<p>The Clover Bottom Mansion is a historic mansion located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. For 30 years it has been the home of the Tennessee Historical Commission, the State Historic Preservation Office.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Clover Bottom Mansion occupies land on the Stones River first claimed in 1780 by John Donelson, who abandoned his homestead following an Indian attack. The mansion was built in 1859 and was the centerpiece of the 1,500-acre Clover Bottom Plantation</p><br>
<p>The mansion was built near Nashvilles first horseracing track for Dr James and Mary Ann Saunders Hoggatt, who owned sixty enslaved residents in 1860. Mrs. Hoggatt was a granddaughter of Daniel Smith. Her half-brothers from her mothers first marriage were Rachel and Andrew Jacksons nephews Andrew Jackson Donelson and Daniel Smith Donelson, for whom Ft. Donelson was named. The mansion was constructed in the Italianate style. A strong similarity to nearby Two Rivers Mansion that was being erected around the same time suggests that the same unknown contractor and/or architect was used, although no supporting records have been found. The interior of the home had French scenic Zuber wallpaper, and the parlor had a frescoed ceiling. Clover Bottom Plantation was where John McCline was held captive as a slave, in his childhood, and who escaped from the property in 1862 and became a drover for the Union Army. McClines autobiography "Slavery in the Clover Bottoms" provides a very rare and detailed account of the life of a Davidson County slave prior to and during the early days of the Civil War. A Tennessee Civil War Trails marker was erected on the property in 2015 detailing the story of McCline. Dr. Hoggatt died in 1863, and the home was occupied at different times during the Civil War by soldiers from both armies.</p><br>
<p>Clover Bottom Mansion is associated with two members of Congress. The first was Mrs. Hoggatts brother-in-law, the former USA and Confederate Congressman Meredith P. Gentry. After his first wife (Mrs. Hoggatts sister) died, Rep. Gentry&#39;s daughters lived with the Hoggatts while he pursued a career in politics. Ultimately Gentry was left destitute from selling his own property and enthusiastically investing his money in the Confederacy. Gentry moved into the home and died at Clover Bottom on November 2, 1866. In 1886 Mrs. Hoggatt sold her property to a relative, Andrew Price. Mr. Price, married to Anna Gay Price, was a four-term congressman from Louisiana who had Tennessee roots. In an early expression of historic preservation, Price restored the home and added several substantial outbuildings, raising thoroughbred horses on the property.</p><br>
<p>In 1918, A.F. Stanford purchased the house. Mr. Stanford&#39;s second wife, Merle Hutcheson Stanford Davis (1907–2011), moved there in 1927 owned it until she sold it to the state of Tennessee in 1948. Mrs. Davis, who lived to be 104, made her final visit to her old home just a few months prior to her death in 2011. The house had a number of uses after being acquired by the State, including a brief period as a state trooper outpost. It was later converted into housing for faculty for the Tennessee School for the Blind. Around 1980 the home was vacated and left empty, beginning an unfortunate period of neglect that lasted about a decade. An effort led by Edward Nave and fellow members of the local Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities helped convince the State to restore it. It has been the home of the Tennessee Historical Commission, the State Historic Preservation Office, since October, 1994. The property contains several important historic outbuildings, including two former c. 1858 slave cabins that are among a handful of former slave dwellings remaining in Davidson County. There is also an 1850s carriage house that may slightly predate the main house. The c. 1890s transverse crib thoroughbred horse barn is one of the finest 19th-century barns remaining in the area. At the initiative of the Tennessee Historical Commission, the historic outbuildings were restored by the State in 2015–16 and interpretive signs were added. Over 150 trees of native species were planted, and a walking trail was added. The grounds are open to the public during daylight hours. Tours of the office (which has no period furnishings or exhibits) are unavailable as of October, 2024.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural significance</h2><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 3, 1975. in 2019, the listing was updated by the Tennessee Historical Commission and the boundaries enlarged to include the outbuildings and it was renamed from Clover Bottom Mansion to Clover Bottom Farm.</p><br>
<p>Woodlawn is a historic house in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1822 for John Nichols. It is believed that Willoughby Williams Jr. hosted occasional gatherings at Woodlawn with his friends Sam Houston and Andy Jackson. By the 1850s, they moved to their property in Arkansas and their son John Henry Williams, his wife Elizabeth, his young grandson, as well as his youngest son Andrew, moved into the house. Andrew was killed during the American Civil War of 1861&ndash;1865, and the house was ransacked during the Battle of Nashville on December 15–16, 1864.</p><br>
<p>In 1900, the house was sold to Duncan Kenner. He sold it to Henry B. Richardson in 1916. That year, the eastern wing and pavilion were destroyed to build Woodmont Boulevard, and architect Hugh Roland redesigned it. The Young and Moore families subsequently lived in it until about 1981. Later, in an effort to save the historic property, two young Nashville entrepreneurs (Jim Chandler and Gary Ganick) obtained a zoning change for the property. Then, condominiums were built on the south lawns and the house was converted into an office.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>Samuel D. Smith, Woodlawn Mansion, Nashville, Tennessee: History, Architecture and Archaeology, Northern Telecom, 1985, 130 pages.</p><br>
<p>West Meade is a historic mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The mansion is located on Old Harding Pike in Nashville, Tennessee. The road was named for the Harding family that owned Belle Meade Plantation until 1906. It had thousands of acres that have since been developed as parts of the city and Belle Meade, Tennessee.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mansion was built in 1886 The red brick mansion has a French Victorian-style porch.</p><br>
<p>After Belle Meade Plantation was sold in 1906, this area was developed as a residential neighborhood called West Meade after the mansion. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. To this day, the house is privately owned.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural significance</h2><br>
<p>The three-story house is made of red, hand-polished brick. There are 20 rooms on the first two floors; the third contains a ballroom and includes a widow&#39;s walk. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 4, 1975, as an example of the elaborate Victorian mansions built in Nashville in the late 1800s.</p><br>
<p>Two Rivers Mansion is an Antebellum historic house in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mansion was built in 1859 for David H. McGavock (1826–1896), a cousin of the McGavocks who owned the Carnton plantation in Franklin, Tennessee, and his wife William "Willie" Elizabeth Harding (1832–1895), whose family owned the Belle Meade Plantation. During construction of the mansion, the McGavock family lived in the adjacent house named The 1802 House, a Federal-style red brick home. Both properties were once the centerpiece of an 1,100-acre plantation in Donelson, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>Two Rivers was inhabited by the McGavock family for three generations until 1965, when it was purchased by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County from Mary Louise Bransford McGavock.</p><br>
<p>The land was turned into the Two Rivers Park and Golf Course, with eighteen holes of golf, baseball and softball diamonds, six tennis courts and a playground.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural significance</h2><br>
<p>Two Rivers was designed in the Italianate architectural style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The mansion is located at 3130 McGavock Pike in Nashville, Tennessee. It is located between the Stones River and the Cumberland River, hence the name.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>Two Rivers Mansion and The 1802 House were featured as a haunted location on the paranormal series, Haunted Live which aired in 2018 on the Travel Channel. The paranormal team, the Tennessee Wraith Chasers investigated both buildings which are said to be highly haunted.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>Leona Taylor Aiken, The McGavocks of Two Rivers, Aiken, 1975, 51 pages.</p><br>
<p>Riverwood is a privately owned historic house located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. At 9,200 square-feet it sits on 8 acres of its original 2,500 acres. It has been a wedding and event facility since 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The mansion is located at 1833 Welcome Lane in Nashville, Tennessee.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The rear wing was built in 1799 by Alexander Porter, an Irish immigrant who came to Nashville in the mid-1790s. He originally named it Tammany Woods after his family home in Ireland. By the 1820s, he built a two-story Federal-style home a few feet away from the rear wing. In 1850, a third story was added, alongside a Greek Revival portico supported by six Corinthian columns. Guests included President Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) and his wife Rachel Jackson (1767-1828), who was an aunt to Alexanders sons wife.</p><br>
<p>In 1859, Judge William Frierson Cooper (1820–1909), a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court, purchased the property. He renamed it Riverwood as it was by the Cumberland River. His brothers and their wives lived in the house with him. In the 1880s and 1890s, plumbing and electricity were added. The dining room was also extended, and the two houses were united. After his death in 1909, his brother Duncan Brown Cooper inherited the property.</p><br>
<p>When Cooper died in 1922, his daughter Sarah and her husband Dr. Lucius E. Burch, a Dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, inherited the house. They had a son, Lucius E. Burch, Jr. Their annual Christmas Dinner was attended by the Nashville elite. Robert Penn Warren spent a summer in one of their cottages during his stay at Vanderbilt University. Presidents Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk (1795–1849), Franklin Pierce (1804–1869), Andrew Johnson (1808–1875), Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), and William Howard Taft (1857–1930) and Vice President Adlai Stevenson I (1835-1914) visited the house. The Burches lived in it until 1975.</p><br>
<p>The property was purchased by Joe and Jackie Glynn in 1994. Over the next three years, the Glynns restored the property and opened the property to facilitate weddings and small events in 1997.</p><br>
<p>In June 2015, the Glynn&#39;s sold the property to investors Debbie Sutton, Steven R Shelton, and Matt Wilson.</p><br>
<p>Riverwood Mansion has been featured in multiple music videos, television shows, and magazines, most recently on the October 2015 cover of Southern Living Magazine, featuring Reese Witherspoon.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural significance</h2><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 20, 1977.</p><br>
<p>Cleveland Hall is an Antebellum mansion in Nashville, Tennessee.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>It is located at 4041 Old Hickory Boulevard in</p><br>
<p>Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was designed by master builders Joseph Reiff and William C. Hume, who built The Hermitage in 1835, constructed under the supervision of owner, Stockly Donelson, and completed in 1839. Its main massing resembles the plantation plain style Plantation Plain-style, but the pediment and columns on the entrance, which could have been added at a later time are markers of the Greek Revival style. It has eighteen rooms.</p><br>
<p>It was the home of Stockly Donelson (1805-1888), who was Rachel Jackson&#39;s nephew and whose grandfather was John Donelson (1718–1785), and his wife Phila Ann Lawrence Donelson. After his death, their son William Stockly Donelson (1835-1895) lived in the house with his wife, Alice Ewin Donelson (1836-1881). Subsequently, it was home to their son, John Donelson (1874-1952) and his wife, Bettie Menees Hooper Donelson (1875-1963). It is still privately owned by the Donelson family.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage significance</h2><br>
<p>It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 16, 1971.</p><br>
<p>The North Bend Carnegie Library is a Carnegie library located at 140 E. 8th St. in North Bend, Nebraska. The library was funded by the Carnegie Foundation in 1911 and dedicated in 1913; it housed a library program started by the citys Womans Club in 1906. The building was designed by John R. Smith according to the simple plans suggested by the Carnegie Foundation. The city used the library until 2012, when they vacated it for a new building.</p><br>
<p>The North Bend Carnegie Library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 3, 1981.</p><br>
<p>The Pope Estate is a historic home located in Camp Richardson, near South Lake Tahoe, California.</p><br>
<p>The home was originally built by Lloyd Tevis, former president of Wells Fargo Bank, in the 1880s. The Tevis and Pope families used the home and grounds as a summer vacation spot. The grounds contain several servants cabins and the main dwelling is constructed entirely of wood and shingle-clad sidings.</p><br>
<p>The Robinson House is a historic house located at 602 N. 3rd Ave. in Maywood, Illinois, United States. The square-shaped house is designed in a vernacular cottage style and features a gable roof, wooden shingled Gothic arches on all sides, and a front porch with a hipped roof. While the house&#39;s date of construction is unknown, it is likely 1901, when owner James Munton took out a mortgage on the property. The house is named for longtime occupants the Robinson family, who bought the house in 1908 and remained there until shortly before 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Robinson House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 1992.</p><br>
<p>The William E. Drummond House is a Prairie School house located at 559 Edgewood Place in River Forest, Illinois. The house was designed by William Eugene Drummond in 1909 using a basic design published by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1907. While the house reflects Wrights principles of design, the details and construction are considered to be superior to Wrights buildings of the era. The house has been called "one of the best examples" of a Prairie School house not designed by Wright and "an excellent example of the economy Prairie House".</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Hilda Erickson House, located at 247 W. Main St. in Grantsville, Utah, is a historic house that was built in 1915 for Hilda Erickson, an exceptionally long-lived woman among original pioneers in Utah. The house was built by her son Perry Erickson, and it has also been known as the Perry & Mary Erickson House and as the John & Hilda Erickson House.</p><br>
<p>It is historically significant for association with Hilda Anderson Erickson, who lived in the house till past age 100. Hilda was born in Ledsjö parish, Västergötland, Sweden in 1859, came to Utah by wagon in 1866, and was eventually honored by local and national news coverage "as the last living pioneer, out of approximately 80,000 pioneers who came to Utah before the railroad". She died at age 108, in 1968.</p><br>
<p>The house is a bungalow that is well-preserved but is not special architecturally. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Its historical significance was considered by local, state, and national officials who deemed it worthy of recognition in the National Register program, which was established in 1966 and has since recognized about 85,000 historic sites in the United States. There are just 23 NRHP-recognized sites in all 7,287 square miles of Tooele County, the county in which the Erickson house is located, i.e. there is 1 site per 316 square miles recognized in the area.</p><br>
<p>The Moore House is a historic building located within Colonial National Historical Park, in York County, Virginia. During the American Revolutionary War, it was the site of negotiations for British General Charles Cornwallis&#39;s surrender at the Siege of Yorktown.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was erected around 1725 on a 500-acre parcel of land called Temple Farm which also included a dam and grist mill.</p><br>
<p>The land was originally granted to the Crown Governor of Virginia, John Harvey in the 1630s and was known as the York Plantation at this time. Lawrence Smith II later built the Moore House on Temple Farm and the home stayed within the family until 1754 when his son, Robert, sold it to his brother-in-law Augustine Moore to avoid financial woes. Augustine and his family fled to Richmond to avoid the Siege of Yorktown.</p><br>
<h3>Siege of Yorktown</h3><br>
<p>General Cornwallis requested a cease fire on October 17, 1781, and selected the house as the site for surrender negotiations, likely due to its neutral and convenient location. Washingtons and Cornwalliss representatives met at the house the following day, where they negotiated Articles of Capitulation. A rough draft was delivered to Washington&#39;s headquarters that night, where he made minor changes. The revised articles were agreed to and signed on October 19.</p><br>
<h3>Later history</h3><br>
<p>The House passed to Hugh Nelson in 1797 following the deaths of Augustine and his wife.</p><br>
<p>It had several owners over the years and was significantly damaged during the 1862 Siege of Yorktown.</p><br>
<p>Later the house&#39;s wood was pilfered by soldiers for fire fuel.</p><br>
<p>The house was not repaired until the advent of the Battle of Yorktown Centennial Celebration in 1881.</p><br>
<p>The National Park Service restored the house between 1931 and 1934 using historic photos.</p><br>
<p>It was dedicated on 18–19 October 1934. The restoration work was the first of its kind undertaken by the National Park Service.</p><br>
<p>The Lowndes County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building in Hayneville, Alabama. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 24, 1971.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Lowndes County Courthouse was completed in 1856. It replaced an earlier courthouse, built in 1832, that had been deemed unsafe. The building was expanded during 1905 remodeling, with two-story wings added to each side, an enclosed front entrance replacing the portico, and a domed cupola added to the center of the roof. The side wings and enclosed entrance were removed during the 1980s and the portico replaced with a duplicate of the original, at an approximate cost of $1 million. A new two-story annex was constructed to the rear of the 1856 building.</p><br>
<p>The Old Tavern  is a historic building listed on the National Register of Historic Places located in Sacramento, California.</p><br>
<p>The first structure on the site of the Old Tavern, likely used for storage, was built by John Sutter after he constructed Sutters Fort across the street. This edifice was expanded in the early 1850s when a Philip Scheld turned it into a two-story building and founded Schelds Sacramento Brewery. Additional floors and buildings were added to the estate over the years as it was used for various business including a speakeasy, apartments, and a data-processing center.</p><br>
<p>During its time as a tavern, the site was a widely known landmark and a frequent stopping spot for stagecoaches on their way to downtown Sacramento.</p><br>
<p>The building was renovated in the mid to late 1980s to allow for an Italian restaurant to occupy the original tavern section and medical offices for other parts of the building.</p><br>
<p>It is rumored, with at least one historian agreeing, that in the 19th century there was a brothel upstairs frequented by Sacramento pioneers.</p><br>
<p>The Tooele County Courthouse and City Hall, located at 39 E. Vine St. in Tooele, Utah, was built in 1867. It includes Greek Revival-inspired architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>It is significant as the earliest (as known in 1983) and only surviving "temple-form" city hall in the state of Utah. According to its NRHP nomination, the "temple-form, which typically has its short end to the street and a pedimented gable facade in imitation of monumental classical buildings, originated in the Greek Revival period of American building, and was the first and most common building type used in Utah&#39;s early public buildings."</p><br>
<h2>Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum</h2><br>
<p>The building now houses the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum, which is one of many museum in Utah operated by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. The museum displays pioneer memorabilia and personal effects, furnishings, musical instruments, pioneer portraits, photos and more. A historic log cabin is located adjacent to the courthouse and is part of the museum.</p><br>
<p>The museum is located adjacent to the Tooele Pioneer Museum, operated by the Sons of Utah Pioneers, which also displays pioneer and Native American artifacts.</p><br>
<p>The combined buildings are known as Pioneer Plaza.</p><br>
<p>The James and Penninah Wrathall House, located at 5 N. Center St. in Grantsville, Utah, was built in 1898. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP nomination describes it as an "imposing" residence that is significant as "an unusual and well-preserved example of the Victorian style known as Queen Anne. The design shows the influence of design books, particularly in the Queen Anne and Eastlake details, but the execution by local builder, Charles Z. Schaffer, is unique."</p><br>
<p>The Tooele Valley Railroad Complex, 35 N. Broadway in Tooele, Utah, dates from 1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The complex is currently operated as the Tooele Valley Museum and Historic Park (formerly Tooele Valley Railroad Museum and prior to that as the Tooele County Museum). Opened in 1983, the museum is operated by the city and features preserved locomotives, equipment and artifacts from the Tooele Valley Railway, International Smelting and Refining Company, and other railroad & mining artifacts.</p><br>
<p>The complex is significant for its historic role in conversion of Tooele from a farming-based to an industrial town. The railroad depot was the headquarters of the Tooele Valley Railway; and is the most significant surviving artifact with association to the smelter east of Tooele that operated from 1910 to 1972.</p><br>
<p>The listing included three contributing buildings and four contributing objects.</p><br>
<p>The Tooele Carnegie Library, located at 47 E. Vine St. in Tooele, Utah, was built in 1911 and includes Classical Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It was funded by a $5,000 Carnegie grant. As of 1984, it was one of 16 surviving Carnegie libraries out of 23 that had been funded in Utah.</p><br>
<p>It is adjacent to the Tooele County Courthouse and City Hall, which is also NRHP-listed.</p><br>
<h2>Tooele Pioneer Museum</h2><br>
<p>The building now houses the Tooele Pioneer Museum, which displays pioneer artifacts including a replica covered wagon and handcart, and some Native American artifacts. Other displays include written histories, photos and portraits. The museum is operated by the Sons of Utah Pioneers. Admission is free.</p><br>
<p>The museum is located adjacent to the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum and Log Cabin, which as displays pioneer artifacts.</p><br>
<p>The combined buildings are known as Pioneer Plaza.</p><br>
<p>The Andrew Ten Eyck House is a historic farm house located at 671 Old York Road in the township of Branchburg in Somerset County, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 6, 2004, for its significance in architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The house was built around as a single-bedroom home for Andrew A. Ten Eyck (1762–1842) and his wife Mary Ten Eyck, a Dutch couple. It features Federal style and Colonial Revival style. In 1914, it was greatly expanded by adding a frame section to the original brick section.</p><br>
<p>It was used as a tenant residence for more than 100 years, which is why much of its historic character was kept.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1990s, the house and the land near it was purchased to create the Murray Corporate Center. When the developer proposed that the house be demolished, members of the community formed the Branchburg Historical Society for the purpose of saving the house.</p><br>
<p>In recent years, the house has been restored and is set to be a local-history museum. A 2010 article listed the back of the house portion will be used as a meeting space. The second floor contains a local research library.</p><br>
<p>Cleaver House is a historic house and farm located to the west of Port Penn, New Castle County, Delaware, about one mile east of US 13 and Biddles Corner. The house was built about 1816, and is a two-story, seven-bay, gable-roofed farm dwelling built in three different sections. The three bay, center brick section is the oldest. Attached to the east is a two bay brick section, making it a five bay center hall dwelling, and to the west a -story frame kitchen wing. The house measures 61 feet long by 17 feet wide.</p><br>
<p>Also on the property are a contributing frame barn with attached carriage shed and milk house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Cleaver, a relative of the residents and possible owner of the farm, was a grain merchant in Port Penn. His residence there, also known as the Cleaver House, is a contributing property in the Port Penn Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Fields Heirs, also known as Fields House, was a historic home located at Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1820, and was a -story, five-bay by two-bay center-hall plan residence with a -story rear wing forming an L-shaped house. It sat on a stone foundation and had a gable roof. Also on the property was a contributing drive-through granary.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and demolished between 1992 and 2002.</p><br>
<p>S. Higgins Farm, also known as Shady View Farm, is a historic home located near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1865, and is a two-story frame house built in the vernacular Victorian style. It sits on a stuccoed brick foundation and has a hipped roof. It has an irregular, four-bay facade features a -story tower set off-center to the west with a pyramidal roof.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>S. Holton Farm is a historic home located near Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1850, and is a three-story ell-shaped frame dwelling with a two-story rear ell in the Greek Revival idiom and Georgian "I"-form. It has a five bay front facade, and shallow-pitched hipped roof with two square brick chimneys. Also on the property are a contributing granary and two milkhouses.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Maple Grove Farm was a historic home located at Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware, USA. It was built about 1840, and was a -story, five-by-two bay, frame Georgian house with a two-story, frame gabled wing to the east and a two-story kitchen wing to the rear. It featured a full width front porch supported by Doric order columns. Also on the property was a small stone, stuccoed structure which appears to have been a meathouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and demolished between 1992 and 2002.</p><br>
<p>McWhorter House was a historic home located near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built before 1810, and consisted of a two-story, three-bay, frame main block with Italianate detailing with a two-story, frame kitchen wing to the rear. Also on the property were an early 20th-century frame privy, a late 19th-century board-and-batten storage shed, hewn frame carriage barn with cross-gable over the entry, a -story timber framed crib barn and granary, and an early 19th-century dairy barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It was demolished in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Misty Vale, also known as the G. W. Karsner House, is a historic home located near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1850, and is a -story, five-bay frame, cross-gable roof house built in a vernacular Victorian style. It has a frame, three-bay, gable-roofed wing, a hipped-roof, frame addition to the east and an enclosed porch. Also on the property are a square, -story, hipped roof, drive-through granary with a cupola on top and two barns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The James Spullock Williamson House, also known as Merry Oaks, is a historic plantation house in the rural community of Sandy Ridge in Lowndes County, Alabama. The one-story Greek Revival-style house was completed circa 1860.</p><br>
<p>The house was built for James Spullock Williamson, a planter and state legislator. He had land holdings in excess of 2,500 acre in 1860, with his real estate and personal property valued in excess of $150,000. He owned 98 slaves during this time. Williamson was a son of the first judge of the Lowndes County Court, Peter Williamson, who had emigrated from Wilkes County, Georgia around 1819.</p><br>
<p>James Spullock Williamson was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives for the 1857–58 session. He also served during the Alabama Constitutional Convention of 1861 that preceded the American Civil War. Williamson was killed in 1862, during the Battle of Glendale in Henrico County, Virginia. He was serving as a captain in the 14th Regiment Alabama Infantry.</p><br>
<p>The house has remained the property of Williamson descendants since it was built. It was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on September 12, 1988, and to the National Register of Historic Places on January 5, 1989, due to its architectural significance.</p><br>
<p>Glen Mary is an historical home located in Hancock County, Georgia, near the town of Sparta. The home was listed on the Georgia Register of Historic Places in 1973, and on the National Register of Historic Places on May 8, 1974., Glen Mary is owned by Preservation America.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Theophilus Jackson Smith built the home on 2,400 acre in 1848 for his bride Mary Gonder. Glen Mary is Scottish for "Marys Valley," and is a two-story Greek Revival house. Smith was a founding member of the Planters Club of Hancock County, a pioneer agricultural society. He also served in the Georgia legislature and the Fifteenth Georgia Regiment during the American Civil War. Smith moved to Washington County and advertised Glen Mary for sale in 1859 in The Southern Recorder. Smith sold Glen Mary and 542 acre in 1869 to General Ethan A. Hitchcock and his wife Martha Rind Nicholls Hitchcock. General Hitchcock died at Glen Mary in 1870.</p><br>
<h2>Honors</h2><br>
<p>Scenic America named Glen Mary to its Last Chance Landscapes in 2002–03, designating the plantation as one of the top ten most threatened scenic landscapes in the US. Meg McGuire, former president of Scenic America, said Glen Mary was placed on the list because it faced the threat of being destroyed by logging, and it is "typical of historic sites in which the site has been saved but the context is destroyed". The house was also named a National Treasure by Save Americas Treasures, the White House Millennium Councils initiative to save America&#39;s cultural artifacts. Consultants on the project have included historian William Seale, who wrote the book on the White House for its bicentennial, and architect Charles A. Phillips, chief architect on the restoration of the Miles Brewton House in Charleston, South Carolina. Ian Firth, a faculty member with the University of Georgia College of Environment & Design is the landscape and garden consultant.</p><br>
<p>Council City and Solomon River Railroad is an abandoned railroad in the USA state of Alaska. Its name refers to Solomon River and the city of Council in the Nome Census Area. The railway operated from 1903 to 1907.</p><br>
<p>The remains of the railroad at Mile 31 of the Nome-Council Highway, comprising three locomotives, two flat cars and a boiler, were listed as an historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Western Alaska Construction Company</h2><br>
<p>Organized under the laws of New Jersey, the Western Alaska Construction Co., with a capital stock of $1,000,000, organized for the purpose of constructing the Council City & Solomon River R. R. and extensions. The company was composed principally of Chicago businessmen. The company offices were in Chicago, with fiscal agents in New York City. Its officers were:</p><br>
<p>John R. Bowman, president</p><br>
<p>J. Warren Dickson, vice-president and general manager</p><br>
<p>William F. Krohmer, treasurer</p><br>
<p>Jacob A. Freund, secretary</p><br>
<p>Its stockholders were J. A. Freund, Samuel P. Herron, William F. Krohmer, John Ryeerson Bowman, and J. Warren Dickson.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The railroad was among the important enterprises inaugurated in the summer of 1903. Before the close of the season, about 9 miles of standard-gage track had been laid. The Western Alaska Construction Co. asserted that the mouth of the Solomon River, the starting point of their road, was the only point on the south coast of the Seward Peninsula which had a sheltered harbor convenient for the loading and unloading of freight and the protection of it in all types of weather. They proposed to locate the tidewater terminus here, and build the railroad northward and westward, penetrating the most important gold fields of Alaska, the Cape Nome fields. Running from Solomon City, the Council City & Solomon River R. R. was to skirt the Solomon river, passing hundreds of mining camps, en route to Council City, the first terminus of the road. According to the report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics at Washington, Council City is the general distributing point of the Upper Niukluk basin. From Solomon City to Council City the distance is approximately 50 miles; from that point the railroad was projected to connect all the principal mineral producing areas and centres of population and mining, including the line to Grantley Harbor, Port Clarence, Good Hope bay, and Nome, thus "gridironing" the peninsula. Initial cost estimates were from $8,000 to $12,000 per mile. The companys surveys were executed by engineers who were official surveyors of the United States government, Paul Heinze, chief engineer, and Hermann Heinze, assistant engineer. The companys rights of way included 100 feet on each side of the centre line of their tracks, with 40 acres as terminal station grounds at each end of the road; plus 20 acres for station grounds for each 10 miles of track. This acreage totaled 13,000 acres.</p><br>
<p>The route described in the articles of incorporation was from a point near the mouth of Solomon River adjacent to Solomon City to a point adjacent to Council City. The company filed two maps of its preliminary line from Council City along Fox River, right branch Solomon River to Solomon City, 50.79 miles (filed February, 1903); and one from Nome City to Wheeler, 20 miles (filed June, 1904); also one map of definite location from point on Norton Sound near Dickson up Solomon River, 20 miles (filed January 3, 1905). New map of same line filed December 20, 1906.</p><br>
<p>The Monroeville Downtown Historic District is a 40 acre historic district in downtown Monroeville, Alabama. It is centered on the courthouse square and the streets that border it. The streets include Claiborne Street on the south, Alabama Avenue on the east, Pineville Road on the north and Mount Pleasant Avenue on the west. The district includes examples of the Classical Revival, American Craftsman, Moderne, and other residential and commercial architectural styles. It contains 63 structures, with 51 of them listed as contributing buildings. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 16, 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Robbins Hotel was a historic hotel building in Beatrice, Alabama. The nucleus of the building started out as a private, one-story home with six rooms, built circa 1840. A second floor was added sometime later. The house was converted to a hotel between 1906 and 1910.</p><br>
<p>The hotel comprised a two-story, hipped-roof main block that measures approximately 40 x, with a 40 ft long one-and-a-half-story dining room wing with an end-gable roof and dormer windows to the southeast. The main block features full-width two-story porches at the front and rear. Architectural historians considered it to be a good example of a small privately owned southern hotel, which opened as a direct result of the completion of the railroad connecting west Alabama and the coast at the end of the 19th century. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 26, 1987. The building burned on October 12, 2012.</p><br>
<p>Old Ford Dairy is a historic home located near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1850, and was a -story, five-bay by two-bay frame, double cross-gable, vernacular Victorian farmhouse. It had a rear wing, three-bay front porch, and two brick gable end chimneys. Also on the property were a drive through, -story granary, a rectangular grain storage bin, and a three-story gambrel-roofed dairy barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Retirement Farm, also known as the James M. Vandergrift Farm, is a historic home and farm located near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in the late-19th century, and is a -story, five-bay frame, gable roofed farmhouse with a two-story rear ell. Also on the property are a small barn , granary , and barn . The small barn is the last known example of its kind surviving in St. Georges Hundred.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>A. M. Vail House was a historic home located at Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It is a two-story, five-bay timber frame dwelling in the late-Federal style. It was built on a center-hall passage plan. Also on the property were a smoke house, a drive-through crib barn and granary, and a large frame cow barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It was demolished between 2007 and 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Charles C. Weldon House is a historic home located near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. It is a -story, three-bay brick dwelling with a -story, two-bay frame addition. It has a -story, parged concrete rear wing. The main block has a stepped brick cornice and two gable, end chimneys. Also on the property is a mid-19th-century granary and an early-20th-century gambrel-roofed barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The nomination referred to it as the "J. Vandegrift House" or "High Hook Farm", names for an adjacent farm not on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The J. Shallcross House is a historic home located at Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1885, and is a -story, five-bay, frame house constructed in a vernacular Victorian style. It has a three bay by two bay rear wing. The house features a three bay, wood porch on the front facade and a gable roof with dormers.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The initial nomination confused it with the A. M. Vail House and referred to it as the "J. K. Williams House&quot the historical information there may not apply to this building.</p><br>
<p>Choptank-Upon-The-Hill is a historic home located near Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1820, and is a -story, five-bay, brick house with a -story brick ell. The addition was built about 1840–50. The house features a Palladian window above the front facade, a gable roof with dormers, and interior gable end chimney piles.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Mondamon Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. The original section was built about 1840. It is a -story, five-bay frame dwelling with a two-bay, two-story shed roof service ell. Also on the property is a frame granary, barn, and 19th-century earthfast hay barrack.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Mondamon Farm Barracks HABS DE1.jpgThe hay barracks at Mondamon Farm in 1982</p><br>
<p>Okolona, also known as the R. T. Cochran House, is a historic home located near Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1866, and is a three-story, Italianate-style dwelling. It sits on a stone foundation and has a low hipped roof. It features an open tetra-style porch or verandah finished with open sawnwork trim and squared columns, and cornice brackets.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Norfolk, at 108 N. Fourth St. in Norfolk, Nebraska, was completed in 1926. It includes Colonial Revival and Georgian Revival architecture. It has also been known as Madison Apartments and as the Kensington Building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It is significant as a "good example of the Georgian Revival influence in commercial structures of the early Twentieth Century", and as a "good representative of the small city hotels designed by the H.L. Stevens Company of Chicago which designed many hotels and apartments across the nation." It is also notable for having hosted WJAG, one of the oldest Midwest radio stations, during 1926–1944.</p><br>
<p>Notable visitors who have stayed in the hotel include Wendell Willkie, Thomas E. Dewey, Duke Ellington, John F. Kennedy, Jack Dempsey, Jascha Heifetz, Johnny Carson, and Ronald Reagan.</p><br>
<p>The William A. Rogers House is a historic house in Eutaw, Alabama. The one-story wood-frame house was built in stages from the late 1840s to the 1850s. It features Greek Revival-style architecture, with a pedimented tetrastyle portico fronting the central three bays of the five-bay main facade. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Antebellum Homes in Eutaw Thematic Resource on April 2, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Phillip Schoppert House is a historic house in Eutaw, Alabama. The two-story wood-frame house was built c. 1856. It is an I-house with rear shed rooms and a hipped roof. A two-tiered pedimented portico fronts the central three bays of the five-bay main facade. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Antebellum Homes in Eutaw Thematic Resource on April 2, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Iredell P. Vaughn House, also known as the Vaughn-Morrow House, is a historic house in Eutaw, Alabama. The one-story wood-frame house was built c. 1841. It generally conforms to the Creole cottage-type house plan, with neoclassical stylistic elements. A one-story porch spans the full width of the east and south facades. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Antebellum Homes in Eutaw Thematic Resource on April 2, 1982. It currently serves as the headquarters of the Greene County Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel R. Wright House, also known as the Murphy-Dunlap House, is a historic house in Eutaw, Alabama. The one-story wood-frame house was built in 1847. It is built in the Greek Revival style, with a raised pier brick foundation. A one-story L-shaped porch spans the full width of the east and south facades. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Antebellum Homes in Eutaw Thematic Resource on April 2, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Weston, also known as the S. Brady Farm, is a historic home and farm located near Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Original structure</h3><br>
<p>The original structure was built in the early 1800s by John Clayton. Clayton was the son of Colonel Oscar Clayton, who served as secretary to Caesar Rodney, famous for having rode his horse to Philadelphia in 1776 to cast the deciding vote for Delaware for independence.</p><br>
<h3>Additions and architectural style</h3><br>
<p>The larger addition featured in the pictures was built about 1850, and consists of the original two-story brick farmhouse adjoining a later and larger brick three-story addition whose design displays influences of both Greek Revival and Italianate styles. It features large pairs of sawnwork brackets supporting the overhanging boxed cornice. Also on the property are a contributing icehouse, smokehouse, barn, granary, and tenant house.</p><br>
<p>Riverdale is a historic home located near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1840, and consists of the four-bay-wide, single-room-deep rectangular core of the house with a 22-foot, two-story L-shaped extension. Both sections have gable roofs. Also on the property is the site of a number of demolished outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The William B. Wills House, commonly known as Sipsey, is a historic house in Eutaw, Alabama. The one-story wood-frame house was built c. 1835. It is built in the Greek Revival style, atop a high brick foundation. A pedimented Doric portico spans the main entrance in the center of the five-bay main facade. The house was relocated in 1978 from 17 mi northwest of Eutaw in order to preserve it. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 22, 1983.</p><br>
<p>Fairview, also known as the Mayor James Moore House, is a historic home located in Appoquinimink Hundred, southeast of Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1773, and is a two-story, single pile brick dwelling in the Georgian style. It has a gable roof, original rear kitchen ell, and has a center-passage plan.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>B. F. Hanson House is a historic home located near Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1843, and is a frame dwelling consisting of a rectangular, two-story, five-bay, central hall plan main block, with a two-story rear ell. It is in a vernacular Greek Revival style. It has a front porch supported by four columns and features graded siding, applied pilasters with capitals and footers, integrated brick chimneys, and a double ridge cornice.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Duluth Armory is a former armory and event venue in the East Hillside neighborhood of Duluth, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1915 for the National Guard and naval militia, and expanded in 1941. From the beginning the National Guard also rented out the drill hall as an event venue, as it provided a larger and more flexible space than any other local venue until the construction of the Duluth Arena-Auditorium in 1966.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, it was purchased by the city and its use as an armory was discontinued. Since 2000, the armory has been threatened with demolition, though efforts are ongoing to renovate the building. Since 2004 a non-profit organization called the Armory Arts and Music Center has been working to rehabilitate the building as a cultural venue.</p><br>
<p>The Duluth Armory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011 for its state-level significance in the theme of military history and local significance in the theme of entertainment/recreation. It was nominated for its role as the home base of a critical ports peacekeeping and disaster response forces, and for being Duluths largest cultural event venue until 1966.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and use</h2><br>
<p>The armory is located in the East Hillside neighborhood. It fronts London Road, and across the street is Leif Erickson Park. The building consists of three main parts—the Head House, the Drill Hall, and an addition built in 1941. The exterior walls are variegated dark brown brick.</p><br>
<p>The Drill Hall is 190 ft long and 93 ft wide. Within Minnesota, at the time of construction, the size of the armory&#39;s Drill Hall was second only to the 1907 armory in Minneapolis, and the Duluth Armory as a whole was larger. The Drill Hall served as a venue for expositions, trade shows, musical groups, and recreational and sporting events.</p><br>
<p>The Head House contained administrative offices, classrooms, and service areas. It is 200 ft long by 34 ft wide and is 69 ft tall.</p><br>
<p>The 1941 addition is 154 ft long and 45 ft wide, extending 11 ft beyond the rear wall of the Drill Hall.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Planning and construction</h3><br>
<p>A prior armory was built in Duluth in 1896 for the Minnesota National Guard. In 1899, Minnesota created a naval reserve, introducing a two-division unit in Duluth. The addition strained the available space in the armory. Attempts were made to use some of the first floor, but this conflicted with existing commercial activity.</p><br>
<p>In September 1913, the city of Duluth announced that it would deed property for a new armory, to be located at the end East 13th Avenue along the waterfront. The proposed location was opposed by some residents; the property was in Lake Shore Park, which had been donated to the city by the Saint Paul and Duluth Railroad under the condition than it remain parkland in perpetuity. The city argued that it was the optimal location and the building would not negatively impact the park. An article in the Duluth News Tribune, published a few days later, showed a site plan and argued that the new armory would "only occupy a corner of the park."</p><br>
<p>Planning proceeded slowly, despite the urgent need for more spacious facilities. By November 1914, the planned building site had moved across London Road, apparently heeding earlier protests; the new location had previously been purchased by the city for $16,000. The state of Minnesota allocated $112,500 for the armory, and after some delay, bidding began in February 1915. The contract was earned by George H. Lounsberry of Duluth. The building, estimated to cost $107,410, was designed by architects Clyde W. Kelly and Owen J. Williams. Their design broke with the tradition of earlier armory styles in Minnesota. Instead of using the castle-like features seen in the St. Peter Armory, for example, the architects opted for Beaux-Arts classicism. The sleek and simple style was a prime example of the new era of armory design. The building, with over 107,000 ft&sup2, was the biggest armory in the state. It had living quarters for Guardsmen, offices, training facilities, and public event space.</p><br>
<p>The project came in over budget at $150,000. $103,000 was paid by the state, $18,500 by the city, and the remainder by "public-spirited" citizens. The new armory held its grand opening on November 22, 1915. The celebration was attended by Governor Winfield S. Hammond, former governor Adolph Eberhart, and other officials.</p><br>
<h3>Military use and expansion</h3><br>
<p>Duluth&#39;s National Guardsmen went overseas when the USA entered World War I in 1917. To protect citizens and resources at home, the state created the Minnesota Home Guard. Home Guard units, including those based in the armory, were called to action twice during the course of the war. They organized relief efforts when a tornado hit the city of Tyler and after a wildfire tore through the northeastern part of the state.</p><br>
<p>In September 1940, an expansion of the armory was announced by Sidney L. Stolte of the Work Projects Administration. Plans drafted by architect Phillip C. Bettenburg in November 1940 featured an expanded stage, classrooms, a kitchen, and restrooms. The addition was a brick, multi-story structure along the northern side of the armory, designed with a flat roof to accommodate a fly loft for the stage. Work on the addition, which cost $95,896, began mid-April 1941 and continued into winter.</p><br>
<p>As the country&#39;s farthest inland port, Duluth prepared the armory for possible attack during World War II with blackout screens and lightproof paint. A Minnesota State Guard formed to carry out civil defense. Its men, named the "Monday Night Soldiers", met at the armory once a week for training.</p><br>
<h3>Fires of 1918</h3><br>
<p>As they fled from the Fires of 1918, residents of the surrounding area arrived by train at the Armory. From here, some were taken into homes by Duluth residents.</p><br>
<h3>Entertainment use</h3><br>
<p>While military activity was the initial concern of the Duluth Armory, the building has hosted social and cultural events since it opened. Its early years saw an automobile show, charity events, and regular expos and conventions.</p><br>
<p>Famous public figures and performers drew crowds to the armory. President Harry S. Truman, Senator Hubert Humphrey, and former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt gave speeches. John Philip Sousa&#39;s marching band performed in January 1920, and the New York Philharmonic came in 1921. The Duluth Civic Symphony Orchestra held its annual concert series at the armory.</p><br>
<p>By the middle of the century, big-name acts were common. Johnny Cash, Liberace, Louis Armstrong, Sonny & Cher, Diana Ross and the Supremes, and the Beach Boys all entertained Duluth from the armory&#39;s stage.</p><br>
<p>On January 31, 1959, Buddy Holly performed at the armory; he died in a plane crash days later on February 3. A young Bob Dylan attended the performance, which he cited as an inspiration at the 1998 Grammy Awards when he received Album of the Year for Time Out of Mind. He said,</p><br>
<p>I just want to say that when I was 16 or 17 years old, I went to see Buddy Holly play at Duluth National Guard Armory and I was three feet away from him… and he looked at me. And I just have some kind of feeling that he was – I don’t know how or why – but I know he was with us all the time we were making this record in some kind of way.</p><br>
<h3>Disuse and rehabilitation efforts</h3><br>
<p>The prosperity of the post-war years prompted many states to tear down their out-of-date armories and build modern facilities. In 1963, Duluth built a new center for its 800-man Army Reserve. The value of the armory as a public venue greatly decreased with the construction of the Duluth Arena-Auditorium in 1966, which had more seating and modern amenities. In 1977, the National Guard announced plans to build a new armory in Duluth and in 1978, the city purchased the historic armory from the state for $160,000. The Head House was used for offices and the Drill Hall served as a garage for maintenance vehicles. The Drill Hall also stored some raw materials, and its original wood floor no longer exists.</p><br>
<p>After years of vacancy and little upkeep, the armory was first threatened with demolition in 2001. The city made efforts to study the cost of repairing the building for reuse. A Duluth Planning Department report from April 2002 estimated it would cost $235,000 for asbestos abatement and $1.3 million for lead abatement from its time as a shooting range. On May 24, 2004, the building was purchased by the Armory Arts and Music Center for $1.</p><br>
<p>The armory was damaged by flooding in June 2012 from Chester Creek, which runs beneath the building. The creek breached its culvert, creating a "significant sized hole" in the basement allowing water to enter, which damaged electrical systems, disturbed asbestos, and led to an accumulation of debris and sediment within the building. The culvert is owned by the city, but fortunately the flood repairs were eligible for funding through state emergency highway funding. A six-month stay from demolition was granted by the city in August 2012 because restoration was progressing. In April 2013, heavy snow damaged a parapet on the Drill Hall, causing a number of bricks to fall to the ground.</p><br>
