is a two-story brick duplex located at 3201-3203 Virginia Park Street in Detroit, Michigan. The building is significant as the home of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who lived in the first floor flat with her husband Raymond from 1961 to 1988. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.</p><br>
<h2>Building history</h2><br>
<p>The neighborhood around this duplex was being developed in the 1910s, and the duplex itself was likely built in 1917. The first resident of the first floor flat was Frank A. Miller, a patternmaker who lived there with his wife and family. Miller lived there in the early 1930s, and James Mondes, a store clerk, occupied the flat in the late 1930s through about World War II. This also marked a time of transition for the neighborhood, which until this time consisted of white, predominantly blue-collar workers. After World War II, the neighborhood gradually transitioned to majority African American residents.</p><br>
<h2>Rosa Parks</h2><br>
<p>After the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, Rosa Parks and her husband Raymond were the target of harassment in Montgomery. In 1957, they decided to move to Detroit, settling in with Parks&#39;s brother. However, couple struggled economically over the next few years, with both finding it difficult to find employment. They moved to a few different addresses, and by 1960 their plight began to draw attention. In early 1961, Raymond Parks found employment at a barber shop and Rosa Parks began work at the Stockton Sewing Company, and the couple were able to afford to move into the ground floor of this duplex.</p><br>
<p>During her time living in this flat, Rosa Parks continued her civil rights activism. In 1965, newly elected Congressman John Conyers hired her to work in his office. Parks participated in numerous civil rights actions in Detroit and throughout the nation. However, by the 1970s both Rosa Parks and Raymond Parks were experiencing health issues, and Raymond died in 1977. Rosa continued to work for Conyers and live in the flat until 1988, when she retired and moved into a house a dozen blocks north. She lived there until 1994, when she moved to Riverfront Towers.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Rosa Parks Flat is a two-and-one-half story Craftsman style building, sited on a corner lot. The elevations facing the streets are faced with dark red brick, while the remaining elevations are faced with common orange brick. The building has a hipped roof covered with asphalt shingles. A hipped dormer projects from the roof at the front. A full-length front porch runs along the front, with brick piers supporting a second-story open porch above. Two entry doors are placed on each side of the porch, between which is a bay window. All of the windows on the front aredouble-hung, one-over-one wood sash units.</p><br>
<p>The first floor flat, which was occupied by the Parkses, contains a small front foyer through which doors lead to the dining room and the living room, which contains the three-sided bay window with double-hung sash. From the dining room, a door opens into the front bedroom and a short hallway leads to the kitchen at the rear of the house. A door in the hallway leads to a second bedroom, and another door leads to the bathroom. Other than some replacement doors, the structure appears nearly identical to what it looked like at the time Rosa and Raymond Parks occupied it.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Luther L. and Susette E.  Pease House is a historic building located in Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States. It is significant for its association with the settlement of the city that was influenced by the establishment of the Military Road, its use of locally made brick and locally quarried limestone, and its vernacular architectural techniques. Located at the intersection of the Military Road and the Cedar Rapids Road, it is thought this house was constructed in two parts. The front gable section on the right may have been built by the Albright brothers in the 1850s. They owned one of the early brickyards in town and built several houses. The side-gabled section on the left is believed to have been built after Dr. Pease bought the property in 1866. It was built using bricks from the G.W. Robinson brickyard, the main brick and lime manufacturer in Mount Vernon at the time.</p><br>
<p>The Henry H. Dearborn House, also known as the Seattle Dearborn House is a single family residence in the First Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. It was designed in 1904 by architect Henry Dozier, and building was completed in 1907 for Seattle real estate developer Henry H. Dearborn. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a Seattle Landmark by the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board. As of 2021, the building is used as the headquarters of Historic Seattle.</p><br>
<p>The Dearborn house is two and a half stories in an American Foursquare style, with stucco exterior. The house has an enclosed veranda and an out building originally built as stables. In 1953 the house was converted to a medical office, and subsequently into office space.</p><br>
<p>The Wascom House, at 303 E. Michigan Ave. in Hammond, Louisiana, was built around 1897. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. It has also been known as Kemp House.</p><br>
<p>It was constructed by a builder named Clavert, in a vernacular version of Stick/eastlake architecture, with some Italianate influence.</p><br>
<p>The house was repaired after some damage in Hurricane Katrina.</p><br>
<p>Nichols House, near Ponchatoula, Louisiana, dates from around 1880. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It was built asan extremely late version of the traditional Creole raised plantation house plan. There are four large rooms in the front and two cabinets in the rear with a small gallery between. (This rear gallery has since been enclosed.) The main gallery, which encompasses the front and sides of the house, is 90 feet across the front. It consists of milled Stick Style posts with triple stop chamfering and double foil capitals. The house has a board and batten exterior, plate glass windows, and handsome brick chimneys. The two large front doorways have been reworked with new doors and lights.The interior features beaded board on the walls and ceilings. This boarding is angled so as to form a diamond pattern on the dining room ceiling. Other interior features include transom doors and heavy pine Renaissance Revival mantels with burl wood entablatures, and Fleurs de Lis cut into central wooden keystone motifs.</p><br>
<p>It is located about 2 mi west of Ponchatoula on Louisiana Highway 22, at the end of a 300 yd alley of live oak (as of 1979).</p><br>
<p>Oaks Hotel, in Hammond, Louisiana, was built in 1905. It is an L-shaped building that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It was designed by Favrot & Livaudais, an architectural firm active in Louisiana from 1891 to 1933.</p><br>
<p>Its National Register nomination stated:</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s striking feature is its attenuated pedimented entrance portico which surmounts the entrance vestibule in the corner where the wings meet. Added in the 1920s, it appears to be constructed of standard commercially available members.</p><br>
<p>Deep Run Hunt Club Rosedale Lodge is a historic building in Richmond, Virginia, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1895, Lewis Ginter hired architect D. Wiley Anderson to remodel Rosedale Lodge and enlarge what was originally a four-room brick farmhouse from the early 1800s. The construction was completed in the year 1896.</p><br>
<p>On April 17, 2010, the property was added to Virginia Landmarks Registry and on May 21, 2019, the property got listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Shrine of the Black Madonna of the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church, or more simply the Shrine of the Black Madonna, is a church building located at 7625 Linwood Street in Detroit, Michigan. It is significant for its association with civil rights leader Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., and as the location of many significant 20th century African American civil rights activities. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.</p><br>
<h2>Building History</h2><br>
<p>Around 1915, the recently-formed Pilgrim Congregational Church (later known as Brewster-Pilgrim Congregational Church) constructed a single-story, stuccoed building just north of this location. In 1925, the congregation hired architect George D. Mason to design the current brick structure. The building was completed in 1926. Three years later the original wooden church was burned, and the congregation replaced it with a church hall, which was completed in 1930.</p><br>
<h2>Shrine of the Black Madonna</h2><br>
<p>By the late 1950s, the congregation of Brewster-Pilgrim Congregational Church was shrinking. This was likely due to movement of white residents to the suburbs, although Brewster-Pilgrim sponsored citywide interracial events as early as the 1940s. The congregation moved to Livonia and put the building on Linwood up for sale. In 1957, it was purchased by Central Congregational Church, led by Reverend Albert B. Cleage Jr.</p><br>
<p>The church soon became a center of the civil rights movement in Detroit, and Cleage himself participated nearly every civil rights activity in the city. In 1963, Cleage and other religious leaders organized the Detroit Walk to Freedom, drawing 125,000 or more participants. As the 1960s progressed, Cleage continued political and civil rights activities, and turned to a more Black Nationalist view.</p><br>
<p>In 1967, Cleage and the Central Congregational Church commissioned local Black artist Glanton Dowdell to paint a mural of the Black Madonna, replacing a stained glass window depicting the Pilgrims (left from the old Brewster-Pilgrim Congregational Church). The mural was unveiled in Easter Sunday, and polarized the church congregation, with some who were unsympathetic to Cleages Black Nationalist views leaving the church. However, the 1967 Detroit rebellion accelerated Cleages activism, and he renamed his church after the mural of the Black Madonna.</p><br>
<p>Cleage was a leader in the Detroit civil rights community through the 1960s and 1970s, but also began focusing on church development and education. He expanded the Shrine to several new locations, both in Detroit and in other states (notably Atlanta, Georgia and Houston, Texas). Cleage died in 2000, but the church congregation remains, led by a new generation of leaders.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The church building is a two-story, rectangular structure made from red brick with stone trim. The front-gabled roof is covered with asphalt shingles and topped with a bell tower located at the center front. A two-story Doric portico, topped with a pediment, runs across the front. A projecting section under the portico contains paired entry doors. Above the entry is a triple window, and to either side of the entry bay are narrow vertical window openings on the first floor. The second floor contains window openings on wither side of the portico.</p><br>
<p>The nearby church hall is a two-story, rectangular structure made from red brick with stone trim. It is five bays wide, with each bay containing paired windows on both floors. The center three bays project slightly and are outlined with quoining. The church and hall are connected with a narrow, single-story kitchen.</p><br>
<p>The Bertus-Ducatel House, at 1721 Lakeshore Dr. in Mandeville, Louisiana, was built around 1839. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>It is French Creole in style. It was built with brick-between-post (briquette entre poteaux) construction, which is rare in the United States outside of New Orleans.</p><br>
<p>It has also been known as Little Flower Villa.</p><br>
<p>Lacombe School, built in 1913 in Lacombe, Louisiana as a one-story two-room schoolhouse, was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It was then the Lacombe Museum. It is now known as the Bayou Lacombe Museum.</p><br>
<p>It is a "plain" building with a tin hipped roof. It served as the community&#39;s only elementary school from 1913 until "well past World War II". Through 1990 the beaded board interior had retained its historic appearance, although some wall surfaces were obscured by museum exhibit boards.</p><br>
<p>It is located on property of the current Lacombe Junior High School, and is linked to that by a covered walkway.</p><br>
<p>The schoolhouse/museum is accessible by a handicapped-access ramp.</p><br>
<p>There exists a different "Lacombe Museum" in Lacombe, Alberta, Canada.</p><br>
<p>The George W. and Mary J.  Robinson House, also known as the Johnston B. Robinson House, is a historic building located in Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States. It is significant for being constructed of locally made brick and locally quarried limestone, and its vernacular architectural techniques. This house probably incorporated the original single-story frame house that was built at this location c. 1865. In 1887, George W. Robinson rebuilt the house as a two-story brick structure. It was built on the same property as Robinson&#39;s brickyard, the main brick and lime manufacturer in Mount Vernon at the time.</p><br>
<p>The Martin L. and Mary Jane  Shantz House is a historic building located in Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States. It is significant for being constructed of locally made brick and locally quarried limestone, and its Late Victorian architectural influences. It was built in 1882 on two lots in Saxbys Addition to Mount Vernon. The house is a two-story, L-shaped brick structure with a low-pitched hip roof, wide eaves, tall windows that enhance its verticality, and a three-sided bay window. It is a vernacular expression of Late Victorian stylistic influences. The house lacks elaborate exterior decorative elements and a substantial front porch at a time when they were popular. This either reflects the Shantzs preferences or a lack of finances to include them.</p><br>
<p>The Mildred and Abel Fagen House is a historic house at 1711 Devonshire Lane in Lake Forest, Illinois. Its address at the time of its construction was 1581 Old Mill Road, but the surrounding acreage was eventually sold to developer Arthur Rubloff, who added a number of new streets to service the many additional homes that were built on the former Fagen property. The house was built in 1948 for Mildred Fagen, a patron and leader in the local arts community, and her husband Abel, a textile broker. Prominent Modern Movement architects Keck & Keck designed the house, which was heavily influenced by Frank Lloyd Wrights Usonian work. The one-story house has a flat roof with overhanging eaves, giving it a horizontal emphasis that reflects the areas flat landscape. The houses use of natural materials such as wood, glass, and limestone and its lack of ornamental features continue the emphasis on blending in with its surroundings. The interior design includes a low-ceilinged foyer leading to a larger dining room, stone fireplaces used as focal points, and a narrow hallway leading to the bedrooms, all of which were typical elements of Wrights Usonian plans.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 4, 2021.</p><br>
<p>The James J. and Anna J.  Smith House No. 1, also known as the Lanning House, Ford House, and Sinclair House, is a historic building located in Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States. It is significant for its association with the settlement of the city that was influenced by the establishment of the Military Road, its use of locally made brick and locally quarried limestone, and its vernacular architectural techniques. This was the first of two brick houses built by the Smiths. There were two additions built onto the rear of the house. It is thought that the Smiths built the first addition in the early 1860s and the Fords, a later owner, added the second in the 1870s.</p><br>
<p>The James J. and Anna J.  Smith House No. 2, also known as the D.L. and Margaret  Boyd House, is a historic building located in Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States. It is significant for its association with the settlement of the city that was influenced by the establishment of the Military Road, its use of locally made brick and locally quarried limestone, and its vernacular architectural techniques. This was the second of two brick houses built by the Smiths. The first house was built in 1859 on Third Avenue SW. They sold it after they had this house built in 1864. They added a large brick addition onto the north side of the house in 1875–1876. The two-story side-gabled structure features mid-19th century stylistic influences. Smith opened the first livery stable in Mount Vernon and became quite wealthy because of it and his land holdings.</p><br>
<p>The Rector Hotel, later known as the St. Charles Hotel and during the 1930s the Governor Hotel, is a historic hotel building located at the Southwest corner of Third Avenue and Cherry Street in downtown Seattle, Washington. It was constructed in the latter half of 1911 by the estate of pioneer lumber baron Amos Brown. Designed by prominent Seattle architect John Graham, Sr., the original plans were for a twelve-story building that would be built in two phases but the top 6 floors were never added. Originally a hotel serving the tourist trade, by the 1970s it was operating as a Single resident occupancy hotel. In 1986 it was renovated into low-income housing by the Plymouth Housing Group. In 2002 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It is located north of historic Pioneer Square, "in the shadow of" the Smith Tower, and adjacent to the former Grand Opera House and the 1910-built Chicago School-style Lyon Building, also designed by John Graham.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Amos Brown</h3><br>
<p>Amos Brown, a native of New Hampshire, was lured to the Northwest in the 1850s, like many, by the promise of riches during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush but by the time he arrived in Victoria, British Columbia, the rush was all but over. Undaunted, he decided to throw his lot in with the growing local lumber industry, landing at Port Gamble, Washington in 1859 where he went to work running logging camps for Cyrus Walker. He soon came into his own, opening logging camps and mills throughout Puget Sound and by the 1870s had become one of the most powerful lumber men in the region. The same year he had arrived in Port Gamble, he purchased the first of many pieces of Seattle real estate sight unseen, that by the time of his death would be some of the most valuable property in the city. After his marriage to Annie Peoples, one of the famous Mercer Girls, in 1867, Brown would make Seattle his permanent home, joining the city council and building a stately residence on his property at First Avenue and Spring Streets in the early 1870s. Brown retired from logging in 1882 to focus on improving his real estate holdings. He died from complications from stomach cancer in 1899 with an estate valued at nearly $400,000.</p><br>
<h3>The Rector Hotel</h3><br>
<p>Of Browns real estate holdings, the 2 lots at the southwest corner of Cherry Street and Third Avenue were identified as the most valuable. Brown had purchased the two lots from Henry Yesler in 1890 in partnership with Jacob Furth and J.D. Lowman, of Lowman and Hanford but would later buy out their interests. 1 year prior to Browns death, the Western 2/3rds of the property facing Cherry Street had been leased to theater operator John Cort who opened a beer hall and one year after Browns death built the Grand Opera House on the site. The remaining 35 X 120 sliver of property facing Third Avenue, made narrower after the widening of that street in the 1900s, was filled with a row of pre-fire wooden tenement houses anchored by the Rainier Lodging House, which had originally been the home of pioneer Ursula Wyckoff dating back to 1883. Originally built at the site of the present Alaska Building, Amos Brown purchased the building and had it moved onto his lot in the 1890s. By 1910 it was the only corner of this intersection that hadnt been improved with larger more permanent structures.</p><br>
<p>In 1911, Browns estate under the direction of his son Alson L. Brown commissioned architect John Graham, Sr. (whose offices were located in the recently completed Lyon Building next door) to design a fireproof hotel building for their lot. They had Graham make plans for both an 8-floor and 12-floor design that they would decide upon if the bids for the larger design met their budget or not. Grahams design was for a 3-part Beaux-Arts tower faced with limestone, brick and terra cotta over a reinforced concrete structure. They ultimately opted for the 12-floor design, costing an estimated $200,000, but chose to only complete the first 6 floors for the time being. Grahams concept sketch was published in the July 9, 1911 edition of the Seattle Times, showing the building as it would have been with the top 2 floors forming the capital of the 3-part design with arched windows and a large dentiled cornice. Demolition of the old buildings by contractor Sherman G. Combs began in July 1911 and excavation of the lot was completed by the end of August. Harry Brandt was awarded the general contract and the buildings steel and concrete structure was finished by the end of the year. Although the building was completed by early 1912, the hotel itself wouldnt open for another year; the reason for this delay was never made clear. The Hotel Rector, operated by the Levinson Hotel Company, Inc., officially opened on May 5, 1913, touting its fireproof building and the fact that it was completely furnished by Seattle labor. Doc Humphrey, previously of the Frye Hotel, was its first manager. A large neon sign spanning the buildings top 5 floors could be seen up and down Cherry Street.</p><br>
<h3>The St. Charles Hotel</h3><br>
<p>Expansion of the hotel remained in limbo after A.L. Brown was removed as receiver from his fathers estate by the rest of his family after he was found to have embezzled over $300,000 in funds for his own personal use and to pay off debts for various farming scams. The financial repercussions continued to multiply as more parties came forward against the estate and Brown was forced to declare bankruptcy. The Rector Hotel and adjoining Grand Opera House building were foreclosed upon and by 1920 all of Browns real estate holdings had been sold off to settle their delinquent loans. During this legal turmoil the Rector Hotel underwent a massive 6 month interior remodeling in which all the furniture was sold and many of the interior room partitions were rebuilt. The intention was to connect the hotel to the adjacent Opera House building, which had recently been gutted by fire, and add more rooms, but this was never done. The St. Charles Hotel Company was incorporated in August 1917 by the hotel&#39;s new managers John and Josephine Farnham and C.A. Spirk and by the end of 1917 the Rector had reopened as the St. Charles Hotel, though still under the operation of the Levinson Company, now known as the Rector Hotel Company. Not long after the Rector name was retired, Levinson would open a New Rector Hotel at 1924 First Avenue.</p><br>
<p>In April 1920 the St. Charles and Grand Opera House were sold to C.D. Clinton for $250,000. The hotel served a mix of tourists and long-term guests of various reputation. In November 1920 at the height of prohibition a guest was busted on the fifth floor with nine quarts of liquor. By the mid 1920s the building was managed for its owner by Henry Broderick who in 1926, planned to finally add the buildings missing floors, though only 5 instead of the original 6, that would double the hotels capacity but this too never came to pass. The lease and furnishings of the St. Charles were sold to J.A. Ragan of Olympia in May 1927 for $30,000 and the hotel underwent a second interior remodeling in September 1931 after which it was known as the Governor Hotel for about ten years before reverting to the St. Charles and would continue to serve guests for decades.</p><br>
<p>In March 1985 the St. Charles was purchased for $520,000 by Plymouth Housing Group, a Seattle-based non-profit organization, with plans to convert the hotel into low-income rental housing to serve the increasing amounts of homeless in Seattle. Over the next two years over 1600 hours of volunteer labor went into restoring the building inside and out. With a $637,000 loan from the city, workers installed a new elevator, a second exit, cooking units and laundry, bath and shower facilities. A grand re-opening, attended by mayor Charles Royer was held on September 27, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Elijah D. and Mary J.  Waln House, also known as the C.P. and Gertrude E. Whittemore House, is a historic building located in Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States. It is significant with the settlement of the city that was influenced by the establishment of the Military Road, for being constructed of locally made brick and locally quarried limestone, and its Greek Revival architecture. Elijah and Mary Waln and their family were early pioneers in Mount Vernon. He set up the first general variety store in town, and was also one of the founders, a trustee, and a benefactor of Cornell College. He also served in the Iowa House of Representatives. The familys first house was a 2½-story frame structure that they had built when they moved to town. It was replaced around 1865 with this two-story, brick, Greek Revival-style residence. Waln hired brothers Henry and William Albright, who were Mount Vernons first masons and owned its first brickyard, to build the new house. They lived here until 1892 when they sold the house to C.P. Whittemore, who added the rear addition and enclosed the lower part of the front porch in 1900. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.</p><br>
<p>The Col. John Q. and Rowena  Wilds House, also known as the James and Ruth  Smith House, is a historic building located in Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States. It is significant with the settlement of the city that was influenced by the establishment of the Military Road, for being constructed of locally made brick and locally quarried limestone, and its vernacular architectural techniques. A native of Fulton County, Pennsylvania, John Wilds settled in Mount Vernon in 1853, opened a general store, and invested in real estate. He married Rowena Camp and they had two daughters. Wilds had this house built in 1857. It was probably built by brothers Henry and William Albright, the town&#39;s earliest masons. The two-story, brick structure exhibits elements of Early Republic influences. John Wilds grew wealthy and bought a gristmill. He sold the mill in 1860 and with the outbreak of the American Civil War he volunteered for the 13th Iowa Infantry Regiment. He rose to the rank of Colonel. He was wounded at the Battle of Cedar Creek and died a week later. His wife and two daughters died of illnesses around the same time.</p><br>
<p>The Western Railroad Stone Arch Bridges and Chester Factory Village Depot is a National Historic Landmark District extending through parts of the towns of Chester, Middlefield, and Becket, Massachusetts. It encompasses a section of the historic Western Railroad railbed, two stone bridges constructed in the 1840s under the direction of George Washington Whistler, and the c. 1862 railroad depot in the village of Chester Factory, which served the railroad as an important logistics point for the difficult crossing of The Berkshires to the west. The section of railroad was the most expensive the company had to build, costing over $1 million in 1840. A hiking trail providing viewing points to the lower seven bridges was opened in 2004. All of the bridges are viewable via whitewater-appropriate watercraft from the river.</p><br>
<p>These properties were designated a National Historic Landmark in 2021, in recognition of its importance in the development of railroad technologies. The graded crossing of the hills between Chester and the New York state line was an engineering challenge on a scale that had not previously been attempted by railroad engineers, and its success proved the ability of railroads to traverse steep grades using just friction. The railroad was also the first inter-regional railroad, connecting the network of eastern New England to that of upstate New York. The Chester Factory depot was an important stopping point for the railroad, where additional engines were added to westbound trains prior to traversing the steeper grades to the west.</p><br>
<p>The Chester Factory depot is a contributing element of the Chester Factory Village Historic District. The two stone bridges included in the landmark designation, as well as the historic roadbed, are part of the Middlefield–Becket Stone Arch Railroad Bridge District; the bridges are listed as numbers 5 and 6 in that collection.</p><br>
<p>The Mary Baker Eddy House is a historic house museum at 8 Broad Street in Lynn, Massachusetts. Built in 1870–71, it was the home of Mary Baker Eddy , founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, from 1875 to 1882. The house is now owned by the church, which operates it as a historic site devoted to Eddy&#39;s life and early church history. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2021, and was included in the Diamond Historic District in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Mary Baker Eddy House stands in Lynn&#39;s Diamond district, a residential area of high-quality 19th-century homes. It is on the south side of Broad Street (US Route 1A), midway between Portland and Atlantic Streets. It is a modest -story wood-frame structure, with a front-facing gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The gables and eaves are adorned with paired Italianate brackets, and windows are topped by bracketed lintel caps.</p><br>
<p>The house was built between 1870 and 1871, probably by the builder of a nearby house, with which it shares some architectural features. It was purchased in 1875 by Mary Glover, who married Asa Gilbert Eddy in 1877. She was resident here when the first edition of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures was published in 1875. In 1882 the Eddys moved to Boston, renting and then selling this property. It was purchased by the local Christian Science church in 1902, and was turned over to the Mother Church in 1916. Since 1906 it has served as an exhibition space for the church.</p><br>
