<p>The Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth, commemorated as the Jennie Dean Memorial Site, was a former school for African-American children in Manassas, Virginia. The current site name honors the school&#39;s founder, Jennie Dean, a charismatic ex-slave who believed in the value of vocational education for African-American youth of both sexes. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Jennie Dean and other African Americans (with assistance of sympathetic whites) established the school as a private residential institution in 1893. In 1938, after the Virginia Supreme Court finally interpreted the 1902 state constitutions free public education requirement as mandating public schools for African American children as well as white children (through litigation sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), a regional public school system took over operations and ran the school until 1959. Thus, for approximately two decades between 1938 until 1958, the Manassas Industrial School formally became the only school for secondary education of African American students in five northern Virginia counties (Prince William, Fairfax, Arlington, Loudoun and Fauquier). After World War II, northern Virginias population increased and the NAACP followed victories improving salaries for black teachers and allowing black children to receive bus rides to segregated schools by litigating directly against segregated schools. This led to several important court decisions against segregation in the 1950s and 1960s, including Brown v. Board of Education and a companion case from Virginia. Opponents of integration initially implemented a massive resistance strategy, which initially closed schools integrating even pursuant to court order, but eventually led to integrated schools. The Manassas Industrial School closed in 1959, after the Virginia Supreme Court and a three-judge panel of federal judges both separately ruled on January 19, 1959 (Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia) against the core Virginia Massive Resistance legislation.</p><br>
<p>The Manassas Industrial School buildings were demolished and a new elementary school with ball fields and park facilities constructed nearby. A series of historic markers was erected on the property and the site landscaped.</p><br>
<p>In September, 2015, the school&#39;s class roster for 1927 was discovered. The Principal was William C. Taylor. Class colors were Red and Black. Class flower was a White Rose. Class roll was: William Henry Bailey, Garnetta Cornelia Battle, Ruth Estelle Clarke, Edward Albert Chambers, Naomi Agusta Dean, Edith Mae Gaskins, Harry Wilson Hall, Virginia Kelley Kenny, Paul Emanuel Rier, Adrian Francais Robinson, Mary Viola Roberts, Kathleen Lewisha Thomas, Rosa James Thomas, Tasco Delany Thomas, Hazel Belle Voorhees, William Henry Waddell, George Shermy woodson, Roberta Josephine Waters and Mary Synora Waller. Class motto was: Pick out your peak and climb.</p><br>
<p>Old Town Manassas, or the Manassas Historic District, is a national historic district located at Manassas, Virginia. It encompasses 206 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the central business district and surrounding residential area of city of Manassas.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>The Manassas Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Residential areas</h2><br>
<p>Residential areas include dwellings in a variety of popular late-19th and early-20th century architectural styles. These range from Italianate, Second Empire and Queen Anne styles, to the Craftsman and American Foursquare styles.</p><br>
<h2>Notable buildings</h2><br>
<p>Notable buildings include the former Manassas Presbyterian Church (1875); the former All Saints Roman Catholic Church (1878); the Sillington, Hazen Building, formerly the National Bank of Manassas (1896); the former Hopkins Candy Factory (1908-1909); the old Manassas Town Hall; the Trinity Episcopal Church (1922); the Grace Methodist Church (1926); and the Norfolk-Southern Railway passenger station (1914). Also located in the district is the separately listed Prince William County Courthouse. Associated with the courthouse is the contributing monument commemorating the Peace Jubilee (1911).</p><br>
<h2>Manassas Museum</h2><br>
<p>Located in Old Town Manassas is the Manassas Museum. Inspired by a small museum in Strasburg Virginia, lifelong resident, Walser Rohr suggested the town assemble artifacts for display in a trial museum. and was a success. Since 1991, the museum has increased exhibit spaces to include interactive displays and educational offerings for all ages that explore the city&#39;s rich history.</p><br>
<p>Conner House is a historic house located in Manassas Park, Virginia. The main section was built about 1810, with a later wing added in 1855. It is a two-story, gable-roof, stone residence. The Conner House served from July to November 1861 as the headquarters of General Joseph E. Johnston, commander of the Confederate Army during the first several months of its existence. In 1973 the Town  of Manassas Park purchased the house and yard.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>Pulaski County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Pulaski, Pulaski County, Virginia. It was built in 1895–1896, and is a 2 1/2-story, Romanesque / Queen Anne style roughcut limestone building. The front facade features a projecting central entrance tower. The building has a hipped roof, projecting corner towers, and a classically ornamented belfry covered by an elongated domical roof and capped by a lantern. It was designed by W. Chamberlain & Co.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The current building was reconstructed after being heavily damaged in a fire in December 1989.</p><br>
<p>Dalton Theatre Building is a historic theatre building located at Pulaski, Pulaski County, Virginia. It was built in 1921, and is a three-story, five-bay, brick Commercial Style building with a flat roof topped by a one-story square central tower.</p><br>
<p>Facing the road on the ground floor are two storefronts that originally housed a bank and a drugstore. The upper two floors were used for offices as well as apartments for visiting performers. At the rear of the building was a gable-roofed auditorium, designed in the Beaux Arts style, and a plain five-story equipment tower serving the stage. The auditorium section of the building collapsed in 1982, however, and has been razed.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Snowville Christian Church, also known as Cypress Grove Christian Church, is a historic Christian Church  church complex located in Snowville, Pulaski County, Virginia. It was built in 1864, and is a one-story, gable-roofed frame church building. The building measures 40 feet by 60 feet. It features pattern-book Greek Revival style columns and pilasters and the principal facade is topped by an octagonal bell tower.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Snowville Historic District is a national historic district located at Snowville, Pulaski County, Virginia. It encompasses 44 contributing buildings in the village of Snowville. It includes a variety of residential, commercial, and industrial buildings dated as early as the 1850s. Notable buildings include the Snowville Milling Complex , Elmore House, Snow-Bullard House, "Humility," Snowville school , Masonic temple , Reese Blacksmith Shop, and the store and village post office. Located in the district is the separately listed Snowville Christian Church.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Rose Terrace building is a historic building on the Mary Baldwin University campus in Staunton, Virginia. It was built about 1875, and is a -story, three-bay, L-shaped, brick Italianate style building. It has a hipped roof and six handsome, tall</p><br>
<p>chimneys with elaborately corbelled caps. Also on the property is a contributing small two-story outbuilding known as "Little House."</p><br>
<p>Rose Terrace was originally a single family residence, then housed Augusta Sanitarium from 1910 to 1919. The building was purchased by Mary Baldwin College in 1919. It was once used as the college president&#39;s home, and also served as a student dormitory. The building currently houses the offices of the Shakespeare & Performance graduate program.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Trinity Episcopal Church, Staunton VA. is a Gothic Revival style building in Staunton, Virginia. It is an active Episcopal church in the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1972. It is located in the Newtown Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The current building is the third church building that has been built on the site. Founded first as Augusta Parish Church in 1746. In 1747, the Reverend John Hindman became the first rector. This church, Augusta Parish Church, served as the only government of Augusta County until 1780, when the Parish Vestry was dissolved by legislative act. It is the oldest church in Staunton. In May 1781, the Virginia General Assembly fled Monticello ahead of advancing British troops, and landed in Staunton, where they set up the assembly in Augusta Parish Church, from June 7 to June 23 of that same year.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>Founded in 1746 as Augusta Parish, Trinity is the oldest church in Staunton and one of the first Episcopal congregations west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The first building was completed in 1763. English architect James Wood Johns designed the present church, the third on the site, which was built between 1852 and 1855 in the Early Gothic Revival style. Subsequent additions and renovations have significantly altered the original appearance of the simple brick building. The aisles were widened in 1869-72 and the chancel was extended in 1887. In 1907, 1936, 1955, and 2000 the interior was refurbished.</p><br>
<p>The interior was again rebuilt in 1957, due to the addition of a 20-ton organ.</p><br>
<p>The church properties underwent a massive renovation in 1999–2000. Air conditioning and new electrical systems were added. The stained glass windows were cleaned, repaired, and fitted with new protective glass. The current organ was installed in 2000, as part of the renovation. The church also offers an outdoor brick labyrinth, which was added in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Windows</h2><br>
<p>One of the great artistic treasures in historic Staunton is the magnificent array of stained-glass windows in Trinity Church. Five distinct styles of glass can be discerned. The oldest windows in the church, which date from the 1850s, consist of non-figurative glass cut into diamond-shaped pieces. The colors alternate between a translucent white and a pale sepia. The borders, on the other hand, consist of brilliant clear glass in deep colors --- sapphire blue, emerald green, topaz yellow---overlaid with a painted black scroll pattern and joined by clear red panes with painted rosette designs in the corners. Five of these windows survive in sitù. They include the rose-shaped window in the tower, which is not visible inside, and two windows below on each side of the entrance, which is in the lower part of the tower.</p><br>
<p>The second period of American church glass decoration in Trinity Church exemplifies the Arts and Crafts Movement, which was a significant, purely American contribution to the glassmaking industry. Around 1825, American glass companies, most notably that in Sandwich, Massachusetts, developed an economical mechanized method of pressing molten glass with a metal plumber to form faceted “jewels,” flowers, and other shapes. Although probably more often associated with tableware, pressed glass was also incorporated into church windows. The geometric designs, often based on colorful Bohemian patterns, were characterized by bright colors and faceted glass jewels. The Passion Window and the Trinity Window (c.1872-80), located on the west side of the church, and the Narcissus Window (c.1887) in the east aisle represent examples of Arts and Crafts Glass.</p><br>
<p>The third type of American glass in Trinity Church shows Christian symbols set against colored glass backgrounds. The Geometrical Window in the west aisle, the only surviving window designed by the prestigious New York firm of Sharp and Steele, exemplifies this period of stained glass decoration. This tall lancet window, which dates from the mid-1870s, features eight circular medallions set against red fields with deep blue borders. Several techniques were used to apply the paint, including positive and negative stencils and hand-painted lines. when the chancel was first enlarged, at least seven Sharp and Steele windows filled the chancel. They are evident in vintage photographs.</p><br>
<p>By the turn of the twentieth century, parishioners at Trinity Church began to replace some of the older windows with memorial windows of a new type of glass called “opalescent,” which represents the fourth style of glass at Trinity Church. As with the pressed glass of the mid-nineteenth century, these new opalescent windows also represented a purely American development. This glass was popularized by such artists as Frederick Lamb of J&R Lamb Studios, John La Farge, Maitland Armstrong, and Louis Comfort Tiffany. Trinity Church owns thirteen opalescent windows, one by the prestigious studio of J&R Lamb (The Nativity, c.1905) and a dozen by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Dating 1898 to 1936, these windows offer a rare variety of subjects and show the development of Tiffany&#39;s style. Most of the windows bear a signature; Some are dated. The array of Tiffany Windows offers a mini-retrospective of his career within the overall retrospective of American stained glass at Trinity Church. The oldest and perhaps the finest Tiffany window is The Ascension (1899), a composition over the altar that consists of three windows. The other Tiffany windows are: Angel with a Script and St. Luke in the chancel; Easter Morn (2 windows), The Good Samaritan, Faith (Angel), Madonna in the east aisle; and, in the west aisle, St. Michael the Archangel and the Benedicite Window, which shows a garden.</p><br>
<p>Although the Tiffany formulae for opalescent glass were destroyed at the time of Louis Comfort Tiffany&#39;s death in 1933, per his request, Tiffany glass continued to be available until the early 1950s from the Tiffany glass shop in New York. The Madonna Window is the only one in Trinity Church from this period.</p><br>
<p>After World War II, opalescent windows began to fade from fashion. Instead, American churches began to favor windows that emulated of the style of medieval European church windows. These windows, fabricated of small pieces of mouth-blown glass, included designs consisting of both figures and symbols. Primary predominate, along with greens and a little white. The J&R Lamb Company and several other companies in the United States and England strove to meet popular demand. In 1946, Lamb Studios made the Wise Men Window as a companion to the Nativity Window that the company had fabricated some forty years earlier for the same donor family. By then, the style of Lamb glass had changed dramatically. The Wise Men window is rendered in a Neo-Gothic style, with deeper colors and more angular lines.</p><br>
<p>In 1948, a new donor turned to Wippell Studios of England, a decision that not only reflected the embracing of the English origins of the denomination but also it established the pattern for the rest of the church window decoration.</p><br>
<p>Wippell, which later opened offices in New Jersey as Wippell-Mowbray, designed nine windows for Trinity Church between 1948 and 1970. Their style emulates English Gothic windows. The colors of the glass are bright, mainly primary colors. They are: the Communion and Missionary Windows in the west aisle; The Sermon on the Mount and the Jewels Triptych (3 windows) in the chancel; Archbishop Crammer in the east aisle; and the diocesan shields in the narthex.</p><br>
<h2>At the church</h2><br>
<p>The current rector is the Rev. William A. J. Heine ("AJ"), who began at Trinity Episcopal, Staunton in 2021. According to the church website, Fr. AJ is particularly interested in “Growing community, crossing borders, building bridges, and connecting people to the love of God in Jesús Christ is the source of my greatest joy and the best way I know to unleash the power of God’s love to heal the world.”</p><br>
<p>The church has one deacon: the Rev. Shirley E. Ruedy.</p><br>
<p>The church website lists office hours as Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, except in summer, when the office closes at 12:00 noon on Fridays.</p><br>
<p>Brookings County Courthouse, located at the intersection of 4th St. and 6th Ave. in Brookings, is Brookings County, South Dakotas county courthouse. The courthouse was built in 1912 to replace the countys original courthouse, which was constructed in 1883. Architects C. E. Bell, Tyrie & Chapman designed the courthouse in the Renaissance Revival style, which was common in early 20th century buildings. The J. B. Nelson Construction Company built the courthouse.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 1976. In 2011, the county began a $1 million renovation of the courthouse in order to meet the local circuit court&#39;s needs.</p><br>
<p>Dublin Historic District is a national historic district located at Dublin, Pulaski County, Virginia. It encompasses 97 contributing buildings in the town of Dublin. It includes a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings dated as early as the mid-19th century. Notable buildings include the Sutton House, Norfolk and Western Railroad Depot , Bower Funeral Service, Baskerville-St.Clair House, Darst Building , Bank of Pulaski County, McCorkle House , Dublin Presbyterian Church, Dublin Methodist Church , Grace Baptist Church, and the Municipal Building.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Eureka Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Depot is a historic building at 416 E. 5th Street in Eureka, Kansas. The depot is on the Howard Branch of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. It was built to replace an earlier 1879 depot, located just to the north. Completed in 1917 at a cost of $20,000, the depot was part of a building boom in the area, caused by the discovery of oil in Butler and Greenwood counties.</p><br>
<p>Passenger service on the Howard Branch ended in the mid 1950s, the depot closed in 1971.</p><br>
<p>Greenwood Hotel is a historic building at 300 N. Main Street in Eureka, Kansas, United States. The brick structure was constructed in 1882, to house visitors involved in the burgeoning cattle industry in the area. Owner H.D. Hover renovated the hotel in 1926 to its current external appearance with a remodel that reflected the Spanish Mission Revival style. To celebrate the grand reopening, a celebration dinner was held on September 23, 1926, with great fanfare. This event eventually became known as Cattlemen&#39;s Day and has been celebrated annually ever since on the first Saturday of November.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Felt Mansion is a house located at 66th Street and 138th Avenue, in Laketown Township, Michigan near Saugatuck, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Dorr Felt was born in 1862 near Beloit, Wisconsin. At eighteen, he moved to Chicago, becoming a foreman at a rolling mill. In 1885, he hit upon the idea of constructing a calculating machine to aid the shop&#39;s accountants. He eventually developed and patented his machine, and in 1889 opened a factory. His company was successful, and Felt also served in a number of prominent positions in government and business groups. Felt married Agnes McNulty in 1891 and the couple had four daughters. The Felts first visited the Saugatuck area in the early 1900s as tourists, and fell in love with the area. Starting in 1919, they began acquiring land in the area, and in 1926 purchased the lots where this house now stands. At the time, the Felts lived in a modest farmhouse on the site, which has since been demolished.</p><br>
<p>In 1927, the Felts hired the Grand Rapids architectural firm of Frank P. Allen & Son to design this summer house. In August 1928, Agnes Felt suddenly died at the estate. Dorr Felt remarried the next year, but his new wife preferred living in Chicago to the summer estate. Dorr Felt died in August 1930. The mansion was left to his children, who kept it until 1949, when it was sold to the Chicago Province of the Augustinian Order of the Catholic Church.</p><br>
<p>The Felt Mansion became the St. Augustine Catholic Seminary preparatory school in 1949. The Mansion served as a chapel and housed priests and students. In 1962 the Augustinians leased the Mansion to Augustinian cloistered nuns. In 1963 the Order of Saint Augustine constructed a Seminary on the Felt Estate. This preparatory school contained a chapel and housing for priests as well as students in grades 9–12.</p><br>
<p>In 1977 the Felt Estate was purchased by the State of Michigan. The State of Michigan used the Felt Mansion as a state police post and converted the school building into the Saugatuck Dunes Correctional Facility.</p><br>
<p>The prison was closed in 1991. In 1995 the state sold 44 acres of the Estate, including the Mansion and prison building, to Laketown Township for $1, stipulating that the mansion be preserved and that it be owned and operated by the public. The Friends of the Felt Estate formed in 2002 and began restoration of the house and grounds. The property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Felt Mansion is a three-story, gable-roof, rectangular plan brick mansion. It is constructed of steel beams with a concrete and wire mesh lath, and sits on a concrete foundation. The roof is made of concrete slabs supported by steel trusses, and is covered with slate tiles. The main body of the house is six bays wide, flanked by slightly recessed four-bay wide wings. Exterior walls are clad in yellow brick, with prominent decorative limestone window sills, keystones, and panels between the first-floor and second-floor windows. The front entry is covered with a limestone portico. A variety of windows are used through the house, with one-over-one, double-hung windows on the main body, round-arch windows on the first floor of the wings, and three-part wooden casement windows on the second story.</p><br>
<p>The interior has a central hall with rooms symmetrically arranged around it. The northern portion of the house contained the dining room with a kitchen and pantry, a small library, and a sun porch. The south portion had a large solarium in the front of the house and a living room in the rear. A central staircase leads to the second floor, the south side held family rooms, including a master suite with a bedroom, an anteroom with a walk-in cedar closet, a sun porch, and a tiled bathroom. Additional bedrooms for children and guests take up most of the remaining space, and the north side had sleeping quarters for servants. The third floor contained a ballroom.</p><br>
<h2>Legend</h2><br>
<p>According to local urban legend, the forest around the Felt Mansion is a place where melon heads lived.</p><br>
<p>Substation 7 is a traction substation located at 1782 Third Avenue at 99th Street in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. The Manhattan Railway Company built it next to the Third Avenue El&#39;s 99th Street station to electrify the Second, Third and Ninth Avenue elevated lines. It served as a power source for the IRT Lexington Avenue Line from 1918 until the 1970s. It originally converted 25 Hz AC power from the 74th Street power station, to DC for the electric motors. The substation is owned by the MTA and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Royal Laundry Complex is a historic laundry plant located at 443 S. Raymond Avenue in Pasadena, California, United States, consisting of close to 72,500-square-foot. Gordon Kaufmann, a prominent architect who also designed the Hoover Dam and several buildings at the California Institute of Technology, designed the plant. Kaufman&#39;s Spanish Colonial Revival design for the plant signified a shift in his style to include modern elements, which ultimately came to dominate his work. The complex currently serves as the world headquarters of Bluebeam, Inc. and was formerly the company headquarters of the Disney Store.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The sites main plant was constructed in 1927 for the Royal Laundry Company, a laundry service founded in 1910. The plants south annex, a Streamline Moderne building topped by a pylon, was added to the complex around 1930. An additional building providing drive-up service was constructed in 1939, an adaptation to the rise of the automobile; this building was topped by an overhead sign advertising the business in 1955. The laundry complex, which is located in an industrial neighborhood of Pasadena, has been described as one of the most architecturally significant industrial buildings in the city. The Royal Laundry ceased operations in 1980s and became a vacant property.</p><br>
<p>A parking ramp was built in 2005 with four stories with capacity for 225 cars. The complex interior was converted to corporate office space by October 2008 by Clive Wilkinson Architects.</p><br>
<p>Hoops Retail Stores, DBA Disney Store and a subsidiary of Children&#39;s Place, commenced a 13-year lease of the building in 2006. The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 27, 2007. Disney Consumer Products took over Disney Stores back from a bankrupt Hoops Retail on May 1, 2008 but maintained its headquarters here.</p><br>
<p>In 2012, Karlin Real Estate, a West L.A. real estate investment company, purchased the complex for $19.3 million only to place back up for sale in mid-February 2014. In late August, the complex was sold to Swig Co., a San Francisco real estate investment company. In mid-November 2018, the Disney Stores USA headquarters moved out of the complex to Disney&#39;s secondary headquarters, Grand Central Creative Campus.</p><br>
<p>Since April 2019, it is the headquarters of Bluebeam Inc.</p><br>
<p>The Bekins Storage Co. roof sign is a rooftop sign in Pasadena, California, which originally advertised the Bekins Storage Company. The sign was erected in 1926 and converted to a neon sign in 1929. Located 60 ft above the ground at the top of the Bekins Storage Company building, the sign was designed to attract the attention of drivers of Fair Oaks Avenue, which was part of USA Route 66 from 1926 until 1940. The sign is now the only surviving large rooftop sign from before World War II in Pasadena, and one of few remaining signs of any type from the period. Similar signs are now banned by Pasadena law, though signs from before 1960 are exempted and listed on a city register. The sign was later renovated to promote the A. American Storage Co. and now advertises Public Storage.</p><br>
<p>The sign was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1997.</p><br>
<p>Spring Dale, also known as Springdale and David S. McGavock House, is a historic home and national historic district located near Dublin, Pulaski County, Virginia. It encompasses five contributing buildings and the Samuel Cecil Archeological Site. The main house was built in 1856–1857, and is a two-story, nearly square, Gothic Revival style brick mansion. James C. Deyerle is credited with early construction. It has a double pile, central-hall plan and shallow hipped roof. Also on the property are the contributing brick smokehouse, a frame barn, a frame chicken coop, and a log structure that may have served as a blacksmith shop. The Samuel Cecil Archeological Site consists of the ruins of the log house built by Samuel Cecil in 1768.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Newbern Historic District is a national historic district located at Newbern, Pulaski County, Virginia. It encompasses 47 contributing buildings in the town of Newbern. It includes a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings dated as early as the early-19th century. Notable buildings include the Adam Hance House, known locally as the "Summer Resort," Duncan-Meredith House, Colley house, the Haney Tavern, Vermillion and Stone&#39;s store, the Christian Church , and Old Jail .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Pulaski Historic Commercial District is a national historic district located at Pulaski, Pulaski County, Virginia. It encompasses 78 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in the central business district of the town of Pulaski. It includes a variety of governmental, commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings dated primarily to the late-19th and early-20th century. Notable buildings include the MaGill building, B. D. Smith and Bros., building, Elks Theatre and building , former high school , freight depot , Pulaski Grocery Company building, the General Chemical Company, Christ Episcopal Church , and the Appalachian Power Company building . The Dalton Theatre Building and Pulaski County Courthouse are located in the district and listed separately.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Pulaski Historic Residential District is a national historic district located at Pulaski, Pulaski County, Virginia. It encompasses 278 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of the town of Pulaski. The dwellings are primarily frame and brick residences dating from the 1880s through the 1940s. They include the large homes of the factory managers, and the more modest homes of workers. Notable non-residential buildings include the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church , the First Baptist Church  , the First Christian Church  , the law office of Samuel N. Hurst, Masonic Lodge, and Pulaski Women&#39;s Club.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>John Hoge House, also known as the Crozier Eaton House, is a historic home located at Belspring, Pulaski County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1800, as a two-story, log dwelling with a hall-parlor plan. In the third quarter of the 19th century, a major frame addition was made to the house, transforming it to a two-story, three-bay, central hall plan dwelling. In addition, Greek Revival decorative additions were made to the interior.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Lucy F. Simms School is a school building at 620 Simms Avenue in Harrisonburg, Virginia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 11, 2004.</p><br>
<p>Lucy F. Simms (born 1855, died July 10, 1934) was a former slave who went on to become an influential teacher in Harrisonburg.</p><br>
<p>The school was located in north-eastern Harrisonburg, on the site of a previous school, the Effinger Street school. It was co-educational but was only available to African American children. The site had housed a school from around 1880 on what had previously been the Hilltop estate of the Gray family. The Lucy F. Simms school was built in 1938 and closed from 1966 when American schools finally became integrated and so open to all children.</p><br>
<p>After the school&#39;s closure, the building remained empty until it was re-opened in 2005 as the Lucy F. Simms Continuing Education Center.</p><br>
<p>Back Creek Farm is a historic home located near Dublin, Pulaski County, Virginia. It dates to the late-18th century, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick I-house with a side-gable roof. It has a two-story rear ell, sits on a rubble limestone basement, and has interior end chimneys with corbelled caps. The front facade features a pedimented tetrastyle Ionic order porch with an elegant frontispiece doorway with stop-fluted Corinthian order pilasters. Its builder was Joseph Cloyd . During the American Civil War, on May 9, 1864, the Battle of Cloyd&#39;s Mountain was fought on the property. The house served that day as a hospital and as headquarters for the Union General George Crook, under whose command were Captains Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley.</p><br>
<p>North of the house is the barn, a stone structure whose damage from Union artillery is still evident. This Pennsylvania barn is built of limestone of different sorts: many of the walls are rubble, while set above the basement windows are small arches of carefully prepared stonework.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Belle–Hampton, also known as Hayfield, is a historic home located near Dublin, Pulaski County, Virginia. It is a two-story, brick dwelling that consists of two sections. The original section was built about 1826, and is the two-story, three room rear section, with a large two-story two-room addition built about 1879, and obscuring the original front. The house exhibits Federal and Italianate style decorative elements. Among the contributing buildings and structures are a 1931 swimming pool and tennis court; a probable kitchen/ washhouse / slave dwelling, barn, granary, and a meathouse that date to the 19th century. The property also includes the site of a private coal-mining operation with a well-preserved commissary building and blacksmith shop. The property was the home, farm and industrial operation of James Hoge Tyler, industrialist, agricultural and industrial promoter, and governor of Virginia from 1898 to 1902.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Fairview District Home is a historic almshouse located near Dublin, Pulaski County, Virginia. It was built in 1928, and is large, two-story, T-shaped brick Colonial Revival style building. The front facade features a projecting, three-bay, central pavilion with a large pedimented porch. Also on the property is a contributing two-story, brick garage. It was established as part of a Governor Harry F. Byrd-era reform of the county almshouse system in Virginia. In the mid-1970s the Fairview Home moved to a modern building on the property and continued to operate as a nursing home.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Haven B. Howe House is a historic home located at Claytor Lake State Park, near Dublin, Pulaski County, Virginia. It was built between 1876 and 1879, and is a two-story, brick dwelling with Italianate style detailing. It has a rear brick ell and projecting one-story bays on both end walls. It features ornamental wrought iron porch supports. Also on the property are three contributing limestone mounting blocks. The property, located on Claytor Lake, was conveyed to the Virginia Conservation Commission in 1947. The house is used as a Nature Exhibit Center that focuses on the lake&#39;s wildlife habitat.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Rockwood is a historic home and cattle / dairy farm located near Dublin, Pulaski County, Virginia. It was built in 1874–1875, and is a large two-story, Greek Revival style brick dwelling. It has a metal-sheathed hipped roof with a deck, interior brick chimneys, two-story semi-octagonal bay windows, ornamental metal lintels, and a Classical Revival wraparound porch added in the 1910s. The center section of the porch rises a full two stories on monumental Ionic order columns. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse , garage, ice house site, two chicken houses, pump house, gate pillars, lamb barn, spring house, dairy barn, calf barn, mill house, two pump houses, bull barn, and a corn crib and wagon shed. Many of the contributing outbuildings date to the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Laurel Mills Historic District is a national historic district located at Laurel Mills, Rappahannock County, Virginia. It encompasses 10 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing object in the village of Laurel Mills. It includes a collection of domestic and commercial buildings that primarily developed in response to a growing mill industry. The buildings primarily date from the 1840s to the early 1900s. Laurel Mills appears today much as it did when the mill closed in 1927.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Austin H. and Frankie A. Dwight Summer House, also known as the Bay Pointe Restaurant, was a building constructed as a private summer home, located on Gun Lake at 11456 Marsh Road in Shelbyville, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1982</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1885, Charles and Elizabeth Morrell bought property on Gun Lake previously used for farming. They turned it into a resort, which they eventually sold to Edmund Noble. In 1899, Noble sold the property to Austin H. Dwight and his wife Frankie. Between 1901 and 1902, the Dwights constructed this summer home on the property. The Dwights normally lived in this house for six months out of the year until their deaths in 1924 (Frankie) and 1926 (Austin).</p><br>
<p>After their deaths, the house remained vacant for years, until 1978, when Roy and Jackie Martin purchased house and surrounding property and renovated the structure. In 1983, the Martins opened the Bay Pointe Restaurant in the Dwight Summer House. The property changed ownership, and in 2004 the structure was demolished and a new Bay Pointe Inn erected at the site.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Dwight summer residence was a 2-1/2-story wood frame Colonial Revival structure with a mix of gambrel and hip roof sections. It was clad with cobblestones on the first floor with wooden shingling above. It had a massive fieldstone chimney, a large bay window, and an enclosed porch. The house was significant both for its architecture and or the use of advanced engineering techniques, where timber trusses with iron tie rods were used to house a large public space in the first floor.</p><br>
<p>Sperryville Historic District is a national historic district located at Sperryville, Rappahannock County, Virginia, USA. It encompasses 63 contributing buildings in the village of Sperryville. The buildings are predominantly wood-frame, one-and two-story residences, some of which have been converted to commercial establishments. They include a collection of former factory workers&#39; housing built to serve the workers of the Smoot tannery from 1867 to the early 20th century. A number of the buildings were constructed after 1850 with ornamentation and board-and-batten siding that is suggestive of the mid-century Romantic Revivals.</p><br>
<p>Notable buildings include the George William Cooper House, the Dr. Amiss House, the Hopkins Ordinary, and the Totten&#39;s Mill House.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Acorn Corner, originally known as the Franklin Hotel or Hotel Franklin, is a six-story historic building in Kent, Ohio, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places since January 2013. Construction started in 1919 and the hotel opened in September 1920. The hotel was also known as the Hotel Kent and later the Hotel Kent-Ellis. Locally it is often referred to as the "old Kent hotel", "Kent Hotel", or the "old hotel". The building functioned as a hotel until the early 1970s when it was converted for use as student housing. The upper four floors were condemned in 1979, though the bottom floors housed a number of small businesses until 2000.</p><br>
<p>After several years of total vacancy and nearly being demolished multiple times in the 2000s, the building was purchased in late 2011 by local developer Ron Burbick and renamed Acorn Corner to complement his adjacent Acorn Alley development. Work also began on a complete $6.5 million renovation and restoration of the building, which included construction of a new elevator shaft. The renovated building, hailed as a "Kent miracle", opened in April 2013 and had a grand opening in May. Its anchor tenant is Buffalo Wild Wings, and also includes a wine bar, offices, and apartments.</p><br>
<p>The structure, designed by architect H.L. Stevens, is an example of the Neoclassical Revival style. It includes five above-ground levels and a partially exposed basement. It was nominated under National Register Criteria A and B, due to its connections with significant events and developments in local history and important people in the history of Kent.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The movement to build a new hotel in Kent was started in the early 20th century and was initiated and carried out by the Kent Board of Trade, now known as the Kent Chamber of Commerce. While the village had two places of lodging, neither was very large. The previous hotel, the Revere Hotel, closed in 1899, and business leaders felt a larger, modern hotel was needed to meet the demands of growing industries, railroad travelers, and the emerging Kent State Normal College. The idea was that of Dudley Mason, the owner of Mason Tire and Rubber in Kent. The drive to fund the hotel through the selling of stock began March 24, 1919. During this time, the Board of Trade also sponsored a naming contest in the local Kent Courier newspaper, where the "Franklin Hotel" name ultimately came from, named after the previous name for Kent, Franklin Mills.</p><br>
<p>The first mortgage was bonded in August 1919 and the following month, the architect was chosen, and the Barnett property at the southwest corner of East Main and South DePeyster Streets was selected as the site. The old Barnett home was razed and excavation work started by September 11, 1919 with walls starting to rise by December 18. The hotel opened for tours to stockholders and their families on September 8 and 11, 1920, with a public opening September 12, 1920.</p><br>
<p>Despite good opening reviews, the Franklin Hotel struggled financially for most of its existence, changing owners and managers every few years. By 1934, it had been auctioned twice and many investors had lost all of their investments. Florence B. Adams of Kent Hotel Incorporated bought the building in 1934 and renovated it, re-opening in 1937 as the Hotel Kent. From 1937 into the mid 1950s, It was managed by Russell OConke and enjoyed what is regarded as its heyday. The hotel was stable financially and was marketed as "Ohios Most Modern Hotel" and "Ohio&#39;s Finest Small Town Hotel".</p><br>
<p>Notable guests who stayed at the hotel during this period included Guy Lombardo, Amelia Earhart, and Glenn Miller. Eliot Ness frequented the hotel&#39;s bar in the 1940s and Kent native Martin L. Davey, who served as Governor of Ohio in the 1930s, had an office in the building.</p><br>
<p>In 1956, however, a new motel along what is now State Route 59 just east of the city limits opened, known as the Eastwood Motor Inn. It featured endorsement from AAA and other modern amenities like ample parking and air conditioning, which the Hotel Kent lacked. Other factors such as the decline in railroad travel and the emergence of the automobile led to a decrease in the need for regional hotels. In 1962, the hotel came under the management of Frank Ellis and was renamed Hotel Kent-Ellis. Financial fortunes continued to decline as two more modern motels opened in Kent: the nearby Motor Inn (later known as the Inn of Kent) in 1964 and the eight-story University Inn along South Water Street in 1970. In the 1970s, with the building in decline and the hotel operations no longer profitable, it was sold to Joseph Bujack and converted to student housing, known as the Towne House. Damage from a number of fires in the 1970s and the deteriorated state of the building led the city to condemn the upper floors in January 1979. Those floors remained vacant until 2013. The lower floors continued to be used until 2000 for a variety of small businesses such as a pizza shop, cafe, and nightclubs.</p><br>
<h3>Decline</h3><br>
<p>Following complaints about roof damage in early 1999, the city inspected the building and found that while the building itself was structurally sound, several areas of the brick facade were loose and posed a danger to pedestrians. City inspectors also found a number of health, fire, and building codes and filed for an injunction to close the entire structure. An agreement was reached in October 1999 to make repairs, though only a few minor repairs were carried out on the brick facade, roof, and windows to prevent more pigeons from entering the upper floors. In March 2000, the remaining businesses in the building closed and the city set an April 1 deadline for Bujack to decide if he was going to renovate or raze the building. Although Bujack eventually decided to demolish the building, no work was ever started.</p><br>
<p>In March 2002, Bujack was given a court order to raze the building by March 31 or face a fine of $1,000 per day it remained standing after that. Bujack offered to give the building to Family and Community Services of Portage County, who had plans to renovate the building for apartments and retail. The plan called for the city of Kent to take temporary possession of the building, but fell through when city leaders decided the liability involved in taking ownership was too high. Other groups expressed interest in the building or the site including proposals to renovate it for use as a hotel, gradual renovation for offices and retail, and demolishing it and building a new store on the site, though none of the plans ever progressed beyond planning stages.</p><br>
<p>The old hotel was acquired in 2004 by Greg Vilk, a former tenant who had operated the last three businesses in the building. Vilk had sued previous owner Joseph Bujack for breach of his lease agreement and took ownership of it as part of the settlement. At the time of the transfer, Bujack owed over $308,000 in fines on the building. Vilk and his ownership group Kent LLC had plans to redevelop the building, but none of them ever materialized.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, he was given a court order to make several repairs for health and safety issues. Repairs made included cleaning of the brick facade and re-grouting the bricks in several locations, removal of several windows, and painting the rear outer wall. Inside, most of the building was gutted to help make it more presentable to potential developers. During the interior work, however, concerns were raised over whether the renovation would jeopardize efforts to obtain any federal or state preservation grants. As a result, no further renovation work was carried out, and while it was reported a development group was interested in buying the building, no changes in ownership occurred. As the building continued to deteriorate, it was described as an "eyesore" and "decrepit" along with being a safety and health hazard with several calls for its demolition.</p><br>
<h3>Redevelopment</h3><br>
<p>Kent City Council again approached the idea of foreclosing on the building and tearing it down in 2006. While the demolition measure was defeated, council did authorize the city to attempt to foreclose on the property. Disagreements between Vilk and the city continued for several years over the payment of the fines and liens on the building, the lack of any visible redevelopment efforts, and the increasing dilapidated state of the structure with Vilk maintaining that the city had promised to remove the liens. A 2007 court ruling ended any additional liens from being issued on the property, but did not remove the liens already in existence of $425,000.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, Vilk sued the city for $25,000 and the removal of the fines and in 2009, a judge ruled that the city had no authority to collect on the liens, instead ruling that the liens were under the jurisdiction of Portage County. Later in 2009, courts ruled that neither the city nor the county had any liens on the property, but the contempt of court fines still stood. Vilk contended that the fines were levied on the previous owner and were dormant. A settlement was reached in 2011 and the city bought the building for $735,000 before selling it to Ron Burbick a few days later for $400,000.</p><br>
<p>Prior to his purchase of the old hotel, Burbick had personally funded the Phoenix Project, which renovated and expanded two neighboring downtown buildings and tore down the house that was immediately adjacent to the west of old hotel, replacing it with a retail area known as "Acorn Alley". Acorn Alley quickly became a popular destination after opening in late 2009 and the office and retail space in the rest of the development was in high demand. The new development put increased exposure on the dilapidated state of the old hotel, which stood in contrast to the buildings around it. The Phoenix Project also helped spur additional development in the adjacent blocks of downtown Kent. Multiple development projects totaling nearly $100 million got underway in 2010, including a second phase of Acorn Alley, a new hotel and conference center, a 360-space parking deck, and additional retail and office space, all within a block of the old hotel.</p><br>
<p>Shortly after the sale of the building, Burbick announced plans to renovate the structure for mixed use, with retail and offices on the lower floors and apartments on the two upper floors. Tenants were announced in April 2012 with initial plans for luxury apartments on the fifth floor, transitional housing on the fourth floor for veterans, offices on the third floor, a Buffalo Wild Wings on the first and second floors, and retail in the basement, though the transitional housing was eventually removed from the plans. Burbick also announced that the building would be renamed "Acorn Corner" to complement the adjacent Acorn Alley development.</p><br>
<p>Minor renovation work started in May 2012 with asbestos and lead paint removal followed by exterior masonry work on May 22, 2012, which cleaned and re-grouted the entire brick facade. More extensive interior work began in September. In October, construction started on a new elevator shaft and stairwell added to the rear of the building which was necessitated by the original shaft being too small for modern elevator equipment. Buffalo Wild Wings opened for business April 1, 2013, and additional tenants moved into the remaining building space later in April and May. The renovation and restoration of the old hotel to become Acorn Corner was hailed by the local Record-Courier as a "Kent miracle" that brought the building "back from the dead."</p><br>
<h2>Uses</h2><br>
<p>As of 2013, the building has four corporate tenants. Buffalo Wild Wings serves as the anchor and occupies the first and second floors, having previously been located two blocks east. The restaurant chain, which mentions Kent in its corporate history, contributed $1.5 million to the renovation and occupies the original hotel lobby. In the basement level is the Franklin Hotel Bar, announced in May 2016 and opened that December, which features handcrafted cocktails, small plates, fine wines, and craft beer. It replaced the Secret Cellar, a wine and jazz bar which had opened in December 2013. On the third floor are the offices for Marathon Financial Services and the Kent Chamber of Commerce, which once had an office in the building during the 1920s. The fourth and fifth floors are private apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Franklin Hotel was designed by architectural firm H.L. Stevens & Company of Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. The Stevens firm had previously designed several similar hotels, including the NRHP-listed Hotel Ashtabula in Ashtabula, Ohio, which was under construction in 1919. Many other buildings designed by Stevens and his firm are also listed on the NRHP. Like several other Stevens buildings, the Franklin Hotel has a brick facade designed in the Neoclassical Revival style, a prominent architecture style of the early 20th century. The building has approximately 22,000 ft&sup2; of space on six total levels, with five above ground and a partially exposed basement level, the latter due to the sloped terrain of the site.</p><br>
<h2>Historic listing</h2><br>
<p>After acquiring the building, Ron Burbick began the process of having the building added to the NRHP to qualify for approximately $2 million of preservation grants and tax breaks to help fund the renovation, initially estimated to cost around $4 million. To aid in the process, the city of Kent also created a historic district in March 2012 that just included the hotel. The National Park Service formally added the old hotel to the NRHP on January 18, 2013. The final cost of the renovation was $6.5 million.</p><br>
<p>As part of the building being eligible for preservation grants, certain elements had to be restored, and several requirements were given for items such as new windows, signage, and interior work. Changes made to the building to comply with modern building codes and standards also had to be easily distinguishable from the original. Among the restoration work required by the Ohio Historic Preservation Office was a large painted sign on the western facade of the building, which overlooks downtown Kent. It was painted in the same location as the previous versions of the sign, which had been visible, though no longer maintained, up until the bricks were cleaned during the building&#39;s renovation in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The buildings original elevator shaft was determined to be too small for a modern elevator, so a new shaft was built onto the back of the building along with a new stairwell. As part of the restoration requirements, the exterior of the shaft had to be a different color than the building to easily distinguish it from the original structure. Its placement on the buildings southwest corner was done under guidelines from the National Park Service. The original elevator shaft was used as a conduit for electrical wiring and plumbing. Additionally, one of the original entrance doors facing East Main Street had to be restored but unusable due to a ramp for the building to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act.</p><br>
<p>Burbick had originally planned on using elements from the former Gougler Industries offices, which were from the same time period as the hotel. The owner of the former Gougler buildings, Furukawa Rock Drill USA, donated the items in 2011 after the Gougler buildings were torn down. Preservation guidelines, however, prohibited using materials from one old building in the restoration of another, so the woodwork was used to create a permanent display about Gougler Industries in the Acorn Corner building and as part of a conference room in the adjacent Acorn Alley II development.</p><br>
<p>The Franklin Hotel was nominated for the National Register of Historic Places due to its local significance in the history of Kent under criteria A and B. The building is first significant in the area of Commerce and Community Planning and Development of Criterion A because of the mobilization on the part of the Kent business community it is the result of. It is also significant under the area of Social History in Criterion B for its association with key government and business figures in the history of Kent and the early development of Kent State University.</p><br>
<p>The Pierce–Borah House is a historic building in Garden City, Idaho. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the house was among the earliest designed by prominent Idaho architect John E. Tourtellotte. It was completed in 1897 and originally located at 11th and Franklin Streets, in nearby Boise.</p><br>
<p>The house was commissioned by Boise entrepreneur Walter E. Pierce but was sold in 1898 to William Borah, later a prominent United States Senator. Pierce had sold another of his houses to Borah in 1893. In 1959, the house was purchased by Vernon K. Smith and moved from its original location to the present site, in a rural area west of downtown Garden City.</p><br>
<p>Although the house was described as being in "excellent condition" in a 1982 report, it appears to have since fallen into disrepair.</p><br>
<p>Mount Salem Baptist Meetinghouse, also known as Mount Salem Baptist Church, is a historic Baptist meeting house located near Washington, Rappahannock County, Virginia. It was built in 1850–1851, and is a one-story, stuccoed stone building. It measures 40 feet by 50 feet and is topped by a gable roof. The church was restored and put into active service in 1977, after closure in 1942.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Flint Hill Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church in Flint Hill, Rappahannock County, Virginia. The original section was built in 1854 and expanded and remodeled in the 1890s in the Late Victorian style. The original section is a one-story, gable-roofed, frame-and-weatherboard rectangular structure. Later additions are the front entrance tower topped with a belfry and Sunday school rooms to the rear. It features six stained-glass windows. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery. Among those buried in the churchyard is Confederate Private Albert Gallatin Willis, one of Mosby&#39;s Rangers and a seminarian who offered himself for execution in the place of a married comrade-in-arms</p><br>
<p>the grave is noted with a marker in the Civil War Trails series.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 and included in the Flint Hill Historic District in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Sunnyside, also known as Sunnyside Farms, is a historic farm complex and national historic district located at Washington, Rappahannock County, Virginia. It encompasses 13 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures. The main house was constructed in four distinct building phases from about 1785 to 1996. The oldest section is a two-story single-pile log structure with a hall-parlor plan, with a 1 1/2-story stone kitchen added about 1800. In addition to the main house, the remaining contributing resources include five dwellings , two smokehouses, a root cellar, a chicken coop, a spring house, two cemeteries, a silo, a workshop, a stone foundation for a demolished house, stone walls, and a shed. The farm is the location of the first commercial apple orchard in Rappahannock County, Virginia, established in 1873.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Ben Venue is a historic home and farm located near Washington, Rappahannock County, Virginia. The main house was built between 1844 and 1846, and is a three-story, five-bay, brick dwelling with a side gable roof and parapets. It features a one-story porch that covers the central three bays; it has four Doric order columns supporting a bracketed entablature. The property also includes three brick slave cabins, the original Fletcher homestead, kitchen, smokehouse, privy, and a formal garden.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Montpelier is a historic plantation house located near Sperryville, Rappahannock County, Virginia. The main house was built about 1750, and is a two-story, 11 bay, stuccoed stone and brick dwelling with a side gable roof. It consists of a five-bay main block with north and south three bay wings. It features a two-story verandah stretching the entire length of the house with eight large provincial Tuscan order columns. The property also includes the contributing smokehouse, storage house, and a frame cabin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>From 2004 to 2009, Montpelier was owned by English conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton.</p><br>
<p>John W. Miller House is a historic home located near Boston, in Rappahannock County, Virginia. It was built in 1842&ndash;1843, and is a two-story, I-house, with a central-passage plan and interior end chimneys. It was adorned in 1880&ndash;1881, with Italianate features, including an elaborate two-story front porch. The property also includes the contributing kitchen / quarters, ice house, barn, and Miller family cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>George L. Carder House, also known as Boxwood Hill, is a historic home located at Castleton, Rappahannock County, Virginia. It was built about 1833, and is a two-story, Federal-style brick dwelling on a limestone foundation. It features a pair of front entrances and an original kitchen built into the cellar. The property also includes a contributing one-room log house, log shed, and wood-framed barn.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Scrabble School is a historic Rosenwald school for African-American children located near Castleton, Rappahannock County, Virginia. It was built in 1921–1922, and is a one-story, wood-frame building clad in rough-cast stucco siding. The building sits on a poured concrete foundation. It features overhanging eaves, a wood cornice, exposed rafter tails, and</p><br>
<p>decorative corner brackets in the American Craftsman style. Also on the property are the contributing concrete block coal house/shed (c. 1950) and septic tanks / privy sites (c. 1922). The school was permanently closed in 1968.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Caledonia Farm, also known as Fountain Hall, is a historic home located at Flint Hill, Rappahannock County, Virginia. It was built about 1812, and is a two-story, three-bay, Federal style stone dwelling. The original stone kitchen was connected to the north end of the house in the 1960s. The property also includes the contributing Dearing family cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Meadow Grove Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located at Amissville, Rappahannock County, Virginia. It encompasses 13 contributing buildings and 5 contributing sites. The main house was constructed in four distinct building phases from about 1820 to 1965. The oldest section is a 1 1/2-story log structure, with a two-story Greek Revival style main block added about 1860. A two-story brick addition, built in 1965, replaced a two-story wing added in 1881. In addition to the main house the remaining contributing resources include a tenant house/slave quarters, a schoolhouse, a summer kitchen, a meat house, a machine shed, a blacksmith shop, a barn, a chicken coop, a chicken house, two granaries, and a corn crib; a cemetery, an icehouse ruin, two former sites of the present schoolhouse, and the original site of the log granary.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Farnham Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Farnham, Richmond County, Virginia. It was built in 1737, and is a one-story, cruciform shaped brick Colonial era church building. It measures 63 feet, 8 inches, feet by 58 feet, 2 inches, and is topped by a gable roof. Two years into the War of 1812, bullet holes were left in the walls during a conflict between the Virginia militia and the British fleet, led by Admiral George Cockburn. This event was called the Skirmish at Farnham Church. During the Civil War the church was used by Union soldiers as a stable. The church was last renovated in 1921 in the Georgian Revival style.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Linden Farm, also known as Linden and Dew House, is a historic home located near Farnham, Richmond County, Virginia. It was built in two stages between about 1700 and 1725, and is a small -story Colonial era frame vernacular dwelling. It is clad with beaded weatherboards and has an asymmetrical gable roof. The house features tall, asymmetrical, pyramidal brick chimneys.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Richmond County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Warsaw, Richmond County, Virginia. It was built between 1748 and 1750, and is a one-story Colonial-era brick building with a hipped roof. It measures approximately 52 feet by 41 feet. During a remodeling in 1877, the original arcade was bricked up and incorporated into the main building. Also on the property is a contemporary clerk&#39;s office. The buildings were built by planter Landon Carter .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Woodford is a historic home located at Simons Corner, Richmond County, Virginia. It dates to the mid-18th century, and is a small -story, three-bay, vernacular brick dwelling. It features a clipped gable roof and exterior end chimneys. The house was restored in the 1930s. At that time, a -story frame wing and porch were added.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Grove Mount is a historic plantation house located near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, United States. The main house was built about 1780–1800 by Robert Mitchell with the profits of forced labor; by 1808, he had enslaved 76 people. It is a large, two-story, five-bay Late Georgian-style frame dwelling. It has a hipped roof and interior end chimneys. A kitchen wing was added in 1952 and an orangery added in 1989. Also on the property are the contributing late-18th century dairy, a log corn crib, and a late-19th or early-20th century frame outbuilding. There is also the archeological site of the former kitchen and possibly other outbuildings adjacent to the old kitchen.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Johnsville Meetinghouse, also known as Johnsville Old German Baptist Meetinghouse, is a historic Old German Baptist Brethren meeting house located near Catawba, Roanoke County, Virginia. It was built in 1874, and is a simple, one story, one room building with five bays and a partial basement. It has a metal gable roof and features hand-planed clapboard siding and handmade window frames and glass.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Starkey School is a historic school building located at Starkey, Roanoke County, Virginia. It was built about 1915, and is thought to incorporate an earlier one-room school built about 1894. It is a brick school building flanked by wings built in 1928, and measuring 24 feet by 33 feet. In December 1962, the school was closed and was purchased by Roanoke County. The school is now privately owned.</p><br>
<p>The school was named for the district, and is built upon land once owned by Tazewell M. Starkey. Tazewell Starkey was an influential landowner and farmer in the district, and two roads that intersect at Starkey school are named for his family: Starkey Street and Merriman Road. He was a member of the Roanoke County School Board, Cave Springs District, from 1873 to 1895.</p><br>
<p>In 1941–1942, Starkey school taught children of the area from first through 6th grade. Crispean Divers was the school principal and taught the combined fifth and sixth grades. Martha T. Flora taught the combined 3rd and fourth grades, while Lillian S. Woodford taught the first and second grades.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
