<p>The Henry K. and Mary E. Shaffer House in Loveland, Colorado, United States, is an English-Norman cottage which was built in 1928–1929. It was designated a City of Loveland Historic Landmark in 2006</p><br>
<p>and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>It is deemed "an excellent example of the English-Norman style, a modest simplified version of the Tudor Revival style. Elements of this style found on the house include a steeply pitched roof, brick walls, multi-pane casement windows, prominent exterior chimney, and the "catslide gable" on the façade with an arched entry."</p><br>
<p>It was home of Henry K. and Mary E. Shaffer, who were both born in Kansas and married in Kansas in 1911. It was built by Henry K. Shaffer, a building contractor. It was designed by Mary E. Shaffer. Their daughter, Ruth (Shaffer) McEwen related that Mary had designed the house "likely relying on plans adapted from architectural digests and popular magazines. To save money, and to give the house distinction, Mary sought out clinker bricks from a Loveland brickyard, collecting an assortment of odd-sized and different colored bricks that were used in the home&#39;s construction. As a result, it features a unique appearance, with bricks of various hues, sizes and patterns laid at odd angles, and occasionally projecting, offsetting the primary brick courses which are laid in running bond."</p><br>
<p>More details recalled by Ruth McEwen included: "A Mr. Grubb was responsible for the excavation work, while her father laid the unusual brick walls. A person named Jimmy Dotts built the fireplace while the Riney Brothers did the interior plastering. Ruth also recalled that her father put up the wood lath for the plaster, and that she and her brother and sister helped plaster the closets."</p><br>
<p>The Behrman Ranch, near Buena Vista, Colorado, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>It has seven contributing resources, including an original log home built during 1919-20 and a bunkhouse built around 1920.</p><br>
<p>The original house is a one-story 66x53 ft building, on a masonry foundation, built of square-cut pine logs, and is covered in part by wood shingles and cobblestones. It was expanded in 1942 and 1964 with round pine log additions, with chinking, built upon concrete foundations.</p><br>
<p>The property includes the site of a c.1882 bridge and the remains of a stagecoach road which ran across it. It includes three contributing structures: an irrigation lateral ditch, a cobblestone-lined pit used in preparing and rendering hogs after butchering, and a cobblestone wall.</p><br>
<p>According to History Colorado, the property is significant:for its association with the Behrman family and the part the played in developing a productive farming property in the Upper Arkansas River Valley. / The Behrman family are a part of a long agricultural tradition that is indicative of the agricultural heritage of the region. The importance of water, irrigation systems, machinery, livestock, and cooperation with neighbors is apparent when studying the Behrman Ranch.</p><br>
<p>It is located on USA Route 24 and on the Arkansas River, about 3 mi north of Buena Vista.</p><br>
<p>Parkwyn Village is a planned community of Usonian houses located along Winchell and Lorraine Avenues and Parkwyn and Taliesin Drives, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the early 1940s, a group of employees from the Upjohn Company began to meet and plan for a new cooperative community in Kalamazoo. They were looking for a design that was inexpensive yet practical, and a community where decisions were made equally.</p><br>
<p>The group began to search for land and interview architects. After interviewing architects they asked for their opinion as to what architect would be the best for the job, and they all said Frank Lloyd Wright, but that he would never agree to work with them.</p><br>
<p>The group contacted Wright between 1946 and 1947 requesting his involvement in their community. By phone the group explained their ideas and were invited to Taliesin to explain their ideas more thoroughly. Part of the group went to present their ideas. Even though it was a small task during this period of his career, Wright accepted the job.</p><br>
<p>After Wright agreed to work with them, they began recruiting other families to become part of their community. Potential families had to attend a Parkwyn Association meeting before they could buy land within the community. The association was not allowed to discriminate against race, religion, or color.</p><br>
<p>By November 1948 there were 26 families.</p><br>
<p>The group then found 72 acre of land in Galesburg, 10 mi away from Kalamazoo. Some wanted to live there, but others wanted to live closer to town. Soon the group split into two, those who wanted to live closer to the city, and those who wanted to live in Galesburg, often called "The Acres" or "Galesburg Country Homes". The families wanting to live closer to town found 47 acre and called their community "Parkwyn Village". Although the two groups were not living in the same location, they worked together to promote both communities.</p><br>
<p>During 1947 both plats were designed, and sent to the Federal Housing Administration for approval. Wright planned circular lots for Parkwyn Village so there would be shared space between each house, but later changed them to rectangles after having the lots denied by the FHA for financing. Even though technically the area between each house was not shared, the owners planted trees and flowers between the properties to honor the original plans.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The plan included space for community owned property. That area included an outdoor grill, picnic tables, swings, teeter-totters, tennis courts, an ice-skating rink, a baseball diamond, swimming pool, and a community center. Some of these amenities were forgotten and never completed.</p><br>
<p>Wright also planned for a circular road pattern to build a stronger sense of community, and underground utilities so there would be no curbs, gutters, sewers, or above ground telephone wires.</p><br>
<p>The Goodnight House, at 201 S. Main St. in Franklin, Kentucky, was built in 1893. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The home is located on the southeast corner of S. Main St. and E. Madison St. The next building to the south is the Goodnight Memorial Library. Across E. Madison St. begins the National Register-listed Franklin Downtown Commercial District.</p><br>
<p>The Goodnight House is used by the Franklin Simpson Chamber of Commerce. In December 2017 the chamber held a Christmas Open House event at the house.</p><br>
<p>The Browne-Masonic Building is a historic commercial and fraternal organization building at 126-150 Pleasant Street in Malden, Massachusetts. Built in 1894, it is a good example of Classical Revival architecture, designed by the prominent Boston firm Hartwell & Richardson. The building from its inception served as a home for a variety of fraternal organizations, notably housing local Masonic organization for much of the 20th century. The four-story brick building now houses commercial space on the ground floor and residences in the upper stories. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Browne-Masonic Building is located in downtown Malden, on the south side of Pleasant Street west of Main Street. It occupies the eastern half of a block bounded by Pleasant, Abbott, and Exchange Streets, and Washington Street South, with its main facade facing north. It is four stories in height, its exterior clad primarily in pale yellow brick. The facade is embellished with terra cotta panels and patterned brick detailing. The ground floor has modern commercial storefronts, while the upper floors have window bays with rounded arches at the second and fourth floors.</p><br>
<p>The block was built in 1894 on land owned by Addie and Edward Browne, a former estate property Addie inherited from her father. It was apparently built to serve both commercial businesses, and as a home for some of Malden&#39;s many fraternal organizations. Each of its upper floors house a large meeting space, and these were rented in the early years by chapters of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Masonic organizations began renting spaces in the building as early as 1900, and were its principal upper-floor tenants by the late 1920s. The building went through a number of owners before its acquisition by a Masonic umbrella group in 1961. The Masons owner the building until 2013, after which it was rehabilitated and adapted to its present commercial and residential uses.</p><br>
<p>The Spies–Robinson House is a historic residence in Portland, Oregon, United States. Built in 1922, it is an exceptional example of a Prairie School house in Northeast Portland. Its use of a brick veneer, while common nationally, is nearly unique in the Northeast quadrant, where stucco walls predominate in Prairie School designs. Additionally, two colors of brick are used to provide detail and accent in the design. The house is also notable for its occupancy starting in 1930 by David Robinson , a locally prominent attorney and civil rights advocate. Robinson is especially associated with public defender services and legal aid, and was a leader in the Portland chapter of the Anti-Defamation League.</p><br>
<p>The house was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The AXA Building, at 205 S. 5th St. in Leavenworth, Kansas, was built in 1905. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>It is an ornate and two-and-a-half story red brick commercial building, with a 125 ft facade along Fifth Street.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Leavenworth architect William B. Feth and built by contractor R. B. Yoakum. Known originally as the Eppenscheid Building. it was built for Charles Espenscheid, a St. Louis investor.</p><br>
<p>It is Late Victorian in style.</p><br>
<p>According to a guide to Kansas architecture, the building "stands out among its neighbors because of the inventiveness of its highly articulated Neo-classical ornament, particularly along the cornice, at its second-story bay windows, and around the lobby entry."</p><br>
<p>The Altamaha Apartments, at 1490 Lafayette St. in the Cheesman Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, was built in 1902. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. It was designed by architect George L. Bettcher in Italian Renaissance Revival style.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant as representing "Denver&#39;s early twentieth century adoption of a new form of residential housing-the luxury apartment building. The Altamaha Apartments are also significant under Criterion C, as they embody the distinctive characteristics of the Italian Renaissance Revival style as applied to an apartment building.</p><br>
<p>It has also been known as Alta Court, and in 2020 a sign indicates Alta Court Offices.</p><br>
<p>The listing includes two contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The First National Bank of Douglas County, at 300 Wilcox St. in Castle Rock, Colorado, in Douglas County, Colorado, was built in 1904. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect George Louis Bettcher. It was deemedsignificant for its architecture. It is an excellent intact example of the Late Victorian design with many elements of Romanesque Revival style.... The two-part corner commercial building is faced with rock-faced rhyolite stone that was quarried outside of Castle Rock. This building was the second home for the bank and represents economic shifts occurring in the community as the bank sought a more permanent home during a time of community growth and as the bank shifted from out of state "back East" investors to local ownership.</p><br>
<p>It has also been known as the Masonic Building. Its second floor was originally used as a meeting hall for local fraternal organizations. The building was vacant for three years starting in 1933, then purchased by the local Masons.</p><br>
<p>It is the only architect-designed Romanesque Revival building in Castle Rock.</p><br>
<p>The Fred A., May, and Anne Shogren House is a historic residence in Portland, Oregon, United States. For nearly 30 years, sisters May  and Anne  Shogren were the premier dressmakers and arbiters of womens fashion to the wealthy elite in Portland. They were also successful businesswomen, employing 50 to 100 seamstresses and producing enough surplus to invest in real estate. The sisters lived in this Craftsman house, originally built for their brother Fred, from 1912, through retirement in 1918, and until their deaths. While their shop in downtown Portland is no longer extant, this house serves as the most important remaining site related to their prominent careers. One of their investment properties, still exists and is managed by Anne and Mays great nephew Andy Munson. The Oregon Historical Society holds their business records and several of their dresses, gowns, and riding habits in its collections.</p><br>
<p>The house was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Woodstock, in Todd County, Kentucky near Trenton, Kentucky was the center of a 3,000 acre farm which extended across the state line into Montgomery County, Tennessee. Its main house was built in 1896. That and a second contributing building, a smokehouse, on 7.4 acre of land all in Todd County, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The house was deemed significant for associations with three women: it was a home of the famous author Dorothy Dix (actually Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (1861–1951)) and is also associated with "two other interesting and important female members of the Meriwether family, Caroline Ferguson Gordon (1895–1981), and Caroline Meriwether Goodlett (1833–1914), who also gained national reputations in their respective fields."</p><br>
<p>Dorothy Dix wrote of it:How can one describe the place in which one was born any more than one could paint for a stranger the portrait of one’s own mother? So much of childish impressions, when home was grander than any storied castle, goes into the picture, so much of love and loyalty, so many tender recollections, that it all becomes blurred in a golden haze of memory in which it is impossible to distinguish between reality and fancy. / So is Woodstock to me. The old home. The house that my grandfather built. In which my father was born and in which his gay and debonair young manhood was spent, and where my own baby feet, with those of many other little grandchildren, pattered across the floor. But before I try to tell you of it I must first sketch in a bit of background....</p><br>
<p>"Woodstock" was the name used for the farm from 1821 on. It stayed in the Meriwether family until 1918.</p><br>
<p>The main house has 7,400 ft&sup2; of floor area.</p><br>
<p>It is located about 6 mi southwest of Trenton, and is just a few hundred yards north of the state line of Kentucky.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1809, Dr. Charles Meriwether of Albemarle County, Virginia bought 13,000 acres of farmland in Montgomery County, Tennessee and Todd County, Kentucky at a price of $1 per acre. The doctor bequeathed a portion of the land to each of his three sons.</p><br>
<p>His son Charles Nicholas Minor Meriwether inherited a portion of his father&#39;s land and built a mansion house on the land in 1830, which became Woodstock.</p><br>
<p>The Seufert House, also known as the Mautz–Seufert House, is a historic residence in Portland, Oregon, United States. From 1914 to 1929, it was the Portland home of fishing and canning businessman Francis A. Seufert , who was an innovative leader in the upper Columbia River salmon industry at The Dalles. He pioneered use of the fish wheel to harvest fish, as well as the shipment of fresh, iced salmon to eastern markets. The house, built in 1913 in the Colonial Revival style, was the product of the Mautz Building and Investment Company, which built over fifty homes in the exclusive Irvington neighborhood. It was briefly occupied by Edmund J. Mautz prior to its sale to Francis Seufert.</p><br>
<p>The house was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Diamond Spring is a natural spring in western Morris County, Kansas, which served as a stopping point on the Santa Fe Trail. A hunter named Old Ben Jones found the spring during the USA government&#39;s survey of the trail route in 1825. The survey commissioners named the site "The Diamond of the Plain" after a similarly named oasis in the Arabian Desert, though the name was typically shortened to Diamond Spring by travelers. In addition to water, the site had plentiful grass and shade trees, making it a popular campground; all recorded trail guides from the era included the spring, and it was frequently described in journals kept by travelers on the trail. A stagecoach station and a store, both of which are no longer standing, were built at the site later in the nineteenth century. An irrigation system linking the spring to a nearby ranch still remains at the site, though it is no longer usable.</p><br>
<p>The spring was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 30, 1976.</p><br>
<p>Six Mile Creek Stage Station Historic District is the site of a stagecoach station and ranch on the Santa Fe Trail in western Morris County, Kansas. The site is located near the trail&#39;s crossing of Six Mile Creek, which was named for its location 6 mi west of Diamond Spring. After the stagecoach station at Diamond Spring was destroyed, a new station was built at Six Mile Creek in 1863. The station lasted until later in the 1860s, when new railroad construction made the stage line obsolete. Charley Owens began a ranch at the site in 1866, and while his ranch only lasted two years, the site was sporadically used for ranching and farming into the twentieth century. In addition to the ruined stage station, the site includes the remnants of a barn, blacksmith shop, corral, and well, along with several ruts from the trail.</p><br>
<p>The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 11, 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Erath County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Stephenville, Texas. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first courthouse in Erath County was built in 1856. It was wooden and burned down in 1866. A second courthouse made of stone was built in 1887 was demolished in 1891 to make room for the third and current courthouse.</p><br>
<p>The third and current courthouse was designed by James Riely Gordon in a Richardsonian Romanesque style. Construction started on December 3, 1891 and the courthouse was finished on October 20, 1892.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was remodelled in 1950.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The building was restored in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse was constructed with local white limestone and red Pecos sandstone.</p><br>
<p>Newton County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Newton, Texas. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first courthouse in Newton County was constructed in Burkeville in 1848, two years after the establishment of Newton County. It was a two-story wooden frame structure and was abandoned when the county seat moved to Newton in 1853. It was demolished in the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>The third and current courthouse was built in 1902, replacing one constructed in 1853, also in Newton. It was designed and built by William Martin and Peter Moodie in the Second Empire style.</p><br>
<p>In 1912 and 1925 the interior was remodelled to provide more functional spaces. A new two-story jail was added as an annex to the courthouse in 1937.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>A fire attributed to faulty wiring in the attic near the bell tower took place on the evening of August 4, 2000. It burned through the roofs and compromised the structural integrity of the attic&#39;s wooden frame. Much of the interior was destroyed and many county documents and records were lost.</p><br>
<p>After the fire, the courthouse was restored and was rededicated in 2012.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse has three stories with walls of hand-made brick, a four faced clock and bell tower, and a stucco finish.</p><br>
<p>The Guthrie Historic District in Guthrie, Kentucky was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. It is a 12.3 acre area deemed significant "for its connection with the L&N railroad and its associations with transportation in that area.</p><br>
<p>Guthrie was founded as a city in 1879, and railroad service was important to the city. Commercial service continues, but passenger railroad service ended in 1957.</p><br>
<p>Buildings in the district include:</p><br>
<p>Stone House (1898), 106 N. Ewing, a castle-like mansion</p><br>
<p>Rose House (1820), 112 E. Park, adjacent to Stone House, another large house</p><br>
<p>Robert Penn Warren Museum, a home of author Robert Penn Warren</p><br>
<p>Three buildings which, in 2011, were planned to become a railroad museum. In 2022, a railroad museum including a caboose is open by appointment.</p><br>
<p>Abshire Building (1896), 238 S. Ewing St., a brick building which was once three stories tall, and was a salon and gambling establishment. After a fire destroyed its upper floors in 1899 and Guthrie voting itself "dry", it was renovated into a one-story building. Its original concrete nameplate of the building, at the top of third floor, was reinstalled above its one story.</p><br>
<p>Van Zandt County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Canton, Texas. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There have been six courthouses serving Van Zandt County. The first courthouse, in Jordan&#39;s Saline, was constructed in 1848 in a Greek Revival style. The second courthouse, constructed in 1850, was a log cabin in Canton. The third courthouse was a brick structure built in 1859, also in Canton. The fourth courthouse was a two-story structure built in 1873 in Canton. The fifth courthouse was a brick building constructed in a Richardsonian Romanesque style in 1896 in Canton. It was razed to make room for a new courthouse in 1925.</p><br>
<p>The sixth and current Van Zandt County Courthouse was built from 1936 to 1937 using special county funds and a grant from the federal Public Works Administration. The building was designed by Voelcker & Dixon in an Art Deco style.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<p>The Alfred C. and Nettie Ruby House is a historic residence in Portland, Oregon, United States. Built in 1926–1927, it is an exceptional example of the Tudor Revival style as interpreted by architect Walter E. Kelly. It exhibits classic Tudor hallmarks, such as decorative half-timbering, as well as features less commonly associated with the style, such as rolled eaves to simulate a thatched roof.</p><br>
<p>The house was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Elmer R. Webster School is a former school building located at 640 West Huron Street in Pontiac, Michigan. The school building is being redeveloped into the Webster Community Center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1910s, the population of Pontiac expanded from the core of the city outward, requiring the construction of neighborhood elementary schools to service the influx of population. Seminole Hills, on the west side of the city, was developed in 1916, and the school district acquired land in the area to construct this school. The district hired the Chicago architectural firm of Perkins, Fellows and Hamilton, who had designed two previous schools in Pontiac, to design the new school. Work began in 1920, and the school was opened in 1921. An addition, also designed by Perkins, Fellows and Hamilton, was constructed the next year.</p><br>
<p>Originally, an all-white school, Webster was integrated in the early 1970s. However, as Pontiac&#39;s population decreased, schools began closing, and Webster was shuttered in 2007. Micah 6 Community, a local non-profit, purchased the school in 2016, with plans to rehabilitate it into a community center. As of 2021, the building remained vacant, but Micah 6 Community plans to open the Webster Community Center in Spring 2023.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Elmer R. Webster School is a symmetrical U-shaped building with the main building located in the front, and two wings surrounding an exterior courtyard extending to the rear. The building is constructed of tan-orange brick, and is primarily a single story, save for a small second floor area at the front of the building. The exterior is low and horizontal, expressing a Prairie School architecture. The exterior contains cast stone ornamentation, representative of a Classical Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The Adam Pence House in Lincoln County, Kentucky near Stanford, Kentucky, was built in 1851. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Although apparently still NRHP-listed, it has apparently been demolished.</p><br>
<p>It was a red brick I-house with a rear ell, fronted by four two-story white pillars. In 1978 it was deemed "architecturally significant as being one of the grand Greek Revival rural residences of Lincoln County to survive in a relatively unaltered state."</p><br>
<p>It was built for Adam Pence in 1851 with bricks made ("burned") on its property, and with lumber transported from Somerset, Kentucky. Adam Pence fought in the War of 1812 and the house was built on land given to him for his service in that war.</p><br>
<p>An 1898 photo of the home, labelled as the "Matheny-Pence House on Old Somerset Road", appears in a Lincoln County history compiled by the local historical society. Labelled as "Yankees" in the photo are husband and wife Adam Richard Matheny and Franciska Hornath Matheny.</p><br>
<p>Its location is about 5 mi south of Stanford on Kentucky Route 1247.</p><br>
<p>By 2022, the house appears to have been demolished. An undated Bing Maps aerial view shows the house, recognizable by its outline compared to sketch map in the NRHP document, labelled as 5310 Kentucky Highway 1247, at 37.469516&deg; latitude, -84.632603&deg; longitude. This is close to the coordinates (37&deg;28&prime;06&Prime;N latitude, 84&deg;38&prime;01&Prime;W longitude) provided with NRIS 2013 data, within usual variance of such vs. modern GPS mapping. However a Google Maps satellite view, presumably later, shows ruins at that site.</p><br>
<p>Kate and Charles Noel Vance House is a mansion located in Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house sits high on a hill on the east side of Black Mountain, at 178 Sunset Drive, about one mile from the center of downtown. The two-and-a-half-story Queen Anne frame house, designed by Asheville-based architect Arthur Melton, was built around 1894. The building faces west and overlooks the central business district and Interstate. The building is about a mile from downtown Black Mountain.</p><br>
<p>Charles Noel Vance, son of North Carolina Senator Zebulon Baird Vance and his wife Kate, owned the property. During his father&#39;s time in the United States Senate, Vance served him as his secretary.</p><br>
<p>Middle Haddam School is a historic school building at 12 Schoolhouse Lane in East Hampton, Connecticut. Built in 1930 in the Colonial Revival architectural style, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Build at a cost of $30,000 and designed by architects S. Wesley Haynes and Harold E. Mason, the two-story red brick building served as a primary school and community center from 1930 until the summer of 1980, when the East Hampton school board voted to close the school permanently due to declining enrollment. By 1979, only kindergartners were being taught there.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the town board of selectmen sold the school and surrounding 2-acre parcel to a developer who planned to convert the property into 12 condominium units. The plan faced fierce opposition from residents of the village of Middle Haddam, and two years later, a judge barred the construction of condos because it would violate Middle Haddam&#39;s strict residential zoning laws. The schoolhouse was left vacant until another developer purchased it in 2005 to build senior housing on the property. Local opponents of development formed the Middle Haddam Association and raised $150,000 to purchase the property instead.</p><br>
<p>In 2017, the Middle Haddam Association asked town officials to invest up to $5 million to renovate the schoolhouse for use as a municipal facility. Without government intervention, residents warned, the building might have to be demolished.</p><br>
<p>Aetna Diner, also known as Comet Diner, Hog River Grille, and Dishes, is a historic diner located at 267 Farmington Avenue in the Asylum Hill neighborhood of Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1947 by Paramount Diners and assembled in 1948, the diner was prefabricated from stainless steel. Aetna Diner was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Manufactured by Paramount Dining Car Company in Haledon, New Jersey, the prefabricated diner car was transported by truck to Hartford in three sections, placed on a concrete basement foundation on the corner of Farmington Avenue and Laurel Street, and bolted together. Original owners Gus and Helen Vlecides ran the Aetna Diner for four decades. Built in the "streamliner" deluxe style and more than 32 feet wide with 32 booths in three rows and a back bar with 25-stool counter, the diner became known for hosting dinners and dances. Eddie Fisher, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Telly Savalas ate there, and the owners catered events for Governor Ella Grasso.</p><br>
<p>Starting in 1984, the diner went through a series of renter and name changes. It had an eight-year run as the Comet followed by eight years as the Oasis and short-lived eras as the Hog River Grille, Mississippi Bar and Grille, and Dishes Restaurant through the early 2000s. The diner has remained vacant since Dishes closed. The building and parking lot are privately owned.</p><br>
<p>The Salerno Apartments are a historic apartment building in Portland, Oregon, United States. Built in 1929–1930 in the Mediterranean Revival style, its courtyard evokes "a quiet street in an old Mediterranean town". Architect Carl L. Linde experimented with garden court-type apartments in the nearby 1929 Sorrento Apartments, and perfected the form in the Salerno building.</p><br>
<p>The building was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Otis Center Historic District is a historic district encompassing the historic village of Otis Center in the Berkshire hill town of Otis, Massachusetts. The village began as a crossroads settlement in the 18th century, and has served as the town&#39;s civic center since its incorporation. It features a diversity of architectural styles from the late 18th century to the early 20th. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Otis Center is located near the towns geographic center, at the junction of Main Road and East Otis Road, portions of both forming part of Massachusetts Route 23, a major east–west road through the region, and Massachusetts Route 8, a north–south artery. The village consists of a cluster of civic, religious, commercial, and residential buildings roughly bounded on the east by the West Branch Farmington River. St. Pauls Church, a fine Gothic Revival building, anchors the northern end of the district, with its oldest feature, the c. 1777 cemetery, just to its southwest across Monterey Road. other prominent buildings include the 1814 Otis Congregational Church, a fine example of Federal period church architecture, and the 1949 Colonial Revival library and museum.</p><br>
<p>The area that became Otis was laid out in a series of colonial land grants in the first half of the 18th century. The crossroad village at its center was first known as Bethlehem, and was combined with the neighboring town of Louden to form the town of Otis (named for politician Harrison Gray Otis) in 1810. The village&#39;s central location and location along a major east–west roadway across the Berkshires ensured its prosperity as a modest farming community. Its early growth was also helped by industry powered by the waters of the West Branch Farmington River. In the mid-19th century the community began to see modest declines, as farmers left the region for better lands out west, and it failed to secure a railroad connection for its industries.</p><br>
<p>The New Boston Village Historic District is a historic district encompassing the heart of the oldest village in Sandisfield, Massachusetts. It includes properties on Massachusetts Route 57, New Marlborough, Monterey and Southfield Roads. It was the town&#39;s civic heart through the late 19th century, and retains character from that period. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>New Boston is a rural village in central eastern Sandisfield, not far from the town line with Tolland. The center of the village is essentially a crossroads bisected by the north–south flow of the West Branch Farmington River, with Massachusetts Route 57 running east–west, and Massachusetts Route 8 running north–south, crossing a bridge with Route 57 at the village center. The main intersection is dominated by the New Boston Inn, located on the northwest corner. With its oldest part dating to the 1750s, it is one of the towns oldest surviving buildings, and has served as a public accommodation for much of the towns history. Also present in the village are a variety of residential and formerly commercial properties dating to the first half of the 19th century, representing the height of its economic prosperity.</p><br>
<p>The area that is now Sandisfield was acquired by colonial proprietors in the 1730s, with settlement not beginning until the 1750s, when the Brown family arrived in what is now New Boston village. Although it did not become the town center (owing to its geographic placement in its far east), the village flourished as a crossroads on a major east–west route across the Berkshires, as well as a location of water-powered light industry. Both agriculture and industry declined in the second half of the 19th century after the town was bypassed by railroad development.</p><br>
<p>The Faith Cabin Library at Seneca Junior College is a Faith Cabin Library built to serve the African American community in Seneca, South Carolina. It was built on the campus of the Seneca Junior College. The log cabin library building was named to the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 2012.</p><br>
<h2>Faith Cabin Libraries</h2><br>
<p>In the early 20th century, library access in rural South Carolina was limited. Due to racial segregation, there was essentially no access for African Americans except in Charleston and Columbia. The program of Faith Cabin Libraries for African Americans was conceived by a white mill worker, Willie Lee Buffington, and his African American, childhood friend, Euriah Simpkins, who was a teacher. Books were solicited for the community by writing preachers and requesting donations. A large gift of about 1,000 books was given by a Methodist church in New York. With so many books, the first library in Saluda, South Carolina was built by African Americans. It was named the Faith Cabin Library, because one woman said "We didn&#39;t have money, all we had was faith."</p><br>
<p>Buffington finished high school and graduated from Furman University. Then he taught at the HBCUs Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina and Paine College in Augusta, Georgia. He expanded the Faith Cabin Library program to Georgia. About thirty libraries were built in South Carolina and about seventy in Georgia.</p><br>
<h2>Faith Cabin Library at Seneca Junior College</h2><br>
<p>The log cabin library was built in 1937 adjacent to the Seneca Junior College. It is located at 298 South Poplar Street in Seneca. In the Faith Cabin Library system, it was named the Oberlin Unit in honor of the books donated by students of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. The library was only open for two years due to the closure of Seneca Junior College because of the Great Depression and the construction of new high school for African Americans in Seneca.</p><br>
<p>The main part of the T-shaped log cabin sits on a stone foundation. The rear wing rests on concrete piers. The building has a gabled roof with a V-crimped metal roof. There are double-hung sash windows on each side of the front door and the stone chimney on the left side, two similar windows on the right side and one on the rear wing. The gables are covered with horizontal wooden planks and have a window.</p><br>
<p>The other buildings of the Seneca Junior College no longer exist. Currently, the Seneca Institute Family Life Center has a brick and metal building, which was built in 1978. It is not included in the NRHP nomination.</p><br>
<p>The Rock Corral on the Barlow Road is a glacial erratic, on Oregon&#39;s Barlow Road, itself a new route on the Oregon Trail.</p><br>
<h2>Its location</h2><br>
<p>It is on the way to Marmot, where the Barlow Road then goes southwest cross the Devil&#39;s Backbone and back across the Sandy River.</p><br>
<p>It is in Clackamas County, and was at the end of the Oregon Trail&#39;s most difficult, most dangerous passage over the Cascade Mountains. The Barlow Tollgate was once there.</p><br>
<p>St. Francis deSales Church is a historic Catholic church in Geneva, New York. A historic district of the church and three associated buildings, designated St. Francis de Sales Parish Complex, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The parish was established in 1832. The current church was completed in 1864. The expansion of the complex over the following 10 years reflects the rapid growth of the city&#39;s Catholic population.</p><br>
<p>Since 2007, the church has been part of merged larger parish, the Our Lady of Peace parish, with two churches, the St. Francis de Sales and the St. Stephen Church at 48 Pulteney Street in Geneva.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The listing includes 94, 110, 130 & 140 Exchange St. in Geneva. These are the church, a rectory/church office, a former school, and a convent/office building.</p><br>
<p>According to its National Register nomination, thechurch is a large Gothic Revival building with some Romanesque details (rounded corbeling and rounded windows) and a large four stage steeple with a tall spire at the southeast end. The rectory is a two and one-half story brick Second Empire building built ca. 1868 with a mansard roof that was expanded in 1890. The school was also expanded; it was originally built in 1874 in the Italianate style and significantly enlarged in 1909, retaining the same detailing but removing a central bell tower. The convent to the school&#39;s north is a two and one-half story brick building built in 1874. It retains some Italianate features, but in 1910, a new roof, decorative features, entrance and a substantial rear expansion gave it the form and feeling of a Colonial Revival style building.</p><br>
<p>The First Christian Church in Clinton, Kentucky, at 201 N. Washington St., was established at that site in 1876. Its original building was destroyed in a fire in 1896, and the current building was built in 1899. The current building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<p>It is Romanesque Revival in style; its architect is unknown. It has several stained glass windows on its principal facades facing east and south; the central bay on each of those facades features a two-story tripartite stained glass window. The church was expanded to the northeast to add a fellowship hall including a full kitchen in 1966.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant primarily for its Romanesque Revival architecture, as the only example of that relatively sophisticated style in Hickman County: "For a church group intent on announcing the solidity, wealth, and social prestige of their congregation, the Romanesque Revival design provided those messages."</p><br>
<p>Art historian Daniel Keith Patterson, who visited the church and was given a guided tour, noted in 2015 its "impressive and unique exposed wood beam vaulted ceiling", which he compared to that of the central, octagonal tower of the medieval, cruciform cathedral at Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. He also noted that the stained glass includes portrayal of patrons of the church, as do many medieval and Renaissance era works, in this case a J.W. Higbee and a J.M. Samuels. These persons were associated with the Travelers Protective Association of America, a fraternal organization, in two of the three primary stained glass groupings; the letters T P A appear, repeatedly, in the third.</p><br>
<p>The building was still a church in 2015; it then passed into private ownership and was available for use as a wedding venue.</p><br>
<p>Ben Moran House, is a historical residence in Mason County, Kentucky, which was built in 1818. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987,</p><br>
<p>It is located on the north-east corner of the intersection of Kentucky Route 8 and 10, about 0.5 mi west of Moranburg, a hamlet, in Mason County, named for the Moran family.</p><br>
<p>It is a one and a half storey three-bay dry-stone house about 32x18 ft in plan, and is primarily Federal in style. It was in "good" condition in 1984. Its roof was replaced by a higher one in the 1880s either to make more space or to follow the then-current Gothic Revival fashion. The house had a rear ell which was damaged in a 1981 fire and was removed or replaced.</p><br>
<p>It was asserted to be "unique for its very primitive off-center fenestration reflecting the plan. It is not as sophisticated as the similarly sized Streube House (BK-23) in neighboring Bracken County. This one and the McGee House (ME-178 N.R.) in Mercer County are the most non-symmetrical of the early stone houses in Kentucky. This house was enlarged by steepening the roof in the Gothic period, either to add space or because of a change in fashion."</p><br>
<p>The McCutchen Theatre, in Charleston, Missouri, was built in 1947-48. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The McCutchen Theatre was opened on July 20, 1948. It is a three-story, brick-constructed, post-war Art Deco-style commercial building. It was built as a single-screen movie theater with a large illuminated neon and metal upper façade. The lower portion of the façade is covered with porcelain enamel and partially constructed from structural glass. The interior is designed in the Moderne or Streamline Moderne style. At the time of the NRHP nomination in 2019, the roof had collapsed over the main floor seating area.</p><br>
<p>The highly-detailed lobby is elliptical in shape with curved plaster walls. The domed ceiling is surrounded by an ornate plaster cornice of stylized</p><br>
<p>leaves. Curving staircases lead up to the balcony. The theater originally contained 648 seats on the main floor and 185 seats in the balcony. The original plush red leather seats with oak-finished armrests were built by the American Seating Company. All seats and lighting fixtures were removed before the nomination to NRHP.</p><br>
<p>The theater retains its Art Deco and Streamline Moderne integrity despite changes over the years, that is in keeping with other architectural structures in the downtown district. It is historically significant per NRHP Criterion A for Entertainment facilities and in Area C for Architecture. The Streamline Moderne style, developed from the Art Deco style of the 1930s. The style uses many of the same materials, however it emphasizes sleek, smooth forms due to the fact that there is less ornamentation and sharp angular components, and instead favors curved, flowing lines.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Theater is located just off of Main Street in the downtown commercial district of Charleston. The district is distinguished with numerous mid-century modern buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Pap Madison Cabin is a historic log cabin located in Rapid City, South Dakota, near The Journey Museum and Learning Center. It is the oldest Euro-American building in the Black Hills area. The cabin was built in 1876 by pioneer Rufus Pap Madison using cottonwood found alongside the banks of the nearby Rapid Creek. Madison stayed in the house from its completion until 1889, when he sold the land to Rapid City&#39;s founder, John Brennan. Brennan gave the cottage to the city in 1926.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The cabin is a hand-hewn squared cabin featuring a gable roof covered in wooden shingles and an exterior stone chimney which was added in 1926 by the Fortnightly club. The cabin offers 225 square feet of living space. It originally had a dirt floor and was heated with a wood-burning cook stove, but the wood-burning stove has since been replaced with a fireplace. For waterproofing and heat preservation, gaps between the logs were stuffed with sticks, moss, grass, and wood chips and then sealed with mud.</p><br>
<h2>Restorations</h2><br>
<p>In 1926 Alice Gossage, the owner of the Rapid City Journal, spearheaded an effort to repair and move the cabin to Halley Park, just west of downtown Rapid City.</p><br>
<p>The Minnilusa Pioneers Association donated local artifacts for display in the cabin, thus creating the first history museum in the Black Hills. The United States Department of the Interiors Sioux Indian Museum shared the site with the Minnilusa Pioneers.</p><br>
<p>In 2012, the cabin was lifted from its foundation and moved to a location in front of The Journey Museum.</p><br>
<h2>Status on the National Register</h2><br>
<p>In 2017, the cabin was removed from the National Register of Historic Places and added to the South Dakota State Register of Historic Places. The cabin, which was moved from its location at Halley Park to the Journey Museum, had alterations done to its foundation to make the interior of the building more visible. These alterations were found to not meet the criteria of the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The Garfield Historic District in Poplar Bluff, Missouri is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. It encompasses three contributing buildings  and one contributing object  in a predominantly residential section of Poplar Bluff.</p><br>
<p>Wheatley Public School was a segregated school for Negro children during the Jim Crow era, which was built in 1928 in Colonial Revival style. It was previously separately listed on the National Register, in 1998. The school building is now a museum, the Wheatley School Museum. As of 2017 the museum could be visited upon appointment made at the Rattler&#39;s Grocery, operated by Rex Rattler Sr.</p><br>
<p>The District also includes the Gatlin Grocery Store - Frank and Lutie Jordan House, built in 1908, and Pleasant Hill Baptist Church at 915 Garfield St. The church was completed in 1919.</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s sign, from 1963, is a contributing object.</p><br>
<p>The district "is in a section of Poplar Bluff that represents the area where African Americans settled and formed a community within Poplar Bluff." It was deemed significant as an "intact cohesive collection" of early twentieth-century commercial, educational and religious buildings "that interrelate to express a history of development, commerce, education, and social history spanning the district’s period of significance 1908 - 1968."</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<p>The 1867 Settlement Historic District is an historic district in Texas City, Galveston, Texas.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Several freedmen were cowboys during the civil war, after the war worked the Butler Ranch, and earned money on the Chisholm Trail. They bought land from William Jones, and founded a freedman&#39;s neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>The first settlers were Kneeland and Slyvia Britton, and Albert and Priscilla (Britton) Phillips. Calvin Bell, Thomas Britton and David Hobgood were area Cowboys and pioneers of the community. By 1870, the Rev. Israel S. Campbell helped begin a church; residents built a sanctuary and school the following year.</p><br>
<p>The community prospered throughout the late 1800s. Also, the community had a high literacy rate. By the early 1900s residents worked in railroad occupations and later in industry. In 1911, an interurban line came through the community, and Highland Station opened; the Settlement was known as Highlands and La Marque until it was incorporated into the city limits of Texas City in the 1950s. The community began to decline in the 1960s, when many young people left to work in an integrated society. However, rodeos and trail rides have been held as reminders of this once flourishing and self-sufficient community founded by African American Cowboys.</p><br>
<p>The 1887 Bell home is now a community museum.</p><br>
<p>Gary Public Schools Memorial Auditorium was a historic public facility in Gary, Indiana. The 5,000 seat auditorium was commissioned by the Gary Land Company, part of the United States Steel Corporation and was designed by Joseph Wildermuth. It was dedicated to residents who died fighting in World War I. It was closed in 1972 and the interior was destroyed during a fire in 1997. The building was demolished in 2020.</p><br>
<p>The Otto and Verdell Rutherford House is a historic building in Portland, Oregon, United States. Otto Rutherford  and Verdell Burdine Rutherford  were leaders in the civil rights movement in Oregon, importantly as president  and secretary  of the NAACP Portland branch. Their house became a center of meeting, organization, planning, and publishing in support of the African American communitys struggle for equal rights. A notable success came with passage of the 1953 Oregon Public Accommodations Act, attributable in large measure to the Rutherfords work.</p><br>
<p>The house, built around 1905, was bought in 1923 by William H. and Lottie Rutherford, Otto&#39;s parents. It was located in the Albina district, the only place in Portland where the elder Rutherfords could purchase due to exclusionary redlining. Otto and Verdell Rutherford married and moved into the house in 1936.</p><br>
<p>The Arthur Larkin House, in Ellsworth County, Kansas, near the city of Ellsworth, was built during 1884–1885 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It was deemed significant for association with businessman Arthur Laskin, and for its architecture.</p><br>
<p>It is a north-facing house about 65x50 ft in plan, and rises 35 ft from ground to the peak of its roof. Built of dressed stone, it is Italianate in style. Originally it had a higher cupola on its north end.</p><br>
<p>When its construction was nearing completion, the local Ellsworth Reporter ventured that "A. Larkin is completing his residence on the south side of the river. When finished it will be the most handsome residence in the vicinity."</p><br>
<p>Natural gas from wells on the property was used for heating and lighting, in advance of general practice in the area. The cupola held a gas burner with a reflector that made a glow seen from miles away.</p><br>
<p>The house is located 0.25 mi south of Ellsworth, across Smoky Hill River, off what was State Highway K-45 in 1974. Its address is now 1126 Highway 14, Ellsworth, KS 67439. The city of Ellsworth has apparently annexed land to its south, extending to the house&#39;s property and jumping over it. The boundary of the main part of the city now extends down to the north edge of the Arthur Larkin House property. And the city now includes an exclave of property from the south edge of the Larkin House extending south about a half mile further down Highway 14.</p><br>
<p>The Roome–Stearns House is a historic building in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is the best and most unaltered remaining example of a modest, cottage-scale Queen Anne house in the Irvington neighborhood, exhibiting elegant Eastlake details on the interior. It was built in 1893 by the Portland Cottage Building Association, a short-lived company that developed several cottage-type homes in the area, leaving its imprint on west Irvington.</p><br>
<p>The house was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Spokane County Courthouse is a government building home to numerous Spokane County offices such as those of the assessor, auditor and clerk, as well as courtrooms for the Spokane County Superior Court.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was built in 1895 in the French Renaissance revival and Châteauesque styles, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. A design contest prior to construction was won by architect Willis Ritchie. It is located in the city center, just north of the Spokane River from Downtown Spokane, in the West Central neighborhood. The courthouse is situated front and center on a nine square block campus that includes most of the county&#39;s offices as well as the Spokane Police Department headquarters. The nearly nine story central tower rises well above the surrounding buildings on the north bank of the river, and has helped make the courthouse a landmark in Spokane since its construction.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Ground was broken on the site in 1893, on land donated nearly a decade earlier by settler David P. Jenkins, and the courthouse project was envisioned to be a way to help the then nascent city of Spokane recover from the Panic of 1893 financial downturn. The location chosen was controversial, but also a compromise. Spokane&#39;s business community hoped to locate the courthouse in the central business district of the city, which was located on the south side of the river. Rural communities in Spokane County advocated for a more rural location, and even threatened to secede and form a new county if a satisfactory site was not chosen. At the time, the north bank of the Spokane River was largely undeveloped, which appeased the rural communities, but also well-connected to the business district just across the river.</p><br>
<p>Also in 1893 the Board of County Commissioners for Spokane County held a design contest, soliciting plans for a fire-proof masonry building that could be constructed for no more than $250,000. Twenty-nine-year-old architect Willis A. Ritchie&#39;s submission was selected, and Ritchie was awarded 5% of the cost of construction. A design from prolific Spokane architect Kirtland Cutter took second place, netting Cutter a not-insignificant $500 runner-up prize.</p><br>
<p>Construction began on Ritchie&#39;s design in the spring of 1894 under the leadership of contractor David B. Fotheringham. The building was completed by November of 1895, but the construction process was not entirely lacking in delays or controversies. Prior to construction, the plan was criticized for being too expensive and extravagant to build during an economic depression. In March of 1895, construction was brought to a halt due to a disagreement between Richie and the superintendent of construction. Ritchie was asked to resign by the Board of County Commissioners as charges of fraud and swindling were leveled against him, but Ritchie refused. The charges were the subject of a grand jury investigation, which found, "we have sifted these charges thoroughly, find them untrue, malicious and wicked, having been made by parties who must have known differently, and made for the purpose of misleading the people generally, and this surely and particular. Hard times, prejudice and disappointment must have been at the root of the matter. We find the courthouse to be one of the most substantial and well-built offices in this or any other state, and built in accordance with the plans and specifications, excepting changes that were duly authorized. We find no evidence of boodle or corruption and we believe there has been none." Construction resumed, and on November 20, 1895 the building opened and officials moved in.</p><br>
<p>In its early years the courthouse was the site of multiple hangings and a homicide. In 1896, attorney Lou H. Plattor was shot on the building&#39;s second floor by Henry Siefert, who claimed to be acting in self-defense. Seifert was charged with murder, but later acquitted.</p><br>
<p>To keep up with growth in the county, an expansion of the courthouse campus was undertaken in 1953 when the public health building immediately north of the courthouse was destroyed and replaced by a four story courthouse annex building. The main building underwent a significant renovation project in 2006. Structural work was done on bricks, balconies and the roof, while restoration work was done on the decorative elements. The entire original slate roof was also replaced, which required surrounding the building in scaffolding as the more than 100 year old roof could not be touched. The project cost approximately $2 million and was intended to last for 100 years.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Willis Ritchies design of the structure displays aspects of the French Renaissance and Romanesque Revival styles. The building has drawn comparisons to the Château dAzay-le-Rideau and the Château de Chambord in the Loire Valley of France. The decorative aspects of the building&#39;s facade include cornices, entablatures, festoons and pilasters of the Composite order.</p><br>
<p>The building is a masonry structure that is load-bearing with dry-pressed bricks. It was one of the first buildings in Spokane to be built with locally manufactured bricks, from the Washington Brick and Lime Company, rather than ones shipped in from the east.</p><br>
<p>A steep, Mansard-style slate roof tops the main, bulky, H-shaped structure, as well as the central and corner towers. The corner towers are topped with spires while the central tower has a flagpole.</p><br>
<p>The Henry and Caroline Schrage House, also known as the Schrage Mansion, is a historic structure located in Whiting, Indiana. It was built by Henry Schrage, a German immigrant, Union Civil War veteran, and a settler of Whiting’s Station. Schrage founded numerous businesses in Whiting, including the Bank of Whiting, today known as Centier Bank. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .</p><br>
<p>The Camden Street Development Historic District is a historic district encompassing a cluster of municipally owned residential apartment blocks in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It consists of three nearly identical buildings centered on Shawmut Avenue between Camden Street and Brannon Harris Way. The blocks were built in 1949 by the city to provide housing to low-income African-American veterans, and have had only minimal alteration since then. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Camden Street Development is located in Boston&#39;s Lower Roxbury area, on the northwest side of Shawmut Street between Camden Street and Brannon Harris Way. It consists of three buildings set on 1.27 acre, oriented in a U shape around a large central open space. All three buildings have brick exteriors and flat roofs, and are three stories in height. Each consists of a large central block with smaller flanking wings that are set back slightly. The main building entrances are set at the corner junctions between the central blocks and wings. Each building houses 24 units, primarily with one bedroom each. Decorative elements of the exterior include burnt brick string courses.</p><br>
<p>The Camden Street area first developed as a residential area in the mid-19th century, providing middle and lower-income housing for workers in Roxburys factories. In the late 19th-century it became more lower-class, with buildings converted into tenements. In 1939, the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) began urban redevelopment, razing slums in the area and completing the adjacent Lenox Street public housing project in 1940. In 1949 the BHA planned the Camden Street units as housing exclusively for lower-income African-American veterans and their families. The complex was designed by John Gray, a local architect who also designed some of the citys schools and other housing projects.</p><br>
<p>The Young Women&#39;s Christian Association  of Worcester, now the YWCA of Central Massachusetts, was founded in 1885 in Worcester, Massachusetts. The nonprofit organization, like many other YWCA chapters, provides a wide variety of tailored services to women and children in its service area. Included are health and fitness services, transitional housing for single women and mothers with children, job training programs, and racial equity programs for women of color. The YWCA is headquartered at 2 YWCA in downtown Worcester, in a facility listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Worcester YWCA was founded in 1885 by fourteen women "to promote the temporal, moral and religious welfare of young women who are dependent on their own exertions for support." Initially operating classes out of leased commercial space, it soon acquired a property on Chatham Street where it established a boarding house in 1892. It acquired a campground in Princeton a few years afterward. Its services and offerings continued to expand over the years, and in 1960 it moved to its present facility just southwest of downtown Worcester. The Chatham Street campus, expanded to three buildings in the 1910s and 1920s, was sold to the adjacent department store, and in 2021 completed conversion to a mixed-use commercial/residential property. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.</p><br>
<h2>Facilities</h2><br>
<p>The current YWCA campus is located on under 3 acre southwest of Worcester&#39;s city hall. The area it stands in was the subject of an urban renewal project begun in the late 1950s, and was completed in 1962. It was designed by Kilham, Hopkins, Greeley & Brodie of Boston, and is a prominent local example of the International style of architecture, with its relatively unadorned exterior of brick, concrete, and glass, and organization of rectangular masses. The campus was listed on the National Register in 2022, for its architecture and social history.</p><br>
<p>The Indian Hill School is a historic school building at 155 Ararat Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1924, it is a good local example of Tudor Revival architecture. It served as a public school until 1981, after which it was converted to residential use. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Indian Hill School is located in the northern suburban Indian Hill neighborhood of Worcester, at the southwest corner of Ararat Street and Indian Hill Road. It is a 1-1/2 story structure, its ground floor finished in brick and cast stone, and the upper levels finished in stucco and half-timbering typical of the Tudor Revival. The building is roughly rectangular, with a long main block extending along Indian Hill Road topped by a gabled roof. Flanking it are end wings extending to the rear, with an infill extension joining the end wings behind the main block. The interior retains many original finishes, although its classroom spaces have been converted to residences.</p><br>
<p>The school was designed by the Worcester architectural firm of Fuller & Delano and was built in 1924. It was built to meet the increased demand for education spurred by the residential development of the Indian Hill area, which began as a planned community developed by the Norton Company for its employees. Its Tudor Revival styling is unique among Worcester&#39;s early 20th-century school buildings. It served as a school until 1981, and was subsequently converted to residential use.</p><br>
<p>Carver Court is a historic housing development located at Foundry Street and Brooks Lane near Coatesville in Caln Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Built in 1944 in the International Style, Carver Court is important to understanding the African American experience in Coatesville. The development was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Federal authorities built Carver Court during World War II as public housing for African American steelworkers and families, who were critical to the wartime defense industry.</p><br>
<p>Influential Modernist architects Louis Kahn, Oscar Stonorov, and George Howe designed Carver Court alongside numerous other buildings in the Philadelphia area. Carver Court was originally named the Foundry Street Defense Housing Project but was quickly renamed in honor of George Washington Carver following a naming contest at a local school. Carver Court was dedicated on September 4, 1944. A mix of single-family and multi-family homes, Carver Court&#39;s wooden buildings mostly have vinyl exterior sliding and gable or hip roofs, replacing the original beveled wooden sliding and flat roofs. Originally rentals, the homes were sold to private owners (offered first to current occupants) by the Federal Housing Administration in 1955.</p><br>
<h2>Racial segregation</h2><br>
<p>Carver Court was a product of racial segregation. In 1942, the Coatesville city council had appealed for the construction of separate housing developments for black and white workers, and most federal housing projects were segregated at the time. Lincoln Highway Defense Housing (later Brandywine Homes) was another Coatesville federal housing project, built at the same time as Carver Court but designated for white steelworkers and their families. According to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in 2016, "Research to date suggests that Carver Court and Brandywine Homes were built as separate segregated housing developments due to the long-standing history of racial tension that existed in the Coatesville area."</p><br>
<p>The Main and Franklin Streets Historic District is an historic district encompassing most of two city blocks in downtown Worcester, Massachusetts. Roughly bounded by Main, Franklin, Federal, Portland, and Salem Streets, the district includes a well-preserved concentration of commercial buildings constructed during Worcester&#39;s economic height in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Main and Franklin Streets Historic District is located directly south of Worcester City Hall and Common in the heart of downtown Worcester. It includes all of the buildings in the square block bounded by Main, Franklin, Federal, and Portland Streets, and most of the adjacent buildings in the block directly to the east, bounded by Franklin, Portland, and Salem Streets, and a linear continuation of Federal Street. The most prominent buildings line Franklin Street and face the common; these include the Park Building, Bancroft Hotel, Bancroft Trust Building (all individually listed on the National Register), and the former premises of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.</p><br>
<p>Although Worcester&#39;s Main Street had seen significant commercial development into the mid-19th century, the Franklin Street stretch facing the common was still largely residential in 1870. Over the next 60 years the area was completely transformed into the densely built commercial district it is today. This was due in part to a railroad spur, which served to separate the areas. In the 1890s, the railroad facilities were removed, and the largest commercial buildings, the luxury Bancroft Hotel and the Park Building, were built between 1910 and 1914.</p><br>
<p>The War Memorial Building is a historic municipal building at 310 Appleton Street in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Built in 1936, it is a distinctive local example of Moderne architecture, and a memorial to the city&#39;s military veterans. It houses an auditorium as well as smaller meeting spaces and offices. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Holyokes War Memorial Building is located in the citys downtown area, at the western corner of Appleton and Maple Streets. It is a large two-story structure, its street-facing facades finished in Indiana limestone. The main facade, facing Appleton Street, has a projecting entry pavilion with three central bays articulated by fluted square columns set in antis. A band of Greek key and rosette styling extends above the second story, visually separating a blind parapet which obscures the flat roof. The interior of the building is asymmetrical, with the auditorium space occupying the western portion of the building, and two stories of offices and meeting spaces on the east side. Many original features and finishes remain in the interior, including elaborate wood and plaster in the auditorium and the memorial room.</p><br>
<p>The city began planning for a permanent veterans&#39; memorial following World War I, establishing a fund for the purpose in 1929. Construction of this building was largely done with funding and support from the Public Works Administration, a federal Depression-era jobs relief program. It was designed by architect Fred Henry Franz and its construction was overseen by engineer James Cunniff, and was completed in 1937. It is one of only two Moderne buildings in the city -- the other is its main post office.</p><br>
<p>The Bryant Building is a 26-story office building located at the corner of 11th and Grand Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. It was completed in 1931 as a distinctive example of Art Deco architecture in Kansas City.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>1891 original</h3><br>
<p>Dr. John Bryant and his wife, Henrietta, had received this land as a wedding gift from her father in 1866. designed by Van Brunt and Howe of Kansas City. It was highlighted in Architectural Review as "one of the best lighted and ventilated office buildings in" the city. It was razed in 1931 and rebuilt as the current building.</p><br>
<h3>1931 replacement</h3><br>
<p>The Bryant Building was designed by the Chicago firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst & White. The design is an adaptation of the second-place winner of the 1922 Eliel Saarinen&#39;s Tribune Tower design competition. It is one of only two buildings in Kansas City designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst, and Whitealong with the former Federal Reserve Bank building at 925 Grand. Construction lasted from 1930 to 1931, which newspapers dubbed "Bryant tower". The heirs of John and Henrietta Bryant placed family records into the cornerstone.</p><br>
<p>In 2006, the building was renamed 1102 Grand with a new role as a carrier hotel style of data center, and a renovation project to improve power and cooling systems. The building was acquired in 2012 by Amerimar Enterprises, Inc, which later re-branded to Netrality Properties and then Netrality Data Centers, in 2015.</p><br>
<p>In 2020, Netrality Data Centers announced the completion of a 14-month renovation and infrastructure upgrade to the building&#39;s primary and backup power capacity, with additional meet-me rooms, floor cage space, co-location cabinets, and three new lithium-ion uninterruptible power supplies on the 7th and 8th floors.</p><br>
<h2>Reception</h2><br>
<p>The Bryant Building won the Kansas City Business League and the local American Institute of Architects Chapter awards in 1931.</p><br>
<p>The Winnebago County Courthouse is a five-story county courthouse built in 1937 and located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. It houses the circuit court and government offices of Winnebago County, Wisconsin. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and on the State Register of Historic Places in 1989 for its statewide significance as an example of Moderne architecture, a variety of Art Deco.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The present courthouse is the third to serve Winnebago County. The first was a small wood frame structure built around 1849, and located in Oshkosh on Court Street between Otter Avenue and Ceape Street. This was augmented in 1854 with a modest brick building nearby to house the county offices. By 1859, the county had secured funds to replace these early buildings with the second courthouse, a large and ornate Cream City brick structure built on the same site in 1859-1860.</p><br>
<p>By the 1930s, the county sought a more modern building and constructed the present courthouse at the corner of Algoma and Jackson Streets in 1937. Despite the Great Depression, the county board rejected a federal loan for the new courthouse. Even so, the building&#39;s architecture closely resembled many federal Public Works Administration projects of the same period. The architect of the courthouse was Frank Venning, of the firm Granger & Bollenbacher based in Chicago. The Lundoff-Bicknell Company was the general contractor for construction. The cost for the structure was $950,000.</p><br>
<p>The fifth floor of the courthouse was originally designed to serve as the county jail and fulfilled this function until the county opened a new public safety building in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse has a symmetrical facade with elements characteristic of PWA Moderne architecture, including smooth walls of Indiana limestone and recessed multi-story columns of glass windows grouped in sets of three. In contrast to the overall plain facade, the building entrances are framed with bas-relief sculptures by artist Alfonso Ianelli, which depict county officials and citizens in Mayan Revival style. The courthouse lobby is faced with smooth Portuguese rose marble and decorated with bronze metalwork. The original courtrooms feature ornate paneling made from a variety of different hardwoods.</p><br>
