<p>The Burwell is situated on the landmark corner of Gay Street and Clinch Avenue in Knoxville, Tennessee above the majestic Tennessee Theatre, and is the oldest of Knoxville’s historic skyscrapers. Views from the Burwell include the Sunsphere, Krutch Park, Gay Street, the Women%27s Basketball Hall of Fame, Kuwohi, Mount Le Conte, and the Tennessee River.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Burwell was designed by the architectural firm of Richards, McCarty & Bulford and built by George A. Fuller Construction, known for the erection of early skyscrapers. It is built in the Second Renaissance Revival architecture style. The Burwell was originally completed in 1908, and the portion of the building that sits above the Tennessee Theatre was added in 1928. The Burwell was the tallest building in Knoxville prior to the construction of the Holston in 1913.</p><br>
<p>The Burwell lobby entrance is at 602 South Gay Street adjacent to the Tennessee Theatre, and the iconic theater sign is affixed near the southwest corner of the building. The L-shaped building features yellow brick on its street-adjacent facades and red brick elsewhere.</p><br>
<p>The building exterior typifies the Second Renaissance Revival style. The ground floor, mezzanine, and second floor form a base, with pilasters from the ground to the mezzanine topped by second floor entablatures. A cornice divides the second floor from the third floor, a terra cotta belt course separates the ninth from the tenth floor, and atop the tenth floor is a parapet above a heavy cornice with interwoven large and small dentils.</p><br>
<p>Outward-facing windows are arranged in single or double bays and open by rotation around a central axis. Some rear-facing windows feature antique pebbled “chicken wire” glass. The lobby floor and elevator landings are laid using Tennessee marble, and the lobby walls are covered in Carrara marble. A vintage post office box remains in the lobby with a mail chute from the upper floors.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1790s, a two-story log structure on the site of the Burwell hosted classes for Blount College, considered by some to be the first co-educational university, and which later evolved into the University of Tennessee. The building itself was originally built and owned by the Knoxville Banking and Trust Company.</p><br>
<p>The steel frame structure was completed in 1907, after which Maud the mule was hoisted as part of the topping off ceremony attended by thousands of people. Maud became the construction crew mascot after frequently hanging around to watch the building construction, and she was named after the ornery female mule in the comic strip And Her Name Was Maud. The building was also scaled in 1918 by George Polley the “human fly,” who took less than 30 minutes to climb the 166 foot structure.</p><br>
<p>In 1912, the building was acquired by the Southern Railway Company, who established their Knoxville ticket office in the prior bank lobby. In 1917, the C.B. Atkin Realty Company purchased the building, naming it the Burwell after the family name of Mary Atkin (née Burwell). The Burwell was purchased in 1981 by Dick Broadcasting Company, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Over the years, the Burwell has been home to many prominent businesses, including the now defunct Knoxville Mercury and Metro Pulse newspapers. In 2007, the upper floors were converted from office space to condominiums.</p><br>
<p>The Burwell’s ground floor faces Gay Street and is currently home to Clancy’s Tavern, the Burwell lobby, and the entrance to the Tennessee Theatre. Businesses are located on the mezzanine and second floors of the Burwell, and the upper eight floors are residential.</p><br>
<p>The Airway Radio Station in Gallatin County, Montana was built by the Aeronautics Bureau of the USA Department of Commerce in 1933. Located on Pogreba Field at Three Forks Airport, the radio station was part of a series of federally-constructed airway stations built during the early years of USA civil aviation. The station housed the radio range and ground-to-air radio systems that aided airmail pilots flying on the Minneapolis-Spokane-Seattle civil airway. The station was moved from its original location at Seifert Field, near Belgrade, Montana, to Pogreba Field in 1953, where it now serves as a terminal at Three Forks Airport. The Airway Radio Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 5, 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Inscription on the National Register of Historic Places</h2><br>
<p>In 1935, Northwest Airlines gained federal approval to provide the state of Montana with air service, as part of the Minneapolis to Seattle route. A series of radio broadcast stations, airway beacons, and intermediate fields located every fifty miles assisted pilots in flying this route. The Airway Station at Seifert and Pogreba Fields is "one of two extant examples of an Airway Radio Station in Montana" and provided "critical services necessary for the development of civil aviation." Thus, it was inscribed on to the National Register of Historic Places based on Criterion A ("the property must make a contribution to the major pattern of American history") due to its contribution to airmail service in the United States and association with radio technology, and Criterion B ("concerns the distinctive characteristics of the building by its architecture and construction, including having great artistic value or being the work of a master.") due to the station&#39;s status of one of the few surviving airway radio stations in the USA</p><br>
<p>The Raritan–Readington South Branch Historic District is a 556 acre historic district along River Road from New Jersey Route 31 to USA Route 202 near Flemington in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It is primarily on the western side of the South Branch Raritan River in Raritan Township. It extends onto the eastern side of the river in Readington Township. County Route 523 and County Route 612 pass through the district to the north. The district encompasses the small settlements of Holcomb Mills, Flemington Junction, and Rockefellows Mills. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 26, 1990, for its significance in architecture, politics, transportation, and exploration/settlement. The district includes 36 contributing buildings, four contributing structures, and three contributing sites. It also includes the John Reading Farmstead, previously listed on the NRHP individually.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The John Reading Farmstead was built in 1760 for John Reading, former governor of the Province of New Jersey, 1757–1758.</p><br>
<p>The Flemington Junction station was built by the Lehigh Valley Railroad.</p><br>
<p>The one-lane Rockafellows Mill Bridge crossing the South Branch Raritan River was built in 1900 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio.</p><br>
<p>The Roy E. and Hildur L. Amundsen House is a historic house in Gresham, Oregon, United States. Built in 1961 in a mid-century neighborhood, it is a highly intact example of a home designed in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright. An almost complete expression of Wrights principles for Usonian homes, it was designed by Harold Amundsen, the son of the original owners, while he was an architecture student at the University of Oregon, and hand-built by him and his grandfather Hans B. Grevstad. Consulting architects included Barney E. Grevstad, Harolds uncle who was a successful Seattle architect with numerous works in the Modern style, and Burton J. Goodrich, one of Wright&#39;s former Taliesin apprentices.</p><br>
<p>The house was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.</p><br>
<p>The Rockafellows Mill Bridge is a one-lane Pratt thru truss bridge that carries Rockafellows Mill Road over the South Branch Raritan River in Rockefellows Mills, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 26, 1990, as part of the Raritan–Readington South Branch Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The bridge was constructed in 1900 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio. In 2010, it was rehabilitated, while maintaining its historic structure. It is now 140 feet long and 15.5 feet wide.</p><br>
<p>Kitty Hawk Life-Saving Station was a life-saving station on Kitty Hawk, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It was built in 1874 and put in service until 1946. The building is registered with National Register of Historic Places since October 11, 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Life-saving stations like Kitty Hawk typically built after the 1857 North Carolina Hurricane. They generally consisted of a crew of seven men, a keeper who acted as a captain and six other men who volunteered because of their experience as mariners, sailors and fishermen. The station&#39;s first keeper was W.D. Tate who was replaced by a man named James R. Hobbs.</p><br>
<p>In 1911, a watch room above the second floor living quarters was added.</p><br>
<p>The John Reading Farmstead is a historic house located at 76 River Road by the South Branch Raritan River in Raritan Township, near Flemington in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It was built in 1760 for John Reading, former governor of the Province of New Jersey, 1757–1758. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1978, for its significance in agriculture, architecture, politics, and exploration/settlement.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>From 1712 to 1715, John Reading, a surveyor at the time, bought 600 acre of land along the South Branch of the Raritan River. After he retired from government, he built this house in 1760, based on the Trenton mansion used by governor Lewis Morris (1671–1746).</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is built of brick in Georgian style and features Flemish bond brickwork. The west wall has the date, 1760, in glazed header bricks. The property includes a shed and two attached barns to the south. The 19.1 acre property overlooks the South Branch of the Raritan River.</p><br>
<p>The Grosse Pointe Public Library Central Branch, located at 10 Kercheval Avenue in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, is one of the buildings of the Grosse Pointe Public Library. Constructed in 1953, it is significant as one of the first major public commissions in the United States of architect Marcel Breuer. The building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Grosse Pointe Public Library was established in 1929 by the school district, and spent over two decades moving from space to space. In 1951, it was decided to construct a permanent space for the library, funded in large part by local businessman Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Ferry&#39;s son, W. Hawkins Ferry, had studied architecture under Marcel Breuer at Harvard University, and the Ferry family had commissioned the architect to design previous projects. The library commissioned Breuer to design the new branch, and Breuer, W. Hawkins Ferry, and library director Robert Orr worked through 1951 and 1952 to refine the design. The library opened to the public in 1953.</p><br>
<p>The building served as the main branch of the Grosse Pointe Library through the rest of the century. In 2007, the library board decided that the building was obsolete, and it should be demolished and replaced with new construction. However, there was both local and international opposition to the decision. That, in conjunction with the 2008 recession, led the board to reconsider, and rehabilitate instead. By 2016, interior renovation to correct some of the building&#39;s issues was completed, and it remains in service as a library.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Central Library is a two-story brick rectangular structure with a flat roof. The building is constructed using a series of reinforced cast concrete frames, with exterior walls of cast-in-place concrete with a masonry veneer. The design stresses the use of the rectangle elements both in the plan and on the façade. On the north façade, is a large floor to ceiling window connecting the courtyard and street to the interior. The large window is divided into offset, vertically oriented rectangles. The main entrance is through a recessed rectangle containing metal-framed glass doors.</p><br>
<p>Hickory Corners Masonic Temple, also known as Hickory Lodge No. 345 is a Masonic Temple located at 4558 West Hickory Road in Hickory Corners, Michigan. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Hickory Corners was first settled in 134, and by 1875 had grown to a small village of 100 people. In 1877, Masonic Lodge 345 was chartered in the village. The Lodge met in various buildings in the community until 1911, when they began exploring the idea of constructing their own building. In December 1911, the Masons purchased a lot and commissioned Kalamazoo, Michigan, architect Rockwell A. LeRoy to design a building. They approved the plans and began construction in the spring of 1912. Most of the construction was performed by Lodge members, and the building was completed and formally opened in July 1913. Since that time, the Masons have offered the building for the use of other organizations, and Lodge No. 345 has continuously used the building. An addition was constructed in the 1960s, and the roof was rebuilt in 2013.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Hickory Corners Masonic Temple is a two-story, rectangular red brick building sitting on a concrete foundation. The original flat roof has been replaced with a low hipped roof. The building consists of the original 1912 structure measuring twenty-six feet by fifty-two feet, and a small, single-story concrete block addition containing a kitchen. The front façade is three bays wide, with the center bay containing a double arched entry. A second-story window is above, and stone steps lead to the entryway. The side bays are nearly symmetrical, and each contain a single first floor window opening and three narrow windows at the second floor, separated by a brick relief panel.</p><br>
<p>The Castle Rock Depot is a historic Denver & Rio Grande Railway train station, now the Castle Rock Museum and located at 420 Elbert St. in Castle Rock, Colorado.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The depot was built in 1875; it was moved in 1970 a few blocks from its original location. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>It was built by Benjamin Hammar (interred in the Castle Rock cemetery), who also built the original Denver Union Terminal in downtown Denver.</p><br>
<p>The museum includes original ink and watercolor architectural drawings by the unknown architect of the building.</p><br>
<p>It has elements of Victorian style and was built of rhyolite stone from Castle Rock quarries. It is "one of Colorado&#39;s older original buildings".</p><br>
<p>It is a one-and-a-half-story building, 24x40 ft in plan.</p><br>
<p>Gadow&#39;s Mill  is a former grist mill on the Milwaukee River in West Bend, Wisconsin, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>In 1843, Robert Price built a sawmill on the Milwaukee River. When completed, the mill measured 65by44 ft, and was two and one half stories high. In 1847, the mill was converted to grind wheat into flour and Price renamed the facility as the Barton Roller Mills. For many years Washington County farmers brought their wheat to Price&#39;s mill where it was ground, packed into wooden barrels, and shipped by wagon to Allenton from where it was then shipped by rail to larger markets.</p><br>
<p>Barton Roller Mills remained active into the 1890s. During this time ownership of the building changed hands several times. In 1894, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Suckow of Milwaukee purchased the mill. In 1900, Mr. Suckow erected a new elevator (not extant) on the east side of the mill. William F. Gadow acquired a majority interest in the mill in 1905. Nine years later fire destroyed most of the equipment and some of the structure itself. Gadow turned this misfortune into an opportunity to update his mill. That year he replaced the lost machinery with five new Allis-Chalmers rollers for wheat, five mills for rye, and a French Burr Stone which was used to produce coarsely ground flour. The mill remained in the Gadow family until 1964, at which time the owners discontinued operations.</p><br>
<p>In 1966, the city of West Bend purchased the mill, and in 1975, the city turned the building over to Leonard S. Dricken (son-in-law of Water A. Gadow) who would later restore the mill. The Gadow mill was the last mill in Wisconsin to grind wheat flour and also one of the last to operate on water power.</p><br>
<p>The Barton Historic District is a historic district in West Bend, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<p>Now engulfed by West Bend, the modest former village of Barton retains survivors from its early frontier days. Includes the 1850 gabled-ell Hays-Raif house, the 1865 Barton Roller Mill, the 1865 Frazer General Store, the 1865 Greek Revival Frazer House, the 1900 Gothic Revival St Mary&#39;s church, the 1915 Barton Bank, the 1921 Ustruck bungalow, and the 1928 French Revival Kircher house.</p><br>
<p>Earl Hall is a building on the campus of Columbia University. Built in 1900–1902 and designed by McKim, Mead & White, the building serves as a center for student religious life. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018 for its historic role in serving as a venue for meetings and dances of the Columbia Student Homophile League, the oldest LGBTQ student organization in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The John and Elizabeth Kinsman House is a historic house near Milwaukie, Oregon, United States. Completed in 1964, it is a locally significant and almost unaltered example of the Contemporary Style of the late 1950s and early 1960s, which emphasized local materials and indoor-outdoor living and rejected continuity with earlier stylistic conventions. The house is set in landscaped grounds that are also unaltered from the historic period. Designer/builder John Kinsman built the house for himself and his wife Elizabeth using design elements characteristic of the mid-century period that he had also employed on his other projects.</p><br>
<p>The house was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.</p><br>
<p>The Greenwich Savings Bank Building, also known as the Haier Building and 1356 Broadway, is an office building at 1352–1362 Broadway in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Constructed as the headquarters of the Greenwich Savings Bank from 1922 to 1924, it occupies a trapezoidal parcel bounded by 36th Street to the south, Sixth Avenue to the east, and Broadway to the west. The Greenwich Savings Bank Building was designed in the Classical Revival style by York and Sawyer.</p><br>
<p>The exterior, wrapping around the three sides of the building, consists of a base of rusticated stone blocks, atop which are Corinthian-style colonnades. Structurally, the building consists of a steel frame. Inside is an elliptical banking room with limestone Corinthian columns, granite walls, a marble floor, and a coffered, domed ceiling with a large skylight. The bronze tellers&#39; screens contain sculptures of Minerva (symbolizing wisdom) and Mercury (representing commerce).</p><br>
<p>The Greenwich Savings Bank Building opened in May 1924 and operated as the headquarters of that bank until 1981. Afterward, the building was occupied by other banks for two decades. The building was purchased by Chinese appliance company Haier in 2001 and soon afterward was renamed for Haier. The banking space was turned into an event space called Gotham Hall, while Haier occupied the basement through 2014. The building&#39;s facade and lobby were made New York City designated landmarks in 1992, and the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Site</h2><br>
<p>The Greenwich Savings Bank Building is on the northern sidewalk of 36th Street, running the entire block between Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) to the east and Broadway to the west, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The building&#39;s land lot covers 17,600 ft2. Because Broadway runs diagonally to the Manhattan street grid, the land lot is trapezoidal, with the western facade on Broadway running at an irregular angle.</p><br>
<p>Prior to the construction of the Greenwich Savings Bank Building, the two-story Sheridan Building occupied the site. The neighborhood had become dense after World War I with the construction of hotels and stores, as well as the development of what is now the Garment District of Manhattan. The site to the south once contained the New York Herald Building, the Renaissance Revival-style headquarters of the New York Herald. Because the Herald Building had a loading dock from 36th Street, the bank&#39;s design does not include any entrances from 36th Street to alleviate congestion there.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Greenwich Savings Bank Building was designed by bank architects York and Sawyer in a Classical Revival style, with a limestone and sandstone exterior. It was built by Marc Eidlitz & Son.See:</p><br>
<p>The building consists of six stories above a basement, with a steel-framed internal superstructure. According to the New York City Department of City Planning, the building has a gross floor area of 76,804 ft2.</p><br>
<p>At the building&#39;s opening, The Wall Street Journal dubbed it "a wonderful piece of architectural work". Architect magazine wrote, "it seems worth while to express appreciation of all those concerned in the construction of the bank and in the furnishing of all its varied details".</p><br>
<h3>Facade</h3><br>
<p>Wrapping around three sides of the building, the facade consists of a base of rusticated pink granite walls, above which are Corinthian-style columns. The building is 80 ft tall, equal to a six- or seven-story building, but when completed it was smaller than many neighboring buildings.</p><br>
<h4>Base</h4><br>
<p>At the center of the Broadway facade is an entryway with a molded surround approached by four steps made of pink granite. The entrance doorway contains a double door made of bronze with classical reliefs. The soffits under the doorway have square and rectangular molded panels. An electric sign is hung beneath the top of the entryway. An eared tablet with the carved words is inscribed above the top of the entryway, flanked by carved griffins. On either side of the entryway are three window openings.</p><br>
<p>On 36th Street, there are ten windows, grouped as five each on the west and east ends of the facade. The eight inner windows contain iron grills above them. There are no doors on 36th Street.</p><br>
<p>On Sixth Avenue, the base is largely similar to that on Broadway.</p><br>
<h4>Colonnades</h4><br>
<p>All three sides contain fluted Corinthian columns that measure about 40 ft high and about 5 ft in diameter. On Broadway, above the first-floor podium, is a Corinthian octastyle, a portico with eight columns. Behind the colonnade, the ceiling of the portico is divided into coffers. Behind the colonnade are rusticated blocks, as well as three large arched windows topped by archivolts. There are antae and unfluted pilasters on either side of the octastyle. The bottom of the colonnade consists of a dado, which corresponds to the second floor and is topped by a fret design. The dado contains five rectangular windows: three corresponding to the arches above them and two outside the colonnade. An entablature, with an architrave and frieze, runs above the columns and pilasters, wrapping around to the other two facades. Above that is a cornice with modillions, as well as cymatium containing lions&#39; heads.</p><br>
<p>On 36th Street, the colonnade consists of nine engaged columns, which are all fluted. To either side of the engaged columns are unfluted pilasters. A dado runs across the second floor and contains eight windows, four on each end of the 36th Street facade. On each end, the windows are arranged as one between the pilasters and three beside the outermost fluted columns.</p><br>
<p>On Sixth Avenue, the colonnade is also an octastyle, and the ceiling of the portico is coffered. However, the arrangement of windows behind the colonnade is different from that on Broadway. Within the dado, there are four rectangular windows, two each on the extreme ends of the facade. Above is a single arched window with an archivolt, which is flanked by a pair of rectangular windows. There are antae and unfluted pilasters only on the south side of the octastyle.</p><br>
<h4>Attic</h4><br>
<p>On Broadway, the attic is faced with smooth limestone. A long inscription above the attic on Broadway welcomed bank visitors. This inscription was written by the Rev. Russell Bowie, who at the time of the buildings opening served as Grace Churchs rector. A similar modification has been made on the Sixth Avenue facade, which also had letters with the bank&#39;s name on them. Above the attic is a denticulated cornice.</p><br>
<p>On 36th Street, the attic contains raised panels on the outer ends of that facade. The panels are aligned with the pilasters in the building&#39;s intermediate story.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<h4>Vestibules</h4><br>
<p>On the west side of the ground floor, leading from Broadway, is a vestibule shaped as an irregular octagon. This vestibule has a travertine marble floor that is bordered by Belgian black marble. A strip of black-and-white tesserae and a double strip of black tesserae run around the black marble floor. The center of the floor surface has a lozenge measuring 29 by, which has a depiction of a black-tesserae triton within a green-and-white marble background and a black-and-white tesserae border. The walls have wrought bronze radiator grills. Above the double door facing Broadway is a transom window with five panes. The ceiling is made of plaster and has shallow coffers. The Sixth Avenue vestibule is also cruciform and symmetrical, rather than being irregularly shaped.</p><br>
<p>From the Broadway entrance vestibule, a revolving door leads east to another octagonal space, a foyer. This room has a symmetrical shape consisting of alternating longer and shorter sides, with the longer sides corresponding to the four cardinal directions. The foyer floor is made of travertine with tesserae. The center of the floor surface has a medallion showing a brass ship on green marble waves, surrounded by the name of the bank. The foyer has a limestone wall interspersed with sandstone to create a warm tone. While the west wall has the revolving door, the walls to the north, south, and east have heavy decorative bronze grills. The shorter walls, which correspond to the intercardinal directions (northwest, northeast, southwest, southeast), contain radiator grills, above which are capitalized inscriptions with gold fillings. The ceiling design consists of a square at the center, with a rosette as well as a hexagonal lantern hanging from the rosette.</p><br>
<p>South of the Broadway foyer is an irregularly shaped space that was used as a comptroller&#39;s office. North of the foyer is a stair hall with a coffered ceiling and smooth stone walls, which leads to a staircase with a barrel-vaulted ceiling. The western wall of this stair hall has a vestibule leading to the boardroom; this vestibule has wooden walls and a plaster ceiling. In both the stair hall and the boardroom vestibule, the floor is tiled similarly to in the Broadway foyer.</p><br>
<h4>Banking room</h4><br>
<p>The elliptical banking room was designed to maximize space usage in the trapezoidal lot. This room measures about 160 ft long on its west–east axis and 88 ft wide on its north–south axis. Around the perimeter of the room are four desks and four counters atop bronze brackets, with beveled-glass tabletops. There are also eleven benches with decorative bronze legs.</p><br>
<p>A podium made of rusticated limestone and sandstone runs around the banking room. Eight sconces are mounted on the podium, four each on the north and south walls. The columns rise about 32 ft. Between each pair of columns are bronze balustrade panels that contain diagonal "X" patterns. Behind these loggias are the Broadway and Sixth Avenue mezzanines. On both the north and south walls, between the loggias, are five blind window openings above the fret. Two of these blind openings are topped by tablets with inscriptions relating to thrift.</p><br>
<p>A cast stone frieze, with motifs of swags and a candelabra, runs near the top of the wall. An entablature with another inscription runs just beneath the ceiling. The ceiling is composed of a coffered plaster dome hanging from a steel frame. At the center of the ceiling is a light diffuser with a bronze chandelier hanging from it. The space is illuminated by skylight measuring 66 ft long and 35 ft wide. Several small trolleys were hung from the ceiling to assist in cleaning the skylight. The skylight is about 72 ft above the floor at its highest point.</p><br>
<h4>Other spaces</h4><br>
<p>Besides the foyers, vestibules, and banking room, the Greenwich Savings Bank Building is composed of a basement and six office stories. The basement was described as containing lockers, toilets, storage, and other rooms primarily found in a regular savings bank. The vault door, weighing 40 ST with a thickness of 3 ft, was designed by Frederick S. Holmes and was the second-largest in the United States at the time of the buildings completion, surpassed only by the Federal Reserve Bank of Clevelands vault. There was a telephone and small emergency exit in the vault. The vault still existed by the 2000s, but the layout of the basement had changed drastically.</p><br>
<p>Two mezzanines were placed at the second story, one each on Broadway and Sixth Avenue. The bank officers workspaces were placed on the Broadway mezzanine, The north wall of the Broadway mezzanine connects to the barrel-vaulted staircase that leads from the Broadway vestibule. The space has three walls with wooden wainscoting on the north, south, and west, while the east wall overlooks the banking hall loggia. The wainscoting only rises to the lower edge of the large arched windows that face Broadway. The remainder of the walls are clad in rusticated stone, with metal grilles in the window opening, while the ceiling has coffers. There is a room with a fireplace, wood-paneled walls, and doors to other rooms on the south side of the Broadway mezzanine. The presidents room was in the southwest corner of that mezzanine, while the committee room adjoined it.</p><br>
<p>The Sixth Avenue mezzanine is similar but simpler in design to the Broadway mezzanine. The windows lack grills, the ceiling lacks coffers, and the north and south walls lead to other rooms, elevators, and fire stairs.</p><br>
<p>The other floors contained various spaces. There was a kitchen and pantry on the north side of the sixth floor, above the banking room, which served two officers dining rooms facing Broadway and an employees dining room facing Sixth Avenue. There was also a rest area for the clerks. The dining rooms and rest area opened onto the rooftop where there was an open space for employee leisure. There was also a dormitory area for workers. By the 2000s, the third and fifth stories were used only for storage. The fourth story had one small office and the sixth story had several offices, but these were completely redesigned from their original detail.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Greenwich Savings Bank was founded in 1833 and was originally headquartered at 10–12 Carmine Street near Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The original headquarters was relocated in 1839 to 11 Sixth Avenue. The bank further relocated in 1846 to 41 Sixth Avenue and in 1854 to 71-75 Sixth Avenue. In 1892 the bank moved to the intersection of Sixth Avenue and 16th Street, further north in Chelsea. By the 1920s, development was moving northward in Manhattan, and the bank wanted a new site that was centrally located, in anticipation of further growth.</p><br>
<h3>Development</h3><br>
<p>In early 1921, the Greenwich Savings Bank purchased land at Broadway and 36th Street in midtown for about $1.4 million. The next year, a building committee had been organized to determine a design for the structure. The committee had decided to create a building with many elements in the Corinthian order. Furthermore, as the banks headquarters had been on Sixth Avenue for nearly all of its history, the committee planned a facade to face Sixth Avenue as well. By early 1922, York and Sawyer were hired as architects while Marc Eidlitz & Son were awarded the general contract. York and Sawyer might have been selected because of their previous work with the banks officers, albeit not necessarily in a banking context.</p><br>
<p>Work could not begin until existing tenants leases expired on May 1, 1922. Afterward, demolition commenced on the existing structures at the site. The architect of record, Charles M. Dutcher of York and Sawyer, filed plans with the Manhattan Bureau of Building in June 1922 with the bank estimated to cost $1 million. The application described the building as one-and-two stories tall. Shortly after, a $500,000 loan was taken out on the buildings construction. The cornerstone of the new building was ceremonially laid on December 6, 1922. By the next year, the columns were being erected. The new bank building was projected to be the second-largest in Midtown, after the Bowery Savings Bank building at 110 East 42nd Street. At the time, the Greenwich Savings Bank had 94,026 accounts and a combined $92 million.</p><br>
<p>By January 1924, the building was scheduled to open the following month. On May 17, 1924, two days before the new Broadway headquarters opening, one hundred million dollars of the Greenwich Savings Banks holdings were moved from the old headquarters, using armored cars guarded by heavily armed policemen.</p><br>
<h3>Use as bank</h3><br>
<p>At the Greenwich Savings Banks hundredth anniversary, nine years after the new buildings opening, the bank had 131,156 accounts and $154 million in deposits. York and Sawyer filed plans in 1940 to add office space to the Greenwich Savings Bank Building at a cost of $100,000. The new office space, equivalent to one-third of a full story, was to be constructed between the trusses that held up the ceiling of the banking area. The work was to be conducted by general contractor Eglehart, Caldwell & Scott Inc. as well as consulting engineers Meyer, Strong & Jones Inc. and H. Balcom Associates.</p><br>
<p>With bank deregulation in 1980, the Greenwich Savings Bank started having big losses and, in 1981, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the New York State Banking Department sought buyers for the bank. The building was then occupied in 1981 by the Metropolitan Savings Bank, followed in 1985 by the Crossland Savings Bank. With the closure or downsizing of bank branches in the late 20th century, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) proposed designating several major bank interiors in 1990, including the Crossland Bank Building, the Manufacturers Hanover Building, and the Apple Bank for Savings Building. The building became a Crossland Federal Savings Bank branch in January 1992 after the FDIC seized the Crossland Savings Bank. The LPC designated the Greenwich Savings Bank Building and the interior banking hall as a landmark on March 3, 1992. By then, the building was owned by Gerald and Malcolm Rosenberg, who were recorded as being opposed to the landmark designation.</p><br>
<h3>Office and event venue conversion</h3><br>
<p>Leslie Wohlman Himmel and Stephen J. Meringoff of the firm Himmel & Meringoff Properties acquired the Greenwich Savings Bank Building in 1999 for an undisclosed sum. The firm planned to rent out 47,000 ft2 in the building for $1.65 million per year, with a tenant who could sign a long-term triple net lease running for at least 10 years. They created several renderings for alternative uses of the banking hall, including an auditorium, trading floor, restaurant, and store. HSBC, which occupied the banking space, was planning to relocate to a much smaller space at 1350 Broadway. Himmel & Meringoff had not wanted to sell the building, but they were forced to reject several potential applicants for having insufficient credit.</p><br>
<p>HSBC departed in May 2001, and Haier America, a subsidiary of the Chinese appliance company Haier, purchased the building the following month for $14 million. Haier planned to operate a showroom and restaurant in the banking space, leasing the restaurant operations to another entity, and making 1356 Broadway the headquarters for its operations in the Americas. According to Haier America CEO Michael Jemal, the company wished to keep the interior publicly accessible. Gruzen Samton Architects was planning a renovation of the landmark interiors. Haier installed its executive offices in the basement, as well as a reception area with a 122-bottle wine cellar. On the top floor, Haier displayed products to potential customers.</p><br>
<p>For a short time after its offices opened, Haier had used the banking area as a showroom for its products, including refrigerators and air conditioners; this use was seen as wasteful and, in August 2002, the company marketed the banking area as an event venue called Gotham Hall. An event management company was contracted to operate Gotham Hall and leased several of the Haier Building&#39;s large rooms through 2033. The old banking room, board room, and executive office were rented out for corporate events, private parties, and other functions. The events at Gotham Hall have attracted guests such as USA President Barack Obama, actress Eva Mendes, and fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger.</p><br>
<p>By 2004, Haier employed 120 people in the building. Haier moved its North American headquarters to Wayne, New Jersey, in 2014, relocating about 200 workers. The Haier Building was put up for sale in June 2015 for an unknown sum. The same year, Isaac Chetrit and Ray Yadidi bought the building&#39;s air rights for $26 million. The Haier Building was refinanced with a $23.8 million loan in early 2024; at the time, the structure was valued at $30.5 million, and its tenant, Gotham Hall, earned about $5.7 million annually.</p><br>
<p>Sayles Memorial Hall is a Richardsonian Romanesque hall on the central campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The granite structure was designed by Alpheus C. Morse and constructed from 1879 to 1881.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Sayles Hall was built in memoriam of William Clark Sayles, who entered Brown in 1874 and died in 1876. In 1878 Sayles father gifted the school $50,000 for the construction of a building in his sons honor “which shall be exclusively and forever devoted to lectures and recitations, and to meetings on academic occasions.”</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The building is constructed of rock-faced Westerly granite with Longmeadow brownstone trim.</p><br>
<p>The structure follows a T-shaped plan. The front section measures 35 by 75 feet and is topped by a hipped roof; the rear of the building has a gabled roof. The main auditorium of the building is characterized by pine roof trusses.</p><br>
<h3>Organ</h3><br>
<p>The building is home to a 1903 Hutchings-Votey organ gifted to the university by Lucian Sharpe. Today, the organ is the largest remaining Hutchings-Votey organ of its type. The organ is used for an annual Halloween concert which begins at midnight.</p><br>
<h3>Portraits</h3><br>
<p>The main auditorium of the structure is adorned with 35 historical and contemporary portraits of leaders and benefactors of the university. In 1997, a portrait of Sarah Elizabeth Doyle was stolen from the building. In 2016, the university installed a portrait of President Emerita Ruth Simmons, making her the first and only Black woman represented in the collection.</p><br>
<p>The Anthony–Corwin Farm is a historic farmhouse located at 244 West Mill Road near Long Valley in Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 1, 1992, for its significance in architecture. The 11.5 acre farm overlooks the valley formed by the South Branch Raritan River. The farmhouse is part of the Stone Houses and Outbuildings in Washington Township Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1840s, Jacob Anthony (1794–1863) owned the farm and likely built the stone farmhouse with Greek Revival style. It remained in the Anthony family until 1934 when it was sold to Grace Louise Corwin. The farmhouse was then remodeled with Colonial Revival style.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The main block of the farmhouse is a two-story stone building with a gable roof. On the east is a one-story frame kitchen wing added. The property has four contributing buildings, including the main house, a barn and wagon house.</p><br>
<p>The Anderson Barn near Johnstown in Weld County, Colorado, also known as the Carlson Barn, is a gambrel-roofed ornamental block building built in 1913. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>It is about 25x70 ft in plan. It has walls built of plain-faced ornamental blocks. Its gambrel roof, covered in asphalt shingles in 2004, has two large metal ventilators and a hay hood projecting out the ridge on the south side.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed "an excellent example of a gambrel-roofed barn using plain-faced ornamental concrete block for its lower level." It might have been built from a kit, as might be sold by "mail-order firms as Sears, Roebuck and Company, Montgomery Ward, and the Aladdin Company. The blocks were to be made on-site with a hand-operated machine supplied in the kit. The remainder of the materials (cement, lumber, roofing, windows and hardware) were shipped by rail to the nearest siding. Local contractors or property owners fabricated the blocks, laid the masonry walls and then built the frame interior and roof structure."</p><br>
<p>It is located in a cluster of farm buildings to the north of Colorado State Highway 60, about.2 mi due east of the eastern end of Johnstown Reservoir. The other buildings include a seed shed, a livestock shed, and two poured-concrete silos.</p><br>
<p>Albert Anderson, who immigrated from Sweden in 1912, purchased the property. He, C.E. "Cement" Carlson, and four young Russian immigrants built the barn, with blocks that were individually formed using a hand cement mixer.</p><br>
<p>"The barn originally accommodated draft horse stalls and family milk cows. The loft was used for the storage of hay and straw.The barn has been well maintained throughout the years. About ten years ago the building was re- shingled by Ray Ezinga, a contractor from Loveland, Colorado. The work cost $6,000. Two years ago a painter from Loveland painted the barn and other buildings, including the machine, seed, and livestock sheds, for a total cost of $5,200."</p><br>
<p>Melvin Carlson and family members long participated in quarter horse shows. He is a member of the Rocky Mountain Quarter Horse Association and of the National Western Stock Show Livestock Association:</p><br>
<p>In 2002, the barn was nominated for the Barn Again! Farm Heritage Award sponsored by Successful Farming magazine and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Melvin Carlson received a certificate of commendation "in recognition of outstanding efforts in preserving and maintaining America&#39;s Rural Heritage."</p><br>
<p>In 2004 the farm buildings property is owned by Alberts grandson Melvin Carlson, although all but 10 acre of the farm&#39;s land was sold for development in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Weld County Courthouse, at 9th St. and 9th Ave. in Greeley, Colorado, is a Classical Revival-style building built in 1917. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It was built of Indiana limestone and marble and has a colossal portico of Ionic columns.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed "significant for its architectural style, which is unique in the Greeley area, and because it is both the center of and a visible focal point for county government." Its National Register nomination asserted "There is a great integrity and dignity in the total design. This, plus its careful detailing and lavish use of classical details and motifs, has combined to produce a county courthouse virtually unparalleled in most of Colorado&#39;s county seats."</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was designed by prolific architect William N. Bowman.</p><br>
<p>The "Lady Liberty of Greeley" statue on the courthouse grounds was restored and re-installed in 2006.</p><br>
<p>When it was completed in 1917, Weld County shared judges with Larimer and Boulder counties. It is the sixth county courthouse building of the 19th Judicial Circuit. The first was a log cabin.</p><br>
<p>The Harquahala Peak Observatory, at elevation 5,680 ft on Harquahala Peak near Wenden, Arizona, United States, is an adobe two-story building built with wooden beams, but it appears fragile due to it being covered with corrugated tin roof and siding. It has a wooden second-story porch. A "cement water catchment device" is on its northern end.</p><br>
<p>The much-deteriorated observatory, along with 10 acre, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. A small storage shed was a second contributing building in the listing. The two buildings were built in 1920 by the Smithsonian Institution. Scientists staffed the observatory from 1920 to 1925.</p><br>
<p>The location "was picked because of its remoteness from pollution, and for the regions high percentage of cloudless days. Solar observations began on October 3, 1920, and for five years, measurements of the solar constant were taken at the site. The equipment used was a pyroheliometer perhaps an alternate name for Pyrheliometer, an early device used to measure the Suns energy output in ergs per second per square centimetre. The solar constant measurement, which has since been abandoned as a method, was used to determine the effect of the Suns energy output on the Earths climate. Although results concerning weather forecasting were inconclusive, the five year study, using data from both Harquahala Peak and Mt. Montezuma, indicated that the amount of energy reaching the Earth from the Sun was constant over the Earth&#39;s surface. In order to gain easier access and better atmospheric conditions, the Harquahala Peak Observatory was moved in 1925 from Arizona to Table Mountain, California."</p><br>
<p>"Two observatories had been built prior to the Harquahala Peak station. Both are still in operation; the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, established in 1894 by Percival Lowell, and the Steward Observatory, built in 1916 by the University of Arizona at Tucson. Since that time, several other observatories have been built and maintained in Arizona. Among these are; the Northern Arizona University and USA Naval Observatories in Flagstaff, the National Center for Optical Astronomy, established in 1957 at Kitt Peak, and, most recently, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory on Mount Hopkins, south of Tucson."</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant as representing "an early phase in the development of American astrophysics. Harquahala Peak Observatory is of national significance for its contribution to the developing science of astrophysics."</p><br>
<p>It is located in the Harquahala Mountains Wilderness in La Paz County, Arizona, west southwest of Wickenburg and east of Wenden off to the south of USA Route 60. It overlooks semi-arid plains at elevation 1500-2,000 ft. It is currently owned by the Bureau of Land Management.</p><br>
<p>"Arizona, with its high frequency of clear and cloud-free days and nights, is increasingly referred to as the world-wide capital of astronomical research. The significance of astronomy in Arizona can be traced from historical sites, such as Harquahala Peak Observatory"</p><br>
<p>Also in Arizona, and operating in 2021 are Kitt Peak National Observatory (at 6,883 ft, est. 1958) and Lowell Observatory (at 7,250 ftest. 1894)</p><br>
<p>The Jacob Wise Neighbor House is a historic house built and located at 143 West Mill Road near Long Valley in Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey. The J. W. Neighbor House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 22, 1991, for its significance in architecture. The 3.5 acre property overlooks the valley formed by the South Branch Raritan River. It is now the Neighbour House Bed & Breakfast.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Leonard Neighbor (1698–1766), born Leanhart Nachbar, was a Moravian settler who moved here in 1738. His great-grandson, Jacob Wise (J. W.) Neighbor (1805–1889) purchased this subdivision in 1830 and likely built the house soon after. Jacob&#39;s brother, Leonard Neighbor (1802–1880), owned the nearby Leonard Neighbor Farmstead, also listed on the NRHP.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is a two-story frame house, nearly square is shape, and built with Greek Revival style. It has a low hip roof. The front facade features a one-story porch spanning the length of the building.</p><br>
<p>The Southbury Historic District No. 1 encompasses a well-preserved 19th-century village landscape along Main Street North  in Southbury, Connecticut. This area includes the historic town center of Southbury, and is part of a larger streetscape extending into neighboring Woodbury, where it continues in the Woodbury Historic District No. 2. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Southbury Historic District Number 1 extends along Main Street North from Old Waterbury Road in the south, northward for about 2 mi along that roadway to the Woodbury town line. This area includes a streetscape of irregularly spaced houses, older municipal buildings, and a church, with the buildings generally widely spaced with ample surrounding greenery. Stone walls line portions of the right of way, and in some areas, the former roadway has been bypassed to straighten curves, leaving further indications of the historic streetscape. Buildings in the district were predominantly built in the 18th and 19th centuries, with few 20th-century intrusions. They are typically of wood-frame construction, and even many of the 20th-century intrusions are executed in sympathetic Colonial Revival style. Notable buildings include the brick Bullet Hill School (1778), one of Connecticut&#39;s oldest surviving schoolhouses, and the White Oak Schoolhouse.</p><br>
<p>Southbury&#39;s Main Street was laid out in the 17th century, when the area was part of Woodbury. Southbury was established as a separate parish of that town in early 18th century, and was separately incorporated in 1845. Its original common area, site of its first church was located in the northern part of the district. Notable 18th and 19th residents of the area include the Revolutionary War militia leader Benjamin Hinman, author Peter Parley, and David Stiles, owner of a major ironworks in neighboring Roxbury.</p><br>
<p>The Old East Haven High School is a historic former school building at 200 Tyler Street in East Haven, Connecticut. Built in 1936, it was the town&#39;s first public high school, serving until the present-day East Haven High School opened in 1997. Now converted into housing, the school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>East Haven&#39;s old high school is located south of downtown East Haven, in a residential area on the south side of Tyler Street between French and Thompson Avenues. It is a three-story masonry structure, built of concrete finished in red brick with concrete and cast stone trim. Its main facade is 21 bays wide, with most bays occupied by large paired sash windows. The outer three bays on each end are articulated by fluted pilasters to the base of the third floor, as are the central three bays. A modillioned cornice separates the second and third floors, and there is a triangular pediment above the center bays on an otherwise flat roof.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1936 to a design by New Haven architect Roy W. Foote. Prior to its construction, the town had sent its high school students to New Haven High School, which was then overcrowded. The school was built with funding support of the federal Public Works Administration, a Depression-era jobs program. It was enlarged with the construction of a new wing in 1964, and a swimming pool was added in 1973 as part of a second wing. The school was closed in 1997, when the current high school opened. It has since been converted to residential use.</p><br>
<p>Fairacres is a neighborhood and historic district in Omaha, Nebraska. It is south of Dundee and west of Midtown. It is roughly bounded by Underwood Avenue to the north, Dodge Street to the south, North 69th Street to the west, and North 62nd Street to the east. It is primarily residential, and was annexed into Omaha in 1941. It was listed the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1907, real estate investors Charles C. and J.E George from Dundee Realty contacted the architect George Kessler to construct a suburb of Omaha. This suburb was planned to be four miles away from the downtown via Dodge and Douglas Streets with an automobile. This suburb was made for the wealthy with automobiles to commute to and from work from downtown.</p><br>
<p>The land was bought by the Georges in 1907 and developed between 1907 and 1915. Fairacres started with the development of Fairacres Road and kept on steadily pushing out toward Underwood Avenue and Dodge Street. Fairacres Road was completed in around 1910 and the lots kept on being built.</p><br>
<p>World War II stopped the development of the lots, but were built up again until 1961, when all of the empty lots were filled. In 1941, the suburb village was annexed into the CIty of Omaha.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<p>The Leonard Neighbor Farmstead is a historic house located at 177 West Mill Road near Long Valley in Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 1, 1992, for its significance in architecture. The farm overlooks the valley formed by the South Branch Raritan River. The house is part of the Stone Houses and Outbuildings in Washington Township Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Leonard Neighbor (1698–1766), born Leanhart Nachbar, was a Moravian settler who moved here in 1738. His great-grandson, Leonard Neighbor (1802–1880) purchased this subdivision in 1829. Leonard&#39;s brother, Jacob Wise Neighbor (1805–1889), owned the nearby Jacob Wise Neighbor House, also listed on the NRHP.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The main house is a -story stone building with a hip roof. It was built with Federal/Greek Revival style. The 122 acre property has five contributing buildings, including the main house, an English barn and a spring/wash house.</p><br>
<p>The West Yellowstone Oregon Shortline Terminus Historic District is a historic district in West Yellowstone, Montana that is ten acres in size and includes 16 structures and buildings. The historic district was built around the terminus of a spur of the Oregon Short Line Railroad, which ran from Idaho Falls, Idaho to West Yellowstone. The town prospered with the influx of tourism brought by the new railroad line. Seeing the revenue generated from serving tourists passing through West Yellowstone on their way to the nearby national park, the Union Pacific Railroad Company expanded its facilities to include restaurants and lodgings. These buildings, built between 1910 and 1926, are also included in the historic site description. Union Pacific&#39;s depot, baggage building, dining lodge, dormitories, and boiler building were designed by noted American architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 1983.</p><br>
<h2>National Register of Historic Places</h2><br>
<p>The buildings and structures in the historical site are associated with two periods of significance: the construction of the railroad terminus between 1908 and 1910 and Union Pacific Railroad Companys subsequent construction of accommodations for tourists. Underwood had designed several Union Pacific depots and stations before designing the depot at West Yellowstone. Underwood "combines rustic stylistic features with basic irregular Richardsonian Romanesque massing" in this depot, departing from his previous Beaux Art style. Underwoods later designs for the dining hall and dormitories in West Yellowstone further explored "the possibilities of the naturalistic rustic style in this heavily wooded, remote setting."</p><br>
<p>The West Yellowstone Oregon Shortline Terminus Historic District was inscribed on to the National Register of Historic Places based on Criterion A ("the property must make a contribution to the major pattern of American history") and Criterion B ("concerns the distinctive characteristics of the building by its architecture and construction, including having great artistic value or being the work of a master").</p><br>
<p>The Southwest District School is a historic former district schoolhouse at 155 Nichols Road in Wolcott, Connecticut. Built in the early 1820s, it is the oldest of the town&#39;s surviving district schoolhouses, and the only example in the town of a structure built out of locally quarried granite. Now a museum of the local historical society, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Wolcott&#39;s former Southwest District School stands in the southern part of the rural community, on the north side of Nichols Road a short way west of the Woodtick Recreation Area. It is a single-story structure, its main block built of granite and covered by a wooden-frame gabled roof. A wood-frame shed extends from the rear of the right side, giving the building an overall L shape. The main block was actually built in two sections: the older front section is formed out of locally quarried granite with rough untrimmed finish, while the rear section, a later addition, was built using commercially quarried stone. The shed addition acts as an entry vestibule, with the main block of the building taken up by a single large chamber. Its interior is finished in plaster, with a 20th-century concrete floor.</p><br>
<p>The town of Wolcott was incorporated in 1796 out of Southington, and was divided into six school districts. This school was built after the previous school on this site, a wood-frame structure, burned in 1820. Records of a local family indicate that an ancestor attended the new school in 1821, but the date 1825 is found in the trim of the gable end. Although Wolcott is known for its granite outcrops, this is the only known example of a 19th-century building built entirely out of the material in the town. Its design may have been influenced by Bronson Alcott a Wolcott native who was then teaching in one of the other town schools, and published a treatise on the design of district schools. The school was enlarged in 1898 to meet increased demand, and continued in use as a school until 1930. It was used briefly as an overflow school space in the 1940s. It was acquired in 1963 by the local historical society, which now uses it as a museum space.</p><br>
<p>The Waterbury Brass Company was an industrial company located in Waterbury, Connecticut. Founded in 1846 by Israel Holmes, it was at its founding the largest maker of rolled brass in the country. The company was folded into the American Brass Company in 1899. Archaeological remains of its manufacturing facility, located in Waterbury&#39;s Hamilton Park, were investigated in 1975 and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Waterbury Brass Company was founded in 1846, by a group of businessmen led by Israel Holmes, a Waterbury industrialist who had previously engaged in other brass works. The company acquired a water privilege on the Mad River, and built its mill on the river&#39;s north bank. By the late 1850s the company was rolling more brass than any other brass company in the region, whose output dominated brass production in the nation. In 1852, the company acquired rights to the processes for manufacturing brass kettles, and soon became the major manufacturer of that item.</p><br>
<p>The company was merged into the American Brass Company in 1899; this company was formed by the merger of most of the major brassmakers in the Naugatuck River valley. Its plant continued to be used until 1905, when the major buildings were dismantled.</p><br>
<p>The archaeological remains of its plant are located in the southeast part of Hamilton Park. Although one much-altered building remained of the complex when the site was listed on the National Register in 1975, now only wall fragments and turbine pits survive as detectable remnants of the site.</p><br>
<p>The Craft–Clausen House is a historic stone house located at 170 Fairmont Road in Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 1, 1992, for its significance in architecture. The house is part of the Stone Houses and Outbuildings in Washington Township Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Craft bought the property here in 1848 and likely built the house soon after. The property was then sold to William Clausen in 1869. The next owner was Walter Parley in 1924.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is a -story stone building with a gable roof and Victorian architecture details. It was enlarged in 1924 with a small frame addition. The property also includes two outbuildings: a wagon house and a chicken coop.</p><br>
<p>The Sharpenstine Farmstead is a historic farmhouse located at 98 East Mill Road near Long Valley in Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 1, 1992, for its significance in architecture. The 22.4 acre farm overlooks the valley formed by the South Branch Raritan River. The house is part of the Stone Houses and Outbuildings in Washington Township Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1749, the property was bought by John Peter Sharpenstine (1746–1826). In 1826, it was inherited by his son David Sharp (1786–1864).</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The central part of the farmhouse is a stone building with a gable roof and Federal style. The property has six contributing buildings, including the main house, a stone barn with a gambrel roof and a wagon house.</p><br>
<p>The Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ is a historic church at 217 Dixwell Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1820 as the African Ecclesiastical Society, the congregation has been a major part of African-American society in the city since then. Its current church building, completed in 1969, is a major local example of Brutalist architecture, designed by John M. Johansen. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its architecture in 2018.</p><br>
<h2>Congregation</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was organized by a group of 24 free African Americans and a white man, Simeon Jocelyn, in 1820. After first meeting on Temple Street, the congregation moved to Dixwell Avenue in the 1880s. In the 19th century, the church and its parishioners served as part of the Underground Railroad, and were active in protesting and supporting the Africans of La Amistad who were imprisoned in New Haven. In the 20th century, the church was included in efforts by the city to redevelop the Dixwell Avenue area.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>Prior to construction of the present building, the congregation was meeting in a building at 100 Dixwell Avenue. In the 1950s, the city embarked on an urban renewal project in the area, which included a major public space in the block bounded by Dixwell Avenue, Foote, Admiral, and Ashmun Streets. The new church building was to be one of the anchors of this development, and was ultimately the only major element of the redevelopment to be built beyond the plaza space. The entire development project was developed by architect John M. Johansen.</p><br>
<p>The church has a sunken setting relative to the plaza and sited at the plaza&#39;s northwest corner. It is connected to the street and the plaza by pedestrian bridges, which provide entry into the main level of the building. The building is organized with a roughly circular center, or lantern, from which other elements radiate. The radiating elements have split-concrete sidewalls of varying heights, with two-story window bays at the ends. The central lantern functions as a light well for the main sanctuary. The outer elements include offices, classrooms, and other small meeting spaces, and there is a large secondary meeting space on the lower level below the sanctuary.</p><br>
<h2>Organizing</h2><br>
<p>Jocelyn helped organize plans for a college in New Haven for African Americans that would have been the first in the United States. The plan drew opposition and a 700 to 4 vote against it. David Daggett, a founder of Yale Law School, former USA Senator, and former mayor of New Haven helped organized against it. Jocelyn resigned in the wake of the defeated plan. Jocelyns home was attacked a few years later. A white mob destroyed a black-owned hotel, a black-owned property, and Arthur Tappans summer home. There was no college for African Americans in the country until the black-owned Wilberforce University opened in Ohio in 1856. Daggett went on to preside over the prosecution of Prudence Crandall who ran the Canterbury Female Boarding School in Canterbury, Connecticut. Crandall was arrested and tried in court for violating the Black Law, which prevented the teaching of "any colored person who is not an inhabitant of any town of this state" without the town&#39;s permission. Jocelyn organized during the La Amistad incident. He and his brother Nathan were involved with the Underground Railroad.</p><br>
<p>The Stapleton Building was a historic building at 751 North Main Street in Waterbury, Connecticut. Built in 1903, it was a good example of Renaissance Revival architecture, and typified economic development in outlying neighborhood areas of Connecticut&#39;s larger cities. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It has since been demolished.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Stapleton Building was located in Waterbury&#39;s Hillside neighborhood, at the junction of North Main Street and Easton Avenue. It was a four-story masonry structure, built out of brick, with brownstone trim and a cast iron front facade. It had an irregular five-sided plan, an artifact of the unusual lot shape, with three commercial storefronts on the ground floor, and residential units above. The main building entrance was located on Easton Avenue, deeply recessed in a stone archway. Shallow dentillated cornices separated the first and second floors as well as the third and fourth. Upper-floor windows on the main facades were either set in projecting bays, or featured stone quoined surrounds.</p><br>
<p>The building was erected for Frank Stapleton, an Irish immigrant who arrived in 1894. He met early success operating a saloon nearby, and had this building built in 1905, possibly pooling money with relatives who also lived in Waterbury. Stapleton lived in one of the residential units, and relocated the saloon into the central commercial space. He moved to suburban Cheshire in the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>The R.T. Frazier House is a historic Craftsman style residence built in 1915 in Pueblo, Colorado. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It was deemed significant for its association with R.T. Frazier and as an architectural work.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1915 for local saddle and harness manufacturer Robert T. Frazier, of R.T. Frazier Saddlery.</p><br>
<p>Frazier was wealthy and spared no expense. The construction budget was US $15,000; however they spent more than double at US $35,000 (without furnishings).</p><br>
<p>Fraziers saddles won many awards, including first place at the 1893 Columbia Exposition, and was considered the finest saddle in the world at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. Two of Fraziers famous saddlery customers were Buffalo Bill Cody and Pancho Villa (José Doroteo Arango Arámbula).</p><br>
<p>Its construction of the R.T. Frazier House was announced and reviewed favorably by the Pueblo Star Journal, the local newspaper, in 1916, which called it "utter perfection". It has been speculated that the house may have been designed from the popular style of books of the time period. It is a front-gabled house with tapestry brick and rhyolite stone; the foundation appears to be made of ryolite stone with the four large pillars. The porch and the railing made of sandstone.</p><br>
<p>The State Park Supply Yard is a historic maintenance facility at 51 Mill Road in Madison, Connecticut. The facility buildings were built in 1933-35 by crews of the Civilian Conservation Corps, and remain a well-preserved example of the Corps&#39; work. Still used by the state, the facility was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The State Park Supply Yard is located in southeastern Madison, on the west side of Mill Road north of United States Route 1. It occupies about one-half of a 6 acre parcel of land that is a discontiguous portion of Hammonasset Beach State Park. The property&#39;s main feature is the barn, a large single-story wood frame structure with a hip roof that is topped by a hipped clerestory ridge. It has three garage door openings, one of which retains its original doors. Also included in the complex are an office building, pump house, supply shed, oil house, and workshop. One distinctive remnant of the period is a small frame structure which shelters a period concrete vault toilet.</p><br>
<p>The yard was built out by crews of the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933-35 as a maintenance and supply yard for the state park system. It remained in this use until</p><br>
<p>1951, and was then repurposed by the state for other uses. At the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, it was being used by the state health departments mosquito control program. It is the best-preserved of the states early park maintenance yards.</p><br>
<p>The Coos Bay National Bank Building is a historic commercial building in Coos Bay, Oregon, United States. Completed in 1924, it is an outstanding example of Beaux-Arts eclecticism with a Classical theme by the architecture firm of Tourtellotte and Hummel. It is especially notable as the only building of its architectural type in the Coos Bay area. Although its design integrity has been compromised somewhat, especially by removal of a low dome over the entrance rotunda and modifications to the surrounds of the entry door, it still conveys the essential character-defining traits of its design. It served as the headquarters of the Coos Bay National Bank from its construction until Coos Bay National Bank merged with USA National Bank in 1956. The building remained a branch of USA National Bank until 1975. Coos Bay National Bank, a community fixture founded in 1915 as the Scandinavian American Bank, exemplified the trend of ethnic banks in the United States and Scandinavian settlement around Coos Bay. As a business institution it played a leading role in the development of Coos Bay during the period between the world wars and in the city&#39;s emergence as a major lumber port. It was the only one of four locally controlled banks to survive the Great Depression.</p><br>
<p>The building was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Bell County Courthouse in Belton, Texas was built in 1884. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>It is the third courthouse to serve Bell County. The structure was designed in the Renaissance Revival style by J. N. Preston & Son. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976,</p><br>
<p>It is a three-story building occupying its own block, with each side having an entrance pavilion including a portico of cut-stone columns with carved bases and capitals, and with each corner also having a projecting pavilion.</p><br>
<p>It was built with a central 125 ft tower topped by a statue of Goddess of Justice carrying sword and beam balance; the statue was later removed. The building also had detailing made of sheet metal by W.J. Burt and Company of Fort Worth which has also mostly been removed by 1976. That detailing, consisting of galvanized iron and spun zinc, included the roof covered by tin stamped to resemble slate, balustrades around each of the four porticos, and cornices and shell ornaments and window pediments.</p><br>
<p>It is located on Public Square in Belton. J.W. Preston & Son also designed the National Register-listed Bastrop County Courthouse and Jail Complex in Bastrop, Texas.</p><br>
<p>Shelby Cotton Mill is an historical textile mill located in Shelby, North Carolina. Built in 1900, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mill was opened in April 1900. And by 1901, the mill was expanded with 8,784 ring spindles, 250 broad looms, and 14 carding machines. By 1920s, it became Cleveland County&#39;s largest textile mill manufacturing yam and "pajama check".</p><br>
<p>Carolina and Northwestern Railway Freight Station is a historic railway station located at Lenoir, North Carolina. Built in 1950, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The freight station was built in 1950 by Carolina and Northwestern Railway. It was abandoned in the year 1969. The station played an important role in the "substantial post-World War II growth of the furniture industry" in the Piedmont Triad community.</p><br>
<p>The Orrin Todd House is a historic house at 3369 Whitney Avenue in Hamden, Connecticut. Built about 1800, it is one of the best surviving examples of Federal period architecture in the town. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It is presently owned by Quinnipiac University, and was rescued from demolition in 2017.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Orrin Todd House stands in Hamden&#39;s northern Mount Carmel area, on the east side of Whitney Avenue (Connecticut Route 10) roughly midway between Sherman Avenue and Mount Carmel Avenue. It is a -story wood-frame structure, covered with gabled roof oriented with the gable toward the street. It is set on a brick foundation which is exposed at the rear of the sloping lot. The main facade is three bays wide, with the main entrance in the left-most bay. The other bays have simply framed sash windows. There is a small Palladian window in the gable, which is presently covered over. The entrance once had a more elaborate surround, which has also either been covered over or removed. The interior retains many original period finishes, including plaster walls and a finely finished fireplace surround in the main parlor.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1800 by Orrin Todd, and was originally located on the west side of the road, which was opened as the Cheshire Turnpike in 1800. The house was moved across the street when the Farmington Canal was constructed in the 1820s through that property. The present property includes one of two surviving tollhouses built for the turnpike. Later in the 19th century a small general store was operated out of an addition to the rear of the building.</p><br>
<p>The house was acquired in the 20th century by nearby Quinnipiac University, which used it as student housing. The school sought to demolish the building along with other neighboring 19th-century houses in 2016. After a local outcry, the plans were withdrawn.</p><br>
<p>The Walker, Combs, Hartshorne, Oakley Farmstead  is located in the historic district of the village of West Freehold, a part of Freehold Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built in 1686 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 14, 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>As the English were beginning to have the tides in their favor against the Dutch during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, many religious dissenters from New England and other points north began to inhabit New Jersey and places south. Colonel Richard Nicolls granted a triangular tract of land called the Monmouth Tract (also called the Navesink Tract) on April 8, 1665. The original settlers were twelve men, most of whom were Baptists and Quakers from Long Island, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, whom purchased this tract of land that extended from Sandy Hook to the mouth of the Raritan River, upstream approximately 25 mi, and then southeast to Barnegat Bay. Of the three original towns in Monmouth County were, Middletown, Shrewsbury, and Freehold. By the 1680s, the Freehold area had become a place of refuge for Scottish settlers of Presbyterian faith.</p><br>
<p>It was in the western section of the township where The Burlington Path traversed through, a stagecoach route meant to connect Burlington, which was at the time the Capital of West Jersey, and Perth Amboy, which was at the time the Capital of East Jersey. The proximity to various points of the state through this transportation artery along with the fertile soil that was optimal for cultivation, made the settlement of West Freehold an attractable place to live. Operating for centuries, The Walker, Combs, Hartshorne, Oakley Farmstead is the earliest remaining farmstead in Freehold and is one of the oldest preserved structures in Monmouth County. Settled in the 1680s, the property was originally situated on roughly 500 acres of land. The property was originally owned by East Jersey proprietors (whom were among the first to inhabit the Monmouth Tract), including John Barclay and Robert Barclay. Since then, the farmstead had been transferred/sold by multiple families including; Barclay, Reid, Bowne, Clark, Walker, Combs, Schanck, Hartshorne, and Oakley. In 1699, Robert Barclay sold the 500 acres to John Reid. In 1701, John Reid sold a portion of the estate, 200 acres of land to John Bowne. In 1706 John Bowne sold those 200 acres to the Clark Family, Richard and Anne Clark. The family built an 8’x10’ log cabin with a fieldstone foundation and enlarged the cabin to a 20’x25’ house with post and beam construction.</p><br>
<p>By the 1710s or 1720s, George Walker bought the 200 acres of property that encompassed the farmhouse and barn, and in 1729 the 300 acres of remaining farmland. Three generations of Walkers had lived on the farm for decades, along with their extended families which included many of whom were Patriots during the American Revolutionary War. In 1801, Elijah Combs bought the farmstead from the Walkers, in which he was able to allow the farm to flourish. The huge immediate family of Elijah Combs, prompted him to build the western half of the house, bringing the home to its current dimensions.</p><br>
<p>In 1832, Elijah Combs sold the property to Ruliff Reed Schanck, which he owned for a brief period of time. In 1842 Richard Salter Hartshorne, Jr. purchased the farm and in 1850 he added the Italianate porch to the front of the house. Elizabeth Oakley was the last to manage and inhabit the farmstead. While continuing to successfully manage the farmstead, Elizabeth was also fascinated in the farmsteads rich history. She worked hard to preserve it, having accomplished her lifes goal in having the farm be placed in the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Elizabeth Oakley passed away in her home on April 22, 1995.</p><br>
<p>In 1997, the 6 remaining acres were sold to the Township of Freehold by Hugh Oakley (the nephew of Elizabeth). The home remains an historic landmark in the township, located on Wemrock Road. Despite massive suburban development in the last half century, the township has worked hard in the preservation of farmland. Particularly, on the premises of the property is a community garden operated by the township, continuing the farmstead&#39;s agricultural legacy.</p><br>
<h3>Toll House</h3><br>
<p>The Toll House located on the property of the Walker, Combs, Hartshorne, Oakley Farmstead is one of only two remaining toll houses that are left within the State of New Jersey. Built in ca. 1850, it was owned and operated by a group of farmers living along the Burlington Path. The toll separated two sides of the two-lane stagecoach route; the side of the tollroad heading southwest towards Smithburg was known as the Freehold-Smithburg Turnpike and the other side of the tollroad heading northeast towards Elks Point&#39; (what is now Freehold Borough).</p><br>
<p>Cherry Grove Baptist Church Schoolhouse built c. 1910, is a rural African American school building in the vicinity of Washington, a city in Wilkes County, Georgia. This building is a rare surviving example of this genre of 20th century architecture, and it has importance to African American heritage. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since June 23, 2020.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Cherry Grove Baptist Church congregation was founded in 1875, it was one of the many churches that had grown out of the Springfield Baptist Church in Washington, Georgia. Gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe would perform at Cherry Grove. The property grounds include the Cherry Grove Baptist Church Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The Cherry Grove Baptist Church Schoolhouse was a one-room building used to teach primary school through the seventh grade. It is one of only 15 still in existence African American pre- Rosenwald schoolhouses built on church grounds, located within the state of Georgia.</p><br>
<p>In 2021, the building made the list of 10 “Places in Peril” by the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation. It has been, “in dire need of repair.”</p><br>
<p>Tranquility Farm is a historic summer estate located on Tranquility Road in Middlebury, Connecticut. The estate was developed in the 1890s by industrialist John H. Whittemore, with architectural design by the noted firm of McKim, Mead & White, and landscape design by Charles Eliot and Warren H. Manning. The main house was a rare inland example of Shingle Style architecture in the state. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The main house was demolished sometime after listing.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Tranquility Farm occupies nearly 300 acre on the east side of Lake Quassapaug, west of Middleburys town center. The property is bounded on the south by Spring Road and Connecticut Route 64, and is roughly divided by Tranquility Road and Whittemore Road. The estates landscape features broad meadows with expansive views over the lake, stone walls lining the roadways, and a large woodland area to the east. There are several clusters of buildings which dot this landscape, with the main house near the junction of Tranquility and Whittemore Roads. It was an expansive structure, with a fieldstone lower level and shingled exterior. At the southern end of the property are the buildings of the True Quality Farm, the estate&#39;s working farmyards. Prominent among these buildings is the former farmhouse, a Federal-period gable-roofed building.</p><br>
<p>Development of the estate was commissioned by John H. Whittemore, a businessman who was born in Southbury, and whose home and principal businesses were in Naugatuck. Whittemore was a major figure in Naugatuck, sponsoring a series of commissions of McKim, Mead & White for buildings in the city center. The house designed for him was rare in the state as an inland example of the Shingle style, which is most often found in coastal settings, and for its transitional Colonial Revival features. McKim, Mead & White also designed some of the buildings in the farm complex, and the estate&#39;s boathouse was designed by Henry Moeckel. The landscaping of the estate, which includes grading to obscure features such as roadways from a number of vantage points, was primarily the work of Warren H. Manning, with inspiration from Charles Eliot.</p><br>
<p>A. D. Strickland Store, also known as Bryant&#39;s Store, Dawnville General Merchandise Storekeeper, and J.R. Anderson Store; is a historical building and former rural country store located at 1385 Dawnville Road in Dalton, Georgia and built c.1878. These types of rural country general stores were once common and an important part of the social history of Georgia. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 10, 2005.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The 130 acre plot of land (that later housed the A. D. Strickland Store) was first owned by Edward F. Dawn starting in 1869. The A. D. Strickland Store was constructed around 1878. The store is a one-story, wood-framed, building and it features a gable-front, a tin roof, a fireplace with chimney, and gable returns on the front and rear facades. By 1870, D.L. King owned the property and at that time it was called, "Dawn&#39;s Place". There was a fire in c. 1890, the structure was damaged.</p><br>
<p>The store ownership and shopkeepers frequently changed over the years. According to the Whitfield County Clerk&#39;s office, in 1880, D.L King owner, with G. Caylor storekeeper; in 1900, Joseph Davis owner, with Melvin T. Davls storekeeper; in 1908, E.L. Pearson owner, with A.D. Strickland storekeeper; in 1916, W.C. Bryant owner, with A.D. Strickland storekeeper; in 1956, G.H. Fraker owner, with W.C. Bryant, storekeeper; and by 1972 the store had closed.</p><br>
<p>The sign reading, "A.D. Strickland, General MSDE & School Supplies" was in the front of the building for decades.</p><br>
<h3>Social history of country stores</h3><br>
<p>After the American Civil War ending in 1865, stores of this type were made more common because of the rise of sharecropping. The farmers needed a place to purchase goods on credit, until their harvesting season and they could not afford to do so at a traditional bank. These types of stores served as community gathering centers as well as informal banks, post offices, and sometimes the storekeeper would need to act as informal Justice of the peace or tax collector. During winter months when it was cold and snowing, the fireplace in the country store would often have farmers seated around it, discussing community matters.</p><br>
<p>The Golden Hill Historic District encompasses a well-preserved formerly residential area on the northwest fringe of downtown Bridgeport, Connecticut. Located mainly on Lyon Terrace, Gold Hill Street, and Congress Street, the district includes 11 formerly residential buildings now mainly in commercial use, which were built between about 1890 and 1930. It also includes Bridgeport City Hall , and the Golden Hill United Methodist Church. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Golden Hill is a rise overlooking the commercial heart of downtown Bridgeport to its southeast. The historic district, an area of about 10 acre, is visually separated from the rest of downtown by parking lots to the east and southeast. The main cluster of buildings, a series of residential buildings, extend along the east side of Lyon Terrace and the south side of Congress Street, ending at Chapel Street. The northernmost buildings are a series of Queen Anne tenement houses built about 1890, while the southern group are a later disparate group of Colonial Revival houses built in the first two decades of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Occupying the entire west side of Lyon Terrace is Bridgeport&#39;s city hall, which was built in 1914-16 as a high school to a design by James Gamble Rogers, and was repurposed to its present use in the 1930s. Rogers was prominent in the region, but this is his only known work in Bridgeport. Rounding out the district are a few noncontributing commercial buildings on the south side of Golden Hill Road, two residences (c. 1850 Italianate and 1910 Colonial Revival), and the Methodist Church, an imposing Gothic Revival structure built in 1928-29 to a design by Southey, Allen, and Collens. Attached to the church is its Tudor Revival parish house.</p><br>
<p>The Golden Hill area was owned in the late 19th century by the Lyon family, which oversaw its eventual subdivision for development. It was developed somewhat speculatively as a residential area located conveniently close to the downtown area. The c. 1850 Thorp House on Golden Hill Road is a rare Italianate hip-roofed house to survive anywhere in Bridgeport&#39;s downtown.</p><br>
<p>The Solomon Tyler House is a historic house at 260-268 East Main Street in Branford, Connecticut. Built about 1770, it is one of the town&#39;s few surviving 18th-century residences, and good example of Georgian architecture. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Solomon Tyler House stands in eastern Branford, on East Main Street (United States Route 1) a short way east of Mill Plain Road. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, a large central chimney, smaller side chimney, and clapboard siding. The main facade has sash windows arranged symmetrically around the center entrance, with all elements simply trimmed. The gable ends have six windows each, indicative of later 18th-century construction, and the roof&#39;s gable ends have returns.</p><br>
<p>The house is estimated to have been built about 1770 by Solomon Tyler. It is one of Branford&#39;s small number of 18th-century houses, and a well-preserved example of houses of that period.</p><br>
<p>The Marksville Commercial Historic District is a 20 acre historic district in Marksville, Louisiana including a total of 48 contributing properties built between and 1933. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>It includes Beaux Arts and Federal architecture.</p><br>
<p>Selected properties are:</p><br>
<p>Avoyelles Parish Courthouse (1927), a four-story Classical Revival brick courthouse</p><br>
<p>Laborde Barber Shop. Possible Law office of John Botts who owned the block before the Civil War. Old Woodman or World Hall (c.1890), Foot thick locally made brick walled. one-story brick gable-fronted building with gable end returns Building torn down in 2023 to expand law office next door.</p><br>
<p>Wade Couvillion Law Office (c.1920), one-story frame, gable-fronted, galleried building. Burned 1980s.</p><br>
<p>Old Voinche Building (c.1850), a two-story brick commercial building, remodeled in c. 1890, with an Art Deco front added c.1940. Brick cornice from 1850 survives on side. Court was held on its second floor during construction of 1927 courthouse. Comparison of 1981 photo vs. 2016 photo above shows that two-story open gallery of Old Voinche Building (farthest to left in photo) has been restored after being lost in the mid 1900s).</p><br>
<p>Old Piazza Store (c. 1930), "one-story brick commercial building with raised parapeted front"</p><br>
<p>Old Wilson Building (c.1925), "one-story brick commercial building with raised parapeted front"</p><br>
<p>W.W. Voinche Building (c.1925), "one-story brick commercial with shaped gable parapet"</p><br>
<p>Deshautlelle Building (c.1925), "two-story brick commercial building with paneled brickwork in parapet"</p><br>
<p>The district is roughly bounded by Monroe St., Washington St., N. Ogden St., and Bontempt St. in Marksville.</p><br>
<p>The Bronson B. Tuttle House is a historic house at 380 Church Street in Naugatuck, Connecticut. Built in 1879 for a prominent local industrialist, it is a fine example of Queen Anne architecture in brick, and a well-preserved reminder of its 19th century industrial past. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The building now houses the local historical society.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bronson B. Tuttle House stands about one-quarter mile north of Naugatucks town center, in a prominent location at the junction of Meadow and Church Streets. The house is an irregular mass of red brick construction, with numerous projecting gables and porches. A porte-cochere projects from the northern facade, and a three-story tower rises at the southeast corner. The brickwork and wooden trim are of high quality workmanship. The interior continues the fine and elaborate finishes, which are found to a significant degree of preservation throughout the building. Across Meadow Street is the houses associated carriage barn, now occupied by the local senior center.</p><br>
<p>The house and barn were built in 1879–81 to a design by Waterbury architect Robert W. Hill. They were built for Bronson Tuttle, co-owner of a firm that manufactured cast iron parts and agricultural implements. The house remained in the Tuttle family until 1935, when it was given to the city. In the area where it now stands relatively isolated, there were once a series of high-style mansions, built by the town&#39;s industrial elites. It is the only one to survive.</p><br>
<p>George Taylor House is in Freehold Borough, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States on the corner of Broadway and Dutch Lane Road across from Freehold High School. The house was built in circa 1870 by George Taylor, the son of John G. Taylor and Cary Conover Taylor. John G. Taylor was of Scottish ancestry, while Cary Conover was of Dutch ancestry. John G. Taylor was the proprietor of Taylors Mills , a successful family business that George continued to run in his father&#39;s footsteps. The grist mill was successful during the mid-late 19th century, as new markets were opening up with the advent of extensive railroad networks.</p><br>
<p>Well prior to the Taylors building this house in the 1800s, the property in which the house occupied had been established as early as the 1680s, when English, Dutch, and Scottish settlers began to inhabit the region.</p><br>
<p>By the Revolutionary period, the property where the house would eventually occupy had experienced some heavy action during the American Revolutionary War. It was on William Wyckoff&#39;s holding of the property, which was where he had established a farmstead in the location where the George Taylor House would eventually be constructed, was where the first shots were fired in the much larger Battle of Monmouth. While much of the action took place where Monmouth Battlefield currently is, the area where the house occupied was where the British had placed batteries (near the greater "Briar Hill" region).</p><br>
<p>George Taylor purchased the property from his father in 1865, a 48 1/2 parcel of land by that point. The house was built in the second-empire architecture of its day. With the home having three stories, the building structure allows for the exterior of the house to have a three-bay facade with flanking bay windows, a slightly distorted symmetrical layout in the rear, French style doors on the side of the house (including by the porch), full cellar and brick foundational walls, extensive brickwork, and other exquisite features from that era that has allowed the home to standout in the community. However, during the mid 20th century the home began to be neglected, due to rapid suburban development in the surrounding area and simultaneous urban decay (in large part due to the A & M Karagheusian rug mills closure in the 1960s). However, in the 1980s homeowners Gary and Deborah Duerksen began to restore the home to its pristine appearance from the time period it originated. As of now, while the home continues to be privately owned, it now offers a great glimpse into the boroughs Gilded Age past.</p><br>
<p>The Darwin Ranch in Teton County, Wyoming near Cora, Wyoming is a guest ranch which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>It is a remote inholding within Bridger-Teton National Forest and provides easy access to forest lands and to the Gros Ventre Wilderness.</p><br>
<p>It has rental log cabins which, in 2021, command rental rates around $6,000/week.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was home of Fred Dorwin, a trader and fur trapper, and came to be called Darwin Ranch following appearance of it as that, by a typo, on a map.</p><br>
<p>It was managed for more than 50 years by Loring Woodman, after his parents purchased the ranch in 1964.</p><br>
<p>The property includes 15 log buildings and 9 structures.</p><br>
<p>The property was deemed significant "for its representation of historic events related to Commerce and Settlement. As a homestead property, the ranch is an excellent example of early settlement in the American West. Early ranch residents supplemented their income in order to maintain the place with trapping in the surrounding mountains; an important form of early white settlement. The Darwin Ranch has more recently been sustained, though, as a guest or “dude” ranch, also an important commerce example. Guest ranches have long been a popular form of recreation. In the case of the Darwin Ranch, recreation is also extended to the use of the property by wealthy families for private seasonal enjoyment. Both uses of the ranch, as a commercial guest ranch and for private use, are important examples of how the commercial landscape of Teton County and other scenic areas in Wyoming developed to modern day."</p><br>
<p>It was also deemed significant for "its excellent example of Western Craftsman Architecture. The buildings and structures, both historic and more modern, maintain a high level of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association for this unique western architecture. The combined western architecture with the traditional use of commerce from the settlement homestead era, create an excellent example of a significant historic property."</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Darwin Ranch has a subarctic climate, abbreviated "Dfc" on climate maps. The hottest temperature recorded in was 87 &deg;F on July 12, 2002, while the coldest temperature recorded was -53 &deg;F on December 30, 1978 and January 1, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Richard Pousette-Dart House and Studio is a historic property located northeast of Suffern in Rockland County, New York. In 2019, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The propertys buildings were built as the carriage house and staff quarters of Valley Head Farm, a country estate developed by Henry Potter McKenny, a New York City textile merchant. The structures interior was originally used in part for motor vehicle storage. After McKenny&#39;s death in 1940, the estate was subdivided into smaller estates and sold.</p><br>
<p>In December 1958, the Pousette-Darts purchased a parcel with the carriage house and gardener&#39;s cottage situated on a roughly two-acre lot to serve as a family home and art studio. Pousette-Dart was a first-generation abstract-expressionist artist, who also taught at the Art Students League of New York, The New School for Social Research, and Bard College, among other institutions.</p><br>
<p>The studio survives largely as Pousette-Dart maintained it, with works of art, art supplies and objects of interest to him that remain from his occupancy.</p><br>
<h2>Building and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The Pousette-Dart property is located on 932 Haverstraw Road (USA Route 202) and includes two original buildings: a 1.5-story residence with a footprint of roughly 68 by 38 feet and a stone gardeners cottage with an attached greenhouse at the rear of the house. The buildings sit on an L-shaped, 2.14-acre parcel along the east bank of the Mahwah River, a tributary of the Ramapo River that traverses the property. The parcel is bounded on the west by woods and the Ramapo Mountains. The somewhat secluded, natural environment has been cited as an inspiration to Pousette-Darts art; the titles of several paintings reference the area, including Presence, Ramapo Mist (1969, Whitney Museum of American Art) and Presence, Ramapo Horizon (1975, Metropolitan Museum of Art).</p><br>
<p>The house is a load-bearing masonry and concrete construction with wood and metal internal framing. It possesses a rustic stone envelope and chimney created with irregular courses of undressed field stone, a pitched end-gable roof, Palladian and arched windows, and projecting eaves—stylistic elements that draw on the late 19th and early 20th-century American Craftsman and Arts & Crafts movements and Neoclassical styles. Pousette-Dart added three skylights to the original structure to provide natural light for the 1,465 square-foot, second-floor studio.</p><br>
<p>The building now serves as the home of The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation.</p><br>
