<p>The Kankakee County Courthouse in Courthouse Square is a historic building in Kankakee, Illinois, United States that has been home to the government of Kankakee County since 1912. The current structure, the third county courthouse, took three years to build and is considered a fine example of Beaux-Arts architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area now known as Courthouse Square in Kankakee, Illinois was originally used by the Potawatomi as a council ground. European settlement began in 1832 with the Treaty of Camp Tippecanoe. In 1851, the Illinois Central Railroad decided to build a station in what is now Kankakee. The Associates Land Company, formed by supporters of the Illinois Central, purchased and platted the land around the station, calling it Kankakee Depot. When Kankakee County was formed in 1853, Kankakee Depot competed with Momence to be named county seat. The influence of the Associates Land Company, who offered to donate a large block of land and $5000 for a courthouse, swayed voters to select Kankakee Depot as seat.</p><br>
<p>The first Kankakee County Courthouse was built shortly thereafter. The three-story building became a social center and trading place in addition to its capacities in county government. Stephen A. Douglas gave a speech in front of the courthouse during his 1858 Senate Campaign. On May 17, 1861, it was home to Kankakee County&#39;s only case of capital punishment when an African-American man was hanged from the second floor for the murder of a white girl. On October 5, 1872, the courthouse was destroyed in a fire. The limestone walls were cleaned and re-used in the second courthouse. The new courthouse was built to similar specification as the first. The main difference was the cupola, which was railed higher than the first. The courthouse opened in October 1873.</p><br>
<p>By the 1900s, it was evident that the county courthouse was too small for the county&#39;s use. The county population had recently grown to 37,000, an increase of 8,000 over the previous decade. In November 1908, voters approved the construction of a new courthouse, the current structure. Zachary Taylor Davis was awarded the commission for the building. It was built by Lafayette, Indiana contractor W. F. Stilwell for $187,000. Construction began on October 2, 1909, and finished in July 1912. In the 1930s, a protest with 200 farmers gathered at the courthouse to demand changes in property tax laws so that they would be paid after the harvest. By 1950, the population of the county exceeded 73,500 thanks to an industrial boom in the late 1940s.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse has remained in use since its 1912 opening. On March 7, 2007, the building was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>A shooting took place at this courthouse on the morning of August 26, 2021, where an unknown shooter killed 2 and injured 1. According to Mayor Christopher Curtis, the suspect has been apprehended.</p><br>
<p>The Durham–Perry Farmstead is a park and open-air museum in Bourbonnais, Illinois on the grounds of the former Thomas Durham farm. The buildings reflect the agricultural practices of Illinois farmers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The heavy timber-framed buildings are representative of northern Illinois construction trends between the 1830s and 1850s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Fur trader Jacque Jonveau was awarded a 640 acre land grant from the United States General Land Office following the Treaty of Camp Tippecanoe in October 1832. Jonveau was of mixed Pottawatomi and French descent and was thus eligible for one of the ten grants set aside for persons of Pottawatomi blood. It does not appear that Jonveau ever built a structure on the grant.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Durham was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1784 and moved with his family to Tennessee by 1804. In the late 1810s, Sometime shortly after 1826, Durham moved to Vermilion County, Illinois to work as a bricklayer. Durham may have met Gordon S. Hubbard, the regional director for the American Fur Company, at his trading post in Iroquois County in 1827. Durham worked for Hubbard in 1832, supervising the construction of the Vermilion County Courthouse, and again in 1834 building a warehouse in Chicago.</p><br>
<p>Between these two jobs, Durham traveled the Hubbard Trace, a road between Chicago and Danville, which passed through Bourbonnais Township. Durham camped in the township and enjoyed the surroundings so much that he purchased a 160 acre tract from Hubbard in 1835; it is not known how Hubbard came to have possession of Jonveau&#39;s holdings. Local Pottawatomi helped the Durham family build a teepee, while a log cabin was under construction. Soon, a large farmhouse replaced the cabin. Durham may have used his farmhouse as a tavern, as traffic along the Hubbard Trace was heavy in the late 1830s. By 1850, Durham extended the family holdings to 320 acre, half of which was developed.</p><br>
<p>Durhams daughter Martha married David Perry, who owned a house on a 1 acre lot across the road from Durhams. Perry, a carpenter, came to Kankakee County from Vermont. Perry owned a sawmill in nearby Momence. When Durham died in March 1854, the land passed to Durhams sons. However, after some failed business ventures in Kankakee, they had little money. Perry offered to purchase the farm, thus keeping the house in the family while also supporting the Durhams operations.</p><br>
<p>Perry remodeled the house shortly after he and Martha moved in. He lived there and farmed the land until his death in 1887, when the land passed to his son Alvah. Alvah Perry only used the property for vacations, as he was usually busy as a cattle broker in the Union Stock Yards in Chicago. In 1891, he sold the property east of the road to developer J. Herman Hardebeck. In 1924, Perry rented the western property to Armand DuVoisin, a Swiss immigrant, who tended the remaining acreage. DuVoisin worked the farm until his 1950 retirement.</p><br>
<p>Lomira Perry, the last living child of Alvah Perry, died in 1961. In her will, she deeded the property to the Illinois Department of Conservation with the hopes that a park would be developed. Perry stipulated that DuVoisin descendants could continue to operate the farm, which they continue to do as of 2006.</p><br>
<p>On May 31, 2006, the National Park Service recognized the property with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Perry Farm Park</h2><br>
<p>Ownership of the property was transferred to the Bourbonnais Township Park District in 1989, which developed the property as Perry Farm Park. The park features open recreation areas, four miles of walking trails, and the Exploration Station children&#39;s museum. The Perry Farm Living History Area includes the farmhouse, which now houses the Park District and is used as an interpretive center, the horse barn, an English barn and farm animals.</p><br>
<p>The Wheeler Family Farmstead is a historic farm complex at 817 South Main Street in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The farmhouse has elements dating to the 1730s, including evidence of building methods used by Dutch settlers of the Hudson River valley, and has been successively modified in each of the following centuries, with the last significant work occurring in the 1920s. All of the surviving farm buildings in the complex are at least 90 years old, and some date to the 19th century. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011, and is now the museum and headquarters of the Great Barrington Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Wheeler farm complex sits on a 1.5 acre parcel of land between United States Route 7 and the Housatonic River that is a remnant of what was once a much larger farm, extending from the river to the east and beyond the road to the west. The farmstead, located on the east side of the road, includes the main house, several barns and stables, a carriage house, and a silo. The farmhouse is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and wooden shingled exterior. It has a symmetrical five-bay front facade, with simply framed windows and center entrance. Despite the symmetry, the building is an amalgam of additive elements, revealing construction methods across over 150 years of time. The oldest portion of the house, its northwest chamber, was built about 1733, using construction methods of Dutch origin. The building achieved its basic present form after a series of additions later in the 19th century, mostly by members of the Wheeler family who purchased it in 1747.</p><br>
<p>The property also exhibits evidence of Native American habitation prior to the arrival of European colonists. The property was purchased by Truman Wheeler in 1764, a native of Connecticut, who operated a store in the house until his death in 1815. He was also active in civic affairs, and served in the local militia in leading roles during the American Revolutionary War. The farm was occupied by members of the Wheeler family until 1988, and was conveyed by the heirs of the last residents to the Great Barrington Historical Society in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Glascock County Courthouse is a courthouse on Main Street in Gibson, Georgia, the county seat of Glascock County. The first county courthouse was built in 1858 with a donation from William Gibson, namesake of the county seat. It was removed for use as a residence when the currently used courthouse was built in 1919. The courthouse was designed by J.W. McMillian & Son. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1980.</p><br>
<p>St. Thomas African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African-American church in Hawkinsville, Georgia, located at 401 North Dooly Street. It is a large brick building on the northwest corner of North Dooly Street and Second Street, built 1908-1912, replacing a wood building built in 1877. Some of its historical integrity was lost due to non-historic additions and alterations. Restrooms were added in the 1950s, ceiling tiles in the 1960s, carpeting in 1982, interior partitions and new windows in 1987, new steps in 1988, and new pews and air conditioning in 1989. It has a steeply pitched gable-front roof. The interior has an open space with a pulpit, with three sections of pews. It is one of the last remaining buildings of a historically African-American neighborhood and was the largest and only brick building in the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 7, 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Carnegie Library of Valdosta is a Carnegie library building in Valdosta, Georgia. It was constructed in 1913 for $40,000, with help from a $15,000 Carnegie grant. It was the first building designed by local architect Lloyd V. Greer. It opened in 1914. Decades later it became a branch library and then the base for the Lowndes County Historical Society. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 12, 1984. It is located at 305 West Central Avenue. Originally part of the South Georgia Regional Library, the library building is now home to the Lowndes County Historical Society and Museum.</p><br>
<p>West Stockbridge Town Hall is the seat of government of the town of West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It is located at 9 Main Street. The two story Greek Revival building was built in 1854, and has retained much of its original woodwork and integrity despite its use for a variety of civic purposes in the time since its construction. The hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>West Stockbridge Town Hall is located in the village center of the town, on the east side of Main Street near its junction with Center Street. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame building, with a gabled roof parallel to the street and a clapboarded exterior. The ground floor of the street-facing facade is organized into three storefronts, with an upstairs entrance at the far left end. Each storefront consists of a center entrance flanked by sash windows. All four doorways are sheltered by gabled hoods supported by large angle brackets. Pilasters rise at the building corners to a cornice separating the first and second floors. The second story has five large and evenly spaced sash windows.</p><br>
<p>One of the few prominent 20th century exterior alterations is the addition of a cupola in 1978 to house the bell of an 1878 schoolhouse. Although it was built with the idea that other businesses would also occupy parts of the building, the town has taken over the entire space, which now also includes the public library. The downstairs houses some town offices and the library, and the upstairs, which was originally a large open hall with a stage at one end, has been partitioned for further office space, although these changes are reversible.</p><br>
<p>The Converse–Dalton House, also known as the Converse Dalton Ferrell House, is a historic residence in Valdosta, Georgia, in the United States. It was built in 1902 for Thomas Briggs Converse Sr., his wife, and their thirteen children.</p><br>
<p>It is a three-story house with a monumental two-story portico that wraps around with curving corners.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by architect Alexander F. N. Everett. The house was built by Stephen F. Fulgham (1857-1928), who also designed and/or built the Converse-Girardin Building, at 121-123 North Patterson, and other buildings in the Valdosta Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant for its architecture and for its association with its owner, Thomas Briggs Converse Sr. (1854-1932).</p><br>
<p>Dasher High School is a historic school in Valdosta, Georgia, United States that served African Americans.</p><br>
<p>Inscribed 1929 in its cornerstone, the school was a high school for African Americans. James L. Lomax, a leader in African American education in Valdosta, served as the school&#39;s principal until his retirement in 1967. His adopted son Louis L. Lomax, the first African American broadcast journalist, attended Dasher High School. He was a civil rights activist and died in a car accident in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The school&#39;s football team won a Georgia Interscholastic Association Class A football championship in 1953.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 18, 1985. It is located at 900 South Troup Street.</p><br>
<p>The Ewell Brown General Store is a commercial property in Lake Park, Georgia, located at the junction of Railroad Ave. with Lawrence Street, across the street from the railroad. It is a one-story Folk Victorian commercial building built out of brick about 1890. A brick sidewalk with a herringbone pattern was built in the early 1900s. The inside is one large room with a raised office space. The store was originally a drug store and general merchandise store. Ewell Brown bought the store in 1899 and along with his brother, Bob, operated it was a general merchandise store. Bob took over the store in 1948 and it closed in 1953 or 1954, due to the realignment of US 41, which caused a decline in trade. Then it was used for storage except that it was rented for an antique store from 1974-1976. In 1994 the daughter of Bob Brown donated it to the Lake Park Historical Society to use as a museum. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 21, 1997. The building now houses the Lake Park Museum, which includes collections of family histories and artifacts.</p><br>
<p>According to its NRHP nomination, the store in 1892 was a drug store and general merchandise store</p><br>
<p>that was operated by a Dr. E. Taylor, and Ewell Brown was an employee: a pill roller and assistant operator. The name of the store was changed when Brown purchased it in 1899 to "Ewell Brown, Lender</p><br>
<p>in Dry Goods, Clothing, Groceries and General Merchandise".</p><br>
<p>Lowndes County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse building in Valdosta, Georgia. It was designed by Frank P. Milburn and completed in 1905. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1980. It is located at Central and Ashley streets.</p><br>
<h2>Monuments and time capsule</h2><br>
<p>Several monuments are located around the courthouse including a memorial to Civil War Confederate soldiers who died. This monument is located on the corner of Patterson Street and Central Avenue and was funded by the Valdosta chapter (no. 471) of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (U.D.C.) in 1911. There are also smaller monuments and memorials to veterans of all wars put up by the American Legion, Valdosta Post no. 13 and dedicated on Veterans Day November 11, 1969; a memorial to "those defending the spirit of America" on September 11, 2001; a time capsule monument from July 8, 1976, in celebration of the United States Bicentennial and Lowndes County Sesquicentennial to be opened July 4, 2026; and a memorial built in 1949 in memory of Spanish–American War veterans by the J.O. Varnedoe Camp no. 40 USAW.V. and friends.</p><br>
<p>Crestwood is a historic home in Valdosta, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 12, 1984. It is located at 502 Eager Road. The home was designed by William G. Eager and built in 1915. The home includes five bedrooms and four bathrooms on 2.51 acres. It was for sale in 2013. The columns and some other materials were salvaged from partially burned home at 701 North Patterson Street. Crestwood&#39;s west wing was added in 1928. It includes a library, two bedrooms upstairs, a bathroom, and closets. The home was renovated and the kitchen updated in 1982 according to designs by Richard Hill of Valdosta. The home was part of a pecan plantation. It includes a two-story columned portico and a porte-cochere on the east side. The library has a large limestone fireplace.</p><br>
<p>William Eager designed a sawed-off shotgun used in trench warfare during World War I.</p><br>
<p>Its front yard remained a pecan grove in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Lanier County Auditorium and Grammar School are two historic buildings in Lakeland, Lanier County, Georgia, on East Church Avenue. They were built in 1925 under architect Lloyd Greer . Both buildings are one story tall and made of brick and concrete. The school building has a central hall with five classrooms on one side and three on the other. The auditorium seats 600 and the front of the building has two additional classrooms. Some modernization of the plumbing, heating, and electrical systems took place after 1940. They are the only remaining buildings from the consolidation of schools which took place after the county was formed in 1920. The buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 10, 1986.</p><br>
<p>Hawkinsville Opera House, originally known as the City Auditorium and sometimes referred to as Hawkinsville City Hall-Auditorium, is a theater building in downtown Hawkinsville, Georgia. It was built in 1907 after the city awarded a contract for a performing arts building to be constructed at a cost of $16,470. It was designed by Macon, Georgia architect and theater designer W.R. Gunn. With 576 seats, the theater had the largest seating capacity of any public building in Pulaski County, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and underwent a 1.7 million dollar renovation 2000. It is managed by the non-profit Hawkinsville-Pulaski County Arts Council.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is also a contributing building in the Hawkinsville Commercial and Industrial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Strawberry Hill is a historic home located in Petersburg, Virginia, built by tobacco warehouse owner, William Barksdale, in 1792. Strawberry Hill, designed with a tripartite Palladian form, is an early example of a Virginia dwelling built in the neoclassical style and includes several notable architectural features. It is now an inn and event venue.</p><br>
<p>Strawberry Hill is listed in the USA National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register, and is located in the Folly Castle Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History & Architecture</h2><br>
<p>About 1792, tobacconist William Barksdale constructed the house in an elaborate, tripartite form that became common in Southside, Virginia, and into eastern North Carolina around 1800. The house is located adjacent to a tobacco warehouse Barksdale built earlier, in 1770, which played a large role in the mercantile development of Petersburg. Barksdale laid out his house with a two-story central section flanked by one-story wings on either side. Beginning in the 1980s, Strawberry Hill was restored into a single residence. It is now an inn and event venue.</p><br>
<p>The house, a Federal style tripartite structure, was listed in the USA National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register in 1974. The house is notable for its use of quirked, neoclassical moldings in a pre-1800 context. Other notable features include King of Prussia stone steps with hand-forged, wrought iron railings elaborated with scrollwork, that lead to a delicately carved pedimented doorway. The treatment of the drawing room chimneypiece flanked by decorative, shell backed arched niches is also remarkable.</p><br>
<h3>Notable Guests</h3><br>
<p>Strawberry Hill has received notable guests including:</p><br>
<p>John Randolph of Roanoke a Virginia planter and politician who served in the House of Representatives and Senate</p><br>
<p>William Meade the third Bishop of Virginia</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Gachet House  is a historic residence on GA 18, three miles west of Barnesville, Georgia, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 17, 1997. The home is located at the crossing of Five Points Road and Piedmont Road, now known as the Milner Cross Roads, originally used as trails by Native American tribes.</p><br>
<h2>The General LaFayette connection</h2><br>
<p>Benjamin Gachet was a French nobleman who fled from a revolution in San Domingo and settled in what is now Lamar County. A historical marker dedicated by the Lamar-LaFayette Chapter of N.S.D.A.R. is at the site, stating that General Marquis de LaFayette stayed with Gachet at the home on March 19, 1825, during an official visit to Georgia.</p><br>
<p>Additionally, Benjamin Gachet lived in Jones county adjacent to Baldwin county, where Milledgeville was being visited by General LaFayette in 1825. Historians surmise that the general visited Gachet around that time and location.</p><br>
<p>So a family connection existed between the Gachets and the LaFayettes.</p><br>
<h2>Home</h2><br>
<p>The home was placed on the register, in part, due to it being an almost pristine example of plantation plan architecture. The chimneys and much of the clapboards are original. The kitchen, on the back of the house, off of the porch, was rebuilt. The two front bedrooms originally had separate entrances for each. The rooms have been referred to as "travelers rooms", "preacher rooms" and "strangers rooms". The Gachet house was known as a stagecoach stop in its history. Benjamin Gachet died at age 36 leaving several minor children and Mrs. Gachet likely earned a living to support her children by operating this stagecoach stop.</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Gachet eventually sold the property to her son-in-law, Benjamin M. Milner, and moved to Alabama.</p><br>
<p>Elbert County Courthouse is a historic courthouse on Courthouse Square in downtown Elberton, Georgia, county seat of Elbert County, Georgia. The Romanesque Revival architecture building was designed by Reuben H. Hunt and constructed in 1894. It is featured on several postcards. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The brick exterior of the courthouse was painted white for several decades until the early 2000s when the exterior brick was repainted red to recreate the original appearance of red bricks.</p><br>
<p>Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot is an historic train depot in Elberton, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>It is located at North Oliver Street and Deadwyler Street. It was built in 1910 and served as a Seaboard Air Line passenger station. The station has overhanging eaves supported by large Stick style-brackets.</p><br>
<p>The station served the SAL&#39;s Silver Comet and some passenger, mail and express trains. The last train was the Silver Comet, which was discontinued in 1969.</p><br>
<p>It is now home to the Elbert County Historical Society, and is well preserved.</p><br>
<p>Spalding County Courthouse has been the name of successive courthouses of Spalding County, Georgia in Griffin, Georgia.</p><br>
<h2>Old Spalding County Courthouse</h2><br>
<p>The first county courthouse, now also known as Old Spalding County Courthouse, was built in 1859. It was also used as the Spalding County Jail, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The building is on the corner of 5th Street and Broad Street. Constructed in 1859 for $12,000, it was located by the railroad tracks. Its steeple and clock tower were removed in 1910 and it was converted into a jail. It now houses the Spalding County Extension Service and 4H Offices.</p><br>
<h2>Second county courthouse</h2><br>
<p>The second building to serve as the Spalding County Courthouse was at the corner of 6th and Solomon. It was designed by A. Ten Eyck Brown and completed in 1911. It was destroyed by fire on January 12, 1981. A shopping center was used as a temporary court and county office building until the new courthouse was built in 1982.</p><br>
<p>City of Griffin, Georgia</p><br>
<h2>New courthouse</h2><br>
<p>The new courthouse was completed in 1985 by Baulding & Spandro.</p><br>
<p>The Sam Bailey Building, formerly the Sam Bailey Male Institute, is a historic school building in Griffin, Georgia. It was constructed in 1870 and is the oldest public school building in Griffin. Originally a private school, it became a public school in August 1873 before becoming private again in 1877. Eight years later it became public again. It was built for the Griffin Male Institute and was named for Sam Wesley Bailey, a banker and landowner who came to Griffin after the American Civil War and helped fund the school. A two-story brick structure with Italianate details, it is part of the Griffin High School and is connected to other buildings via covered walkways.</p><br>
<p>The school building was constructed by Jonathan Drake, a major building firm in Griffin. It is located at the corner of East Poplar Street and 4th Street. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places In 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Old Gaissert Homeplace, also known as Orr-Williamson-Gaissert Homeplace, Williamson Place, or Mary Brook Farm, is a historic building in Williamson, Georgia. It was originally built in 1827 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 4, 1973. It is located northeast of Williamson on GA 362. The property owners won a 2002 Georgia Centennial Farm Award for family farmers preserving historic properties.</p><br>
<p>Wintergreen Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Port Gibson, Mississippi. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1979. It is located at East Greenwood Street.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>Samuel Reading Bertron (1865–1938), banker</p><br>
<p>Benjamin G. Humphreys (1808–1882), Civil War general</p><br>
<p>James G. Spencer (1844–1926), US Representative</p><br>
<p>Earl Van Dorn (1820–1863), Civil War general</p><br>
<p>Peter Aaron Van Dorn (1773–1837) lawyer and plantation owner, father of Earl, above.</p><br>
<p>The John M. and Elizabeth Bates House No. 1 is a historic house in Portland, Oregon, United States. Architect Wade Pipes, a pivotal figure in the Arts and Crafts movement in Oregon, designed the house in the mid-1930s for his close friends John and Elizabeth Bates. Built in 1935, it represents that decades transition in Pipes focus from English vernacular exterior elements toward clean lines, rectilinear forms, and minimal decoration. Its interior spaces and details express his devotion to Arts and Crafts principles. John and Elizabeth Bates subsequently commissioned three further houses from him.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The School Street Barn is the last remaining 19th century barn in Agawam, Massachusetts. Built in 1880, it is located in the town&#39;s School Street Park, and is one of the few surviving elements of the Springfield City Jail Farm, which was located here in the mid-20th century. The barn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The School Street Barn is located in eastern Agawam, on the north side of School Street a short way west of its junction with River Road. The barn is located in School Street Park, between Main Street and the parking area within the park boundaries. It is about 51 ft long and 41 ft wide, with a gable height of about 30 ft. It stands on a brick and stone foundation, and has concrete ramps to the large barn doors centered on the gable ends. It is sided with vertically mounted tongue-and-groove wooden boards. The interior of the barn is a typical three story New England post-and-beam construction.</p><br>
<p>The area where the barn stands was agricultural land from relatively early in the colonial period, serving as a food source for Springfield, located just across the Connecticut River to the east. Originally part of larger parcels, the property had a farmhouse built on it about 1840. By 1880 the property was owned by absentee owners, whose renters probably built the barn around 1880. The barns double-ramp form is extremely unusual in the Connecticut River valley, where bank barns and single-ramp barns were more common; it is the only known example of the form in Agawam. Private farming of the property ended with flooding on the river in 1938, and the property was acquired by the county. From 1938 until the late 1980s the area was part of Hampden Countys jail farm, which provided food for the prison population in the Springfield York Street jail, some of whose inmates served as farmhands. The property was turned over to the town, which converted it into the School Street Park.</p><br>
<p>Double Cabins, also known as Mitchell-Walker-Hollberg House, is a historic site outside Griffin, Georgia in Spalding County, Georgia. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 7, 1973. It is located northeast of Griffin on Georgia State Route 155, at 3335 Jackson Road.</p><br>
<p>The Greek Revival house, built in 1842, was named "Double Cabins" because that was the name of the stage coach stop across the road. The house was built by Shatteen Mitchell and "is a good example of the provincial adaptation of Greek Revival forms to an upcountry Georgia plantation home."</p><br>
<p>The Hunt House is a historic residence in Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia. Also known at the Chapman-Kincaid-Hunt House, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and removed in 2024. It was originally located at 232 South 8th Street.</p><br>
<p>It is a monumental Beaux Arts house that was built originally in c.1860 as an Italianate summer home for a rich south Georgia planter, W.W. Chapman.</p><br>
<p>It was remodelled into the Beaux Arts style by W.J. Kincaid, founder of a textile manufacturing firm in Griffin. Kincaid bought the house in 1874. His daughter, born in the house in 1875, married a Hunt and lived there until 1959. The house was moved to 525 North Pine Hill in 1978, apparently at 33.26214&deg;N latitude, 84.31637&deg;W longitude.</p><br>
<p>Pritchard-Moore-Goodrich House is a historic residence in Griffin, Georgia in Spalding County, Georgia. It was constructed by Dr. William Prichard in 1850 on land purchased from attorney Robert Lanier, father of Georgia poet Sidney Lanier. The home had a series of owners beginning with William Wadsworth in 1872 until 1919 when it was purchased by Lucien P. Goodrich, Dr. Prichard&#39;s grandson. The home is Greek Revival architecture and includes Doric columns as well as some Italianate architecture features. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 7, 1973. It is located at 441 North Hill Street.</p><br>
<p>The Mills House, also known as the Lewis-Mills House, is a historic residence in Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 18, 1972. It is located at 406 North Hill Street.</p><br>
<p>It is a fine example of a Greek Revival "temple-front" house, and perhaps was designed by Charles B. Cluskey. It was built in the 1850s for the Lewis family, and was long occupied by the Mills family. In 2018 it is currently a law office.</p><br>
<p>St. George&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church in Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 7, 1994. It is located at 132 North Tenth Street.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the church was delayed by the American Civil War and the American Reconstruction period. A lot for the church was bought on the corner of Tenth Street and Broad Street in 1868. In November 1869 the churchs cornerstone was placed with the Bishop of Georgia officiating and services were held in April 1871. A rectory was built a few years later (now administration offices) and in 1921 the Grantland Memorial Parish Hall was built. In 1962 the Education Wing was added and the original rectory remodeled. In May 1975 a sacristy was added for the Altar Guild. The church merged with St. Stephens Episcopal Church, which served the African Americans, and the altar, pews and baptismal font from St. Stephens were dedicated in 2003. A Childrens chapel was also added. St. George&#39;s sesquicentennial celebration was held in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Prospect Hill School is a historic school building at 33 Montgomery Street in Westfield, Massachusetts. The Colonial Revival school was built in 1897 to a design by Augustus W. Holton. The school was built on the site of an earlier wood-frame school which was no longer adequate to support the school district&#39;s growing student population. It is made of red brick with white sandstone detailing. The hip roof was originally slate, but is now asphalt shingles. The school when it opened had eight schoolrooms and served 300 students. It represented the beginning of a change in the Westfield schools from wood-frame schoolhouses to modern buildings.</p><br>
<p>With the town&#39;s student population growing, the school was expanded in 1919. The expansion retained the Colonial Revival style of the building, even though it gave it a completely new facade. Designed by Malcolm B. Harding, the addition included two more schoolrooms and an auditorium. The school continued to serve the town until 1991, when, after a wave of construction of new schools, the Prospect Hill School was declared obsolete and closed.</p><br>
<p>The property then lay vacant and unused for fifteen years, despite numerous proposals for its use. The town finally accepted a proposal in 2005 to convert the school into an affordable housing complex. The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Chenocetah Fire Tower is a historic fire tower in the Chenocetah Mountains, Cornelia, Georgia, Habersham County, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 11, 1984. The tower was built in 1937 as part of a public works program by the Farm Security Administration&#39;s Resettlement Administration in effort to move and employ impoverished farmers. The purpose of the building was to allow fire fighters to spot fires in the Chattahoochee National Forest.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The stone tower measures 40 feet tall and was first dedicated on June 7, 1938. Governor Eurith D. Rivers delivered the dedicatory address and Cornelia Mayor Crawford gave the address of welcome. Charles S. Vance, the project manager who took over from Mr. Woodroof and William A. Hartmen, regional director, were also in attendance. Governor Rivers was taken on a tour of the projects afterwards. The tower was dedicated again after World War II in memory of three forest workers who died during the war. The tower was used in active service as a fire tower until 1975. After 1975, it was unused until 1989 when the Georgia Forestry Commission took over staffing during the fire season. Locals have formed the Chenocetah Conservation Corps to provide grounds maintenance around the structure and surrounding landscape.</p><br>
<p>Henry Asbury House  is a historic house located at 211 East Waters Street in Clarkesville, Habersham County, Georgia.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built by master craftsman Rusk Church. It is a two-story central hall plan I-house.</p><br>
<p>The house was served by a Delco direct-current generator that provided it electricity 15 years before electricity became generally available. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 18, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Mauldin House is a historic home in Clarkesville, Georgia. The home&#39;s first owner and namesake was A.M. Mauldin and his wife. Mauldin was a hatmaker with a shop in downtown Clarkesville. It was moved to make way for a road widening project and now serves as a Welcome Center. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 18, 1982. The house was originally located at 102 East Water Street, but is now located at 458 Jefferson Street.</p><br>
<p>At one time, the property included multiple barns, pasture, and a vegetable garden in addition to the current house, Big Holly Cabin and the millinery shop. The Mauldin house has previously been known as the Little Pink Cottage.</p><br>
<p>Built of hand hewn pine for Haywood English in 1820, the cabin is part of a historical park beside Clarkesville&#39;s town square.</p><br>
<p>The Westfield Center Historic District is a historic district encompassing 157 acre of the civic, commercial, and industrial heart of Westfield, Massachusetts. It represents a major expansion of the Westfield Center Commercial Historic District, which included only two blocks of buildings along Elm Street in downtown Westfield. The district includes buildings representing the city&#39;s growth in the 19th century as a center of the whip-making industry, and its early years as a center for statewide educational institutions, as well as its growth as a regional center of western Hampden County. The commercial district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008; the expansion and renaming of the district took place in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Westfield was settled in the 17th century by English colonists, with its town center forming just west of the confluence of the Westfield and Little Rivers. It was mainly agricultural until the early 19th century, when whip making began as a cottage industry, and the Hampshire and Hampden Canal provided reliable means for moving goods. The town center shifted westward around this time, becoming centered between Park Square and the Westfield River on what is now called Elm Street. The town developed a diverse industrial whose largest component was the whip industry, prompting it to be called "Whip City". That industry would predominate until the advent of the automobile in the 20th century greatly reduced demand. In the late 19th century the city also became home to the state&#39;s second normal school, now Westfield State University.</p><br>
<p>The city center is architecturally reflective of much of this history, although buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries predominate. Important industrial elements survive, in particular whip factories that include the Sanford Whip Factory, the Westfield Whip Manufacturing Company, the United States Whip Company Complex. The early functions of the normal school are recalled in part by the Westfield Municipal Building (formerly housing that school, and now city hall), and the State Normal Training School, an elementary school built as a training vehicle for teachers in training. Residential neighborhoods developed on either side of the commercial area, portions of which are included in the historic district.</p><br>
<p>The Sanford Whip Company is a historic factory located at 330 Elm Street in Westfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1883, it was owned and operated by one of the whip-making business that led Westfield to become widely known as "Whip City". The building for many years housed a novelty toy manufacturer after the market for whips declined in the early decades of the 20th century. The factory was listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008, and as part of an expanded Westfield Center Historic District in 2013. It has been converted into affordable housing space.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Sanford Whip Company building is located at the northern end of Westfield&#39;s main business district, across from Kane Park on the west side of Elm Street near Cowles Court. It is a -story brick building, with a slate roof with the gable facing the street, and it has modest Italianate decorations. It is 130 ft long, with 17 window bays, and is four window bays wide. Windows are set in segmented-arch openings, with slightly projecting brickwork lintels with shoulders. The main building entrance is in the rightmost bay on the front facade; it is sheltered by a simple portico with square posts.</p><br>
<p>The Sanford Whip Company was started by brothers Edwin and Fred Sanford in 1880, after involvement in the manufacture and sale of whips with other manufacturers based in New York. Originally located in a space on Mechanic Street, they purchased this parcel in 1882 (its previous buildings having been washed away in an 1878 flood) and had the factory built. The Sanfords operated independently until 1892, when they were consolidated into the United States Whip Company, who used the building primarily for storage. The building was eventually repurchased by a reconstituted Sanford Company in 1924 for the production of whips and novelty toys. That business operated until 2000, when the company folded.</p><br>
<p>The Doctor&#39;s Building is a six-story commercial building in Nashville, Tennessee that was constructed in 1916  and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The building site was the former location of the home of railroad magnate Colonel Edmund William Cole, with his home being the last 19th-century mansion on Church Street. A new building, known as "The Doctor&#39;s Building" was then constructed as a three-story building, with medical offices on the upper floors, and retail shops on the ground floor. A few years later (in either 1916 or 1921), it had three more stories added, increasing its size to 100,000 ft&sup2;. The design, by architect Edward Emmett Dougherty of the architectural firm "Dougherty and Gardner" was of the elaborate Beaux-Arts or Renaissance Revival style. The exterior is sheathed with glazed polychrome terra cotta.</p><br>
<p>In the 1940s and 1950s, the building consisted of office space for many of the city&#39;s doctors and dentists.</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office, also known as the Berkeley Main Post Office, is a local branch of the United States Postal Service. The building, located at 2000 Allston Way, Berkeley, California, was built in 1914–15.</p><br>
<p>The Post Office is within the Civic Center Historic District, a five block area listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The district is a locally significant ensemble of harmoniously planned civic buildings that retains a high degree of integrity since achieving significance in 1950. The post office, along with the "Old" City Hall (1909) in the Beaux-Arts style, is among the earliest and the most decorative of the thirteen buildings in the district.</p><br>
<p>The architect is unknown but Oscar Wenderoth is listed on the cornerstone as he was director of the Office of the Supervising Architect that designed this and many other federal government buildings. The floor space doubled with the completion of the annex in 1932. A few years later, the Treasury Relief Art Project commissioned a sculpture and a mural for the lobby. Both are well-preserved examples of the styles, subjects and dominant themes of New Deal Art. The post office was designated Berkeley Landmark No. 38 on June 16, 1980, by the Landmarks Preservation Commission and added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 1981.</p><br>
<h2>Proposed sale</h2><br>
<p>Financial problems fueled by onerous Congressional legislation which introduced an unsustainable debt load without acknowledging revenue dynamics prompted a national sale of underused and often aging real estate owned by the USPS. Dozens of properties had been sold despite protests from local communities. The postal service issued a statement that "sales of historic postal properties have been very modest: 7 in 2012 and 6 in 2013." They identified 1,900 properties that are listed or could be considered for listing on the National Register of Historic Places out of 9,000 properties owned by USPS. In 2014, the USPS Office of Inspector General sought an independent review certain appraisals to ensure that they "were representative of the fair market value."</p><br>
<p>In 2013, the post office was listed for sale with a possible leaseback of the lobby to continue providing postal service. Opponents staged a 33-day encampment on its steps while the City Council unanimously voted to oppose the sale and unsuccessfully sought a one-year delay.</p><br>
<p>In November, 2014, postal officials announced a tentative sales agreement to a local developer. First They Came for the Homeless immediately established a 2nd occupation on the exterior grounds, the City of Berkeley filed a lawsuit against the sale, the seller withdrew, and in April 2015 federal district judge William Alsup dismissed the case on the basis of the Postal Service&#39;s declaration that no sale was pending. The 2nd occupation lasted until April, 12th, 2016 at which time Postal Police cleared the protest.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Berkeley Post Office is located just one block west of Shattuck Avenue, occupying the western half of the block bordered by Allston Way, Harold Way, Kittredge Street, and Milvia Street. The main entrance is on Allston Way, with nearby landmarks including the YMCA, a city office building (formerly Farm Credit), and Berkeley High School. The front part of the building, which includes the customer lobby, offices, and part of the work area, measures 130 feet in frontage by 62 feet in depth and stands 34 feet high. This section has two stories and a basement, featuring a hipped red tile roof. The work area extends 162 feet south along Milvia Street in a one-story building with a basement, matching the front section in design. The northernmost 35 feet of this section are original, with a seamlessly matched extension added in 1931-32. The building is made of reinforced concrete.</p><br>
<p>The exterior features Bedford limestone up to the water table line, with granite steps. Above this, the walls are covered in cement stucco with terra cotta trimmings in a sanded-cream finish, a first on the Pacific Coast. The main entrance loggia is supported by Kasota marble columns, originally dark in color but now matching the sand-colored terra cotta. The architectural style is typical of 1910s post offices and has been described as an adaptation of Brunelleschis Foundling Hospital. The Allston Way facade features an arcade of 11 high round arches on plain Tuscan columns, extending along the main floor and forming a loggia about 10 feet deep. The arches are outlined in terra cotta, and a wide terra cotta belt course with classical motifs runs below the second-story windows and around the building, serving as the cornice for the rear section. A smaller terracotta frieze with classical motifs tops the second story just below the eaves. The ends of the facade and side walls are heavily rusticated with cast blocks that simulate stone. Each rusticated section is topped with a terra cotta shield, and the buildings corners are rounded and slightly recessed. The hipped roof is covered in red tile over wood sheathing, with a wide overhang featuring two rows of curved wooden brackets framing rectangular panels. In 1979, the cornice soffit was painted in brown, blue, orange, and sand colors during a restoration project that also cleaned and repainted the exterior in shades of beige, yellow, and sand to highlight its details.</p><br>
<p>The building stands on a partly raised basement, with windows on the west side where the ground level is lower. The cornerstone, located at the north end of the west side, reads: "William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury; Oscar Wenderoth, Supervising Architect, 1914." A flagpole is situated at the northeast corner. Granite steps lead up from the sidewalk to the middle five arches of the loggia, with seven steps at the east end and ten at the west. The basement has two small windows with metal grilles at each end of the steps. The end arches feature intricate wrought iron railings with heraldic shields and diagonal rope patterns. The loggia has a gray marble floor and baseboards. The inner wall, forming the front wall of the lobby, mirrors the 11 arches and plain capitals of the outer arcade, with the end walls also arched, creating a cross-vaulted ceiling. On the east end wall is a relief sculpture of postal workers by David Slivka, dated December 1937, with the inscription "From USA, To All Mankind, Truth Abode, On Freedom Road." The fourth, sixth, and eighth arches have paired oak and glass doors with brass fittings, featuring modified Corinthian capitals that are repeated inside the building. The other arches have low cement window sills with wave decorations and double-hung windows with panes grouped in five vertical divisions. All arches are fully glazed with functioning transoms.</p><br>
<p>Nathaniel Friend House is a historic home located at Petersburg, Virginia. It was built in 1815–1816, and is a -story, six-bay, Federal style brick commercial / residential building. It has a rear ell that may incorporate the original kitchen and smokehouse. The house was built by the wealthy import-export merchant, Nathaniel Friend, Jr., who also served as the mayor of Petersburg in 1812–13.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is located in the Petersburg Old Town Historic District.</p><br>
<p>William McKenney House, also known as the McKenney-Dunlop-Totty House is a historic home located at Petersburg, Virginia. It was built in 1890, and is a large -story, Queen Anne / Eastlake style townhouse. It features stained and leaded glass, elaborate pressed brickwork, terra cotta roof trim, and a circular corner tower with a conical roof.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, and currently serves as a public library. It is located in the Poplar Lawn Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Stewart–Hinton House is a historic home located at Petersburg, Virginia. It was built about 1798, and is a two-story, five-bay, Federal style brick dwelling. It has a low hipped roof and four rectangular interior end chimneys. The interior features a first-floor hall with arched entrance, elaborate cornice, flat-paneled dado, an unsupported stair and an unusual double-pile parlor with two fireplaces.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Montgomery County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Courthouse Square in Mount Vernon, Georgia, the county seat of Montgomery County, Georgia. It was built in 1907 and renovated in 1991–92. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1980.</p><br>
<p>It is the third courthouse built in Mount Vernon for Montgomery County, which was formed in 1793. It is a two-story courthouse made of cream and red brick and granite and limestone trim. It has a Doric tetrastyle portico at its main entrance, flanked by projecting pavilions with cream brick quoins. An octagonal dome rises from the center of the structure and features hooded clocks facing in four directions.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the courthouse, as of 1980, had its original balcony, benches, and mantels. Corinthian pilasters with gold-painted capitals alternated with windows, and beaded board wainscoting went around the room. The ceiling is of pressed metal divided into nine recessed squares.</p><br>
<p>According to its historic register nomination, "This is the finest building, architecturally, in the entire Mount Vernon area."</p><br>
<p>The original clockworks are on display inside the courthouse. The original features discussed in the 1980 NRHP nomination form are still there as of 2017.</p><br>
<h2>Photos</h2><br>
<p>Behavior Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Sapelo Island outside Hog Hammock, Georgia. The cemetery is located at the south end of Sapelo Island, 1.25 miles west of Hog Hammock, about 300 ft off of Airport Road.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The African-American cemetery is believed to date to before the American Civil War although the earliest marker is dated to the late 19th century. Originally the cemetery was associated with a former community named "Behavior" and of the people enslaved by Thomas Spalding.</p><br>
<p>An example of African-American burial grounds, the cemetery&#39;s grave markers include short posts at either end of the graves with epitaphs on wooden boards nailed to the surrounding trees and personal items included with the deceased. More recent tombstones are cement, granite or metal., the cemetery is still in use and the only cemetery associated with the African American community on Sapelo Island.</p><br>
<p>The age of the cemetery is unknown, but there was damage recorded from the October 2, 1898 hurricane.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 22, 1996.</p><br>
<p>In June 2010, professors and students from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga conducted a survey of the cemetery. Their work and excavations showed evidence of over 180 unmarked graves and at least two structures, one likely a cabin for the enslaved people.</p><br>
<p>Monticello High School, now known as Thomas Persons Hall, is a historic high school in Monticello, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 14, 1978. The school is located on College Street.</p><br>
<p>It is a T-shaped three-story building that was completed in 1922. It was designed by architect Henry Hunter Jordan. It was the first county-wide school in Jasper County.</p><br>
<p>Monticello Historic District is a historic district in Monticello, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 8, 1997. It is generally bounded by College Street, Eatonton Street, Forsyth Street, Hillsboro Street, Washington Street, Funderburg Drive, and Madison Drive. It includes Monticellos town square area. Monticello purchased and renovated the Benton Supply Department Store  for its City Hall and uses its sales room as Monticellos Visitor Center. Heritage tourism is promoted through membership in Georgia&#39;s Historic Heartland Travel Association and a historic preservation ordinance was passed in 1988 and is overseen by the Monticello Historic Preservation Commission. The central commercial area and neighboring residential areas include Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Second Empire, Colonial, Neoclassical, English Tudor, and Craftsman architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Calhoun Apartments are a large multiunit residential building at the corner of Dwight and Jefferson Streets in the North End of Springfield, Massachusetts. The four-story apartment house was built in 1914 for Home Realty Trust and designed by local architect James D. Long in the Classical Revival style. The exterior is built from yellow brick with brownstone trim and features alternating flat and rounded sections on both of its street-facing elevations. The building was completed not long before a new fire code was introduced in Springfield, which in part resulted in more buildings of its type being built. The building went through a rapid succession of owners until the early 1960s, after which it changed hands infrequently.</p><br>
<p>The Calhouns resident population underwent changes that echoed Springfields changing demographics. Its early tenants were almost all working class: teachers, retail store clerks, and factory workers, from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. However, a few small business owners also lived there. By the 1980s Springfield&#39;s North End had the highest proportion of substandard housing, and The Calhoun was included in major urban redevelopment plans, along with the nearby Verona Apartments. The Springfield Redevelopment Authority bought an ownership stake in the building and began rehabilitation work in 1983. The interior renovations done pursuant to the redevelopment plan destroyed all historic value inside the building, gutting it and replacing the interior with modern construction. Woodwork around its exterior entrances was also lost.</p><br>
<p>The Calhoun and Verona were then transferred to Dwight Manor Associates, whose principals included individuals who had overseen the rehabilitation. Property taxes fell into arrears in 1997, and the city took the two properties by tax foreclosure in 2004. In 2006 the city transferred them to the Jefferson Park Limited Partnership for use as low- and moderate-income housing.</p><br>
<p>The Verona Apartments is a significant multiunit residential building situated at the corner of Dwight and Allendale Streets in the North End of Springfield, Massachusetts. The four-story apartment house, constructed in 1906 in the Classical Revival style by a consortium of construction and real estate interests, is characterized by white brick exterior with alternating flat and rounded sections on both street-facing elevations.</p><br>
<p>The Veronas resident population witnessed changes reflecting Springfields evolving demographics. Initially occupied by a predominantly working-class community, including teachers, retail store clerks, and factory workers from diverse ethnic backgrounds, the building also housed a few small business owners. However, by the 1980s, Springfield&#39;s North End had the highest proportion of substandard housing. The Verona, along with the nearby Calhoun Apartments, became part of major urban redevelopment plans. In 1983, The Verona was acquired by Housing Rehab, Inc., which initiated rehabilitation work in 1983. Unfortunately, the interior renovations carried out as part of the redevelopment plan resulted in the loss of all historic value inside the building, as it was gutted and replaced with modern construction. Exterior woodwork around entrances was also lost.</p><br>
<p>Subsequently, The Verona and Calhoun were transferred to Dwight Manor Associates, whose principals included individuals overseeing the rehabilitation. In 1997, property taxes fell into arrears, leading to the city&#39;s tax foreclosure on both properties in 2004. In 2006, the city transferred them to the Jefferson Park Limited Partnership for use as low and moderate-income housing.</p><br>
<p>The Merrick Art Gallery is an early private art museum in western Pennsylvania, founded by industrialist Edward Dempster Merrick in 1880 in the old New Brighton, Pennsylvania railroad station. The gallery, or museum, was expanded to two connected buildings holding 240 works of art, and remains open, free-of-charge, to the public. The gallery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>Edward Dempster Merrick (1832–1911) moved from New York state to New Brighton as a child. He worked as a telegraph operator and in his father&#39;s bucket-making business, then joined his brothers in 1867 in a foundry business which they sold in 1885. At this time he made a shrewd investment in a horseshoe nail manufacturing company, which supported Merrick and his museum for the rest of his life.</p><br>
<p>In 1880, he bought the c. 1850 one-story railroad station, and by 1885 had converted it into a two-story gallery. The second building was added around 1901. His collection of 18th- and 19th-century French, German, English, and American paintings fills the gallery and includes romantic, realistic, and impressionistic art by the artists Pierre-Paul Prud&#39;hon, Gustave Courbet, Hermann Winterhalter, Thomas Sully, and Charles Courtney Curran. The Hudson River School collection includes paintings by Asher Brown Durand, Thomas Moran, John Frederick Kensett, John William Casilear, and William Trost Richards.</p><br>
<p>The paintings are closely hung in the 19th century tradition. The inclusion of geologic and zoologic exhibits also reflect 19th century practices. Another exhibit is a piano once played by Stephen Foster. Other collections include modern and contemporary art, a 19th-century library and items from the New Brighton Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>By 1901 Merrick bought 200 paintings, ranging in price from $10 to $485, at a total cost of about $20,000. Merrick himself made 220 paintings which disappeared after his death.</p><br>
<p>Appomattox Iron Works is a historic iron foundry complex located at Petersburg, Virginia. The complex consists of nine buildings: the machine shop, the mill store, the supply room, the pipe shop, the carpenters shop and pattern shop, the core room, the foundry building, the blacksmiths shop, and the ruins of a stable. The machine shop at 28 Old Street is the oldest structure in the complex. It was built between 1810 and 1825, and is a three-story, four-bay, Federal style brick building. The Appomattox Iron Works operated at this location from 1899 until 1972.</p><br>
<p>The complex was designated a Virginia State Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is located in the Petersburg Old Town Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Petersburg Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Petersburg, Virginia. It was designed by New York architect Calvin Pollard and built between 1838 and 1840. It is a two-story, Classical Revival style brick building. It rests on a granite foundation and measures 57 feet wide and 93 feet deep. It features a pedimented hexastyle front portico and a double-tiered bell and clock tower modeled after the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens. Major work was performed on the structure until 1877 when extensive repairs and interior alterations were carried out. A 30-foot addition was constructed in 1965. During the Siege of Petersburg, Union troops used the tower for a sighting mark and spared the structure from the bombardment.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is located in the Petersburg Courthouse Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Petersburg City Hall is a historic city hall building located at Petersburg, Virginia. It was designed by architect Ammi B. Young and built between 1856 and 1859, as the USA Customs House and Post Office.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Petersburg Custom House & Post Office is located on the southeast corner of Tabb and Union streets on a plot of ground purchased April 18, 1856, for the sum of $15,000. It is a three-story, three bay by eight bay, Italian Renaissance Revival style brick building faced in granite. It measures 46 feet wide and 100 feet deep and was expanded to its present size in 1908-1910.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Ammi B. Young, first Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury, in the Italian Renaissance style. Construction was commenced in 1856 and completed in 1859, the cost of construction being $84,664.88. It was first occupied, however, in September, 1858, while still in an unfinished condition.</p><br>
<p>The exterior walls are constructed of Petersburgh granite. The original design of the building was for two stories only, after the original construction work was commenced, a third story was added for the accommodation of the Custom House department, and was used as sleeping apartments for the Customs officers. This building did not have a federal courtroom, all judicial matters would be conducted at the Richmond federal courthouse, just 20 miles north of the city.</p><br>
<p>The roof was made entirely of iron beams, covered with corrugated galvanized sheeting. The three southern bays of the building were added between 1908 and 1910.</p><br>
<p>The layout of the interior rooms plan has changed several times, nowadays revealing little evidence of the original arrangement. The first floor is primarily a large open public area containing municipal service areas. The second and third floors are divided into city offices. The interior columns and staircases are original.</p><br>
<h2>Uses</h2><br>
<p>The building was primarily used as a post office and custom house, although the initial floor plan was changed several times.</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War the building served as the headquarters of the Confederate Army.</p><br>
<p>The Post Office moved to a new location in 1936 and the building was renovated as part of a Works Progress Administration project, becoming the Petersburg&#39;s City Hall in 1938. It still retains that use as at 2017.</p><br>
<p>Located in the Petersburg Courthouse Historic District, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
