<p>St. Paul&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic church at 72 N. Shilling Avenue in Blackfoot, Idaho. It was started in 1891 and was added to the National Register in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It is one of Blackfoots oldest buildings. It was the first church building in the Mission of the Holy Innocents, one of eight Idaho missions organized by Daniel Tuttle, and it is one of Blackfoots oldest buildings. It was designed by Hailey architect C.W.C. Van Winkle and was built for $1675 by Blackfoot builder R. H. Hopkins.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Methodist Church is a historic church at 237 N. Water Avenue in Idaho Falls, Idaho. It was built during 1916 to 1917 and was added to the National Register in 1977.</p><br>
<p>It is a "massive rusticated stone structure in the Tudor-Gothic style." It was built of stone quarried north of Heise. It was asserted in its NRHP nomination that it "typifies the Tudor-Gothic style, with its lack of steeples and flattened arches over large stained glass windows with intricate tracery. Although the short towers, clerestory, and side aisles are symmetrically placed, a Sunday school wing on the north and an octagonal tower on the southwest corner create a feeling of picturesque irregularity. Stone buttresses and pilasters provide the vertical thrust in the design."</p><br>
<p>A Sunday School wing was added in 1948.</p><br>
<p>The Suffield Historic District is a historic district encompassing the Main Street area of the town center of Suffield, Connecticut, USA. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and is part of a larger local historic district. It runs along North and South Main Street from Muddy Brook to north of Mapleton Avenue, and includes a diversity of 18th through early 20th-century architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The northern Connecticut town of Suffield was settled in 1670 and incorporated in 1684, and has been a basically agricultural community well into the 20th century. Main Street lots were laid out with comparatively narrow frontage, on which taxation was based, but the lots were generally wide enough to accommodate construction of several homes. In the early 19th century, tobacco was introduced, and the towns fortunes grew with that lucrative crop. A private boarding school, now called Suffield Academy, was established just north of the town center in 1833, contributing to the centers architectural heritage and economic vibrancy. The town&#39;s north-south Main Street is architecturally reflective of this pattern of development, generally lacking in large commercial or industrial development and thus retaining the character of a typical New England village center.</p><br>
<p>The historic district extends for 2.5 mi of Main Street, with rough boundaries to the east and west of 400 ft, adjusted in some places for property lines. The architecture outside the central junction is generally residential and of high quality, although architect-designed buildings are relatively uncommon. Institutional buildings near the town center include the Greek Revival Baptist church, the Romanesque Revival Congregational church and the former Kent Memorial Library building, designed by Daniel Burnham and now owned by Suffield Academy. The library is now in one of the district&#39;s few Modern buildings, built in 1972 to a design by Hartford architect Warren Platner.</p><br>
<p>Buildings separately listed on the National Register that are located within the district include the 1762 Hatheway House and the 1764 Alexander King House, both of which are historic house museums.</p><br>
<p>The Alameda Free Library is the city library of Alameda, California.</p><br>
<h2>Carnegie library</h2><br>
<p>Alamedas Carnegie library was built from 1902 to 1903 and was the first designated building for the citys library, which had been housed in various other buildings since 1877. The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 1982. The Alameda Free Library is located across the street from the Alameda City Hall, another NRHP-listed site.</p><br>
<p>C. H. Foster and his son G. J. Foster designed the building in an eclectic blend of multiple architectural styles, including Neoclassical, Renaissance Revival, and Baroque Revival. The two-story building is faced with pressed and molded buff brick outside of its basement, which was built in gray sandstone.</p><br>
<p>The librarys front has a portico with two brick columns and a frieze with a decorative tympanum displaying an open book; the columns were the first of their kind in California. The buildings entrance is located within the portico atop sets of marble and granite stairs. A pair of windows appears to each side of the entrance; the top window in each pair is arched, while the bottom one is rectangular and flanked by columns. The metal hipped roof of the library has a raised glass skylight. The library&#39;s main room is on the second story, which can be reached by a marble staircase; the main room contains five stained glass windows on its south wall.</p><br>
<h2>New main library building</h2><br>
<p>The current main library is located at 1550 Oak St.</p><br>
<p>An attempt to pass a parcel tax to build a new main Alameda Free Library failed in 1996. In 2000, Alameda voters passed Measure O to approve a bond to pay for a new main library building. A California state bond measure provided matching funds to cover the new building&#39;s total cost of $26.1 million. Construction began in 2005 and the new main library opened in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Garrett Snuff Mills Historic District is a national historic district located at Yorklyn, New Castle County, Delaware. The district encompasses 31 contributing buildings, including the 14 buildings previously listed in the Garrett Snuff Mill. The 17 additional buildings are 19th century domestic buildings associated with the mills. They include the mill owners and supervisors houses, a late Victorian frame house, and four rows of workers&#39; housing.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Greenbank Historic Area is a historic grist mill located at Marshallton, New Castle County, Delaware. The property includes the Greenbank Mill, Robert Philips House, and the W. G. Philips House. The mill was built in 1790 and expanded in 1812. It is a story, frame structure with a stone wing. The mill measures 50 ft by 39 ft. The Robert Philips House was built in 1783, and is a story, five-bay, stone dwelling with a gable roof. The front facade features a long verandah. The W. G. Philips House, also known as the mill owner&#39;s house, dates to the mid-19th century. It consists of a two-story, three-bay front section with a three-story, hipped roof rear section. Oliver Evans, a native of nearby Newport, installed his automatic mill machinery in the 1790 building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and expanded in 1979 to include the W. G. Philips House.</p><br>
<p>The site is now operated as Greenbank Mill, a living history museum that includes the restored mill, an early 19th-century farm barn housing heritage sheep, the miller&#39;s house (Philips House), the textile factory and an herb garden.</p><br>
<p>Third Presbyterian Church Parsonage is a historic Presbyterian parsonage at 1068 E. Blaine Avenue in Salt Lake City, Utah.</p><br>
<p>The Late Victorian, Rectangular Block building was constructed in 1890. It was added to the National Register in 2000.</p><br>
<p>It is significant for association with the Third Presbyterian Church of Salt Lake City, which itself "had a significant influence on the development of the southeast bench of the city", apparently spurring and reflecting non-Mormon development. According to its NRHP nomination, the "house was built c.1890 but its significance dates from 1912-1929 when it was owned by the church and served as the minister&#39;s residence."</p><br>
<p>Wyatt Chapel at Chester Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at the junction of Osborne Road and VA 10 in Chester, Chesterfield County, Virginia. The chapel is a wood-frame structure measuring 20 by 30 feet and is covered by a steeply pitched gable roof with relatively deep, unornamented eaves. It is an elementary expression of American Gothic Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Chester Presbyterian Church was organized on June 16, 1878. The original church building, now known as Wyatt Chapel, was eventually built in 1880 on the east side of Winfree Street designed by architect Grove, T. Martin. The belfry was reconstructed after being blown off in 1948. Wyatt Chapel was moved to Osborne Road in 1951 but soon got moved again in 1954 to Osborne Road and VA 10. In 1956, a new building with a sanctuary, a fellowship hall with kitchen, Sunday school rooms and offices, was built facing West Hundred Road. Though most activities moved to the new building, Wyatt Chapel continued to be used for Sunday school, scouts, and intimate wedding ceremonies. A new educational building was completed in 1967, providing much needed Sunday School space.</p><br>
<p>With the continued growth in the congregation, the decision was made to move Wyatt Chapel once again, and a new larger sanctuary and narthex were completed in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Christiansburg Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at 107 W. Main Street in Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Virginia. The church was organized in 1827.</p><br>
<p>The building was erected in 1853 and is a four bay long, brick church building with a low hipped roof. It features a three-stage tower consisting of a low, plain base, a square belfry with coupled Doric order corner pilasters, and a blind lantern stage. The whole is capped by an octagonal spire. Also on the property is the contributing former Rectory, now known as the Kinnard Smith Building and used as a parish house.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is located in the Christiansburg Downtown Historic District.</p><br>
<p>New Dublin Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church complex located at Dublin, Pulaski County, Virginia. It was built in 1875, and incorporates part of a church built in 1840. It is a one-story, gable-roofed stuccoed brick church building. It primarily exhibits Greek Revival style character, with Gothic Revival style influences. It features a front entry with fanlight, a rose window, two-bay side elevations, a metal sheathed</p><br>
<p>gable roof, and a limestone foundation. Also on the property are a contributing 1874 manse, a cemetery established on the eve of the American Civil War, and an outbuilding.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>A 150 year old Copper Beech tree had toppled over in the yard of the Church in 2021.</p><br>
<p>Presbyterian Church of Fredericksburg is a historic Presbyterian church located southwest of Princess Anne and George Streets in Fredericksburg, Virginia. It was built in 1833, and restored in 1866 after being badly damaged during the American Civil War. It is a rectangular brick church building of Jeffersonian Roman Revival design. The church has a triangular, gable-end pediment surmounting a wide entablature which surrounds the entire building. The front facade features four wide, wooden Doric order pilaster, and two round Doric order columns each set at the front edge of the recessed portico. During the American Civil War the church served both Union and Confederate soldiers and it was in this building that Clara Barton came to nurse the wounded after the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Falling Spring Presbyterian Church Manse, also known as The Old Manse, is a historic Presbyterian manse located at 650 Falling Spring Road in Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built in 1857, and is a -story, five-bay, L-shaped, Gothic Revival style brick dwelling. It has a side-gable roof and a central-passage, double-pile plan.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built in 1756, altered in 1871, and completely remodeled in 1899–1900. It is a one-story, rectangular gray limestone building with a gable roof. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery with tombstones dated as early as 1773.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.</p><br>
<p>Greenwich Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery located at 9510 Burwell Road in Greenwich, Prince William County, Virginia. It was started in 1859, and is a one-story, gable-roofed brick church building in the Gothic Revival style. It features two pointed-arched front doors, decorative buttresses on the side walls, and large, pointed, arched windows on the front and side walls. It has a wooden church tower with a louvred belfry and a shingle-covered spire topped by a weathervane. The adjacent cemetery has at least 100 headstones and includes the graves of several American Civil War soldiers, including Captain Bradford Smith Hoskins, a colorful Englishman who rode with Colonel John S. Mosby.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Providence Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located near Gum Spring, Louisa County, Virginia. It was built in 1747, and is a two-story, three-bay, wood-frame building measuring 50 feet, 3 inches, by 26 feet, 4 inches. It is one of the few frame churches in Virginia remaining from colonial times and was one of the first Presbyterian churches to be built in the central part of the state. Samuel Davies served as its first minister until 1759, when he assumed the presidency of Princeton University. A distinguished son of the church was Robert Lewis Dabney, noted mid-19th century Presbyterian minister and church architect.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Hartwood Presbyterian Church, also known as the Yellow Chapel Church, is a historic Presbyterian church located at the junction of VA 705 and 612 in Hartwood, Stafford County, Virginia. It was built between 1857 and 1859, and is a rectangular brick Greek Revival style church. The church was restored in 1866, after having been used by both sides during the American Civil War. During the war, it was the site of Wade Hampton&#39;s November 1862 capture of 137 men of the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry. The property includes the site of the Hartwood Chapel</p><br>
<p>or Yellow Chapel of about 1767 and a graveyard. Hartwood Presbyterian Church was the only Presbyterian church in Stafford County from about 1807 until 1983.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Opequon Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located near Winchester, in Frederick County, Virginia. It was built in 1897, and is a one-story, gable-roofed, random-rubble stone church. It features Gothic-arched colored-glass, one-over-one windows and a three-stage corner bell tower containing an entrance. Also on the property are four burying grounds  with the oldest marked grave site dated to 1742.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Mitchells Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located on VA 652 in Mitchells, Culpeper County, Virginia. It was built in 1879, and is a one-story, frame building in the Carpenter Gothic style. It measures 50 feet by 30 feet and sits on a brick foundation. The interior features a trompe-l&#39;œil fresco added between 1892 and 1899 by well-known local artist Joseph Oddenino. He also painted the interior murals at Elmwood.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Waddell Memorial Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located near Rapidan, Orange County, Virginia. It was built in 1874, and is a Carpenter Gothic frame building covered with board-and-batten siding. It features a three-stage tower at the gable end with a ground level with an equilateral-arched doorway, a middle level with a rose window, and a belfry with double pointed windows.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It is located in the Rapidan Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Second Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at 5 N. 5th Street in Richmond, Virginia. It was designed by architect Minard Lafever and was built in 1848. It is a brick veneer Gothic Revival style church with lancet windows and a square pinnacled tower with an arched entrance at the front of the church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Knapp Cabin is a historic cabin located in Kings Canyon National Park, west of Cedar Grove, in Fresno County, California.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The one-room cabin was built in 1925 by George Owen Knapp, founder of Union Carbide. Knapp used the cabin for storage while camping in the area. After Knapp stopped camping in 1928, he no longer used the cabin.</p><br>
<p>The cabin saw occasional use until the creation of Kings Canyon National Park in 1940. In the 1950s, the National Park Service assumed maintenance of the cabin.</p><br>
<p>The Knapp Cabin was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 20, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Old Farm Schoolhouse, also known as the Brick School, is a historic schoolhouse at Park Ave. and School St. in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Built in 1795, it is the oldest surviving public building in Bloomfield. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Old Farm Schoolhouse is located in southeastern Bloomfield, at the northwest corner of Park Avenue and School Street. It is a two-story brick structure with a hip roof and an open octagonal belfry topped by a cupola. Its main facade is five bays wide, with the main entrance in the rightmost bay. The upper floor windows butt against the plain eave, while those on the first floor are topped by headers made of soldier bricks set at an angle.</p><br>
<p>The school was one of seven district schools built in what was at the time called Wintonbury Parish in the late 18th century. Its second story was not finished until 1829, when the student population was divided by age. Access to that floor was at first via an outside staircase, which was replaced by the present indoor one in 1843. The building was used as a school until 1922, and was used as a community center for a time thereafter. From 1931 to 1971 it housed a local chapter of the American Legion. It is now a museum property owned by the local historical society. It was moved a short distance by the society in 1976 to allow for a realignment of the street intersection.</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>Old Farm Schoolhouse.JPGExterior in 2010, prior to plantings</p><br>
<p>Old Farm Schoolhouse, Bloomfield, CT (First Floor) July 2024.jpgFirst floor classroom (note the rope for the school bell)</p><br>
<p>Old Farm Schoolhouse, Bloomfield, CT (Second Floor) July 2024.jpgSecond floor classroom</p><br>
<p>The Pequabuck Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge, carrying a paved multiuse trail across the Pequabuck River in Farmington, Connecticut. Built in 1833, the bridge formerly carried the adjacent Meadow Road. It is one of the state&#39;s only surviving early 19th-century stone arch bridges and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Pequabuck Bridge is located in central southern Farmington, and is set just north of the modern Meadow Road crossing of the Pequabuck River, a tributary of the Farmington River. It now crosses over an occasionally wet channel that the river formerly occupied; the river was rerouted to the east with the construction of the modern road bridge. This bridge has a single stone arch, with a span of 22 ft and a height of 11 ft. It is built mainly out of brownstone rubble, which is the major element of its abutments, spandrels, wing walls, and parapets. The arch itself is shaped out of finished brownstone voussoirs. The bridge is about 20 ft wide, and its arch is topped by earth fill and a paved surface that now carries pedestrian and bicycle traffic.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1832-33, and originally carried the traffic of Meadow Road. It is unusual within the state at that time for a town to construct a stone bridge, given the expense; this one was funded in part by the operators of the Farmington Canal. It replaced an 1819 wooden bridge, which was laboring under heavy usage. The town specified that an embankment connect this bridge to that on which the road crossed the canal, and that it be built at the same height as the canal bridge. The canal bridge has not survived, and only traces of the embankment now survive. The bridge remained in service as a road bridge until the second half of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Jun Fujita Cabin is a historic summer cabin in the USA state of Minnesota, owned by photographer and poet Jun Fujita . He built it in 1928 on an island in Rainy Lake, an area of the Boundary Waters that later became Voyageurs National Park. The cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 for its local significance in the themes of art, Asian ethnic heritage, and entertainment/recreation. It was nominated for its association with Fujita, one of the first Japanese Americans to gain prominence in the American Midwest, and as a rare surviving example of the early recreational development of the Boundary Waters.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Fujita was born in Hiroshima in 1888 and immigrated to Canada as a teenager. He spent a time as a photographer for a Japanese publication, then moved to Chicago and started working for the Chicago Evening Post, which later became the Chicago Daily News. His photographic career included the 1915 sinking of the SS Eastland, the Chicago Race Riot of 1919, and the 1929 Saint Valentine&#39;s Day Massacre. In the 1930s he left photojournalism and established a commercial photography studio on Harper Street. Some of his clients included Johnson Outboards, Stark Nurseries, and Sears, Roebuck and Co. Fujita completed some of his photography for Johnson Outboards on Rainy Lake, on the border of the United States and Canada.</p><br>
<p>Fujitas long-term companion, Florence Carr, bought a 4 acre island on Rainy Lake around 1928. Carr and Fujita had met each other and begun living together in the early or mid-1920s, but did not marry until 1940 due to the Expatriation Act of 1907, which would have stripped Carr of her citizenship. The island was purchased in Carrs name because Minnesota state laws restricted land ownership by non-citizens. Despite her ownership of the island, neighbors never recalled meeting Carr and remember Fujita as the sole occupant of the island. The island was called "Jap Island" by locals, but is now known as Wendt Island.</p><br>
<p>This area of Minnesota was evolving into a vacation spot around the time, having become accessible when railroads reached International Falls, Minnesota, and adjoining Fort Frances, Ontario, around 1908. Highways to the area were built from Duluth, Baudette, and Bemidji by 1922. The area was still rather remote, since Duluth, the nearest large town, was 150 mi away. The Rainy Lake area was popular with visitors who wanted to fish, hunt, or simply enjoy the wilderness. Some less-reputable recreational pursuits were also enjoyed by the locals, such as gambling, moonshining, prostitution, and other vice. The authorities of International Falls, Ranier, and Kettle Falls apparently tolerated this vice, though it started tailing off during the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>Fujita started building his cabin with a 13 by structure framed with cedar poles and covered in drop siding. He later added a screened porch with a shed roof on the north side, as well as a log addition measuring 7 by on the east side. The floor in that room is slightly higher than the rest of the cabin, suggesting that it could have been a shrine. The cabin fits well into its surroundings of large rocks, pine trees, and wildflowers. Some of the architectural design reflects Japanese construction practices, such as modest decoration and a foundation of dry-laid stones.</p><br>
<p>Although he still had privacy on the island, Fujita gradually stopped visiting the island during the years of World War II. This could have been because of its distance from Chicago and the anti-Japanese prejudices during the war. He allowed Fred and Edythe Sackett, owners of a nearby island, to use his cabin from the early 1940s, although he did not sell the cabin to them until 1956. The Sacketts added a bedroom on the south side and added some propane-powered appliances. In 1973 the Sacketts sold the property to Charles and Mary Jane Wendt, their friends from the Rapid City, South Dakota, area. In 1985 the cabin and land were acquired by Voyageurs National Park, although the Wendts still lease the cabin.</p><br>
<p>The Sarah Amanda Trott McKinney House is a historic house site and 10.1 acre historic district in Sixmile, Bibb County, Alabama, United States.</p><br>
<p>The two-story, center hall house was built for Sarah Amanda Trott McKinney by her brother, W.C. Trott, and her son, John McKinney, during the mid-1880s. Her husband, H.C. McKinney, was wounded during the American Civil War and an invalid prior to his death in 1879. Sarah McKinney was a teacher at the Six Mile Academy, which sat a few hundred feet south of the house, and boarded students in her home. When the school burned in 1897, classes were held in the McKinney House until a school was built.</p><br>
<p>The Langston family acquired the house around the turn of the 20th century. They ran the Six Mile Post Office out of the house from 1900 until 1906, before moving it into one of their stores across the road. It remained in that family until it was purchased by John Frost Farrington in 1966. The Farrington family moved out of the house in 1983 and sold it to Geoffrey Wilder in 1990.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 29, 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Merrium Apartments, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was a historic building located in Downtown Sacramento, California.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was built in 1912 or 1913 by attorney Chauncey H. Dunn and named after his wife, Merrium. The building housed 42 units complete with an icehouse in the basement and two elevators. It had many modern conveniences that were touted at the time of its opening, including the free ice, free telephone service, and close proximity to the business district.</p><br>
<p>In 1987, the City of Sacramento, motivated by the desire to expand the Sacramento Convention Center, made plans to demolish many buildings that were in the area bounded by 14th and 15th streets and J and K streets, which included the Merrium Apartments. After being designated a historic building soon after the nomination, city officials did not change their plans. Preservationists proposed moving the building to another site but it was deemed too costly at an estimated $3.5 million. A local company volunteered to demolish the building for free in exchange for the materials it could salvage from it. In a last effort to save the building, the Sacramento Old City Associated took the matters to an appellate court to stop the razing. The court ruled that the association had no standing and so it was appealed and taken to the California Supreme Court. The Supreme Court declined to review the case and the stay of the demolition was lifted.</p><br>
<p>The building was finally destroyed on September 4, 1991. The demolition company salvaged some of the bricks and other materials and the City of Sacramento saved all the materials for an entire apartment to one day be reconstructed in a museum.</p><br>
<p>Mount Carmel Presbyterian Church is a historic church in rural Tipton County, Tennessee, United States, near Covington.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was established in 1834 by settlers from Iredell County, North Carolina, and became the core of the small community of Mount Carmel. In 1839, a Presbyterian congregation that had been organized 10 years earlier in Covington was merged into the Mount Carmel church. The Mt. Carmel church continued to operate until 2000, when it merged its membership and assets with First Presbyterian Church of Covington.</p><br>
<p>The church building was completed in 1854. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The church began regular usage again in August 2016 with the introduction of Sunday Morning Devotionals. Beginning in November 2019, Mt. Carmel became the location of the early morning worship service of First Presbyterian Church - Covington. The church is also used for special events such as weddings. A scene from the 2005 movie Walk the Line was shot there.</p><br>
<p>Second Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 4501 Westminster Place in St. Louis, Missouri.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1838 by the Old School Presbytery of St. Louis. It has had three buildings. Its first building, designed in the Greek Revival architectural style and completed in 1840, was located at Fifth (Broadway) and Walnut Streets. Thirty years later, in 1870, a second church building was erected on Lucas Place at Seventeenth Street.</p><br>
<p>The third and current building was completed in 1896. It was designed by German-born architect Theodore C. Link. The adjacent education building was completed in 1931.</p><br>
<p>A large four-manual pipe organ by the Schantz Organ Company was installed in 1965. The organs tonal design was provided by the churchs minister of music Dr. Charles H. Heaton.</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s Compton Lounge is named after Arthur Compton, who served as an elder in the church.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural significance</h2><br>
<p>It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975.</p><br>
<p>Des Peres Presbyterian Church  is a historic church on 2255 Geyer Road in Frontenac, Missouri.</p><br>
<p>It was started in 1834 and was added to the National Register in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Elijah Parish Lovejoy was an early pastor of the church while also serving as an editor of the abolitionist St. Louis Observer.</p><br>
<p>Former Major League Baseball players George Sisler and Dave Sisler are buried in the church&#39;s cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The J. C. Carly House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is a historic home located in Curtis Park, Sacramento, California.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>James C. Carly was a wealthy real estate developer who owned much of the land that is now Curtis Park in Sacramento (named after rancher William Curtis). Built in one of the earliest suburbs of Sacramento, the Carly house was constructed in 1922. The area the home was built in what would become a center of post-World War I housing tracts. The architectural design was completed by Dean & Dean, locally known due to their work on the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, Westminster Presbyterian Church, and the Sutter Club, among others. Carly&#39;s real estate dealings had a downturn during the Great Depression and he had to downgrade his living conditions, moving out in 1933. The home was later occupied by a local business owner until 1959.</p><br>
<p>The Schroeder Lumber Company Bunkhouse is the last remaining structure of a logging camp in Schroeder, Minnesota, United States, on the North Shore of Lake Superior. The Schroeder Lumber Company from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, established a camp there in 1895, on the Cross River. The loggers had plenty of white pine, balsam fir, and spruce trees to cut. Loggers also dynamited the top 20 ft of the Cross River waterfall to widen the river and built a series of dams to hold water in reserve. This enabled the loggers to move the logs down the river and into Lake Superior, where they were collected into a "holding boom" that kept the logs from floating away. The camp operated until 1905, when crews left to log the Apostle Islands.</p><br>
<p>The camp had a reputation for good living conditions, fair wages, and good food. Lumberjacks ate a lot, and if the food wasn&#39;t to their liking, they would leave and seek employment with a different company. The sleeping accommodations were spartan, with rows of wooden bunk beds topped with mattresses stuffed with straw, hay, or evergreen boughs, along with pillows stuffed with grain and straw. Author Cathy Wurzer speculates that the smell in the bunkhouse was rather "ripe", given the smell of wet woolen clothes being hung up to dry and the housing of sweaty workers living in close quarters.</p><br>
<p>For a time, the Schroeder Lumber Company was one of the largest lumber retailers in the United States. The company owned and operated every step in the lumber supply chain, from cutting down trees to shipping the logs to milling and manufacturing wood products. Its owner, John Schroeder, had logging operations in Lake County and Cook County in Minnesota, as well as northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Owner John Schroeder died in 1905, and although his sons ran the firm for several decades afterward, the company went out of business in 1939 and the Milwaukee lumberyard was closed.</p><br>
<p>The John and Ella Morrill House is a historic house located at 95 North Main Street in Junction, Utah.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Completed in 1895 and built by John Morrill, the two-story house is prominently located at the northeast corner of the central block of Main Street in Junction. It is significant as "a unique example of the Victorian Gothic style" in Junction.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 7, 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Piute County Courthouse, located at Main St. and Center St. in Junction, Utah, was built in 1903. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The building site was donated by John Morrill in 1902 (see the John and Ella Morrill House, also on Main St. and also NRHP-listed). It was designed by architect Richard C. Watkins in Edwardian architecture style; it was built by contractors Young, Alan & Morrill who formed its red bricks on the building site.</p><br>
<p>Armstrong-Walker House is a historic home located near Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1870, and consists of a -story, five bay brick main block with a service ell and later frame kitchen addition. The house features an open front porch with square, paneled posts. Also on the property is a contributing braced frame stable.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Choptank, also known as the J. Clayton Farm, is a historic home located near Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1850, and is a three-story, five-by-two bay, timber-frame structure on a brick foundation. It has a low-hipped roof. Also on the property are a contributing large barn, corn crib, and shed.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Rosedale is a historic home located near Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1801, and consists of a two-story, brick rectangular main block with a two-story rear ell. Also attached is a three-bay, one-story wing constructed of a wood siding and two wings added to the rear  between 1960 and 1965. It has a center hall plan. It has a slate-covered gable roof, interior end chimneys, and a front entrance with fanlight. Also on the property are a contributing hay barn, barn, and mash furnace.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Davidson–Smitherman House, also known as the Davidson Plantation, is a historic plantation house in Centreville in Bibb County, Alabama, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 6, 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1837 for Samuel Wilson Davidson, a native of North Carolina. He settled in Bibb County (then Cahaba County) in 1819. He was one of the first people to purchase lots along the east bank of the Cahaba River in what would become the city of Centreville during 1823. Davidson eventually amassed farmlands amounting to more than 2,000 acre. His real estate was valued at $12,000 (~$ in ) and he owned 98 slaves in 1850. By 1860, Davidson was the most extensive planter and wealthiest citizen in the area. He died in 1863.</p><br>
<p>The house remained in the Davidson family until 1869, when it was purchased by Thomas and Betty Smitherman. Thomas Smitherman was a prominent local attorney. Smitherman descendants retained the property until it was sold to William E. Henderson in 1963. He, in turn, sold it after two years to Charles L. Hollinsworth, who sold it to Gladys Pittman Leggett in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The -story Federal style house is notable as one of the only two best antebellum houses remaining in the county and as one of the two earliest and least altered houses built in Centreville by the city&#39;s leading builders, George Howard and Enoch Carson. The wood-frame structure is set over a full brick basement. The front and rear both feature three bay facades, inset with 12 over 12 sash windows downstairs and 12 over 8 windows upstairs. The front facade features a full-width two-tiered porch with decorative brackets, while the rear features a one-story porch with brackets matching those on the front. The interior is arranged on a center hall plan, with a reverse flight stairway. The house has Federal style mantles and wainscoting, with heart pine floors throughout.</p><br>
<p>The Blocton Italian Catholic Cemetery is a historic cemetery in West Blocton, Alabama, United States. It was established in 1896 by an Italian Catholic population, immigrants who worked in the coal mines that were once numerous in the county. The cemetery is located in what was originally Blocton, a coal mining company town owned by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. It was consecrated in 1901 by Edward Patrick Allen, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Mobile. It continued in use until the 1960s, with the most active use occurring during the 1910s and 1920s. The cemetery contains approximately 86 funerary monuments. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 22, 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Bryand Brand House is a historic plantation house on the east side of Alabama State Route 14 near Marion, Perry County, Alabama. The two-story Greek Revival style house was built in 1845. Unique features of the interior are the treatment of the wide central hall as a quasi-dogtrot, the double-leaf front door, and the original rabbeted sheathing found on all of the</p><br>
<p>ceilings and on the walls of the central halls. The house was moved to its current site in 1978 to save it from destruction. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 2010.</p><br>
<p>Idalia Manor is a historic home located at Mt. Pleasant, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1845, and consists of a -story, five-bay, stuccoed brick main house with a two-story, two-bay stuccoed brick gable end kitchen addition. It has a gable roof covered with composition shingle and two endwall chimneys. The house is in the late Federal style. Also on the property are a contributing two-story braced frame granary and crib barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Woodside is a historic home located at Mt. Pleasant, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1860, and is a two- to three-story, five-bay, L-shaped brick dwelling with a center passage plan with a full-width front porch. It features hipped roof with widely overhanging eaves and elaborate brackets in the Italianate style. Also on the property are a contributing stable, granary, cattle/dairy barn, equipment shed and water tower. It was built by Henry Clayton, whose great-grandfather was Governor Joshua Clayton, president and governor of Delaware.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Moore-Webb-Holmes Plantation is a historic active plantation on Alabama State Route 14 near Marion, Perry County, Alabama. The plantation began with 80 acre in 1819 and gradually expanded to thousands of acres. Although the main house burned in 1927, the outbuildings, barns, cook house and other buildings remain intact and preserved. It continues to operate as a working farm and has been continuously owned by descendants of the original owner. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 24, 2011.</p><br>
<p>A. Eliason House is a historic home located at Mt. Pleasant, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1850, and is a three-story, five-bay, brick dwelling with a shallow hipped roof. It has a center passage plan and features two one-story, tetra-style porches. Also on the property are a contributing two-story brick combination carriage house and storage loft, an earthfast cartshed, a braced frame granary containing corn cribs,</p><br>
<p>and a brick stable.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Green Street Historic District is a historic district in Marion, Alabama. It is centered on West Green Street and includes examples of American Craftsman, Greek Revival, and Federal style architecture. It contains 33 structures, dating from the mid-1830s to the present, with 24 of them listed as contributing buildings. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 30, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The district is architecturally important for its fine collection of antebellum homes, including 12 in the transitional Federal-Greek Revival style and one early example of the Gothic Revival. One structure, the Andrew Barry Moore House is listed on the Historic American Buildings Survey. Of the remaining contributing structures, two modest Victorian homes date from the late 19th century and nine Bungalow-influenced homes date from the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The district is bounded on the east by downtown Marion, on the north by more recent residential structures, and on the west by rural countryside. The street which runs parallel to Green on the south contains additional architecturally significant structures, but they do not fit into the district because of their physical separation from Green Street. The clustering of homes along Green Street and the general lay of the land visually prescribe the district boundaries. Green Street forms a well-defined neighborhood district containing one- and two-story homes. The distance of the houses from the street and the size of the lots generally increases toward the western end of the district, away from town. The prominent building material is wood, being found on almost three-fourths of the structures. Six structures have brick exteriors, two have concrete block, and one stucco. The tree-lined street is the major western approach to the city, the only main artery which has been able to avoid commercialization.</p><br>
<p>The district has been categorized into five distinct groups according to the dates of construction. The most significant group is the 13 antebellum homes which comprise 39.3% of the district structures. Seven of these retain a strong degree of period character with virtually no structural changes. Of the six that have been altered, 3 were given a Victorian treatment in the late 19th century, 2 were given Bungaloid facades in the early 20th century, and one was recently altered by the enclosure of the portico and addition of a bay window. Of the remaining contributing structures, the two Victorian period homes and the nine early 20th century bungalows, are modest examples of their period styles and have been maintained very close to their original condition. The last two categories contain the nine structures which were built after 1930.</p><br>
<p>however, intrude to a slight or moderate degree.</p><br>
<p>The Green Street Historic District, located on a half- mile stretch along the major western approach to the city of Marion, include twelve significant examples of Federal and Greek Revival style homes and an unusually early example of the Gothic Revival. In addition to being architecturally important, these structures are primary indicators of the lifestyles of the Black Belt planter class during the prosperous antebellum period. One of them, the Andrew Barry Moore House, is listed on the Historic American Buildings Survey. Interspersed among the pre-Civil War homes is a fine collection (9 structures) of early 20th century bungalows, as well as several modest recent structures. As a whole, the district depicts the ongoing attractiveness of Green Street as one of the citys most prestigious residential areas. Marion, the county seat of Perry County, is located in the fertile Black Belt Region of west central Alabama. Under the 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson, the area was ceded to the federal government by the Creek Indians. Squatters and prospectors moved in until the land was put up for sale in 1817. A boom period began in the early 1830s, when farmers realized that the sticky soil was extraordinarily adaptable to the cultivation of cotton. Ultimately, production of that crop led the region to a position of economic importance in the antebellum years which it has never surpassed. Settled in 1817 and named the first permanent county seat in 1822, Marion soon emerged as the principal city of Perry County. With the influx of cotton planters to the area, the towns economy boomed from the late 1830s to the onset of the Civil War. Its location on a high, red clay rise provided a solid, dry ground for settlement which many planters preferred to the dampness and mud of the surrounding farmlands. Increasing educational, economic, and political opportunities attracted prominent men of many professions to the young community. Green Street, one of the city&#39;s earliest traffic arteries, was a popular building location during the pre-Civil War years, and 13 antebellum structures remain. The typical upper-middle class residence was a modest frame house with Greek Revival ornament and often a retention of Federal Period scaling. Homes such as the Italianate-detailed Magnolia Hill and the Gothic Revival Howze-Woodfin House were unusually elaborate for this area.</p><br>
<p>Early residents of the district included leaders in various professions. The Governor Andrew Barry Moore House was the home of the state&#39;s 16th chief executive. While governor, Moore issued the proclamation calling for the Alabama Secession Convention in 1861. The presiding officer of the convention, Judge William Macklin Brooks, lived in the Brooks-Bailey House. A prominent Marion merchant, Mark A. Myatt, built his home on Green Street around 1845. Magnolia Hill was built in 1847 by the wealthy landowner King Parker and sold in 1866 to Archibald John Battle, President of Judson College (one of three antebellum colleges in Marion).</p><br>
<p>The development of Green Street in the years following the Civil War reflects the changes in the economy of the Black Belt region. Virtually no construction took place during the immediate post-war years, and only two modest Victorian homes were added in the late 19th century. With the increasing prosperity in the early 20th century, a new building boom began on Green Street. The nine structures built between 1915 and 1930 are, for the most part, simple, one-story frame bungalows. They are important in depicting the popular architectural style of the period, as well as in showing the drastic changes in the lifestyles of Marion residents since the more prosperous antebellum years. Of the nine additional structures built since 1930, six retain the flavor of the earlier bungalows and blend well into the district. Three intrude, however, but they do not destroy the visual integrity of the district. The Nunnally House is similar in size and scale to the bungalows, but its style and location near the front of the lot make it intrude to a slight degree. Two structures, the Madison Tucker House and Apartment, are moderately intrusive in view of their irregular scaling, contemporary styling, and situation on the edge of the lot. In spite of these modern structures, the district retains the character of a mid-19th century residential area.</p><br>
<h2>Structures in the district</h2><br>
<p>Harris House (214 Green Street): c. 1930</p><br>
<p>Lea–Thatcher House (302 Green Street): before 1834</p><br>
<p>Moore–Drew House (304 Green Street): c. 1845</p><br>
<p>Drew House (306 Green Street): c. 1930</p><br>
<p>Myatt–Knudsen House (308 Green Street): c. 1845</p><br>
<p>Nichols House (312 Green Street): c. 1930</p><br>
<p>Horne House (402 Green Street): c. 1915</p><br>
<p>Horne House (404 Green Street): c. 1890</p><br>
<p>Victor Tubbs House (408 Green Street): c. 1920</p><br>
<p>Brooks–Bailey House (506 Green Street): c. 1850</p><br>
<p>Governor A. B. Moore House (508 Green Street): c. 1832</p><br>
<p>Moore–Williams House (751 Green Street): c. 1840</p><br>
<p>Boise Tubbs Rental House (513 Green Street): c. 1920</p><br>
<p>Boise Tubbs House (511 Green Street): c. 1920</p><br>
<p>Seawell House (509 Green Street): c. 1840</p><br>
<p>Washburn House (501 Green Street): c. 1890</p><br>
<p>Magnolia Hill (409 Green Street): 1847</p><br>
<p>Howze–Woodfin House (405 Green Street): c. 1850</p><br>
<p>Underwood House (309 Green Street): c. 1850</p><br>
<p>Hudson–Crew House (307 Green Street): c. 1855</p><br>
<p>Pope House (301 Green Street): c. 1835</p><br>
<p>Eagle Hotel (207 Green Street): c. 1835</p><br>
<p>Clinton House (205 Green Street): c. 1925</p><br>
<p>Yeager House (203 Green Street): c. 1930</p><br>
<p>The Henry House, also known as the Lowry-Ford-Henry House, is a historic antebellum plantation house in Marion, Perry County, Alabama. Historians believe that the house was built during the 1840s for Squire Lowry, a wealthy planter originally from North Carolina. The two-story, L-shaped house is wood framed with a brick masonry foundation and columns. A monumentally scaled hexastyle portico spans the three-bay front facade. Another two-story, L-shaped portico spans the exposed half of the rear facade and one side of the two-story rear wing.</p><br>
<p>Bert Ford&#39;s family purchased the house from the Lowry family. It then passed to the Henry family, heirs of the Ford family. The last individual to own the house was Mary Katherine Blount, a native of Montgomery. She purchased the house and subsequently donated it to the Perry County Historical and Preservation Society. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 1986.</p><br>
<p>Presbyterian Church is a church at 2002 Franklin Street in Bellevue, Nebraska, USA, that was built c.1856-58, and has been believed to be the oldest surviving building in Nebraska that was built to hold religious services. It is also believed to be one of few surviving buildings in Nebraska that show original Greek Revival architectural influence.</p><br>
<p>The congregation of the church was founded in 1859 and, in 1970, was believed to be the oldest church congregation in the state.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register in 1970. The congregation survives as the First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue.</p><br>
<p>The W. H. Faling House is a historic house located at 606 Parker St. in Cambridge, Nebraska. The house was constructed in 1909 by Nebraska architect William F. Gernandt. The home&#39;s Neoclassical design features a full height porch with groups of banded columns and a wide front door with symmetrical lights on the sides; the home is considered the best representation of Neoclassical architecture in Cambridge. W. H. Faling, a local merchant and the first chairman of Cambridge, owned and occupied the house until his death in 1933. The house now functions as a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<p>The W. H. Faling House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Old Monroe County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building in Monroeville, Alabama that served as the Monroe County courthouse from 1903 to 1963.</p><br>
<p>It is significant as an Alabama literary landmark due to its association with Harper Lee and Truman Capote, both of whom spent their childhood in Monroeville and featured the courthouse in their work. Capote mentions it in his A Christmas Memory and it inspired the fictional courthouse in Lee&#39;s To Kill A Mockingbird.</p><br>
<p>The film adaptation of Lees novel was heavily influenced by the courthouse, with production designers measuring and photographing the building and then recreating a close duplicate of the interior on a sound stage for filming of the courtroom scenes. The producers originally wanted to use the actual courthouse in Monroeville as the movie set, but due to the modernization of the town since Lees birth in addition to the poor audio quality in the courthouse, they made the backlot in Hollywood instead.</p><br>
<p>Due to the accuracy of the recreated courthouse in Hollywood, many Alabamians still believe that the film was shot in Monroeville. The Old Courthouse in Monroe County is now a theater for many plays on "To Kill a Mockingbird" as well a museum dedicated to multiple authors from Monroeville, including Lee.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2021.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse is now one of the Monroe County Museums and is operated as the Old Courthouse Museum. The building has been restored to a 1930s appearance and also features exhibits about Capote and Lee.</p><br>
<p>The South San Francisco Hillside Sign is a historic sign on a hillside overlooking the city of South San Francisco in San Mateo County, California. It was created in the 1920s and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The sign is the main feature of Sign Hill Park, a city park which provides 30 acre of open space, almost 2 mi of hiking trails, and access to the letters of the sign itself.</p><br>
<p>The sign spells out "SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO THE INDUSTRIAL CITY" in white-painted concrete letters and is visible to drivers on northbound USA 101 and flights to San Francisco International Airport.</p><br>
<h2>Design and setting</h2><br>
<p>The letters are set on the south side of a steep 581 ft hill, part of the San Bruno Mountains, overlooking the city. In order to create the appearance of straight, uniformly sized type despite the varied contour of the hillside, the letters are laid out using anamorphosis, ranging in height from 48 to 65 ft.</p><br>
<p>The first line, "SOUTH", is 166 ft long. The second line, "SAN FRANCISCO", is 484 ft long. The third line, "THE INDUSTRIAL CITY", is 628 ft long. The letters are intact with the exception of the T in "CITY", which had separated the vertical line from the horizontal line by approximately 40 in by 1996.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>An early version of the sign was installed on the hillside in 1923. Each letter was laid out by city engineer George A. Kneese to ensure even spacing and appearance. The letters for the first sign were carved directly into the hillside and filled with whitewash, consisting of a mixture of lime, white cement, and water; it was completed by November 22, 1923. Local high school students were hired to maintain the sign by removing grass and applying fresh whitewash. The construction method and scale of the sign were comparable to an earlier sign constructed in 1909 on the side of Yerba Buena Island to advertise the Portola Festival.</p><br>
<p>The current, permanent sign was created in 1929. The sign is cited as a prime example of "civic boosterism&quot the intention was to advertise the city&#39;s welcoming attitude toward industry. Its location was chosen so as to be visible from the main north-south highways El Camino Real and the Bayshore Highway, as well as from the train and the nearby Mills Field airfield (now San Francisco International Airport). The sign was originally proposed, and the first sign was placed, by the South San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. The $5,000 cost of the second, permanent sign was funded by a special property tax assessment approved by the voters.</p><br>
<p>At that time the city "was the smokestack capital of the Peninsula."</p><br>
<p>A giant electric sign was added near the site in 1932; it could spell out letters using twenty individual "letter sections", each of which had twenty-one light boxes to form the pixels of the display. Each light box used fourteen sixty-watt lamps. The sign had an overall length of 388 ft and it was claimed to be visible for 10 mi. In addition to displaying "South San Francisco", the sign was used for advertising slogans. It was turned off in 1939 as a potential beacon for aerial attack and never relit.</p><br>
<p>Following World War II the citys economy transitioned from heavy industry to light industry and then to high-tech and biotech companies. The citys largest employer is now Genentech, which has promoted South San Francisco as "the birthplace of biotechnology".</p><br>
<p>The Anderson–Clark Farmstead, located at 378 W. Clark St. in Grantsville, Utah, also known as the J. Reuben Clark Farm, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. The listing included 13 contributing buildings on 3.2 acre.</p><br>
<p>It is historically significant for association with Grantsville&#39;s agricultural development, for association with the Anderson and Clark families, and for its "distinctive collection of agricultural outbuildings". The farmhouse was built in 1941; 12 outbuildings were built from 1880 to 1944.</p><br>
<p>The J. Reuben Clark Historic Farm was first owned by James McBride, founder of Grantsville, Utah. Swedish LDS convert immigrants, Charles L. and Ellen O. Anderson later bought the farm from him in the 1880s. In 1914, J. Reuben Clark, Jr., a Grantsville farm boy who grew up to serve in the administrations of seven USA Presidents, as USA Ambassador to Mexico, and as long-serving member of the LDS First Presidency, purchased the farm and most people now know it as the “Clark Farm.” The farm is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and anchors the west end of a historic district in the area of the original Grantsville fort.</p><br>
<p>Charles L. Anderson</p><br>
<p>As a teenager in 1862, Charles Anderson emigrated with his family from Sweden. His family, who had been well-off in Sweden, arrived in the Salt Lake Valley with nothing, and a Brother Baker from Grantsville met up with them in Salt Lake and took them home with him. They settled in “Swedenberg,” a nickname for the southwest part of Grantsville. When he was 19, Charles drove teams across the Missouri River to bring the Saints to Utah. When he returned to Grantsville in 1866, he married a young Swedish immigrant, Ellen Okelberry. They purchased over 600 acres from James McBride, including the land where the Clark Historic Farm now stands. They built one of the finest farmsteads in town, including a nice two-story adobe home, two large barns, a wagon house, a granary, corrals, shelters and a root cellar between 1890 and 1900.</p><br>
<p>Charles became one of the wealthiest and most prominent men in Tooele County through his mining interests and through his vast herds of sheep, which he ranged in Wyoming. He was very generous and helped many underprivileged children through school. In 1878, he left his young family to serve for two years on a mission to Sweden. He served two terms as mayor of the town, as a city councilman, Director of the Grantsville Co-op, vice-president of the North Willow Irrigation Company, on the State Board of Education, two terms as a State Representative and twenty years as the First Counselor in the Tooele Stake Presidency,</p><br>
<p>Ellens health became frail, and in 1900 they moved to southern California. While living there, Charles died in 1909 and his body was brought back to Grantsville for burial. Ellen sold the farm in 1914 to J. Reuben Clark, Jr. The Andersons two-story home burned to the ground in 1917.</p><br>
<p>J. Reuben Clark, Jr.</p><br>
<p>J. Reuben Clarks father, Joshua R. Clark, came to Utah after serving in the Civil War. He converted to the Mormon faith while living in Ogden, and then moved to Grantsville to teach school. There he met and married Mary Louisa Woolley, who was born in a wagon while her parents were crossing the plains to Utah. Joshua and Mary lived on Samuel Woolleys farm in a stone house about 3 miles northwest of town when J. Reuben Clark, Jr. was born.</p><br>
<p>As a child, J. Reuben Clark (“Rube”) was expected to help run the family farm, including milking the cow, harvesting the crops and feeding the animals. His mother taught him to read and write, and at the age of 10, Rube finally got the chance to go to formal schooling in the Old Adobe Schoolhouse (now the Donner Reed Museum) and at the Grantsville Academy. He liked school so much that he repeated the 8th grade three times since it was the highest level offered at the time. He was fortunate to be mentored by James E. Talmage who provided a job for him so he could attend the University of Utah, where he graduated as valedictorian. He married Luacine Savage in 1898, and later went to Columbia Law School before beginning his illustrious Washington career. Talmage said Clark was “the greatest mind to ever leave Utah.”</p><br>
<p>Although his life&#39;s work was far from Grantsville, his heart remained in his hometown with his agricultural roots. In 1914, while living in Washington D.C., he purchased the Grantsville farm from Ellen Anderson, and for the next several decades, his brother “Ted” ran the farm. Rube sent his family to Grantsville by train to spend the summers on the farm, but having spent most of their lives in the city, his family was not very fond of the bugs and smells of farm life. Rube, however, never lost his love for the agricultural life. After his calling to the LDS First Presidency, he settled in Salt Lake City, but came often on weekends to renew his spirit with a visit to his farm, particularly after his wife died. In 1941, he built the red brick home that stands there today, and he spent many weekends in his basement office, where he likely wrote some of his famous sermons.</p><br>
<p>In 1947, the first Tooele County Junior Livestock Show was held at the Clark farm. For many years afterward, youngsters from far and wide brought their animals to be weighed on the Clark Farm&#39;s scales. President Clark was known for his numerous prize Herefords and cattle which ranged on his ranch south of Grantsville.</p><br>
<p>In 1951, President Clark purchased and restored the Old Adobe Schoolhouse with his own resources, then donated it back to the people of Grantsville. When he died in 1961, his farm passed down to his children who later sold it.</p><br>
<p>The Clark Historic Farm</p><br>
<p>The barns beautifully display the craftsmanship of early Grantsville settlers, with hand-hewn beams and mortise and tenon construction. Although wooden pegs were used in place of nails throughout the barns, the structures stand plumb and strong after nearly 125 years. Over the years, many people who grew up in Grantsville worked on the Clark Farm changing sprinklers, caring for the animals or harvesting crops.</p><br>
<p>The farm, which was purchased by Grantsville City in 2005 for a heritage attraction, has recently become a gathering place for community events including Baby Animal Days, Memorial Day breakfast and 5k, Kids’ Historic Farm Camps, community concerts and plays, farmers’ markets, the Utah Honey Harvest Festival and the Live Nativity.</p><br>
<p>In 2005, a second granary was moved from another Anderson farm to the Clark Farm, and in 2010 many of the sheds and corrals were torn down by new city leaders who hoped to change the land into a cemetery. A citizen group called “Friends of Clark Historic Farm” was established in 2013 to advocate preserving the farm intact, to provide heritage activities and to raise money for restoration. Since May 2013, over 13,000 people have visited the farm, and many interest groups are present at events to bring the community together and to build the local economy.</p><br>
<p>Representing the agricultural heritage of Grantsville, the Clark Historic Farm symbolizes the rewards of hard work and industry.</p><br>
