<p>The Old Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House is a historic building in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It is an American Foursquare in the American Craftsman  style, showing considerable Prairie School influence. It was built in 1906-1907 by John B. Kronebusch, for between six and seven thousand dollars. Kronebusch leased it to the Beta Theta Pi fraternity for 15 years. It was then purchased by the Delta Zeta sorority, who occupied the house for six years from 1923 to 1929. A two-story addition was constructed in the mid-1930s, of materials compatible with the original house. In 1936, the upper two levels were turned into apartments separate from the first level and were given their own address of 1176 Mill Street. The exterior and all of the apartments retain a high degree of integrity, with minor modifications made mostly before 1937.</p><br>
<p>The Plumb House is a historic USA home located at 1012 West Main Street, Waynesboro, Virginia. The house currently serves as the Plumb House Museum and is operated by the Waynesboro Heritage Foundation.</p><br>
<h2>Plumb House Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Plumb House Museum provides information on the Plumb family that lived in the house for five generations and a history of the Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia fought nearby in 1865 during the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>The Ansonia Apartments, located at 2221-23 Jones Street in the Midtown area of Omaha, Nebraska. Built in 1929 in a period Revival/Arts and Crafts style, the buildings were designated an Omaha Landmark on March 27, 1984. It was added to the Drake Court Historic District, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 4, 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Ansonia Apartment building was built in a U-shape that with end walls facing the street. Adjacent to the neighboring Dartmore Apartments, the Ansonia Apartment building displays both Arts and Crafts and Period Revival elements.</p><br>
<p>The Old Stone Fort is a prehistoric Native American structure located in Coffee County, Tennessee, in the Southeastern United States. Most likely built between 80 and 550 AD during the Middle Woodland period, the structure is considered the most complex hilltop enclosure found in the South and was likely used for ceremonial purposes rather than defense.</p><br>
<p>The structure is now part of Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park, one of two archaeological parks in Tennessee (the other being at Pinson Mounds near Jackson). The site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Geographic setting</h2><br>
<p>The Old Stone Fort is located on a peninsula formed by the confluence of the Duck River and the Little Duck River (the section of the Duck River upstream from its confluence with the Little Duck is sometimes called "Barren Fork"). The Duck River forms the peninsulas northwestern boundary, the Little Duck forms the peninsulas southeastern boundary, and a westward bend in the Little Duck forms the peninsula&#39;s southern boundary. The walled area of the structure encompasses approximately 50 acre. ()</p><br>
<p>The Duck River system spills over a limestone-rich shelf of the western Cumberland Plateau known as the Highland Rim. As the Duck and Little Duck approach their convergence, they rapidly drop in elevation and have cut relatively deep gorges around the peninsula upon which the ancient structure is located. A series of substantial waterfalls and whitewater rapids highlight both gorges. The natural water power in these two gorges attracted entrepreneurs and millwrights throughout the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The Old Stone Fort is located entirely within Coffee County, just west of Manchester, Tennessee. Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park encompasses 876 acre and is managed by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.</p><br>
<h2>The structure of the Old Stone Fort</h2><br>
<p>The walls of the Old Stone Fort consist of stone and earthwork and are, on average, approximately 4–6 feet high. They originally consisted of an inner and outer layer of crudely stacked rocks and slabs with gravel and earthen fill in between. Over the centuries, the earthen fill has spilled over the rock layers, giving the walls their current mound-like appearance.</p><br>
<p>The walls can be divided into roughly three sections, with two sections running approximately parallel to the Duck and Little Duck Rivers and a third section running parallel to the southern rim of the peninsula. The sections paralleling the rivers gradually move inward, away from their respective rivers, and approach one another in a pincer-like formation at the northeastern half of the peninsula. Here, both walls terminate just before converging, allowing for a small entrance. Two ancient "pedestal" mounds&mdash; one 35 ft in diameter and the other 48 ft in diameter&mdash; are located on either side of the structures entrance. The entrance continues through a 120 ft L-shaped corridor, which opens into the structures interior.</p><br>
<p>The fort&#39;s northwestern walls (following the Duck River) are approximately 1,394 ft long, and the southeastern walls (following the Little Duck) are approximately 1,094 ft in length. The southern walls, which are straight except for an area where the ridge bulges outward, are 2,116 ft long. Large open sections are found between the southern wall, the northwestern wall, the southern wall, and the southeastern wall. These areas were probably left open because they overlook steep bluffs carved out by the Duck and Little Duck rivers, whose waters probably performed the same function as the mounds.</p><br>
<p>A substantial ditch, known as the "moat", parallels the southern wall at the base of the ridge. This ditch is a natural feature and is an abandoned river channel. However, it is not known if this channel was artificially kept open in prehistory.</p><br>
<h2>The Old Stone Fort in recorded history</h2><br>
<p>By the time white long hunters and traders arrived in the area in the mid-18th century, a system of well-worn trails traversed the Cumberland Plateau, connecting what is now Middle Tennessee with Georgia and Northern Alabama. One trail passed near the Old Stone Fort, closely following what is now USA Route 41. The ancient structure was undoubtedly a vital landmark to early travelers in the Middle Tennessee area.</p><br>
<p>The Nickajack Expedition, led by Major James Ore in the latter part of the Cherokee–American wars, is believed to have encamped within the Old Stone Fort en route to the Chickamauga towns. The structure also had an important symbolic significance for early Coffee County residents. The county&#39;s first court was held at the "Old Stone Fort Tavern" in 1836, and the county seat was laid out upon "Main Stone Fort Creek."</p><br>
<p>The powerful Duck River made the Old Stone Forts peninsula an attractive site for mills as early as 1823 when Samuel Murray built a rope factory on the Little Duck River. Although the factory burned in 1847, it was followed by W.S. Whitmans paper mill further downstream in 1852. In 1862, Whitman built a powder factory adjacent to his paper mill to supply the Confederacy during the Civil War; it was destroyed by Union troops the following year. In 1879, the Stone Fort Paper Company built a large mill near Big Falls on the Duck River. The mill supplied paper to newspapers throughout the Southeast&mdash; including the Nashville Banner and the Atlanta Constitution&mdash; until the early 20th century. The mill&#39;s foundations are on the bluffs overlooking Big Falls and can be accessed via the Old Stone Fort Loop Trail.</p><br>
<p>The property containing the Old Stone Fort was eventually passed to the Chumbley family, who had ties to Stone Fort Paper. The Chumbleys, seeking to protect the Old Stone Fort, passed up numerous private offers for the land on which the ancient structure was located. In 1966, the State of Tennessee purchased 400 acre of the Chumbley estate that became the core of Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park. The Old Stone Fort was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>The Old Stone Fort&#39;s builders and function</h2><br>
<h3>Who built the Old Stone Fort?</h3><br>
<p>The Old Stone Fort remained a mystery until the University of Tennessee conducted archaeological excavations in 1966. Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, various theories tried to identify the builders.</p><br>
<p>In 1823, the Pioneer, a Jackson, Tennessee newspaper, argued Buccaneers built the Old Stone Fort from Seville after one of their ships wrecked off the coast of Florida and forced them inland. In the mid-20th century, the discoveries at L&#39;Anse aux Meadows and the discovery of apparent Viking artifacts in various parts of North America led many to believe the Vikings built stone structures in the Eastern USA, including the Old Stone Fort.</p><br>
<p>The first serious investigation of the Old Stone Fort was conducted by Joseph Jones for the Smithsonian Institution in 1876 and uncovered several prehistoric artifacts. He was followed by Tennessee State Archaeologist P.E. Cox in 1928, who dug several trenches and analyzed the fort&#39;s composition.</p><br>
<p>In 1966, after the purchase of the Old Stone Fort, the University of Tennessee Department of Anthropology investigated the structure&#39;s origins. Digging a series of trenches and test pits and conducting extensive research, the investigators determined the builders to be Native Americans of the Middle Woodland period. Charles Faulkner, a member of the excavation team, based this on three findings:</p><br>
<p>Radiocarbon analysis of charcoal samples found within the structure&#39;s walls all dated to approximately 30-430 AD in the Middle Woodland period.</p><br>
<p>The structure&#39;s composition, setting, and layout are similar to other structures built by Middle Woodland cultures, such as the Hopewell people of Ohio and the Pinson Mound builders in West Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>Between 1966 and 1971, five Middle Woodland settlements were discovered within 20 mi of the Old Stone Fort, including a substantial habitation area 3 mi downstream.</p><br>
<p>The University of Tennessee determined that the fort had been built gradually over several hundred years. The builders are believed to be two distinct local Middle Woodland cultures known as the McFarland and the Owl Hollow cultures, the first beginning work in the 1st century AD and the second completing it.</p><br>
<h3>Purpose of the Old Stone Fort</h3><br>
<p>For decades, it was largely assumed the structure was used for military defense. However, evidence from the 1966 excavations points more to a religious or ceremonial function. Faulkner based this on the following:</p><br>
<p>Defensive structures are typically constructed quickly in response to a threat, but the Old Stone Fort was gradually built over several centuries.</p><br>
<p>The walls are not high enough to have been used for defense, and no evidence of a palisade was found.</p><br>
<p>The area within the walls is large, and its defense would require much more than a typical Middle Woodland fighting force.</p><br>
<p>The 1966 excavations turned up almost no cultural artifacts, which implies the enclosure was kept clean and not continuously inhabited by its builders.</p><br>
<p>The "moat" that parallels the base of the southwestern edge of the peninsula was originally considered artificial, although researchers now believe it may be a natural dry riverbed.</p><br>
<h2>The Old Stone Fort Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Old Stone Fort Museum, built by Tennessee State Parks, is located near the entrance of Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park. The museums exhibits interpret the theories regarding the forts builders, archaeological excavations at the site, small theater, small welcome/gift shop center, historical lineage of early Native Americans, and the culture of its builders. An observation deck atop the museum displays information about the Old Stone Fort and surrounding rivers and views of the Blue Hole Falls.</p><br>
<p>The A. M. Lamb House is a historic building in Ruskin, Florida, United States. It is located at 2410 West Shell Point Road. On October 12, 2007, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1910 in Palmetto, and was the home of vice-president of the Manatee County State Bank Mississippi banker Asa Lamb and his family.</p><br>
<p>In September 2007, as part of an arrangement with Manatee County to preserve it, the house was moved by boat across the Tampa Bay from Palmetto to Ruskin.</p><br>
<p>The Homestead Historic Downtown District, is a USA Historic District  located in Homestead, Florida, United States. It is bound by Northwest 4th Street, South Railroad Avenue, Southeast 1st Road and North Krome Drive.</p><br>
<h2>Seminole Theater</h2><br>
<p>Originally opened in 1921, the 500-seat Seminole on Krome Avenue was built for Henry Booker, Sr. and James Washington English for movies and live entertainment. The theater was heavily damaged in a 1940 fire, leaving little more than a blackened shell.</p><br>
<p>Prolific theater architect Roy A. Benjamin was hired to rebuild the Seminole, which he designed in Streamline Moderne style. The cost of the movie theater&#39;s reconstruction was around $50,000. It reopened in fall of 1940. In addition to movies, the Seminole continued to host live entertainment, as well as beauty contests and cooking demonstrations. In the early 1970s, the Seminole was renamed the Premier Theatre and began to show Spanish-language movies. It closed in 1979 due to declining attendance.</p><br>
<p>For years, the theater sat vacant and fell into disrepair. In 1992, when Hurricane Andrew hit the Homestead area, the Seminole was not spared, and though its walls stood, the roof was torn off and the theaters interior suffered serious damage. In 1993, the Seminole Theaters owners donated the battered theater to the city, which designed it a local historic site two years later, the sole remaining example of Art Moderne style in all Dade County.</p><br>
<p>The Seminole Theater Group was organized in 1997 with the intention of restoring the theater as a performing arts venue serving the Homestead and Dade County region. It is expected to cost about $4.2 million to bring the old Seminole back to life. The Seminole Theatre was reopened October 28, 2015.</p><br>
<p>The John Sedgley Homestead is a historic homestead property at Scituate and Chases Pond Road in the York Corner area of York, Maine. Its oldest structure built in the late First Period, probably, it is the oldest homestead in the State of Maine that is still in its original setting. Historically the homestead included a cape, farm home, carriage house, stables building, two outbuildings, and a large land holding, all of which is still existing today. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Jonathan Sedgley</h2><br>
<p>Jonathan Sedgley was born in England between 1680 and 1690 and was a turner by trade. He came to York as a young man, and married in January 1714 to Miss Elizabeth Adams, the seventh child of Thomas and Hannah Adams, a prominent York family, cousins of President John Adams&#39; family of Quincy, Massachusetts. Thomas Adams gave the plot of land upon which the homestead stands to the young couple in March 1715. Adams in January and December 1716 added two more lots to the Sedgley holdings and by middle life the latter, in addition to his trade as a turner had become a respected and prosperous landholder in York. Although not a leader in the community affairs himself, his son was elected Surveyor of Highways in 1775.</p><br>
<p>Since the Town of York, the second established town in Maine, and the first county seat in the state. It was almost completely wiped out by the great raid of the 1692 Abenaki Tribes. The John Sedgley Homestead presents one of the best and most substantial examples of the new settlement which was constructed and formed the foundation of the community of historic York on its frontier.</p><br>
<h2>Cape</h2><br>
<p>The cape was built about 1715 by Jonathan Sedgley, which was the first year his wife and he started living on the land. The structure sits on a granite foundation and has a gable roof. With an attached shed roof screened porch. It has a wood clapboard exterior, with a centrally aligned rectangular brick chimney. The structure is a low posted, Cape Cod–style dwelling, near symmetrical designed front façade. It is an L-shaped structure that stands one and a half stories tall. Entrance into the home can be through the southern façade (which is the near symmetrical aligned façade being referred to) or the eastern faćade. Even the exterior door skeleton keys are still present and functional, which are to the best of the owner&#39;s knowledge, original sets. It has open timber ceiling framed interiors with nineteenth-century six-over-six sash windows. The two open fireplaces, one in the Western and one in the Eastern rooms of the first story of the home, which historically would have been best known as the bedroom quarters and the hearth area respectively. The room in the North of the home also features a chimney and fireplace. The Cape is currently a one bedroom, one bathroom home with a second large living area above on the second floor.</p><br>
<h2>Farm house</h2><br>
<p>The farm house was built by Sedgley about 1720, and being that a growing family required larger quarters, Sedgley constructed the six-room, -story dwelling. This dwelling is more substantial than the first, although the older cape probably became a residence in due time for the oldest son, Jonathan Sedgley II. The house sits on a granite foundation. The 1720 original granite, U-shaped cellar, recently converted to a wine cellar. The original structure is rectangular in form and is symmetrical. It has a gable roof and a large rectangular brick chimney centrally extruding from it. It is a frame-constructed structure with a clapboard exterior. It has open timber ceiling framed interiors with nineteenth-century six-over-six sash windows. The dwelling has four open fireplaces and one open hearth fireplace used traditionally for preparation of the family&#39;s meals, in its completion of construction, this made for a total of one fireplace in each room of the first and second floors. Since the original structure it has twice had two-story additions, once in the nineteenth century and once in the twentieth century. The Farm House is currently a four bedroom, two bathroom house with a large livable third story area as well.</p><br>
<h2>Carriage house</h2><br>
<p>Built later in the eighteenth century by Jonathan Sedgley and Jonathan Sedgley II, being that the growing family required a shelter for their many carriages. It sits on a granite foundation. The original structure is rectangular in form and the front façade is near symmetrical with an exterior 7 x 4 sliding track-and-wheels door. It has a gable roof and there is a brick chimney extruding from it. It is a frame-constructed structure with a clapboard exterior. Sometime in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century it was converted to a two-story dwelling. It has open timber ceiling framed interiors with nineteenth-century six-over-six sash windows. The Carriage House is currently a three bedroom, two bathroom home.</p><br>
<h2>Stables building</h2><br>
<p>This structure is directly overlays the footprint in were the frame-constructed stables structure once stood later in Jonathan Sedgley IIs life. With a granite foundation, the original two-story structure is rectangular in form with a gable roof and a wood clapboard exterior. A fully finished structure came to be in the twentieth century. Featuring a 25 x 25 exterior sliding track-and-wheels door to cover a very large area of window sashes, as well as two 7 x 4&#39; exterior sliding track-and-wheels doors on either side of the large one. It has open timber ceiling framed interiors. The Stable Building is currently not a dwelling structure.</p><br>
<h2>Outbuildings</h2><br>
<p>The cape and the farm home structures each have adjacent outbuildings, built on granite foundations. The two are both -story tall with gable-style roofs. The structures are wood clapboard exteriors with near symmetrical window and door alignments on the façades. The outbuilding adjacent to the farm home has a chimney feature. The two outbuildings took on later additions of shed roof structures, single-story shed or garage structure attached. One outbuilding features an eighteenth-century 7 x 4 exterior sliding track-and-wheels door. It has open timber ceiling framed interiors with nineteenth-century six-over-six sash windows. Both outbuildings are not currently dwelling structures.</p><br>
<h2>Land Holdings</h2><br>
<p>Presently The John Sedgley Homestead lies between Chases Pond Road and lower Scituate Road in York. Historically prior to the building of the Homestead, Chases Pond Road would have existed in some form of a path starting at the summit of Mount Agamenticus, winding around Chases Pond.</p><br>
<p>Following down near the historically noted Snowshoe Rock&#39;s Abenaki tribe area natives raid of York and the surrounding villages of southern Maine, the rock is less than 1,000 ft from the homestead. Continuing downward towards the lower ground of what could have been around the homestead property lines and following south toward the village centers of historic York or Kittery, Maine.</p><br>
<p>The structures sit respectively in that such order from highest ground to the lowest on the property. Even though only three acres was registered with The National Register of Historic Places as the direct footprint of the homestead foundations, it rested on a very large land holding. Near the northernmost point of the property, next to Scituate Road, is a very old stone-stacked water well that is currently not in use. There is a 30 ft&sup2; family cemetery not far from the homes that holds the first two generations of the Sedgley family as well as other that were part of the family- the Adams and Burbanks of the village. On the lower elevated parts of the property runs a small brook, with water attributing from Scituate Pond.</p><br>
<p>Historically it is believed the primary uses for the land would have been vegetable crops, fruit orchards, and livestock. About a half of a dozen heirloom apple, pear, and cherry trees still stand on the property currently. Some of the trees have girth sizes that date back at least 200 years old. The secondary uses of the land holdings may have very well served for recreational animals and traditional events like maypole and spinning hoop for the children. As well as activities like horseback riding for the whole family from the stables.</p><br>
<h2>Publications</h2><br>
<p>Previous Prive Business- The John Sedgley Homestead Restaurant Place Setting & Poster; Illustrated by: Rose Labrie</p><br>
<p>The T. A. Hasler House is a Classical Revival-style house located in Bastrop, Texas. The two-story house was renovated from a farm house-style dwelling by Marie Hasler, after the death of her husband T. A. Hasler. The structure was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1978. The home was featured in a Glidden  commercial  and in the film Fireflies in the Garden  starring Julia Roberts and Ryan Reynolds.</p><br>
<p>When Marie Hasler rebuilt the house, she used the finest materials, including leaded windows from Switzerland, longleaf pine wainscoting, and a tiger (or quarter-sawn) oak fireplace. The house featured two parlors, a wide central hallway, and broad wrap-around front porch.</p><br>
<p>The Cornet John Farnum Jr. House, built circa 1710, is one of the oldest homes in the historic Blackstone Valley town of Uxbridge, Massachusetts. On May 7, 1980, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>The house and its historic significance</h2><br>
<p>Uxbridge is in the heart of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, which is the oldest industrialized region in the United States. The Cornet John Farnum Jr. House was the site of the first Uxbridge Town Meeting in 1727. The house today is a museum and headquarters of the Uxbridge Historical Society. It is an excellent example of early New England colonial architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Builder and original owner</h2><br>
<p>John and Mary (Tyler) Farnum may have moved to the Chockalog section of Uxbridge, then Mendon because of the "witchcraft controversies" that involved Marys family in Andover. John Farnum Jr. was a "cornet", a now obsolete military position similar to an ensign. He was elected a constable in Mendon in 1703. He had his house built about 1710 in a part of Mendon that is now Uxbridge. Son Moses Farnums house still stands on Massachusetts Route 146A.</p><br>
<h2>Separation of Uxbridge</h2><br>
<p>On June 27, 1727, a petition was granted to form the town of Uxbridge. The first town meeting was held in the Cornet John Farnum House. One of the first official acts of the town on July 8, 1728, was to appropriate funds for "ÿe good rum for ye raising of ye meeting house.".</p><br>
<h2>Significance in early American history</h2><br>
<p>The significance of the house, the town, and Cornet John Farnum Jr. are now linked to American history as part of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor.</p><br>
<p>The Cary Building at 105-107 Chambers Street, extending along Church Street to Reade Street, in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1856–1857 and was designed by Gamaliel King and John Kellum  in the Italian Renaissance revival style, with the cast-iron facade provided by Daniel D. Badgers Architectural Iron Work. The five-story twin-facaded building was constructed for William H. Carys Cary, Howard & Sanger, a dry goods firm.</p><br>
<p>Although built as a commercial structure, the Cary Building is now residential. As a result of the widening of Church Street in the 1920s, a 200-foot-long wall of unadorned brick is now exposed on the east side of the building; as Christopher Gray observed in The New York Times, comparing the structure to cast-iron buildings with facades obscured by modern signage, "There is not too little of the Cary Building but too much."</p><br>
<p>In 1973, the artist Knox Martin was commissioned to create a 280-foot canopy that wrapped around the building. Ada Louise Huxtable wrote in The New York Times: "...credited Knox Martin with the graphics, including the supersign on the building&#39;s side and the continuous, brightly patterned abstract awning sheltering the shops. It is a fine example of combining new with old for practicality, continuity and art."</p><br>
<p>The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1982, and was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building was once home to The New York Sun.</p><br>
<p>The Rose Blumkin Performing Arts Center or The Rose, also known as the Astro Theatre, originally opened as The Riviera. It is located in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. Built in 1926 in a combination of both Moorish and Classical styles, the building was rehabilitated in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Eberson, a nationally notable architect, designed the theater in 1926 as an example of the "atmospheric" theater popular during the 1920s. In a style created by Eberson, these atmospheric theaters simulated romantic outdoor Mediterranean courtyards with a night sky above, including twinkling stars and drifting clouds.</p><br>
<p>The exterior of the building features a large copper domed tower, flanked by two smaller towers of similar detailing. The diamond-patterned brick facades contain oriel windows, elaborate cornices, glazed terra-cotta tile copings, and a series of free-standing columns which support griffins. The theater was built by A. H. Blank.</p><br>
<p>Noted for lavish stage shows combined with movies, the theater was regarded as one of the most elegant entertainment facilities in the Midwest and had 2,776 seats. After opening March 26, 1927, someone commented that the Riviera Theatre "makes every man feel like a millionaire for 60 cents". A parade featuring the 17th Infantry Regiment was held to celebrate its opening.</p><br>
<p>In 1929, unable to meet the $13,000 weekly costs and experiencing financial losses, Blank sold it to Paramount Pictures and the theater was renamed the Paramount. It had multiple closures including in 1934, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941 and 1942. Paramount installed a minitiature golf course in the lower lobby to attract customers. In June 1952 it stopped showing films but the theater productions during the winter were not that successful and it closed again. In August 1953 its owner, Tristates, decided to sell or demolish it.</p><br>
<p>In 1957, Paramount vacated the lease to Creighton University. Closed for several years, it was later leased to J.S.B. Amusement, and after renovations, was operated as a bowling alley. After only a year of operation, the building once again was remodeled to return it to a theater.</p><br>
<p>It reopened as a movie theater in 1962 with a new name, the Astro Theatre, run by Dubinsky Brothers and with a reduced capacity of 1,465.</p><br>
<p>The OBrien General Store and Post Office is a combined store and post office located at Schatzell and Charles streets in the hamlet of Rhinecliff, New York, United States, across from the communitys central plaza. It is a two-building Italianate complex built in the late 19th century. The western half houses the store and the eastern the post office, which serves the small 12574 ZIP Code roughly contiguous with the riverside hamlet.</p><br>
<p>It is a contributing property to the Hudson River Historic District, a National Historic Landmark which includes all of the hamlet. The building itself was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Union Trust Building is a commercial building in Seattle, Washington, United States. Located in the city&#39;s Pioneer Square neighborhood, on the corner of Main Street and Occidental Way South , it was one of the first rehabilitated buildings in the neighborhood, which is now officially a historic district. In the 1960s, when Pioneer Square was better known as "Skid Road", architect Ralph Anderson purchased the building from investor Sam Israel for $50,000 and set about remodeling it, a project that set a pattern for the next several decades of development in the neighborhood. Anderson also rehabilitated the adjacent Union Trust Annex.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Before the Fire</h3><br>
<p>The entire lot now occupied by the Union Trust Building (the 1893 portion) was originally filled by the 3-story Pacific House, one of the larger wood-frame hotels in Pioneer Square. Designed by Boone & Meeker, It was built from late 1883 to early 1884 by soon-to-be territorial governor Watson C. Squire and was operated by Eben A. Thorndyke. By 1885 The hotel went into receivership and all the fixtures were auctioned off. It continued on under new management until the great fire and despite the announcement of plans for a 3-story brick hotel to take its place immediately, the site would remain vacant for the next several years afterwards.</p><br>
<h3>The Union Trust Company</h3><br>
<p>The Union Trust Company was incorporated in October 1892 by a wealthy syndicate consisting of bankers Edward O. Graves and Manson F. Backus, attorney Thomas B. Hardin, King County auditor William R. Forrest and now ex-governor Squire with a capital stock of $500,000. The companys purpose would be to manage and develop Squires numerous property holdings including various subdivisions, the Squire-Latimer Building at First and Main (where they would locate their offices) and the property where the Pacific House had stood, among many others. The future site of the Union Trust Building would be transferred from Squire to the trust company on December 9, 1892.</p><br>
<h3>Main Building</h3><br>
<p>Erected in 1893, the four-story building was one of the few substantial buildings built in Seattle that year, owing to the onset of the Panic of 1893. Highly praised at the time of its construction, it was designed by the architectural partnership Skillings and Corner (Warren Porter Skillings and James N. Corner) in a style described as Italian renaissance. The original plan had called for the use of white sandstone on the ground floor and red brick above, but "white" (actually very light gray) brick throughout was chosen instead, an unusual choice for the time, and a trendsetting one. It was also unusual (though not unique) for its time in having electric (rather than hydraulic) elevators.</p><br>
<p>Used in its early years for a series of wholesale businesses (including Roy & Company, H N. Richmond and Company and John B. Agen), its floors were designed to carry loads of 250 pounds per square foot. The National Grocery Company occupied space in the building until moving into the much larger National Building at Western Avenue and Madison Street in 1904, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Union Trust Building and most of Squire&#39;s Pioneer Square property would be purchased shortly after his 1897 death by New York banker and industrialist Lyman Cornelius Smith who would eventually build the famous Smith Tower.</p><br>
<p>The building today is largely intact, although it is missing part of its original parapet. This was most likely caused by the 1949 Olympia earthquake which damaged many buildings in the Pioneer Square district.</p><br>
<h3>The Union Trust Annex</h3><br>
<p>The adjacent Union Trust Annex (1900–1901) continues a similar design. Brothers Paul and Michael James Heney commissioned Saunders and Lawton to design a building matching the Union Trust Building in November 1900. M.J. Heney was a contractor in the Yukon who had been responsible for building most of the White Pass and Yukon Route from Skagway to Whitehorse and used the profits from that project to invest in Seattle property. The name Union Trust Annex dates only from the 1970s. It was built for Ernest Thurlow, and was intended for his Superior Candy and Cracker Company; the Seattle Cracker and Candy Company was already operating in the adjacent Union Trust Building. Superior Candy and Cracker Company occupied the entire annex building from March 1901 to 1915.</p><br>
<p>Unlike the Union Trust Building, the Union Trust Annex retains all of its original parapet.</p><br>
<p>The Union Trust Annex was the original home of the Seattle Unit of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, opening in 1979 after several years of work. That move one block south and one block east in 2005 to new quarters in the former Cadillac Hotel.</p><br>
<p>The Elizabethton Covered Bridge is a 134 ft covered bridge over the Doe River in Elizabethton, the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The Elizabethton Covered Bridge was constructed in 1882 and connects 3rd Street and Hattie Avenue.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>Structurally, the Elizabethton Covered Bridge contains one span, a covered wooden Howe truss (typically constructed of timber diagonals and iron verticals) that is 137 ft long. The total length is 154.3 ft. The covered bridge contains one traffic lane and a single walkway, while the curb-to-curb width is 16.4 ft and the out-to-out width is 20.4 ft. The bridge substructure is masonry, stone, and concrete. Each end of the bridge features a projecting truncated gabled roofline.</p><br>
<h3>History: "five dollar bridge"</h3><br>
<p>As the county seat, Elizabethton grew throughout the 19th century. However, Lynn Mountain hemmed it in to the east and the Watauga River lay to the north. The Doe River flooded often and limited growth to the south. To span westward, to the site of the current downtown, the city would need a bridge over the Doe River. After extensive debate, in 1882 the Carter County Court approved $3,000 for the bridge and $300 for approaches. The court appointed a committee to select a site for the bridge. However, the committee encountered an unexpected problem — the men could not find a qualified contractor to erect the bridge.</p><br>
<p>After county officials were unable to find a bridge contractor, a local doctor, E. E. Hunter, accepted the contract and hired experienced people to work on the bridge. Hunter selected Thomas Matson, who had been an engineer for the narrow gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad as an engineer and architect. Hunter referred to the bridge as his "five dollar bridge" since he made a profit of $5 as contractor.</p><br>
<p>Although logs from a lumber operation and a barn were thrown against the covered bridge and its supports during a disastrous flood in 1901, this was the only major bridge in the area to survive.</p><br>
<h2>June covered bridge festival, parades</h2><br>
<p>Originating on the side of Roan Mountain, the Doe River eventually flows by the East Side neighborhood in Elizabethton and parallel with Tennessee State Route 67 before passing underneath the historic covered bridge. Connecting 3rd Street to Hattie Avenue, the Elizabethton Covered Bridge, although now closed to motor vehicle traffic, is still open to both bicycles and pedestrians throughout the year.</p><br>
<p>Elizabethton Covered Bridge is adjacent to a large city park area with walking trails, baseball diamonds, and picnic areas and the covered bridge spans the Doe River connecting this city park area with the Elizabethton downtown business district.</p><br>
<p>Most of Elizabethton&#39;s downtown is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its historical and architectural merits. The Elizabethton Historic District contains a variety of properties ranging in age from the late 18th century through the 1930s. However, the Elizabethton Covered Bridge is an important focal point and a well-known landmark in the state that pre-dates much of the downtown construction fueled by the rayon boom of the mid-to-late 1920s. In addition to the Covered Bridge, the downtown historical district also contains the 1928 Elk Avenue concrete arch bridge, and just a little further downstream on the Doe River, Tennessee State Route 67 passes another similar concrete arch bridge, locally known as the Broad Street Bridge.</p><br>
<p>Elizabethton celebrates in the downtown business area for one week each June with the Elizabethton Covered Bridge Days featuring country and gospel music performances, activities for children, Elk Avenue car club show, and many food and crafts vendors. The Elizabethton Covered Bridge is also along the Elk Avenue route for the annual Independence Day and Christmas parades.</p><br>
<h2>Connection with USA Interstate Highway System</h2><br>
<p>US 321/Tennessee State Route 67 to Elizabethton, then straight on Elk Avenue to downtown business district.</p><br>
<p>The Pennsylvania Match Company, known locally as the Match Factory, was founded in 1899 by Col. W. Fred Reynolds, Joseph L. Montgomery and S. A. Donachy with $200,000 of their own money.</p><br>
<h2>History and notable features</h2><br>
<p>Mr. Donachy owned several patents for match-making machinery and worked as superintendent for the match company Hanover & York prior to their sale.</p><br>
<p>A 31,000 ft&sup2; brick building was constructed in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania somewhere around late 1899 and production began in 1900, employing around or more than 300 people. By 1911, the company was one of the eight largest producers of wooden matches in the US.</p><br>
<p>At its peak during World War II, the factory employed almost 400 workers and merged with Universal Match Corporation. According to the Bellefonte Historical and Cultural Association, the business "closed in 1947 due to competition from book matches and cigarette lighters."</p><br>
<p>The red brick buildings were then purchased by lumber and building supply company M. L. Claster & Sons for their General Offices and Bellefonte storage, adding to adjacent land they already owned. After Clasters was sold to YBC in 1997, the site stood vacant for several years until the American Philatelic Society, looking for more space at lower cost, purchased the complex in 2002, renovated the largest building and relocated from State College.</p><br>
<p>The society then refurbished the adjacent structure, making space available for other commercial tenants, and stated their intention to eventually rehabilitate the remaining buildings.</p><br>
<p>Michigan State Prison or Jackson State Prison, which opened in 1839, was the first prison in Michigan. After 150 years, the prison was divided, starting in 1988, into four distinct prisons, still in Jackson: the Parnall Correctional Facility which is a minimum-security prison; the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility where prisoners can finish their general education; the Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center which is the common point of processing for all male state prisoners sentenced to any Michigan prison; and the Cooper Street Correctional Facility which is the common point for processing of all male state prisoners about to discharge, parole, or enter a community center or the camp program.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first permanent structure was constructed in Jackson in 1842. In 1926, the prison was relocated to a new building, and soon became the largest walled prison in the world with nearly 6,000 inmates. The prison was renamed the State Prison of Southern Michigan in 1935. Beginning in 1988, the prison was carved up into several correctional facilities. The Southern Michigan Correctional Facility (JMF), which contained the heart of the 1926 prison structure, was finally closed on November 17, 2007. After JMF was closed, much of the prison remains open however, 7 Block, which used to be quarantine, has been closed and changed into a prison museum and was open to the public for tours. The museum was maintained as a part of Ella Sharp Museum and has since been closed. The original 1842 site was used as a Michigan National Guard armory for some time, and now houses residential apartments as well as several art galleries and a bicycle cooperative.</p><br>
<h3>The original prison</h3><br>
<p>The first prison was built in Jackson, Michigan, and became the original nucleus of the city. The enclosed area of the old prison was about 20 acre. Almost from the beginning, the old prison was chronically overcrowded. In 1876, the problem was mitigated when new prisons were erected in Marquette and Ionia; this only somewhat eased the overcrowding. Throughout its history, new buildings were added continuously. At its peak capacity, the prison housed around 2,200 inmates in four cell blocks and a dormitory. In the older blocks, the cells were very small at only 7 ft long, by 3 feet wide, by 6 feet high. In the newer blocks built in 1904, the cells measured 9 ft × 5 feet × 7 ft. Women prisoners were confined at the Michigan State Prison up until 1852; there had been 10 female prisoners committed up until that date.</p><br>
<h3>Escapes and riots at the old prison</h3><br>
<p>During the first year after the prison was opened, 35 inmates were admitted, of whom seven managed to escape over the walls. The first mass break happened in 1840. Ten convicts overpowered two of the guards and broke free from the prison walls. They fled to Spring Arbor where they ran into a farmer, James Videto. He attempted to stop them, but the inmates took Videto&#39;s shotgun, beat him with it and left him on the road. After a few days, George Norton, the leader of the escape, was killed by another farmer. All but two of the rest of the convicts were eventually caught.</p><br>
<p>On September 1, 1912, a riot that is described by many as the worst riot in the prison&#39;s history began. The first sign of trouble was when inmates started throwing plates against the walls of the dining halls. Many fights followed after this and the riot lasted for six days. On the sixth day, the 90 or so inmates who were leading the riot were beaten and the riot eventually came to an end, but not until after the governor had called in the National Guard.</p><br>
<h3>The new prison</h3><br>
<p>Despite additions to the old prison, it was evident that eventually a new prison would need to be built. In 1924, a new prison with a capacity of 5,280 inmates was built three miles (5 km) north of the city in Blackman Township. In 1926, 625 prisoners were moved from the old prison to cell block one of the new penitentiary. The name of the prison was changed to the State Prison of Southern Michigan in 1935. The new prison was built on 3,469 acre with an enclosed area of 57.6 acre. The prison was enclosed by a concrete wall that was 33.9 ft high. The wall stretched around the entire prison, with parts joined at the ends of the cell houses. There were 12 watch towers and 16 cellblocks. Inmates were housed in 2,090 inside cells, 2,072 medium security cells, 1,312 outside cells, and 268 quarantine and detention cells, for a total of 5,742 cells. All of the cells were 10 ft long, by 6 ft wide, by 7 feet high.</p><br>
<h3>Riots and escapes at the new prison</h3><br>
<p>In April 1952, two maximum-security prisoners overpowered a guard and used his keys to release the other inmates in their wing. Damaging several wings and using the canteen for food, they held nine guards hostage at knifepoint for five days. The rioters wanted Prison Warden - retired Marine Corps General, Julian N. Frisbie, to agree to a list of eleven demands and that these be published in the local newspaper, The episode came to an end when officials agreed to publication, to allow outside inspectors and not to punish the participants. However, the leaders were eventually indicted for conspiracy and the demands remained largely unmet. The 1954 film Riot in Cell Block 11 is closely based on the Jackson riot.</p><br>
<p>In 1975 inmate Dale Remling attempted a daring escape from the prison by flying out of the prison in a helicopter. Morris Colosky, a friend of Remlings, paid helicopter pilot Richard Jackson to fly him from Plymouth to Lansing. Five minutes into the flight, he pulled a knife on the pilot and told him to change his course and head towards Jackson. They flew to the prison and landed in the yard where they picked up Remling. They then flew six miles (10 km) away to where two getaway cars were located. Once on the ground, Remling sprayed mace in the pilots eyes to disable him, but he still managed to fly the helicopter and follow one of the cars while radioing for help. The car was caught by police only a few minutes later. The original escapee got away but surrendered himself to authorities over the weekend at a bar just north of Jackson.</p><br>
<p>On May 22, 1981, prisoners assaulted and seriously injured two corrections officers in Cell Block 4. The following morning, staff requested a shakedown of the facility. The administration refused and staff initiated an unauthorized lockdown. Those prisoners that had not been secured rebelled at 10:00 in the morning. Around 800 inmates from the maximum-security block took over two of the cell blocks at the prison and set fire to many parts of the prison. Two hundred corrections officers and 165 local law enforcement officers worked to keep the riot under control. When it was finally ended without loss of life, the riot had lasted for almost 11 hours. The prison was locked down over the weekend, but once the lock down was lifted, prisoners from the North complex of the facility rioted, burning down a number of modular housing units. That disturbance was quelled in late afternoon, and the facility was locked down for two months.</p><br>
<p>As a result of the riot, two corrections officers and the deputy warden at the prison were fired. Also, fourteen corrections officers were suspended for their actions during the riot. The deputy dismissed was Willie Cason, deputy warden of the northside unit. He was dismissed because it was discovered that he had prior knowledge that the riot might happen after the earlier riot.</p><br>
<h3>2006 controversy</h3><br>
<p>In 2006, an inmates death at the Southern Michigan Correctional Facility gained national attention. Timothy Joe Souders died on August 6, 2006, after spending four days in a segregation cell. Souders, who suffered from a severe mental disorder, was originally transferred to the segregation cell and placed in soft restraints on July 31 for disobeying orders. After he broke out of the soft restraints three days later, prison guards restrained him on a concrete slab. Souders went through the days being restrained in a cell lying naked in his own urine with temperatures rising higher than 100 degrees. After the incident, prison officials made a change to restraint policies so that misbehaving inmates could only be shackled for a maximum of six hours. A federal judge later said that the conditions Souders went through were "torture.""Inmates Death in Solita</p><br>
<p>ll Prompts Judge to Ban Restraints", The New York Times, November 15, 2006</p><br>
<h2>Notable inmates</h2><br>
<p>GG Allin, shock rocker</p><br>
<p>Ron LeFlore, major league baseball player</p><br>
<p>Tee Grizzley, Rapper</p><br>
<p>Jack Kevorkian, Physician and right to die proponent, activist.</p><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 5607 Gordonsville Road in Keswick, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States. The Gothic Revival building was designed by architect William Strickland in 1847. It is the only known work of Strickland in Virginia. The interior was rebuilt after a fire in 1895.</p><br>
<p>"Both the church and the hunt club have a long history in Keswick. The congregation dates back to 1745 as one of the first six churches in the Virginia colony back when the Church of England was the official state-sanctioned religion. The original church was replaced with a new building in 1855 but a fire two decades later left only the tower and walls standing. Those were incorporated into the current church when it was rebuilt at the site north of Cismont on Route 231. The church’s 1,575-pound bell was salvaged and is still in use. In fact, it will ring 10 times at 9:45 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day to announce the 10 a.m. prayer service, calling the congregation, hunters, steeds and dogs together."</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 21, 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Cumberland and Oxford Canal was opened in 1832 to connect the largest lakes of southern Maine with the seaport of Portland, Maine. The canal followed the Presumpscot River from Sebago Lake through the towns of Standish, Windham, Gorham, and Westbrook. The Canal diverged from the river at Westbrook to reach the navigable Fore River estuary and Portland Harbor. The canal required 27 locks to reach Sebago Lake at an elevation of 267 ft above sea level. One additional lock was constructed in the Songo River to provide 5 ft of additional elevation to reach Long Lake from Sebago Lake. Total navigable distance was approximately 38 mi from Portland to Harrison at the north end of Long Lake. A proposed extension from Harrison to Bear Pond and Tom Pond in Waterford would have required three more locks on the Bear River, but they were never built.</p><br>
<p>A state lottery was authorized to help raise $50,000 for the project, and the Canal Bank of Portland was chartered in 1825. The canal was completed in 1830 at a cost of $206,000. The excavated portions of the canal had a surface width of 30 ft with a 10 ft wide channel 3.5 ft deep. The locks were 10 ft wide and 80 ft long. Lock walls were made of granite masonry with wooden gates at either end. A lock keeper was stationed at each lock to move the lock gates with heavy timber balance beams, manipulate iron valves to adjust water levels within the lock, and collect a 6 cent fee for use of the lock.</p><br>
<h2>Canal boats</h2><br>
<p>The flat-bottomed canal boats had blunt bows, square sterns, and a loaded draft of 3 ft. A tow path adjacent to the excavated portions of the canal enabled horses to tow the canal boats while the boatmen steered, or the boats could be moved by poles when the need arose; usually while passing through the Songo lock. Canal boats using the lakes had a hinged centerboard keel and two hinged masts capable of supporting gaff rigged sails which would be folded down for passage under bridges through the excavated canal. Cargos included lumber, masts, barrel hoops and staves, boxmaking shook, and firewood from the interior to Portland. Apples were an important agricultural product of the area; and Oriental Powder Company mills adjacent to the canal in Windham manufactured nearly 25% of the Union gunpowder supply for the American Civil War. Canal boat passengers were charged one-half cent per mile. A wide variety of manufactured goods moved inland through the canal from Portland. The south end of Long Lake is locally known as Brandy Pond because a barrel of brandy was lost from a canal boat during passage through that part of the waterway.</p><br>
<h2>Railroads and Steamboats</h2><br>
<p>Freight to and from Oxford County began moving over the Atlantic & St Lawrence Railroad (later Grand Trunk Railway and then Canadian National Railway Berlin Subdivision) in the 1850s and the 18 mi long Presumpscot River portion of the canal fell into disuse when the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad (later Maine Central Railroad Mountain Division) reached Sebago Lake Station in 1870. Some of the Presumpscot River lock facilities were converted to dams for the S. D. Warren Paper Mill. Steamboats continued to use Songo Lock to provide transportation from Sebago Lake Station to the lakeside communities of Bridgton, Harrison, Naples, Sebago, Casco, Raymond and North Windham. The Bridgton and Saco River Railroad reached Bridgton in 1883 and Harrison in 1898. The Sebago Lake, Songo River, and Bay of Naples Steamboat Company continued to offer summer passenger service to tourists until the last steamboat Goodrich burned at its Naples dock in 1932. Songo Lock remains in service for pleasure boats.</p><br>
<p>Relicensing of the dams was the subject of the 2006 Supreme Court case S. D. Warren Co. v. Maine Board of Environmental Protection.</p><br>
<p>The Old Sheldon Church Ruins is a historic site located in northern Beaufort County, South Carolina, approximately 17 miles  north of Beaufort in the Sheldon area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Known also as the Sheldon Church or Old Sheldon Church, the building was originally known as Prince William&#39;s Parish Church. The church was built as a chapel of ease in the English Georgian style, using the Roman Tuscan or Doric order, between 1745 and 1753.</p><br>
<p>The traditional understanding is that Prince William&#39;s was burned by the British in 1779 during the Revolutionary War, rebuilt in 1826, and then burned again in 1865 during the Civil War by the Federal Army under General William T Sherman::</p><br>
<p>However, an alternative view has more recently come to light. In a letter dated February 3, 1866, Milton Leverett wrote that "Sheldon Church not burnt. Just torn up in the inside, but can be repaired." In this view, the inside of the church was apparently gutted to reuse materials to rebuild homes burnt by Shermans army.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>The ruins lie among majestic oaks and scattered graves. Inside the ruins of the church lie the remains of Governor William Bull, who "greatly assisted General Oglethorpe in establishing the physical layout of Savannah, Georgia. Bull surveyed the land in 1733 to form the basic grid pattern of the streets and squares." The ruins proved to be a popular site in the Lowcountry for photographers and wedding ceremonies in contemporary times. As of October 2015, the Old Sheldon ruins are not available to the public for hosting wedding ceremonies; however, since 1925, an annual service has been held the second Sunday after Easter by clergy from the Parish Church of St. Helena in Beaufort.</p><br>
<p>YMCA Philadelphia, also Greater Philadelphia YMCA was founded on June 15, 1854, by George H. Stuart, a prominent Philadelphia businessman and importer. The goal of the Association was to reach "the many thousands of neglected youth not likely to be brought under any moral influence by any other means."</p><br>
<p>The Greater Philadelphia YMCA is a community service organization that promotes positive values through programs that help to build strong kids, strong families and strong communities. Over the years, Philadelphia Freedom Valley YMCA has grown to include 15 branches and 55 program sites throughout the Greater Philadelphia area.</p><br>
<h2>Branches</h2><br>
<h3>Abington</h3><br>
<p>CLOSED - Abington YMCA, serving Abington, Jenkintown, Cheltenham, Willow Grove and the surrounding communities, offers a wide range of programs for children and teens including swim lessons, sports, fitness, child care and day camps. For adults and seniors, YMCA has personal training, a variety of group exercise classes, wellness orientations and free babysitting services.</p><br>
<h3>Ambler</h3><br>
<p>Ambler Area YMCA, serving Ambler, Fort Washington, Blue Bell, Horsham, North Wales and the surrounding communities, offers a wide range of programs for children and teens including swim lessons, sports, fitness, karate and day camps. For adults and seniors, YMCA has personal training, a variety of group exercise classes, water aerobics and free babysitting services.</p><br>
<h3>Audubon</h3><br>
<p>Audubon YMCA, serving West and East Norriton, Blue Bell, King of Prussia, Norristown and the surrounding communities, offers a wide range of programs for children and teens including swim lessons, sports, fitness, child care and day camps. For adults and seniors, YMCA has personal training, a variety of group exercise classes, wellness orientations and free babysitting services.</p><br>
<h3>Christian Street</h3><br>
<p>Christian Street YMCA, serving South Philadelphia, Center City and the surrounding communities, offers a wide range of programs for children and teens including swim lessons, sports, fitness, child care and day camps. For adults and seniors, YMCA has personal training, a variety of group exercise classes, wellness orientations and free babysitting services. It is located within the Christian Street Historic District.</p><br>
<h3>Columbia North</h3><br>
<p>Columbia North YMCA, serving North Philadelphia, Fairmount, Kensington, Port Richmond and the surrounding communities, offers a wide range of programs for children and teens including swim lessons, sports, fitness, child care and day camps. For adults and seniors, YMCA has personal training, a variety of group exercise classes, wellness orientations and free babysitting services.</p><br>
<h3>Hatboro</h3><br>
<p>CLOSED - Hatboro Area YMCA, serving Hatboro, Horsham, Warminster, Willow Grove and the surrounding communities, offers a wide range of programs for children and teens including swim lessons, sports, fitness, gymnastics and day camps. For adults and seniors, YMCA has personal training, a variety of group exercise classes, wellness orientations and free babysitting services.</p><br>
<h3>Haverford</h3><br>
<p>Haverford YMCA, serving Havertown and the surrounding Main Line communities of Bryn Mawr, Villanova, Ardmore and Haverford, offers a wide range of programs for children and teens including swim lessons, sports, fitness, child care and day camps. For adults and seniors, YMCA has personal training, a variety of group exercise classes, wellness orientations and free babysitting services.</p><br>
<h3>Northeast</h3><br>
<p>Northeast Family YMCA, serving Northeast Philadelphia, Somerton, Bustleton, Normandy and the surrounding communities, offers a wide range of programs for children and teens including swim lessons, sports, fitness, child care and day camps. For adults and seniors, YMCA has personal training, a variety of group exercise classes, wellness orientations and free babysitting services.</p><br>
<h3>Phoenixville</h3><br>
<p>Phoenixville YMCA, serving Phoenixville, Valley Forge, King of Prussia, Malvern, Audubon, Spring City, Royersford, Collegville and Kimberton, offering a wide range of programs for children and teens including swim lessons, sports, fitness, child care and day camps. For adults and seniors, YMCA has personal training, a variety of group exercise classes, wellness orientations and free babysitting services.</p><br>
<h3>Pottstown</h3><br>
<p>Pottstown YMCA, serving Pottstown, Norristown, Broomall and Reading, offers a wide range of programs for children and teens including swim lessons, sports, fitness, child care and day camps. For adults and seniors, YMCA has personal training, a variety of group exercise classes, wellness orientations and free babysitting services.</p><br>
<h3>Rocky Run</h3><br>
<p>Rocky Run YMCA, serving Media, Aston, Newtown Square, Edgemont, Springfield and the surrounding communities, offers a wide range of programs for children and teens including swim lessons, sports, fitness, child care and day camps. For adults and seniors, YMCA has personal training, a variety of group exercise classes, wellness orientations and free babysitting services.</p><br>
<h3>Roxborough</h3><br>
<p>Roxborough YMCA, serving Roxborough, Manayunk, Lafayette Hill, Chestnut Hill and the surrounding communities, offers a wide range of programs for children and teens including swim lessons, sports, fitness, child care and day camps. For adults and seniors, YMCA has personal training, a variety of group exercise classes, wellness orientations and free babysitting services.</p><br>
<h3>Spring Valley</h3><br>
<p>Spring Valley YMCA, serving Limerick, Pottstown, Harleysville, Lansdale, Skippack, Collegeville and the surrounding communities, offers a wide range of programs for children and teens including swim lessons, sports, fitness, child care and day camps. For adults and seniors, YMCA has personal training, a variety of group exercise classes, wellness orientations and free babysitting services.</p><br>
<h3>Upper Perkiomen</h3><br>
<p>Upper Perkiomen YMCA, serving Pennsburg, Doylestown, Allentown, Quakertown and the surrounding communities, offers a wide range of programs for children and teens including swim lessons, sports, fitness, child care and day camps. For adults and seniors, YMCA has personal training, a variety of group exercise classes, wellness orientations and free babysitting services.</p><br>
<h3>West Philadelphia</h3><br>
<p>West Philadelphia YMCA, serving West Philadelphia, Wynnefield, Elmwood and the surrounding communities, offers a wide range of programs for children and teens including swim lessons, sports, fitness, child care and day camps. For adults and seniors, YMCA has personal training, a variety of group exercise classes, wellness orientations and free babysitting services.</p><br>
<h2>Historic building</h2><br>
<p>YMCA&#39;s Armed Forces Building, also known as YMCA and Navy Central YMCA Annex, built 1926 to 1928, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It has been converted into luxury apartments</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Taft House is a historic house at 87 Sutton Street in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. The main block of the story timber-frame house was built in 1774, and is a typical local variant of Georgian styling, with a gambrel roof, central chimney, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. The house is notable for its association with Samuel Taft, who served in the American Revolutionary War, and hosted George Washington at this house in 1789.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Wheelockville District is an historic district located at Mendon and Henry streets in the village of Wheelockville in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. It encompasses a collection of modest Federal and Greek Revival period worker housing, built primarily to house families of workers at the nearby Waucantuck Mill Complex. The oldest houses in the area were built c. 1825–35, and include cottages built by the mill owners. A second phase of growth between about 1860 and 1885 resulted in the construction of a number of buildings with vernacular Victorian elements, as well as the somewhat more ornate Italianate Wheelock House at 173 Mendon Street, which was built for a manager at another Uxbridge mill. The district runs roughly along Mendon Street  from Hecla Street to the junction of Mendon and Henry Streets, and then along those two streets for about six houses.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Hon. Bazaleel Taft House is a historic house at 240 South Main Street in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. The oldest portion of this now-large house was built c. 1780-90 by Bazaleel Taft, and is a fine regional example of late Georgian architecture. The house was adapted for use as a restaurant in the 1960s, which has since closed. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bazaleel Taft House is located south of Uxbridge center on Massachusetts Route 122 at the intersection with the northern terminus of Massachusetts Route 146A.</p><br>
<p>It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a two-level hip roof and clapboarded exterior. Attached to its east and north are a modern addition made as part of the building&#39;s restaurant conversion. The house as two primary facades, one facing west and the other south. Each is five bays wide, with a center entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a transom window, entablature, and gabled pediment. The lower level of the roof on the west side has three gabled dormers.</p><br>
<p>The exact construction date of the house is not known. The property on which it stands had a long association with the locally prominent Taft family, beginning with Daniel Taft in the early 18th century. The house is considered locally to have been built around 1790, by Bazaleel Taft, Daniels grandson. Taft was like his father the towns largest landowner of the period, and was active in local and state politics, serving as a state representative and senator, and on the Massachusetts Governors Council. Tafts son-in-law, Joseph Thayer, and his daughter Chloe next occupied the house; Thayer was instrumental in furthering construction of the Blackstone Canal, which passed through Taft family land east of the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was converted into a restaurant in the late 1960s, serving in that role until 2008. The property has since stood vacant.</p><br>
<h2>Local legends</h2><br>
<p>During the restaurant conversion, a Hessian sword was found in one of the walls, supporting a local legend that German mercenaries had visited the property as they marched through the Blackstone Valley during the Revolutionary War. The renovations uncovered a number of cubby holes throughout the mansion, constructed for no apparent reason, which supported another local legend that hiding spots were designed to conceal escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad to Canada.</p><br>
<p>The Bazaleel Taft Jr. House and Law Office are a historic house and law office building at 195 South Main Street in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. On November 7, 1983, they were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The House and Law office reflect the Georgian Architecture Style.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>History and background</h3><br>
<p>Elmshade, built in 1807 at 195 South Main Street, was built in the Georgian architecture style, and was a gift for Bezaleel Taft Jr from Bezaleel Taft Sr., on his graduation from Harvard Law School. Bezaleel Jr. was the grandson of Lydia Taft, America&#39;s first woman voter. Bazaleel Jr. was practicing law next door in a brick building. Like his Father, Taft Jr. also became a State Senator and a representative to the General Court. He also served on the State Executive Council. He served as President of the Blackstone National Bank, of which he was a founder, for nearly 20 years.</p><br>
<h3>Gathering place for the Taft family</h3><br>
<p>Five generations of the Taft family descendants lived at Elmshade. Elmshade was the site of Taft family reunions such as in 1874. Young William Howard Taft visited this home with his father Alphonso Taft, USA Secretary of War and founder of Skull and Bones at Yale. Alphonso Taft, who also served as United States Attorney General under President Ulysses S. Grant, delivered a powerful oratory on the Taft family and its roots in this area at this historic home during the reunion in 1874.</p><br>
<h3>Colonial style Georgian house and office</h3><br>
<p>In the colonial period of America, the Georgian Architecture style was also built with wood and clapboard, though much of the construction was of brick. Wood clapboard is the style used for the Bezaleel Taft Jr house. The office was a brick style building. The link for Georgian architecture notes these distinctions.</p><br>
<p>The Moses Taft House is an historic house at 50 South Main Street in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, central chimney, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. Built c. 1850–55, it is a fine local example of Italianate architecture, with paneled pilasters at the corners, paired brackets under the eave, and molded caps above the windows. Additions extend the original house to the side and rear.</p><br>
<p>The house was built for Moses Taft, an early industrialist in the historic Blackstone Valley.</p><br>
<p>On October 7, 1983, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places, where it is listed at 66 South Main Street.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Adams House is a historic house located at 85 North Main Street, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. Probably built before 1792, it is a good quality example of Federal period architecture, built for a prominent local lawyer and businessman. On October 7, 1983, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Benjamin Adams House is located north of the center of Uxbridge, on the east side of North Main Street just beyond its junction with Seagrave Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof and symmetrically placed interior brick chimneys. The exterior is finished in aluminum siding, but retains its five-bay front facade. The main entrance is sheltered by a shallow hip-roof portico, supported by paired paneled square columns, which rise to an entablature and modillioned eave. The entrance is framed by sidelight windows and topped by a semi-oval fanlight window. An enclosed hip-roof porch extends across the right side. The house had an associated 19th-century barn into the late 20th century; a modern block of condominiums extends to the rear over its site.</p><br>
<p>The house was most likely built sometime before 1792; it exhibits high-quality Federal styling despite the application of modern siding. Benjamin Adams, probably its first owner, was an early 19th-century United States Congressman, lawyer, and banker. For much of the 19th century, it was owned by members of the Gunn family, including a manufacturer of men&#39;s suits and a pharmacist.</p><br>
<p>The Aaron Taft House is an historic house at 215 Hazel Street, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, United States. Built about 1749, it is one of five surviving gambrel-roofed 18th-century houses in the town. It is stories in height, with a side-gabled gambrel roof, clapboard siding, and central chimney. The main facade is asymmetrical, with three window bays, one to the left of the entrance, which is off center, and is adorned with sidelight windows, pilasters, and a simple entablature. It was the birthplace in 1785 of Peter Rawson Taft, the grandfather of President William Howard Taft.</p><br>
<p>On October 7, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The North Uxbridge School, also known as the Virginia A. Blanchard School, is an historic school building at 87 East Hartford Avenue in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1873 and enlarged in 1900, it served as a public school until 2002. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 for its architectural and community significance. It is slated in 2015 to be converted into affordable housing.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Blanchard School is located on the south side of Hartford Avenue East, between Boston and School Streets, a short way east of the center of Uxbridge. It is a large two-story wood frame structure, with a hip roof, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. The roof is capped by an octagonal cupola which is set on a square base with surrounding balustrade, and capped by a bell-shaped roof. The front facade, facing north, is nine bays wide, with sash windows in the outermost three bays on each side, and narrower sash windows on the second floor in the center three bays. The entrance is in the center bay on the ground floor, with flanking pilasters and an entablature above, and oval windows in the flanking bays. To the rear of this is the older (1873) portion of the school, also two stories in height, with a bracketed cornice and corner boards with arched panels.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the school was built in 1873 on land donated by the Uxbridge Cotton Mill, and was the first of the town&#39;s district schools. This Italianiate building, which housed four classrooms, was enlarged in 1900 with the Colonial Revival structure now at the front. For many years it was named in honor of Virginia Blanchard, a longtime teacher and principal in the school system. When the school was closed in 2002, it was the oldest district school in the state in active service. The building was vacant until 2019, when it was converted into affordable housing.</p><br>
<p>The Friends Meetinghouse is an historic Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends  located at the junction of Routes 146A  and 98  in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. On January 24, 1974, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Friends Meeting House is one of the last crude brick church structures remaining in America. This building is on the National Registry of Historic Buildings. The Friends Meeting House was built in Uxbridge, Massachusetts in 1770, by Quakers from the Quaker Community in Smithfield, Rhode Island. It was built on the farm of Moses Farnum, circa 1769, from bricks made from a brickyard across the street. The structure is two stories and has a balcony. In the Quaker tradition there were separate entrances and meeting places for men and women. The "Quaker City" settlement is one of the earliest resettlements of Quakers into the Massachusetts Colony following their expulsion by the Puritans in the 17th century.</p><br>
<p>Friends Meeting house is a brick, two-story house with a rectangular gabled roof at 479 Quaker Hwy.</p><br>
<h2>Rhode Island Quakers, Abby Kelley Foster, Effingham Capron</h2><br>
<p>Quakers and others from Rhode Island and Massachusetts maintain this building, and unprogrammed Quaker worship is held there weekly. One of the founding members of this church was the Mowry family of Rhode Island. Richard Mowry was an influential member at Quaker City who constructed machines to manufacture woolens and cotton, thus becoming a pioneer in the American industrial revolution. He was a devout Quaker who traveled throughout the Northeastern US carrying his gospel far and wide. Mowry had other inventions to his credit and is viewed as an early pioneer of the Industrialization of the very early textile industrial center at Uxbridge from the time of the American Revolution.</p><br>
<p>This historic church was the church home for fiery abolitionist, Abby Kelley Foster. She was an ultra-abolitionist who led Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone into the abolition movement. She was later disowned in 1841, by the Uxbridge Meeting for radical abolition speeches to mixed gender audiences.</p><br>
<p>At least one other Nationally known anti-slavery champion belonged to the Uxbridge meeting. Effingham Capron was an ardent anti-slavery advocate who led the movement at Uxbridge (450 local members) and served as Vice President of the State and National anti-slavery societies. Effingham brought key leaders to speak in Uxbridge in the 1830s and was widely known for his anti-slavery efforts and for his active work as a "liberator" by housing slaves on the underground railroad. Effingham was the local mill owner of the Capron mill and Uxbridge was an important junction (the canal towpath and later railroad with the turnpike from Connecticut and points south) for slaves making their way to the free African communities in the Blackstone Valley and Worcester. The Worcester area was a hotbed for the anti-slavery movement and the Quaker Meeting House was a nodal point in this activity.</p><br>
<p>The earliest Quakers who settled here from Smithfield and Providence, RI, were among the first in America who personally renounced slavery and freed slaves. The early Quakers here were related to the religious group of Moses Brown, who helped found Brown University. There are a number of Quaker homes built in this area, which was known as Quaker City, Aldrich Village, and the village of Ironstone, Massachusetts. The cemetery at this location is also a source of history. This church, listed in the Vital Records of Uxbridge as C.R. 4, church records 4, records the death of various members of the Arnold family of Uxbridge. "Sarah Arnold", widow of Benedict, died at the age of 83 on February 14, 1836 according to the Uxbridge vital records. It was believed that Peggy Shippen, the second wife of General Benedict Arnold, the Revolutionary War general and infamous traitor, returned from England to Uxbridge, incognito. She may have returned to her roots in the Quaker tradition at this Friend&#39;s Meetinghouse, following her upbringing as a Quaker in Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>An almshouse cemetery nearby was relocated with the Route 146 construction between 1981–1984 and resulted in historic archeology findings published by Boston University researchers.</p><br>
<p>The Zadock Taft House is a historic house at 115 South Main Street in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. Probably built in the 18th century, it received its present Greek Revival styling in the 1840s or 1850s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Zadock Taft House stands south of the center of Uxbridge, on the west side of South Main Street just north of its junction with Newell Road. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, two interior brick chimneys, and a clapboarded exterior. A single-story porch extends across the front facade. The building corners are pilastered, and the main entrance is framed by sidelight windows, pilasters and a corniced entablature. Windows are rectangular sash, with slightly capped lintels above.</p><br>
<p>The land on which the house stands has a long association with the locally prominent Taft family. As early as 1708 it was the farm of Joseph Taft, who helped oversee construction of Uxbridges first meetinghouse in 1728–30. It is unclear from the documentary record whether the present house is a surviving element of Joseph Tafts farm, or if it was built by a later 18th-century generation. It is shown on an 1855 map of the town in its present configuration. It was acquired in the 1860s by Zadock Taft, a great-grandson of Joseph, who owned several industrial concerns in the area, including a half interest in the Rivulet Mill Complex.</p><br>
<p>The Richard Sayles House is an historic house at 80 Mendon Street, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. It is a distinctive local example of Federal period architecture executed in granite. It is further notable has the home from about 1859 onward of Richard Sayles, a local mill worker, executive, and later owner. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 7, 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on the north side of Mendon Street (Massachusetts Route 16), just east of the St. Mary Parish church complex. The house is a two-story stone structure, five bays wide, built out of ashlar granite and topped by a hip roof. Its front facade is symmetrical, with the entrance set at the center in a keystoned round-arch opening with a semicircular transom. The windows in the other bays have projecting sills and lintels, but are otherwise unadorned.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1820, and its first owner is presently unknown. It was purchased about 1859 by Richard Sayles, a leading figure in the textile mills of Uxbridge. Sayles, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, was educated at Uxbridge Academy, and worked in the local mills 1841–47. By 1852, he had risen to supervise construction of the Central Woolen Mill, which he and Israel Southwick leased 1859–61. In 1864, he purchased the Rivulet Mill, which he owned, generally in partnership with others, until his death in 1887. Sayles was also a philanthropist, funding construction of the North Uxbridge Baptist Church despite his own Unitarian beliefs. The house was sold to the Calument Mill company after his death, and was probably used as worker housing.</p><br>
<p>The Seth Aldrich House or S. Aldrich House is an historic house located at 317 Aldrich Street, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. On October 7, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The section where the house is located is also known as "Aldrich Village". There is an historic Quaker Meeting House here, known as "The Old Brick", among other local historic sites. The Town of Uxbridge was first settled in 1662. The Aldrich Family of Mendon and Uxbridge, became a political force in American politics. The original ancestor was George Aldrich of Mendon, who may have been buried near the Seth Aldrich Home, in the family cemetery. Senator Nelson Aldrich, an Aldrich family descendant from Rhode Island, set up the banking industry and finance system in the USA Former Vice President, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, was named for his mother&#39;s father, USA Senator Nelson Aldrich. Other Aldriches in political service included, William Aldrich, Richard S. Aldrich, and J. Frank Aldrich. There are a number of Aldrich homes along Aldrich Street, and Glendale Street in the south Uxbridge section of Uxbridge. The area generally is also often referred to as Ironstone, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>In the 1820&ndash;30s, nearby Aldrich Village sprang up as a community of the extended family of the Aldriches. The Aldrich family were Quakers and their community included their homes, businesses including the Jacob Aldrich Farm (and Orchard) at 389 Aldrich Street which is a light colored brick home made in a kiln nearby on River Road.</p><br>
<p>364 Aldrich Street was owned by Daniel Aldrich who ran a saw mill, a blacksmith shop and a wheelwright shop which produced numerous products such as roof shingles, wagons, and lumber. A one-room schoolhouse was in the community as was an ice house cutting and storing ice from Aldrich Pond. 317 Aldrich Street was the home of Seth Aldrich and the family cemetery `is on Glendale Street, near the border with Burrillville, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel Aldrich Cottage and Sawmill is a historic property at 364 Aldrich Street in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. It includes a c. 1790s late Federal style brick cottage, and at one time also included a rare surviving small-scale sawmill, built around 1790s. They were built by Daniel Aldrich, member of a locally prominent family, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Daniel Aldrich property is located on the south side of Aldrich Street in a rural area of central southern Uxbridge. The house is a -story brick structure, with a side gable roof and end chimneys. The front facade is laid in stretcher bond, while the other sides are laid in common bond. The front has five bays, with a center entrance flanked by sidelight windows. A wood-frame Greek Revival ell extends to the east. Located southwest of the house is a barn.</p><br>
<p>East of the house, across a small brook, stood a modest single-story wood-frame structure with a gable roof and clapboard siding. Possibly dating to about the same period as the house, it was a rare surviving example of a small 19th-century sawmill. Most of the building has been demolished since it was listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in the 1820s, Aldrich Village developed as a community of the extended family of the Aldriches. The Aldrich family were Quakers and their community included their homes and businesses they operated. This property was owned by Daniel Aldrich, who ran a saw mill, a blacksmith shop and a wheelwright shop which produced numerous products such as roof shingles, wagons, lumber. The property was later taken over by Daniel&#39;s son Gideon, but it is not clear if he used the mill in his lumber-related businesses.</p><br>
<p>The Jacob Aldrich House, also known as the J. Aldrich House, is an historic house located at 389 Aldrich Street, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. On January 20, 1984, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Aldrich family were Quakers and their community included their homes, businesses including the Jacob Aldrich Farm (and Orchard) at 389 Aldrich Street which is a light colored brick home made in a kiln nearby on River Road. The Jacob Aldrich Farm and Orchard is located on Massachusetts Route 98, in a village of similar homes from the 18th and 19th century. The house is stories in height, with end chimneys and a side gable roof. The main facade is five bays wide and symmetrical, with a center entrance flanked by sidelight windows and narrow pilasters, which rise to a semi-oval Federal-style fan. The brickwork is somewhat unusual, with the occasional use of square bricks on the outer walls.</p><br>
<h2>Aldrich Village</h2><br>
<p>In the 1820-30s, Aldrich Village sprang up as a community of the extended family of the Aldriches. The Aldrich family began in America in Mendon with George Aldrich, and the family eventually became a political force (see the article on the Seth Aldrich House for more info). The Aldrich family were Quakers and their community included their homes and businesses including the Jacob Aldrich Farm. 364 Aldrich Street was owned by Daniel Aldrich who ran a saw mill, a blacksmith shop and a wheelwright shop which produced numerous products such as roof shingles, wagons, lumber. 364 Aldrich is also on the Historic Register as are several other homes in this vicinity. For a more complete listing of these older Quaker Homes on the National Register in Uxbridge, please see the link below for local historic listings. A one-room schoolhouse was in the community as was an ice house cutting and storing ice from Aldrich Pond. 317 Aldrich Street was the Seth Aldrich House and the family cemetery is on Glendale Street.</p><br>
<p>The Moses Farnum House is an historic house located on Route 146A. in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. On October 7, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Moses Farnum was born, son of John C. Farnum, Jr of Chockalog(Nipmuc "for dry fox place or burned place") at Uxbridge (then Mendon), Massachusetts Colony, on September 8, 1701, and died September 8, 1770.</p><br>
<p>He was a farmer in Uxbridge and Douglas.</p><br>
<p>Moses Farnum&#39;s descendant, EB Farnum, became Mayor of and was a pioneer at Deadwood, South Dakota. Moses Farnum was a prominent landowner in the pre-Revolutionary War era of Colonial Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The site of the Moses Farnum farm and house became the site of a Quaker meeting house circa 1770. The house was also used as Uxbridges first post office. Quakers from Smithfield, Rhode Island, abolitionists, with ties to Moses Brown whose family had founded Brown University, and some of whom were among the first in America to free slaves, settled here. Moses Farnums father, John C. Farnum, Jr., who died in 1749 is also buried in the Quaker Cemetery at this site.</p><br>
<p>The Elisha Southwick House is an historic house located at 255 Chocolog Road, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, United States. The house is named for Elisha Southwick, a tanner and shoe manufacturer. David L. Southwick, who owned the house in the later decades of the 19th century, was a blacksmith who lived in the house in the late 1800s and built Conestoga wagon wheels.</p><br>
<p>The house is a -story wood-frame Cape style house, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. Its main facade is symmetrical, with a center entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a transom window. The windows in the side bays are butted against the cornice in the Federal style. Probably built in the 1820s, it is a well-preserved example of vernacular Federal period architecture.</p><br>
<p>On October 7, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Richardson House is an historic house at 685 Chocalog Road in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. One of Uxbridge&#39;s wealthiest citizens and largest landowners, Joseph Richardson, Jr, lived in this house. He was a farmer and landowner, as well as Selectman of the town. His father was a captain in the French and Indian War. Richardson died of smallpox in 1825 at the age of 41. His descendants still live in the home today, according to the Uxbridge Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>On October 7, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Sylvanus Holbrook House is a historic house at 52 Albee Road in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. This story timber-frame house was built c. 1780. It was owned by Sylvanus Holbrook, one of the founding directors of the Blackstone National Bank. It is five bays wide, with a central entry that is a typical Federal style with flanking pilasters supporting a five-light transom window and triangular pediment. Second story windows are butted up to the eave, a common Georgian feature.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Leiper&#39;s Fork  is an unincorporated rural village in Williamson County, Tennessee. It has a population of about 650 on an area of about 1,100 acre. Most of the village shares a ZIP code with Franklin.</p><br>
<p>The village, located on the Natchez Trace Parkway, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Leipers Fork is located along the Natchez Trace, which was an important travel route for Native Americans and early European-American settlers. The area was settled in the late 1700s by settlers from North Carolina and Virginia who had received land grants as payment for service in the American Revolution. Lieutenant Jesse Steed received a land grant of 2,560 acre that includes the site of the village. Jesse Steeds half brother, John McGee, inherited the land upon Jesses death. John McGee sold the area to Jesse Benton in 1789, who established a homestead. His son, Thomas Hart Benton, who later was to become USA Senator from Missouri, moved the family there in 1801 after his fathers death. Natchez Trace travelers called the community around the Benton homestead Bentontown, but over time the area came to be called Hillsboro.</p><br>
<p>In 1818, a post office was established in the community. It is believed that the Hillsboro name was already in use for a community in Coffee County, so the post office was given the name of Leipers Fork for the stream that runs through the village. The namesake of Leipers Fork creek was one of two brothers: Hugh Leiper, who completed an early land survey in the area, or Captain James Leiper, who died in the Battle of the Bluffs at Fort Nashborough in 1781.</p><br>
<p>Growth of the village was stimulated by traffic on the Natchez Trace. Largely as a result of its transportation access, Leiper&#39;s Fork was historically the center of trade for western Williamson County and the center of religious and social activities in the area.</p><br>
<p>The Leiper&#39;s Fork post office operated until 1918.</p><br>
<h2>Education</h2><br>
<p>In 1890, a private school for grades 1 to 12 was established in Leipers Fork. The school, known as Hillsboro High School, operated as a private school until 1904. The Williamson County school board acquired the school property in 1905 and opened a public school there for children from Leipers Fork and the surrounding area. The school burned down in 1930 when it was struck by lightning, and a new school was built on the same site in 1931. It operated until the late 1970s when it was replaced by a newer building. The new Hillsboro School, which opened in 1981, is a public elementary and middle school.</p><br>
<p>In 1998, the old Hillsboro School became the Hillsboro-Leiper&#39;s Fork Community Center, which is operated by the county government and includes recreational facilities, a senior center and a branch of the county public library system.</p><br>
<h2>Commerce</h2><br>
<p>Commercial businesses in Leiper&#39;s Fork include inns and restaurants, antique stores, a woodworking shop, private art galleries, and real estate offices.</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>Leipers Fork hosts many annual festivals and events. These include music festivals, annual turkey shoots in November, and model airplane competitions in September. The the first weekend in June brings in about 1000 runners from around the country. The in mid-September is another race that draws a good crowd. The annual "Almost Famous Leipers Fork Christmas Parade," the second Saturday in December, is known as a "quirky" array of animals, classic cars and country fun.</p><br>
<p>The A. Chapin House is a historic house located at 36 Pleasant Street, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a -story wood-framed structure, with a front-facing gable roof and clapboard siding. The building corners are pilastered, and it has a wide cornice. The front entry is flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters. The house was built c. 1855-57 as a typical Greek Revival side hall entry house. It was restyled in 1880, adding significant Gothic Revival styling, including an ornately decorated porch. Little is known about most of its owners, including A. Chapin, its first documented owner (1857).</p><br>
<p>On October 7, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, where it is listed at 26 Pleasant Street.</p><br>
<p>The A. E. Cook House is an historic house at 176 Aldrich Street in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, United States. The construction date of this story wood frame Cape style house is not known; based on stylistic analysis, it may have been built as early as 1750, making it one of the older homes in South Uxbridge. All of its facades are asymmetrical in appearance; the main facade has a central door, with two windows on one side, and one on the other. The house&#39;s age is in part given by its massive central chimney.</p><br>
<p>On October 7, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The A. Whipple House is an historic house located at 398 Sutton Street in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The two story brick house was built c. 1815–1825, and is an excellent local example of Federal style architecture. The brick on the main facade is laid in Flemish bond, and in common bond on the other three sides. The main facade is a typical five bays wide, with a center entry. The entry originally had a fanlight window above, but has been rebuilt to have two doors, and the fanlight has been blocked up.</p><br>
<p>On October 7, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Butler Block is an historic mixed use residential and commercial building located at 166 Linwood Street, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. This brick and wood building was built c. 1845–55. Most of the building&#39;s walls are made of brick laid in common bond, but the upper level of the north facade is framed in wood. The property also includes a 19th-century barn. The building has relatively simple Greek Revival styling, including corners trimmed with pilasters.</p><br>
<p>On October 7, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, where it is listed at 210 Linwood.</p><br>
<p>The C.R. Thomson House and Barn are historic buildings at 795 Chockalog Street in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. The house is a modest story timber-frame cottage estimated to have been built around 1800. It is predominantly vernacular in its styling, except for a c. 1870s Victorian entry. The barn on the property also dates to the 1870s, and has some elaborate Gothic styling, including bracketed cornices, and bargeboard decoration around its entrances. The property was associated at that time with Comford R. Thomson, a breeder of show cattle.</p><br>
<p>On October 7, 1983, they were added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Dexter Richardson House is an historic house at 5 South Street in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. The story wood-frame house was built c. 1736, and is a well-preserved local example of transitional Georgian-Federal styling. The basic massing of the main block is Georgian, with five bays and a central entry, with a large central chimney. The entry is framed by Federal style fluted pilasters and topped by a heavy pediment; there is a five-light transom window above the door.</p><br>
<p>On October 7, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The E. Albee House is an historic house located at 217 Chapin Street, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. Probably built in the mid-18th century, it is a well-preserved example of rural vernacular period architecture. On October 7, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The E. Albee House stands in a rural area of eastern Uxbridge, on the south side of Chapin Street not far west of the town line with Mendon. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gambrel roof extending down to the first floor, brick central chimney, granite foundation, and clapboarded exterior. The north-facing front facade is five bays wide, with the entrance set in the bay right of center, and the windows otherwise placed somewhat asymmetrically. It is likely that the original main facade is that facing south. An early 19th-century barn stands across the street to the north.</p><br>
<p>The construction date of the house is unknown, but is believed to be mid-18th century, based on the similarity of its construction methods and details to other local houses that survive from that period, including the Samuel Taft House and the Coronet John Farnum Jr. House. It is possible that the 1855 owner of the property, E. Albee, was related to 17th century settlers of Mendon.</p><br>
<p>The E. Brown House is an historic house located at 7 Sutton Street, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, and clapboard siding. Despite its otherwise vernacular construction, it has fine quality Federal styling, with corner pilasters and cornice. The cornice and the door surround appear to be carved based on published drawings of Asher Benjamin. The western wing is a 20th-century addition.</p><br>
<p>On October 7, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Farnum Block was an historic commercial building located at 1 South Main Street, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. It was a three-story brick building with Renaissance Revival styling, and was built sometime between 1895, when a fire destroyed commercial buildings in the area, and 1898.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Farnum Block stood at the northern end of a short series of commercial blocks in the center of Uxbridge, on the west side of Main Street at its junction with Mendon Street. It was three stories in height, built of red brick in the Renaissance Revival style. The ground floor housed two commercial store fronts, topped by a metal cornice. The upper floors were divided vertically into three sections, defined by recessed arched panels, with paired sash windows at each level. Decorative pressed brick panels were set between the arched panels, and the building was crowned by a decorative metal cornice with modillions and egg-and-dart moulding. The side walls were more plainly finished.</p><br>
<p>The block was built about 1895, and was designed to house retail spaces on the ground floor, professional offices on the second, and an auditorium/meeting space on the third. This building plan was typical for commercial buildings of the period, as also seen in Uxbridges Bank Building (destroyed by fire in 2013). Nothing is known of this buildings first owner, H. S. Farnum.</p><br>
<p>The Butler County Courthouse is a government building of Butler County located in the county seat, Butler, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The current structure is the third courthouse to have been built for the county. The original courthouse, built in 1807, was a small structure made of stone. James P. Bailey, who was responsible for the construction of Old Main at Geneva College became the architect of the new courthouse after the second one was destroyed by a fire in 1883. It was built in 1885, and is a three-story, brick and sandstone building in an interpretation of the High Victorian Gothic style. It features a large central, four-faced clock tower with two double pyramid shaped roofs.</p><br>
<p>Bailey&#39;s courthouse still stands today, and is currently the tallest structure in downtown Butler.</p><br>
<p>The facility includes a Westinghouse elevator installed in the late 50s early 60s, several stained glass windows, a grand staircase connecting the first and second floors. The first and second floors are more designed to be gothic and art deco with several crown moldings, domed ceilings, marble floors and walls, and woodwork as well. The upper two floors have been made into offices and courtrooms. In the early 1990s a new government annex building was constructed beside the courthouse. The two structures are connected via skywalk. The annex building is 5 stories and consists of 2 basement levels, making a total of 7 floors. All 7 levels house offices and courtrooms.</p><br>
<p>The Butler County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Dubois-Phelps House is a farmhouse located off Wallkill Road outside of the village of Walden in the Town of Montgomery, New York, United States. It is in the center of Riverside Farm, close to the Wallkill River.</p><br>
<p>The original farmhouse was built sometime in the 18th century. In 1851, Nathaniel DuBois bought it and renovated it extensively in the Greek Revival style, creating the building as it exists today. The Phelps family, its current occupant, bought the property from his descendants in 1922. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
