<p>Conway House, also known as the Moncure Daniel Conway House, is a historic home located at Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia. It was the home of author, clergyman, and abolitionist Moncure D. Conway  and used as a Union hospital during the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>The home was built in 1807, and is a large two-story, five-bay, L-shaped Federal style brick dwelling. It has a full basement, side-gable slate roof, brick interior-end chimneys.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. In 2005, the National Park Service formally recognized the home as a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Historical Site. It is located in the Falmouth Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Carlton is a historic home located at Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia. It was built about 1785, and is a two-story, five-bay, Georgian style frame dwelling. It has a hipped roof, interior end chimneys, and a front porch added about 1900. The house measures approximately 48 feet by 26 feet. Also on the property are the contributing frame kitchen partially converted to a garage, frame dairy, and brick meat house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is located in the Falmouth Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Clearview is a historic home located at Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia. It was built about 1749 and is a two-story, five-bay, frame dwelling. It has a hipped roof, exterior end chimneys, and a distyle Tuscan order front porch. The house measures approximately 42 feet by 26 feet, with an 18 by 26 foot wing added in 1918–1919. The property was used by the Union army as an artillery position during the Battle of Fredericksburg in December, 1862.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It is located in the Falmouth Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Union Church and Cemetery is a historic Episcopal church and cemetery located at Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia. The property contains the archaeological sites of the 1733 and 1750s Falmouth Anglican churches and the standing remains of the Union Church, built about 1819. The Union Church narthex, measuring 10 feet by 40 feet, is the section remaining from the Federal style building. The building contains an original stairway to the balcony and framing that extends upward to form the belfry which supports an estimated 300-pound bell. Also on the property is the church cemetery with headstones, dating from the 18th and the early 19th centuries through the 20th century. A violent rain storm in 1950 severely damaged the roof of the 40 feet wide by 54 feet long church leading to a collapse of the chancel and nave, leaving only the narthex intact.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Falmouth Historic District is a national historic district located at Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia. The district includes 29 contributing buildings in the historic core of the town of Falmouth. Notable buildings include Basil Gordon Warehouse, Customs House, the Double House, Highway Assembly of God Church, old Post Office, Calvary Pentecostal Tabernacle, the Tavern, Tavern Keeper&#39;s House, Union Methodist Church, Master Hobby School, and the Counting House. Located in the district are the separately listed Gari Melchers Home, Carlton, Clearview and Conway House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>Redoubt No. 2, also known as Fort No Name, is a historic archaeological site located near Stafford, Stafford County, Virginia. The site was the central of the three, perhaps four, Federal defensive fortifications ordered constructed in early  1863 during the American Civil War to protect the approaches to the Union supply depot at Aquia Creek Landing, Stafford, Virginia. Redoubt No.2 is an earthen field fortification that is nearly 95 feet square.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The building at 320 West Oakdale is a 21-story International Style skyscraper designed by Milton M. Schwartz in Chicago, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building at 320 West Oakdale is representative of the apartment building boom in Chicago, Illinois in the 1950s and 1960s. Milton M. Schwartz served as the building&#39;s architect, contractor, and developer, and the building was his first major design. As such, he had complete control over the creative direction of the building, and so was able to tailor it to his interests. Schwartz intended the building to serve as luxury apartments for the city elite. The apartment was designed so that residences had windows in three or four directions. Rooms were designed to resemble single-story ranch homes. The building was one of the first completely air conditioned all-glass apartments in Chicago. Stark in its repetition and simplicity, it is a good example of the International Style. The building was highlighted in a 1955 Architectural Forum article about recent Chicago apartment buildings. In the article, it was compared favorably to nearby works by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. On April 23, 2013, the building was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The skyscraper rises 21 stories on a reinforced concrete foundation. The Lake View development in on the north side of Oakdale Avenue at the northern terminus of Commonwealth Avenue. It was built to house 57 residential units, with three on each level starting with the fourth floor; the third floor also had four units. Each floor has full-height glass windows on all sides. Floor slabs extend 3 ft from the exterior walls on floors 3 through 21. However, the ledge over the main entrance is twice as long so that the entryway is protected from ice. The lobby occupies the first two stories. The penthouses on the top floor also have sunroofs.</p><br>
<p>Snow Hill, also known as Booth House, is a historic home located near Gwaltney Corner, Surry County, Virginia. It was built in 1836, and is a -story, five-bay, I-house style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof, exterior end chimneys, and a single pile, central-hall plan. The interior features special decorative treatment of the woodwork in imitation of fine woods and marbles.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Snow Hill dwg HABS VA1.jpgHABS drawing of Snow Hill</p><br>
<p>Pleasant Point, also known as Crouches Creek Plantation, is a historic home located near Scotland, Surry County, Virginia. It was built about 1724, and is a -story, double pile frame dwelling with brick ends. It has a gable roof and originally had a hall-parlor plan, later modified to a central-hall plan. The interior woodwork was largely replaced in the 1950s, although it retains some original doors, framing and original bowfat in the dining room. Also on the property are a contributing dairy, smokehouse, laundry and a four-step terrace leading down to the bluffs overlooking the James River.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Enos House, also known as Warren House, is a historic home located on Enos Farm Drive near Surry, Surry County, Virginia. It was built, and is a -story, double-pile hall-parlor plan frame dwelling. It has a gable roof and features a low full-length shed porch on the front facade. It has a 20th-century rear ell.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The farm is now owned by Surry County, which has developed it for recreational purposes. The property, but not the house, is open to the public.</p><br>
<p>Melville is a historic home located near Surry, Surry County, Virginia. It was built about 1727, and is a -story, hall-parlor plan brick dwelling. It has a clipped gable roof with three pedimented dormers and features tall interior end chimneys. It has a frame shed roofed addition in the rear dated to the early-19th century and a screened front porch and wing dated to the early-20th century.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Rich Neck Farm, also known as Richneck Plantation, was a historic home and farm located near Surry, Surry County, Virginia. The house was built about 1802, and was a 1-story, five-bay, double pile, central-hall plan brick dwelling in a pre-Georgian style. It had a gambrel roof with dormers and sat on a high basement. Long connected with the Ruffins, one of the prominent families of Southside Virginia, Rich Neck possessed a collection of buildings which were among the best preserved and most noteworthy of their type in the region. Original sashes, most of the doors, hinges , locks, and other hardware remained. The Ruffin family figured in Virginia&#39;s social and intellectual history throughout the colonial and early national periods. Its most notable member was Edmund Ruffin, an ardent secessionist and agricultural pioneer who is considered to be the father of agronomy. Research indicates Rich Neck remained in the Ruffin family until 1865. The house long stood vacant and in a state of disrepair. In 2011 Preservation Virginia listed Rich Neck Farm as one of the most endangered historic sites in Virginia. The house was destroyed by fire in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Also on the property are two contributing granaries, a smokehouse, office, an outhouse, a well house, and a chicken house.</p><br>
<p>Rich Neck Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Cedar Ridge is a historic home located East of Disputanta, in Surry County, Virginia. The original one-room section was built about 1750, and later enlarged to a -story, three-bay, single pile, Colonial frame dwelling. The main house has a later rear addition of an enclosed breezeway connecting to a two-story kitchen and bedchamber addition. The footprint of the house resembles a modified "T" shape. The house was restored, and the chimneys rebuilt, in the late-1970s. Also on the property is a one-story outbuilding that may once have served as slaves&#39; quarters.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Glebe House of Southwark Parish, also known as The Old Glebe, is a historic glebe house located near Spring Grove, Surry County, Virginia. It was built about 1724, and is a -story, three-bay, single pile, central-hall plan brick dwelling. It has a gambrel roof with dormers, added in the 19th century, has exterior end chimneys, and sits on a brick basement. Also on the property is a contributing frame smokehouse. The glebe house was sold, as required by the legislature during the</p><br>
<p>Disestablishment of 1802. It was subsequently remodeled and used as a private dwelling.It sits on the site of Indian Spring Plantation patented by Nicholas Merriweather in 1666. The property is currently owned by the Perkins family.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Faust Hotel, once known as the Travelers Hotel, was completed in 1929 and is located in New Braunfels, Texas. The hotel planning was started by a group of citizens desiring to attract tourist and convention traffic to counter a downturn in agricultural business caused by a mid-1920s drought in the area. Built on donated land from Senator Joseph Faust&#39;s estate, the hotel was renamed in 1936 in honor that family. The building is a four-story masonry design of no particular architectural style, though with some Spanish Renaissance Revival detailing.</p><br>
<p>It has been renovated several times through the years, but is one of the few known Texas mid-rise hotels of its era still serving as a hotel. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Not to be confused with Hotel Faust (now Hotel Giles since 2015) in Comfort, Texas.</p><br>
<p>Rogers Store, also known as Gwaltneys Store, is a historic general store located at Carsley near Surry, Surry County, Virginia. It was built about 1894, and is a two-story, three bay by three bay, Late Victorian frame building with a front gable roof. It features a full-width front porch supported by turned posts and a standing seam metal shed roof. Located directly behind the Rogers Store is the Gwaltneys Store building. It was built in 1827, and is a 1 1/2-story, two room, gable front frame building. With the construction of the new store in 1894, the old store was converted to storage space. The store closed in 1952.</p><br>
<p>The Rogers Store (1827–1952) acted as an early post office, pharmacy, radio assembly and repair shop, a publishing company, lumber company, chemical company and the Surry-Sussex Telephone Company. Throughout its history, Gwaltneys Store and then Rogers&#39; Store has been the town center for the people of Carsley. Rogers Store was acquired by the Surry Historical Society in 1999.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Surry County Courthouse Complex is a historic courthouse complex located at Surry, Surry County, Virginia. The complex consists of the county courthouse, old clerks office , VPI Extension office , the Commonwealth Attorneys office, the Commissioner of Revenue&#39;s office, a storage building, a Confederate memorial, and general district court building . The county courthouse building was built in 1923, and is a two-story, seven-bay, Classical Revival style brick building. It features a hexastyle Ionic order portico that dominates its front facade.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Second Southwark Church Archeological Site is a historic archaeological site located near Surry, Surry County, Virginia. The site includes the remains of the second church to serve Southwark Parish. It is believed to have been erected by 1673, and replaced an earlier church built about 1655. The church was abandoned shortly after the American Revolutionary War, and stood in ruins through the American Civil War. A monument was erected on the site in 1927. A Virginia highway marker commemorating the church site is located near the junction of Virginia Routes 10 and 618.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Preston House, also known as the Palmer House, was a historic home located at Saltville, Smyth County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1795. It was a two-story, gable-roofed, double-pile frame structure covered with beaded weatherboard. It consisted of a two-story, five bay center section flanked by later, and lower, two-story, three bay flanking wings. The house was built by lawyer and politician Francis Preston , whose family owned the salt works. The house was destroyed in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Sussex County Courthouse Historic District is a historic courthouse complex and national historic district located at Sussex, Sussex County, Virginia. The district encompasses four buildings in the complex: the clerks office , the court house, the County Office Building, jail and the Dillard House . Other buildings are the mid-19th century county treasurers office and the John Bannister House. The county courthouse building was built in 1828 by Dabney Cosby, and is a two-story, seven-bay, Jeffersonian Classicism style brick building. It has a cross-gable roof with cupola and features a three-bay arcade, one-bay deep with five rounded arches, on its front facade. A six-bay brick addition was built in 1954. The building is one of a number of county courthouses inspired by the architecture of Thomas Jefferson, who employed its builder Dabney Cosby in the building of the University of Virginia.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Fortsville is a historic home located near Grizzard, Sussex County, Virginia. Its present form consists of a two-story, three-bay, front-gabled central section flanked by one-story, two-bay wings, with a center section extension completed in 1792. The frame dwelling is set on a brick foundation. Fortsville was the home of statesman John Y. Mason .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>Chester is a historic home located near Homeville, Sussex County, Virginia. It was built in 1773, and is a two-story, three-bay, frame dwelling with side gable roof. It features two exterior chimney stacks, joined on both the first and second floor levels by pent closets. Attached to the main section is a two-story wing with an exterior chimney and a shallow gable roof added in the 1820s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>Little Town is a historic home located near Littleton, Sussex County, Virginia. It was built in 1811 in two sections. It consists of a two-story, three-bay, double-pile, side-hall-plan block attached to an original three-bay single cell parlor wing. It has a gable roof with a modillion cornice and interior end chimneys. Also on the property is a contributing frame dairy.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Hunting Quarter is a historic plantation house located near Sussex Court House, Sussex County, Virginia. The main house was built between 1745 and 1772, and is a -story, five-bay, single-pile, center hall, frame dwelling. It has a gambrel roof with dormers and exterior end chimneys. Attached to the main section is a rear ell added in 1887, and two small porches added in the 20th century. Also on the property are a contributing smokehouse, the sites of four outbuildings, the Harrison family cemetery, and a slave cemetery. Hunting Quarter was built by Captain Henry Harrison , son of Benjamin Harrison IV of Berkeley. During the French and Indian War, Captain Harrison was stationed at Fort Duquesne, he served as a captain under Major General Edward Braddock and later under Lieutenant Colonel George Washington. Captain Harrison was a brother of Benjamin Harrison V, signer of the Declaration of Independence and the fifth Governor of Virginia. Captain Harrison was a breeder of Thoroughbred horses. Silver Heels, perhaps his most famous race horse, was listed among other Thoroughbreds in the inventory of his estate taken after his death in 1772. According to tradition, a walking cane that belonged to US President William Henry Harrison, a nephew of the builder, once hung over one of the mantels in the house. Captain Harrison is buried in the Harrison family cemetery on the property. "Hunting Quarter" remained in the Harrison family until 1887.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The fields surrounding Hunting Quarter were planted in longleaf pines in the early 2010s.</p><br>
<p>Glenview, also known as Chambliss House, is a historic home located near Stony Creek, Sussex County, Virginia. The original section of the house was built about 1800. It was enlarged and modified in the 1820s.</p><br>
<p>It is associated with John R. Chambliss Sr. (1809-1875), who lived here during his lifetime. He was a planter and served in the Confederate House of Representatives after secession.</p><br>
<p>The house is a two-story, hip-roofed, five-bay dwelling. It has a Georgian central-hall plan with Federal style design influences. Also remaining on the property are a contributing early-19th century frame secondary structure that was likely used as a store and dwelling, and the Chambliss family burial ground.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Tazewell Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Richlands, Tazewell County, Virginia. The district encompasses 70 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of the town of Richlands. They were largely built between 1900 and 1960, and are modestly scaled brick and frame dwellings reflecting popular architectural styles including Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow. Notable non-residential buildings include the former Pentecostal Holiness Church, former First Baptist Church, Barker Youth Center , Nassif Building , and Masonic Hall and Jenkins Cleaners Building .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Tazewell Historic District is a national historic district located at Tazewell, Tazewell County, Virginia. The district encompasses 112 contributing buildings in central business district and surrounding residential area of the town of Tazewell.</p><br>
<p>The most notable building is the Tazewell County Courthouse. It was built in 1874, and rebuilt in 1913 in a Classical Revival style. Other notable buildings include the Old Jail (c. 1832), Clinch Valley News Building, Stras Memorial Episcopal Church (1884), Tazewell Christian Church (1898), Clinch Valley Bank (1889), J. A. Greever Building (1914), Greever and Gillespie Law Office Building (1897), Tazewell High School (1931), Tazewell Masonic Lodge #62 (1931), Tazewell Post Office (1936), and Tazewell Presbyterian Church (1924, 1959).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, and had a boundary increase in 2016.</p><br>
<p>Chimney Rock Farm, also known as The Willows, is a historic home located near Tazewell, Tazewell County, Virginia. It was built about 1843, and consists of a pedimented two-story, three-bay, center section flanked by one-story wings in the Palladian style. It is constructed of brick and sits on a high basement.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>George Oscar Thompson House, also known as the Sam Ward Bishop House, was a historic home located near Tazewell, Tazewell County, Virginia. It was built in 1886–1887, and was a two-story, three-bay, T-shaped frame dwelling. It had a foundation of rubble limestone. The front facade featured a one-story porch on the center bay supported by chamfered posts embellished with sawn brackets. Also on the property were a contributing limestone spring house, a one-room log structure , and a -story frame structure . Tradition suggests the latter buildings were the first and second houses built by the Thompson family.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It was demolished by 2017, when a new house was photographed under construction on this site.</p><br>
<p>James Wynn House, also known as the Peery House, is a historic home located near Tazewell, Tazewell County, Virginia. It was built about 1828, and is a large two-story, three-bay, brick dwelling with a two-story rear ell. The main block has a gable roof and exterior end chimneys. Across the front facade is a one-story, hip-roofed porch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Alexander St. Clair House, also known as the Peery House, is a historic home located near Bluefield, Virginia, Tazewell County, Virginia. It was built about 1878 for local resident Alexander St. Clair, and is a large two-story, three-bay, brick I-house dwelling with a two-story rear ell. The roof is sheathed in patterned tin shingles. The front facade features a one-bay Italianate style portico with a second floor balustrade. Associated with the main house are five contributing buildings and two contributing structures.</p><br>
<p>The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Walter McDonald Sanders House is a historic house that forms the center of the Sanders House Center complex at Bluefield in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States. It was built between 1894 and 1896, and is a large two-story, three-bay, red brick Queen Anne style dwelling. A two-story, brick over frame addition was built in 1911. The house features a highly decorative, almost full-length, shed-roofed front porch; a pyramidal roof; and a corner turret with conical roof. Also on the property are the contributing limestone spring house, a frame smokehouse which contains a railroad museum, a frame granary, and an early-20th century small frame dwelling known as the Rosie Trigg Cottage, which houses the Tazewell County Visitor Center.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Williams House, also known as the Clinch Valley Coal and Iron Company Office, is a historic home and office located at Richlands, Tazewell County, Virginia. It was built in 1890, and is a -story, frame Georgian Revival style dwelling. It has a hipped roof with pedimented dormers and features a one-story, hip-roofed front porch supported by six slender Tuscan order columns. It originally served as the office for the Clinch Valley Coal and Iron Company, developer of Richlands. The building was sold in 1901 to Dr. William R. Williams, who used it as a residence. In 1984, it became the location of the town&#39;s branch of the Tazewell County Public Library.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is located in the Richlands Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Maiden Spring is a historic home and farm complex and national historic district located at Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Virginia. The district encompasses eight contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and one contributing structure. The main house consists of a large two-story, five-bay, frame, central-passage-plan dwelling with an earlier frame dwelling , incorporated as an ell. Also on the property are the contributing meat house, slave house, summer kitchen, horse barn, the stock barn, the hen house, the granary / corn crib, the source of Maiden Spring, the cemetery, and the schoolhouse. It was the home of 19th-century congressman, magistrate and judge Rees Bowen  and his son, Henry , also a congressman. During the American Civil War, Confederate Army troops camped on the Maiden Spring Farm.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Old Kentucky Turnpike Historic District is a national historic district located at Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia. The district encompasses 35 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 3 contributing structures along Indian Creek Road and Indian Creek. They date from the late-19th to mid-20th centuries. Notable resources include the concrete bridge, steel railroad trestle, Cecil-Watkins House, Ratliff House, Cedar Bluff Presbyterian Church , the boyhood home of Governor George C. Peery , Thomas Cubine House , Gillespie House , the Old Cedar Bluff High School, Cedar Bluff High School , and the Old Cedar Bluff Town Hall. Also located in the district is the separately listed Clinch Valley Roller Mills.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Clinch Valley Roller Mills is a historic grist mill complex located along the Clinch River at Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia. The main building was built about 1856, and consists of a 3 1/2-story, timber frame cinder block with later 19th and early-20th century additions. There are additions for grain storage; a saw mill, now enclosed and housing the mill office; the mill dam site with its associated culvert, weirs, flume and turbines; and the 1 1/2-story shop building. The main section is believed to have been rebuilt after a fire in 1884.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Big Crab Orchard Site is a historic archaeological site located near Tazewell, Tazewell County, Virginia. The Crab Orchard site was patented in 1750, and was one of the first European settlements in Southwest Virginia. Parts of the tract were later owned by Morris Griffith and William Ingles and then acquired by Thomas Witten Sr., who settled here about 1768.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is also known as Fort Witten or Witten&#39;s Fort and Pisgah Church, according to the National Register Nomination Form.</p><br>
<p>The Alabaster Historic District is a 400-acre mining complex in Iosco County, Michigan, centered on an open pit gypsum mine. It is bounded by on the east by Lake Huron, on the north by Gypsum Road, on the south by Keystone Road, and on the west by Rempert Road, south of Tawas City, the county seat. This historic district, where mining started in 1862, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. Gypsum produced here was used to manufacture the temporary buildings of the World&#39;s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The Alabaster Mining Company is still operating here.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Alabaster Historic District, located on the shore of Lake Huron, contains an enormous open pit gypsum mine, with associated processing buildings, shops, and offices. The district also contains the company town, with houses and outbuildings. Most of the worker housing was constructed as -story frame houses with gable roofs. The district also contains a rail line and the remains of an elevated marine tramway running miles into Saginaw Bay. The district contains 36 buildings developed over a total of 400 acres.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This location was named "Alabaster" after a variety of gypsum discovered offshore in 1837 by Douglass Houghton. Soon, prospectors began searching for further sources of gypsum in the area, and stumbled upon the deposits at this site. The deposits came to the attention of George B. Smith, whose father, B.F. Smith, owned a gypsum mill in Detroit.</p><br>
<p>George Smith soon died, and ownership changed hands, with his father B.F. Smith purchasing a major share. In 1891, the company was called Western Plaster Works. A fire in 1891 completely destroyed the mining structures, but operations were soon rebuilt. The Alabaster Mine supplied material for construction of the main buildings, known as the "white city," at the World&#39;s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.</p><br>
<p>In 1898, the company name was changed to the Alabaster Company. In 1902, the mine was incorporated as the USA Gypsum Corporation. Housing for workers was constructed primarily in the period around 1910, as a company town was established. The mines had attracted many European immigrants as workers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</p><br>
<p>The most visible and impressive structure in the district, the elevated marine tramway, was not constructed until 1929.</p><br>
<p>The mine is still being operated today (2016).</p><br>
<p>The Heritage House Museum is a museum complex in Okawville, Illinois. The museum comprises three of the village&#39;s historic homes: the Frank Schlosser Complex, the Dr. Robert C. Poos Home, and the Joseph Schlosser Home. The three homes are open for public tours led by the Okawville Chamber of Commerce.</p><br>
<h2>Frank Schlosser Complex</h2><br>
<p>The Frank Schlosser Complex, located on West Walnut Street, includes the home and businesses of Frank Schlosser and his family. Frank Schlosser, an Okawville native born in 1867, opened a harness shop on the property in 1890. Schlossers wife Sophia and his two daughters, Elsie and Estelle, operated a laundry in the back of the harness shop, which mainly catered to guests at Okawvilles mineral spas. In 1908, the family built a house on the property. The wood frame house was designed in a vernacular style and features boxed eaves, a gable roof, and an open front porch. A two-story barn and several outbuildings are also located on the property. The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>After Schlossers daughters died in 1982, the home became a museum. The contents of the house are preserved from the time the Schlossers live there and portray the lifestyle of middle-class Okawville residents in the early 1900s. In addition, as the harness shop was shuttered from its closure in 1941 to the museums establishment, its contents were preserved in their natural state and protected from light and other environmental damage. The laundry, which operated through the 1970s, contains the historic laundry equipment used by the sisters. The family&#39;s surrey and 1930 Buick are located in the barn; the surrey is occasionally used for events.</p><br>
<h2>Joseph Schlosser House</h2><br>
<p>The Joseph Schlosser House, located across the street from the Frank Schlosser Complex, is a brick home built circa 1869. Joseph Schlosser, the father of Frank Schlosser, lived in the house with his wife and two sons. Schlosser, a Bavarian immigrant, ran a cobbler&#39;s shop from the home. The home is the last remaining Old World-style house, a type of house built near the street, in Okawville. The house includes period furniture from the post-Civil War era, little of which is original. The Okawville Chamber of Commerce headquarters and the Heritage House Museum headquarters are located in the home.</p><br>
<h2>Dr. Robert C. Poos Home</h2><br>
<p>The Dr. Robert C. Poos Home, located at 202 North Front Street, is a Second Empire house constructed in 1888. The house was owned by Dr. Robert C. Poos, a local doctor and staff physician at the Washington Springs Hotel and Bathhouse. Poos built an outbuilding on his property which he intended to use as a privately run bathhouse; however, after failing to acquire mineral water, Poos never actually opened the bathhouse. Poos&#39; family lived in the house until the 1980s and donated it to the Heritage House Museum in 1991. The house is now a museum of Victorian furnishings and artifacts and includes a collection of historic photographs of Okawville; the bathhouse houses a museum of medical instruments.</p><br>
<p>The Morgan County Courthouse, located at 300 W. State St. in Jacksonville, is the county courthouse of Morgan County, Illinois. The courthouse, the third built in Morgan County, was constructed from 1868 to 1869. Chicago architect Gurdon P. Randall designed the courthouse in a combination of the Italianate and Second Empire styles. The design is considered unusual among county courthouses, as counties generally preferred more traditional designs. Randalls design features an arched loggia surrounding the buildings southern entrance, asymmetrical towers at the southern corners with mansard roofs and bracketed cornices, arched dormers within the towers&#39; mansards, and an assortment of round-head and bulls-eye windows. One of the towers houses a 4,000 lb bell, which was intended to be part of a clock that was never installed. A 9 ft statue of Lady Justice, carved from a single block of pine, originally topped the front entrance; however, after losing its arms around 1872, the statue disappeared in the early 1900s and was never recovered.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 19, 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Jacksonville Historic District is a historic district encompassing 696 buildings in Jacksonville, Illinois. The buildings in the district were mainly constructed from 1829 to the 1930s and represent nearly every popular architectural style from the period. The Greek Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne styles are especially prevalent in the district. The district includes the campuses of two prominent Jacksonville educational institutions: Illinois College and the Illinois School for the Deaf. Illinois College, the first college in Illinois to grant a degree, was founded in 1829; its first building, Beecher Hall, is the oldest building in the district. The Illinois School for the Deaf was established in 1839 by the Illinois Legislature for the education of hearing-impaired students. Aside from these two institutions, the majority of the district is residential and includes many of Jacksonville&#39;s most historically and architecturally significant homes. The district is considered to have retained its historic character well, as 650 of its buildings are considered contributing buildings and the number of recent buildings in the district has been called "remarkably low".</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 9, 1978.</p><br>
<p>Erin is a historic home located near Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. It was built in 1848, and is a three part Palladian plan dwelling with a two-story central section and -story flanking wings. The front facade features a two-story tetrastyle pedimented portico in the Greek Ionic order. The frame dwelling has impressive Greek Revival detailing on both its exterior and interior. Also on the property are the contributing kitchen, law office, dairy, meat smokehouse, chicken house, and granary.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979,</p><br>
<p>Long Meadow is a historic home located at Middletown, Warren County, Virginia. The home is located on the North Fork of the Shenandoah River and is in the shadow of Massanutten Mountain, in clear view of Signal Knob. The original homestead was one of the first settlements in the Valley and has been owned by three different families since the original house was built in the 1730s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Long Meadow was originally settled by the Hite Family who moved into the Shenandoah Valley in 1731. The land known as the Long Meadow Tract was settled by Isaac Hite, Sr. He built the original house in the early 1730s and called it Travelers Hall due to the constant presence of guests in the house. The five lots were given to Isaac Jr.s five daughters through inheritance and marriage settlements, lot five was given to his daughter Matilda Hite Davison upon his death in 1836. Four years later, in 1880, she and her husband, Alexander M. Davison, sold the Long Meadow tract to the Bowman brothers, Isaac and Col. George, who were cousins of Matilda&#39;s brother-in-law.</p><br>
<p>In 1848, the original house, Travelers Hall, was replaced by the current house. There is no historical record of why the original house was replaced, family lore suggests it either burned down or was torn down by the Bowman brothers. The current house was built on top of the foundation of Travelers Hall. During the Civil War, the house was used as a landmark by Jubal Earlys Confederate Army to mark their way to Belle Grove for the Battle of Cedar Creek as the house is clearly visible from Signal Knob on the top of Massanutten Mountain where Confederate Scouts had located a weakness in the Union Armys flank where Philip Sheridan was headquartered at Belle Grove.</p><br>
<p>After the Civil War, the Bowman family sold Long Meadow to Andrew Jackson "A.J. Brumback, a Valley native. Brumback purchased the property in 1888 and later purchased Belle Grove in 1907. Long Meadow has been owned and operated by Brumbacks descendants ever since, his great-great-granddaughter and her husband currently operate the property as a Black Angus cattle farm.</p><br>
<p>Long Meadow was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The registration includes the main house, it&#39;s outbuildings, the graveyard, and the property immediately surrounding the buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Grounds</h2><br>
<p>The current house was built in 1848 on top of the original foundation by the Bowman brothers after Travelers Hall either burned down or was torn down. The house is a two-story, five-bay, brick dwelling in a transitional Federal / Greek Revival style. It has a hipped roof and a double-pile, central-passage floor plan. A frame kitchen wing was added in 1891 and interior transoms were added on the first floor in 1920 by Brumbacks daughter-in-law.</p><br>
<p>The property is also the home of the Hite Family cemetery where Isaac Hite Sr. and Jr. are interred along with their wives, children, and other family members. The graveyard is currently maintained by Belle Grove for the Hite Family.</p><br>
<p>Also on the property are several outbuildings. The spring house with contributing icehouse, along with the overseer&#39;s house, and smoke house(no longer standing) were built by the Hite Family in the early 18th century. After Brumback purchased the property in 1888, he had several other outbuildings erected around the property including a workshop, hen house (which now operates as a machine shed), granary, and a bank barn in 1891. The bank barn is one of the largest barns in Warren County at approximately 50by80 ft and is three stories tall.</p><br>
<p>At some point, a smithy was also built on the property, but the date is unknown. The family speculates it was either built by the Hite or Bowman Families in the early 19th century.</p><br>
<p>A pole barn and small shed also stand on the property and were built in the 1990s by the current owner&#39;s father.</p><br>
<h2>National registration</h2><br>
<p>Long Meadow was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 15, 1995. The outbuildings and property were originally nominated by Mary Washington College. Long Meadow is listed for local significance.</p><br>
<p>Fairview Farm is a historic home located near Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. It was built during the last quarter of the 18th century, and is a two-story, nearly square, timber frame dwelling. It has a hipped roof and two exterior chimneys. It also has two-story porches rebuilt during the restoration in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The house is now owned by the Warren Heritage Society.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Mountain Home is a historic home located near Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. It was built in 1847, and is a two-story, three-bay, brick Greek Revival style dwelling. It has a two-story frame ell added in 1869. Also on the property are the contributing mid-19th-century slave quarters, a meat house, a chicken coop, a shed, and two early-20th-century garages.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Mountain House, whole view.JPGMountain Home at dusk, May, 2016</p><br>
<p>Balthis House, also known as E.C. Balthis Blacksmith Shop Property and Balthis&#39; Old Stand, is a historic home located at Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1787, and is a two-story, five-bay, timber-frame vernacular Federal style dwelling. The original section is three bay. The house was expanded to its present size in the mid-19th century, at the same time as the addition of the two-story brick rear ell. Also on the property are the contributing kitchen dependency and playhouse / gazebo.</p><br>
<p>The house is now owned by the Warren Heritage Society and is open for tours.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. It is located in the Front Royal Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Killahevlin is an historic home located at Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>It is a large -story, Queen Anne-style brick dwelling, built about 1905 for William E. Carson, president of the Riverton Lime Company.</p><br>
<p>Carson directed the formation of Virginias recreational parks system, established the states system of historical road markers, and was instrumental in the creation of the Shenandoah National Park and the Skyline Drive.</p><br>
<p>In 1906, at the age of 36, Carson married Agnes Holladay McCarthy in Richmond.</p><br>
<p>The upcoming marriage provided an impetus for the construction of the Riverton home where the couple would live for the next thirty-six years. The house was called "Killahevlin," after the Irish home of a boyhood friend where Carson had often visited. This estate has now grown into the famous Killyhevlin Lakeside Hotel in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.</p><br>
<p>Designed by the Washington, D.C., firm of A. B. Mullett and Co., Killahevlin is a distinctive Front Royal landmark. The modified Queen Anne style house contains fine early 20th-century interior woodwork and other arresting architectural detail.</p><br>
<p>Other trademark Mullet designs include Capitol Park Hotel, Hotel Harris, Farmers and Merchants Bank, and the Annex to the Union Trust Building—all in Washington; Visitation Monastery, Alta Vista, Maryland; and residences in Washington and the environs.</p><br>
<p>Carson&#39;s older brother, A. C. Carson, was generally known as Kit after the famous American frontiersman. Kit had studied law at the University of Virginia and, in 1893, had gone to work in the Winchester legal firm of Richard Evelyn Byrd.</p><br>
<p>For many years, the Carson family enjoyed a friendly and fruitful relationship with the Byrds and, through them, with Virginia&#39;s Democratic Party.</p><br>
<p>Will Carson served for thirty years on the Democratic State Central Committee (1910-1940), and his work with the Conservation and Development Commission was highly praised by the press and public, despite a controversy over his highly personalized management of its programs. He was mentioned as a possible candidate for the governorship in 1929 and again in 1933.</p><br>
<p>In 1933, as a memorial to their only son, who had died of pneumonia at the age of 17, the Carsons donated 63 acres of land for a public golf and country club to the town. The Front Royal Golf Club still operates an 18-hole course initially built to Carson&#39;s design.</p><br>
<p>Carson retired from the political arena to Killahevlin and died in 1942.</p><br>
<p>Also on the property are the contributing guesthouse/water tower and two gazebos. The house has in the past been operated as a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Riverside is a historic home located at Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. It was built about 1850, and is a large -story, seven-bay, T-shaped brick dwelling with Greek Revival, Italianate, and Colonial Revival design elements. It has a side-passage, double-pile plan with matching single-pile wings, with additions added in 1921, to the north and south. The front facade features a one-bay, hip-roofed, Greek Revival-style portico. The house has a hipped roof with dormers added in the early-20th century. Also on the property is the contributing early-20th century garage.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It is located in the Riverton Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Rose Hill is a historic home located at Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. The original section was built in 1830, and is a two-story, a central-passage, single-pile plan frame dwelling with vernacular design elements derived from the Federal style. A two-story, brick rear ell with vernacular Greek Revival design elements was added in 1845. The front facade features a one-story, one-bay, hip roofed, Greek-Revival-style porch with paired Doric order wooden columns. Also on the property are the contributing two-story frame cottage, probably built originally as a kitchen/slave quarters, and two frame sheds clad in novelty siding .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Sonner Hall, also known as "Main Building" and Sonner-Payne Hall, is a historic building located at Randolph-Macon Academy in Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. It was built in 1927, to replace the original academy building of 1892. It is a 3 1/2-story, 19 bay, Colonial Revival style brick building. The front facade features a tetrastyle pedimented portico with Greek Ionic order columns. It has a slate-covered gambrel roof topped by a ribbed dome with a balustrade and lantern. In 1995, a fire destroyed the third and fourth floors of Sonner-Payne Hall. Sonner-Payne Hall was subsequently gutted and rebuilt with improvements.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
