<p>The University Auditorium, occasionally known as the Memorial Auditorium and sometimes called the University of Florida Auditorium, is a historic building on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by William Augustus Edwards in the Collegiate Gothic style and was built between 1922-1924. It was restored and expanded in 1977 by architect James McGinley. The expansion, which added new entrances, lobbies and stage dressing rooms along with air-conditioning, was designed to complement but not match the original architecture. It is a contributing property in the University of Florida Campus Historic District which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 1989. On April 18, 2012, the AIA&#39;s Florida Chapter placed University Auditorium on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places.</p><br>
<h2>Interior Design</h2><br>
<p>William Edward&#39;s University Chapel-Auditorium was planned in the early 1920s to be the first unit of an imposing administrative building with a massive central bell tower. This design was clearly patterned after London&#39;s 11th-century Westminster Hall and 19th-century Central Lobby in the Houses of Parliament, and also appropriates some features seen in Proctor Hall, the 1913 graduate dining hall at Princeton University designed by Ralph Adams Cram. By 1924 only the auditorium portion had been built; in the late 1940s the administrative plan became Tigert Hall sited on SW 13th Street, while in 1953 the bell tower plan became the adjacent Century Tower. The striking auditorium interior is architecturally unique within Edwards&#39; practice in its application of a late 14th-century hammerbeam roof to a cruciform structure. Each of the carved hammerbeam end bosses presents one symbol of the "land-grant quadrivium" - six Scholars wear four-cornered academic caps ("mortar boards") reminiscent of 5th-century square birettas; five Musicians stroke Greek lyres; five Engineers lift notched gears; and six Athletes sport tight leather football helmets. In each of the two large windows above the east and west transept balconies, six scholars depicted in early 20th-century Art Deco style overlook the audience space.</p><br>
<h2>Andrew Anderson Memorial Organ</h2><br>
<p>University President Albert Murphree received $50,000 for the organ from Dr. Andrew Anderson, a St. Augustine physician, philanthropist, and associate of early Florida developer Henry Flagler. The spacious interior of the University Auditorium with its elaborate wood-carvings and roomy galleries was reminiscent of Proctor Hall and other buildings at Princeton University (which Dr. Anderson had attended before the Civil War), and offered a congenial home. Tonal plans for Florida were prepared by William Zeuch of Boston&#39;s famous Skinner Organ Company, which built and installed the original instrument in early 1925. The organ was first played publicly on June 7, 1925, at the annual University Commencement Convocation. A musical landmark for its day, the organ was designed and voiced at the zenith of orchestral-imitative or "symphonic" organ design in this country, and is mentioned in such reference works as Orpha Ochse&#39;s The History of the Organ in the United States and Charles Callahan&#39;s The American Classic Organ. It was heard frequently through the 1930s in recitals by Claude Murphree, University Organist, as well as in early broadcasts over the University&#39;s "new" radio station, WRUF. An elaborate organ façade was also designed by the architect, but was never built.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1960s the Æolian-Skinner Organ Company of Boston began a program of mechanical renovation and tonal changes, and the M. P. Moller Organ Company continued expanding and modifying the organ as a teaching and recital instrument for the growing School of Music. Only a handful of Skinner stops remain in the present instrument, with the majority coming from Æolian-Skinner, Moller, Austin and Reuter. Today the Andrew Anderson Memorial Organ, with 99 ranks and nearly 5400 pipes, is one of the largest recital instruments in the United States, with a major place in the musical life of this community of scholars.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>The University of Florida Auditorium today is a performing arts venue which seats up to 843 people. It has a concert stage, and is used for musical concerts, lectures, convocations, and pageants. Its director is Brian Jose.</p><br>
<p>Summerville, , is a large, affluent residential area and historic district located northwest of downtown Augusta, Georgia. The district is site of the historic homes of John Milledge, George Walton, and Thomas Cumming.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>18th century</h3><br>
<p>Summerville was built in the 1780s, and established as a separate village from the city of Augusta.</p><br>
<h3>19th century</h3><br>
<p>During the mid to late 1810s, downtown Augusta experienced a small epidemic of malaria, which caused little effect in Summerville. In 1820, a major outbreak of fever nearly wiped out the entire garrison at the USA Arsenal. After a recommendation from an officer, the USA Arsenal purchased land that is the present-day site of Augusta University.</p><br>
<p>By 1850, Summerville became a four-season community. More permanent buildings and year-round homes sprang up as the town prospered. In 1861, Summerville was officially incorporated as a city with the boundaries defined as a circle for one-mile. Later on, Summerville became a fashionable luxury resort and golf capital with the construction of many hotels. This caused a large transformation — from a small summer resort for local residents to a winter playground for wealthy industrialists and politicians from the northern United States. Two hotels, The Partridge Inn and the Bon Air Hotel, hosted captains of industry and former presidents of the United States. Some built winter homes in the area, while others stayed permanently, escaping the harsh winters of the northern USA</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>When the city of Augusta annexed Summerville in 1912, it lost its status as a separate town. Four years later, a fire swept through downtown Augusta, destroying much of the business district and neighborhoods along lower Broad Street. This caused a housing boom for Summerville.</p><br>
<h3>21st century</h3><br>
<p>Residents of Summerville and surrounding neighborhoods plan to meet on December 4, 2022 to discuss re-establishing Summerville as a city separate from Augusta–Richmond County. Local attorney Wright McLeod cites public safety, taxation, and the inefficiency of the consolidated government as reasons from splitting from Augusta–Richmond County.</p><br>
<h2>Historic district</h2><br>
<p>On May 22, 1980, Summerville was added to the National Register of Historic Places, bounding from Highland Ave., Heard Ave., Wrightsboro Rd., Milledge Rd., and Cumming Rd.</p><br>
<h3>Historic sites</h3><br>
<p>Summerville Cemetery</p><br>
<p>Appleby Library</p><br>
<p>Augusta Arsenal</p><br>
<p>Partridge Inn — historic hotel that opened in 1860, many northerners stayed to escape the winters of the North (open to this day)</p><br>
<p>Stephen Vincent Benet House — historic home on campus of Augusta University</p><br>
<p>College Hill — home of George Walton from 1795 to his death in 1804</p><br>
<p>Bon Air Hotel</p><br>
<p>Reid-Jones-Carpenter House - Individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it now houses the Alan Fuqua Center for Young People.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<h3>Structures</h3><br>
<p>The architecture of Summerville include examples of Greek, Italianate, Spanish, Gothic, and many other types.</p><br>
<p>The Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows is a historic Roman Catholic church located at Starkenburg, Montgomery County, Missouri. It is dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows. In addition to Stations of the Cross and two grottos, the shrine includes the Church of the Risen Savior , Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows , and Log Chapel . The Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows replaced an earlier 19th century log church, which was retained on the site as a chapel. The shrine was built by a congregation of mid-19th century German immigrants and their descendants. The Church of the Risen Savior is a Gothic Revival style limestone block structure. The bell tower was added in 1891.</p><br>
<p>The Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows was designed by Professor Becker of Mainz, Germany, with John Walchshauser, an architect from St. Louis. The Romanesque Revival style structure was built between 1906 and 1910, with limestone quarried by parishioners and much labor provided by them.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Monthaven, also known as the Leonard B. Fite House, is a historic home in Hendersonville, Tennessee and is on the National Historic Register. It was built around 1860 and used as a field hospital during the American Civil War. A few skirmishes occurred on the property as well. The historic building is now home to galleries and offices of the Hendersonville Arts Council.</p><br>
<p>During its time, Monthaven was considered a neighbor to Rock Castle and The Hermitage, both miles away.</p><br>
<p>The Somers Hamlet Historic District is a historic district located along US 202 in Somers Hamlet in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is the stretch of highway between the junctions with NY 100 and NY 116, including small portions of both highways. Two side streets, Deans Bridge Road and The Lane, are also included, bringing its total area to 56 acres .</p><br>
<p>Forty-six of the 57 buildings, sites and structures within the district are considered contributing properties. Many of them date to the early 19th century, when the hamlet was at the junction of the Croton Turnpike (now NY 100) and the Peekskill-Danbury Turnpike (now US 202). Despite the increasing suburbanization and development in northern Westchester, particularly due to the nearby presence of the corporate headquarters of IBM and PepsiCo, the area has retained its historic integrity as a relic of the area&#39;s rural origins and a fine example of the migration of New England vernacular architectural styles into New York.</p><br>
<p>The most significant contributing property, the Elephant Hotel at the junction of NY 100 and US 202, currently serves three functions. It is Somers Town Hall, the offices of its historical society and the American Circus Historical Society. The latter agency reflects the buildings historical importance as the birthplace of the circus in the United States. The brick Federal style structure, one of the finest examples of a hotel in that style in the state, was built by Hachaliah Bailey in 1825. A decade earlier he had brought an African elephant, Old Bet, to the USA Originally he had intended to use the animal in his fields, but he found he could make more money charging visitors to see Old Bet. He later organized a traveling menagerie that began to include other animal acts and human performers as well; this grew into what became part of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.</p><br>
<p>Other historic buildings in the area are primarily wood-frame structures built as dwellings, with barns and other outbuildings supporting businesses such as blacksmithies which did a thriving business on turnpike through traffic. The presence of two Shingle style houses on NY 116 near the district&#39;s eastern end signifies the time when suburbanization began in the late 19th century, as the homeowners were wealthy enough to afford to hire an architect rather than just use vernacular stylings. Two cemeteries are also included.</p><br>
<p>The Elephant Hotel, first added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The district was created and added to the Register thirty years later. The following year, 2005, the Elephant Hotel was designated a National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>The Pendleton Historic District is a national historic district located at Pendleton, Madison County, Indiana. Sites of interest include a relatively intact 19th-century business district, Fall Creek Park, the Grey Goose Inn , and a large variety of homes in Federal, Greek Revival, and American Craftsman styles. The structures within the district are described in detail in the 1984 Madison County Interim Report, which was part of the Indiana Historical Sites and Structures Inventory . The historic district includes the original 1821 plat by Thomas M. Pendleton and several of the subsequent plat additions.</p><br>
<p>The historic district includes the historic portion of Falls Park. Pendleton, the first settlement in Madison County, was originally formed by homesteaders attracted to the scenic beauty—and hydrologic potential (for water mills)--of the falls.</p><br>
<p>In 1825, an important milestone was marked in Native American rights when the European-American perpetrators of the Fall Creek Massacre were hanged near the falls.</p><br>
<p>In 1843, Frederick Douglass spoke in Pendleton as one of the American Anti-Slavery Societys Hundred Conventions. The gathered crowd was dispersed by an armed mob that chased Douglass, overtaking and beating him near the falls. He was saved by local Quakers, with whom he remained friends with throughout his life. A historic marker in Pendleton commemorates Douglasss speech here.</p><br>
<p>Falls Park is also historically significant as a noted recreational destination between 1921 and the 1950s. During this time, the area below the falls was made into a natural pool. In 1923 it was announced as one of the best, if not the best, swimming location in the state.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Henry House is a historic building located on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. Joseph Henry, a prominent American physicist who worked in electromagnetics, designed the house in 1836 and lived there from its completion in 1838 until taking a position as the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1848. The construction of the house was offered to the young physicist as part of the Universitys attempt to hire him away from the Albany Academy in an attempt to raise Princetons profile. After Henrys departure, the house served as the official housing of the Dean of the College, the Universitys senior undergraduate academic officer, from 1909 to 1961.</p><br>
<p>The Henry house has been moved repeatedly throughout its history, first in 1870 to a site behind East College, again in 1925 to the corner of Washington Road and Nassau Street to accommodate the construction of the Princeton University Chapel, and finally in 1946 to its present location. The Henry house now stands along the northern edge of the Universitys campus adjacent to Chancellor Green and serves the home of Princetons Adlinger Center for the Humanities. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965.</p><br>
<p>The house is a -story brick building with a gabled roof. It has an asymmetrical five-bay facade, with a single-story open porch extending across the front and single-story wings extending to the sides. The roof is pierced by several irregularly placed chimneys. The main entrance is roughly centered on the facade, with a three-light transom window above.</p><br>
<p>The Francis Hopkinson House is an historic house at 101 Farnsworth Avenue in Bordentown, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1750, it was the home of Founding Father Francis Hopkinson , the designer of the United States Flag and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. He lived in this home with his wife Ann Borden  from 1774 until Hopkinson&#39;s death in 1791. Ann Borden was the granddaughter of Joseph Borden, the founder of Bordentown, New Jersey. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Francis Hopkinson House stands on the northern edge of Bordentown&#39;s downtown area, at the southeast corner of Farnsworth and West Park Streets. It is a -story brick building, covered with a gambrel roof. Its main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a rounded hood supported by decorative Italianate brackets. Sash windows are arranged symmetrically around the entrance, and the steep slope of the gambrel roof is pierced by three dormers with rounded tops echoing to entrance hood in style. The interior of the house has been stylistically altered, although its basic floor plan is little altered.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1750 by Joseph Imlay, a local merchant. He later served as a federal judge in Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The house was to be burned by the British during a military action in 1778, but was spared by a Hessian officers appreciation of Hopkinsons library. The house remained in the Hopkinson family until 1915. It has since seen mixed residential and professional use.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Nast Home, also known as Villa Fontana, is a historic house on MacCulloch Avenue in Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1860–1861, it was the home of political cartoonist Thomas Nast  from 1871 until shortly before his death. Nast is best known for his caricatures, published in Harpers Weekly, in which he created or popularized now-iconic images, including typical American depictions of Santa Claus, the Democratic Donkey, and the Republican Elephant. The house was named a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Thomas Nast House stands in a mainly residential area south of downtown Morristown, at the northern corner of MacCulloch Avenue and Miller Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a mansard roof and clapboarded exterior. It is a fine example of Second Empire architecture, with pilastered corners, bracketed cornice, and curved-roof dormers in the attic level. The interior of the house retains many features dating to the period of Thomas Nast&#39;s occupation.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Nast was born in Landau, Germany, and emigrated to the United States with his parents in the late 1840s. By the age of fifteen he was employed as an artist by magazines, and he began producing drawings for Harpers Weekly in 1862. It was during his tenure there that he produced many of his most iconic caricatures and depictions, including the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and the many representations of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall, whose downfall his work contributed to. Nast did much of his work in one of the upstairs bedrooms of this house. Due to declining interest in his work, he took a diplomatic post in Ecuador in 1902, dying not long after arrival there. Nast&#39;s work is not without historical controversy, due to his negative depictions of immigrants (particularly the Irish).</p><br>
<p>The Elwood Bar was built in 1936 at 2100 Woodward Avenue  in Detroit, Michigan and is now located at 300 East Adams Street. The name comes from a combination of the cross streets: izabeth and ward. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Elwood, designed by Charles Noble, is an excellent Detroit example of Art Moderne Style. Designed for a corner lot, the two facades are covered with cream and blue enameled steel. The building is a single story, measuring 72 feet by 25 feet, but a cylindrical tower extends above the corner entrance to a height of just over 22 feet. The tower is decorated with blue stripes and geometric design. This design, as well as neon signage, extends to the rest of the exterior of the building.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance is in the corner of the building, below the tower. The enameled panels step back toward the entryway, and form an abstracted surround. The word "Bar" is above the entrance, formed in three dimensional painted sheet metal. One large window is located on the short side of the building, and eleven smaller ones on the long side.</p><br>
<p>The interior contains a curved, hardwood bar, with red and black panels inset along the bottom. Seating is in a series of red and black vinyl booths. The bathrooms have Skylights and terrazzo floors.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Elwood Bar was constructed as an investment for the John R. Williams Estate. In 1936, the estate hired Charles Noble to design the building; it was likely constructed in late 1936 or early 1937. The bar was purchased by George and Mary Courtesis in 1964. They owned it until the early 1980s, when it was purchased by Chuck Forbes, who owns the building as of 2016. The building was renovated in 1988, and has always served as a bar and grill.</p><br>
<p>In 1997, construction of Comerica Park (the Detroit Tigers stadium) threatened the Elwood, and the Bar was moved to its present location at 300 East Adams Street (on the corner of Adams and Brush). The building underwent a complete restoration at that time, and is now open as "Elwood Bar and Grill," catering to visitors attending games at the nearby Comerica Park and Ford Field.</p><br>
<p>In popular culture a photo of the Elwood appears briefly in a 2016 episode of the ABC sitcom Modern Family. In episode 7.17 "Express Yourself" at the 1:20 mark, right after the opening credits, the Elwood can be viewed at its current location.</p><br>
<p>The First Unitarian Church of Detroit was located at 2870 Woodward Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. Built between 1889 and 1890, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was destroyed by fire on May 10, 2014.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The First Congregational Unitarian Society was incorporated on October 6, 1850. This church, their second, was dedicated in November 1890. The congregation used the church until 1931, when the widening of Woodward Avenue required a remodeling of the church. At that time, they worshiped with the First Universalist Church of Our Father, whose sanctuary on Cass Avenue had been built in 1916. This arrangement worked out so well that the two congregations merged in 1934 to form the Church of Our Father (Unitarian-Universalist), which later became the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Detroit. The First Unitarian building was then sold in 1937 to the Church of Christ denomination. The building went through other owners before finally being abandoned during the 2000s. It sat empty and in poor condition until destroyed by fire in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Designed by the architectural firm of Donaldson and Meier, the First Unitarian Church of Detroit was a Romanesque Revival-style church built of red sandstone. After its remodeling during the 1936 widening of Woodward, it remained substantially as built. The gabled façade had a great expanse of masonry; a simple four-bay porch with a shed roof and stone Romanesque columns spanning the first floor. There was a two-story hip-roofed projection at the corner, and a side porch with stone piers covering a side entrance.</p><br>
<p>Most of the original John La Farge stained glass windows that faced Woodward Avenue survive in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, which acquired the work in 1959.</p><br>
<p>The David Whitney House is a historic mansion located at 4421 Woodward Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. The building was constructed during the 1890s as a private residence. It was restored in 1986 and is now a restaurant. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History and construction</h2><br>
<p>The house was built between 1890 and 1894 by a prominent lumber baron, David Whitney Jr., who was considered not only one of Detroits wealthiest personalities, but also one of Michigans wealthiest citizens. The house is estimated to have cost 400,000 (equal to $ today), and it was featured in several newspapers of that time.</p><br>
<p>The exterior is constructed using pink jasper from South Dakota. It is measured to be 21,000 square feet (2,000 m) and has 52 rooms (including 10 bathrooms), 218 windows, 20 fireplaces, a secret vault in the dining room, an elevator, and numerous Tiffany glass windows.</p><br>
<p>The Tiffany glass windows have been estimated to be worth more than the house itself. The window designs often feature themes oriented around the purpose of the rooms they are located in. For example, the music room&#39;s windows are themed towards elements of music as well as images of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music. The grand staircase features a massive stained glass window portraying a knight, paying homage to the various members of the Whitney family who were knighted, as well as their relationship to the royal blood line in England. The house was the first residence in Detroit to have a functioning elevator for personal use.</p><br>
<h2>David Whitney Jr.</h2><br>
<p>David Whitney Jr. was born in 1830 in Watertown, Massachusetts. Whitney made his millions in Massachusetts as a lumber baron. He moved to Detroit from Lowell (where he had established himself as a lumber baron) in 1857, at the young age of twenty-seven. Starting a joint venture with his brother Charles, he continued to expand his vastly successful lumber business into Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Upon arriving in Detroit, he surrounded himself by the community&#39;s wealthiest and most respectable families. Whitney soon earned the nickname of "Mr. Woodward Avenue", due to his keen interest in real estate around the Detroit area.</p><br>
<p>Whitney was always fascinated by the Detroit Athletic Club (DAC). Ever since the DACs establishment in 1887, it has been revered as "one of the finest private clubs in the country, an elite organization deeply committed to upholding the traditions and elegance of its glorious pasts". Part of the DACs grounds is now under the possession of Wayne State University. Included among the elite members of the original DAC were Whitney and his son David C. Whitney. This influenced his choice for the location of the Whitney House, as it overlooked the grounds of the DAC. The Whitney mansion was built between 1890 and 1894, and estimated to have cost approximately $400,000.</p><br>
<p>After Whitney&#39;s death in 1900, his family continued to reside in the mansion until 1920. It was converted into an upscale restaurant in 1986. Today, many of the members of the Whitney family reside in the Grosse Pointe area.</p><br>
<h2>Ownership</h2><br>
<p>In 1957, the Visiting nurse association purchased the house for $150,000. In 1979, the house was sold to Detroit-based real estate magnet Richard Kughn, who in 2007 sold it to former Chrysler executive, Bud Liebler, for more than $2 million.</p><br>
<h2>Hauntings</h2><br>
<p>Dating back to the renovations in the mid-1980s, there have been rumored occurrences of supernatural activities on all three floors of the Whitney house. The causes of these events have been linked to the story of David Whitney Jr. and his wife both dying inside the mansion. To this day, some people believe that the ghost of David Whitney Jr. haunts the Whitney mansion.</p><br>
<p>One of the most haunted areas in the house appears to be the elevator. There are reports of the elevator moving on its own between the floors without any passengers. Other unexplained apparitions have been reported on the second and third floors. One evening at closing, a staff member witnessed an older gentleman gazing out of the second floor dining room window; when he was asked to leave, the figure simply vanished into the floor. Reports by the mansion&#39;s staff members of sounds of utensils being stacked and table settings being moved all on their own, have only added to the mystery of the Whitney mansion.</p><br>
<h2>In the media</h2><br>
<p>The David Whitney House was featured in SYFY channel&#39;s paranormal TV series Ghost Hunters in 2016 where the TAPS team investigated reported activity inside and outside the property.</p><br>
<p>The house, called the Whitney Mansion, was featured as one of the haunted locations on Most Terrifying Places in America on the episode titled "Restless Dead" which aired on the Travel Channel in 2018.</p><br>
<p>The Grice House is located at 865 North Huron Avenue in Harbor Beach, Michigan. It is a museum showing life in years gone by.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Grice House was built by James G. Grice, who immigrated to the United States from England in the early 1860s with five of his seven sons and one daughter. By the 1870s was employed at the Rock Falls sawmill. The building survived the 1881 Thumb Fire. In the 1960s, with the last Grice descendant deceased, the city of Harbor Beach purchased the property to settle the estates of James and Jane Grice. Shortly afterwards, a group of local volunteers stepped forward to convert the house and surrounding area into a museum.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The museum complex now includes the house itself, the old Adam&#39;s schoolhouse, and a pole barn. Special exhibit areas include a Marine Room, Sewing Room, Industrial Room, Military Room, agricultural machinery and implements, and the reconstructed 1800s-era schoolhouse. The museum houses almost 2000 artifacts throughout the three museum buildings.</p><br>
<p>Early exhibits include a pump organ donated by Gladys Seither, a large handmade loom by Henry Roots, and an interesting collection of pioneer type tools from Albert Frank.</p><br>
<p>By the summer of 1981, the tremendous response from people in the community had made it possible to furnish the kitchen, living room, tool room, and one bedroom.</p><br>
<p>The following year saw the Marine Room take shape. The original fourth order Fresnel lens of the Harbor Beach Lighthouse, which was removed from service in 1986, was donated to the Harbor Beach Historical Society, and can be seen at the Grice House Museum.</p><br>
<p>A Sewing room, so named because of a large donation of clothes from Mrs. Eilber in Port Hope, a beautiful spinning wheel given by Freda Will, and much more. The exhibit also includes style clothes, pattern books, and accessories.</p><br>
<p>The Industrial Room, the largest second story room in the nine room house, preserves the early industrial history of Harbor Beach.</p><br>
<p>The museum also features a collection of farm equipment in a pole barn erected in 1984, next to the house.</p><br>
<p>The Adams School, built in 1920, was moved to the grounds in 1988. This school serves as a reminder of the area&#39;s educational roots.</p><br>
<p>The Confederate Monument in Cynthiana is located on the outer edge of Cynthiana, Kentucky in Battle Grove Cemetery. It was the first monument to the Confederate States of America dedicated in the State of Kentucky, and long believed to be the first Confederate memorial anywhere. Due to the 32nd Indiana Monument having been moved from its original location, the Cynthiana monument is the oldest Civil War monument still standing at its original location, where the second Battle of Cynthiana started, in the then-new town cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The Cynthiana Confederate Monument Association, a group of women, spearheaded the movement to build the monument, although the money required to build it came from men. It was built in 1869 by the Muldoon Monument Company of Louisville, Kentucky, at the cost of $2,200. The white marble obelisk stands 22 ft high on a four square foot limestone base three feet high (25 feet high combined), with a Confederate flag draped atop it. The graves of 47 Confederate veterans who died during the Civil War, many of whom are unknown, and a substantial number of John Hunt Morgan&#39;s 2nd Kentucky Cavalry who twice raided the town of Cynthiana during the War, were transferred from another cemetery to encircle the monument. David M. Snyder died in 1896, and per his wishes to be buried with his companions, was placed as part of the circle. The Cynthiana monument set the tone of many of the first Bluegrass monuments in the Confederacy, being reminiscent of death, particularly grave markers. This is best represented by the Confederate Monument of Bowling Green, Confederate Monument at Crab Orchard, Confederate Monument in Georgetown, and the Confederate Monument in Versailles.</p><br>
<p>On the back of the monument is a verse from the Bivouac of the Dead, which six other monuments would also include a verse from.</p><br>
<p>The Cynthiana Democrat said the monument was not just for the local citizenry, but "for every man and every nation, whose children and whose people have shed blood in defense of their Homes, in defense of their country, in defense of Justice and Truth".</p><br>
<p>The dedication ceremony for the monument, held on May 27, 1869, involved a parade, speeches, and food. Colonel W. C. P. Breckinridge gave the dedication speech, highlighting the virtue of the Confederate cause and the bravery of its soldiers. Soon thereafter, his cousins wife, Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge, founded the Ladies Memorial and Monument Association of Lexington. This group raised the funds to create and install the Ladies Confederate Memorial in the Lexington Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>On July 17, 1997, the Cynthiana monument was one of sixty-two monuments included in the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS.</p><br>
<p>The John Rider House is located on Main Street  in Danbury, Connecticut, United States. It is a wooden frame house dating to the late 18th century.</p><br>
<p>It remained in the Rider family until 1925. In the 1940s it was saved from demolition and restored, the beginning of historic preservation efforts in the city. today it is home to the Danbury Museum and Historical Society. It is the oldest house in the city still in its original location.</p><br>
<p>In 1977 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Six years later, when the Main Street Historic District was designated and listed on the Register, it was considered a contributing property as the oldest building in the district.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on the east side of Main Street at the south end of the historic district. Its 1.25 acre lot includes, at its rear, the 1836 John Dodd Shop, Danbury&#39;s oldest commercial building. Also owned by the museum, it is not part of the Register listing and is screened from view by large trees.</p><br>
<p>Around the house the neighborhood is urban and extensively developed. There are 19th-century houses across the street, large-scale apartment development to the south and commercial buildings to the north where Main Street opens up into Elmwood Park. The terrain is level.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a five-by-two-bay clapboard-sided wooden house two and a half stories high on a stone foundation. Two brick chimneys pierce the crest of its steeply pitched gabled roof. Apart from a slightly overhanging cornice at the roofline, it is plain and undecorated. A small lean-to covers part of the rear.</p><br>
<p>The centrally located front door opens onto a central hall dividing two large front rooms running the length of the house to the kitchen, behind an unusual transomed doorway. There is another back room behind the kitchen. All the interior woodwork, except for a chair rail on the back wall and the wainscoting between the kitchen and stairs, is original. The brick fireplaces have bolection molded surrounds and cyma moldings supporting the mantelpiece.</p><br>
<p>Two sets of stairs lead up to the second floor. The bedroom fireplaces are smaller and plainer. In the attic the roof framing, with common rafters supported by two purlins braced between the chimneys, can be seen. There are two more fireplaces in the cellar. The lean-to has no original finishings left except for the oak floor.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Rider, a local carpenter who had served as a captain in the state militia during the Revolutionary War, built the wood frame house in 1785. It would remain in his family until 1925.</p><br>
<p>By 1941 it had deteriorated badly, and was to be razed to make way for a gas station. Local preservationists rallied to save it, and it became the first of several buildings owned and operated by the Danbury Museum and Historical Society. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Today it is operated as a museum by the society. After being closed for extensive renovations in the mid-2000s, it is open once again.</p><br>
<p>Castle Hill  is an historic, privately owned, 600-acre  plantation located at the foot of the Southwest Mountains in Albemarle County, Virginia, near Monticello and the city of Charlottesville, and is recognized by the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places. Castle Hill was the home of Dr. Thomas Walker  and his wife, Mildred Thornton Meriwether . Walker was a close friend and the physician of Peter Jefferson, and later the guardian of young Thomas Jefferson after his father&#39;s death.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Through his marriage to Mildred Meriwether in 1741, Thomas Walker acquired the land comprising approximately 15,000 acre which would become the site for Castle Hill. In its square hall, the youthful, music-loving Jefferson once played the violin, while the still younger Madison danced. Here in 1781, Walkers wife delayed the British Colonel Banastre Tarleton to give the patriot Jack Jouett time to warn Governor Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislators of Tarletons plan to capture them.</p><br>
<p>In addition to frequent visits by Thomas Jefferson, Castle Hill has entertained other U. S. Presidents and historic figures including George Washington, James Madison, James Monroe, Patrick Henry, Andrew Jackson, Robert E. Lee, James Buchanan, Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster.</p><br>
<p>The Walkers youngest son, Francis Walker (1764–1806), married Jane Byrd Nelson, the daughter of Governor Thomas Nelson of Yorktown, and inherited Castle Hill. The estate was next inherited by Thomas & Mildred Walkers granddaughter, Judith Page Walker (1802–1882), who married U. S. Senator William Cabell Rives (1793–1868). William Cabell Rives studied law under Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, and was a friend of James Madison. At Castle Hill, Rives wrote a three-volume biography on Madison, entitled The Life and Times of James Madison (Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1859, 1866, 1868). A close friend of Dolley Madison, Judith Rives authored the novel Home and the World (D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1857), in which she wrote of life at Castle Hill as the fictitious “Avonmore.”</p><br>
<p>Colonel Alfred Landon Rives (1830–1903), son of William and Judith Rives, and chief of engineers to General Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War, inherited Castle Hill. After Rives died in 1903, and his widow, Sarah Catherine MacMurdo Rives, died in 1909, their daughter, Amélie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (1863–1945), prominent romantic novelist, early feminist, and wife of artist, Russian Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy (1864–1936), inherited the property. At least three of Amélie&#39;s novels, Virginia of Virginia (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1888), The Quick or the Dead? (J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1888), and Barbara Dering (J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1893), are drawn from life at Castle Hill. Amélie and Castle Hill were both featured in a New York Times article published on April 15, 1906.</p><br>
<p>In the early 20th century, Amélies sister, Mrs. Gertrude Rives Potts, who managed the estate after their fathers death, was recognized as the first woman Master of Foxhounds. While at Castle Hill, Gertrude imported and trained a pack of English Foxhounds, bred and schooled her own horses, organized a hunting staff, and enlisted the consent of neighboring landowners to form a suitable country for the “Castle Hill Hounds.” Castle Hill later became part of the Keswick Hunt Club district.</p><br>
<p>Castle Hills history as a slave plantation was chronicled in Lorenzo Dickersons documentaries The Coachman and Byrdland, about the Dickersons and Byrds, families enslaved at Castle Hill by several generations of the Walkers.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The original clapboard, colonial residence was built by Walker in 1764, with a front porch facing west and six dormer windows. William and Judith Rives added the brick, federal style addition to the home in 1824, which was built by Captain John Perry, one of Thomas Jeffersons master brickmasons. In 1844 the homes columned conservatories were added to each end of Perry&#39;s addition by another Jefferson brickmason, William B. Phillips.</p><br>
<h2>Gardens</h2><br>
<p>Castle Hill&#39;s formal gardens were featured in an article written by Gertrude Potts published in the Historic Gardens of Virginia (The James River Garden Club, Richmond, 1923). The great box-hedges which stand at the top of the gardens are considered to be some of the tallest and most impressive boxwood in Virginia. The current expanded, multi-terraced and symmetrical formal gardens were designed in 1997 by Landscape architect Rachel M. Lily.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>Castle Hill is a private residence.</p><br>
<p>Green Sergeant&#39;s Covered Bridge is a wooden covered bridge over the Wickecheoke Creek near the border between the Hunterdon Plateau and Amwell Valley located in Delaware Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. As the last historic covered bridge in the state of New Jersey, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 19, 1974 for its significance in engineering and transportation . It was added as a contributing property to the Covered Bridge Historic District in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1805, Charles Sergeant bought the property in the area. After his death in 1833, the property was inherited by his son, Richard Green Sergeant, the namesake of the bridge. The bridge was constructed in 1872, designed by Charles Ogden Holcombe of Lambertville. In 1961, due to public outcry, the bridge was rebuilt from the original materials.</p><br>
<p>The bridge has been damaged numerous times over the course of its history by vehicles striking the bridge structure, most recently in 2013 when a truck damaged the support beams of the bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Old Barracks Museum, also known just as the Old Barracks, is a historic building located at 101 Barracks Street in Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey. Built in 1758 to house soldiers of the British Army, it is the only remaining colonial barracks in the state and is one of the few tangible surviving elements of the 1776 Battle of Trenton. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 25, 1971 and listed as a National Historic Landmark on November 28, 1972, for its significance in military history. It is now a state-run historic site and museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Old Barracks were built in 1758 to house British soldiers during the French and Indian War, after colonists complained about the forced quartering of soldiers engaged in the conflict. It was built as a U-shaped stone structure, capable of housing about 300 soldiers at a time. It was reoccupied as a winter quarters by Hessian troops in the fall of 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. George Washington crossed the Delaware River to catch the Hessian garrison by surprise during the Battle of Trenton on the morning of December 26, 1776. Most of this battlefield is now occupied by downtown Trenton. For the remainder of that conflict it was occupied by whichever force controlled Trenton, including at various times British and American Continental Army troops. In the later stages of the war it was used as a military hospital by the Continental Army.</p><br>
<p>Following the Revolution, the building was sold off, and it was converted into a series of private residences. One arm of the barracks was demolished in 1813 to make way for Front Street. From 1855 to 1899 it was used as a home for elderly women. In 1902, members of the Daughters of the Revolution, under the leadership of Beulah A. Oliphant, bought part of the building to preserve it. The state bought the other part and formed a museum in 1914 which continues to be open and supported by the State of New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>The museum is open to visitors year round, Monday–Saturday, and is known for the annual Battle of Trenton Reenactments.</p><br>
<p>The Hulet Clark Farmstead is located along South Plank Road north of the hamlet of Westtown, in the Town of Minisink, New York, United States. It is a 75-acre  property along both sides of the road, consisting of a farmhouse, barn, chicken coop and other outbuildings. While he did not build the house, Clark, a longtime Minisink resident who served the town in several different capacities in the first half of the 19th century, would be most associated with it.</p><br>
<h2>Farmstead</h2><br>
<p>The center of the Clark farm is the farmhouse, a two-story hand-hewn three-bay timber frame structure. Its stone foundation is built into the sloping ground beneath, with four feet (122 cm) of exposure in front. A porch was built in the 1930s to replace a more modest stoop that preceded it, along with the house&#39;s stone chimney, and a small south addition replaced a larger one earlier in the 20th century. The interior floor plan remains largely unaltered.</p><br>
<p>A nearby chicken house, now used as a garage, was built in the early 20th century on the site of the barn it replaced. The current barn is located across the road, with a northern half dating to 1876 and a more recent addition on a concrete foundation coming in the early 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Local records indicate the house was built around 1800 by a farmer named Wadsworth to serve a parcel that at the time included 420 acres (168 ha). Clark, who had come from Westchester County with his family around the same time at the age of six, served as an officer in the state militia and as town clerk during the early 1820s. He bought the Wadsworth farm in 1828 after the death of his first wife and several children during a dysentery outbreak, while he was also serving as town justice. He lived there for the rest of his life, eventually becoming town supervisor and chairing the county&#39;s Board of Supervisors a few years before his death in 1857. Local lore holds that the house was a station on the Underground Railroad, but no evidence has yet been found to verify this.</p><br>
<p>In 1876 his heirs began subdividing the land. The current property remained a profitable family-owned dairy farm into the 1920s. After a few other changes of ownership, it became property of the Pine family in 1933, who began the poultry operations that continued until they divested themselves of the farm in 1950. The new owners, the Hulles, continued to raise chickens for a few more years but have leased the fields to neighboring farmers since the 1960s. The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 due to both Clarks importance in town history and the farmhouses status as a mostly intact sample of the rural vernacular architecture practiced by Americans of British descent in the early years of the United States.</p><br>
<p>Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, located in the River Oaks community in Houston, Texas, United States, is a 14 acre facility of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston  that houses a collection of decorative art, paintings and furniture. Bayou Bend is the former home of Houston philanthropist Ima Hogg. Bayou Bend was marked with a Texas Historical Commission marker in 1973 and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Mansion and gardens</h2><br>
<p>The mansion, designed by architect John F. Staub, was built between 1927 and 1928 for Ima Hogg and her brothers, William C. and Michael Hogg. Covered in towering trees and thick undergrowth, the home site was, in Miss Hoggs words, "nothing but a dense thicket". The home was one of the first to be located in the River Oaks neighborhood developed by the Hogg brothers. During construction, Ima Hogg insisted that as many trees as possible be kept. Only one tree was sacrificed to make room for the house, and the gardens were created around the existing trees. Ima Hogg gave the home its name, over the objection of her brother Will, who said the name was "too muddy and muskeetery&#39; and malarial". Ima responded that "not everyone can have a bayou".</p><br>
<p>Miss Hogg created a series of gardens that were intended as outdoor rooms for living and entertaining. In 1957, Miss Hogg donated her home and her collection to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Bayou Bend opened to the public in 1966.</p><br>
<p>Staubs plan for Bayou Bend combined eighteenth-century Georgian architecture with elements that are distinctly Southern and of Spanish Creole architecture. Other aspects of Bayou Bends design are borrowed from Southern plantation houses. The interiors borrow more heavily from the architectural traditions of the North. Staub incorporated floorboards and paneling from two eighteenth-century Massachusetts houses in Miss Hogg&#39;s bedroom and sitting room. In February 1999, the city of Houston named Bayou Bend an official city landmark.</p><br>
<p>The heavily wooded 14 acre along Buffalo Bayou include eight formal gardens. Three of the gardens are named for a statue of a goddess or muse displayed in the garden, Clio, Diana and Euturpe. The other gardens are named White, East, Butterfly and Carla.</p><br>
<p>In September 2008, the winds of Hurricane Ike caused extensive damage to the gardens. Although none of the statues were damaged, between 65 and 70% of the pine trees on the grounds had fallen, as had an American holly tree, which at 55 ft was the tallest of its kind in Harris County, Texas. Bart Brechter, the Curator of Gardens at the museum, estimated that it would take 5 months to clear the debris and could take years to bring the gardens to their former state.</p><br>
<h2>Collection</h2><br>
<p>The collection at Bayou Bend presently consists of approximately 4,700 objects that reflect historic and stylistic periods from 1620 to 1870 installed in some 28 period room settings that showcase American decorative arts from 1620 through 1876. Miss Hogg began assembling this important collection of American decorative arts in 1920. To provide suitable settings for these extraordinary antiques, Staub designed simple but stately interiors in the style of colonial American rooms.</p><br>
<p>In 1920, while sitting for a portrait by artist Wayman Adams, Miss Hogg admired a simple armchair belonging to the artist that was made in colonial America and later obtained a similar Queen Anne chair for herself. Almost half a century later, Miss Hogg acquired the very same chair that she had first seen in Adams&#39; studio. "From the time I acquired my first Queen Anne armchair in 1920, I had an unaccountable compulsion to make an American collection for some Texas museum." The collection also contains notable objects from outside America, including English ceramics used in Colonial America.</p><br>
<p>St. Andrew&#39;s Episcopal Church in Birmingham, Alabama, is a parish church of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama.</p><br>
<p>St. Andrews was founded in 1902 as a church school for children who could not get to the downtown Church of the Advent on Sunday. In the following year, the mission was expanded to include Sunday services. A site was acquired and a small church built; the first service was held on Easter, 1905. In December of that year, the parish was incorporated; it was admitted to full parochial rights at the Diocesan Convention of 1906. The original church building, a few blocks from the present church, was destroyed by a tornado in March, 1913. The parish had been considering a new building further up Red Mountain; now they had to act. The present site, at the corner of Eleventh Avenue and Twelfth Street South, was acquired and the cornerstone laid by Bishop Charles Beckwith on St. Andrews Day, November 30, 1913. The current building was first used at Easter, 1915.</p><br>
<p>Soon after St. Andrews was established, the rector Raimundo de Ovies, teamed up with The Rev. Carl Henckell, pastor of All Saints Church, to found Holy Innocents Hospital for Children (later Childrens Hospital of Alabama). The hospital was founded in 1911 and originally operated under the auspices of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama.</p><br>
<p>From that time until after World War II, St. Andrew&#39;s remained an ordinary medium-sized parish serving the immediate neighborhood. It was not particularly noticeable for its outreach or services. The parish, made up mainly of small business people and some professionals, was hit hard by the Great Depression. The expansion of the city over the mountain, begun in the 1930s and heightened after 1945, drained some of the traditional base of membership.</p><br>
<p>However, another change had begun which was to give St. Andrews a special character and a unique place in the Diocese of Alabama. Beginning in a small way in the early 1940s, St. Andrews gradually became an Anglo-Catholic parish with an emphasis on the celebration of the Eucharist and on traditional ceremonies and liturgy. Father Robert Yancey Marlow (priest from 1951 to 1959) strengthened the “high” church profile of the church, as did Fr. Robert Woodfield and Fr. Bruce Wirtz.</p><br>
<p>As this Anglo-Catholic parish, St. Andrews often led the way in Alabama in liturgical innovation and experimentation. The “bells and smells” of ancient practice have been happily combined with the contemporary language of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and increasing lay participation in all aspects of parish life. These liturgical elements have attracted new parishioners to St. Andrews, but an equal attraction has been its outreach ministry.</p><br>
<p>Since the 1960s, this parish has addressed the issue of racial exclusion in the Episcopal Church, advocated the consecration of women priests, welcomed gay and lesbian members, supported ministry to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, established a soup kitchen (which became Community Kitchens) with the efforts of Fr. Maurice Branscomb, provided group homes for the mentally challenged through the St. Andrew&#39;s Foundation fostered by Fr. Francis Walter, ministered to people with AIDS/HIV, offered literacy training for adults, and produced the Red Door Arts workshops and concert series.</p><br>
<p>A new parish hall was built and dedicated on Epiphany, 1989. After a million dollar capital campaign in 2000, the church itself was historically restored and new roofs were put on the parish hall and church under the charge of Fr. Marc Burnette. The parish sent a record number of people to seminary from 2005 to 2013, including Robyn Arnold, Geoff Evans, Jeff Evans, Seth Olson, Bentley Manning, and Tommie Watkins.</p><br>
<p>St. Andrew&#39;s has a long list of vigorous, energetic, and faithful rectors, including:</p><br>
<p>Raimundo deOvies 1905 - 1912</p><br>
<p>Willis Gaylord Clark 1912 - 1915</p><br>
<p>Wilmer Smith Poyner 1916 - 1918</p><br>
<p>Joseph Todhunter Ware 1918 - 1925</p><br>
<p>Vernon Cochrane McMaster 1925 - 1934</p><br>
<p>Capers Satterlee 1935 - 1939</p><br>
<p>James William Brettman 1939 - 1944</p><br>
<p>Conrad William Myrick 1945 - 1951</p><br>
<p>Robert Yancey Marlow 1951 - 1959</p><br>
<p>Robert Charles Woodfield 1960 - 1963</p><br>
<p>Wallace Bruce Wirtz 1963 - 1970</p><br>
<p>William Maurice Branscomb 1971 - 1984</p><br>
<p>Francis Xavier Walter 1985 - 1999</p><br>
<p>William Marc Burnette 2001 - 2009</p><br>
<p>From 2011 to 2020, St. Andrews experienced three priests who left the church abruptly through various unfortunate circumstances, including Ed Hunt, Michael Rich, and Tommie Lee Watkins, Jr., who was the first openly gay African American ordained in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama and the first African American to serve as rector of St. Andrews. Watkins helped establish the St. Andy&#39;s Food Pantry, which serves the neighborhood on two Saturdays each month. After a three year interim, the Reverend Peter Alan Helman became the eighteenth rector of the parish in November 2023.</p><br>
<p>The present church building, completed in 1915, was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The brownstone edifice was designed by the local firm of Joy & Marriott, patterned after English Gothic parish churches.</p><br>
<p>Saint Andrew&#39;s observes two Masses on Sunday mornings, 8:00 am which is a spoken Mass, and 10:30 am which is a sung Mass with the parish choir. The church offers services of Choral Evensong at 5:30 pm on the second Sunday of each month which is preceded by an organ prelude series beginning at 5:15 pm which features local and guest organists. The current Organist and Choirmaster is Cody Lawyer.</p><br>
<p>The Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Sierra Madre, California is an historic church that was built in 1888. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It is site #7 on Sierra Madre designated historical landmarks list. There are forty-eight properties listed on Sierra Madre&#39;s Designated Historical Properties List.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>The Episcopal Church of the Ascension is still an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Original 1885 Wooden Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Sierra Madre was destroyed by a windstorm in October 1887.</p><br>
<p>The church was used as a location in John Carpenter&#39;s 1980 horror movie The Fog.</p><br>
<p>St. Andrews Episcopal Church is a historic church at 1231 Washington Boulevard in Stamford, Connecticut. Built in 1860 and consecrated on May 8, 1861, Saint Andrews Church was originally a mission of St. Johns Church Stamford until its incorporation as a parish on June 12, 1865. Saint Andrews was the first free church in the diocese where parishioners did not have to pay a pew rental fee. St. Andrews was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 as St. Andrews Protestant Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>St. Andrew&#39;s Episcopal Church is an active Anglo-Catholic parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut. Mass is celebrated on weekdays Monday through Friday according to the Anglican Missal.</p><br>
<p>Sunday services include a Low Mass followed by a Sung Mass. All services at St. Andrew&#39;s Church are celebrated in traditional language, facing eastward. Music for services comes from both The Hymnal 1982 and Lift Every Voice and Sing II: An African American Hymnal.</p><br>
<h2>Clergy</h2><br>
<p>Francis Windsor Brathwaite (1865–1906)</p><br>
<p>John Dolby Skene (1906–1920)</p><br>
<p>Harley Wright Smith (1920–1927)</p><br>
<p>Kenneth Ripley 1936</p><br>
<p>Percy Major Binnington (1941–1956)</p><br>
<p>Richard Johnson (1956–1964)</p><br>
<p>Norman Catir (1964–1970)</p><br>
<p>Thomas George Peterson (1970–1974)</p><br>
<p>Mark Anthony DeWolf (1975–1998)</p><br>
<p>Richard Alton (2007–2014)</p><br>
<p>Bartlett W. Gage (2014–current)</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church is an Anglo-Catholic Episcopal parish in Asheville, North Carolina, United States, in the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>Its historic redbrick Gothic Revival church was designed by Richard Sharp Smith and Chauncey Beadle and built in 1914.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1994. It is located in the Proximity Park Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Dunning House is located on Ridgebury Road in the Town of Wawayanda, New York, United States. It is a wooden house first built in the mid-18th century and extensively renovated several times in the 19th. As a result, it embodies a number of different architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>A modest two-room clapboard house first built around 1750, a then-common design with a few extant examples in the region, it was later expanded in the early 19th century in a Federal style center-hall plan. The hallway still features a segmented Federal archway with its keystone supported by a pair of reeded pilasters. The hand-hewn beams, doors, trim and wall finishes are also original to that period and style.</p><br>
<p>Later renovations added interior rooms with Greek Revival features such as architraves, moldings, cornices and medallions. In the Victorian era, a Stick style porch with chamfered posts and an intricate cornice molding was built on the front and an oriel window on the southwest side. Late in the 19th century, a central front gable was added with an arch top window.</p><br>
<p>The renovations and additions over the course of the 19th century have produced a modern house of two and a half stories with five bays. It is located on a 1.1-acre (4,400 m) parcel, overlooking the Slate Hill area, with one other building, a modern greenhouse not considered a contributing property. In 2001, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places due to its relatively intact preservation of its stylistically different architectural features. It is currently up for sale, with an asking price of $800,000.</p><br>
<p>The Princeton Battlefield in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, is where American and British troops fought each other on January 3, 1777, in the Battle of Princeton during the American Revolutionary War. The battle ended when the British soldiers in Nassau Hall surrendered. This success, following those at the Battle of Trenton on December 26, 1776, and the Battle of the Assunpink Creek the day before, helped improve American morale.</p><br>
<h2>Princeton Battlefield State Park</h2><br>
<p>Princeton Battlefield State Park is a 681 acre state park located in Princeton. The park preserves part of the site of the Battle of Princeton (January 3, 1777), which was a victory for General George Washington&#39;s revolutionary forces over British forces. The park is maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry, and is located on Mercer Road (Princeton Pike), about 1.5 miles south of Princeton University and 3.8 miles north of Interstate 295/95. The park was established in 1946 on approximately 40 acre.</p><br>
<p>Highlights of the park include the Princeton Battlefield site; the Clarke House Museum; the site of the Mercer Oak, a tree which stood in the middle of the battlefield until recent years; the Ionic Colonnade designed by Thomas U. Walter (fourth Architect of the USA Capitol); and a stone patio marking the grave of 21 British and 15 American soldiers killed in the battle. A poem was written for the site by Alfred Noyes, Poet Laureate of England.</p><br>
<p>The park&#39;s hiking trails lead to the Delaware and Raritan Canal and to the 588 acre adjacent property of the Institute for Advanced Study.</p><br>
<p>The Princeton Battle Monument is located in town near Princeton University on non-adjacent park property at Stockton Street and Bayard Lane.</p><br>
<h3>Clarke House Museum</h3><br>
<p>The Thomas Clarke House Museum was built in 1772 by the third generation of Quakers at Stony Brook. The house is furnished in the Revolutionary period and contains military artifacts and battle exhibits, as well as a research library.</p><br>
<p>During the battle Hugh Mercer was brought to the Clarke House and treated unsuccessfully by Benjamin Rush.</p><br>
<h2>Threatened development</h2><br>
<p>Part of the battlefield is now a state park, while other portions remain under threat of development. For several years, the Institute for Advanced Study has been attempting to build faculty housing on the portion of Princeton Battlefield known as Maxwells field. The Princeton Battlefield Society is protesting the project in court, and national and local preservation organizations are working to prevent construction on the property. The American Battlefield Trust, based in Washington, D.C., has reached agreement with the institute to purchase almost 15 acres of the land for $4.5 million, more than $1 million above the sites appraised value. The Trust and its partners had already acquired and preserved 9 acres of the battlefield. On May 30, 2018, the Trust announced that it had finalized the purchase after raising almost $3.2 million from private donors, which was matched by an $837,000 grant from the National Park Service and the Mercer County Open Space Assistance Program. The completed purchase ended the long dispute over how and whether the battlefield land would be developed.</p><br>
<h2>Princeton Battlefield / Stony Brook Village Historic District</h2><br>
<p>In 1989 the National Register of Historic Places designation of the Battlefield was expanded to form the Princeton Battlefield / Stony Brook Village Historic District. Princeton&#39;s original settlers were Quaker farmers along the Stony Brook immediately to the south and west of the battlefield. The Stony Brook Meeting House and Cemetery was well established at the time of the revolution and in full sight of the battle. The meetinghouse and associated farms are part of the contiguous preserved area that includes the battlefield.</p><br>
<p>Prospect House, known also as just Prospect, is a historic house on the Princeton University campus in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1851, it is a fine example of the work of architect John Notman who helped popularize Italianate architecture in America. Notable residents include Woodrow Wilson during his tenure as president of the university. The building now serves as a faculty club. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985 for its architecture and historic associations.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Prospect House stands on the Princeton University campus, between the Princeton University Art Museum and Washington Street. It stands on 5 acre of landscaped grounds that are a remnant of a once-larger estate. The house is a two-story stone structure, built out of rustically cut sandstone, with a three-story tower at one end, and a single-story service wing. The roofs are low-pitch hip roofs, with broad eaves decorated with brackets. The main facade has a central stone porte-cochere topped by a balustrade. Flanking this are slightly projecting bays, featuring matching second-story balconies. A modern dining room addition, designed by Warren Platner, extends to the rear.</p><br>
<p>Prospect House was built in 1851-52 for Thomas Fuller Potter. Prior to its construction, the site had been that of a farm whose house had hosted George Washington both during and after the American Revolutionary War. The new house was designed by John Notman, a Scottish architect based in Philadelphia who is credited with introducing the Italianate style of architecture to the United States.</p><br>
<p>In 1878, it was acquired by brothers Alexander and Robert Stuart, who gave it to the College of New Jersey, which became Princeton University and served as the house of the school president. Woodrow Wilson, the third Princeton president to live here, was resident from 1902 to 1911, when he became Governor of New Jersey en route to becoming President of the United States.</p><br>
<p>On February 10, 1913, Thomas J. Preston Jr., a professor of archeology at Princeton University, married Frances Folsom Cleveland, the widow of President Grover Cleveland at Prospect House.</p><br>
<p>In 1968, the president&#39;s official residence was moved to another house, and Prospect House was adapted for use as a private clubhouse for the university faculty.</p><br>
<p>It was designated a USA National Historic Landmark in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The SLW Ranch, formerly known as the Percheron-Norman Horse Ranch, is an historic ranch located approximately 8 mi east of Greeley, Colorado, near the confluence of the Platte River and Crow Creek. In 1998 it was honored by the Colorado Historical Society as a Centennial Ranch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The listing included 17 contributing buildings, 12 contributing structures, and a contributing site on 2,200 acre.</p><br>
<p>The SLW Ranch is named for the three initial partners - S for John Studebaker of wagon and automotive manufacturing fame, L for Lafayette Lamb, a lumber company executive and W for Harvey E Witwer, former manager of the Percheron-Norman Horse Ranch and nephew of Studebaker.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Studebaker and Lamb established the Percheron-Norman Horse Ranch in the 1880s on property purchased from “Lord” Lyulph Ogilvy, second son of the ninth Earl of Airlie. At one time the ranch was one of the largest horse operations in America, spanning 22,000 acre with 2,600 brood mares. In 1899 the SLW Ranch partnership was formed. In addition to the draft horses, the ranch was home to a small herd of white-faced cattle. Witwer continued to purchase Hereford cattle from ranches back East until the herd was 1,500 head. In order to promote strong healthy cattle with desirable traits, the herd was registered and began breeding operations.</p><br>
<p>In 1909 Witwer approached his partners with the idea of purchasing their shares in the ranch. The sale was completed in 1913, and over the course of the next few years the SLW Ranch operation switched exclusively to a cattle operation. The ranch is home to one of the oldest, continuously operating Hereford ranches in the country and for many years was the oldest registered Hereford herd in Colorado. Harvey Witwer and his wife Bertha had two sons, Stow Lathrop and Harvey E. Jr. and a daughter, Mary Frances. The sons became actively involved with operating the ranch and looked for ways to increase the stability and profitability of a somewhat volatile business.</p><br>
<p>In the 1920s, at Stow&#39;s urging, the ranch became a dude ranch. Visitors would come from all over for a taste of the western life on a real working ranch. The original 12 room Ogilvy home was converted to accommodations for guests, who by the 1930s were paying $35 a week for room, board and activities. The income from the dudes provided money when the cattle operation took a bad turn and the 9,000 acre ranch faced foreclosure. Stow and Harvey Jr. worked with Federal Land Bank and were able to retain approximately 3,500 acre. The ranch continued taking dudes until 1942, returning to a working cattle ranch that is still in operation today.</p><br>
<h2>Witwer family</h2><br>
<p>A stone memorial located on the ranch overlooking the pasture</p><br>
<p>As the sons became more active in the cattle operations, Harvey Witwer Sr. retired from ranching and entered politics in Weld County. In 1933 he was elected County Treasurer, an office he held until his death in 1942.</p><br>
<p>Stow married Clara Steele in 1926. They raised three children on the ranch, Joy (Witwer) Thomson, Carol (Witwer) Worth and Stow Witwer Jr. Stow Sr operated the ranch until his death in 1991 and his descendants still maintain and operate the business.</p><br>
<p>Harvey Jr. married Marion Giddings and they had two daughters, Julie (Witwer) Shade and Linda (Witwer) Bonnett.</p><br>
<p>Mary Frances married Alexander McLeish and they had twin sons, Doug and Don McLeish.</p><br>
<p>Opening in 2022 and located within the Hutchison Family Stockyards Event Center, the Stow L. Witwer Memorial Show Arena will honor the Witwer family’s legendary history with the National Western Stock Show.</p><br>
<p>In 2024 the ranch will celebrate 125 years of continuous operation with the fifth generation actively involved with management and oversight of the property.</p><br>
<p>The William Trent House is a historic building located at 15 Market Street in Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey. It was built in 1719 for William Trent and is the oldest building in Trenton. He founded the eponymous town, which became the capital of New Jersey. It has served as the residence for three Governors. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places and listed as a National Historic Landmark on April 15, 1970, for its significance as an example of Early Georgian Colonial architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The William Trent House stands just south of downtown Trenton, on a landscaped parcel about 2 acres in size which is ringed in part by brick walls and stone and iron fencing. The lot is bounded by Market Street, an exit ramp of New Jersey Route 29, William Trent Place, and a parking lot serving the adjacent judicial facility. The house is a 2-1/2 story brick building, with a five-bay front facade and a hip roof crowned by a central cupola. Most windows are set in segmented-arch openings, with some butting against the dentillated cornice below the roof. The main entrance, a double door with a six-light transom window, is also set in a segmented-arch opening. The interior follows a central hall plan, with four chambers on each floor. Original surviving features include the main staircase, the floors and original woodwork in several rooms.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The William Trent House is located at what was known in early colonial times as the Falls of the Delaware and prior to English colonization had been the site of Lenni Lenape settlements for thousands of years. The first European colonist in the area was Mahlon Stacy, a Quaker immigrant from England, who built a home on the site circa 1680. After his death, Stacy’s son sold 800 acres to William Trent, a wealthy shipping merchant based in Philadelphia, in 1714. Trent added property to include virtually all of what is now the city of Trenton.</p><br>
<p>William Trent built his country home north of Philadelphia, in what was known as West Jersey, on these lands about 1719. It was a large, imposing brick structure, built in the newest fashion. An “allee” of English cherry trees led from the entrance down to the ferry landing. Nearby, there were numerous outbuildings as well as grist, saw, and fulling mills along the Assunpink Creek. In 1720 Trent laid out a settlement, which he incorporated and named “Trent Town.” By 1721 he and his family made the House their full-time residence until his death in 1724.</p><br>
<p>The house had numerous private owners including three Governors who used the house as a Governor’s mansion – Lewis Morris, Philemon Dickerson and Rodman McCamley Price. The house was home to two men during the Revolution, Dr. William Bryant and Colonel John Cox.</p><br>
<p>In 1929, the house was given to the city by Edward A. Stokes, with the caveat that it be restored to its original appearance and that it be used as a museum, library or art gallery.</p><br>
<p>Restoration work took place between 1934 and 1936. The house was dedicated as a museum in 1936 and opened in 1939.</p><br>
<p>St. Philip&#39;s Church is an historic church at 142 Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Its National Historic Landmark description states: "Built in 1836 , this stuccoed brick church features an imposing tower designed in the Wren-Gibbs tradition. Three Tuscan pedimented porticoes contribute to this design to make a building of the highest quality and sophistication." On November 7, 1973, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Established in 1680, St. Philips is the oldest European-American religious congregation in South Carolina. The first St. Philips Church, a wooden building, was built between 1680 and 1681 at the corner of Broad and Meeting streets on the present day site of St. Michaels Episcopal Church. It was damaged in a hurricane in 1710 and a new St. Phillips Church was begun a few blocks away on Church Street. After being delayed it was finished in 1723. It burned to the ground in 1835. Work on the present church was begun that same year and completed the next. The steeple was added between 1848 and 1850.</p><br>
<p>A prominent early rector of St. Philips was Rev. Thomas Frost, a fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, who became rector of St. Philips in 1785. Leading the church in the post-Revolutionary War period, he had to create a new role after Anglicanism was disestablished in the United States. Rev. Frost died in 1804 at 46 years of age. Rev. Thomas Downes Frost, son of the first rector Frost, was chosen as assistant minister of St. Philip&#39;s on March 12, 1815. The second Rev. Frost died an early death at age 26 in 1819.</p><br>
<p>Henrietta Johnston, the wife of another early rector, Gideon Johnston, became the first recorded female artist in the American colonies. Mary Roberts, the first female American miniaturist, was connected to the church and buried here in 1761, as recorded in the register.</p><br>
<p>The tower of St. Philips served for many years as the rear tower of a set of range lighthouses serving to guide mariners into Charlestons harbor; the front tower of the range was located on Fort Sumter. The light was used from 1893 to 1915. The use was restored temporarily in 1921 when the normal light needed repairs.</p><br>
<p>The church was the site of a convention on November 17, 2012, which sought to legitimize the disassociation of the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina from The Episcopal Church, and to amend the diocesan constitution and canons to remove all references to the Episcopal Church. As a result, the title to the building was disputed between the Anglican Diocese and the Episcopal Diocese.</p><br>
<p>On 17 August 2022, the South Carolina Supreme Court affirmed the property rights of six parishes, including St. Philip&#39;s Church, of the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina, who will be able to keep them because of this decision.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>Notable burials in the church graveyard include:</p><br>
<p>John C. Calhoun, seventh vice-President of the United States.</p><br>
<p>Captain John Christie, 60th OR Royal American Regiment, and Founder and First Worshipful Master of Lodge No. 1 at Detroit, Michigan.</p><br>
<p>Judith DuBose, colonial heiress</p><br>
<p>Christopher Gadsden, a signer of the Continental Association.</p><br>
<p>Judith Smith Ladson, colonial society figure</p><br>
<p>Charles Pinckney, US Senator, Governor of South Carolina, and a Signer of the United States Constitution.</p><br>
<p>Edward Rutledge, Continental Congressman and a Signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and Continental Association</p><br>
<p>The Elizabeth Cady Stanton House in Tenafly, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, is where Elizabeth Cady Stanton lived from 1868 to 1887, her most active years as a women&#39;s rights activist. She had previously lived in Seneca Falls, New York and Boston, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1868 near the Tenafly train station. Stanton lived in the home from 1868 to 1887, although her husband mostly resided in New York City. Income from Stantons speeches and writings were used to maintain the property. One of Stantons daughter was married on the house&#39;s lawn. Stanton sold the house after the death of her husband.</p><br>
<p>Stanton&#39;s home in Tenafly was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975. Her home in Seneca Falls was earlier declared a National Historic Landmark, in 1965.</p><br>
<p>The Kahn family purchased the house in 1981, being sold within the family for 1.6 million in 2001. The house sold for $3 million in 2015 to buyers outside of the Kahn family. The house remains privately owned.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and layout</h2><br>
<p>The house features seven-bedroom and is 5,449-square-foot. There are six fireplaces and ten foot high ceilings. The house was designed in the Second Empire style and has a mansard roof. The house also features Colonial Revival and Victorian Mansard elements. A large portico was added in the early 20th century after Stanton&#39;s ownership.</p><br>
<p>Shadow Lawn is a historic building on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1927 for Hubert T. Parson, president of the F.W. Woolworth Company, it is one of the last large estate houses to be built before the Great Depression. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985 for its architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Shadow Lawn is a large masonry building, three stories in height, with a main facade that is over 300 ft wide. A three-bay section projects at the center of the main (south) facade, with a Doric columned single-story portico at its front. A dentillated cornice separates the second and third floors, and a balustrade surrounds the roof, with sculptures mounted on some of the corner columns. The interior has more than 100 rooms, with lavishly appointed public spaces. An interior courtyard is 100 ft long, with a covering skylight; its walls are adorned with plaster pilasters and arched window openings. The main hall features a well-concealed Aeolian Skinner organ, and the basement houses a bowling alley that saw little use during the Parson&#39;s ownership.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Shadow Lawn estate was first developed in the early 20th century by John A. McCall, president of the New York Life Insurance Company. Its main house was a 52-room mansion, which in 1916 served as the summer White House for President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson planned many aspects of his reelection campaign from that house. In 1918, the estate was purchased by Hubert T. Parson, president of the F.W. Woolworth Company. The main house was destroyed by fire in 1927, and Parson and his wife Maysie immediately embarked on building an ostentatious replacement.</p><br>
<p>Sparing no expense, they retained the noted Gilded Age architect Horace Trumbauer, and the design of the present building are credited to Trumbauer and his assistant, Julian Abele. The exterior garden landscape was designed by the French landscape architect Achille Duchêne. By the time the building was complete the Parsons had spent more than $10 million. They had continued work despite the onset of the Great Depression, which eventually ruined their finances. Unable to recoup his expenditures on the estate by selling it, the property was taken by the town for $100 in 1939.</p><br>
<p>Shadow Lawn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 for its significance in art, architecture, and landscape architecture and then declared a National Historic Landmark in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The building was used to portray Oliver Warbucks&#39; (Albert Finney) mansion in the film Annie.</p><br>
<p>The current building was renamed from Shadow Lawn to Woodrow Wilson Hall after Monmouths acquisition of the estate, honoring Wilsons occupation of its predecessor. In 2020, the building returned to its Shadow Lawn name, with the university citing Wilson&#39;s racist policies for the change.</p><br>
<p>The Red Bank Battlefield is located along the Delaware River in National Park, Gloucester County, New Jersey. It was the location of the Battle of Red Bank in the American Revolutionary War on October 22, 1777. Fort Mercer and its sister, Fort Mifflin in Pennsylvania, defended the river and prevented the British from using it for transportation. The forts successfully delayed the British, but in the end, they were both destroyed or abandoned.</p><br>
<p>Today the site of the Battle of Red Bank still has the trenches and cannons used by the 100 American soldiers fighting against 2000 British and Hessian soldiers. The Whitall House is an original home that was there during the battle and was used as a field hospital. It is open for tours today.</p><br>
<p>The site is a part of the Gloucester County Parks system called Red Bank Battlefield Park.</p><br>
<h2>James and Ann Whitall House</h2><br>
<p>The central feature of the park is the James and Ann Whitall House, located at the end of Hessian Avenue. It was built in 1748 by James Whitall Sr. and features Georgian architecture. This brick and stone house just outside the works of Fort Mercer, served as a hospital for some of the men wounded in the fighting. The house suffered damage during the battle. Ann Cooper Whitall had remained in the house during the fighting and tended to the wounded, earning her the epithet "Heroine of Red Bank."</p><br>
<h2>Park features</h2><br>
<p>Although much of the battlefield has eroded into the Delaware River, some portions of Fort Mercer (named after Brigadier General Hugh Mercer, killed at the Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777.) remain. The prominent historical feature of the park is the remains of the ditch which surrounded the now-gone earthworks. Around these works and along the riverbank are several period cannons, including four raised from the wrecks of the British man-of-war and a British sloop, HMS Merlin. The three American cannons facing the Whitall House were found in 1935 buried on the site. Nearer to the Whitall House, a preserved section of the chevaux-de-frise river defenses of the Fort Mercer and Fort Mifflin system is displayed, along with various cannonballs recovered from the battlefield. Several monuments honor the combatants, including a memorial to the fallen Hessian leader, whose remains were buried on the grounds, and a 75 ft-tall monument.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition of African-Americans, enslaved people, and Native Americans who fought with the patriots</h2><br>
<p>The 1st Rhode Island Regiment (also known as Varnums Regiment, the 9th Continental Regiment, the Black Regiment, the Rhode Island Regiment, and Olneys Battalion) fought with the Americans.</p><br>
<p>The regiment included free African-Americans, enslaved people, and Native Americans.</p><br>
<p>Masters of the enslaved people were to be paid fair market value for their slave upon completion of the war, at which time the enslaved person would be freed.</p><br>
<p>There is a historical marker at the battlefield that tells the story of the African American, enslaved people, and Native Americans who fought alongside the Americans with the 1st Rhode Island Regiment.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>Carl von Donop (1732–1777), Hessian colonel who fought with the British and died at the battle.</p><br>
<p>In June 2022 the remains of 13 Hessian soldiers were discovered in land purchased by Gloucester County in 2020 at the northern end of the historical park. They are being analyzed by the New Jersey State Police forensic lab.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting</h2><br>
<p>The 44 acre park is open to visitors during daylight hours. The Whitall House may be visited during more limited hours. An annual reenactment of the battle takes place on the park grounds in October. In the early 1980s, a lifeguard was on duty and swimming was permitted in the Delaware River.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Boulderado is located at 13th and Spruce St. in downtown Boulder, Colorado. It opened on New Year&#39;s Day 1909. The original 1908 Otis Elevator is still in operation.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was designed by local architects William Redding, Floyd Redding, and James Cowie, all of whom were members of the architectural firm Redding & Sons.</p><br>
<p>Hotel Boulderado is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Boulderado houses three restaurants. Located off of the main lobby are Spruce Farm and Fish, a fine-dining restaurant, and the Corner Bar, a more casual eatery. The basement contains a speakeasy-style bar, License No. 1, which recently replaced Catacombs. All three restaurants share a kitchen.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Boulderado is mentioned in Stephen King&#39;s novel Misery.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1905, Boulder was home to 8,000 residents, the University of Colorado, one of the Chautauqua cultural and educational resorts, and twenty-six automobiles. Residents called the city the "Athens of the West." As a new-forged railroad hub, the city did have some hotels to accommodate visitors, but in December 1905, the city council launched the "hotel proposition," furthered by the Boulder newspaper, the Daily Camera. Committees from Boulder&#39;s Commercial Association raised funds in the form of $100 subscriptions, and the Boulder Hotel Company was formed, which owned the hotel until 1939.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was opened with a Gala Ball on New Years Eve of 1908. The first guests checked in on New Years Day, 1909. The first guest register is still on display in the main lobby, and the modern hotel still commemorates their opening every year with a New Years Eve Gala Ball, voted the #1 Place to Celebrate New Year&#39;s Eve by Downtown Boulder readers.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The board of directors for Boulder&#39;s Hotel Company tasked local architecture firms to design two concepts per firm. Local architects William Redding, Floyd Redding, and James Cowie of Redding & Sons design was approved by the board of directors in 1906. The architects were inspired by Italian Renaissance and Spanish Colonial Revival-style architecture.</p><br>
<p>One of the most notable features in the Hotel Boulderado is the stained-glass ceiling of the interior lobby. The ceiling was designed to resemble that of San Francisco’s renowned Palace Hotel (Palace Hotel&#39;s stained-glass ceiling would be destroyed during the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906).</p><br>
<p>The Crane House and Historic YWCA is a federal-style home located at 110 Orange Road in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. The house has had a rich history and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 14, 1973, for its significance in architecture, conservation, and industry.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Crane House was built by Israel Crane in 1796 on Old Road (now Glen Ridge Avenue) in Cranetown, which is now the southern part of the Township of Montclair. The house stayed in the Crane family until 1920, when it was purchased by the YWCA. The YWCA used the house for offices, dormitories and as a social center for African American women and girls for 45 years. In 1965, the house faced the prospect of demolition. Local residents committed to its preservation organized and the house was moved from Old Road to 110 Orange Road, its current address.</p><br>
<p>The Crane House and Historic YWCA is one of the few remaining federal mansions in northern New Jersey. It currently operates as the Crane House and Historic YWCA, which is open to the public for tours. The Crane House and Historic YWCA neighbors two other buildings with historic significance: the Clark House, which houses the Albert Payson Terhune library, and the Nathaniel Crane House, which houses a General Store collection, schoolroom, and gift shop. These buildings are also owned by the Montclair History Center.</p><br>
<h2>Israel Crane and his commitment to commerce</h2><br>
<p>Israel Crane (b. 1774) was a direct descendant of the Crane family, which founded Cranetown in 1694. He was an enterprising businessman, successful in several industries including cider, cotton and wool production. In 1801, he and a partner leased a site in Paterson, New Jersey, for one of the first mills to use the power of the Passaic River.</p><br>
<p>In 1806, Crane organized a group to build the Newark-Pompton Turnpike, an industrial toll road of which he later became the sole owner. It was a direct route from Newark, New Jersey to outlying areas, including Cranetown. Today, Bloomfield Avenue, which runs West from Newark through the Township of Montclair into Verona, New Jersey, is part of the original Newark-Pompton Turnpike. Another section has evolved into Route 23, which extends to Port Jervis.</p><br>
<p>The Israel Crane house has gone through several generations of history. In 1796, Israel Crane had the house built for his family and him. The house was the standard of New Jersey wealth in the Montclair area (this area previously named Cranetown) would have looked like. Documentation shows that Israel Crane owned at least five enslaved individuals: Bill, Joe, Jack, Bett, and Dine.</p><br>
<p>By the time one of his sons, James Crane, took on the ownership of the house, society had changed around them. According to census records, there is no documentation of James Crane owning enslaved individuals, instead hiring indentured servants. Many of his servants were Irish, not uncommon at the time. James went on to make changes to the structure of the house, incorporating many Greek Revival elements including columns in the front; a flat, rectangular roof; and door jambs. James died in 1882. A 1900 census shows that Phebe Crane, James Crane&#39;s wife, had been living there with three of her unmarried daughters who were in their 40s and 50s. After Phebe died in 1902, their three daughters sold the house.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting the Crane House and Historic YWCA</h2><br>
<p>The Crane House and Museum is open to the public for guided and self guided tours on select days.</p><br>
<p>After a few changes in ownership throughout the years, the old Crane House fell into the hands of the YWCA (Young Women&#39;s Christian Association) in 1920. The YWCA was originally started in 1912 by 19 woman from the black community, including Alice Hooe Foster, the first black woman to graduate from Montclair High School. Segregated and with little opportunity for improvement of life quality and opportunities, the YWCA was designed as a way to help young black girls and women to gain the skills and safe social experience needed to get better job opportunities, education furtherment opportunities, and social skills.</p><br>
<p>The Israel house became a place where African-American women could stay in Montclair while looking for domestic jobs or connections within their own community. The rooms became dormitories and offices.</p><br>
<p>By 1965, the women of the Y sold the structure to build a new headquarters. A stipend of selling the house was that the structure had to be moved to make way for the new YWCA headquarters.</p><br>
<p>Despite how Montclair schools were no longer segregated, this did not end the segregation of every other aspect of life–clubs, dances, etc. The women of the Y continued to work towards making the YWCA a place where they could truly flourish up until 1990 when the organization ended. As stated by the website for the Montclair Fund for Women, the YWCA was dissolved in 2001 when the number of participants decreased and maintaining the building became too expensive. Still wanting to support women as they have in the past, the board instead put funds into what is today the Montclair Fund for Women. The Montclair History Center made a documentary in 2014 called “A Place to Become” delving into the history of the Y and its local members. It can be viewed on their YouTube page.</p><br>
<h2>Exhibits at the Crane House and Historic YWCA</h2><br>
<p>The Crane House and Historic YWCA has ten rooms, showcasing 18th, 19th, and 20th century furniture, paintings and decorative arts, including rugs, quilts, ceramics, glassware, silverware, toys, dolls and household items, and reproduced YWCA material. Special items on display include a painted bedroom set owned by Paul Revere IV (1816), a harp made by Sebastian Erard (1827), and a William and Mary highboy (1740).</p><br>
<p>Early preservationists purchased the house before it could be demolished and had the building physically moved from its original location at Glenridge Avenue to its current location at 110 Orange Road where it now resides. They formed the Montclair Historical Society and worked to restore the building to what it would have looked like in both Israel and James Crane&#39;s times. Until 2014, the house focused on its early American history. Currently, the Montclair History Center incorporates the story of the YWCA to tell the full story of the house during its entire use from 1796 to 1965.</p><br>
<p>The Edwin S. George Building, built in 1908, is located at 4612 Woodward Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, at the corner of Woodward and Garfield. In 1914, the name was changed to the Garfield Building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Edwin S. George was an important businessman in Detroit at the turn of the 20th century. He first came to Detroit in 1890 and worked as a furrier, opening his own wholesale and retail fur company in 1897. He became involved in Detroit&#39;s automobile industry and was an important developer of the stretch of Woodward between Grand Circus Park and Warren Avenue.</p><br>
<p>In 1908, George hired architect Albert Kahn to design a two-story building which would include rental space for auto parts suppliers and manufacturers. This building opened as the Edwin S. George Building.) and changed the name to the Garfield building. George owned the building until 1942, when he sold it to a real estate investment firm. Wayne County Community College used the Garfield Building in the 1970s. The building was converted to condominiums in 2000, and became known as the Lofts at Garfield.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The original Edwin S. George Building was a two-story square building with a flat roof, with a white glazed terra cotta facade. Embellishments were added to make the building attractive. The additional three floors added in 1914 are architecturally consistent with the lower floors.</p><br>
<p>St. James&#39; Parish is a historic church located on Solomons Island Road in the hamlet of Tracys Landing, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1692, St. James&#39; Parish, Old Herring Creeke, was officially established when the Maryland General Assembly, acting on the orders of Sir Lionel Copley, Royal Governor of Maryland, enacted the Act of Establishment. That Act divided the Province of Maryland into 30 Anglican parishes. There were, however, people worshiping in the area before that time. The exact location of that church is unknown. In 1695, the vestry ordered a church built on the present site in Lothian.</p><br>
<p>In 1698, St. James&#39; Parish opened the first parochial lending library of the American parishes of the Church of England. The Rev. Dr. Thomas Bray donated 118 books for the library that year.</p><br>
<p>The Reverend Henry Hall was called as the first rector, and remained at St. James until his death in 1722. When the old church became inadequate for the parishs needs in 1763, the vestry ordered that a new church be built. It was completed in 1765, and continues to serve the congregation today. However, the politically connected curate appointed in 1768, Rev. Bennet Allen, caused a scandal by refusing to live in the parish and instead proposing to rent out the glebe and combine the salary (which he insisted insufficient even for his bar tab) with that of another parish (at first St. Anne&#39; Church, then even further away All Saints Church (Frederick, Maryland)). The next incumbent, Rev. Walter Magowan, installed later that year, was a friend of George Washington and served until 1784.</p><br>
<p>In 1792, his successor and the seventh rector of St. James&#39;, the Rev. Dr. Thomas John Claggett, resigned to become the first Bishop of Maryland. Rt.Rev. Claggett was the first Episcopal bishop to be consecrated on American soil.</p><br>
<p>The parish founded several chapels: St. Marks Chapel at Friendship, consecrated in 1850 and sold in 1915; The Chapel of St. James the Less in Owensville in 1853 (now Christ Church, West River); St. James Chapel in Tracys Landing in 1876; and St. Mark&#39;s Chapel built in 1924.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The property includes a cemetery which includes what is believed to be the oldest dated grave in the state (1655).</p><br>
<p>The John McMahon House is a Federal style mansion located in Courtland, Alabama. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The two-story brick I-house was built in 1828.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The John McMahon House is named for its first documented owner, John McMahon. McMahon moved to Lawrence County from Virginia to manage the Courtland branch of the Huntsville mercantile firm of Bierne and McMahon. In August 1835, McMahon married Harriet Shackelford, daughter of Dr. Jack Shackelford.</p><br>
<p>Federal raiding parties during the Civil War used the house on several occasions as temporary headquarters. Some of the troops fired into the ceiling one evening, leaving a hole in the ceiling that existed for some time. The brass nameplate in the foyer is that of Dr. Jack McMahon. The home still has Civil War-era bullet holes, which someone had attempted to patch, visible around the front door.</p><br>
<p>The house was donated to the Alabama Historical Commission in 1987, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the same year.</p><br>
<p>East Beach Station  is a station of the USA Coast Guard in St. Simons, Georgia, United States, located at 4201 1st Street. It was built in 1936 as a part of the Works Progress Administration initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Coast Guard Station played a part in World War II when it helped save the crew of two merchant ships, the and the Esso Baton Rouge, both tankers. These two ships were torpedoed by a. The station is one of the forty-five originally built under President Roosevelt, and is one of the few that have survived to this day.</p><br>
<p>East Beach Station is now operated by the Coastal Georgia Historical Society as the World War II Home Front Museum: Coastal Georgia at War, which brings to life Coastal Georgia&#39;s contributions during World War II through the eyes of residents of small communities like Brunswick and St. Simons, in Glynn County.</p><br>
<p>The Coastal Georgia Historical Society also operates the St. Simons Island Lighthouse and adjacent A. W. Jones Heritage Center on St. Simons Island.</p><br>
<p>The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Independence Building was a 186 ft high-rise in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States. It was built in 1909 by J.A. Jones Construction and imploded on September 27, 1981 to make way for 101 Independence Center. It originally had 12 floors but 2 more were added in 1928. It was the tallest commercial building in North Carolina, overtaking the title previously held by the Masonic Temple Building in Raleigh. The height of the Independence Building was surpassed by the Jefferson Standard Building in Greensboro in 1923.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In July 1905 a group of Charlotte area businessmen including W. H. Belk, C. N. Evans, O. P. Heath, Julian ~. Little and C. M. Patterson together started the companies Charlotte&#39;trust Company and the Charlotte Realty Company. In November 1907 the site was purchased for $92,000. The owners of the site held a major design competition to design the new building, which drew attention from architects across the country. In May 1907 Frank Pierce Milburn was selected.</p><br>
<p>In January 1908 the previous building, John Irwin House, was destroyed. The construction of the building was attracting a lot of attention from people in Charlotte; in June 1908 the Charlotte Observer noted that pedestrians on the street frequently stopped to observe the buildings construction progress from the previous day. This attention can be attributed to the fact that it was North Carolinas first steel frame building. Also, in May 1908 the architect, Frank Pierce Milburn stated the "new 12-story and basement steel-frame skyscraper" was underway in Charlotte, which would be first building of this type and the most expensive office building in the State." To the people of the city, it symbolized the vibrance of the commercial and industrial sectors for Charlotte.</p><br>
<p>In late 1908 tenants began to occupy the upper floors while the first was finished. In May 1909 the first bank branch opened. The new bank that resulted from the merger of Charlotte Trust Company and Charlotte National Bank, called Charlotte National Bank occupied half of the first floor. Woodall & Sheppard Drug Company occupied the second of the floor. At the time of its opening the building was called the Realty Building.</p><br>
<p>In May 1912 Julian H. Little, the president of Charlotte National Bank left that bank to form his own bank, Independence Trust Company. This bank leased space in the basement of the building. In 1920 Charlotte National Bank moved out of the building to its new headquarters at 4th and South Tryon. In January 1922 Southern Radio Corporation began leasing the entire 9th floor. In March 1928 the building renovations were complete. The bottom two floors were updated along with an added mezzanine floor that overlooked the first-floor bank. The Charlotte Observer reported that 5,000 people attending the ceremony that marked the completion of the renovations. The Independence Trust Company failed in March 1933.</p><br>
<p>The last office tenants of the building left in April 1976. The lobby doors were locked and the only remaining tenants were street level shops. The building had fallen into a state of disrepair. However, it was structurally sound since it was built so well. Unfortunately, it would have probably cost too much to make the space rentable. The land the building sat on was fair more valuable than the building itself. In a February 1981 Charlotte Observer article it was revealed the reason the city was considering demolishing the building was it would have been unlikely that anyone would spend the money to make it rentable again and future developers would probably not want to develop a building on the open land nearby if the building still existed. In March 1981 Charlotte city council vote to demolish the building. Then in September 1981 the building was imploded after developer Henry Faison purchased it. The building 101 Independence Center was built on its site and it in opened in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Wappingers Falls Historic District is in the center of that village in Dutchess County, New York, United States. It is a 90-acre  area roughly centered along South Avenue and West Main Street, NY 9D and Wappinger Creek. It includes Mesier Park in the center of the village and many adjacent residential neighborhoods, roughly bounded by Elm, Park, Walker, Market and McKinley streets.</p><br>
<p>Much of the district was built in the wake of the industrialization of Wappingers Falls in the 19th century, and its styles represent a cross-section of that century. However, the contributing properties include older buildings, like the ca. 1740 Mesier-Brewer House, and newer ones like the Village Hall, formerly a post office designed under the supervision of Franklin D. Roosevelt during his presidency.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1819 a small cotton mill was built in the hollow created by the creek as it descends from Lake Wappinger to drain into the nearby Hudson River. By 1856 it had become one of the largest printworks in the country. A fire that year destroyed the original buildings completely, but they were immediately rebuilt and continued in operation until 1931. The streets on the hillside opposite the mill are lined with frame houses, mostly duplexes, built by the mill for its workers. The two halves of the district, and the village, are connected by an 1884 stone arch bridge that replaced earlier wooden structures.</p><br>
<p>The village&#39;s business district, along Main Street north and south of the creek, is lined with three-story Italianate row buildings dating to the years after the Civil War. The residential streets to the southwest are filled with larger houses in a variety of 19th-century styles, from Greek and Gothic Revival to Second Empire and Queen Anne.</p><br>
<p>Two significant contributing properties separately listed in the Register date to the pre- and post-industrial eras. The Mesier-Brewer House in the center of the village is a well-preserved pre-Revolutionary stone and wood home common in the region. Across from it at the junction of East Main Street and South Avenue is the fieldstone police station. It was originally built as one of five post offices in the county designed in stone at the insistence of Roosevelt, a native of nearby Hyde Park.</p><br>
<p>In 1984 the district was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is described as a "collection of distinct nineteenth-century structures linked to the development of an important Hudson Valley industrial center."</p><br>
<h2>Buildings Lost</h2><br>
<h3>Goring Hall</h3><br>
<p>Edward M. Goring was born in Manchester, England, April 20, 1828, the son of John M. and Martha Heald Goring. Edward M. Goring, was only eight years of age when his parents left England; he attended the district school at Wappingers Falls, and in 1845 apprenticed to the trade of engraving to calico printing, which he followed from 1845 to 1860. For the succeeding nine years he was engaged in the coal business, and in 1869 he was a member of the firm of Disbrow & Goring, iron founders. He was supervisor for the Town of Fishkill, a member of the New York Assembly, and president of the village in 1879. In 1883 he was appointed, by President Arthur, postmaster at Wappingers Falls. Mr. Goring was a trustee of the Grinnell Library for thirty years. He was actively involved in a number of local enterprises including: the creating of the town of Wappinger from the town of Fishkill; the incorporations of Wappingers Savings Bank, and Bank of Wappingers respectively; the incorporation of Wappingers Falls as a village; and in the laying out of the new road to New Hamburg as a public, instead of a toll road, as chartered by the Legislature. “In all these responsible and honorable positions, he has acquitted himself with credit to himself, and for the best interests of the public.”</p><br>
<p>In 1872 Goring Hall was built and opened as a drug and stationery store. For over twenty years, Goring Hall was the site of the Falls Coffee Shop, operated by the late Mary Ross, former mayor of the village (2001-2003). Ross and her staff were noted for supplying the volunteer firemen with coffee during responses to fire calls. Goring Hall was demolished in early December 2012, after a partial wall collapse on November 22, 2012, early Thanksgiving morning.</p><br>
<h3>Mulhern House</h3><br>
<p>Mulhern House was an historic home located at the end of Market Street. It was built about 1815 as a workers&#39; residence that survived intact from the initial period of industrial development in Wappingers Falls. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The building was destroyed in a gas explosion in February 1994.</p><br>
<h3>Sweet Orr Factory</h3><br>
<p>Clayton E. Sweet, was born at Wappingers Falls, N. Y., June 16, 1834. His father was for many years a merchant and manufacturer in Wappingers Falls, and for a period postmaster of the village. Mr. Sweet was educated at the public schools of his native place and at the Dutchess County Academy at Poughkeepsie. Then for three years he was in the employ of Levi Cook & Co., merchants on Broadway, New York. He returned to Wappingers Falls to enter his fathers store, was made a partner.</p><br>
<p>For many years. Mr. Sweet was one of the leading business men of the place and of great usefulness to the community. He was one of the first trustees of the Wappingers Savings Bank, and acted as its secretary and treasurer until it obtained a substantial footing; he was afterwards elected vice president of the institution. For seven years he was postmaster of the village under President Grant. He was also a director of the Fallkill National Bank of Poughkeepsie, and a vestryman of the Zion Episcopal Church of Wappingers Falls.</p><br>
<p>The firm of Sweet, Orr & Co., were pioneers in the manufacture of overalls. After a large business experience in the Village of Wappingers Falls, he moved to Newburgh in 1887, to which city the business offices of the company were changed that year.</p><br>
<p>Sweet Orr set up a factory building on Mill Street in the late 1800s. The company manufactured denim overalls and jeans sold all over the country. The building burned down in the 1990s and is now the site of one of the village&#39;s parking lots.</p><br>
<p>Paulsdale is a historic estate and house museum in Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey. Built about 1840, it was the birthplace and childhood home of Alice Paul , a major leader in the Women&#39;s suffrage movement in the United States, whose activism led to passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 1989, for its significance in social history and politics/government. Paulsdale was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The main house at Paulsdale was built about 1800 by Benjamin Hooton. The Paul family purchased the 173 acre farm around 1883. The property remained in the Paul family until 1958, and served as a sort of "home base" for activist Alice Paul, who was born here in 1885. For much of her adult life she lived an itinerant lifestyle, driven by her activism for womens suffrage. Paulsdale was a place she regularly returned to, holding meetings and strategy sessions for her campaigns. It was sold out of the family in 1958, after her brothers death.</p><br>
<p>During the 1950s, the property was divided into two parcels: 167 acre of farmland and the remaining 6 acre which included the house and farm buildings. The larger became a housing development, while the smaller remained a private residence until it was purchased by the Alice Paul Institute in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The house has been restored to the condition when Alice Paul lived there. It now serves as a historic house museum and a home for the institute. The purpose of the institute is to make sure Alice Paul&#39;s legacy survives by enhancing the knowledge of future generations on the topic of human rights.</p><br>
<p>The President&#39;s House, also known as the John Maclean House, or simply the Maclean House, in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, was built to serve as the home of the President of the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University. It was completed in 1756, the same year as Nassau Hall. United States Founding Father John Witherspoon lived here from 1768 through 1779, during which time he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence. George Washington occupied Maclean House in January 1777, during the Battle of Princeton and in 1783 while Congress met in Nassau Hall.</p><br>
<p>It now serves as the home of the Alumni Association of Princeton University and houses 35 staff, hosts many alumni functions and showcases Princeton memorabilia and a library of Princetoniana.</p><br>
<p>It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Slavery at the President&#39;s House</h2><br>
<p>At least five Princeton presidents who occupied the President&#39;s House between 1756 and 1822 owned slaves who lived and worked in the house. These presidents included Aaron Burr Sr., Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Finley, Samuel Stanhope Smith, and Ashbel Green. Slaves lived in the quarters on the second floor of the detached "Kitchen House" to the rear of the main building.</p><br>
<p>After his death in 1766, Samuel Finleys personal property was auctioned off at the Presidents House. Advertisements for the estate sale described "two negro women, a negro man, and three Negro children" to be sold alongside livestock, furniture, and books.</p><br>
<p>In 2017, the Princeton University Art Museum, in collaboration with the Princeton & Slavery Project, commissioned American artist Titus Kaphar to create a public art piece in front of the President&#39;s House. His sculpture Impressions of Liberty, unveiled in November 2017, depicts the face of Samuel Finley in relief, along with the figures of enslaved people sold at the house after his death.</p><br>
<p>The Presidents House is the first stop on the Stories of African American Life at Princeton walking tour. The house also appears on the Princeton University Art Museums mobile tour of Art and Slavery at Princeton.</p><br>
<p>The Seabright Lawn Tennis and Cricket Club is a historic private sports club in Rumson, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1877 and incorporated in 1886, it is one of the oldest active tennis clubs and claims to be the oldest lawn tennis club in the United States. Most of the club&#39;s present facilities were designated a National Historic Landmark in 1992 in recognition of this history.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Seabright Lawn Tennis and Cricket Club is located in eastern Rumson, on more than 6 acre of land at the junction of Rumson Road and Tennis Court Lane. The clubhouse is located near the northern end of the property, with much of the property given over to tennis courts. The clubhouse was built in 1886 to a design by Renwick, Aspinwall and Russell, and is a Tudor Revival example of a 19th-century casino, or gathering place for entertainment and socialization.</p><br>
<p>The tennis facilities are divided into five groups. Three bands of lawn tennis courts are laid out south of the clubhouse, with a fourth band of hard-surface courts between those and Rumson Road. To the east of these are a fifth group of clay courts. A single court is located just northwest of the clubhouse at the northern edge of the property.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first documented instance of lawn tennis to be played in the United States took place in 1874 on Staten Island. In the wake of this event, several clubs dedicated to the sport were organized. Seabrights exact date of organization is uncertain: it claims a date 1876, but contemporaries have claimed 1877 as the founding date of Seabright and other early tennis clubs. Although it originally also included cricket and archery, interest in those sports waned, and the clubs cricket pitch was converted into tennis courts in 1890. The club&#39;s historic interest in archery is marked by its logo, which resembles a bullseye.</p><br>
<p>The Seabright Invitational Tournament was a major tennis competition held from 1884 through 1950. It was ended not because of funding, but because the members grew tired of the fuss of organizing the event.</p><br>
<p>St. Marks Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church located in the High Hills of Santee west of Pinewood, South Carolina. On January 20, 1978, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as St. Marks Church.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Marks Parish was established in 1767 by act of the South Carolina Assembly. The present church, built in 1855, is the fourth church erected by the parish but the first at this location, which was donated by the Richardson and Manning families. The church built in 1767 near Summerton was burned by the British during the American Revolution because of the patriotic activity of its then rector. At least six governors, three Richardsons and three Mannings, regularly attended services at St. Marks either here or at previous locations. St. Mark&#39;s was the parish church for both the Manning family plantations, including Millford Plantation, and the Richardson family plantations, including Bloomhill Plantation.</p><br>
<h2>Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>St. Mark&#39;s Cemetery is included in the historic place designation.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>St. Mark&#39;s Episcopal Church is no longer an active parish.</p><br>
<p>The East Raleigh–South Park Historic District is the largest historically African-American neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina. The district, located south and east of downtown Raleigh, covers approximately 30 blocks and contains portions of the Smith–Haywood and St. Petersburg neighborhoods. Most homes in these neighborhoods were built between 1900 and 1940, with one-fifth dating back to the 19th century. Historic buildings in the district include Estey Hall and Leonard Hall, both located on the campus of Shaw University. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in October 1990.</p><br>
<p>During the 1980s and 1990s portions of the district were redeveloped by the City of Raleigh housing authority in a slum clearance exercise in an effort to redevelop the neighborhood and improve infrastructure.</p><br>
<p>Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church is an architecturally significant building located at 11th and North "A" Streets in Richmond, Indiana. Designed by the Cleveland, Ohio architectural partnership of Sidney Badgley and William H. Nicklas the building was begun in 1904 and dedicated on May 13, 1906. The building committee had visited the Badgley and Nicklas-designed St. Pauls Methodist Episcopal Church  which had been built by the Clement Studebaker family in South Bend, Indiana and the two churches have strikingly similar design elements in the sanctuaries. Reid Church was paid for by Daniel G. Reid in memory of his parents Daniel Reid and Anna Gray Reid. The church interiors and windows were designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and the Tiffany Studios. The original organ designed by Hook and Hastings is still in use, though it was rebuilt in 1958 by the Wicks Organ Company. The organ was featured with a recital during the Organ Historical Society&#39;s 2007 convention in Indianapolis.</p><br>
<p>Membership having dwindled to a few dozen people, the congregation was dissolved November 5, 2017, and the church closed.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the "Ten Most Endangered List" of Indiana Landmarks.</p><br>
<p>In 2019 a group of volunteers worked with the Whitewater Valley Presbytery, which owns the building, to begin the long process of preservation. The sanctuary is an ideal performance venue and the Steering Committee has arranged an ambitious schedule of performances of various genres, from classical to jazz to bluegrass. It is no longer listed on the "Ten Most Endangered List."</p><br>
<p>The Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church and Community Center, Inc. (d.b.a. ) acquired this property in 2022.</p><br>
<p>The Stateburg Historic District is a historic district in Stateburg, in the High Hills of Santee area near Sumter,</p><br>
<p>South Carolina in the United States. It includes two National Historic Landmarks, Borough House Plantation and the Church of the Holy Cross, and at least eight contributing properties within its boundaries. On February 24, 1971, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The historic district extends north and east of the town of Stateburg as far north as Meeting House Road and as far east as South Carolina Highway 441, covering an area of 5,066 acre.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The town of Stateburg was founded in 1783 by General Thomas Sumter, who hoped it would become the capital of the state, but it lost to Columbia by only a few votes. Previously the area had been used by people from Charleston to build summer homes to use to escape the oppressive heat of the Lowcountry. It was the county seat of the former Claremont County from 1783 to 1800. Stateburg was a thriving community until April, 1865, when many of its buildings were destroyed by Union troops under Brigadier General Edward E. Potter.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing Properties</h2><br>
<p>Contributing properties include:</p><br>
<p>Borough House Plantation</p><br>
<p>Brookland Plantation</p><br>
<p>Chapel of Ease — built for Natalie DeLage Sumter, daughter-in-law of General Thomas Sumter</p><br>
<p>High Hills of Santee Baptist Church</p><br>
<p>Maverick House</p><br>
<p>Miller House, also known as Ellison House — the home of Governor Stephen D. Miller, who sold it to William Ellison, a slave who had bought his freedom in 1816.</p><br>
<p>Millwood Plantation</p><br>
<p>Moorhill</p><br>
<p>Oakland Plantation</p><br>
<p>The Ruins — home of General Thomas Sumter in 1784. Despite its name, the home is still extant.</p><br>
<p>Tomb of General Thomas Sumter — a South Carolina State Historic Site, managed as part of nearby Poinsett State Park.</p><br>
<p>The former Rowena Memorial School is located on NY 23A, at the junction with NY 32A, in Palenville, New York, United States. It is a stone Romanesque style building that educated local students for 70 years. It had fallen into disrepair until it was rebuilt in the 1990s and converted to an arts center.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The school stands three stories high, with a panoramic view of the Catskill Escarpment to the northwest. Its entrance bay is topped with a Dutch gable with its original clock. A small, single-story three-by-two-bay wing projects from the north elevation.</p><br>
<p>Despite neglect and vandalism much of the interior remains intact. A bronze dedication plaque remains in the front hall, and in the classrooms and offices there is still much original woodwork. On the second story, an early partitioning system to allow the merging or division of classrooms as necessary, complete with blackboards on the paneling, is still in place. The only major change is the recital hall, where a collapsed ceiling was never replaced and instead the new room enjoys a higher, cathedral-style ceiling.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built by Lysander Lawrence, a wealthy New York City merchant. He, among many others, passed through Palenville during his summers in the late 19th century on his way to the Catskill Mountain House. During those trips, he became acquainted with one of the local school principals. After the death of his wife Rowena in the 1890s, Lawrence decided to pay tribute to her by doing something for the community they had both come to love. He decided to pay for a new school building that would combine the populations currently attending Palenville&#39;s two small schoolhouses.</p><br>
<p>He hired Newburgh architect John A. Davidson to draw up plans, and local mason George Holdridge began cutting stone from the nearby Empire Quarry. Construction began in 1899; the first classes were held in 1901. The community was at first ecstatic about its new edifice. "How fitting it is", said Catskill High School Principal Charles Hale, "that a village nestled at the foot of the grand old mountains should have a school that speaks so eloquently of the skill of man — a building perfect as a work of art." On September 3, 1900, a dedication ceremony featuring a childrens choir and fireworks display was attended by the states deputy superintendent of public instruction.</p><br>
<p>As the reality of the new school set in, some residents began to express concern about its maintenance costs. Lawrence had paid the $50,000 construction cost himself, but the community would have to pay the annual upkeep for the new school, which could accommodate five times as many students as the district then had, and some residents did not think it could afford to do so. There was also opposition to the choice of C.F. Payne, Lawrence&#39;s friend, as principal of the new school. After a series of political maneuvers that involved the state schools superintendent and led to the removal of one member of the school board, Payne kept his job. The building remained a source of contention, and some residents called for its demolition so that everyone could be friends again.</p><br>
<p>It continued as Palenvilles school until 1977, when the Catskill Central School District was created from the merger of the small rural districts in the area. The new district closed the building down. It continued in use as a library until it was closed again in 1989. For several years it deteriorated until jewelry designer Steven Kretchmer and his wife purchased it and remodeled it into Ringing Metal Studios. Since his death in a motorcycle accident in 2006, Stevens step-daughter moved in, took over the business and building maintenance. The house was occupied full-time until 2009. It is now being occupied part-time and maintained regularly until someone purchases it.</p><br>
<p>The Healy Block is a historic district of 14 Queen Anne style houses in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The district, listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a Minneapolis Historic District, is bounded by Second Avenue South, 31st Street, Third Avenue South and 32nd Street. The houses are readily visible from the Lake Street exit off Interstate 35W. The district represents the most intact and concentrated example of Queen Anne style houses by a single builder in Minneapolis.</p><br>
<p>The majority of homes on this block were built by Theron P. Healy, a Minneapolis home builder. He moved to Minneapolis in 1884 and decided to capitalize on the rapidly growing areas of south Minneapolis, which had been made accessible by streetcars on Nicollet Avenue South and 31st Street. He was the only builder to concentrate on the Queen Anne style in Minneapolis, working between 1886 and 1898. He was a Master Builder, a builder who also designed the homes he built. In addition to building homes on this block, Healy built Queen Anne homes in the Lowry Hill area and elsewhere in south Minneapolis.</p><br>
<p>The Queen Anne style was popularized in the United States after the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. The characteristics of this style include front-facing or cross-gabled rooflines, multiple building materials, trellised balconies, triptychs, window embellishments and stained glass transoms. Healy&#39;s designs included these characteristics, but he often included additional details such as brightly colored art glass transoms, semicircular openings underneath the gables, or off-center entrances. While the houses share common Queen Anne characteristics, each of these houses has its own unique details.</p><br>
