<p>The Purple Hotel was located at 4500 West Touhy Avenue in Lincolnwood, Illinois. Opened in 1962 as the Hyatt House Hotel, it was Hyatts first Midwest hotel and became known for its purple brick exterior. The hotel served as Hyatts flagship Chicago area hotel until the 1970s and featured two restaurants and live music from popular acts. In 1983, Teamsters financier and mobster Allen Dorfman was killed in the hotel&#39;s parking lot. After a series of ownership changes, the hotel closed in 2007 and was demolished in August 2013. The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places in July 2013, and was delisted in 2020.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Hyatt House Hotel opened in 1962 as the. Architects Hausner & Macsai designed the building in a modern design. while the original architect claims that his clients had specifically chosen the purple bricks against his recommendation. The hotels amenities included two upscale restaurants, Tessys and T.J. Peppercorn&#39;s; an outdoor pool, which one visiting pianist called "the greatest&quot and live entertainment from musicians such as Perry Como, Roberta Flack, and Barry Manilow.</p><br>
<p>The hotel, by then known as the Hyatt Lincolnwood, became known for a murder in 1983, when Teamsters lawyer and Chicago Outfit mobster Allen Dorfman was shot in its parking lot. Dorfman had recently been convicted of conspiracy to bribe a USA Senator and was likely killed to prevent him from releasing information to authorities in exchange for a lighter sentence. The hotel also hosted swingers parties in the 1980s; according to convict Stuart Levine&#39;s testimony in two corruption trials, the parties were notorious for sex and heavy drug usage. In the 1990s, the hotel changed ownership and was operated by Radisson and Ramada, until it simply became known as the Purple Hotel in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Closure and demolition</h2><br>
<p>The Purple Hotel closed in January 2007 due to health code violations. A village inspection had found mold in 208 of the 225 rooms visited as well as failing windows, roof leakage, and problems with the hotels fire sprinkler system. After the hotel closed, the village threatened to demolish it unless a developer was willing to restore it. The building and property were auctioned to a Lincolnwood resident, sole bidder Jake Weiss. His new ownership realized a near-replica rebuilding of The Purple Hotel – complete with already purchased and loaned artifacts from the original. He teamed up with the Skokie-based North Capital Group along with architect Jackie Koo to rehabilitate the 8.5-acre property. A campaign to save the hotel began and the building was eventually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in July 2013. The North Capital Group purchased the building in 2011, intending to preserve and renovate the hotel. The group eventually decided instead to demolish it and convert the property to a mixed-use retail development. Before its demolition, the hotels purple bricks were sold off at the 2013 Lincolnwood Fest as a fundraiser for the Lincolnwood Public Library. The hotel was demolished on August 27, 2013.</p><br>
<p>As of February, 2020, the property (renamed the District 1860 site) will feature a Residence Inn, a Spring Hill Suites, approximately 300 apartments, restaurants and retail.</p><br>
<p>The West School is a historic former school in the village of Crooksville, Ohio, United States. Constructed during a period of significant growth in the community, it served local children for a comparatively short time before its sale for private use.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1904, The village was founded in 1874 at a location rich in clay, and by the opening of the twentieth century, it was experiencing rapid growth and had become one of Perry County&#39;s most important communities. Much of this growth was the result of the clay: multiple pottery factories were established in Crooksville, and the population boomed, causing the village fathers to realize their need of improved educational facilities. Some years later, during the 1910s, the building ceased being exclusively a primary school, as village officials began using it for a new secondary school.</p><br>
<p>The West School remained in operation for only about 25 years. Petroleum was discovered in the vicinity of Crooksville in the 1920s, producing increases in the village&#39;s population and finances. Consequently, it was decided to erect a replacement facility, and in 1929, the West School was sold to the Oak Leaf Lodge #678 of the Knights of Pythias, who occupied it until 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>West School is primarily a brick building, as both its foundation and its walls are constructed of the material, although stone and metal elements are also present. Two and a half stories tall, the building features a prominent bell tower in one corner; the schools basic floor plan is that of the letter "L", and the tower sits in the elbow created by the intersection of the buildings main portion and its ell. No specific architectural style can be deemed to include the West School.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1980, the West School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its significant place in local history. Much of its significance arises from its status as the only architectural relic of early 20th-century Crooksville. It is Crooksvilles only National Register-listed location and one of one of thirteen countywide, although the Register also includes seven locations in and around the nearby village of Roseville, just outside the countys boundaries.</p><br>
<p>The Levy House, at 111-121 California Ave. in Reno, Nevada, is a historic Classical Revival-style house that was built in 1906. It was home of William Levy, a merchant and mining businessman.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, qualifying as a high-quality example of the Classical Revival style, for its association with Levy, and as a significant component of local history.</p><br>
<p>The building was moved c. 1940, turning it 90 degrees and repositioning it on the lot.</p><br>
<p>The Bailey–Michelet House is a historic Italianate residence on Sheridan Road in Wilmette, Illinois. Originally built in Evanston, it was home to meatpacking businessman William Roberts Bailey and his wife Nancy. In 1896, the house was moved to Wilmette when it was sold to lawyer Charles Jules Michelet. Several generations of Michelet lived in the house. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Bailey–Michelet House was originally constructed on Ridge Avenue, north of Central Street at Maple Street; today the land is part of the Bahá&#39;í Temple. The land was acquired by the William Roberts and Nancy (née McAllister) Bailey in 1872, and a house was built shortly thereafter. William Roberts Bailey came to Evanston shortly before he served with the 8th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry in the Civil War. After the war, he founded a meat-packing business on Davis Street. The business was very successful due in part to the rapidly growing Evanston population. In 1871, the Bailey–Michelet House was built, probably either by the Baileys themselves or local carpenter Luther L. Greenleaf. Bailey continued to prosper, purchasing the Jennings Opera House. Bailey was also the first Fire Marshall of Evanston and was a member of several local fraternal and business associations. He died suddenly in 1890 at the age of 46.</p><br>
<p>Nancy Bailey was an Irish immigrant who settled in Evanston to work in the household of former Illinois governor and Northwestern University co-founder John Evans. She managed the Bailey household upon their marriage. Nancy Bailey inherited her husbands estate, valued at $150,000, upon William Roberts Baileys death. She had a new house built for the family at 2907 Sheridan. Nancy Bailey died on August 22, 1896, while on voyage to Ireland. Shortly before her death, she sold the older family house to Charles Jules Michelet, who moved the house to its present site. The land was adjacent to the house of Michelet&#39;s brother.</p><br>
<p>Michelet was an attorney who practiced in Wilmette. He was the brother-in-law of President of the Illinois Senate Walter Warder. He oversaw a case between the heirs of Nancy Bailey over her will. Baileys will had been signed under duress from Chicago jeweler Charles Teufel. The estate would have passed entirely to Teufel. After two trials, the house and estate were instead awarded to Baileys children. As a reward for his service, the children forgave the remainder of the Bailey–Michelet House payment for Michelet. His son Charles J. Michelet, a research engineer, inherited the house. Two subsequent generations of Michelets resided in the house. On August 12, 1982, the house was recognized by the National Park Service on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Bailey–Michelet House is a twelve-room, two-story wood-frame house. It was probably built by local carpenter and realtor Luther L. Greenleaf. Although there is no direct evidence of his involvement, Greenleaf was very active in Evanston at the time, particularly in the houses vicinity. Built on a brick foundation, the building is generally of the Italianate style. It was probably strongly based on a house from a pattern book, which were popular for house design at the time. Plate 65 of A. J. Bicknells Detail, Cottage, and Constructive Architecture may have been the exact model; the house is an enlargement of the pattern. There are two bays, one on the main elevation (on the west end) and one on the south elevation. They are probably based on plate 14 of Bicknell&#39;s Designs for Oriel, Bay and Dormer Windows. The main entrance has double doors with bolection moulding and is surrounded by a frame with a rope design. The entrance leads to a small vestibule. Unusual for an Italianate design, the main roof of the house is steeply pitched; a flat roof was more common for the style. This was purportedly done to bear the heavy snows that the house experienced along the shore of Lake Michigan in winter.</p><br>
<p>On the inside, the house is centered around a two-story main hall. From the entrance, the parlor and dining room are on the left and the library is to the right. The kitchen is in the rear of the property. The parlor has a decorative architrave and cornice. The dining room has similar features as well as a large fireplace. The library has a more intricate architrave and cornice and features a smaller fireplace opposite the bay. A large, curving staircase in the main hall leads to the second floor. It features a walnut octagonal newel post with coffered panels. Walnut balustrades and banister run along the staircase. The second floor houses four bedrooms which open to the main hall gallery. One is above the parlor, one is above the library, and two small bedrooms are above the kitchen. A bathroom and servant&#39;s quarters are also over the kitchen. The flooring on the first floor is oak and was probably added in the 1910s. The second floor features original soft wood.</p><br>
<p>The Aurora County Courthouse, located in Plankinton, South Dakota is a building in the Art Moderne and Art Deco styles.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1940 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It was one of four county courthouses in South Dakota designed by architects Kings & Dixon.</p><br>
<p>As of 2013, the building served as the county courthouse for Aurora County.</p><br>
<p>The Lincoln House in Stickney, South Dakota was built in the Early Commercial architectural style by Sylvester Miller. It primarily functioned as a medical office for a Dr. Beukelman. It has two contributing buildings on the property.</p><br>
<p>It was constructed in 1915 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. It is built of red-brown brick laid in common bond, on a stone foundation, and has a flat roof.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed notable as "a good example of Commercial architecture and... one of few historic commercial buildings left in Stickney."</p><br>
<p>A side gable historic privy is the second contributing resource on the property.</p><br>
<p>The Patten Consolidated School is a school building in Aurora County, South Dakota. It was built in 1914 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP nomination noted that it "is rather unique for a rural school, in that it is constructed of brick. The majority of rural schools in South Dakota that were built in the early twentieth century were made of wood. This vernacular building with a hipped roof, a concrete beltcourse directly above the first floor and long large windows with a centered chimney near the south end was constructed in 1914."</p><br>
<p>It was significant as the first school in South Dakota to take advantage of 1913 legislation providing for consolidation of schools; it replace four smaller rural schools.</p><br>
<p>Sweep Hotel, also known as Van Dyke Hotel, is a building located in Plankinton, South Dakota. It was constructed c. 1900 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed notable "for the role it played as a social center for the community of Plankinton and as a fine example of the type of commercial buildings that accompanied the westward expansion of the railroad."</p><br>
<p>South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 02-007-220, or Platte Creek Bridge, is a former historic place near White Lake, South Dakota. Replaced in 2004, Designed in the Warren Pony Truss style by the Canton Bridge Company, the structure was maintained by the South Dakota Department of Transportation.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was constructed in 1908 and added to the National Register in 1999. It was removed from the register in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Kirkland Grove Campground is a historic Baptist campground located near Heathsville, Northumberland County, Virginia. It was established in 1892, and was the site of week-long religious services. The main building is the great Tabernacle, built in 1892. It measures 90 feet square and supported by timber columns supporting a standing seam metal hipped roof. The roof has four square tiers rising from the center, each tier growing smaller toward the top. The two other contributing buildings are the Campers Tent and Preachers Tent, both built in 1892. The property continues to be used for church meetings, revivals, reunions, and youth camp activities.</p><br>
<p>Listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register in late 1991, it was subsequently included in the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Shalango is a historic plantation house located at Wicomico Church, Northumberland County, Virginia. It was built in 1855–1856, and is a large -story, five-bay, I-house frame dwelling. It has a single-pile, central-passage plan and interior end chimneys. The house stands on a tall brick basement and is covered with a gable roof pierced by three dormers on either slope. The front facade features a one-story late 19th-century porch with scroll-sawn decoration.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Reedville Historic District is a national historic district located at Reedville, Northumberland County, Virginia. The district includes 64 contributing buildings in the village of Reedville. It is an assemblage of primarily residential buildings dating to the late-19th and early-20th century during the villages predominance in the menhaden fishing industry. Notable buildings include the Reedville Masonic Hall, Bethany Methodist Church , five modified Queen Anne style houses known as "Millionaires Row," Reedville Market , Reed and Rice Store , and the former Peoples Bank of Reedville .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Robertson House is a historic house at 403 N Plum Street in Eureka, Kansas.</p><br>
<p>The history of the Robertson House parallels the rise and fall of the Kansas oil industry. The homes eclectic Prairie-style design, unique in Kansas, reflected the owners financial success. When he built the home in 1923 at a cost of $40,000, oil drill contractor Russell Roy Robertson likely believed that oil prices would remain steady. For the first time, oil workers, who had lived in temporary company towns, began to take permanent residence in oil towns like Eureka. In the words of historian Craig Miner, "Oil had become respectable during the 1920s."</p><br>
<p>The Robertson House likely seemed affordable to oil contractor Roy Clair Patton, who bought the property from Robertson at the dawn of the Great Depression. But when drillers flooded the market, oil prices plunged and yields fell, those who made their living drilling oil wells could no longer afford it. By 1933, the price of oil had tanked to just 66 cents and the house was sold at sheriff&#39;s sale. The property was nominated for its association with the local oil industry and for its eclectic Prairie and Mission styles.</p><br>
<p>The Washoe County Library-Sparks Branch, at a prominent corner location at 814 Victorian St. in Sparks, Nevada, is a historic building that was designed by Nevada architect Frederick J. DeLongchamps and was built in 1931. Also known as Sparks Justice Court, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It was deemed significant for serving as a unique example of the Mediterranean Revival style in Sparks. It is the oldest surviving government building in Sparks.</p><br>
<p>It was built as the Sparks Branch of the Washoe County Library System. In 1965 the library was moved to a bigger building and the City of Sparks Justice Court, which had been in the building already, was expanded to the entire building. In 1992 there were plans to make the building into a museum.</p><br>
<p>The Ponn Humpback Covered Bridge was a historic covered bridge in the southeastern part of the USA state of Ohio. Located near the village of Wilkesville in Vinton County, it bore a name derived from its unusual shape: the bridge was arched in the middle, rather than being flat like a typical covered bridge. Declared a historic site in the 1970s, the bridge had a history closely tied to arson — it was constructed to replace a bridge that had been burned intentionally, and it met its end at the hands of an arsonist.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first bridge spanning Raccoon Creek southwest of Wilkesville was constructed in 1848; it lasted until 1870, when the Vinton County government contracted for the construction of a replacement. The new bridge failed to match its predecessors endurance record, as it was intentionally destroyed four years later by a fire set by an unknown individual. At the time, arson was a frequent crime in southeastern Vinton County, and the county announced a reward of $1,000 for the capture of the miscreant responsible; however, no occasion ever arose for the reward to be paid. Within days of the bridges destruction, county officials imposed a new tax to pay to replace the arsoned bridge, and under the leadership of Martin McGrath and Lyman Wells, it was completed within the year at a cost of $1,898. After decades of carrying ordinary road traffic, the bridge was found to have suffered structural deterioration, but instead of replacing it, county officials chose to reroute the road onto a new truss bridge built parallel to the covered bridge, leaving the covered bridge as a tourist attraction. Named a historic site in 1973, it remained in its original place until 6 June 2013, when it was destroyed by a fire that the state fire marshal deemed to be intentionally set.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Built of wood with steel elements, the Ponn Humpback Bridge was constructed atop abutments of sandstone. Its Burr arch truss design featured a camber of 19 in, both at the base of the walls and at their top. This arch, the height of which was approximately 1% of the bridges length of 165 ft, was the bridges most distinctive feature; rather than being constructed to permit the passage of boat traffic, the arch (or "humpback") was included in order to enable the bridge to cross the deep gorge of Raccoon Creek without any structural support in the middle. As a result, throughout its history, the Humpback Bridge was one of Ohio&#39;s longest covered bridges as well as one of its most unusual.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>The Ponn Humpback Covered Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in April 1973, becoming Vinton Countys first location with that designation. Hope Furnace near Zaleski gained National Register status in the following month, a group of Indian mounds were added in 1974, and by the time of the bridges destruction, it was one of ten sites countywide. The bridge&#39;s destruction does not automatically entail its removal from the Register; the Lockington Covered Bridge in far western Ohio burned in 1989, but when the Humpback Bridge was destroyed, the Lockington Bridge still had not yet been undesignated.</p><br>
<p>The Patrick Ranch House, at 1225 Gordon Ave. in Reno, Nevada, was built c.1901 and has been described as "a charming, turn-of-the-century, Folk Victorian home with Queen Anne attributes."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. It was deemed significant "for its role in Reno&#39;s community planning and development history" and "as an excellent example of Folk Victorian/Queen Anne style of architecture, which is becoming increasingly rare."</p><br>
<p>Fannie Brown Patrick (1864–1939), with her husband, Frank Goodwill Patrick (1854–1922), operated the Patrick Ranch.</p><br>
<p>The Nystrom Guest House, at 333 Ralston St. in Reno, Nevada, was built in 1875 as a "grand home" for Washoe County Clerk John</p><br>
<p>Shoemaker. It includes Gothic Revival architecture. Also known as the Shoemaker Home, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The house was reoriented 90 degrees—moved—to allow a subdivision of its original parcel c.1900. The Nystrom family purchased the house in 1944.</p><br>
<p>The Wyoming Territorial Prison is a former federal government prison near Laramie, Wyoming. Built in 1872, it is one of the oldest buildings in Wyoming. It operated as a federal penitentiary from 1872 to 1890, and as a state prison from 1890 to 1901. It was then transferred to the University of Wyoming and was used as an agricultural experiment station until 1989. In 1991, the facility was opened to the public, and in 2004, it was designated as Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The prison was built in 1872 and began accepting prisoners in early 1873. The facility had problems from the outset, with a fire in 1873 and recurrent jailbreaks. Of the 44 prisoners accepted in the first two years of operation, 11 escaped. By 1877, the prison was overcrowded. As the prison filled, its reputation worsened, and it became less used, being considered more appropriate for those with light sentences. During the 1880s the prison was under capacity, with as few as three prisoners at one time. However, in 1889, a second cellblock was constructed, expanding capacity to 150 and providing a central kitchen, dining hall, guards&#39; rooms and steam heat. There were at least five cells for female inmates, and several solitary confinement cells. In 1890 Wyoming became a state and the facility was transferred to the new state, which already had planned a new facility in Rawlins. Butch Cassidy was incarcerated here in 1894–1896. Prisoners were transferred to Rawlins in 1901; the prison was closed in 1903 and given to the University of Wyoming.</p><br>
<p>The university operated the property to conduct experiments in livestock breeding until 1989. In 1991, the property opened to the public. In 2004, it was established as Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 29, 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>When it was built, the Wyoming Territorial Penitentiary stood apart from Laramie on the west side of the town, surrounded by open land. The principal buildings are built of rough gray sandstone, embellished by brown sandstone quoining and arches. The original cellblock measured about 40 ft by 70 ft, a mansard roofed rectangular building with a prominent, steeply pitched cross-gable. Tall windows with dormers above illuminate the interior, where most of the cellblocks have been removed and the space adapted to house animals. The original plan consisted of three tiers of cells, each tier with 14 8 ft square cells, heated by fireplaces at either end of the cellblock. The prison was enclosed by a wooden fence, 12 ft high.</p><br>
<p>The warden&#39;s residence was built in 1875 by convicts. The stucco-covered stone structure later housed the superintendent of the stock farm. The interior, which once had 12 ft ceilings, has been much altered. It was connected to the main building by a tunnel for steam pipes.</p><br>
<p>The Detroit Finnish Cooperative Summer Camp Association is a camping facility located at 2524 Loon Lake Road in Wixom, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1997 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In about 1906, a group of Detroit-area people of Finnish descent formed the Detroit Finnish Educational Association to preserve and share the traditions of their native land. The Association members participated in communal summer activities, often renting beaches and parks for camping and swimming. The first sauna was constructed in 1926, and the dance hall in 1927.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Detroit Finnish Cooperative Summer Camp Association, fondly known as “Finn Camp”, is set on a wooded property along Loon Lake, and entirely surrounds the smaller Sun Lake. The property is bounded by Loon Lake, the Hickory Hill Golf and Country Club, the Detroit Finnish Cooperative Summer Camp Association subdivision, and the Loon Lake Estates subdivision.</p><br>
<p>The Caswell House is a single family house located at 60 W. Wattles Road in Troy, Michigan in the Troy Museum and Historic Village. It is an especially well-preserved example of Greek Revival architecture. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1969 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In May 1823, moved to a farm near what is now the intersection of Big Beaver and Adams Roads, and in 1823 built a log cabin to live in. In 1832, the couple built this house to replace the log cabin. Huldah died in 1844, and Solomon quickly remarried to Melinda Marvin. The Caswells constructed an addition to the house in 1850; Solomon Caswell lived in the house until his death in 1880.</p><br>
<p>After Solomon Caswell&#39;s death, his descendants continued to live in the house. William Caswell willed the house and property to a friend, who sold it to North Hills Christian Reformed Church. In 1968, the house was threatened with demolition, but the church donated the home to the Troy Historical Society, who moved to its present location and fully restored it. The house is now part of the Troy Museum and Historic Village.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Solomon and Hulda Caswell House is a two-story frame Greek Revival house with clapboard. The foundation is now built of concrete block faced with fieldstone. A -story addition is built on the rear. The front facade has a central entrance flanked with pilasters and surmounted with a heavy entablature.</p><br>
<p>The Rainier Brewing Company Bottling Plant, at 310 Spokane St. in Reno, Nevada, was built in 1905. It was also known as Ice House Antiques and required $30,000 to build.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1914 with the start of Prohibition in Washington State, the brewing moved to San Francisco. Beer did continue to be bottled at the plant until 1919, when the 18th amendment and the Volstead Act forced them to stop. Rainier Brewing Company had to diversify and in 1919, Nevada Supply Company started to sell non-alcoholic beverages from the location. They housed other businesses including the Nevada National Ice and Cold Storage Company, National Coal Co., National Ice Co., National Oil and Burner Co. and the Ice House Antiques.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed important as a vestige of the once-significant brewing industry in Reno.</p><br>
<p>Today, the building houses the Spice House Adult Caberet.</p><br>
<p>The N.K. Boswell Ranch is one of the oldest ranches on the edge of the Laramie Plains along the Big Laramie River in Albany County, Wyoming, USA. The ranch was established in the early 1870s, possibly by a man named C.T. Waldron. The ranch is significant for its association with Nathaniel K. Boswell, who was Albany County Sheriff at a time when the county extended from Colorado to Montana.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The ranch lies in a valley on the east side of the Medicine Bow Mountains, with 1,768 acre of deeded land and 3,000 acre of leased land. The historical portion of the ranch headquarters comprises a -story log ranch house, a log shed, three log cabins, two wood-frame sheds and a series of log corrals. The ranch house dates to about 1873, and one log cabin is dated to 1894. Across the access road are a series of log and frame ranch buildings, including barns, a bunkhouse, a workshop, several sheds and two privies.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Established in the 1870s by an obscure series of settlers, the ranch is a representative example of a moderate-sized working ranch. It was also a stopping point on the North Park-Laramie Plains Road. In 1886 Nathaniel K. Boswell acquired a part-interest in the ranch. Boswell was a prominent citizen in southeastern Wyoming during the late 19th century. Boswell, originally from New Hampshire, was established in Cheyenne by 1867, and in 1868 he is described as working in law enforcement in an "unofficial capacity." His activities on a vigilance committee led to more formal employment, and he became Albany County Sheriff in 1869. Bowell also acted as a private detective, and in 1873 was the first warden of the Wyoming Territorial Penitentiary. In 1903 Boswell rode over the Laramie Mountains with Theodore Roosevelt. He was also a friend of writer Bill Nye. Boswell died in 1921. The ranch changed hands several times after his death.</p><br>
<p>The N.K. Bowell Ranch was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 21, 1977.</p><br>
<p>Fayetteville Historic District is located in Fayetteville, Texas. The small town of Fayetteville is in rural south east central Texas midway between Houston and Austin. The oldest extant building in the district was constructed in 1853. The Historic districts in the United States</p><br>
<h2>Fayetteville</h2><br>
<p>Fayetteville is 12 miles from the county seat, LaGrange, in a region known as the blackland prairie of south central Texas characterized by soft rolling hills and arable land. Development is concentrated in a compact area and is surrounded by farmland. The boundary between the northeast–southeast grid plan of the town and the open farms is distinct and characteristic of the Czech farmers who have been predominant in the area since the mid 19th century. They followed early German settlers. Development after 1850, when the town was platted, displaced or replaced all the previous improvements.</p><br>
<h2>Town plan</h2><br>
<p>That original plat was 28 blocks with a central town square. the town, with a population of 261, essentially still reflects that platting and its relation to the surrounding farmland. The town square is the central ordinal for directional prefixes (N, S, E, W) and numbering (beginning with hundreds) of street names and addresses. Town streets are uncurbed and typically 25 ft wide and have at grade drains with metal grills flowing into an underground storm sewer system.</p><br>
<p>A former precinct courthouse, sits in the town square with extra wide 100 ft curbed streets on its borders as specified in the original 1850 plat. Bounded by Main, Washington, Live Oak and Fayette streets the town square is the focus of commercial development. The remainder of the town is primarily residential. Typical commercial construction is wood frame block buildings many featuring false front parapets and awnings. Residential construction is typically modest single family homes on generous lots.</p><br>
<h2>1880 courthouse</h2><br>
<p>The Fayette County Precinct No. 2 Courthouse, built in 1880 is wood-frame construction with horizontal wood siding and has a simple two story square plan. The south elevation is the facade with simple wood stairs and solid wood panel double doors. Windows are symmetrically placed with three bays on the north and south, and two on the east and west. Construction of the Victorian style building was funded by in contributions from the citizens of Fayetteville and an additional in tax funds from the County Commissioners&#39; Court. Funding for painting the building was raised by holding a ball. A calaboose (holding jail) with two cells was finished in 1887. A clock tower, financed by a ladies club, was added in 1934 in the center of the hipped roof. It is no longer used as a courthouse. Precinct courthouses were quite rare in early Texas and this one was listed as an RTHL in 1997. The other government building, the post office, is not considered historical, dating from the late 1960s.</p><br>
<h2>Town square and commercial development</h2><br>
<p>The town square has five buildings with coursed pressed tin siding in a rough ashlar finish as well as several masonry buildings on the east built to replace wood structures lost to fire in 1893. These are in contrast to the one and two part block wood frame commercial buildings common to the concentrated town center focused tightly on the town square. There are 25 one part block buildings typically featuring a false front parapet wall obscuring a front gable roof giving an impression of greater height to these one story buildings. These false front parapets some stepped and some flat topped are repeated by many buildings facing the town square and throughout the commercial area. Many have awnings extending over the sidewalk suspended from the facade wall or supported by columns, some with signage on a parapet topping the canopy. The facade typically featured a central entrance flanked by windows.</p><br>
<p>The seven two part commercial block buildings in the district are two stories. Two of them, both fronting the town square featured a store on the first floor and residences for the owner above. They are the Sarrazin Store and Steves Corner Store. The standard two part block consists of commercial space with a storefront on the first floor and office, storage or residential space upstairs. Most in Fayetteville had canopies or roofs extending over the sidewalk. A good example of the two part block form is the Zapp Building one of the towns few high–style commercial buildings. The red brick building with buff brick accents and a corner entry was built in 1900 to replace an earlier structure lost to fire. It operates as an inn and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>Haphazard is a historic house located on Pleasant Valley Road in Owensboro, Kentucky. The house overlooks the Ohio River, and its name is probably derived from the rivers eddies. The property which Haphazard was built on was originally owned by George Mason, a signatory to the USA Constitution, who was given the land in a grant surveyed in 1787. Masons grandson Richard sold the property to Robert Triplett in 1822, by which point the log house forming the central portion of the home had been built. Triplett likely added the houses side wings, northern gable, and Federal style interior. Triplett accomplished many local firsts, as he was Owensboros first large real estate dealer; Daviess Countys first soil conservationist, barge operator, and author; the first distiller on the Ohio River in the county; and the builder of Kentuckys first railroad. In 1843, A. B. Barret purchased the house from Triplett; Barret then sold the house to William Bell the following year. Bell, the president of a local bank, likely added the house&#39;s Greek Revival portico.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 22, 1975.</p><br>
<p>Fort Steele, also known as Fort Fred Steele, was established to protect the newly built Union Pacific Railroad from attacks by Native Americans during construction of the transcontinental railroad in the United States. The fort was built in 1868 where the railroad crossed the North Platte River in Carbon County, Wyoming. Work on the fort was carried out by military and civilian labor. Fort Steele was one of three forts built on the line. Fort Sanders  near Laramie and Fort D.A. Russell at Cheyenne were the other railroad forts. Fort Steele was named for the recently deceased General Frederick Steele.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Immediately after the forts establishment in the summer of 1868 it was the scene of a meeting that included Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, who had come west to inspect the railroad, accompanied by Generals Philip Sheridan, August Kautz, Joseph H. Potter, William S. Harney, Frederick T. Dent and Adam J. Slemmer, with Union Pacific officials Thomas C. Durant and Sidney Dillon. The fort provided both military protection and law enforcement for the region. Troops from the fort also dealt with labor disputes in Wyoming and as far away as Chicago. The most notable incident occurred in 1878 during the White River War, when the fort sent a contingent that was ambushed with heavy losses in the Battle of Milk Creek. Casualties included the forts commander, Major Thomas Thornburgh.</p><br>
<p>The fort was abandoned in 1886. The fort&#39;s structures have suffered from repeated fires. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 1969.</p><br>
<p>The Reno National Bank-First Interstate Bank, at 204 N. Virginia St. in Reno, Nevada, is a Classical Revival building that was built in 1915.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was designed by architect Frederick J. DeLongchamps.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The former bank has been transformed to hold restaurant space in the Harrah&#39;s Reno casino resort.</p><br>
<p>University of Nevada Reno Historic District on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno is a 40 acre historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  on February 25, 1987. It includes works by architects Stanford White and Frederick J. DeLongchamps. It includes 13 contributing buildings and two other contributing structures, including two separately NRHP-listed buildings, the Mackay School of Mines Building and Morrill Hall.</p><br>
<p>The 13 historic buildings are:</p><br>
<p>Morrill Hall (1886)</p><br>
<p>Lincoln Hall (1896)</p><br>
<p>Manzanita Hall (1896)</p><br>
<p>Mackay School of Mines (1908)</p><br>
<p>Jones Visitors Center (1914)</p><br>
<p>Veterinary Building (1914)</p><br>
<p>Peter Frandsen Humanities Building (1918)</p><br>
<p>Thompson Student Services Center (1920)</p><br>
<p>Physical Plant (1921)</p><br>
<p>Clark Administration (1927)</p><br>
<p>Mackay Science Hall (1930)</p><br>
<p>Palmer Engineering Building (1941)</p><br>
<p>Gymnasium (1945) (of "exceptional significance to the district")</p><br>
<p>and the two other contributing elements are</p><br>
<p>University Quadrangle</p><br>
<p>Manzanita Lake</p><br>
<p>Morrill Hall at the University of Nevada, Reno is a historic Italianate building that was built during 1885–86. It was described by architect Edward Parsons as "a classic example of Italianate Victorian architecture...dignified with a wood shingled mansard roof and full dormer windows."</p><br>
<p>The hall was the first building constructed on the campus and originally housed the entire university, including offices, classrooms, library and living quarters for the grounds keeper. It is named after USA Congressman and later Senator Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont, who was the author of the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act that led to the development of the University of Nevada, Reno.</p><br>
<p>Morrill Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 1, 1974.</p><br>
<p>Atlantic City Mercantile is a former store now used as a bar and restaurant in Atlantic City, Wyoming. It is one of the chief buildings in the small mining town in the South Pass area of Wyoming, and is a significant example of a late 19th-century commercial building on what had recently been the frontier.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The store was built in 1893 by Lawrence Geissler, a 38-year-old German immigrant who had arrived in Wyoming at the age of 18 to work as a cowboy. In 1889 he married Emma Stegmiller in South Pass City. The couple opened a store in Atlantic City the following year on land owned by Emile Granier, a mining speculator who owned most of the land in Atlantic City. Geissler bought the property from Granier in 1900 for five dollars. The store served as the towns telephone exchange and post office. It closed after Geisslers death in 1929. It was reopened as a tavern in 1964 by Lyle F. Moerer, who retained the name and appearance of the store. It was sold in 1971 to Terry Weirman, and again in 1977 to Robert Rice. The establishment has been profiled in a variety of media, including National Geographic and Esquire.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Atlantic City Mercantile is built from adobe blocks covered with tin siding, with a false front on the south side of the building. The interior walls and ceilings are also covered with tin. The one-story building stands on a stone foundation with a full basement. It is roofed with a gabled roof hidden by the false front. The building&#39;s principal characteristic is its front facade, with large display windows and a formed metal cornice.</p><br>
<p>The Mercantile is the oldest surviving building in Atlantic City, with the exception of Hyde&#39;s Hall. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 25, 1985.</p><br>
<p>Nottoway County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Nottoway, Nottoway County, Virginia. It was built in 1843, and is a three-part Palladian plan building in the Jeffersonian or Roman Revival style brick structure. It has a temple-form main block and features a tetrastyle Tuscan order portico. It has flanking one-story wings.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Schwartz Tavern is a historic inn and tavern located at Blackstone, Nottoway County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1798, with two additions made by 1840. It measures 99 feet long in three sections, with the middle block the oldest. The interior features Federal style decorative details and paneling. It is Blackstone&#39;s oldest building.</p><br>
<p>The tavern has been restored and is open for tours.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Burke&#39;s Tavern is a historic inn and tavern located near Burkeville, Nottoway County, Virginia. It was built in 1731, and is a one-story</p><br>
<p>frame building set upon a ground-level brick basement. The building has a central hall, single pile plan. It features brick exterior end chimneys. Near the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the Union Brigadier General Thomas Alfred Smyth of Delaware, wounded at the Battle of High Bridge was brought to the house, where he died on April 9. Smythe was the last Union general to be killed in the war.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Point of Rocks Stage Station is a former resting place at the meeting point of the Overland Trail and the Union Pacific Railroad in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA. It was built as a stop for the Overland Stage Line in the 1861 or 1862, equidistant between the earlier Black Buttes and Salt Wells stations, which were 28 mi apart. The station served the stage line from 1862 to 1868. In 1868, the Union Pacific line reached Point of Rocks, putting the stage line out of business. The station then became a freight depot for nearby mines, with a road leading to Atlantic City and South Pass. The freight activity declined, and in 1877, the station became a residence. At one point it was allegedly inhabited by Jim McKee, a former member of the Hole in the Wall Gang. It became the property of the state of Wyoming in 1947 and is administered as Point of Rocks Stage Station State Historic Site.</p><br>
<p>Point of Rocks Station is sited next to the alkaline Bitter Creek, in a valley framed by steep cliffs. The station is a low one-story building, built of local sandstone with mud mortar. The station has burned at least once, and roof construction is a timber structure with metal covering. A stable building is nearby. The station is close to the present-day Interstate 80. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 3, 1970.</p><br>
<p>Granger Station State Historic Site, also known as Granger Stage Station, South Bend Station and Ham&#39;s Fork Station, is a state park in Granger, Wyoming, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site is dedicated to the interpretation of the station, the Pony Express and the Overland Trail. The station is a rectangular one-story stone building measuring about 56 ft by 22 ft. There are two interior rooms.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A settlement was first established about 1856 at the meeting of Hams Fork with Blacks Fork of the Green River, where a ferry crossed Hams Fork. This became a station on the Pony Express in 1860-1861, then was a station on the Overland Trail in 1862. By this time it was known as the South Bend Station. In 1868 the trail was superseded when the Union Pacific Railroad arrived at the site. The station was deeded to the State of Wyoming in 1930. It is operated as a state historic site. The Granger Station was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 26, 1970.</p><br>
<p>The site was added to the NRHP February 26, 1970.</p><br>
<p>Oakridge is an historic home located near Blackstone, Nottoway County, Virginia. The main house is an early 19th-century frame structure consisting of a two-story, three-bay western section and a -story, one-bay east wing. It sits on a brick foundation and has a gable roof with modillion cornice. The interior features a handsome stair in the Chinese Chippendale taste.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Millbrook is a historic home and farm complex located near Crewe, Nottoway County, Virginia. The original section of the Federal-style main house was built about 1840, and expanded to its present size about 1855. It is a balanced two-story, five-bay, center-hall plan I-house with a Greek Revival-style centered front porch and English basement with three finished floors above. Also on the property are a contributing tobacco barn ruin, and four restored contributing buildings: kitchen, smokehouse, hay barn, and dairy.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Mountain Hall is a historic home and farm complex located near Crewe, Nottoway County, Virginia. The house was built about 1797, and is a two-story, three-bay, brick-and-frame, nearly square dwelling with a pyramidal roof. It has a side-hall plan and features four tall and narrow brick chimneys. Also on the property are a contributing L-shaped frame tenant house, two small cemeteries, and one additional grave. It was the home of physician and statesman Dr. James Jones , who died at Mountain Hall and is buried on the property.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Inverness is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near Burkeville, Nottoway County, Virginia. In its present form the house is a five-bay, two-story, gable-roofed, L-shaped frame-and-weatherboard I-house set above a high basement, with exterior end chimneys. The original section of the house was built about 1800, and raised to two stories in the early-19th century. A large, two-story, two-room wing was added about 1845, forming the "L"-shape. Around 1895 a crude, two-story kitchen wing, was attached to the 1845 wing, and side porches were added. A Classical Revival monumental portico with four Doric order columns and a small second-floor balcony, was installed across the three center bays of the front facade about 1907. Also on the property are a contributing 20th century frame and cement-block dairy barn, and a 20th-century frame milk shed.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Blackstone Historic District is a national historic district located at Blackstone, Nottoway County, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>It encompasses 272 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the town of Blackstone. They include residential and commercial structures dating from the late-18th to early-20th centuries. They include notable examples of the Late Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, and Romanesque styles. Notable buildings include the former Blackstone College for Girls (1922), First National Bank, Thomas M. Dillard House, Richmond F. Dillard House, Blackstone Public School Complex, Bagley House (1911), James D. Crawley House (1903), Blackstone Baptist Church (1907), Crenshaw United Methodist Church (1903), St. Luke&#39;s Episcopal Church (1916), and Blackstone Presbyterian Church (1901). The James D. Crawley House was designed by J. E. McDaniel, who was a local architect. Located in the district is the separately listed Schwartz Tavern.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The First Street Bridge is a stone arch bridge in Merrill, Wisconsin, which carries First Street across the Prairie River. The bridge is 130 ft long and has three arches. Each arch is bordered by an alternating pattern of single and double stones and is capped by 30 in keystones. Contractor Fred Hesterman built the bridge in 1904, replacing an existing bridge. The bridge is the only known three stone arch bridge in Wisconsin.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 12, 1996.</p><br>
<p>Mary Louise Court is a bungalow court located at 583-599 N. Mentor Ave. in Pasadena, California. Robert Harris built the court in 1928. The court consists of seven buildings surrounding a central pathway; the buildings contain 14 residential units, with four in the rear building, three in each of the two middle buildings, and one each in the front four buildings. The buildings are designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style and feature stucco exteriors, Spanish tile roofs, open-arched porches, and curved bracketing around the doors. The stone walkway between the homes is lined by palm trees.</p><br>
<p>The court was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 1994.</p><br>
<p>The William Brooks Farm, also known as the Washington Stanley Farm, is a farmsite located at 3521 Big Beaver Road in Troy, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Washington Stanley was born in Shaftsbury, Vermont in 1807. There he married a young wife, Lydia, and in 1826 moved with his wife and widowed mother to this site. He built a log cabin and began farming. Washington and Lydia Stanley had six children over the next 15 years, and when Lydia died, Stanley remarried Catherine Elisha Barringer in Macomb, Michigan, on 16 Feb 1842. In 1852, Stanley built the two-story fieldstone house that sits on the site. Stanley died in 1873 and the farm passed to his daughter Elizabeth and her husband Frank Ford.</p><br>
<p>The Fords continued to farm the property, and in 1911 their daughter, Alta Ford Peabody, when they sold most of the property to developers.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The William Brooks Farm consists of a farmhouse and various outbuildings, including a machine shop with a smokehouse, hog barns, dairy barns, a milk house, a silo, and a corn crib. The farmhouse is a well-preserved two-story fieldstone Greek Revival structure built on a rectangular plan with side gables. The windows are six-over-six anes with shutters. The front facade has a single-story, columned porch with Gothic detail, and the date of construction (1852) is carved into a stone block above the east-side window. A covered porch is built on the rear.</p><br>
<p>Mill Hill near Concord, North Carolina is a historic house built by master craftsman Jacob Stirewalt in 1821. It includes Greek Revival and Federal architectural elements.</p><br>
<p>A number of its features, including a distinctive fireplace mantel, are documented in a North Carolina State University collection.</p><br>
<p>The Johnson-Neel House is also attributed to Stirewalt, due in part to its having a similar mantelpiece (and is also NRHP-listed).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The South Bottoms Historic District is a residential neighborhood of Lincoln, Nebraska. The district includes 1050 contributing structures, with a relatively small proportion of 148 non-contributing structures. The neighborhood was settled primarily by Volga Germans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The houses are primarily wood-framed single-family residences, with some commercial structures on F Street between 2nd and 5th Streets. The houses mix vernacular American house construction with wood frame traditions brought from Russia by the residents. The neighborhood is roughly bounded by A and M Streets from Eighth Street to the city limits.</p><br>
<p>The area along Salt Creek was settled by Volga Germans starting in the 1870s, attracted by the inexpensive housing found in the Salt Creek floodplain. Immigrants from individual Russian villages tended to stick together. For instance, the Norker Bottom section was inhabited by people from the villages of Norka, Kukkus and Huck, while the Franker Bottom section housed people from Frank, Balzer and Beideck. Since many of the immigrants were farmers, many people from the South Bottoms spent May through November working in the sugar beet fields in central Nebraska.</p><br>
<p>Typical houses in the South Bottoms neighborhood have front or side porches and are on raised concrete block foundations. Porch columns are supported by masonry piers, and houses typically have hipped roofs. A number of churches are found in the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>The South Bottoms Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1986.</p><br>
<p>Lincoln City Hall is the former seat of the Lincoln, Nebraska city government. The hall was built from 1874-1879 as the USA Post Office and Court House, designed by the office of the USA Treasury Department&#39;s architect, Alfred B. Mullett. A new post office and court house was built in 1906 and the property was transferred to the city. It was superseded as city hall in 1969 when the city government moved into the City-County Building. Although Mullett is officially listed as the architect, much of the design work may have been carried out by his assistant, William Appleton Potter, who specialized in the Gothic style.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>City Hall is built of brick faced with rough limestone blocks. It is four stories tall with a basement, measuring 60 ft by 90 ft in plan. The exterior is detailed in an austere High Victorian Gothic style, capped by a mansard roof. The interior is similarly finished, with Gothic details in the woodwork. The style was influenced by the work of John Ruskin.</p><br>
<p>Lincoln City Hall was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1969.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas P. Kennard House, also known as the Nebraska Statehood Memorial, is the oldest remaining building in the original plat of Lincoln, Nebraska. Built in 1869, the Italianate house belonged to Thomas P. Kennard, the first Secretary of State for Nebraska, and one of three men who picked the Lincoln site for the new state&#39;s capital in 1867. The house was designed by architect John Keys Winchell of Chicago.</p><br>
<p>In 1965 the Kennard House was designated the Nebraska Statehood Memorial, and became a museum. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 1969.</p><br>
<p>The house is a -story stuccoed brick building with a frame cupola on the shallow-pitched hip roof. The house was extensively altered inside and out before its designation as a memorial and required major restoration work to return its appearance to its original state.</p><br>
<p>Kennard, Nebraska is named for Thomas P. Kennard.</p><br>
<p>Alaska Nellie&#39;s Homestead, located at Mile 23 of the Seward Highway in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, is the former homestead of Nellie Neal Lawing. Neal Lawing had migrated to Alaska in 1915 and ran a number of roadhouses for the Alaska Railroad before settling at the Roosevelt roadhouse on Kenai Lake in 1923, where she built her homestead. She planned to marry Kenneth Holden after settling, but he died in an industrial accident before their marriage; his cousin Billie Lawing then proposed to her, and the two married. A post office opened in the area in 1924; Nellie was the first postmistress, and the post office was named Lawing in her honor.</p><br>
<p>Nellie was a wildlife expert and trophy hunter, and she kept her hunting trophies, which included three bears, in the roadhouse. She was also known to keep pet bear cubs outside her home. The homestead became a popular lodge due to Nellie&#39;s wildlife lectures, and it attracted guests such as Will Rogers, Alice Calhoun, and Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. After Billie died in 1936, Nellie continued to operate the lodge and roadhouse until her death in 1956.</p><br>
<p>The roadhouse was destroyed in the 1960s, likely by the rising waters of Kenai Lake after the 1964 Alaska earthquake. The homestead was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975; at the time, only the homestead and a number of outbuildings still stood at the site. The homestead was used as a tourist shop in the 1970s and later became a bed and breakfast; however, it was eventually vacated. In 1998, the Alaska Association for Historic Preservation listed the site as one of the ten most endangered historic properties in the state.</p><br>
<p>The Hilzinger Block is a commercial building located at 106-110 South Main Street in Royal Oak, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1859, Philip Storz built his home and an associated shoe shop at the corner of Main and Eleven Mile in Royal Oak. Phillips daughter Mary married William Hilzinger in 1883; Hilzinger opened a string of commercial businesses located in buildings on the Storz property south of Eleven Mile, including a wholesale milk and butter business, a mineral spring water business, and an electric light plant. By the 1920s, Detroits booming economy had accelerated development up the Woodward corridor all the way to Royal Oak, spurring commercial redevelopment in the area.</p><br>
<p>One of the buildings constructed in the redevelopment boom was the Hilzinger Block, constructed in 1925. One of its first tenants was the Hilzinger Hardware Store, owned by William Hilzinger&#39;s sons Albert and Carl Hilzinger. The building also housed a sandwich shop, and, on the upper floor, a ball room.</p><br>
<p>The Hilzinger Hardware Store originally occupied the center storefront of the block, but in 1955 expanded in tho the north storefront, and in 1963 onto the south storefront. The building was purchased in 2003 by 2mission, who rehabilitated the building and restored the original brick facade, and brought in five tenants to the building.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Hilzinger Block is a 12000 square feet, two story red brick building with three storefronts. The current facade is similar to the original, and includes an unusual multi-light transom over the first-floor storefronts that was re-created from old photographs. The facade is simply detailed, with broad piers at each end and narrower piers between the southern and central storefront on the first story and between the windows on the second. A recessed entryway leading to the upper floor separates the northern and central storefront. A frieze and slightly projecting limestone cornice tops the building. At the center of the frieze is a limestone plaque bearing the buildings name, HILZINGER BLOCK. A large vertical illuminated metal sign projects outward from the building at the second floor level. The sign was originally installed in 1963 for Hilzinger Hardware, and was restored and updated with the name of the current occupant.</p><br>
<p>The B and C Grocery Building is a commercial building located at 417-19 South Main Street in Royal Oak, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Joseph Chodoroff, Peter Chodoroff, and Max Bachman established the Bachman & Chodoroff grocery on Oakland Avenue in Detroit in the early 1920s. By 1930, the store had developed into a chain, with two stores in Detroit and two in Royal Oak. In 1939, B & C hired the Detroit firm of Henry Kohner, Inc to design this building. Construction began in 1939, and was finished in 1940. By 1950, two other stores opened in Berkley and Clawson, and by 1954 the two Detroit stores were closed. Daisy Warren Roberts (1916-2012), a Royal Oak resident, began working as a clerk at the B & C in the early 1930s. The owners paid her tuition for accounting school and she became the bookkeeper for the company and remained in that position through the mid-1950s. When the building was purchased and remodeled into a restaurant in the early 2000s, the owner contacted Daisy and invited her to give a short speech at the grand opening, to which she happily obliged.</p><br>
<p>The B & C Grocery closed in the 1960s, after which the building housed offices, a cardio-pulmonary clinic, and a sporting goods store. In about 1970, the Art Moderne panels were hidden behind a new facade. who rehabilitated the building. completing it in 2006. Five new tenants were placed in the building, including a restaurant and wine bar.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The B & C Grocery Building is a one-story red brick commercial building with a broad and low Art Deco front, faced in Macotta porcelain enamel metal panels, colored pail yellow with salmon and burgundy accents. Shiny metal doors and windows create a band across the building. Low stepped "gables" are placed above the two double-door entries; a third entry is angled on the corner of the building. The B & C Grocery was the first supermarket to ever have a soda fountain and the first privately owned chain of supermarkets in the USA in the 1940s.</p><br>
<p>The Rankin County Confederate Monument is a war memorial located on the downtown square of Brandon, Mississippi, at the intersection of Government and North streets. The monument was erected in 1907 by the Brandon Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The monument was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The monument is 37 feet tall in total. A seven foot tall granite statue of a Confederate soldier, facing west in a lookout posture, stands atop a marble pillar and stepped base. Below the statue, on the west side of the pillar, is a relief of a crossed rifle, bayonet and sword. The base is inscribed with poetry.</p><br>
<h3>Inscriptions</h3><br>
<p>Inscriptions of poetry are featured on each side of the square base. The inscriptions are in all capital letters. The poetry is unattributed. Aside from poetic verse, there is also an inscription attributing the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy as having erected the monument, as well as E.J. Martin, grand master of a local Masonic organization, as having laid the cornerstone.</p><br>
<p>North face- "States&#39; rights and home rule truth crushed to the Earth will rise again. Men die, principles live forever. Although conquered we adore it; weep for those who fell before it; pardon for those who trailed and tore it."</p><br>
<p>South face- "Loves tribute to the noble men who marched neath the folds of the Stars and Bars and who were faithful to the end. / Under the sod & dew, waiting for the judgment day.&#39;"</p><br>
<p>East face- "To those who wore the grey, in legend and in lay our heroes in grey, shall forever live over again for us. / The epitaph of the soldier who falls with his country, is written in the hearts of those who love the right and honor the brave."</p><br>
<p>West face- "Lord God of Hosts be with us yet lest we forget, lest we forget."</p><br>
<h2>Historical context</h2><br>
<p>According to the NRHP applications narrative statement of historical significance, "Local tradition holds that the monument marks the spot where General Sherman ordered his troops to stack arms during the siege of Brandon....&#39;" The monument is an example of many similar monuments erected in southern parks and squares during a period postbellum resurgence in regional identity that occurred from approximately 1870 until the first World War. The Rankin County Confederate Monument differs from other, similar monuments in that it is oriented to face west, toward the direction where Union troops entered town during the Siege of Brandon. Most other such monuments are oriented to face toward the north.</p><br>
