<p>Leesburg High School, also known as Lee County High School, is a historic high school in Leesburg, Georgia, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 1, 2006. It is located at 100 Starkville Avenue. The school&#39;s teams compete as the Trojans.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story brick building designed by Macon architects Dennis and Dennis and built by contractor/architect I. P. Crutchfield.</p><br>
<p>The MacLachlan Sanitarium is a hospital/family home located at 6482 Pingree Road in Elwell, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1981 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Dr. Charles H. MacLachlan was born in 1845 in Perth County, Ontario, the son of Alexander and Clamina MacLachlan. He later moved to Pennsylvania, and there married Sarah E. Peters in 1871. Maclachlan was an early proponent of "physiological therapeutics," a treatment of chronic diseases without the use of medication. He studied at Juttners Physiological Institute in Cincinnati, then moved to Seville Township in 1883. There, he constructed a sanitarium as a facility to treat chronic diseases such as tuberculosis, rheumatism, and nerve and skin disease. The facility also served as a local hospital. MacLachlan slowly built the establishment into a thriving medical practice, and in 1908 added a main section to the facility.</p><br>
<p>The structure was used as a sanitarium until MacLachlan&#39;s death in 1920. Afterward, it was used as a boardinghouse, bar, restaurant, dancehall, and private residence.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Charles H. MacLachlan Sanitarium consists of two attached sections: a small single-story wood-framed structure built in 1883 and a larger two-story fieldstone structure built in 1908. The 1883 section is clad with clapboards and sits on a stone pad; it has a gable roof and double hung sashwindows. The 1908 section is constructed of uncoursed fieldstone, sitting on a stone pad and topped with a hip roof. A deep veranda spans the front of the building and wraps around one corner. The veranda has support columns and a balustrade constructed of fieldstone. The windows of the structure are surrounded with slightly arced stone frames.</p><br>
<p>The Wright Opera House Block, also known as the Alma Opera House Block, is a commercial block located at 101–113 East Superior Street and 408 North State Street in Alma, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<h2>Ammi Williard Wright</h2><br>
<p>Ammi Willard Wright was born in 1822 in Grafton, Vermont. He left home in 1843 to learn business in Boston, then spent several years in the draying business and managing a hotel in Bartonsville, Vermont. In 1848, he married Harriet Barton, the daughter of his employer. The next year the couple moved to Boston, and in 1850 to Detroit. His original business plans were dashed when his business partner died unexpectedly, and Wright then relocated to the Saginaw Valley and got into the lumber business. He was actively engaged in lumbering in the 1850s, then purchased a mill in 1859, and in 1871 formed the First National Bank in Saginaw and the Saginaw Barrel Company. He diversified into other business interestes, including banks, manufacturing, railroads, and timber, mining, and ranching properties.</p><br>
<p>In 1875, Wright and his partner James Dawson opened a general store in Alma, the first of his properties in the city. It was destroyed by fire the next year, but they relocated temporarily, and purchased a lot on which to construct a new building. Construction was delayed, and soon Wright & Dawson&#39;s partnership was dissolved. However, Wright took on new partners, and in 1879 work began on what was then the second brick building in Alma, the Wright Opera House.</p><br>
<p>In 1879, Harriet Wright began to sicken, and the Wrights moved to Saratoga Springs, New York. Ammi Wright commuted for long periods between Saratoga Springs and Michigan, in particular to the Alma area. Harriet died in 1884; in 1885, Ammi Wright married Anna Case, who had worked as the family seamstress, and moved full-time to Alma. Wright began developing businesses and properties in Alma, starting with a store, and, in 1879-80, the Wright Opera House Block. He also constructed the Alma Roller Mills in 1881, the Wright House hotel in 1883, the First State Bank of Alma in 1883, and the Alma Springs Sanitarium in 1885. Later establishments included the Alma Sugar Company plant in 1899, the Alma Manufacturing Company gasoline engine plant in 1903, and the Central Michigan Produce Company in 1905.</p><br>
<p>Ammi Willard Wright died in 1912, leaving an estate worth approximately ten million dollars at the time of his death.</p><br>
<h2>Wright Opera House</h2><br>
<p>Wright had originally planned to build a smaller store, but by 1879 plans were expanded to accommodate five stores. The foundation was in place by fall 1879, and the exterior was finished in January of the next year. Businesses were moving into the structure by May 1880, when it was finally completed at the cost of $20,000 (about $ in todays dollars). The first tenants in the building were the Barton & Company general store (Wrights original store, now with a new set of partners), the post office, Coates & Ely Hardware, the Turck, Winton & Co. Bank, and the opera house.</p><br>
<p>The opera house, initially called "Bartons Hall," occupied the two upper floors of the building. It was used for a number of events in the social life of the town, including dramatic performances, political speeches, and musical performances. It was heavily used for a decade, then fell into disuse, then was remodeled and reopened by Wrights son-in-law, Henry Lancashire, in 1894. It was later remodeled to use as a Masonic Temple.</p><br>
<p>The entire block was renovated in 1897, and in 1899 an addition known as the Lancashire Building was constructed directly abutting (and connected with) the Opera House.</p><br>
<p>Both the original Opera House and the Lancashire Building addition housed a series of commercial establishments throughout the 20th and into the 21st century. Renovations were completed in August 2019.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Wright Opera House Block Complex consists of three interconnected buildings: the 1880 Wright Opera House Block, the 1899 Lancashire Building addition, and an associated boiler house/store building.</p><br>
<p>The Opera House Block is a three-story Italianate commercial building constructed of cream-colored brick. It covers a footprint of 110 ft (along Superior Street) by 85 ft (along State Street). The facade is five bays wide; the bays are separated by vertical piers, and each bay is topped with a cornice. The upper-story windows in the opera house section were originally tall one-over-one double-hung wooden windows, set into arched hoods with a prominent keystone and filling much of the two-story height. The windows in the upper stories in the remainder of the block were similar, but shorter and with less detail. There are two stairways to the upper floors: one near the center of the Superior Street facade, and one at the back end of the State Street facade.</p><br>
<p>The Lancashire Building addition is a two-story structure, two bays wide and measuring 152 ft by 86 ft. Three pairs of double-hung wooden windows are set into a facade on the second story. The boiler house is a one-story brick building with bricked-in windows, facing State Street.</p><br>
<p>Arnheim is a historic plantation house located at Radford, Virginia. It was built between 1838 and 1840, and is a two-story, three-bay, Federal / Greek Revival–style brick dwelling. It is a symmetrical double-pile plan dwelling, 40 feet square, and sitting on a raised brick basement. In 1939, it was converted into a home economics annex for the adjacent Radford High School. Arnheim was built by Dr. John Blair Radford, for whom the City of Radford is named. The property also includes a documented contributing archaeological site.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>La Riviere, also known as the William Ingles House, is a historic home located at Radford, Virginia. It was built in 1892–1893 by Captain Billy Ingles, the great-grandson of Colonel William Ingles, and is a two-story Queen Anne house with a brick first story and a stuccoed frame second story. The house sits on rock-faced limestone blocks and has a slate-sheathed hipped roof. It features a three-story battlemented tower, a conservatory, and a curving wraparound porch. Also on the property are a contributing cook&#39;s house, garage, ice house, drive, and wall and gate.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Harvey House, also known as the Dimmick-Harvey House, is a historic home located at Radford, Virginia. It was built in 1891–92 by J.K. Dimmock who started the Radford Foundry. When Dimmock left Radford, the house was inhabited by several families until the Harveys purchased the home, which is where its common name derives. The Harvey House is a large -story Queen Anne frame dwelling. Its rectangular plan by well known Philadelphia architect Frank Miles Day, features bays, an oriel window, and gabled dormers on a hipped roof. It also has a deep verandah with sinuous curves and shingled surfaces. Also on the property are a contributing early barn/workshop and a carriage house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Halwyck, also known as the James Hoge Tyler House, is a historic home located in Radford, Virginia. It was built in 1892, and is a large two-story, three-bay, Queen Anne brick dwelling on a wooded bluff-top lot overlooking bottomland along the New River. It has a central-passage, T-plan dwelling and a hipped roof. The house was the principal residence of Governor James Hoge Tyler and his wife, Susan Hammet Tyler, from the time it was built until their deaths in the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. Governor Tyler spelled the name of his home “Halwick,” and it carried this spelling while owned by him and his descendants, as documented by family photographs and numerous sources within the writings of Governor Tyler. When the home was added to the National Register of Historic Places the name of the home was changed to "Halwyck." One of the many sources that document the spelling of the home while owned by Governor Tyler is the book "The Family of Hoge: A Genealogy Compiled by James Hoge Tyler" (see page 66). Visit the website for other references to "Halwick."</p><br>
<p>Hollberg Hotel is a historic hotel in Senoia, Georgia that is now operated as The Veranda Historic Inn. It was built 1906 in a Greek Revival architecture style and includes nine guest rooms, heart pine floors, tin ceilings, ornate light fixtures, chandeliers, 11 fireplaces, gardens, rocking chairs and a large veranda with porch swings. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 10, 1980. The hotel is located on Seavy Street and Barnes Street. According to The Veranda&#39;s website many Confederate soldiers had reunions at the hotel; Margaret Mitchell interviewed Confederate Veterans for Gone With the Wind at the hotel; William Jennings Bryan was a guest in 1908 while running for President and the movie Broken Bridges featured the hotel in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad Company Building is a historic building in Tennille, Georgia. It was designed by Charles E. Choate, an architect and Methodist who worked in Tennille for many years, and constructed in 1903. The brick-and-stone structure is a late 20nth century revival of Beaux arts architecture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 28, 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad Company Building is now a private residence.</p><br>
<p>Holt Brothers Banking Company Building is a historic site in Sandersville, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The bank was built in 1898 as the Holt Brothers Building, and in 1901 the brothers, who were farmers and businessmen, opened the First National Bank there. It was built as a two-story brick building with ashlar marble. Its front door had a stained glass fanlight, and beside the door, in marble, was carved "Chas. E. Choate - Architect and Builder". The brothers sold the building to the First National Bank in 1914. The bank was later owned by Gordon S. Chapman, publisher and mayor in Sandersville. In 1994 the first floor space was occupied by two clothing stores.</p><br>
<p>Tubman High School is a historic high school building in Augusta, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 7, 1994. It is located at 1740 Walton Way. It was named for Augusta philanthropist Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman and was founded as Neelys Institute in 1874. A new Tubman High School building was funded by a bond issue and constructed in 1917 according to designs by G. Lloyd Preacher. The three-story brick buildings design is considered Beaux Arts architecture and includes terra cotta. It was the area&#39;s only public high school for girls until the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>It became a co-educational junior high school in 1951 and is now a middle school.</p><br>
<p>Augusta Cotton Exchange Building is a historic building in Augusta, Georgia. It was designed by Enoch William Brown and built in the mid-1880s during a cotton boom. The structure includes ornate details and ironwork and is considered High Victorian architecture. Materials for its construction were supplied locally by Charles F. Lombard&#39;s foundry. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 20, 1978. It is located on Reynolds Street.</p><br>
<p>The exchange was organized for the cotton trade. It housed brokers and a trading floor. Women were excluded and off hours cockfights and Saturday football meetups took place.</p><br>
<p>The building is part of the Augusta Downtown Historic District and Augusta Canal National Monument Heritage Area. Bill Moore of Aiken, South Carolina purchased and restored the building in 1988. The building has been used by the Augusta Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau as a Welcome Center and is now a branch of South State Bank.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Rucker Lamar Boyhood Home is the boyhood home of Joseph Rucker Lamar in Augusta, Georgia. Lamar served as Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 13, 1996. It is located at 415 7th Street. The house was constructed in 1860. It is located in the Augusta Downtown Historic District, is the headquarters of Historic Augusta, and is used as a visitors center for the Boyhood Home of Woodrow Wilson.</p><br>
<p>Shiloh Orphanage, now the Shiloh Comprehensive Community Center, was an orphanage for black children in Augusta, Georgia, United States. The site includes the Strong Academy building, a girls dormitory, and a boys dormitory. The orphanage closed in 1970 and reopened in 1977 as the Shiloh Comprehensive Community Center. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 30, 1996. It is located at 1635 15th Street.</p><br>
<p>The orphanage was established in 1902 by the Shiloh Baptist Association. Land for the orphanage was purchased in 1904 near the historically black community of Bethlehem. Strong Academy, a one-room school for young children, was built in 1910; the girls dormitory was designed by Scroggs and Ewing and completed in 1927; and the Edward Lynn Drummond-designed boys dormitory was constructed in 1936. The grounds included a vegetable garden and a grazing area for cattle.</p><br>
<p>William D. Phillips Log Cabin is a historic site near Hogansville, Georgia, located in Meriwether County. It was built by William D. Phillips  for his family. The original log cabin is no longer standing. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 28, 1982. It is located on Georgia State Route 54.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register as a rare log cabin of its era, which have not often survived in Georgia.</p><br>
<p>Meriwether County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in Greenville, Georgia, county seat of Meriwether County, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 7, 1973.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was built in 1903–1904 according to a Classical Revival design by J. W. Golucke. The courthouse replaced the county&#39;s first courthouse, built in 1832 and designed by William Hitchcock, which stood for seventy years.</p><br>
<p>The Meriwether County Courthouse was heavily damaged in a 1976 fire but was restored with a modified layout within the existing brick walls, and today houses county government offices. The courthouse is located on Court Square.</p><br>
<p>A Confederate monument is located on the courthouse grounds. It is an obelisk with the inscription on the base of "Our Soldiers" and "Lest We Forget." On the sides are an inscription giving a dedication to "the men from Meriwether County who have given their lives for their country" and an inscription stating that the monument was erected by the "grateful citizens of Meriwether County under the auspices of the David Meriwether Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution."</p><br>
<p>Duck House, part of the Richards estate, was a historic dwelling and is an archaeological site on Cumberland Island near St. Marys, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 13, 1984, and burned down a few years later from a fire started by an illegal camper.</p><br>
<p>During World War II the USA Coast Guard was stationed at Duck House. There is a Duck House Road and a Duck House Trail on the island.</p><br>
<p>Campgrounds were proposed for the Duck House area but ecological concerns scuttled the idea.</p><br>
<p>The Old Clinch County Jail is a historic jail in Homerville, Georgia, Clinch County, Georgia, located in Court Square. It is a two-story brick building 35 feet by 32 feet in size and was built in 1893. It was completed in 1894 at a cost of $3,175 and was the county&#39;s jail for 33 years, until 1927.</p><br>
<p>Some work was done on the building in 1936 as part of the Works Progress Administration. In 1927 the local Woman&#39;s Club saved the building from destruction and, as of 1979, they had a long-term lease.</p><br>
<p>It replaced the county&#39;s wooden jail that had been built in 1872.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The jail was deemed significant for its fireproof construction, designed by a Georgia architect with construction by Dalton, Georgia&#39;s Manly Iron Jail Works, a company that still existed in 1979. Thomas Firth Lockwood (1868-1920) of Columbus, Georgia was the architect.</p><br>
<p>The Lydia Pinkham House was the Lynn, Massachusetts, home of Lydia Pinkham, a leading manufacturer and marketer of patent medicines in the late 19th century. It is in this house that she developed Lydia Pinkham&#39;s Vegetable Compound, an application claimed to provide relief for "female complaints". Its address, 285 Western Avenue, was widely known, for women all over the country would write to her for advice and comment, and the company cultivated the idea that Pinkham created the compound in her home. Pinkham herself would answer such letters, and the practice was continued by the company in her name for some time after her death in 1883.</p><br>
<h2>House history</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in circa 1872 by either Charles Beede, the seller of the property in 1871, or Leander Berry, who purchased it. The house was built with Second Empire styling, including a Mansard roof, which was then in fashion. In 1876 Beede reacquired the property, which he then rented to Isaac and Lydia Pinkham. It was at the time the only Second Empire home in the neighborhood. The Pinkhams occupied the house until Lydia&#39;s death, during which time the company rose to national prominence. The basement of the main block has large storage areas and shows evidence that it once contained a large stove on which the Pinkham compound would have been produced.</p><br>
<p>The original house had an ell that extended from the rear. In the years 1922 to 1928 a sleeping porch and several rooms were added to the second floor. Two fireplaces were added, from the outside.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. Two years later it was further designated a National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>1000 Block of Seventh Street and 649–651 New York Avenue NW are a collection of two and three story buildings in Washington D.C. which were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. They are located across the street from the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and adjacent to Mount Vernon Square, also listed on the NRHP.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were mostly built in the 1870s for a German immigrant population. They have remained mostly intact since they were built even though the neighborhood around them has changed dramatically.</p><br>
<p>The Eight Hundred Block of F Street NW refers to a collection of five commercial buildings in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, DC. It formerly housed the International Spy Museum and is across the street from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It currently houses a branch of the Shake Shack.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>1892, Warder Building, S.E. corner of 9th and F Sts, designed by Washington architect Nicholas T. Haller, Richardsonian Romanesque style, this was a large elevator building intended for use as offices, apartments and stores.</p><br>
<p>1875, Le Droit Building, S.W. corner of 8th and F Sts, designed by James H. McGill, Italianate commercial style, intended exclusively for use as offices</p><br>
<p>Schneider Triangle is a set of residential buildings designed and built by Thomas Franklin Schneider next to Washington Circle Park in Washington, DC. The twenty two buildings formed a complete block with a central courtyard. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, at which time, only 21 of the buildings remained standing. It forms a triangle due to the street layout of DC. The Embassy of Tajikistan is located in one of the houses.</p><br>
<p>The Alexander–Hill House, also known as the Alexander–Cannon–Hill House, is a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places, located in High Falls County Park near Seneca, South Carolina off of South Carolina Highway 183. Built in 1831 by Pleasant Alexander, the house was originally located on a plantation near Old Pickens, the government center of the Pickens District, which was created after the Pendleton District split into two smaller districts. It was moved to its current location in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The two-story clapboard house has original heart-pine floors in the entrance hall, wainscoting in the parlor and the original stairway. The two original brick chimneys were reassembled after the house was moved.</p><br>
<p>The house is currently used by the High Falls County Park as its office and gift shop. Tours of the house are available on a limited basis.</p><br>
<p>The Alma Downtown Historic District is a commercial historic district in Alma, Michigan, roughly located along Superior Street between the Pine River and Prospect Avenue, and along State Street between Center and Downie Streets. and the entirety was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. It contains 72 structures, primarily brick commercial buildings, ranging from one to three stories in height and dating from 1874  to the 1960s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1853/54, General Ralph Ely purchased land along the Pine River and settled there with his wife and children. He erected a mill and a settlement, "Elyton," sprang up in the area. In 1858, James Gargett platted a larger nearby area and dubbed it "Alma." Both Alma and Elyton increased in size, and were soon combined under the name of Alma. Alma had seventy residents by 1860, which increased to 404 in 1870, 467 in 1880, and 1,665 in 1890.</p><br>
<p>Alma grew rapidly in the latter part of the 19th century in large part due to the local lumber industry, but also due to the agricultural prosperity of the region.</p><br>
<p>These last two buildings were constructed by Ammi Williard Wright, a lumberman who adopted Alma as his base of operations. Wright has a large influence on the development of the district, not only because he was directly responsible for some of the most important structures in the district (in addition to the Opera House, Wright built the First State Bank Building, the original Masonic Home/Sanitarium, and his personal residence), but also because he established some of the largest businesses and industries in Alma in the late 19th and early 20th century. These included constructed the Alma Roller Mills in 1881, the Wright House hotel in 1883, the First State Bank of Alma in 1883, the Alma Springs Sanitarium in 1885, the Alma Sugar Company plant in 1899, the Alma Manufacturing Company gasoline engine plant in 1903, and the Central Michigan Produce Company in 1905.</p><br>
<p>Due in large part to the growth of the city, more buildings were constructed in the district in the 1890s, most of which were brick and stone. By 1902, the two-block heart of the district along Superior between State and Gratiot was nearly all filled in with masonry structures.</p><br>
<p>Alma grew rapidly at the beginning of the 20th century, with a population of 2,757 in 1910 and 7,542 in 1920. The boom was in large part due to the increase in the industrial base, with agricultural firms such as the Central Michigan Produce Company, the Alma Sugar Company, and the Libby, McNeill, and Libby pickle canning plant opening. In addition, the founding of the Republic Motor Truck Company in 1913, and its subsequent expansion to support World War I production, drove the increase in Alma&#39;s fortunes. The commercial district followed suit, extending its boundaries both east and west along Superior, as well as south along State, as more structures were built.</p><br>
<p>However, after the war, production of trucks and Republics sales decreased dramatically, and as the companys prospects fizzled, Alma&#39;s population plateaued. Further growth did not occur until after World War II, when more manufacturing moved into the area. The commercial district saw some additional construction, although the size of the district remained substantially as it was in 1920. More significantly, there were substantial facade modernizations during the 1960s throughout the district.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Alma Downtown Historic District covers some portion of eleven city blocks along Superior and State Streets. It contains 72 structures ranging from one to three stories in height. Architectural styles range from Italianate, Queen Anne, and Neoclassical Revval to Art Moderne and International Style. The buildings in the district are primarily commercial buildings, but also included are the massive stone A. W. Wright House, as well as the 1915 hospital building, the Alma Public Building/City Hall, and the Post Office Building.</p><br>
<p>The buildings along Superior Street are nearly all brick, although some very early frame structures are also included. Most of the area has little or no space between buildings, and the first floor commercial spaces open directly onto the sidewalk. As one moves north or south along the cross streets, the building scale generally decrease and the space between buildings increases.</p><br>
<p>The following are some of the more significant buildings in the district, in order of construction:</p><br>
<h3>Alma Interiors (201 E. Superior)</h3><br>
<p>The Alma Interiors building is a two-story frame building constructed at some time before 1884; there are still simple Greek Revival elements visible that suggest that this building may be the oldest building in downtown Alma. The building housed a hardware and tin shop in the late nineteenth century, and a millinery, dress shop, and grocer at later dates.</p><br>
<h3>Delavan Building (115 E. Superior)</h3><br>
<p>The Delavan Building, constructed in 1874, was the first brick building in Alma. It was constructed by Henry Delavan to house his general store. Delavan and his sons ran the general store in this building from the time of construction until 1914 when they sold it to W.S. Proud. Proud ran the store until the 1920s, after which it briefly housed Gay&#39;s Variety Store. In 1929, George Maier moved his clothing store into the building, and operated it until the mid-1960s when he died. The building was vacant for some time, and then was purchased by Bill Brown for his shoe store. As of 2013, the building is still occupied by a shoe store.</p><br>
<p>The Delavan Building is two-story brick commercial building, now clad on the second story with vinyl siding. The storefront has large windows and a central recessed entry. The building originally had round-arch second-story windows.</p><br>
<h3>Wright Opera House Block (101&ndash;107 E. Superior)</h3><br>
<p>The Wright Opera House Block was built in 1879&ndash;1880 by lumberman and banker Ammi Williard Wright. Wright had originally planned to construct a smaller building to house his general store, which had burned in 1876. However, after a few years of delays, and changing business partners, Wright built this impressive structure, which housed five commercial bays on the ground floor, and an opera house, initially called "Barton&#39;s Hall," which occupied the two upper floors of the building.</p><br>
<p>The Opera House Block is a three-story Italianate commercial building constructed of cream-colored brick. The Opera House was listed independently on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<h3>Church Block (202&ndash;214 E. Superior)</h3><br>
<p>The Church Block was constructed in 1886 for General Nathan Church of Ithaca. It was the fourth commercial brick structure built in Alma. Church hired George S. Young to construct the building. The Church Block is a two-story Late Victorian brick commercial block; it contains six street-level storefronts. The two center storefronts define a midsection which rises slightly above the flanking bays; on the second floor a broad and tall round-arch window is centered in the building and flanked by two square-head double window. The four bays flanking its center section also have square-head double windows on the second floor. All the storefronts have recessed central entries; the three eastern stores still have most of the external finishes, including square cast iron columns. Two of the stores still have the original ornate transoms.</p><br>
<h3>Ammi W. Wright House (503 N. State)</h3><br>
<p>This house, designed by Spier and Rohns of Detroit, was built in 1886-87 by G.S. Young as Ammi W. Wright&#39;s personal residence. The house incorporated what were at the time novel innovations in home construction, including hot water heat, electric wiring, and indoor hot and cold running water. Wright lived in this house until his death in 1912; his wife and sister-in-law continued to live there until their deaths in 1925 ind 1931. In 1934, the widow of Doctor R. B. Smith purchased the house and converted it into a hospital, which was used until 1956. It later was used by the Northwood Institute and the Northwood Center for Research and Development, and was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Wright House is a massive 2-1/2 story brownish-gray sandstone Richardsonian Romanesque structure with a tiled gable and hip roof. The entry is through a corner porch with a flat roof and four heavy arches. A two-story gabled bay is immediately adjacent to the entry porch, and a second semi-round porch with heavy columns and a flat roof is located in the opposite corner. A timber porte cochere was once located near the front entry porch.</p><br>
<h3>Pollasky Block (101-109 W. Superior)</h3><br>
<p>Michael Pollasky had a wooden store at this location; it burned down in 1893. Between 1897 and 1902, Pollasky had George S. Young construct this brick building, using a design from Saginaw architects Haug and Schuermann. It is a two-story brick building trimmed with sandstone, and contains five storefronts at the street level, separated into bays by vertical brick piers. A sixth, narrower bay contains an entrance to the stairway. A semi-round turret sits on the corner of the building; it is lacking its original upper story and conical roof. However, the remainder of the second floor retains a high degree of integrity, containing the original double-hung windows with limestone sills and lintels, as well as pressed metalwork with wreaths and garlands near the roofline.</p><br>
<h3>Alma Public Building (225 E. Superior)</h3><br>
<p>The Alma Public Building (also known as the Alma City Hall) was constructed in 1902 using a design from Saginaw architects Haug and Schuermann. It originally housed all of Alma&#39;s public offices, including the fire house, village hall, and various offices. Several additions were made to the building, including a new firehouse in 1918, and a single-story extension to the west some time after 1924. The city used the building until 1975, when a new structure was built. The old Public Building remained vacant until 1980, when a law clinic moved in.</p><br>
<p>The Alma Public Building is a two-story red brick Richardsonian Romanesque structure with a hip roof and a prominent clock tower at the northwest corner. The original building has a rectangular plan, but later additions have given it a T shape. The front is divided into three sections: the clocktower, the main village hall, and the fire hall. Limestone beltcourses at the level of the second story window sills and lintels unites the sections.</p><br>
<h3>Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) Hall (313-315 N. State)</h3><br>
<p>The Odd Fellows Hall was constructed in 1904 by Alma contractor George S. Young. An addition was constructed in 1917. The Odd Fellows used the building as their headquarters until 1997. The building also housed the Alma Record and the Central Michigan Power and Light offices (later Consumers Power Company) until 1955. The building is a two-story red brick structure separated into three storefronts demarcated by brick piers. The street level storefronts have been rebuilt, and many of the upper story windows have been filled in.</p><br>
<h3>First Savings Bank Building (110 W. Superior)</h3><br>
<p>The predecessor to the First State Bank was founded as a private bank in 1880. In 1883 Ammi Wright became a partner in the bank, and in 1901 it was incorporated as the First State Bank, with Wright as President. The bank was originally housed in the Opera House Block, but in 1915 construction began on this building, and the bank moved the next year. In 1956 the bank consolidated with Alma State Savings Bank and moved to another building; this building was later used by the Delta Beauty College and the Gratiot Area Chamber of Commerce. The building is a two-story Neoclassical structure with a symmetrical three-bay facade and a recessed central entry flanked by two-story Tuscan columns.</p><br>
<h3>Masonic Home Hospital Wing (525 N. State)</h3><br>
<p>In 1910, a fire destroyed the State Masonic Lodge Old Folks Home in Grand Rapids. At around the same time, the former Alma Sanitarium became vacant as the fad for mineral baths wound down. Ammi Wright, the sanitarium&#39;s owner, offered the building to the Masonic Lodge for $60,000. The Masons were slow to accept, and faced with maintenance costs of his huge building, Wright dropped the asking price to one dollar in 1911. The Masons accepted, and on March 29, 1912 the building was rededicated the Masonic Home. In 1915, the Masons added a large hospital wing to the complex. Eventually, the Masons felt the need for a new campus, and in the 1930s a new complex north of Alma was constructed, and the Sanitarium building was demolished. The 1915 wing operated as a hospital until the mid-1950s. As of 2013, it houses a variety of nonprofit organizations.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Home Hospital Wing is a 2-1/2 story Neoclassical structure built of red-brown brick and trimmed with limestone. It is a rectangular building sitting on a raised basement, with a smooth limestone beltcourse separating the rusticated brick basement from the upper floors. Two-story brick piers with limestone capitals run up the walls, above which is a brick frieze and a massive dentilated cornice. The windows are one-over-ones sitting on limestone sills. The building originally had a projecting portico with four limestone Ionic columns spanning the entire front; at some point in the mid-20th century the portico was enclosed in brick, and a small two-story red brick extension was constructed.</p><br>
<h3>United States Post Office (233 N. State)</h3><br>
<p>The Post Office was constructed in 1937-38, part of the Federal relief programs in the Great Depression. It was built from a standard design originating in the office of Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, and was constructed by the James I. Barnes Construction Company of Mount Pleasant, Michigan. It is a single-story brick building with limestone trim and a central stone staircase.</p><br>
<h3>Masonic Temple / Central National Bank Building (301 N. State)</h3><br>
<p>The Masonic Temple was built in 1963 to house the Central National Bank of Alma on the first floor and the Masonic Temple on the second. It is a large square plan brick International Style building with a deeply recessed corner entryway. It is sited on a corner, and whitish brick piers separate both street facades into bays.</p><br>
<p>Hufstedler Gravehouse or Pinckney&#39;s Tomb is a grave shelter, or grave house, near Linden, Tennessee, that is considered to be the largest grave house in the USA state of Tennessee. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The grave house is a limestone and wood structure that covers the burial site of local farmer Pinckney Hufstedler and members of his family. It was originally built as a graveyard for about 10 to 12 burials, surrounded by a wall of cut stone almost 5 ft high. Wooden walls and a roof were added because of Pinckney Hufstedler&#39;s fears that water could get into his tomb. Hufstedler also asked that his body be transported to the burial site in a wagon drawn by white oxen, rather than mules.</p><br>
<p>The structure is deemed to be a rare example of vernacular rural cemetery architecture of the 19th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. In 2009, the Tennessee Preservation Trust listed it as one of the state&#39;s ten most endangered historic sites, noting that the foundation was beginning to fail.</p><br>
<p>Theodore Judah School is a historic elementary school located in Sacramento, California. The 1937 edifice is the last standing PWA school in the city.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school opened in 1927 in a "one-room wooden bungalow" and was called the David Lubin Annex, with only a handful of children and a short-term teacher. The same year, the school was enlarged into a K-6 setting and given the name Theodore Judah School, presumably after Theodore Judah, who helped design the first First transcontinental railroad. In 1937, the Public Works Administration began constructing a permanent building for the school and finished in 1939.</p><br>
<p>Using the fact that it is the oldest continuously operated school in the city, as well as arguing its architectural significance, community members and school administration successfully petitioned the City of Sacramento to have the school placed on the citys historic register in 1994. In maintaining the buildings original look and feel, the Sacramento City Unified School District brought in a specialist to determine the original paint colors of the building when the building was repainted in 1995.</p><br>
<p>In 1997, the school gained placement on the National Register of Historic Places, due to its architectural design, after a seven-year-long effort on the behalf of community members.</p><br>
<p>Riegel Community Hospital, also known as Riegel Hospital, was an historic 1924 hospital at 194 Allgood Street in Trion, Georgia. It closed in 1975. It contained asbestos. The building was demolished.</p><br>
<p>The hospital was built by the Trion Manufacturing Co., a local denim mill, and served its workers; it was named after the mill&#39;s president, Benjamin Riegel. The property was donated to the city in the 1990s.</p><br>
<p>Turner County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in Ashburn, Georgia, the county seat of Turner County, Georgia. The Classical Revival building was designed by two Macon architects, Alexander Blair III  and Peter E. Dennis. The courthouse is located at 219 East College Avenue, close to several historic homes.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was constructed in 1907-1908, Ashburn was designated the county seat when the county was formed. The courthouse has served as the county government&#39;s offices since that time. The Turner County Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1980. The courthouse underwent restorations in 1984 and 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The construction is of brick and stone, and the New Georgia Guide published by the University of Georgia Press describes the building as "impressive." It features a more flamboyant style that reflect the influence of Neo-Georgian/Colonial Revival architecture, giving a historical atmosphere to the building, as well as a somewhat Italianate appearance. The courthouse is asymmetrical because it includes a three-story clock tower, located on the west side of the building. The clock was made by the E. Howard Watch & Clock Company. The courthouse still has the original tin tiles, popular when the building was constructed, as well as an upper balcony where, before desegregation, black people were required to sit. A state historical marker, erected by the Georgia Historical Commission in 1954, is located on the courthouse lawn.</p><br>
<p>Turner County Courthouse, south side, Ashburn, GA, US.jpgSouth side</p><br>
<p>Turner County Courthouse west side, Ashburn, GA, US.jpgWest side</p><br>
<p>Turner County Courthouse clock tower, Ashburn, GA, US.jpgClock tower</p><br>
<p>Turner County Jail, also known as Turner Castle and now the Crime and Punishment Museum, and home to The Last Meal Cafe, is a historic jail building in Ashburn, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The building is located at 243 College Street.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1906-07 as the county jail for the newly formed Turner County, Georgia. It cost $10,855 and was designed by Wagoner and Dobson of Montgomery, Alabama. It is a 44 ft by 46 ft brick building with "elaborately corbeled entablature-like cornices". Its interior has arched corrugated metal and concrete ceilings.</p><br>
<p>The Alexander Hotel is a historic hotel in Reidsville, Tattnall County, Georgia, located at 204 West Brazell Street. It was built in 1892 and, although it is basically plain in style, it has gingerbread decorations that give it a Victorian architecture feel. It is a two-story Victorian building with two 20th century additions. It is a wood-frame building resting on brick piers. A second wing was added in the 1920s. Part of the first-floor porch was enclosed and expanded in the 1930s. There are several historic outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>It was designed and built by carpenter D.J. Nobles, from Hagan, in Evans County.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Glennwanis Hotel is a historic hotel in Glennville, Georgia, Tattnall County, Georgia, built on the site of the Hughes Hotel. The hotel is located at 209-215 East Barnard Street. The old Hughes Hotel was built out of Georgia pine circa 1905 and burned in 1920. The Glennwanis was built in brick in 1926. The local Kiwanis club led the effort to get the replacement hotel built, and organized a Glennville Hotel Company with directors being local business leaders. The wife of a local doctor won a naming contest with the name "Glennwanis Hotel", a suggestion combining "Glennville" and "Kiwanis".</p><br>
<p>The hotel is a two-story U-shaped building. The first floor has a lobby and rooms of various sizes. The second floor has rooms of various sizes. It originally had 40 guest rooms and operated as a hotel through 1981. It was originally designed for tourists but from the 1940s local people used its dining room and meeting rooms. Guest rooms have been converted into efficiency apartments.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 2003.</p><br>
<p>As of 2015, funds were being raised to restore the building; and $100,000 of the $125,000 goal had been reached.</p><br>
<p>Smith-Nelson Hotel, and also known as the Nelson Hotel and to locals as The Painted Lady, is a historic hotel in Reidsville, Georgia, in Tattnall County. The address of the hotel is 118 South Main Street. It is a two-story building built in 1908 and is considered Folk Victorian in architectural style. It has a hipped roof with center gables and a wrap-around porch. Tongue-and-groove paneling is used throughout the inside. Each floor has a central hallway with two rooms on each side. A one-story kitchen ell was added in the 1950s. As of February 2018, the building is for sale.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 29, 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Sylvester Local News is a historic newspaper company in Sylvester, Worth County, Georgia. It is the oldest business in Worth County. The paper&#39;s brick building was constructed in the 1920s was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places  on August 21, 1980 as the Worth County Local Building. It is located at 118 North Isabella Street.</p><br>
<p>The newspaper business was established in 1884 as the Sumner Free Trader. The paper later changed its name to the Worth County Local. It then became the Sylvester Local and it is now the Sylvester Local News. It houses a linotype machine and other printing equipment. The building is open to the public.</p><br>
<p>The building is also a contributing building in the NRHP-listed Sylvester Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>In 2016 the entire archival collection of the newspaper was scanned and uploaded for public access by the Maragaret Jones Library of the Worth County Library System.</p><br>
<p>Henry County Courthouse is a county courthouse in McDonough, Georgia, county seat of Henry County, Georgia. It was built in 1897 in a Romanesque Revival architecture style according to designs by Golucke & Stewart. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1980. It is located in Courthouse Square.</p><br>
<p>It is also a contributing building in the McDonough Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Hampton Depot is a historic train station in Hampton, Henry County, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It is a 35x170 ft one-story building built in 1881.</p><br>
<p>On March 26, 2011, the Colonial Dames of Georgia had a formal dedication and plaque installation on the north end of the depot, near the depot park.</p><br>
<p>The town of Hampton was the countys only rail connection from 1846 until 1882. The present Hampton Depot had its origins in 1873, when the superintendent reported at the annual meeting of the president and directors of the Central Railroad and Banking Company that the depot "at Hampton is entirely too small and insecure, and ought to be replaced by a larger and more substantial one at the earliest day possible." He also announced that a cotton platform had recently been built next to the old wooden depot. The old wooden depot was later moved to Griffin, Georgia. In the superintendents report of September 1, 1880, it was announced that "a new brick warehouse has been commenced at Hampton on the Atlanta division. The building will be 35 feet wide and 170 feet long, this will give ample room for the transaction of business at that station and will also enable us to provide comfortable reception rooms for passengers." The Hampton Depot was completed in 1881.</p><br>
<p>The Hampton Depot was unusual in that it included a warehouse for cotton in the same building with the passenger area. Other cities had separate cotton markets. Passenger service for Hampton was four trains per day in 1940, although three stopped only if flagged down. By 1950, it was two per day, one of those by flag, and by 1955, only one per day, by flag only. Passenger rail service in Hampton ended in 1957.</p><br>
<p>In 1975, the depot was donated to the City of Hampton, which renovated the passenger area for use as a city hall and police department, council chambers and recorders court. The land is still owned by the railroad; the depot is now the "Glenn Mitchell Administration and Community Building." (Glenn Mitchell was Hamptons mayor from December 1950 until December 1972, and again, from December 1974 until December 1978.)</p><br>
<p>The rooms off the park side of the depot, now house the Main Street Director, and a museum with items donated and on-loan from various residents of Hampton.</p><br>
<p>Locust Grove Institute , now Locust Grove Memorial Complex, is a former college preparatory school in Locust Grove, Henry County, Georgia, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The main academic building now serves as a city hall. The school was founded by the Locust Grove Baptist Church and Mercer University and opened in 1894. The school building was constructed in 1904 for $14,000. Some of the school&#39;s wooden structures were destroyed by fire and were replaced by more substantial structures.</p><br>
<p>Operations and ownership changed with the onset of war, depression and competition from public schools. The school was empty for several years until 1936, when it became a public elementary school. After closing for several years it was used as an elementary school.</p><br>
<p>The city of Locust Grove purchased the school building in 1983 and it serves as city hall. The schools Academic Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 4, 1986. It is also a contributing property to the NRHP It is also a contributing property to the NRHPs Locust Grove Historic District. The school is located at 3644 State Route 42 (also USA Route 23).</p><br>
<p>The First Parish Burial Ground is a historic cemetery located at 122 Centennial Avenue in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Established in 1644, the 2.5 acre site is Gloucester&#39;s oldest burying ground. It once stood at the heart of the Gloucester settlement, and was for 80 years its only cemetery. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It is now being maintained jointly by the city and the Cemetery Restoration Partnership.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Gloucesters First Parish Burial Ground is located northwest of downtown Gloucester, and about 0.25 mi east of the Annisquam River. It is set on 2.5 acre, mostly obscured from view by its remove from roadways and by mature border plantings. It is roughly hexagonal in shape, and is accessed by a narrow strip of land connecting it to Centennial Avenue. It is bounded by a playground, Clarks Cemetery, the MBTA Commuter Rail tracks, and the densely built housing of Centennial Avenue. Most of its border is demarcated by a low fieldstone wall, and there is an iron gate with stone posts at the entrance. The terrain is somewhat uneven, with tufted grass and other vegetation accentuating the unevenness.</p><br>
<p>Grave markers span a remarkable 295 years, from at least 1661 (though this marker is a reproduction) to 1956. There are about 650 marked graves, which do not follow any formal plan of organization. A number of markers have broken or become disfigured by the elements. The oldest markers, from the 17th century, are typically of slate, schist, or sandstone, and bear motifs of winged skulls. 19th-century graves are typically marked with marble. The largest single monument is the tomb Reverend John White (d. 1760), which is built out of brick with a sandstone top. Other prominent burials include veterans of the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Burials declined after 1850, and the last recorded burial was in 1925.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was laid out in 1644, when this area was near Gloucesters original main settlement (roughly where Grant Circle is now located). It was for eighty years the towns only cemetery. It is presently overseen by the city&#39;s Cemetery Advisory Committee.</p><br>
<p>The St. Nicholas Hotel is a historic hotel building located at 400 E. Jefferson St. in Springfield, Illinois, US.</p><br>
<p>The original building of the St. Nicholas Hotel was constructed in 1855. An annex was built on the hotel in 1910, and the current main building was constructed in 1924. The Georgian Revival main building was designed by the New York City architectural firm H.L. Stevens and Company. When the current main building opened, it was the second-tallest building in Springfield after the State Capitol.</p><br>
<p>During sessions of the Illinois General Assembly, the St. Nicholas Hotel became a meeting place for Illinois politicians, who often conducted political business within the building. The hotel has hosted many notable visitors to Springfield, including three USA Presidents: Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy.</p><br>
<p>Paul Powell lived in the St. Nicholas Hotel during his term as the Illinois Secretary of State. After his death in 1970, the executor of Powells will found $750,000 ($ in present-day terms) in cash stored in shoeboxes, briefcases, and strongboxes in Powells suite, room 546 of the hotel. As the money greatly exceeded Powells salary, which was at the most $30,000 per year, a federal investigation examined Powells behavior while in office. The investigation determined that Powell had acquired the money via illegal cash bribes and led to the imprisonment of several state contractors.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 10, 1983. It is the only remaining hotel in Springfield which dates from the 1920s or earlier.</p><br>
<p>The hotel is no longer in operation, having switched over to apartments. The building is now referred to as the St. Nicholas Apartments.</p><br>
<p>The East Ward School, also known as the Teresa Merrill School, was an educational building located at 106 North Traver Street in St. Johns, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It was unusual for its size and its elaborate brickwork. The school building has been replaced with a housing development and a preschool.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The East Ward School was constructed in 1876 from plans by Bay City architect Oliver Hidden. An addition was constructed in 1906. In 1976, the school was renamed the Theresa Merrill School in honor of a former principal, and was used for adult education classes. It was replaced with a housing development and a preschool in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The East Ward School was a single-story brick structure consisting of two sections: the original building, constructed in 1876, and a 1906 addition. The 1876 building was a rectangular structure, with a low hip roof with a gable at each end. A projecting entrance had an arced, recessed porch topped with another gable. The brickwork contained an elaborate decorative scheme with corbelled and paneled bricks. There were two rooms in the interior.</p><br>
<p>The 1906 addition was approximately the same size as the earlier section, and also contained two rooms. It had a high hip roof and brickwork that matched that of the earlier section.</p><br>
<p>A bell tower which was originally above the front entrance to the older section had been removed. In addition, the original narrow windows of the older section had been removed and replaced with wider windows which matched the newer section.</p><br>
<p>Militia Headquarters Building was a historic site in Macon, Georgia at 552-564 Mulberry Street. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1972. The building was also used for the American Office Equipment Company. The building was designed in an Italianate architecture style by Bostick & Kein. It is not known when the building was demolished.</p><br>
<p>The militia was active during the American Civil War era.</p><br>
<p>Macon County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in downtown Tuskegee, Alabama, county seat of Macon County, Alabama. A brick courthouse was constructed in the middle of the 19th century, replacing wooden structures used earlier. The current courthouse, an example of Romanesque Revival architecture, was designed by J.W. Golucke and built in 1905 . It includes gargoyles. A monument to confederate soldiers is located nearby. The courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 17, 1978.</p><br>
<p>Lincoln School, also known as the Lincoln Consolidated Rosenwald School, is a former African-American school in Pikeville, Tennessee, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1925 with assistance from the Rosenwald Fund to house a black school that previously had been located in the Pikeville Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. The building design is characteristic of a Rosenwald school, with a gable roof, tall narrow batteries of windows, and short piers. The school operated until 1965, educating children from kindergarten through grade 8. It was listed on the National Register in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Union Station is a building in Houston, Texas, in the United States. Dedicated on March 2, 1911, and formerly a hub of rail transportation, the building now serves as a cornerstone for Minute Maid Park. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and has since been superseded by Houston&#39;s Amtrak station.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Construction and rail use</h3><br>
<p>In 1909 the Houston Belt and Terminal Railway Company commissioned the design of a new union station for Houston from New York City-based architects Warren and Wetmore. The location called for the demolition of several structures of Houston prominence. Horace Baldwin Rices residence and Adath Yeshurun Congregations synagogue among other structures were removed.</p><br>
<p>With an original estimated cost of US$1 million, Union Station was constructed by the American Construction Company for an eventual total of five times that amount. Exterior walls were constructed of granite, limestone, and terracotta, while the interior used an extensive amount of marble. It was completed and opened on March 1, 1911. At the time, Houston, with seventeen railways, was considered the main railroad hub of the Southern United States. This is also evident by the Seal of Houston, which prominently features a locomotive. Two more floors were added the following year.</p><br>
<h4>Railroads and destinations</h4><br>
<p>The station served as the main inter-city passenger terminal for Houston for over seven decades thereafter.</p><br>
<p>Major railroad lines served:</p><br>
<p>Burlington Northern</p><br>
<p>Texas Zephyr to Dallas and Denver</p><br>
<p>Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad</p><br>
<p>Twin Star Rocket, to Minneapolis, via Dallas, Fort Worth, Kansas City and Des Moines</p><br>
<p>Missouri Pacific</p><br>
<p>Texas Eagle, to St. Louis; Houstonian and Oleanian to Beaumont, Baton Rouge and New Orleans; Pioneer and Valley Eagle to Brownsville and Corpus Christi, Texas</p><br>
<p>Santa Fe; unnamed train to Memphis, Tennessee</p><br>
<p>Texas Chief to Chicago, and service from Houston to Clovis, New Mexico and Temple, Texas (for Santa Fe trains to Richmond and Los Angeles, California and Chicago)</p><br>
<p>The Southern Pacific Railroad maintained its own station approximately one mile from Union Station. The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad also maintained its own station about 0.8 miles from Union Station.</p><br>
<h4>Decline</h4><br>
<p>Passenger rail declined greatly after World War II. When Amtrak took over most intercity rail service in 1971, Union Station was one of two stations used by the new company, the other being the new Southern Pacific station built in 1959 that served the Sunset Limited. However, it soon became apparent that Amtrak could not afford to maintain two stations in the area. The last regularly-scheduled train that stopped at Union Station, the Lone Star (successor of the Texas Chief), was rerouted to the Southern Pacific station on July 31, 1974. With this move, the building effectively ceased to be a public facility and was taken over by the Houston Belt & Terminal and its parent railroads as office space and a dispatching center. One section of the building in the south end of the second floor was leased to the Houston Society of Model Engineers, which operated a large HO scale model railroad layout they named the "Texas, Crawford & Prairie RR", after the three streets which form the boundary of the original property of the station. On November 10, 1977, the building was named to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h3>Use in the 21st century</h3><br>
<p>In 2005 Southern Pacific 2-10-2 982 was moved from Hermann Park to the corner of Texas Avenue and Avenidas de las Americas between the George R. Brown Convention Center and Union Station. In 2013 it was donated to the Nau Center for Texas Culture to be located in the Get Big Things Done gallery However, construction of the Center was halted in March 2015 due to "kyrocketing construction costs and the challenge of raising $80 million within a short period..."</p><br>
<h3>Ballpark era</h3><br>
<p>Plans for a new Houston ballpark to replace the Astrodome began in 1995, and originally called for a site to be used at the Astrodomain. In August 1996, Houstons Union Station received a US$2 million grant from the Texas Transportation Commission for renovation in a separate project. Plans for the new ballparks location drastically changed by September mostly in response to Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay&#39;s input and pledge to substantially contribute to funding if placed downtown. It was at this time that the Union Station location was proposed by Lay.</p><br>
<p>Construction of Enron Field, now named Minute Maid Park, was completed thereafter with Union Station preserved and renovated as the ballpark&#39;s main lobby. It opened on April 7, 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Iron Mountain Central Historic District is a historic district, broadly located between Fleshiem and C Streets and between Iron Mountain and Stockbridge Avenues in Iron Mountain, Michigan. The district covers the city&#39;s central business district and adjacent areas. It is primarily commercial, but also contains the historic county courthouse complex, and school, library, and church buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A major iron ore deposit was discovered near what is now Iron Mountain in 1878/79; the first ore from the first area mine (the Chapin Mine) was produced in late 1879. Iron Mountain was first platted in December 1879 by Samuel M. and Isaac Stephenson and Joseph Flesheim; their platting encompassed what is now the northeast portion of the Central Historic District. Numerous other mines opened in the area, and workers began flooding in. Buildings appeared in Iron Mountain almost overnight, and in 1881 the Stephensons and Joseph Flesheim executed a second plat, extending the original one to the west. In 1882 they made a second addition, and other businessmen added plats so that by late 1883, the entirety of what is now the Central Historic District had been platted.</p><br>
<p>During the decade that followed, the population of Iron Mountain soared, to over 5000 in 1888 and over 8500 in 1890. Following the population boom, wooden commercial buildings sprang up along Stephenson Street, beginning at Fleishem and continuing south to C Street. Following a string of fires, in 1889 an ordinance was enacted to mandate masonry commercial buildings. A number of buildings were constructed in the late 1880s and early 1890s, including four large masonry structures in 1891.</p><br>
<p>As the 20th century turned, the population boom of the late 19th century had plateaued. The Panic of 1893 precipitated an industrial slowdown and a surge of unemployment in the local mines. Although the local economy recovered, the 1900 population was just over 9000, only a few hundred more than in 1890. The subsequent gradual decline of mining in the early twentieth century, with few new industries in the area to take its place, heralded a slow decline in population; by 1920 Iron Mountain again had a little more than 8500 people. Mirroring the general economic health of the city, only a few new buildings were constructed from 1900 to 1920.</p><br>
<p>With the onset of the 1920s, the local economy again boomed. Ford Motor Company constructed a sawmill and body plant in 1921–22, which employed 2200 people in 1923 and over 7000 in 1925. In addition, the surge in national automotive traffic and improvements in roads boosted the local tourism economy. By 1924, an additional 5000 people had moved into Iron Mountain. The boom in population again heralded a boom in construction in the downtown commercial district.</p><br>
<p>With the onset of the Great Depression, the economic fortunes of the area plummeted. In 1933, it was estimated that 85% of the local workforce was unemployed. While the economy slowly improved from this nadir, very few building projects were undertaken in the 1930s. After World War II, the economy again improved, despite the closing of the Ford plant in 1951 and the continuous decline in population of the city. A number of construction and renovation projects were undertaken in the two decades following the war.</p><br>
<p>As the district entered the latter years of the 20th century, it encountered a number of challenges, including new commercial development that occurred outside of the downtown area and several fires that destroyed buildings within the district. Nonetheless, the city has strongly supported the downtown area, including support for preservation and rehabilitation of the district&#39;s historic building stock.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Iron Mountain Central Historic District encompasses Iron Mountains downtown, along and adjacent to Stephenson Avenue (US-2), the main commercial street through the city. The district is irregularly shaped, covering the citys central business district and also extending to adjacent areas containing the historic county courthouse complex, and school, library, and church buildings. The district contains a total of 144 buildings, primarily dating from the early 1880s to the mid-1960s, but also including twelve newer structures.</p><br>
<p>Most of the buildings within the district have contained commercial establishments. As the district was the main business section of Iron Mountain for over a century, the business in it have varied across a wide spectrum. In the late 19th century, as the city was first built, the business district&#39;s buildings contained general stores, grocery and dry-goods stores, clothing and shoe stores, millineries, fruit and confectionery stores, jewelers, drug stores, hardware and lumber stores, furniture stores, butchers, bakeries, and blacksmiths. Businesses also included undertakers, livery stables, banks, barber shops, photographers, hotels, restaurants, saloons, and billiard parlors. in the early 20th century, different types of stores emerged, including department stores, book and stationery stores, sporting goods stores, paint and decorating stores, carpet stores, appliance stores, plumbing and heating businesses, laundries, auto garages and dealerships, gas stations, auto parts stores, movie houses, bowling alleys, and dance halls.</p><br>
<p>Many of the buildings in the area housed fraternal and service organizations on the upper floors, including the Masonic Temple, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Sons of St. George, Improved Order of Red Men, Scandinavian Aid and Fellowship Society, Knights of the Modern Maccabees, the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), Ste. Jean Baptiste Society, Catholic Order of Foresters, Society Fraterlante, the National Protective League, and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elk. In addition to commercial establishments, the district also housed government buildings, including the county courthouse, city hall, and post office. Educational establishments in the district include the public junior high and high school, a Catholic school, and the public library (now a museum). The district also contains six churches and some single-family houses.</p><br>
<p>Older residential neighborhoods adjoin the district on the east, southeast, west, and southwest. A large tract of nearly vacant land, which once contained the Chapin Mine and related structures, abuts the district to the north.</p><br>
<p>Some of the most significant structures located within the Iron Mountain Central Historic District are listed below in the order of construction.</p><br>
<h3>Unnamed store (535-537 Stephenson)</h3><br>
<p>This unnamed store, constructed c. 1883 for Richard Williams, is probably the oldest extant commercial building in Iron Mountain&#39;s downtown district. The earliest recorded use of the building was as a meat market; later it was used as a fruit and confectionery shop and a grocery. A narrow corner storefront addition (537) was built some time in the 1920s. The original building is a two-story false front gable-roof wooden building. It is now faced with modern siding. The 1920s addition is a single-story brick commercial building. In 2018, the south wall of the original building was painted with a mural that welcomes people into downtown Iron Mountain through the Power of Words Project. The mural features the Cornish Pump, Pine Mountain Ski Jump, and other local features.</p><br>
<h3>German Hotel (407 Merritt)</h3><br>
<p>The German Hotel was constructed at some time between 1884 and 1888, probably for John Marsch and Fred Gothe. It housed a saloon and hotel; and was certainly run by Marsch and Gothe by 1892. In 1920, they sold the hotel to Anton Lovrich, who changed the name to the American Hotel and ran it until at least 1949. The hotel is a two-story wooden structure, now clad in diagonal wood siding on the first floor and narrow vinyl siding on the second. The front entry is edged with 1950s-looking random ashlar masonry, and the windows are modern; however, the basic shape of the building is still original.</p><br>
<h3>John Russell Building (100 E. Brown)</h3><br>
<p>This building was constructed at some time between 1884 and 1888, and is first identified as a general store. In 1892, the store is identified as John Russells general store. For some time, the upstairs was used by the Masonic Temple, and then in 1910 was used by R. F. Dundons Actual Business College. Russell retired in 1924 and leased the first floor storefront to the Chalmers & Burns Confectionery, who occupied the space until 1937. In 1938, I. Zacks & Co. (Isadore Zacks and sons Max and Maurice), meat and fruit wholesalers, renovated and moved in. The rear addition was probably constructed at this time. In 1952, Zacks sold the building to Mose Cohodes & Son, a meat wholesaler, who used it until the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The John Russell Building is a deep 2-story brick building, now with two small horizontal windows in the front below what seems to be the original storefront frieze. There are two widely separated square-head windows in the second story. Two more modern additions are located to the side and rear.</p><br>
<h3>First Presbyterian Church (200 W. Brown)</h3><br>
<p>The Presbyterian Church in Iron Mountain was established in 1884, and this building was constructed for the congregation by early 1886 for about $3000. The congregation occupied this building until 1958, when they moved to a new church in Kingsford. It was then used as a welfare workshop, and as the Pine Mountain Baptist Chapel/Church. In 2000, it was purchased by Francie&#39;s Traditional Designs. On October 22, 2013 the building was severely damaged in a fire and was subsequently torn down. The area remains a vacant lot to this day.</p><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian Church is a wooden Late Victorian/Stick style structure with a cross-gable roof, a red sandstone foundation, and a pyramid-roof square tower with an open belfry. The clapboard exterior is subdivided vertically by applied stickwork and horizontally by a broad band of vertical boarding. The gables have stick- and pierced-work ornamentation, and the An enclosed front entry porch has more stickwork trimming. The original windows are still in place. The interior has original pine board floor and dark narrow beaded ceiling board in the gabled auditorium ceiling.</p><br>
<h3>Chicago & North Western passenger depot (310 Stephenson)</h3><br>
<p>The Chicago & North Western railroad reached Iron Mountain in 1880, at which time a wooden passenger depot was constructed. This building, constructed in 1889, replaced the original passenger depot. It served as a passenger depot until the service was discontinued in about 1950. The railway sold the building in 1953, and in 1954 Bert Harvey&#39;s Sports Shop opened in the building. It has continued to house various commercial establishments.</p><br>
<p>The depot is a long, narrow, single-story building with walls faced with limestone on the lower portion and brick above. The roof has gable ends and overhangs substantially on each long side. A slant bay window projects from the midpoint of the side originally facing the tracks, with a large semi-octagonal dormer directly above.</p><br>
<h3>Wood Sandstone Block (206-16 E. Ludington)</h3><br>
<p>The block was built in 1891 for John R. Wood, president of the First National Bank. It was called the "Sandstone" block to differentiate it from Wood&#39;s large brick block that contained the bank. The building initially contained six stores on the ground floor, and the Dickinson County government offices on the floor above. It was renovated into a hotel in 1896, then in 1900 the city government purchased the building and used it for their city hall offices until 1994. As of 2020 the ground floor housed commercial space, and in 2020 the second floor was renovated into apartments.</p><br>
<p>The Wood Sandstone Block is a massive two-story Richardsonian Romanesque structure with walls of brownish random ashlar and sandstone. It is 130 ft long, and divided into seven sections by piers. Three broad arches at one end once contained fire engine bays; they are now filled with windows. Through the rest of the buildings, modern storefronts have decorative cast iron piers and columns that harmonize with the historic design of the building. The second story contains transomed square-head windows in pairs and triples.</p><br>
<h3>Dickinson County Courthouse (705 Stephenson)</h3><br>
<p>This courthouse and the associated jail was built in 1896 from plans by architect James E. Clancy of Antigo, Wisconsin, a former Iron Mountain resident. A new jail was constructed in 1985, and the old structure remained vacant and in disrepair until 1979. After renovations in 1982, county offices moved in. The courthouse is a -story Richardsonian Romanesque structure, built of red brick and Portage Entry sandstone. The front facade contains a rounded arch entryway, supported by two granite columns. The medieval-inspired jail was designed to complement the courthouse; it is a two-story structure built of red brick and sandstone, capped with stone battlemented parapets and a tin roof.</p><br>
<h3>Public Library Building (300 Ludington)</h3><br>
<p>In 1901, Andrew Carnegie donated $15,000 toward the construction of this library. It was constructed in 1901-02 from a design by J.E. Clancy, a locally prominent architect. It served as library until 1971, when it became the Menominee Range Museum. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1977. The building is a T-shaped Neoclassical structure with a hip roof, a raised uncut stone basement. and a stone facade. The second story porch has Ionic columns and a balustrade. The front lawn is bordered by a low retaining wall.</p><br>
<h3>Bolognesi Building (114 E. Brown)</h3><br>
<p>The Bolognesi Building was constructed between 1904 and 1908 for Joseph Bolognesi, who ran a saloon. Bolognesi ran a series of restaurants and bars at the property, including the Roma Restaurant, "Joseph Bolognesis tavern," and the Milano Restaurant. The Bolognesi family lived upstairs. By 1959, the building contained Strongs Bar, owned by Jack S. Strong. That changed into Maymes Bar, owned by Mrs. Mary F. Strong. By the late 1970s Robert J. Bouche and his wife Nancy M. Bouche (Mary Strongs daughter) owned the bar. The Bouche family still owns the bar. The Bolognesi Building is a two-story red brick store building with 5 square-head windows in the upstairs front and entirely finished with modern siding.</p><br>
<h3>Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church (116 W. Brown)</h3><br>
<p>This building was constructed in 1907/08 for the Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church, closely following a design in Benjamin D. and Max Charles Price&#39;s 1907 Church Plans. The church changed its name to Wesley M. E. Church in 1939, and in 1944 merged to form Trinity. The Trinity congregation used this church building until early 1954, when they moved to a new church on S. Carpenter. The Assembly of God Church used the building from 1954 through 1979. As of October 2023, the building remains vacant. The church is a dark red brick cross-gable structure with a square tower. The double-door entry is reached by a long stair and has a large Gothic window above.</p><br>
<h3>High School (300 W. B Street)</h3><br>
<p>The Iron Mountain High School was constructed in 1911/12 after voters approved a $100,000 bond issue to finance a new building. It was designed by D. Fred Charlton of the Marquette architectural firm of Charlton & Kuenzli. It opened in 1912 and is still in use as the district high school. It is a three-story Neoclassical structure of red brick trimmed with limestone. The center section projects slightly and contains a portico with four Roman Doric columns. Each end has a paired column portico containing a center entrance.</p><br>
<h3>Milwaukee Road Depot (101 E. B Street)</h3><br>
<p>The Milwaukee & Northern Railroad was completed from Chicago to Iron Mountain in 1887. Passenger service was established in 1893, and a wooden passenger depot was constructed about that time. In 1912, this structure was constructed as a replacement passenger depot. It was in use for passengers and freight until 1968, and was used as a freight station by the Escanaba Lake Superior Railway until the early 1990s. The structure is currently vacant. The depot is a long, narrow single-story red brick structure of simple design with a hip roof that projects widely on all sides. A deep porte cochere/shelter supported by square columns is located on one end. Freight doors are at the end of each long side, and one side contains a bay window.</p><br>
<h3>Northern Ballroom Building (100-102 W. Brown)</h3><br>
<p>The Northern Ballroom was built in 1923 for George Jacksin and George Davich. The ground floor originally housed the Northern Garage; as of 1930 a Plymouth/Chrysler dealership. Jacksin and Davich managed the second floor ballroom. In 1927, F. E. Parmalee & Sons assumed management and changed the name to the Winter Garden. However, they soon defaulted on their loan, and the building went through a series of owners and tenants, including use as warehouse space</p><br>
<p>by Montgomery Ward from about 1962 to 1977.</p><br>
<p>The building is a large two-story steel frame Commercial Brick commercial structure faced with red-brown wire-cut brick. The front facade consists of two parts, with broad piers separating the parts and at the building corners. The lower floor is now divided into several office and commercial spaces and retains few historic features. The second floor, with the Northern Ballroom, is still a large open space with the maple dance floor.</p><br>
<h3>Braumart Theater Building (104-108 E. B Street)</h3><br>
<p>The Braumart Theater was built in 1924/25 for the Colonial Theatre Company. An addition was constructed in 1925. The theater was remodeled in 1935, and again in 1988. It closed in 1996. As of 2012. it is used as the "Performing Arts Center on B Street." The building is a two-story buff brick structure with limestone trim. The main theater building has a 3-part symmetrical facade, and the later addition is a single storefront wide. There are paired and single windows on the second floor, and a tall attic containing arches filled with basketweave brickwork. The original theater sat 1000 people; the interior space was divided to install twin screens in the 1970s with a loss of nearly all the interior historical finish.</p><br>
<h3>Wolfe Brothers Building (623-29 Stephenson)</h3><br>
<p>Morris and Harry Wolfe of Chicago had this building constructed in 1927 as an income property. It is a single-story commercial brick building housing four storefronts, constructed of yellow buff brick with concrete trim. The bays are separated with vertical semi-octagonal piers.</p><br>
<h3>Commercial Bank Building (500 Stephenson)</h3><br>
<p>The Commercial Bank Building was constructed in 1929 for the Commercial Bank (later the Commercial National Bank), with commercial space on the first floor. A short addition was constructed in 1964–65. The space is occupied today by the Northern Michigan Bank & Trust. The Commercial Bank Building is a five-story Art Deco office building faced with multicolored brick with limestone and terra cotta trim. It has a two-story base running the length of the building (including the 1964/65 addition), with a five-story tower section rising in the center of the original 1929 structure. The terra cotta trim is lavish in its detailing, including ramshead plaques capping the piers, panels containing stylized plant forms, and large eagles at the corners of the tower&#39;s roofline.</p><br>
<h3>St. Joseph Catholic Church (414 W. Prospect)</h3><br>
<p>The original St. Joseph Catholic Church was constructed in the 1890s. It was destroyed by fire in 1930, and this structure was built as a replacement in 1931–33. In 1942, the congregation merged with the nearby St. Mary parish, whose church had burned in 1938. The present church also suffered a devastating fire in 2003; most of the interior has been replaced. The structure is a large twin-towered Neo-Gothic church constructed of greyish white random ashlar. The front facade is symmetrical, with two square-plan buttressed towers flanking a deeply recessed center entrance below a narrow gable. The sides have large pointed-arch Gothic windows separated by large buttresses.</p><br>
<h3>Junior High (301 W. Hughitt)</h3><br>
<p>The Iron Mountain Junior High School was constructed in 1938 from a design by local architects F. E. Parmalee & Son. It was built at the location of the earlier Central School, which was demolished in early 1938. The building is still used as part of the Middle School. The structure is a three-story light orange brick Art Deco building. It is constructed in a five-part form, with narrow projecting central and end sections connected by broader recessed sections. A broad central entrance flanked by piers is reached via a broad flight of steps. The central section contains three windows each on the second and third floors, while the narrow end sections contain no windows at all. The windows were originally double-hung six-over-six style, but are now two-over-two.</p><br>
<h3>Holy Trinity Episcopal Church (221 W. B Street)</h3><br>
<p>The original Holy Trinity Episcopal Church was an 1890 wooden Gothic building standing at this location. A fire badly damaged the building in 1950 and this new structure was built in 1952/53. The church is a Neo-Gothic structure of random ashlar over concrete block with a square tower and a steep gable-roof nave.</p><br>
<h3>St. Mary and St. Joseph School (406 W. B Street)</h3><br>
<p>The St. Mary and St. Joseph School was constructed in 1953–54; it is now the Bishop Baraga Catholic School. It is an L-shaped two-story International Style flat-roof school building, constructed of red brick with limestone trim. A flat metal canopy covers the entryway, and it contains large windows set in bands and outlined in limestone.</p><br>
<h3>Iron Mountain Motel (700 Stephenson)</h3><br>
<p>The Iron Mountain Motel was constructed in 1954-55 by contractors Oscar Leaf and Calvin Calvini for Mr. and Mrs. Michael Fornetti, whose family owned the Moon Lake Cabins north of Iron Mountain. The Fornettis operated the motel until the later 1970s, changing the name to Downtown Motel by 1967. It continued to operate as a hotel for some time, and now houses efficiency apartments. The building is a flat-roofed two-story structure with a single-story extension at each end, built of brown brick trimmed with concrete. Open exterior stairways at each end lead to a deck that fronts on the second floor units. When built, the motel contained eight rooms downstairs and seven upstairs.</p><br>
<h3>Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center (600 Stephenson)</h3><br>
<p>The Visitor Center was constructed in 1964-66 from a design by Iron Mountain native James C. Blomquist. It was designed to hold several tourist and business-oriented associations. It is a single-story symmetrical structure with a slightly recessed seven-bay center section flanked by two five-bay wings. The center section has a zig-zag roof and a double-door entrance located in the center bay. Each of the remaining six bays features an orange-red aggregate panel flanked by narrow floor-to-ceiling windows. The wings are constructed of red brick with a flat roof.</p><br>
<p>The Houston Negro Hospital School of Nursing Building is a school building at the Houston Negro Hospital complex, now named Riverside General Hospital, located at the intersection of Holman Avenue and Ennis Street in Houston, Harris County, Texas.</p><br>
<p>The Houston Negro Hospital School of Nursing has the distinction of being the first school in Houston created for the express purpose of training black nurses. The attached medical facility, the first non-profit hospital for Black patients in Houston, provided work for black physicians who were normally barred from admitting patients to segregated Houston hospitals.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>In 1918, Houston philanthropist Joseph S. Cullinan established a fund to erect a fifty-bed hospital. Later, Texas oilman J. S. Cullinan, donated $80,000 to build the Hospital and the City of Houston donated the land.</p><br>
<p>The Spanish Colonial Revival style building began construction in 1925 and the school was officially opened in 1927. Dedication of the building occurred on June 19, 1926, to coincide with the 61st anniversary of Juneteenth, despite ongoing construction.</p><br>
<p>The first administrator was I.M. Terrell.</p><br>
<h2>National Register</h2><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Milo Academy Bridge is a covered bridge located in the town of Milo, in the southern region of Douglas County, Oregon. The original bridge at this location was a wooden covered bridge constructed in 1920, before being replaced by a steel truss bridge in 1962, spanning the South Umpqua River allowing access to Milo Adventist Academy. The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places November 29, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Early pioneers in the region needed to build bridges from the materials that they had on hand, Douglas fir was an abundant resource that proved to be well suited to bridge building. Covered bridges were the bridge of choice because of their longevity, the outer covering helps to protect the bridge structure from rotting in the wet climate. Upon construction the new steel bridge lacked a covering because it was not required to protect the steel truss structure from degradation. Due to public concern about losing part of their community identity the covering from the original bridge was adapted to fit the new bridge.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and importance</h2><br>
<p>The Milo Academy bridge is under the private ownership and maintenance of Milo Adventist Academy. It is a 100 ft long, single lane, steel truss bridge with vertical wooden siding a metal-clad gabled roof. There are four rectangular windows on each side of the bridge and a large rectangular opening that allows for motorized traffic at each end. It stands on two concrete piers on either side of the river and is one of only two covered bridges in Oregon not supported by timber trusses. The other is the Swalley Canal (Rock O&#39; The Range) Bridge located north of Bend in Deschutes county, Oregon. The Milo Academy Bridge is the only steel truss covered bridge in Oregon, with the covering having no structural purpose.</p><br>
<p>The Lee County Courthouse is a historic two-story brick county courthouse in Opelika, Alabama, county seat of Lee County, Alabama. It was constructed in 1896 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It was designed by Atlanta architect Andrew J. Bryan and Company and was built by Andrews & Stevens. The building&#39;s design is Neoclassical architecture.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse building and a separate jail building were built for $35,000. The courthouse replaced a previous courthouse, also a two-story brick building, which was demolished after the new structure was finished.</p><br>
<p>The Calhoun County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in Anniston, Alabama, United States. It was designed by Atlanta architect J. W. Golucke and built in 1900, when the county seat of Calhoun County was moved from Jacksonville. It is one of the earliest Neoclassical courthouses in Alabama. An annex with a jail was added on the north side of the building in 1924. The courthouse was rebuilt after a 1931 fire, albeit with a slightly different clock tower. A southeastern annex was built in 1963. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Claiborne County Jail in Tazewell, Tennessee, is a historic jail that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The two-story limestone and brick jail was built in 1819. It replaced Claiborne County&#39;s first jail, a crude structure built on the same site in 1804. The 1819 jail was used until 1931.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The county&#39;s current jail facility is located in New Tazewell. It typically holds between 160 and 180 inmates.</p><br>
<p>Twiggs County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in Jeffersonville, Georgia, county seat of Twiggs County, Georgia. The Romanesque Revival architecture building was designed by J.W. Golucke and built from 1902 to 1904. The previous courthouse had burned down in 1901. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is located in Courthouse Square. The square includes a Confederate soldier memorial.</p><br>
<h2>Photos</h2><br>
