<p>The Anderson–Doosing Farm is a historic home and farm located near Catawba, Roanoke County, Virginia. The farmhouse was built about 1883, and is a two-story, three-bay, Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a two-story rear ell. Also on the property are the contributing meat house, log cabin, equipment shed / blacksmith shop, two chicken houses, barn , privy , corn crib, and milking parlor .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Bolivia Road Bridge is a truss bridge near Bolivia, Illinois, which formerly carried Bolivia Road across the Sangamon River. The bridges main span is a Parker through truss, and the structure also includes a pony truss and several I-beam trusses. Plans to construct the bridge began in 1900, when Lanesville Townships highway commissioner petitioned Sangamon County for funds for a bridge. Funding on the bridge ultimately came from a joint effort by Lanesville Township, Sangamon County, Christian County, and Christian County&#39;s Mount Auburn Township, as the latter two areas were connected to Sangamon County by the bridge. J.T. Garrett of St. Louis, Missouri built the bridge in 1901. A 1994 state bridge survey identified the bridge as one of seven remaining Parker through truss bridges in Illinois, one of which has since been demolished.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 28, 2004. The bridge was listed on Landmarks Illinois&#39; Ten Most Endangered Historic Places list in 2011.</p><br>
<p>In the spring of 2015, a single-car accident prompted county officials to permanently close the bridge.</p><br>
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<p>Harshbarger House is a historic home located at Hollins, Roanoke County, Virginia. It is a two-story dwelling consisting of a late 18th-century, stone, two-story, one-room section with an early 19th-century brick addition. The stone section was built in 1797, and the brick section was added about 1825. A kitchen is attached to the main house by a modern addition.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The George and Martha Hitchcock House, also known as the Fuller-McGuire House, is a private house located at 205 East Michigan Street in Farwell, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1996 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>George Hitchcock was born in Watertown, Connecticut in 1825. In 1851, he married Martha Hall, daughter of a prominent Detroit family. Hitchcock worked on the railroad for a number of years, and in 1857 moved to Owosso, Michigan and opened a drugstore. They established the Farwell City Company, which owned the town, and Farwell became manager of the company. Hitchcock also acted as the citys first postmaster and Clare Countys first treasurer, and established sawmills in the area.</p><br>
<p>After living in the area for some time, George Hitchcock and his wife Martha hired the Detroit firm of Mason & Rice to design this house; construction was completed in 1885. George Hitchcock died in 1889. The house is still privately owned.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The George and Martha Hitchcock House is a two-story asymmetrical wood-framed Queen Anne structure clad with clapboards. The front facade spans four bays, with the rightmost bay recessed, transitioning into a bay window corner. The porch was altered in the 1950s by extending it across the front facade. The attic has a pedimented gable over the three left bays with an elaborate molded lintel.</p><br>
<p>The Col. Nathan Whitney House is a historic house located at 1620 Whitney Road south of Franklin Grove, Illinois, United States. The Italianate house was built for Colonel Nathan Whitney, a veteran of the War of 1812, in 1860. Whitney and his family settled in the Franklin Grove area in 1836 and founded the Franklin Grove Nursery and Orchards. The orchards became successful, and Whitney had four houses built for his family on the site, the 1860 house being the fourth.</p><br>
<p>The houses design features many of the typical features of Italianate architecture. A prominent cupola, a traditional feature of the style, tops the houses hipped roof. The house features decorative brackets and dentillation along its eaves and the top of its front porch; additional brackets separate the cupolas windows. The porchs railing and newel posts and the capitals of its columns also feature decorative moldings. The thin windows on both the house and its cupola emphasize the height of the building, as do the thin columns supporting the porch roof.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 2, 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Old Iroquois County Courthouse, now known as the Iroquois County Museum, is a history museum in Watseka, Illinois, which served as the Iroquois County courthouse from 1866 until 1964. The Italianate building was designed by C.B. Leach and built by contractor A.C. Mantor. In addition to housing county courts and offices, the building also served as the county jail and sheriffs residence. In 1881, an addition was placed on the building, and the courthouses octagonal tower was replaced by a square tower. A second addition was constructed in 1927; in the same year, the courthouse&#39;s copper dome was removed and replaced by a mansard roof.</p><br>
<p>When a new courthouse was built in 1964, county officials planned to demolish the old courthouse; however, local outcry convinced the county to temporarily save the building. The courthouse sat disused and neglected until 1967, when the Iroquois County Historical Society formed and purchased the building for a museum. The museum is the home of the county&#39;s genealogical records library and includes collections of minerals and fossils, Native American artifacts, antique dolls, and numerous other historical items. The original courtroom is now used as a theater and concert hall.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 13, 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Carroll County Courthouse, located in Courthouse Square in Mount Carroll, is the county courthouse of Carroll County, Illinois. The courthouse, which was designed by Chicago architects Olmstead and Nicholson, was built in 1858 and has been used continuously since. During the Civil War, the courthouse also served as a barracks for the countys troops prior to their commissioning. The Lorado Taft Monument, a memorial to the countys Civil War veterans, was added to the site in 1891. According to Ripley&#39;s Believe It or Not, the monument is the only Civil War memorial with an annex, which was added to fit names which had been left off the original memorial.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 26, 1973.</p><br>
<p>Pleasant Grove, also known as Joseph Deyerle House, Deyerle Homeplace, and Glenvar is a historic home located near Salem in Roanoke County, Virginia. It was built in 1853, and is a two-story, three-bay, Greek Revival style brick dwelling. The front facade features a well-proportioned Ionic order portico with slender tapered, fluted columns. It also has an original sunroom measuring 7 feet by 14 feet. Also on the property are the contributing kitchen , spring house, smokehouse, servant&#39;s house, and privy.</p><br>
<p>Much of the woodwork was done by a carpenter named Gustave A. Sedon, who worked closely with both Joseph and his half-brother, Benjamin Deyerle. "One of the most interesting things about Pleasant Grove is the fine architectural detail on the front which was put out on the house by Gustavus Sedon (sic), a German carpenter/handyman contractor. The house has interesting Ionic columns which Sedon carved and a cast iron balcony up on the top which Sedon or Joseph Deyerle, the owner of the house, ordered from Lynchburg, Virginia or maybe from Richmond. Someday I&#39;ll pursue this iron work but its interesting to know that the exact ironwork is on the Witherow house in Lexington, Virginia, on a house on Main Street in Lynchburg, Virginia, and another building in Richmond, Virginia."</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Black Horse Tavern-Bellvue Hotel and Office is a historic inn and tavern complex located at Hollins, Roanoke County, Virginia. The complex consists of the Black Horse Tavern , the Greek Revival style Bellvue Hotel   and the temple-fronted, Greek Revival style brick Office . Other contributing resources on the property include a spring house  and a shed . The Black Horse Tavern is a simple, one story, three-bay log structure. The Bellvue Hotel is a two-story, five-bay, brick structure with a central-passage, double-pile plan. The office is a simple, one-story, one-bay brick structure. It features a wide frieze band and a front portico with a pedimented gable supported by squared Doric order columns. The buildings housed a school for physically and mentally handicapped children and the property became known as Bellevue School during the mid-20th century. The school closed in 1976, and the buildings house a single family residence.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Fairman Building is a commercial building located at 102-106 South Michigan Avenue in Big Rapids, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Ferdinand Fairman was born in Lyme, New York in 1833. He became a teacher, and in 1855 married Julia Waters; the couple had three children. In 1859, Fairman purchased a general store in Alexandria, New York and successfully ran it until 1871, when he liquidated his assets and moved to Adams, New York to further educate his children. Over the next two years, Fairman travelled in different parts of the US to ascertain where an advantageous place to move. Fairman first took a position as cashier at a local bank, but soon became involved in a substantial amount of real estate, investment, and other non-lumbering activities in what was then a primarily lumbering town. In 1875, he and Samuel Potter, another New York transplant, established a private bank; in 1879 Potter retired and Fairman bought him out.</p><br>
<p>In 1880, Fairman hired the Big Rapids firm of Crocker and Hudnutt to design and build this commercial block; his bank was located in the building until its dissolution in the early 1890s. The Fairman Building remains the largest commercial block in Big Rapids.</p><br>
<p>In 2003, the Fairman Building, along with the nearby Nisbett Building, were refurbished into senior citizen housing, and are now known as the Nisbett-Fairman Residences.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Fairman Building is a three-story rectangular red brick Italianate commercial block. It is located at the intersection of Maple and South Michigan, and has two main facades, with five three-bay storefronts and single-bay entryway to the upper floors on South Michigan and four three-bay storefronts on Maple. The facade is accentuated with buff-colored brick work at the corners. A metal cornice supported with brackets runs across the top; the brackets provide a delineation between the storefronts on each facade.</p><br>
<p>The Nisbett Building is a commercial building located at 101 South Michigan Avenue in Big Rapids, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1977 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1885, Daniel F. Comstock, a leading Big Rapids businessman, began construction on this building. He spent $150,000 enclosing the building and finishing the Maple Street facade; however, work on the building apparently halted due to the economic downturn in the 1890s. Comstock himself went bankrupt in 1896, and the building ownership was assumed by the Michigan Trust Company of Grand Rapids. The Trust sold the building to William P. Nisbett, a retired newspaper editor from Big Rapids, in 1900 for $20,000.</p><br>
<p>Nisbett was born in London in 1847, and in 1861 emigrated with his family to the United States. In 1863 the family moved to Pontiac, Michigan, and the next year William Nisbett served briefly in the 16th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment. In 1869, he established a newspaper in Pontiac, where he worked until 1880. In 1882, he purchased the Big Rapids Herald,</p><br>
<p>Nisbett hired Grand Rapids builder J. H. Fisher to complete construction, including a hotel in one section of the building.</p><br>
<p>In 2003, the Nisbett Building, along with the nearby Fairman Building, were refurbished into senior citizen housing, and are now known as the Nisbett-Fairman Residences.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Nisbett Building is a three-story rectangular Late Victorian brick commercial block. It is located the intersection of Michigan and Maple. There are four entryways, each topped with a parapet. The main entrance is through a four-bay porch supported by Corinthian columns; a second corner entry opens into a bank lobby. The arched windows have wooden sashes, and are arranged in three-bay configurations.</p><br>
<p>The Cedar Hill Church and Cemeteries are located in historic Rockbridge County, Virginia. The small log church, which also served as a schoolhouse, was built in 1874 evoking the history of Rockbridge County&#39;s African American community. The land was given by a white farmer named John Replogle and transferred to" Trustees for the Colored Baptist Congregation" A cemetery was established behind the church, marked today by a scattering of field stone memorials. Because of the rocky ground, a new cemetery was laid out at a separate location around 1890 and is still in use.</p><br>
<p>The Cedar Hill congregation was formed shortly after the Civil War. It consisted of African Americans that basically worked and lived on white-owned farms. The meetings were held in a log dwelling southwest of the present church. Later, the congregation met under a large oak tree that stood approximately one and a half miles west of the present church. Cedar Hill&#39;s oak tree meeting-place was similar to the brush arbor churches that many freedman congregations established in Virginia following the Civil war as temporary shelter. It is said that many members were buried near that oak tree that was called as the "Gospel Tree". The tree was destroyed by lightning around 1890, but the stump is still visible and a limb from it is kept at the present church as a historic memento.</p><br>
<p>By the late 1920s, the church began to lose many of its key members. Most moved to the nearest city, Lexington, where there was better opportunities for work and education. After 1939, the church sat idle for 26 years until a yearly homecoming was established in 1965. The annual homecomings are held at the church on the third Sunday in August.</p><br>
<p>Cedar Hill is acknowledged as an important site and illustration the African American heritage of rural Rockbridge County, Va. The Church is registered with the United States Department of the Interior National Park Service and National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Cedar Hill Church and Cemeteries is a historic African-American church and two cemeteries located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built in 1874, and is a one-story, one room, log building sheathed in plain and beaded boards. Also on the property are the Old Cemetery, used during the late-19th century, and the New Cemetery, established in 1890 and still in use.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Hays Creek Mill, also known as McClungs Mill, Pattersons Mill, and Steeles Mill, is a historic grist mill located near Brownsburg, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It dates to about 1819, and is a -story, rectangular wood-frame building on a limestone basement. The building measures 35 feet by 45 feet and retains an iron overshot wheel measuring 15 feet in diameter and 5 feet thick. Associated with the mill are the contributing millers house, garage that once served as a corn crib, and cow barn. The Hays Creek Mill remained in operation until 1957 in a number of capacities as a grist, saw, and fulling mill.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Buffalo Forge, also known as the Forge Complex, is a historic iron forge complex and national historic district located near Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The district encompasses 11 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 3 contributing structures. The manor house is known as Mount Pleasant and was built in two sections of similar stone construction. The earlier section dates to about 1819, and the wing was added about 1830. A frame wing was added in the late-19th century and a kitchen wing in the early-20th century. The district also includes the contributing kitchen , two slave quarters , garage , spring house / dairy , stone cabin , shed , stables / barn , corn crib , hen house , and the ruins of the merchant mill and mill race. Iron production at Buffalo Forge ceased in the fall of 1868.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Glasgow Historic District is a national historic district located at Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The district encompasses 43 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure in the central business district of the town of Glasgow. It includes a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings dating from the 1820s to 1920s, with most structures from the 1890s. Notable buildings include the Rebecca Salling House , First Baptist Church, the former Glasgow Baptist Church, St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church, Blue Ridge Building , and Glasgow Masonic Temple .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, with a boundary increase in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Brownsburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Brownsburg, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The district encompasses 42 contributing buildings in the town of Brownsburg. Established in 1783 on the lands of Robert Wardlaw and Samuel McChesney, the town became a major hub of activity by 1835, before losing commercial importance around the turn of the century, due to the arrival of a nearby rail line. It includes a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings most of which date from one of two periods - the first half of the 19th century and the period 1870–1910. Notable buildings include the Swope House, Wade brick house, Bosworth log house, Newcomer house, Coblentz house and store, NYE Pool Hall, Wade frame house, Ward House, and the Fixx House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Glen Maury, also known as the Paxton Place and Elisha Paxton&#39;s house, is a historic home located in Rockbridge County, Virginia, near the independent city of Buena Vista. It was built between 1829 and 1832, and is a -story, brick dwelling. It sits on a high basement, made of native stone, and has a two-story rear ell addition. The front facade features a somewhat crude, two-story, Doric order Classical Revival portico with paired columns. The river side is dominated by a five-bay, two-story verandah with turned wooden posts and simple brackets. It was added about 1900.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Church Hill, also known as Timber Ridge Plantation, is a historic plantation house located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built circa 1848, and is a two-story, three-bay, rectangular brick Greek Revival style dwelling. It has a one-story, rear kitchen ell. The house features stuccoed Doric order pilasters at the corners and midpoints of the long sides. Timber Ridge Plantation was the birthplace of Sam Houston . On the property is a non-contributing log building which tradition claims was constructed from logs salvaged from the Sam Houston birthplace cabin. The cabin is believed to have been located at the site of the kitchen ell.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Stone House, also known as the Zachariah Johnson House, is a historic home located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built in 1797, and is a -story, five-bay, stone dwelling. It has a side-gable roof, interior end chimneys, and a central-hall-plan. The front facade features a rough-hewn, four columned portico with pediment.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Thorn Hill is a historic home located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built in 1792, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick I-house dwelling. It has a side-gable roof, interior end chimneys with corbelled caps, and a two-story, one-bay wing. The front facade features a colossal tetrastyle portico with Doric order columns. The property includes the contributing log smokehouse, frame kitchen, frame servants house and loom house, and barns and farm outbuildings. Thorn Hill was the home of Col. John Bowyer, a central figure in Rockbridge County&#39;s formative years.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The property has historically been closely associated with nearby Washington and Lee University (W&L). In 1782, Bowyer was appointed one of the first trustees of Liberty Hall Academy, which eventually became W&L. John Robinson, a principal benefactor of Washington College, and Judge John Brockenbrough, founder of the W&L Law School, lived at Thorn Hill. More recently, Thorn Hill was a dairy farm, and the house itself largely fell into disrepair.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, Bill Johnston and Paul Elliott bought Thorn Hill, spending more than $1 million restoring the property and adding various amenities, including a large pottery studio where the original kitchen (which was built away from the main house to prevent the main house from burning down in the event of a fire) once stood. They also added a scenic driveway and lush gardens. In 2008, the pair attempted to sell the property. Unfortunately the house went on the market the week before the collapse of Bear Stearns. Over the next several years, they kept cutting the price without attracting a buyer. In 2013, the owners decided to auction the house.</p><br>
<p>Current Washington and Lee Trustee Bennett L. Ross and his wife Alyson Moore Ross were the high bidders during the auction, stating that they "...were interested in buying Thorn Hill because of its ties to Washington and Lee."</p><br>
<p>In 2021, the owners formally opened a bed and breakfast called the "Thorn Hill Inn", featuring refurbished original outbuildings with modern amenities as well as a fitness and yoga center.</p><br>
<p>The Charles N. Ramsey and Harry E. Weese House is a historic residence in Kenilworth, Illinois. Considered an excellent local example of an American Foursquare design, it is also the childhood home of architect Harry M. Weese.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Charles Nance and Katherine A. Ramsey purchased the Kenilworth, Illinois property in January 1909. It is believed that the house already stood, recently constructed, at this point. Charles was a Sales Manager with the Industry of Window/Glass in nearby Evanston. In 1912, the Ramsays sold the house; however, it appears that they continued to live there for at least two more years. In 1919, the property was sold to Harry Ernest and Marjorie (Mohr) Weese.</p><br>
<p>Harry E. Weese had been born in Bull Creek, Indiana in 1876. In the 1890s, he found work with the United States Railway Mail Service, operating routes between Toledo and St. Louis. Weese moved to the Chicago North Shore area in 1902 when he enrolled at Northwestern University. He joined N. W. Harris & Co., later known as the Harris Trust & Savings Bank, as a General Bookkeeper and Auditor in 1903. He worked at Harris until his retirement in 1942, holding the rank of Treasurer since 1927. Harry Weese was elected Village Clerk of Kenilworth in 1922, serving until he was elected as village Treasurer in 1925. He held this latter position until his 1942 relocation to Barrington. Weese greatly struggled through the Great Depression; he himself became depressed because of all of the workers he was forced to lay off.</p><br>
<p>Weese married Marjorie Moore in September 1914. They rented apartments in Evanston until they purchased this house. Both Harry and Marjorie were involved with the activities and operations of the Kenilworth Club. Harry Weese died in 1956 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.</p><br>
<p>The couples eldest son, Harry Mohr Weese, was born in 1915 while they lived in Evanston. Weese was enrolled in the progressive Joseph Sears School in 1919. By age ten, Weese had determined that he wanted to be an artist or architect. Weese moved out in 1933 when he enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pursue a Bachelor in Architecture. Weeses father provided him with his first commission, for a lake cottage on a family property. Weese would go on to become one of the most prominent architects of the modern movement. On April 1, 2009, the house was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Level Loop is a historic home and farm located near Brownsburg, Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA. It was built about 1819 and is a two-story, five-bay, brick Federal style dwelling. It has a side-gable roof, exterior end chimneys and a moulded brick cornice. The property includes the contributing stone chimney of an early outdoor kitchen and an early-20th century bank barn and granary. The house was built for William Houston, a relative of the Texas pioneer and Rockbridge County native, Sam Houston.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Mulberry Grove is a historic home located near Brownsburg, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1790, and later expanded in the 1820s to a two-story, three-bay, brick and frame Federal style dwelling. It has a side gable roof and two chimneys at the northeast end and one brick chimney near the southwest end. A frame stair hall was added about 1828 and brick wings were added at each end about 1840. The property includes a contributing log meat house and a double-pen log barn. The house was built for William Houston, a relative of the Texas pioneer and Rockbridge County native, Sam Houston.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Mulberry Grove is a historic home located near Cornwall, Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA. It was built in 1796, and is a two-story, three-bay, stone I-house dwelling. It has a side gable roof, exterior end chimneys, and a bold cornice decorated with modillions and dentils. A two-story frame addition and one-story porch were added about 1900. The property includes a contributing bank barn and granary, both erected around 1900.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Clifton is a historic home located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The house was built about 1815, and is a two-story, seven-bay, Federal style brick dwelling. It has a side-gable roof and four chimneys. A two-story portico replaced an earlier Victorian portico in the 1980s. The property includes the contributing small stone servants quarters or foremans house and a wooden icehouse.</p><br>
<p>The address is 205 Old Buena Vista Road. It was built by Major John Alexander and overlooks the Maury River. Washington and Lee rowing teams would race at this location in the late 1800s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Locust Hill is a historic home located near Mechanicsville in Rockbridge County, Virginia. The house was built in 1826, and is a two-story, three-bay, Federal style brick dwelling. It has a side gable roof and interior end chimneys. The interior was damaged by fire in the 1850s and much of the woodwork was replaced with Greek Revival forms. A Greek Revival style front porch dates from the same period. The property also includes the contributing "slave quarters," a double pen log corn crib, and two frame sheds.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Maple Hall is a historic home located near Lexington in Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA. The house was built in 1855 and is a two-story, three-bay, Greek Revival style brick dwelling on an English basement. It has a hipped roof and rear ell with a gable roof. It features a two-story pedimented front portico. The property includes the contributing two-story brick building which probably dates to the 1820s and a small log outbuilding. The home is currently occupied by a behavior modification program named Maple Hall Academy, and formerly housed a restaurant.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Virginia Manor, also known as Glengyle, is a historic home located in Natural Bridge Station, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1800. The house consists of a two-story center block with a one-story wing on each side and a two-story rear ell. The two-story, five-bay frame central section expanded the original log structure in 1856. Between 1897 and 1920, two one-story, one-room wings with bay windows were added to the east and west sides of the 1850s house. The property also includes a contributing two-story playhouse, a tenants&#39; house, a stable, a spring house, a brick storage building, a smokehouse, a barn, a railroad waiting station, a dam, and a boatlock. The property was the summer home of George Stevens, president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway from 1900 to 1920.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Vine Forest, also known as Forest Oaks, Forest Tavern, and The Inn at Forest Oaks is a historic home located near Natural Bridge, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The original section was built in 1806 by Matthew Houston, the cousin of famous Texan, Sam Houston. The original house served as a store, tavern, and home for the Houston family, the primary dwelling on their sprawling plantation.</p><br>
<p>In 1812, Houston expanded the house with substantial Colonial Revival additions, adding a two-story center hall with a full arched ceiling, reminiscent of the nearby Natural Bridge. Surviving the ravages of the American Civil War, the house stood virtually unchanged over the following century.</p><br>
<p>In 1916, the property was purchased by Ohio architect Curtis Walton and his aunt Lilly who transformed the original federal style structure into an English country manor reminiscent of Lilly&#39;s British ancestry. The two-story center hall remained, however the original arched ceiling was removed and replaced with stunning oak woodwork and arches salvaged from an English estate. Two-story frame wings and a two-story rear verandah were also added.</p><br>
<p>In addition, the Walton&#39;s built three Greek revival cottages on the property. The largest, Vine Cottage, served as a temporary home as the Manor House was being renovated.</p><br>
<p>Vine Forest was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Thebes Courthouse in Thebes, Illinois, is the former county courthouse of Alexander County. Plans to build the courthouse began in 1845, when the county seat was moved to Thebes from Unity. Architect L. I. Lightner planned the courthouse, which he designed in a Southern Greek Revival style featuring a two-story porch and four front pillars. Contractor Ernstt Barkhausen built the courthouse for $4,400, and the building was completed in 1848. It served as Alexander County&#39;s courthouse until the county seat was moved to Cairo in 1860.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 26, 1972. It now serves as the headquarters of the Thebes Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The Old Custom House is a historic government building in downtown Cairo, Illinois. Built from 1869 to 1872, the building served as a customs house, post office, and courthouse. Alfred B. Mullett, the USA Supervising Architect at the time, designed the building in the Italianate style, a rarity among federal buildings; his design features a bracketed cornice and rounded windows. When Cairo built a new post office in 1942, the building became the town&#39;s police station. The building is one of the few surviving USA custom houses and one of the largest federal buildings of its era in the Mid-Mississippi Valley region.</p><br>
<p>The custom house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1973. It now serves as a history museum.</p><br>
<p>In celebration of the 2018 Illinois Bicentennial, Cairo Custom House was selected as one of the Illinois 200 Great Places by the American Institute of Architects Illinois component (AIA Illinois).</p><br>
<p>Fancy Hill is a historic home located near Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Virginia, United States. The house was built in two phases, the first about 1821 and the second about 1831. The result is a two-story, eight-bay, Federal-style brick dwelling. Front and back two-story porches and two small rooms at the back of the house were added circa the 1840s. A 1½-story brick wing was added in 1936, when the house was renovated and back porch enclosed. The property also includes the contributing large gabled two-story barn, equipment garage, and small shed.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The home previously hosted a small Santa Claus museum that was toured during the winter holiday season, and is now privately owned.</p><br>
<p>Marlbrook, also known as Cherry Hill, is a historic home located near Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The oldest section dates to about 1766, and is a two-story, five-bay Late Georgian style brick farmhouse with a -story brick east wing and a balancing frame west wing. The east wing was added in 1804 and the west wing in the 1990s. The property also includes the contributing log spring house, cistern , barn, tenant house , and garage / workshop .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Mountain View Farm, also known as Pioneer Farms, is a historic home and farm complex located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The main house was built in 1854, and is a two-story, three-bay, brick dwelling, with a -story gabled kitchen and servant&#39;s wing, and one-story front and back porches. It features a Greek Revival style interior and has a standing seam metal hipped roof. The property includes an additional 13 contributing buildings and 3 contributing structures loosely grouped into a domestic complex and two agricultural complexes. They include a two-story, frame spring house / wash house, a frame meathouse, a one-room brick building that probably served as a secondary dwelling, a double-crib log barn, a large multi-use frame barn, a slatted corn crib with side and central wagon bays and a large granary.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Margaret E. Poague House is a historic home located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built about 1847, and is a two-story, three-bay Greek Revival style brick dwelling. It sits banked into a hillside and has a standing seam metal gable roof and interior end chimneys. The property also includes a contributing early-20th century gate pillar.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Springdale, also known as Half Moon, Alexander Trimble House, Holly Hill, and the Dixon House / Farm, is a historic home located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built about 1812, and reached its present form in 1914. The brick dwelling consists of a two-story, three-bay, pedimented, central section flanked by two-story wings. The interior features Federal style decorative details. The full-length front porch with a pediment above the front entrance replaced the original, smaller porch in 1914.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Sunnyside, also known as Sunnyside House, Sunnyside Farm, The Sycamores, and Telford, is a historic home located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1790, and is a three-story, five-bay, Federal style brick dwelling. A rear wing was added about 1805, parlor addition in the 1840s, the east end addition in the 1860s, projecting gable windows in the 1880s-1890s, and the north and south porches in the 1940s. Also on the property are the contributing cottage , dairy, machine shed, granary, garage, calving barn, and shed.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
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<p>Willson House, also known as Tuckaway and Wee Dornoch, is a historic home located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built in 1812, and is a two-story, five-bay, Georgian / Federal style brick dwelling, with a one-story kitchen wing. It has a side gable roof, interior end chimneys, and a central-passage plan. The front facade features a pedimented entry porch with brown sandstone front steps. Also on the property are a contributing smokehouse and garage.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Lylburn Downing School is a historic school building for African-American children located at Lexington, Virginia. It was built in 1926–1927, and is a one-story, Classical Revival style brick building. It has a columned entry porch and pilasters. A rear addition was constructed in 1939–1940, and a covered walkway in 1948–1949. The City of Lexington converted the original building into a community center in the late 1980s.</p><br>
<p>Lylburn Downing Middle School currently serves as a small, city school located in Lexington, Virginia in the southwest Virginia Appalachian Mountains. The school serves 189 students in grades 6–8, with ages ranging from 11 to 15 years old.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Notable people</h2><br>
<p>Leander J. Shaw, Jr., Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, went to Lylburn Downing School.</p><br>
<p>Tankersley Tavern, also known as Old Bridge, is a historic building located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built in three sections with the oldest dated to about 1835. It is a two-story, nine-bay, single pile, frame building with an exposed basement and a decorative two-level gallery on the front facade. Also on the property are the contributing washhouse/kitchen, three frame sheds and a stone abutment for a bridge. It was originally built as a toll house  at the county end of the bridge crossing the Maury River from the Valley Turnpike into Lexington. It later housed a tavern, canal ticket office, general store, post office, and dwelling.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Rockbridge Inn is a home which served as a historic inn and tavern located near Natural Bridge, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built between 1821 and 1823, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick building. A two-story frame wing was built in 1841. It was remodeled in the 1880s, with the addition of two-story porches and interior redecoration. It operated as an inn until the 1940s. The property was owned in the 1880s by Colonel Henry Parsons, owner of Natural Bridge.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Kennedy–Lunsford Farm is a historic home, farm, and national historic district located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The district encompasses six contributing buildings. The main house  is built of stone. Additional buildings: a large bank barn, a corn crib / machinery shed, a spring house, a chicken coop and a syrup house, all date from the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The main house is a two-story, three-bay, vernacular Georgian-style stone dwelling with a gable roof and interior end chimneys. It has a single bay, gable-roofed front porch and two-story rear frame ell.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Goshen Land Company Bridge is a historic Pratt through truss bridge spanning the Calfpasture River near Goshen, in Rockbridge County, Virginia, United States. Built in 1890 by the Groton Bridge Company, it consists of two spans, one measuring 138 ft long and the second measuring 120 ft; both spans sit at a 30-degree skew.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Bridgewater Historic District is a national historic district located at Bridgewater, Rockingham County, Virginia. The district encompasses 127 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of the town of Bridgewater. It includes a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings most of which date from the 19th century and early-20th century. Notable buildings include the Jacob Dinkle House, the St. Claire Kyle House, the J. G. Brown House, Dr. T. H. B. Brown House, the Hite House, Childress House, Whitmore House, the O. W. Miller House, Dr. Strickler House, Masonic Lodge, Methodist Church , Baptist Church , Farmer&#39;s Bank , Berlin Building , Geary Building , and the Lutheran Church . Also included is the oldest portion of the Bridgewater College campus, consisting of five fine brick collegiate buildings constructed before 1911.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Dayton Historic District is a national historic district located at Dayton, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA. The district encompasses 154 contributing buildings and one contributing site in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of the town of Dayton. It includes a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings most of which date from the late-19th century and early-20th century. Notable buildings include the Alberta Coffman House, Layman House, the Samuel Shrum House, the Thomas</p><br>
<p>House, W.J. Franklin House, Bank of Dayton (1911), the Ruebush-Kieffer Printing Company, Dayton Drug Company, Howe Memorial Hall, the Administration Building (1910), the Kieffer Alumni Gymnasium (1930), Carpenter Store (1888), Specialty Harness Company, Ruebush-Kieffer Company, and the Methodist, Presbyterian, and United Brethren churches.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Second Arenac County Courthouse, also known as Ye Olde Courthouse Masonic Hall and the Omer Masonic Hall, is a historic building located on Central Avenue in Omer, Michigan. The building is an outstanding example of a highly detailed vernacular frame building. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1976 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Arenac County was organized in 1883 from sections that had been part Bay County. Omer was selected as the county seat and a courthouse was built- In 1889 the courthouse burned down, and the county hired local contractor and sawmill owner Angus McDonnell to construct this building on the same site. In 1891, a county-wide vote selected Standish as the county seat, and the county government was moved. In 1893, the vacated court building was sold to the Omer Lodge of the Free and Acceptable Order of Masons for $500. At various times, the Masonic Lodge allowed the village to use the structure as a village hall, fire station, and jail.</p><br>
<p>Facing heavy repair costs, the Masons moved out of the building for smaller quarters in 1997. The structure was purchased by Carol and Robert Britt, who completed some repairs and restoration work with the intention of converting the structure into a museum. In 2004, the Britts then sold the building to the Arenac County Historical Society. The building currently serves as the Society&#39;s Historical Courthouse Museum, known as "Ye Olde Courthouse Masonic Hall".</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Second Arenac County Courthouse is a rectangular symmetric two-story frame structure covered with clapboard with a hip roof. The entrance is through a porch supported with slender columns with a slightly projecting bay. An elaborate fanlight window sits above the entrance, and gable above features fishscale shingles and sunburst carving. A graceful cupola tops the structure.</p><br>
<p>Daniel Harrison House, also known as Fort Harrison, is a historic home located near Dayton, Rockingham County, Virginia. The original structure was built in 1748 as a two-story, three bay limestone dwelling, with a steep gable roof and wide chimney caps. A brick extension was added in the early 1800s. It was originally surrounded by a palisade and was reported to have an underground passage to the nearby spring. During the French and Indian War, the legislature of Virginia designated the house and surrounding property "Fort Harrison." The house is one of the oldest in the Shenandoah Valley, and is closely associated with the early history of Rockingham County.</p><br>
<p>The homes original owner, Captain Daniel Harrison, was one of the first to use the plentiful supply of limestone for building. His stone house is referred to in one of his first deeds, dated February 28, 1749, in Rockingham County Deed Book 2, p. 586 - "Daniel Harrison, Gent. to Arthur Johnson, 190 acres; 10 acres; Cooks Creek–Harrison&#39;s stonehouse". In 1745, Captain Harrison was appointed by the Court of Orange County, along with brother John and Robert Cravens, as overseer to lay out and clear the old Indian Road – "The Long Grey Trail" – through what is now Rockingham County. This was destined to be the most traveled highway in the Shenandoah Valley. In 1751, Capt. Harrison became Under Sheriff of Augusta County</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Fort Harrison is open to the public on Friday and Saturday in the summer and by appointment.</p><br>
<p>Peter Paul House is a historic home located near Dayton, Rockingham County, Virginia. It was built about 1810, and is a two-story, two-bay, stuccoed Rhenish Plan log dwelling. It has a gable roof and rubble limestone chimney. A three-bay brick ell was added about 1829. It is one of a small group of Continental farmhouses surviving as relics of the heavy Swiss and German settlement in the Shenandoah Valley.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Lincoln Homestead and Cemetery, also known as the Jacob Lincoln House, is a historic home and cemetery located near Broadway, Rockingham County, Virginia. It was built in two sections. The main section was built about 1800, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick structure with a side-gable roof. It features an elaborate wooden cornice with Wall-of-Troy molding, corbels and dentils, and a Federal style doorway. The two-story brick rear ell was built in 1849 and joined to the main house in the early-1900s. Located on the property is the Lincoln family cemetery in which are buried five generations of the family, as well as Queenie, a woman who was enslaved by the Lincoln family, and "Virginia John" Lincoln, great-grandfather of Abraham Lincoln.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>In November 2019, the house was purchased by Benjamin and Sarah Bixler after being vacant for 20 years. The new owners completed a combination of restoration and renovations on the house in 2021.</p><br>
<p>Sites House, also known as Sites Plantation, is a historic home located near Broadway, Rockingham County, Virginia. It was built in 1801, and is a two-story, limestone structure with a side gable roof. It has a central chimney and a full-width front porch. In the late-19th century, an undistinguished three-bay frame wing with a two-story gallery was attached to the rear.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
