<p>The Lipsett Hardware Building, currently the Pickford Area Historical Society Museum, is a commercial building located at 175 Main Street in Pickford, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first resident in the Pickford area was Charles W. Pickford, who established a farm on the site of the village in 1877. His brother Thomas founded the first store in the area in 1880, and the population grew to over 100 during the next decade, to a peak of 500 people in 1903. However, it was only in 1899 that the village of Pickford was formally platted, and the small downtown gained a number of commercial buildings during the first decade of the 1900s.</p><br>
<p>James L. Lipsitt arrived in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan from Ontario in 1875. He worked as a blacksmith for a number of years, but also ran a livery stable, a farm machinery business, and a contracting business (with which he built a number of buildings at Fort Brady). He was also president of a local bank, and served as the mayor of Sault Ste. Marie.</p><br>
<p>Lipsett opened a branch of his farm implement and hardware business in Pickford at some point in the early 1900s, and by 1911 was making plans to construct a new building to house it. He hired John B. Irwin of Sault Ste. Marie to construct the new building, and it was completed in August 1912.</p><br>
<p>James Lipsitt&#39;s son Verne L. Lipsitt managed the hardware store, and also ran a Ford dealership in the building from 1912 until 1917, when a separate building was constructed for the dealership. In 1991, Waybrant sold the building, and it remained vacant for a decade.</p><br>
<p>In 2001, the Pickford Area Historical Society bought the building. Major restoration was carried out over the next few years, culminating with the installation of a replica cornice in 2011. The Society moved into the building in 2006. As of 2013, the Pickford Area Historical Society still occupies the building.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Lipsett Hardware Store is a two-story brick building with a flat timber roof, sitting on a concrete foundation measuring 40 ft by 100 ft. The grade slopes downward to the rear, so that an entrance directly into the basement level is cut into the rear face of the building. Small arch-topped basement windows along the top of the foundation line the rear and side walls. No other windows line the side, but the rear contains four single windows on the first floor and three pairs on the second.</p><br>
<p>The front facade is symmetrical, featuring a slant-sided recessed entryway with the door at grade level. The entryway is flanked by heavy piers, with large glass store windows to each side and three paired windows on the second floor. A brick beltcourse runs above the entrance and serves as the sills for the upper-story windows. A metal cornice runs across the top. The present facade dates from 2004-2005, when extensive restoration work was done to restore the building to its original appearance.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the first floor is one large space, and the ceiling is finished with an elaborate pressed tin ceiling original to the building. The tin has a slight cove around the edges and central support beam. A staircase in the rear provides access to the second floor. The second floor is a single space, all unfinished, which provides a view of the timber roof above.</p><br>
<p>The Jeremiah Platt House in Manhattan, Kansas was built in 1871 and added to the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>Jeremiah Everts Platt (1833–1899), a Connecticut native, was an early professor at Kansas State Agricultural College, employed at the college in 1864. Platt served as the first head of the preparatory department and professor of vocal music; he later taught mathematics and English. Although conferred with an honorary A.M. in 1872 by the college&#39;s board of regents, his outspoken support for prohibition led the regents to demand his resignation in 1889.</p><br>
<p>Ordained as a minister in the Congregational Church in 1888, Platt left KSAC in 1889 and traveled throughout Kansas establishing Sunday schools. He and his wife subsequently continued this work in Oklahoma, where he is credited with establishing 150 Sunday schools.</p><br>
<p>Platt purchased ten acres land in Manhattan in September 1867. The Manhattan Nationalist reported on October 13, 1871, that "Prof. Platt&#39;s new house is just enclosed and will be finished by the end of the term. It is of brick, two stories, with light limestone trimmings and is built in the best manner."</p><br>
<p>The house remained Platts property while he lived in Oklahoma, 1893–1899, but was rented out. Platt died in 1899 and the house passed to his widow Jennie, who returned to Manhattan and resided at the house until 1904 when she sold it to Anna Neider for $3,000. Neider sold the property in 1917 and it was subsequently transferred by sale five times before being purchased by Roy T. and Alice Hulshizer in 1925. The Hulshizers ran a tea room in the house for three years before selling it in 1928 to Andrew Ekdahl. The house remained in the Ekdahl family until 1965 when it was transferred to the Board of Riley County Commissioners. From 1965 through 1980, the house was used as dispatch headquarters for the county&#39;s ambulance service.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, the Board of Riley County Commissioners transferred the property to the Riley County Genealogical Society, which has continuously maintained its headquarters and library there following minor renovations to the interior and exterior of the building.</p><br>
<p>What is most unusual about the house is the use of brick in its construction, instead of limestone and wood as most houses in Manhattan were built during this time. Platts brother-in-law, William Harrison Smith, was a builder who also owned a brickyard in nearby Junction City. Although no evidence remains to definitively prove that Smith assisted in any way with the construction of Platts house, the circumstantial evidence is strong.</p><br>
<p>The Blair Congregational Church in Blair, Nebraska is a Carpenter Gothic church that has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979. It is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
<p>The church was founded in 1870. The building was constructed in 1874 by local builder George Sutherland, according to a design by Omaha architect Charles F. Driscoll whose plans won out over architect A. Roberts, each of whom received $25 for their submissions. Carpenter Gothic style is rare in the state, and this is believed to be the only non-Episcopalian church example. (Architect Richard Upjohn popularized the style for rural Episcopalian churches.) It was renovated and extended in 1884, 1908, and 1957.</p><br>
<p>Driscoll also designed the NRHP-listed Ideal Steam Laundry, in Fremont, Nebraska.</p><br>
<p>The Chelsea Commercial Historic District is a historic district located along both sides of Main Street from Orchard to North Street in Chelsea, Michigan; the district also includes the adjacent 100 blocks of Jackson, East Middle, and West Middle Streets, as well as structures on Park, East, and Orchard Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land where the village of Chelsea now sits was first settled in the 1830s by brothers Elisha and James Congdon. A series of freight stations was built on the site, and the resulting freight business through the town spurred the growth of Chelsea in the mid-1800s. Additional schools, churches, and businesses were built in the area around the depot in the 1850s and 1860s. As the village grew, a thriving commercial district sprang up south of the railroad tracks. The early buildings were wooden, but after a series of disastrous fires in the 1870s, the current brick structures were built.</p><br>
<h2>Historical district description</h2><br>
<p>The Chelsea Commercial Historic District begins on the north side of Main Street at the Michigan Central Railroad tracks and the Glazier Stoveworks, and continues southward. to include the bulk of the historic downtown area of the village. The district is primarily commercial in nature, but also includes public and religious buildings and a few private homes.</p><br>
<h2>Significant structures</h2><br>
<p>The Chelsea Commercial Historic District contains 61 contributing structures on or near Main Street. It significantly includes the Longworth Complex, a commercial building housing the Chelsea House Livery Stable, the Daniels Showroom, The Merkel Block, and the Mack Building. The district also includes the Glazier Stove Works, the McKune Memorial Library, a structure that formerly served as the post office, the Rockwell Building on East Street, the First United Methodist Church on Park Street, and several other churches.</p><br>
<h3>Glazier Stove Company Warehouse and Clocktower Building</h3><br>
<p>The Glazier Stove Company Warehouse and Clocktower Building is an industrial building located at 310 N. Main Street. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Warehouse is a three-story rectangular Jacobethan Revival structure built of dark red brick. is one of the most visible landmarks in the city.</p><br>
<p>The Glazier Stove Company was owned by Frank Porter Glazier, who guided the company to become a large and profitable firm in the construction of stoves.</p><br>
<p>As of 2013, it was part of the "Chelsea Clocktower" mixed-use redevelopment of retail and office space.</p><br>
<h3>Welfare Building</h3><br>
<p>The Welfare Building is a recreational building located at 130 N. Main Street. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Welfare Building is a Postmedieval English style building built of brick. It was originally constructed to hold a swimming pool, a billiard hall, a basketball court, a theater and a reading room.</p><br>
<p>The Welfare building was constructed in 1906 by Frank P. Glazier as a recreation facility for his workers. He hired Ionia, Michigan architect Caire Allen to design this building. The company went bankrupt the next year, and the building was sold to the Lewis Spring & Axle Company, manufacturer of the Hollier Eight automobile. In 1960, the local newspaper, the Chelsea Standard, moved in.</p><br>
<h3>Rockwell Building</h3><br>
<p>The Rockwell Building is a commercial building located at 310 East Street. As of 2013, it was part of the "Chelsea Clocktower" mixed-use redevelopment of retail and office space.</p><br>
<h3>Michigan Central Railroad Chelsea Depot</h3><br>
<p>The Michigan Central Railroad Chelsea Depot is a railroad depot located at 150 Jackson Street. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1986 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>It is a single story Stick style Late Victorian design, with multiple gables and gingerbread decoration. Most of the structure is covered with horizontal clapboard, but the gable ends are covered with vertical board and batten. A brick patio surrounds the building. With the exception of some changes to the chimney structure and missing roof crests and finial, the depot&#39;s exterior looks exactly like it did when constructed.</p><br>
<p>The station was built in 1880, when the railroad decided to establish passenger service in Chelsea. In 1985, a group of Chelsea citizens formed the Chelsea Depot Association and purchased the depot to prevent the deterioration of the structure. They began restoration efforts in 1986, and the depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The building has since been used as a rental space for community and private functions, and the Chelsea Depot Association continues to maintain it.</p><br>
<h3>Longworth Complex</h3><br>
<p>The Longworth Complex is a complex of three connected commercial building located at the corner of Main and Jackson Streets. The complex is composed of three separate buildings: the Chelsea House Livery Stable, the Daniels Showroom, and the Mack Building.</p><br>
<p>The Chelsea House Livery Stable is a two-story structure located at 110 Jackson Street. It was built from concrete blocks cast on-site, and contains 10,200 ft&sup2; of space. It was later converted into a shop for the next-door auto dealership, housed in the Mack Building/Daniels Showroom. The building was vacant for years; in 2008 the Chelsea Downtown Development Authority purchased it and proposed demolition.</p><br>
<p>The Art Moderne Daniels Showroom was a single-story, 760 ft&sup2; structure located at 118 N. Main Street. With large glass panes facing the street, it was used as an auto showroom. The building was vacant for years; in 2008 the Chelsea Downtown Development Authority purchased it and proposed its demolition. It was demolished in October 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Mack Building is a two-story, 7,600 ft&sup2; structure located at 102 Jackson Street. It was built in 1901. After demolition of the attached Daniels Showroom in 2012, it was planned to restore the facade of the Mack Building to its historic character.</p><br>
<h3>George W. Palmer House</h3><br>
<p>The George W. Palmer House, also known as the Chelsea Private Hospital, is a single-family house located at 138 E. Middle Street. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The two-story brick-clad structure is an exceptional example of a brick Queen Anne single-family home. The L-shaped house is topped with a hip roof with cross gables and a large gabled hood over the front facade. The brickwork contains areas of offset and soldiered bricks, as well as stone window detailing and quoins, making interesting variation in color and texture.</p><br>
<p>The house was constructed in 1888 for physician George W. Palmer. In 1905, Daniel Charles McLaren, a prominent local businessman and village president, bought the house. In 1936, a small private hospital, known as Chelsea Private Hospital, moved into the building. After the hospital closed in 1942, the house served as a rooming house for women working in local defense industries. It then operated for years as an apartment house with a first-floor chiropractic clinic. It was purchased in 1991 by John L. and Jacquelyn Frank, who restored the structure as a single-family home.</p><br>
<h3>First Congregational Church of Chelsea</h3><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church is a church building located at 121 Middle Street. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1995.</p><br>
<p>It is a well-preserved example of a Romanesque/Italian structure designed by Sidney J. Osgood. It is a red brick structure trimmed with stone, sitting on a fieldstone foundation. It has a gable-roof auditorium with attached hip roof fellow ship hall ad office sections.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church of Chelsea was first organized in 1849. The congregation constructed a church on this site in 1849, which was used until 1894 when it was destroyed by fire. The present structure, designed by Grand Rapids architect Sidney J. Osgood, was constructed to replace it. The building was dedicated in 1895.</p><br>
<h3>George P. Glazier Memorial Building</h3><br>
<p>The George P. Glazier Memorial Building is a commercial building located at 122 S. Main Street. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Glazier Memorial Building is a two-story trapezoidal French Renaissance structure, built from rockfaced fieldstone trimmed with limestone. It has a truncated hip roof covered with red terra cotta tile. Large piers with Ionic capitals line the principal facade, and a small portico supported with matching Ionic columns covers the main entrance. The facade is capped with an entablature containing large modillions and a cornice above.</p><br>
<p>The Glazier Memorial Building was constructed in 1901-1902 by Frank P. Glazier to honor his father, George P. Glazier</p><br>
<h3>Post office</h3><br>
<p>The former post office building is located at the corner of Main and South Streets. The post office opened in the late 1930s. It moved to a new location later, and as of 2012 a restaurant was planned for the building.</p><br>
<h3>First United Methodist Church</h3><br>
<p>The First United Methodist Church is a religious building located at 128 Park Street. It is a stone structure.</p><br>
<p>The Methodist congregation in Chelsea was established in 1853, and by 1859, a wooden church had been built at the site of the current structure. The wooden church was used until 1899, when it burned. The current church was built in 13 months at a cost of $6000, and dedicated in February 1900. The congregation grew through the next century, and wings were added to the building in 1963 and 1996. The building continues to be used by the church.</p><br>
<h3>McKune Memorial Library</h3><br>
<p>The McKune Memorial Library, also known as the McKune House, is a public building located at 221 Shouth Main Street.</p><br>
<p>Elisha Congdon was one of Chelseas first residents, arriving in 1832. He built a log house on this spot at that time; the log house burned down in 1849, and Congdon replaced it with a frame structure. In 1860, he moved the frame house and built this brick structure in its place. Congdon lived in the house until he died in 1867. In 1870, businessman Timothy McKune purchased the house and converted it into a hotel called the "McKune House Hotel." McKunes son Edward took over the property in 1909, but as the 20th century progressed, the hotel saw less business, and turned into more of a rooming house.</p><br>
<p>In the 1940s, the Friends of the Chelsea Library was organized, and they began looking for a suitable home for the library. In 2004, the original building was again renovated, and another wing was constructed.</p><br>
<p>American Grain Complex, also known as "The American", Russell-Miller Milling Co. Elevator, and Peavey Co. Elevator, is a historic grain elevator and flour milling complex located in South Buffalo, Buffalo, Erie County, New York. The complex consists of three contributing buildings and two contributing structures. They are the Elevator Building , Flour Building , office building , Moveable Marine Tower, and railroad tracks. The Elevator Building consists of the mainhouse, workhouse, and fixed marine tower, all built in 1905–1906, and an annex constructed in 1931. The complex was last owned by ConAgra Foods, who closed the elevator and mill in June 2001.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Springer-Cranston House is a historic home located at Marshallton, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in the late-18th century, and is a -story, four-bay, coursed rubble stone dwelling with a two-story stuccoed stone service wing. It has a Georgian interior floor plan and gable roof. The house is constructed of local Brandywine granite. It was originally a one-story, stone dwelling roughly 24 feet by 18 feet, and subsequently enlarged and modified during the first half of the 19th century. The interior was modernized in the 1940s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Welsh Congregational United Church of Christ, formerly known as First Welsh Congregational Church, is located in a rural area southwest of Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first sermon associated with the church was in the home of John Griffith in September 1845, and it is believed to be the first Welsh church "in the whole region west of the Mississippi River", according to a 1905 account in the Columbus Gazette. The congregation was founded as a Congregational church the following year, also in the Griffith home. In 1848 they acquired the same house and remodeled it for their meeting house. The cemetery in the church yard was established in 1851. The meeting house served their needs until their first church building was constructed in 1864. The old building was sold and converted into a horse barn. This congregation is the mother church of two other Welsh congregations. The Iowa City congregation was founded in 1849, and the Williamsburg, Iowa congregation was founded over a dispute about the use of Welsh during services. Owen Evans led those that advocated for English services to found the Williamsburg congregation around 1860.</p><br>
<p>The present church was completed in 1887 for $1,828.56 and it was consecrated debt-free.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church is located on a rise above a county highway. It is a simple frame building that rests on a concrete foundation. There are four stained glass windows on the side walls. On the roof above the main entrance is a spire that rests on a square base and a hexagonal drum. To the north of the church building is the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The Congregational Church and Manse in Santee, Nebraska, on the Santee Sioux Reservation in Knox County, Nebraska, is a listing on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Pilgrim Congregational Church and its manse are the two buildings in the listing. Both were built in 1870-71 after the arrival of missionary Reverend Alfred L. Riggs and his wife Mrs. Mary B. Riggs.</p><br>
<p>Riggs operated the Santee Normal Training School there. The school was founded by the American Board in 1870, but control transferred to the American Missionary Association (A.M.A.) in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The church was extended to the rear in 1919.</p><br>
<p>The chapel and manse were documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1952, which produced measured drawings and photos of both.</p><br>
<p>In 1970, both buildings were intact and unaltered; the manse needed a coat of paint and the church needed minor repairs inside.</p><br>
<p>The pair was listed on the NRHP in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Santee Normal Training School operated from 1870 to 1936. Albert Riggs was principal and had two assistants. By 1885 there were 18 buildings on the school&#39;s 400 acre.</p><br>
<p>Riggs died in 1916 and was buried about one mile east. His son Frederick Riggs replaced him in running the school.</p><br>
<p>Buena Vista is a historic home located at New Castle, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built between 1845 and 1847, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick dwelling in the Greek Revival style. It has a service wing and a long wing designed by architect R. Brognard Okie containing a long hall and library. It features a full width verandah supported by Doric order columns. It was the home of USA Senator and Secretary of State John M. Clayton  and USA Senator and Delaware Governor C. Douglass Buck , who donated it to the State of Delaware. It is operated as the Buena Vista Conference Center by the State of Delaware.</p><br>
<p>The estate originally was named in commemoration of the Battle of Buena Vista in the Mexican–American War. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>Baldwin-Wallace College North Campus Historic District is an area of land on the north end of the Baldwin Wallace University campus. BW is a four-year private, coeducation, liberal arts college in Berea, Ohio, United States. The school was founded in 1845 as Baldwin Institute by Methodists settlers. Eventually the school merged with nearby German Wallace College in 1913 to become Baldwin-Wallace College, which changed its name to "Baldwin Wallace University" in 2012. Several buildings since its founding have been established on the National Register of Historic Places, establishing this area as the Baldwin-Wallace College North Campus Historic District. This area is the second historic district added to the campus which includes the BW&#39;s South Campus Historic district</p><br>
<h2>The district</h2><br>
<p>The Baldwin-Wallace College North Campus Historic District is bounded by East Fifth Avenue on the north; Beech Street, east; East Bagley Road, south and Front Street, west. The Baldwin-Wallace College North Campus Historic District includes a total of 14 buildings and one structure.</p><br>
<p>The district features a variety of collegiate, religious, and residential buildings in a campus setting, mostly constructed of Berea sandstone and brick between 1866 and 1958, and representative of architectural styles from the late 19th and early 20th century including Richardsonian Romanesque, High Victorian Gothic, Georgian Colonial, Tudor Revival and mid-century Modern</p><br>
<h2>Building List</h2><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Academic & Administrative Spaces</h3><br>
<p>Philura Gould Baldwin Memorial Library: The building was built in dedication by John Baldwin in memory of his daughter. Philura started the first collection of the university&#39;s library in Hulet hall. Today the building is part of the Malicy Center.</p><br>
<p>Carnegie Science Hall: The building was originally called "Ladies Hall" moved using a grant from Andrew Carnegie under the stipulation the building would be used for science purposes. The building was used as a science building until the Life and Earth Sciences Building (now Tefler Hall) was built in 1960. The building was moved brick-by-brick to the corner of Front and Bagley.</p><br>
<p>Wheeler Hall: Originally named Recitation Hall the ground-breaking ceremony was led by Mary Baldwin, John&#39;s daughter. The building holds the Education department. The building was originally named Recitation Hall.</p><br>
<p>Wilker Hall: Wilker was on the board of trustees for 35 years and was married to Mabel McKelvey. Victor Wilker was a 1906 graduate. McKelvey Auditorium is located in between Wilker and Tefler Hall.</p><br>
<p>Telfer Hall: Telfer Hall was built in 1960 and was named after Art and Helen Telfer (1931 Alumni). Telfer is now part of the Thomas Family Center for Innovation and Growth. The building was formally called the Life and Earth Science Building.</p><br>
<p>Austin E. Knowlton Center: The building opened to students on January 19, 2021. The purpose of this building was to meet the growing STEM careers of mathematics, engineering, and computer technologies.</p><br>
<p>Ward Hall: Ward Hall was built in the 1940s after Katherine Ward Burrell, wife of Edward P. Burrell.</p><br>
<p>Burrell Observatory: Built in 1940, the campus observatory is named after Edward P. Burrell. Ward dedicated Burrell observatory after her husband Edward P. Burrell after his death.</p><br>
<p>Safety and Security – Tudor House: Today the building is uses for the offices of the university&#39;s Safety and Security department.</p><br>
<p>Ritter Library: was built in 1960 and is named after BW graduate George Ritter (1906). The space is home to the university&#39;s Library.</p><br>
<h3>Residence Halls & Homes</h3><br>
<p>Alumni House/President&#39;s House: Built in 1935 the building has housed several presidents of the school. In addition, for a period of time the building served as the Alumni House (offices) when the presidents lived off campus.</p><br>
<p>North Hall: named "North Hall" for being the farthest north residence hall on the campus.In 1846, the first building, North Hall, also known as "Old Muley", was built. Old Muley is in no relation to the present-day North Hall on the Baldwin Wallace Campus.</p><br>
<p>Findley Hall: Built in 1957 the rec room was originally made to be a dining hall. The building also housed the Cleveland Browns Players during summer training.</p><br>
<p>Lang Hall: Named after Emma Lang, the building was built in 1928 to be a women only dormitory. The residence hall stayed that way until 2008. The building is rumored to be haunted by Emma Land.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Veseli, Minnesota  is a Catholic church designed by Clarence H. Johnston, Sr. Johnston designed a large number buildings for state institutions in Minnesota, such as the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf, the University of Minnesota, the former Minnesota Historical Society building, and many others, but churches were not common in his architectural practice.</p><br>
<p>Veseli was originally settled by Czech immigrants and was one of the four largest such communities in Minnesota. The members formerly worshiped at the parish in New Prague until they organized their own church in 1874. The first building was a wood frame structure built between 1874 and 1878. The present building was built in 1905 and follows an Italian Romanesque style, with some influences of Craftsman architecture as well. It is 110 ft by 64 ft, with a 90 ft tall campanile tower on the left rear of the church. The entry has a round rose window with an eave above it, giving the appearance of a canopy.</p><br>
<p>Besides the church building, the parish has a school building built in 1916 and a convent and rectory built in 1926.</p><br>
<p>Hamer&#39;s General Store was a small commercial building on the eastern side of the village of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, United States. Declared a historic site in the 1980s because of its architecture, it is no longer standing.</p><br>
<h2>Historic context</h2><br>
<p>When platted in 1814, Mechanicsburg featured a grid plan centered on two major streets: Sandusky, running northeast–southwest, and Main, running northwest–southeast. Many of the lots along Main Street are small, causing the buildings occupying them to be narrow and constructed with minimal setbacks from the street. Upon one of these lots was built Hamer&#39;s General Store in an unknown year in the second half of the nineteenth century.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Hamers General Store was a weatherboarded building with a brick foundation, elements of stone and metal, and a composite roof rising to a gable. Among its most distinctive features was its prominent false front, which was produced by the construction of a tall parapet on the front and its embellishment with brackets and a cornice. The effect of a traditional country store was enhanced by the presence around the entrance of a porch with a shed roof. Throughout its history, the display windows and double doors at and around the entrance were never replaced. While numerous other commercial buildings exist in Mechanicsburg, such as in the downtown commercial district, they are generally substantially different from Hamers because of their brick construction and Italianate styling.</p><br>
<h2>Historic site</h2><br>
<p>In 1985, Hamers General Store was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying as a rare surviving example of late-nineteenth-century commercial architecture. It was part of a multiple property submission of approximately twenty buildings, scattered throughout the village in such a low concentration that a historic district designation was not practical. Despite this designation, Hamers is no longer standing; a Valero gas station occupies the site where the store was once located.</p><br>
<p>St. Casimir Parish Historic District is a national historic district located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. The district encompasses 321 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of South Bend centered on St. Casimir Roman Catholic Church. It developed between about 1880 and 1945, and includes notable examples of Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, Renaissance Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Notable buildings include the St. Casimir Church .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Murray House is a colonial home situated on the Eastern Branch Elizabeth River at Virginia Beach, Virginia. The house was constructed in 1791 by Isaac Murray for his son, Thomas. The house was saved from being demolished in the 1950s and restored to its original elegance. The house features a dated brick on the top of the eastern chimney with the initials "I.M"  and the date of "1791". The house was built with a central floor plan. A Recreation "Smokehouse" and "carriage house" were added to the property in 1988. The property has the original working well. Across the River the Richard Murray house is visible. The Thomas Murray house was the only Murray house built on the Eastern Branch Elizabeth River.</p><br>
<p>The Murrays were a prominent family of Princess Anne County. The first Murray, David, came as an indentured servant in 1622, earning 650 acres which were then passed down to later generations of Murrays. The Murrays grew flax as a cash crop and prepared flax fiber for rope making. The original flax drying shed is still on the Richard Murray property today.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Annunciation is a church in Rice County, Minnesota in Webster Township near Northfield. It was designed by John Wheeler, in the Craftsman style, and has an ornamental corner tower. A study of historic properties in Rice County says that its architecture also includes Shingle Style. The church was originally opened in 1853, and after a lightning strike burned down the original chapel, the current chapel was built and completed in 1913. It continues to operate to this day.</p><br>
<p>The Jeff Kimball House is a historic residence in the village of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, United States. Once home to one of the village&#39;s leading residents, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Jeff Kimball began construction on his residence in 1895 and completed two years later. He and his family lived there for almost fifty years before selling it in 1943. During the late nineteenth century, multiple prosperous farmers owning land near Mechanicsburg constructed or purchased houses along Main Street north of downtown, instead of living on their farms; some of the more prominent ones were Jeff Kimball, Henry Burnham, and Neil Gest, whose homes are today known as the Jeff Kimball, Henry Burnham, and Demand-Gest Houses. In later years, the house was the home of a family named Doerman.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>One of Mechanicsburgs better Queen Anne residences, the Jeff Kimball House is a brick building with a stone foundation, a slate roof, and additional elements of brick and stone. Although its neighborhood includes all of the villages best houses, the two-and-a-half-story Kimball House nevertheless stands out by means of details such as its ornamental front porch, its ironwork, its stained glass windows with bevelling, and the elaborate basketweave-like pattern of its brickwork.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>The Jeff Kimball House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, qualifying both because of its historic architecture and its place in Ohios history. It was one of approximately twenty different Mechanicsburg locations to be listed on the National Register at the same time as part of a multiple property submission. Among the Kimball Houses neighbors that were included in the multiple property submission are the Demand-Gest House at 37 N. Main, the Mechanicsburg United Methodist Church at Main and Race Streets, and the Oram Nincehelser House at 28 N. Main.</p><br>
<p>Glebe House is a historic house located at New Castle, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built between 1821 and 1823 as the glebe house of the rector of Immanuel Church. The house consists of three sections, all brick: a -story plus attic, three bay section; a lower middle section of three bays with a shed roof; and a north section comprising the original kitchen.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Hermitage was a historic home located at New Castle, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built between about 1700 and 1818, and consisted of three brick sections. The oldest section was the -story west wing. There was a two-story, rear kitchen wing, with servant&#39;s quarters above. The main section was built in 1818, and was a two-story, three-bay structure. It was built by USA Senator Nicholas Van Dyke  as a farm and summer retreat for his family.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Hermitage was heavily damaged by fire between 5:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. on February 18, 2007, in an act of arson. Following the fire, the two oldest sections of the house were completely destroyed, with only the walls left standing. The newer section (circa 1810) of the house was relatively intact, including a marble fireplace in the front, and a carved and gesso mantle and woodwork in the rear.</p><br>
<p>Declared a safety hazard by the city of New Castle, the remains of the Hermitage were torn down in 2009. Nothing was salvaged.</p><br>
<p>Jersey City Reservoir No. 3 is a decommissioned reservoir atop Bergen Hill in the Heights of Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, situated on approximately 13.8 acre just south of Pershing Field. It was built between 1871 and 1874 as part of the city&#39;s waterworks system designed to provide potable water to the city, including Ellis Island. Its perimeter wall is in the Egyptian Revival style and pump stations are in the Romanesque Revival style. The reservoir provided drinking water until the 1980s, when it was drained and abandoned for a larger reservoir at the Boonton Gorge. Since that time, a mini-ecosystem has taken root behind the thick, 20-foot tall stone walls: trees, wildflowers, swans, great blue heron, peregrine falcons, and at the center a 6-acre  lake. This urban wildlife preserve hosts numerous animal and plant species not otherwise found in an urban environment. It was listed on the state and the federal registers of historic places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Jersey City Reservoir Preservation Alliance, started in 2002, runs the maintenance and supervision programs necessary to keep the park open to the public every Saturday from May–October. The Alliance also runs summertime programming in arts, music, and recreation to bring new and returning community members to the space. The reservoir is also available for educational visits. The Alliance received the Ted Conrad “Preservationist of the Year” Award in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Renovation</h2><br>
<p>Renovations to the reservoir have been on-going since ground broke on 21 April 2021. The project has encountered several setbacks, including the discovery of contaminated soil and resistance from preservationists. A bridge allowing for public access started construction in 2024 called the Jefferson Avenue walkway bridge. As of 13 February 2024, the reservoir was closed but it reopened on September 17, 2024. The only entrance is on Howie Fink Wy and the walking trail is open from 8AM-8PM.</p><br>
<p>The Ormond Plantation House is a French Colonial-style, Creole plantation house located in Destrehan, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in the late 18th century, using bricks between cypress studs. This type of construction, called briquettes entre poteaux or "brick between posts," was used on the front and rear walls, with a type of adobe filling on the side walls. Rounded cement and brick columns supported the front veranda, or gallery, with wood columns on the second floor supporting the roof.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The builder and first owner of the house was sugar baron and slave owner, Pierre Trepagnier, who in the early 1780s was awarded a tract of land between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River by Spanish Governor Don Bernardo de Galvez, The manor house was completed shortly before 1789 (or 1780) and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Trepagnier (née Elizabeth Reynaud, m. 1777 The family grew indigo and then sugarcane on the property.</p><br>
<p>There have been a handful of mysterious occurrences at Ormond Plantation. The first involved Mr. Trepagnier himself in 1798 when he was summoned from a family meal by a servant to notify him of a coach outside with a Spanish insignia. The servant was reported to have seen him meet a gentleman who was supposedly dressed in the clothing of a Spanish official. When the servant checked back, Trepagnier, the man and his coach had vanished and were never seen again.</p><br>
<p>On June 25, 1805, Colonel Richard Butler, son and nephew of American Revolutionary War heroes bought the plantation home and land from Trepagnier&#39;s widow. He named the house Ormond, after his ancestral home, the Ormonde Castle in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland. In August 1809, Butler became a business partner with Captain Samuel McCutchon, a slave owner, merchant and sailor originally from Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>On June 29, 1819 (ten years later, or fourteen years after acquiring the property), in a private pact signed at the plantation, Richard Butler turned over all of his holdings to McCutchon and he and his wife moved to Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. No reason was ever given to explain why Butler sold the plantation although it is thought that it was an attempt at evading the local Yellow fever epidemic. If this was true then his attempts failed as it was reported that the fever had caught up with him and he died at age 43.</p><br>
<p>There is some disagreement as to when the two existing wings, or garconnieres, were built. Some say that they were built around 1811 by Richard Butler while others believe they were built in 1830 by Captain McCutchon. The garconnieres (bachelor quarters) are what give Ormond Plantation House a unique look and are taller than the main part of the house. It is believed they were influenced by architecture from the Atlantic seaboard. Captain McCutchons eldest son, Samuel B. McCutchon, married Adele dEstrehan, the daughter of the owner of neighboring Destrehan Plantation, uniting two of the area&#39;s most powerful families. Samuel and his brother James William McCutchon took over the plantation upon the death of their father, and it continued to prosper.</p><br>
<p>After the Civil War, the plantation fell on hard times and was sold twice before being sold two more times at public auctions in 1874 and 1875. On December 1, 1898, Ormond Plantation was purchased by State Senator Basile LaPlace Jr, (son of New Orleans pharmacist and land owner after whom the town of LaPlace is named) who envisioned its use as a rice-producing enterprise. Mr. LaPlace was a well-known Justice of the Peace and then as a state senator, and also successfully managed the LaPlace land area left to him by his father. Legend has it that on the night of October 11, 1899 (less than one year after buying Ormond), he was found hanging from a large oak tree on the property with bullet holes in his body. It is believed that the assassination was carried out by members of the local Ku Klux Klan which he would likely have had disagreements with due to his position, however at the time it was also believed it may have been carried out by the caretaker and his son in revenge for LaPlaces apparent "philandering" with the caretakers daughter; however there is no evidence to suggest either is true.</p><br>
<p>After the LaPlace family, the Schexnaydre family purchased the plantation. Five Schexnaydre brothers (Joseph, Emilien, Barthelemy, Albert, and Norbet) each held a one-fifth share of the property. Emilien&#39;s family moved into the manor house, and at one time five Schexnaydre families lived there. This family held the property until 1926, when it was sold to the Inter-Credit Corporation.</p><br>
<p>During the late 1920s and into the 1930s, a number of tenants occupied the house and the land. The home was allowed to deteriorate, until it was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Brown, owners of the Brown&#39;s Velvet Dairy in New Orleans. Beginning in 1943, the Browns undertook a major restoration, which included enclosing the carriageways and making the garconnieres a part of the main building. The Browns added modern conveniences such as indoor plumbing, natural gas, and electricity.</p><br>
<p>After the death of Mrs. Brown, Mr. Brown sold Ormond to a real estate developer, Johnson & Loggins, who made minor but costly renovations in the manor house. In 1974, Johnson & Loggins sold the home and 17 acres of land to Betty R. LeBlanc, then executive vice-president of Barq&#39;s Beverages, Inc., in New Orleans. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mrs. LeBlanc began restoring the plantation house, which had begun to deteriorate due to the renovations made by Johnson & Loggins. She was not able to see the renovations completed, succumbing to cancer in June 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>Ormond Plantation is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is owned by Irvin J. Carmouche. Mr. Carmouche continues to restore it and allows the manor home to be used for public tours along with weddings, luncheons, and other private events. Ormond is also operating as a bed and breakfast inn.</p><br>
<p>The LaBranche Plantation Dependency House is located in St. Rose, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. From many accounts, LaBranche Plantation, also known as Barbarra Plantation, in St. Rose, Louisiana, was one of the grandest on the German Coast until it was destroyed during the American Civil War. All that remained was the dependency house, known as a garconnière .</p><br>
<p>The dependency was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Zweig family, immigrants from Germany, acquired the property and built the plantation big house and related buildings in 1792. The main building was destroyed during the Civil War. Following the division of the property among heirs in the late 19th century, there is little left to indicate that a grand mansion stood on the grounds except for an allée lined with oak trees.</p><br>
<p>The late eighteenth-nineteenth century Creole dependency house, typically used for young bachelors and known in French as a garconnière, is significant because of its Federal woodwork and rarity as a surviving plantation dependency. Olidé and Marie Perilloux Cambre purchased the dependency house and property in 1902.</p><br>
<h2>Modern day</h2><br>
<p>The site where the manor house once stood is on private land and is not accessible to the public. The site of the Dependency House is on land currently owned by the Lentini family of Kenner. The Lentinis purchased and restored the dependency house in 1983. On October 18, 1984, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, due to its exquisite Federal woodwork and rarity as a plantation dependency or ancillary building.</p><br>
<p>The property also has a preserved slave quarters building. It has been restored, to show the living conditions of a slave family (or families). Preserved slave quarters are few in the area, since most plantations were purchased by oil refineries or industrial plants for the property; any remaining slave housing was usually torn down.</p><br>
<p>Also located on the site is the bathtub owned by Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the United States (1849–1850).</p><br>
<p>Lesley-Travers Mansion, also known as the Deemer House, Travers House, and Lesley House, is a historic home located at New Castle, New Castle County, Delaware. It was designed by noted Baltimore architects Thomas and James Dixon and built in 1855. It has a two-story, five-bay, brick core with several appendages and wings. It has a castle-like appearance, with a slate-covered steeply pitched gable roof and five-story tower, and is in the Gothic Revival style.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Swanwyck is a historic home located near New Castle in New Castle County, Delaware. It was built between 1813 and 1819, and is a two-story, three-bay, stuccoed brick dwelling reflective of the Regency period. The house has been modified by later additions and is now surrounded by 20th century residential development, unlike its original farmland setting.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Swanwyck was designed and built by Peter Bauduy for his daughter, Cora, sometime between 1813 and 1819. Bauduy was a French immigrant who came to Wilmington after fleeing first the French Revolution and then the Haitian Revolution. An associate of the Du Pont family, he was also credited as the architect of the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Wilmington. The name "Swanwyck" came from an old Dutch settlement located nearby on the Delaware River upriver from New Castle.</p><br>
<p>In the 1940s and 1950s, the farmland around Swanwyck was developed into a residential subdivision called Swanwyck Estates. An addition was built onto the northwest corner of the house around this time, including a new front entrance since the original building is now oriented sideways relative to the street.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Swanwyck is a two-story brick building exemplifying the British Regency style with a white stuccoed exterior and modest classical details. The main block of the house is three bays wide with subtly projecting piers and a hipped roof. The original facade has been modified by the removal of the central entrance portico and the addition of a separate second floor entrance accessed by exterior stairs. The main ornamentation consists of a prominent string course circling the entire building.</p><br>
<p>The original interior layout had three large rooms on each floor with a central hallway and staircase, but it has been considerably modified.</p><br>
<p>The William Culbertson House is a historic residence in the village of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, United States. Constructed in the final quarter of the nineteenth century, it was once the home of one of the village&#39;s premier businessmen, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Born in New York in 1833, William Culbertson was raised in Warren, Ohio, where he learned the trade of a carriagemaker. Upon moving to Mechanicsburg in 1853, he worked as a journeyman for three years before beginning his own carriage manufacturing business in 1856 with Cyrus Barr. Their partnership was highly successful; by 1880, Culbertson and Barr had developed a reputation as one of the region&#39;s premier manufacturers of carriages, buggies, and spring wagons, as well as operating a livery from 1860 to 1874 and remaining a well-reputed repair center. One year later, Culbertson had his residence built, fifteen years after Barr had arranged for the construction of his house.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Built of brick on a stone foundation, the William Culbertson House is a two-story building with a hip roof. Numerous elements combine to make it a typical example of the Italianate style, including its irregular floor plan with a large bay that projects eastward from the main body of the house, a cornice formed by ornamental brackets, a decorative front porch, and hood molds over the windows.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1985, the Culbertson House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its historical architecture and its place as the home of a prominent local citizen. Approximately twenty other Mechanicsburg buildings were listed on the National Register at the same time as part of a multiple property submission; a historic district nomination had been considered, but the historic buildings were too few and far between to warrant designation as a group, so they were nominated individually. Among the other buildings in the group was the Mechanicsburg United Methodist Church, located one block away on Race Street at its intersection with Main Street.</p><br>
<p>The Orlando Humason House is a historic house located in The Dalles, Oregon, United States. Humason , the "Father of Wasco County", lived in this modest Gothic Revival house from its construction in 1860 until his death. Originally from Ohio, he worked in law, prospecting, agriculture, and journalism, prior to settling in The Dalles as a prosperous merchant and river transport businessman. Representing first Oregon City then The Dalles in the territorial and state legislatures, he introduced legislation establishing Wasco County, Multnomah County, and the City of The Dalles. He also championed a bill to build a canal around the Cascades Rapids to allow Lower Columbia shipping to reach The Dalles, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime. Humason&#39;s other public positions included mayor of The Dalles and Wasco County judge. The house is architecturally notable as one of very few Gothic Revival houses in The Dalles.</p><br>
<p>At some date between 1875 and 1908, it was moved to its present location from elsewhere in The Dalles.</p><br>
<p>Gordon Hall, also known as the Judge Samuel W. Dexter House, is a private house located at 8341 Island Lake Road in Dexter, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1958 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The house is unique in Michigan for its balance, large scale, and massive hexastyle portico. The structure is also significant as the dwelling of Judge Samuel W. Dexter, a pioneering Michigan resident and land baron who had a substantial impact on early development of Washtenaw County and other sections of the state. The house was later owned by Dexter&#39;s granddaughter Katharine Dexter McCormick, a pioneering research scientist, suffragist, and philanthropist. In its early days, Gordon Hall hosted at least two, and possibly three United States presidents, and it was almost certainly a stop along the Underground Railroad.</p><br>
<h2>Samuel William Dexter</h2><br>
<p>Samuel W. Dexter was born in Boston in 1792 to Samuel Dexter, a politician who served as a Congressman, Senator, and both Secretary of War and Secretary of the Treasury under President John Adams; and Catherine Gordon, daughter of William and Temperance Gordon of Boston. The couple had two children: Samuel P., born in 1817 (who died 1849), and Augustine, born in 1820. However, both Amelia and Augustine died in 1822.</p><br>
<p>In 1824, Dexter moved to Detroit with $80,000, and proceeded to purchase 926 acres of land in Michigan. He also purchased land in Webster and Scio Townships in Washtenaw County, on which he later founded the village of Dexter. On his Washtenaw County holdings, Dexter built a sawmill on Mill Creek, and a log cabin nearby. Dexter returned to Massachusetts in 1825, and there married his second wife, Susan Dunham. Dexter returned to Michigan in 1826, living in the log cabin while a frame house was built nearby on the riverbank, located on what is now Huron Street in the present-day village of Dexter.</p><br>
<p>As the village grew, Dexter&#39;s house became the center of activity for the community. In 1829, he established the first newspaper in Washtenaw County, the Western Immigrant, published in Ann Arbor. He also ran for Congress in 1831, and served as a Regent of the University of Michigan in 1840.</p><br>
<p>In 1827, a son was born to Dexter and his wife Susan; however, soon after both Susan Dexter and the infant died. In 1828, Dexter married his third wife, sixteen-year-old Millisent Bond, whose widowed mother had recently settled in Michigan after moving from Massachusetts. The couple had eight children: Mary (born 1830), W. Wirt (born 1831), Katherine (born 1833), Hannah (born 1834), Julia (born 1837), Charlotte (born 1839), Isabella (born 1841) and Marshall (born 1858 – died 1880). All of the children lived to adulthood.</p><br>
<p>In 1830, Dexter platted a village on the land surrounding his house; he named it "Dexter" to honor his father. He also obtained land in other parts of Michigan; in addition to establishing Saginaw, Byron, and Dexter, he platted Ionia, Michigan, and by 1835 owned 3,500 acres of land in Washtenaw County alone. Dexter was a vocal supporter of railroads (and, indeed, is generally credited as the first person to publicly call for the construction of a transcontinental railroad, in an editorial in 1832), and in 1837 deeded a 100 ft wide portion of his land to the state for the purpose of constructing a railroad.</p><br>
<p>The railroad was built in 1841, and passed very close to Dexter&#39;s Huron Street house. This encouraged him to build a larger country mansion on 1,700 acres outside of Dexter, a house he called "Gordon Hall" in honor of his mother, Catherine Gordon Dexter.</p><br>
<h2>Gordon Hall history</h2><br>
<p>Dexter chose a site on a prominent hilltop to build his country estate. who later went on to become a successful contractor, and also to marry Fillmores niece Viola Johnson. Construction on Gordon Hall began in 1841, and wasnt completed until 1843. The substantial construction time was due in great part to the difficulty in obtaining lumber, much of which had to be hauled in from Flint or Detroit. However, once construction was complete, the Dexters moved from their previous house on Huron Street into the new country house (the Huron Street house was demolished in 1937).</p><br>
<p>The Dexters, as prominent citizens, entertained many important visitors, including US Presidents James K. Polk and James Buchanan. Although it is not certain, it is likely that a third president, Millard Fillmore, also visited Gordon Hall – it is known that Fillmore visited his brother Calvin, and it is likely the pair would have toured the house that Calvin designed.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Dexter was a staunch abolitionist, and it is nearly certain that Gordon Hall was a stop on the Underground Railroad. There is some evidence that Millisent Dexter employed a string of Black servants, all of whom were recent arrivals to the village and none of whom stayed for any length of time. In oral histories, Samuel Dexter and his sons were identified as conductors on the Underground Railroad. More telling, it has been documented that Gordon Hall once contained a secret room in the basement, accessible through a trap door on the south porch and from concealed openings in crawl spaces under the other porches. Although the trap door was removed during remodeling and the "secret" room had doors cut to it, the passages to the crawl space remain in the house.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Dexter lived in Gordon Hall until he died on January 6, 1863. Millisent Dexter and some of their children continued to live in the house. Millisent made some alterations to the structure, most significantly removing one of the wings and adding a four-story tower in its place in the 1870s. Samuel Dexter&#39;s business operations were passed to Wirt Dexter, his only son. Wirt sold off much of the surrounding land, so that by 1875 the estate was down to about 70 acres. On June 27, 1899, Millisent Dexter died. Her will specified that Gordon Hall was to be sold, with the proceeds of the sale being split among her daughters. In 1900, the house was sold to Thomas Birkett, a prominent local banker and miller.</p><br>
<p>Birkett lived in the house for some time, but at some point moved out, leaving it vacant.</p><br>
<p>In 1939, Katharine Dexter McCormick purchased the property. McCormick was the daughter of Judge Samuel Dexters son Wirt, and had been born in Gordon Hall in 1875. She had graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1904 with a BS in biology; the institutes second woman graduate. She then married Stanley McCormick, the son of Cyrus McCormick. Katharine McCormick conducted research in biochemistry and schizophrenia, was instrumental in achieving the ratification of the 19th amendment allowing women to vote, and co-founded the League of Women Voters. At the time she purchased Gordon Hall, McCormick was living in California. She hired Emil Lorch, dean emeritus of the College of Architecture at the University of Michigan, to restore the house, thinking to turn it into a place that could be used by Dexters womens clubs.</p><br>
<p>Lorch spent eight years restoring and refurbishing the building, including the removal of the four-story tower built by Millisent Dexter and rebuilding the wing similar to the original. However, in 1950, before the rehabilitation was complete, McCormick gave the property to the University of Michigan, in part to help settle some of her own estate tax issues. By some reports, the gift contained the stipulation that the interior be converted to apartments for university faculty and staff. By other reports, the conversion was the university&#39;s idea and no one had informed McCormick. In any case, despite the controversial timing, contractors were swiftly employed, the interior was completely gutted, and the conversion was completed. One of the first occupants was Alexander Grant Ruthven, who moved into Gordon Hall after stepping down from the presidency of the university in 1951.</p><br>
<p>The university continued to maintain the property until 2000, when it decided to sell it. In 2006, the Dexter Area Historical Society and Museum purchased the property, with the intent of making it a community resource. A small parcel of the grounds was sold in 2009, to United Methodist Retirement Community, Inc., who built a senior citizens&#39; retirement community on the site; the sale reduced the size of the grounds to about 68 acres. As of 2011, the building was unoccupied, but was used occasionally for tours and functions.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Judge Samuel W. Dexter House is a two-story rectangular Greek Revival post-and-beam The exterior is clad in aluminum siding installed during the 1951 renovation, although the original clapboard siding is still underneath.</p><br>
<p>The front facade features a gabled temple front, with an impressive hexastyle Doric portico along the front facade that extends the full height of the building. The main door is centered in the front portico, and is surrounded by sidelights and pilasters and topped with a transom. The front is five bays wide, with symmetrical window placement.</p><br>
<p>The side elevations of the house have small single-story porches, supported by three Doric columns. A fourth porch spans the rear of the house, connecting the additions, with a rear door similar in detail to the front opening onto the porch. Two more doors access the side porches. A set of three doors opens onto the deck formed by the roof of the rear porch. The windows in the house are double-hung, with six-over-six lights, many of which are original to the house. The roof is covered with asphalt shingling, and a set of low-sloped dormers project to the rear.</p><br>
<p>There is approximately 2,500 square feet on each of the first and second floors, and somewhat less in the unfinished attic and basement. The original interior configuration had a grand central hall and stairwell, with four large rooms at each corner, all with fireplaces. On the first floor these were identified as a dining room, a parlor (or library), and two drawing rooms. On the second floor, these were four bed chambers; an additional sewing room spanned the area across the front of the house. Additional rooms, including a first-floor kitchen, were in the side wings. In all, the original house had 22 rooms, nine fireplaces, and 55 windows. The ceilings rise 12 ft on the first floor and 10 ft on the second.</p><br>
<p>However, the 1951 renovation nearly eliminated the historical integrity of the interior of the structure, with all interior trim and nearly all the walls removed. The house was converted into four apartments, with two stairways for accessing the second-floor apartments and the attic space. All four apartments are nearly identical, with two bedrooms, a small bathroom, a kitchen, and a combined living room/dining area.</p><br>
<p>Although the interior has lost its historic fabric, the main structure is substantially intact, and the large-scale majestic features that make the structure architecturally significant still exist. Gordon Hall has often been likened to Jefferson&#39;s Monticello, in part due to its grand execution and in part due to its situation on a hilltop and the surrounding, and still extant, sweeping view.</p><br>
<p>Belmont Hall is a historic home located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It was built between 1838 and 1844 and is a -story, gable-roofed, stuccoed brick building. It features a porch on three sides supported by Doric order columns. The building was renovated in 1911 in the Classical Revival style. It was built as a private dwelling, In 1950, the University of Delaware purchased the building as a home for its president. It was later used as a dormitory for honor students.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Chambers House is a historic home located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1890 and is a two-story, frame dwelling in the Queen Anne style. It features cross gables, bay windows, and a wrap-around porch. Also on the property is a contributing carriage house. It was the home of the Chambers family until 1980, after which it was purchased by the University of Delaware. It currently serves as the University&#39;s Venture Development Center, which is a laboratory for students and faculty developing new businesses.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Empire Manufacturing Company Building located in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1939 by the North Carolina firm of Jackson & Edney for the National Linen Service Corporation which in 1962, merged with Zep to become National Service Industries, Inc. In the late 1990s, renovation of the building was started to convert the building into loft office space as a part of the Southern Dairies redevelopment. In February 2002, the building was added the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The building was built with "a clear span truss system that permitted a 95-foot span without any supporting members to break up the floor space". It has Art Deco architecture.</p><br>
<p>Redlands is a historic farmhouse near the city of Circleville in the south-central part of the USA state of Ohio. A grand home built in the middle of the 19th century, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Constructed in 1858, its foundation and minor elements are stone, and additional buildings on the property are weatherboarded. Its construction and its numerous decorative elements combine to make it typical of estates built for wealthy southern Ohio landowners soon before the Civil War. Particularly significant among these elements are the Greek Revival front porch, transoms above the windows and doors, its prominent fireplaces, and its grand front stairway.</p><br>
<p>Besides the residence, the farmstead comprises three outbuildings: two historic buildings, which are vernacular structures that had been completed by 1860, and one that lacks historic integrity. In 1982, Redlands was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its well-preserved historic architecture; the house and the two historic outbuildings were ranked as contributing, and the non-historic outbuilding was considered non-contributing. Crucial to the farms designation was its status as an intact gentlemans estate from the end of the pre-Civil War period.</p><br>
<p>The Stevenson Peters House is a historic farm complex near the city of Circleville in Pickaway County, Ohio, United States. Built in the mid-19th century, the complex has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Stevenson Peters was descended from one of Pickaway Countys earliest families of settlers. By the mid-19th century, Peters had made himself one of Walnut Townships most extensive landowners. On the present property he erected the present house in 1852, and here he resided until his death in 1887. Later generations of the Peters family owned the property until 1978, when it was inherited by a family named Bartholomew. Accordingly, it has also been known as the "Peters-Bartholomew Residence."</p><br>
<p>Peters&#39; farmhouse is a brick double-pen building with four-over-four windows, two-and-a-half stories tall and five bays wide. Because of its location on a hill, the house appears especially large to the viewer and can be seen from a particularly long distance. Nine additional buildings are located on the farmstead, which encompasses approximately 2 acre around the house.</p><br>
<p>In 1984, the Peters House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its distinctive historic architecture. Six of the ten buildings on the farmstead qualified as contributing properties, while the other four were deemed non-contributing. Particularly crucial to this designation was its four-over-four design, which represented an uncommon variation in its rural area.</p><br>
<p>The Perrill–Goodman Farmhouse is a historic farmhouse in the central part of the USA state of Ohio. Located south of Groveport in Pickaway County, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>The farmhouse was named for two of its prominent early residents, a Mr. Perrill and a Mr. Goodman. Both men held elective office in Pickaway County and served as community leaders in other responsibilities: Perrill was both a Madison Township Trustee and a justice of the peace, while Goodman was a Pickaway County Commissioner and treasurer of Madison Township, and in the early nineteenth century he was known countywide as one of the area&#39;s model farmers. Besides going by the names of these men, the property is also known as "Larue Farm."</p><br>
<p>Built in 1857, the farmhouse is a two-and-a-half-story brick structure with brick foundation and elements of stone. It was built in a time of transition between major architectural styles: elements such as the transom and sidelights around the main entrance as well as the rectangular lintels are typical of the older Greek Revival style, while the cornice with pairs of brackets, the narrow front gable and steep gables of the roof, and the lancet windows combine to remind the viewer of the later Gothic Revival style.</p><br>
<p>In 1985, the farmhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, along with a single outbuilding; it was deemed qualified for historic designation because of its distinctive historic architecture.</p><br>
<p>Mount Oval is a historic farmhouse in the south central part of the USA state of Ohio, south of the city of Circleville. Built in the 1830s, it was home to some of the region&#39;s more prominent farmers, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>The first settler at the site of Mount Oval was John Boggs, who purchased the property from the USA government in 1806; the deed for the property was signed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, at that time President of the United States and United States Secretary of State. Arriving at the property, he discovered extensive evidence of aboriginal occupation at the site: localities such as Chief Cornstalks Town, Camps Charlotte and Lewis, Grenadier Squaw Town, and Logan Elm were all near Boggs new property. Boggs remained on the property until 1832, when William Renick married Jane Boggs and built the present house. During the period that the Renicks owned Mount Oval, it became a prominent center of cattle farming: the Renicks became the first farmers in the region to supply their cattle to the East Coast. Later owners included the families of Bernard Young, Mary Tolbert, and Jacob Ludwig, although for several decades the Ludwigs rented the property to tenants.</p><br>
<p>Mount Oval itself is a brick building with metal roof and elements of wood and stone. Architecturally, the house is a pure example of the Palladian style of architecture, displaying some elements that are patterned after Villa Capra, a grand Palladian mansion in northern Italy. Among its more distinctive elements is an interior room dedicated to caring for the needs of cattlemen; the Renicks&#39; cattle farming prompted them to construct dedicated facilities within their home.</p><br>
<p>In 1974, Mount Oval was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, along with a single outbuilding; it qualified for inclusion because of its distinctive historic architecture. More than twenty-five different locations in Pickaway County are listed on the National Register, and Mount Oval achieved this distinction earlier than all but two of the others.</p><br>
<p>The Gill–Morris Farm is a historic farmstead near the city of Circleville in Pickaway County, Ohio, United States. Established in the early nineteenth century, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>In 1798, USA President John Adams appointed a Mr. Winship the Registrar of Lands in the south-central portion of the Northwest Territory. Winship acquired 1,440 acre within this region, which he divided among three of his sons. In 1827, one of them, William, conveyed part of his share to his sister Nancy Winship Gill. On this property the present farmstead had been established seven years earlier, and five years later the Gills expanded the house. In 1928, a descendant donated a small parcel at the front of the property to the Daughters of the American Revolution: here, the DAR erected a small monument to the Camp Charlotte Treaty, which had been signed by Chief Cornstalk and Lord Dunmore.</p><br>
<p>The farmhouse is a brick structure, with a foundation of limestone, although other buildings on the property are log structures. While the farmhouse as originally built was a clear example of the Federal style, the 1832 renovation gave the residence an appearance influenced by the later Greek Revival style. Both styles are still evident in the architecture: the double chimneys on the ends of the house and bull&#39;s-eye elements in the original lintels are distinctive Federal details, while the trabeated main entrance, windows, and flat lintels in the addition are more clearly Greek Revival.</p><br>
<p>In 1986, the Gill–Morris Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The designation encompassed four contributing properties (three buildings and the monument) spread across 150 acre; the farm qualified for inclusion because of its distinctive historic architecture.</p><br>
<p>Circleville Memorial Hall is a historic community center and war memorial in the city of Circleville, Ohio, United States. Built in the years after the Civil War to remember the victims of the war, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>In 1871, the state legislature enacted legislation to encourage the construction of Civil War memorials: the new law permitted Ohios counties to gather money for the construction of memorials. This law permitted the construction of the Pickaway County memorial in Circleville twenty years later. Besides serving as a war memorial, the building has provided space for numerous community activities: the citys public library has long been housed on the first floor, while no meeting hall in the city is larger than the one in Memorial Hall&#39;s upper floors.</p><br>
<p>Three stories tall, Memorial Hall is a brick building with a stone foundation and additional elements of brick and stone. The exterior is a clear example of the Richardsonian Romanesque style, due to elements such as the rounded archways, the heavy masonry construction and stone trim around its ribbon windows, its columns, and a massive corner tower. Inside, the community auditorium features a large balcony on the third floor.</p><br>
<p>In late 1980, Memorial Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying for inclusion because of its historic architecture.</p><br>
<p>In recent years, through local funding, donations and state capital appropriations several renovations to the building have taken place including repairs to the roof, updating the HVAC to more modern standards and replacing exterior windows that leaked.</p><br>
<p>Penn Farm of the Trustees of the New Castle Common also known as Penn Farm and Farm No. 7, is a historic farm complex located near New Castle, New Castle County, Delaware. The complex includes a farmhouse, bank barn, granary, milk house, carriage shed, tenant shack, garage, chicken house, and vegetable stand. The farmhouse was built about 1804, and consists of a two-story, three-bay brick section; a two-story, four-bay frame section; and a one-story frame shed.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Penn Farm Trail is a part of the East Coast Greenway.</p><br>
<p>Bartley–Tweed Farm is a historic farm located near Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. The property includes three contributing buildings: a stuccoed stone and brick house, a frame bank barn built about 1835, and a late 19th-century frame carriage house / granary. The stone section of the house dates to the late-18th century and the brick section to about 1825. The brick section has Federal style details.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel P. Dixon Farm is a historic farm near Ashland, New Castle County, Delaware. The property includes three contributing stone buildings: a house, a spring house and a tri-level bank barn. The house is a two-story, four-bay dwelling in two sections. The older section is dated to the late 18th or early 19th century, with an addition before 1830, about the time the barn was built.</p><br>
<p>In the 20th century, it became part of Ashland Farm, a Du Pont estate. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>David Eastburn Farm is a historic farm located near Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. The property includes eight contributing buildings: a frame bank barn , a stone dwelling , a stone tenant house possibly dating to the 18th century, and five outbuildings. The dwelling is a three-story, double pile, stuccoed stone building with a pyramidal roof crowned by a flat-roofed belvedere. It has a two-story, hip-roofed rear wing.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Neville and Helen Farmer Lustron House is a historic enameled steel prefabricated Lustron house in Decatur, Georgia. Designed and constructed by the Lustron Corporation, this example is one of two confirmed to have been built in Decatur.</p><br>
<p>The original owners who purchased the house from a Lustron Corporation franchise were Neville and Helen Farmer. It is one of ten built in the Atlanta area.</p><br>
<p>Lustron houses were only produced during a two-year period, with 2,495 known to have been made. Only roughly 2,000 of these are still in existence. Many of those that do remain have been altered significantly.</p><br>
<p>The Demand-Gest House is a historic residence in the village of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, United States. Built for a physician, it was for many years the home of local business leaders, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Residents</h2><br>
<p>Dr. Charles E. Demand was a charter member of the Mechanicsburg Masonic lodge, as well as of Mechanicsburg&#39;s lodge of the Order of the Eastern Star.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is a wooden structure with a stone foundation. Built in the Colonial Revival style of architecture, it features a symmetrical facade with significant design elements such as a Palladian window and a porch with Ionic columns. Individuals may enter the house through a transomed doorway on the porch underneath a bay that protrudes from the residue of the second-floor facade. Inside, a distinctive feature is a prominent oval-shaped window near the staircase. Its Colonial Revival style makes the Demand-Gest House different from most of the village&#39;s historic residences, which are more frequently Queen Anne or Italianate in style.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>The Demand-Gest House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, qualifying both because of its historic architecture and its place in Ohios history. It was one of approximately twenty different Mechanicsburg locations to be listed on the National Register at the same time as part of a multiple property submission. Among the houses neighbors that were included in the multiple property submission are the homes of Demand&#39;s professional colleagues: the John H. Clark House at 21 N. Main and the Oram Nincehelser House at 28 N. Main.</p><br>
<p>The T.B. Ripy House is a house on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Anderson County, Kentucky, located in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. It was completed in 1888.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Beebe Ripy (1847–1902) operated a distillery in nearby Tyrone, Kentucky that later spawned the Wild Turkey brand. The family sold the house in 1965, and it was placed on National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Descendants of Ripy repurchased the house in 2010 with the intent of repairing it.</p><br>
<p>Currently, the house is a local community resource within Lawrenceburg, KY, which is available for rent for small intimate social events including bourbon and whiskey tasting events, weddings, showers, reunions, and small music events.</p><br>
<p>The Fort Dearborn Hotel is a skyscraper and former hotel located at 401 S. Lasalle St. in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The 17-story hotel was designed by Holabird & Roche and finished in 1914. Designed in the Venetian Renaissance style, the hotel was built with gray and reddish brown brick and featured terra cotta ornamentation. The lobby features two murals by local artist Edgar Cameron depicting scenes of Fort Dearborn. The hotel was built to serve businessmen during a period of extensive hotel construction in Chicago; its site was chosen for its access to transportation, as it was located near LaSalle Street Station and the LaSalle/Van Buren L station. The Hotel Sherman Co. owned both the Fort Dearborn Hotel and the nearby Hotel Sherman, and the two hotels had a common management and kitchen staff. However, while the Hotel Sherman was a typical luxury hotel of the era, the Fort Dearborn Hotel focused on providing practical amenities at lower rates and set an example as a "popular, commercial hotel". The hotel is now an office building known as the LaSalle Atrium Building.</p><br>
<p>The Fort Dearborn Hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 12, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Singer Building is a skyscraper located at 120 S. State St. in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The ten-story building was designed by Mundie & Jensen and built from 1925 to 1926. The building&#39;s Gothic Revival design features terra cotta decorations, piers at the corners, and sets of three double-hung windows on each story separated by two thin piers. The Singer Corporation initially used the building as office space; the building has had many owners since the Singer Corporation left the building, and was nearly demolished in the 1970s. It is currently owned by FDN Network.</p><br>
<p>The Singer Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 10, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Crane Company Building is a skyscraper located at 836 S. Michigan Ave. in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The twelve-story building was designed by Holabird & Roche and built in 1912. The steel frame skyscraper was designed in the Classical Revival style, and its exterior design is split into three sections. The first and second floors are faced in limestone and feature piers supporting a cornice; the third floor is also covered in limestone. The fourth through eleventh floors are constructed in red brick; windows on these floors feature terra cotta keystones and sills, and the eleventh floor is capped by a terra cotta cornice. The twelfth floor is decorated in terra cotta panels which incorporate Crane Company valves in their design; this floor is also topped by a cornice.</p><br>
<p>The building originally housed offices for the Crane Company, which manufactured plumbing and heating equipment. The Crane Company played a significant role in both the Chicago economy, where it was a major employer of industrial workers, and the national manufacturing landscape, where it was considered "the United States leading manufacturer" of iron and brass plumbing and heating fixtures. Due to the demolition of the Crane Companys factories and its early leaders&#39; homes, the Crane Company Building is now the most significant landmark in Chicago associated with the company. After the Crane Company left the building in 1960, it was converted to a residential property.</p><br>
<p>The Crane Company Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 28, 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Andrew Kerr House is a historic home located near Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1805, and is a two-story, gable-roofed, stuccoed stone structure. It has a two-story addition dated to the late-19th century. It features a polygonal bay window on its principal elevation. The Kerr family were prominent members of Head of Christiana United Presbyterian Church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The James Steel House is a historic home located at Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. The original section, a two-story, two-bay, double-pile, stuccoed brick structure, is dated to the late 18th century. It was doubled in size about 1882, with the facade addition of a two-story, two-bay, frame wing. It features a two-story bay window on the endwall, a pointed-arch attic window, and German siding. The main block has had a series of rear additions during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, creating an overall T-plan.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Edward R. Wilson House, also known as the W. H. Schultz House, is a historic home located at Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1860, and is a three-story, gable-roofed frame dwelling with a porch running across its facade, north endwall, and rear elevation. It has a two-story brick wing built about 1900, and a later frame wing extending from the rear of the brick addition. It is in the Greek Revival / Italianate style. Since 1907, the house is part of the University of Delaware Farm, an agricultural experiment station managed by its College of Agriculture. The house was used as a dormitory during the 1980s and has since been repurposed to serve as offices for the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Delaware.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Argos Izaak Walton League Historic District is an Indiana chapter location of the Izaak Walton League of America. The Izaak Walton League of America is a conservation organization established in 1922 with a mission to conserve, maintain, protect and restore the soil, forest, water and air. The Argos Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America, also referred to as the Argos Ikes, was formed just after the original establishment in 1926. The Argos Ikes’ founders were community leaders interested in environmentalism. The first few acres of property were purchased in 1929 with fishing ponds and structures erected to develop a fishing hatchery. Additional acres were purchased in 1934 increasing the property to a total of 17 acres. Signing an agreement with the United States Bureau of Fisheries, under the New Deal Act, the members were able to build a clubhouse and additional structures.</p><br>
<p>In December 2011, the Argos Chapter of the Izaak Walton League was inducted into the National Register of Historic Places listings in Marshall County, Indiana. The contributing structures date back to the New Deal construction and include the clubhouse, storage building, stone gateway, two artesian wells, three stone picnic tables with benches, and a sluice. The National Park Service, nps.gov, featured the Argos Ikes in the National Register of Historic Places Program Weekly Highlight.</p><br>
<p>The James Litchfield House is a private house located at 3512 Central Street in Dexter, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The house is an excellent Michigan example of a "basilica type" Greek Revival house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>James Litchfield arrived in Washtenaw County from Connecticut in the 1830s. Litchfield was a cabinet maker, and operated a sawmill for some time near Dexter. In 1845, Litchfield purchased a plot of land from Judge Samuel Dexter, founder of the village of Dexter. Shortly afterward, he began building this house, completing it in 1850. In 1853, Litchfield sold the house to his brother Edward, and the house remained in the Litchfield family until about 1950.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Litchfield House is a Greek Revival style house with a central two-story mass flanked by single-story wings. The house is clad in white clapboard and sits on a fieldstone foundation. The front facade is symmetrical, having a three-bay temple portico with four square columns fronting the main mass of the house. The columns are unevenly spaced; with the central bay wider than the others. Under the portico are a central entry flanked by sidelights, with a six-over-six window to each side. Three six-over-six windows are located above.</p><br>
<p>The one-story wings each contain one six-over-six window with shutters. The corners of the wings have simple cornerboards. More six-over-six windows are located on the sides and rear of the house. Additions housing the kitchen and garage are architecturally similar and have minimal effect on the overall appearance of the house.</p><br>
<p>On the interior, the house contains a central hall and stairway. Two pairs of rooms are on each side of the central hall, and a dining room is at the rear with the kitchen behind. The upper floor contains an L-shaped landing with a small room at one end. The interior has wide board flooring, simple baseboards, and simple window and door trim.</p><br>
