<p>The YMCA Building, now known as 1100 Jefferson or the Court Services Building, is a historic building in downtown Toledo, Ohio. The National Register of Historic Places listed the former Young Men&#39;s Christian Association structure in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Toledo YMCA, originally founded in 1865, needed a larger location based on continued growth. Architect John N. Richards designed the building in 1930 but the Great Depression caused the design to be scaled back and delayed the start of construction until 1934. When it was completed in 1935, the complex was still sizable with 153 bedrooms, chapel, cafeteria, kitchen, laundry room, full-size pool, two full gymnasiums, six handball courts, boxing and exercise rooms, hydrotherapy massage rooms, boys social rooms, game rooms, and an assembly hall.</p><br>
<p>The total cost of construction came to $800,000 and included multiple contractors. Hugh Tyler of New York City handled the interior design, Ingalls Stone Company of Bedford, Indiana provided the stone, the Winkle Terra Cotta Company of St. Louis produced the terra cotta based on designs from Parducci Studios of Detroit.</p><br>
<p>The dormitories closed in the 1970s and the YMCA left the rest of the facility in 1980. The group donated their historical records to the archives at Bowling Green State University. In 1981, a group called the Downtown Athletic Club bought the building with intentions to renovate it.</p><br>
<p>Later, the Lucas County Government converted the space into 140 units of community-based treatment for people with nonviolent felony convictions and substance abuse disorders. In 2018, that program began to move to the Toledo Correctional Institution in phases, so that it could expand to 200 beds. The county regional court services now operate out of the building to support the nearby Lucas County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>In 2017, a new downtown YMCA opened 37 years after the closure of the Central YMCA. That facility at 300 North Summit Street is part of the new ProMedica headquarters complex along the Maumee River.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Palazzo Davanzati of Florence, Italy served as the inspiration for the Romanesque Revival building. The asymmetrical building consists of a two-story base for offices and social spaces with athletics in the back topped by a pair of four-story dormitory towers.</p><br>
<p>Polychrome bricks in various geometric patterns cover the outside of the building including prominent diaper work running along the top the building. Multi-colored clay pan-tile covers all the multiple rooflines above heavy brick cornices. The sides have round oculi windows while the rear has blind arcades at the first-floor level.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance facing Jefferson Avenue consists of stone, brick and a tile with tympanum filled with geometric patterns. A stone medallion depicting St. George slaying the dragon is above. The "Boy&#39;s Entrance" facing 12th Street mirrors the main entrance but with terra cotta panels. A wrought-iron griffin flag standard is between the entrances.</p><br>
<p>The Arburtus Cottage, also known as the Stephen Crane House, is located at 508 4th Avenue in the city of Asbury Park in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Built around 1878, the historic Queen Anne style seaside cottage was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 18, 2015, for its significance in literature and social history. It is now the home of the Asbury Park Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>Shell Community Hall was built by with Civil Works Administration funding, in Shell, Wyoming, Big Horn County, Wyoming. The municipal event venue built 1933 during the Great Depression, The Shell Community Hall was built for community social events: business meetings, and school programs, wedding and more. Two two additions have been made to Shell Community Hall. The Shell Community Hall is till in use.</p><br>
<p>Campbell County State Experiment Farm, Exhibition Hall was built in 1934 in Gillette, Wyoming, in Campbell County, Wyoming. The Exhibition Hall is now in CAM-PLEX Park. Campbell County State Experiment Farm was an Experiment Farm run by the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming. The exhibit hall use by the Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station program. The Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station program had nine agricultural stations. The Agricultural Stations were built around the State of Wyoming. The Agricultural Stations grew crops to show what kinds of crops would successful grow in that region of Wyoming. The Exhibition Hall is now under the Gillette Historic Preservation Commission.</p><br>
<p>Other early University of Wyoming experiment farms were located in Laramie, Lander, Saratoga, Sheridan, Sundance, and Wheatland.</p><br>
<p>Gillette Downtown Historic District is in Downtown Gillette, Wyoming in Campbell County, Wyoming. Gillette was founded in 1891 in northeastern Wyoming. Gillette founded as a railroad town after the arrival of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Gillette became the county seat of Campbell County after Crook and Weston counties merged in 1911. The Black and Yellow Trail an early highway came through Gillette. The highway ran from Chicago, Illinois to Yellowstone National Park. Gillette Downtown Historic District has many different architectural styles including: late Victorian Italianate commercial buildings, residential Victorian architecture with Queen Anne elements, and Classical Revival, Neo-Classical/Starved Classicism, Art Deco, and early-to-mid twentieth-century public and commercial architecture. In 1914 at Montgomery Bar outlaw Ray Montgomery beat up mayor Mark Shields to take over as mayor. The center of the Historic District is the former City Hall. Gillette Downtown Historic District covers six-blocks in the central business district. There are 30 properties built between 1898 and 1971 in the Gillette Downtown Historic District.</p><br>
<p>In the Gillette Downtown Historic District are:</p><br>
<p>Gillette City Hall built in 1936, also on NRHP</p><br>
<p>Old City Hall built in 1898</p><br>
<p>Post office built in 1935</p><br>
<p>Chassell & Fish Building built in 1902</p><br>
<p>Dodd House/Goings Hotel two-story built in 1908</p><br>
<p>Courthouse</p><br>
<p>Meeting hall</p><br>
<p>Hotel</p><br>
<p>Warehouse</p><br>
<p>Restaurant</p><br>
<p>Houses</p><br>
<p>Stockmen&#39;s Bank built in 1926</p><br>
<p>Bank of Gillette built in 1920</p><br>
<p>Center Bar built 1941</p><br>
<p>Olzer Saddlery built in 1907</p><br>
<p>Chasell House built in 1906</p><br>
<p>Stockmen&#39;s Bank built in 1926</p><br>
<p>Campbell County Public Library built in 1941, architect Frederick Hutchinson Porter</p><br>
<p>Montgomery Bar and hotel built in 1911</p><br>
<p>First Lutheran Church built in 1948</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Robert W. Cooke Medical Office is located at 67 McCampbell Road in Holmdel Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Built around 1823, the historic Federal style building was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey  in 1940. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 18, 2011, for its significance in architecture and health/medicine. It is now owned by the Holmdel Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>Christie Realty Building, also known as Wax Museum Building, is a historic two-story building located at 6765-6773 W. Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood, California. It is best known for Hollywood Wax Museum, its 1965 to present tenant.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Christie Realty Building was built in 1928 by Carl Jules Weyl and features Spanish Colonial Revival architecture with street-level arches and Churrigueresque detailing on its second story. The building was owned by the Christie brothers, two of early Hollywood&#39;s most powerful movie moguls who also owned the nearby Christie Hotel.</p><br>
<p>The buildings second story was originally home to the Embassy Club, a private club that catered to film stars looking to avoid the crowds at next doors Café Montmartre, both of which were owned by Eddie Brandstatter.</p><br>
<p>In 1933, due to the effects of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression, the Christie brothers&#39;s companies were forced to file for bankruptcy. Assets, including this building, were sold away.</p><br>
<p>In 1946, the Disney-themed restaurant and bar Snow White Cafe opened in the building, where it would remain for 78 years. In 1965, the Hollywood Wax Museum moved into the building, where it remains to this day.</p><br>
<p>In 1984, the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, with Wax Museum listed as a contributing property in the district.</p><br>
<p>In 2021, the building was sold for $22 million.</p><br>
<p>The Texas Tourist Camp is a historic courthouse in Decatur, Texas. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Emmet Franklin Boydston (2 December 1888 – 18 August 1945) was a local businessman, the son of George Washington Boydston and Eliza Jane Carter. In 1927, Boydston purchased the former feed lot for $400 with the intention of offering services to travelers. The original site consisted of a gas station and a wooden shed with travelers using the sight to camp overnight. The camp was expanded in 1931 when Boydston built three wooden cabins, he expanded further in 1935 and the cabins were faced with rockwork. The Boydston family continued to operate on the site until 1988. The site was brought back into the family in recent years, with Nancy Rosendahl, the granddaughter of Emmet Franklin Boydston owning the site.</p><br>
<p>The Cooke County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Gainesville, Texas. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse was designed by Lang & Witchell, and was constructed in 1912. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, and designated a Texas Historic Landmark in 1988.</p><br>
<h3>Confederate monument</h3><br>
<p>On the lawn of the courthouse stands a monolith topped by a 1911 statue of a Confederate soldier. The inscription at the base of the statue reads, “no nation rose so white and fair none fell so pure of crime” in reference to the Southern cause. In 2020, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the removal of Confederate statues across the United States, Cooke County Commissioners voted to retain the statue outside the courthouse. Protesters advocating against the statue were later sentenced to prison time for "obstructing a highway". The protesters petitioned their case to the USA Supreme Court, who in 2024 declined to review the case.</p><br>
<p>St. Peters Chapel, Mare Island  is an historic church building located on Walnut near Cedar Avenues, Vallejo, Solano County, California, in the historic core of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard. It is the first Naval chapel in the Pacific, the first interdenominational chapel in the armed services, and the second chapel built on a USA Navy property, the first being the original Naval chapel in Annapolis replaced in 1904.</p><br>
<p>Dedicated on 13 October 1901, St. Peter&#39;s Chapel is the oldest extant Naval chapel in the United States and has one of the largest collection of Tiffany windows in situ under one roof.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The person most responsible for the presence of St. Peter&#39;s Chapel at Mare Island was Rev. Adam A. McAlister (1841-1916), chaplain in the USA Navy from 1873 to 1909, serving almost all of those years at Mare Island. During the decades he served before the chapel was built, he would hold services at whatever space could be "rigged for church" with minimal disruption to ordinary functions. Not satisfied with this makeshift arrangement, McAlister was able to convince his friend USA Senator George C. Perkins to include a $5000 appropriation in the 1900 Naval Appropriations Act for the construction of a chapel at Mare Island.</p><br>
<p>McAlister quickly hired San Francisco architect, Albert Sutton, to draw up plans for a chapel at Mare Island, paid him $50 from church donations for his services, and forwarded Suttons plans to the Navy Department in Washington, D.C. on 30 November 1900, only months after the congressional appropriation. The chapel was largely completed in 1901, had its first service on 6 October 1901, was dedicated on 13 October 1901 by various Protestant clergies, followed a month later by its first Catholic mass. Interdenominational from its beginning, St. Peters Chapel was named after Simon, called Peter, a toiler of the sea whose story is told in the Gospels.</p><br>
<p>Over the next decades, art glass windows and many of the interior furnishings were added and paid for by parishioners and private contributions. The stained glass windows were typically donated by family members in memory of USA Navy personnel; commemorative ceiling and wall tablets were likewise dedicated to various individuals and groups. Through the efforts of Chaplain McAlister and his friends, St. Peters became an important USA Navy memorial chapel. Almost all of the art glass windows were in place by McAlisters funeral at St. Peter&#39;s Chapel in 1916.</p><br>
<p>The chapel served the Mare Island community — Naval and Marine officers, enlisted men and women, as well as the civilian workforce — much like a local community church, given how isolated and self-contained Mare Island was then. It was a focus of life on the base, with the art glass windows and commemorative tablets contributed by the community reflecting the sense of community and continuity that existed at the base through its numerous decades of service. For many generations, it was the site for various key transitional events, like weddings, baptisms, and funerals. World War II brought the greatest number of weddings to the chapel, as young sailors got married just before being sent off to the Pacific Theater. As historian McDonald noted, "The chapel, more than any other building, bears witness to the closeness of the community that developed at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard."</p><br>
<p>Over 300 persons crowded into the chapel on Christmas Eve of 1995 for the last scheduled service before the closure of the base on 31 March 1996. The fourth and last advent candle was lit by Captain Cavender, the last Shipyard Commander, and his wife. As it was for numerous decades, the last scheduled service at St. Peter&#39;s Chapel ended with the singing of the Navy hymn, Eternal Father, Strong to Save.</p><br>
<h2>Chapel building</h2><br>
<p>Architect Suttons original plan of 1900 called for a wood-framed, one-story, Shingled Gothic-style, cruciform church building, with a steep front gabled roof over a rectangular nave, a cross-gabled chancel, and a rectangular sanctuary (see floorplan). The original building is on a brick foundation and oriented nominally east-west, with the sanctuary and altar located at the west end. The chancel, with its choir stalls to the left and sacristy to the right, form the arms of the cross. The nave and its pews face west toward the altar and sanctuary. The main entrance is through a vestibule, offset to the right of the nave, entering through the north wall into the back of the nave. The chapel was largely completed by October 1901, when it was dedicated, although Suttons plan was not completed until 1904. The historic building remains mostly unmodified, with three minor additions: a 1929 rear addition for the organ and two 1963 side additions. Although the additions were well-integrated, except for the tell-tale concrete foundation, they have somewhat obscured the original shape of the cruciform.</p><br>
<h3>Art glass windows</h3><br>
<p>St. Peter’s Chapel is noted for its art glass windows, 27 such windows in total: A large triptych window at the back east end of the nave, 21 same-sized windows along the two sides of the nave, and five windows in the sanctuary at the front west end of the chapel. They are best viewed from the inside in the daytime, although the two side windows in the sanctuary are artificially backlit due to the 1963 side additions. Donated during the period from 1905 to 1930, typically in memory of USA Navy personnel, these windows beautify the chapel as well as symbolize the community spirit with which it was built and maintained through the decades.</p><br>
<p>The large triptych stained glass window at the back of the nave near the main vestibule entrance, made by Ingerson & Glaser and unveiled in 1907, shows Simon, called Peter, a toiler of the sea for whom the chapel is named. The triptych is dedicated to the three naval pioneers most responsible for establishing a presence for the USA Navy in securing California in the mid-1800s: Admiral David Farragut, Rear Admiral John D. Sloat, and Commodore Robert F. Stockton.</p><br>
<p>Of the 27 art glass windows that grace St. Peters Chapel, 25 are from Tiffany Studios in New York (16 of them signed) and most designed by Frederick Wilson. Thus, St. Peters Chapel has one of the largest collection of Tiffany windows in situ under one roof.</p><br>
<p>Two Tiffany windows deserve special note. The large window on the right side of the sanctuary is a pastoral view of the Good Shepherd and is dedicated to Chaplain Adam McAlister, with the inscription: "To whose devotion to this Chapel the placing of many of its Memorials is due." The 9-ft-round Rose window high above the altar in the sanctuary is the ascendant Christ and is dedicated to those "in the USA Navy and Marine Corps who served on the Pacific Ocean".</p><br>
<p>The final memorial window installed, made by Cummings Studio, features a Madonna and Child, inspired by “The Madonna with the Olive Branch” painting by Barabino. lt was dedicated, according to the Shipyard Commandant, Captain Thomas A. Kearney, on 2 July 1930, "as an outward expression of affectionate appreciation and esteem," with the inscription, “To the Women of the Navy and the Marine Corps.”</p><br>
<p>Millwood Apartments is an apartment building located at 36 East Milwaukee Street in Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1901, Isaac and Rachel Applebaum purchased a plot of land along Milwaukee near Woodward. Issac was a general railway supply manufacturer, but retired to invest in real estate. He quickly constructed a commercial building at the corner of Milwaukee and Woodward. In 1904, he hired Detroit architects Raseman & Fisher to design a small apartment building, then known as the Ray Apartments. The newly opened building had a doctor&#39;s office in the basement and averaged five or six tenants on the residential floors.</p><br>
<p>In 1909, Isaac Applebaum sold the building to Abraham Cohen, a prominent hotel owner. In 1922, Cohen constructed a large addition on the rear of the building, increasing the number of apartments to thirty. When the addition was completed in 1923, Cohen changed the building name to the Millwood Apartments. Cohen sold the building in 1928.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Millwood Apartments is a three-story rectangular plan apartment building sitting on a raised basement. It has a concrete foundation and a flat roof. The building is constructed of gray and red brick with limestone trim. The front façade is symmetrical and divided into five bays. The outer bays contain the projections extending from the basement up to the roof. The center bay contains a recessed entrance within a rounded archway. Two limestone Doric columns flank the entry, and a semi-circular relief panel above mimics a fanlight.</p><br>
<p>The Fisk Medical Arts Building, at 724 South Polk Street, also known as the Fisk Building and Fisk Medical Arts & Professional Building, is a historic tower block in Amarillo, Texas, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building is 152 ft tall, and has 12 stories. Designed by Guy Anton Carlander and constructed by the Gilsonite Contracting Company, it was built in 1927 or 1928, in the Gothic Revival style.</p><br>
<p>It was named for Charles A. Fisk, president of the Amarillo Bank and Trust Company, which occupied part of the building from 1935 to 1951. The building was then owned by the Zale Corporation. It was later used for doctors and dentists offices. Now owned by Courtyard by Marriott, the building was renovated in 2011, costing $12.7 million. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 2012. In 2013, a historical plaque was added to the building.</p><br>
<p>The McBride Ranch House is a historic house in Amarillo, Texas, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1904 by rancher David Nichols McBride, who bought the surrounding land in 1904, for $1.50 per acre. The house is made of mortared dolomite, and has two rooms–a kitchen and bedroom, and an incomplete porch. After McBride died, his son Amos inherited the property, who used the house to brew moonshine. He sold it United States Bureau of Reclamation in the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>The oldest ranch house in Potter County, Texas, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 23, 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Llano Cemetery Historic District is a historic district in Amarillo, Texas. The Llano Cemetery makes up the majority of the district on S Hayes St. The Llano Pantheon Mausoleum in the center of the cemetery was constructed in 1927.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 21, 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>Cornelius T. Herring (1849 –1931), rancher and hotelier</p><br>
<p>John M. Shelton (1853–1923), rancher and banker</p><br>
<p>Eugene Cecil Seaman (1881–1950), bishop</p><br>
<p>Laurence Julius FitzSimon (1895–1958), bishop</p><br>
<p>Blair Cherry (1901–1966), American football coach</p><br>
<p>George H. Quarterman (1906–2002), bishop</p><br>
<p>Lawrence Michael De Falco (1915–1979), bishop</p><br>
<p>Mary Lou Robinson (1926–2019), United States district judge</p><br>
<p>Angela Samota (1964–1984), murder victim</p><br>
<p>Terry Stafford (1941–1996), singer</p><br>
<p>John Marvin Jones (1882 –1976), politician</p><br>
<p>Ricky Romero (1931–2006), professional wrestler</p><br>
<p>Chris Romero (1966–2021), professional wrestler</p><br>
<p>Mieczyslaw Pianowski, Polish-American dancer and choreographer</p><br>
<p>The Joseph M. Miller Mausoleum is a historic mausoleum in Holden, Missouri.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>After biblical scholar Joseph M. Miller moved to Holden in 1915 from Macon, he ordered the construction of the Joseph M. Miller Mausoleum. It was finished in by 1927, and some fifteen to twenty of Miller&#39;s relatives have been buried inside between its completion and 1931. In 2010, descendant Carl Cranfill moved to Holden to maintain it.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 2018.</p><br>
<p>In 2022, it was reported as haunted.</p><br>
<p>Llanerch Public School, also known as Llanerch Grammar School, is a former school established in 1913 that operated in the Llanerch neighborhood of Havertown, Pennsylvania. It is on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It is built in the Georgian Revival architectural style. It is not to be confused with the Llanerch School that served as Haverford Township School District&#39;s high school from 1905 to 1910, which occupied the same site that the former was built on.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Llanerch School was built in 1913, and served as a public school for residents of Llanerch, Pennsylvania. Shortly after its opening, in 1913, Justice of the Peace William B. Cowan struck his head on a pipe and fell on his chin, killing him, while trying to relight a fire for the chimney of the building for the new students and teachers, who were complaining of the cold.</p><br>
<p>The school closed in 1977 and was leased out to the Delaware County Intermediate Unit. until the 1980s, where it remained inoperative as a school for several years. There were calls to turn the school lot into a bus depot after the closure of the school&#39;s activities, but the idea did not come to fruition. In 1987, the Stratford Friends School briefly relocated to the area.</p><br>
<p>Protests emerged in 1986 by local residents when a developed submitted a bit to turn the building into an office complex. The protests were successful and the back lot of the school&#39;s property remains a public playground.</p><br>
<p>In 2015, the Llanerch School began a conversion as a now-defunct school to an apartment complex. As of 2021, the building had been fully converted. The apartment maintains a motif of the school in its interior by furnishing the hallways and rooms with items from the history of the school.</p><br>
<p>The school building was added to the NRHP on February 15, 2017.</p><br>
<p>The Amarillo Globe Dream House is a historic house in Amarillo, Texas.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 8, 1997. The house also became a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was constructed in 1925, a project jointly constructed by the Amarillo Globe-News newspaper and a local real estate company. The home features red brick, in the Tudor revival style. A local architect, Guy Carlander designed the home and it was used as a project to showcase the talents of local builder M.C. Hancock.</p><br>
<p>Rogers Theater is a movie theatre located at 257 North 3rd Street in Rogers City, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In approximately 1934, businessman Charles A. Vogelheim and theater operator Walter Kelley began a partnership to construct a new movie theater. Vogelheim owned a lumber company, and construction occurred under the direction of his son Karl. The construction evidently took some years, and the building opened in 1937 as a 500-seat motion picture theater. Kelley managed the theater for ten years until his retirement in 1947, after which Vogelheim took over the business.</p><br>
<p>In January 1948, a fire started in the building, destroying the interior of the building. However, the building was quickly renovated and expanded, and the theater was reopened later in the year as a 650-seat venue. The Vogelheim family continued to operate the theater with Charles&#39;s son Richard taking over in 1961. In 2002, local resident Karl Heidemann purchased the building. He renovated the theater interior to install a stage. In the 2010s, the Presque Isle District Library purchased the building, and in 2023 renovated the façade.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Rogers Theater is a two-story rectangular Art Moderne movie theater measuring 118 by 48 feet. The façade is three bays wide, with a recessed central entrance bay containing a box office surrounded by two pairs of metal doors. The remainder of the first floor is clad in black structural glass. Above, the second floor is clad in brick. Each bay contains a pair of one-over-one metal windows with projecting brick sills.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. William H. and Frances C. Axtell House, also known as the Axtell House, is a historic residence located at 413 E. Maple St. in historic Bellingham, Washington. The house was built by Frances Cleveland Axtell  and her husband William Henry Axtell . The Axtells moved to Bellingham from Illinois in 1894. Construction on the house was completed in 1902.</p><br>
<p>Between 1902 and 1942, the house served as a meeting spot for many of the local elite, including businessmen, politicians, and suffragettes who shared Frances&#39; political ideals.</p><br>
<p>In 1926, the house was subdivided into eight different apartments. William passed away a year later in 1927. Frances continued living in the house until 1942, when she moved to Seattle to care for one of her daughters, passing away there in 1953.</p><br>
<p>By 2011, the house was owned by local attorney Patrick Gallery. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 7, 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Bellingham Herald Building is a historical building located at 1155 N. State Street in downtown Bellingham, Washington. It was designed by Frederick Stanley Piper of Bellingham and Morrison & Stimsons of Seattle. It served as the headquarters of the Bellingham Herald newspaper since its completion in 1926 to 2019.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>Before the Herald building was built, the newspaper had published from four previous locations. While still operating under the name The Fairhaven Herald, the newspaper established its first publishing office in a two-story building 1890. It again moved in 1902 to a basement of a building in the Fairhaven neighborhood. It moved again to a bigger space in 1905. The last move occurred when Herald merged with The Reveille and American newspaper and moved into their headquarters. Plans to build a more permanent space to house the Herald was announced on February 2, 1925, by then owner Sidney Albert Perkins.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Herald building officially opened on June 26, 1926. About 6,000 people attended an open house of the building on opening day. The total cost to complete the building was $325,000.</p><br>
<p>Upon completion, it had room for 140 offices, with the Herald occupying the first floor and the basement. It was the tallest building in Bellingham until the Bellingham Towers complex was built in 1930. Numerous steps were taken to make the building fireproof, with it being one of the first buildings in the western United States to use gypsum as a fire deterrent.</p><br>
<p>The Herald building functioned as a medical and social center for Bellingham in its early years. On the first floor there was an assembly room that could hold public meetings. Several of the first tenants in the building were multiple doctors, a pharmacy, law offices, both the Democratic and Republicans headquarters, and the Christian Science church.</p><br>
<p>By 1948, 45 doctors, dentists, and other medical professionals practiced at the building. One of the longest standing tenants was The Bellingham Clinic, opening the same year of the building in 1926. Two of the clinicians there, Dr. E. M. Rideout and Dr. Eric Johnson practiced at the Herald building for over 40 years. The Herald building remained center for medical practices from the 1920s to the 1930s. However, after World War Two, many professionals had moved out of the building and to a new a dedicated medical center elsewhere in the city.</p><br>
<p>On April 6, 1959, two workers painting trim fell after the scaffolding they were using failed. The two men fell from about the fifth floor. One of the men, Ray Pauley of Bellingham, later died of the injuries he sustained in the fall. One witness to the accident stated that Pauley landed on his head. His coworker, James Wilson, survived with multiple broken bones and fractures.</p><br>
<p>In 1963, a renovation project of the buildings main entry, drop ceiling, and lighting was undertaken In 1980, the building was renovated by architects Stradling & Stewart. Both interior and exterior improvements were made. On July 5, 1983, the Herald building sustained slight damage after a fire broke out at a nearby restaurant. The total amount of equipment damaged at newspaper was about $15,000 to $20,000.</p><br>
<p>In June 2009, the Herald Building was bought by Bob Hall and David Johnston of Daylight Properties from the McClatchy company for $2.35 million.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings on December 31, 2013. In 2019, employee&#39;s of the Herald were moved to the Barkley neighborhood of Bellingham as the newspaper downsized.</p><br>
<h2>Herald Sign</h2><br>
<p>The Herald sign was first lit on March 7, 1926. It originally consisted of 370 incandescent bulbs. Upon completion it was the largest sign in Northwest Washington area.</p><br>
<p>By 1930, the Herald sign had been changed to neon bulbs. On July 20, 1934, stunt performers Betty and Benny Ross performed stunts atop a platform above the Herald sign for 30 hours.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, the sign was changed to LED bulbs.</p><br>
<p>The Daylight Building, located at 1201-1213 N. State St, is a historical building located in Bellingham, Washington.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was designed by local architect Frank C. Burns and was completed in 1904. The exterior of the building was built out of sandstone and brick.</p><br>
<p>Some early tenants of the building included a dressmaker, a dry goods store, a lawyer, a real estate agent, and a music school.</p><br>
<p>From 1910 to 1926, the Union Printing company had its headquarters in the building.</p><br>
<p>In early 1928, a Montgomery Ward branch opened in the building. In July 1928, a large fire broke out on the basement of the building and damaged much of the stock of Montgomery Ward. Several apartments were also destroyed. The origins of the fire were undetermined. The store reopened in September 1928 after repairs. In December of the same year, an arsonist attempted to set fire to the building again.</p><br>
<p>On December 13, 1933, 34-year-old man named Herbert E. Myers was found fatally stabbed at the entrance of the building. He died of his would en route to the hospital. The suspect was described as a large man who was previously seen arguing with Myers near a telephone booth. The case eventually went cold and no one was charged with Myers&#39; murder.</p><br>
<p>In 1944, the building was sold to N. A. Buchinoff, then owner of the Bellingham Upholstering Company.</p><br>
<p>In June 1999, a thrift store named the Old Town Christian Ministries Thrift Store opened in the basement of the building. The thrift store later closed in May 2003.</p><br>
<p>In 2003, the basement level of the building was remodeled and a restaurant and live music venue named Nightlight Lounge was later opened. The venue frequently held live music events, such as Chris Whitley, Johnathan Richman, The Thermals, and Canadian band Cuff The Duke in 2004. The Nightlight Lounge closed permanently in 2010 due to failure to pay taxes. In 2011, a nightclub named The Underground opened in the basement space. The Underground closed it doors permanently on August 25, 2024, and is slated to be rebranded as a venue named Bar 211 under the same owners.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 15, 2004.</p><br>
<p>In May 2011, significant damage was done to Pel Meni restaurant, located on the ground floor of the building. The fire caused the evacuation of several apartments and businesses. The estimated damage was over $20,000. Pel Meni later reopened and continues to operate.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Laube, also known as the Laube Hotel, is a historical hotel turned apartments located at 1226 N. State St. in downtown Bellingham, Washington. The building was completed in 1903 on behest of Charles Laube  and Margaret Laube . The building consists of brick and sandstone.</p><br>
<p>When the hotel initially opened on February 3, 1903, the top two floors contained 50 rooms for guests. After Charles Laube&#39;s death in 1928, ownership of the hotel passed to his sons, Charles F. Laube and Herbert D. Laube. The hotel closed in late 1983.</p><br>
<p>During the late 1970s, a bar and music venue opened on the main floor. The business ran under several names, such as Bucks, Pete&#39;s, and finally Bellingham Bay Brewing Company (later shortened to 3B). Several live music acts such as Death Cab for Cutie and Idiot Pilot performed at the venue. 3B closed its doors on December 31, 2005, in preparation for renovations to the building.</p><br>
<p>In 1998 the building was sold to developer Robert K. Hall, who owned Daylight Properties. Hall later sold to building to the Bellingham Housing Authority in 2005, citing difficulties in renovation as reason for the sale. A renovation project by the Housing Authority was started in 2007 and was completed in 2008 for the cost of $5.5 million. The upper floors of the building were remodeled to 20 low income housing apartments, while two retail spaces opened on the ground floor.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings on August 29, 2003.</p><br>
<p>The two retail spaces on the ground floor are currently being occupied by a and a.</p><br>
<p>George H. Bacon House, also known as the Bacon Home, is a historical structure located in Bellingham, Washington. It was designed by Henry Bacon for the owner George Hunt Bacon . Building of the house was started in 1905 and was completed in 1906.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>George Bacon moved to the area in 1889 from Illinois. He worked in insurance and real estate with his partner, H. H. Ells. He also became active in the pollical scene of the city of Whatcom (now Bellingham) from 1894 to 1896. He was elected mayor Whatcom in 1901 and was the last mayor of the town before the city of Bellingham was established in 1904.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was designed by Henry Bacon as a wedding present for his brother, George Bacon for his marriage to Mabel Donovan (1879–1958). Mabel and George were married on January 15, 1906. George and Mabel had three child who was raised in the house, two sons named Cecil Donovan Bacon and John Marshall Bacon and a daughter named Frances Bacon (née Roberts). George died of a heart attack on June 11, 1937. His remaining family moved out of the house the following year in 1938.</p><br>
<p>In February 1940, the house was listed for sale for the price for $4,500. The house was bought by Guy Baer Lowman and his wife Edith Junia Sahlin. He worked as a supervisor for Puget Sound Pulp & Timber Company. Lowman died on January 29, 1956. During the late 1950s, the house was bought by Dr. Irvin Murnane Cederlind and his wife Dorothy Jane Eldridge In 1961, a two car garage was added to the house and the bathroom was remodeled by Cederlind. By 1967 the house was occupied by Homer and Janet Weiner. Homer was an art professor at Western Washington University. In August of the same year, a small fire damaged the roof of the home. In 1969, Frances Bacon expressed her support of the house becoming a group home for boys. There was some pushback from the community against establishing the group home due to concerns about crime.</p><br>
<p>In 1972, the house became a court-appointed house for delinquent boys run by the Archdiocese of Seattle branch of the Catholic Church. The house had the capacity to hold 10 boys between the ages of 12 and 18. The Archdiocese spent about $25,000 repairing the house by 1978. The average stay at the house for each boy was about 9 months, with many returning home or entering foster care after their stay. By 1988, the house was the last remaining house for abused and neglected children in Whatcom County. Reason for closure was cited as financial losses, concerns over safety, and increasingly complicated psychiatric cases with the children referred to he home. On closure, there were 8 children who lived at the home. The house closed in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1974. The house became a private residence in the 1990s and remains that way to current day.</p><br>
<p>The Alfred L. Black House, also known as the Wahl House, is a historic residence located at 158 S. Forest St in Bellingham, Washington. The house was finished in 1903. It consists of four stories and includes 10 bedrooms, six bathrooms, a library, a billiard room, a music room, a ballroom, and a wrap around porch. The interior wood consists of fir. It is approximately 13,500 square feet.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>The house was built by Alfred L. Black in 1903. Black was the last mayor of the town of Fairhaven before the city of Bellingham was established in 1903. After a special election to determine the mayor of the new city in December of that year, Alfred Black was voted as the first mayor of Bellingham. The building was designed by Alfred Lee, who also was the architect of the Whatcom Museum of History and Art and the Bellingham branch of the Carnegie Public Library.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1917, the house was bought by J. B Wahl. Whal was the founder of Wahl&#39;s Department Store which was located downtown Bellingham until 1972. The house remained in the Wahl family until 1957 when it was sold to the Sisters of St. Joseph, who operated the house as a retreat. While in use by the sisters, the music room was used as a chapel. The basement was also remodeled into a dining room that could hold over 100 people.</p><br>
<p>The sisters later sold the house to John and Jackie Mumma in 1963. The Mumma&#39;s lived in the house until about 1978 when it was sold to Floyd and Becky Svensoon The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 1980.</p><br>
<p>By 2008, the house was owned by Ron Weden. In August 2017, the house was damaged by fire.</p><br>
<p>The Berthusen Barn and Privy, also called the Berthusen Barn, is a historical structure located at the 236 acre Berthusen Park in Lynden, Washington. The barn was built by Hans Christian Berthusen, a pioneer resident of Whatcom County, and Jack Jensen. It was completed in early 1900&#39;s and was built from wood from the area.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>Hans C. Berthusen was born on January 20, 1860. When he was 4, his family immigrated from Norway to the United States during the Civil War and settled in Iowa. Hans moved to Seattle in 1883 before setting off to Whatcom County with a friend named Mark W. Stone. Berthusen and Stone built adjoining homesteads. In 1889, Hans married Lida Hawley, who was born September 30, 1864. Hawley&#39;s family had come to the area in 1872 from Iowa. They adopted a son named Peter Olia Berthusen who was raised on the homestead.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The barn was completed in 1901, and was one of the largest barns in the area.</p><br>
<p>In 1944, the barn and the land it sat on was donated to the city of Lynden by the Berthusen&#39;s under the agreement that the park would be free to the public.</p><br>
<p>In 2002, the barn had become structurally unsound and fallen into disrepair. In order to secure fundings for repairs, a push lead by Nancy Norris was made to have the barn added to the National Register of Historic Places. Norris was Lynden&#39;s parks and recreation coordinator at the time. The barn was added to the register on April 22, 2003.</p><br>
<p>The barn and the associated park remain free to the public to current day. The barn contains several pieces of antique farm equipment donated by the Puget Sound Tractor and Machinery Association.</p><br>
<p>The Immanuel School of Industries, also known as I Street Relief Depot and Akers Taxidermy, is a historical building located in Bellingham, Washington. The building was completed in 1906.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>The Immanuel School of Industries was established in January 1896 in association with the Immanuel Baptist church. The first class consisted of 18 pupils. Enrollment in the school was free and the students came from a number of different social classes. The school was co-ed and taught a variety of things, such as cooking, wood carving, leather making, clay modeling, basket weaving, and sewing. The school also offered a kindergarten for younger students which opened on September 10, 1904. Upon opening, the kindergarten was the only one in Bellingham. The school also occasionally offered classes to adults, such as dressmaking, for a fee. Before moving to the building on Astor street in 1906, the school met at the Knights of Pythias hall and the P.L.F clubhouse.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Due to increased enrollment and lack of space for classes, a permit for a dedicated building was obtained in February 1905. The cost of the building was estimated to be about $7,000. The exterior of the building was completed in June 1906. The first floor held seven classrooms and the cooking department. The second floor contained the kindergarten and an auditorium. The basement was used for manual training. By 1908, enrollment in the school had risen to over 100.</p><br>
<p>The school began to experience financial issues in the late 1900s. In 1909, it was decided that the kindergarten would not re-open the next school year unless 40 students paid tuition. Since many students came from a lower economic background, raising funds for the school was difficult. The school was subsequently closed in 1916.</p><br>
<p>From 1916 to 1947, the building served as headquarters for many social agencies of Whatcom county, such as the Social Security and the Works Progress Administrations.</p><br>
<p>In January 1947 a local church took residence in the building, with the Reverend C.H Ford leading the church. The church also offered Sunday school. C.M Ruby became reverend of the church in September of 1950. In March 1969, the church began to construct a new building at Peabody street. In July of the same year the church moved service to Ferndale.</p><br>
<p>By August 1969, Akers Taxidermist had moved into the building from their old location at 1308 E. Street.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Mariposa Grove Cabin, originally built in 1864 by Galen Clark, Yosemite&#39;s first guardian and discoverer of the Mariposa Grove, stands as an iconic symbol of Yosemite National Park. Located near the General Grant and General Sheridan trees, the cabin has been rebuilt three times on the same site, with the current structure dating to 1931. Although not an exact replica of the original, the cabin reflects a blend of Rustic style and minor Art Deco styles, showcasing natural materials and skilled craftsmanship.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, the Mariposa Grove Cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Galen Clark Cabin</h2><br>
<p>Clark constructed the first shelter, a simple one-room cabin, in the Upper Grove in May 1864, shortly after being appointed the first guardian of the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grant. He used it as an office and information center for visitors. In June 1864, Dr. Henry Bellows named it "Galen&#39;s Hospice" after his party took shelter there during a storm.</p><br>
<p>In 1881, the State of California replaced the ramshackle building with a new one room cabin.</p><br>
<p>Galen Clark&#39;s cabin became a symbol of early Yosemite tourism, serving as a lunch stop for stagecoach trips to Mariposa Grove operated by the Yosemite Stage and Turnpike Company.</p><br>
<p>Visitors often took photographs of the cabin, surrounded by towering giant sequoias, and these images were widely used in promotional materials.</p><br>
<p>In 1917, plans by the federal government to demolish the historic cabin to build a hotel sparked widespread protests. The California Legislature passed a resolution calling for its preservation, and visitors rallied to save it as a symbol of the state&#39;s heritage. Ultimately, the cabin was protected and the Camp in the Big Trees, which featured overnight accommodations, was built in a separate location in the grove.</p><br>
<h2>Mariposa Grove Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Mariposa Grove Museum stands on the site of the original Galen Clark Cabin. In 1930, the National Park Service built the current structure to display museum exhibits about the grove&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-story log structure measuring 20 ft by 45 ft and divided into two rooms. It has a low-pitched gable roof covered with wood shingles, with a 24 in exposure. The cabin is built from peeled sugar pine logs, laid in alternating tiers and interlocked at the corners and where the partition wall meets the exterior walls with a "V" notch joint. The spaces between the logs are filled with tightly fitted split-log wedges. A 45 by plank deck runs along the southwest side.</p><br>
<p>An exterior chimney, made of granite in a coursed rubble pattern, is located on the southeast end. The southwest side has three double-hung, 6x6 windows, while the northeast side has two. There are three doors—two on the southwest and one on the northeast—made of vertical boards and decorated with large, false strap hinges of unpainted iron.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the room is dominated by a rough-dressed granite fireplace in the shape of a segmented arch. The flooring is doweled, random-width oak. The main decorative feature is the handcrafted furniture, including massive sequoia wood tables and benches, hand-planed and polished, with simple, stylized carvings of Native American motifs reflecting an Art Deco influence.</p><br>
<p>The cabin and its furnishings were designed to blend with the surrounding sequoias, with the massive furniture hand-hewn from a fallen sequoia in the lower grove.</p><br>
<p>Galens Hospice, Mariposa Grove of big trees, California - DPLA - b0fb2f7f48c4a5dac519b514b795d10e.jpgGalens Hospice photographed by Carelton Watkins</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<p>Sargent, Shirley. Galen Clark: Yosemite Guardian. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1964. Yosemite Nature Notes, Vol. 7, June 1932, pp. 4–5.</p><br>
<p>Report of the Commissioners to Manage Yosemite Valley & the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees (1885–1886), p. 10, Yosemite Research Library.</p><br>
<p>Superintendent Annual Reports, Yosemite National Park, 1928 & 1930, Yosemite Research Library.</p><br>
<p>President&#39;s House, historically known as Campbell-Staats House, is a historic home located next to the Campbell House in the Ritter Park Historic District in Huntington, West Virginia.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1923 and was originally for the one-term mayor Charles Campbell, and is an 11,710 square-foot, Neoclassical and Greek Revival dwelling. The building was later purchased by Marshall University in 1971.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Love Hardware Building is a three-story historic commercial building next to Pullman Square. It was built in 1926 with Classical Revival architecture, to hold the Love Hardware store open until 2010. The building later was restored in 2010, to serve as a modern commercial building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Huntington Historic District with a boundary increase in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Commodore Perry Estate Hotel is a hotel operated by Auberge Resorts in the Hancock neighborhood of Austin, Texas.</p><br>
<p>The property on which the hotel sits was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as Perry Estate / St. Mary&#39;s Academy on August 8, 2001 and, on September 12, 2024, the hotel operating on the site received two Michelin Keys, one of only three such hotels in Texas and the only two key hotel in Austin, Texas.</p><br>
<h2>Property Description</h2><br>
<p>The 10 acre property, located at 4100 Red River Street, originally featured guest houses, a triangular elevator, a bowling alley, and a sunken garden. The home features a Mediterranean villa style that somewhat resembles buildings at the nearby University of Texas. Waller Creek flows through the back part of the property.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built, originally, as the private residence of cotton entrepreneur E. H. Perry and his family in 1928, the property was sold to Herman Heep in 1944 who, in turn, sold the property to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Austin who turned the property into a school - Saint Mary&#39;s Academy, which operated on the property until 1972.</p><br>
<p>The property continued to host various schools until 2011 when Clark Lyda, who went to high school on the property when it was the Christian Academy of Austin, purchased the lot. In 2020, after years of renovations, the Commodore Perry Estate Hotel opened.</p><br>
<h3>E. H. Perry</h3><br>
<p>Edgar Howard (E. H.) Perry and his colleagues "were responsible for the majority of the growth and development of downtown and suburban Austin from the 1920s to the 1950s." When E. H. Perry sold the estate to Herman Heep in 1944 he moved into the Driskill Hotel, which he co-owned with others.</p><br>
<p>In 1948 Texas Governor Beauford H. Jester named E. H. Perry a Commodore in the newly reconstituted Texas Navy, although E. H. Perry had already been going by the nickname "Commodore" for some time prior to that.</p><br>
<p>In 1949 plans were presented for what would eventually become the Commodore Perry Hotel at 8th and Brazos. This hotel would continue to operate until 1974, after which the property was redeveloped as condominiums.</p><br>
<p>On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was scheduled to attend a brief reception at the Commodore Perry Hotel immediately after his planned 3:15pm arrival at Bergstrom Air Force Base, however, those plans never came to fruition due to his assassination earlier that day</p><br>
<p>The Commodore Perry Estate Hotels Luties restaurant is named after E. H. Perry&#39;s wife, Lutie Perry</p><br>
<h3>Schools</h3><br>
<p>Saint Marys Academy was the first parochial school in Austin and can trace its origins back to 1874. From 1944 to 1972 Saint Marys Academy operated on the grounds of the former E. H. Perry Estate.</p><br>
<p>From 1972 to 1995 the school changed hands numerous times, serving variously as the Athens Montessori School, Austin Ballet Theatre, Christian Academy of Austin, Town and Country School, The Perry School, St. Francis School and Holy Cross High School.</p><br>
<p>Folk singer Nanci Griffith attended school on the property when it was Holy Cross High School together with her friend, Margaret Mary Graham, the subject of Griffiths early song "Theres a Light Beyond these Woods (Mary Margaret).</p><br>
<p>From 1995 to 2011 the Sri Atmananda Memorial School operated on the property as a branch location of Sri Adwayananda Public School in Malakkara, Kerala, India.</p><br>
<p>The Sri Atmananda Memorial School hosted the Fantastic Magic Camp in the summers of 1997, 1998 and 1999</p><br>
<p>Alswel, also known as the William Lemp Estate House, is a house in Sunset Hills, Missouri built by German-American brewer William J. Lemp, Jr. in 1911. Designed by Lemp Brewery staff architect Guy Norton in the unusual Tyrolean Chalet style, it is situated on a bluff roughly 200 feet above the Meramec River in south St. Louis County, Missouri. The estate grounds once consisted of almost 200 acres, but sell-offs and residential subdivision have reduced this to a 2.1 acre lot on which the house currently sits.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Although St. Louis had several bedroom communities served by rail by the 1900s, many of its business leaders preferred building country homes in the more secluded areas of south St. Louis County, often fanning out from Gravois Road in the now-municipalities of Sunset Hills and Grantwood Village. The area was especially popular with the city&#39;s beer-brewing elite, including the Griesediecks, the Busches, and the Lemps.</p><br>
<p>In 1910, brewer William J. Lemp, Jr. was just coming off of a very messy divorce from his first wife, Lillian, that had become sensationalized tabloid fodder in St. Louis society and was looking for a secluded retreat. Purchasing 192 acres on the Meramec bluffs, construction of Alswel and several other outbuildings and servants houses had been completed by 1914. By 1915 Lemp was remarried to the former Ellie Koehler Limberg and the couple took-up full-time residence at Alswel, away from the city. By all accounts, they lived a happy life for the next several years. Lemps brother Edwin had built his own estate, Cragwold, on the Meramec bluffs a few miles upriver in 1911.</p><br>
<h2>Financial and legal troubles</h2><br>
<p>The Lemp Brewery was not able to weather the effects of Prohibition, with the liquidation of the brewery assets for 8 cents on the dollar contributing to Lemps suicide in 1922. Financial and legal troubles for the Alswel estate commenced shortly thereafter. In 1924, Ellie filed suit against Lillian (a successor trustee) and William and Lillians son, William Lemp III, to force a sale of the estate and it was auctioned from the courthouse steps in Clayton in 1925.</p><br>
<p>William III would ultimately gain clear control of the estate and he and his wife Agnes were living there by the 1930s. However, they carried a hefty mortgage underwritten by the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC), for which they subsequently missed several payments. MEC filed suit in 1934 and, when the Lemp&#39;s failed to meet an extended schedule for payment, Alswel was again sold at the courthouse in 1936, this time to MEC. By 1946, developers had purchased 117 acres for residential building and further sell-off in the 1980s reduced the land area in which Alswel currently sits to just over 2 acres.</p><br>
<h2>Recent events</h2><br>
<p>In 1989, Alswel was recognized with listing on the National Register of Historic Places of the National Park Service. Subdivision left some of the original estates structures, like a cylindrical stone observation platform (see below), sequestered on neighboring residential lots. By the middle 1990s, most of the other outbuildings and servants homes, which had been built in the same Tyrolean style but now resided on separate smaller lots in the area, had been razed. The main Alswel "big house" is still a private residence today.</p><br>
<p>The Westerly Memorial and Public Library is a non-profit public library located at 44 Broad Street in Westerly, RI. It is part of the Westerly Downtown Historic District and the Wilcox Park Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Westerly Memorial and Public Library was built in 1894 and was designed by Longstaff and Hurd in the Richardson Romanesque Revival style. It was built with funds from Stephen Wilcox in 1892. An eastern addition was built in 1924.</p><br>
<p>Opened on August 15, 1894, it is maintained by the Memorial and Library Association of Westerly.</p><br>
<p>The Willard and Fern Tompkins House is a single-family home built in 1937, designed by the Madison, Wisconsin firm of Beatty and Strang. It was part of the Frost Woods development in neighboring Monona. The house is an early example of the International Style that was beginning to take hold in the United States. It was added to the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places on August 18, 2024  and the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 2023 .</p><br>
<p>The house has two stories, a basement and an attached two-car garage, with three bedrooms and a covered porch on the second floor. It has a flat roof and simple rectangular massing. Many of its bands of casement windows are wrapped around an exterior corner. The siding is lapped cypress.</p><br>
<p>The Durgan Bridge is a truss bridge that carries Nevada Street over the North Yuba River in Downieville, California. Built in 1938, it is a rare surviving example of a one-lane, rigid-connected Pratt through truss span. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 10, 2012. It is also known as the Nevada Street Bridge or Courthouse Bridge.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Durgan Bridge is one of four one-lane bridges that connect the town of Downieville, California. It was built in 1938 by the Judson Pacific Company to replace a bridge destroyed by a flood. It was designed by county surveyor and architect George F. Taylor.</p><br>
<p>The original Durgan Bridge was built in 1851 by James Durgan, for whom the bridge was named. The bridge is linked to the California gold rush, as it is referenced as a key location where gold was extracted. On June 24, 1854, two prospectors from the Canadian Co. recovered 105 ounces of gold from below the Durgan Bridge. Initially a pedestrian footbridge, it was widened later that same year to accommodate wagon traffic. Today, the Durgan Bridge and the Jersey Bridge serve as the two main bridge crossings in Downieville.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Durgan Bridge was designed to carry both automotive and pedestrian traffic along Nevada Street over the North Yuba River. The single-lane bridge is 11.10 ft wide and 140 ft-long. Constructed in a steel Pratt through truss bridge, it features riveted steel I-beams and runs north-south along Nevada Street. At each end of the bridge, a builder’s plate that reads, “Pacific Rolling Mill Company Judson Pacific Co., San Francisco, 1938.” The bridge’s roadway deck is made of poured concrete, supported by two rectangular concrete piers. A four-foot concrete pedestrian walkway is located on the eastern side, while a water pipe runs along the lower chord on the western side. The Pratt design was invited by Thomas Willis Pratt.</p><br>
<h2>Historical Significance</h2><br>
<p>Only a small number of single-lane Pratt through truss bridges still survive in California today. The Durgan Bridge is associated with the development of Downieville in Sierra County, built in response to a 1937 flood that destroyed the previous wooden bridge. It stands as a good example of the Truss Bridge type.</p><br>
<p>The Campbell House, is a historic home located between the Cammack House and the Campbell-Staats House in the Ritter Park Historic District in Huntington, West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>Facing Ritter Park, the Campbell House was built in 1923. It is a three-story, Neoclassical dwelling, including a large portico supported by four columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Savage House was a historic farmhouse located near Stoughton, Wisconsin, built in 1848. It was situated 0.8 miles north of the historic village of Cooksville but officially listed under Stoughton due to its location just across the county line. The house was an example of Gothic Revival style, featuring a symmetrical design with a transverse gable roof and dormer over the front door, similar to other historic houses in Cooksville.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Savage House was originally owned by John Waite Savage, a settler from Vermont. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 1980, and on the Wisconsin Register of Historic Places (Ref. #9902) on January 1, 1989. However, by 1980, the house had been abandoned, and it was demolished in 1996. Following its demolition, it was removed from both the State and National Registers.</p><br>
<p>The most notable resident was John Lucian Savage, who was born in the house in 1879. He later became a renowned civil engineer known for his work on the Hoover Dam, the Grand Coulee Dam, and the Three Gorges Dam.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Savage House was an example of Gothic Revival architecture, featuring a symmetrical layout with a transverse gable roof and dormer-fronted facade. This style was consistent with other historic homes in the nearby village of Cooksville.</p><br>
<p>The Harrison Stebbins House was a notable farmhouse built by the settler Harrison Stebbins near historic Cooksville, Wisconsin in 1850. It was a 2-1/2 story Federal Style house made of limestone, which the owners named Windermere. Unity magazine  said</p><br>
<p>" was built of stone and was almost palatial in type. On the third floor was a ballroom where on many occasions the brilliancy and culture of the New England settlers gathered from the country round to make merry... ne entered the grounds through a long avenue with over hanging trees."</p><br>
<p>The Stebbins House was added to the Wisconsin Register of Historic Places on January 1, 1989 (reference #84115), and the National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 1980 (reference #80000401). The avenue of trees was severely damaged by windstorms in the 1960s, and the house itself was demolished on November 27, 2013, after several unsuccessful attempts to move and save it.</p><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian Church is a tall steep one-story, slate roof church in Huntington, West Virginia, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1895, with Gothic Revival architecture that sits next to the Johnson Memorial Church. This entry also includes a three-story flat-roof school building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Huntington Historic District in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Plainfield Masonic Temple is located at 105 East 7th Street in the city of Plainfield in Union County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1929 by Jerusalem Lodge No. 26 Free & Accepted Masons, the historic Neoclassical Revival style masonic temple was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 16, 2024, for its significance in architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The Neoclassical Revival building was designed by New York City architects Franklin B. Ware and his brother Arthur Ware. The four-story building was constructed by the Wigton–Abbott Corporation and completed in February 1929. The entrance has a granite surround with rosettes and two bronze sconces. On the western side, the building has the Square and Compasses symbol of Freemasonry adorned with a festoon.</p><br>
<p>The Keene Unitarian Universalist Church is a historic Unitarian Universalist church in Keene, New Hampshire. Constructed in 1894, it was added to the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places in 2021, and the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Construction on the church and its attached parish hall began in April 1894 and was completed that summer. Both structures were designed by architect Edwin J. Lewis Jr., in Late Gothic Revival and Tudor Revival styles. Features of the church include:</p><br>
<p>Granite from Roxbury, New Hampshire</p><br>
<p>Pews imported from Paris</p><br>
<p>A 1,500 lb bell made by Paul Revere</p><br>
<p>A window behind the pulpit, installed in 1900, designed by Frederick Wilson of Tiffany Studios</p><br>
<p>A stone plaque by Francis Barrett Faulkner</p><br>
<p>An educational wing was added in 1960, done in modern style and designed by architect Arthur M. Doyle.</p><br>
<p>The Valley Road Historic District is a national historic district located along Community Drive  in Manhasset, in Nassau County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The historic district includes six contributing and buildings and one contributing site. It includes the Lakeville A.M.E. Zionist Church – one of Nassau County&#39;s oldest churches – and its cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is best known for its contributions to Long Islands and New Yorks African American history. Many freed African American slaves settled in the area following the abolition of slavery in New York State in 1827, with a prominent, thriving African American community quickly taking shape.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 8, 1977, before additionally being listed on the New York State Register three years later, on June 23, 1980.</p><br>
<p>Chapman Building, also known as Los Angeles Investment Company Building, Charles C. Chapman Building, and Chapman Flats, is a historic thirteen-story highrise located at 756 S. Broadway and 227 W. 8th Street in the Broadway Theater District in the historic core of downtown Los Angeles.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Chapman Building, originally named Los Angeles Investment Company Building after the Los Angeles Investment Company who built the building, was designed by in-house architect Ernest McConnell and built between 1911 and 1913. In 1913, Globe Savings Bank moved its headquarters to the building.</p><br>
<p>Charles Chapman, the former mayor of Fullerton and first chairman of the board for Bank of America, bought Chapman Building for $1.6 million in 1920 and then headquartered Bank of America there.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the Broadway Theater and Commercial District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, with Chapman Building listed as a contributing property in the district. In 2007, the building was listed as Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument #899.</p><br>
<p>The building was converted to a 168-unit condominium complex in 2007, but before the condos were sold they were switched to for-lease apartments. The entire project took more than two years and $30 million to complete.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and design</h2><br>
<p>Chapman Building is made of steel-framed concrete with a terra cotta and brick facade. The building is divided into four sections, three of which are above the bottom two stories, and features a Beaux Arts design that includes fluted columns, heavy cornice, and ornamental bands and moldings.</p><br>
<p>Chapman Building&#39;s interior features marble staircases and expansive hallways highlighted by tiled floors, marble walls, and metal doors.</p><br>
<p>The Hansen Bridge is a truss bridge that spans the Downie River, connecting Upper Main and Pearl Streets in Downieville, California. Constructed in 1935, it is a rare surviving example of a one-lane, side-panel steel Pratt truss bridge. On July 10, 2012, the bridge was added the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its historical and architectural importance. Also known as Scott&#39;s Bridge, or the Peral Street Bridge, it was the only bridge in the area to survive the 1937 flood.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Hansen Bridge is one of four signle-lane bridges that connect the town of Downieville, California. Originally built in 1935, it was the only bridge to survive the 1937 flood, which destroyed both the Jersey Bridge and the Durgan Bridge. The Hansen Bridge sustained damage in the 1937 flood but was repaired and returned to service by 1938. Built by Lord and Bishop of Sacramento, the bridge was constructed at a cost of $1,975.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Hansen Bridge was designed to accommodate both automotive and pedestrian traffic, spanning east to west across the Downie River and connecting Upper Main and Pearl Streets. This single-lane bridge measures 12.4 ft in width and 80 ft in length. Built in the style of a steel Pratt pony truss bridge, it features steel I-beams fastened with riveted steel plates. Steel guardrails extend outward from the pony truss on both sides. The roadway deck is supported by wooden stringers that run the full length of the bridge, with an asphalt surface covering the deck. The structure is anchored by two concrete pilings at each end, resting on concrete footings, with wooden boards between the pilings. A water pipe runs along the northern edge of the bridge.</p><br>
<h2>Historical Significance</h2><br>
<p>Only a few single-lane Pratt truss bridges remain in California today. The Hansen Bridge is closely tied to the community planning and development of Downieville in Sierra County, particularly in its role following the 1937 Downieville flood. It serves as a notable example of the truss bridge design. Its period of significance spans from 1935 to 1938.</p><br>
<p>Manhasset Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends is a landmarked Quaker friends meeting house located in Manhasset in Nassau County, New York, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The building at the Manhasset Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends has a long, rectangular layout. A cemetery is also located on the property, as well as a large lawn. A stone fence surrounds the property.</p><br>
<p>The property is located at 1421 Northern Boulevard, on the north side of that road&#39;s intersection with Shelter Rock Road.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 9, 2009. Prior to that, on July 28, 2009, it was listed on the New York State Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Jersey Bridge is a truss bridge that carries traffic connecting Main and Commercial Streets over the Downie River in Downieville, California. Constructed in 1938, it is a rare surviving example of a one-lane, steel, rigid-connected polygonal Parker through Pratt truss span. On July 10, 2012, the bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, recognizing its historical and architectural significance. The bridge is also known as the Highway 49 Bridge, or Downie River Bridge</p><br>
<p>and continues to carry California State Route 49.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Jersey Bridge is one of four one-lane bridges that connect the town of Downieville, California. It was built in 1938 by the Judson Pacific Company to replace a bridge destroyed by a flood. It was designed by county surveyor and architect George F. Taylor.</p><br>
<p>The Durgan Bridge is also historically significant as the site of the lynching of a Spanish woman known as Josefa Segovia, also known as Juanita, on July 5, 1851, the only recorded lynching of a woman in California’s history.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Jersey Bridge was designed to carry both automotive and pedestrian traffic connecting Main and Commercial Streets over the Downie River. The single-lane bridge is 12.5 ft wide and 120 ft-long. Constructed in a steel Pratt through truss bridge, it features riveted steel I-beams and runs north-south along Commercial Street. At each end of the bridge, a builder’s plate that reads, “Judson Pacific Co., San Francisco, 1938.” The bridge&#39;s roadway deck is constructed from poured concrete, while the pedestrian walkway is made of wooden boards supported by steel I-beams, with steel posts and wooden handrails on both sides. The north end of the bridge rests on a concrete abutment, and the south end is supported by a pier made of board-formed concrete, featuring two concrete cylinders encased in riveted steel. The St. Charles Hotel once stood across the street at the end of the bridge but was destroyed by fire in 1947.</p><br>
<p>The Jersey Bridge was named for its role in connecting the downtown area with Jersey Flat. Over the years, it faced multiple disasters: it was destroyed by flood in 1852, fire in 1858, damaged by flood again in 1861, collapsed under weight in 1876, and was once more destroyed by flood in 1937, which also wiped out the nearby Durgan Bridge. The current Jersey Bridge, built in 1938, has since carried California State Route 49 on its one-lane roadway.</p><br>
<h2>Historical significance</h2><br>
<p>Only a small number of single-lane Pratt through truss bridges still survive in California today. The Jersey Bridge is associated with the community planning and development of Downieville in Sierra County, built in response to a 1937 flood that destroyed the previous wooden bridge. It stands as a good example of the Truss Bridge type. It serves as the main highway through Downieville.</p><br>
<p>The bridge is linked to the California gold rush, as it is referenced as a key location where gold was extracted. In 1850, a young boy arrived in Downieville and found work at the Jersey claim, which was located where the Jersey Bridge now stands. At the time, it was the richest mine along the river, and the boy struck gold.</p><br>
<p>The Sierra City School, also known as The Old Schoolhouse,</p><br>
<p>is located at 418 Main Street (California State Route 49) in Sierra City, California, a former Gold Rush mining town. The historic wood-frame building, originally constructed in 1883, reflects the region&#39;s early efforts to establish an educational system during the mining boom of the late 19th century. On January 9, 2024, the Sierra City School was officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1863, a private school was established in a room beneath the Masonic Hall in Sierra City. By 1869, it began receiving state funding and became a public school. Enrollment grew to 62 students by 1882. The Sierra City School was constructed in 1883, with a Primary Room added in 1888. The schoolhouse remained in use until January 1952, when an avalanche damaged the front of the building, causing the students to eventually attend school in Downieville, California. The Butt family purchased the property in 2022. The former classroom has since been converted into living quarters, now featuring a dining room, three bedrooms, and a bathroom.</p><br>
<p>In July 2024, local newspapers reported that the Sierra County Historical Society had agreed to return the original 700-pound bell, removed in 1972, to the schoolhouse on the condition that the belfry be reconstructed. On July 29, 2024, the bell and belfry were successfully placed atop the Sierra City School.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Sierra City School began as a one-room, wood-frame schoolhouse built in 1883, measuring 2,640 ft&sup2, with a narrow gable end front wall facing north towards Main Street (California State Route 49). Built in the Vernacular architecture-style, the schoolhouse features painted wood sidings, rests on a concrete foundation, and is topped with a corrugated metal roof and a flagpole. Originally, the building had separate entrances for boys and girls. It also included double-hung wood windows, entry doors, and a large sliding wood barn-type door with a circular vent at the front. In 1887, a 30 ft -by-36 ft addition was built, including a Primary Room at the south end of the school. In 1896, a bell and belfry were added to the structure. By 1917, a porch was constructed around the schoolhouse, further enhancing its design.</p><br>
<h2>Historical significance</h2><br>
<p>The Sierra City School holds historical significance for its connection to the development of early educational facilities in Sierra County during the late 19th-century mining boom. Constructed with public funds in response to the area&#39;s growth, the building is an excellent example of the vernacular rural American schoolhouse design.</p><br>
<p>Rialto Theater, formerly Quinn&#39;s Rialto Theater and Grauman’s Rialto, is a historic former movie theater located at 812 S. Broadway in the Broadway Theater District in the historic core of downtown Los Angeles.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Downtown Los Angeles&#39;s Rialto Theater was designed and built in 1917 by Oliver Perry Dennis, and the Magic Castle. Since opening, the building has undergone many alterations, including a significant remodel by William Lee Woollett in 1923, the addition of neon Art Deco marquee around 1930, a conversion to retail sometime after 1988, and a seismic retrofit in the 1990s.</p><br>
<p>Exhibitor J.A. Quinn opened the theater in 1917 with an exclusive screening of Garden of Allah. Sid Grauman took over in 1919, and in 1921, the theater entered into an exclusive agreement with Paramount Pictures, whom Grauman sold the theater to in 1924.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, Los Angeles&#39;s Broadway Theater and Commercial District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, with Rialto Theater listed as a contributing property in the district. In 1989, the building was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #472.</p><br>
<p>Rialto Theater closed as a movie theater in 1988. In 2013, Urban Outfitters moved into the building.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and design</h2><br>
<p>The Rialto Theater originally featured a Greek Revival design that included three sets of arched windows and a pediment atop its facade. A remodel completely changed this design, adding a Georgian façade with two rectangular windows that were flanked by fluted pilasters and small round windows. A second remodel added a neon Art Deco marquee.</p><br>
<p>Inside, huge columns originally framed the proscenium, the side walls were designed to resemble ancient stonework, and the plaster ceiling beams were painted to resemble wood. Almost none of the original interior remains.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Beissner House is a National Registered of Historic Places-listed home in Galveston, Texas.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Galveston lumberman, Henry Beissner built his house at 2818 Ball Avenue in 1891. Its architecture is remarkable for the neighborhood and for Galveston. Compared to the neighboring development, the architecture of the Henry Beissner House is unusual and elevated. Built on a stone arch base, its front gable displays more detail compared to other houses in Galveston. Mardi J. Mitchell added a turret during a major renovation of the house in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Galveston City Hall is located at 823 Rosenberg Avenue. It is the first of three city halls constructed for Galveston.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Old City Hall</h3><br>
<p>in 1846, Mayor John Sydnor proposed converting the old marketplace to a combined city hall and marketplace. The old market was located on municipally-owned land on Market Street between 20th and 21st streets. Yet this plan lacked financing until the 1880s, when the city hired Alfred Muller to design a city hall. The cornerstone was laid on March 2, 1888. The French Renaissance-style building reserved the ground floor for the market stalls, with the top two floors for municipal offices. The building was flanked on the east and west by its staircases and supported by Ionic columns to the north, which were covered by a portico. This city hall was in use until 1916 and demolished in 1966.</p><br>
<h3>1916 City Hall</h3><br>
<p>Originally conceived as part of a City Beautiful civic center, Galveston relocated its new city hall from the old city market site to Rosenberg Avenue. The architecture firm of C. D. Hill & Company also designed a city hall for Dallas, employed Italian forms for its palazzo-type structure and its portico. Originally designed with a civic auditorium attached, it was replaced by a fire station after Hurricane Carla.</p><br>
<p>The Jean Lafitte Hotel is a National Register of Historic Places-listed property located at 2105 Church Street in Galveston.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Jean Lafitte Hotel was marketed to business travelers, as were many hotels built in the 1920s in various settlements in Texas. This L-plan building was 10 stories in height, which was set on a base of stone and clad in brown brick.</p><br>
